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are you going to ask our government? our government claims we do all this stuff and we still do business with china. let's be fair. every time you buy some of your fancy shoes, dana. >> bill: the way he did it. over and over again. >> dana: talk about cena or you are wearing mint tennis shoes. >> you are becoming bully. i can't see you. in we trust. >> bill: bye-bye. >> harris: again police under attack in portland, oregon. where they declared a riot last night. mobs set fires, smashed windows, pelted officers with works and other objects coming on the one year anniversary of
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george floyd's murder. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the chaos raging anew in portland as some 200 rioters torn down fences and put spikes on the streets why police had to clear for emergency vehicles to go through. rioters tried to burn down a federal courthouse and targeted business. shocking video in minneapolis as gunshots rang out not far from where george floyd was killed. a site that has now become a memorial. this all happening in broad daylight. we showed you a bit yesterday. now there is more. >> i heard gunshots. [gunfire] >> it sounds like gunshots. i would like to know what this is. they seem to be gunshots. >> get down!
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>> harris: our crew had to crawl out of the way yesterday. they're still investigating what happened. neighbors say crime has been surging in the area. a pattern also being reported city wide. dan springer live today with our top story. dan. >> we've seen this all before over the last year. anarchists attack police and property in portland and their message is crystal clear. not about police reform. abolishing police. two protest events. one group gathered in the daylight. they were peaceful and then when the sun went down it was a whole different story. >> this has been declared an unlawful assembly. sgliet was billed as an event for abolition and called for small actions against big targets. the first target was the justice center where a dumpster
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fire was set and pushed up next to the building which houses some courtrooms and a police precinct. the crowd tried to keep police away by throwing bottles of frozen water, eggs and laying down a metal spike strip in the road. they also shot mortar style fireworks at the cops. police declared a riot and got the fire department in to put out the fire. then the crowd dispersed and damaged a number of businesses, smashing windows and tagging a bank, starbucks and jewelry store among others. over 200 people involved in the destruction and police made just five arrests. one person is facing a charge of arson, the rest for criminal mischief. portland saw more than 100 nights of protests that ended in violence. back in minneapolis where floyd lost his life there was also tension. >> we heard gunshots.
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>> several gunshots rang out in george floyd square. a police-free zone. it has seen a big spike in murders and rapes over the year as police largely stay away. a recent poll found 42% of residents want more police. only a quarter want less in portland. >> harris: what would they do if zero police showed up at the scene whereby standers and reporters and shots rang out? dan springer, thank you very much. jason rantz is a seattle radio talk show hosts and bring us a lot of information from that city that at times devolved as they preach defund the police. jason, i want to get first of all your initial reaction to all that we saw on the one-year anniversary of george floyd's murder. >> i think we should reflect on what we've seen for the last year which is out of this death and out of the activism that
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came from the death is we've had historic crime surges. record high murder rates, destroyed communities, businesses that have been completely burned to the ground and on one side of the aisle they've said pretty much nothing. they pretended this was all peaceful protests. i'm surprised yesterday they even talked about what happened at george floyd square. i think we have to realize that all the damage that has been done, the police departments that have been gutted this has damage that cannot be undone overnight. we are going to pay the price for this financially, but also in lost lives potentially for years to come. and i don't think people realize that. antifa has surged after this. we've got the introduction of these new policies that basically show no consequences for criminals. getting rid of the cash bail or sentencing enhancements. drug laws not being enforced which have led to overdoses on city streets and taking police
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out of schools. all of this has consequences and they aren't even yet fully realized. that's the terrifying fact. >> harris: as we see those peaceful protestors out there yesterday and last night you have to wonder going forward what the protests will be about with more than 20 cities leaning into defund now and devolving into more crime. let's get to this. seattle's inspector general is pushing to ban police for conducting routine traffic stops. writing in a letter to the city's interim police chief stopping a person is a significant infringement on civil liberty and should be reserved for instances when a person is engaged in criminal conduct that harms others. stops for government created requirements do not justify the risk to community or to officers. so like talking on a cell phone which we know is dangerous. that's something that was created in this way. they aren't allowed to stop them? what are they trying to say?
