number of questions. if you have one, drop me a tweet at bret baier let me know what you would ask the senate minority leader tomorrow. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair, balanced and unafraid. fox news prime with a guy who starts in the morning and then finishes at night brian kilmeade starts right now. >> brian: thank you 1re67, bret. i will start and finish at 8:00 and hand it over to tucker unless he calls in sick and then i will stick around. good evening, everyone. welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ >> brian: here we go. bret gave it away i am brian kilmeade tonight we have an exclusive with a first member of congress to finally ask dr. fauci the right questions. >> authorities in the u.s., including yourself unequivocally deny that covid-19 could have escaped a lab. but even dr. xi in wuhan wasn't so sure. will you, in front of this group categorically say that the covid-19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory? >> i do not have any accounting

of what the chinese may have done and i'm fully in favor of any further investigation of what went on in china. >> brian: i wonder why he is not more curious. 14 months since the country shut down over covid-19 believe it or not. nearly 600,000 americans are dead. millions infected. resulting in lockdowns crippling the economy. the whole world needs to know how this virus began. somehow we are no closer to finding the source? why is that? took four months to identify the source of the sars virus. nine months for the missouri vice. here we are 15 months in. we first hear about infections still no answers. the official story from china is comical the world health organization is no help. covid-19 jumped from an animal to a human. maybe directly from a bat. maybe through intermediary animal that i don't know about. what was the animal? why don't we know? where is it? no idea. when did it happen? they have no clue. isn't it odd that the smoking bat has never been discovered or pursued? even if it is a bat, china has no clue.

they don't seem curious. so that brings us to the other theory one that was first ignored or dismissed as a racist conspiracy now gaining credibility by the day and by the hour. the covid-19 was created in a chinese lab and somehow escaped. there is ample reason to believe this could be true. covid-19 was first discovered in the city of wuhan. wuhan is the home of institute of virology as you learned to know. conducted gain of function research on bat coronavirus viruses? what is that? what is gain of function? what does it mean? modifying a virus to make it contagious and dangerous to study it and hopefully stop it. we know that the lab had notoriously bad safety standards seems like a bad combination. we also know u.s. tax dollarsy used to help fund this research and makes it particularly difficult to hold china's feet to the fire kind of hard to ask tough questions which our money is involved, wouldn't you think? today senator rand paul did just that. >> dr. dr. fauci, do you still support funding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan? >> senator paul, with all due

respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the nih has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. >> brian: all right, with all due respect dr. anthony fauci that's a highly misleading statement. he is right when he says the nih never directly funded the institute of virology, follow me here. it funded a nonprofit group called echo health alliance which then funneled the money into the gain of function research in wuhan. strangely enough, the president of that nonprofit was a part of the w.h.o.'s investigation into the origins of the virus. his conclusion, china said they didn't do it and they are trust one way or the other, right? >> we met with them and said do you audit the lab? they said annually. did you audit it after the outbreak? no. do you test your staff? yes. >> you are just taking their

word for it. >> well, what else can we do? >> brian: peter daszak. make a very public stink about it. china is not helping. they are covering things up. of course, if you are the guy who helped fund the program that started the pandemic, you got a lot to lose. that explains why dan zak claimed this covid emerged naturally and didn't come from the lab they worked. in why dr. fauci is adam matted that the nih money wasn't used to study gain of research in wuhan. how would it look if the face of the pandemic response accidently created the pandemic or played a role. the only way we will find out existence if america takes a lead. president joe biden you need to put pressure on china to open up its books and be transparent about the brew hand lab that poisoned the world. that's not happening right now. >> what we are waiting for is

