by the way, chris wray doesn't want to answer questions about that. he ducked and dodged in this interview. look great. >> i can't speak to what former officials of the intelligence committee may or may not have said, i can only speak to what we do. unfortunately, f you would expect, if we're going to do this investigation and the righ way, that means i can't talk about the in specifics of the investigation other than to to tackle this investigation the way i expect them to tackle every investigation. follow the facts wherever they lead. >> sean: you have the laptop for three plus years. you could have verified that probably in a matter of 70 to hours max. during a real an interview. ducked and dodged every question . the fbi director seems to think that he is accountable to. this isn't just about from, it' biden and the presidential election, it's about political bias in our justice system. at the fbi, at the doj. angry parents at school board members, they were recently labeled in being investigated a potential domestic terrorists. they don't want c

. >>> fbi director chris wray is speaking for the first time about the recent revelations about the origins of the covid pandemic and has strong words for how the chinese government is dealing with the investigation. for more we go to brie jackson in washington. brie, good morning what candiddid the fbi director to say >> reporter: the questions over the origins of covid have been reignited following the classified report from the department of energy they became the second member of the intelligence community to conclude with low confidence that the covid-19 virus likely originated from a lab leak in wuhan, china the fbi was the first agency to reach that assessment, but with moderate confidence back in 2021 following that report from the energy department, the chinese ministry of foreign affairs issued a response saying relevant sides should, quote, stop hyping up the lab leak theory and stop smearing china now fbi director chris wray is speaking out about this theory for the first time in an interview with fox news. >> as you note, brett, the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that

. >> john: fbi director chris wray tells bret baier the bureau believes covid started at a lab leak in wuhan. so will the biden administration have to take action to hold the ccp accountable for the accident and subsequent cover-up n bret coming up this hour. a lot of news on deck, starting with the murdaugh murder trial. closing arguments set to resume any moment. we'll be right back. owners: to combat today's rising prices, lower your monthly payments with the 3 c's. pay down your credit cards. pay off your car loan. consolidate your debt with a va home loan from newday. ♪ ♪ [ cat purrs ] [ phone vibrates ] introducing astepro allergy. steroid-free allergy relief that starts working in 30 minutes, while other allergy sprays take hours. now with astepro fast allergy relief, [ spray, spray ] you can astepro and go. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhhhh... here, i'll take that. [woo hoo!] ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar and nutrients for immune health. ♪ this feels so right..

chris wray's abject failure to do that, and to be clear, it chris wray's ultimate responsibility. but you know, he reports the deputy general, the attorney general, so they have authority here as well. again, one of the questions is; knowing that the head of the washington field office is denying something that is probably not the case -- probably not the case, in that the fbi knew there's a violence of january six -- why was this fellow, the person in the room, on the trump investigation? this would not, to me, that is not who i would be assigning to this matter because there's a lack of sort of trustworthy -ness, and there's all sorts of reasons why the fbi may been asleep at the switch on january six. it goes to a lot of the things that -- you know, outlined so cogently of what could be going on. so this really just a larger picture here about the fbi's behavior on this case, and on a larger case. >> so neil, document gets appointed a special prosecutor, special counsel in this case. i would have to assume that's one of his first discussions's with j brat, and early in those di

about foreign influence campaigns the ccp propaganda responded to that claim, that the hearing chris wraysaid maybe could use to disrupt public opinion in u.s. over taiwan ccp never said they wouldn't do that they said what is taiwan any bigs of americans narrow interesting denial or nondenial, when it comes to using tiktok again 100 million americans, 90 minutes a day i for phone influence to disrupt thinking about issues as freedom in taiwan. maria: kra amazing brendan, fcc commissioner brendzan carr, car manifest hitting millions since 2008 fox business jeff flock live in pennsylvania with details, you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. . are you a serial plant killer? meet easyplant, the plant that waters itself! simply fill it up once a month and watch your plant thrive. go to easyplant.com to get yours today. just pick any size, color or collection and get it healthy and alive, with free shipping. join over 200,000 satisfied easyplanters and fill your home with life and beauty. easyplant, order now. ♪ ♪ get $1500 purchase allowance on a 2023 cadillac xt5 and xt

