so chris wallace protected him, good old chris wallace. he'll never be mike. this is what we go through. we no longer have a fair and free press. whether you like it or not, and i hate to say it to you because you're a big believer in the press despite what you go through but we no longer have a free and fair press. >> sean: i said in 2007, sir, i wish i came up with fake news but di say journalism in america is dead and i don't think i was wrong. i think i probably understated it. let me ask this. because two weeks -- last week, joe biden said to our military that global warming was the biggest threat they face. the week before he had said white supremacy is the biggest threat to america. i don't know. i think china, russia, north korea, the iranian mullahs might be bigger threats, radical islamic terrorism. what's your reaction to that answer? >> he said that the military told him and the generals, which was, i can't believe that, but maybe, but they shouldn't be working as generals any longer. global warming is our biggest threat. when you look at china and

chris: i'm chris wallace. . >> fauci has perhaps never been more wrong than when he denied the virus and where it came from. chris: to his report card on his successor. >> the biden administration seems to be putting america last. chris: to renewed claims he won in 2020. >> they used covid and they used the mail-in ballots to steal an election. chris: we'll ask former trump campaign manager, corey lewandowski, now head of a trump

have an awesome day. ♪ chris: i'm chris wallace. : vicious attacks in broad daylight. >> shots fired, shots fired. chris: as homicide rates spike. >> a central driver of violence is gun violence. chris: cops leave the force in droves and democrats back off calls to defund the police. >> we've declared war on the police and that is backfiring on those who have done it. chris: while big cities like new york grapple with who could lead them out of the surge in violent crime.

chris: i'm chris wallace. ind his domestic agenda at risk. chris: from talk of a compromise on infrastructure, facing pushback from the democratic left. >> we want a big, bold package and we want it quickly. chris: gridlock over election reform. >> i've been trying to get people to understand that's the bed rock of our democracy. chris: democrats debate dealing with republicans or pushing the biden agenda on a straight party line vote. we'll ask gop senator lindsey grah

chris: i'm chris wallace. president biden takes his america is back foreign policy on the road. president, mr. biden turns the page from the trump america first policy, rallying europe against russia and china and promising american leadership in the global vaccination effort. >> in times of trouble, americans reach out. chris: today we'll speak with the current can and previous secretaries of state,

but that doesn't make sense, even fox news chris wallace dismissed it. >> senator mcconnell says he'sthe biden agenda. question, aren't you being naive about this continuing talk about bipartisan cooperation? >> i'm not being naive, i think he's 100% wrong on blocking all the good things we're trying to do for america. >> and that is the whole point. if you think someone is 100% wrong, and you have the power to stop them, why wouldn't you? so this line of questioning continued on fox news, with wallace pointing out that manchin's position appears to strengthen the republicans' ability to do this. >> the question i have is whether or not you're doing it exactly the wrong way. haven't you empowered republicans to be obstructionists? >> i don't think so. because we have seven brave republicans that continue to vote for what they know is right and the facts as they see them. >> let's get into it. i'm joined by cornell belcher. good to see you. what did you think of that colloquy, as they say in washington? >> that was a really sort of telling interview. it points out the naive nature, or

chris: i'm chris wallace. former president trump returns to the political stage and goes on the attack. chris: from accusations of a he covid coverup. >> fauci has perhaps never been more wrong than when he denied the virus and where it came from. chris: to his report card on his successor. >> the biden administration seems to be putting america last. chris: to renewed claims he won in 2020. >> they used covid and they used the mail-in ballots to steal an election. chris: we'll ask former trump campaign manager, corey lewandowski, now head of a trump super pac, where the former president plans to take the republican party. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. then -- >> now's the time to build on a foundation we've laid. all the progress is undeniable. it is not assured. chris: president biden and senate republicans try to bridge their divide over infrastructure. but with congress split over so many issues, we'll sit down with the man in the middle on capitol hill, senator joe manchin and how he plans to break t

