00:02:54.560Air Force One greeted on the tarmac by a formal welcome ceremony with hundreds of Chinese children
00:03:00.420waving American and Chinese flags, a military honor guard, and a military band. The visit
00:03:06.700marking the first trip by a U.S. president to China in nearly a decade, with trade, Taiwan,
00:03:12.260artificial intelligence, and the war with Iran all expected to be on the agenda. The major diplomatic
00:03:17.940meetings beginning Thursday morning in Beijing, with President Trump arriving at the Great Hall
00:03:22.660of the People just before 10 a.m. local time, greeting President Xi, and then sitting down
00:03:27.940for a bilateral meeting. President Trump also expected to take part in a bilateral tea before
00:03:33.840attending a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People Thursday evening.
00:03:38.760The summit coming at a politically and economically delicate moment for both leaders, President
00:03:44.060Trump arriving as his sweeping tariff agenda faces legal setbacks at home while the ongoing
00:03:49.800war with Iran continues to drive up energy prices and test public patience, President
00:03:55.340Xi facing pressure of his own, especially as the U.S. conflict with Iran disrupts oil
00:04:00.620shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, driving up energy costs for China's manufacturing-heavy
00:04:05.700economy. An expected focus of discussions, establishing new economic channels between
00:04:11.320Beijing and Washington with a U.S.-China Board of Trade and a U.S.-China Board of Investment.
00:04:17.440House Oversight Chairman James Comer yesterday on Fox laying out the balancing act for President
00:04:22.720Trump. I think this is a very important trip. Obviously, it's historic, but we have a lot of
00:04:28.420problems with China. They steal our intellectual property. They manipulate their currency. They1.00
00:04:32.260don't abide by any environmental laws. They're funding our greatest enemy right now, Iran.1.00
00:04:39.180But having said that, we really need to have a trade agreement, a fair trade agreement with
00:04:45.020China. We need China to buy more agriculture goods from the United States. We need China to
00:04:50.620import American energy. China has already received the message that the United States is serious with
00:04:56.880all the tariffs that have been slapped on China. And if I were President Xi, I would worry if this
00:05:01.400is an unsuccessful summit after two days, that China could be faced with even more tariffs from
00:05:08.020the United States. A CIA officer testifying yesterday under subpoena, alleging intelligence
00:05:15.380officials downplayed the possibility that COVID-19 began in a Wuhan China lab and accusing Dr. Anthony
00:05:22.920Fauci of improperly influencing the government's review of the virus's origins. Special Operations
00:05:29.120Officer James Erdman III appearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
00:05:34.740Committee, chaired by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Senator Paul opening the hearing
00:05:40.200by arguing the COVID origins debate was shaped by a small circle of government officials,
00:05:45.800scientists, intelligence advisors, and outside experts, who he says were presented to the public
00:05:51.140as independent voices, despite overlapping relationships and potential conflicts of
00:05:56.120interest. The senator pointing to the biological sciences experts group known as BSAG as one
00:06:02.780example, arguing some of the scientists involved in advising the government had also worked in
00:06:08.200fields directly tied to the research at the center of the COVID origins fight.
00:06:12.940For example, Dr. Ralph Baric collaborated with Dr. Zhengli Shi in Wuhan to create
00:06:18.640gain-of-function coronaviruses. But Dr. Barrick was also part of BSEG and an active consultant
00:06:25.000to intelligence agencies on the origins of COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, Peter Daszak received
00:06:32.580hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. government and worked with Dr. Xi also on these
00:06:37.900gain-of-function experiments. Daszak was even sent to China with the WHO to investigate the origins
00:06:44.500of COVID. So the very scientists that were commissioned to investigate COVID were, in some
00:06:51.380cases, the very scientists who were complicit in the origins of the gain-of-function experiments
00:06:57.120that may well have created COVID. Senator Paul singling out former director of the National
00:07:03.260Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, arguing Fauci was not merely
00:07:09.340involved in public health messaging during COVID, but had long-standing ties to national security
00:07:14.900discussions on biological threats, dangerous pathogens, classified research, pandemic
00:07:20.500preparedness, and COVID origins. How can Anthony Fauci objectively comment on a discussion of
00:07:26.880COVID origins when he approved the very funding that may have caused the pandemic virus? He
00:07:33.360referred to the idea that the pandemic originating in the lab was a conspiracy, that it was a
00:07:38.320conspiracy theory. Dr. Fauci convened the now infamous February 1st, 2020 call. Some scientists
00:07:46.240on that call privately raised serious concerns about a laboratory origin. Yet ironically,
00:07:51.760those same scientists later co-authored the Proximal Origin paper, which publicly dismissed
00:07:57.680the lab leak hypothesis. One author received a $9 million grant from Dr. Fauci's own agency
00:08:04.420after he changed his opinion from lab leak on the private phone call to natural origin in public.
