it is not just china and iran. it is vietnam and south korea.also this, you know, these countries are taking advantage of softer security as millions of researchers and scientists and workers being suddenly forced to work from their homes. there is another story coming out. it is something we've been reporting on for months. that the uk is, scientists and researchers in the uk is now saying, colonel that the covid-19 outbreak in china and wuhan started earlier, possibly, looks like to them in october. so if it started in october, then the coverup and the concealment in china is way deeper and more profound than we realize. now we've got 18 state attorneys general, bipartisan push, they're both republicans and democrats saying house and senate, you got to launch hearings right now what is going on with china covering up. your reaction to that? >> this reflects on something we talked about before, china's more aggressive behavior of late, acting out in the south china seas, going after hong kong dissidents. pressuring, threatening other countries,

britain secret services for instance blaming sabotage of health care services here from russia from china from iran who knows venezuela cuba and as you know donald trump sees coronavirus as a direct attack on par with pearl harbor and 911 from the people's republic of china. well yeah he's making this comparison but. our us and i think it's a wrong thing to do would still that different and i don't believe this comes from a lap one it's definitely not a good time to pick another fight is china so the us will definitely amplify the current economic downturn by terrorists to punish punish and that's what's rule in the else crisis think about not the great depression of 20 in 29 at the time most countries are very protectionist accelerating russian salaried in crisis in the same scene might happen again yeah but arguably with 645000000000 pounds of quantitative easing here the governments at the same time as they may be blaming china are pouring money into firms that are committed to globalization supporting your viewpoint and if it doesn't work surely natural they should blame bad actors russia china

covid, i talked about nation state threats and how those manifest in different ways, whether it is china, iran, or everything in between. from a cyber perspective, we are concerned about that. i talked also about the immigration challenges we continue to have, and we have seen that manifest itself during the covid environment, making sure our borders stay secure, and we restore integrity to that system. finally, i talk about the rise of terrorism in the u.s. so, after 9/11 and the years right after 9/11, we talked about a foreign terrorist threat to the u.s. and how do we guard against that? a lot of measures we put in place have done just that. what we have seen over the last several years are homegrown terrorists. how do we adjudicate that? how do we look for individuals prone to violence? how do we offramp them? how do we get them the help they need? there are a lot of different things we continue to push. we continue to try to publicize what we do, but covid-19 is obviously getting most of the attention these days, but all the effort i talked about, senior leaders inside the department are

also bans the entry of people who have been to china, iran, and europe. brazil had over 347,7,000 coronavirus cases as of sunday. more than 22,000 people there have lost their lives due to the virus with about 1,000 new deaths reported daily. brazilian president jair bolsonaro has been pushing to reopen the economy, but infections continue to spread rapidly, especially in crowded urban slums. researchers at johns hopkins university in the u.s. say the global number of coronavirus cases has surpassed 5.4 million, and the death toll has exceeded 340,000. the united states has the most reported infections and fatalities of anywhere in the world. >>> the chinese government is brushing off criticism of its proposed national security legislation for hong kong. as pushback against the move mounts, beijing says western countries should stay out of it. china's xinhua news agency has run a commentary about the issue. it says some western nations and politicians are repeating old slanderous claims against china. it added that hong kong is a special administrative re

their own conclusions collating their own suspected lists and at the top of the of the likes of china iran and of course russia now all of this comes 2 days after g c h q has released warnings that hackers linked to hostile states are now going off to u.k. universities attempting to produce vaccines and testing kits and we're already hearing in that case particular of retaliations particularly from tobias albert to is the chairman of the defense committee saying that britain should retaliate appropriately adding that the current global destruction of covert 19 is the perfect fog of war to conduct cyber attacks plus we're also hearing reactions from spy offices at national cybersecurity center branding these alleged attacks as absolutely awesomely reprehensible and confirm that they were working around the clock to try and decipher exactly who the culprit is but by the way and it's a big by the way g c h q has not provided any evidence that there's been any successful attacks even happening so no concrete evidence in this case no concrete evidence in the case before but both we have seen th

he of course does have enemies in china, iran and others. north korea, but really most people see donald trump's most major war to be a domestic one where he is fighting various elements of the media, various elements of the republican party, obviously the democrats and others. >> host: your subtitle, defenders of western civilization. there's two questions what you mean by western civilization? and how did they defend it? >> with the civilization, i kind of think of western civilization is having a set of values. they tend to be values that were developed in the english speaking world so the anglosphere for lack of better term the united states of america, the united kingdom, australia, canada, new zealand, they are western countries with a lot of influence on values and morals and systems that are used all around the world. so western civilization, i really think is most of europe, it's the united states, does have those type of countries not including obviously china or large parts of the middle east. that is western civilization. in term

