>> back to food. >> maybe teeny tiny, if i never had to do taxes again. i would not tell a soul, but -- might be worth it. >> i'm sure the founding fathers had the exact same conversation when they talked about taxation without representation. don't forget to dvr the show if you can't watch us live. now, here is "america reports." >> my informed assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our government's intelligence during the initial year of the pandemic has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. >> covid was not immaculate infection, not spontaneously generated, it came from somewhere and the details matter. >> john: fox news alert, former director of national intelligence testifying he believes the lab leak theory is

the only possible explanation for what triggered the covid pandemic i'll while a new senate republican report raises the possibility that there were two separate lab leaks at a chinese lab conducting risky gain of function research back in 2019. >> sandra: how will lawmakers hold china accountable as they hold more details of the origins of the pandemic. rand paul and mike johnson are on it, they will explain where they are going with all of this coming up. >> john: begin this tuesday, though, with new details on the mobs of teenagers committing heinous acts in downtown chicago, i'll while the new and outgoing leaders of the windy city downplay the chaos. i'm john roberts in washington. >> sandra: a lot of nothing to see here coming from the leaders in chicago. a lot more on this coming up. this is "america reports." mayor lori lightfoot is

disputing the numerous acts of vandalism happening in the city, as well as the two teenagers that were shot in chicago's well-known historic loop area over the weekend should be considered mayhem, but new footage obtained by fox news says otherwise and we will warn you, the video we are about to play out is disturbing. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] >> john: a group of teenagers seen here attacking a helpless woman cornered in a doorway before being dragged by her hair so the ground and beaten by an angry mob. that woman is going to join us a little bit later on in an "america reports" exclusive you don't want to miss. >> sandra: and those unruly crowds come after a record number of officers have left the chicago police department in recent years as well as growing concerns over mayor-elect brandon johnson's crime policies

and whether he'll work with the remaining police officials to combat this expected madness into the weekend and on into the warm months of the summer. >> john: garrett has more from the chicago bureau. are police investigating this latest incident of this poor woman who were corned? >> yeah, john, it is one of many incidents from saturday night they are investigating, and we want to show you this video again but remember, this is going to be tough to watch. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] >> it is not clear from this clip what happened leading up to this encounter, but 20-year-old ashley knutson tells fox news she and her boyfriend were attacked for no reason. you can see that crowd of several dozen people surrounding them as they are backed into the corner and then viciously assaulted. ashley says the mob stole their phones, shoes and an apple

watch. they were both taken to the hospital by a good samaritan who gave them shoes and $40. d.j.'s face and shoulder got here and ashley has a scratch on the face but no major injuries. now, despite seeing videos like that from saturday night, some state and local officials are defending the young people involved and blaming the city for what happened. >> i don't justify this behavior. but think about this. would they be downtown if they had things in their own community. >> some frustrated community activists say that may be true, but after the past few years they are exhausted of this happening and they want both the young people involved and their parents to be punished. >> many people got beat up, assaulted, dragged out of the cars, stomped on. people are getting ticketed for red light cameras and speed, find the parents and hold them accountable.

>> several city aldermen are very concerned about what downtown may look like this summer given the flatfooted response by police this weekend and the tepid response by mayor johnson who they say legitimized the actions of the teenagers over the weekend. >> residents are hoping things will get better. see if they do. garrett, thank you. sandra, i know this really hits home for you because chicago is a place you love. >> it does, and looks a different -- a lot different. i've been speaking with the young woman's mother who was attacked throughout the morning. matt got in touch with her first, i got in touch with her and asked whether it was a targeted attack. the daughter feels it was random but said both her and her boyfriend's phones were stolen,

shoes were stolen off their feet, they thankfully, the worst of the injuries are scratches but they were sort of saved by this good samaritan, the daughter is describing, scooped them up and helped them to the hospital for her injuries, for ashley's injuries and she wants to speak out. she's coming on the program next hour, she wants to find the good samaritan who helped them in that moment. she'll tell us about what happened in this horrific video on the streets of downtown chicago, john. >> john: what a horrible event, we look forward to hearing from her. >> sandra: and the alderman lopez, raymond lopez, he has a lot to say, calling this despicable acts of violence happening on the streets there. a democrat, by the way. he's speaking out about leaders doing nothing about this. he'll be joining us shortly. house republicans searching for the origins of covid with a hearing on the hill. john ratcliffe testified a lab leak is the only plausible

