bird food. they have to go through the obstacle course. >> bill: look what he has created. >> dana: this is innovation at its finest. my dad trained a squirrel to go up a ladder to get a snicker bar. it happened in denver. in case you are wondering. >> bill: not on camera, is it? >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: president biden's secretary of state anthony blinken is on the hot seat right now testifying before two senate committees today. pressure is building on the biden administration to hunt down the origin of the novel coronavirus. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". admission is growing across capitol hill that it is a real possibility that covid escaped from a laboratory in wuhan, china. and the "wall street journal" is now reporting a u.s.

government-backed study from last may concluded it was plausible. we also now know that study had a major influence on the state department's early investigations. state officials got the findings last october and fought to get more information in the final months of the trump administration. secretary blinken yesterday on what he hopes to see. >> we remain open to, you know, most possible explanations if the evidence is there to support it. i think what you are seeing around the world is growing concern, focus on the need for countries starting with china to step up to their responsibilities. that's what we are looking for. >> harris: however, senator tom cotton of arkansas says china is still refusing to cooperate more than a year after the pandemic began.

>> china chances of ever conceding they are responsible for this virus is zero. every bit of evidence we have points to those labs and past time to hold china accountable for their negligence and deceitfulness in unleashing this plague on the world. we can make china pay and we should start right now. >> harris: we begin with rich edson live at the state department. how is it going so far for secretary blinken? >> good morning. more comments on this. this government report from a lab in california claiming that it is plausible that the virus that causes covid-19 could have come from the wuhan institute of virology. the "wall street journal" first reported that department officials researching the pandemic's origins cited findings from the lawrence livermore national laboratory in california. their intelligence arm prepared the report. it analyzed the genome sequence

for the virus. now to capitol hill. in d.c. secretary of state anthony blinken is back before congress testifying for the second straight day. the secretary says that international community with will hold china accountable for failing to cooperate in an independent investigation into the virus's origins though united nations group just held its annual meeting held last week didn't approve it. china's government has refused access and withholding data in response for the u.s. calling for an investigation a spokesperson for china says he urge the u.s. to stop politicizing the study of origins. stop smearing china and shoulder its due responsibilities and invite w.h.o. experts for origin study in the u.s. president biden has initiated this investigation from the

intelligence community. it is due near the end of august looking into two different ideas here, one is that covid leaked from a lab, the other is that it occurred naturally in nature and that's something the secretary has been referring to saying they are waiting on the results of that investigation before proceeding. harris. >> harris: all right. rich edson, thank you very much. dr. marc siegel fox news contributor and professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center. good to see you. i took a pause after rich edson gave the choices. i was reading recently in a pretty in-depth report on how many animals they've tested in china reportedly. like 80,000 bats and that they've pretty much found that it was not that. when we had the first round of covid, sars a few years back they found it within four months, didn't they, the origin and it was an animal?

>> correct, harris. listen, it started in a bat for sure. a bat coronavirus, a horseshoe bat. that much they know because the vast majority of the structure is from a bat coronavirus. but for sars 1 as you mentioned it went through a cat and they've been testing animal after animal here and haven't found what we call an intermediary creature. if it started as a bat coronavirus where did it go next? it doesn't go from bat to human. those viruses don't go easily human-to-human. the thing that raised eyebrows on the lab is what they're doing in lab that study bat coronavirus. they are looking to see how they get them to be more trans missable. you've heard them say -- the point about that.

it is not found in mers or sars 1. it is found in other coronavirus but not found in the related coronavirus. the question is why wasn't all of this addressed a year ago? it was but it didn't get traction. now it is getting the traction it deserves because lab leaks occur all the time. a lab leak should have been ruled out and the question is cdc didn't get boots on the ground in january of 2020. they weren't allowed in. they fought to get in. they weren't allowed in. maybe they would have sound something. why didn't china let them in? >> harris: we were offering to help. senators told me that. it wasn't just about the origins of that. thailand wanted to help as well. they did get in but not immediately. according to a new gallup poll 24% of people say they don't plan to be vaccinated and of those 24%, 78% of those say they're unlikely to change their mind.

