capacity on june 15th. they have all outdoor events that attendees are fully vaccinated or can determine a preentry negative test result. hard to eat the 100-dollar sandwich with your mask on, go forfeit you want to. that does it for us and "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: okay, president biden came in with a sweeping agenda but in just five months it is potentially stalling out until the midterms. "politico," "washington post," cnn, roll call, reported what we started warning about, we started warning about this weeks ago is the far left ruining it for president biden. president barack obama's top economist said the far left got all of this really wrong. we have bill hagerty, jason

chaffetz, ronny jackson, former federal prosecutor bret toll man, former foreign affairs analyst walid phares, charlie hurt and texas border town mayor john ma launch mclaughlin. to drop the price of the infrastructure plan he is cutting money for real infrastructure while keeping pork and slush funds. more evidence of that covid-19 lab leak in china. three wuhan lab workers hospitalized weeks before the official outbreak in china. the debate, why were dr. fauci and the media so quick to shut down this possibility? because they so detested donald trump who talked about this lab leak theory? this as dr. fauci says yeah it may have happened. this covid mystery who in the obama administration pushed to lift the ban on federal funding? who was for supporting dangerous

supervirus research? who was putting gigantic loopholes in the rules? former secretary of state, he is mike pompeo, reportedly now heading to israel right when the current secretary of state anthony blinken is there. we've got that story. this, republicans again demanding answers why did hunter biden use the secret service and air force two to do these mysterious trips overseas to make millions in dealings with countries like russia and china? plus top democrat michigan governor gretchen whitmer apologizes for breaking her own shut down rules. went maskless, didn't wake a mask or social distance at a restaurant. the governor said, quote, she did not stop to think. the debate, did she stop to think before slamming restaurants and bars for breaking the same rules? border towns say they have to lock down their own schools, not because of covid-19, but because of illegal border-crossers coming in increasingly with weapons.

thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. the"the evening edit" starts rit now. ♪. elizabeth: thanks for joining us. you're watching the fox business network. big stalemate between the president and the republicans over the infrastructure plan. let's get right to hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary? reporter: liz, the white house says it is republicans move after they put their counteroffer on the table on friday but senate republicans are hinting that white house staff behind the scenes might be to blame for derailing part of the progress saying the offer is way beyond what could get bipartisan backing and saying this, the group seems further apart after two meetings with white house staff after one meeting with president biden. republican so far are not impressed with the white house offer even though they cut the cost, republicans want some extras like child care to be on

the chopping block. the white house says biden will not budge on money for what they called the care economy but so far both sides are at an impasse between what is infrastructure and what isn't. some democrats are losing their appetite for getting republicans on board. senator bernie sanders saying sunday democrats may need to go forward alone and the clock is ticking. president biden marked memorial day as a deadline for when he wanted to get a bipartisan infrastructure deal done. that is just one week from today liz. elizabeth: hillary vaughn, great to see you, thank you so much. let's bring in tennessee senator bill hagerty. senator, looks like, great to see you by the way,. >> my pleasure. elizabeth: looks like the president's sweeping agenda, it is not just infrastructure. it is reform on guns, vote reform, d.c. statehood, immigration and police reform. looks like all of that is it stalling out right now, it is not going to get it. is the far left to blame? >> they're touting the message from the far left of their party.

this is not what mainstream america wants, liz. i can't brief the majority of the democrat party wants some of these extreme policies. so they listened to the loudest, maybe the most vocal minority in their party but what they are putting forward is policies that don't make sense for america and i think that is where they're seeing the push back right now. they can't get their own party together much less than 10 senators on the republican side. elizabeth: nancy pelosi can't afford to lose three votes. that means the squad has inordinate power. far left says go it alone. ram it through budget reconciliation. while they do that? president biden is telling "the new york times," he is not progressive, not signing on to the far left agenda. can they go it alone? >> if they do another example of the bait and switch from the election. biden ran as a centrist and moderate. you remember what he said during his inauguration speech but all they have done, they have only passed one piece of legislation, liz, that is the $1.9 trillion coronavirus package had very little if anything to do with

