she's a head of the middle east division at the german political foundation, the heinrich bowes shift on a welcome state of view. so how much support does basha, our side really have you look at how these elections are being held. you can very estimate the population is not able to vote because they are simply not an area that are participating in the voting and all those show. i mean, there are so many people finding with their own lot. they are a lot about it. ok, so each from student to, to use, he's next term in office to rebuild the country. so who's going to assess them in that if he wants assistance, he would need to perform them. there is 2 bare changes and he has not shown any indication that he's ready to do that on that he'll be left with his wife around russia. lease, however, has constantly demonstrated that they are willing to both service military efforts and to help him in winning the word. but they have not done any efforts to rebuild the country to go in a military and a this is not coming from a lice. so what.

she's a head of the middle east division of the german political foundation, the heinrich of bows, shift on a welcome steed w. so how much support does basha alice? i really have you look at how these elections are being held. you can already estimate half of the population is not able to vote because they are simply nothing areas that are participating in the voting and all those show. i mean, there are so many people signing with their own lot. there are lots of posters and all just president bashar if you mount. so this is where these election you can guess is real support, at least he himself has felt about it. ok, so he's promised to to, to use he's next term in office to rebuild the country. so who's going to assess them in that if he wants assistance, he would need to perform them very severe changes and he has not shown any indication that he's ready to do that. so on that he'll be left with his wife around russia. please, however, have constantly demonstrated that they are willing to both. so his military efforts and to help him in winning the war. but they have not done any eff

>> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawnget jacqui, thank you.s the she just mentioned president biden was at a at event with ralph northam. the comes two years after biden called northam's resignation following the scandal of the medical school yearbook photo showing him and another person dressed in a kkk outfit and black face. well then vice president biden said northam should resign immediately and that he had lost all moral authority. officials belief russian hackers are behind another major campaign against u.s. government agencies, nongovernment tall organizations and think tanks. state department correspondent rich edson believes it's the same group responsible for a previous high profile attack. >> russian hackers have hit the u.s. government again. microsoft says the same, russian government backed cyber operatives responsible for last year's solar wind infiltrated a email system at the state department development agency and targeted, quote, government agencies, at this think tanks, consultants and nongovernmental organizations. approx

>> bret: jacqui heinrich live on capitol hill. jacqui, thanks. tomorrow mitch mcconnell will join us here live on "special report" to talk about election reform, among other topics. just a few minutes the push for election overhaul is being bank rolled in part by a swiss foreign national. mike emanuel looks at how this secretive billionaire is managing to funnel money to dozens of left wing projects. that's coming up. the violence is escalating tonight in israel for another night as israel's armed forces exchanged fire with palestinian militants, rockets firing, dozens of them today. dozens have been killed in this most recent fighting and it's likely to get worse. foreign correspondent trey yingst is on the ground again jerusalem with the very latest. good evening, trey. >> bret, good evening. a massive escalation tonight as factions inside gaza fired dozens of rockets towards israel's second largest city of tel aviv. we do know along the border here there were rockets being fired from the northern part of gaza and also the central part of the s

announced a $450 billion, 10-your blueprint ornized by the president, spearheaded by samsung and sk heinrichsmsung will increase production by 30%, up to $151 billion by the end of the decade, and sk committing $200 billion. the u.s., china, and eu are ramping up to production -- ip production. moon once his country to stay a global leader. take a listen. >> [speaking in foreign language] translator: we will achieve our goal of becoming the world's top integrated device manufacturer by 2030. semiconductor industry priorities will also bring competitive edges in all industries to take a new leap into the new post-coronavirus era. reporter: time for a check on the days trading action. wall street bounced back after rising u.s. inflation data sparked a selloff wednesday. a new report today shows u.s. producer prices rising twice as expected. the s&p 500 managing to close off around 1.25%, while the nasdaq was up 0.75%. inflation fears weighed on sentiment. paris and frankfurt closing with minor gains. crude oil tanking, as india's crisis sends global demand projections lower. the restarting of t

jackie: thank you so much for that jacqui heinrich.mpians. first, what are the athletes telling you about going to compete in china? >> you know, jackie, its been such a stop/start process altogether in so many ways a lot are still waiting for the other shoe to drop as we start the just two months to tokyo, is that going to go through as planned and what should we expect a little over nine months from now as we look ahead to beijing 2022. it's a time of uncertainty that makes it hard to focus. jackie: i can imagine the discipline that these athletes need to compete, and then having these issues, the uncertainty on top of it makes it very very difficult, but it's so interesting because you look at not non-olympic athletes but look at the lebron james of the world who are very outspoken, on a number of issues that are happening here in the united states, and you wonder if some of these athletes that are going to compete, feel that they should speak up, or maybe they don't think it's their place. what am i missing here? >> that's a great