what is happening here, dr. siegel >> i think people have made up their minds and that's very disappointing because we really need that last group to get over the threshold of what we have been calling herd immunity. people that had covid and gotten over it and people who get vaccinated. we are getting closer and closer and certain areas we're there. this group is resistant because they believe social media too much or they have reservations about something they think is too new or they're not looking at the hundreds of millions of people who have gotten this safely and are not getting sick. or this is something we featured here, is how about t t mixed messaging that has come out of the government? you are vaccinated but still wear a mask. all of the messaging that doesn't show that vaccines work as well as they do. this vaccine is really incredible. >> harris: i'm curious about antibodies if you've had covid-19. people say i don't need to get it. i've heard you say there is a layering of protection. we don't know how long those

antibodies last. >> look, harris, a new study came out this week that shows it looks like you get a year of protection from having had covid. but what gives you a real super immunity is getting at least one shot of an mrna on top of covid. i'm a a fan of both. if you've had covid we're underplaying the amount of protection you have. you have natural immunity and we can make sure it lasts longer especially against the variants if we give you at least one shot. that's what i'm in favor of. >> harris: people don't need two shots if they've already had covid? >> currently being studied. my prediction we'll end up one shot in most cases. not if you had an organ transplant but in most cases a healthy person you would probably be okay with one shot. we will get there. >> harris: florida governor ron desantis getting a huge cheer at a country music concert over the weekend while getting a dig

in at dr. anthony fauci. >> the largest concert since the pandemic. the only reason we're doing that is because florida chose freedom over -- [cheering and applause] >> harris: your reaction. >> it may seem like this is political except if you look at the fact that governor desantis got rid of the mask mandate last october and had the statewide open and the economy is flying. fauci went more on a lockdown model based on influence more than a virus like this that hangs in the air and spreads more easily. when people got locked down they spread covid among themselves and no evidence florida did any worse. zero deaths over the last 24 hours. they've been down low like other states still hunkered down for months now. the governor is right to point

this out. lockdowns had tremendous costs and it looks like we were wrong or at least dr. fauci and his ideas were wrong to super impose lockdowns for so long. >> harris: florida had a lot of successes. even the vaccinations were readily available. people from new york were traveling down very early on trying to get their shots down there. they were just better at stuff. all right. dr. siegel, thank you very much. congresswoman ilhan omar seems to think the u.s. belongs in the same category as brutal terrorist groups. what she just tweeted about the country and about israel. plus we're live in mexico city where vice president kamala harris is meeting with mexico's president today as the border crisis reaches new horrible heights. plus when asked about when she will finally visit our actual

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>> harris: vice president kamala harris kicking off the second leg of her first foreign trip in office meeting with the president of mexico today. it comes with illegal crossings at our southern border reportedly at the highest level in more than a decade with four months still left to go in the fiscal year. when asked if she would finally make plans to see the border crisis up close here is her response.

>> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> at some point. you know, we are going to the border. we've been to the border. so this whole -- this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i don't understand the point you are making. i'm not discounting the importance of the border. >> harris: oh, hilarious. bryan llenas is live following the vice president in mexico. laughed it off. hasn't been to europe. not the point. bryan. >> good afternoon. vice president kamala harris and mexico's president have taken official photos at the national palace and are five minutes away from having their official bilateral meeting. both delegations from the u.s. and mexico signed a memorandum committing both countries to really adding economic opportunities in the northern

triangle, el salvador, honduras and guatemala all part of what the vice president continues to say on this trip is the focus of her trip, to really go after the root causes that she says is causing illegal immigration. but at the same time, she is facing criticism for not dealing with the current crisis at the border. facing criticism for not visiting the southern border, but also for her mixed messaging to migrants. listen to what she had to say in guatemala to the people of guatemala just yesterday. >> at the same time, i want to be clear to folks in this region thinking about making that dangerous trek to the united states/mexico border, do not come. do not come. the united states will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border. >> a blunt message.

democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted her response quote, this is disappointing to see. first seeking asylum at any u.s. border is a 100% legal method of arrival. second the u.s. spent decades contributing to regime stage and destabilization in latin america. we can't help someone's house on fire and blame them for fleeing. both guatemala president and mexico's president have both said the biden's messaging is contributing to more migration. listen. >> expectations were created that with the government of president biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. this has caused central american migrants and also from our country wanting to cross the border thinking it is easier to do so. >> the vice president will hold a solo news conference today 5:35 eastern. harris. >> harris: bryan llenas, great reporting. thank you as always. brandon judd is president of

the national border patrol council. thank you for being with me. i just want to start with where the policies shifted earlier this year right after biden was in office and where kamala harris appears to be taking them now. can we go from letting them in to telling them not to come? >> no, we can't. the first thing we have to understand is my agents and i live this crisis on a daily basis. we haven't seen this administration do anything to help with the crisis. in fact, all we've seen is them implementing policies and getting rid of good policies and not replace it with anything. what they've done is brought back the -- [inaudible] [bad audio feed] >> that is what caused this

push and why we're dealing with today on the border. >> harris: we're having some problems with your audio and i apologize to our audience. what you are saying is so important as the vice president as i can hear what you were saying, every other word what you are pointing out is the fact where the crisis is is where our border patrol agents are and she does need to get there. just quickly and we'll struggle to see if we can hear this. what kind of morale impact does it have to see the vice president chuckle off well, i haven't been to the border but i also haven't been to europe. >> our border patrol is always -- >> harris: all right. we tried. all right. brandon judd, we'll have you back. thank you so much. sorry about that. the key swing vote in the senate joe manchin is taking some heat from fellow democrats and the media after announcing he will not support the dem's

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justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. we have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the u.s., hamas, israel, afghanistan and the taliban. power panel now. judy miller pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter and fox news contributor. great to see you today. jason meister former trump advisory board member. good to see you. let's just start with what she said and the equating, jason, of the united states to some of the most thirsty killers and terrorists in the world. >> harris, look, a u.s. congresswoman comparing america and israel to hamas and the taliban is repulsive. it is disgusting and vile but it represents and is indicative in my view a much larger issue which is that hatred for america and hatred for israel has become mainstream in today's democratic party.

it is no longer fringe. it is not only permeating in the halls of congress but also permeates through pop culture and education system. that's why the left ville files america through critical race theory and other revisionist history. it begs the question, how do we lead a nation when our elected officials hate the country that they are supposed to serve? >> harris: i will put that question to you, judy miller. >> you will be surprised to see that i agree with jason on one point. that is what she said was simply unacceptable and ludicrous. but i disagree that this represents the mainstream of the democratic party. in fact, what ilhan omar said is basically out of step with president biden's position, with the position of his administration, and with the interests of not only of the

democratic party but of the nation itself. i believe that she represents a fringe and not the mainstream support for israel that the democrats have long supported. >> harris: we'll just do this quickly and move on. why don't we see the push from democrats then saying ilhan omar does not represent them and that the words were you say out of step. i would imagine if they don't represent you those horrible words she spoke you might have stronger things to say than out of step. quickly, why don't we see that from democratic leaders? >> i think that as you well know, harris, there is a fight in the democratic party what policy is going to be. >> harris: those who don't agree could easily speak up. >> most democrats understand the president speaks for the party, not ilhan omar. >> harris: we'll move on. now my mind goes to kamala

harris who says don't come but he says do. west virginia senator joe manchin met this morning with leaders from the naacp on voting rights after he published a weekend op-ed saying the s1 election bill democrats are pushing is too broad and too partisan and only will divide the country more. now his own party and members of the media are going after him. jason, i'll come to you. >> the blow comes from west virginia senator joe manchin. >> it to sink the move. >> joe manchin has become the new mitch mcconnell. >> senator manchin would rather preserve jim crow. >> he has ushered in an official death sentence for most of the biden agenda. >> harris: should republicans put out a call to joe manchin? it sounds like the democrats don't want him. jason? >> manchin is doing absolutely the right thing to save our

