away from toilet paper baking flour to cosmetics and swimsuits, that is according to companies that make these products in large retailers, it is getting hot outside, deodorant is a good choice, that does it for us on "fox business tonight". "the evening edit" starts rightd now. ♪. liz: tonight both dr. fauci and the nih director francis collins pushing back hard at a hearing before congress today saying adamantly the u.s. did not fund super virus research at china's wuhan lab, but it's what they did not say, what they cannot account for, that's what matters joining us tonight ron johnson, kt mcfarland, wells fargo economist, larry trump, texas congressman and national border patrol council president brandon judd, we have a lot b of headlis

here tonight, dr. fauci in the nih director avoiding what they already admitted, they contract, they can't account for how china spends its money and what it'sot doing with super viruses, also dr. fauci did not testify on how he has supported the creation of a laboratory virus that does not exist in nature in order to get vaccines, we are following the money trail why are democrats blocking republican demand to hold hearings on all of this we have growing on circumstantial evidence 19 diddly from the wuhan lab in china, why are they blocking they do not want to admit the former president trump might be right? also tonight there media dramatc flip-flop a year after they trashed donald trump, after they trashed tom cotton, seen in the new york times, washington post and other media warming to the idea that it may have leaked a scientist and government officials around the world say

you have to investigate the lovely theory, through the half-million people are dead including 600,000 americans. also this the fbi investigated a suspicious package with a death threat sent to senator rand paul's home, rand paul is blaming twitter for allowing attacks against him to run rampant. he says he wants to talk to twitter, twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok our slam for allowing anti-anti-semitic tweets and social media posting, plus this you won't believe what is happening now, to obama officials, officials who work for president obama in his demonstration they are criticizing biden's policy one even calling biden green agenda ridiculous, a new push is on to refund the police, boost police budget after a year of riots and crime and violence as police respond to gun shots and george floyd square in minneapolis,

just after year of his death. texas governor greg abbott says he will defund the city then defund the police, we have more local mayors in town seen the bidenn administration is leaving them stranded with weak policies they have a deal with rising border violence from illegal crossers, many with guns and weapons, thanks for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now, ♪. liz: welcome to the show you're watching the foxge business network let's get you updated on what happened today when dr. fauci and nih director francis collinss testified today over the u.s. funding of the wuhan lab in china with a growing number of scientists and science journalist and government officials aroundfihee world that covid-19 leaked out

of, hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. >> the head of the nih doctor francis collins admitted u.s. grantr. money did make its way o the wuhan institute of her ologies through an outside group called eco-health alliance, that group was awarded a $3.7 million grant from the nih in that groue $600,000 of that grant to the wuhan lab for a china bat research project, the project help build a library of 15000 bat samples and lawmakers wanted to know if the wuhan lab could've been using the back library of viruses to try to engineer one to be more dangerous and more contagious, something called gain-of-function research. >> we are not aware of otherer sources of funds or other activities they might've undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed. >> we could have sent money through echo health alliance, money could've ended up in the wuhan institute of virology which might be doing gain-of-function research.

>> at the very least whatever's happening at that lab was concerning enough to the nih that last year end the height of the pandemic they froze grant money going to the lab citing biosafety concerns and those concerns still exist today because eagle health alliance tells me there grant money has not beene freed up in the nih hs not told them when or if that will happen. liz: great reporting, great stuff, thank you hillary vaughn let's get to kt mcfarland with her reaction on what happened today, dr. fauci today, good to see you, he did not testify that he told the wall street journal he can't track how china h spens its money and what china is doing francis collins testified to that today, what do you think of theay 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, how many other grants do we have in other research laboratories in china and for other purposes, why are we doing this, why are they getting back, if we were giving money to a chinese lab and now and a another tiny military actively studying something else, why does that money not give us thebi abilityo find out what was going on with the coronavirus when it started happening, immediately after the chinese understood the litholog, in the contagious nature, they shut down travel within china in and out of wuhan but they insisted that travel throughout the world would continue to happen with the united states and chinana and wuhan, they employed as a biological weapon whether it was designed that way that's how they used it and when we try to find out what is going