jackie: and i'm jacqui heinrich.ll melugin joins us now with more. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. here where we are it's the busiest sector for border patrol all along the u.s./mexico boarer. we just found out -- border. we just found out that on wednesday morning here in this sector about 30 minutes south of where we are in hidalgo, they arrested an active ms-13 gang member, and he had an active warrant out of harris county down by the houston area for the is sexual assault of a young child. he came across with a group of 70 migrants and was mixed in with those family units but, thankfully, they were able to catch him, find his warrant. he was from el salvador. if we can pull video from la joya, texas, this is the sort of thing that happens every day like clockwork. our fox drone crew out here early this morning witnessing multiple groups of migrants coming out of the brush where we're standing and presenting themselves to local border control here. most of them from those northern triangle countries, guatemala

join by my ranking member and senator heinrich. we are delighted to welcome our witnesses.date we have with us the library of congress doctor carla hayden. the general ds accountability office jane, and the directive congressional budget office. welcome and thank you all for joining us here today to testify. the rules at the library cdl and gal all play a critically important to make sure congress can serve the american people well. the agencies help congress supported us in a basic responsibility be informed and educated on behalf of our constituents. let me begin by thanking the women and men of your agencies. the pastor has been difficult when the covid nine pandemic on the generate six attack on the capitol pretty had to spend regular appropriations beyond what we provided lester in the cares act on unanticipated enhancements, ppe, cleaning and security. present continuous meat heavy workloads of crs, gao and the cvo have increased to meet congressional reports to inform response of the pandemic. the library has delayed the storage module at fort meade so we could use t

us to respond to that spirit terrifying idea but we began with congressional correspondent jacqui heinrich first. she joins us from capitol hill, hey, kathy. -- >> the abandoned mine fueling and elevating this theory that covid-19 could have escaped from the wuhan lab and still not provided enough access for information for scientist and leaders around the world to make a determination about this. but on capitol hill dr. dr. fauci tough questions whether in front of the pandemic through grants through the eco-help alliance with $6,000 to the wuhan lab for five years. dr. fauci said after 2002 when the virus unquestionably went from a bath to intermediate human. they collaborated with chinese researchers but the money was not approved to make any virus deadlier. >> you don't want to study bats in fairfax, virginia, to find out what the animal interfaces that might lead to jumping the species. so we had a modest collaboration, a function to take the virus to infect humans and more transmissible or pathogenic to humans. that categorically was not done. >> gillian: dr. fauci and nh director: s

too limited and it should look into antifa and the protests last summer that went on and jackie heinrichled for in february. now telling his members to vote against the commission that would potentially subpoena him as part of its investigation. but i've learned from my gop sources nearly all 29 house republican members of the bipartisan problem solvers congress will vote in support of the bill. they vote as a block if a bill needs a certain threshold of support. it did. there are 68 members outside who are on board. far more than the 10 in the house who voted to impeach. a couple reasons why this is gaining traction. the biggest one fears among republicans. if republicans don't agree the democrats will drag it into the mid-terms. if republicans take part they can insure a shorter timeline. the bill will pass the house but much less clear where it goes in the senate. mitch mcconnell said yesterday a commission might not be necessary with the ongoing investigations by the d.o.j. and senate committees. >> one thing i think we need to bear in mind. there are hundreds of arrests that have al

becky heinrich's life on capitol hill for us.on for hours yesterday in the committee but it ended with a tied party line vote. essentially killing this and tabling the issue. unless democrats choose to bring it to the floor enemy we are right now it cannot get 60 votes to overcome the filibuster. election reform might just be the issue where democrats moved to blow up the filibuster. they have made a slew of state laws which they say restrict ballots box voters of color and amy klobuchar saying this is not the end but only the beginning. republicans see this film is a politically motivated takeover of elections and will not take it. speak out this partisan grab failed and it must never ever become law as it currently written. it will shatter public confidence in our democracy. >> only with this bill moves forward as if democrats can convict moderates to change the filibuster but they've come out against nuke and yet also want bipartisan election reform if it happens at all. >> john: it's going to be a big issue going forward. jac

