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i'm john roberts in washington and she goes by the nickname the python huntress and it's an interview you'll only see all new at 2:00. >> sandra: it is a busy friday here and we have a lot of news to get to and the white house is facing questions this hour after the president rolled out that plan to hike taxes -- 4 trillion for the -- $4 trillion and imposing more spend during the inflationary times. >> john: we start with stunning results of a vote on capitol hill and the house voted eunanimously and covid-19 and te vote was 419-0, which means every democrat that was president voted yes. >> sandra: this is happening exactly three years to the day, john, after the world health organization declared covid-19 a

global pandemic and setting off a series of decisions to shut down the world and leaving the big question where did this virus come from? >> john: for years there's been an unwillingness by media and many democrats to look at theories beyond the narrative that came from the top down. just look at what happened to senator tom cotton that laid out a rational case for the lab leak theory and was smeared for it. >> sandra: now they're shutting down the investigation into what happened in the lab in wuhan since china won't play ball and dr. anthony fauci seems okay with that. >> we may not ever know and that's unfortunate lumis that's the possibility that we might ever know. >> sandra: that was yesterday. >> john: yeah, but this vote in the house with every democrat on board could help us get closer to the bottom of the pandemic and closer to holding those responsible accountable.

reporter: hey guys. this is a drat ick departure when house democrats blocked and considered a similar senator josh hawley bill and that was then, this is now. like you said, this time, not a single nay as congress tells the president to declassify any and all information relating to origins of covid. here is color, guys from the house floor as folks voted. >> this is just about science. if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and squ walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. >> behind the discussion of ducks were aggressive accusations of lying of american government officials, dish dishonesty.

there were attributions of motive and that's why i'm here. reporter: congressman jim hames and gave democrats the nod to vote for the bill. this dun mean democrats believe in the lab leak and far from it and it's a huge shift from the same folks that criticized and even mocked as we remember anyone who suggested the idea all coming to a head after former director dr. robert redfield told lawmakers that drt in conversations about the covid origin and he cited the lab leak and here's fauci rejecting that. >> i didn't put him or take him off and it's really disturbing that in a public hearing of a congressional hearing, he makes an acuscuses tourist statement and -- accusatory statement that has no basis in reality. reporter: this bill heads to the president's desk now.

guys. >> john: a lot of he said he said going on. iowa hawkeyes supra aural headphones on capitol hill. thank you. >> i've always kept a completely open mind that it could be one or the other. quite frankly the evidence weighs more likely touchdown catch towards one, namely in natural occurrence, but i would be perfectly accepted if there were evidence it was a lab leak. >> sandra: miranda, your reaction to that? >> look, i think that anthony fauci has been a bureaucrat, the most highly paid bureaucrat in the united states for 40 years and he says he's very practiced at getting around the truth at stone walling that diversion

going on and what robert redfield was saying or peter navarro and he said that anthony fauci sat in those coronavirus briefing rooms from the very beginning of the pandemic and never mentioned anything about the nih's role in proxy funding and gain of function research in wuhan and they stood up in front of the media very early on in the pandemic in 2020 and then he put out basically disinformation and there was a paper published and renowned evolutionary virologist said it's a naturally occurring virus and pretended there was nothing to do with the paper, which he exhibitioned and two of the scientists --

commissioned and two of the scientists, malaysia got $9 million in grants to change their minds or whatever it was but they changed their minds in the writing of the paper. if this is something anthony fauci lies and evades and something that jim jordan in the committee is zeroing in on. >> sandra: to quote my colleague john roberts, wouldn't you assume that someone like drd infectious diseases for the entirety of his career be almost obsessed with finding out the origins of covid to say we'll never find out. but you heard him just a moment ago saying it could be one or the other. could be nature or a lab leak but tom cotton was on with us yesterday and he says anthony fauci actually moved to suppress the idea of this leaking from a lab. listen. >> i believe that tony fauci from the very beginning went

into overdrive to try and suppress even conversation about the possibility of the virus coming from the labs because of his deep ties and relationships with people at those labs or in the chinese public health bureaucracy or funding that his organization at the nih was granting. >> sandra: that was his take on it. obviously fauci's pushing back on that idea, but then you have today democrats voting with republicans to declassify these documents to get to the bottom of covid origins so why does anthony fauci, why isn't he as curious as all the democrats you say to declassify this and get to the bottom of this? >> look, i think what the democrats are doing is on a lot of issues including this issue, they're pivoting and they're now what they know that the republicans are in control there in the house and they're going to be a lot of inconvenient truths coming out and they're

