are getting short. we have $200 billion agriculture sales. reporter: gerry, the colorado water system provides water to 40 million americans. gerry: grady, thank you. hot and dry. that does it for "fox business tonight." stand by for "the evening edit" which starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: we've got. more on the first face-to-face meeting between president biden and russia's leader vladmir putin. just hours before that meeting both russia and china conducted their largest military exercises in the pacific ocean. russia says it is the biggest since the cold war. given the president his first major test on the world stage. joining us tonight, kt mcfarland, former governor mike huckabee, dr. marty makary and arkansas republican rick crawford. for the o'connell, rick

holloway, and former border patrol council president brandon judd. a big announcement, hhs inspector general will audit and probe government grants made by the nih they will likely include u.s. funding of the wuhan lab and gain of function supervirus research. we'll break down critics claims that the massive censorship of the origins of covid-19 by the media and big tech were all part of a campaign to defeat president donald trump by insuring the blame fell on trump and not on china. now house republicans introducing a new bill to fire dr. fauci. dr. fauci today tries to claim he never downplayed a possible lab leak. we have the evidence that he did. we have the big reveal that could blow up the argument about a lab leak against, against a lab leak theory. plus government watchdogs asking why did dr. fauci make the most money out of all federal workers? he makes more money than

four-star generals and the president. they say his hundreds of media events during the pandemic cost taxpayers big bucks. raises big questions whether dr. fauci serves the public or his personal interests. according to government watchdogs. we're following this out of california, protesters showing up at the private homes of house speaker nancy pelosi and senator dianne feinstein demanding they spend more on climate change. democrat climate change agenda is in chaos. we'll show you how more and more cities are reinstating bringing back more money into police budgets by millions of dollars after a spike in crime taking a toll on businesses at the heart of the pandemic recovery. house republicans demand a new hearing on democrat push to defund the police over the past year. former president trump will visit the border later this month. he wants to call attention, what he calls a willful dereliction of duty by the biden administration.

texas democrat henry cuellar sending a letter to biden's bored czar. begging vice president kamala harris to go to the border. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. stocks closed down as the federal reserve said it would raise rates in 2023. that is faster than expected in order to combat, fight against rising inflation. the market also watching president biden's first face-to-face meeting with russia's leader vladmir putin. hours before that russia, military exercise hundreds of miles off the coast of hawaii. the u.s. air force scrambled f-22 stealth fighters from hawaii in response. china also showing a show of force and hardware, sending a record number of military planes into taiwan's airspace. let's get to connell mcshane live in geneva with more on the

summit today. connell. reporter: there were claims from both sides, liz, the day was relatively successful from their point of view. after three hour plus meeting between president biden and president putin, putin a he merged with a press conference that said the talks were constructive. biden said the tone was good. at the same time it remains clear that tensions are high between the two countries especially on cyber issues and human rights. a lot of time was spent between he and president put. the american president was quite specific suggesting what the russians need to stay away from. here is how he put it. >> 16 defined as critical infrastructure underu.s. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems. of course the principle is one thing. it has to be backed up by practice. responsible countries need to take action against criminals who conduct ransomware

activities on their territory. reporter: critical infrastructure should be off limits says the president but what consequences would the russians face if they don't follow, if they don't behave themselves in cyberspace? that was less clear. in fact biden suggested the consequence might be a loss of credibility for president putin. here is the president. >> how would it be if the united states was viewed by the rest of world interfering with elections of other countries and everybody knew it? what would it be like if we engaged in activities he engaged in? it diminishes the standing of a country desperately trying to maintain its standing as a major world power. reporter: when the discussion turned to human rights president biden said he made it clear to president putin he will continue to bring up issues that fundamentally deal with human rights and this was a strange scene to start the day, liz, in

geneva. when the u.s. press was ushered into the room to see biden and putin together, some russia security got in their way, in a physical manner. probably heard that russian security agent telling people to go away. at this point, physically pushing them back. there was screaming, there was yelling, pushing and shoving. that is how the day began. nothing to do with the two leaders. they were looking at it all. had to do with the two delegations and the press corps. eventually they got the press out of the room. biden and putin still in the room with their respective staffs. they spoke for about three hours, maybe a little more than that now president biden after a busy week in europe, liz is on his way back to the united states. back to you. elizabeth: connell, good to see you, thanks for joining us. joining us former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland. author of the book, revolution, washington trump and we the people. what was your reaction to the meeting today? >> i found it deeply troubling.

