restrictions on human gatherings ease. sales shift away from toilet paper and baking flour to cost met ticks and swim sweets, according to companies that make the products and large retailers. it is getting hot outside. deodorant is a good choice. that is it for "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts now. elizabeth: tonight both dr. fauci and the nih director, dr. francis collins pushing back hard at a hearing before congress adamantly saying that the u.s. did not fund supervirus research at china's wuhan lab but it is what they didn't say, what they can't account for, that's what matters. joining us tonight senator ron johnson, kt mcfarland, wells fargo economist mark vitner, lara trump and pat fallon and national border patrol council president brandon

judd. we have a lot of headlines and news for you tonight. dr. fauci, the nih director avoiding what they already admitted they can't track, they can't account for how china spends its money and what it is doing with superviruses. dr. fauci did not testify how he has supported quote, the creation of a laboratory virus that does not exist in nature in order to get vaccines. we are following the money trail here. plus why aren't democrats blocking republicans demands to hold hearings on all of this? we have growing circumstantial evidence that yeah, covid-19 leaked from the wuhan lab in china. why are they block it? is it because they don't want to admit former president trump might be right? the media dramatic flip-flop. a year after they trashed donald trump and trashed tomm cotton, cnn, "new york post" and other media warming to the idea yeah, it may have leaked as scientists government officials

around the world say you have to investigate the lab leak theory. three 1/2 million people are dead including more than 600,000 americans. the fbi investigating a suspicious package with death threat sent to senator rand paul's home. senator paul is blaming twitter to allow attacks on him to run rampant. he says he wants to talk to twitter, instagram, facebook, tiktok, are slammed for allowing rampant antisemitic tweets. won't believe what happens now, officials that work for president obama in his administration they are openly criticizing biden's policies. one even calling biden's green agenda, quote, ridiculous. a new push is on to re-fund the police. after a year of rising crime and violence as police today respond to reports of gunshots fired in george floyd square in minneapolis a year after george

floyd's death. we have also that and this, texas governor greg abbott says he will defund the cities that defund the police. we've got more on local mayors and towns saying the biden administration is leaving them stranded with weak policies. they have to deal with rising border violence from illegal crossers, many of them armed with guns and weapons. thanks for joining us, i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get you updated on what happened today when both dr. fauci and nih director fancies collins testified today over the u.s. funding of that wuhan lab in china. it is where a growing number of scientists and science journalists, government officials around the world believe covid-19 leaked out of. hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with more. hillary? reporter: liz, the head of the

nih, dr. france chris collins admitted that the u.s. grant money did make its way to the wuhan institute of virology through a group called ecohealth alliance. that group was awarded $3.7 million grant from the nih and that group gave $600,000 for the to the lab for a bat project. that helped build a library of 15,000 bat samples and lawmakers wanted to know if the wuhan lab could have been using using thit library of virus to get one more dangerous or dangerous, something called gain of function research. >> we are not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have taken outside of what our approved grant allowed. >> so we could have sent money through echo health alliance, money could have ended up in the wuhan institute of virology which might be doing gain of

function research? reporter: what was happen to the lab was concerning enough for nih at the height of the pandemic they froze grant money going to the lab citing biosafety concerns and those concerns still exist today because the ecohealth alliance tells me their grant money has not been freed up and the nih has not told them when or if that will happen. liz? brian: elizabeth: hillary, great reporting, good stuff, hillary vaughn. kt mcfarland with her reaction what happened today. so dr. fauci today -- good to see you, kt he didn't testified he already told "the wall street journal" he can't track china how china spends its money. he can't track what china is doing. francis collins testified to that today. what do you think of this whole controversy? >> what are we doing funding research in chinese labs? china is a very wealthy country. why do they need american grants

