. >> gillian: good to be with everybody at home and i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith today. according to "the wall street journal," previously undisclosed u.s. intelligence report is now claiming that three researchers at that wuhan lab were hospitalized with covid like symptoms way back in 2019. that is a full four months before china reported its cases. this is also revealed after it

washington, gillian turner, fox news. >> mike: the gasoline crisis continues tonight, parts of the southmany stations still have not received new shipments of fuel. correspondent steve harrigan shows us tonight from atlanta. >> biden officials say the guests shortage would be resolved by sunday and that's not the case. a number of states with high percentages of gas stations without fuel. according to gasbuddy.com in georgia about 40% of stations have no fuel and roughly half the stations in north and south carolina remain closed. washington, d.c., this morning seven in ten stations had no gas. >> i've been writing all over the place trying to find gas. >> i'm not wasting money, who knows when the next prizes. >> i'm going to get gas and -- >> mike: 5500-mile pipeline's back in full capacity moving 2.5 million barrels of gas, diesel, jet fuel a day after shutting down after a week. the shortage sparked wider criticism of the administration's overall energy policy. >> we need more pipelines, not fewer pipelines, pipelines are a lifeline for our energy, our economy, or jobs. this administr

i'm gillian turner. the president has tweeted. the rule is now simple, get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. seems simple but that tweet is generating a lot of pushback on social media. one user posting you or the government have no authority to force me or any other person to wear a mask plain and simple. another tweet reads quote, really hard for parents who have kids under 12 to square this. talking about the new school reopenings. there are questions about the timing of the biden announcement which happens to coincide with the head of a powerful teachers unions calling for public schools to reopen in person five days a week by the fall. republican lawmakers say the new mask guidance conveniently pulls another away from the laundry list of crisis. not everyone is buying not bowing to political pressure. >> it's about damn time that we should be following the science and not playing politics and from the beginning of covid, there has been far too much politics connected to it. joe biden and kamala harris have been playing

gillian turner shows us tonight. >> i stand here today a proud first-generation latino and officer of and i unapologetically made. >> the video series saying the program is a successful tool for recruiting analyst and operatives. they plan to continue with purity in 2019 we started social media series humans have cia. our goal through the instagram, twitter and instagram account so followers can see themselves here and apply. >> i may 5th millennial with generalizing anxiety disorder. i am intersectional, but my existence is not a box checking exercise. >> intelligent sources told fox news cia goal with the series is to get rid of the cloak and dagger surrounding the agency and highlight the actual people behind it. one of president trump cia director said this messaging is all wrong despite the fact the series launched under president trump. >> we shouldn't be talking about being woke as an attempt to recruit people. we will end up with less talented people. >> a former afghanistan chief said if the recruiting is working, don't fix it. >> this is a video. let's remember cia officer s

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>> bret: gillian turner in the white house briefing room. gillian, thank you.ng between palestinians. calling for a dave rage tomorrow. those social media calls come as egyptian led peace talks between israel and the palestinians commence. a cease-fire to that 11-day conflict went into effect late last week. meantime ha rat's newspaper is reporting the israeli military is preparing for possible renewed gaza fighting tonight. >> bret: up next. the panel with the latest investigations into the coronavirus origins and what comes next. first, beyond our borders tonight. a spanish court imposes prison sentences raging from 8 to 53 years on three surviving members of an extremist islamist cell that killed 16 people, injuring 1 0 others during attacks in and near barcelona in 2017. the three convicted by spain's national court were accused of forming part of the cell or aiding it but not of directly carrying out those attacks. more than 150,000 people are homeless in the aftermath of a cyclone that unleashed storm surges in eastern india and bangladesh. heavy rains ar

i'm gillian turner. sandra is back today. >> john: chicken is in new wagu beef. ohn roberts. "the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: good afternoon. here's the story breaking right now. >> have to be careful with gun shots. >> martha: shots fired at george floyd square in minneapolis a year after his death. garrett tenney is on the scene with what we're learning about that and the rest. garrett? >> we've been across the street from this shooting. we were watching an argument about an hour or so. it was getting heated until the women left and said she was go

