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ufo report today. i'm brian brenberg, and this is "fox business tonight." ♪ ♪ brian: our top story, kamala harris visiting the southern border today after months of bipartisan pressure. the vice president touring the el paso, texas, port of entry while focusing on the people who are trying to come here legally. >> i hope this does not sound trite or corny, but with we have the compassion to give people hope. brian: along with visiting administrative offices, vice president harris met with young girls detained by border patrol and various religious leaders in the area. harris stressed that her visit was to determine the root causes of immigration. at one point, got into it with our own peter doocy on why she decided to visit the border now. >> how did you decide that right now was the right time to make your first trip to the border? >> well, it's not my first trip.

i've been to the -- >> as the first in charge of the response. >> so an important aspect of this visit is leaving this visit after the work that we did in guatemala and mexico. i said back in march i was going to come to the border. so this is not the new plan. brian: nothing new here. joining me now to discuss is chad wolf, former acting dhs secretary under president trump. chad, thanks for being with us. want to get your reaction to the vice president's visit. did anything good come out of this, or was this purely a photo op? >> well, let me first commend if her for actually going to the southwest border after more than 90 days. unfortunately, that's where the good news stops. i think what we heard again from the vice president, unfortunately, is misinformation, talking about how they inherited a very tough situation referring to what they inherited from the trump administering. and that, we know, is --

administering, and that, we know, is false information. we gave them a secure border that was under control that had a number of policies they could choose from to make that a secure border. instead, they're having to fix a border problem that they caused that they are now trying to find solutions to. very disappointed overall in the trip. i think it's also a missed opportunity that the vice president had to communicate what they were doing to fix the crisis. there's no new information coming out, no new policies, no new procedures talking on how to address the illegal activity going on at the border today. brian: and, chad, yet she talked about extreme progress. those were her words. what is she talking about when she says exstreak progress? -- extreme progress? >> well, it's interesting. it's the only reason that they really want to el paso, so they could talk about the progress that they have made on moving minors from border patrol facilities to hhs facilities.

so the progress that she's touting and the dhs secretary has touted over time is simply moving historic number of minors, really teenagers, from one government facility to another government facility. that's the progress that they're talking about. the progress is not -- or the progress, i should say, should be on how do we solve the problem. they aren't solving the problem. they're managing, they're trying to manage their way through it. and that's not going to be proven successful in the long run. brian: so, chad, if she was really interested in solving the problem, as you say, give us her eye tin their. -- itinerary, where should she be going? what do you go to get to the root causes here? >> yeah. what she should be doing is she should be visiting with all of the border governors, governor abbott, governor doocy in arizona, newsom of california, they're on the front lines. she should then be talking to all the state and local law enforcement down along that a border, the border sheriffs' coalition and the like, engaging

with them, understanding what they're trying to -- understanding what they're seeing. then she needs to go to the rgv, the brownsville/mcallen area which is ground zero for this surge and parts of arizona, that's nogales and yuma. there's a number city in el paso. didn't even visit the border. went through a processing center and then had a number of round tables with ngo and others. overall, i would say it's a disappointing trip. brian: you know, chad, here we are talking about the vice president and whether or not she went to the right places. isn't the real question why isn't president biden making the trip in why hasn't he made a trip? shouldn't we be asking that more than be concerned about what the vice president's doing? >> well, absolutely. but, you know, president biden should be down on that border as well, and at the very least, he should be talking about it. again, they don't have solutions to it.