here you have the president of the united states with a face-to-face but he was really getting slapped in the face, at same time sitting with a summit meeting with the russian president. china was sending warships to hawaii. and chinese were overflying our allies in taiwan with military aircraft. they were challenging president biden at the same time he is supposed to be sitting down for an important summit meeting. i think the whole summit meeting today, the die was cast on that last week. president biden ad one job when he went to europe. that was to take our secure and trade and economic allies, get them all together to agree we would all together stand up to china and russia. he didn't get that. when he walked into meeting with putin, he comes out, i gave him a list, 16 industries i don't expect him to hack into.

he was asked by a friendly reporter what the consequences will be? his response, putin will get a bad reputation in the world. i don't know. president biden looks so powerless against all of this. elizabeth: putin did a lot of what aboutism on human rights. putin responded what about gitmo, cia torture what about black lives matter protests. a lot of what aboutism from putin too. >> putin his job was to show himself as equivalent a moral question lent of the united states, the equivalent of united states. the same way he did it when we met with biden officials couple months ago in alaska. putin doesn't say i think this, i think that. he quotes our own people back to president biden. well you americans, you have got problems with security, you have problems with racism. you have problems with this, you have problems with that. so he neutralizes any moral

objections we have to russia. but i mean, i studied vladmir putin going back to, for decades. i even read his doctoral dissertation. he really feels he wants to undo the cold war victory of the united states. we think we won the cold war. he doesn't think it is over. he wants to undo the american success and the way he is going to do it by using russian energy and by using new formed alliance with the chinese. elizabeth: ric grenell tweeting out putin got a pipeline of power, influence and cash from the next 20 years after the president lifted sanctions on nord stream two russia pipeline into germany. kt mcfarland. come back soon. great to have you on. let's bring in, look who is here, former arkansas governor mike huckabee. what did you think of the meeting today, what was your reaction? >> i think a lot of people forget this is not just about two individuals, joe biden and

vladmir putin, it is about two countries. the two individuals had a sharp contrast today. joe biden shuffled into the room. didn't appear a real clear grasp of all that was going on. i think made a huge mistake, you can do certain things in cybercrime but here is 16 things we don't want you to do, basically all the other stuff we'll not really get on to you about it. i was astonished by that. i couldn't believe his handlers would allow him to take that juncture. clearly putin had a strong appearance. he comes across that way but i say again, liz, what joe biden's got to do, i don't think he did it, was to remind people it is not about him. it is about the power of the united states and we did not exhibit that through the words of the president. i think vladmir putin goes home really looking better, not only individually but his country looks stronger just because of the way that he carried himself

through the meeting. elizabeth: senator tom cotton is saying china is the one to watch, right? he is saying that basically the nato communique mentioned russia more than five dozen times and china less than a dozen times. china's embassy in london is saying it is long past, the time is over for a small group of nations in the g-7 to dictate how the world is going to conduct itself. the thing is, governor, what is happening too, president biden and the g-7 said we'll mount a 40 trillion-dollar infrastructure plan around the world to take on china's belt and road. i mean how are they going to do that, governor? they can't even agree, the g-7 couldn't even agree on vaccine sharing? you know they can't get the vaccine deal going between them. how will they take on china in this way? >> i think you're exactly right. it is about china. russia is a threat, there is no doubt about that but they don't present to us an immediate