thank you, jackie heinrich. keep running it down for us.president every opportunity to say yes so far. would you agree with me? >> dana: interesting. marc thiessen wrote a piece yesterday saying biden wants to blame the republicans for not going forward with this bipartisan way. karl rove is saying if the republicans take this ta*k and offering him the opportunity. here is something we could do. they could run on the fact they tried to be bipartisan and he denied it. i don't know how the politics falls. in the meantime i think something will get done but they have got very tight margins. >> bill: senator blunt from missouri did an interview on the hill. he is saying it is a lot easier to keep the definition of infrastructure on roads and bridges. if you do that you can get 15 or 20 republicans to sign onto it. if you don't do that and go with your 50 democrats on reconciliation you'll have to push the final three democrats very, very hard to get them over the finish line and that remains an open question. can you imagine if biden went with

i want the read from rebecca heinrichs. your thoughts on this. the last 48 hours, there was extreme press sure the from the white house. at one point president biden according to some reports demanded a deescalation to israel. what do you think? >> i'm tentatively very encouraged. the fighting will continue up to the cease fire. the cease fire, the early reports are, it will take in effect and be about 7:00 p.m. thursday night. that's tonight, eastern time. of course, israel will continue to take out the targets that they believe are necessary where hamas is still hiding. i think trey made the important point, too, the reporter before you and i began chatting, charles, the humanitarian aid coming in is important to be clear where it's coming from. israel is delivering aid. hamas continues to fire on the aid in the area. so it's important to keep in mind who the aggressors are here and who is trying to go to extremes to make sure that we minimize the civilian casualties caught in the middle of this. >> rebecca, it's a cease fire, it's tenuous. it

david: doesn't seem like there's much room to come together, janney heinrich good to see you.yment benefits saying it's jeopardizing the expansion of the economy. lydia hu is at a manufacturing plant in gibbstown, new jersey with more. hi, lidia. reporter: hi, david, that friday report showed us that the manufacturing industry lost about 18,000 jobs and that leads manufactures that we've been speaking to scratching their heads because they tell us they are hiring. we are at keystone industries and right behind us, you can see that workers are packaging a colored powder used by professional manicureists to provide manicures and it's a big industry and we are talking to bob stuart here, because he says that the company has been hiring for more than a year. bob, you have a sign posted out front of your facility that it's advertising open positions. you've been saying you offer to all of your employees but tell us what has hiring over the past year during covid been like? has it been more challenging? >> yes its been very difficult year for everyone i think in the manufacturing in

steve: so, according to jacqui heinrich and our sources on capitol hill, those are two bills that aresan. will: meanwhile, something that does not have bipartisan support joe biden's spending spree here is the cover of the "new york post" hog wild biden's massive pork budget spurs biggest deficit sips world war ii. it's so big and, of course, there's no world war taking place right now that joe biden felt the need to tell you he is a capitalist, but. watch this. >> now as our economy recovers there is going to be some bumps in the road we know that of course there will be. we must restore the connection between the success of our economy and the people who produced that success. hardworking americans. y'all remember it used to be the case in this country when you were part of generating success of a company, you got to share in the benefits. that's long since gone. now i'm a capitalist. productivity has grown four times faster than pay has grown. understand the risk and challenges business owners face. i just think after decades of workers getting the raw deal it's time they're given

. >> i'm jacqui heinrich in for arthel neville.retary mayorkas went friday and said hundreds or crossing into the u.s. each day, the administration says it's getting a better handle on the situation by acting ice director tom homan says the biden team is losing sight of the big picture. it. >> they're going to get really good at releasing people very fast so there's no were under no overcrowding. the president said we got this under control, 80% less children aboard a bushel, no kidding, there releasing them faster, building more facilities and hotel rooms $375 a night to release from border patrol custody quicker into the interior of the united states, there just getting really good at releasing people quickly and they call that a success. jacqui: live in del rio texas with more. >> good afternoon the administration is saying things are starting to get more under control but that is not what were seen on the ground in del rio, yesterday we seen a ton of activity just like what we saw yesterday and just this week alone border patro

while it still has a hefty price have, jacqui heinrich, who was at the white house with the latest --> jackie: good afternoon. the white house reduced the price tag by about a half a trillion dollars from $2.25 trillion down to $1.7 trillion. republicans don't see that as a considerable shift. -- >> jacqui: part of their proposal, a key piece, would move -- manufacturing and supply chains to another piece of legislation, the endless frontiers act, a bipartisan bill that aims to make the u.s. more competitive with china. republicans say that's a moot point, because the bill is being voted on, it's unlikely to change into them shifting dollars from one legislative bucket to another is like paying with a different credit card, legislative pete. the two sides are at an impasse and had to pay for this. unspent covid money is an alternative to raising taxes, but the white house did not budge. >> the president is not willing to raise taxes on americans earning under $400,000 a year through a gas tax or user fees. he believes that the extraordinarily wealthy, companies that, many of whom, hav