. >> our full friday kicks off of karl rove, chris wallace and charlie gasparino coming up. i speak through but first a brand-new report, as top international scientist tell of a secret february 2020 teleconference where they discussed how covid could have started in that wuhan lab. hello, everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york and this is "america reports." and it's also friday. high, dom academic hi, teresa. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher in for john roberts in los angeles. scientists on the call discussed the virus which some believe it to be engineered while others felt pointed to a natural origin. the group agreed information should be kept secret until they agreed upon the next steps. the conversation coming out in thousands of recently released emails from dr. fauci and while multiple countries push for a new investigation into the covid origins in china, officials are trying to spin the narrative. let's get to rich edson who is live at the white house with more on this. rich, good afternoon. >> the white house is pushing for a credible investigation in china into the

chris: i'm chris wallace. police departments in crisis, across the nation. chris: vicious attacks in broad daylight. >> shots fired, shots fired. chris: as homicide rates spike. >> a central driver of violence is gun violence. chris: cops leave the force in droves and democrats back off calls to defund the police. >> we've declared war on the police and that is backfiring on those who have done it. chris: while big cities like new york grapple with who could lead them out of the surge in

let's bring in chris wallace. from mike pompeo who accused of national institutes of health for suppressing information that the state department developed that tied the origins of the covid virus to that wuhan institute of virology there. are elements in the state department apparently steered away from that investigation and conclusions. what do you say? >> well, i was going to pick up on the second point. there were people inside. remember this is -- when they talk about the question of stopping an investigation in the state department this wasn't the biden's state department it was the trump state department when mike pompeo was the secretary of state there. were people pushing to investigate the origins of covid and other state department officials who said, maybe you shouldn't do that it will open a can of worms. it wasn't explained in any greater detail whether that met a diplomatic can of worms, foreign policy or what. you know it seems to me, john, we ought to take the politics out of this. i think there

tune in tomorrow or fox news sunday host chris wallace local 11 secretary of state antony blinken anessor, former secretary of state mike pompeo. catch fox news sunday 2:00 p.m. tomorrow on fox news channel. saturday june 12, 2021. i'm jon scott. see you tomorrow. ♪♪ >> this is life, liberty and living. i'm glad you're here. we pride ourselves in america being a nation of laws. we have this beautiful constitution of the united states. we have something called due process, all kinds of

tune in tomorrow or fox news sunday host chris wallace local 11 secretary of state antony blinken an exclusive interview with his predecessor, former secretary of state mike pompeo. catch fox news sunday 2:00 p.m. tomorrow on fox news channel. saturday june 12, 2021. i'm jon scott. see you tomorrow. ♪♪ >> this is life, liberty and living. i'm glad you're here. we pride ourselves in america being a nation of laws. we have this beautiful constitution of the united states. we have something called due process, all kinds of systems in place to protect the individuals from government especially a rogue government. what happens when that government becomes a criminal enterprise? what i mean by that? what happens when a district attorney the city or attorney general in a state use their power to advance a political agenda? politicians as a as prosecutors. what happens on a prominent individual is focused on an entire political party including prosecutors? that will we want in america? are used to seeing that in the soviet union modern-day russia under putin? they are used to seeing that in

in may 1985 nbc news chief white house correspondent chris wallace interviewed president, ronald reagan and first lady nancy reagan at camp david for a planned special report white house television also recorded the session capturing their informal interactions next on the presidency. we'll see that interview which picks up mid conversation the reagan's talk about their marriage nancy reagan's influence on her husband's politics and policies and their joint decision to get into politics. this is courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library. and all by going back and forth from them, and i'm more even like an addresses on national tv when you're in the overall office and you're reading right into the prompt here. i mean you don't appear reading at all. well, you know you can see dimly that little lens image right the glass right so you try you do kind of with peripheral vision. you try to keep your eyes much as possible on that spot. on the telepromptu while you're reading words. i hope we're rolling. and mine, it's just fine with me. the only thing i object to as you go boat off t