on the chinese military took over themi entire lab in the entire project but the whole thing has a lot of unanswered questions so we need to get to the bottom of it is be mad dr. fauci said no u.s. money supervisors research why did the nih in july 2020 free echo health funding or research at that lab, here's why they were not properly monitored with the wuhan lab was doing, here's the question why are democrats blocking republican demand told hearings into this u.s. intelligence shall beenn t reportedly three researchers at the lab or hospitalized a month before the official start date of the covid pandemic. >> i think dr. fauci's comments were very carefully crafted by a team of warriors, he answered a very specific aspect, the general question american money going to the slab in wuhan, china the leading brutality lab in the country, the answer to that is yes, i think his answer

was designed was let's make sure were not held accountable for the origination of the coronavirus and then the fact there are no clear answers and the democrats don't seem to want to get to the bottom, every american is not a political thing we want to find outut whya happened and why it is spread. liz: that is right, that's the issue we cannot have another pin democrat this.ss the issue are they trying to block any idea that trump was right because they say this is unsubstantiated the theory that it leaked of the wuhan lab, trump russia was unsubstantiated they had multiple hearings, why not just have a hearing on this, you know what i mean. >> i was a victim of it the whole russia hoax, the justice department, the fbi, the moree investigation came after me even though they knew from the very beginning there was nothing to it.

i think this used to become so politicized that some underwear the majority is sick of everybody in washington, everything is political even something as nonpolitical as a virus in the pandemic has become political. liz: dr. fauci said it's an open question that it may have leaked out of the lab so did the cdc director let's turn back to the carefullyft crafted answer he is saying u.s. funding did not back research into creating engineering lab created super viruses even though he did write an op-ed in 2011 for the washington post saying let's create lab generated by his is to make vaccines. he is sticking to that but the idea say it escape the lab after it appeared naturally in an animal that china was studying inside the lab, can you answer

to that that maybe dr. fauci could say yes that's a possibility, we have thousands of animal samples in their with viruses. >> there's so many questions and so few answers and again, a pandemic in a virus doesn't just affect republicans or democrats, it impacts the entire country in the entire world and why we can't get straight answers from something that should be honest on a ledger sheet and should be public information, what are they doing going to a lab in china, where else is it going to in china or other countries thea should be public information and we get the lawyered answers to carefully avoid any blame there is plenty of blame to go around we just need the truth. liz: the white house press secretary is in a deal that the w.h.o. take the lead in investigating the u.s. is not going to do, when president obama got the military and a national security threat level when a bullock was coming into the u.s., obama treated as

national security, is this a national security issue. >> of course it's a national security issue it's an economic issue, it's aue humanitarian ise all hands on deck of the united states government trying to figure out the origin of this and how to deal with it. in this casting blame on one side or another in the neuralgia that anything donald trump is horrible and terrible between israel and the arab countries, labor, him according in the whie house press secretary says peace in the middle east, there is nothing there, anything donald trump did, they're just allergic to saying it was good and that they have to reverse it, peace in the middle east we have war in the middle east. liz: and it may have leaked out of the china bob, we will keep following the money trail, it is good to have you want, still ahead ron johnson is with us on the fbi investigating a suspicious package for the death