coronavirus treatment and had everything to do with the socialist agenda. this is far left policy being rammed through. they used a budgetary trick called reconciliation to push it through on 50/50 basis to bring in kamala harris to solve the tie. they need to remember this is evenly divided senate. we'll push back hard at every point when we talk about infrastructure we talk about real infrastructure. they can't even decide when infrastructure is at this point. elizabeth: yeah. the other thing too, we saw stocks today, again up in a broad advance. 95% of the s&p 500 reporting better-than-expected earnings. there is fears that inflation is upon us. wall street is it talking about inflation stocks to buy. look at this we have obama's top economist jason furman. he is now at harvard. he coauthored a study paying people not to work with bigger unemployment benefits could be keeping people from getting a job. also the threat of getting covid at work so that, jason furman,

obama's top economist saying that too. >> clear as day to a business person like me. this is exactly the wrong policy to extend unemployment plus stop unemployment through september, means small and medium-sized businesses are competing with the federal government to get employees back to work. the larger employees, are poaching employees from the smaller companies. a flood of people coming across the border. the small employers do i hire somebody under the table or let myself go out of business. it's a tough situation all around and biden policies are creating this. elizabeth: it is interesting, final point is that the taxpayers are running away from the exact same policies that biden team wants to enact. they're running away from it at the state level. but these are the policies that they're trying to push through at the federal level. you're seeing four million people leaving california and new york, illinois, michigan,

new jersey, texas, ohio, florida, arizona, tennessee. they see the policies coming down. your final word? >> i think people vote with their vote a conservatively run state like tennessee we're thriving. we have no state income tax, proper regulatory approach, a business-friendly environment where companies come and grow. they're attracted to that. that is why we're seeing so many people leave the bankrupt states like california, illinois, like michigan, move in droves to texas, tennessee and others. elizabeth: okay. senator hagerty thanks for joining us. >> wonderful to be with you again, liz, thanks. elizabeth: same here. let's welcome fox news contributor jason chaffetz. jason, great to have you on again. let's deal with this, another biden official showing major ties to green energy they're pushing. he chairs the powerful federal energy regulatory commission. they get to reject pipelines. he was a top lobbiest for a wind company out of spain. what do you say to this story? >> just add it to the list.

it is one of the numerous things there are severe ties, very concerning ties to people who have a personalized interest in the outcome of what they're going to be ultimately regulating. and you know, if it is not uncovered by fox business or fox news it generally doesn't get out there and the mainstream media continues to ignore it but add it to the list of yet again another person who has, seems to be dealing with self-interest. elizabeth: it is unclear if he owns any investments in this but the president said we're going to create good union-paying jobs in green energy but much of wind manufacturing takes place in countries like europe. excuse me, continents like europe, spain or denmark. you know let's get to what you're discovering. >> right. elizabeth: let's get back to president biden cutting spending on roads and bridges in his new offer down to 120 billion, keeping the same amount for electric vehicles but you're

finding still pork and slush funds, right? >> yeah. if you go to pandemic oversight.org, the inspector general, michael horowitz put out a website, i'm one of the nerdy guys who goes to read that thing with the government accountability institute, some of the things you will find in there have nothing to do with covid relief in the united states. scuba gear in uruguay. hiv research, tens of millions of dollars going into fiji. one of my favorite, they spent $600,000 of american taxpayers to buy two gazebos at guantanamo bay. these things have nothing to do with it. one of the the biggest expenditures out there was a 363 million-dollar expenditure for the uss boise which is an attack submarine. this has nothing to do with covid relief or anything else. you see it by the billions of

dollars going out the door but that is not the promise of what kamala harris and joe biden said. it would be for the american worker and american businesses that were struggling. it was sold under the guise of covid but it is really not not when you're buy buying $600,000 for two gazebos in cuba. elizabeth: cut spending on roads and bridges but keep that kind of pork and slush funds to grease it through. what did it tell you the inspector general for the justice department overseeing that. we haven't seen a website launched for the watchdog of the doj like this before. what does that tell you? >> hats off to him. i think michael horowitz is the most capable person out there. his work on the fbi investigation was second to none. i'm glad he is on top of it. without the proactive work of somebody like a horowitz who is doing this so the public can