secretary will be a guest of chris wallace tomorrow on fox news sunday. ♪♪ eric: new numbers paintingand border protection announcing agents encountered within 180,000 migrants last month, a new 20 year high. texas governor greg abbott says the state will build a wall on its border on its own. charles, ceo of security solutions and former advisor, department of homeland security. charles, let's start with the administration administration, vice president harris was in guatemala, a few days ago she said do not come, he will be turned back. any migrants listening to that? >> absolutely not. let's face it, that's messaging from the start during the campaign about don't come, don't come now, all this other stuff, too late to change it now the policies here, the administration are the direct cause of all the problems we are seeing on the southwest border and its supported, like you said by the conditions and metrics of the past month and months prior and we are going to see it again in june. not only that, it's causing problems on the contrary that we are trying to the country or should be

national security advisor sullivan was speaking with scott on - - chris wallace earlier and he said if the ayatollah calls the shots a new president taking over in a couple of months it is up to the ayatollah and it will be under the new regime. back to you. jon: thank you. turning back to the infrastructure talks let's bring it in on —-dash representative congresswoman t20 saying a 1 trillion-dollar deal as from senator graham from south carolina but that is not big and if he wants to go four times that size what is your take. >> are we really surprised? to have an infrastructure bill and i was hopeful we could have a bipartisan effort to work together. we are but it's just not good enough for people like bernie sanders. my message to the progressives, is let's deal with infrastructure. roads, bridges and broadband. if you want to do with medicare and a pathway to citizenship, we can talk about that but that is not infrastructure. and with all of their years of experience in politics, they would understand the difference between infrastructure and non- infrastructure. so let's get bac

. >> chris wallace used the right word, "naive." manchin is calling for a narrow bill which would allow the federal government to challenge states that make changes to the alleged laws. even that stands to no chance of winning. senator manchin seems to sacrifice democrats of getting anything done with a minority party that refuses to take bipartisanship seriously. he's trying to be bipartisan with a party that refuses to take bipartisanship. all because of his defense of filibuster. >> okay. i want you to listen to this. closely. this is dr. martin luther king, 1963, this is what he had to aa about the filibuster way back then. >> the tragedy is we have a congress with the senate that has a minority of misguided senators who'll use the fill bub filibuster to keep the majority from voting. suddenly they do not want the majority people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. >> 1963. >> dr. king. now, this is the formal president barack obama of what he calls the filibuster relative to jim

manchin telling chris wallace he's confident a deal can be reached. >> my goodness, the president hasom 2.25 trillion down to $1 trillion. the republicans have come up quite a bit from where they started. we'll talk to senator capito after those meetings, we'll talk to the white house and we think we can find a pathway forward, we're not that far apart. griff: transportation secretary pete buttigieg also optimistic. >> we've seen a lot of republicans state their interest in doing something real on infrastructure. we've got to see if we can actually get it into enough of an overlapping consensus that we can get a bill done together. the president strongly prefers a bipartisan approach. griff: the president sets this week as the deadline for reaching a deal, though the commerce secretary says it's not a hard-wired time frame. jillian: silence from dr. fauci dodging questions in new york city as some lawmakers call for his ousting amid the fallout of his leaked e-mails. griff: jackie ibanez joins us now. >> reporter: dr. fauci spent sunday afternoon with first lady dr. jill biden visitin

the national security advisor, jake sullivan, told chris wallace this morning that in the middle of negotiations to return the united states to the iran nuclear deal, the 2015 agreement, that it's almost dabbing -- i don't want to say irrelevant. in a way they say it's the ayatollah that calls the shots there, not the president of iran so the impact of this election may be somewhat negligible according to the administration when they look into whether or not the u.s. is going to jump back into that agreement and whether the ayatollah ultimately signs off, whether in the past presidential administration there or the one that's now scheduled to take over in a off can he'll -- couple of months. arthel: israel's newly sworn in prime minister urging world leaders to think twice before entering into a nuclear agreement with iran opening the first cabinet meeting with a warning that the hard line president that iran elected yesterday would bring a, quote, regime of brutal hangmen. trey yingst is live in jerusalem with more details. trey. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon. after voting on friday, iran