explanation. the chinese embassy not happy with the proceedings, urge the sub committee to stop targeting china in the pursuit for the truth. it points to two separate leaks at a china lab possibly leading to the pandemic. mike johnson will join us, but first bill melugin is live in the d.c. newsroom. the senate report was just released and a long time coming. >> it really was. this report was spearheaded by senator roger marshall of kansas. 20 months to put together, 300 pages long and concludes the start of the covid-19 pandemic is likely the result of a chinese lab leak in wuhan back in november of 2019. we'll talk about that conclusion. here is part of it, the preponderance of information, research incident likely

resulted from failures of biocontainment during sars co2 research. it may have leaked two times at the wuhan institute of virology, once in september or october of 2019 contained and a bigger scale november of 2019, chinese researchers were conducting highly risky gain of research function in an effort to develop a covid vaccine. senator marshall, a doctor himself, tells me the work done in wuhan scars him as a scientist. >> taking viruses more virulent and transmissible, so gain of function studies with deadly viruses that had maybe a morbidity rate of maybe 10, 20% as well. so, doing those in a biosecurity, 2, 3 lab as a scientist scares me to death.

>> earlier today the house select committee investigating the origins of covid-19 held their own hearing trying to figure out where covid-19 first began. you had it at the top of the show, john ratcliffe testifying it is his belief the only explanation is a chinese lab leak and the government is not happy about this. the chinese embassy penned a letter to republicans on that house committee essentially saying back off. here is part of that letter. they write in part, we call on the u.s. side to respect science and facts, refrain from targeting china in holding the above mentioned hearings, and put a stop to the intelligence-led politics-driven or origin-tracing. >> the chinese embassy expresses grave concern regarding this hearing and states they firmly oppose it. well, we have some news for

beijing. these intimidation tactics will not work. you will not slow down our work and we will not cease. >> and senator marshall tells me his confidence in the report's conclusion that this likely started as a chinese lab leak is at a 9 out of 10. if china wants to dispute that, they are more than welcome to do so by being transparent and releasing their own data on the subject. >> sandra: nice to have you here bill last week in new york, and now out in washington. thank you so much. >> john: louisiana republican congressman mike johnson, also serves on the house judiciary committee. you heard bill melugin saying, we have the energy department, the fbi, the senate report from senator roger marshall and now the former director of national intelligence saying all signs point to the lab. at this point, do you have any doubt that's where covid came from? >> we can't have any doubt, and i think this fear and intimidation and misinformation

tactic that the chinese communist party is engaging in is very telling. i completely agree with my good friends roger marshall and brad and of course john radcliffe. this is a matter of common sense. we have declassified intel that points to this, we have the scientific evidence, and we all know intuitively this happened. we have known for more than two years, our own state department in january 2021 that gave us three key pieces of intel. number one, we know they were doing gain of function research at low safety levels, we know they were cooperating with the chinese military since at least 2017 at the wuhan lab and also know some of the researchers were exhibiting covid-like symptoms as early as the fall of 2019. so there is no other conclusion you can draw here. >> john: chinese are whining about the hearing taking place today saying in a statement, i am reaching out to express, the chinese embassy counselor on friday, grave concern regarding the covid-19 origins hearing.

we firmly oppose it, we call on the u.s. side to respect science and facts and refrain from targeting china. congressman, what do you say to the chinese? >> we say to the chinese enough already. of course they are concerned about this because they have been engaging in outright propaganda. hidden data, hidden key facts that the international community needed. they have even blamed other countries for their failures, including the u.s.. the problem here is that they do not fear retaliation by the u.s. they are taking advantage of the weak biden administration, they see him as an ally or partner in some ways, and some ways they think they can take advantage and that's what we are seeing especially with the lab leak theory. >> john: senator marshall acknowledges critical data points are missing here that would be in effect a smoking gun it came from wuhan. but the senate report does say the chinese apparently began work on a vaccine in november of 2019, which is at least a couple months before the rest of the