chris wray the latest to say it leaked from a lab in china. why is the white house waivering? we'll try to figure that out. big show today. >> dana: i'm a dana perino and thi this is -- the department of energy say an accident at a chinese facility started the pan pandemic. >> the f.b.i. has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. the f.b.i. has agents, professionals, analysts, etc. , who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats. so here you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of americans. that's precisely what that capability was designed for. >> bill: wow. the mounting evidence sparking a push for accountability. special house committee on china held its first hearing last night. lawmakers both sides republicans and democrats calling for action not only on covid but also on china's threats against taiwan and the role in the deadly fentanyl trade today. >> dana: glenn youngkin is on deck with us in studio. let's go to the wh

director chris wray and the department of energy are reporting that the pandemic most likely originated from a will be a leak at wuhan. big tech and the media worked to actively suppress this theory and ridiculed anyone who promoted it. at a time when accurate information was vital to saving lives, the people and institutions who we trusted to tell the truth lied to the american people and worked to hide important information. house republicans have been demanding transparency on the origins of covid since the pandemic began. we must get to the truth of how this pandemic started so we can protect ourselves from future possible outbreaks. americans deserve to know the truth about their government, what it knew and when it knew it. we must restore faith and trust -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. lamalfa: in institutions and it starts with transparency and accountability. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. bilirakis: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my

chris wray has zero credibility.d the fbi's corruption to fester and grow worse. >> sean: that's why you left the fbi. is that correct, nicole? >> that is definitely one of the reasons i left the fbi, absolutely. >> sean: any regrets. do you think christopher wray is in touch with their own agency? >> i personally do not think he's in touch with the rank and file agents and employees. he's got layers of people between him and the rank and file telling them what he wants to hear but that might not be actually was happening on the ground. >> sean: you know what, he heads up that organization and it's no longer the world's premier law enforcement agency. it was his job to fix it after james comey and he didn't do it. thank you both. when we come back, randi weingarten had a meltdown on the steps of the u.s. supreme court over student loan debt. wait until you see this. we have kayleigh mcenany, monica crowley, joe concha and we are following the mayoral race. lori lightfoot is now losing in the city of chicago. we will

last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official soar that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency's findings because there isn't consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. >> with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven't yet been consequences. >> the president is not -- this is a president that is not afraid to go to a war zone. he is not aggrade to go there when there is no military presence on the ground. so there is nothing that this president fears is with four federal agencies still thinking they think the virus stemmed from natural transmission and two undecided house democrats say

maria: devin, your reaction to chris wray? >> look, i don't know, man.hthat guy's living on. you have half of america who knows damn well that the department of justice is completely corrupted to the core. they're fighting over building this brand-new fbi building somewhere in the washington, d.c. region. and the question is not like well, why the hell would we add more bureau t crates here, more left wingers, more meme that will be corrupt. we have enough here. virginia and maryland are fighting over who is going to get the new building. i mean, that's how crazy this is. i was talking to a lot of republicans last night who were like how do we get to this point where now you have an fbi that is involved in the russia hoax, you have an fbi who was -- missed numerous threats. you have an fbi that is treating whether it's the january 6th prisoners versus let's say a peter navarro or steve bannon, if you're a republican in washington, d.c. you have been horribly mistreated by he the fbi and that doesn't begin to talk about you raided a former president's hom

and as the two americans continue to recover in the texas hospital, it is a safe bet fbi director chris wray, bill burns and others will be asked specifically about cartels. many senators believe a worldwide threat hearing that is taking place today includes threat of cartels just across the border. this video is chilling, we've been showing it for a couple days now. crossed into mexico for a medical procedure, being removed from a white van and being thrown into the back of a flat-bed truck and yesterday merrick garland addressed this tragedy. >> cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans and we are fighting as hard as possible, the dea and fbi are doing everything to dismantle and prosecute leaders of the cartel and networks they depend on. >> garland warned of cartels last weekdays before this tragedy took place. the problem, doj admit they need more people employed to remedy this serious threat, garland predecessor, former attorney general bill barr took it several steps forward when asked about cartels operating on the u.s. border. watch this. >> they are terrorists. there is a