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>> or expired car tabs, old license plates. really speeding in certain instances wouldn't qualify for what she is saying. when you read between the lines and that she put in there she is forwarding an anti-police agenda. it's a narrative that cops are dangerous, she brings a point that black motorists are at an increased risk of harm when they interact with police. all you are doing is forwarding this belief, this talking point that whenever a cop is in front of you you're at risk and worse when you're black and latino because all cops are racist. when they do that they make it harder and more dangerous for the person who is interacting with a cop. now they're untrusting. >> harris: i will have you back very soon. as has happened now a couple of days in a row conversation being perforated by a shooting, breaking news.
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jason rantz, thank you very much. deputies at the scene investigating an active shooter situation in san jose, california. our correspondent william la jeunesse can fill us in on what's coming out. >> this is the shooting near a rail yard near the airport in san jose. the latest information we have is that the shooter is dead. that's according to a local tv reporter and potentially six to seven victims also coming from a local reporter. san jose mercury says multiple people have been shot including the shaoert. police have set up a wide perimeter. they are not running around anymore but they did earlier. you can see them having some kind of a shield if you will to approach the situation. multiple ambulances here. the fire department as well. this happened at a santa clara valley transit authority rail yard. according to a mother who spoke
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to her son who works there, there was a union meeting and that's when the shooting allegedly occurred. that's the latest information we have right now, harris. in terms of multiple dead as well as the shooter, that is coming from the san jose mer. right near the sheriff's station reporting that there are multiple victims. potentially six or seven. harris. >> harris: wow. that's a lot of people. i know i'm reading and we're all working to confirm this very quickly. apparently you can see the vta symbol. valley transportation authority would be this rail, this light rail system that this involves right now, the scene. we'll wait for further detail. we can see what we can see but it is always better to get all the detail from the ground as we can. here is what we can tell you that will happen next. san jose police department is ready to make a statement in
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about 20 minutes. 11:30 a.m. eastern for the update. we're told because of the scene there it may not even be on camera. we'll cover the news from that update and come back to you, william, as it pops. thank you very much. we'll keep everybody updated. who thought this was okay? "the new york times" is under fire after publishing an op-ed headline claiming attacks on jews are a gift to the right. wow, the paper changed it after critics went off. joe concha with his take. plus this. >> imagine if it turns out that the chinese communist party through its negligence and its deceitfulness was responsible for unleashing this plague on the world. we need to demand answers. the biden administration needs to demand answers. >> harris: the white house publicly claiming it wants answers but a new report suggests no, they don't.
