it s a badge of honor. i want to know because context does matter. these questions are important. back in early 2020, obviously before the delta variant, dr. fauci did say in an email the typical mask you buy in the drugstore is not really efi effective in keeping out virus which is small enough to pass through the material. do you think this suspension, scott, would have happened if the video was from a democratic lawmaker? no, i don t, and this is what us conservatives are bent out of shape is double standards. it s not just the fauci email you referenced but other respected people other than rand paul who are democrats or affiliated with democrats who said mich m michael said when you look at the cloth pieces they have
50 counts of sexual acts with ten boys. he has pleaded not guilty. the escort at the center of the secret service prostitution scandal says the agents involved were, quote, idiots. talking to a colombian radio station. juarez says she could have gotten sensitive information compromising president obama s security. translator: of course, at that moment if i had been a member of one of those terrorist gangs, it s obvious that i would have been able to get everything just like the newspapers say, they re a bunch of fools. they re responsible for obama security and they still let this happen. i told them i m going to call the police. so that they would pay me my money. they didn t care. they didn t see the magnitude of the problem. even when being responsible for obama security. i could have done 1,000 other things. suarez says her reputation is shattered. she adds that she s open to other opportunities like posing nude for magazine for the right price. in an unusual move
our national security. within two hours of the president s departure, a suicide bomber rocked kabul. at least seven people were killed. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. the nfl suspended four players from the new orleans saints today. anthony hargrove, scott fujita, will smith, and jonathan vilma were all named in the so-called bountygate scandal. players were allegedly offered bonuses for hurting players. the league has already suspended sean payton for the 2012 season. hillary clinton is in china there to talk economic strategy, but the name on everyone s lips is chen. that s chen guangcheng who is now we are told at a hospital in beijing. chen is the blind human rights activist who was convicted and thrown in jail for leading protests against the government. he spent six days under american embassy protection after escaping house arrest. it s not clear if he left the embassy by choice. a friend of the activist said chinese authorities threatened
facility and will be reunited with his family. these developments coming while secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner are in beijing preparing for economic and strategic meetings with chinese leaders beginning on thursday. it s not clear how the chen case might influence those talks, but this was starting to become a sticky situation between the u.s. and china. china now reportedly demanding an apology from the u.s. for sheltering the activist. we ll have a live report from beijing in the next half hour. our other big story of the morning. new questions about america s longest war, this after a trip to afghanistan by the president that was supposed to sum it all up. president obama saying one year after the death of osama bin laden that crushing al qaeda is within reach. but a car bomb that killed six people after air force one was wheels up certainly a tough reminder that there s a long way to go in that country. we still don t know how