chris wray the latest to say it leaked from a lab in china. why is the white house waivering?re that out. big show today. >> dana: i'm a dana perino and thi this is -- the department of energy say an accident at a

senator marco rubio also wanted to talk to the fbi director chris wray about the chinese massive propagandaal take a look. >> could they use it to drive narratives, to divide americans against each other, for example? let's say it wants to invade taiwan, to make sure americans are seeing videos arguing why taiwan belongs to china and why the u.s. should not intervene? >> yes, and a point on that last one in particular, we're not sure we wooze many of the outward signs of it happening if it was happening. >> the chairman of the committee senator warner accused american companies of turning a blind lid to the theft of selectual property, because american companies are simply making too much money off this. senator cornyn had this to say. >> for year many american companies have been investing in china. we had a witness that testified last may, i think it was, that the current market value of u.s. investments in china were worth $2.3 trillion. in other words, american investment in china has been financing the rise of the chinese economy and the rise of their military might >> now, just based

my very first day in office i met with or first few days in office i met with chris wray and urged hime fbi on top of the antifa problem. and i thought we were making some progress but i'm very disappointed that this kind of thing can happen without the government being aware of it. >> well, i am disappointed in christopher wray as well. i use a different word but i'm not as diplomat as you, attorney general. thank you for joining us as always. >> thank you. >> jesse: now to a fox news alert. we finally have an update on the health of pennsylvania senator john fetterman. earlier today fetterman's team tweeted out these photos at walter reed medical center where he is being treated for depression. now, look at him. according to fetterman staff the senator is still working while being treated at the hospital. focusing, they say, on a farm bill there. now, if they wanted to fight his depression making talking endlessly about a farm bill isn't the way to do it. fetterman doesn't appear to be doing so hot in the hospital if you can see it looks like he has lost a ton of weight. did the fett

ask the fbi director chris wray what his agents were doing on capitol hill on january 6th?'t talk about it. >> did the fbi have undercover agents or paid informants or assets among the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th? >> as i'm sure you can appreciate, bret, i can't really appropriately talk about when, where, and how we use confidential informants. >> what's the fbi's job anyway? they are raiding homes, staging protests, trying to kidnap the governor of michigan, right? meanwhile hunter's laptop was sitting in the back room collecting dust for a year. they didn't touch it. so is the department of justice doing anything about that? >> the fbi had at one time over a dozen sources that provided potentially criminal information relating to hunter biden. the alleged volume and similarity of the information would demand that the justice department investigate the truth and accuracy of the information. >> i have pledged not to interfere with that investigation. and i have carried through on my pledge. >> jesse: okay. sorry, guys, we can't talk about an ongoing investi

china is an adversary and on so many fronts chris wray at the f.b.i. is always talking about china's spying efforts. but one thing i worry about in the reactions to china, we're not going to beat china with just tariffs. we have to build up our military forces, take the threat seriously. help taiwan defend itself and that will take a lot of effort and a lot of money. >> dana: bill, put yourself in the white house's position. there is supposed to be the call with xi and that hasn't happened. we don't know if president biden will officially run for president. there is a lot of hesitation. is it because there is a new chief of staff or president biden not being decisive and quick enough to take action? >> i think it's china. look, i don't really care about a phone call. but china should be wanting to call biden, not the other way around. they like this. we look like the -- i think china is dancing to its own tune and until we're serious about building up our forces and counter balancing them, they will continue to behave. they were bad on covid in the coo

my first day in office i met with or first few days in office i met with chris wray and urged him to get the f.b.i. on top of the antifa problem. and i thought we were making some progress but i'm very disappointed that this kind of thing can happen without the government being aware of it. >> julie: shouldn't the white house be disappointed? karine jean-pierre said this. >> dozens of people were arrested protesting the so-called cop city. was the president aware of this? >> what was the protest? >> 23 have been charged with domestic terrorism. >> we have not been -- i have not heard any discussions about this protest over the weekend. >> julie: the attorney general merrick garland pretends as if antifa doesn't exist. there the white house press secretary being clueless about the antifa movement. then if it's not being addressed by the white house, the president, and the administration, clearly it is being ignored and that's why this behavior is allowed to continue. >> exactly. it is willfully being ignored. we've seen time and time again politicians refuse to acknowledge that antifa