world heard about covid. do you need a smoking gun here? >> no, we don't. i mean, at some point all the points lead to the same conclusion, and anybody who is looking at the facts objectively has to declare that. many americans and many of us in congress and leaders across the board, even in the intel community were pointing to this conclusion a long time ago and we were, you know, dismissed and the mainstream media and even the scientific community, dr. fauci and his narrative went the other way, so they censored in silence the people bringing this up, labelled us as conspiracy theory and the rest. now we know the facts have proven what we all sort of knew intuitively. >> john: on the screen, 1,128,404 u.s. citizens have died from covid. week if you could, congressman, does china need to be held accountable for the deaths? >> they do.

this has the potential to be obviously one of the greatest medical disasters in world history, but also one of the greatest cover-ups and scandals and that's a big headline and something we all need to keep front of mind her. >> john: good to talk to you, congressman mike johnson. appreciate it. >> sandra: southwest airlines asking the faa to put a nationwide ground stop on all its departures today. they say because of an internal technical issue. so, what happened? >> john: a gas buddy analyst warning drivers in nine states fill up your car now and try to save the gas as long as you can. otherwise it is going to cost you big time. which states have higher gas prices coming for them and why. money man charles payne who owns something that costs i think, what, 200 bucks to fill up? breaks it down for us coming up next. introducing astepro allerg. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid-free spray. while flonase takes hours,

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>> john: opening statements start today in a lawsuit centered around the aftermath of the 2020 election. dominion voting systems is suing fox for defamation. fox denies any wrongdoing. howie, host of the media buzz, is in the courtroom and joining us with the latest. howie. >> john, there was wrangling from the very start as the dominion-fox lawsuit got underway in delaware. each side saying it will object to a significant portion of the other's opening argument, and bitterly fought the six-week trying is going to be and jury selection dragged on with the judge striking three potential jurors for cause. the judge warned both sides not to offer evidence that he's ruled inadmissible in pretrial

decisions, most went against fox. dominion says fox damaged the reputation reporting false claims the machines were stealing votes from donald trump and flipping them to joe biden. some did not believe the theories. fox argues dominion cherry picked evidence in search of a financial windfall and the first amendment protects the airing of false claims made by former president trump and his allies, given the unproven allegations were news worthy. the case will turn on whether dominion can prove that fox acted with actual malice, extremely high bar under the 60-year-old precedent, and that will be up to the jury. i did not see any protestors but the place is packed with hoards of journalists. >> john: you said a lot of wrangling, what are both sides objectioning to here. >> fox attorney said if he took

everything out of the opening statement that dominion wanted it would cripple our defense, that's a coach. judge davis does not want to micromanage the process, stick to what you see at the trial and not making arguments and therefore, if anybody objects to something that was said, he could later rule it inadmissible and tell the jury to ignore it and limiting to what someone from maricopa county will say. >> john: and damages that dominion is seeking. what can you tell us about that? >> eye popping $1.6 billion. fox says the number is wildly inflated, worth several times more than the company itself and dominion has backed off half a billion of that. dominion says the business was damaged. if it comes to that, and a big if, the question of damages will be up to the jury and dominion

will have to show, if it can, how the business has been damaged. >> john: the latest from wilmington, delaware. they are about to finish out the lunch break, and talk to you later. >> sandra: thank you, john. in time for the summer driving season, gas prices, wait for it, on the way back up again and gas buddy is warning drivers in this country in nine states to fill up now saying prices in those areas will be jumping 15 to $0.25 a gallon as president biden pushes green energy policies. a gallon of regular gasoline, 3.67, up $0.07 in the past week. and it's up $0.23 from a month ago. charles payne is here, anchor of "making money" on fox business. charles, we need you, we need you to tell us what is coming. this is one of the biggest expenses for every american family and you have to be able to plan for what is coming.