going doggo lying and going along and they don't want to make headlines saying they're trying to suppress facts about the origins of covid because they know like with crime that the public has woken up and they realize a lot of what went on during the pandemic was dishonest. >> really something and we'll see where all that goes with the declassifying of those documents as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing for more answers and really great to have you today, miranda. thank you. >> thanks, sandra. >> sandra: john, i hope you don't mind but you pushed on that issue from day one and we've -- we interviewed, spoke with anthony fauci throughout the pandemic. you would think that he would be the ultimate person pushing for answers >> john: here's the thing, 105 years later we still don't know where the spanish flu

came from and doesn't stop people from trying to trace it and find out. anthony fauci may be right that we may never know exactly where covid came from. but the dismissive attitude is not fair. see where it all goes and congress looking at it and police catching a criminal we reported on earlier and america reports that a man in a hazmat suit that shot and killed a deli worker and learning is there ever a surprise. that's not the only crime he's accuse offed committing. >> sandra: that video is committing on and more science leaning towards a 2024 presidential bid for desantis and charlie hurt is here with a possible hat in the ring. >> he's been a remarkable

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>> john: the killer in a hazmat suit that shot and kill add new york city deli worker is in police custody and we told you about this guy earlier in the week and he killed that worker trying to rob the deli in the upper east side of manhattan and robbing another shot in the drownings and this same suspect was wanted for two other gunpoint robberies prior to that killing and the police arrested him after a tip from the public. thankfully, sandra, he's behind bars. >> sandra: all right, meanwhile a new york city mayor eric adams working on a plan to send migrants in the city to

college with no cost to them but a big bill for taxpayers and adams is looking to send as many as 100 migrants to school at a community college in up state new york, room and board included. based on current tuition prices, that would cost taxpayers more than $1 million at a time when many americans are worried about the cost of college for their own general. john, this is generating a lot of reaction not just here but those all around the country see that's happening here and could happen where they are. >> john: this is on top of president biden wanting to forgive college debt for tens of thousands of americans as well. i think people who saved up a lot of money, who worked two jobs to put their kids through college or put themselves through college and work jobs while they were studying in whatever time that they had in between or after classes are looking at this and saying, what's going on here and why are

people who weren't even born in the country and aren't really citizens of this country are getting this special treatment. we had to scrape and work our butts off to do that same thing. >> sandra: and putting taxpayers on the hook. >> john: i think a lot of people it just doesn't make sense to. >> sandra: yep. >> john: florida governor ron desantis in iowa today and first of the nation caucus state for the republicans we should point out and washington post reports he's all by-but certain to run for president but he's going to wait until the florida legislative session ends in may before making his announcement. meantime new polling out of iowa shows desantis neck and neck with former president trump among republicans there. let's bring bring in charlie hurt and washington times.editor. you got to wonder here, will he run in 2024 or will he wait for the laneses to clear and give it a shot in 2028, what do you think? >> well, the great thing about

the position that ron desantis put himself in is he has plenty of time to make that decision because as he likes to say look at score board and he's put up some really impressive wins in florida and electoral victory last year was a blowout and tremendous and because of that, he's got everybody in the world wondering if he'll run or not and it's being drafted before announcing these things and he's in a very good victory and he's managed to put up so many victories he wants to and far longer than other people and making a decision like that and if i were betting, my bet is that he probably does wind up getting in and he's got a lot of, there's a lot of people talking about him. i still think that, you know, that the nomination, running against donald trump is going to be very difficult for any of

them, even ron desantis so it'll be fun to watch at the very least. >> what we've seen is people voting with an exodus and imposing leftist ideology and causing their societies to decay, to crumble. >> john: is he's base chips act saying everybody with half a brain is moving to florida because they like the way i'm governing the state. peggy nunin wrote about this in "the wall street journal" and said believe this is is desantis' moment. this is a guy with a magic moment in politics and when it comes you move because you don't know if it'll come again. they'll forget me, 43-year-old john f. kennedy said when advised to wait and go for the presidency in 1964 and made a someplace at 1956 convention and