democracy and our constitutional republic from a bill that would legalize election fraud on the federal level. democrats are 100% ready to codify universal mail-in voting. no i.d. or signature check voting rules. stripping away the states' power to regulation their own voting which has been in effect for over 200 years. yeah, i understand that we just came off an election in 2020 where we allowed and changed the rules which we vote because in the name of covid and a pandemic. we can never allow that to happen again. that's personally why i was very disappointed in the supreme court of the united states in not taking in what i believe to be very good on the merit cases and striking them down on standing and not on the merits. so i think manchin is doing absolutely the right thing here in going against this bill. >> harris: you know, judy, in all the years i've known you you said one of the things that makes politics powerful is it should invite every voice.

do you think the democrats are in danger of not inviting them. you heard what the president said about manchin and sinema because they don't vote with him on certain issues. are they in danger of ostracizeing a lot of people? >> i don't think they can afford to ostracize joe manchin. he was the swing vote they needed to -- >> harris: what if he swings to the other side? >> i think he is pursuing his personal and political interests because he does favor some voting rights legislation, just one of the two bills that the administration has proposed. i think he genuinely wants bipartisan buy-in and he understands that continuing the polarization of this country and partisanship is a bad thing for democrats, for republicans and for the country. >> harris: we have a lot of reporting that the senator manchin is doing a lot of bipartisan behind the scenes. that filibuster if he goes

against democrats on that quickly jason, how tough is that going to be on the hill with democrats? >> look, the way i see it we're being threatened with one party rule. the democrats are on a power grab. it is important manchin do the right thing. i think in the end he will. and i think he will save our democracy and constitutional republic. >> harris: two mayoral wins to republicans over the weekend. the gop excited about the victory in mcallen, a border city that's 85% hispanic. gop sees this win as a promising sign for the 2022 mid-term elections. why is that, jason? >> look, i think there is an important power grab here and so i think the democrats are going to be at a risk here. i think republicans will win. >> harris: judy. >> i don't think he knows that. i don't think anyone could predict that right now. i will say this. democrats just have to stop

treating hispanics like victims and people of color who are part of the black lives matter movement. they are not. they conceive of themselves as immigrants striving for the american way. every poll shows that. the party seems not to be listening to its own pollsters. >> harris: they read a lot of polls. when i interview people from the party they tell me what the polling says. maybe it's the border crisis playing a role in all this, we'll find out. 85% of the vote, that's a lot. good to see you both. jason and judy. thank you. >> nice to see you, harris. >> i haven't seen anything like this. cops feel that they are under siege and they feel they get no support. i talk to a lot of them. they're backing off from doing the standard police-type work that they did, they always did. but now their careers, their

jobs, their family's well-being is at risk and they are making a decision not to engage. that, of course, openly hurts all of us. >> harris: that is former new york city police commissioner ray kelly telling "fox & friends" today about the morale crisis among new york's finest since the defund the police movement and the spike in violent crime is off the charts. in new york city shootings are up from 68% from this time last year. the mayor warns it could be a bloody summer. it already is and it is not even officially summer. the latest violence includes the shooting death of 10-year-old justin wallace saturday in his aunt's queens home. reportedly over a dispute about a shared driveway. outrage in minneapolis after two teenagers were gunned down just this past weekend as soaring gun violence grips the city that sparked the defund

the police movement. take a look at this. a woman pumping gas last week near los angeles was severely beaten in an apparent random attack. what is happening? congressman ro khanna democrat from california joins me now. congressman, you are unapologetically progressive. and i know that when you were pushing the justice policing act through the house you were called by some as being extreme and then it passed and i'm wondering are many as extreme as you are in your party and are they watching what's happening in these cities in america? >> harris, i wouldn't say i'm extreme. i would say i'm common sense. let me be clear. >> harris: i quoted what they called you. >> i have a lot of respect for law enforcement. i don't support defunding the police. we need police in this country. one can have that view. one can respect law enforcement who keep us safe at the capitol

