Unexpected Trump-China Moment, Massive Fraud Crackdown, New Fauci Allegations | 5/14/26 FIRST LOOK
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 14 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 how President Trump's high-stakes Beijing trip and massive reception from Xi Jinping could reshape the future of U.S.-China trade, tariffs, rare earth minerals, and the Iran conflict; why JD Vance's anti-fraud task force just froze $1.4 billion tied to alleged Medicare, hospice, and COVID relief scams across California, Florida, and New York; and explosive new whistleblower testimony accusing Anthony Fauci and intelligence officials of steering the COVID lab leak investigation away from the truth, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin and this is First Look. It's Thursday, May 14th, 2026. We've got a pack show for you today. President Trump gets the full red carpet treatment in Beijing as high stakes talks with Xi Jinping begin amid trade tensions and the Iran war. |
| 0:22.6 | J.D. Vance's Anti-Fraud Task Force freezes $1.4 billion in taxpayer money tied to massive |
| 0:31.6 | Medicare and hospice fraud schemes. A CIA whistleblower accuses Anthony Fauci of helping steer the COVID origins investigation |
| 0:41.3 | away from the lab leak theory in what he calls a deliberate cover-up. Let's dive in. |
| 0:47.4 | We start overseas where President Trump arrived in Beijing Wednesday to a massive red carpet |
| 0:53.3 | welcome from the Chinese government, |
| 0:55.5 | as he prepares for critical meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. |
| 1:00.0 | And the optics here were unmistakable. |
| 1:02.7 | Trump stepped off Air Force One to a full military honor guard, a Chinese military band, children |
| 1:09.9 | waving American and Chinese flags, and chance of welcome, |
| 1:15.6 | echoing across the tarmac in Mandarin. |
| 1:18.6 | Greeting Trump personally were Chinese Vice President Han Jung, Chinese ambassador Shia Feng, |
| 1:24.6 | top foreign ministry officials, along with U.S. ambassador David |
| 1:29.3 | Purdue. |
| 1:30.4 | The ceremony looked less like a routine diplomatic visit and more like a state-level spectacle |
| 1:36.1 | designed to show that Beijing still views Trump as the central figure shaping America's |
| 1:41.8 | relationship with China. |
| 1:43.8 | Now this trip immediately drew comparisons |
| 1:46.2 | to Trump's famous 2017 visit to China during his first term. That trip was filled with pomp |
| 1:53.7 | and ceremony, a forbidden city tour, Peking opera performances, massive business announcements, and highly publicized personal diplomacy |
| 2:04.6 | between Trump and Xi. At the time, the White House announced more than $250 billion |
| 2:10.6 | in commercial deals and cooperation agreements. Some of the biggest included a $37 billion dollar Boeing jet deal, a $12 billion |
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