threat. they don't have the power and strength. they had a lot less until joe biden gave them the pipeline that gives them an economic boost like nothing else has over the past eight years. let's ask ourselves this. who is stealing our basic day-to-day information? china. who is it that is dumping products into the united states and really having an impact on american jobs? china. who has been not only cheating at trade but who has been manufacturing things that has taken manufacturing out of the united states? china has. and who has been very, very clear in doubling up a fist, shaking it at the u.s. and saying we're coming after you? it is china. no doubt the greatest threat we face economically and militarily, unquestionably, it's china. elizabeth: all right. governor mike huckabee. thanks for joining us. come back soon. great to have you on. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: sure. still ahead the inspector

general for health and human services is going to audit nih grants. likely will cover the funding of the wuhan lab and also the funding of gain of function supervirus research. this is dangerous stuff. we're also going to break that down. also the claims by critics that the massive censorship of the virus origins of the press and big tech was part of the campaign to defeat trump by insuring the blame fell on trump and not china. the story next. >> there was a large group of scientists that see this technology at their fingertips and they want to do it and there is an arrogance about it that nothing can go wrong. seemed like a lot of people wanted to squelch any idea there was another hypothesis and i think that is what i find the most disappointing because i would expect that from politicians. i would expect that from

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look the purpose of science is challenge deeply-held assumptions but in politics you have democrats and republicans. in virology we have pro and anti-gain of function research folks. dr. fauci was pro. he talked about the value of it. this will hopefully show it is too risky. you don't mess with mother nature. elizabeth: dr. fauci said 600,000 went to the wuhan lab over a five-year period. others are saying more it, was millions and millions of dollars. dr. fauci is saying he did not downplay a possible lab leak. when he said it last year, he attacked that with "national geographic," i don't know what they're talking about. i don't know why they, i will not spend a lot of time on a circular argument. there was this whole push last year to blame trump for the pandemic and not china. how does this all work together? >> it is amazing. you had almost every journalist

in health care and science, i know a lot of these journalists dropped everything they were doing when the pandemic hit and pivoted all the time and energy studying covid looking for good stories. not a single journalist beyond one or two reporters really followed the leads what was obvious. i said on fox news in april of last year it was an infected lab worker wept to the local hospital. patient zero. circumstantial evidence is pretty overwhelming. elizabeth: thought experiment. dr. fauci says, it is not likely it leaked out of the wuhan lab. three lab workers got sick with covid-like symptoms in november 2019. the state department says that. here's the thought experiment. this could blow up what dr. fauci has been downplaying. the virus could be spread by asymptomatic people, right? meaning they show no symptoms. how can dr. fauci know for sure there was no lab leak from

asymptomatic wuhan lab workers? >> look, if he funded this lab, obviously very well aware of it he would be downplaying the possibility it was infected lab workers when it is very obvious. the biggest piece of information, liz, doctors at the hospital were detained by the police, sometimes for a long time. they went missing and reprimanded. one of them was forced to sign a confession. there was a policy at the hospital presumably came from the government said nobody is allowed to talk about the so-called pneumonia outside the hospital. that level of reprimand, no samples turned over, no lan book turned over, it is obvious what happened. elizabeth: louisiana senator john kennedy raises a problem with dr. fauci. he has a conflict of interest, that dr. fauci funneled the money through his friend peter daszak at the ecohealth alliance. i will ask you after the sound

bite can the hhs inspector to general get to the bottom of how much money went to the wuhan lab. watch this. >> dr. fauci funneled money to his friend dr. peter daszak. they have both been cheerleaders, especially dr. daszak, for the animal theory, the natural theory of the virus. i guarranty you when this thing first broke, both dr. fauci and dr. daszak, both thought to themselves, oh, my god, we gave taxpayer money to the wuhan lab. what if they did gain of function research as it has been done 11 times since 1992 and the virus escaped? now that i'm saying it did or didn't but they both should have stood up, wait a minute, i have a conflict of interest here. i gave them money. we didn't supervise them. i'm the wrong person to weigh in on this subject. >> yeah.