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liz: joining is now wisconsin senator ron johnson, it's great to have you on first reaction to dr. fauci testifying today. >> i did not see his testimony i saw senator paul talk to them about the gain-of-function and as your previously just said his lawyer answers to it, i think dr. fauci has an awful lot of explaining to do, he's been in that position for many, many years he obviously was involved in a funding gain-of-function

research and had to be aware of the fact that china wuhan institute 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 the viruses m more deadly,e has got to come clean from my standpoint. liz: senator let's move on to the story the fbi investigating a suspicious package filled with white powder with the death threat sent to rand paul from kentucky rand paul blaming twitter for not stoppingor violt tweets against him and his family the senator says he'll speak to twitter what do you make of what's going on with social media and violent threats against conservatives. >> is a very unfortunate world where politics has turned into repugnant threats in most case social media is not helpful from the standpoint the way they have taken sides and the political realm, they are part of the

democrat party, they obviously push the russian hoax, they censor information lifesaving information when it comes to early treatment of covid, they certainly need to be, we need to look at them in terms of their 230 exemption and how to conduct themselves in the monopoly nature of on social media. liz: senator an american singer tweeted out i'll say it again if i ever meet grandpas neighbor all hug him and by him as many drinks as you consume. grandpas neighbor pleaded guilty he attacked rand paul and broke six of a his ribs in 2020, so tt happened, many lawmakers are pointing out what many in the country feel that social media is dividing this country, we have unchecked anonymous employeesic and vitriol but silicon valley thinks they know

better than us and better than what americans think even though the routinely canceling and shadow banning people for talking against things like lockdowns. i don't know about how lifting section 230 is going to stop it, that seems like a long fight, that's what i'm trying to say an uphill battle to do that. >> is not to social media it is media other liberal biased because there's 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 the entertainer, if it's a liberal entertainer taking hotshots at a coconservative and a politician that is all fair game, that is righteous criticism, funny criticism those a complete double standard in our system of justice nowadays, take a look how the department of justice is

handling the leftist summer in spring of 2020 protesters versus how they handle the protesters that reach the capital. i demoed all, i don't condone any violence but i want to see the equal administration of justice and unbiased free press, needs to be unbiased and this one is not, this media did more to make sure to interfere in our lecture to 2020 than anything russia or china could ever hope to change in 2016 or 2020. liz: also we got this twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok accused of letting anti-semitic attacks on their platform as arm country sees a worsening surge rsof anti-cinematic tax, they sy they're up to third since hamas fired 4000 rockets at israel, anti-semitic attacks running rampant in the streets of america and also on social media, that is happening to.

>> they banned a former president of the united states president trump, they allow the ayatollahs in iran to make death threats across the country or across the world, you don't have to make this stuff up, this is what they do, it is poisoning our politics and dividing this nation there is nothing unifying or you healing or the biden of administration. liz: we have governor ron desantis siding s of all that ss residents of florida can super monetary damages that are centered on social media it's his first day in the country to do that, we don't know that will stand he says he's k doing it under the consumer fraud laws, that is an interesting take what is your thought when you saw governor desantis siding that into law. >> i'm glad to see the states exert their supremacy in terms of a federalist a republic, i think with the biden of administration and democrats firmly control of congress we

need states and state attorney c general to challenge the unlawful action of the biden of administration, i'm glad to see it these things will take time filtering through the courts but i think republicans in the republican-controlledd state hae to defend their states rights and hopefully they can also challenge the illegal activities and illegal actions taken by the biden of administration. liz: senator ron johnson always terrific thank you for coming out of the vote to join us on the show we appreciate you rushing over here, up next to obama officials, two of them openly criticizing president biden's policy, one of them a powerful former epa administrator even calling biden screen agenda in favor of that instead of focusing on jobs right now saying that is ridiculous wells fargo economist is next. here to break it all down. >> joe biden the democrats for