. >> gillian: i am gillian turner and four sandra smith. the u.s.ned congress was going to hit the debt limit within 90 days. >> john: more than $28 trillion, the context of your household, that means the average taxpayer has more than a quarter of a million dollars of the government's debt. >> gillian: that's a lot of money. we have a brand-new exclusive, you won't believe what they're asking taxpayers to fund. the pickle bar court, two of the controversial projects that are being proposed. >> john: byron donalds is standing by with the spending. >> gillian: first we have hillary vaughn as she joins us from capitol hill. >> some of these projects are raising eyebrows because they are surprising and offbeat. half a million dollars for a yoga and meditation program in new jersey or a quarter of a million requested for an expansion of the michelle obama library, but others are more shocking and politically controversial. there are dozens of projects that fund diversity and equity focused projects including 740-2004 program featuring inclusion and heal

i am dagen mcdowell along with greg gutfeld, jessica tarlov, dan bongino, and gillian turner.major development on the wuhan covid lab leak investigation, the official who led the probe that president biden then shut down says his team found almost nothing to suggest a virus

i'm gillian turner and i'm in for sandra today.orge floyd. police budgets have been/majorly. please nationwide have been slashed. for minnesota to illinois to new jersey, it's really something. >> john: dozens of murders ranging from gang warfare to hate crimes to road rage with a 6-year-old boy shot dead in his booster seat. we began with chief correspondent where california highway patrol has said at least 80 cars have been shot at in the last month alone. what's going on? >> majority of those shootings have been with a bb or pellet gun. but tragically, the gun and the bullet were all too real and deadly in the case of 6-year-old aiden cloonan. his mom was driving him to school when someone cut her off in the carpool lane. his heartbroken sister describes what happened next. >> there was road rage on the freeway and someone pulled out a gun and shot my little brother in the stomach. and he said it, "mommy, my tummy hurts." so she went and picked him up and he was bleeding on h. she had blood on her clothes. speak out the patrol s

i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith today. if so earlier this week, school officials -- pleading for their kids to be allowed in schools without masks. fox news has got new video showing that contentious exchange that has now gone viral. >> john: state law requires students in utah to continue wearing masks until june 15th because that's the day that school gets out but according to scientists, the science does not support the public health mandate. >> if you let a senator come up here and speak in the name of my children who you guys are abusing, are you serious? >> we have had our citizen participation. >> no more masks! >> i ask that we had this meeting. if >> we have a motion to adjourn and a second, all in far say aye. >> gillian: we will talk to sophia anderson, one of the parents at that board meeting earlier this week but first, senior correspondent alicia acuna joins us with all the details on how that school district is now responding. >> we are waiting to hear back from police on the possibility of charges. this wee

gillian turner has the story from the north lawn. what are they saying, gillian? >> good morning bill and dana. gas prices are rising, the lines are getting longer and white house is now feeling that pressure build pretty much by the hour. the epa overnight issued emergency fuel waivers for 12 additional states plus washington, d.c. to help manage that shortage. now the energy secretary jennifer granholm took to the podium yesterday and urged americans to try to stay cool, calm and collected despite the shortage. >> let me emphasize that much of their -- there was no cause, for, say hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic and no cause for hoarding gasoline in light of the fact the pipeline should be substantially operational by the end of this week. >> the fuel shortage will be a top line agenda item for president biden today when he convenes the big four conventional leaders at the white house. the first time we've seen this group get together since back in october of 2019 when we saw that happen, president trump was in office. we got that now infa

. >> bill: thank you, gillian turner on stand by in washington >> dana: let's bring in mark meadows former white house chief of staff under president trump. what mark zuckerberg said at the time two years ago when i talked to him about the overall issue of free speech and private market and facebook. watch. >> my belief is that in a democracy, i don't think we want private companies censoring politicians in the news. i generally believe that as a principle, people should decide what is credible and what they want to believe and who they want to vote for. and i don't think that should be something we want tech companies or any kind of other company doing. >> dana: you were the chief of staff at the time when all of this happened and i know that yesterday president trump announced a new website that he is going to put forward. what do you expect from the facebook oversight board today? >> free speech should reign the day. zuckerberg's comments are consistent with what our nation is all about. free speech. we're used to communist and socialist countries and dictatorships that control the narr

john roberts will join gillian turner and me at the top of the hour for "america's newsroom." >> harrisew video of the shots that were fired at george floyd square. they were caught in the middle of gunfire, hundreds had gathered to commemorate one year since his death. look at this. >> some gunshots. it sounds like gunshots. they seem to be gunshots. >> we are okay. we are okay. >> harris: last hour our reporter was telling us, he had to take cover, he told us he believes it was the result of an argument. there is no confirmation of what was going on from police. neighbors told our crew it's not uncommon for that to happen. he says, everybody is going back life right now. when you look at this and the crime stats, a hundred and 13% rise and we are seeing things where it started. you had the death and murder of george floyd. the country says we must have justice reform and police refer. they filled the streets with cities across america and the first street was george floyd's home in minneapolis. look at it later. you've seen all of these capitulated ideas, but nothing solved and their

correspondent gillian turner is here with details on this decision and the fallout from it.

