did it come from a lab? this question is fundamental to help us predict and prevent future pandemics. expert witnesses putting holes in the story, we ve been told, for the last three years. why do so many people believe the virus came from nature? the natural origin camp got its story out first, always a big help. painted the lab leak as a conspiracy theory. it was promoted by science administrators in the united states. dr. fauci dismissed the lab leak theory, for years in fact. he expected it to be a big topic today, new e-mails reveal covid s top doc prompted drafting of a paper to disprove the lab leak theory. former site chairman jason chavetz and marc siegel are on site, interesting to see how they explain this one, mark. interesting details coming out of the hearing this morning, members say they are trying to answer straight-forward, but important question. how did covid-19 first spread? there has been speculation for years, no firm answers. the hearing got un
lawrence jones. we are awaiting a news conference from senator lindsey graham on the cartels, set to begin any moment. it comes after the horrifying kidnapping of four americans. we know two americans are dead with two of them hospitalized, after getting caught in the cross fire between rival cartels. this happened just blocks from the united states southern border. two people were killed, their friends and survived. what they endured was absolutely terrifying. senator graham wants to introduce legislation that would treat these cartels as terrorists groups and allow the president to use the military to go after them. am going to introduced legislation to make certain mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary to protect america from being poisoned coming from mexico. what would lindsey graham do? i would tell mexicans if you don t clean up your act, were going to clean it up for you. see three he
operational decisions and will always honor the sacrifice of those 13 americans. former secretary state mike pompeo who, by the way, was in the middle of this planning in the previous administration will join us in moments. first to mark meredith live at the white house. mark? trace, good afternoon to you. this report that you re talking about basically blames the trump administration for what happened in august of 2021 under president biden s command where the u.s. ended the longest war in afghanistan. it basically detail what s the u.s. government has learned since that date. repeatedly blaming the trump administration for the conditions on the ground during that time period. the report says president biden still believes that pulling out of afghanistan was the right thing to do and the president thought staying in afghanistan was not an option. the white house admits it was surprised that the afghan government fell as quickly as it did and evacuations should have happene
were traveling in. bill: they pulled the u.s. citizens from the wreckage of the vehicle and toss them to a truck bed and haven t been seen since. dana: they were driving a white minivan with north carolina plates. you can see it is riddled with bullet holes. the group is said to be in mexico. one could have cosmetic surgery. they believe cartel members have mistaken them for drug smugglers. dana: the white house is working with mexico to bring them home. according to bill barr, it s the cartels that call the shots. mexican government is being held hostage by tens of thousands of parra military members of terrorist organizations that control mexico. it is close to a failed narco state at this stage. they are sitting next door producing mountains of poisonous drugs and killing over 100,000 americans a year. we are sustaining the same damage as we would in a major war from these groups operating right beyond our reach. bill: william la jeunesse from los angeles has t
minutes we expected the state department will give an update. and on capitol hill republican submitters will give their first response to president biden s pitch to save medicare by raising taxes. all of that coming up this hour. plus . we bought the elites! we ignored the chatter. we did it our way. the florida way. we won t back down, and i can promise you this. you ain t seen nothing yet. speak to governor ron desantis has his critical rivals on notice there is a whole lot more his team says where that came from the governor gave his state of the state address, spring training swings into florida, baseball lovers but washington post columnist has a major problem with that he is now calling on them to take a stand against ron desantis attack on diversity. the governor s team responded, we will have that coming up with will cain. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into our two in this busy tuesday i m john roberts good afternoon. gillian: good to be with