1950 was his shot. move now or never. 1960 was his shot. people from california and new york are moving to florida in droves and it might be a negative for him and this is the getting more difficult to afford it if you're a native floridean but if he can say, people are coming to my state because they like the way i'm running things and his platform says make america florida, this might be his moment. >> exactly and in politics, timing is absolutely everything and he's very mindful of that. it is. you know, that argument he's making right there is a very appealing one because, you know, where are those people coming from? they're coming from places like new york, places like california and what's kind of good for him is -- also i would say good for our politics is that it's not just, you know, he's not just appealing to the right wing of the republican party in the primary here, he's talking about

people who live in california. you don't really think of the right wing of the republican party in places like new york and california and they live in a sane society and keep the money they earn and live in safe neighborhoods and across the political spectrum and live in prosperous safe neighborhoods where their children can go to school and they're learning and should be learning and breaking out of the sort of left/right mold that so much of our politics get stuck in is a lot more hopeful. >> john: south carolina first and new hampshire and south carolina and nevada and as we've seen in the past, strange things have happened so we'll see which way this goes.

charlie, thank you. have a great weekend. >> great to see you. >> john: sandra. >> sandra: coming out of retirement is not just for pro athletes and a lot ovolder americans are considering a return to the work force in the state of the economy could factor into their decisions. >> john: meanwhile the white house is expected to tout the president's new budget in a briefing in hour and critics say the multitrillion dollar proposal could not come as a worse time. americans still dealing with sky high inflation with the fed eyeing more interest rates containment. jackie deangeles is with us and breaks it all down, next. >> he's talking about the highest capital gains tax in the world and highest corporate tax rate in the world and all of these other taxes that will have an extraordinarily effect on the economy. - two - when the national debt was larger than gross domestic product? world war ii

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will be taking to the podium any moment as the team looks to defend the tax hikes and budget wish list and that wish list calls for more than $6 trillion in new spending as well as tax hikes at a time when americans are fighting off record-high inflation. john. >> john: looks like the weather has gone a little south and cost of living is so high and some americans are considering coming out of retirement and citing rising prices and others say they're just plain plain board signature around and ironing out the paintings. where are they looking for employment these days? >> hey, john. looking in the tech field and many want inflation is a concern

and they had to adjust town fellation that reached 40-year highs and drawing and savings for social security and glad we talk to one south carolina resident and he's retired and entered the work force and couldn't keep up with the cost of living. watch. >> food and gas and just repair costs. i run a home but the upgrades were through the roof and i could not afford that. >> the number of older adults in the work force are growing and some supplemental social security is drawing against it and the labor statistics and more than a quarter of adults ages 65-75 were working in 2021 and that share is projected to grow to 30% by 2031 and, john,

interesting to note that this work trend among retired americans is emerging inspite of the largest cost of living increase to kansas benefits in 30 years and 8.7% takes effect this year. john. >> john: see if folks are still working at a job when the increase takes place but if so many of them are doing because they're board, i can see they'll probably stick to the job. lydia, thank you. appreciate it. season draconian. >> sandra: we're awaiting the press briefing and jackie deangeles is here cohost of the big fox special. we are looking into digging into the jobs numbers and everybody knows the jobs were more than expected for the month, okay. the unemployment rate did go up but for the jobs report.

>> i wouldn't say this is a home run and jerome powell said a lot of people had to order their jobs in order for us to reset where we are with respect to inflation and he's been raising interest rates when they have a 10% and people are getting squeezed and they're going back to work and not to make a joke out of this. hopefully it's not the ret retis that they're bringing that up and that's why cpi will be so important and jerome powell watching to see where he goes next and there's a very critical move to make. some people say you've got to go 50 next time around and some people say go slow.

tax hikes on the rich and capital gains going up and tax rates and corporate tax rate you talk a lot about and want that going up to 28% and some democrats are lining up to say, this -- we can't do this right now. not in this economy. >> not only right now, but it's irresponsible and what amazes me is the way he's doubling down on his i want to spend more policy and tax corporations and i want to tax people who make over $400,000 a year in some cities after they've paid an effective 550% tax rate. that's not a ton of money and what's happening now to bring this bactocill con valley --

back to the silicon valley bank situation and not that it was irresponsible but the volatility but it's the tax rate that got that bank into the position and hear president biden talk about the program he wants to spend on and doubling down on climate and agenda as well, i say, wow, you just don't get it, do you. >> sandra: going back to this and you brought in the silicon valley bank and collapse or meltdown however you want to look at it and seems to be rattling up for the big board and dow has been selling off today in a week of this and it'll be the second biggest bank failure in u.s. history and we brought it up last hour and i'll ask you, there's some saying and asking if this is re-mining us of 2008 and there's more of these on the horizon?

