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

host: about 10 minutes left with michelle hackman, the wall street journal immigration reported thereher work at the wall street journal, wsj.com is where you can go. taking your phone call online, on -- (202) 748-8000 for democrats, republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. this is steve, pennsylvania, independent, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you guys today? i will make this quick because i have a couple of points i want to throughout their, it is mostly opinion because i think number one, politicians are a joke because they are a bunch of drama queens more interested in keeping their jobs and doing it. and number two, a lot of the money being spent for border walls, -- why are we not spending to keep the boots on the ground. get more officials able to handle the workload's because they are overrun dealing with all of these cases. last but not least, the humanitarian issue, we boast about being a loving country but we have to worry about keeping ourselves safe. to me, handling this humanitarian issue, to keep the people save even in their own country,

. ♪♪ >> welcome to "the wall street journal" at large.n prominent republicans alleged over one year ago the covid-19 pathogen might have leaked from a chinese government lab they got the usual treatment from the truth vigilantes in the media. tom cotton the arkansas senator was among the first question the official chinese version that the virus had passed from animals to humans from a so-called wet market in wuhan. instead he suggested the fact of the city was also the site of one of china's largest centers for the viral research and the communist parties apparently limitless capacity for might suggest skepticism in the lab leaked a theory could be more plausible. the media immediately piled on an senator tom cotton repeat fringe theater of coronavirus theory. he's playing a dangerous game with his coronavirus back elation on cnn. >> the lab leaked theory does not seem like a plausible theory. >> there has been no formal evidence. >> sounds like coming from a comic book or marvel movie. gerry: comic movie, all these conspiracy theories a

>> just incredible reporting from "the wall street journal." arning new details about this suspect. the journal reporting that back in 2016 as the suspect was returning to the united states from the philippines, he was detained by customs officials at the airport and during the screening of him, they identified he was carrying books about terrorism and a notebook in which he wrote hateful things about his employer. the vta. that raises questions about whether there were missed signals here, information that should have been shared with law enforcement. the journal noting that they -- dhs did not say whether or not that information was actually passed on to officials. we reached out to local officials here as well as the department of homeland security but, of course, concerning reporting there could this information have been passed and what would have happened had it been shared? this is coming as we're also learning, jake, new details about what actually transpired here yesterday. i spoke with the sheriff here in santa clara county a short tim

, melinda gates held several calls with her advisers, according to documents viewed by "the wall street journaland her husband's continued relationship with him. now, in 2019 interview with "the wall street journal" about epstein, mr. gates said, quote, i have -- i met him, i didn't have any business relationship

a "wall street journal" calling it open season in that city.king surge in violence and the number of children who lost their lives. listen to the pleas of one woman whose 10-year-old grandson was shot and is still in the hospital. >> my grandson is fighting for his life. this ain't doing nothing. why is this community not angry? you all tell me that. because it was a black kid, is that why? is that why? because a cop didn't shoot him? is that why? nobody angry? when is north minneapolis going to stand up. when is newfoundland? enough enough? >> harris: heather mcdonald is the author of that "wall street journal" piece and thanks for joining me today. i want to go deeper. the news is doing it for us today. people are so accustomed to breaking off and becoming a dangerous mess in minneapolis and it is happening around our reporter and you listen to the grieving grandmother and you get it. so many politics involved and this is about life in america. >> it's astonishing, harris, that we are continuing the phony narrative about police racism when wh

anywhere when you have this many children in migrant facilities they can't even see in "the wall street journal" article said the hhs did not respond to detailed questions about details inside the emergency facilities and there was such insufficient staff that children couldn't even be taken to the bathroom and they were forced to relieve themselves in water bottles. >> dana: that is tragic and a couple things, legislation won't go anywhere until there is border security and that is just the way it is. it would be different if

