unanimously to stop all funding to the wuhan lab, but it has not gone through the house. money still flows to wuhan, but even worse here s the judgment of dr. fauci. he continue toss say, when asked, should we be funding this research. yes, that s where the viruses are, we should be funding research in china. but with he fails to address the question of whether or not the chinese communist party, the generals involvement in the lab, whether they re to be trusted, and he fails to acknowledge this could have come from the lab, and he continues to lie about the idea of whether gain of function research was going on. and his one pushback is, he says, well, the viruses we see could not molecularly be covid. no one s alleging that. so he s saying something, he s pushing back with a strawman argument because we re not alleging that. if the virus kale. came to the lab, guess what? the chinese never told us about the sequencing of that virus are. it looks like it could have been covid-19. mari
you know, he seems quite proud of himself in that recording. if he doesn t have anything to hide, then he shouldn t have any trouble coming and telling us his side of this story. but he s behaving as if he is somebody who wants to hide the truth. i want to show you something that your fellow committee member, adam kinzinger, said about what the republican posture and sort of pr is in terms of security. don t let my side use the security posture as the strawman argument in this. the reality is that is the equivalent of blaming the victim of a crime for the crime. and while it is important, that s not what we re here to talk about today. madam speaker, voting on a criminal contempt resolution is not the position we hoped to be in, but steve bannon went out of his way to earn this resolution before us and now we must approve it.
that is not what anyone [overlapping speakers] no one said that. that is a strawman argument. harris: here s what i want to ask you about. and we can t because [overlapping speakers] harris: senator joe manchin is taking the mic today. he is taking that mental but he is fighting nancy pelosi and the house. watch it. it is live with him. infrastructure bill. you got this bill we have right now. we have that reconciliation bill. i m willing to sit down and get our priorities. and they can come back and do it later and i think there s many ways to get to but look what they want to. just not everything at one time. [overlapping speakers] are you saying that is the feeling that the most that you will accept? you signed that document. you have an agreement with them.
how we are not going to be there forever and all that stuff. i would ve agreed with that but if we look at the way we left, there s no way you can look at that chaos and say that s the way you want to date to go down. he was telling us weeks ago. his speech was fantastic if it was two months ago. now it is a strawman argument. it s not about leaving. it s about how you left. he didn t even assess how you left. he was saying it s time. the statement about, i don t wanted to be a fifth president s problem. i thought that was really good but it doesn t matter because it s a problem that happened under you. kat, as joe said, it s the graveyard of empires. you are the graveyard of boyfriends. i am married to a veteran. i am! a veteran of what? greg: a veteran of her marriage! i think him every day.
gillian had a great guest on last hour and he pointed out the magnitude, put it into perspective for us. when you have a high number of homicides last year dating back to the 90s, and 30 children shot this weekend, it s an absolute tragedy. and a huge political enormity for the biden administration when you have just 38% of those polls saying he s doing a good job on the issue of crime. they know that this is a tough issue for them, which is why they are pulling out tactics they often do, which is number one, the blame game, and number two, strawman arguments. the blame game in the form of lori lightfoot saying the criticism is based on her race and gender. you have jen psaki at the podium saying it s seasonal. it s not seasonal in the number of homicides is dating back to the 90s, as and gillian s gas pointed out paid on the strawman argument, let s go after the guns. even though 90% of weapons using gun crimes are obtained illegally. as a strawman argument. if they don t get seriou