look at this, you wouldn't know what the biden administration -- biden is out there trying to sell another relief package. meanwhile billions of dollars, literally trillions of dollars we have given them are wasting it on 600,000-dollar gazebos? they're afraid of more money being exposed but it is out there now. elizabeth: you wonder if the infrastructure bill gets stalled, then president biden has only one success, it is covid relief bill, 1.9 trillion. so it is one and done but so there is disturbing waste and abuse in these bills when thousands of businesses, restaurants and bars were permanently shut during covid-19 but then they're tossing money around. it gives the term drunken sailors, doesn't do sailors any justice. they're out spending drunken sailors. what do you say? >> well this is the problem. when you throw trillions of dollars without committees, without hearings, without the

openness and transparency these agencies are flooded with money. they're spending literally trillions of dollars as fast as they possibly can. when biden and obama had $787 billion in 2009 we had all kinds of these problems. now they're exponentially spending even more than that. you're seeing all the waste, the fraud, abuse. it is a shame because there are people that do need relief. they're not getting it. government is incapable of doing this without massive waste, fraud and abuse. it is on display now, but still biden and kamala harris are asking for more. that is what is infuriating. elizabeth: striking. this is hitting a wall what is going on, happening now. jason chaffetz in terms of the biden agenda. great to have you on again. come back again soon, okay? >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: sure. still ahead, congressman and former white house doctor ronny jackson, he is going to weigh in on the controversy that covid-19

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congressman, former white house doctor ronny jackson. congressman, good to see you. okay, circumstantial evidence keeps growing that covid-19 did leak from the lab in china. three wuhan lab workers reportedly hospitalized with covid-symptoms before the outbreak. why were the media, scientists so quick to shut this down, the theory? >> during the trump administration, dr. fauci was part of solution, as soon as president trump was gone dr. fauci became part of the problem. i think honestly playing into the democrats playbook to undo every single thing the trump administration did. if the trump administration did it they initially took approach 180 from that no matter what the issue was. the state department under the trump administration suggested this may have happened. president trump was criticizing the world health organization remember, actually defunded the world health organization. the first thing the biden administration was roll in,

refund the world health organization to build up their reputation. we know the world health organization nothing but a tool for the chinese government. it is an effort to cover this up. i think they're finding out the investigation is going to reveal this actually happened, i feel like, i'm pretty confident at this point it did come from the lab. i think everyone will know that soon enough. i think they're backtracking right now. they're trying to figure out how they can to back and said there was a possibility. they're trying to cover their tracks right now, trying to go backwards. i think they find out which funded some of that research. elizabeth: let's show the viewer the timeline what went down here. gop, republicans on house intelligence say there is more circumstantial evidence that a leak happened, that exists in nature. now dr. fauci is even saying he is not confident that it emerged just in nature when he said last year, you know, it didn't leak from a lab. so the cdc director dr. rochelle

walansky testifieded it did leak. team, show the timeline of the viewer how this all went down. here is the question, who under the obama administration, doctor, who lifted the ban on funding of supervirus research and support of supervirus research, who did that under the obama administration? >> i don't know if dr. fauci was involved in that but i do know the money still went there despite that. dr. fauci said there was no money provided to the wuhan institute of virology but there was, it was lawn per deader by the ecohealth alliance, by peter dasek only american on the investigation they did. $1.5 million went directly to the wuhan institute of virology t was used in the gain of function testing. we'll find that out that will be the truth. elizabeth: so epthe books. >> open the books. let us see. elizabeth: open the books. >> we already know, there is big problems here that indicate this was going on. this virus has never been identified in the wild.

there is not an organism or animal out there we know this virus exists in, yet we know when this happened at least three members back in november before the chinese declared that the first case of the virus had taken place in china were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with coronavirus. and we also know that they shut roads down around the wuhan institute of virology. there was a party where there was absolutely no cell phone activity there. so a lot of strange stuff was happening right around the time this virus would have broke out. i think there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that it came from this lab and its building. we'll find out that is what happened. we'll find out that dr. fauci and national institute of health provided some of the funds for this to happen. elizabeth: yeah. the other thing too is, you know, so we have in 2015 u.s. scientists working with chinese scientists developed a chimeric virus a lab-made coronavirus. >> frankenstein. elizabeth: sars virus, yeah. so they were working on this to