00:08:11.940Erdman, who has worked for the CIA since 2013,
00:08:15.100spending more than a year reviewing the intelligence community's handling of the COVID origins probe
00:08:20.140as part of D&I Tulsi Gabbard's Director's Initiatives Group, or DIG.
00:08:25.420Erdman telling lawmakers, intelligence leaders, and senior analysts
00:08:28.900downplayed the possibility that COVID-19 began with a lab incident,
00:08:33.320shaping not just the government's intelligence assessment, but the public debate over emergency
00:08:38.760pandemic policies that followed. Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in a cover-up,
00:08:46.780wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers. Public health policy
00:08:53.520would have been very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab0.86
00:09:01.120in China was going to serve as the foundation for an emergency use authorization mRNA products
00:09:08.720being mandated by the former administration. According to Erdman, Dr. Fauci inserted himself
00:09:14.520into intelligence community discussions twice, once in February 2020 and again in June 2021,
00:09:22.000allegedly pushing officials toward a natural origin explanation. Here, an exchange between
00:09:27.720Erdman and Senator Paul. Your conclusion is that changing from the scientific consensus of it being
00:09:35.900from a lab to a neutral position by the CIA was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci?
00:09:41.000It was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci's injecting himself into the IC,
00:09:46.900particularly during the 90-day study. We have documentation that shows that as of August 12th,
00:09:53.460The CIA was considering calling this a lab leak, August 12th of 2021.
00:09:58.420And then that changed on August 17th of 2021.
00:10:03.100And unfortunately, because the CIA would not provide us documentation that we asked for, we have no idea why that changed.
00:10:10.040The CIA pushing back sharply, saying Paul's committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing Erdman despite already receiving closed-door testimony from him
00:10:19.140and calling the hearing, quote, dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional
00:10:24.260hearing. The agency noting it has already assessed COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak.
00:10:31.120Senator Ron Johnson, Republican from Wisconsin, reading the statement toward the end of the
00:10:35.420hearing, then firing back. I'm calling on CIA Director Radcliffe and this person to apologize
00:10:41.300to Chairman Paul and this committee. This is not political theater. I have years and years and
00:10:48.500years of built-up frustration of agencies like the CAA, Department of Justice, the FBI, HHS,
00:10:57.000snubbing our oversight, giving us the big middle finger.
00:11:02.020Coming up, a new 2028 poll from one of the most accurate firms of the last presidential election,
00:11:08.000putting two unexpected names at the top of the early primary fields. And a new book claims to
00:11:13.120reveal what was really behind the viral moment when cameras appear to catch France's first lady
00:11:18.000shoving President Emmanuel Macron's face.
00:11:25.120Feeling sluggish, bloated, not quite like yourself?
00:11:29.160Life constantly bombards us with silent threats.
00:14:30.100who does anybody have okay let's go you ready who likes jd vance
00:14:35.980who likes marco rubio all right sounds like a good ticket jd it's a perfect that was a perfect
00:14:49.300ticket by the way i do believe that's a dream team but these are minor details
00:14:53.680That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance.
00:14:59.040I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate.
00:15:04.120On the Democrat side, Atlas Intel showing AOC narrowly leading the field with 26 percent support among Democratic primary voters.
00:15:12.520Secretary Buttigieg following at 22.4 percent, with Governor Newsom close behind at 21.2 percent.
00:15:18.600Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who leads most early Democratic polling, coming in a distant fourth in the Atlas survey at 12.9%.
00:15:27.320That result also breaking sharply from the broader RealClearPolitics average, where Harris leads the Democratic field at 25% support.
00:15:36.060Governor Newsom is second in the RCP average at 18.8%, followed by Buttigieg at 13.1%, and Ocasio-Cortez at 11.3%.
00:15:45.560Before this latest Atlas survey, AOC had not topped any 2028 Democratic primary poll included in the RealClearPolitics average dating back to November, with VP Harris leading in the nine polls prior to the Atlas result.
00:16:00.520AOC asked directly about her presidential ambitions during an appearance last week at the University of Chicago.
00:16:06.760They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat.
00:16:12.160And my ambition is way bigger than that.
00:16:16.960My ambition is to change this country.
00:16:35.560But I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying, what move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday?
00:16:54.280Just weeks before the one-year anniversary of the viral moment when cameras appear to catch France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, shoving President Emmanuel Macron's face, a new book is revealing more about what may have happened behind the scenes.
00:17:10.280The Macrons had just landed for a stop on a tour of Southeast Asia.
00:17:15.400As the couple prepared to disembark the plane in Vietnam,
00:17:18.540Mrs. Macron seen placing both hands on the president's face0.98
00:17:21.940with enough force to push him slightly sideways.