. >> one other question i have to go back to that question chris wallace asked. mcconnell has been pretty clear that they are basically going to continue to stand in the way -- we saw some examples of that before the recess with a push against the january 6 commission. man chin saying that seems you true but i'll keep working on it. what prove is it that there is hope here. how does this relate to the infrastructure package. he'll decide if you want that bill moved, they'll want that to do it. >> right. that recent rhetoric is that he is 100% focused on blocking the biden administration policy objectives. that statement which the senate minority leader made in may was another prove that this is a republican senate that is not acting in good faith. as for the bipartisan deal, there has been progress between shelly capito and the working group. she's going to meet with president biden again today. i think the two sides are further apart than people realize. biden said he would slim down the package and republicans have boosted the offer to $980 billion but they rem

. >> bill: here is the comment from chris wallace on sunday., here is his answer, watch. >> i think it's the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country and i am not supporting that. i think it would divide us further. >> bill: everything lights up. twitter lights up. was this a profile in courage? how can you pass a national system for voting when 50 states do it 50 different ways? would it even survive at the supreme court? >> it may not but all -- keep in mind two things. one, joe manchin is representing his constituents. west virginia voted republican almost 70/30 in the last election. the governor of west virginia decided switched parties to republican. this is a very red state where joe manchin is representing as a democrat. he won't go along with the far left of his party and it's a principle decision. he was the secretary of state of west virginia and he ran the elections there. he understands the role of the state in a federal system and running elections and doesn't support federalizing elections on

chris wallace ing lindsey graham. i want you to watch and then get your reaction. >> if you vote to kill the bipartisan january 6th commission, looking into the insurrection of the capitol, do you run the risk that manchin and a couple of other moderate senators will eventually say, look, bipartisanship isn't working and we're not going to kill the filibuster but we're going to reduce the number of votes you need to stop a debate from 60 to 55. do you run that risk? >> i hope not. >> does he? does that move them, i suppose, is the question? >> yeah. manchin himself in that tape recorded briefing of the group no labels that was revealed last week expressed exactly that concern, that republicans on issues like january 6th and voting will make it more difficult for the last democrats to hold out against changes in the filibuster. manchin's position on voting has been utterly il logical and incomprehensible. he's saying washington should only respond to what has been a completely party line offensive in the states as i sh

. >> first of all our own chris wallace who is not a political hack, ask for republican congressman banksspeak it every single republican member of congress voted no that would have given three to $50 billion for policing. kennedy: gave a chilly and also much of other stuff that's why. it is not specific. if this were a policing bill. >> let me finish police. they voted against it included that provision. intra- democratic party fight over policing that we went through, joe biden and the moderates one, joe biden and the moderates one part he became a democratic nominee. he repeatedly advocate for more funding for police. their local officials. to foresee everything else people have a problem with. i know back it's the democrats and nationally. look for a loss of seats in the house is not a smashing victory. back okay all of our national leaders are democrats. nobody went to defend the police. stu varney nobody? >> i really what you want to use it politically this evidence it works. >> let's bringing kat she has been very patient. smith why do we do this? support let's bringing cat she's b

chris wallace, what do you have coming up this sunday? also going to be talking about the infrastructure deal which isn't a deal yet. it will take a lot of work. but we're really going to focus on one of the big subjects this week, the explosion of crime especially violent crimes across the country. big spike in homicides and shootings. the president had some ideas. we'll talk to a white house official and republican critic an capitol hill some of the rhetoric coming from the president and democrats criticizing police has caused a big spike in retirements of policemen. questions about prosecutions. so basically we'll drill down why are we seeing the spike in violence and violent crime and what can we do about it? >> dana: i will be on the panel with you this weekend. >> i was going to say we have a great panelist on the show this sunday. dana perino. she will make sense of all this. >> dana: amazing panelist. >> you were a hard guest. >> dana: i love "fox news sunday". see you then. >> bill: talking about ellis island and cuellar the demo