chris wray said he doesn't like the fact that country which values aren't shared with the u.s. could have influence to manipulate algorithms and push content to the american audience. so multiple concerns. >>> a day after chinese leaders lashed out at the u.s., we're getting a very diplomatic response from the biden administration. >>> plus ukraine says its forces are repelling nonstop russian attacks on bakhmut. the latest on the fierce battle there just ahead. >>> and millions on the west coast of the u.s. are looking at more winter storms and wet weather. >> california is once again under the crosshairs of yet another atmospheric river, this time it will be a milder system that will move in that will have flooding repercussions across the state. i'll describe the threats coming up. and effortlessly reresponds to both of you. ouour smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per nighght. proven quality sleep. only from slsleep number. how do i love thee? ...let me count the ways. ♪ love can get a little messy... good thing there's resolve. love the love. resolve the mess

and now because he saw the insurrection, the way chris wray did, as a domestic terrorism attack. now there are real ties between mccarthy's caucus and members, the powerful ones, as you said, the ones he had to curry favor with to become speaker, and the criminals, the defendants, the insurrectionists. i wonder what you think that cements in terms of the house republicans, what, as a governing body, doing the bidding of accused criminals? >> well, i think that's what it comes down to. and you're absolutely right. in private conversations, mccarthy was talking about how the president should resign and his culpability over january 6th. but you'll remember when they were tape recordings that were found by i think it was "the new york times," mccarthy was asked about it initially. he denied these private conversations. and then the recordings were played for the public and there was no denying them anymore. the real scandal in my view is not that he was doing the right thing at the time, but the fact that he needs to lie about doing the right thing in order to attain the support of h

today, intelligence committee vice chairman marco rubio asked fbi director chris wray about the app's sen. rubio: could they use it to control the software on millions of devices given the opportunity to do so? dir. wray: yes. sen. rubio: could they use it to drive narratives, like to divide americans against each other? dir. wray: yes. this is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the chinese government. and it -- to me, it screams out with national security concerns. sen. gillibrand: the fact that the intelligence community still disagrees on the origins of covid is concerning. nick: senators also asked about the origins of covid-19, which began spreading at the end of 2019 in the central chinese city of wuhan. dir. wray: the fbi has long assessed going all the way back to the summer of 2021 that the origin of the pandemic was likely a lab incident in wuhan. nick: but the intelligence community remains divided. the fbi concluded with moderate confidence that covid leaked from a wuhan lab, an assessment now shared by the department of energy with low confidence. but other a

the statements come from the agency's director, chris wray, now accusing the chinese government of interfering with the fbi's ongoing investigation. in an exclusive interview with nbc news, he says that the fbi is opening a new china related counterintelligence investigation on average every 12 hours, with more than 2,000 cases currently under way. wray's assessment comes as the house select committee held a rare evening hearing on capitol hill. that committee is examining the origins of covid-19 and the secrecy over those spy balloons seen over the u.s. over the past several weeks, floating above the u.s. an initial report by the u.s. defense department finds 163 sightings of balloons or balloon-like entities since march of 2021. now some portions of those are old weather balloons, maybe high school science experiments, but an american intelligence leader says they remain on alert. paul martini is a cybersecurity expert and says the u.s. remains vulnerable to a multitude of cyberattacks. >> the types of attacks you're going to see and i think they're going to continue to increase is situation

chris wray tried to knock it down.j was known in the trump years. president trump didn't d. it out in the open. he said his political allies were being railroaded and his political opponents should be prosecuted. >> bret: all right. we will follow. this up next the 2024 presidential campaign and later an automated distress signal from an iphone helped save a man's life. want to check out the podcast. go to fox news podcast.com under the bret baier podcasts see common ground and all star panel hear them not see them. there you go. ♪ my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ it was time for a nunormal with nucala. nucala is a once-monthly add-on treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma that can mean less oral steroids. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause heada

