has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. >> john: doctor, how does that statement stand up -- she's having problems with her earpiece. hope you can hear me. how does that statement stand up in the face of this new information? >> dr. saphier: i did lose you for a while, i know what you asked me, i could hear you. this is the problem. we've had dr. fauci who testified twice in front of congress saying that under no way, shape or form, did the n.i.h. fund gain of function research. again, whether they unknowingly did or not eni 85 cally they did. he should have been more forthcoming saying we did give grant money to eco health and eco health does give money to wuhan institute. it is possible gain of function research could have been done under the grant of n.i.h., it is possible. had he be forthcoming, i don't think you will see discord we're seeing right now. this makes him look untruthful as though he was trying to hide something. keep in mind, gain of function research is not new, united states has been doing it itself. we did put a morator

john? >> john: joining us by now is dr. michael baden, for a and fox news contributor. this is all very intriguing. the families attorney told fox news that brian laundrie's parents went to the myakkahatchee creek environmental park this morning. apparently they had informed the fbi and the northport police department that they were going to go. the law enforcement met the parents this morning after a brief search off a trail that brian frequented, according to the lawyer. said the articles belonging to brian were found. here's what's really strange about all this, police have been searching for the sky for weeks. they are in the carlton preserve they would have searched myakkahatchee creek environmental park which connect to it from the east as well. they have been searching in north carolina and georgia. nothing, nothing, nothing. the parent show up and after a brief search they find this. what do we make of that? >> well, john, first of all, they know by now whether the body they have, b

john, that does it for us. i hear market news. what are -- >> john: facebook is a trillion dollar company as is amazon, alphabet, google and apple, which is the highest market evaluation. today there's another entry to the trillion dollar club. tesla on the strength of an order by hertz for 100,000 model cs. now passed the trillion dollar market valuation. >> sandra: and the s&p and dow keeps on going. >> john: we're in earnings seasons. troubling things out there that the market is defying on the climb to the top. we'll see if it lasts. >> sandra: john, great to be with you. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts in washington. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks very much, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york city. here's "the story." look at these numbers. the president is down 21 points since june. that is an unprecedented slide since world war ii. that's a gallop number. he's on the road right now scrambling to get this administration, get his presidency back on tr

>> this memorandum does not relate to the financial interests of anyone. >> i will take that as a no. >> john: i don't know if that's so much of sergeant schultz defense as it is as "star trek" defense, deflector shield on full. but he sure wasn't answering the question. >> so let's not mix up too many somatic references. i was very surprised by his response quite frankly, the justice department would not find a conflict in this particular circumstance. so i am surprised that garland it didn't say look. i'm perfectly happy to submit it and i don't believe it is a conflict but instead he just kept on repeating mantra like the same line which i thought was really quite ineffective. >> john: jonathan, thank you for joining us with your expertise. we will keep watching the hearing which after a series of votes is expected to continue in about ten or 15 minutes. >> sandra: all i look at the hearing room, will get back in when it begins. miranda devine is now joining us, first give us your broad take or your first take, i should say come on what you have heard so far in the hearing room, mi

what does that do? it creates inflation. when you have more money, that makes more work less rewarding. >> sandra: james freeman, good to have the discussion, thank you. john. >> john: in order to pass massive spending plan, the democrats are using a special process. it is called, you heard it before, budget reconciliation. but many americans have no clue what that means or why democrats want to use it in this particular case. so, we turn to correspondent chad program on capitol hill who explains it all for us. >> the filibuster in a bill to bypass a filibuster with 60 votes but it's hard to wrinkle 60 days in the senate but you don't need 60 votes for budget reconciliation. >> number one, the issue of reconciliation, which is by code to the american people. >> it is confusing a reconciliation bill was exempt from a filibuster. it only needs 51 votes to pass. here is the catch, only certain things qualify for a reconciliation bill. reconciliation is reserved for taxes and entitlements, physical issues, d.c. statehood does no

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does it have a chilling effect or not have a chilling effect? >> of course it has a chilling effect. department of justice says it will investigate something, that will chill. i had parents in vermont tell me they know people going to school board meetings who decided now it is not worth it, they don't want to get into entanglement with the department of justice. this is why if you thought merrick garland was a decent man, nonpolitical man, he's ruined reputation and that name by allowing himself to issue that, he should have said no. >> sandra: josh hawley's exchange was about relationshipization of the doj, went as far as to call on merrick garland to resign, listen. >> u.s. attorneys are collecting and cataloging the ways might prosecute parents like mr. smith because they want to be involved in their children's education and have a say in elected officials. it is wrong, unprecedented in the history of this country and i call on you to resign. >> sandra: there were multiple calls for that. many exchanges like that, ari. >> i'm not a fan on pe

he does tweet an awful lot. >> anita: 100 tweets in a week. >> john: tweets and retweet. >> anita: i think he's got president trump beat. >> john: it's pretty close to it it's actually pretty close. it eugene scalia, former labor secretary will be coming up in just a little while, going to be talking about the job shortage that the supply chain crisis, job shortage which is exacerbated the situation. there were a lot of problems that the president's cabinet secretary should be attending to and yet they seem to keep lingering. >> anita: we will be interesting to get his take. also developing this afternoon, we are told bill clinton is on the mend in the hospital after an infection spread to his blood. the former president was admitted to the university of california irvine medical center's intensive care unit on tuesday, the 75-year-old had a urinary tract infection advanced to sepsis. but clinton's reps have been playing it down saying he is in the icu to provide the former president more privacy, not because of his medical condition and they wanted to make very clear he does not hav

. >> john: although congressman according to "the washington post," they did not have the added benefit of it being true. >> it really does but the good news is, most voters already know what they are doing and they know who they believe. they believe glenn youngkin and they understand that people like terry mcauliffe and democrats all across the country have been siding with their powerful school or teacher union buddy, and parents in virginia are asking for help for their children. the last thing we need is government indoctrination in our schools. we should teach them the three rs, teach him how to be successful and give every child regardless of their race and it gender and where they come from cummaquid to get on the opportunity to chase that american dream. >> john: this race is a lot closer than it should be which is the reason why some of the lifelong democratic voters have decided, this is an issue that is going to divorce me from the party in this election. this is anecdotal but let's catch up with a couple of voters. >> glenn youngkin is trying to collaborate with parents and