it's hard to talk about a crisis when you not trying to -- you're not trying to solve it, when you're trying to just manage it. because they believe in these policies that are allowing over 183 illegal apprehensions in just the last month if alone, historic numbers that we're going to see at the end of this fiscal year. and right now they don't have a good solution to the crisis, and i think's why they're not talking about and why president biden's not on the border himself. brian: at the end of the day, this isn't about video, it's not about pictures, it is about solution. that's what we need more than any of the fanfare. chad, thank you so much for your time today, we appreciate it. >> all right. thank you. brian: well, to continue this discussion let's bring in tom homan, former acting i.c.e. directer and and a fox business contributor who is currently in arizona with a group of border area sheriffs. tom, thanks for being with us. i want to get your reaction to the vice president's visit. did anything good come of this, i ask again, or was it merely a photo op? >> it was a photo op. she had no intention of going to

the border. president trump has been more presidential on this issue than president biden and kamala harris. [audio difficulty] she talked to men and women on the front line. you know why she doesn't want to do that? she's going to hear the truth. she's going to hear that border walls work. why would you stop that law? they're going to say -- [inaudible] we shut down all the trump policies that were working, were effective. illegal immigration was down, as vice president, why did you stop these policies? she doesn't want -- and that's why she didn't go to rgv. she should have talked to the men and women of the border patrol to see what works, what doesn't -- brian: tom, we've got a little

distortion coming through in your voice, but let me ask you this, you're down in arizona with border area sheriffs. what is their reaction to what they saw with the vice president's visit. >> was it discouraging to them? how did they react to seeing their vice president headache this visit to el paso e? -- make this visit to el paso? >> they were insulted. they thought she should have gone to the epicenter of the chaos, and she didn't. they wanted to see her talking to the men and women on the front line and have ideas how we fix it. she didn't. so these sheriffs -- [inaudible] these sheriffs have rising crime, more car chases and more dead bodies. so they're very concerned about it right now. brian: tom, you're going to be down in the rio grande valley with former president trump next week. can you tell us a little bit

about what's on his agenda and what you think will come from that visit by the former president? >> i think -- well, i'll be there, and we're going to have a meeting with the governor and talk about how the governor can do what the federal government has failed to do. and part of that's going to be building the wall, because walls work. walls save lives. we're going to talk about some other things he can do -- again, governor abbott's not only protecting the citizens of texas by making these move, he's protecting america. because these border crossers, the fentanyl, the drugs, the criminals, they don't just stay in texas. i've seen the plane tickets, they're going all around the country. we're going to talk about what he can do that the federal government has failed. brian: you're right, that doesn't just affect border areas, it makes its way throughout the country. we appreciate your perspective. tom homan, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. brian: well, in florida the surgery for survivors of the

condo -- search for survivors of the condo collapse continues. nearly 160 people are still missing. fox' jonathan serrie is on the scene in surfside, florida, with the latest developments. jonathan. >> reporter: in fact, the medical examiner's office has confirmed the e identity of the first victim, 54-year-old stacy fang, they say, died from blunt force injury due to the building collapse. firefighters searching the rubble have discovered three additional bodies bringing the death toll to 4. authorities have confirmed that 120 residents are safe but 159 remain unaccounted for. so firefighters continue the askerrous it is a -- asker yous task of searching the rubble. >> we are listening for sound. it's not specifically human sounds, it could be tapping, it could be steel, you know, kind of twisting, it could be debris raining down. so we concentrate in those areas. >> reporter: once firefighters

finish the dangerous search and rescue process, police will conduct an on-site investigation into the cause of the collapse. miami fox affiliate wsvn says that the homeowner's' association has recently hired a building engineer for the 40-year certification, but the process flagged no grave dangers. the property owners have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $5 million in alleged damages to himself and other victims. his lawyer explains our investigation continues, but we strongly believe this was preventable. as we come back to our live shot, you can see all of this smoke behind me. that's because these fires come and go every time debris moves. they cause sparks which will set fires that the firefighters have to go back in and put out, and then behind all this smoke you may be able to say some ominous clouds. that's because we've been experiencing thunderstorms on and off. so hats off to these

firefighters who are working round the clock despite very difficult conditions. brian, back to you. brian: indeed, jonathan. thank you so much for that report. well, violent crime spiking nationwide, and now a potential wake-up call for democrats. next. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ engines revving ] ♪♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. before discovering nexium 24hr [ engine revs ] to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden.

