slice in the falia. i find my wife's penet butter m and m east. >> brian brenberg, meal team six. brian: that does it for now on "fox business tonight." the evening edit starts right now. elizabeth: republican senator josh hawley and michael braun pushing to force the biden administration to declassify all u.s. intelligence on the whether covid-19 did i leak got would you hand lab in china. senate democrats like senator tim kaine also demanding an investigation as president biden orders u.s. intelligence to investigate this theory as one of two quote, likely causes for the pandemic. this after the biden administration shut down trump's state department probe into this theory.

joining us tonight, house intelligence ranking member devin nunes, texas congressman troy nils, congresswoman nancy mace. dr. bret giroir, guy benson and texas attorney general ken paxton. tonight we have rare footage, rare sound you may have not seen, sound head of the northern profit echo health alliance. he is denying the lab theory pushing supervirus funding research, all of that news is pushing back, trying to deny it. this is theory. that dr. fauci and the nih gave his non-profit money and then non-profit turned around and funded the wuhan lab. we have dr. dacik on tape, we were researching with china coronaviruses for six or seven years. yes, we created a new man-made supervirus not seen in nature inside labs in china. we'll show you this. also 18 scientists from mit, harvard, yale, one who actually

worked on superviruses with the wuhan lab say yeah, investigate the covid lab leak theory. so why is cnn pushing back on this, giving a pass to china which has a major incentive to cover up the worst pandemic in recent memory? guess who cnn is now blaming. we're following this. bank ceos got grilled at a senate hearing today but what the senators did not drill into that you're going to want to hear about. it could hit your wallets. also tonight we'll bring you this story, more on the three former top obama officials now pushing back and criticizing president biden's economic policies as being negative for the country. we'll explain what these democrats are worried about. plus a growing number of democrat governors being hauled into court. they're facing lawsuits over their own covid lockdown rules that even they violated. we have the lawyer. we talked to him for a michigan business owner. he tells us his client was put in jail, she was put in shack

schedules, strip-searched, cavity searched for not enforcing governor whitmer's mask mandate rules that the governor violated recently. we have this, 21-year high in border crossings. plummeting number of deportations and i.c.e. arrests. the homeland security secretary wants to make, quote significant changes to i.c.e. what is he going to do? we'll bring that story to you. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: let's go right to washington d.c., with more on president biden now otherrerring the intelligence community to investigate the origins of the covid virus amid a report his administration quietly ended a trump state department probe into that very question. fox reporter kevin corke with us now with more. reporter: evening mac president biden issued a statement he is frankly dissatisfied with the intelligence he received so far

into the origins of covid-19 saying quote, i have now asked the intelligence community top redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion. and a report back to me in 90 days. the president adding frankly are two camps in the ic. that is the intelligence community. one believes the virus occurred naturally and another believes it did leak from the wuhan lab. both have low to moderate confidence in their findings according to the president's statement. the state department meanwhile is pushing back on widely spread report yesterday that it shut down the small state department team at the burrow of arms control verification was looking into the origins of the covid-19 virus. that was reported just about everywhere yesterday. here is a statement today from state department spokesman ned price. he says that reporting is incorrect. in february and march of 2021 the team's findings were briefed

to avc and policy planning, policy staff in the new administration with the report delivered, the work was ended. of course that is certainly up for debate depending who you speak to here in washington. meantime the national security council is now taking the lead in that investigation. however, the white house's statements today don't answer the important question, why bother with the probe that was already set into motion by former secretary of state mike pompeo in the first place? nor did they offer any evidence that probe was somehow flawed. meantime the lab leak theory continues to gain interest. elizabeth? elizabeth: kevin corke, thanks for joining us. great to see you. reporter: you too. elizabeth: thanks for coming on. joining us how intelligence ranking member, he is california congressman devin nunes. congressman, you have done -- thanks for joining us. great to see you. you and your fellow republicans did a lot of work on this with the report. what more does u.s. intelligence know about the virus potentially leaking from the wuhan lab?