elizabeth: he said a lot there. conflict of interest. dr. fauci admitted he wasn't monitoring what was going on. can they get to the bottom of how much money the u.s. gave the wuhan lab? >> yeah, that should be traceable t went through the subcontractor. look at all the publications that talk about gain of function research in the medical literature where the nih number accrediting the funding is there. i can tell you having submitted many nih grants myself, liz, the people reviewing it don't look at the budget. it is almost reviewed separately t could be 10 million, $100 million at times. that is separate part of the study section that reviews it. elizabeth: house republicans pushing on a bill to fire dr. fauci. another ted cruz saying that dr. fauci was criticizing red states like texas for opening up but said nothing about blue state democrat governors putting through executive orders forcing, putting nursing home

patients, recovering from covid-19 back into nursing homes. why the silence on that? >> well, look, if you had to evaluate how he has done on the job description you would say his primary job is to warn the country of a pandemic. on that he did not. and the secondary job help us manage the pandemic. basically major wrong on most issues of strategy. he is a very nice gentleman. i think he has good intentions. he wants the best. we need people with a better track record. they have been out there. it is hard for other people to compete with dr. fauci when he is on the media 10 to 12 hours a day for the last year-and-a-half. elizabeth: dr. marty makary, thanks for joining us. good to have you back on. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: sure. we're coming into the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. protesters showing up at private homes of house speaker

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after about 19 hours in a markup. only about nine or 10% of that actually is infrastructure investment. the bulk of it is attributed to or directed to climate change. yet that is still not satisfactory. that is why they did not get any republican votes. i think there may have been one or two. most republicans said no to that for that reason. we need to focus on real infrastructure investment. look, we can do that, be conscious of our environment at the same time. it is not a either/or scenario. elizabeth: it is interesting what you're saying in terms of the balance of money being spent because you know, joe manchin is now saying he may not support democrats push to fast track this big package with democrat only votes with budget reconciliation. it feels like it is in chaos. you have that, senator dick

durbin you know, we need to end the filibuster. if we don't end the filibuster republicans are trying to get their way. he tried to compare ending the filibuster to soldiers storming the beaches of normandy on d-day. that sounds like desperation. >> it is and it ace different tune when majority was republican. they wanted to preserve the filibuster. how can you consider lifting the filibuster. that is an important tool protecting the minority. now the tables have turned. it is important to get rid of the filibuster so they can do what they want to do with impunity. even then it will be a struggling. they have a 50-50 split, with people like joe manchin, kyrsten sinema may have a pause on something like that. others may recognize some of these things are just a bridge too far. elizabeth: the other thing that happened too, a federal judge in

louisiana blocked the biden administration from stopping new oil and gas leases on federal land. now those oil and gas leases on federal land can go forward. do you think this is a major setback? >> this will be another battleground as fossil fuels always are. we're not saying that we can't do environmentally sensitive things but we can't do them in a day. you know there will be, you also have to look at the market forces out there. how much of the market is crying out for solar and wind? we're still largely driven by gas motors on the highway and our power. where do you get the power to plug in those electric cars? i mean that has got to be generated. they don't want nuclear. they don't want baseload, traditional baseload modes of power. how are we going to do that? how do we plan to meet the energy needs of our country? and so there is, there is really no plan except we've got to do

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government doesn't pay. the problem with the government pay scale, it doesn't matter what benefit you bring to the government, if you have enough advanced degrees, you sit with the government, you can be the highest paid federal employee among 4.3 million federal employees in the country. elizabeth: go through it. in 2019 he was paid 418,000. he earned 434,000 last year. his estimated earnings since the pandemic hit has been about 650,000. so he has made more than a million bucks. so he has been doing hundreds of interviews. the watchdogs at open the books are saying, is he serving the public interest or his own? he is participated in more than 400 interviews, television, radio, podcasts, lectures, panel discussions. they're asking about that too. is it really necessary for all of that to be going on? >> well look, americans should be irate basically dr. fauci is used more than 400 media appearances to essentially

promote himself on the taxpayer dime. frankly that might actually be a violation of the 1913 gillette amendment. but again i'm not sure that the biden administration will prosecute him. nor am i sure the government accountability will actually hold him accountable. this is the problem with government and transparency f you get in the federal government. you don't have to do your job. you can do whatever you want. elizabeth: ford, they're also asking why did dr. fauci as you're talking about need to go on a media tour when federal health agencies already employ nearly 200 public relations officials at the nih, cdc,fda? that cost taxpayers 20 million bucks. so what are those guys doing if fauci is out there going on the airwaves? what are those individuals doing? >> well that is a great question, emac. we are paying people to deliver public info in a time of pandemic and here you have