now, gates said in a 2019 interview with "the wall street journal" about epstein.y business relationship or friendship with him. a spokesman for bill gates stood by that statement and didn't comment further to the paper regarding this morning's reporting. cnn hasn't independently verified why the coupl

both would require hiring more teachers" says the "wall street journal". here's what she had to say. >> i'm going to call [bleep] when i say it. i'm disappointed in the "wall street journal." they're into the misinformation campaigns of picking and choosing what they want to pick and choose to try to make a case. it's flatly wrong. anyone that knows educators in america know that we want to be in school. >> martha: they want to be in school. for some reason a lot of teachers want to be in school but many have been not. bill mcgurn responds to that, an attorney and former teacher, leo terrell, both fox news contributors. great to see you both. bill, she called out the wall street editorial saying it was unfair. what do you say? >> i think that's what we call in our business a direct hit. i didn't write the editorial. very proud of it. look, the teacher's unions were one of the biggest obstacles to getting back. she calls it misinformation. the truth is that a lot of unions prevented the schools from opening or kept it in the half baked, half remote situation

let's bring in "wall street journal" editorial board member bill mcgurn. it feels like the evidence is becoming harder and harder to deny. what say you? >> yeah. absolutely. you were referring to a "wall street journal" news story reporting on this. we had known before that some members of this lab in wuhan had got sick but the news report from the journal is much more specific. about thee people where they're from. just the odds of all these coincidences happening seems to diminish. a lot of people, every time we find out something we have more questions rather than more resolution. ashley: so how do we get a final answer on this, and will we? we sternly can't rely on the world health organization because we know how much they are influenced by beijing. they pretty much can do only what beijing will allow them to do it feels? >> right. i mean we're supposed to follow the science i'm all for that. but it is very hard to follow the science. we can't trust china. we know china doesn't tell the truth about some things. they diminish things. we don't know what

anyway a "wall street journal" reporter calls and i'm in my conference room with my team and she saysr i know you like to do this. will you publish the star report? i said of course i'll be publishing the star report and then i went back and said we are publishing the star report made a single call. i call the "washington post" who i'd worked for four years and i said if i publish this book will you give me and remember this was a long time ago, give me the disk and your first day of coverage and we will publish it as a book. and they said why not? so then comes oh by the way other publishers wouldn't touch it so they got the lead of the next day story fledgling publisher will do the star report. i didn't like the word fledgling but i took it. the report was released and i got down to washington with two of my colleagues added apm after the closure of their deadline they handed me the disk and then i get a call from a guy who i used to know who's now working at amazon as a spokesman he says peter congratulations. your star report book is number one on the amazon bestsellers and i'm ju

wall street journal opinion page, let's have an internal argument. jot this down and allow one of your people to look it up, you can show with the democrats are twice as good on the economy as republicans. worst jobs, worse track record. what it does, it is not the article but the chart that goes down from 1945 with truman all the way up to bush 43. obama is in their and it came out that democrats do twice as many. this is direct evidence. you are putting and propaganda, why don't we put in reality. have one of your people pull it up and look at it. it's as president, jobs created and payroll expansions, all i can say is god bless americans and all those who protect and serve this great country. godspeed on your endeavors. host: thank you from north carolina. the president back in washington today, focusing on the vaccination program. joining us is captain doyle, for the washington examiner. thank you for being with us. guest: good morning. host: let's talk about what the president will be discussing today. what do you think we will learn new? guest:

. >> all right then, john, "the wall street journal" ed board, rupert murdoch's wall street journal,board theoretically comprised of actual conservatives who support republican policies wrote this. republicans should find a way to speak this truth to voters in 2022 and quickly turn to running on an agenda with the future that will check mr. biden and his great entitlement state purging liz cheney for honesty would diminish the party. if there is any fear among republicans that getting too far away from approximately see, is that not a concern? "the wall street journal" lays it out there. if you want to be a conservative right now you can talk about joe biden's policies and talk about his infrastructure plan and how much it costs and they're not talking about that. they're saying liz cheney isn't nice to trump. >> yeah, you make a great point. garrett makes a great point. this is still the party of trump. it will be party of trump in 2022. loyalty to trump is still the barometer inside the house republican conference especially. look at some of the candidates for senate also. they're

it has to be purged. >> "the wall street journal's" article caught many officials off guard.e or few of them knew about the memo's existence. there has been a mad scramble to figure out what it means. one source told me the memo's contents did not rise to the level for surveillance or arrest. it's guardian status only. it's currently at that stage. we will stay on this. >> keep digging. we need more information to try to figure out exactly what would motivate someone to hurt so many people and so many families like this. today we did speak with a man who says one of the victims saved his life. >> he was in building b at the rail yard yesterday when his phone rang. it was his co-worker calling to tell him to get everyone out because there was a shooter in the other building. minutes later, he was killed. >> it's tough. i would say he saved our lives. he gave us a call. i'm sure he was calling others. >> the call saved the lives of several employees. >> those people are now dealing with their own horror of having survived. >>> up next, caring and generous. that's how friends ar

i'll be back next week with more in-depth interviews on wall street journal. thank you very much for joining us. >> we could be on the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. coming up, blockbuster first-quarter tech earnings this week what it means for the economy in your portfolio. with one of the most influential women in finance. the super media and later as more states allow recreational marijuana, opportunities opening up an american pot stock which industries been called the lord will be here when we begin is always with what we think of the most three important be thinking about it now. flat not reacting much but stronger earnings reported that many or the president's address to congress. big tech earnings soared above forecast the stock didn't move much in the chp shortages beginning to him karmic earnings what you expect from gm's report nicely on the roundtable so ben, this flemish week in the market a heckuva nice month . >> is a fantastic month, the s&p 500 really hasn't done much under the last two weeks and what is interesting is that unde

the wall street journal is reporting just this afternoon that u.s. customs and border patrol actually detained the gunman in 2016 and found he had books about terrorism and fear and manifestos and memo books filled with notes about how he hates the bta. i assume it goes into a database. do they then need to share it with local authorities or the employer? >>> iment to turn our attention to something else you've been vocal on recently. and in the past year, you've stepped up in terms of violence against asian-americans. you and congresswoman barbara lee are holding a town hall tomorrow to address that. what will you focus on? >> judy chu, a wonderful colleague who's been chair of the pacific islanders caucus is joining us. is is barbara and i started these discussions about race six years ago. and they have been wonderful. now they're a model that is used by members around the country. it's important that we talk about these issues. and identify our own problems in order to make people aware that these biases and prejudices exist. and we shouldn't tol

dagen: this "the wall street journal" story just backs up what you've already reported very reason thatrnal" writes about says that the hikvision conducted a study with chinese weaponize experts and supplied cameras and drones to the country's air force, so shocker that this surveillance company this giant surveillance company has ties to the chinese military. that is the very essence of what the communist party is doing in that country, it is the essence of what companies that operate in that country are forced to kowtow to thank you communist party watch to see if biden administration lists that black liting interesting i am raising that not based on reporting or speculation, again we've seen over and over again this administration, kowtowing, to nations that hate us. of and the u.s. ceding to china the nord stream pipeline, vienna trying to rejoin iran nuclear cord rejoin the paris climate akwoird had steve forbes on fox business network said today is the day america first died over and over again, that is what is happening under this administration. maria: it is such an important po

i am still in all of this from what the wall street journal." -- i'm stealing all of this from "the wallt journal." as much as i can. jonathan: coming up johns hopkins emergency measure -- tom: copper. jonathan: 4196. the yield on the 10 year. this is "bloomberg." ♪ >> carl icahn says crypto may be here tuesday but he has not bought any. in any interview, he also said president biden must be careful not to over stimulate the u.s. economy and said inflation "already missed and that will cause a correction." we will hear more from him at 2:10 p.m. u.k. is backtracking over the tent to restrict travel to coronavirus hotspots and a england. introduced -- backlash triggered from members of parliament over the and clear guidance which led to the cancellation of public events and some people halting plan vacations. please in northern italy have arrested three people in connection with the cable car accident that left 14 people dead officials say a claim placed on the emergency brake several weeks ago as a temporary repress was never removed. it prevented the brakes from working when the cable s