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>> harris: we're getting just a couple more details in on this live scene san jose, california now where they have had a mass shooting as it's being described. local affiliates are saying that -- along with our reporter william la jeunesse -- local affiliates are reporting that multiple people are victims in all of this. we're working to find out the fatality count. we do know from the sheriff twitter account that the suspect is down. i'm reading that myself. he says they have headed to this area 10 minutes ago and just a couple minutes ago the
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shooter is down. we have former d.c. police detective defense attorney fox news contributor ted williams who is always on hand with us to break these things down. this is a massive crime scene first of all. where to start and what you are learning as you watch the situation unfold as well. >> good morning, harris. it is a massive crime scene from what i have learned. this began around 7:15 a.m. this morning california time is when the san jose police department put out information that there was a mass shooting active in the valley transportation area. and from what i have also
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learned that the shooter is actually down and that there should be a news conference pretty soon here explaining what has taken place. but the first responders got there and it is my understanding again that the shooter is actually down. >> harris: so in a scene like this you mention the vta, valley transportation authority. we can see that on the side of the light rail and wanted to get more detail on that. we are awaiting the news conference. what we were told moments ago through our reporter and media desk at fox news is this may not even be on camera. they are having to move quickly in the scene because so many people are involved in this. it is very much commuting hour on the west coast as you see. and so we don't have a good number on how many people would have been on this light rail. we do know as former detective
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ted williams was just describing because we're following the ticker of everything going on, looking at social media and other things coming out from local media, that this potentially could involve quite a few people. just looking at the scene i'm seeing several parking lots around the vta. command center to the right of your screen, you have the san jose police department involved in this and we're following their twitter account. and getting updates from that as well. ted, your thoughts on what they are looking at right now. >> you know, it's chilling and it's scary as you can see that there is a great deal of law enforcement presence there on the scene. so it is without a doubt at this stage unfortunate that we do have a potential crime scene here. and so they are cordoning off the area. they are looking for witnesses
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as to what took place there. they are trying to get as much information. you can see also on that scene there are ambulances in place ready to move on a moment's notice. i think everybody right now is sort of like in a holding pattern. waiting to hear from the authority there as to the direction in which this is going and to provide the public more information. but people are very anxious in that area because this is a light rail area and heaven knows what has happened in that area. but it is very concerning and i am just hoping there are limited, if any, casualties. >> harris: we're getting different reports on that and i'm cautious about we share early on because it is absolutely perfect to be right. it is absolutely not acceptable
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to be wrong and first if you can help it. so we are going to hold off on what multiple victims really means. we do know from the sheriff's own twitter from the santa clara county sheriff's department own twitter update in all caps, the shooter is down. we don't know exactly what that means or how it has come about. what we do know is at this transportation hub with several parking lots around it, we know what commuter scenes look like. some coming and going and getting on the light rail. just after 8:21 a.m. in the morning in san jose. people, some of them are just getting to work and we don't know how crowded this light rail train would have been. we're covering the story and
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that there will be answers to questions that no doubt the public who is watching and monitoring the situation wants to know. a wider public. boy, have we seen a lot of shootings in the last little bit. ted, i don't want to go too far afield from the scene. until we learn more we can look at this as another situation that we've broken away to and another newscast this week in dealing with violence in america's beautiful cities and it is ticking up. ted williams. >> you know, harris, you are absolutely right. and the sad commentary with you and i, the years you and i have been on where they've had these kinds of mass shooting incidents, and they seem to just continue and continue and just as we're on the phone today with this mass shooting incident, i can tell you that
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we will be on at some other time in the future. you know, we always ask in these events what's the motive? why would one or many individuals go in and do anything to harm other human beings? but we find that in this instance what has been reported, and we don't have a lot of information, as you already said, it seems to have been one person at this time that is down by virtue of what the communication you got from the sheriff there. so the investigation now is really in the infancy stages, the beginning stages, and i would believe that there is a great deal of confusion. and even if one shooter is down, the big question is, is anybody else involved? >> harris: right.