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i am dagen mcdowell along with greg gutfeld, jessica tarlov, dan bongino, and gillian turner. at 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. a major development on the wuhan covid lab leak investigation, the official who led the probe that president biden then shut down says his team found almost nothing to suggest a virus occurred naturally. >> the national institutes of health and dr. fauci that there was almost no evidence that supported a natural evolution or source of covid-19. the data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated it was coming out of the lab for some supernatural source. >> dagen: house lawmakers are preparing to introduce two new bills aimed at china today. when establishing a commission investigating the origins of the pandemic, the other allowing americans to sue beijing. republicans are pressuring president biden to hold china accountable. >> the evidence i think strongly suggests that this virus escaped from one of the two institutes of virology and wuhan, china. >> the chinese government responsible for unleashing the worst pandemic in a centur

the very latest from gillian turner, where this goes from here. hey, gillian.ter: neil in very bankrupt about face the president biden is giving the intelligence community 90 days to investigate and determine whether covid-19 originated in a lab ininside of wuhan, china. his public health officials are for the first time saying this is a real possibility a year-and-a-half into the pandemic. take a listen. >> you gave them money, say don't do gain of function research? >> correct. >> you have no way of knowing whether they did or not except you trust them, is that right? >> well we generally always trust the grantee to do what they say. >> have you ever had a grantee lie to you? >> i cannot guarranty a grantee has never lied to us because we don't know. reporter: until tuesday the white house insisted the wuhan lab leak theory is likely -- unlikely. they said they would let the w.h.o. organization to have a look. now the tide is turning. >> we participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation with the needed access to get to the bott

i'm emily compagno, and here, harris faulkner, kayleigh mcenany, gillian turner, and cohost of "the fiveuan williams. the daily mail reports that documents buried in a since dismissed 2015 discrimination case play microsoft is a place where women aren't ignored, abused, or degraded, with men broke down groping and their female coworkers. the lawsuit accused lawmakers of having a boys club atmosphere ripe with sexual harassment. one of the former employees who made allegations spoke out, telling the news outlet "it was a culture of testing women poorly with impunity, and these revelations about gates have shown that to the world. it was a culture of lip service to diversity and inclusion but not supporting women and sexual assault claims or their career progression." the daily mail -- one of these allegations in that original lawsuit was one of rape by a male earn turn to another female intern. she reported it to her superiors and hr, requested a restraining order, and was told that if she followed through with it that she would be removed from the team now, the allege and rapist was offe

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first to gillian turner with much more on the top story. before i go to you i want to point out facebook didn't have to listen to this board. it was advisory. they took their advice. i'm curious to know how it works its way into story. >> that's right, harris. let's start with this. the decision from the oversight board is a big deal not just because it is going to impact the former president's ability to connect with his own hundreds of millions of followers but also sets a precedent for the power of big speech -- big tech versus free speech in america and beyond america. lawmakers are starting to react. republicans so far deeply skeptical of the board's decision to uphold the ban on trump. u.s. senator marsha blackburn tweets it is clear that mark zuckerberg views himself as the arbiter of free speech and mccarthy. facebook is more interested in acting like a democrat super pac. if they can ban president trump, all conservative voices could be next. facebook says as you mentioned harris they're upholding the ban. we don't know for how lon

i am dagen mcdowell along with greg gutfeld, jessica tarlov, dan bongino, and gillian turner. development on the wuhan covid lab leak investigation, the official who led the probe that president biden then shut down says his team found almost nothing to suggest a virus occurred