so, should people be rushing out to the gas station to fill up now? >> there's definitely going to go up, three weeks in a row, and higher, and some states up $0.40 in near future. we have the summer driving season and the blends, and the news from opec shocking 1.15 million daily production cut, by the way, came after 2 million production cut in october. we have drawn down on the strategic petroleum reserve. inventory levels are below the five year average. the writing is on the wall. very, very economically painful and we are so far behind the curve right now, i'm not sure what we can do about it. >> sandra: i whipped out the calculator here, the average tank takes 12 to 15 gallons, or more if you are driving a big suv. another quarter rise in gas prices, up $0.50.

talking almost another $ten to fill up the gasoline tank and depending how far you drive to work, it's a big impact on the average american family, and you are talking about gas, not just gas prices up but the average vehicle cost is up as well. and you are looking at 48,000 for the average gas vehicle. biden wants you to buy an e.v., almost $60,000, charles. >> 7500 helps but a bridge too far. we are trying to first, i guess, the old olive, olive branch or the stick and the olive branch kind of thing, they can't get you to buy them for $7,500, most folks, right. upper income people are taking advantage of it. but certainly you can't do it if you work at walmart, so they force you to do it.

everything they can to make internal combustion engines so undesirable. one lane left, mark my words, 1 a bike lane, now whatever. then extra fees to drive in cities, and just -- the whole thing that most despicable part, you can have the dreams of utopian world we drive on sunlight and wind, but it's just not conceiveable right now. and that's the problem. this is unnecessary pain, sandra, for so many people, for the majority of americans and now we are going into this e.v. thing so fast with so many billions of dollars behind it. >> sandra: you say that, but let's hear what people are actually saying about the switch to e.v.s. some men on the street. >> i much prefer the electric. i get twice the mileage on it, and it saves me a lot of money. >> batteries die, then you have to buy $30,000 battery. >> our choices make a difference and the planet is obviously in

need of us making different choices. >> electric technology is not gonna be really great for some of the circumstances we get up here in the northeast. >> sandra: i'm listening -- >> i heard the word choices in there somewhere. that's what we are supposed to have. >> sandra: amen. >> a choice. we don't have a choice right now and if you want to buy into the notion the planet will implode if we don't make the massive economic sacrifice and cede our energy independence to china, you are a damn fool. >> sandra: and right now people are not voting it's the best car out there. >> it's called a choice. they are taking our choices away and ceding energy independence to an adversary. >> green to take public transportation but so many people don't want too do that because of the rising crime, how about we clean up the cities. >> i have a friend who drives a bus in the bronx, forget about it. he just drives.

he can't do anything. it's so scary, he just gets on the bus, and he just drives. he looks ahead and drives. >> sandra: terrifying to hear. it has to improve. we have to get people to take public. it's cheaper for people to get to work, more people back to work. charles, so many aspects to dig into there. >> thanks a lot. >> john: looking forward to that. swift medical attention helping to save the life of actor jeremy renner after a horrific snowplow accident and now getting a look at bodycam footage from the first responders who attended to him. our first chance to see just how urgent that situation really was. >> sandra: yeah, plus the biden family's finances are in the spotlight after subpoenaed bank records open a new can of worms. wait until you hear just how many family members may have benefitted from his foreign business dealings. hunter's, that is.

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president's son or the president's brother. we have identified six new biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions that we believe were a direct result of infl influence peddling. >> john: biden family business dealings may be wider than first thought, comer's committee got to view financial records related to the first family and past business associates, they found six additional members of the biden family who "may have benefitted from biden family business dealings." katie pavlich, editor for town hall.com and fox news contributor, and jonathan, katie, start with you. >> it's not surprising, given that we have not had enough oversight of what has happened here with the foreign business

dealings. hunter biden is under federal investigation for a number of these transactions. there are big questions why he did not register as a foreign agent and has not been charged with not doing so. in terms of how it affects president joe biden, the white house refused to comment on any of these business transactions. joe biden has said he has never spoken to his son, not to these other possibly six family members about any of these business dealings. the who us is saying hunter biden, talk to his people about it, despite the fact hunter biden went on the foreign trip with president joe biden. what were the consequences for the country. the question is not necessarily about who benefits because of consulting based on being connected to a political name which is powerful, it's the fact that hunter biden's business associates visited vice president joe biden when he was under the obama administration,

