that s a positive, but how do you back it up? is he willing to take further steps to economically punish china? will he go another step further than trump to make sure there s consequences if they don t cooperate? i don t think he will. the clip that you played, alicia, i know you wanted it harder and tougher and you couldn t get it. and he never said, yes, i did want it tougher, he basically brushed that off and paid homage to autocrats as opposed to democracies. and, guy, you know, you probably remember peter doocy a while back asked the president about a possible punishment if it is found out that can china is, in fact, responsible in that lab for covering things up. and there really wasn t much of an answer. how impressed were you with this answer? it wasn t really an answer to the question. and i get they have to hold this close to the vest potentially and say there might be consequences down the line, we don t want to tip our hand yet,
there is anything especially just the way that he s talking. look, biden is a career politician. putin said it himself. he s built this persona that he s the friendly grandpa that will invite you over over, but n it comes to they that and russia, you need to flip into maybe that stern grandma who maybe might grandpa that might poke you with a fork if you put your elbows on the dinner table. i think it creates whatever optics you want it to. whether or not he backs up his words and language with actual actions, that s yet to be seen as this presidency unfolds. sean, what are your thoughts on this? is this all flex and no muscle in. well, i don t think joe biden s going to do anything with regard to china, to abby s point. but what he has done has kept a lot of the tariffs on china that president trump put in place.
quote: a timely, transparent, expert-led and science-based w.h.o.-convened covid-19 study as recommended by the expert report. but is that language strong enough against china, and why didn t this happen sooner? florida s governor, ron desantis, calling out china s cover-up earlier on sunday morning futures. i tell you, this origins of covid are, this is such an astounding cover-up, one of the biggest cover-ups we ve ever seen. what they did with the gain of function research, understanding that these researchers had been infected in the fall of 2019 if then to cover it up for months and then to not view that as something that s of utmost important to be able to, one, get the truth, but then to hold china accountable, to be that deferential to china, i don t think that s what the american public is looking for. i think that they want to see a
the g7 leaders saying, well, let s give them another crack at it, the same organization. and why would that organization, that is deeply compromised by china, actually give us the truth round two of this? i think that is laughable. and this is the one last piece i ll say. we saw this statement, we saw some words and some verbiage about we need access and this is important. my question is or else what, right? right. what incentive does the chinese communist party have to actually play ball and be transparent for the first time on this and actually bow to the pressure if there s no consequence attached to it? like, they re still on tap to host the olympics next year, this big, juice, you know, international event prestigious. there doesn t seem to be a credible push to strip them of that. i think beijing might say that s very nice, we re going to throw it in the garbage, and then what? nothing so far, that s the problem. and, abby, i want to bring you into this conversation, but
but i would like to hear more about why the pompeo-era investigation by the u.s. state department was scuttled and ended under the biden administration, why do they want to punt it to the w.h.o., it seems like they re going softer, not tougher. and china s behavior over the last two years on a number of fronts, i think, is egregious. and it sort of belies what we are seeing from the biden administration now. they re going in the opposite direction in terms of rhetoric and substance, and that substance is still very much a question mark, i think to put it charitably. from president trump colliding with russia to dismissing the coronavirus lab leak theory, the media says one thing, and the truth is the opposite. we examine why the media gets it so wrong when the wig sunday show returns the big sunday show returns. tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies. oh, no, no, you can t disguise