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and we're only just moments away. they will be putting this update news conference. can't call it an update. we haven't gotten the first bit of information yet. so we're waiting for the authorities to confirm some of what we know from local affiliates. i'm looking at some of the local affiliates, too. we can watch each other in the media. and the number of people that this involves as potential victims as they're calling them. we don't know if it means, fatalities, wounds, surviving, recovering, what, but the number is enough to call it a mass shooting and enough for people to want to know at the scene is there anybody else? all we know now is that the shooter is down. that confirmed from the santa clara county sheriff's department on twitter and our sources as well. ted williams. we'll watch this and you will stay with us and we are just moments away from learning what exactly has gone down at the
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valley transportation authority in san jose, california during their rush hour time. there were other -- we can't control the shot. maybe they can pull out a little bit and you will see the light rail train just sitting on the tracks at one point on the screen. if they pull out far enough you'll see it. and there they go. this is an enormous complex, ted williams. and to have to look at where an individual may have come from. go ahead. >> it is an enormous complex and as i look here and what is scary for me right now is i look at the various even ambulances on the scene there and they don't seem to be moving with any urgency. so if -- i hope no one is injured, but if there are individuals that are injured, it is more likely than not that
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they've expired. the sad commentary is, as i said earlier, we have a great deal of confusion and they are trying to try to determine what is going on, are there others involved? even though this shooter is down, i can tell you when something like this happens, harris, all over the country major metropolitan cities go on a heightened state of alert just mainly because you don't -- >> harris: is that normal? >> that is normal of major metropolitan cities to go on a natural heightened state of i lert because as i was about to say you don't know who this guy is. who this person is. and you don't know if this is something that has gone on that will take place all over the country or is it just isolated
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to the san jose area? >> harris: ted, we'll pause right there and let them fill in the facts on that. the associated press is now reporting the mayor of san jose, mayor has said the shooter is no longer a threat. the facility has been evacuated. the shooting has left several people being treated. the situation is still being assessed. several people are being treated for injuries after police and sheriffs officials responded to a shooting at a rail yard today. it took place at the light rail facility that you can see in the center of your screen. if you pull out you were moments ago able to see the light rail train. not sure which train was involved but it was in the center of the screen for a while. it is next door to the santa clara county sheriff's department and across the freeway from the airport. when you heard us talking about
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the transportation hub that this is, it lets you know how quickly sheriffs deputies must have been able to get there because they're right next door and then the airport close by. this could be a transportation for the airport. a situation where people are coming in from other areas on light rail as well. we'll learn more about what the valley transportation authority is saying about that particular transportation that was going on at the time. i want to bring our reporter back, ted williams, please stand by. former d.c. detective. william la jeunesse is on the ground and if he joins us in just a couple of minutes. william, are you there? >> yes, i am: claudia is on the ground but hasn't reached the location. according to social media reports this is a big company. it has 2100 employees, three major lines. several of the people who are
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at this alleged union meeting took cover inside the trains that were inside the maintenance yard. one of the reasons police showed up the way they did in the heavy presence and had that shield if you will to approach the facility, they didn't know if the shooter was down or not. later on they found out he was. we don't know, however, if it was a self-inflicted wound or whether the individual was shot by law enforcement. we don't know. as you said, the mayor has said that the shooter is down or dead and there are multiple victims. we've heard from social media, maybe six or seven, possible fatalities. you made the distinction, injuries or fatalities we're not certain. >> harris: thank you for the detail on what we're looking at here in terms of that complex. we're moments away from anticipating that live on screen we'll see the update, the san jose police department
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and santa clara sheriff's department. when it happens we'll take you there live. i will move on to this and one outrage point over how violent some areas in our country have gotten to another one, sadly. growing outrage over attacks on america's jewish community now. kevin mccarthy has introduced a bill to fight anti-semitic hate crimes while swiping at members of the democrat squad. their efforts to de contributing to the explosion of violence by american jews by pro-hamas mobs inside the united states. "the new york times" is getting dragged for quietly updating an inflammatory headline calling those attacks a gift to the right. it was changed to the crisis of anti-semitic violence. a piece in the daily wire said this.