jacqui heinrich has more. >> hi, neil.fter the intelligence officials say they have an unexamined batch of evidence that needs more computer analysis. after china said that they won't cooperate, president biden ordered the intelligence community to declassified their materials and also expand the probe for 90 days to include resources that weren't previously part of it like national labs and health and medical experts, this comes as congress is pushing to get to the bottom of this. house republicans launched an investigation into a federal grant to echo health alliance which awarded taxpayer money to the wuhan lab to study the coronavirus in bats in the early 2000s. they want to know whether the lab was conducting research outside the grant that could make a virus deadlier. two bipartisan bills were introduced in the house this morning. the first it would strip china of sovereign immunity. that would allow families to sue the chinese government for damages that is same later to actions taken about saudi arabia against 9-11

. >> i'm jacqui heinrich in for arthel neville. another failed drug test would add to the growing questions surrounding hall of fame trainer bob baffert whose horses failed five tests in more than a year. he denied any wrong-doing. eric: baffert is calling this a gut punch. charles watson is live in atlanta with more on the latest development. charles, what a surprise. >> reporter: hi, eric. the trainer, bob baffert, says medina spirit was found to have traces of a steroid in his system following a post race drug test. batchest says his crew -- baffert said his crew was notified on saturday about the failed drug test. medina spirit has not been officially stripped of his crown and baffert is denying any wrong-doing. baffert said he never treated medina spirit with the steroid and has no idea how it could have gotten into the horse's system. take a listen. >> yesterday, i got the biggest gut punch in racing, for something that i didn't do. and this is really -- it's disturbing. it's an injustice to the horse. >> reporter: this follo

of the senate intelligence committee, senators shaheen, cornyn, bennet, burr, gillibrand, blunt, heinrich, sasse, feinstein, cotton, king, and risch. most of those are members of the intelligence committee and they share my deep concern and my determination to get to the bottom of what has happened to these grave men and women who have been attacked. madam president, for many years, american personnel serving in cuba, china, and elsewhere have experienced the unexplained serious medical harm, including in some cases permanent brain injuries. these conditions are believed to be connected to a mysterious direct energy weapon used by those who are our adversaries. as we investigate the source of previous attacks and seek to prevent future ones, the bill that i'm introducing today would provide additional financial assistance to americans who were injured and who continue to experience debilitateing symptoms. too many of the victims have had to fight to get the medical care that they need for their injuries. this is completely unacceptable. last year, the national academy of sciences, enginee

jacqui heinrich on capitol hill with all of those developments. want to go to congressman dan newser, pennsylvania what he makes of all this. congressman doesn't sounds to me like a infrastructure package is going to come to pass, even if the president had to rely on only democrats as things stand now. he has trouble with the numbers. forget about the senate, talking about the house where you are. what is your sense where things stand on? >> i'm more than just hopeful, neil. i think it actually can get done. just the idea that president biden now is even speaking, that he doesn't want to take a go it alone approach that has been done in the past, the term reconciliation has not been coming up. they're at this 1.7, we need a t&i plan we have something to show for it in the end and truly makes economic sense. no question in my mind, great commonwealth of pennsylvania received $20 billion which prorated equate to 563 billion-dollar package for all the other states. we're the fifth largest gdp state it, would be a game-changer for pennsylvania. we can

correspondent jack heinrich telling us that the made in america emergency preparedness act establishes bipartisan commission which is sort of mottled after the 9/11 commission, which is expected to focus on the origins of covid-19. the second bill is the never again international outbreak prevention act. that's designed to strip china of sovereign immunity allowing covid family victims to directly sue the chinese government for damages. it would also review the actions of the w.h.o. with response to the pandemic. that news comes as the "new york times" reports tonight that the biden administration has a raft of unexamined evidence requiring "computer analysis" into the origins of covid-19. >> we want the release -- report released after 90 days? >> a pledge by the white house to release a u.s. intelligence reports into the origins of covid-19 sometime within the next three months. that comment just the latest this week by a white house under intense scrutiny with respect to the virus's origins. a week that's already seen the white house suggest that the w.h.o. should lead the effort in

