gain-of-function research, and that is where this thing most definitely came from. john: and explosive hearing taking place on capitol hill, the origins of the covid pandemic. confirms dr. anthony fauci tried to discredit the lab leak theory in the early stages of the pandemic and back to china s efforts to place the blame on a white market in wuhan. the virus that has killed millions of people worldwide. sandra: will congress use this testimony and newly uncovered emails to hold fauci on china accountable for not being transparent about how this pandemic began? house covid select committee chair brad wenstrup and senator tom cotton will weigh in coming up shortly. john: we begin, though, with growing calls to designate mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations following the killings of two americans in mexico. ali am john roberts in washingt, welcome center back. sandra: this is america reports. mexico s presence, it it s country has arrested a 24
world. it is friday, october 14th. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the january 6th house committee escalating its showdown with donald trump. our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold. committee vice chair liz cheney closing down the hearing calling for them to subpoena the former president. trump is not expected to comply. jamie raskin tells cnn s jake tapper, if he s innocent, he should. but even if he thinks that it was a righteous manifestation of pro trump sentiment, then he should come forward if he really wants to be the musi linnie of a mass right wing populus movement. he should come forward and explain that. cnn s jessica schneider has more from the hearing. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. an extraordinary move. those in favor will say aye. aye. reporter: unanimously voting to subpoena former president donald trump for testimony and documents in the
possibilities this is something they may have been working on, not necessarily for good things, but for nefarious reasons, may be associated with their military. a lot of those conversations came out. it was very interesting to hear how dr. redfield from the cdc, he was the cdc director when covid started and dr. fauci and others boxed him out of the conversation because he felt it might have come from a lab, and they were called all kinds of names, so we also have dr. mezzo, who is a democrat, who was also picked up on because he felt it may have come from the lab, but one thing we came away with as positive, everyone agreed it is important for the future of america and our national security and our national health that we try to discover the origins of covid because if we don t it will be very difficult to prepare or predict and actually protect ourselves from the next pandemic that may be coming down the way. sandra: you mentions dr. redfield, here he is in that hearing calling fo
world. it is friday, october 14th. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the january 6th house committee escalating its showdown with donald trump. our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold. committee vice chair liz cheney closing down the hearing calling for them to subpoena the former president. trump is not expected to comply. jamie raskin tells cnn s jake tapper, if he s innocent, he should. but even if he thinks that it was a righteous manifestation of pro trump sentiment, then he should come forward if he really wants to be the musi linnie of a mass right wing populus movement. he should come forward and explain that. cnn s jessica schneider has
protesting on social media. so there is i think that it is not too wrong to say that the russian society is really shaken by this prospect. one russian lawmaker who voted for president putin earlier in the week saying, i did not vote for kyiv to be bombed. and then the final front for president putin is also on the international front and this announcement in the past hour or so that there is now an agreement to remove russia from the s.w.i.f.t. payment system, the closing of russian air space to european flights, all of this paints a picture of president putin increasingly isolated. before i finish, just one anecdotal story. there are businesses here in moscow worried, hotels we re hearing calling guests to ask them to pay now in case the s.w.i.f.t. payment soon isn t working soon. it is an indication of how much