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game, potential new 880 billion-dollar infrastructure bill looks like it's got republicann support. joining uss tonight congresswoman, house energy committee morgan griffith, kt mcfarland, doctor ben kong under carson and brandon judd.ju president biden's agenda in jeopardy,dy white house acting budget director said this iss a problem because congress may not go along with biden's tax hike to pay for it all. that story as well, also tonight amounting on dr. fauci in the media for denying the wuhan lab leak theory after the livermore national lab announces plausible it deserves investigation, officials avoiding any association with a controversial and dangerous gain-of-function super virus research that dr. fauci advocated, vanity fair reported the big government gain-of-function the state department wuhan lab, why was

the u.s. working with china on the dangerous research to begino with given china's dangerous history of lab leaks and safety problems. who exactly lifted the three year ban on pair funding on this research and why, the lawmaker leading the charge to completely open the government books, new details in the expanding probe near governor andrew cuomo, federal prosecutors subpoenaed information and materials related to the recent memoir touting his handling of the pandemic of the cover-up of nursing him deaths by his administration. it doesn't seemed like a hard question but critics say vice president kamala harris botched it. today the vice president tried to laugh vi it off when asked again by nbc news about why she is yet to visit thehe border, she hasnt gone there yet the president put her in charge, the crisis were sitting by the minute, thank you

for joining us i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ thank you for joining us you're watching the fox business network. let's get right to it with the major internetag outage worldwie dozens of websites in u.s. and europe in cities like hong kong and singapore were affected hillary vaughn and capitol hill with the very latest. >> we did hear from colonial pipeline ceo joseph, he said he did not receive any recommendation from the federal government beforee he decided to pay the ransom to the hackers that took control of the pipeline effectively shutting it down as source familiar between the discussion happened between colonial pipeline to the government tells me the federal government did not give any advice at all to colonial before they decided to pay off the ransom but today the ceo

defended the decision to do that saying their private company, it was their call to make in the fastest way to get the pipeline back online. >> in order to get all the tools necessary and the reality of those tools to bring the pipeline not as quick as we possibly could it takes months and months in some cases from been companies that have impacted years to restore your systems are focused on first week was to restore the critical system on the it side in order to safely insecure bringer pipeline system backup. >> after paying the ransom colonial gave them a key that is working but it's not perfect, they are not 100% recovered from the attack, the ceo said is typical for a company to take months to recover, just this week they finally got seven

finances back online that they had not had access since the hack on may 7. what is interesting one m idea they considered the aftermath of this attack headed into future attacks is the idea that they may need to go fully manual operating the pipeline the old-fashioned way, if they do have to take the system off-line if there is a future attack. elizabeth: the internet outage hit amazon and netflix, the guardian, the new york times, a bunch of companies, many of these sites up and running right now, is that the story. >> that is at the cloud service provider that services a lot of these big websites and there was an initial concern that it might be another hack in another incident but the company says it was a disruption in their server it does not seem to be nefarious but they fix the issue in the system and the website read it and others that use that service liare back online.

elizabeth: thank you for your reporting, get to see you, thank you for joining us, texas congressman beth van dyke. it's great to have you on, we have five dozen congressional offices hit by hack we have the fcc warning that brokerage accounts across the country held by the folks out there could get hacked to, were talking ransom were attacks, beef industry, water supply in florida is there enough in. infrastructure bill and what's on the agenda. >> no the answer to that is no, what we see in the infrastructure bill is a tiny percent and actual infrastructure issue and projects that we actually need to open up enough economic recovery but a return on investment and focus on exactly the issues that you're talking about on ransom were and in infrastructure but we also have a vulnerable infrastructure of the pipeline that we just saw.

what were seen at the biden administration is not willing to work at all in a bipartisan compromise manner and he seems to be holding in a troubling american infrastructure hostage to the green new deal program then policies, it's a shame spending trillions of dollars os these programs and will have the infrastructure. elizabeth: the colonial pipeline is nearly half of the energy for hehethe east coast and the ceo y as you probably heard was saying we have to pay the ransom because we cannot outage for months, if not years, he testified at that, let's talk about this we have a new information report coming out this thursday you talked about this from food, close, housing and mixed action on wall street, did you hear about this senatorw chuck schumer is working with republican senators on

