michael steele. these are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump s attorney and e. jean carroll s defamation case renewing calls for a mistrial. congressman jim hines is here to discuss the improving biden economy, and we are just 72 hours from primary day in new hampshire where the states could not be higher for republicans in for this country. grab your coffee, settle, and welcome to the weekend. we begin this hour with newly-released video from donald trump s april 2023 deposition and the new york civil trial trial against him and his company. during the interview, trump not only bragged about his finances and his brand, but also claimed his presidency save the planet from a quote, nuclear holocaust. you re too busy for the company? anyway, yeah. i can say, it another way of saying. it i was very busy. i consider this the most important job in the world, saving millions of jobs. i think we would ve had nuclear holocaust if i didn t deal with n
indictment. no one has made that allegation. at the end of the day, you have to weigh the damage of the indictment versus the damage of the allegations. it s just not even a fair way. senator marco rubio s evolution on donald trump s access to and handling of classified documents. yeah, i agree, it s not even a close call. you weigh whether you believe as the 11th circuit said that the foundational principle of this country, that no man is above the law, and you balance that against whatever marco was saying we should balance it against. and, you know, willie, i just you will notice you will notice of all of the noise out there, of all of the ground noise, nobody is saying he s innocent. nobody is saying he did not commit the crimes that will put him in jail for over a hundred years, if convicted on all things. i can t think of one person who has said this man did not do it. so what they say is what about hillary? i mean but they had a long time to do that.
traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i m harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate. they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china s responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperate afte
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
hi, there, everyone. it s 4:00 in the east. it took years and one court ruling after another, appeal upon appeal and even a trip to the united states supreme court, but today the american public finally has its hands on something donald trump has so doggedly sought to conceal his tax returns, six years worth. an unprecedented window into his financial picture. this public release, which among other things shows that donald trump paid very relatively in taxes in the years before and during his presidency, is the end product of an effort undertaken by the house ways and means committee. after securing the returns which cover the years 2015 through 2020, that panel voted along party lines to hand redacted versions of the returns over to the public. before we get into what these thousands of pages reveal, in a way, those of us who are not account tantants can understands worth note hough the committee got its hands on these returns in the first place. it s the end result of an