>> we don't know what we don't know. we know we have informants and whistle-blowers within the ic who come forward to say a lot of their concerns were suppressed so that is number one. number two, this whole issue this unit in the state department wasn't shut down is absolutely preposterous. they completely eliminated the unit in its entirety. so look, all we did on our committee was we were actually able to, the republicans that is, were able to take all sorts of open source information. we put it all into a report. everyone can go to read it if you go to my website. we found so much information. on the other hand there is no information that would support or intelligence for that matter that i have ever seen that would support the intelligence community's assessment a year ago which looks to be at this point purely political and if i take you back and walk your viewers back to what was going on at that time, liz, was we had

nancy pelosi running around chinatown saying donald trump an republicans were racists. there was no need to ban flights. fauci saying you didn't need to wear a mask. all this was occurring at at the same time. what happened in the intelligence agencies, bureaucracy seems to be rotting from within, rotten to the core which was, hey, we have to continue this narrative that republicans are race histories. so do we need to do. we need to make sure we come out to say intelligence believes this clearly something happened out in the wild. the only evidence for that would be that the chinese communist party said it and the world health organization which ran a bogus investigation with zero credibility which numerous experts have seen said that, they followed up on behalf of the chinese communist party. there is overwhelming circumstantial evidence that this was not naturally occurring. look, i just think the way this virus spreads as contagious as it is, as strange as it's been, i think most americans know this

doesn't seem to be naturally occurring. elizabeth: yeah. they haven't found the animal intermediary, the host for this yet. they studied 80,000 different animal samples. that wuhan lab, you know this, had tens of thousands of virus samples. the w.h.o. director says investigate the lab leak theory. 18 scientists including from mit, cal tech, stanford, harvard, yale, say investigate it. cdc director says it's a possibility. dr. fauci says he is open to this. you know we found footage, you know the doctor at echo health alliance that got money from the nih and turned around the wuhan lab's research. dr. peter dash schick. throwing cold water on the lab leak theory. he is saying that is not true. he admits in tape we're about to show that yes, he has been researching researching the viruses inside of china for six to seven years and he worked

with the wuhan lab to spike viruses to make a man-made lab-generated virus not seen in nature. congressman, let's take a listen to this. i want your reaction on the other side of it. watch this. >> we focused on sars coronavirus emerged from a wildlife market and was the first pandemic of this century. so it was a big event. so we started to trace back from the wildlife market which species carried the virus that came into those markets. we found it was bats, not -- which was original idea. we looked where did they come from. we went to southern china, surveillance of bats across southern china. we found after six or seven years of doing this over 100 new sars-related coronaviruses, very close to sars. elizabeth: okay. so he also said, we have, there

was another part of that sound that we needed to show, that yes, they did work on creating, developing in order to get vaccines a spike protein that they were manipulating the virus inside of the lab to put a spike protein inside of the virus. this time frame false squarely under the obama administration. your reaction to the sound? >> i would say this, we know the peoples liberation army, the china neat communist army operates has biological warfare capabilities they're operating out of this lab. couple that with what this gentleman said, and you look at our report there is overwhelming circumstantial evidence and you have also to take into account what i said earlier, why would we be following the chinese communist party's talking points? this is only one that says this came from some dude that ate a

bat. i'm being facetious about it. that is essentially with they said. a year later they have zero evidence that. you would think not covering everything up and not being truthful they would come out and really get ahead of this, get us all sorts of information. they have had over a year to do it. they're not doing it. you put all of this together. i think it becomes pretty clear that, this was likely some type of a modified virus to some degree that probably leaked out. elizabeth: you know, dr. fauci in a "washington post" op-ed in 2011 said, yes, create a lab generated virus not seen in nature. he coauthored that op-ed. in 2015 the scientists leading the wuhan lab wrote an article saying, yeah the nih did fund us, and yeah, we created a chimeric hybrid virus not seen in nature inside of our lab. out of wuhan lab the scientists are saying this covid-19 virus

infecting people around the world, it doesn't exist in wuhan, it only exists in subtropical china. here are the key questions, who signed off on this research? who approved the money flow under the obama administration? what controls were put in place? and what are taxpayers getting for their money here? >> yeah, if you go back, where we were 10 days ago? republicans on the house intelligence committee came out and said, told biden we have 25 questions for you. we made that public. actually fox news broke that, broke it with your own maria bartiromo on her sunday show. then a few days later we issue a report. now all of sudden you have all the fake news out there and everybody now saying oh, this might have been possible. let me take you back a year ago when senator cotton was raising these concerns. you had president trump, secretary pompeo, directorate --

director radcliffe. everybody was looking at intelligence, something seems to be missing here. how about applying a little common sense? you raise this issue with fauci not being totally clear with the senate where this $100 million went to ecohealth. you will cover later in the show in more depth but they're is $100 million of u.s. taxpayer money that went somewhere and so the idea that we would even be working on these types of viruses doing this kind of work, i understand there could be some health benefits but what is clear here is, when you have the chinese communist party that is trying to take over the world we ought to be cutting off everything with china at this point. that is really what is kind of strange here is, why would biden go in and shut down the operation in the state department that he did? why would it take this long? why would it have to be house republicans who are in the minority we would have to come out to put pressure ultimately 10 days later, they're finally doing what they should have done, they should have continued