and keep my community safe in silicon valley and still believe we need police reform so if you are black in this country you don't face abuse. i don't understand why we can't have those two thoughts simultaneously. have reform and also respect law enforcement. >> harris: well, we're struggling right now mightily to have two other thoughts in our heads and that's why it seems like the shootings by cops get a lot more attention than other types of killings in this country when one clearly outweighs the other. can we keep that in mind and also keep in mind of the numbers how violent things are getting? when democrats say reimagine policing can they take into account that little justin wallace doesn't get the same name recognition and calling out because he wasn't killed by a cop? why is that happening among particularly democrat-led cities? i will ask my team to pop some of this up. the defund cities are having a

mighty struggle right now. representative ro khanna. it doesn't get the same kind of outrage from people in your party that a cop-involved shooting does. why? >> first of all my heart breaks for this family and that young boy. of course that should be an outrage. any loss of life should be an outrage and we should talk about all violent crime. when i talk to law enforcement in my district what they tell me is some of the reforms that are in the justice and policing act actually will de-escalate situations. it is not just that they will help civilians. it will be good for police. police don't want those situations. my view is why can't we have common sense reforms? why can't we work across the aisle to help protect law enforcement but also protect people who have faced abuse? >> harris: a good question. i would ask it of maya wiley who wants to take a billion

dollars away from the police department and violent crime is on fire right now, representative khanna. it is heartbreaking, it really is. and to think about defunding like that, you ask a great question. why can't you come up with things that are common sense? why is this catching fire particularly among democrat-led cities? what is going on in your party? is it a divide that maybe the nation needs to know about? maybe they move away from those cities. i don't know. >> i don't think that's fair. there are a lot of common sense things in our bill. what we're saying is that you shouldn't be allowed to have choke holds. what we're saying you should use force as a last resort, the standard in every other democracy. and my hope is that you could have people in the senate come and meet us if there are particular parts of the justice and policing bill let's compromise and get something done. one other thing i heard your previous segment. i want to make it clear i was born in philadelphia in 1976.

>> harris: that's one of the cities of our map here murders up 32%. >> it is our founding city. let me tell you something. >> harris: they need more police and funding right now. >> all democrats that i know love this country. i believe this country has been a force for good in the world. we freed people from tyranny in world war ii and communism. i think there is so much more we have in common as americans and i know it is easy to take some statement, blow it up. but i think what people want is for us to come together to make sure that we compete against china, that we win the 21st century and try to bring this nation together. >> harris: i hear the platitudes of wishful thinking about success but people want to be freed from violence. seattle 270 police officers leaving the force. it is something that is a crisis within our borders and i'm just wondering where the

outrage is. i hear what you are saying. you want people to come together and to win on other parts of the world. i'm just asking with democrats in charge on the hill and the white house right now, why this isn't seen as an outrage and just an urgent moment more than fighting anything else, fighting for the people in this country. with all due respect. choke holds, talk about all it. but the children who are slaughtered in chicago aren't dying from choke holds who look like me. it is violent crime. i want to get to this. i know you want to talk about this as well. former secretary of state mike pompeo is calling on president biden to lead a global effort to hold china accountable for its role in the pandemic. he and former bush white house advisor scooter libby have laid out their case in a "washington post" op-ed entitled china's covid wrongdoing warrants

punishment by a biden-led coalition. here is what pompeo said. >> we know folks got sick, they went to the hospital from the lab, there was military activity taking place in the lab. we have enormous amount of circumstantial evidence. certainly enough to hold the chinese communist party accountable for the billions of dollars that were destroyed and the millions of lives lost. >> harris: this comes as the senate is on the verge of passing a a $250 billion bill to build up america's manufacturing and technological edge against china. as it becomes a bigger economic threat to the united states and you played a big role in that, representative. >> i am really proud that it's bipartisan and i did it with representative gallagher a marine, republican from wisconsin. we led it in the house. senator schumer and young was in the intelligence. it will double down on the national science foundation so america leads in the technology of the 21st century.