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when it comes to fighting anti-semitism or fighting conservativeism, anti-semitism will always take a back seat. joe concha media and politics columnist for the hill. >> stealth edits are okay if it's updated information like this horrible shooting in california as more information comes in you can change the headline. not a problem. what they did here was a complete 180 after blowback and the problem is the "new york times" decided not to add an editor's note saying this was the original headline. we changed it because of x, y, z and they did it in a stealth manner. good news you have people on social media and media watchers that save the screen shots and know exactly what "the new york times" and why they are getting called out. you do have regular folks on social media saying wait a minute, it was this, now this. "the new york times" thought they could get away with it and
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they're not. >> harris: so if you can explain something to me. that gets written in the first place. it almost matters less than somebody had a clutch of conscience, who knows what happened. maybe somebody called them a liar, although things would have been appropriate. the fact it was written in the first place. where are we going in our mainstream media that that's ever seen as okay? >> how does that editorial see the light of day american jews getting beaten in new york, los angeles because it hurts the pro-palestinian argument or it helps the pro-israeli argument as if we're having a scoreboard here when the story is anti-semitism whether you are republican, democrat, libertarian, apolitical, you condemn it you don't say it stinks and it is hurting our argument. the worst part about that piece where the writer talks about
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how donald trump is to blame for the rise in anti-semitism that we're seeing. the guy who left office five months ago. the guy who opened the u.s. embassy in jerusalem. the man who overlooked the abraham accords. the guy with jewish grandkids, yeah, he is the reason why anti-sem advertise mg is spiking in the country. it was a ridiculous argument from a ridiculous person, harris. >> harris: when you have nothing left to fight with you use whatever you think you can whether it's true or not. apparently. i want to get to this. thinking about being true and not and integrity and gold standard and all that stuff. jeff zucker at cnn, well, apparently he has chris cuomo's back. the cnn president is defending that embattled news anchor during a company town hall yesterday. according to a rough transcript, joe, obtained by media, jeff zucker said cuomo was human and made a mistake
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but insists there are no special rules in play for him even though he was not disciplined for adviseings his governor brother on how to respond to a mounting sexual harassment scandal. what is happening here? >> oh boy, well, not only is there not a reprimand coming for chris cuomo from cnn executives. he is getting a new podcast now with don lemon despite multiple ethical breaches. not just advising his brothers but other things that we'll talk about another time. >> harris: police giving the update on the mass shooting in san jose, california. >> active shooter investigation. i can confirm with you now that we do have multiple victims. and we have multiple casualties at this point. i can't confirm the exact number of injuries and fatalities but i will tell you they are multiple injuries and
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multiple fatalities in the case. it is an ongoing investigation. multiple agencies are helping us out with law enforcement and county fire side and city department and multiple agencies. the suspect right now is confirmed deceased. i will not go into details as what cause of death is at this point. the suspect is deceased at this point. so the public safety is safe at this point. this is still an ongoing investigation like i was saying earlier. we will have another press briefing in an hour and give you an update from there. >> the victims are employees or families >> the victims they are employees that are victims. with regards to the suspect i don't have information at this time. >> what were they doing inside? having a meeting? >> i don't know. it is still ongoing. give me a couple hours to give you an update.
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>> indoors or outdoors the shooting? >> i don't know if it was indoors or outdoors. >> how many rounds? >> i don't know. i don't have the information on that point. >> can you tell us were there at least five fatalities. >> i don't have a number for you. give me an hour and i'll give you an update. everything is still preliminary. just occurred. we have investigators on the scene trying to figure out what happened. we're trying to set up a reunification, get victims where they need to go and get medical treatment. that's the most important treatment. >> where are the victims going? >> do you know what kind of weapon was used? >> i don't know. >> how can the family members get information. >> family information we're staging our reunification which is at 55 west younger avenue in san jose. if anyone has any type of information regarding this incident give us a call. it can be anonymous.