880 billion-dollar infrastructure bill compromise. that looks like it's in the works, what you said about. >> you need both parties at the table to be fully inclusive and representative of our constituencies, you need both parties atee the table i am optimistic but i don't know how realistic given g the time we ae seeing the last five months. elizabeth: we have the democrats going into the midterms and there is little to show voters coming up in the midterms, here's what we're hearing, the senatehe rules, the parliamentarian says you only have one shot a budget reconciliation and have to cram everything in one budget reconciliation boats and all the democrat party line threshold, you only have one shot are they going to cram the agenda into that bill, that could be $6 trillion. >> are obviously going to try,

otherwise you're gonna have the programs in the policies, they haven't been choosing not b revoking a policies they have been looking a party over people and unfortunately people will lucite of that stick, i think they're trying to push that as much as they possibly can while they stillhi have control and we real optimistic given the programs that we've seen coming down the crippling debt all the issues that were not resolving that need too be resolved and that were creating under the biden administration and in 2022 you're good to see the house again and republicans take over the house and have a solution for the people. right now when i say we, the biden administration and the far left who seem to be controlling the democrat party are not taking these things seriously there focused on green new deal and wishlist program as opposed with the american people so desperately need. elizabeth: that is democrat

division and a lot of critics saw this coming last year and it would split the democrat party and now durbin warding the democrats don't have all 50 votes, not all the democrats ars on board and looks like the democrat agenda in the biden agenda is in peril. joe mansions not going to go for the votes either, a lot of that stuff you may not see this year? >> i hope not. >> it's the best, if you have debate and compromise that's why you have that compromise in this discussion with everybody at the table why the policies are t beg created when you try to shut it down with that kind of debate or compromise and without being reflective of the american people want from both sides of the aisle that is going to be really bad policies and i hope the centers record size on both sides of the aisle how quickly this will be for the american economy and the american people. elizabeth: the other thing to

breaking news coming in republican senators are stepping up saying were not g going to go for the global corporate tax that janet yellen is talking about with a group of seven countries of 15% tax they say they're not going to go for that either. your final word. >> i hope they don't, i would recommend to democratics that they get out there and start talking to the businesses in finding out what they need to do and talk to their employees and find out these are people who are looking for jobs and want to get back to work and people who need their jobs to be successful because they need to pay their mortgage, insurance and food and they need to get out and the floors on capitol hill, they need to talk to people. elizabeth: thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. still ahead house energy and commerce committee morgan griffith on how he's pleading the charge for complete

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♪. elizabeth: joining us now, republican congressman morgan griffith, house energy and commerce. hey, sir, we're so greatful you came on the show tell us more about what you and the other republicans on the committee want from the livermore government laboratory after it had that may 2020 report, that yeah, the wuhan lab leak theory does look plausible and deserves further investigation? what are you guys going to ask them? >> we want to get all the information we possibly can get what they know, why they felt like that was plausible. i think it is plausible too. i want to know what they think.

they have sources we don't have. we're the committee, subcommittee charged with doing oversight examinations on behalf of the american people. the nih needs to answer questions, cdc, et cetera. we need to make sure we're getting answers for the american people. elizabeth: you know the media and dr. fauci fiercely downplayed this theory last year, to what extent did they take this seriously? >> well, i think a lot of people were not taking it seriously early on but there always been two plausible theories, whether something from animals or whether something that happened in the lab but more and more evidence as things keep coming up, make it look like it is probably the lab. but we don't know. we want all the answers so we can sort it out. i would report there is a w.h.o. report out there, that the chinese tested 80,000 different animals, wild and domestic and found no evidence of the virus being there. so where did it come from? and the answer may very well be

the lab. elizabeth: yeah. the livermore intelligence unit examined the genomic sequence of the sars cove two virus and put out that report, you have to look at the evidence of a potential lab accident. three workers at wuhan lab hospitalize with covid-like symptoms in 2019. "vanity fair" mentioned this in their story, there is a gain of function bureaucracy inside of the government stonewalling look sees and probes into this. former secretary of state david feith, he basically investigated the lab leak. he is saying this a story. why are parts of the u.s. government not as curious as they should be? this is a hugely important event. this is chernobyl of pandemics. have you heard about the government gain of function bureaucracy, is dr. fauci part of it, echo health alliance director, peter daszak part of it? >> looks like some group out