and delaware, who was in and out of that home given the shady figures hunter biden was around, and the transactions benefitting the biden family have an impact on joe biden's transactions when it comes to national security for the united states, and especially countries like china. >> john: spokesman said the following, after years of pursuing political dirt on the biden family, comer has failed to uncover wrongdoing of president biden. >> like grounds hog day, he comes out and says we have come up with something, just kids on tax filings, we don't know. he's been asked repeatedly about this. he's had years to investigate this, and so far he's found nothing. so i would argue if you are really interested in investigating like influence from foreign countries you maybe

should not have dropped the investigation into jared kushner and the $2 billion the saudis were giving or the financial filings president trump released with business dealings. you have to put up the evidence and he's found nothing. this is, you know, this is just a smoke screen and he keeps just teasing out the potential of more information. he sounds a lot like rudy giuliani and mike lindell during the election say we have all this evidence, well, put up or shut up. >> biden family enterprise on joe biden's political career and generated exorbitant amount of money for the biden family. two questions there. you can have criminality, and that would be one thing, but you can also have the appearance of improprietary, comes with it potential political cost. >> we know hunter biden has stake in a foreign chinese

communist party connected firm despite telling everybody that he is divested from the firm. and he was travelling with the president still having investments shady and not based on decades of experience as a legitimate businessman, like the trump family or like the kushner family. they have uncovered a number of items that the hunter biden team and joe biden himself have said didn't exist or weren't true. so, americans do think that it's a big deal for the president to have involvement in foreign countries that are adversaries and the fact is he has lied multiple times about his involvement saying he had none of it. we have emails uncovered showing joe biden was a business partner to hunter biden and shared office space where classified documents were kept and people were in and out of those spaces. >> john: what do you say about that, jonathan. idea that hunter biden is bringing in millions of dollars with no discernable business experience and the enterprises he's involved in. >> hunter biden has private business. >> what is the business?

>> john: what is the business? >> i'm not an expert on hunter biden. he has explained them, written a book -- >> john: just selling influence? >> what is he selling? does he own a company? >> i don't know the hunter biden business. >> the answer is he doesn't. >> neither do you -- i don't know what hunter biden does. but he has business, if they want to investigate that, they are welcome to investigate that. just throwing out blatant accusations about things is ridiculous to say, and to say that like -- >> what is the blatant accusation here? >> can i finish? and to say the kushner family was experienced in business, he has failed at real estate in new york city. that's a pretty impressive thing to do when your dad gives you billions of dollars. if the oversight committee has stuff, put it out there. show the american people what they have. don't go on tv and tease it out. it's not helpful to the political discourse. >> john: we have to jump, we are out of time. >> sandra: thank you very much. elon musk with a warning on

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>> sandra: a white homeowner in kansas city is facing felony charges in the shooting of a black teenager what went to the wrong address and rang the doorbell to pick up his younger siblings from a play date. c.b. cotton is here for the adv story. >> prosecutors said it has a racial component but have not shared specifics just yet. 84-year-old andrew lester is charged with two felony counts, the homeowner. officers say lester shot the 16-year-old in the forehead and the right arm. the teen's parents call their son accomplished musician, studious and kind. he went to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers. the teen said he rang the doorbell and took a for someone to answer, but when he did, he had a gun and fired.

lester says he was pulling on the locked door door handle. he was on the ground and was shot at again. and he says he heard lester say don't come around here. the 84-year-old says he fired his .32 revolver because he thought someone was breaking in and he was scared of the teen's size. arresting documents say no words were exchanged before the shooting. the teen's now home recovering and the family attorney looking for answers. >> we'll be meeting with prosecutor thompson later today. we want to understand the charges he did move forward with. we are happy they're two felony charges that bear serious consequences but we are not sure why attempted murder was not one of the charges. >> and yarl's family is set to meet with the family, and president biden called to wish him a speedy recover. >> sandra: and the mother, watching what they have gone

through since it happened, terrible to watch. >> john: a new senate report suggests there may be more proof the chinese government covered up the origins of the covid pandemic and it did, in fact, start from a lab leak. maybe even two lab leaks. will congress truly get to the bottom of what happened? senator rand paul is here to discuss. plus this. [bleep] >> sandra: just continued chaos in chicago. another weekend of violence. businesses there frightened from what is happening in the streets and violent teenagers taking over the town. it is becoming the norm in the windy city heading into the summer. chicago alderman and former mayoral candidate raymond lopez, a democrat, on that just ahead and what he says the city officials need to do right now about this horrific situation.