as if we need more evidence of this, over the weekendhu "the wall street journal" reported the very firstele infected with covid-19 were probably researchers add to the wuhan of virology. three of them were taken to the hospital with symptoms, and "the wall street journal" did solid reporting, but it was not entirely new. back in january of this year, the state department issued a fact sheet telling the country the entire same thing. they said the first covid patients were not in fact hungry patients at the local wet market, reckless diners who dined on pangolin and bats. they were researchers at the wuhan institute of virology. clearly they had been infected at work while working on the virus. so if you are trying to understand where covid came from and you should be if you want to prevent future pandemics. that state department memo told you a lot. and it was ignored. a few hours ago tony fauci himself, in charge of our response to covid 19 explained a "cbs news" he never heard about to the state department's findings at the wuhan lab. he had no idea. in other words, fauci's own employe

gerry: welcome to the wall street journal large.at last let freedom ring, this was a week when our political monsters told us we can vitally dispense of the facemask. but only for been vaccinated. a grateful nation prepares to hug and kiss and shake cans again, now that we given permission to do so there's many questions about the coronavirus that are authorities declined to answer, one of the most important how exactly did he get started, i'll be talking to a genuine expert who studied it closely and it's convinced it may have begun in a chinese lab. but first it's another week in the republican party, liz cheney the parties number three in the house of representatives was ousted and on friday she was replaced by elise stefanik the congresswoman from new york, it's an ion law of politics if you wait long enough yesterday's billing will be yesterday's hero it applies to conservatives, they spend most of their careers and demonized by the media. no longer with the relevant there best of all, dead they become bubbles of nobility of la

i'll be back next week with more in-depth interviews on wall street journal.he headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. coming up, blockbuster first-quarter tech earnings this week what it means for the economy in your portfolio. with one of the most influential women in finance. the super media and later as more states allow recreational marijuana, opportunities opening up an american pot stock which industries been called the lord will be here when we begin is always with what we think of the most three important be thinking

gerry: welcome to the wall street journal at large, after many months of dramatic improvements in themarket recovering sharply from the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on friday we got alarming evidence that the recovery may have stalled. payrolls increased by 266,008 april following gains of 770,000 in march and 536,000 in february. the endpoint rate peak last spring at close to 15% and falling steadily ever since. it actually took backup last month to 6.1% from 6% in march. i was really shocked wall street analyst addictive payroll gains around 1 million or more in another decline in unappointed. one in that, as a big surprise, for some time it's been evident that the economy reopening businesses looking back to get to work employees are struggling to get work to fill vacancies. there's been many stories of businesses paying significantly high wages that attract workers, you can get assigning on bozos of fighting under 500 or more a mcdonald's and some are so desperate they've offered bonuses to employees for showing up for an interview. all of this even as on appointment remains hi

by the way, warren stroebl, who is one of the lead reporters for the "wall street journal," national security correspondent, who in part broke the story about this, he'll be joining us at 8:45 eastern time in about an hour and a half. but until then, for the first hour, as the u.s. now redoubling its efforts to investigate the source of coronavirus, tell us what you think. we're dividing our phone lines between republicans, democrats, and independents, and jeff, on the republican line, from williamsburg, virginia. good thursday morning. go ahead, jeff. >> good morning. thanks for the opportunity. i think that the journalist's last comment about donald trump is no longer in power explains everything you need to know. i think it's very apparent that the vast majority of the media is basically an extension of the democratic party's propaganda and because trump said x, the media and the so-called fact checkers are quick to say, not x is true. x has been thoroughly debunked by everyone with a brain and this is sad because in our country, the reason the founders put a first amendment in th