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but we can get as much information as we can get in regard to what transpired of this case that would help us out as well. we have investigators on scene gathering as much information as we can to figure out what exactly happened. >> how many employees work here? >> i don't know how many employees work at this facility. once we do an update in a couple of hours i'll have a vta spokesperson come out and give you further information. give me about one hour and we'll do another press conference and give you an update from there. thank you. >> what type of security is on site? >> harris: that last question was really important. he probably could have answered that if he had stayed. what type of security is on site. you don't need to depose the witnesses to be able to answer that. perhaps next hour as russell davis with the santa clara county deputy's office will let
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us know. a couple of updates there. the vta employees' information we were trying to understand how they may have played a role in the injuries and fatalities. are those employees, that would be the next question. he did mention vta employees. the suspect is confirmed deceased. we knew the suspect was down. the configuration of the santa clara county sheriff's deputies offices headquarters is really fortunate in this situation. they clearly are right next door as he said. we could see that earlier as you pull out. that's where families are told to go to get more information on this. multiple injuries and fatalities. we don't know the configuration. pat brosnan, you have dealt with scenes that are huge like this and having sheriff's
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deputies right next door can make a difference in the crime scene? >> good morning, harris. in a rational world where there is adherence to the world of law and respect for law enforcement pre-the summer of love of 2020, i think there would be more nuanced response in terms of opening a shooting, an active shooting right next do to where there is a load of armed professional shooters under law enforcement. the rules have changed. crimes are no longer illegal. there is no longer enforcement of lots of laws and empowerment of active shooters. this is a time i wish i was wrong with my prediction, which i mentioned to anybody who will listen, that once covid starts to lift, these cowardly shooters will come out exactly in tandem with the number of vaccinations. you can be sure they got vaccinated. they were scared to come out.
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numbers don't lie. the shootings are up dramatically. skyrocketing actually on active shootings throughout the united states as we have come through this pandemic. it is terrifying stuff. >> harris: you know, pat, as we listened to that brief news conference one of the things i picked up on. when you have reporters that have basic questions and someone has come to the mic, they are doing their public service, that person who is there, that deputy to first of all confirm some things that the threat potentially has been lessened by the shooter being dead, that sort of thing. what it also does is it solicits the public's help. if you watch that carefully that's what's going on. whether you are anonymous or not they need help on this one. that crime scene is enormous and you don't know which direction anybody came from so it's hard to trace a trail if you will. and we still don't have the number of dead versus wounded and why is that important?
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we don't know who the targets were. what are your thoughts on all of this? >> i'm exactly aligned with you. i think the public/private partnership between civilians and law enforcements with the extra eyes and ears providing intelligence and information to law enforcement is paramount. we see it time and time again. we must have that partnership for the simple reason law enforcement resources are finite. only a certain amount of officers and budget to support them. partners in the field. civilians are critical to gaining the intelligence, knowledge and data and info to informed and mitigate. who knows if there is not another actor here? we don't know, it's extremely premature. no one knows anything at this point. >> harris: pat brosnan, thank you for joining me. in an hour we'll hear again from the santa clara sheriff's county deputy office on what exactly has happened here. we know the suspect is dead.
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as pat brosnan is mentioning. we don't know what it means for a wider investigation. they didn't say there was a manhunt. we hope the threat is at least contained at this point. we'll come back as news warrants on this. let's move to this. >> wouldn't there naturally be quite curiosity that it could have come from a lab in wuhan? >> you are not a public health expert. we need access to the underlying data and pressed with our international partners for the who to support and expert driven evaluation of the pandemic's origin. >> harris: white house press secretary jen psaki pressed on efforts to determine the origin of covid-19 as the biden administration shut down a trump investigation to see if it originated from the laboratory in wuhan.
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they were concerned about the quality of the investigation despite new evidence that several workers at that lab became sick with covid-19 symptoms and had to be hospitalized in fall of 2019. the white house says there should be an international investigation but senator rand paul is not on board with that. >> the investigation can't be done by the w.h.o. or an international group. it also can't be done by americans who are involved with funding the lab. so dr. fauci and his handpicked person from ecohealth cannot investigate themselves because they gave the money to the lab. but i don't know that the administration can investigate this since they shut down the previous administration's investigation. i'm worried they're trying to cover up the government's involvement. our government's involvement in funding this research. >> harris: ronna mcdaniel rnc chair joins me now. why is this so difficult? we're looking at something that we know is not right.