i'm gillian turner. sandra is back today. >> john: chicken is in new wagu beef. great to be with use. >> gillian: thanks for having me. it was fun. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: good afternoon. here's the story breaking right now. >> have to be careful with gun shots. >> martha: shots fired at george floyd square in minneapolis a year after his death. garrett tenney is on the scene with what we're learning about that and the rest. garrett? >> we've been across the street from this shooting. we were watching an argument about an hour or so. it was getting heated until the women left and said she was going to get her brother. a little later a man showed up who was yelling at his sister. a few minutes later, the a.p. reporter standing next to us was reported live when the shots started. >> a bill of comprehensive police reform to be -- have to be careful here with gun shots. excuse us. [shots fired]. sounds like gun shots. imagine what this is. seem to be gun shots. >> a short time later, minneapolis police say a

correspondent gillian turner is here with details on this decision and the fallout from it. good evening, gillian. >> gillian: good evening to you, bret. facebook's oversight board verdict is in. president trump will remain banned for at least six more months this. doesn't just impact trump's ability to connect with his tens of millions of followers but sets a precedent for the power of big tech vs. free speech in america and even beyond. trump's post during the capitol riot severely violated facebook's rules and encouraged and legitimized violence. former president trump has made no secret of his thoughts on big tech. >> twitter, google and facebook should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices. >> today he says this about the ruling. what facebook, twitter and doing have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. facebook is taking a victory lap we believe our decision was necessary and write and we are believe that the board recognized the unprecedented circumstances justified the exceptional measure we took. the power

here today, emily compagno, gillian turner, dr.ole sapphire and joining us today for the very first time, welcome fox news analyst, raymond arroyo. >> thank you. >> kaleigh: good to have you here. the cdc's updated guidelines dominating the news cycle at a time when the president is facing criticism. from the response to the middle east to the handling of the southern border. the former assistant health secretary under president trump, admiral giroir says this about the questionable timing. >> look at the whirl wind that happened on wednesday night. dr. walensky was intransient in her position. yesterday morning dr. fauci said yeah, you still need a mask indoors and outdoors if you're in a crowd. by the afternoon, it was all over. these decisions are not pure science. shouldn't look at it that way. it's not about infection control. it's about opening america, liberties and how we run our country. there was no scientific knowledge that happened yesterday. in fact, when you look at the cdc website and they say what is the science beh

. >> i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. "the story" with trace gallagher in for more that starts right now. >> thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i'm trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. right now president biden continuing his sales pitch across america pushing $2 trillion of new spending on infrastructure. he just spoke in the solidly red state of louisiana directly challenging republican opposition to this package and defending the massive tax hikes that come with it. watch. >> the way i can pay for this is the $40 billion, for example, just making sure the largest companies don't pay zero. i'm sick and tired of corporate america not paying their fair share. >> this package is just one of three proposed by the president. altogether, they come with a $6 trillion price tag. he says there's no reason why this effort can't be bipartisan and he will meet with republicans next week including mitch mcconnell who hopes to sell the president on the smaller bill which he says does not cave to the far left. here's mcconnell a s

here is correspondent gillian turner. le are witnessing. but there are some that are not. >> gillian: it's the question that secret sectors of the u.s. government have been pondering and tracking for decade. who is flying the hundreds of. fos spotted by american officials and civilians each year? recently the u.s. military and intelligence community have begun weighing in publicly for the first time. >> we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by navy or air force pilots or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain. >> like this military video of the ufo that was leaked in april went viral online and the pentagon has now confirmed in legitimate footage of unexplained objects captured in 2019. the filmmaker who posted the video tells fox news he wants answers. >> look, if the answer is our military defense system, who is tapped with being able to identify unknown can't identify them, well, then that's important. we need to up our ga

perhaps unsurprisingly. >> john: yes, unsurprisingly per gillian turner, thank you so much.studio. >> sandra: back for the top story, the administration defending the cdc after her "new york post" revealed the agency is cool reopening guidelines were influenced by a major teacher's union, white house press secretary jen psaki yesterday dismissing it as part of the process. >> it is actually a long-standing best practice for the cdc to engage with organizations and groups that are going to be impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency. the cdc engages with the stakeholders that are on the front lines in this pandemic and have requisite perspective for the guidance. >> sandra: ben domenech joining us now, publisher of "the federalist." we are wondering why any input other than this doctors would've been used to make these decisions. >> you know who the biggest stakeholders are in the decision. it is the kids. it is those black, brown, asian kids across america who are affected by these decisions in a way that is not just antiscientific, but it is designed to