there is stonewalling us. we're trying to get information so we answer questions for the american public, and that is our job. we're getting stonewalled. i have been very disappointed particularly with peter daszak and echo health. they need to come up with information and we need to see their documents and know what they're doing. we need to know what various agencies of the united states know. if some group is trying to block it, shame on them. we are trying to find answers but we will eventually get answers one way or another. dr. fauci and others want us to investigate. we need to get all the information as soon as possible. elizabeth: you know, the gain of function research is dangerous stuff. we're going to talk in the next block with dr. ben carson this is talking about making ebola airborne. u.s. media, we know dr. fauci downplayed it last year. he is trying to get vaccines. we understand the humanitarian intent of dr. fauci but he has been inconsistent critics say

what he has been saying. also the media has not stepped up on their job either. let's watch the media and what they were saying about the wuhan lab leak theory. watch this. >> this question about the wuhan lab, we know that it has been debunked that this virus was man made or modified or anything like that. >> agencies have been tapped with one of trump world's most favorite conspiracy theories. >> why is it politically charged? because trumpers who were complicit in playing down the pandemic reality in america are now seeing more interest in the china lab theory as some kind of vindication, enough to play, i told you so with fauci. elizabeth: okay. this is clearly politicizing a pandemic. the media is keeping their viewers in the dark trying to stay, like chris cuomo said trumpers, the trumpers are pushing this. trumpers, you know, we haven't

seen that. we know that they have been upset about the lockdowns but this is media politicizing this. sit tight. i want you to see the media trying to blame trump for the media not doing its job in investigating the lab leak theory. watch this. >> under the trump administration every single day as you rightly describe we were dealing with the circus. >> for many in the scientific community there was almost allergic reaction to the suggestion of a lab leak because it sounded more like something donald trump was trying to deploy as a political deflection to take attention off his own administration. elizabeth: clearly cnn, msnbc viewers are being misled. they're keeping their viewers in the dark by continue toking to politicize this. chris cuomo continue toes to say, this is quote, waste of energy. what do you say? >> well this is not a waste of energy and it is absolutely appalling any media sources would say that. the evidence looks more and more like a lab.

there is still the possibility of being something from an animal. i would say to those folks, show us what evidence that you have. there is a lot of evidence building up this was some kind of a lab x doesn't mean the chinese did it on purpose. we need to get all the answers for the american people and that is what we're trying to do. elizabeth: politicizing a pandemic, when millions of americans are dead, 600,000 are dead, people say that is illogical, irrational and shameful. congressman, thanks for joining us. i appreciate it. coming up the president of ukraine president biden just handed russia's vladmir putin even more power green lighting russia's nord stream 2 into germany. secretary of state antony blinken is testifying. he refused to explain why that happened. also why the information canceled the keystone xl pipeline. kt mcfarland is with us next. she will take it on. she is fired up. stay there. >> biden is making sure he get as warm reception because he

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the kremlin by green-lighting russia's nord stream 2 pipeline. that is according to "axios." joining us former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland. the author of the book, revolution, trump, washington and we the people. kt, tough words from the president of ukraine. what do you say? >> vladmir putin is a bully and you cannot appease bullies. you have to stand up to a bully. so what have we done? we haven't stood up to vladmir putin. we have allowed the nord stream pipeline to go through from russia to germany and that's going to be a windfall profit for the russians. the russian hackers did ransomware attacks on american energy and beef and other industries. we didn't say anything about that. and now when the russians have troops poised on the ukraine border, when the russians have told us to stay out of the black sea because they don't want any american forces anywhere near what they're going to be up to with ukraine, now, we have yet

again, we sort of stood down. what is putin going to do? he is looking at this, wait a minute i got away with one, two, three, i will get away with anything i want. come on over, joe. let's have a great meeting. elizabeth: you make a good point about the russian suspected hack, they're accused of criminal cartel of hacking into the colonial gas pipeline. so then green-lighting nord stream 2, killing keystone pipeline. secretary of state antony blinken was testifying about that today, kt he basically said i can't talk about why we canceled the keystone pipeline. it is domestic politics. he gave a speech a month ago about keystone. nord stream 2 was almost completed anyway. key stone has been up and running for 10 years. what is the rhetoric we're hering now? >> that is appeasement. the greatest strategic advantages the united states has had in the last five or six

