john: but on the hour and some of the top stories, the covid vaccine is 100% effective in teenagers. the company says it conducted a study with 3,000 teens aged 12-17 and those who receive the vaccine did not get covid wealth placebo spirit about moderna plans to seek fda approval early next month. gillian: the white house confirms president biden is set now to meet with russian president vladimir putin next month in geneva, switzerland. this will be their first face-to-face meeting and sent signed into office as president. john: antony blinken meeting with foreign leaders in the middle east as cease-fire holds. antony blinken says will help rebuild gaza but not provide assistance to hamas which considers to be a terrorist organization. for more on these and other stories, download the fox news app and scan the qr code on the screen or go to foxnews.com.
house will press china on this? doesn t look like they re going to do it by jen psaki s answers saying it s up to the w.h.o. and international partners. when you re dealing with something this big, it would at least raise to the level of the january 6 commission up on capitol hill as far as importance with all of the people that died and with a lot of responsibility perhaps on the lap of china. so far, that s not that push from the administration. john: 590,000 americans have died from covid. while democrats love to say it s president trump s fault, this thing came from somewhere. good idea to find out where. thanks, bret. see you guys. john: gillian? gillian: gavin newsome is taking heat now for his state s on going covid lockdowns and the impact on businesses. this as newsome himself is facing the prospect of a looming recall election.
believe this came from a lab in wuhan. the present at the time and donald trump had said the same thing. obviously, these people have access to classified information to point them in that direction. they were committed to your point dismissed as conspiracy theorist by the new york times, by the washington post, by cnn. it didn t matter. aunt february 2020 when we are just learning about this virus and journalists were kicked out of china, as you will remember, no one on the ground to verify this and how did the organizations come to a definitive conclusion we didn t know what we didn t know? gillian: that is a good way to put it. thank you. by the way i would love to get my facebook or at least my yearbook photo if possible. gillian: [laughter] you got to choose how it was attitude. so take a listen to this from former new york times investigative reporter nicholas wade.
los angeles mayor, antonio villarigosa about the climate here. he was somewhat critical by his fellow democrat in sacramento. take a listen. i don t agree with closing the schools for as long as we have. i don t agree the science isn t there. the same was true with outdoor dining. there s no question that after a while it became absolutely clear that we were doing was disproportionately hurting low wage workers and small businesses. i asked villarigosa if he would run for governor again. he didn t rule that out. just deflected by saying that he s not focused on the recall right now, gillian. gillian: connell mcshane in santa monica. thanks so much. john: the man whose 4-year-old son was murdered after being taken from his bed now speaking out but more than a week after the killing. there s no word on why it all happened.
she cast doubt on rivera s confession saying that he blacked out. he never had issues with memory and never blacked out before. also rivera s defense expert, the forensic expert testified that he thinks the iowa crime lab oversimplified things with tibbetts blood. the defense expert said tibbetts blood was in an on rivera s trunk. you have no dispute that molly tibbetts blood and dna was on the truck seal of the black chevy malibu at issue in this case? no, i don t dispute that at all. you don t dispute that molly tibbetts blood and dna was inside the black chevy malibu that is one of the subjects of this case. would that be true? yes. the defense seems to be moving rather efficiently through the witnesses. five already. back to you. john: thanks for the update. gillian? gillian: for more on that,