has not responded to our request for comment. as for what comes next, the doctor has a motions hearing coming up on july 8th. send it back to you. >> martha: thank you, nate. >> we've got this now. an illegal immigrant out of ecuador in custody in a sickening sex attack accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a new york city park in broad daylight. a lot of information. we still don't know about this. we're taking the story in right now and say hello and begin a new hour now. tough news here. i'm bill hemmer, dana has the week off. welcome to martha. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum. they say the suspect was armed with a machete when he approached a 13-year-old boy and girl and forced them into a secluded area of the park where he tied them together by the wrists and sexually assaulted the girl. this is an absolute nightmare for any parents who want to give their children enough freedom to walk around the neighborhood a bit. eric shawn has more in our newsroom. hi, eric. >> hello. it is just horrific. imagine this, two teenagers in a park in broad daylight, girl and boy as you say, 13 years old playing in the park where officials say the crisis at the southern border potentially caused a horrific crime. now they say an illegal immigrant from ecuador is a person of interest suspected potentially of this rape and assault. the police source says this photo shows the man who is shirtless and missing a shoe after people saw him on the street about 1:00 this morning and held him for the cops. the police had released a sketch and photo of the suspect in this case and people thought this is the man so grabbed him and wait i had for police. he is being held in this case in which a 13-year-old the pair had a machete pulled on them in the borough of queens in new york city. >> children were forced to follow him into a secluded area of the park. he tied the boys and girls wrists together and sexually assaulted the 13-year-old girl. >> police say after the attack, the suspect took the school mate's cell phones telling them not to move for 20 minutes and he fled. they went back to school and told school authorities and that's when the school called 911. authorities say this man entered the country in 2021 and does have an arrest record. among the charges we're told drinking and subway fare invasion seems to be the latest case of a horrific crime apparently tied to an illegal immigrant. on friday lots of attention after this -- after an alleged gang member was arrested. that suspect from el salvador in the murder of the jogger rachel morin, a mother of five who was snatched and killed as she went running in a park outside of baltimore. right now we're waiting for the latest developments from the nypd and plans a news conference in just over two hours from now on this case involving the teenagers just a shocking crime to report to you today. back to you. >> martha: see what more we can learn about that. >> bill: a moving target from the get go you could say. what started the pandemic of the coronavirus? that's the question at the center of a hearing just now getting underway in the senate side pressing medical experts whether the deadly virus leaked from a lab. we talked a member of the world health association. >> doctor fauci was wrong in two regards. the first is that about the epidemiological evidence about the origins of the pandemic. the vast majority of the available evidence leans toward a research-related incident origin, a lab accident. >> bill: chad pergram has more from the hill as it gets underway. what do we expect? >> good morning. there was a time when experts dismissed the possibility of a lab leak sparking covid. it was called a fringe theory. what changed? the senate is exploring whether the virus came from the wuhan lab. there are questions for anthony fauci. >> they need to comply with the law and let the american people see what we know about the origins of covid. everybody basically thinks it is a lab leak and the question is why and how? i don't know why the biden people are so sensitive about this. this happened before he came to office. i don't get why they are so super defensive about fauci. >> no appearance by fauci today. he testified before the house committee investigating the start of the pandemic two weeks ago. even fauci will not rule out whether covid-19 came from a lab. >> what is conspiracy is the kind of distortions of that particular subject like it was a lab leak and i was parachuted into the c.i.a. like jason bourn and told the c.i.a. they should really not be talking about a lab leak. that's the conspiracy. >> fauci says it is, quote, preposterous he would try to hide what started the pandemic. some major news organization suppressed talk about the lab leak theory even calling it racist. gop kentucky senator rand paul has long been skeptical of the official government line about how the virus began. >> ultimately the buck stops with anthony fauci in charge of the place and has a responsibility not only for the cover-up but letting dangerous research go on that likelihood led to a pandemic that killed millions of people. >> not all government agencies agree with how the pandemic began. the department of energy and the f.b.i. believe it started in a lab. most intelligence agencies believe it came from nature. that fuels debate about the science of the pandemic. >> bill: all right, chad. we're watching and listening. thank you for that, chad pergram on the hill. >> you all have called this the cheap fakes video. that's exactly what they are. cheap fakes video. they are done in bad faith. right wing critics of the president have a credibility problem. misinformation and disinformation. how desperate republicans are here. these deepfakes, these manipulated videos, and it is again done in bad faith. >> martha: white house facing widespread backlash after claiming the media is manipulating videos to make the president appear frozen or frail or at times mentally confused. we will show you three specific videos from just within the last week that the white house is referring to here. these have not been cropped, they have not been sped up or slowed down or edited in any way. let's go through them one-by-one. ♪ juneteenth celebration at the white house and the president last week standing very still at a white house celebration that is while everybody around him is dancing. here he is, this one from three days later. so something else draws his attention, it