try to be someone else? i could never keep up. >> bill: i agree with you on that. sweet emmy. she is good. >> dana: what i love about her, her dad is in local news in idaho. he encouraged her. i love the girl dads out there. cheers to you on this monday. >> bill: have a great day and we're here all week. >> dana: here is harris. >> harris: fox news alert. a bombshell report raising brand-new questions about what china knew and when about the origins of covid-19. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the "wall street journal" reporting on a previously undisclosed united states intelligence reports show three staffers at the wuhan laboratory were under scrutiny and they got very ill in november of 2019. long before the first reported case of covid. that has the debate raging again over how did this thing

start with calls for a credible investigation. former secretary of state mike pompeo with this warning. >> we need to know what happened here. the chinese communist party knows what happened here. they know patient zero is. and the three individuals that would get sick. the wuhan virus. we need to get to the bottom of this. this could happen again. they're still conducting research in the same laboratories today. >> harris: this could happen again from the former secretary of state. let's go to the state department for rich edson and that's where we begin our live coverage. rich. >> good morning. a growing number of scientists and government officials are pressing for an investigation into the wuhan institute of virology and whether the global pandemic may have begun there. in january the state department revealed that the u.s. government had reason to believe that several researchers at that lab had

become sick in the autumn of 2019. the journal now reporting three of them were hospitalized. former state department official tells fox news that foreign government contacts informed the united states that several scientists were who conducting covid research there had fallen sick in november of 2019. china's government disputes this. scientists and experts say investigators still need to examine how this pandemic started. >> the investigation should address all scenarios in a deliberate manner and involve a variety of expertise and disciplines and follow the evidence. the biden administration needs to come out more forcefully in this regard and something they've not done yet. >> the state department has called for more thorough investigation into the or ij begins. earlier this world a world health organization team went

to china and conducted a study there. in the study they said that basically it was a likely scenario that this virus had jumped from bats to an intermediate animal and then humans and extremely unlikely it had come from a lab. though there are now scientists and officials who are saying china's government is withholding some of the data here, very important information that they need to share with investigators. harris, back to you. >> harris: who would be surprised if we didn't get the truth from a communist country? thank you very much, rich. dr. marty makary now fox news contributor and professor at the johns hopkins university school of public health. thank you for joining me. my first question for you is when we point to the science of this, how common is it for people working in a laboratory like that in wuhan to get so sick she need to be hospitalized and working on something that they did that to

them? how common is that? >> lab accidents are very common. this information that three lab workers were seen and evaluated and hospitalized is enough circumstantial evidence now it is no longer a lab hypothesis. it is the default conclusion. we can call for more investigations all we want. we won't get witness protection for those key sources. we won't get the original samples. they've probably been destroyed. we probably have all the info we need right now. >> harris: we would have to also locate all the scientists. china is not playing ball. what role do you expect the world health organization could play in this whether they knew they were playing that role or not? >> i don't think they could. they led a sham investigation and put the funder of the lab on the investigation committee, which is a complete conflict of interest. look, even if they did thain vest gaition properly i think the evidence has been destroyed and we won't see the witness protection needed. i think that enough

circumstantial evidence is there now there is a conclusion that can be made. i've made a conclusion knowing how common lab accidents are. i think it's no longer a lab hypothesis. i think that's exactly what happened. >> harris: so dr. makary, when you look at this, what's important that we know after all this time? how much could it have saved us if we had known what we know even now circumstantially? >> look, if we knew the origin i don't think it would have changed anything with this outbreak. initial doctor sounded the alarm. three detained by police, one of them was forced to sign a statement. that's public information. so i don't think it would have changed anything. in terms of future pandemics we shouldn't be characterizing viruses that live in the zoo and not the kingdom. a million viruses in the world. why do we fund research to bring them into a lab and

characterize them? it doesn't make sense. >> harris: november was so far from where we saw our first cases in the beginning of 2020. would that lead time have helped us at all? we'll never know. rand paul now says he will not get a covid vaccine shot until he sees it is more effective than immunity. >> should they force people to get vaccinated that survive it. i think we should have a choice whether we take a vaccine or not. frankly all studies show i have just as good of immunity as the people who have been vaccinated. >> harris: dr. makary, your response to that. >> he is right. the studies do show and there is more evidence on natural immunity than there is on vaccinated immunity because natural immunity has been around a lot longer and it is effective and works. we don't see reinfections at any great degree.