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♪. elizabeth: okay, big bank ceos like jamie dimon and the head of morgan stanley grilled at a senate hearing today. they weren't asked about this, the biden administration wants to give the banks, wants the banks, rather, they want the banks to give to the irs the inflow and outflow information on all of your personal and business bank accounts including your loan and investment accounts. joining us now texas' troy nils, from house transportation. congressman, that is a big amount of information the irs would get. they have never gotten that inflow before. what do you say? >> that doesn't surprise me, liz. thanks for having me.

that doesn't involve in this administration getting involved in people's personal lives. i think it is irresponsible. he is weaponizing, honestly the federal government against the american people, against the oil and gas industry, and just about everything else. when you look at what the administration has done since january 20th, he doesn't place this administration, does not place the american people first. elizabeth: yeah. so you know there is, the little talk about that we broke the news about the irs getting this info earlier in the month but you bring up energy. so the irs could hit people's wallets. energy cost are pitting people's wallets. republican senator tim scott is talking to the bank ceos today about how the biden administration and climate envoy john kerry saying to the banks stop giving loans to oil and gas companies, debank oil and gas. how much further does this go, sir? >> well, it is because we know that this administration of

joe biden they have, there is and all-out war on the oil and gas industry. and he demonstrated this back on january 20th with canceling the keystone pipeline. he knew that would hurt the oil and gas industry but the sad fact is, it hurts the end user, the consumer. look what happened here just recently with the colonial pipeline attack. individuals from not even from this country that have hurt the american people by by getting into our energy infrastructure. gas prices were $7 on the east coast. gas stations were shut down without any fuel. and so the biden administration is more concerned about helping adversaries like russia than he is the american people. again it really doesn't surprise me. he is weaponizing. he is taking the federal government, using it to really and all out war against our oil and gas industry.

elizabeth: russia, china are in an energy boom right now inside of their countries. president joe biden said he lifted sanctions on russia's nord stream pipeline 2 in germany because it was quote, nearly finished and the president didn't want to hurt the relationship with european countries. keystone was finished 10 years ago. his killing keystone destroyed relationships with thousand of workers that lost their jobs including union workers. how do you square this logic? >> you can't believe anything that the man says anymore. i mean january 20th he gave the great speech about working with his friends on the right, his friends on the other side of the aisle, about bipartisanship working together. they were he has all these executive orders such as canceling the keystone pipeline. let's forget about drilling on federal wetlands and this and that. so we knew, we knew that was going to hurt the oil and gas industry and so did he.

now what he is doing he is reaching out to our adversaries in russia, saying your pipeline is okay there but ours isn't here. it is because this president does not put the american people first and it is a dangerous time right now. it is a difficult time and, i don't have the answer other than he does not put the american people first. elizabeth: all right. congressman good to see you. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. elizabeth: coming up, congresswoman nancy mace from house infrastructure. we've got three former top obama officials now criticizing president biden's economic policies as being negative for the country. we're going to explain this one next. >> over the last few weeks as we've been watching what's going on, as the biden administration has been assaulting domestic energy now there is a deal to help one of our biggest geopolitical foes? it makes no sense whatsoever

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dollar infrastructure offer. seems like 6, 7 trillion in new biden spending. three obama officials slamming biden's policies, gina mccarthy, larry summers and jason furman. what do you think of that. >> i agree that biden administration has been hijacked by the nancy pelosi, far left-wing of the democratic party. what they're saying is true, the economic policies is breaking promise not to raise taxes. it is all going to raise taxes. it affects everyday americans, at gas station, grocery store. groceries are up 20%. sugar up 50%. you want to build a house, lumber is up over 300% right now. the cost of inflation we're starting to feel it in our pocketbooks. elizabeth: so we have democrat larry summers, he is obama's former treasury secretary, to your point, he is saying

inflation is here. first quarter it is 7 1/2% annualized. that is big. that is a tax on the middle class. he is saying democrats could lose because inflation fueled, led to the elections of former president richard nixon in 1968 and former president ronald reagan in 1980. is that, is it that big of a threat right now? >> i think it's a huge threat. i do see comparisons between former president jimmy carter and president joe biden. i think that is, that is a serious, i believe that analogy is correct when we're looking at economic situation we're in right now. if you look at the rise in our debt, 28 trillion alone right now, they're saying that our debt is going to exceed the size of the economy by 107% this year. that is enormous. that is debilitating. worse yet, they want to keep on putting huge, massive trillion dollar proposals together and have the largest tax hike in american history to pay for all of this, compound it on the american people.

