his first television interview since the announcement in iowa last hour. sandra: polling has him at a distant third, and he will have to walk a fine line between his white house experience and distancing himself from his former boss turned rival. how will he stand out? john: one top issue, the push for parental rights, republicans are campaigning on. they need to stop asking little children what they sexually identify as. six years old to decide about sexual things they don t even know. john: a brawl breaking out in southern california where parents pulled kids from classrooms over the push for lgbtq materials in the curriculum. assistant principal instructed staff to teach kids that every child by default is queer and socialist. a busy one, sandra. sandra: second house. a hazy orange new york at the moment, start with the dangerous wildfire smoke smothering not just new york but the entire eastern united states, john. wild pictures coming in. john: take a look
openly hostile environment for black and lgbtq americans and that desantis is making aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in florida schools. the group s leader was doubling down on all of this earlier. the governor has perfected to gain c campaign contribution. we should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people. unfortunately for a large percentage of floridians, that s what he has done. therefore we are advising african americans and others that if you travel to florida, beware that your life is not valued. that we have a political landscape that could cause harm. dana: team desantis responded to the travel advisory calling the whole thing a stunt. byron mcdonald is slamming the move. it s silly, dumb, political. makes no sense. we should be focusing on making sure people have the opportunity to achieve which florida is actually doing in thriving and way better than other states.
professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should s
point you can find yourself banned from social media for even bringing up the possibility of a lab leak. and remember with dr. fauci quick to dismiss it. just weeks ago dr. anthony fauci rejected the conspiracy the coronavirus was made in wuhan, china. both scientists and intelligence committee agreed this coronavirus was not man-made. that is not a possibility. let s take a science look at what is available. it is more likely this came from an animal. you said the overwhelming amount of evidence. i believe most molecular biologist would disagree with you. speak with the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people because quite frankly we still don t know. there is no evidence to say. before the white house downplaying the report because nothing is conclusive and affecting dr. fauci. there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about how covid started. there is no peer of the president believes it is really important we continue that work and tha
control of products. they are making more money than they ve ever made. bill: opening arguments in the cop s trial are set to begin there. hello, bryan. bill, good morning. luna is mexico s highest ranking government official to be criminally charged and tried in the u.s. in the early 2000s he let mexico s federal agency akin to the f.b.i. before becoming the top law enforcement official in mexico controlling the federal police force as the secretary of public security until 2012. prosecutors say the man who led mexico s war against the drug cartels was instead accepting briefcases stuffed with tens of millions of bribes from the sinaloa cartel. in exchange luna provided second ratty intel protection and helped with smuggling at least 50,000 kilos of cocaine into the u.s. over the course of the eight-week trial there is intrigue about embarrassing and damning revelations with high ranking u.s. and mexico officials who trusted him. he served as the right-hand of the mexica