for the biden administration to take it seriously. are they going to release the intelligence that they have are they going to take all this investigation that they are supposedly doing behind the scenes and tell us about it? when are they going to get around to it? are they going to push the chinese jovment and the w.h.o. to investigate more. we don't know. without their buy-in this will be a harder in the to crack. >> brian: josh rogan joined us on the air and did a lot of research into this and more curious why more people aren't curious. i end as i opened the whole world needs to know how this virus began. if we can't find the source of this one we won't be able to stop the next one. that's the main purpose. joining us now is jamie metzl he knows all about this w.h.o. adviser and former national security council member. jamie, why aren't more people curious about how this started and why do you think we need to know? >> so, i don't know why more people aren't curious. i don't know why more people aren't demanding that we get to the bottom of this essential

question. we are almost a year and a half after -- more than a year and a half after the initial outbreak. we have more than 3 million people dead. more than 500,000 americans. other estimates suggest it could be 9 million. we should be demanding answers. and the first thing that we should be doing is demanding that china end its massive cover-up. from day one, what they have been doing, is destroying samples, hiding records, imprisoning citizen journalists. they have universal gag order on scientists making it illegal for them to say or write anything about the origins of the pandemic. so we need to be demanding the answers. and the reason why it's so important is the reason why we try to understand why every plane crashes. it's not that we can save that plane but we understand what went wrong that gives us the upper hand. if we don't get to the bottom of this we are at risk for another pandemic that could be even far worst than this one.

>> brian: from what you know right now. what do you think happened? >> so if i had to guess and i don't think anybody at least with the information available publicly can definitively say what happened. but i think the most likely the wuhan institute of virology collected samples of bat corona viruses most likely from the mine in unon which is thousands of miles away. brought those samples back to this mine. and did experiments. i think it was a very fair debate between rand paul and dr. fauci. but it was based on, it's like using bill clinton language on what the definition of is. dr. fauci was right that gain of function in government documents has a specific definition and this wasn't that. and rand paul was right let's just use a common sense of gain of function is when you give extra function to a virus to make them more scary. so i do think that this work was done in the wuhan institute of virology. and i can't prove it, but i

think the most likely origin is that there was some kind of accidental lab leak, not that they were trying to make some kind of bioweapon but they were most likely trying to understand these viruses, trying to think about developing vaccines. >> brian: right. >> and something went wrong. then there was a chinese government instinct to do what they always do is cover up and objects skate. that's why we need to be demanding full transparency. >> brian: did anthony fauci support gain of function research and why wouldn't he just say it if he did. there are scientists that think it's a good idea. a lot think it's horrendous idea. why wouldn't he say it. >> as i was saying a moment ago. definitional point. gain of function research at the wuhan lab in government documents, there is a definition of what that is. and so he is technically correct. but, if the question was did the

united states support efforts to make viruses on more able to infect human cells or humanized mice cells, the answer to that would have been yes. i do give dr. fauci a lot of credit he said let's investigate china. i fully support investigating china. i think he is pretty open to asking tough questions about us. and we should hold him accountable for that. even more we should hold the chinese accountable because they have done -- as i said a moment ago. they have been carrying out this massive cover-up. it's an affront to every person on earth and we really can't let this go on. >> bret: jamie, i should point this out this should be bipartisan. your progressive has nothing to do with politics. get answers. dr. fauci is aggressive when it comes to wearing 25 masks not aggressive to finding out where this came from. if he does it, he has done it behind the scenes. he never asked about it never brings it up. to me it's where everyday should

start. makes no sentence to me. there seems to be a pass missing. final thought. >> so we have a real opportunity. the world health assembly is meeting two weeks from now. the united states should and must be the world leader in demanding a full and unrestricted international investigation into the origins of covid-19 with full access to all relevant record samples and pepper nell. if china wants to thumb their nose to the rest of the world in spite of these millions dead, that's on them. and if they do, let's set up a parallel investigation the united states government, other governments, other scientists around the world there is a lot we can learn. we need access to china, if they are going to deny it, we can still go forward and we should go forward. >> brian: jamie metzl follow your twitter feed you have been relentless on it and took on peter dan zac on "60 minutes" not directly but in battling theories. thank you so much. appreciate it. be. >> really my pleasure, any time.