. ♪ chris: i'm chris wallace. president biden takes his america is back foreign policy on the road. standing again. chris: in the first international trip as president, mr. biden turns the page from the trump america first policy, rallying europe against russia and china and promising american leadership in the global vaccination effort. >> in times of trouble, americans reach out. chris: today we'll speak with the current can and previous secretaries of state,

manchin telling chris wallace he's confident a deal can be reached. >> my goodness, the president hasfrom 2.25 trillion down to $1 trillion. the republicans have come up quite a bit from where they started. we'll talk to senator cap he toe after those meet -- capito after those meetings, we'll talk to the white house. we think we can find a pathway forward. jillian: transportation secretary pete buttigieg also optimistic. >> we've seen a lot of republicans, certainly around the country but also a lot of republicans in office state their interest in doing something real on infrastructure. we've just got to see if we can actually get it into enough of an overlapping consensus that we can get a bill done together. the president strongly prefers a bipartisan approach. jillian: the president set this week as a deadline for reaching a deal. the commerce secretary says it's not a hard wired timeframe. uber logan paul going the distance against floyd mayweather r in their highly anticipated exhibition fight. >> another counter shot. >> oh! jillian: paul may have avoided the knockout but the u

chris: i'm chris wallace. violent crime on the rise and police departments in crisis, across the nation. chris: vicious attacks in broad daylight. >> shots fired, shots fired. chris: as homicide rates spike. >> a central driver of violence is gun violence. chris: cops leave the force in droves and democrats back off calls to defund the police. >> we've declared war on the police and that is backfiring on those who have done it. chris: while big cities like new york grapple with who could lead them out of the surge in violent crime. >> i have to save my city. the city that i was part of for 22 years. chris: now president biden is joining the he debate. >> this shouldn't be a red or bluish shy. it's an american issue. chris: we'll ask biden senior advisor cedric richmond about the president's plans to combat crime and get reaction from republican congressman jim banks, a critic of the white house policies, and we'll get the view in the frontlines with kansas city mayor, quinn continue lucas -- quentin lucas. plus

and we have an all-star lineup for you on this summer friday, karl rove is here, larry kudlow, chris wallacere saying it sounds like something from the handmaid's tale, reports the world health organization plans to call for all women of childbearing age to be banned from drinking alcohol. i didn't say all moms, all women whether they have kids or not. or play into. the first draft of the w.h.o.'s latest and global alcohol action plan urges countries to appropriate attention to prevention of drinking and children, pregnant women, and women of childbearing age 18 to 50. alcohol trade groups with a paternalistic and sexist proposal that restricts personal freedom and is not rooted in science. so between the ages of 18 and 50 of your a female no matter what your plans are, you cannot get your drink on. >> steve: look. i keep saying these things, things are unbelievable but it's all too sadly believable because we have this bureaucratic mind-set where these technocrats and bureaucrats think that they know best and they're the experts when they could give advice and boss people around and they're

here's west virginia's senator, joe manchin this morning with chris wallace. >> i still have all the confidence in the world that we will get there. the president has gone from 2.25 trillion to do only $1 trillion and republicans have come up quite a bit from what they started. this the same type of challenges we have commented last year when we had all got together. we are not there yet. >> the president wants to use this package to tackle infrastructure and certainly for the climate crisis and other priorities and republican say just leave it to infrastructure. the roads and bridges at the basics it to get from an expert in negotiations, former house speaker printed. >> i think the best opportunity for president biden to strike a deal is to find common ground with the republicans whatever that might be. i am not sure that president biden and the democrats would pass infrastructure built on their own. >> very successful negotiations usually both sides will have some sort of thing and it seems to be the case at washington dc and were also told in addition it to senator campo presiden

