conspiracy. now president biden s own energy department finding evidence covid likely leaked from that lab in china. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. presoutlets reporting that the energy department is joining with the fbi in supporting that lab leak origin, based on classified intelligence. the intelligence agency reportedly shared with both the white house and key members of congress. republican lawmakers want answers. we need hearings on this. the chinese used their coercive economic activities to shut people up. we need to extensive hearings. i hope our democrat colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. they didn t just shut them up. they shut them down. they discredited. even journalists asking questions. i was stickered all over the place for asking the question, along with dr. segal on our team here at fox news. the subselect committee on the pandemic in the hands of house
released without proper es to democrats during the 2022 midterms. one republican was one of 11 affected, saying what happened goes way beyond dirty politics. doing identity theft with our social security numbers to get this. they paid for this. did they get the information, know it was done illegally? we want to know this. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel on this one. hi, mike. two powerful house chairmans set a deadline for today to be notified for how widespread the problem has been. mike rogers is the chairman of the house armed services committee, james coleman of house oversight. they wrote to secretary austin, quote, the recent broad release of records, highlights the inadequacy to secure military personnel files but raising concerning questions of possible illicit motive or political partisanship. they were released to a private research firm with ties to the democrat congressional campaign committee. one of the republican congressman told his understa
against sending weapons to russia for the war in ukraine. plus, a newly disputed intelligence report. did a lab accident in wuhan cause the covid pandemic? as house republicans are about to launch a new prime time investigation. and toxic fears. safety concerns spreading far beyond ohio after contaminated waste from that train derailment was shipped out of state without warning. the environmental activist erin brockovich is back with us today. plus, curveball. major league baseball s new rules already changing the outcome of the game. the mlb s dramatic changes to america s favorite past time. good day. tensions with china escalating a beijing accusing the u.s. of quote, fanning the flames in ukraine. china saying the u.s. is using a double standard. arming ukraine while warning china against doing the same. secretary of state blinken and vice president harris had told the world about the possible change in china s policy not to provide lethal aid to putin. national sec
-what happened friday when silicon valley bank fell. svb, a top choice for tech start-ups, with more than $2 hundred billion in assets at the time. that makes it the second largest bank failure in american history behind the washington mutual meltdown in 2008. we had a great recession then. the president now keeps saying we re not headed for a recession. a host of companies affected include household names like etsy and fit bit. all deposits at the failed bank will be available today. investors knew the risk and should not be protected. yes, the fdic is up to $250,000. if you invested in the banking institutions you just lost your cash. when biden was vice president, taxpayers were on the hook for bank bail-outs. they used our cash to bail out the big guys. the administration may be looking to avoid backlash for doing that this time. president biden: customers can rest assured that he will be protected and accessed to their money. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers.
intervene. sandra: you see how absolutely brutal and scary that was, and new concerns over crime and disorder, not just in chicago, but across america. so, how can leaders prevent the culture of lawlessness from overtaking these once great cities? we ll good giano caldwell, he says soft on crime policies are to blame and will join us live what we are learning out of chicago and coast to coast crime on the rise. begin, though, with the fiery hearing from the house oversight committee hearing, disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. good wednesday to you, sandra. sandra: about halfway there, sandra smith in new york. hearing comes two weeks after the biden administration released the report blaming the shocking collapse of the afghan government on the trump administration. john: a group of inspectors general who wrote a separate report says president biden deserves a large amount of the blame for his exit strategy, removed american resources supporting the afghan govern