director chris wray and dhs secretary mayokas calling the shooting a targeted attack against christians. bill. >> bill: c.b. cotton back with you with more developments later today. >> also hailed as heroes in this the officers who ran toward the gunfire. we have heard them saying let's go, let's go. they kept moving and moving. their names are michael call as owe. >> these are the kind of individuals we want to hold up across this country. we want to thank them for what they do. they were part of a team that was extraordinary in this case. without the bravery of these men this tragedy could have been worse. it is bad enough as it is. body cam footage shows responders as they arrived on the scene within minutes. they moved quickly and efficiently in search of the shooter and eventually confronting her and killing her. >> bill: we watched that yesterday when it came out for the first time around 24 hours ago and just the speed by which they moved and the ability they had to go from classroom to classroom and communicate with each other was impressive. the next phase of the story will be

. >> reporter: hey, sheinelle, good morning those comments in a rare interview by fbi director chris wray are only adding fuel to the growing debate over where the covid-19 virus which has willed 1.1 million americans and counting actually originated and now congress is demanding answers. a blunt new assessment from the head of the fbi about the origins of covid-19. deepening the debate this morning over what triggered the global pandemic. >> the fbi has, for quite some time now, assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident. >> reporter: the fbi's agents, analysts, and biological threat experts, assessing that a lab in wuhan, china, was the virus's likely source. the chinese government denies. that the fbi director chris wray says they have tried to hide evidence from the world. >> the observation that the chinese government seems to me has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing. >> reporter: wray's comments coming just days after news broke that the u.s. department of energy also concluded with low

and i had seen as cia director and went to director chris wray it's their job, my counter espionage inside the states is fbi responsibility and said chris why can't you stop this. he said it's big. and i said, well, i can stop it as the told president, we need to close it, he directed its closure. it was a really fun episode. it's as as you detail the smoke rising it's a great story because i get to call the chinese ambassador and tell him, you got to be out in 72 hours. and and i tell them it's because spying and he denies it. you know, there were no spies in houston, texas like this was a weather balloon. same story story. and and it was it was it was great fun because because i literally get back to my and my friend brian comes in and flips the tv's and it's the houston fire department responding to smoke at the chinese consulate. houston, texas. so of all the leaders all the leaders that you dealt with will come back. the american category. who was the most difficult but to get a read on to prepare for and negotiate with fishing thing far and and explain to us why that is a close book

. >> this stonewalling, director chris wray, the american people deserve answers and this is unacceptablen: so there is this issue about plausible deniability. the fbi might not mention hunter biden with the laptop but to the degree that even mark zuckerberg, the head of facebook said, "when the hunter biden laptop story came around, this is what the fbi is talking about." >> a little dubious about that. i was there at the time as attorney general. there was approach will make a lot of pressure on the fbi to make sure there was no foreign e in the election. and as far as i was aware, they were giving general briefings to different groups to say we will be on the guard for foreign activity like the bots used in 2016. and i don't know. i think we have to look at exactly what those briefings were and what was being said to those companies. because if they were saying, you know, things like the hunter laptop were getting too particular about the kind of things they were looking for, that might cross the line in my opinion. now, did mark zuckerberg, was facebook being good citizens into doing

they clearly have a public confidence issue that chris wray is going to have to address. but the bottom line here is this. did the agents treat the situation like they would treat any other situation. in other words, where their concerns of how you investigate a former president, any former president. or were they wrapped around the axle? but because of that is the case we are in perilous territory. but >> of course we have a public confidence issues. we currently have a weaponization of government committee taking place right before our eyes. ryan, today we saw josh hawley grilling merrick garland. did we hear that from other republicans throughout the day? or was this just part of the holy show because that is what happens when he is here and this goes down? >> stephanie, i was actually kind of surprised but i was shocked at how little republicans on the committee shied way from the opportunity to press merrick garland on these investigations into the trump documents, or even, by extension asking tough questions about what was happening with the investigations into mike

intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligenceil haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn's melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you're watching. >> yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk you through a couple of them. the first one we are watching is in the house financial services committee. that is where we are going to hear testimony from jerome powell, the chairman of the federal reserve. yesterday, he received quite the bipartisan grilling in the senate and so he'll be in the hot seat and he was grilled over interest rates and jobs and i expect we'll hear more today and the second we're watching is in the senate commerce science and transportation committee which is having a hearing on aviation safety, something that has been in the news quite a lot lately. they'll hear from the faa active administrator and it comes amid this new