years is energy independence. the fracking industry has been a triple play for us. number one, it got goat got us f of middle east oil and gave us direct jobs and great for the environment. natural fast is so much cheaper because of fracking that american industry turned from dirty coal and dirty oil to clean natural gas. so it was a triple win. by canceling the keystone pipeline not only are we hurting ourself, we're hurting our canadian allies and it's a boon to china which will end up getting that natural gas and russia will be the energy supplier of choice to europe. that will give them enormous political leverage over germany and european countries. elizabeth: you need natural gas to run our electric utility plants to power electric cars. president biden's decision here, it conflicts, doesn't it conflict with his prior claims to adamantly support ukraine and

oppose putin? the vice president, he was chief liaison to ukraine. you know, so what, seems like a muddied message right now a mixed position here. what do you say? >> well i think it is important, just look at the biden administration and every single action they do. they say one thing, they do another. they say ukraine is important but they don't support ukraine. they say energy independence is important but they don't support it. they say they will stand up to china. they don't stand up to china. they say they want peace in the middle east yet abandon israel as an ally. time and time again the words never match the deeds. the words are great but they don't match those words with actual deeds. elizabeth: kt, there is another story coming in. more dubious work allegedly done by hunter biden, hired reportedly by a romanian real estate tycoon to help overturn that tycoon's bribery conviction hunter was going to spearhead an influence campaign to influence

u.s. prosecutors to stop the tycoon's bribery case. he was convicted. more details exactly what hunter biden was doing in his work overseas. all of this happening while his father was vice president. what do you say to this story? >> it keeps happening. we've seen so many fast and furious allegations on hunter biden's laptop, the deal with the chinese oligarchs, deals with the russians, deals with ukrainians, deals with romanians. we have become numb for the pay-to-play deals he was enacting while his father was in the the white house as president. what makes me smile about all of this, the justice department will never investigate hunter biden. what makes me smile, inspite of getting paid by a lot of money by the romanians, hunter biden

never delivered the goods. elizabeth: kt, come back soon. >> thanks, liz. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. up next, dr. ben cars southern will help us make sense why was the u.s. working with china on supervirus research funded by u.s. taxpayers, given china's long history of lab safety problems and accidents? who lifted the three-year ban on federal funding of gain of function research. a lot more money at stake than the tiny 600,000 bucks you've been hearing. the story is a lot bigger. details coming up. the story next. >> this was likely a lab leak. we will never have the smoking gun because the chinese communist party have suppressed the evidence, destroyed the evidence, probably intimidated everyone who is working there. so we need to keep pushing. we need to keep looking. we need to have plans for the future so that when u.s. dollars go abroad it is done for the right reasons, not to support dangerous

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biden doj will actually take down governor cuomo for his alleged misdeeds. elizabeth: that is an interesting point. by the way the governor reportedly got five million dollars, five million bucks for his book deal. you know, so, there was a lot of outrage over the pandemic leadership memoir in the, in light of this alleged coverup of covid-19 deaths by his administration. new york attorney general letitia james was working on a criminal referral, a criminal investigation into the use of state workers and state resources to edit, basically work on his book and edit his book. that is a no-no. >> that is a no-no. you cannot be using state resources to benefit yourself or to even benefit your campaign which apparently was promoting the book as well but when it comes to the attorney general of the state of new york, letitia james i don't believe she is going to really follow through with that probe at the state level. the reason is very simple, the new york political machine is

controlled by one governor andrew cuomo. when we look at the current federal probe going on emac, the problem here if governor cuomo weren't down for his problematic order with respect to the nursing home deaths he would not be the only governor that could potentially have this problem. so could michigan's gretchen whitmer. i don't think the biden doj will let that happen. elizabeth: that is an important you just made because if cuomo gets hammered for that, for the nursing home deaths, you're right, the michigan governor would get hit too and potentially other democrat governors too. you really think the doj would be that, you know, would go so far as not to do anything? >> well, let's put it this way. the trump doj wanted to get governor cuomo on a false acts violation. i think you already have enough evidence there to do that because of the february meeting with deer rosa who was cuomo's aide who basically admitted they