dr. fauci saying you know what? we don't need those people. the taxpayers are paying $20 million a year for to relay public information. instead i will go up there and i'm going to be the star. it always became about dr. fauci. it's a sad state of affairs. halfway into this he stopped delivering public info. he started delivering propaganda as we look back at this now he misled on a heft of things from the covid origins to efficacies of massive lockdowns and what the federal government role was in gain of function research. he has a lot of questions and you hope congress is paying attention to the discussion we're having because there is a fine line of public information and propaganda and we need to have better transparency to the american public. elizabeth: you're saying used his position as director of the niaid to basically push a storyline through that you know, the, virus did not leak from the wuhan lab? he also held, used the

white house press room to make that argument as well. he told "national geographic" last year, i don't know what they're talking about. this is a circular argument to me. the other thing people have been talking about, ford, separate from that, it is also his saying behind the scenes that basically herd immunity is 60% of the public of antibodies. then when the polls showed more people with take vaccines, he said it was 70%. then he said it was 80%. then he said it is 85%. he is gearing it towards public perceptions and acceptance of vaccines. so that feels like manipulation. telling people not to wear masks but hiding that he was trying to conserve masks for hospital workers, he could have just said to the american people, listen, we need masks for hospital workers. make a mask out of a bandanna, do your best. you know what i mean? why didn't he play it straight? >> that's a great question and i do think he strongly manipulated

public opinion and now that the democrats are in power, i don't think they will hold him accountable. i will be totally honest with you, i think he is the greatest exist to the democrats the last 40 years. not only did he install biden as president, but pushed multitrillion dollar socialist legislation because people were so terrified as a direct result of his commentary. elizabeth: ford o'connell. good to see you. come back soon. >> thank you, emac. elizabeth: sure. coming up former georgia police officer phillip holloway. he is going to join us on his thoughts how more and more cities are now reinstating, putting back into police budgets millions of dollars amid a spike in crime. this is the so-called re-fund the police, not defund the police. we'll take it on next. with spring comes rebirth.

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officer phillip holloway. sir, we're going to show this video. a local reporter videoed a shoplifter brazenly going into a walgreens in san francisco with a biggar badge bag to shoplift. he takes off on his bicycle. robberies are on the rise in san francisco. this is pretty brazen stuff. what do you say? >> you know, look, elizabeth, violent crime is through the roof and homicide rates, homicide, the worst of the worst, in large cities is up more than 30% on average last year. and like 24% in the beginning of this year alone. when you threaten to cut budgets and decimate the rolls and ranks of police departments you have got to understand, it has an effect on morale. it has an effect on whether or not people want to retire, whether or not you're going to get new recruits. this is the natural consequence of the defund the police movement and it should not shock

anyone this is what we're seeing right now. we have to stop. we have to go back the other way. police leadership needs to change. city leadership needs to change because it starts there. when you have mayors and city councils and police chiefs doing this for the sake of political expediency, this what happens. elizabeth: now you have more and more cities including new york, baltimore, oakland, los angeles, are now putting back money into police budgets, reinstating millions of dollars to their police departments a year after the movement to defund the police. now you have house republicans saying listen we want hearings how democrats demanded to defund the police. >> you know, you're right. and look at places like here in atlanta where i am. we have certain areas of the city that want to secede from the city of atlanta because they want to force, they want to create their own police force, because they know that we have

to fund law enforcement. if you don't fund law enforcement, guess what? there is no law enforcement. when you don't have law enforcement you cannot have viable city, county or even local community. this is the natural, foreseeable result of of the asinine defund the police movement. >> fallout is severe. baltimore businesses are saying we'll not pay our local taxes. so bad in chicago, the mayor there, lori lightfoot is asking the biden administration after it rejected help from the trump administration last year. you have 10 seconds. the final word. >> when you force the men and women of law enforcement to stand by, stand down, while cities burn, businesses are looted, this is you get. this has got to change. elizabeth: phillip holloway, thanks for joining us. come back soon. >> you bet. elizabeth: just ahead, former president trump heading to the border later this month. he says he wants to draw

