ainsley: miami governor running for the white house. it would be disastrous for us to decouple from china. antony blinken the travel to china as his counterparts criticize the u.s. no reason to talk with china right now. work across the country to place service dogs with veterans. raise awareness, get volunteers, we re new york-based. steve: 8:01. straight to fox news alert. marine vet daniel penny indicted on second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of jordan neely last month. ainsley: penny says he acted in self-defense after jordan neely said he was going to kill him. brian: todd piro will break it down. todd: the indictment is under seal, the da is expected to announce his indictment this morning. new york mayor eric adams saying, i appreciate da alvin bragg conducting a thorough investigation, i have the utmost faith in the judicial process and the grand jury has indicted grand jury, a trial and justice can move forward. penny has been out on bon
touch. you were right. that was kind of a buzz kill. politico sam stein, thank you for the great polling information. we will speak to you again soon. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. stick around for morning joe, which starts right now. a senator who has never run anything at all, but his mouth. the senator obviously resorting to lying, cheating and trying to steal. senator, how gullible to you really think florida voters are? repeating yourself again. we ve seen this show before. socialist, socialist, crazy, marxist, silly when one would you prefer? on your list for talking points. look, the senator can play national security expert all he wants. i know he needs that for his next presidential run. yeah. i mean i don t know what you mean playing national security, vice chairman of the intelligence committee and previous chairman. it s actually my job. some of the highlights from last night s fiery
so that s probably why the biden administration hasn t escalated the cuba story as much as they did, and others did with the spy balloon story. and you would like to see antony blinken go after china on covid and how they handled the pandemic. what would you like to see come out of that? well, two points. there is still an open question about how this terrible pandemic began. i believe and have long believed that by far, the most likely origin hypothesis is a research-related incident in china. a so-called lab leak. on top of that, whatever the origin of the initial spillover, there can be no doubt that china s criminal cover-up involving destroying samples, hiding records, imprisoning
brian: they turn around the boats, ask the italians, libya is falling apart and other countries are not amenable to people. steve: 8:12 and carley has a pick me up about nuclear weapons. carley: president of belarus says his country is receiving weapons from russia that are three times more powerful than those dropped on hiroshima and. a soldier begs for his life to be spared as russia deadly invasion in ukraine continues. soldier being held in ukraine under guard supervision according to wall street journal. fox news digital exclusive, lawsuit file against faa claiming pete buttigieg is hiding records.
on everything it s correct to call this the fatty virus but we have to ask really tough questions, certainly of ourselves but more importantly of the chinese there is a cover representative, clearly china has a cover-up. they have been destroying samples, hiding records, imprisoning journalist and a gag order on chinese scientists in blocking any meaningful investigation and as you said, it s just outrageous that we are about to start the winter olympics in china and china has been given the grand spectacle we need to hold china accountable and we need to ask tough questions and we need to keep pushing. steve: that is a fair point we can disagree about that there are two parts of it, the leak from the lab and all the cover-up as you been really investigating in all the action that was taken or not taken that could ve prevented this from turning into a pandemic if we had transparent information at the start that is clearly on china. do you think there is any