elizabeth: you know stanley drunkenmiller and other wall street pros, stanley drunkenmiller, you have to listen to him. he made the right profitable bet on, excuse me, great britain sterling leaving the european exchange rate mechanism in 1992. that sounds wonky. they're talking about the u.s. dollar loses its reserve status around the world. people say listen, u.s. treasurys will not be a safe asset anymore with the money printing and borrowing. that the u.s. won't be able to borrow more cheaply than other countries, something we enjoyed since world war ii. because biden is destroying the credibility of the dollar with higher inflation. you know what i mean? >> yeah. elizabeth: after world war ii the u.s. was pumping out factories, the dollar became the global reserve currency. could we lose that status. >> absolutely. that helps when you devalue the dollar, when that happens we'll help our adversaries in china and russia.

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♪. elizabeth: joining us now let's welcome back to the show former hhs assistant secretary dr. bret giroir. sir, great to have you back on. we're so grateful to have you appear on the show. cnn now pushing back hard, what many scientists around the world say happened is that covid-19 did leak out of the wuhan lab. 18 scientists, mit, cal tech, stanford, yale, harvard say look into it. the cdc director says look into it. the dr. fauci says it's a

possibility but cnn is politicizing it saying trump is pushing this. they're blaming trump as pushing this theory to distract from his mismanagement of the pandemic. what do you say? >> well, thanks for having me on, if you've been watching cnn for the past 15 months you know according to them everything we did was anti-science, racist, politically motivated or all of the above and i think their heads are spinning around because they're now realizing that president trump, secretary pompeo and all of us were correct, the most likely source of this was the wuhan laboratory. i think they just can't deal with it but the facts remain. i concluded this march, the cdc director concluded earlier than that the most likely source was the wuhan lab. now you're seeing that play out. elizabeth: doctor, scientists we keep talking to say the coronavirus with the spike protein they haven't found it in nature. they have not found the intermediary host for it.

they tests tens of thousands of animals in china and they haven't found it. earlier in the show we showed a sound bite from dr. peter daszak, throwing cold water. he got money from the. [ih and turned it over to the wuhan lab. he said they have been spiking viruses, creating man made viruses inside of china. here is what he said about manipulating viruses inside of labs in china. >> pretty easily, spike protein drives a lot what happens with the coronavirus with soon not tick risk. you can get the rote teen and worked with ralph barrick at unc. another virus, do some work in the lab. now, the logical progression for vaccines is, if you're going to develop a vaccine for sars people are going to use pandemic sars -- >> yeah. >> let's try to insert some of

these other related and get a better vaccine. elizabeth: you see that? they insert ad spike protein, peter daszak said to get a better vaccine. why give a pass to china, cnn? why take china's word for it when dr. peter dak schick --s -- >> that is, peters today schick portfolio, everything it it bats and coronavirus. clear in the paper published in 2015 they were doing manipulation to create viruses with higher pathogencity. i don't understand why there is so much controversy f it looks like a duck and walks and quacks you have got yourself a duck. this was center of bat research in china. china covered up everything they could. blamed it on the u.s. military,

and frozen peas, than the obvious conclusion the lab doing coronavirus on bat research with gain of function with dr. fauci's niaid institute is likely source of the coronavirus pandemic. elizabeth: any rational person would say what we're show something totally off the wall. it is cnn's chris cuomo. watch how he tries to argue he is exposing trump and his team for exploiting this covid lab leak theory for political gain. he has a yale scientist on who says, yeah, it could be true. watch. >> but it is how people are exploiting the unknown to forward bs we have to expose. this theory that it was from the lab is gaining traction, especially here, especially in political circles on the right but it is something that trump and co have been pushing for more than a year. >> so in the report they did investigate 80,000 different