. >> reporter: it's not just china. iran is also on the attack. archers at the cybersecurity company recorded futures say the iranian state targeted an executive at gilead sciences, the manufacturer of the promising coronavirus treatment drug remdesivir. demers said china is desperate to be first with a vaccine. you called this a holy grail of informationhese hackers are going a.s noth me important right now than theeatl value to be able to say that they were the first to develop a vaccine. >> reporter: tonight in a statement, chinese officials said the accusations were without evidence. but u.s. officials say anyone working on a vaccine should be on hyperalert. margaret. >> brennan: jeff pegues, thank you. there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." could one person be to blame for dozens of coronavirus infections? coming up, why health officials are so worried about what they call "super spreads." and later, how many americans are getting through the pandemic distancing from people but snuggling with their pets? because i

does have the best advisers in history for the wrong reason on their dark side which are russia china iran and cuba so for sure he has survived it because he's got 70 years of experience of rogue actors and rogue states but in my opinion these could become his last and biggest mistake to do to meddle and to play around with former soldiers u.s. soldiers in venezuelan territory regardless of that they have done he now has to follow up the rules of the of course the due process and he's got he also has to. be able to send him back home although wise he's given one more reason as legal reason for the u.s. to act they should already be acting under article 51 of the u.n. charter for the legitimate self-defense because they are not only a present at risk to the national security the u.s. colombia and brazil but also to the maintenance of peace and security in the region and the world so in my opinion yes what we need is a plan colombia to activate the da agreement and extract these universal enemies to activate the international monetary corporation by invoking divinest well and article 2871111

but there has been quite a lot of cooperation between countries like italy and china and iran and china and these laces that had the initial outbreaks overseas, south korea in particular. so i think the thing that is constraining cooperation between the united states and china is entirely political. it is the fact that the two leaderships are locked in a much bigger, more existential kind of battle there, which incorporates the trade war, which incorporates technology and 5g and huawei. it is really this kind of butting heads of two global powers that is constraining cooperation on so many things. so, yeah, we have not seen the united states and china cooperate on a global pandemic in a way that we would expect. but also, looking at, kim jong-un, there was a lot of questioning about where he had gone a few weeks ago. that is the kind of area -- you know, north korea is the kind of area where china and the united states has been able to cooperate on an area of mutual interest in the past. 2008 or so, they were able to cooperate, when there were similar rumors. now, because of the hostili

define what everyone's interests are and they expect in the following and countries like russia china iran say no we have a different definition of our sovereignty and we go to the route that you like just mentioned used the word sovereignty a lot and this is this misalignment and because it's about the military and we'll talk about a couple even the 2nd half of the program if it's supremely important and we have to be very careful of errors go ahead absolutely i think your point saying in terms of the americans feel that they traditionally have been image into position to be able to dictate or at least. lead convince governments which way that they should be focusing their military targets in their military prowess is quite significant in a key part and that is because for china and actually for most governments the military is more than just power the military is also very symbolic as a lot has a lot of deterrence value and. since the 1990 s. is not just americans but americans have led the way since the 1990 s. the whole idea of chinese containment which is really expanding now. has it

iran back in 2010 but the ambassador donald trump's u.n. ambassador kelly craft says maximum pressure may be applied to russia to china and indeed actually iran is proliferating chemical weapons with has a bulla from lebanon in venezuela and that the united states needs to. the united states cares for the people of venezuela it's a very up surd. holywood movie that they are trying to sell to the public opinion of the world trying to convince the people the public that there are terrorist groups from the middle east here in south america in venezuela and we with the help of iran well at some point they even said gee years ago that we had bicycles which had uranium from venezuela in order to export them to iran for them to produce. nuclear weapons they also said that osama bin laden was hiding here in my god he died and before they killed him so they have they have made up all this stories in order to try to link venezuela to middle east terrorism you know that to convince the world that they have to invade venezuela either because we have a so-called humanitarian crisis which does not exist or because we support and we finance and whatever int