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hits are coming from thew, lefts well. right now the focus is getting the economy back to normal and were about eight-point to million jobs shy of where we were pre-pandemic and most of lthe shortfall is in high contat areas of the economy like restaurants, bars and whenever you go into one of these places, they tell you were so shortstaffed, i was at a restaurant today and they said people are really gaming the system they don't want to come into work they say they're gonna come into work and then they don't show up. we need to put a focus on getting people back to work. that is probably not number one right now. liz: jason furman obama's top economist at harvard did a study with other individuals and experts who said youpa can't pay people to stay at home with bigger and more jobless benefits

because you're not going to get the job growth in g the time ofa pandemic when people don't want to go into work. let's watch gina mccarthy with her interview with actio's, watch this. >> we had 22 million jobs that have actuallyn been empty becaue of this pandemic and now is not the time to sit them down and say let's talk about climate how can you sacrifice, it is never going to be a winning strategy, right now it's ridiculous, the president recognizes that climate change is a problem and he recognizes that getting there doesn't mean you think about growing jobs, means you do. liz: never going to be a winning strategy, it's ridiculous, this is a pushback against biden, john kerry, jennifer granholm, they said people with oil and gas jobs you can go code this is

in the middle of a pandemic, reality got check. >> it makes a lot of sense, it's hard for me too tell what is in the green new deal in the green infrastructure part of biden's proposals, the infrastructure program itself is not college free were talking about spending a trillion dollars and the price of anything in any building product is skyrocketing new-home prices, it's up 20%, existing is up 20%. if we spent a lot of money on infrastructure were gonna drive up construction cost and i don't know that's going to reduce the result, we may need to slow down on the stimulus a little bit, that is what larry summers would say another former obama economic advisor, he says were

really at risk of overheating the economy and we've seen that an inflation data the numbers showed inflation running at the hottest pace since the early 1980s. liz: you're right we have three former obama officials t not tot includes larry summers saying what are you doing, that is going to be the headlines, you are terrific we love having you on, the point is economist are pretty optimistic butoi they pot out that and i think you would agree biden did not inherent in fdr collapse he inherited a v-shaped recovery and will he racket? >> were in economy that can completely recover the pandemic losses by this summer. liz: got you, thank you again come back soon coming up lara trump on the media stir dramatic flip-flop a year ago trashing her father-in-law donald trumpd former president cnn, the new

york times and washington post"t another's, now they are suddenly warming to his idea in theory that covid-19 leaked out of theh lab and wuhan, china, 18 scientists a look into it, governor officials say look into it you got investigate even the w.h.o. is saying look into it, even the cdc director says there's a possibility, dr. fauci is open to the idea, that story next. >> it was outrageous to see scientist even u.s. government scientist denying this when they must assume the same information that i hadon seen that includes dr. fauci as well i am confident we will find the evidence we w e today consistent with the lab leak and i'm convinced that's what we'll see i hope the chinese communist party will come forward if i'm wrong and make a fool of me. ♪

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liz: scientist who are really good at what they do and journalists were really good at what they do they track down all leads, there open to all leads and all possibilities to get to the bottom t of things especialy about a virus that killed more than 600,000 americans in three and a half million worldwide but last year the media and scientists like dr. fauci was dismissing thehe possibility tht the covid-19 virus could've leaked from a lab and wuhan, china of the bombshell report quoting u.s. intelligence saying there is growing evidence of three law workers in wuhan were hospitalized with covid symptoms in 2019 weeks before the first confirmed case in china but the media and scientists ripped into donald trump and senator john tn of arkansas why were they speaking so definitively when they didn't have the evidence or the proof why were they taken the chinese communist party at

their word training is now the formerer senior trump campaign advisor lara trump. you were in the thick of this, what do you think with happening now. >> it is sadly not surprising, the reality there is the reason the approval rating for the mainstream media is such aow low point exactly what you're saying the journalists were doingrn thr job, they would follow the facts and report the facts they would report real information but instead they're driving an agenda and their agenda was certainly not to go along with anything that donald trump said, they had an election that they had to win they did not want to do or say anything that went along with donaldou trump. you remember how many people got their social media accounts shut down, people fired for going along with the idea that thereas was a possibility that this leaked out of the wuhan lab that it was a man-made virus, it's a really scary position to find