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♪♪ finish. >> i am the face of the new democratic party. america is saved. we want to have justice and safety and end inequality. brian: that was eric adams, the current leader of the undecided democratic mayoral primary in new york city. the former nypd captain promising that curbing the increase in crime and gun violence in the big apple will be his top priority if elected. he's also spent his campaign pushing back against calls to defund the police. here now, steve forbes, "forbes" media chairman. steve, always good to see you. i want to -- >> good to be with you. brian: -- get your reaction to eric add also right away. i find it interesting that he's calling himself the face of the new democratic party. are we seeing a new democratic party or an idiosin rah city of

new york city given the crime problem here? >> i think the crime problem is, in effect, creating a new democrat party, and i think he recognizes that public safety is issue number one. i think if he gets elected, i think one of the things he will do without saying it explicitly is return more to the broken window theory of policing that drastically reduced crime in new york in the '90s. i think you're going to see that make a comeback, and it's going to be popular with voters. those who want to wreck the police department lost out, and i think people especially around the country, you saw it in texas and those mayoral elections around the border where there's lawlessness thanks to the biden administration. republicans won heavy voting among hispanic voters, latino voters. so, yes, it is changing, and he, in effect, is making aoc and the socialist wing of the democrat party look like the old a party x he represents the new, vibrant party. brian: i've got to ask you about

this as well, cities across the country are seeing a huge uptick in the number of police retirements. get this, up 45% year-over-year. those are retirements. resignations up 18% year-over-year. so, steve, we heard the president this week talk about his plan to fight crime. he talked about putting all sorts of new police on the streets. is he just completely ignoring these numbers which say people don't want to go into that profession right now in. >> yes. and what he has to address is and certainly on the local level we have a crazy slew of mayors who seem to see the police as the troublemakers rather than the troublemakers. and when you treat police like that, a lot of experienced officers are quitting. and what's bad about that is the fact that you need those experienced police officers to help train incoming, rookie police officers. there's a lot of things you learn from people who have experience, things you don't get to learn in the academy. and that loss of talent is going

to be very, very detrimental. brian: you've got to wonder how many years back that puts some police departments. because as you said, you're losing the experience there, so how do you get new police officers up to that point where they can operate like those experienced officers in are we talking about maybe losing five, even more years in terms of that experience going out the door? >> that'll be up to the politicians. if they do what new york did 30 years ago, giuliani and others, bloomberg, and that is back the police department with sensible policing, make a few reforms in terms of bringing about more accountability to win trust, i think it can be turned around. what you might see is a lot of experienced police officers may see in a few years if things have actually turned around. you could have a program to get them to come back for a handful of years and not lose their benefits. so, yes, if there's a will, they'll find a way to bring back that experience and get the police -- get the streets safe

again. brian: i've got to get your take on this last thing, steve. this is a bread and butter issue for you. a new poll shows fewer young americans have a positive view of capitalism compared to january 2019. republicans, young republicans' positive view of capitalism at 66% today, that's down from 81% just two we're yahoo!s ago -- two years ago. for all americans it's at 49% today, down from 58%. steve, i look at these numbers, i don't like them at all. do you buy it, number one. and number two, what do we do about it? >> i have to look at the methodology. i've talked to pollsters who know about polling to see what the methodology they used, but it's certainly true that free enterprise took a real hit because of mistakes made by the government. on the regulatory side, taxing side, monetary side. when you have a trouble thed economy, people think free markets are the fault, not bad government policies. we got a glimmer during the first three years of the trump administration before the pandemic hit, this economy was

starting to really heal, move ahead in a very positive way. if we'd had another four or five years of that without that pandemic interrupting it, i think you'd see very, very different polling, and people would have more of the attitudes they had in the '80s and '90s when americato see it, i ws like inflation hitting prices, hitting people's pocketbooks, i wonder if that's going to start changing people's minds once again, getting people thinking about the benefits of capitalism. steve, thanks so much for your time today. >> thank you. brian: we appreciate it. well, are those mysterious sightings in the sky really ufos? the government just releasing its highly anticipated report. we've got the breaking details. you don't want to miss 'em, next. ♪ -- major tom,made the grade ♪♪