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elizabeth: joining is now national border patrol council president brandon judd, it's good to have you back on, what is going to be the impact of former president trump going to the border later this month. >> it's going to be a large impact he's going to take the cameras with him the exact reason kamala harris doesn't want to go to the border he's already fixed the problem, he's going to highlight that, he's gonna show that the biden of administration is completely and totally failed on an issue that is totally in the top five of the market public, they want border security in this administration has not given them that. elizabeth: the polls show that, now we have democrat representative henry cuellar of texas begging vice president kamala harris, come to the border. he is saying what is happening is hampering what border patrol needs to do and following the

laws that congress wrote and it's threatening, putting american citizens and surrounding communities in serious danger. >> representative choir understands what's at stake right now. he knows that republicans were just elected mayor and the city of mcallen, that does not happen in that particular area of the united states, he knows that he could be in trouble going into 22, he knows democrats are vulnerable going into 22 simply because of this issue and this issue alone and he wants it to be fixed yet the administration is not doing anything. elizabeth: trump is ready to pounce he spoke at a north carolina republican event earlier this month, the former president is expected to hold rallies in ohio later in june and in florida early july, he's basically going to be goading and pushing on the biden of administration saying you guys have been derelict in your duty in terms of protecting the

country, what happens is the president and the vice president say nothing in response. >> again is going to hurt them going into 24 but i'm glad that he's going to go out there, i really don't care about much other than the security of the great nation, we want to see the border secure whether it's democrats or republicans, whoever will give us a border security, that's what we want and that's with the american public wants, president trump will go out there and say i solve this problem, i got rid of the catching the release and biden a administration brought it back and that's why the numbers have soared, that's a good message because that message will resonate with the american public. elizabeth: were talking about the equivalence of nebraska showing up at the southern border in this fiscal year, that is the estimated 2 million apprehensions. the biden administration in the first week, as you pointed out trump border policies triggering

the worst border crisis in a generation were talking about getting rid of the remaining mexico policy, stopping construction on the border wall, it's gotten so bad in texas texas is moving to build its own border wall and worked in san diego but greg abbott is going to vilify for that. >> i tell you when people say this is the worst border crisis in a generation, i tell you this is the worst border crisis in the history of the united states. you have to compare apples to apples, not apple store and just. what is happening is extremely different than what happened in the late '90s an early 2000, this is something that we never dealt with before and never seen anything like this before considering it took 35 years to add 11 million illegal aliens in the united states, if you believe that number. in five months, nearly 500,000 people have been added to the population of the market public,

that is insane, that the pace we've never seen before. elizabeth: that's an important point, also what is really ramping up as the drug cartel distracting border patrol with human smugglers bringing in toddlers and children so they are distracted and then there pushing the record amounts of fentanyl, the amount of fat and often sees that the border has quadrupled, you and i talked about 2 milligrams could kill somebody, 1 kilo could kill 500,000 people, this is really dangerous stuff. >> talk about the distraction, when you look across the border my station to station i'm assigned to that station has been shut down because we have to go to processing and we have so many people crossing the border illegally we never shut down stations before and because were shutting them down in the artificial gaps are being created and the cartels are able to get their products are crossed and it's killing our children and simply based upon policy, this a administration

policy and failure to properly act that is harming the united states. elizabeth: brandon judd, thank you for joining us and thank you for your service to our country, come back soon. i am elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. thank you for watching we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ ♪. larry: hello everyone welcome to "kudlow" i am larry kudlow, great to be with you. kind of a bad day for stocks, the dow is falling over 300-point by midafternoon, it did close on a somewhat better note later, i don't know whether stocks fell because of prudence news conference or bidens news conference or jay powell fed news conference, i don't know which was worse for the market, i don't know which was worse for american security and prosperity, it's hard to