specifically, this report from the department of energy and comments from fbi director chris wray sayingthe likely origin of covid was, in fact, this wuhan lab leak. what could you tell us about this theory? >> what i can say is the intelligence community is mixed in terms of its assessment of whether the origin of the pandemic was naturally caused, in other words, it went from an animal to a human being, possibly in one of the wet markets in wuhan, or whether it was the result of a leak or an accident at a lab in wuhan. so, you have the fbi, which is assessed with moderate confidence, that's the case, and the department of energy, which has assessed with low confidence, that's the case. then, you are like, 6 to 8 other agencies which have come up with a different conclusion. so, what this really points to, ultimately, is the ccp has to be much more transparent about what exactly happened in wuhan, china, with regard to the origin of the pandemic. at the end of the day, we need to know about the origins to prevent this from happening again. >> how would that benefits, the, congressman? w

>> it was interesting also the interview this week with bret baier of chris wray from the fbi.oth of those , the testimony and the interview showed a very smug and arrogant leadership of our department of justice. they know that they have politicized this department. they know that americans don't trust it, and they don't seem to care. it's almost like they're excited about what they've done but it's very bad for the american people to not have a department of justice or fbi that they think is a political or that they think they can trust. there have been so many egregious errors in how they run investigations and how they have been so politicized, leaking things to allies in the press instead of just being an impartial justice department, so it's a big problem for them. stuart: it sure is. mollie hemingway thank you very much, have a great weekend, see you later. two congressmen got into a debate over maybe a potential matchup in 2024 between desantis and biden. tell me more. lauren: it was the republican from florida that's frequently on the show, byron donald, and the democr

. >> and, kim, you teed this up just a moment ago, the fbi corrector chris wray raised his national securitys about tiktok. take a listen. >> could the chinese government through its ownership of bytedance that owns bytedance u.s., if they wanted to, and bytedance u.s. were willing to account cooperate or forced to cooperate, could they use tiktok to control data on millions of users? >> yes. >> could they use it to control the software on millions of devices given the opportunity to do so? >> yes. >> could they use it to drive narratives, like to divide americans against each other, for example, let's say china wants to invade taiwan to make sure that americans are seeing videos, arguing why taiwan belongs to china, why the u.s. should not intervene? >> yes. >> i think a lot of americans who have tiktok on their phone wonder is this being blown out of proportion? >> i think a lot of people don't realize that president xi he did what may sound like a very boring thing in 2017, i changed chinese law to give the government access to all private companies' data, programming, et cetera. so that

nation's top intel chiefs including dni avril haines, cia director bill burns and fbi director chris wray. we can expect them to dive into a number of topics including new threats from china, questions about mishandling classified documents and concerns over domestic extremism. our team is monitoring this closely. >>> meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threatening to, quote, kill every man on this plane. why has air travel gotten so fraught, and what's being done about it? >>> the two survivors of that terrifying kidnapping in mexico are back in the u.s. in a south texas hospital, and their families are speaking out after days of anxiety. >> that was very hard. you just want answers, it's a lot of anxiety. >> reporter: the big question now how could this have happened? the latest on the investigation. >>> and bipartisan blowback to fox news's fire brand tucker

nick: last week, senate intelligence committee vice chairman marco rubio asked fbi director chris wrayut beijing's control of tiktok. sen. rubio: could they use it to drive narratives, like to divide americans against each other? christopher wray, fbi director: yes. this is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the chinese government. and it -- to me, it screams out with national security concerns. nick: the primary concern is that chinese law forces bytedance to collaborate with the chinese government, and there's no independent judiciary for appeal. >> a very american company buy it. nick: the pressure on bytedance to sell is three years old and crosses two administrations led by the committee on foreign investment in the u.s., or cfius. tiktok says it has already answered u.s. concerns in a process known as project texas by creating a new company whose board reports to the u.s. government and whose employees are subject to u.s. approval and allowing u.s. technology company oracle to control all user data and review the app's algorithm and content. today, tiktok said in a s