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♪ brian: government releasing its highly anticipated report on ufos. officials say they have no explanation of the cases reported by military planes writing, quote: in a limited number of instances, unidentified phenomena appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics, possibly the result of spoofing, observer misperception. but the head -- they added this, the objects, quote, may pose a challenge to u.s. national security. a lot of bureaucratic speak there. here to sort it out is ufo expert nick pope. nick, thanks for being with us. your reaction to this highly

attempted but not very exciting, apparently, report we're getting today. >> well, it's gas nateing. i just had a -- fascinating. i just had a quick read-through, and it's interesting. it's a mixed bag. it's a long way of saying we don't know what these things are. some of them may be misperceptions, other things, this is interesting, might be foreign adversaries like russia or china, breakthrough aerospace technology and, frankly, a lot of them they simply don't know. so i think the important point is this review should be the beginning of a much more detailed research and investigation program until we find out what we're dealing with here. brian: the interesting thing about this, when you look at folks who saw these ufos, who report toed them, they weren't just your average, everyday

observer. they were trained, highly specialized people with knowledge of aerospace. to me, that's the intriguing part, and it makes the misperception angle just a little bit hard to believe. your thoughts on that. >> i agree with you completely. i mean, a lot of these witnesses are pilots and radar operators and other military personnel, people absolutely familiar with pretty much everything in the skies and very able marley with the corroborating evidence that they have from radar and other platforms. you know, these people don't make mistakes that easily. and i think it's interesting, this report says they really only looked at a select number of incidents. i mean, there have been many, many more encounters going back decades, so i think there needs to be a deeper dive into some of the back story here. brian: okay, nick, you've worked on these issues for a long time for the u.k. government. i mean, you go back on this.

i've hard you say, look, everything that we're seeing here is the tip of the tip of the iceberg. can you give us some sense of what we're not seeing here but we ought to be thinking about? >> well, there's certainly a classified annex to this report, and that would be fascinating to see over the next few days whether anything there leaks. a lot of that, i think, will be highly technical. but former dni john ratcliffe revealed earlier that there was satellite imagery, for example, of these things. so so that's one thing that i think people would be fascinated to know. but it's the speeds, the maneuvers, the acceleration of these objects that's absolutely staggering. and in many cases, you know, seems way beyond the cutting edge of anything we've got. ufo community folks probably disappointed that this doesn't talk about extra terrestrials

and aliens, but it's not been taken off the table. and, clearly, congress will want more work on this. and it is described as a preliminary report. so there's more to come. brian: well, i think everybody is entered in the more to come. i -- interested in the more to come. i think some were hoping for a more definitive answer, but i guess we're not going to get that. ful the conversation continues, nick, we appreciate you being a part of it, thank you. >> thank you. brian: now to ashley webster covering a mayor moment for the cruise industry. ashley. >> reporter: yeah. hey, brian, i have already reserved the lounge, i like to plan ahead. yes, this cruise ship is empty right now, but not for long. passengers are coming onboard for a pivotal moment in the cruise industry history. i'll explain all about it coming up after the break. ♪ (naj) at fisher investments, our clients know we have their backs. (other money manager) how do your clients know that? (naj) because as a fiduciary, it's our responsibility to always put clients first.