doctor, i want to start by playing for you and our audience, some of chris wallace his remarks on foxead reports and read through a number of the emails, there is no smoking gun there. this is highly political. i can promise you that you are seeing it as a major talking point for republicans. before we start calling for his head, this guy has been a devoted public servant for 40 years. maybe we ought to slow down just a little bit. >> so, doctor, not a popular opinion necessarily on fox news. how do you see this? >> first of all, it is clearly a target, anthony fauci's on back. i think there's a pick or context here, brian, which i want to run through with you. let's say we accept the premise that donald trump is leading a movement to create and autocracy with him or his surrogate at the league. and i see three big strategies at play now. number one, was the probable geisha of multiple big lies. including the biggest one of course, that the election was stolen. the second thing is the undermining of open and free elections. but the third part of this strategy, in my mind, is the attac

why isn't fox news with chris wallace covering this incredible claim right now? we know why, right?son is out there on his own. carlson island. he does own an island. he's out there on his own, claiming to be telling the truth to his viewers. and the defense from fox is that it's an opinion show and everyone knows it's an opinion show. but it looks like news, it smells like news, his fans think it's news. they trust tucker more than real reporters. why isn't fox following up? why isn't the newsroom digging into his claims? why isn't the news lroom tryingo prove tucker's theory? those are my questions. let me check my e-mail to see if there's been -- no, still no response from fox news' pr to those basic questions about journalism, about basic news gathering. what do you think? are there any answers? with me now is david zerwick, media with the "boston sun." and author of "demagogue for president." i know you both have a lot to say about this. i'm going to keep checking my e-mails to see if i get answers to my questions. why isn't the newsroom fooling up? tucker carlson is alleging o

. ♪ chris: i'm chris wallace. president biden takes his america is back foreign policy on the road. ping our adversaries feel the heat and our allies fall in line. >> democracies of the world are standing again. chris: in the first international trip as president, mr. biden turns the page from the trump america first policy, rallying europe against russia and china and promising american leadership in the global vaccination effort. >> in times of trouble, americans reach out. chris: today we'll speak with the current can and previous secretaries of state, first, antony blinken, about mr. biden's promise that democracy can deliver. and this week's high stakes sit-down with russian president putin. then we'll get reaction from former trump secretary of state, mike pompeo, blinken and pompeo, only on "fox news sunday." plus, vice president harris hits the global stage with a message to migrants to rethink dangerous travel to the u.s. border. >> do not come. chris: we'll ask our sunday panel about the blowback she's getting from the right and left. and our power player of the week, an ol

he told chris wallace that he has reason to believe bipartisanship is possible. listen to this. >> in the first five months of this year we have operated more the way the senate is supposed to operate in a bipartisan way than ever since i've been here in ten years. so under -- under schumer's -- under senator schumer's leadership, we've had more bills, more amendments voted on, gone through a normal process more. and people are continually trying to push us to more division. >> isn't that interesting, axe, he thinking more bipartisanship now than in the past ten years. >> he certainly also sees himself as a broke are for that. that's who joe manchin is. he is a moderate. let's put it in context. joe biden comes from a state that voted for donald trump by 39 points in 2020. manchin won his race in 2018 by 3 points in west virginia. he comes from a conservative state, trump oriented state and walking that line. it was interesting to me that this op-ed he wrote over the weekend saying he wouldn't support the "for the people act" and wouldn't support ending the filib

chris wallace used exactly the right word, naive. manchin is calling for a narrower bill. the john lewis voting rights act, which would allow the federal government to challenge states that make changes to their election laws. but even that stands little-to-no chance of winning over ten republicans. yet, senator manchin seems to be willing to sacrifice democrats' hope of getting anything done, with a minority party that refuses to take bipartisanship seriously. he is trying to be bipartisan with a party that refuses to take bipartisanship seriously. all, because of his defense of the filibuster. okay. i want you to listen to this. right? closely. this is dr. martin luther king jr., 1963. this is what he had to say about the filibuster, way back then. >> i think the tragedy is that we have a congress, with a senate, that has a minority of misguided senators. who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they won't let the majority of senators vote. and certainly, they wouldn't want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not r