echoed by the fbi director chris wray on special report. >> fbi has assessed origins of the pandemicikely a potential lab incident in wuhan. >> john: anybody said that three years ago would have been on the receiving end of ridicule, censorship, outright cancellation. what do you, congressman, say to the media, social media, politicians and the public health experts, anybody who said anything like that dismissed as a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. >> john, they were wrong. i'm a strong believer in the first amendment. you can't censor legitimate viewpoints even if you may not disagree with them, even if they may be a very minority viewpoint. our country thrives on robust speech and while we don't know for sure what happened, certainly now it's plausible given that the fbi and the department of energy have both said so, that it was caused by an accidental lab leak. let me say one more point here, john. i am for engagement with china with deterring. but makes it very hard for someone like me to advocate engagement on issues like public health when they are totally nontransparent. th

what's your reaction to chris wray's comments and the fact that it seems that we just don't seem to haveally happened here. >> we don't. first of all, i think we should all be unified globally on the fact that we should have been able to get greater access, the international community. this was a pandemic that affected every single country in the world, and the fact that we don't have the ability to do an investigation which would help better protect our globe from future pandemics, so yes, that is a problem and yes, we will have a continued disagreement because there is just no way based off of what we have now the ability to substantiate what the origins were, and i hope that the energy we put into that and the concerns that we raise will hopefully channel into aks to prepare ourselves for future pandemics and that's something that won't happen nearly enough on capitol hill. >> i have heard that from officials formally in intelligence that while it might be difficult to land on the exact origins and the focus and the energy and the time spent should be on making sure that this type of

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but don't expect an explanations from chris wray. e a look. here's what i'm talking about is the dual system. >> you know, there's that for a pro-life activist, but notyst. that for a black lives matter protester who may be torture's a federal building over the summer. so that disparity, that dichotomy is what sticks in i people's mind. >> i understand that people und haveer their opinions. all i can tell you is that we have one standard, one standard ,which is irrespective ideology of politics. >> that is a crock of adamof schiff. thatn't believe any of that. there one standard.. thank you.e] you're there one standard. conservatives, republicans, they get targeted while violent criminals on the left, they get a free paste barels. i think it's obvious.is transpat it is clear. it is transparent.. wso director wray needs to resign or he needs to beeeds fired. and frankly, the fbi and the doj may need to be dismantled to bring back the honor and integritled to y that it onk but that likely won'elt happen under joe biden. because christopher wray

candidates oh, they absolutely and what was so amazing about chris wray is that he deniede fo any fbi wrongdoing in the face of clear evidence to theu know, contrary. you know, he r refusedefus to ad the question about fbi whistle blowers who have exposed questiononed. >> he refused to answer w the question about why the fbihy concealed from the american public joe biden's classifiericd document scandal. he refused to answerbout the question about why nobodye has any confidence in the fbi.tt >> the reputation at an alime l time low. >> but most of all, when he was asked about the laptop, he said, well, i didn't tell. >> we didn't tell twitter to kill the story, at least passing words.awing a he's drawing a distinction without a difference. they conjola they manipulated. >> they all but directed twitter to kill the story. at the same time, they'reey sending encrypted message is toe twitter saying banish these people whose views p we don't like. you know, he chris wrawey ha dos zero credibility. he is allowed the fbi'scorrup corruptionti to fester and grow worse. and that's why you left

but just so you understand putr, i put chris wray in because i wanted to have somebody in t there that everybody, includings moveother side, really wanted. it may not have been the right move. let's see. i wanted macll. okay, buhit i wanted to have somebody in the fbi because i'm an honorable guy. hon i'm anes honest guy. i may have made a mistake, butso i put somebody idyn that the other side everybody agreedc to , you know, who recommendedor him to me.is christie. he chris christie. he recommended him. tha and that's okay.t' i i don't mind that i've taken chris christie's recommendations before and othe r people wanted christopher wray and people from the other side wanted christopher. >> but now jordy estiga is investigatingti if the fbi's politicized. yeah, i've interviewedi intervie whistleblowers. there's going to be, accordingoi to hisng committee, dozens of fl whistleblowers. and they're also looking into the question and you brought up these words last night, the weaponization of the department of justice total. sortment of justice. the question is , so they had the laptop sin

