good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc in new york city. another new first for this country. the first trial of a sitting president s son getting under way in delaware just days after the end of donald trump s historic trial. what will the impact be both personally for the president and politically for his re-election. we ll go live to the courthouse where jury selection has been going on since 8:30. plus, the man who became the face of the covid response, dr. anthony fauci coming face-to-face with his congressional critics for the first time since leaving his post. the demand by one democrat for an apology, and what provoked an emotional response. the latest drama from capitol hill coming up. potentially devastating news for the families of israeli hostages. prime minister netanyahu saying today that president biden got it wrong on the details of a potential peace deal. and in his words, the claim that israel has agreed to a cease-fire without its conditions bein
Are influential. absolutely. the threats against fauci have been insane. even if he spends any minute on republican social maga media sites, trump s social media site or any others, the vitriol and rhetoric towards fauci is unbelievable. it s appalling. i will say when mike gallagher who quit congress was in there, one of his goals was to say we are going to investigate the origins of this so when we re doing future research on coronaviruses we don t make mistakes if indeed this was a lab leak, the new york times reported it possibly was just this morning. that was a legitimate oversight effort. what happened? mike gallagher leaves congress. the people shouting nonsense about fauci are still there running these committees. i think that kind of encapsulates this republican congress in a lot of ways. for something as large and complex as covid was and remains, there are questions and there are lessons to be learned. but we ll see if anything was