chris: i'm chris wallace. president biden returns from his first foreign trip to find his domestic agenda at risk. chris: from talk of a compromise on infrastructure, facing pushback from the democratic left. >> we want a big, bold package and we want it quickly. chris: gridlock over election reform. >> i've been trying to get people to understand that's the bed rock of our democracy. chris: democrats debate dealing with republicans or pushing the biden agenda on a straight party line vote. we'll ask gop senator lindsey graham about prospects for compromise. then, president biden warns russian leader vladimir putin. >> certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack, period. chris: as north korea prepares for talks for confrontation with the u.s. we'll ask white house national security advisor, jake sullivan, where joe biden's foreign policy goes from here. plus, the supreme court on two major rulings and surprising unity on obamacare and religious liberty. we'll ask our sunday panel about more b

chris wallace is mean. the economy is mean, it keeps losing jobs which is mean to me.ment is something that i will -- it will probably come back to haunt me later this week. >>> former president trump reaching his breaking point with "saturday night live" in march of 2019. that is according to a new report from the daily beast. mr. trump reportedly grew angry while watching an "snl" rerun. and began to huddle with advisers and lawyers to see if the fcc or potentially the justice department can intervene with rough jokes. joining me is phil rucker. with the book that's out, congratulations on the new book with carol lenning. he calls the news fake. and for years with attacks. what do we know about his history of "snl." >> andrea, let's keep in mind, first of all, donald trump while president and certainly as president he did not have thick skin. and that was apparent to anybody who watched at a news conference or read his tweets. so it's entirely consistent with his character and his m.o., this reporting, that is, that he would pressure the justice department to try to

here's what he said in response to chris wallace. >> let me move on to another area because senator schumer, the senate democratic leader, is going to bring up a voting rights bill this week. the centrist, moderate always -- maybe the most powerful man in the senate joe manchin will offer his stripped down version of that bill this week. i want to put up the main elements of the manchin proposal. make election day a holiday. mandate at least 15 days of early voting. ban partisan gerrymandering and use computer models. require a voter i.d. senator manchin took out a lot of the basic senate plans, s 1, the for the people act, like public financing of congressional elections. can you go along with the manchin stripped down version? if not, why not? >> i like joe manchin a lot. we had the largest turnout in the history of the united states. and states are in charge of voting in america. i don't like the idea of taking the power to redistrict away from state legislators. you are having people move from blue stays to red states under this proposal. you would have a commission redraw the new distr

. >> and this is something the secretary of state addressed today with chris wallace on "fox news sundayt's take a listen. >> we need to get to the bottom of what happened. we need accountability, but we also need to understand what happened, why it happened, how it happened, if we're going to be able to put in place the necessary measures to prevent it from happening begun or at least to be in a better place to mitigate the next pandemic if we can't fully prevent one. >> guy, when we're talking about the idea of transparency and china is an invest that's going to be -- the heart of it will be in their country, how much can we even count on anything that comes occupant of it, if it even happens in. >> we can't rely on it almost at all, especially if it's done by the w.h.o., to sean's point. earlier today also the secretary of state, secretary blinken, referred to the last w.h.o. investigates, and i just want to put that in air quotes, investigation into this as highly deficient, was hi quote. i will be -- his quote with. i will be far less diplomatic. it was a complete joke. i think ever

arthel: a that is president biden senior advisor on fox news sunday, telling chris wallace this morninghey're confident the president will approve the plan. >> we came to an agreement on the infrastructure effort in a way that i think is really impressive, as you know, it is true infrastructure, bridges, roads, rail, electric utility support and so forth and without raising taxes and so this is a bill which stands on its own. i am totally confident the president will sign it if it comes to his desk. arthel: let's bring in jonah goberg, fox news contributor. what does it say about president biden that in 72 hours he walked back his original stance? >> i think everybody in washington has been trying to figure out exactly what this whole thing was about. you know, my suspicion is, it's not so much that it's weird that he had to walk this back, it's weird that he said it in the first place, that he tried to say that he wasn't going to sign this bill that he touted as being incredibly popular and a sign of us returning to normalcy and bipartisanship and said by the way, everything not in it