Today. Secretary of state Antony Blinken meeting with the chinese counterpart and then chinas Foreign Minister has a sitdown with President Biden. Were monitoring that today. First, however, want to get to this now. The center of israel and its commercial capital under attack again. A rocket fired out of gaza slamming into an Apartment Building in tel aviv. Thats where we start. Good morning, everybody. Its friday. Youve almost made it, america. Im bill hemmer. Welcome back, aishah in washington. Aishah im in for dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Lets get right to it. The u. S. Retaliating carrying out air strikes against iranianlinked sites in syria after drone and Rocket Attacks against America Forces there and iraq. Israeli tanks and troops briefly enter gaza in a second raid ahead of a larger ground invasion. Now time could be of the essence. I think it needs to be immediate. They need to understand what is going on in israel is going on in israel. You wont attack our u. S
chaotic scene that does not stop there. we ll show you the tape and tell you what happens next. todd: plus, is dr. fauci trying to rewrite history? do you agree there was a push to downplay the lab leak theer sne not on my part. really? really. wow. i have been very, very clear and said multiple times that i don t think that concept of there being lab leak is s conspiracy theory. that is not how i remember it. joni ernst has been demanding answers for what happened in wuhan, what fauci knew. she will react to bloc bust er block buster testimony. carley: this wnba controversy won t go away. chennedy carter doubles down. what is her last name? you won t believe what she s saying,ure are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: may have sounded like you made a mistake on chennedy carter. mistake is body check she gave to caitlin clark. left name, what is that? chennedy carter. i m todd piro, we know our own names. we are heading back to wil
todd: dr. anthony fauci testifying in a house hearing that the wuhan lab leak isn t just a republican conspiracy theory after all. actually, i have also been very, very clear and said multiple times that i don t think the concept of there being a lab leak is inherently a conspiracy theory. what is conspiracy is the kind of distortions of that particular subject like it was a lab leak and i was parachuted into the c.i. a like jason born and told the cia that they should really not be talking about a lab leak. thank you. that s a conspiracy. appreciate it. carley: what a difference four years makes. iowa senator joni ernst joins us now. this testimony yesterday what did you think about it? where is this going and what happens next? oh my goodness, we know this has been going on for years, the debate over how this occurred.