we have 30 countries still under travel restrictions like china, iran and mainly your. we have travel restrictions with mexico and canada over land ports on non-essential travel. those are working well. we have seen non-essential travel drop 60% to 70% while we keep travel and cargo operating. we have been successful with that. cdp fory thanks to their efforts. we are doing strong measures at the southwest border and northern border make sure we do not introduce folks trying to come here illegally into our facilities whether they are border patrol or isis knowing those are not well-kept to treat individuals regarding covid-19. a lot of what we are doing on border security control. i will shift to a third bucket which is the infrastructure agency. they are doing great on infrastructure worker guidance. this is a list of about 16 sectors they have pulled together along with private industry providing guidance to governors. as governors make decisions on their pandemic plans, they have guidance. it says these industries, these workers are critical to the supply chain and t

we have another 30 countries still under travel restrictions that's china, iran and mainly europe. we also have travel restrictions with mexico and canada over our land ports, land ports of entry regarding essential and nonessential travel and those of an working very well. we see nonessential travel drop anywhere from 60-70% will keep the legitimate trade travel and cargo operating. we have been very successful with that and hats go off, thanks goes to cbp for the efforts we also doing very strong measures at both the southwest border and northern border making sure we don't introduce folks who are trying to come here illegally into our facilities, whether their border patrol facilities or ice facilities knowing those are made, not well-kept to treat individuals regarding covid-19. so a lot of what were doing on border, or security control. a shift to a third bucket which is our cybersecurity infrastructure security agency they're doing a lot of good work on our critical infrastructure workers, guidance. this is a list of about 16 different sectors that people together along with

has already collated a list of suspects the usual suspects at the top of the list is the likes of china iran and of course russia now all of this comes 2 days after g c h q howard released a warning that hackers linked to rogue states hostile states were going after you the unique universities across the united kingdom attempting to produce vaccines and testing kits in that case we're already hearing of retaliations possible retaliations particularly from tobias our tusa defense committee chairman he said the 1st and would not hesitate to retaliate appropriately adding that the global destruction of covert $9000.00 is the fog of war to conduct cyber attacks we've also heard reaction from spy bosses from the national cybersecurity sent to branding these such attacks these alleged attacks as utterly reprehensible and confirm that they were working around the clock to decipher the exact culprits but by the way and this is a big by the way g c h q has not yet provided any evidence of any attacks that have been successful and in both cases it really hasn't stopped the mainstream media trying to a

from international coronavirus hot zones, were targeting europe in places like italy, the uk, china and irannew york station is looking into what's going on with jfk and newark and they are seeing travelers coming back. they found 13 designated airports this is happening at, third not just talking about jfk and queens but other airports throughout the country. let's bring in lieutenant colonel david hunt on this and get his reaction. he is a retired u.s. army. there is finger-pointing among federal and local officials like governor cuomo about who is responsible for this. the issue here is the cdc is saying 35% of all covid cases and patients, they don't show symptoms, their asymptomatic. what was your reaction when he saw the story? >> i think we forgot were at war. were at war with the virus and were not winning it. but were upset with the economic repercussions of what we had to do with 38 million people that work. were still at work in the travel from overseas into the u.s., states control what happens inside their states, the problem is there is an administrative screwup with the bureau

china and iran deny the allegations. lester. >>> in 60 seconds, the news tonight from a member of our nbc family revealing his own battle with covid-19. a surprising way he thinks he may have gotten the virus and his message to everyone watching >>> tonight, covid-19 is hitting home for us again at nbc news a member of our medical team, joseph fair revealing his own battle with the virus, and dr. john torres reports on the surprising way dr. fair thinks he may have been infected. >> reporter: today nbc news science contributor joseph fair posting the stunning news from his hospital bed that he's got covid-19. >> i'm on the other end of it, but not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: fair a virologist spent years in africa studying some of the most deadly viruses known to man including ebola. now the virus hunter believes he was infected with the coronavirus of traveling on a crowded plane two weeks ago to new orleans. >> my flights were packed, and i had a mask on. i had gloves on. i did my normal routine, obviously, you