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we're dealing with a communist country who was not forthright, honest and transparent at the very beginning of the pandemic. >> you think of how many lives lost, how many of us have lost loved ones and friends and to see this cover-up being aided by the biden administration for them to shut down a credible investigation to go to the w.h.o. who was so ineffective from the very beginning in identifying this pandemic and also they have had a year to investigate. they haven't. i think it's shameful and i agree with rand paul. we need to get to the bottom of this but i don't know if this is the administration that can do that. they're part of the cover-up right now. >> harris: i'll move to this. the republican governors association is pointing a finger at michigan democrat gretchen whitmer for violating her own covid restrictions again. this time she took a secret flight to florida while residents of her state were locked down under pandemic travel advisories. the association is taking aim
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at whitmer in a new ad. here it is. >> gretchen whitmer secretly flew to florida to visit her father. i wish i had that same chance. but whitmer closed nursing homes when we tried to say goodbye the day he died the facility called the police. whitmer ignored her own rules while the rest of us were forced to comply. >> harris: what are your reaction to that >> my heart aches for that family and for so many families who can't get answers from the whitmer administration with what happened at the nursing homes but the hypocrisy for her saying you can't see your loved ones and her taking a private play and shows why she will have a tough reelection next year. we'll change that governorship to republican because of the many failures and hypocrisy of
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whitmer in michigan. >> harris: look. i will state in new jersey governor murphy did the same thing. we didn't have the carnage in nursing homes that they did in new york city and you have whitmer. >> she is not being forthcoming. you can't get the nursing home data out of michigan. she covered up everything with ndas and letting people go. there is a lot here in michigan the citizens don't know because of a governor who hasn't led and hiding and covering up her tracks. >> harris: chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. thank you very much. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> harris: the potential extradition of a u.s. marine is sparking outcry and some say he could be killed if the biden administration goes through with it. veteran homeowners, i have 100 great reasons why you should use your va home loan benefit to take cash out of your home.
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appeared in his home, then ordered him into his car and ordered him to circle molly tibbetts as she was jogging. we are know a morning break in the testimony right now. there is more to come on this. when he took the stand under oath he also testified he paid a coyote to cross the river in texas to get into the united states and now he is saying he didn't kill molly tibbetts on his own. he was forced to do it by two armed masked men. this story now taking a different turn and as it breaks, news when they reconvene and testimony goes on we'll bring you the very latest in this molly tibbetts killed in 2018 jogging, 20 years old. you see her there on the left. we've always wondered what had happened. this illegal immigrant cristhian rivera at the heart of the case has just put it off on two unknown, masked people who he say forced him to do this. more news as we get it on this.
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the biden administration may make stunning moves to extradite a u.s. marine veteran charged with breaking into a north korean embassy in madrid. that happened in 2019. christopher ahn supporters fear if he goes to spain, he may be assassinated or kidnapped and taken to north korea. ahn, part of a group that supports a free north korea spoke out yesterday after a hearing in federal court. gordon chang is a senior fellow at the gate stone institute author of the coming collapse of china. tell me the significance of what we're learning here and what it means for christopher ahn. >> his life would be in danger if he were indeed extradited to spain, which has diplomatic relations with north korea. we know that north korea has no inhibitions about assassinating people. kim jong-un, the ruler had his half brother killed in 2017 in
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an airport with a nerve agent. and so there are real fears that this could happen to christopher ahn or something else if he were taken out of the u.s. >> harris: would would the biden administration entertain extraditeing him. >> we have a treaty with spain. in this case it's not clear there was any crime committed because the break-in at the north korean embassy in madrid very well may have been an inside job and all of the restraints of north korean diplomats and could have been done by the north korean themselves. the thing here is christopher ahn is a human rights activist. president biden campaigned on being the human rights president. now biden has the chance to actually show it and he should show it by stopping the extradition. >> harris: we only have a couple of seconds because of all the breaking news.
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china and this president just a quick top line thought. >> biden has been giving into china. the w.h.o. investigation. there should be no question we shouldn't be doing this because the w.h.o. has failed in three previous missions to wuhan on disease investigation. >> harris: so you tie it to that. gordon chang we'll bring you back another day for more time. thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". very busy hour. "outnumbered" after the commercial break.
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