>> no one knows right now. nobody knows how exposed other banks and hedge funds are to the tech sector but basically what's happened here and you mentioned the fact there's these depositors wanting to withdraw their deposit and the environment is tough and they need the cash. what does the bank do and they go to sell treasuries and that's what what they were and spiking interest rate and spiking fast creates a dynamic and again, i'm not going to necessarily say the management was irresponsible here and the timing was very, very good and tricky on this stuff and don't say trillions of dollars with the comb and the fed trying to play wack-a-mole with. >> sandra: going back to the federal reserve tasked with bringing down inflation and fixing a problem created by policy mistakes that led to that inflation; right? we have to constantly look back

at that and it's government spending and moll after poll leading up to elections and the american people do tribute the government spending to inflation that we're living through and thank you for much for digging into all that and we're awaiting the white house briefing. >> john: sandra, former president trump will likely face criminal charges according to to a report from the new york times and stems from alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign. that's the latest on all this and is it possible that trump could testify before a grand jury next week? >> john, it's possible but it's not likely. former president trump is invited to appear before that grand jury in new york next week but not likely to exercise that right and something very few people would do in the situation but the invitation itself is a possible precursor for charges and fox news said it would be

"outrageous selective prosecution". the five year man hat handout investigation centers around a $130,000 payment to adult film actress stormy daniels on the eve of 2016 presidential election. trump is accused of ordering that payment to keep her quiet about an alleged affair. trump's former fixer and attorney michael cohen made that payment. he claims trump paid him back in installments and today cohen met with prosecutors in manhattan for a second time in one week and told reporters he doesn't expect trump to speak before the grand jury next week. the former president himself said he claims the affair is made up and calls the investigation a witch hunt and posted on truth social that the democrats would play this card and are not certain it would be at the voter book and the trump also criticized manhattan's da

alvin bragg and the folesification of business records and related to the daniels payment and that's a misdemeanor and if prosecutors could prove that trump falsified records in order to c conceal an improper donation and the campaign and the felony. if that's the case, john, president trump could face up to four years in prison and if indicted, he'd be the first former president in u.s. history. back to you. >> john: thought it was interesting that maggie hawburn was throwing cold water that bragg is trying to elevate from a misdemeanor to a felony is a health decline. he's downgrading all these felonies to misdemeanors. see where this goes. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john. president putin tapping into his arsenal of advanced missiles as his war rages on in crew crane and comes after -- ukraine and comes after intense series of

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>> john: florida is filled to the brim with snakes, specifically burmese pythons and they've been wiping out other wildlife and threatening the ecosystem as they spread to the suburbs and every year people put their lives on hold and go out and hunt them for the annual python challenge. one guest turned her hobby into a career and scours the everglade for the species getting under control. she's known as the python huntress and she joins us now along with her python skin curtains and great to see you, amy. >> thank you for having me. >> john: seems to me in order to hunt these snakes you've got

to hunt them and kill them. you're becoming the python huntress in florida. >> it's been a hobby of mine since my dad put me in the creek when i was lit and will taught me how to catch fish and draw dads and had an obsessive fascination with snakes and it's always been a hobby and i learned about the problem in florida so i came down to see what it was all about. caught a python and said this is it. now i can finally -- i can use this passion to actually make a difference and help florida with its colossal problem instead of just being a hobby. >> john: you know what they say about pythons, you never forget your first time when you go to catch them. the situation with burmese pythons in florida, you have graphic pictures on your website, which is by the way pythonhuntress.com where you slit some of the snakes open that you capture and you can see the number of center creeds that each one of these snakes hold.

so for every snake, how many eggs do you get and human baby pythons does that make? >> an average, it's 20-40 per female per year that they lay. but some of the big girls like the 15, 16, 17-footers easily over 100 eggs. >> john: wow. and what that's doing to the ecosystem is you've got an apex predator with no natural competition and it's just out there eating everything and reproducing. you have got some pictures again on your website of you holding a massive snake, there's an even better picture where you're holding it with three or four of your friends and that thing looks at least 15 feet long. what's the biggest snake you've ever caught? >> so far my biggest is 17.3. >> john: oh my gosh. >> that is the one -- the one on screen is 14 hadn't 2 i think. 17.3 and 110 pounds. >> john: how difficult is it to capture something like that?