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both victims rushed to the hospital. the car that was involved in this, you can see in front of the third car in the line here, it's facing -- it's got bullet holes through the windshield. we don't know what this is all about. one person has been detained, but police are asking people to shelter-in-place as they search nearby woods for a second person that they believe may have been involved in the shooting. the incident happened in yarmouth, 12 miles north of the state's largest city of portland. sandra. >> sandra: we'll keep our eye on that, john. back to the top stories, the chaos in chicago raising alarm throughout the city's neighborhoods over incidents like the one you are about to see and we will warn you, this is disturbing. watch. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] >> sandra: that is a video that since this weekend has gone

viral. the victim in that video will be joining us just moments from now. she was attacked randomly along with her boyfriend, phones stolen, shoes stolen, and beyond. she was taken to the hospital by a good samaritan. she's going to join us next hour in hopes of reaching out to that good samaritan who helped her that night. and also ask whether she feels this is a situation that is getting worse for the residents on the ground or if leaders can get ahold of an already bad situation. raymond lopez is the democratic chicago alderman, a former mayoral candidate, he's very, very familiar with the violence happening in that city. and it is horrific. alderman, is there going to be any change with this new leadership now at the mayoral level? >> we were hoping, sandra, we would have some collaboration and discussion with the mayor on how we can uplift the city of chicago and put an end to some of the senseless violence that we see. we know he is focusing on root causes and we know many of my colleagues agree with me we have to deal with the here and now as we are seeing in the video.

but when you hear the response that the mayor-elect gave where he said he condones violence but then gave an exception that we shouldn't demonize our youth, no, we absolutely need to demonize this kind of behavior this. is unacceptable. not all of our youth are bad but there are organized efforts to bring them downtown and other neighborhoods to cause chaos and problems, the attack could have gone worse, at least three were shot, 50 arrested and numerous adults are followed in connection with organizing this event. >> sandra: and the residents feel terrified and alderman lopez, you and i used to talk about this chicago violence happening in certain pockets of the city. it is now everywhere. this is one of the most popular tourist areas in that city. you are talking millennium arc,

the bean, navy pier, michigan avenue, and these are really young people. in most cases this night, it was teenagers. but yet the current mayor, lower lightfoot on the way out, she reacted to what she saw over the weekend and you won't believe it. she said this. >> i think it's wrong to say there is mayhem. >> i jump in my car, my husband go to the hospital. >> what did they do? >> because he put it in the face. >> kids having a good time, bad parenting. our kids should not be out here. where are the parents at, that's my question. >> her words at the top of that

montage, alderman lopez, mayor lori lightfoot, it was not mayhem. what is it that is not mayhem? >> it hurts me heart, flashbacks of may of 2020 and for lightfoot to say this is not mayhem, she is living in a different plain of existence not to see how wrong this is for so many young people to be encouraged destroy our city. they were trying to break into the art institute, and pulling bus drivers and beat them. we had cars set on fire, and that woman said her husband was pulled out of the car, inp the middle of downtown. i hope my colleagues telling mayor-elect johnson we will not tolerate this all summer long. >> sandra: you are a democrat raising your voice on the issue, hopefully you are able to get to the right people this. is an

incoming mayor brandon johnson on the record supporting the defund the police movement and one thing is clear, the city needs more police not less right now. alderman lopez, we'll have the woman at the center of the brutal attack on the street from the weekend, she'll be coming up with us next hour. we'll hear directly from her, alderman lopez, thank you. >> john: knew at 2:00, california prosecutors taking governor newsom to task. they are fed up with lax laws they say are turning state prisons into involving doors for repeat offenders. riverside county michael hestron is leading the charge. and rand paul, capitol hill hearings, a.i. and what to do, and more as "america reports" rolls on. helping them achieve financial freedom.

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