submersible. so this is time is one of the big challenges in this case, and again, you know, it s really difficult and our thoughts for the family members and the crews there, but we are doing everything that we can in bringing the resources to bear to search the surface, to search the subsurface and the water column, and so we are going to continue working this hard. john: motto of the coast guard, always ready, proving again, admiral, that you are. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. good luck. hope you find them. john, thanks for having me on. john: sandra. sandra: china slamming president biden for referring to president xi jinping as a dictator. foreign ministry calling his words extremely absurd and irresponsible. john: just days after secretary of state antony blinken traveled to beijing trying to ease tensions between the two superpowers. and they though agree to stabilize relations, china is
still creeping closer to u.s. shores. sandra: and new reporting sparking fears that china has been eaves dropping from cuba. tracking a pair of telecom companies on the spy base. john: and two countries reportedly in talks for a joint training facility on the island of cuba, just 100 miles off of key west. how can the u.s. deter china s growing influence? we will ask senator rand paul in just moments and get his reaction to brand-new covid origins reporting. sandra: first to gillian turner, live at the state department with the latest from there. hi, gillian. gillian: it turns out that president biden apparently believes president xi jinping is a dictator, revelation that came during a political fundraiser along with new intelligence disclosures about the infamous
i m for continued diplomacy. part of diplomacy convincing adversaries it s in their best interest to do something. we cannot make china do things or russian do things, i would say to xi jinping, work with us. funding of this research is dangerous, we want to reform the way we fund it also but want to work with you but thfi thing we have to do is admit it came from the lab, admit the first people were lab workers and not just kicking china about this. we funded it, partly responsible. and we are doing this all over the united states in many different labs. we have to have more oversight on this, and ultimately the unwise terrible decisions of dr. fauci to exempt this research and not allow it to go before the proper committee, he bears the full brunt of the responsibility for this. john: a lot of food for thought for the future, senator
every turn is pushback, hiding documents, so now we have intelligence that says yes, one of the scientists who was creating the super viruses in the lab, in wuhan, was the first guy t get sick. this is in november of 2019. most people think that a pandemic, the first person to get sick is about 13 weeks or so before the pandemic hits. so in january 2020 is when it starts exploding in wuhan, it s everywhere. all over town, not just the wet market, all over town. but in november, 8 to 10 weeks before that, they now think the very first infection was a guy that was actually handling and not only handling dangerous viruses but handling them in an unsafe manner. what i ve been asking china to do is work with us on this. they are not alone in this. there is some blame to go around. anthony fauci, nih, yes, they funded it and pushing it. they deserve some of the blame for the terrible judgment in this. but really it s not about blame,
all done only because dr. fauci approved going around the committee. there was a committee set up in 2017 that was supposed to review dangerous research and see if it was too dangerous to be done. all of this should have gone before the committee but it only happened because dr. fauci took away the scrutiny and he funneled the money around the committees so the scrutiny did not happen and there should be culpability and should be punishment for what he did and his abuse of power. sandra: so how would you characterize our relations with china? i mean, you there s the assumption that the administration is trying to delicately dance around this to not damage those further. you know, i m of two minds. i ve been a very big critic of socialism and communism, i wrote a book, and talked about mao, the great famine and the history of china. but we live in world with china who has nuclear weapons so