animal samples for possible evidence of sars cove v 2, the and have not found it. they have also not found any evidence of lab leak either. they really didn't report on the lab leak part of the investigation very well. elizabeth: okay. here are the facts. by the way it is not a right-wing theory. there are democrat scientists saying, reporters are saying look into it. doctor, is it correct to say that the w.h.o. report, hundreds of pages, more than 300 pages only devoted four pages to the covid lab leak in wuhan -- four page. >> you're exactly right. you're exactly right. i was the u.s. representative to the executive board of the w.h.o. i was held up for a long time so we didn't have a member during all this time when it was happening but that w.h.o. report, it only devoted those four pages but the rest of the 100 pages proved beyond a shadow of a doubt there was no evidence

of this virus in nature. and to me, this was near smoking gun after looking at tens of thousands of animals, all in the region, there was nothing within decades evolution narrowly of the virus we have. how do you accelerate evolution? you do it in a laboratory. you can do it either naturally in a laboratory by passing the virus or making it worse or by manipulating it as you pointed out. that w.h.o. report was very important at what i had said about nature and there is a lot that needs to be done but how are we going to get inside of the chinese lab? the chinese communist party controls the information. they have had a coverup. they have destroyed materials. you're never going to get the true inside information unless we have a human source and my god, how dangerous would that be for someone to come out and actually admit that from china? elizabeth: you got to say there are heroes inside of china. there are whistle-blowers inside of china. they are heroes, china, do the right thing to say what went on. this isn't a racial issue. it is an issue about an

authoritarian communist government covering up. but cnn's breanna keillor is saying that trump was trying to scapegoat china and making racist comments deflecting from his own poor political performance. stop with the politicizing. 3 1/2 million people did. 600,000 americans died. how about just trust the science, follow the science? let's, be open to these possibilities. where is the journalism at cnn? why are they such a failure these days in politicizing everything? >> i was at the white house every day from march of 2020 through the end of the administration. there was no xenophobia involved here. it just calling the facts the facts. this virus originated in china. that is a true fact. it is becoming more and more likely that it was from a lab leak. i don't believe the chinese released it intentionally. it is possible but i certainly don't believe that but you know, lab accidents happen.

this is a very contagious virus. if it is true what "the wall street journal" reported that three scientists from the wuhan lab were hospitalized in november, i mean that's essentially the best concrete evidence, it fits the timeline. you will see this evolve in the future. elizabeth: november 2019, before the official case in china was reported in december. dr. bret giroir, thanks for joining us. next up fox news contributor guy benson on growing number of democrat governors being hauled into court on the covid-19 lockdown rules they wrote. a michigan business owner, put in being shackles, strip-searched, for not enforcing the mask policy that governor whitmer violated. the story next. [ race light countdown ] ♪♪ ♪♪

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♪. elizabeth: look who's here. fox news contributor guy benson who we love. hey, guy, so let's talk about

this. california governor omarosa manigault newman's office has been ordered to pay to local los angeles church -- governor gavin newsom, because that church broke the governor's lockdown rules because they lost the case in court. now democrat governor is being hauled into court having to pay up. what do you say? >> well i think there is probably a lot of people who are pretty frustrated with some of these lockdown measures a long time. i understand that is part of human nature. a lot of people around the country will give some wiggle room to public officials, benefit of the doubt. this is a really tough environment. we're dealing a one in a general race pandemic, but where you start to really permanently tick people off when you are very heavy handed with rules for everyone that you get caught breaking yourself and that tends to put people over the edge in terms of maybe filing that lawsuit. maybe going to court. maybe campaigning against you. when you're up for election next time because it is that

hypocrisy. i think that really burns. elizabeth: yeah. you know, gavin newsom broke his own lockdown rules going out to a restaurant without a mask. i spoke to the attorney are got michigan restaurant owner. the attorney's name is robert baker. the restaurant owner, her name is, miss hackney. she was put in jail. she was owner of marlene that's bistro and pizzeria. jailed for four nights. shackled, strip-searched, cavity searched. why? because i don't want to have my restaurant clients wear a mask. and now they're going to take the governor to court. what do you think of this case? >> i'm not a legal expert but this is really over the top, right? and you mentioned governor newsom and the french laundry image seen around the world which is a very bad look for him. i think gretchen whitmer, the