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dr. fauci, do you support funding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan? >> the. in ih has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. we have not funded gain of function research on this. i will repeat again the nih and

niadd categorically has not funded gain of function research -- i mean, i just wanted to say, i don't know how many times i can say it. >> brian: well, maybe one more. how many times can he say it dr. fauci being very careful about his words with senator rand paul today. dr. paul says the nih and niad never directly funded gain of function research at the wuhan institute of virology. before that's true. but it's also misleading. you see the nih headed by dr. fauci said $3.7 million to a nonprofit called echo health alliance which then turned around and sent 600,000 from that grant take your time play this back. dr. fauci favorite sparring partner joins us now senator rand paul. senator paul, you feel using some of things i just said that dr. fauci was being deceptive today, in what way. >> i think it's incredibly important that the audience

knows what gain of function is they take an animal virus that's benign and does not infect humans and they juice it up. they make it a super virus so it can infect humans. now ostensibly this is done to study the virus. there is a danger if that virus leaks it could kill a lot of people. so when i asked him about this research i knew the answer. the answer is this there is a famous scientist in the wuhan lab her name is dr. chi and she published a paper a couple years ago which has been reviewed by mit and says it's a gain of function research but in the by line she has to list the sponsors. she list dr. fauci and the niaid as a sponsor of her research which everybody acknowledges gain of function research, juicing up these super viruses so i don't know how he can get around this. he could argue oh, it was an intermediary group we gave it to ecohealth who gave her the money. i can't imagine he is on national television saying that he didn't do this when the peer

review journal has a by line that says the author, this bat woman, this scientist from the wuhan institute that she acknowledges that the money came from dr. fauci and his institute. >> brian: so this is a dangerous act. let's say it's science. i want to stop the next one so i have got to see what happens when we activate these viruses, but other people say it's too dangerous. if this get out it's going to be devastating. somehow, it could have gotten out. is that what you are saying, senator? >> i don't think we know for sure yes it could have gotten out and there are a lot of people arguing there are several different unusual aspect to the virus that make it look like it came from a lab and not from nature. they haven't found an intermediate host they haven't found anything between a bat and human both sars and mers went to intermediate host. the thing that's peculiar about this when we look at this and say did it come directly in the way they are studying this in the lab they studied the sars

virus this. is one like covid that came around in 2004 but had a 15-% mortality. so they juiced up this already deadly virus and made it more infected into humans in the lab. they have admitted that they did that but can you imagine 15% mortality covid-19 has 1% mortality. that means instead of 3 million people dying worldwide one of the viruses that she worked on with nih money to the out, 45 million people could have died. there are 11 labs like this in the u.s. that are studying animal viruses that they're transforming into deadly human viruses. 11 labs like this in the united states. >> brian: it's important for people to understand is forgetting about dr. fauci and his future or your political future, this is about understanding how this started to stop the next virus. if we don't understand how this started, we're going to get slammed again and we will be ill equipped once again. i don't understand the lack of

curiosity from dr. fauci. this is his business. why is that not his obsession rather than being on 25 talk shows a day? >> if you want to be even more confounded by this, they wanted to investigate what happened over there, the person they investigated is the head of ecohealth. so they hired the person to investigate whether there was a problem at the lab. they hired the guy that gave them the money. so if something came out that said this virus came from the lab, do you think the person that gave them the money might have culpability? >> brian: absolutely. >> they hired the guy to do the investigation who has a conflict of interest here. so you start to wonder all of these wagons are circling. the chinese communist aren't talking. we gave them the money. there is a lot of potential problems here. but, once again, i'm not saying it did come from the lab. i don't know. but there is a lot of evidence that makes me worried about this lab and the fact that people are not being honest, the fact that dr. fauci would lie and say that

