gain-of-function research, and that is where this thing most definitely came from. john: and explosive hearing taking place on capitol hill, the origins of the covid pandemic. confirms dr. anthony fauci tried to discredit the lab leak theory in the early stages of the pandemic and back to china s efforts to place the blame on a white market in wuhan. the virus that has killed millions of people worldwide. sandra: will congress use this testimony and newly uncovered emails to hold fauci on china accountable for not being transparent about how this pandemic began? house covid select committee chair brad wenstrup and senator tom cotton will weigh in coming up shortly. john: we begin, though, with growing calls to designate mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations following the killings of two americans in mexico. ali am john roberts in washingt, welcome center back. sandra: this is america reports. mexico s presence, it it s country has arrested a 24
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
will face some tough questioning over the murders of these two americans. john: our senior national correspondent william la jeunesse has been following the stories has latest breaking details from our los angeles newsroom, two deadwood foreign total what about the others? john, folks found live tv a mcgee alive in a small house outside of moaned a morose and eric williams who had a serious wound in his left leg. they are friends of zindel brown woodward were found dead in a field nearby. we found a convoy of mexican ambulances and suvs headed arriving in brownsville, texas, where the four friends will or reached brought to a hospital we are told, met mexican president says one suspect is in custody d they are expecting for others. on capitol hill some lawmakers want the u.s. military to get actively involved in hunting and dismantling the cartels with or without mexico s permission, moments ago attorney general merrick garland spoke without addressing eight military esca
valuable forest land. sunday s scene fiery and dangerous riders doused construction equipment in alcohol and set it on fire and also threw bricks, molotov cocktails and fireworks at cops. police say those arrested used a peaceful demonstration during a music festty call at the site as cover for the violence that followed. in america we re you a loaded to peacefully demonstrate. this was not a peaceful demonstration. this was a coordinated attack. this was an insurrection. i hope that the courts will deal harshly with these domestic terrorists. julie: here are the 20 people, most of them young and most not even from georgia. all but two of them, in fact, from out of state. tennessee, new york, massachusetts, even as far as canada and france. charles watson has more from atlanta for us. hey, charles. good morning, julie. we expect most if not all of the protestors charged with domestic terrorism for their alleged roles in that attack on police to make first appearances in