russia, china, iran, north korea -- should i keep going? we, this country, have the most powerful tools of intelligence in the entire world. 99% of people in our intelligence community are brave, patriotic americans that would never abuse their power. one present did. imagine this, they could actually point at your house long distance and hear everything going on. in your house per that's how powerful these tools of intelligence are. what these tools of intelligence means, well, let's say our intelligence community is doing the job, and protecting america andy their national security, t an american is incidentally picked up in that surveillance. that american, you don't have a warrant to spy on that american. as long as you don't hear direct sabotage, it'll be calledd incidental surveillance bear they don't have the war and to listen the american. when they subscribe that phone call of the person they are spying on, any american that is incidental, they use a process called minimization and they will not identify a u.s. citizen by name. tha

security establishment was rotten on virtually every national security issue; benghazi, libya, syria, china, iranat's why they hate his guts, and that's why they tried to put him in jail based on fraudulent charges. lou: tom fitton, as always, great to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> up next, acting dni ric grenell, well, he just slapped down two congressional radical dems. also why is the fbi slow-rolling information still about a terrorist attack on one of our naval air stations? we take it up with former trump deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland right after this quick break. please stay with us. ing for my , even though i live with a higher risk of stroke , due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what's next? sharing my roots. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliq

don't like that donald trump won the election, and he might change the relationship with russia, china, irand they're trying to figure out ways and concoct ways they can thwart the new president from being successful, thwart the american people who put that president into office. this had nothing to do with counterintelligence threats or criminality. it had to do with politics and the inability of the obama/biden administration to accept they got beat at the polls by donald trump. lou: and i want to turn to, very quickly, what do you make of "the ohio star" reporting on the whistle blower in the treasury department saying that the treasury department itself was spying on general flynn and the trump family, for crying out loud, and others? your reaction. >> there's a little piece of the puzzle here. if you remember about a yearing ago, the justice department indicted a treasury department employee for leaking suspicious activity reports, those treasury reports to the news media. i think this is a part of that. i don't get a sense that the inspector general or the office of special counsel, no

security establishment was rotten on virtually every national security issue; benghazi, libya, syria, china, iranhate his guts, and that's why they tried to put him in jail based on fraudulent charges. lou: tom fitton, as always, great to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> up next, acting dni ric grenell, well, he just slapped down two congressional radical dems. also why is the fbi slow-rolling information still about a terrorist attack on one of our naval air stations? we take it up with former trump deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland right after this quick break. please stay with us. you're clearly someone who takes care of yourself. so when it comes to screening for colon cancer, don't wait. because when caught early, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers... ...even in early stages. tell me more. it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your prescriber if cologuard is right for you. i'm on it. that's a step in the righ

any blame to anyone just yet the government has its usual suspects and at the top of the list is china iran and of course russia despite the fact that there's been no successful attack to date that's been confirmed plus the n.h.s. computer systems remain at this point completely unscathed nonetheless as a precautionary measure the government is a devising all starvin medical research centers to change easily guessed parts where it's just a stress as i say there hasn't actually been an attack but we're already receiving some response and reaction to them for instance by bosses at the national cybersecurity center branded these attacks as utterly reprehensible and said they're working round the clock to try and find and decipher the exact culprit but it's not just here in the united kingdom that we're partners seeing these alleged attacks apparently over in the united states they too are being targeted but without any evidence it seems like at this point in time things as are pointed to rogue states so-called rogue states and usual suspects. shadier thank you very much indeed for that. trade

security establishment was rotten on virtually every national security issue; benghazi, libya, syria, china, irant. that's why they hate his guts, and that's why they tried to put him in jail based on fraudulent charges. lou: tom fitton, as always, great to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> up next, acting dni ric grenell, well, he just slapped down two congressional radical dems. also why is the fbi slow-rolling information still about a terrorist attack on one of our naval air stations? we take it up with former trump deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland right after this quick break. please stay with us. usaa was made for right now. and right now, is a time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. right now is the time to take care of what matters most. like we've done together, so many times before. discover all the ways we're help