scientific logic is ration na. he is a doctor and a smart doctor. i've talked to him. it makes sense. why do we always distinguish vaccinated and unvaccinated as if natural immunity does not exist? that's ultimately i think one of the great failures of our medical leadership is ignoring natural immunity which changes everything. >> harris: i'm wondering how do people get it twice? >> look, we know breakthrough infections happen after vaccinated immunity. they are rare and mild. that's the same with natural immunity and the giant study in denmark was 6/10 of 1% and most of those cases are mild. just because somebody tests positive doesn't mean we have a health problem. the pcr test can detect as few as 10 particles in your nose. it may mean your immune system worked to fend off the infection. >> harris: maybe china knew things we didn't. they started testing people on the opposite ends, not their

nose but their bums if you will just to be delicate. dr. fauci and cdc head director say they understand why people are afraid to remove their masks. >> you can understand that when people have been following a certain trend for a considerable period of time that it may take time for them to adjust. >> not everybody will feel like it's time to rip off their mask. for 16 months we're saying wear them to protect them. now it will get hard to get back to life as we knew it without these masks. >> harris: i'm old enough to remember because it has only been a few months when dr. fauci said on 60 minutes overtime, the online version of 60 minutes. you watch it when the show is over and sometimes you get little drips like well, masks aren't really the end all, be all. he was not really encouraging people to wear masks. maybe the mixed messaging played a role in all this?

people's perception whether or not they should take them off or keep them on? >> when many of us had a public argument at the beginning of the pandemic he thought it would peter out like sars did. it didn't poop out in china. that was a mistake. where we are now the is cdc dropped this without any warning or notice. they give us notice for school guidance, camp guidance, everything else for the vaccine allocation guidance but this they just dropped on folks. now they are back pedaling and saying it's reasonable you may want to continue to wear a mask. they ignored natural immunity to your earlier point, harris. and as a result, they miscalculated the high degree of population immunity out there today. and when you've got 80 to 85% of adults immune where we are today in the united states because roughly half of the unvaccinated people have natural immunity you'll see significant slowing.

they were caught offguard and released this quickly because of public demand. >> harris: always a pleasure to have you and your expertise on the show. johns hopkins university is lucky to have you. fox news alert. violence this weekend in chicago with at least 47 people shot. nine died during 36 separate incidents. that's a lot of crime. the victims include a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head while on a front porch. however, mayor lori light foot on friday dismissed a vote of no confidence by the city's police union. >> getting a vote of no confidence from that guy is a badge of honor, accepted. so as i said there will always be critics. that goes with the territory. what i'm focused on is making sure that every day i'm working my tail off for the residents of this city.

>> harris: garrett tenney live in chicago. >> at least five of the victims from this weekend were teenagers, including that 15-year-old boy. police say he was sitting on a front porch just before midnight on friday when two people walked up and started shooting killing the 15-year-old with a shot to the head. eight people died as a result of gun violence this weekend in chicago. shootings are up 33% compared to this time last year. homicides with up 22%. the windy city is not alone. several midwestern cities experienced deadly shootings this weekend. youngstown, ohio, an arg nment a bar led to a gun fight outside with three people dead and three injured. >> this is a complex investigation involving multiple crime scenes, numerous witnesses, six detectives and

three crime scene unit personnel. we are using all of our available resources to insure a thorough and proper investigation is conducted. >> in minneapolis, 10 people were shot and two killed after two guys got into a fight outside of a crowded club early saturday and started shooting a at each other with dozens of people standing around. one of the shooters was killed. the other in custody. in chicago the next hour we're expecting to hear from the city's top cop to address this latest round of deadly violence and how the city plans to respond to this ongoing epidemic that don't appear to have an end in sight. >> harris: i will be interested in see if the chief of police also responds to the mayor and what she had to see at the leadership and how it is a badge of honor to get a no

confidence vote. >> he and the mayor received that no confidence vote. >> harris: they better ask him, right? thank you, garrett. senator ted cruz going after an msnbc host as quote, pitiful example of corrupt corporate media. what led up to that dust-up? no let up in attacks on america's jewish community. from coast to coast after the recent middle east violence. now signs the white house may be feeling the heat to do more about it. the former u.s. ambassador to israel. david friedman, is in "the faulkner focus" today next. >> when you call israel an apartheid state which democrat members of congress have done on the floor of the united states congress, that is insend rear rhetoric and we have had almost 200 incidents of violence reported now against jewish americans. this rhetoric is con contributing to it and it has to stop.

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>> dana: anti-semitic attacks on the rise in the united states since the outbreak of violence between israel and the terrorist group hamas. police have arrested a suspect in an attack on jewish diners at a los angeles restaurant we showed you last week. that is being looked at as a possible hate crime. and in new york, the police hate crimes task force is investigating multiple anti-jewish bias incidents. police say a group of young men hurled anti-semitic threats and attacked four jewish men outside a brooklyn synagogue. the same men later attacked jewish teenagers. and in another incident a brooklyn jewish school and synagogue were set on fire. police arrested a suspect in connection with that incident.

there is more. another man was arrested and several others are being sought in connection with a vicious attack on a jewish man in new york's times square. the 29-year-old victim says the level of hatred is off the charts. >> i was walking down the street. i see out of the corner of my eye someone chasing me with their arm back. before i could even react i was surroubded by a crowd of individuals who proceeded to kick me, punch me, hit me with playing poles, crutches. i have lived in new york my entire life and in new york city the past decadeened i don't remember anything like verbal, physical or any sort of threat directed at me or launched at me because of my judaism. >> harris: a former democratic new york state assemblyman unleashing on the silence he is now hearing from new york's democratic leaders.

>> we still don't hear from the one and only chuck schumer, the protector of the jewish people. the only thing chuck schumer cares about right now is not having a race from aoc. that's all he cares about. he doesn't give a darn about anything else. he doesn't give a darn about the jewish community. this is new york, over the million jews and it is pathetic. it is embarrassing to see the silence. >> harris: well, perhaps the white house is hearing it and listening. president biden, vice president harris just this morning both tweeted condemning recent attacks on the jewish community as despicable and saying there should be no place for hate in this country. david friedman, former u.s. ambassador to israel joins me now and saw each other and met for the first time leading the new embassy in jerusalem three

years ago. why are we seeing this pickup of anti-semitic attacks in the united states? >> no question it all relates to the conflict between israel and hamas and how it has been manipulated in the media. look, people in our own government are contributing and fueling the flames here of anti-semitism. when people maliciously and falsely call israel an apartheid state, a racist state. what do they think will happen? they're stoking the flames of anti-semitism. we have in places like new york and in los angeles we have holocaust surreiveors, their children and grandchildren who never thought they would live to see this again and we're seeing this vicious, toxic form of anti-semitism. imagine to put maybe in a perspective that maybe others might understand. imagine waking up in an african-american waking up and seeing a cross burning on your lawn or imagine the pain and trauma that would evoke.

that's what the jewish community is going through now. seeing anti-semitism gom com back to life. we don't have the genie back in the bottle. many people in the united states congress aren't helping. they are hurting. >> harris: you bring this up and mention something i want to show everybody here. this is what i believe you were lewding to. ocasio-cortez is one of those voices you're talking about tweeting this. we'll never tolerate anti-semitism here in new york or anywhere in the world. the recent surge in attacks is horrifying. we stand with our jewish communities in condemning this violence. however, just last week that same congresswoman was also criticized by some as fanning the flames by as you mentioned calling israel an apartheid state. your reaction. >> well it reminds me of the famous quote from hamlet. me thinks the lady does t protest too much. she owns this. when you call israel an

apartheid state. when you bring up that type of a malicious libel against the only jewish state in the world and you have the following that she has, what does she think was going to happen? in is somebody what has been very free to criticize the intemperate language of others. she has done more to stoke the flames in anti-semitism by that quote than anyone that i'm aware of. and she owns this problem. she can get on twitter now and try to walk it back but it is too late. people are dying and getting beaten up and bloodied because they think they are vindicating her views that israel is an apartheid state, again a malicious lie. >> harris: before we move on what are the politics at play here? how does this happen? you may have caught earlier we were showing our audience the call from a former new york assembly, a democrat, for schumer and other who are jewish members of the senate and house and democrats in

general speak up. why the silence? >> i don't know. i think this is an easy one. hamas is a terrorist organization recognized by the entire world. they are miss oj knitist and throw homosexuals off the top of buildings. nobody's friend. there is no path to peace between israel and the palestinians that includes hamas. you would think it would be an easy one. the palestinians/israeli conflict is a hard one and no one has a monopoly on good ideas but not hamas. it's easy. everybody should stand against hamas. for some reason some of these people don't because they think they see it as they see most things in terms of identity politics. israel is strong, hamas, the people of gaza are not and that's the end of their analysis. >> harris: all right. i will move to this. middle east a defiant show of force as a temporary cease-fire is holding for now.

several hundred masked hamas fighters declaring victory through gaza city. the group's top leader made a rare public appearance. as you see here. senator bernie sanders calls hamas a terrorist group he also has harsh words for netanyahu's government. >> what you have got to do is also understand that over the years, the netanyahu government has become extremely right wing and that there are people in the israeli government now who are overt racists and all that i'm saying is that the united states of america have got to be leading the world in bringing people together not simply supplying weapons to kill children in gaza. >> harris: that is in-- it is

despicable. you have people with different points of view. israel is no different. a democracy, free press. people are critical of the government when they want to be. israel is the farthest thing from a racist state. i'm sure i could hand pick people in the united states government that i don't agree with but i would never call the united states a racist country. i think again this type of language and this is again from somebody who has been very, very free to criticize i think even to threaten to prosecute those whose language he feels is intemper at. wishes to cancel those whose language he doesn't like. bernie, look in the mirror. you're doing exactly what you accuse the people on the right of doing. >> harris: david friedman, great to have you on the program today. thank you. >> thanks so much.

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>> harris: first it was kansas city, missouri, now the mayor of st. louis, missouri is pushing hard to defund the police. calling for the diverting of $4

million from the police budget and shutting down a local jail. this despite st. louis having the murder rate the highest right now in the country. last year there were 87 homicides in the city per 100,000 residents. a 35% spike from 2019. not just st. louis. new york city saw nearly two dozen shootings the weekend alone. one person killed, 27 wounded. it all comes as the state's attorney general proposes reforms to limit police and their use of force. >> our goal today is to preserve lives by making sure that under the law lethal force is the last resort. and while there is legitimate reason why police officers have some special protections, those protections should not preclude them from being held accountable. >> harris: pete hegseth joins me now host of "fox & friends"

weekend. when you look at what is happening in a second large city leading the country, st. louis in murders and talk about defund. what do you make of it? >> what do they think will happen when you disarm -- you make defenseless ultimately not just citizens who don't have the protection of police sufficiently as they should anymore but police officers themselves? you will get more crime. in the service of what? here is the thing. you talk to plenty of folks and they recognize there are some problems in policing but ultimately what the level against law enforcement agencies that they're systemically racist it *r isn't true. in many departments they're led by black police chiefs and a large minority population in their ranks. you can take money away from police departments. what you are doing that most dangerous is demoralizing police officers. i spent the weekend with 3 to 4

dozen police officers in the new york city area and they effectively said what incentive do we have to be proactive or aggressive? every time we arrest that person is released or charges are not brought or it's downgraded. we're harassed to our face, physically assaulted and if we return as we normally would enforcing law and order, we're the ones that get in trouble. so when you demoralize the police they will do less proactive policeing. the opposite of broken windows. more broken windows, more crime and police are human beings and want to go home to their family. they don't want to be thrown under the bus by their own department. they won't be as proactive and aggressive. you need aggressive police when there is the most crime and we are going into the under direction. >> harris: i had the kansas city mayor in on friday. he seemed to move the definition of defund calling it

reallocation. but i wonder what he and mayor jones of st. louis are learning from these cities, pop up this screen. notice how many of these cities are seeing murders in particular go up, skyrocketing in places like chicago, our former home, pete, minneapolis, portland, oregon, new york city. the list is long of places that have tried this and it does not work. but this is the proof in the pudding. you can talk about where the money didn't go but if the people aren't safe, that's where the problem comes in. so why do these mayors think they can do something different? >> why do -- why do we always do that? it's why everything the left touches it destroys. they fundamentally do not understand human nature. the fallen nature of all men and women, black, white, or brown. ultimately when society-society crumbles when the lynn blue

line is not empowered to maintain civility and maintain law and order. we have laws. they need to be enforced. when they are not it all starts to crumble. and these mayors, a lot of them got elected in minneapolis, take jacob frye. he would reimagine with minneapolis with green spaces and bike paths. then the world happened and he had to be serious in how he addressed real problems and instead they run toward stupid ideas like defunding the police and try to call it something else and then blame the police department doing an impossible job. they are fundamentally foolish and unserious people who don't understand what it takes to protect people and they fall for false narratives from the left which they're happy to use. >> harris: pete, i'm sure you remember that day. we covered it live on "the faulkner focus" when that mayor of minneapolis was booed and they were trying to get him away and he had the bull horn and they didn't want to hear anything else he had to say. and it is interesting because

you've seen the crime and violent crime spike. i feel like i didn't do it justice. we showed a few cities up there. listen to the list. austin, texas, denver, los angeles, san francisco, baltimore, oakland, all 20 u.s. cities that cut police budgets to see what could happen. we have so much we can learn from them. i want to get to this. ezra klein, "new york times" opinion columnist. the fallout in the spike in violent crime. the politics of this could really tip and not just in cities if these numbers keep getting worse as with nixon and reagan in the 70s and 80s. law an order conservatives including trump back to power in 2024. pete. >> you don't worry about other things if your personal safety is at risk on a daily and regular basis. look at new york city. a liberal left wing city that

elected rudy giuliani and ushered in a two mayor leadership of republicans who effectively ran on law and order and the city flew flourished. there is a point people reach their breaking points and the reason democrats are trying to say it is not defund the police because they know it's stupid. republicans would be wise to say secure our borders and secure our streets. the easiest argument and republicans if they can't seize on it, why do they exist? >> harris: you saw moments ago the former ambassador to the united states and israel. we were talking about the resurgence in crime against our jewish community members. police are needed now more than ever. we have resurgence of cruel things coming onto the horizon. we'll move on to this. senator ted cruz getting into it. i don't know if you saw this. with msnbc's brian williams after the senator criticized

the military's woke ad campaign and cited a viral video that compared this ad to russian military ads. this is what cruz said to me last week. >> what we're saying is democratic politicians and these woke lefty bureaucrats and lefty media reporters trying to destroy the american military. trying to turn it into frankly a bunch of pansies. this woke cancer that the left is pushing is driven by an ideology that sees everything through identity politics. >> harris: that woke up brian williams who accused the senator of sharing russian propaganda. let's watch. >> by all accounts ted cruz did not like the nickname cancun cruz. he really won't like being called kremlin cruz after his latest and remarkably stupid

lapse in judgment. >> harris: cruz hit back quote. is there a more pitiful example of corrupt corporate media than brian williams? now he is throwing a hissy fit that i criticized the woke video that the biden administration put out. use your condescending witt to call biden kremlin joe. he is illegally giving millions to putin. >> brian williams got fired for misrepresenting and now he goes to msnbc so he can be exactly who he is. yeah, ted cruz is now working for the russians. that's the accusation. and ted cruz is right. i saw these two videos side-by-side of the russian military recruitment video saying we want the best, strongest people possible to go fight and win our wars. then you get the woke nonsense coming from our military and

c.i.a. touchy feeley. express yourself about the disorders and difficulties that you have. don't mention patriotism or america or defeating our enemies. just look at israel. look at what the idf has to do. they don't mess around with woke games of their -- they realize they have an enemy they need to defeat. we have enemies we need to defeat. someone needs to tell the pentagon and get them to wake up. problem is, from obama to biden they are trying to transform the pentagon. purge it of its fighting spirit. of its warrior spirit. that's the point ted cruz is making. brian williams is making it up as he goes along. it is sad, we used to think he was a serious guy. he reveals himself for what he is. >> harris: pete hegseth, thank you very much. i'll brag on you a little bit. see you soon. check out pete's special coming up this weekend modern warriors is a pause to honor america's brave men and women in uniform

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>> harris: former president barack obama may still be one of the democrat party's most beloved figures but a new book out describes him as a parasite who sucked the party dry of its resources in order to get reelected. here is a taste from that. the numbers are hard to ignore the book writes. during his eight years in office, obama oversaw a net loss of 947 state legislative seats. 63 house seats and 11 governors. never cared to, aside from a few scattered candidates who interested him, in his second term he cared about what

happened to the husk as much as any parasite does. end quote. power panel now, mercedes schlapp senior fellow at the acu foundation and former white house advisor for former president trump. roger fisk former aide to john kerry. mercedes, top line thoughts on this. >> well, first of all i think that president obama didn't build out a bench because i think hillary clinton was waiting to sit on the bench and get ready to run for president in 2016. with that being said, it's always difficult for a president who is in power to -- history shows to win a majority of the seats in the house and in the senate. i think with the issue of president obama, that trickled down into the state legislatures and had to deal with his policies. he ran at a moderate when he

started serving as president, he shifted further to the left on issues like healthcare. so obamacare at the time was not popular, which created the rise of the tea party in 2010 and obviously we saw the republicans take control. so i think that the presidents are always in that difficult position. some of them like to fundraise, some don't. president obama didn't like to fundraise. that's different than in the case of president trump which right now i think is showing a lot of strength in terms of the endorsements that he is making as well as in the fundraising numbers. >> harris: i see his list of rallies coming up to speak to your point. roger, i just want to hear your rebuttal to all of that. >> first off. thank you for having me. it's wonderful to be here with mercedes. it won't shock you that i disagree.

the president was elected two times. i can document plenty of dnc fundraisers. there is not a lot the two immediate former presidents share. both of them flaged their party's establishments. president trump did an end run around what would have been the preferred candidates of the party leadership and i worked in 25 states just in 2007 and it was made clear to me on any number of occasions that we were not on the inside looking out. we were an insurgent and that kind of relationship state in place in one form or another. it didn't kurd will to the extend there was cease and desist letters like there have been president trump and rnc. but there was always an arm's length relationship there. the last point on the bench. >> harris: that's interesting. are you saying that obama then

kind of came back and said he won't help fundraise? i'm wondering why you bring up the point. we have to go quickly. just answer that. >> i document plenty of fundraiser and raised record amounts of money and was effective because he was reelected. quickly on your point about the bench. his vice president was just elected president. the first person on the bench. that bench had to have some strength. >> harris: all right. let's move to this. michigan governor gretchen whitmer breaking her own covid-19 guidelines against as evidenced by this photo from an east lasting bar that made a rounds on social media. whitmer said in a statement throughout the pandemic i have been committed following public health protocols. yesterday i went with friends to a local restaurant as more people arrived the tables were pushed together. because we were all vaccinated we didn't stop to think about it. in receipt -- retrospect i should have thought about it. i'm a human and i apologize.

ask my team to see some of the things she is taking criticism for. there is a little hypocrisy. there you have it. governor whitmer requested to get the family's boat out of the water before memorial day weekend. we'll leave it on the screen, your thoughts. >> do as i say not as i do. that's the governor's motto. i think she as well as several other democrat governors have proposed these draconian approaches the american people are tired of. open up your state and loosen your regulations and get people back to work and students back to school in person. that should be the priority not only of republican governors, many of them have done it successfully but also the democrat governors. >> harris: quickly roger. >> it is important to remember that a year ago the president trump was saying we're turning

the corner. governor whitmer has responsibly governed. michigan is above the national average. >> harris: should she follow her own rules? >> everyone has stumbles. we have talked about these before. i would much rather side with her pattern of competent government with 60% of the people in michigan getting their first shot than get concerned about her flying down to see a sick parent. >> harris: we'll move on to "outnumbered" at the top of the hour right after this commercial break. thank you to my guests and thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". yes, thank you, that was fast. sgt. houston never expected this to happen. or that her grandpa's dog tags would be left behind. but that one call got her a tow and rental... ...paid her claim... ...and we even pulled a few strings. making it easy to make things right: that's what we're made for. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today.

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