first, gillian turner at the white house. >> hi, martha. breaks news that just happened. we got more from the white house correspondence association that press indoors at the white house no longer have to wear masks. this has been coordinated that reporters no longer have to wear the masks if we've been vaccinated. the rest of the nation, martha, the president has been teasing all week long that more relaxed guidance for vaccinated americans is coming soon. he said tuesday if you get vaccinated, doesn't mean you'll be able to hug your grandkids but do more sooner. now we know. take a listen to dr. walensky. >> anyone fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small without wearing a mask or physical distancing. if you're fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic. >> dr. walensky warned if this all doesn't go the way the cdc hopes, they could reneg these new freedoms at any time. listen. >> this past year has shown us the virus can be unpredictable. if things get worse, we could make

i'm john roberts, joined gillian turner in me at the top of the hour for "america reports." >> kayleighhem massless at an off-campus party. now parents of at least two of those students are fighting back, filing a class action lawsuit against the school after it kicked the students out for their spring semester and refused to refund their $16,000 tuition. and well umass says the students violated its covid policies, the parent say the school at its national championship hockey team hold a parade with no social distancing and some students even going massless. kennedy, let me start with you here, this seems a little harsh, one of these girls as the valedictorian of her school, class president of her high school and they are just kicked out entirely, no tuition. >> kennedy: they weren't just suspended, they were not allowed to take their final exams, so that means that they had to scrap the year and essentially reapply for next year. this will not be, again, you and emily obviously are both lawyers but as a parent i would be doing is searching social media, for other students here to see

i'm gillian turner. "the story" starts rights now. >> martha: coming up a pipeline for russia but not the united states. the "wall street journal" says this is the kind of deal that prompted the media to call president trump a russian agent. so is the biden white house trying to have it both ways? they're still against building nord stream 2, which would put the russians in control of europe's oil supply. at the same time, they're lefting sanctions against putin's crony who happens to be in charge of the pipeline company. so this release for russia came as the secretary of state blinken sat down with his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov. rick perry calls this the most pro russian move by a sitting president this modern history. let's start with lynn allen, a laid off keystone pipeline worker. lynn, good to have you back again. thanks for being here. what is your reaction to what the biden administration is doing here? they're making it easier for this pipeline project to go through by lifting sanctions

correspondent gillian turner takes a look tonight. >> tick-tock continues the explosive rise among american kids, teens, adults, and major celebrities. over 100 million americans are using it every single day. but the company is making moves with send send them to did -- which cemented the chinese regime, tying to the communist government. showing deep knowledge of the country industry and working in the technology sector for a decade until last month showing leadership roles in chinese telecom company is the blacklisted by the u.s. government as national security threats. president of the technology and an entity at the pentagon label of the chinese military company in january. also a board member of king saul cloud, pay to survey uighurs during the. last year president trump labeled tiktok a security threat for stealing americans data and intellectual property. it is a worry that the biden team still shares. >> we are worried about the actions china has taken. and that includes the theft of intellectual property. >> china critics say the white house is not sending the right signals to ame

correspondent gillian turner shows us tonight. >> i stand here today a proud first generation latina and officer at cia. i am unapologetically me. >> the cia is defending its controversial recruitment video series saying the program has been a successful tool for recruiting analysts and operatives and they plan to continue it. in 2019 we started our ongoing social media series humans of cia. our goal is to humanize cia through our instagram, twitter and facebook account so followers can see themselves here and apply. >> i'm a cisgender preliminary who has been diagnosed with anxiety disorder. i'm intersectional but my existence is not a box-checking exercise. >> intelligent sources tell fox news tonight the cia's goal with the series is to get rid of the cloak and dagger mystic surrounding the agency and highlight the actual people behind it. but one of president trump's former cia directors says this messaging is all wrong. despite the fact that the series launched under president trump. >> we shouldn't be talking about being woke as an attempt to recruit people. it's enormous mista

steve: all right, gillian turner, live on the north lawn. we thank you very much.southern border and yet the administration says there is no crisis and then you have the secretary of homeland security saying the border is closed. and, yet, our fox cameras have caught these people just streaming over by the hundreds earlier this week. and then you have got what's going on with the pipeline and we can see with our own two eyes that this was a problem. and it sounds like it's coming from russia and people feel like shouldn't the united states be able to protect us from russia? and then you have got the jobs number where it was a huge miss. we thought we were going to hire a million people in the last month but they only hired a quarter of that number because of the stimulus. and, yet, joe biden says, do you know what? it has nothing to do with that we see one thing but we know with our eyes what they are telling us is not true. ainsley: i went to a restaurant yesterday and the service was so poor. steve: the service was good for the one guy. ainsley: we were giving hi