we don't want china to lead. i'm proud of that effort. >> harris: before i let you go speaking of china. this whole thing about the origins of the coronavirus now. we have a very complicated relationship with china. what you are talking about as i understand is decoupling our success from there. >> we need to lead technologically. i believe in our innovation. my district has $10 trillion of wealth. i've seen what american entrepreneurs can do. here is what i would say. there is a reason that everyone in the world still wants to come to the united states. they aren't trying to get to china. we have freedom, we have innovation, if we make the right investments we'll win the 21st century. >> harris: representative. thank you for coming on the program and taking all my questions. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> harris: could it be that

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>> harris: we told you about this last month when chicago mayor lori lightfoot announced she would only grant interviews to people of color. she cited the city hall press corps overwhelming whiteness. a white male reporter sued claiming the policy would be discriminatory. at a remote hearing yesterday lightfoot's lawyer said the rule is now not in effect. the judge, however, says he wants proof of that by the end of the week. jimmy failla host of fox across america on fox news radio. jimmie. >> harris, thank you for

granting an interview to a white person first and foremost. >> harris: you need to quit. >> it is ridiculous and called out for what it is. it is racism. they need to stop dividing us along racial lines and i'm glad they pushed back on this. what i think, harris, we've talked about this before. >> harris: yes, we have. >> she makes this argument about representation. which in a lot of ways is a convenient out for democrats to pass the bill to america for their own failings in their inner city. chicago's problem right now is it has a historically high murder rate that won't be reduced by diverse filing the pool of reporters she grants access to. in this case she is not --- >> harris: she is shrinking the accountability pool. fewer people will be able to ask her about that. i know you are friends with my husband who looks more like you than me also a journalist for years and years, not a

journalist of color and he said he would have just started asking everybody around her when he would be allowed to actually speak. >> that's the genius of tony berlin that a lot of people don't know. >> harris: actress elli kemper apologizing for being named queen of a 1999 debutante ball that once excluded blacks and those of the jewish faith. the star of the office was just 19 years old and wasn't a aware of the ball's history but was old enough to learn about it. jimmie. >> this is so ridiculous. first and foremost nobody should want to live in a world where we are held accountable for what we do as teenagers. that's the point of being a teenager, you do stupid things. in this instance we don't know she did the stupid thing. this ball had evolved from what we're being told was a racist past but she shouldn't have apologized.

no one has been able to point out the actual offense and the people she is trying to placate don't care. there is no sentencing guideline when it comes to the outrage mob. they either want to destroy you and your career and move onto the next person. if she could have waited this out she would have moved on to the next person. i don't know what the actual offense is. none of the articles saying it was horrific tells you what the horror was in her instance. take it from a guy who did a lot of dumb things as a teenager. >> harris: the group came forth and said that doesn't represent who they are now. we'll move on. if only you could turn back time. it was a hit by cher. cher went after senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema was the target for killing the filibuster to slow down the democrats agenda in congress. but her tweet named gillibrand,

not sinema. she called them fake democrats and traitors and urging new yorkers to kick gillibrand out of office. the tweet went viral for several hours before cher took it down and offered her most sincere apologies to senator gillibrand. whoops. >> i think twitter has created market for a reality talent show called america has issues. cher could be one of the hosts. this is the problem with twitter. it caters to emotionalist stupidity and created a world of first drafts. it felt good to her emotionally and she wrecked it completely. got the wrong senator. but unfortunately unlike her career you can't put a face-lift onto twitter and rehabilitate your brand. this is a bad look for cher. >> harris: jimmie, there is so much there. okay. good to see you, my friend. thank you.

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>> the media looking increasingly out of touch with ordinary americans after stunning comments after "the new york times" editorial member who calls it "disturbing to see dozens of american flags on trucks." you heard me correctly. she has thoughts about how to trump supporters interpret the meaning. this is "outnumbered." i am kayleigh mcenany and here with me today, emily compagno, harris faulkner, and founder of