develop vaccines. you know, dr. fauci in 2011 coauthored a "washington post" op-ed saying yes, let's generate virus in a laboratory that does not exist in nature for the purpose of creating vaccines. so the question is, that seems like a noble intent but the issue is why farm it out to china which has such serious safety violations and poor safety protocols? let's listen to senator tom cotton on this subject. watch this. >> the money that the nih gave went to an american organization which turned around and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to these wuhan labs to investigate coronaviruses and yes, to find ways to make them more contagious and more dangerous. i think there could be an example here of these public health bureaucrats thinking they know better. they will not answer to political oversight and accountability, even in the obama administration. they went ahead with this research that could be very

dangerous. that's why it is imperative that the nih come clean, tell us exactly what happened. >> they keep saying trust the science. have faith in us. follow the science. should we now given how much, sars was leaking out of a beijing laboratory in 2004. there has been lab leaks continuously. should we just follow the science, trust the science have faith in our people here? >> right now we can't do that any longer. they betrayed our trust in a lot of issues. who thought it was a good idea to give the money for research to be done? if we're doing the research somewhere in the united states maybe i'm okay if it will lead to vaccine development, something like this, but give money to china, not only had a horrible history of lab leaks but anything, everything happens in china has the involvement of the chinese government and the chinese military as well. they're not our friends but are our enemies in some ways. it is crazy we give the money to

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drug into this issue. if we had a media that was interested in investigating and holding individuals accountable? i could see, i could envision that the irs starts to ask questions about were these personal or business trips that were benefiting him personally? because when you use air force one or air force two, which i've been on, they have to have a distinct government purpose and there has to be, has to be documented. i would like to know all of those details. i would like to know why the irs isn't looking into who should be paying the bill for that tax benefit. elizabeth: yeah it is interesting you say that. there is a justice department probe into hunter biden over potential involving alleged tax evasion. we don't know who it evolves. if you get private benefit off of government assets, then you have to report your, that as income on your tax return. top republican senator joni ernst now demanding answers. we have author alex marlow of

"breitbart news" in his new book showing heavy use of andrews joint air force base. we have 29 foreign countries, 23 trips through joint base andrews. that is the home of air force one and air force two. this is when joe biden was vice president, 2009, 2014. so, where was the wall between biden and his son here? >> yeah. i mean the wall is important. we were told that they were following protocols, doing things the right way. we certainly know that is not the case. we have seen it over and over now. liz, what really bothers me though is that we're just a few months from hearing about you know, the russia investigation, russia collusion and all kinds of other allegations, yet here this was going on and we don't have the media digging into it. we don't seem to have anyone in congress that is worried about

it. we're, resources utilized and if so was it inappropriate? is there a pattern? if there is a pattern of abuse like that, typically that is large-scale criminal investigation where an individual will be targeted for that abuse, will have to pay the government back and will be facing felony charges. elizabeth: can you imagine if eric trump or donald trump was doing this donald trump, jr.? we know we hear about the business dealings of the trump family while he was president but this is specifically using air force two to go on these mysterious trips where he got 3 1/2 million dollars from the wife of the former mayor of moscow, doing deals with kazakhstan, ukraine, china. this is leveraging the biden family name for power and for money. your final word? >> the first amendment is very important in our forefathers knew that a strong, neutral media could hold government action and abuse accountable to

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♪. elizabeth: former secretary of state mike pompeo head towing israel possibly right when secretary of state antony blinken will be there. joining us now is national security and foreign affairs analyst walid phares. they may crisscross, great to see you. what message does this send to the mideast? >> well there is an actual division in the united states public opinion regarding going back to the iran deal and the reason is very simple. the iran regime knows exactly

what it is doing. the biden administration is just copying what the obama administration has done and if you go by that and do not understand the new realities in the region such as the "abraham accords," the arab coalition and all that, then you may make mistakes. one example, iranian regime got $150 billion from the obama administration bought weapons, supported militias, i will stop, paralyze, or limit the iran nuclear arsenal. now they're coming on force and telling the biden administration we will do the same. so we don't have any guarranty as to what the iranian regime will do when they get more money and sanctions will be removed. elizabeth: walid, more than two dozen is, more than 26 american jews have been attack in the u.s. coast to coast by individuals on u.s. soil with flags representing the gaza strip. so that is happening here in the