to study viruses or whatever else? it calls into question how many other grants do we have in other research laboratories in china and for other purposes. you know, why are we doing this? then, where is it getting us? if we were giving money to a chinese lab, maybe another part of the chinese lab the chinese military was actively studying something else, who knows, but why did that money not give us the ability to find out what was going on with the coronavirus when it started happening? because immediately after the chinese understood the lethality of it, the contagious nature of it, what did they do? they shut down travel in and out of china, in and out of wuhan but insisted travel throughout the world would continue to happen with the united states and china and wuhan and milan, woo hahn to -- they employed it as biological weapon, whether it was designed that way or not that is how they used it. when we tried to find out what was going on the chinese

military took over the entire lab and the entire project but the whole thing has a lot of unanswered questions. we need to get to the bottom of it. elizabeth: so dr. fauci adamantly said no u.s. money went to supervirus research. then why did the nih in july 2020 freeze echo health funding for research at the lab? here is why? they were not properly monitoring what the wuhan lab was doing. so here's the question, why are democrats blocking republican demands to hold hearings into this? u.s. intelligence is showing reportedly that three researchers at that lab were hospitalized a month before the official start date of the covid pandemic. >> look i think dr. fauci's comments were very carefully crafted, probably by a emtoo lawyers. he answered a very specific aspect of it. the general question of was american money going to this lab in wuhan china, the leading virology lab in the country, you know the answer to that is yes. so i think his answer was

designed to hmmm, let's make sure we're not held culpable for anything to do with the origination of this coronavirus. then the fact that there is really, there are no clear answers and the democrats don't seem to want to get to the bottom of it. i think every american, this is not a political thing. we want to find out how it happened, why it happened and was it -- elizabeth: that's right. that's the issue. we can't have another pandemic like this. in the issue is are they trying to basically block any idea that trump was right? because they're saying okay, this is unsubstantiated this theory it leaked out of the wuhan lab. trump russia was unsubstantiated too, they had multiple hearses on it. why not just have a hearing on it, you know what i mean? >> i was a victim of it. the whole russia hoax, the justice department, the fbi, the mueller investigation, they came after me even though they all knew from the very beginning that there was nothing to it and so i think all these issues

become so politicized why the majority of americans are sick of everybody in washington. curse on both of your houses because everything is political. even something as non-political as a virus and a pandemic is somehow become political. elizabeth: okay. so dr. fauci has said it is an open question that it may have leaked out of that lab. so did the cdc director. but let's turn back to his carefully crafted answers. he is saying u.s. funding did not fund, did not back research into creating, engineering, lab-created superviruses even though he did write an op-ed, coauthored one in 2011 for "the washington post" saying yeah, let's create lab generated viruses to make vaccines. set that aside. so he is sticking to that. but the idea, say it escaped out of a lab and after it appeared naturally in animal that china was studying inside of that lab, can you answer to that, yeah,

maybe dr. fauci could say yeah that is possibility. we have thousands of am animal samples with virus. >> so many questions, so few answers. pandemic or virus doesn't just affect republicans or democrats. it affects an entire country and it affects the world. why can't we get straight answers from something honest, should be on a ledger sheet. should be public information. what is american tax dollars doing going to a lab in china? where else is going to like china or other countries? we keep getting lawyered answers to carefully avoid any blame. there is plenty of blame to go around. we need the truth. >> we've got, the white house press secretary saying i will let the w.h.o. take the lead in investigating this. u.s. is not going to do it when president obama got the military an got a national security threat level when ebola was coming into the u.s., obama

treated it as national security. is this a national security issue? >> of course it is a national security issue. it is an economic issue. it's a national security issue. it's a health issue. a humanitarian issue. we should have all hands on deck of the united states government trying to figure out the origin of this trying to deal with it. this sort of casting blame on one side or another, this neuralgia anything donald trump did was horrible or terrible, whether peace in the middle east, peace, liz, between israel and arab countries, the "abraham accords" yet the white house press secretary says, peace in the middle east, there is nothing there. everything donald trump did, they are just allergic to saying it is good. they would have to reverse it. instead of peace in the middle east we have war in the middle east. elizabeth: it may have leaked out of a lab, that is what trump said. who knows, maybe they're still politicizing it. we'll keep following the money trail with you, kt mcfarland. great to have you on. still ahead, senator ron johnson on the fbi investigating