were submitting false numbers, worried about keeping the trump doj from them. the biden doj shut down what the trump doj was doing but only picked it up when you had evidence that indeed cuomo was covering up nursing home deaths whether for his own politics or to promote his book. whatever it may be it is right in front of them and they are still dragging their feet. elizabeth: interesting. 10 women are accusing the governor of alleged sexual harassment, even assault, vip testing, using state workers to do vip covid testing for family and friends. we'll stay on the story, ford. terrific. coming up we'll have dr. ben carson why the u.s. was working on china supervirus research. "the new york times" was reporting that reportedly making reporting that reportedly making ebola airborne to get [sfx: thunder rumbles] [sfx: rainstorm]

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♪. elizabeth: here is a mystery. why did the nih lift the three-year ban on federal funding of dangerous gain of function supervirus research in 2017 under the trump administration? they're talking about making viruses more deadly and infectious to get more vaccines, when harvard and johns hopkins universities epidemiologists it didn't help with pandemics research. the vaccine companies are not clamoring, asking for this research. let's get dr. ben carson with us now to talk about this. so you know, the epidemiologists are saying we haven't seen the vaccine companies they need to do this work in order to make vaccines. your reaction? >> first of all, lifting the ban, you have to recognize in government things take a long time so, that would have been something that was put in motion long before the trump administration if it was just in may of 2017, first of all. then, in terms of you know,

doing gain of function research the people who advocate for it say that we need to be ahead of the curve. so if there is going to be some dangerous virus that crops up, if we have already investigated it, we will perhaps have some treatments, some vaccines for it. and those who are against it of course just say, why would you take a chance of unleashing something on the world that might kill millions of people which in fact may have happened? certainly something worry of significant investigation. elizabeth: you know we're talking, "new york times" was saying, was reporting they're talking about creating an ebola virus that is transmissible through the air in order to get a vaccine. this is really dangerous stuff. sir, you know about. this the u.s. has had lab accidents, about 400 of them from 2003 to 2009. just seven cases there. china has had lab leaks.

this is really dangerous stuff. why work with china? why share taxpayer-funded technology with china on this? >> well that is an excellent question. why would you take that risk in medicine and in science we always do something called benefit to risk ratio and ask you know, what are some of the worst things could happen if you do this, what are some of the best things that could happen if you do this? tell you when you do that analysis it doesn't really hold water in this particular case and, you know, the reason that we probably didn't investigate it vigorously is because we were involved. you know the chinese have enough money. why can't they fund their own research? but the wuhan lab you know, has a history of inappropriate activity which has led to some safety issues. and there is very good reason we wouldn't want to be involved with that, shouldn't be involved with it. elizabeth: you know, doctor, we

have got government officials not talking about the wuhan lab leak theory to avoid any association with the supervirus gain of function research. "vanity fair" magazine reporting that there is a big gain of function bureaucracy that is basically stonewalling, blocking investigations at the state department into what happened. this includes dr. peter daszak. he is part of echo ecohealth alliance. helped fund the research. he downplayed the lab leak theory and but applauded the lab's success creating superviruses. listen to dr. peter daszak. >> you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. spike proteins drives what happens with coronavirus, zoonotic risk. he can take the protein, worked with ralph bear rick at unc. backbone of another virus and do

some work in the lab. >> right. elizabeth: he is saying you can do it pretty easily. he is the guy that organized statements from 27 scientists in "the lancet" journal in december of 2020, dismissing the lab leak theory. what do you say about this? >> this gave dr. fauci ammunition to come out and emphasize how very unlikely it was. obviously it wasn't that unlikely. there was the claim that we have nothing to do with funding gain of function research in china. well, what we did do is we gave money to eco-health alliance which is a non-profit which then funds those laboratories and funded wuhan laboratory. in fact in publications they indicated that some of their funding had come from the niaid which is the division of nih run by dr. fauci.

