i will not be the 50th democrat voting to end that filibuster. to those who say we must make a choice between the filibuster and x, i say this is the false choice. you are not going to budge on the filibuster? no. bret: democrats kyrsten sinema from arizona and joe manchin saying they are not going to break up the filibuster. this would enable the democrats to have a number of different votes if they didn t have to reach 60. we are back with the panel. mara, they seem pretty set on this. and even though they get asked literally every single day, they keep on saying the same thing. yeah. look, it takes, you know, all of the democrats to change all the rules and so far they don t have the democrats. until joe manchin has some piece of legislation that he really, really want and the republicans are filibustering and he wants
Down. state department correspondent rich edson tonight much of the opposition to the lab leak theory is fading. there are still questions to be answered. good evening, bret. tell fox news there was intense debate last year over exploring whether this pandemic began in wuhan research lab. that argument is still ongoing. especially over assessments from last year, including from dr. anthony fauci that the data indicated that the virus came from nature. that statement was completely wrong. it was obvious to be antagonistic to president trump and to the administration. chinese government research lab studying bat coronavirus in the same city as the first reported outbreak of covid-19. and now charges that u.s. government officials tried blocking efforts to examine whether the virus leaked from the wuhan institute of virology. sometimes the simplest explanation is that.
And i want to turn to iran. yeah, i mean, this information that was put out in the final days of the trump administration came from my office. everything in vanity fair piece that you mentioned, bret, was something that was highly debated in the final days. my myself went to secretary pompeo make sure we had full confidence in releasing this all of this information was from the intelligence community that we got declassified. i think a lot of the vanity fair piece was spot on. i think i m encouraged to hear what mara said about the media getting it wrong because she is exactly right. i looked it up today. i google searched and saw the many times that secretary pompeo and i were criticized for bringing up this as something legitimate that needed to be researched. but now the onus needs to go not just on blaming the american media but needs to go back to china. because they are still, to this day, sorting the w.h.o. independent scientists, independent investigators from doing any sor
Visit the southern border. she is going to wear this tragedy. her and the president and the secretary, they are going to wear this tragedy and they should because they have put this an open borders agenda. this isn t mismanagement. this isn t incompetence. this is by design. bret: bill? yeah, look, i think kamala harris may be the only one with brains in the white house. she is not going anywhere near the border. that appointment, they can talk about root causes, it sounds like a high school student, you know, kind of fudging on a paper. so, instead of getting into the specifics has these grand root causes. all that appointment has effectively done is focused attention on what you mentioned before that she is knot going to any of these border states. she had a similar kind of foray into the covid relief bill when she came into west virginia and it looked like pressure on joe manchin that was in early february and that backfired. so, i don t know, i don t know
If he does run and win he might serve out, not serve out a full second term. so lots and lots and lots of interest in kamala harris and her political future. bret: you know, morgan, the vice president has traveled quite a bit inside the u.s. she has been to at least 15 states by our count. you see some of them there. she has not been to texas, new mexico, or arizona. obviously the focus of some of the biggest border issues. yeah. and she is headed to mexico next week for the first time. it s hard to be in charge of the southern border as the president put her if you don t actually visit. so i think we have to really look and see what are the metrics that we are judging her by. is she going to be able to go mexico and to stop the flow of illegal immigrants? we already know what the root cause of the migration is from the northern triangle countries. we know that from vice president biden back in the obama administration and more papers, white papers on the subject than could be counte