appears. he wanders away from to other g7 leaders, give a thumbs-up to others who landed in a nearby area. but then the italian prime minister pulls him back to the g7 leaders' group where they are about to hear something from the jumper who then speaks to them and here he is two days after this. ♪ that's the last one. he appeared kind of frozen on the stage. this also got a ton of attention after the star studded fundraiser in california. you can see former president obama taps him on the hand, puts his hand over the current president's hand and kind of pulls a little bit. you can see that quite clearly and then he has his hand on his back as the president slowly leaves the stage. gearing him towards the exit area where they are going. the white house i guess wants you to believe that these things are faked, that they are not actually happening. we just played these sections for you in full. bret baier, anchor of special report. good to see you. obviously we're at a very intense moment here in this campaign just five months out. a big debate happening next week and the white house is, i think, making a very concerted effort to try to throw cold water on these things getting attention not just from the media but from regular folks all over social media as well. >> bret: i think this is fascinating. i think it shows the extent to which the age issue and really the competency issue for president biden is surfacing in polls, not just in republican critics' corners but independents. they won't go down this very detailed defense saying it is deepfakes or cheap fakes. there was nothing fake about former president obama reaching over to president biden's wrist and tugging him to go. it wasn't fake when the italian prime minister reached out to say hey, come back over here. you could characterize it that if you didn't mention that president biden was turning to the other parachuteer that had landed and gave the thumbs-up and not part of the story, fine, you could say it is not characterizing the full context. as the video itself shows, those people did grab the president. i think the dancing one maybe he doesn't like to dance. it looked like he was frozen there but i think that the explanation by the white house of accusing the video being altered is stunning in this moment when it is such a big issue. >> bill: this was the des moines register yesterday. well respected poll has donald trump up an easy 50 to 32. he will win iowa. what surprises me is the 32% number for joe biden. you think about right now in iowa trump was an easy winner in 2020. you know what's up here? that's minnesota and over here, that's wisconsin. you start to think a little bit maybe you get spill over into these other states. we'll see how that goes. this is our current forecast. everything in yellow is a legitimate toss-up state. put your eye on the northern state here, great lakes states. michigan and wisconsin and minnesota. wisconsin is too close to call. minnesota and michigan are lean democrat. it could change. we'll see over the next five months. donald trump will be in wisconsin today. going to philadelphia on saturday, too, pennsylvania again one of the states we have in yellow a toss-up state. minnesota in 2020, joe biden an easy winner by seven points. just come back to wisconsin a moment here. want to make this point. in 2016, donald trump beat hillary clinton in wisconsin by 22,700 votes. there was a third party candidate gary johnson on the ticket then who got 106,000 votes. in third party candidate in 2020 and that's when joe biden, by a whopping 20,000 votes out of 3.2 million cast beat donald trump and take the electoral votes there of ten. as you start to put this together and walk over and talk to martha about this. we know this, bret. in wisconsin this year jill stein the presumptive green party candidate will be on the ballot and we think robert kennedy, when he starts getting signatures starting in july, he only needs 2,000. so in all likelihood in wisconsin you will get maybe four candidates on the ballot. why is that important? biden has to win wisconsin, period. if he doesn't, that's what cracks the blue wall, bret. >> i totally agree. one of the reasons why the republicans chose milwaukee as the sight for the republican national convention. wisconsin is crucial and most polls have it really tight. a little bit advantage to biden in recent polls. it shifts back and forth depending on the week. you mention minnesota. that has come down to three or four points and the former president is trailing there but it is really within striking distance. there are states like virginia much more in play than they used to be. these -- i think since the conviction, you have seen some softening in independent numbers for the former president. but overall, if the election were held today, it looks by our reading of all of the average of polls the former president would win. it's not today. we have a long way to go. >> bill: maris came out with a poll 49/49 and show softening among independents. maybe something like that is happening. we'll see in time. >> martha: let's look at this cnn media montage of people covering this race absolutely aghast at the numbers that they're seeing. watch this. >> how can you look at this -- these statistics, these numbers, and not conclude that joe biden is a drag on the ticket? >> i just think here we are in the middle of summer and things will stabilize and get back to normal as they always do. >> the numbers, are you saying don't believe the polls? i keep looking for signs this is going to go back to normal and i don't see it. yet i just never have seen anything like this. i'm speechless. >> martha: he is talking about the swing with black voter support where biden was up 80 in 2020 and is now up by 37. we've all covering these races for a long time, too. i don't think we've seen moves like that ever. >> bret: we haven't. if that held, it would be astonishing and it would be a major factor in this race. republican only has to pick up two or three or four points in the black vote to change the dynamic in the swing states. you are talking about 20, 25, 30 points in a shift. i think we should be careful on these polls at this point. but it is worth looking at this snapshot in time and seeing where things stand. >> bill: nice to see you, bret, see you on special report at 6:00 tonight. thanks for coming on. show the hearing now. opening statements are 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