Tulsi's New Probe Turns Heads, Gas Price Crisis, Redistricting Showdown | 5/12/26 FIRST LOOK
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" gives a first look to the stories you need to know to start your day including why Tulsi Gabbard's new investigation into more than 120 U.S.-funded biolabs around the world is reigniting major questions about gain-of-function research, COVID origins, and government transparency; how the Trump administration says "everything is on the table" to lower soaring gas prices as tensions with Iran continue disrupting energy markets; and why a new Alabama Supreme Court challenge could dramatically reshape congressional redistricting ahead of the midterms, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin and this is First Look. It's Tuesday, May 12th, |
| 0:08.2 | 2026. We've got a pack show for you today. Tulsi Gabbard launches a sweeping probe into more |
| 0:15.0 | than 120 U.S. funded bio labs overseas. The Trump administration says everything is on the table to lower |
| 0:24.1 | soaring gas prices as tensions with Iran continue hammering energy markets. Alabama Republicans |
| 0:31.4 | make a major Supreme Court move that could reshape congressional redistricting across the country. Let's dive in. |
| 0:40.0 | We start with a bombshell story out of Washington. Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, |
| 0:46.2 | is now investigating more than 120 biological laboratories across the world that were funded for years using American taxpayer dollars. |
| 0:57.0 | And according to the Trump administration, many Americans were deliberately misled about what was happening inside these facilities. |
| 1:05.0 | Gabbard says the goal of the investigation is straightforward. |
| 1:09.0 | Figure out where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, |
| 1:14.0 | what kind of research was being conducted, and whether dangerous gain of function experiments |
| 1:19.7 | were taking place with almost no public oversight. And yes, this ties directly back to COVID. |
| 1:34.3 | Gabbard said bluntly, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact, research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have. |
| 1:38.3 | Then she took direct aim at the Biden administration, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and elements of the national security establishment. |
| 1:46.7 | According to Gabbard, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities |
| 1:53.5 | within the Biden administration lied to the American people about the existence of these U.S.-funded |
| 2:00.3 | biolabs. Now, the scale of this is enormous.S. funded bio labs. |
| 2:01.6 | Now, the scale of this is enormous. Officials say the labs span more than 30 countries, |
| 2:06.6 | including over 40 facilities in Ukraine alone. |
| 2:10.6 | And that's important because during the early stages of Russia's invasion, |
| 2:15.6 | the Biden administration repeatedly dismissed concerns about U.S. |
| 2:20.0 | linked biological research facilities in Ukraine as Russian propaganda. But then remember what happened. |
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