governor of michigan has more strikes against her on this front. her husband early on a tried to get some special permission, don't you know who i am type thing? wanted to get his boat in the water when others couldn't. we saw her go to florida, the governor of michigan when she had been telling people don't leave the state. she was scapegoating florida for some of her own state's issues. which is pretty special. she went there herself. most recently she was photographed without a mask inside at a restaurant with people, crowded around a table. the thing is, she is vaccinated. that doesn't bother me but according to her own rules it's a problem. so her office put out the statement, yes, i was wrong. i'm only human. i'm so sorry. then she changed the regulation. okay, that might feel good enough for her. it definitely doesn't feel good enough for the people who were put out of business ored ha their business dreamily strained or thrown in jail -- elizabeth: now the governor, the governor's now trying to get osha to do a circumventing of

michigan supreme court to still enforce her rules. this is a heck of a story. we'll stay on it. guy benson, thanks for joining us. good to see you. >> you bet. elizabeth: got more show after the break. stay right there. ♪

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>> tran10 is now texas attorney general, ken paxton what are your thoughts about homeland security mayorkas sandy wants to make significant changes to ice. beau biden's administration severe restrictions on ice have led to a plunge in deportation and ice arrest, what is he going to do? >> try to limit their ability to continue to control the border i don't think he likes the statistics that are showing up, ice is not allowed to do their job border patrol is not allowed to do their job i was down there in laredo and there being blocked from implementing the laws that congress has passed and their frustrated and i assume they don't want to be majored anymore and the biden administration doesn't want to be measured by actual work produced on their.

liz: we hear i.c.e. officials are afraid of being reprimanded by the homeland security officials in washington. is that what is happening. >> i talked to many border agents and i talked to them in the past and they are told to keep their mouth shut, not to talk about what is going on at the border. that is a whole narrative sense of beginning since biden opened up the border and empowered the cartels to make billions of dollars, border agents have been told to not talk about it because abiding the administration doesn't want transparency they want to keep it secret, it is the cartels making $8000 per person so they have a huge incentive to bring as many people here as they can. liz: mark morgan the former acting commissioner for custom and border protection, he is now saying hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the u.s. since october of 2020. that is what he is saying.

mayorkas the homeland security secretary testimony said are you going to attract people in this country illegally and he said however, my going to track 11 million people. that was his answer, what do you say to that. >> is a pathetic answer. i would love it if they began instead of tracking, just stopping people from crossing the border, go back to the policies that work which we know that they work because immigration statistics were declining in the border patrol was doing the job as we use the micro protocol protection and we kept people in mexico, we stopped the whole catch and release program that the biden administration has restarted. we know what works and we know what does not, for some reason the biden administration is staying with the cartels in the scenario. liz: a lot of border authority including mark morgan have been saying that the biden of administration policies enables human trafficking, that they are encouraging incentivizing and

facilitating human smuggling and a lot of crime at the border. let's take a listen to mayor don mclaughlin, he is at the border in texas, how the border towns are left to struggle on their own, he said they're dealing with the legal border crossers from 73 countries, watch this. >> they have been from yemen, iraq, iran, china, russia, they have 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 73 countries. but it keeps growing and growing and growing. liz: is is not just the border crisis is a national security crisis. you're not allowed to just walk into the country and air force, but this is happening on the border, is this a national sequelae crisis. >> no doubt about it. there are so many people coming

across. when i was in laredo they were telling me the numbers are up almost three times what they were logical, because the border is so open of course it security issue, of course people are coming for many countries and we don't know who they are and what they're coming from and what their motivations are this will be a problem in the future and we will have issues related to this as it relates to national security if the biden of administration does not compensate. liz: the biden the administration has been accused by texas democrat henry cuellar and mitch mcconnell of painting a false picture of what's happening at the border with fake photos of anti-border facilities and moving unaccompanied children from one agency to another, for the numbers to look better. are you seeing anything else other doing to paint a picture, young ten seconds. >> no doubt i show up to these facilities and they will not tell you where these kids are

going and we have annoyed you win, where it's all secretive. liz: ken paxton thank you for joining us, thinking for having a son, thanks so much for watching, i'm elizabeth macdonald, you been watching the fox business network. join us again tomorrow night. ♪. david: welcome to "kudlow" i am david asman and for larry kudlow, two of our top stories today the biden state department shutting down a trump investigation into whether the covid-19 virus originally came out of the wuhan lab the state department denies shutting of inquiries saying it had ended and it continues to work with the inner agency on this matter, fox news learns it