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china's wuhan institute of virology was involved in that and they were basically training the chinese in terms of our own techniques on how to conduct gain of function and make these viruses more deadly. so he has got to come clean from my standpoint. elizabeth: senator, let's move on to this story if i may, the fbi now investigating a suspicious package filled with white powder with a death threat sent to republican senator rand paul's home in kentucky. senator rand paul blaming twitter for not stopping violent tweets or threats against him and his family. the senator will be speaking with twitter. what do you think of what is going on with social media and violent threats against conservatives? >> it is a very unfortunate world we live in today where politics turned into these types of repugnant threats. let's face it, social media is not helpful from this standpoint the way they have taken sides in the political realm.

they are part and parcel with the democratic party. they pushed the russian hoax. they censored information, i think life-saving information when it comes to early treatment with things like covid. they certainly need to be, we need to look at them in terms of their 230 exemption and how they conduct themselves and really the monopoly nature of social media. elizabeth: you know, senator, richard marx, an american singer tweeted out i will say it again if i ever meet rand paul's neighbor i will hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume. rand paul's neighbor, convicted, pleaded guilty, basically attacked rand paul and broke six of his ribs in 2020. so that happened. so when you see, so many lawmakers are pointing out what many in the country feel, social media is dividing this country. we've got unchecked anonymous, poison and vitriol but silicon valley thinks they know better than us, better than you and congress.

better than what americans think even though they're routinely canceling and platforming, shadow bang people for talking against things like lockdowns. i don't know how about lifting the section 230 is going to stop it. that seems like a long fight in other words, that is what i'm trying to say. that seems like a long uphill battle to do that. >> it is not just social media. it is media. it is their liberal bias because there is a complete double standard. if you had a conservative media figure, say that about a liberal politician all hell would break loose. there would be all kinds of attacks against that entertainer but if it's a liberal entertainer taking potshots at a conservative politician, that is all fair game. that's righteous criticism, it is funny criticism. there is a complete double standard. there is a double standard in our system of justice nowadays. take a look how the department of justice is handling the

leftist summer and spring of 2020 protesters versus how they're handling the protesters that breached the capitol. again i condemn it all. i don't condone any violence but i want to see the equal administration of justice and see unbiased free press. we have free press but it needs to be unbiased but this is not. they made to interfere in our elections in 2020 than anything russia or china hoped to achieve in 2016 or 2020. elizabeth: also we have this twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok accused of letting antisemitic attacks on their platform as the country see as worsening surge of anti-semitic attacks on american jews. that they are up 2/3 since hamas fired 4,000 rockets against israel. antisemitic attacks running rampant on twitter and social media too. >> that they banned a former

president of the united states, president trump and allow the ayatollahs in iran to make death threats across the country and across the world. you don't have to make the stuff up. this is what they do. again it's poisoning our politics. it is dividing this nation. there is nothing unifying, nothing healing about social media, the media or quite honestly the biden administration. elizabeth: so we've got governor ron desantis signing a law that says residents of florida can sue for monetary damages that if they are censored on social media. the first state in the country to do that. don't know if that he will stand. is he is using that as under the state's consumer fraud laws. >> i am glad the states are assuming their is people sy with a federal listtic republic. with democrats and biden firmly

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this is coming from the left as well. i, you know, right now the focus is getting the economy back to normal and we have, we're about 8.2 million jobs shy of where we were pre-pandemic and most of that short fall is in high contact areas of the economy like restaurants and bars and whenever you go into one of these places right now, they tell you hey, we're so short staffed, i was at a restaurant today. they said, yeah, people are really gaming the system. they don't want to come into work. they come in, say they will work and don't show up. when you focus on getting people back to work that is probably the, job number one right now. elizabeth: yeah. so jason furman, who was obama's top economist, he is now at harvard, did a study, mark, with other individuals and experts who they said, listen you can't pay people to stay at home with bigger and jobless benefits because you will not get the job