he didn't give any money to this lab. now maybe his answer is like you said he gave it to an intermediary who gave it to them, if that's his answer i would think that's a curious way of saying it didn't happen when it really did happen. >> brian: i have to leave it here four months into the coronavirus. wrote email to echo health saying quote you are instructed to cease providing any funds to the wuhan institute. peter dan zac got 77 nobel prize saying in a statement not to deprive them of their money. what's the desperation to get western money into an area where we know the virus came from some way, somehow? >> but, here's the other interesting thing, if fauci's deputy is writing a note saying that they are going to stop the money, that implies that was money flowing to the wuhan institute. to say no money is flowing to the wuhan institute why was it stopped? none of this makes sense at all. >> brian: i just wonder when the

democrat and i hear senator menendez and others to mobilize to understand this is national security and we have got to find out. it will be the biggest liability case in the history of man and china would be at the forefront and maybe some others. senator rand paul, thanks for having the tough questions, especially over the last year and especially today as it has to do with the science. i know you got 20 million things to do i appreciate you joining us tonight. >> thanks. >> brian: so, there is the man of the hour and here's the other. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. i do have some news senator marshall is introducing a resolution calling for 12 member bipartisan select committee to study the outbreak of the virus in china. minority, not sure he will get it. it shows there is widespread interest in the origins. because we kind of turned the corner, why isn't there more interest in the origin of the virus? >> well, i don't know whether that's the right question, brian, it seems to me right now what we have is growing interest in the origin. we may have been lax on this for a while. but, one senses momentum here. you know, had this long piece by

a retired 30 year veteran science writer for the "new york times" came out explored this whole question. questions raised in that committee today. i don't think there is any way to stop this from going forward now. we are eventually going to find out to the best we possibly can, you know, whether we can penetrate a chinese cover-up. what happened here and dr. fauci's defensiveness is completely understandable. his answer may have been technically correct, but it does seem that the united states government was indirectly funding the research in that lab in wuhan, that's pretty clear. that being the case and if that research and that work is what led to this horrible pandemic, anybody who is in any way responsible for funding the research would feel some sense of responsibility in one sense perhaps he does. >> brian: so there is one person that can could put the pressure on china to get answers an consolidate our answer to do so

everyone has been affected, brit, and that is president biden. do you see him doing that. >> brit: he certainly hasn't shown any sign of doing that now. i think if these scientists and the scientific community in this country as a whole or those at least who are concerned with this kind of research as a whole want to do this, it will probably be agreed to. i think an investigation is forthcoming, and, look, we're not -- this is a big deal. this was an historic event. a once in a century event. historians and scientists will be looking into the origins of it for a long time. i don't think there is any way to stop it. whether ultimately it can penetrate the chinese wall of secrecy after all kinds of evidence has been destroyed remains to be seen. i think research on this is going forward and there is a real possibility that there will be chickens coming home to roost. >> brian: two things we want to stop the next virus. we also know too when we go over this president xi personally told donald trump don't worry about it, it doesn't transfer human to human and it's going to go away in the spring. president trump's relationship

with president xi made him think that he was telling the truth, whether you like it or not, and if we did tell the truth, and it was an accident, hundreds of thousands of americans would be alive today you can't duck that, that's beyond politics, final thought? >> brit: let's look back to a year ago the early things said by dr. fauci. one was that the risk was low from this virus and the second thing of course he said early on and i think he meant it, based on experience was don't expect to get much out of these masks he didn't expect anyone to be wearing them because they don't do much. i suspect in the end that's the truth about masks. >> brian: is he wearing 20 a day even though is he vaccinated. go figure. brit hume, thanks very much. >> brit: you bet. brian brian police week we rode along with officers to figure out how quickly traffic stops can go wrong and so much more.

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sometimes, they get shot sometimes and even deliver breaking news before an ambulance arrives like these officers did in nassau county, new york a few days ago. here was their perspective. >> every time i pull someone over you don't know what you are walking up against. [siren] >> may i see you're license, registration and insurance, please? >> i cannot see who i'm pulling over until i actually walk up to the side of their window. >> they could be wanted for murder. they could have guns in the car. [siren] >> these road conditions with the rain we like to see you go a little slower. all right. thank you so much. >> no problem, officer. >> have a good day. >> he was cooperative. he was dal, he understood everything i was saying. gave a him a warning. >> brian: that goes a long way. >> 32 years -- commission police officers most dangerous thing they do is a car stop. >> there is no such thing as a