ourselves in and a year later to have confirmation that another thing that donald trump was right about it's very likely that this disease leaked out of the lab and it did not come from baths or whatever information we thought we had on it. but it goes to show you how dangerous it can be when the media stops acting again to disseminate facts and information and instead driving an agenda and their opinion. liz: let's show the media howit they attacked the lop leaked theories, we don't know either way if it leaked from the lab were to say look into it, you're right big tech silicone valley was shutting down anybody who criticized lockdowns and took up this theory 18 scientists a look into it new york times reporter says look into it, josh rogan says look into it, the cdc director says it's a possibility, cnn went so far to

say dr. fauci crushed donald trump and now dr. fauci is backtracking saying it couldn't came from the lab, we don't know either way we don'tr know if donald trump is right or wrong but were just saying how canho u be so definitive and authoritative in your language when you do not know either. let's take a look at what seated john harwood how he politicize this last year. here is cnn contribute to john harwood. >> they say that they've seen evidence but they haven't shown anyone evidence and that the key distinction. the scientific research has suggested strongly, shown istrongly according to anthony fauci that this was not a concocted virus, this is not something the chinese created as a bio weapon in a virology lab to harm other people. the problem for president trump is he is running for reelection and looking for ways to deflect blame for the performance of the

administration. liz: looking for things to deflect blame against the administration. what do you think about. >> obviously that's ridiculous we know donald trump did not create covid, in fact he had operation warp speed and developed a vaccine that was releaseded in december that probably could've been approved before november 3 but again people like to play politics and get involved with these things, obviously he was trying to do what was best for the american people and if not for donald trump we would not of had millions of americansns vaccinad and we would not be going back to normal life, thank you to president donald trump for allowing us to be her, this should not be political at all that's a freighting part of this, we never want to find ourselves in another situation like this, how awful the last year has been for people not just in america but around the

world let's find the root of the virus and make sure it never happens again we can all agree on that. liz: your final word you say this is become too politicized and more than 600,000 americans are dead injures saying let's see did it leaked out of the wuhan lab there's more circumstantial evidence pointing to that than the other way, your final work? >> i think all americans want the same thing we want to get back to normal life and what causes virus and if this was a virus been developed by the military in china, wouldn't that be important information steno look into the future and our ,relationships with them, i thik this is something that every americans should want to get to the bottom of. liz: great to have you one, come back soon. >> texas congressman coming up

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say about that. >> the proof is in the pudding and the data shows did the deed from police effort was an absolute catastrophe in minneapolis murder was up 49% nonviolent crime up 22% and in portland the murder rate rose 270%, los angeles murders were up 28% and shooting victims rose 100% we could go on and on new york city decided to defund the police and cut $1 billion from the budget and what do new yorkers get 12% uptick in murders and a 40% uptick in shootings, was catastrophe and now they have to reverse course because their citizens are not safe. liz: violent crime is up of 6364 jurisdictions, wind that rocket science to demonize bullies, cut the funding having city political leaders demonize cops, do not defend them why is its

rocket science, who wouldn't think this would lead to problems that this would lead to minority communities getting brutalized with violence, immigrant communities getting brutalized with violence, we get it, people understand police reform, work withh communities you walk in a cops shoes for one day you would not get out of bed the next day, what do you think of the new h push to refund is t going to happen is it going to take hold. >> every levelheaded american when they heard about the defunding of police knew it was going to be a disaster and it quickly proved to be, we need demonize police she will demoralize police and the police are our heroes because of citizens and for not safe and were not free and we knew we pay them to go into harm's way to protect us and our family and they do a fabulous job, of course they can improve and there can be programs that make police more effective, is a big proponent in the texas legislator of l body cameras, tt

proves what somebody says in most of the time the criminals are lying in the police are telling the truth. liz: cities across the country are seeing a plunge in recruits at a time of defund the police, it's a tough tough time, are we going to see a shift, culture change? >> the democrats for some unknown reason support anarchy and chaos and the republicans are supporting law and order people need and want. in republican areas you did not see the uptick in crime but in the areas where they decided the police were going to be the enemy they did and it's disgusting it's up to the voters to hold their city councils and mayors to account. liz: congressman it's good to see you, come l back soon. just ahead national board of virtual council president brandon judd, he is going to talk about how localcr mayors in