so obviously we were involved and i think this is something that requires an investigation, not so much that we can ascribe blame and hurt anybody but to make sure that we never go down that road again. elizabeth: so you know, there is talk that 600,000, we don't know the dollar amounts really, what went ceo ecohealth to the wuhan lab. final word what do you think happened? >> well i suspect that in the process of working with this gain of function activity someone got infected, someone else got infected. someone else got infected, at least three we know of got infected that should have rang all the alarm bells but it didn't. elizabeth: okay. >> what is most concerning is that people from that area of china were allowed to go to other parts of the world but not to other parts of china. makes you a little bit suspicious. elizabeth: interesting.

dr. carson, thank you so much for joining us. come back soon. we love having you on. thank you for your service to our country. dr. ben carson there. just ahead, doesn't seem like a hard question but critics say vice president kamala harris botched it with nbc news' lester holt asking the vice president why have you not yet gone to the border? you're in charge of it? but the vice president laughed it off. it off. brandon judd joins us next. stay restless, with the icon that does the same. the rx crafted by lexus. lease the 2021 rx 350 for $449 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. jason, did you know geico could save you hundreds $449 a month for 36 months. on car insurance and a whole lot more? cool. so what are you waiting for? mckayla maroney to get your frisbee off the roof? i'll get it. ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪

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say she hasn't visited europe and to do it so flippantly she does not care about the american public of safety due to the crisis at or southwest border. larry: let's listen to the vice president, watch this. >> at some point we are going to the border and i haven't been to europe, i don't understand the point you're making discounting the importance of the border. >> behavior to be on the ground and speak with the leader of the nation around what we can do in a way that is significant, tangible and has real results i will continue to be focused on network as opposed to grand gesture. elizabeth: we had you on the problems at the border or serious toddlers dropped over border walls, babies have yet

been able to walk, they cannot walk, advances in the desert like cuban smugglers 160 countries, migrants from the countries caught trying to cross the board from yemen, the middle east, iran, iraq, this is exactly like taking a trip to europe, right. >> no it's not a grand gesture to come to the border the reason she's not going to the border senator cruz pointed out she goes the border the cameras will, the american public and mainstream media will be forced to cover this instead of boxes of fox business. but if she goes to the border was also going to be expected is that she fixes the problem and she can't do that because of the political will does not exist to do what is necessary and what the trump administration did to drop to 45 year lows, the people that are benefiting because of her in action are the criminal cartels people that are suffering are the migrants

putting themselves in the hands of the common cartels and it appears that she does not care about those people. elizabeth: thousands of those illegal immigrants are getting killed in this dangerous 2300-mile trek, major crime at the border swamping u.s. border towns let's watch the texas mayor don mclaughlin. >> here lately they have been getting out by our local elementary schools, we had to put the local elementary schools on lockdown and we had to bring more law enforcement and to search for the individuals, 90% of these cars were finding loaded firearms. elizabeth: loaded firearms in them, human smugglers, drug traffickers more people dying from opioid deaths in this country certainly in the west coast than from covid-19, a reaction to what the mayor said. >> what's going on a border is a complete total disaster we have

to understand is not right on the border is a good 60, 70 miles into the united states just a couple weeks ago in a town next to my hometown it is 50 miles off the border there were illegal aliens at a high school trying to steal a highschooler's car while the individual was getting into his car, this is a dangerous situation in the biden administration is not taken as serious as what they need to. elizabeth: she's saying she's in central america to address root causes and she's asking you corporations to set up shop in central america. the point has been made that the corrupt governments and many people in the government pocket the money, the aid money, what do you say. >> that's going to be the problem if we throw money at this problem in countries that are already corrupt it's going to go into the hands of the rich people it's not going to go into the hand of the migrants trying

to come to the united states those that can't make a living in guatemala and el salvador, honduras, that is not the way to solve the problem the way to look at our policies in the united states, addresses problems here. >> brandon judd thank you for your service to our country come back soon. from elizabeth macdonald you been watching " e evening edit", that is abreast think you want to help you have a good evening ♪ ♪. larry: hello welcome to "kudlow" i am larry kudlow we've been under the whether too much humidity and allergies, i hope my voice held up, as is reporting no deal between sherry moore capital and president biden senator o-uppercase-letter says she does not expect an infrastructure deal and republican senate leader mitch mcconnell says bipartisanship is over. take a listen sumac it's pretty