growth at a time of a pandemic when people don't want to go into work. let's watch gina mccarthy with the interview with "axios." watch this. >> we have had 22 million jobs that have actually been empty because of this pandemic and now is not the time to sit them down say, let's talk about climate, how can you sacrifice? it is just, it is never going to be a winning strategy. right now it is ridiculous. you know the president recognizes that climate change is a problem and he also recognizes that getting there doesn't mean you don't think about growing jobs, it means you do. elizabeth: never going to be a winning strategy right now. it's ridiculous. this is pushback against biden, against john kerry, against general jennifer granholm said

they can quit the oil and gas jobs and go code. what do you say? >> it makes a lot of sense. hard for me to tell what exactly is in the green new deal and the green infrastructure part of biden' proposals. just the straight infrastructure program itself is not cause-free. we're talking about spending maybe a trillion dollars and the price of just about anything, any building product that you can think of has skyrocketed, home prices, new home prices. the median new home price is up 20%. exciting home prices up 20%. you know, if we spend a lot of money on infrastructure right now, we'll drive up construction costs. i don't know that is going to produce the result that we would like. so, we may need to slow down on the stimulus a little bit. you know, that is what larry summers is saying. another former obama economic advisor. he says you know, that we're

really at risk of overheating the economy and we have seen that in the inflation data. the last consumer price index numbers showed inflation running at the hottest pace since the early 1980s. elizabeth: so now, you're right. we have three former obama officials, not two, that includes larry summers saying effectively what are you doing? so that is going to be the headline what are you doing. hey, mark, you're terrific. we love having you on. the point is that economists are pretty optimistic but they point out that, and i think you agree, biden did not inherit a fdr collapse. he inherited a v-shaped recovery and will he wreck it. final word, five second. >> completely recover pandemic losses by this summer. elizabeth: okay. gotcha. mark vitner, thanks again. come back soon. coming up lara trump will weigh in on the media's dramatic flip-flop. a year ago they were trashing her father-in-law, donald trump, former president.

talking cnn, "the new york times," "the washington post" and others suddenly warming to his idea, his theory, yeah, coach cove did leak out of that lab in wuhan, china. 18 sign tip of thes say look into it. government officials in france and australia, look into it. you have to investigate it. even the w.h.o. is saying look into it. the cdc director is open to the possibility. dr. fauci is open to the idea. that is next. >> outrageous scientists, u.s. government scientists were denying when they surely seen the same information that i had seen, that certainly is dr. fauci as well. i'm confident we will find that the evidence we've seen to date is consistent with a lab leak. i'm convinced that is what we'll see. if i'm wrong i hope the chinese communist party comes forward to make a fool of me.

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♪. elizabeth: okay, scientists who are really good at what they do, journalists that are really good what they do, they track down all leads, they're open to all leads, open to all possibilities, trying to get to the government things especially about a virus that killed more than 600,000 americans and 3 1/2 million worldwide but last year the media and scientists like dr. fauci were dismissing the possibility that the covid-19 virus could have leaked from a lab in wuhan, china. we have the bombshell report in "the wall street journal" quoted that there is growing evidence that three lab workers in wuhan were hospitalized with covid symptoms three weeks before the first case in china. the media and scientists ripped into donald trump and senator tom cotton of arkansas who warned about a possible leak last year. why were they speaking so definitely when they didn't have the evidence, they didn't have the proof either? why taking the chinese communist party at their word?

fox news contributor, former trump campaign advisor, lara trump. what do you think of what is happening now? >> well i mean it is sadly not surprising. i think the reality is there is a reason you know the approval rating for the mainstream media is at such a low point. you see, exactly what you're saying. if journalists were doing their job they would actually follow the facts, they would report the facts, they would report real information but instead they are out there driving an agenda. and their agenda was certainly not to go along with anything that donald trump said. don't forget they had an election they had to win, liz. they didn't want to do or say anything that went along with donald trump. in fact you remember how many people were getting their social media accounts shut down. people were fired for going along with the idea that there was a possibility that this leaked out of the wuhan lab, that this was a man-made virus. but it is a really scary position to find ourselves in

now a year later, to finally confirmation, yet again another thing donald trump was right about, it is very likely that this disease leaked out of the lab and it did not come from bats or whatever other information we thought we had on it. elizabeth: yeah. >> but it goes to show you how dangerous i think it can be when the media stops acting again to disseminate facts and information and instead is driving an agenda in their opinions. elizabeth: let's show, let's show how the media attacked lab leak theory. let's show the headlines. we don't know either way. we don't know if it leaked from the lab. we're saying look into it. where is the commission to look into this? because you're right, big tech, silicon valley, was shutting down anybody that criticized lockdowns that took up this theory. 18 scientists look into it. former "new york times" reporter don mcneil looks into it.