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pandemic. cruises are making a comeback as the first post-covid ship in the u.s. will set sail tomorrow from a port in florida. ashley webster, always a tough assignment, is live in fort lauderdale, florida, with the details. >> reporter: another tough day, brian brenberg. it is a pivotal day for the cruise industry. they haven't been able to sail from a u.s. port for 469 days. that is a tremendously long time, certainly longer than the cruise industry thought they would be shut down. this particular cruise line will leave in hours to the western caribbean. there will be 35% capacity, 99% of people onboard will be vaccinated. what happens to the others who are not? well, they have of to undergo some tests before the cruise, during the cruise, after the cruise and, yes, they have to pay for those tests. that is the way the cruise lines are handling this. but regardless, the tact that they can actually get -- the fact that they can actually get out of the port and have paid

attentions onboard is a huge moment. i spoke with the chairman and ceo of royal caribbean who said, oh, yeah, this is a huge moment in time. take a listen. >> well, actually, i thought this day would come a lot earlier than it has, but it is marvelous that it's here. you think of all the suffering that everybody's gone through. not only the cruise lines, but all the people whose livelihoods depend on the cruise line. and now it's back. i mean, yippee. [laughter] >> reporter: yippee. and certainly a lot of yippees from the crew members and everyone associated with the cruise industry, brian. one of the young ladies that's working on the ship says she has to pinch herself, she's so excited they're actually back to work. that's the good news and, again, this is the first one out in 15 months, so as you can imagine, it is, as they like to say, hopefully, the tide turning for this industry. pardon the pun. [laughter] brian: ashley, you've got a ship ready to sail, but the question is are customers saying yippee?

what do we know about the demand for this right now in. >> reporter: that's a very good question because the cruise industry is well aware that they kind of became the poster child for covid back when the pandemic first began. they had all those pictures of cruise ships out in the ocean, couldn't find a port to come in. believe it or not, the demand for tickets and for deals are above pre-pandemic levels which is remarkable. the ships are going to start at a limited capacity, but that will grow as the year goes on, so that pent-up demand, people have been, you know, stuck at home for so long, apparently cruise lines are going to benefit from that as well, brian. brian: all right. ashley's going to go do a swap diouf into the pool. ashley -- dive into the pool. ashley webster, thank you so much. well, a key inflation indicator rising 3.4% in may from a year ago as costs continue to surge in the u.s. here now, kristin tate, author of "the liberal invasion of red state america." kristin, thanks for being with

us today. so you've got a piece in "the hill" that says president biden is at the point of the -- the economic point of no return. tell us what you're talking about here. >> yeah. what we're seeing, brian, is the textbook definition of inflation. there's just too much cash out there chasing a limited supply of goods. when biden took office, he immediately spent $1.9 trillion. he now wants to spend another $4 trillion on a misleading infrastructure bill plus new social spending. and when i say spend, i mean the government is just creating money out of thin air. we cannot keep foolishly spending trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars every year with no consequences. we're looking at the potential of 1970s style stagflation if we stay on this route. inflation grew by 5% in may, that's the largest increase in nearly 13 years, and consumers are noticing it. the price of housing, gas, cars,

food, it's all up significantly. but here's the thing, inflation has a very simple solution. stop money printing and stop out of control spending. we also need to get people back to work, of course, because the generous federal unemployment benefits and stimulus payments have really reduced the available labor pool. brian: kristin, what gets me here is how nonchalantly the president treats this issue. he talked about it in his briefing earlier this week. it's always just it's going away, it's transitory. somebody who's been in washington that long should know better. he's been there during the worst of it. that, to me, is the reason why we might be at a point of no return, because we're not taking a serious problem seriously. >> that's exactly right, brian. and, look, by the time many americans realize just how bad things are, it might be too late to reverse course. people need to realize inflation hurts the poor worse. and, you know, people are on fixed incomes, right?

these are folks who still have to fill up their cars with gas, who still have to go to the grocery store to get food. 40% of the dollars in circulation right now were printed in the last 12 months. it's out of control, and meanwhile, productivity is dropping. and then making matters even worse is that supply chains were severely disrupted because of covid over the last year. commodities like livestock and food, these commodities are becoming more scarce, right in and there's a lot of cash out there chasing them, just driving up the price even more. brian: you talked about the runaway spending, kristin. the president talked about his infrastructure plan this week. it was supposed to be bipartisan. we were looking for something that might be slimmed down a little bit. i think the story coming out of that was i want everything that i want, and everything we're talking about in terms of bipartisanship is window dressing. your thoughts on that. >> yeah, you know, i'm not optimistic on this. it seems like the democrats are

not willing to budge. but you know what? i expect the republicans to cave. it seems like the only thing that the democrats and republicans in d.c. can seem to agree on these days is spending more taxpayer money. so i think we're going to see a lot of people continuing to pull their funds out of the u.s. dollar and invest in precious metals, invest in cryptocurrencies. smart people will get out of the u.s. dollar because if we keep spending like this, brian, this could be a real fiscal consequence, a real fiscal catastrophe in this country. we may not be the world's currency anymore if we keep on this track. really scary. brian: not sure if republicans will cave, but it seems to me the ones in these negotiations got played over the last several weeks. kristin tate, appreciate your thoughts. >> thank you, brian. brian: a fox business alert, former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin sentenced to 22 and a half years in federal prison for the murder of george floyd. a jury convicted chauvin in

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♪ brian: getting to the bottom of what really happened and why. house republicans are moving forward with their own investigation into the origins of covid-19. a hearing is set for next tuesday. dr. anthony fauci has been invited to testify, but he hasn't confirmed. fox' rich edson is live from the state department with the details. >> reporter: good evening, brian. house republicans are hosting a forum next week to examine the origins of covid-19. this is not an official congressional hearing, that's because democrats control the house which means they control congressional committees, their hearings and the hearing topics. senior republicans say the united states deserves a congressional hearing into the origins of the pandemic. >> i still would call on speaker pelosi to have the committees of jurisdiction have these hearings as well where subpoena powers can be used to bring people in, compel people come and bring the

information forward and put it on the table so that america9 and the world can know what really happened, how this started. >> reporter: republicans say they're focusing on evidence the pandemic may have started in a chinese research laboratory, the wuhan institute of virology. this week reports surfaced that the national institutes of health deleted covid gene she e exceptions at the request of chinese researchers who originally submitted them. republicans have also invited dr. anthony fauci to appear, though because they have no subpoena power as the minority party in the house, republicans cannot force fauci or anyone else to testify or produce documents. secretary of state antony blinken has said the united states will get to the bottom of covid's origins and hold china accountable, though it's unclear what consequences the biden administration would consider. the president has ordered an intelligence review into covid's origins with a report due in a couple of months. former trump administration officials are calling for

sanctions on china, for the chinese government withholding key information about the pan pandemic's origins and for refusing to allow a transparent investigation in china into covid-19. brian? brian: rev of edison, thank you. here now to react is wisconsin republican congressman mike gallagher. congressman, thanks for being with us. i'm looking at this story, and i'm scratching my head. what does it take in congress to get an official hearing? apparently a global pandemic's not enough? >> well, it really is a shame that our democratic colleagues are not participating. the millions of people who lost their lives in this pandemic, i imagine it was democrats, republicans, independents, people that had lives upended by this terrible disease, the associated shutdowns. this should not be a partisan issue. there's no more important question in the world today than understanding how this started if for no other reason that that understanding gives us our best chance to avoid another pandemic

while telling us something essential about the nature of the regime we are dealing with in this chinese communist party and the way this which they have systematically obstructed an international investigation into the origin of this disease. so i am calling upon speaker pelosi and my democratic colleagues to put aside the partisan nonsense and join us in trying to get to the bottom of this. this need not be partisan. brian: congressman, i'm sitting here trying to understand what's the partisan element of this. i mean, everybody, right, left, center, doesn't matter where you are wants to know where this started, why it happened, what we can do about it. what would need to come forward, what evidence, what do we need to see for speaker pelosi to say, you know what? let's make this official so that we can compel people to come here and testify? >> we now have declassified excellence suggesting lab worker at the wuhan institute got sick as early as november a separate

"wall street journal" report suggesting even earlier, in october. what i'd ask the pentagon to reveal is the military records and an interview with all of the 284 americans that went to wuhan in early october for the olympic games, the military to olympic games where potentially we had our first super-spreader event with 9,000 athletes from 10 of different country -- 106 different countries. and even some of the scientists that were instrumental in throwing cold water on the high post is sis originally -- hypothesis originally have said, actually, we need to investigate it. the dam is breaking, and yet the democrats continue to ignore it which is a real tragedy. i don't understand it other than perhaps some unwillingness to anger the chinese communest party or some unwillingness to anytime that certain people that were deified by the mainstream media -- dr. fauci in particular -- were wrong from the start of the pandemic.

brian: you've got to wonder, the resistance seems suspicious to me. i want you to drill in a little bit on this super-spreader event about in wuhan. we don't know a lot about it, but there's this military games that happened in october of 2019, and athletes have come forward now and said, hey, we had all the symptoms of covid at that point. talk a little bit about what we know here and what you need to know to understand if there really is something there. >> well, we know that athletes from at least four countries that participated -- italy, germany, france and luxembourg -- have reported having covid-like symptoms. but what we don't know is when any of the u.s. military athletes that participated -- there were about 284 u.s. citizens that were there in wuhan -- whether they were even tested, whether they've been tested for antibodies, whether they've beener interviewed by te pentagon health system to determine if they've had any

symptoms subsequently. this would be critical, because it would help us establish a firm timeline for the outbreak of the disease. and if it reveals that the chinese communist party knew that this disease was circulating and yet held the games anyways, well, that would be a massive, massive scandal. and we've had some athletes report that things were very strange when they went to wuhan. the report is that it looked like a ghost town. so i've asked the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs to work with us on talking to those athletes. help us understand if they saw anything, if they experienced any symptoms. this is a forensic, scientific question. this is essential to our understanding of how this thing started in the first place. brian: those would seem like very reasonable questions to ask, no matter what your political stripe may with. last thought for you. you've been all over the gain of function research. that feels like it keeps running into a brick wall, we're not getting anywhere with it. your latest thoughts on where we are understanding what really happened there.

>> well, dr. fauci continues to, in my opinion, i don't think he's being forthcoming with congress, with the american people. he went on a new york time podcast this week and basically said the intelligence suggesting that lab workers got sick was not rebuffed. you listen to the interview, it makes it sound like he didn't even bother to read the intelligence, which is remarkable. we know, based on records, that his organization, niaid, helped funnel funds to peter daszak who was working with the wuhan institute, this is crazy. we were meddling with the presumal fortunes of nature in collaboration with the genocidal reregime of the communist party. it needs to stop. brian: congressman, thank you for your time. we'll be right

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in the coronation of partnership between the washington nationals and bet mgm. it's also two years of work went into this. coordinating with the dc government to allow the betting to not only happen inside of the stadium but within a two block around the stadium. and also sports with their building that is attached to the stadium. you see this rendering of the sourcebook here in the nationals, it's about overlapping band, so it's about going to the game as well as keeping that family atmosphere. >> right now we have 15 strike promotions and picture strikes out 15 in the game, they aree' little things that were trying to do to enhance the experiences that were being very careful to make sure the expenses are highly integrated. >> and sports betting has exploded over the last two yearo online and it a big part of that the gaming association it said the total sports betting revenue

the first quarter of 2021, drove the entire year as for spreading the casino and 2019. now these numbers are not included no brick and mortar so for the mgm, this is about meeting demand prayed to make the strain very much left the station. the success stories of the early markets, nearly state of really blazing a trail, very successful trail which demonstrates this customer demand in the states already raising tax. >> and of the major league are looking for similar partnerships and is in the first one to major-league baseball. >> and work, since like your betting and all sorts of things, not just the outcome of the game but how many start you going to get and how many, tell us a little bit about that predict. reporter: and not only just theb skin, we can bet of the nationals but also bit on other games, little leagueli or anythg it that you can bet the

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