gillian turner is live in washington with more on this. >> hey, sandra.inues to explode here months kids, teens, adults. over 100 million americans are using it every single day. tiktok announced a new ceo saying that he brings deep knowledge of the company and industry and was among one of our earliest investors. have worked and technology after a decade. here's the rub. until just last month, he held roles and chinese telecom companies. he was president of shami technology that the pentagon labeled a communist chinese military company down in january. he was also company of a company that surveilled uighur during the ongoing. last year president trump labeled tiktok a national threat. that is a team that the biden administration still considers. >> we have real concerns about actions that china has taken and that includes a theft of intellectual property. >> america will stand up to theft of intellectual property. the theft of american technology and intellectual property. >> trump also banned federal workers from using tiktok. fox news can combat do no

we begin with gillian turner at the white house from the north lawn. hello. >> good morning. the white house is feeling is pressure ratchet up by the hour. so far this morning as those gas lines get longer, prices rise, more stations continue to shut down. at the same time the white house knows this is not the only crisis they are dealing with right now. take a listen. >> when you walk in and you are the leader of the free world and you have to be prepared to juggle multiple challenges, multiple crises at one time and that's exactly what we're doing at this moment. >> just like that halfway across the world now one of the united states most important strategic allies is under attack. >> israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory. but i had a conversation for a while with the prime minister of israel and i think that my hope is that we'll see this coming to conclusion sooner than later. >> today biden is pushing full steam ahead with the infrastructure plan coming out of the big four congressional meeting yesterday. both s

i'm gillian turner.e united states. the "wall street journal" says this is the kind of deal that prompted the media to call president trump a russian agent. so is the biden white house trying to have it both ways? they're still against building nord stream 2, which would put the russians in control of europe's oil supply. at the same time, they're lefting sanctions against putin's crony who happens to be in charge of the pipeline company. so this release for russia came

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let's get the news with gillian turner live from the north lawn at the white house. >> good morning. this is a very abrupt about face for president biden. he has given the intelligence community 90 days and wants them to investigate and get him an answer directly as to whether covid-19 originated oft wuhan institute of virology in wuhan, china. notable happening now top public health officials are for the very first time acknowledging this could be a possibility. a year and a half into the pandemic raging. listen. >> you gave them money and said don't do gain of function research. >> correct. >> you have no way of knowing whether they did or not except you trust them, is that right? >> well, we generally always trust the grantee to do what they say. >> you ever had a grantee lie to you? >> i can't guarantee that a grantee has not lied to us because you never know. >> until tuesday just two days ago the white house had insisted that the possibility of a wuhan lab leak as the origin story was very unlikely. they also said they were going to wait for the world health organization to do

i am gillian turner in for sandra smith today. president is expected to follow up on the disappointing leads, those numbers are now creating -- on the one hand, says americans are interested in signing up for new jobs because of the bite and spending plan. on the other hand cannot unemployed workers across the country according to some still need more of a boost. >> john: the numbers, head of biden's meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on wednesday to pitch them on a pair of multitrillion dollar spending plans. mark meredith joins us live at the white house to kick off this hour. >> good afternoon prayer the white house faces its biggest challenge yet trying to get congress on board with its economic proposal. today, the president having a chance to meet with two dominant democrats. here is why is it is considered crucial to get any spending bill out of the senate. it also a meeting six republican senate, pushing $2 trillion in republican say they want to spend a lot less between six to 800 billion. within the hour, expected to talk

i do hereby declare - that gillian mortimer commonly known asjill moore turner is duly elected. as jill, after decades of voting labour, today hartlepool has the conservative mp. jill mortimer won by nearly 7,000 votes. she said her opponents had lost touch with voters. labour have taken people in hartlepool for granted for too long. i heard this time and time again on the doorstep. people have had enough and now, through this result, the people have spoken and they have made it clear it's time for change. the conservatives called it an historic result. 18 months after they took seat after seat in northern england from labour in the general election, another has turned blue. a blow—up borisjohnson appeared in hartlepool to mark the tories' expected victory, the results showing that the prime minister still commands support after brexit. the labour leader, not speaking yet, but his party says it will listen and learn. the question for us is, how do we make sure we get heard? how do we make sure that our ideas are communicated in a positive, practical way and that we're able to bring peop