we know they spy on us, we know they try to impact our elections, russia, china, iran, north korea, should i keep going? but we, this country, we have the most powerful tools of intelligence in the entire world. 99% of people in our intelligence community are brave patriotic americans that would never abuse their power. 1 percent did. imagine this, they could actually point at your house from a long distance and hear everything going on in your house. that's how powerful these tools of intelligence are. what all of this means is let us say that our, well, intelligence community, is doing their job in protecting america and our national security, but in the course of any type of surveillance, an american is incidentally picked up in that surveillance. as long as you don't hear direct sabotage, that would because incidental surveillance. they don't have a warrant to listen to the american. now, when they transcribe that phone call of the person that they're spying on in the american that is incidental, they use a process called minimization and they will not identify -- when we discuss unmas

government you see that often but i want to ask about something else peaking on - - thinking of china or iran or south korea or singapore they have more oppressive tactics to track people and ensuring their citizens are doing what they need to. so what are your thoughts how you think about that and if we strike the right balance? >> nobody looking back toward this moment will be satisfied or pleased or complementary what us is doing to strike a balance and significantly region by region and that is the most hardening new development and now in the great lakes these regional compacts coming together there will be a feeling toward the balance it's important to think about singapore i lived on the peninsula for several years to recognize the questions scale as a city state that to show authoritarianism that worked to protect all civil liberties. carry on - - south korea is more free swinging but have authoritarianism and the more recent past is also a more concentrated geographic area. we could admire the tax and with that discussion that the mayors of san francisco and chicago and los angeles a

the culture war in a battle for values and of course he does have enemies as well in terms of china and iran and others and north korea but really i think most people see his most major board to be domestic where he is fighting various elements of the media and the republican party obviously the democrats and others. >> the subtitle defenders of western civilization. what do you mean and how do they defend that? >> western civilization i think as having a set of values and those that could develop in the english speaking world united states of america, the united kingdom, australia and new zealand. the western countries with a lot of influence on values and models that they use all around the world so western civilization is most of europe and the united states and those kind of countries not including obviously china or the middle east so in terms of how they defend that again those men are intensely patriotic and love the values and traditions that exist in the nation back then and to be a big supporter of all the values in england and donald trump is a supporter how america has been with

security establishment was rotten on virtually every national security issue; benghazi, libya, syria, china, iran that's why they hate his guts, and that's why they tried to put him in jail based on fraudulent charges. lou: tom fitton, as always, great to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> up next, acting dni ric grenell, well, he just slapped down two congressional radical dems. also why is the fbi slow-rolling information still about a terrorist attack on one of our naval air stations? we take it up with former trump deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland right after this quick break. please stay with us. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour? the real question is... do you mind not being a mo-tour? -i do. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. where will you go first? will it be familiar streets? or perhaps unknown roads. wherever you may go lexus will welcome you back with exceptional offers. find a lexus for every road at lexus.com. get zero percent financing and make no payments for up to 90 days on all 2020 lexu

officials were able to identify just three positive cases out of more than 11,000 travelers from china and iran in february and march, the report recommended more efficient methods of collecting and transmitting data which include airlines writing flight information to federal officials and using text messaging to reach all travelers at risk more quickly. >>> the pandemic has devastated cities up and down the state including the city of richmond which is less than two months to close a $27 million deficit for the next fiscal year. across the board, city for lows, cuts and services, hiring freezes, layoffs, and closing the city libraries were all part of a list of 59 budget strategies. >>> a fire at a recycling plant in san jose on west alma avenue put out heavy smoke in the area today. this is the new video of the clouds of ash and soot swirling from the blaze, made worse due to the wind. lease had to shut down the road from seventh and 10th streets in order to put down out the fire, the cause is unknown at this time. paper and cardboard were the source of the fire, but no injuries were reporte

trump's fight as a cultural fight, the cultural war in the battle for values and in terms of china and iran and others, north korea, but really i think most people see donald trumps most major war clearly a domestic one where he's fighting various elements of the media, various elements of the republican party and obviously the democrats and others. >> host: to your subtitle defenders of western civilization, two questions. what do you mean when you say western civilization and how did they defended? >> guest: western civilizatio civilization, i kind of think of it as having a set of values and they tend to be values that were developed in the english-speaking world. so the united states of america, the united kingdom, canada, australia and they are western countries with a lot of this influence on the values and morals used all around the world. so the western civilization i think is most of europe. it's the united states and those kind of countries. including china and all large parts of the middle east. so, in terms of how they are defending it, both men are intensely patriotic and i thi