son writing this quote as the president, i don t and won t comment on pending federal cases. but as a dad, i have boundless love for my son confidence him in him, and respect for his strength our panel is back jonah goldberg. this of course something that is incredibly difficult for any father to have to go through he is also though the president of the united states how, what are the right way to balance these two roles here for him, for the president, i don t know. i think the statement is about as good as he game expect from a president i don t know. it would be inappropriate for him to go outside the four corners of being the defendants dad at the same time they re kind of in a way they re kind of lucky that this is as narrowly focused on the gun charge and not the full rich tapestry of a hunter biden problems which is one reason why the talking point with a lot of republicans
pandemic preparedness. sure. but on the lab-leak specifically, you think that happened i do think it happened. i think people were if you look at what people said about bob redfield and how they disparaged him as a scientist because he wanted to bring forward the lab leak potential. and i think the reason he felt he needed to bring it forward to push was to push against this. it had to be this way because we didn t know and we knew we would never know. i mean, we knew as stars that china was not transparent. we knew with the second stars china was not transparent, so we were not going to get an answer, but that shouldn t have held us back 4.5 years later from both ensuring that we protect against lab leaks and we protect that public. people got infected with hiv in the lab. it happens it definitely happens. and so we have to put different rules and regulations and guidelines in place to protect the public. we can do that. we ve done that before. i realize hindsight is 2020 and yo
numbers change at the border over the last four years. he has president is trying to grapple with that and i think that s a reasonable case to make we circumstances changed. but. if your principles are state these bold principal positions, and then you change because the facts, the political facts on the ground shift, whether it s on israel, whether it s on the border, it reinforces this image that he is just sort of trying to chase the sweet spot rather than actually stand his ground. and i do think it s an image problem. i think there s elements of pragmatism there that actually lot of american voters want to see. but i hear you. all right. well, we re going to continue this conversation that for the next hour, but coming up next you, the american people deserve to be abused like that. mr. fauci, because you re not dr. your mr. fauci and my few minutes dr. fauci fending off republican attacks, his four my colleague in the covid fight, dr. deborah berks, is here joining me with
move on. coming up next. sad aid. so majorly baseball, maybe dealing with another betting scandal, plus dr. deborah this is here to talk to us about covid and republican attacks on dr. kaci simons are going on. and the tornado here i m thinking in grades die and i thought that was it while in earth with liev schreiber, sunday at nine on cnn a us bank. we know how good it feels to reach your milestones but we also know what really goes into getting you there. that s why we introduced cobra, which connects you to a real banker in real time to help you do anything from adding new debit card learning how to save smarter, even created spending wonderful strep, the one with kolb rows are always day from on your road to here because there s nothing as powerful as the power of us home. where
baseball player facing a lifetime ban for allegedly betting on his own team all right. 6:00 a.m. here in washington live. look at the white house and this technically it s still spring tuesday on this up and shining. good morning, everyone. i m casey, hence it s wonderful to have you with us if congress won t do it, president biden apparently will. as soon as today, the president expected to roll out an executive order that effectively closes the southern border to asylum seekers. it will enable border officials to turn back migrants who illegally crossed the border after border crossings meet a certain threshold, reportedly 2,500 per day. the executive order relies on a regulation that was enforced under the trump administration and was widely denounced at the time by democrats. now this move by president biden is being criticized by republicans