meantime, the read from rebecca heinrich. what is sparking this round of exchange? >> it's hard to know with the things specifically is the pretext for these hamas terror attacks against israel. they're the worst that we've seen in a decade. i heard one quotation that it hasn't been since 2016 or 2017 but in a decade. hamas is aiming for civilians and then using civilians for shields. so when the israelis defend themselves and retaliate against hamas militant target, when civilians are killed, hamas tries to make it seem as the israelis have done that. you might hear that to members of congress that have sympathetic to hamas. this is what hamas does. it's only going to get worse as the barrage of rockets fall on israel. >> charles: to that point, prime minister netanyahu has said that we're going to see an increase of both the intensity and the rate of attacks. to your point, israel has warned that they know there's civilians in the buildings where weapons are being housed. they're giving them plenty of time to get out. sounds like according to trey that they will b

rebecca heinrichs is here with me now.ion knowing what we're hearing from both sides right now? >> you're right. general milley recognizes this could spread to a regional conflict. if you push back iran, iran is the country fuelling hamas and the middle and the organization among the palestinian people and the previous administration supported israel, which the biden administration is doing the both side thing, which can perpetuate the conflict. israel won't stop attacking until hamas ceases attacking israel. that is the first step that needs to happen. i don't think israel nor do i blame them is going to stop unless they are satisfied that they continue to destroy the targets that are launching against their own people. >> sandra: the biden administration has supported israel, but getting support from the members of the president's own party is not doing so. so what can the white house do and president biden do to step in knowing the situation as it stands today to deescalate the situation knowing the fighting continues,

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reaction now from rebeccah heinrichs, hudson institute senior fellow.cah, it's also good news to hear a ceasefire is in place, how long will it last? >> there are other questions that need to be answered like why were those reporters co-locating with hamas -- [inaudible] and then the also there is democratic members of congress calling israel -- [audio difficulty] and even jen psaki, the white house position person -- whether or not israel and hamas committed war crimes. this, israel's going to be under a lot of scrutiny, but it's important to remember, to keep in mind as we kind of get through all these questions and the media's very confusing and leads us astray at time, all of those buildings that trey just outlined that have been destroyed, those were hamas militant targets, that's where they were located. these were tunnels, extravagant tunnels that a hamas militants . and so there's a lot of questions, a lot of it needs to be sorted out now in the wake of the ceasefire which is good news. jackie: the ceasefire certainly is good news, and you're ri

congressional correspondent jacqui heinrich reports tonight. >> no one is saying that you can't talk that america had slaves or that it was legal at one point. what is happening here is a destruction of america's civics institutions. >> 20 states attorney general from republican leaning state led by indiana's todd rokita are egg education secretary todd cardona project money should not be used the united states irredeemably basist or assign money to certain groups because of theirs race. it afoul of nondiscrimination in many states. >> it's the exact opposite of what martin luther king taught us. you know, where he said that he hoped that his children would one day be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. >> the proposal would prioritize grants for schools that, quote, take into account systemic marginalization biases. and discriminatory practices in american history and supports the book how to be antis racist. saying anti-racist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial iniquities. critics call it part of awoke revolution indoctrinati

congressional correspondent jacqui heinrich reports tonight from capitol hill. >> senate republicanscounter the white house infrastructure proposal with a deal they say reflects what president biden agreed to in the oval office. $1 trillion over 8 years. and the g.o.p. want to pay for it in part with unspent covid relief money. pointing to 700 billion in leftover funds. the lead g.o.p. negotiator senator shelley moore capito says the white house hasn't rejecting that idea adding the administration has re-purposed funds before to care for migrant children in hhs custody at the border. the negotiations getting support from the g.o.p. >> around a trillion dollars get a lot of bipartisan support. >> skepticism from democrats. >> keep pushing, the republicans need to do better. >> moreover, there is broad suspicion among the g.o.p. that progressives are threatening to pull their support if they don't get everything they want and would rather use reconciliation to push through a massive social spending bill without working across the aisle. >> either he has changed his mind or chuck schume

