i m john roberts in for bret baier tonight. a tough examination for dr. anthony fauci as he defends his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. we may be just hours away from an executive order from president biden on immigration. as an illegal migrant is arrested for allegedly shooting two new york city police officers. and what it takes to get american hostages back home. we hear from someone who has done just that. but, first, breaking tonight, just days after the conclusion of the first ever criminal trial against a former president, a similarly historic proceeding begins against the son of a sitting president. jury selection has been completed in the felony gun charge trial for hunter biden. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight where he kicks off our conch. hello, david. david: john, good evening to you. it took all day but the judge, the special counsel and the defense were able to turn 250 prospective jurors into 12 jurors plus four alterna
than how he sounded when he was on our tv screen for years saying things that the wuhan lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory and working to disparage people who had treason say that this was the case. helping out ecohealth. his buddies at ecohealth used taxpayer fund on gain of function research how to make coronavirus more deadly how he down played and made it hard to find out information about stuff like that. how he claimed that there was science supporting masking and social distancing. now he admits well the science wasn t there. the difference between how he sounded then versus how he sounded now is shocking. it also speaks to how people think that d.c. is full of people like this unaccountable permanent bureaucrats who just run things the way they want to and not held account focial when they lie and work in censorship and when they mislead a country in doing drastic action. john: one of the big issues whether or not gain of function
shut down the border when illegal crossings surge, but the threshold reportedly mirrors the bipartisan border agreement that failed in the senate earlier this year and reportedly similar to a ban trump tried to impose but overturned by the courts as a violation of federal asylum laws. why are we waiting five minutmonths before the electiony wasn t this done five months into the administration when we started seeing these problems. the administration allowed 350,000 migrants with pending asylum claims to remain in the u.s. without a decision on case merits. according to the new york post ice lawyers told prosecutors in 2022 to dismiss pending asylum case force migrants that don t pose a security threat and don t have a criminal record. suggest they followed through. that s going to encourage more people to show up and for an administration that claims this is a humanitarian effort, ,you just created a whole population that has no status no, where to go. the biden administratio
and to me, you know, this is, again, a function of our polarized and i think often distonguesal politics. clearly he was dealing with a situation the country was going into a pandemic. people want to blame him and make this a partisan issue. but, you remember, the president was a republican. donald trump. he was fauci s boss. so, to me cdc recommended the 6-foot distancing issue. the next time the local health officials have to have a better relationship with the federal health officials in terms of getting information so there can be a more coordinated response. but, to me, the big thing was saying what are you talking about with regard to people changing their opinions about where this virus came from and it was the basis of bribes on the basis of federal grants? he said that was preposterous. he went from saying i am the science and saying that nobody could question him to now saying it wasn t his fault. and if that john. juan: his actions were based