united states. it is terrifying for people in places like restaurants to be attacked like that. so this is going on as the secretary of state antony blinken basically saying we'll talk to the middle east and saying effectively that yeah, we know that iran funds and backs terror but we got to work with them to stop therapy nuclear weapons, what do you say to that? >> well i wish this was reality but the fact that he is going to, the administration will eventually remove those sanctions will give more funds to the iranian regime which will basically do what with it? fund militias on the ground. fund this huge propaganda operation that is radicalizing individuals even outside of iran, outside the middle east and of course within the united states and europe. so i would say this would be a grave mistake if we engaged iranians without insuring that there would be -- [inaudible] elizabeth: news coming in.

leader of hamas is again saying israel does not have the right to exist. he is saying that. the senior leaders of hamas thanked iran for giving them money and weapons. this is not a good look for john kerry to be doing back-door diplomacy with iran. there is that. now with mike pompeo going to the middle east, is the biden administration going to try to hit him with violations of the logan act like they did general flynn? >> no. if he is not pretending he is the government of the united states. i mean american politicians, american experts meet leaders of foreign countries all the time, all over the world. so, no, secretary pompeo is a public figure of the united states. he can deliver lectures. he can speak to media. he can express the views of the opposition in the united states, very normal. elizabeth: it was said that john kerry should be accused of the same thing. so that is u.s. fighting here in our country. walid phares, thanks for joining us. great insights there.

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♪. elizabeth: democrat michigan governor gretchen whitmer apologizing going maskless, not wearing a mask, not social distancing in a restaurant in michigan. welcome back to the show "washington times" opinion editor he is fox news contributor, charlie hurt. charlie, she is apologizing, she is apologizing, she says, quote, i didn't stop to think. did she stop to think before slamming restaurants and bars for breaking her own rules? >> so exactly, that is precisely

the point. you know she says i'm only human. i made a mistake. whatever, that's fine but the point here is, the important point here is that she is an actor of the government. she is an executive the government in michigan. and she employed all of these, i would say constitutionally questionable lockdowns on all of these business owners, all these private citizens around the state for over a year now and they have enforced these rules, the state of michigan, all heard the stories, read the stories about these bar owners and these citizens who have been harassed by these rules and the problem here this was not just a one-off mistake she was only being human. the problem is it reveals her own contempt for the very lockdowns that she has insured that her citizens and businesses in her state have been forced to comply with. and that is a real problem. elizabeth: so she went to a restaurant this weekend in east

lansing with a large group of people. you're seeing the photo there. they were also not wearing masks. that photo has been since deleted from social media. the reports are coming in that restaurant and bars in east lansing have been targeted by state officials for violating gretchen whitmer, the governor's lockdown rules. so in the same area that she went maskless and didn't social distance, those restaurants and bars also have been targeted. elsewhere in that area. so your thought on that? >> yeah. i mean you know, it is one thing, so she apologizes for breaking her own rules but what about enforcing all the rules on all of the people that have been basically locked in their homes or shut out of their businesses or the businesses have gone out of business because of her, because of these draconian rules that she is, and again, i question whether or not there is even, she even has the constitutional right to do a lot of these things. here is another thing, liz, to me, in a lot of ways, let's just

assume her, all of these objectives and all of these rules that she put into place are sensible rules. well you know, we have been through a pandemic. a lot of people have died and the idea that actions like this which call into question, you know, the degree to which all of these things have been politicized, that is a real problem and that undermines all of the advice that the cdc gives, all the advice that the federal governments state governments have given. throughout the process of this. if you just assume that they really do think that the government plays such huge role in all of this, look at the damage they're doing to their own credibility. elizabeth: we hear you. also she was hit with an ethics complaint allegedly used tens of thousands of dollars in political donations through her transition fund to pay for a private jet to fly to the president's inauguration and that, those donations reportedly paid for the vast majority of our trip to florida to see her father but that was in violation

of her guidelines too. she said on podcast interview i was here in town the whole time when she wasn't. your final word. >> total lie. she is a hot mess and scandals like that just underscore the fact she didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt in a situation like this. she should be held to the highest standards and at the very least her own standards. elizabeth: great to see you, charlie hurt, thank you very much. >> good to see you. elizabeth: texas border down john mclaughlin talks about his town had to lock down their schools, not because of covid-19 because he says illegal border-crossers are increasingly pouring in with arms and weapons. the story next. >> if you believe the border is closed you believe in the tooth fairy, the easter bunny and the jimmy hoffa died of natural causes. we'll have two million people come in to the united states this year illegally.