according to the "wall street journal," gates resigned before the investigation was complete. fore the full board could make a formal decision on the matter. telling the journal gates decision to transition off the board was no way related. this morning microsoft saying throughout the investigation microsoft provided support to the employee who raised the concern. this latest scrutiny as "new york times" reports gates had a reputation for quote questionable behavior in work related settings. writing, on at least a few occasions mr. gates pursued women who worked for him. we have not verified the claims. two weeks ago, she filed for divorce. saying the marriage was broken. she had been meeting with divorce attorneys since 2019. around the same time gates alleged relationship with sex offender jeffrey epstein came into public view. she wanted bill to sever ties with him after a dinner in 2013. but for years he continued to go to dinner and meetings at jeffrey epstein's home. where he usually surrounded himself with young and attractive women. gate spokesperson responding to td ti

i have to say the wall street journal, to give them credit, has done a really good job the last few days putting together a lot of information that has already been out there into a sort of very clear narrative that shows more of a possibility that this wuhan lab could have been the culprit. and also, scientists, quite credible, had early on dismissed these theories. but these scientists also reassessed their views. and so that's different from it fast changing. i guess the warning that many people i'm talking to would say is that look, we're not -- the fact seven changed. the political dynamic has. some of the people i was talking to yesterday, were quoted in the story, were saying that the trump white house just lacked so much credibility in so many areas that when they were pushing this wuhan lab theory, it fell on deaf ears because so many of the other statements coming out of that administration were sort of demonstratably false. and so there was sort of a reluctance for people to sort through what might be true and what might not be. and what has changed is trump is no longer in po

let's bring in "wall street journal" columnist and fox news contributor karl rove.president george w. bush. karl, are you surprised at the magnitude of the president and democratic ambition here given the narrow majorities? >> oh, extraordinary. it's amazing. you know, to think there would be a little bit of humility losing seats in the house and by controlling the senate only when the vice president is sitting in the chair when they have a 50-50 tie, and there isn't. they're full speed ahead on a very robust, very ambitious, very aggressive and very threatening agenda. paul: how do you explain the calculation here? i mean, you were in the white house when you had a 50-50 senate -- [laughter] right? >> exactly. oh, absolutely. paul: so how do you explain their calculations? do they just think this is, it's two years or bust and we've got to go for everything? what explains it? >> well, i think that very much is it. i think they think we've got the moment, and we've got to take advantage of it. they're looking back at barack obama and joe biden when they had 60 votes

gerry: coming up at 9:00 o'clock on the wall street journal at large, the new study that could change professor at the university of chicago who served in the trump white house as former chief economist. take a look at this. >> the state at home orders not only did in or missed damage to the economy but they actually may have made the pandemic worse and last longer, can you expend? >> just from the house perspective, they told us to stay at home but nobody just check is at home being healthier than being at work, the workplaces and the being favor because they were requiring masks, changing the ventilation, putting up the physical barrier, screening people when they come in these are things people don't that home, ends up being out of work is a better place to get the infection them being in work. gerry: the full interview and president biden's first 100 days, please join me at 9:00 o'clock right here for the wall street journal at large on sfox business. i am gerry baker and for elizabeth macdonald, you been watching "the evening edit", that does it for us this evening for this week,

i'll be back next week with more in-depth interviews on wall street journal.ind the biggest investment fraud in u.s. history is dead. >> bernie madoff has died in a federal prison, believed to be from natural causes. >> but the damage done by the so-called wizard of wall street lives on with his tens of thousands of victims. >> we've had to pay, we've had to live with the pain and the trauma caused by bernie madoff. ♪ ♪ >> good riddance. go to hell. sandra: billions of dollars are still unaccounted for, and lives