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>> reporter: republicans in the house say the administration is being weak with china and there is a bipartisan push on capitol hill to establish a commission to look into the origins of covid-19. >> we cannot get to the origin of this by listening to china or the world health organization. we should declassify the information and find first and foremost where it came from and let the entire world know. >> reporter: how the pandemic began has perplexed scientists. it was revealed in february 202...

Their products there and receive them. they are doing a good job making sure huawei is not going to be part of like italy. they backed out of the belton road. there is progress. dr. fauci i think is beginning to feel the pressure. instead of getting cake walk through every single interview. he hopped on a podcast of the "new york times." he went ahead and addressed his critics. here is the quote. as essential as a scientist that you evolve your opinion. your recommendations based on the data as ...

Mendonca, age 75, went out to play a round of golf. wasnt feeling well. called his son lawrence in texas. >> and told me he was having a heart attack. >> what was that like? >> it was pretty intense. being a stubborn as my dad was, i dont worry about it, ill be fine. they just put essential me. ill be fine. i dont think he knew the magnitude of the situation at the time. >> coming up -- a father fights for his life. >> to see him in the hospital bed, it was tough. very tough. >> what will happen...

Would approve of, its putting their feet to the fire to put up or shut up. we know this voting rights bill is essential, as the reporter in texas just said. like this is something that were seeing in a copy and paste format across the country where voter suppression bills are being passed into republican-led state houses and republican-led states and its important to have federal action. what we know in the action that texas democrats took when they walked out, they described it as this is us be...

Christ, which is essential to the southern baptist convention. where do you draw the line in the merging of and politics scripture? >> thats a great question. as a pastor, heres where i draw the line. i have very strong conservative theology and strong political views. but im called to make disciples of the people in my church and people of my community disciples of jesus, not of a party. i am to make disciples to follow jesus and live by his teachings. my job is to help people know the word of ...

Factions. we saw that the former vice president, mike pence, was not particularly listened to yesterday when he spoke at the faith and freedom coalition conference in orlando. maybe youve seen this video of what happened to him when he took the stage. >> i want to thank my friend, ralph reed, for those overly generous words. and deeply moved by them. ralph reed knows me well enough to know the introduction i prefer is a little bit shorter. >> in addition to people yelling that mike pence is a tr...

This comes from the very top, from the commander in chief, from the biden administration hell-bent on pushing critical race theory, not just in our schools or all of our institutions, but maybe most dangerously, in our united states military. >> laura: my question to senator cotton the other day was, why are we funding this? republicans are essential, republican votes. to keep increases in military spending going. the way to get mr. arrogant to pay attention is for republicans to say, guess what...

Colleagues and adding an amendment that will say, we will not fund critical race theory in any branches of the military. our tax colors are going to fund this wacky ideology that preaches an anti-american view. we shouldnt fund it. >> laura: we are teaching americans to hate america. we are teaching men and women in uniform to hate the country they are serving. it is insane, and it is self-destructive. its frankly, we are on a suicide mission. our military is on a suicide mission. congressman, t...

I will be leading this fight with a number of my colleagues and adding an amendment that says we will not fund critical race theory in any of the branches of the military so we will be fighting that fight but your point is an important one. our tax dollars are going to fund this wacky left-wing ideology that preaches an anti-american view that is counterproductive to the national security of this country. we shouldnt fund it. laura: we are teaching americans to hate america. teaching men in unif...

A proposal by Michigan lawmakers to send bonus payments to essential workers who worked during the pandemic has received the support of Governor Gretchen Whitmer.