routine car stop you heard it around the country unarmed car stops conducted with social workers. >> with social workers. this is the most dangerous job whether it's the traffic driving by you or the individual inside that car the person you are going to encounter on the street this. call we are going to handle now simulated by two officers standing behind doors of a police car. the call comes out for suspicious male. attempt to be burglarized in a house and he may have a weapon on him. >> leave me alone, sir. >> leave me alone. >> sir, get on the ground. when you saw the guns, the training says fire. >> absolutely. >> brian: sometimes they could have something else in their hand. >> they are trained to look for a weapon. >> whether it's a fake weapon or a real weapon there is a good chance you are going to get shot. >> we train to stop threats. we don't shoot to kill. i have heard too many times on tv in this scenario the officers handled it perfectly. >> brian: this is the story of 2:00 in the afternoon. can you give me the same scenario at 2:00 in the morning. >> you can do that in the light,.

>> police, stop. sir, nassau county police stop, get on the ground. >> brian: so much tougher at night. >> the environment changes. when the environment changes, it's dark, you don't get to see that weapon just as fast. in this scenario that you are going to see, the individual has got a knife. we have distance, we have time, we have control that we are able to pull the taser out. many times the tasers don't work. if both prongs don't hit does not run the current through them to stun the person. >> sir, you have been asked several times to drop the knife. drop the knife. >> no,. >> taser, taser, taser. [moaning] >> what you see get back up. the taser press it again and send more current back into it. >> how do you feel now. >> i feel great now. i could have run -- i lost complete control of my left leg. [moaning] >> so often you hear about we don't want to hear about military equipment and surplus

equipment on the street it gives the wrong message to the community. i look at this vehicle and although it's built for a different cause it looks like something that might be under scrutiny from washington when they talk about police reform. [siren] >> this is a, what we call a fat cat. we purchased it. this is like a bullet proof ambulance. it can bring my men and women safely into an environment of an active shooter and take those victims out from that same environment. >> brian: you just had something where you needed this vehicle at the stop and shop that made national news. you were able to bring a suspect in alive. >> that vehicle was on the scene in front. if the individuals started to shoot from the window and hit somebody, this vehicle is going to get them out safely. it's not used often, but when it is needed, it's there for us. >> brian: as we see the cell phone video and see the body camera video, what is it like, guys, on the street like that as we see scenarios where you are wrestling around noncompliant

suspect. >> challenging time in policing right now. you want to do your job out there and get the bad guy off the street at the same time as you said everyone is videotaping it and monday morning quarterbacking it is deterring us from deploying the different moves and tech uniques that we have been taught. >> qualified immunity disappeared tomorrow you have to wonder will you have a home to go to at the end of the week or losing our homes and losing everything that we have. >> it's a challenging time. it really is because we all took the job to do the right thing and that's to help the community and now once everyone is watching it on the news, it's second guessing every decision made. >> brian: special thank you to nassau county police their version of swat helping us out and understanding how hard they train to make sure everything comes out right. sometimes you do everything right and it comes out wrong and we see a lot of that joining us now a man who knows all of this. he has been studying this hot and heavy for over a year. republican senator from south carolina tim scott. senator, we want to give people a perspective from the police officer.

we know you are talking about police reform. what should they know about what you are working on? >> well, brian, first thing we should say is thank god for people who put on the uniform. this is national police week. so there is no pert time for us to say thank you to an officer so when you see an officer around your neighborhoods, around the streets, please stop and say thank you to those officers. two of my brothers from another mother, my mentors kids both are deputies and so it's really important to do that. what they should know what we're doing in congress is taking first into consideration the important work that they do and making sure that we keep our officers safe. if you want communities to be safe, you have to have officers who are not thinking about their personal liability or their assets as they run into harm's way. that's one of the reasons why for qualified immunity i have been for the last year open for putting more of the onus on the municipalities, on the counties, on the state and taking it off of the officers. that, to me, is the way that we

