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jillian: we don t like that song anymore. todd: has anybody in america ever heard that song other than on our show? right us honor individual social media pages. i m legitimately curious, crickets. jillian: it is going to be in your box. todd: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. jillian: off-limits. former state department officials say they were warned against pursuing an investigation into covid origins over fears of bringing attention to us funding towards wuhan s biology lab. todd: the former white house coronavirus testing czar speaks out on the lab leak the area. reporter: former state department officials received pushback when investigating covid 19 origins. according to a vanity fair report multiple state department officials say there was an effort to oppose any investigation over fears that might, quote, open a can of worms. that report was confirmed through state department officials. they didn t want to bring unwanted attention to ....
sandra: would begin with the senate unanimously requiring the biden administration declassify the origin of covid-19 as calls from transparency grow by the hour. hello. i m sandra smith here in new york and this is america reports. john: it s great to see you here on friday eve and i m john roberts in washington. the bill comes as the white house says it has not ruled out any theories on the covid-19 origin but refuses to say whether china would be punished if investigators find evidence of a cover-up. this adds president biden it is asking intelligence agencies to redouble their efforts. speak to the american people deserve to know what role the american china played in this. yes, we need to declassify but the more i look into it, this was squashed by ecohealth alliance, nih, especially in ho and china itself. the american public deserves it with all of the turmoil that is been caused by at. sandra: we will seek answers in just a moment and will be speaking t ....
president. . so what bewill be the topics of conversation? not all friendly, right? sure. i mean, we are going to see president biden meet face-to-face for the first time with british prime minister boris johnson. they have spoken twice on the phone this year early in january. just a couple days after president biden took office. then again in march. but this will be the first time they re speaking face-to-face. the theme of president biden s entire european tour is to re-estabilsh the point that democracy matters. re-estabilsh these alliances that really have frayed in the era of president trump. the interesting thing about this meeting is he was a key trump ally. this certainly underscores the fraught relationship here. aides say it is a new day. a new relationship. there is much in it for both sides to have a productive relationship. one of first things they re going to do in a matter of moments here as joe and jill biden make their way to see the johnsons, they re ....
back when abraham lincoln was a congressman. embarrassing details behind some of this nation s infrastructure needs. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the politics lead and a harsh reality check for a party that thought controlling the white house and senate and house of representatives might actually translate to power. today nearly every single democratic priority seems stalled on capitol hill. on infrastructure president biden just wrapped up a call with the lead republican negotiator, but were both sides hundreds of billions apart, the white house is already starting to look at plan b waiting in the wings. then there s the expansive election reform bill. that s failed to earn the support of key democratic senator joe manchin even after a meeting with civil rights leaders today this, while efforts at policing reform also remain at a standstill. so president biden will leave the united states in just hours for his first international trip ....
thousands of gas stations are now completely out of fuel. thousands around the country. not concerned that inflation, it is getting out of control, as of been telling you, prices for lumber, prices for just abut everything soaring. is not concerned americans are choosing to stay home, collect the generous government handouts while millions of jobs are left unfilled that is hurting businesses trying to come back from the pandemic. obviously, obliviously not concerned about the crisis at our southern border and you better believe he s not losing any sleep over now the thousand plus rockets that have been raining down on israel, our closest ally and as we speak, yes, israel under attack yet again. he took joe days to even say anything mildly supportive of our number one ally in the middle east. now, did you need to wait and see what president trump said first, joe, before it was time for you to go? because you re supposed to go first but i guess congratulations are in orde ....