cnn said dr. fauci crushed donald trump. dr. fauci is backtracking. we don't know either way. we don't know if donald trump was right or wrong. how can be you so definitive and authoritative in your language when you didn't know about it either. look at cnn contributor joan harwood he was politicizing this last year. here is cnn contributor john harwood. watch this. >> well they say they have seen evidence but haven't shown anyone else the evidence, that is the key distinction. the scientific research has suggested strongly, shown strongly according to anthony fauci this was not a concocted virus. this was not something that the chinese created as a bio weapon in a virology lab to harm other people. the problem for president trump is that he is running for re-election, looking for ways to deflect blame for the performance of the administration.

elizabeth: looking for things to deflect blame against the administration. okay, so, what do you think of that theory? >> well, obviously that's ridiculous. we know that donald trump didn't create covid. in fact he had "operation warp speed," he developed the vaccine, that was related in december that probably could have been approved before november 3rd but again, people like to play politics. they like to get involved with these things. obviously he was trying to do what was best for the american people. if not for donald trump we would not have millions of americans vaccinated, we would not be going back to normal life. so thank you to president donald trump for allowing us to be here but look, this shouldn't be political at all that is the really frightening part of this, we never want to find ourselves in another situation like this. gosh how awful the past year plus has been for people not just in america and but around the world, find the root of this

virus. let's make sure it never happens again, we can all i hope agree on that. elizabeth: that's the point. your final word on that. you're saying this has become too politicized, now more than 600,000 americans are dead. and you're saying let's see, did it leak out of wuhan lab? there is more circumstantial evidence pointing to that than the other way. so your final word, lara? >> yeah. look, i think all americans want the same thing. we want to get back to normal life. we want to know really what caused this virus. if this was a virus that was being developed by the the military in china, wouldn't that be important information to know, looking in the future, for our relationship to them. this is something every american should want to get to the bottom of. elizabeth: lara trump, great to have you on. come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: texas congressman pat fallon coming up on a new push to re-fund the police.

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the pudding and the data shows this defund the police effort was a absolute catastrophe, liz. in american american minneapolis, up 44%. los angeles murders up 28% and shooting victims rose 100%. we can go on and on. new york city decided to defund the police. they cut a billion dollars from the budget and what did new yorkers get? 12% uptick in murders and 40% uptick in shootings. so it was a catastrophe. now we have, they have to reverse course because their citizens are not safe. elizabeth: you know violent crime is up in 63 of the 66 largest police jurisdictions. why is it rocket science demonizeing police, cutting their funding, demonize cops, don't defend them, why is it rocket science, who wouldn't

think this would lead to problems? this would lead to minority communities getting brutalized with violence, immigrant communities getting brutalized with violence? we get it. people understand, police reform, work with communities. you walk in a cop's shoes one day you wouldn't want to get out of bed the next day. what do you think of this new push to refund? is it going to happen, is it going to take hold? >> liz, every level-headed american when they heard about the defunding the police effort knew it would be a disaster, and quickly proved to be. when you demonize police you will demoralize police because police are our heroes. if you're a citizen, if you're not safe you are not free. our police we pay them to go into harm's way and protect our families to do a fabulous job. of course they can be, they can improve, there can be programs that make police more effective. i was a big proponent in the texas legislature of body

cameras. because that proves what somebody said, most of the time criminals are lying and police are telling the truth. elizabeth: cities across the country are seeing a plunge in recruits at a time of defund the police. it is a tough, tough time. your final word to that. are we going to see, again are we going to see a shift here a culture change? >> well you know the democrats have, for some unknown reason support anarchy and chaos while the republicans are supporting law and order and that is what people need and want. in republican areas you didn't see the up tech in crime but in areas where they decided the police were going to be the enemy they did. that is disgusting. it is up to the voters in those cities to hold their city councils and their mayors to account. elizabeth: congressman fallon, it is good to see you. come back soon. >> thanks, liz. god bless. take care. elizabeth: sure you too. just ahead national border patrol council president brandon judd with us. he is going to talk to us about how local mayors and towns are