continue to tell the officers that we need them going into harm's way without having to have an additional level of exposure from a liability perspective. >> brian: academies out. people retiring. massive exodus in june try to leave with the most overtime to retire with the most money. on may 25th. democrats said they want to see something. some of the things that you talked to me, about qualified immunity, you talk about suing the precinct not the person. you talk about the no knock warrants and talk about the no chokeholds. what else should the police officers and citizens know that you are going to be talking about with democrats? >> you mentioned two other issues, number one, one that is really important is section 242 which is making it easier, looking to lower that threshold. i have said that as a no go for me, section 242 is a criminal element. in police reform. i'm not interested in that whatsoever. the other one is what you mentioned having the right equipment, section 1033 is the

military equipment that can go to police offices. i think it's important for us having run a county with a sheriff's department myself previously, it's really important for us to make sure they have the tools necessary. there is a list that's already been banned and reestablishing that same list silenced me. but having that m rap or those pieces of equipment or vehicles that bring officers safely in harm's way to get them and other innocent folks out of harm's way is something that i completely support and will continue to support. so those are really the top five issues you just named them that were working on. detail. we need to read every line, every letter, every word to make sure that there is not something sneakings in the back door. i would rather have no deal than a bad deal. >> brian: two things, training, smaller stations, small precincts don't have the money and they have to pay you more. more money help with both those things. number two when people say defund the police squad members keep saying this reimagine

getting rid of irreconcilable, what are you going to do about that sentiment senator? can you deal with that. >> the way i with defund the police dumbest thing i have heard my whole life having growing up in a single parent household and poverty we always want police officers around when necessary. >> especially to keep our moms safe. that's really important. that is off the table from my opinion. and we need to provide for resources, more money bottom line whe say resources money coming into especially a smaller department. even our mid size department so that the training to intervene and the training on deescalation, all those training dollars are incredibly important. we don't need less money for the police. we need more. >> brian: keep your eye on this. i know you are used to nothing getting done in washington but senator tim scott is different. think if anyone can do it you can do it. senator, thank you so much. >> thanks have a good day. >> brian: talk to you soon. up next new report exposing nancy pelosi's latest attempt to

turn america into a one party state. i know you are tired of hearing this name but we found liz cheney's number one fan. >> hey, twitter world it's me yours truly. liz cheney stands up for the truth. that is something to be admired, standing up for the truth. >> brian: wow, what a ridiculous endorsement. governor chris christie here to react next.

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brain brian nancy pelosi is on borrowed time as speaker of the house. we know that she is using her final attorney undermine republican colleagues again. that according to axios. she is feeding opposition research on minority leader kevin mccarthy and heaping praise on soon to be former number three liz cheney. >> i do speak to the fact that liz cheney has been very courageous in speaking truth about what happened on january 6th. and i salute her for that. >> i do commend liz cheney for her courage, for her patriotism and i wish her well.

perhaps challenge. >> brian: nice take the mask off you are vaccinated. her goal is to make g.o.p. and kevin mccarthy weaker. a man with great strength chris christie and form. are you enamored that she cares so much about the republican party. >> i talked about this weekend on the sunday shows when the democrats are giving advice who is great in the republican party, that's when you know that there is evil afoot. inappropriate has 18 months jam as much through as she possibly can and damage as many republicans in the process. here is the good news for republicans and for the country there is only 18 month of nancy pelosi left. >> brian: right. how much division is there with the party because we see elise stefanik is going to step in as number 3 chip roy stepped up saying she is not the right

choice. saying aha they are falling apart. >> what i see is it's pretty clear to me that liz cheney doesn't want to be in leadership anymore. what she has been doing is telling everybody she doesn't want to be in leadership anymore. she won the vote previously by a rather large margin and continued to try to pick fights with people inside the caucus. that's not the way you stay leader of the caucus. i think elise stefanik, let's remember something, brian, she comes from a swing district in new york state. obama won that district twice and trump won it twice. this is a very swing district. i think elise is going to bring great vision and understanding from her constituents and new voice into the leadership group and i think it's a good thing for republicans. i think she will win the election and i think she will be a very good leader. i have nothing against liz cheney as a person but it's clear to me she doesn't want to be in leadership anymore. we want people to want onto be there and i think elise wants to be there. >> brian: president biden is a