the chinese government denies that but fbi director chris wray says they have tried to hide evidencee world. >> the chinese government it seems to me has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing. >> other u.s. agencies believe the virus emerged naturally. >>> across the pond, prince harry and meghan markle have been kicked out of their windsor home, telling nbc news the duke and dutchess of sussex have been requested to vacate their residence. >> the cottage, owned by the crown and just minutes from windsor castle was a gift to the couple from queen elizabeth. >> it was a place where we had so many memories. from our courtship, our engagement, our wedding, our walks. >> buckingham palace has not issued a comment. >>> some of the week's most dramatic moments caught on camera. the new jersey body cam footage captured this house explosion. firefighters who were inside when it happened survived the blast. >>> in florida, a spacex rocket blasted into orbit, sending a fresh crew to the international space station for a six-month stay. >>>

my sense of these hearings is chris wray gets treated generally and there are not the hard questionsst issue, right? they don't have the same capabilities to spy on domestic terrorists, but they have to do it anyway and hunt down the threats and they are grappling with the issue of what is free speech and what is the kind of intelligence they need to look at and be concerned about, and what is the line and the capabilities? one thing is going to be a renewal of the section 702 that allows them to gather up lots of data that traverse u.s. systems. it's mainly an international-focused issue capability, but there's a lot of concern particularly on the right that gives too much power to the government and may not get renewed and intelligence officials say if it doesn't, it will blind them >> we will be watching. ken, thank you so much. >>> there's a special investigation into norfolk southern's safety culture, as the conductor was killed. the conductor was outside of the car. this is the third norfolk southern incident in over a month in ohio. over the weekend a train derailed in springf

stuart: fbi director chri chrisr wray saying the covid was a lab leak. >> the fbi assess that had origins the pandemic are a potential lab incident in wuhan. here you're talking about a potential leak from a chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of americans. that's precisely what that capability was designed for. stuart: so, congressman, that's two agents, energy department and fbi both suggesting that the lab leak is a possibility at the very least. my question is how do we hold china accountable? >> that's the right question to be asking. we do need to make sure that that's a determination, but very few people being seriously minded about this had doubts about this theory and about the origins of this. other than the mainstream media, which is still trying to down play all of that. that really is a question that i think looking at china task force and looking at other efforts in the house of representatives and on cal toll hill and how -- capitol hill and how do we hold china responsible for all these various things and certainly in my mind we have to look at what our

yet, chris wray is correct.itol, who want to kill michigan legislalegislators, isr and present danger. dhs, other parts of the apparatus are not geared up for it. that's why the adl monitors extremists and works with law enforcement, to help them to equip them with the intelligence they need to stop this once and for all. >> the new adl report is eye-opening, alarming and worth a read for everyone. ceo of the anti-defamation league, jonathan greenblat, good to see you. >> thank you. >>> we'll be joined by a member of the weaponization committee. yesterday's hearing focused on reports known as the twitter files. >>> plus, another high-profile college basketball head coach leaving his alma mater. >>> and the new york yankees add a big name to the injury list. it's all coming up on "morning joe." there's always a fresh deal on the subway app. like this one! 50% off?! that deal's so good we don't even need an eight-time all-star to tell you about it. wait what? get it before it's gone on the subway app! ♪3, 4♪ wait

remember chris wray's testimony on the hill by far in the bucket of domestic violent extremism, by farlence that is the most lethal. it kills people. and so the data has to win the day. but, again, the very notion that they're concerned about spouting that and saying that is because of the beat downs they continually get whenever they do it, but the facts have to win the day. >> frank and mary, thank you so much for being with us and having this conversation with us. another quick break. we'll be right back. so it's decided, we'll park even deeper into parking spaces so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone's bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else's? -no! -no! or you can get a quote with america's number-one motorcycle insurer and maybe save some money while you're at it. all in favor of that. [ horn honking ] there's a lot of buttons and knobs in here. if your business kept on employees through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify