nashville, tennessee, music city, republican governors association about the future of conservatism. i have a funny feeling it might be a little different than what peggy noonan is planning at the reagan library. those people will all be joins tomorrow at 9:00 eastern. set your dvr and never miss an episode. in the meantime let not your hearts be trouble. laura ingraham always leads the way. laura: i will say imagine if we didn't have the governors, if those were all blue states we would look a lot more like i don't know france or germany or any other country that is so semi-lockdown they never would have opened, would have been close down forever. >> i give fauci more slack than you did but i can't take it. i cannot take it anymore. the wuhan, the origins of the

wuhan lab and covid 19 virus, hello, a year late as usual. laura: we will be revealing a lot more in the coming days. great to see you tonight. i'm laura ingraham. another busy washington. tonight we are going to have a conversation about the true impact of george floyd's death one year later and the solutions being pushed in his name are actually going to make this country a safer place to live and doctor fauci held the house hearing this morning that would be a dereliction of duty not to collaborate with the wuhan virology institute. i have something to say about that but first the puppets of beijing is the focus of tonight's angle.

last night we talked how the democrats and corporate media reveal their true intentions on the questions and covid's origins. they covered up for china and smeared those of us who asked questions all because they wanted to hurt trump politically. we see another example. more granular but still important, showing china's influence among the american elites. an american actor who in a promotional video from the film fast and furious ix committed the grave error of referencing taiwan as a country. of course that cannot stand. our masters in beijing would never tolerate such a statement. this actor had to issue an on camera apology in mandarin no less.

[speaking mandarin] >> like one of those old weird -- movies. the funny thing is that guy plays a tough guy but he is really just owned. for years we've known that hollywood has increasingly dependent on china. the latest on the fast and furious franchise grossed $136 million and that is important to note china's box office for the first time ever eclipsed that of the united states. much due to covid lockdowns but us production companies and distributors are in a panic. they know they spent years defending many potential

moviegoers in this country and a lot of us won't ever be going to the movies is we used to. the geniuses in hollywood will bend over backwards to appear woke at home, will sell other alleged concerns about human rights and free-speech in a millisecond to avoid offending china. the biggest or tallest sellouts is lebron james. he piled on the houston rockets gm who in october of 2019 merely tweeted an image that read fight for freedom, stand with hong kong. lebron's bosses in beijing were not happy at all. so he assisted them by blocking maurice shots. >> were you misinformed or not educated about something, just talking about the tweet itself, never know what the ramifications that can have. we have all seen what that did,

not only did the lead with all of us in america, people in china as well and sometimes you have to think through things use and make calls not only for yourself but for the majority of people. >> think about that. he believes that a tweet supporting freedom in hong kong caused harm. to whom? the communist party? what was harmed? his bank account may be? there's? the nba? we don't need to worry about the physical harm and torture of millions being carried out by china? even if the audience is declining in the united states the nba makes billions off of television rights and other engagements in china. money talks. so much for all the social justice claptrap your pushing at

home or maybe some leaguers lives don't matter much at all and hard to think nba commissioner adam silver doesn't realize how out of touch he came off when pressed about the league cozying up to the brutal oppressor of minorities. >> continue the dialogue with the chinese, with our business partners in certain cases with certain government officials and we are going to keep at it. i understand they have a different form of government and a different view of how things have been done, how things should be done and hopefully we can find mutual respect for each other. >> does your screen crawl watching that guy. there ball. it is disgusting. you are talking to government officials of the communist party. he sounds exactly like a propagandist for the ccp. every day gets harder to tell from the ccp spokesman. it was the only in the industry,

as the infomercial goes, that's not all. china owns our academic establishment as well. our liberal arts colleges are okay with squirming under projected of china as long as the chinese pay their tuition in cash. their fees and expenses were almost $16 billion in 2019. i was shocked to find out the last pre-pandemic count, there were almost 370,000 chinese students in the us. this is insane. we know beyond any reasonable doubt that china intends to drive us out of asia and replace us as the most powerful country in the world, that is their aim so now we have decided to help them do this by educating their children. perfect.

china is all too happy to have the schools brought to them, to their homeland and our colleges idiotically complied. is a partial list of american schools and campuses in china, harvard, yale, nyu, do, georgia tech to name a few. knowledge this has strings attached and requires that these institutions look the other way on human rights violations, economic espionage, environmental issues and of course the wuhan virology institute's cover up. by the way don't say the colleges are spreading american values, they hate america. they teach the chinese students the same message, that america is a racist country that is in terminal decline. here is the bottom line. if you can't make money running an american college educating american students it is time to shut your doors. we should treat china like we treated the ussr during the cold war. we didn't engage much

economically. we didn't enrich them. we didn't educate them. wall street and big tech just as bad, they were kissing up to china for money all day long. >> china plays a leadership position for the world in many different areas. >> the most important relationship in the world is the one between the us and china. >> xi is not a dictator. he has a constituency to answer to. laura: all while denouncing their fellow americans as racist. >> it is a step backwards. >> trying to restrict voters access to polls, it is disproportionately hurting black and brown communities. >> this is about protecting the voices of our people.

laura: those same individuals would never criticize china in the same manner. many big companies have gone out of their way to big for china's forgiveness. big business was recently on hand to cover up china's worst human rights abuses. companies like apple, nike, coca-cola lobbied against legislation banning the importation of products from the same problems were china has enslaved millions of muslims. wall street will simply say okay, if we don't do these deals, symmetry some other country will. my answers let them. i would rather keep our independence. if you make your own country economically dependent on china it is never going to end up well for you, never. in fact biden should do what a washington times op-ed suggest and delist many firms and us exchanges and make sure that it

extends to companies, all chinese companies aiding the ccp not just the ones directly connected to the chinese military. there is growing partisan -- realization the china is intent on global military economic and high-tech valley, move swiftly to ensure the china's ruling communist party can no longer fund its predatory agenda with wall street's help. that would be nice. but we all know how seriously the biden administration takes the china threat. >> in my discussions with president xi i told him we welcome the competition. we are not looking for conflict. >> we are not trying to contain china or hold it back. >> we have been disagreements with china on some key issues absolutely but climate as to stand alone. >> we want to approach this with some tricky gestation.

>> past time to face the truth, hard to face the truth. our elites have been bought off by china, the left, the entertainment industry, academia, wall street, big tech, hollywood and for all intents and purposes our so-called establishment is in the back pocket of the ccp. they are not trying to protect our national interests. they only care about how they can get rich from china's rise, that means our decline. this is to stop. we cannot have the top sectors of the american economy being dependent on the ccp. that south america becomes a puppet state. for 50 years since nixon reopened the country to the ccp we have done everything possible to make this relationship work but now it is time to accept reality. the united states and china is just a bad relationship that needs to be unwound.

otherwise as other relationships gone that we are going to end up giving away our power, our freedom and our identity. by then the only apologies we will need to issue our to our children and grandchildren who will never know the americas that we love and that is the angle. joining me the best guest possible on this topic chris fenton is a media exec, film producer, author of feeding the dragon:inside the trillion dollar dilemma facing hollywood, the nba and american business. chris, you worked with john sina before. what was your reaction to see him grovel that way? >> it was really difficult to watch. i felt for him because he's a great guy, great talent and a heck of an athlete. he is caught in this terrible sort of battle royal between national security interests in dc at the business lobby and on top of the human rights issues, censorship issues, freedom of speech issues all involving the dynamic between the us and china

relationship and how we need to disrupt it and disrupt it quickly because we are running out of time. laura: there was a pretty ridiculous change made to that reboot of red dawn, classic kind of goofy film in a way but it was originally about a group of americans that resisted china's occupation of the united states, russia in the original and change to china but after filming was completed the moviemakers transformed the antagonist into north korean soldiers, digitally altered the chinese flags and insignia into the north korean one so that is one small example but you say the longer-term retaliation risk with producers ascending china so what happened here? >> that is ripple effect from 1997 where we had red corner, 7

years in tibet, we still see richard gere and brad pitt facing retaliation of the ccp in china because both have a very difficult time marketing their wares as actors in that market. read don is a perfect example of that, 20 years later in regards to how they tried to portray the chinese army, the pla, people's liberation army and the chinese government as the antagonists, the villains in that film and when china heard about that day mandated mgm and sony, the studios involved you better change that, you better change it quick because you are never going to get access to that market if our market if you release the movie as is and the studios relented and changed it to make it north korea as the enemy. >> china can just squash films before they are even made.

>> a movie about concentration camps in china, a movie about -- someone -- nobody would buy the pitch. instead of us doing business with china, that leading to china becoming more free when it happened, a place like china has bought our silence. laura: imagine, substitute nazi germany for china here. we did this with the soviet union, we did not do business with the soviet union and yet we are treating china as if it is some i benevolent different power. also money. it makes my stomach turn. >> unfortunately it is and that is why we are seeing business lobbies and the national security hawks battling it out in dc right now.

laura: is got to interrupt, the national security office, this is a battle for the future of the world. our country versus china, that is the whole shooting match. i love your book, this is economic dominance, every rare earth material, every precious metal, subjugation of humans on a scale we've not seen in decades and decades. make the apartheid regime which was hideous, criminal, look modest compared to what is going on in china today. >> 100% right and the reserve currency of the us dollar in jeopardy too. this is a very big issue, something donald trump and his

administration, they really bring the alarm bell and now suddenly starting to come alive on the left side of the aisle and on the right and that is crucial because this is not a little blue shoe. is an american issue and we need to address it united. divided we will not be able to do it. the ccc be as 1.4 billion people have on the same message. here we need to unite over this common challenge, the challenge that can unite us as americans every human rights, national security issues, freedom of speech issues, principles wield near and dear as americans. we can unite and we can create the leverage to push back. shannon: thank you for that, great to have you on and the year after his death george floyd's legacy has been tarnished by politicians, activists and the violence they stoked. we are going to explain this with brandon tatum and matt walsh.

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>> pass a bill, we get this bill on president biden's desk. what is important is it is substantive piece of legislation and that is far more important. laura: we hope the day never comes because this piece of legislation wouldn't just handcuff police, it would give the feds more powerful over your local law enforcement while giving more influence to racial arsonists like al sharpton. joint brandon tatum, former police officer and other deep black and blue, and cynthia garrett, founder of the cynthia garrett, author of i choose victory. the sheer involvement of sharpton, lying repeatedly about police actions, misrepresented them, it doesn't say to me this

is a good faith effort. >> these two gentlemen are the biggest pimps in american history pimping out dead black people on a day-to-day basis to make as much money as they can. they don't have a vested interest in telling young black people to not resist arrest and to coach and inspire is good leaders to help young black people have a better experience with police, they want them to get out there and get killed so they can make a bunch of money off of it. >> this is ben crump on cnn today. watch. >> america is finally having a conversation about racial reckoning but that is just talk if we don't ask, now's the time to act, let's do it in the name of george floyd and all the others that have been taken from us by the very people who are supposed to protect and serve us.

>> doesn't feel like we're having a conversation, feels like we are being told what to do in a country they say systemically racist. >> i believe we are being preached at, we are not being asked to dialogue about a solution. we all know words create a powerful narrative and the second the words the from the police came out of someone's mouth it was ridiculous because it is an absurd thing to do is we want the police to show up in our communities and need them to show up in our communities and meaningful dialogue, i agree with you guys, it is about creating relationships with the police. if you want a reform bill or meaningful reform why are we not

actively seeking a real unity with the police to figure out how to address these issues. instead politicians, leaders, elites, the left is creating a war between african-americans and the police, creating an even bigger divide by focusing on -- i hate to use the word insignificant but the reality is what white cops do to blacks is more insignificant than what blacks to to each other in our communities every day. there is no reform without us reforming our spirits, our minds which we have to take responsibility for our communities and our homes, we are taking control of our educational system and the way we are raising our kids, like the officers says why don't we teach young people to respect the police, good or bad if a cop stops me i will listen to him. laura: if any of the high

profile cases have involved someone who did not resist arrest, didn't reach for a gun, didn't refuse to get into a police car would we be having this conversation? >> know we wouldn't even have any of these conversations, there would be no names on t-shirts or any of these things, 100% if you don't want to get shot by the police or injured then don't resist arrest and pull guns on law enforcement officers, that simple. we need to encourage young people to know their rights which when you get arrested, right or wrong go to court, fight it in court, there's no such thing as justice on the side of the road because you are not going to get it there. i really wish -- i'm doing my best to put this message out

here, really wish young people would do some introspection, look in the miracle what are you doing to make things better and how are you acting when involved with police, that wouldn't necessitate your outcome versus what the police are doing specifically? >> we talked about 2 things tonight, personal responsibility and understanding of each other's position, police are in a dangerous situation, you are scared, there has to be a level of personal responsibility and for the police, they need to be personally responsible when they screw up so thank you both. how did some minneapolis locals, marie floyd's death? with a drive-by shooting in broad daylight. >> they wanted a bill of koreans of police reform to be -- got to be careful, some gunshots. shannon:

laura: this is the legacy of the blm movement post george floyd. historic levels of violent crime, sharing communities, joining us is matt walsh. what was stunning about that is how pedestrian it seemed to the people almost on the scene except the british reporter who kind of ducked down, riding their bikes, because it happens a lot in this area. i know that area well in minneapolis, it happens a lot, random gunfire, people like that's minneapolis. >> we heard a lot during trump's rain from the left that this is not normal, this shouldn't be normal, here is something that shouldn't be normal but it is as you take out for many people, absolutely normal, we got. in the street every single day and a lot of it has to do, a lot

of these problems go back decades if democrats been in control and that's not a coincidence but the fact that what are they doing, honoring the anniversary of george floyd's death and what if you think about the circumstances around george floyd's death this is not a martyr or a war hero we should be honoring and celebrating, the fact that we are honoring and celebrating someone who was a violent criminal and victimized women in horrific ways, that has a lot to do with the fact that we are encouraging more criminality by romanticizing and celebrating it. laura: it was on morning joe this morning when joe scarborough asked a guest will this be taught in the future in a way similar to the selma church bombing and it took my breath away. i believe i'm capturing what i said fairly, such a seminal moment. your reaction to that. >> you hear that and that is toned down compared to what some

other stuff comparing george floyd to jesus christ and that sort of thing, we are point you hear that and that is reasonable in comparison to what we normally here. this is something republicans, if republicans could seize on this problem in a good way it could be very effective in 2022 but that is about republicans having a strong law and order message which will be in contrast to the message of the democrats. don't know if we get better republicans. a lot of times they are talking about police reform while there's but she -- should in the sheets. that moderate message. >> trump is law and order and safety thing, that was a constant theme but it will be necessary, thank you. this show, conservatives who want to get rid of critical race

the color run for school board elections, a new group is helping folks to do just that and randy weingarten was just caught embracing a conspiracy. to keep the kids out of school. we will tell you what it is next.

bill clinton: right now, the covid-19 vaccines are available to millions of americans. george bush: so, we urge you to get vaccinated

when it's available to you. barack obama: that's the first step to ending the pandemic and moving our country forward. it's up to you. divide us by the color of my skin. i taught my children do your best, this is an amazing opportunity is what they are doing to our children is disgraceful. we do not need the government to tell our children with their values are. >> don't tell my daughter what to think. don't tell my daughter what to say. that's not the school's job. that is my job and my decision on whether i want to raise my daughter to be an activist. laura: for all the parents looking to reclaim your local school boards from radical leftists a new political action committee, 1776 project will support school board candidates

who oppose indoctrinating kids to things that critical race. the 1619 project. the man behind the 1776 project joins us now. this is the first of its kind and begs the question why it hasn't been done before but do you expect to be the counterweight to the george soroses of the world who want to get involved in local elections? >> soros didn't get involved in school board elections but i hope we can at least start the process before the left does and the left's activists have started getting elected school boards but i'm hoping this will be the counter. my pack, the 1776 project will be successful because over 80% of school elections are not partisan. we can running districts not running a republican or democrat issues but issues that

overwhelming majorities of americans support like teaching history the way it was written, promoting patriotism in the public school system and fighting against critical race theory and the 6019 project which is ahistorical and teaches you that race is the cornerstone of every part of our society and we need to undo things like capitalism, the constitution and repeal parts of our history like the founding fathers. laura: former atlantic correspondent spoke about critical race theory on cbs. >> the idea, it should be banned from teaching, banned from discussion, from education, pushed out of the public square, that is a huge problem. people attempting to pass policy to banish it out of the public square are afraid of a fair and just accounting of american history. >> a response? >> it is not a college course, they are teaching to 9 and 10-year-olds and people telling

them are the ones -- you tell your child trust your teacher and your teacher is telling you things like the police are systemically racist, that our country is systemically racist, but if you're white you're born racist and will be racist your entire life and your parents are racist and if you're not white you're held back by system created by our founding fathers, that is what you are told at an early age. it is not a fair playing field, that is brainwashing children. these are state schools, taxpayer-funded schools, they should teach things that promote patriotism, not undo the state, not undo the things that built the greatest country of all time but promote the things that continue that greatness. history is facts and figures and old deadweight men, the greatness they accomplished in the greatness america accomplished in our public school system. laura: we will follow this closely. it is an issue close to my own art and we will be following it.

speaking of the left's hold on the school's newly revealed twitter messages with writer samuel bravo, teachers union head randy weingarten endorses the wild conspiracy theory that florida governor rhonda santos is hiding his status true covid numbers and said to santos's lies inspired people, the person who organized the data was rebecca jones who told the truth, transparent on covid cases and was fired. reminder this rebecca jones is the fake whistleblower who made up the story about desantis so based on jones's fictitious account weingarten suggests the covid numbers in florida could be as bad as california. joining me now the president of the committee to unleash prosperity, this woman wields so much power that she was able to really call handedly keep

schools close across the united states in mostly red states. >> mostly blue states. she's got the head of the cdc numbers, herself, cutting and pasted, the school opening gardens and that being a school closure guidance, the teachers union dictated us when shaking us down for $125 billion, the woman who lead that effort and was remarkable to me about this story is this was ice cool kid, sam bravo at all credit to him, the first journalist to ask the obvious question if it was so important to close schools and put plexiglas and masks a wide is florida which is schools open all year have better numbers in california, better numbers the new york, why is that? she finally gets asked that question by a high school student because the media don't do their job and her answer is this crazy conspiracy theories that the real florida numbers are much higher and they have a giant pile of bodies hidden somewhere.

i think the randy weingarten twitter account is the most entertaining thing going right now, so shockingly oblivious, every tweet gets ratio into oblivion and she keeps doing it. >> we don't have an independent press that actually holds people accountable for what they say, they just gloss over it, the stakes are so high. we had to ignore the wuhan lab theory or overlook a conspiracy theory, she spoke about trump's handling of the school reopenings. watch. >> i big the trump administration to do exactly what the biden administration did which is real safety guidance and recourses. if we had actually listened to doctor redfield and the cdc last may, the former president hadn't kept on changing his mind and changing these things, we would

have gotten more schools back. >> trump's fault. >> he is a liar or delusional, what the cdc did under redfield is set all schools should be open but if you are skittish and not ready to open normally, here's a giant list of things you can do to get comfortable and that is the stuff with all of that came from redfield's cdc. >> all made up and he was a disaster. thank you. doctor fauci told the house hearing it would have been direction of duty not to collaborate with communist china on studying coronavirus.

♪ ♪ >> laura: dr. fauci was on capito teen fauci defended the nih decision to file taxpayer dollars to the world institute of virology. >> we had a scare in 2002-2003, that virus when from the back to an intermediate host, but a dereliction of duty if we didn't study this.

we had a modest collaboration with very respectable chinese scientists. >> >> professor of medicine at stanford. he seems, he seemed very defensive since my first interview with him in february of 2020 about the lab issue in these comments today. what do you make of it? >> he told rand paul about it and he has. the nih under his leadership, gain of function research in collaboration with this lab. i don't know if it -- the virus came from that research or not, hard to say but what i can say is it undermined, and and they did fund the research.

and figures -- he's been telling the public over and over again the only way to do this is through lockdowns and mask mandates, and and he let the public astray. i don't know what to say. laura: does he need to retire? that is a blunt question but at some point do you just need to say i gave it my all, got to go? >> we need new leadership absolutely. he hasn't learned his credibility. >> speaking of credibility, kids are safe while covid is still spreading.

>> the degree of infection that is ongoing in the community and if you look at the last few weeks the number of infections per day have gone down in a very steady manner. >> they can't let go of the doom and gloom even with so much good news they have to hold onto it, for the vaccine pushing it on the kids. >> we vaccinated the vulnerable population but the great victory in many ways, we protected people most at risk for covid, children are not at risk, more children died last year from the flu than covid but we closer schools for year, my kids didn't go to school last year and are we going to close schools again of cases pick up when we already protect the vulnerable population? it is amazing to watch and say

we should be tracking cases as a metric to decide whether schools opened. school should be open now everywhere and should be open in the fall again everywhere. we should stop harming our children by denying them their birthright which is education. laura: does this mean outdoor masking for sports which they are still requiring in montgomery county, maryland, outdoor masking for children. >> evidence at all that supports the idea that outdoor masking would slow the spread of the disease. there just isn't -- children don't spread the disease efficiently. >> great to see you tonight. biden's and ability to communicate is contagious. the last bite explains.

>> laura: white house staffers live in fear of another

contagion. bidenitis. >> that is a great, excellent question. laura: americans worry about catching covid white house staffers live in fear of another contagion, bidenit is a is. >> excellent question. i will check with the permit of housing -- had and i'm happy to get word to you if that is available. laura: happens to the best of us. it seemed pretty severe. all the time we have tonight. gutfeld next. todd: wednesday may 2, '06, fox news lead, a riot declared as a day of remembrance for george floyd ends and violence and vandalism, congress forced to find common ground on a police reform bill employed's name. >> a lot of element in the case against lori fowler who faces murder charges for the death of the two children. todd: us a little 9/11 hero who far until his own death. "fox and friends first" starts right now.