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after president joe biden administration will expand the grant money to angel families and the victims of illegal alien crime as he's restarted the granta century jurisdiction despite federal immigration law. what do you think of this push, i don't know if the get there with the senate republicans but now we have federal grant money going to sanctuary cities, what do you say. >> ag garland is going to ignore these letters but that is not the point, the point is the senators put their names to a letter, an official letter to show the america public that this administration cares more about illegal aliens, people

that have no right to be in this country, people have no reason to be in this country than they do about united states citizens, that's what these republican senators wanted to call the administration on point to the america public president biden has clearly said through action, not just the rhetoric but through action he said if you're an illegal alien and in this country you will be rewarded if your united states citizen who is obeying the laws you will be ignored that is the wrong message to send. liz: local mayors at the border in border town saying increasingly to us that the biden administration is leaving them stranded to deal with human smugglers drug cartel and illegal aliens armed with weapons and knives and guns, now racing catch and release, 62000 release into the u.s. interior

window court documents appear in court that has been going on since january let's watch the mayor of texas on mclaughlin talking about when he seen in his hometown. watch this. >> these illegal aliens get in these cars and they get these pursuits and they come into town and when they come into town they try to lose law enforcement so they go to different parts of the town and lately they've been getting out by our local elementary schools, we've had to put the local elementary schools on lockdown and we had to bring more law enforcement to search for these individuals, 90% of the cars that were catching now were finding loaded firearms. liz: everybody supposed to be okay the schools are getting lockdown not because of covid-19 border towns but because of illegal aliens with weapons and car chases escaping from cops

president biden, were all supposed to be okay with this, vice president harris, white house press secretary, everybody is supposed to be okay without. >> what do you say. >> a few months ago this is a partisan issue now that illegal immigration has exploded these are democrat mayors controlled by democratic city council they are sick and tired of having cater to and pander to criminals that are armed and dangerous, they are tired of the illegal immigration they want legal travel and trade they do not want illegal immigration and we see more of the american public standup and say this is wrong it's gotta stop where is the administration the administration is pandering to their base and pandering to the hard left and not doing what is necessary to protect the america public but that's going to hurt going forward. i think it's going to hurt the democratic party in 2022 and

2024. liz: border patrol has been distracted because they have been required to deal with the overcrowded facility, that's how the human and drug traffickers come pouring across it's like how cops and other cities have been distracted by violent riots that took the lives of 30 people over the last year and 2 billion in damages, they have been distracted so they can't deal with rising crime when you hear the scene that every in the city in the u.s. as a border city and you look at san francisco where there's more drug overdoses killing two times more people than covid-19 you have to say when are they going to answer the wake-up call that is ringing off the hook in washington. >> i live this crisis every single day i just spent a shift processing the other night and we should not be there border patrol agents should not be in processing we should be on the border protecting the american public in looking for the dangerous drugs coming in and taking the lives of our children not just inner cities but inner

suburbs in the rural areas, this is a crisis that is not just illegal aliens coming across but it's illicit drugs, dangerous drugs, hard drugs killing our children, we need to be on the line and protecting these people, not distracted and pulled into processing centers. larry: brandon judd, thank you so much thank you for your service to our country, i'm elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit". that does it for us. thank you for watching. ♪ >> hello everyone and welcome to "kudlow" i am david asman and for larry kudlow, the national institute of health budget director francis collins testifying before the house facing questions over agency funds being funneled into china's wuhan institute of urology lab, this coming amid a wall street journal report that three researchers from the lab sought hospital care after

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