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liz: national border patrol council brandon judd is back with us, great to see you. let's deal with this a dozen senate republicans sent a letter to attorney general merrick garland asking a president joe biden administration will extend the same federal grant money to angel families and the victims of illegal alien crime as he's restarting the grant of saint trey jurisdictions despite federal immigration law, what do you think of this push, i don't know if you're gonna get there with the senate republicans but now we have federal grant money going out to sanctuary cities, what do you say. >> ag garland will ignore these letters but that's not the point the point isrs these senators pt their names to a letter an t official letter to show the america public that this administration cares more about illegal aliens people in this country that has no right to be

in this country, no reason to be in this country than they do about united states citizens and that's what these republican senators wanted to call the tministration on point to the america public president biden has clearly said through action nonot just rhetoric he had saidf you're an illegal alien in this country you will be rewarded if you are a united states citizen who is obeying the law you will be ignored, that is the wrong message to send. liz: local mayors at the border and border towns say increasingly to us that the biden administration is leaving the stranded to deal with human smugglers, drug cartels and illegal aliens armed with weapons and knives and guns, now we see catch and release, 62000 released into the 6 u.s. interir window court documents to appear in court that has been going on since january let's watch the

mayor don mclaughlin talking about what he is seen in his hometown, watch this. >> the illegal aliens get in the cars and they get into these pursuits and come g into town wn they come into town they try to lose law enforcement so they go to different parts of the town in here lately they get outut ad bailout by our local elementary schools. so we had to put the local elementary schools on lockdown and we had to bring more law enforcement to search for the the carsls, 90% of were finding loaded firearms. liz: everybody is supposed to be okay without that schools are getting lots done not because of covid-19 and border towns but illegal aliens with weapons and cars and car chases escaping from cops so president biden

were supposed to be okay with this, white house press secretary were supposed to be t okay without, what do you say. >> a few months ago this was a partisan issue now that illegal immigrationan has exploded these are democrat mayors, controlled by democratic city councils, they are sick and tired of having to cater to pander to actual criminals that are armed and dangerous, they're tired of the illegal immigration they want legal travel w and trade ty do not want illegal immigration and we see more of the american public stand up and say this is wrong it's gotta stop where is the administration the administration is pandering to their base, there pandering to the hard left in the not doing what is necessary to protect the american public, that's going to hurt them b going forward that's going to hurt the democratic party in 2022 andcr in 2024. liz: border patrol has been

distracted because they have been required to deal with overcrowded facility, that's how human and drug traffickers come pouring across its ical cops in our cities have been distracted by violent riots that took the lives of 30 people over the last year, they have been distracted so they can't deal with rising crime. when you hear that every city in the u.s. is 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 it's ringing off the hook in washington. >> i live this crisis every single day i just spent a shift processing the other night. we should not be there border patrol agent should not be processing we should be out on the border and protecting the america public we should be looking for the dangerous drugs coming in and taking the lives of our children not just inner

cities but inner suburbs in thei rural areas, this is a crisis that is not just illegal aliens coming across but it's a listed drug, dangerous drugs, hard drugs killing our children we need to be on the line and be protecting these people not distracted pulled into processing centers. liz: thank you so much and thank you for your service to our country. i am elizabeth macdonald human watching "the evening edit" on fox business. thank you for watching. david: hello everyone and welcome to "kudlow" i am david asman and for larry kudlow, the national institute of health budget director francis collins testified before the house facing questions over agency funds being funneled into china's wuhan institute overall in july, this coming amid a wall street journal report that three researchers from the lab sought hospital care after becoming ill in november 2019, hillary