We start with the national lead. Any minute we expect the first court appearance for the prom innocent south carolina lawyer at the center of a series of family tragedies. Alex murdoch is in jail. Someone shot and killed his wife and son back in june. But it s not that case that has him behind bars. His attorney admits the attorney hired a hit man to shoot him in the head for his son to collect life insurance but that failed and the setup is not half the story. Martin savidge starts us off from south carolina. Reporter: his life in a scandalous spiral. Alex murdoch surrenders to law enforcement to face charges in a scheme in which he was the target a warrant for arrest detailed the botched murder attempt meant to provide millions of dollars of life insurance money attorneys say. Murdoch arranged for cur missmith to shoot and kill him but the plan failed because the shot wasn t fatal. Smith is charged with an assisted suicide, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and consp
The pandemic of the unvaccinated surging tonight with cases, hospitalizations, and deaths rising. The v. A. Is now mandating vaccines for frontline health workers. And we re just hours away from the first hearing of the january 6th select committee. Four hero officers who defended the capitol will testify. And listen to this. This is from michael flynn, the trump ally who riled up a crowd less than 24 hours before the deadly insurrection and even called for martial law. Now flynn in a church, no less, is given a semiautomatic rifle and jokes about taking it to washington, d. C. This is one of our topquality guns and maybe i ll find somebody in washington, d. C. [ laughter ] i mean and people laughed and cheered. You know what? tell that to the brave police officers who are testifying tomorrow, those american heroes who risked their lives to defend lawmakers and the vice president on january 6th. Tell them your funny joke about taking a washington and see if they laugh at it. I want to
Your can t. Be is it a just a little competitive jousting back and forth? what did you think of that? you re going to hear what jeff bezos has to say about that. I m neil cavuto. This is your world. Before he goes out of this world for a few minutes, he might want the reprieve of getting away from a market selloff, the likes of which we have not seen this year, all because we have a serious case of pandemic blues and concern that maybe some awful stuff, restrictions and all the stuff associated with it could be happening again. The l. A. County indoor mask mandate. A half a dozen athletes have tested positive for covid19. Two more texas democrats that are testing right now positive for covid in case you re counting. The story about vice president harris that met with these guys going to walter reed on a routine check upjust yesterday to see if maybe there s any issue with her. Apparently not. She tested nothingive. All of this at a time the world is gripped with fears that it s spreadi
President trump. She accepted rodney davis, troy nhls and kelly armstrong. Mccarthy says he will yank his members and conduct his own probe if pelosi doesn t accept his picks. It s afreej just abuse of power pelosi has broke this institution. House democrats must answer this question: why are you allowing a lame duck speaker to destroy this institution? pelosi has already named g. O. P. Wyoming representative liz cheney to the committee. The rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. At every opportunity the minority leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened. Mccarthy contends pelosi is afraid to answer questions about the riot and security preparations from jim jordan, the committee s first hearing is next week with or without the g. O. P. The committee has a quorum, reporters asked pelosi for her response when mccarthy accused her of playing politics. Mistake him for somebody that would care about us. Using pelosi
youtube. that inspector was a man called peter diaz zac and he spoke with his research at the wuhan institute of virology which had been going on for more than 15 years. in that interview he also discussed his nonprofit organization which had received millions from the u.s. government i channeled substantial percentage of the money to the lab in wuhan which he described as, quote, a world class lab of the highest standard. some of that work, again, paid for by american taxpayers, went to something called gain of function research. that involved manipulating viruses in a laboratory to make them more transmissible and more deadly. in his youtube interview peter spoke freely about all of this. at the time he had no reason not to. outside of a handful of diplomats, no one had raised concerns about the kind of research into bat viruses, very dangerous research it turns out, that was taking place in wuhan. according to peter, his research and the grant money that supported it, was