report concludes that is likely how the pandemic first began. in a house select committee heard testimony today from a former top u.s. intel official that a chinese lab leak is the only explanation. our money to a lab in china that wasn t up to code that was doing gain of function research and that s where this thing came from. that s what they didn t want us to know. do you agree with that mr. ratcliffe. i do agree with that. communist china the target of bipartisan criticism in washington on tuesday. china has not been forthcoming. where a house select committee held a hearing on the origins of covid-19. i can very well argue the lab leak theory because, you know, china cannot cooperate. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, who began his term two months into the pandemic, also pointing the finger at china. a lab leak is the only explanation credit dibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. the chinese embassy
that s a fact. that s not a.i. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. today s house oversight hearing looking at the chaotic withdrawal of kabul and the way it was handled that allowed u.s. military equipment to fall into the hands of the taliban, destabilizing the entire region and resulting in the deaths of 13 u.s. service members and hundreds of americans left behind. a separate hearing on afghanistan yesterday taking direct aim at previous denials of the chaos by the white house. denials like this. and so for all this talk of chaos, i didn t see it. not from my perch. at one point during the evacuation there was an aircraft taking off full of people americans and afghans alike every 48 mission and not one mission was missed. i don t buy whole argument of chaos, i m sorry. administration continues to downplay what happened is an insult to the service members sitting here and throughout the united states of america. one doesn t have to see the horrific images or footage
that stepped in to help them. garrett tenney has the story and fallout in chicago now. garrett, hello. this was supposed to be a fun weekend getaway for this young couple. instead it turned into a nightmare. they just finished up shopping around the magnificent mile area saturday night heading to dinner when a crowd of a few dozen teenagers blocked their path, knocked ashley to the ground, started pummeling d.j. and then robbed them both. here is some of what they told sandra smith. everything went crazy. they said they were going to kill us. they turned around and started fighting. i have a black eye, my face is messed up. shoulder is pretty sore. it is out of place or something. my back sore and my nose. the couple says things could have turned out a lot worse if it wasn t for a good samaritan who stepped in.
we shouldn t demonize our youth. no, we absolutely need to demonize this kind of behavior. because this is unacceptable. yeah. the couple that video is still a bit shaken up. the boyfriend has a lot of bruises and some other injuries. but they say things could have been a whole lot worse if it wasn t for a good samaritan, a woman who saw what was happening. stepped in and broke up the crowd. and then loaded them into her car and took them to the police station. gillian? gillian: garrett tenney reporting from chicago for us tonight. thank you. a settlement has been reached thought in the lawsuit by dominion voting systems against fox news for defamation regarding coverage of the 2020 election. howie kurtz, host of media buzz is here from details from wilmington, delaware tonight. hi, howie. gillian, a two-hour mystery behind closed doors turned into a sudden and dramatic last-minute settlement between fox and dominion. ending one of the most heavily covered media lawsuits in the
those detention centers as fast as possible. what they didn t do, according to the new york times investigation, is they didn t follow up to see where those kids were sent and what they were doing. and then when they were warned and told about it, they didn t act either. so, that s why it s doublely bad. doug, what do you say. every political scandal regardless of party or what the issue is always boils down to what did the person know and when did they know it. we know they have known a long time and failed toibility a. big problem both in policy and in politics. gillian: let s switch gears for a second. josh, president biden is reacting to the speaker s visit to wall street to week. he is criticizing and telling him the wealthy and powerful on wall street it was finally time for them to start paying their fair share of taxes. takes a lot of guts for the president to do. passed a tax bill on all democratic votes by themselves could have put a tax on anybody. they chose not t