liar. are people buying it he has 63% approval rating. >> look, i think that's poll is an outlier. when you look at all the other polling. all the other polling has him in the low 50's second worst approval rating of the last 60 years for a president at this time in his term. and so, you know, i don't think -- think that was an outlier, brian. have you got to dismiss that poll. what you really need to look at is the american people are starting to see very clearly and we as republicans have to point it out to them this guy passed the covid pack only 10% covid package had anything to do with healthcare. proposes infrastructure package best scenario 25% of the money is for infrastructure. and now he wants to completely change and add another couple of trillion dollars in spending raising taxes and horrible family business tax increase that will force lots of families have to sell their family business. it's not popular and not going to be popular over the long term. >> brian: i got vaccinated you told me in the break you got vaccinated you really think that's something people should

do. >> i do, brian, look, these vaccines were tested when they went through this clinical trial on four times the number of people that we test for any other type of prescription drug. they are safe. and they should be used. and, listen, i think people should do it. they should ask their own doctor questions that they need to have answered because people have a right to have those questions answered regarding their health. but i really do believe it's like putting your seat belt on in the car, brian, it doesn't guarantee you accident or seriously hurt or killed, but it makes it much, much less likely and there has been almost no complications when you talk about tens of millions of people have been vaccinated already. >> brian: right. operation warp speed incredible written about today marco rubio p is a out. make their own decisions, you made yours and you had it. antibodies and still got it governor, thanks so much. >> you are going to be a leading voice in the party one way or the other 2022 and 2024. thanks for the qualities time.

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because the reason i don't has turned on the hollywood foreign press association, earlier this year the "los angeles times" reported there were no black members in the organization and every celebrity under the sun acted shocked and horrified by this news. they had no idea who the members of the extremely influential organization are -- an organization that they make movies to try and impress, so no, that is not the truth. this organization has been accused of shady dealings and a lack of diversity, which is why, when ricky gervais' hosted the golden globes, he made a joke about the how hollywood foreign press association being racist. i am not impressed by tom cruise returning his golden globes when he knows he is going to get met with nothing but media praise. >> brian: but carly, every day there will be another super sta, i imagine. the other big story is bob baffert, we lead with him yesterday, the trainer of the kentucky derby winner. has a different story today. >> i think this whole thing is

bad for bob baffert but overall good for horse racing. bad for bob baffert because as you know, yesterday, he came on our air and told bill and dana that without a doubt he never treated this force with this -- >> brian: steroid, inflammatory. >> and it turns out today he change the story and said "okay, i gave this course and ointment with his illegal substance in it." did he know the ointment have that drug in it? that is a question he will have to answer. i do think it is sort of good for horse racing because this weekend, there will be more people watching than they would have had this controversy not happened. >> brian: looking at the bright side, that is bright. they said the horse had dermatitis. who would think there were germs in the horse stalls? his story, one of the farmhands urinating on the hay and that did not fly with me. >> i heard somebody call bob baffert the bad boy of horse racing, which is interesting because i've always -- you and

bob baffert have that in common. >> brian: no one calls me that, at least to my face. >> you have been labeled that right now. >> brian: i will see you tomorrow morning. make sure to watch "fox & friends" tomorrow, prime time tomorrow, too come and listen to the radio show from 9:00 until 12:00. now time for a guy named tucker carlson. i said his name right. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a lot of unprecedented things happening, but honestly, not all of them are shocking. for example, it probably shouldn't surprise you that once they got their hands on real power, the same lunatics who don't believe in human biology immediately made a serious mess of our economy. it took them less than six months to do it. first, they acted like the u.s. dollar had no value. they spent money like they just