>> you know, the majority of what we catch is between 6 and . so thornh that's in general -- , they're pretty easy to hannibal. when you get hit with the bigger ones. for the 17-footer hi a head bag that i used so back in the day when i was with the vet and pet industry, we would put a dark cloth over the eyes to calm the animal down so that's what i d. i put a draw string back over the 17-footer's head and she calmed down so i could get her out. >> john: seems to me if you have a 17-foot high python in front of you, the last thing you want to do is go for the head. we should mention too in all of your work, you do a lot of charity work as well and sell python goods on your website and it's python huntress.com and we appreciate you being with us.

it's international women's month and highlighting somebody here that's a very unusual job and amy, more power to you and see you some other time. >> john: she sells a lot of apple watch bands and goes for $300 a pop and she does a lot of charity work as well and she's incredit card and will passionate about it and her dad got her to the creek when she was a kid and she's got this obsession with snakes and, dads, stick your natural rights approach a creek and may be hunting snakes if florida. >> sandra: wonder if she's had any near death experiences and i want to ask her that and a couple pictures on the website and looks to have been bitten in the hand once and i don't know if she's had any near death

experiences and any picture of python wrapped around her leg and wonderful place fertilizer that starts to squeeze, they're very powerful. >> sandra: by the way, when you mentioned the drapery behind her, that was actually the skins. >> john: yep f you're looking for python drapes, she's the woman to talk to. >> sandra: she's amazing. okay. >> john: love it. >> sandra: that was an interesting segment and we're alerting to the white house because the omb director, the president's team is right now trying to sell his new tax and spend plans, and they're going to spend some time defending this because even some democrats like joe mansion have said this is not the right time to impose tax hikes on the american people and american businesses. so we're listening for news from this briefing that's happening at the white house and karine jean-pierre will brief a short time from now and we'll listen for news from that as it happens. john. >> john: all right, outrageous

video out of oregon as an accused murder after being unshackled escapes from court right before jury selection hearing. there he goes down the hallway. what happened. did they catch him? we'll answer that question coming up. ♪

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>> john: all right. check out this wild security video from a courthouse in

oregon. an accused murders caught on camera sprinting out the courtroom and down the hall ahead of jury selection. police dragged him down after two hours following a tip about somebody trying to break in to an apartment. he was moving fast, sandra. >> sandra: wow. another major storm is threatening the golden state with flooding and more snowfall through saturday. these extreme threats could be life threatening. max gordon is live in socal, california. are there any reports of damage so far? >> good afternoon. president biden with an emergency declaration after this storm slammed into the golden state. we're seeing damage. we're next to a road that was washed out. you can see the power of the water as crews try to repair what's been damaged. a community here has been left stranded up the street. they just can't get out. so crews are racing against the

clock trying to get the road rebuilt as thousands have gone without power. we've seen nearly six inches of rain in some spots due to these storms. we've seen mudslides, trees down, power lines down and the destruction is not necessarily over just yet. this atmospheric river event is the second to slam the state this year. it's very different than the one we experienced earlier. it's warmer and expected to melt off much of the sierra snowpack. extreme flooding is a big concern. >> sandra: those are great live images right now. they're doing everything they can as they face more threats there. max, thank you. for continuing coverage, you can tune in to fox weather. download the app for free. you can use your phone to scan the screen. our thoughts and prayers by those affected by that, john.

by the way, took me 1 1/2 hours to realize i used my daughter's mermaid pen. thanks for tipping me off on that. >> john: i remember walking out of the house one day, went to get in the car. my wife said by the way, you have your slippers on. it happens. >> sandra: some days i'm happy i got dressed. john, great to be with you. have a fantastic weekend. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: the story with martha starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum live in iowa. governor ron desantis on what looks a lot like a presidential campaign swing as he launches on to the national stage in a likely preview of what is to come for the 44-year-old florida governor. watch this. >> the elites were wrong about lockdowns. they were rock about forced masks. they were wrong about closing schools. we will fight the woke in legislature and in education and fight the woke in the businesses. i will send my flori