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border town is don mclaughlin, so good to have you back on. we hear you have to lock on your schools, not because of covid-19 but because of illegal border crossers armed with guns and weapons, what is going on. >> what happens, these illegal aliens get in these cars and pursuits and they come to town, when they come to town, they tried to lose law enforcement so they go to different parts of the town. lately they get out and bail out viral local elementary schools. so we've had to put the local elementary schools on lockdown and we had to bring more law enforcement in to search for the individuals. 90% of these cars were finding loaded firearms. it's not just here, it's an dell

rio, rockville, eagle pass, crystal city, inc. tutuila, all of 60 miles, 70 miles of us. liz: any rational reasonable person would say this is outrageous. how many police car chases per week? >> we've been averaging, up until the last few days, 13 - 15 per week. there were two right before we got on the air, just now before we got on the air. liz: are federal state officials answering your phone calls about this? >> no ma'am, they are not. up until today is the first time i spoke to senator koren's office and will be speaking in the next day or so but not from senator cruz or the governor's office. liz: the biden of administration, elected officials are failing you, they are failing and stranding border

towns and cities and leaving them in the middle of a superhighway of crime, where this is going in the wrong direction for the administration and for the country, border crossing our increasing and criminals are exploiting the border crisis, it is you guys, the little guys having to deal with on your own, is that the story. >> that's exactly the story, were spending more and more time having to bring officers and on overtime to keep up with it, there's not a day that goes by that were not searching and trying to apprehend illegal aliens that have come into town and bailed out, it is an everyday occurrence now. liz: it's taken the manpower, i hear you. we have the equivalent, the population of nebraska expected to cross, 2 million in this fiscal year, dell rio is seen

illegal aliens coming from 67 other countries, that we are seeing to? >> 73 as of this morning. liz: in your local area. >> i can name some from yemen, iraq, iran, china, russia, they've been from the congo, right now it's a big surge of venezuelans, they have been from cuba, honduras, el salvador, i don't even have a complete list of all the 73 countries, but it keeps growing and growing and growing. liz: go ahead. >> they keep telling us the border is shut down but it sure is not. liz: when they get in the police chase, they get in their cars and they get away, where are they headed do you think? >> are trying to get to san antonio or austin or chicago, they're not staying here, we

don't have enough industry or anything for them but they're trying to get someone else in the united states. they're coming to a town near you. we caught convicted child molesters, that is up over 2000%, murderers, convicted murderers, that is up, gang members, known gang members, the numbers are in the four and 500% on those. liz: what kind of weapons are they carrying? >> most are caring 9 millimeters or 45 automatic pistols, we encounter two or three rifles but we counted quite a few pistols. liz: quite a few pistols and knives. you're trying to catch them but then they go into the interior. your final word on this? >> like i said were dealing with it today and we as a country need to wake up, this is in a democrat or a republican thing, it's an american citizen thing it is coming to a town near you

and is just going to be here that much longer. liz: you're not allowed to walk their airports and come into the country, so why does anybody in their right mind think this is okay for border towns like you to suffer through this. mayor don mclaughlin, thank you for joining us, we'll have you back on soon. thank you for your service to our country, i'm elizabeth macdonald, you been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. thank you for watching per we hope you have a good evening. ♪ ♪ ♪. larry: hi everyone i'm david asman and for larry kudlow today, welcome to "kudlow", we start with breaking news surrounding the origin of the covid pandemic, three researchers at the wuhan institute overall and g were reportedly hospitalized in november 2019 months before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. this according to the wall street journal. rich edson is live at the state department with more.