. >> i'm jacqui heinrich in for arthel neville. another failed drug

jacqui heinrich covering the story. >> we have to look at the implications of holding the olympics ine hoping for action out of this with more and more outside groups pushing for a boycott over china's human rights abuses. a coalition representing uighurs, residents of hong kong said participating in the beijing olympic games would be putting profit before human lives. saying beijing also failed to keep human right promises before the 2008 summer games. lawmakers have urged president biden to work with other nations to hold the 2022 games in a country that would promote peace and human dignity. so far there's not much movement. >> if we can postpone an olympics by a year for a pandemic, we can surely postpone an olympics for a year for genocide. to those that argue that the olympics should be immune from politics, i say taking a stance against genocide is not politics. it's about human decency. >> granting beijing host status of the olympic games, we're crowning a regime with laurels. >> people that want to postpone the game would allow the ioc time to relocate it to a country where t

fox news, jackie heinrich has more from the white house.% but the origin is it's imperative that we look and we do an investigation. a growing call for accountability as the white house and those on capitol hill continue efforts to better understand the origins of covid-19. republicans on the house judiciary and oversight committees, launching an investigation friday into early coronavirus research in wuhan, china, allegedly funded by u s taxpayers. this is house lawmakers introduced to bipartisan bills related to the pandemic. the first. aimed at investigating the origins of the virus while making sure federal and state officials have resource is necessary to prevent anything like this from happening again. meanwhile the second bill would allow americans who lost a loved one to the virus to sue beijing. what would that look like? in reality? harder to say? probably very large scale, a class action lawsuit president biden ordering the intelligence community to investigate whether the virus originated at the wuhan institute for morale. aji c

alicia. >> alicia: oh, boys here jacqui heinrich, live in washington, thanks.ow, associate editor of "the wall street journal," and fox news contributor. so, first of all, considering the president's budget proposal is traditionally a wish list, what does president biden want, and what is he likely to get? >> well, he wants a robust economy, and that is part of what you see reflected in the budget. a lot of spending that we know about already on infrastructure, an expansion of health care, expansion of schooling for preschool kids, and college for adults in the form of supported payments for community college. but what he is really kind of counting on, arthel, is a robust economy that is going to help fund of some of that, and i think that you are seeing predictions already of an economy that is going to be very kind of rapidly growing the latter half of this year. 6.4% is what economists are talking about. 3.24% next year. so, if they materialize, they would be good stories where the president to tell to try to push the rest of his agenda through. >> arthel: w

i'm jacqui heinrich. >> i'm griff jenkins, it's good to have you here in washington. job covering this.

joining me now, hudson institute senior fellow rebeccah heinrichs.fice in the white house about this bombing of the press facility. fortunately, word got out to the people inside in gaza that they were about to explode the building and ors n., that's what happened -- and, in fact, that's what happened. nevertheless, the white house press secretary saying, quote: we have communicated directly to the israelis that insuring the security and safety of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility. i mean, this is one of the tragedies of war. is there any way to avoid this kind of thing? >> yes. hamas and their intelligence agents can get out of civilian targets and facilities and stop co-locating where there is press, where there is media, where there are families. and the ids before they took down this meeting, they sent out a statement to evacuate the building. they can't give any more notice than they did otherwise you would scare off some of the intelligence assets that they were targeting. but they clarified that's why they were ta

jacqui heinrich has details from d.c. jackie.to you, ashley. 20 states attorneys general signed on to the letter to education secretary miguel cardona saying taxpayer money cannot be used for projects that characterize the u.s. as irredeemably racist or aszion blame and bias to certain groups because of their race. in response to a proposal that would prioritize federal funds for schools that teach the 1619 project and critical race theory which centers around the premise that the country's found something rooted in racism, systemic racism affects people of color are treated. critics call it a woke revolution, indoctrine nating american children to believe they're inherently racist. they say promoting view of american history does not support a required statute. the critical race theory and 1619 project, identifying students as oppressors based on race. it runs afoul of bodies crime nation provisions to stop the separatist teaching and guidance attempt to integrate schools through teachers and students. >> the problem is that kid

jacqui heinrich has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: hey there, neil.y if he knew the origins of covid-19, he would not be asking for a 90-day probe and review to investigate that and get that classified information out. but the former lead investigator on the origins probe tells fox that there is no evidence of the virus evolving naturally, and that jibes with what intelligence sources tell fox, that with sars-1 there was a host species identified within a matter of weeks, but with coronavirus there is still no host identified. >> and we said, you know, okay, let's look at this, both sources of evidence, natural as they call it, you know, did it come out of nature or did it come out of a lab. and the data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated that it was coming out of a lab or some supernatural source. >> reporter: now pressure is growing in congress to get to the bottom of this. two bipartisan bills were introduced this morning. the first would establish a best partisan commission modeled after the 9/11 commission focused on covid origins a