look, there is no doubt, you know, probably donald trump using wuhan flu and so forth led to people in insulting everyone but read the white house memorandum on this on xenophobia. it is incredible that the the mn who says he wants to heal the country is basically saying his predecessor is responsible for all these horrible things. maybe it is not that surprising joe biden accused donald trump of starving children at the border. this is not the way to heal the nation. it is not the way to get to truth what we want. stuart, ash, the real piece on this, is a lot of people promoting this narrative want to ignore, for example, discrimination in places like harvard against asian-americans applicants. ashley: that is a very good point, bill and well-said. we'll have to leave it there. but thanks so much for joining us this morning. we do appreciate it. on a difficult subject. >> thanks, ash. ashley: guess what, look who is here as promised, the one, the only stuart varney any. good morning, stu. stuart: ashley, thank you very much indeed. you bailed me out of a very difficult situation. i'm

the wuhan lab is thought to have leaked the covid-19 virus. what is happening here nothing short of terrifying what china is doing here. republican congressman scott perry of pennsylvania, he is on house foreign affairs, talking to "the daily caller" news foundation about this. he is saying it is really concerning that dr. faucis niaid did not notify a federal reserve board about the money going out the door to the wuhan lab? should dr. fauci be called in to testify? democrats probably won't allow it but what is going on here? >> this is a problem at two levels. first of all a lot of heads should roll. how we ever give money to this laboratory for dangerous research. look at this from another level. biolab fours, i've been to one, at fort detrick the defense intelligence agency this is where the most dangerous biological research takes place. i don't know why china has one but they are so easily used to make biological weapons. the u.s. government should have nothing to do with them. no money should go to china. i could see funding research in

the chinese communist party released a virus out of wuhan and covered it up. but biden didn't find the time to confront the chinese president about that. >> did you ask if the reports are true that china maybe misled the world at the beginning? >> no, i have not had that conversation with president xi. thank you. jesse: two hours, didn't come up. the democrats in the media can't place the blame on china. they have to place the blame for the virus on donald trump. the perception of the pandemic were shaped by democrat donors who had big business in chain a and project veritas' hidden cameras uncovered cnn's mind control techniques here. >> it alters the perception on anything. like ... forcing a story. in coal is the future of energy. jesse: later in the video the cnn director said the network will be pivoting to going green. for cnn's parent company at&t who just a few years ago bought a jienld amount of wind power and hopes to cash in with biden's ask green blowout for infrastructure. politicians turn their backs on the chinese slave labor camps. you remember

i have to say, i'm zeroed in on this question of the lab iny wuhan. fauci seems to be running interference with the chinese government pretty consistently. >> there is no good answers to that question. you know, we talked about the request, the judicial watch from fauci, back and forth with the chinese government. that is just one of a myriad of bad questions. he wrote in the new england journal of medicine that he thought it would just be as bad as a pandemic level flu. and then 11 days later, he went to congress and told us this is going to be -- and that is what shut the country down. but as you look at the data now is was that here today, the case fatality rate is 1.8%. if you look at what the cdc says, we have ten times more cases. that would put it at .18%. his original cautious and modest estimations have turned out to be true. so why, tucker, did he abandon those? we must get answers to questions like that. what changed to them what he told congress was to mark what changed in those 11 days because it changed the fate of america. >> tucker: we

fauci's the guy -- this virus according to bob redfield at the centers for disease control, came from the wuhan lab. and basically, we had fauci not only funding that lab with american taxpayer dollars, he authorized this thing called gain of function research. he allowed the chinese communist party, the people's liberation army, to genetically engineer a virus using gain of function i call it the fauci virus now. if he wants to be the father of something, he's the father of the virus that's killed over half a million americans >> well, peter, we're still trying to get to the bottom of that and we're going to bring you back when we get more information on it, but you're right, there's a lot of questions out there. peter, i can't thank you enough for joining me today >> remember, folks, even if you have to tow it in. peter navarro hit all the marks there, didn't he fauci, an obvious sociopath. you have the chinese, the communists, the people's liberation army. and even as the fox anchor pointed out, there's a lot of questions out there. you see, in our business, that's what you say when it's jus

the man who subcontracted his research to the wuhan lab in the first place was the only u.s. or preventative on the investigative team. we have to get to the bottom of this, not to point fingers but to help prevent the next pandemic and as josh rogan made clear this week, one of the most disturbing aspects of this whole story is the media cover-up. >> doctor anthony fauci, hero of the pandemic, might also have had a role in the research that may have caused the pandemic. people can't get it to their heads but that's the reality but we don't have a media environment where we can have that discussion. steve: today, fauci was on all the sunday shows and guess how many times he was asked about this? zero. todd, margaret brennan, martha, none of them did their job and none of them dared go against the cult of fauci. this will not stand and we will keep going with our investigation we will keep pushing for a full independent investigation in this pandemic is killed over 2 million people and turned the world upside down. if there's even a remote possibility that it started with risk

that is the infamous wuhan lab. they were doing dangerous studies on bats that could transmit the coronavirus to human beings. u.s. diplomats even -- a number of years ago, raise alarms about what they were seeing at that laugh. -- at that lab. that we were sending taxpayer dollars two. they threw up the warning flag. they alerted folks in washington dc and said there are dangerous, unsecure conditions at the slab. and yet, they continued to receive our dollars. it is things like that that we are ferreting out with the other entities, like the white coast -- white coat waste project. we are out there coming up with these horrible, horrible spender chairs through the u.s. government but we are trying to put a stop to it. those are the things i have been working on with my staff. i could give you literally billions of examples of dollars that have gone to projects like that. for the life of me, i cannot believe we send millions of dollars to the commonest party of china to do those types of studies. that is what we ar

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institute of virology and other institutes in wuhan. they were funded by the chinese military. programs not associated with bio defense. the chinese declared they bio defense programs at the biological weapons convention in geneva. they didn't declare the coronavirus as a priority area for research in the wuhan institute was declared as a civilian institute. that sounds suspicious to me. doesn't it to you? >> martha: yeah, it does. we know that they were doing gain of function research, which is a way to make a virus more deadly, a way to make a virus easier to transmit from human to human and even redfield, the former cdc doctor said he doesn't think that this is likely anything that came from an animal. it learned how to replicate way too fast. can you explain that? >> well, i have admired what dr. redfield said publicly. i think it came from an animal through convolution. they were injecting animals with pathogens and looking for a host that would be suitable. if you look at the wuhan institute own public research, they did research

how does a group tied to the wuhan lab get taxpayer dollars? >> well, i mean, apparently anybody can get taxpayer dollars from a covid bailout. you know, the rules are incredibly loose as we know and set up almost to encourage, you know, waste and fraud. but, you know, this -- the good thing about this is it's another good excuse or reason to talk about what really happened in wuhan in 2019. what really happened in that lab at the wuhan institute of virology. and the fact that the w.h.o., you know, investigation was such a white wash that even the biden administration really couldn't tolerate it they said it was more likely that this had come from frozen food, you know, contamination of frozen food packaging somehow than that it had come out of china or chinese lab. and even the biden administration couldn't accept that i will remind everybody we are well over a year out from the initial, you know, emergent of sars cov 2 and nobody has come up with a way that this could have been gone from bat to humans. it hasn't been found in the wild in bat.

dagen: gupta voicing support for the belief the virus escaped from lab in wuhan something we have been saying for a year, he said quote there is reason to suspect this is the origin we have been discussing this on this program for over a year, and a year ago, i spoke with peter navarro about this, it was april of 2020 on "sunday morning futures." here is what he told me. >> you think about what china did over the course of this thing, they did four things, that led to the deaths of many people worldwide, fifrl, the virus was spawned in china they hid the virus behind shield of world health organization third thing they did was basically, hoard personal protective equipment now profiteering from it you if you walked through that you were one of the first in media to raise the question whether that p4 lab was involved, that is an interesting issue, what we know is that the ground zero for this virus was within a few miles of that lab, if you simply approach simple speculation probably most likely i think incumbent on china to prove it wasn't that lab. >> they have been unable to prove th

look, we heard from the former cdc director that the coronavirus likely came from the wuhan lab and for months we have been hearing the media tell us, listen to everything the cdc says, the cdc said wear a mask, no, the cdc said to wear two masks and the cdc said said don't go out but as soon as the former director of the cdc said the virus came from the lab, maybe we won't listen to the cdc. john: it's not just the opinion of the intelligence community about things that happened that we know happen, but the cdc, you know, the giver of freedoms, the oracle of wisdom, the nower of everything when it relates to covid-19 and when its director comes out and says, look, i think the most likely origin of this was the institute of virology, we hear crickets. it's not a political narrative for this administration. the folks who have gotten soft on china and the folks that have gotten rich on china and want to continue to do business. half a million americans died from covid-19 than died from all of world war i and world war ii. so, you know, again, we deserve answers to that. this administratio

europe and india and brazil are all still struggling with the wuhan virus. the bio-safety in their lab is inadequate to assure us this won't happen again. >> john: thank you. welcome to the fox team. >> great to be part of the team. >> john: the white house now. president biden is the to make his announcement on afghanistan about 15 minutes from now. >> sandra: another night of violence in american cities. left wingadvocators join the chaos. ted williams will tell us what officials need to do to take back control of these cities. here's huge news for veteran homeowners. introducing refiplus from newday usa. with interest rates near record lows refiplus lets you refinance to save money every month. plus you could get an average of $50,000 cash. that's money for security today and money for retirement tomorrow. refiplus, it's only for veterans and it's only from newday usa. losing a tooth didn't stop you but your partial can act like a bacteria magnet, putting natural teeth at risk. new polident propartial helps purify your partial and strengthens and protects

virus now not even allowed to say wuhan virus even though that is where it will originated in a lab. >> he announce increased yu uranium to 60% following attack on sunday talks between iranian officials global leaders how striking is it, that they are trying to negotiate a churn to the 2015 nuclear deal and do so in meeting and don't even invite united states to that meeting. what does a that say about u.s. leadership biden wants u.s. in nuclear deal with iran. >> the president biden chosen to side with european allies against israel,the gulf states fundamental interests securing their region creating peace stability there anxiousness to get back into this terrible nuclear deal demonstrated to iranians frankly we have no course of leverage when you lift sunshine on houthis, you begin to allow foreigner exchange reserves to flow in iran demand you come to the table so iranians come back offer monday iranians chuckle they chuckle because if cove coercive levin taken away no reason to change direction of travel they know one day a path to continue terror threats against israel ultimatel

commissioned an organization called ecohealth alliance ran by a guy called peter dazak peter and the wuhan institute were the world leading experts on bat coronavirus. they were asked to investigate where the next spillover as it's called from nature to humans could happen. one of the techniques that were specified in the project documents that are publicly available on the government website is, as you noted, to try and make these viruses more contagious in the lab so that we could understand how it might affect humans. one last point i would make on this. it's exactly right. as josh rogan said, that scientists are frightened of speaking out because they are funded by the nih. by the niaid and that's why they don't want to cause trouble. they don't want their research to get cut. there is one scientist we spoke to that went on the record dr. richard ebright of rutgers university. he said specifically that theee newly of this project in 2019 by dr. fauci's institute represented gain of function virus research of concern. it should have been flagged in a review. it wasn't. the process was b

antibodies could stop the next wuhan-like outbreak cold. >> hepburn: it's really beyond vaccines, that's our future. that's our next step. >> whitaker: shoot for the moon. >> hepburn: shoot for the moon. >> whitaker: some pentagon researchers are shooting higher. with the spread of dangerous new coronavirus variants, the army's dr. kayvon modjarrad is testing a revolutionary approach to stop them all. >> dr. kayvon modjarrad: we're trying to not just make a vaccine for this virus. we're trying to make a vaccine for the whole family of coronaviruses. this is the core of our vaccine. we engineer the spike so that we can attach it to this protein. >> whitaker: if his concept, now in clinical trials, proves successful, dr. modjarrad says in five years a single vaccine could defeat all coronaviruses. that means many common colds, the deadly strain causing this pandemic and thousands of others. is that, at this point, a dream? >> modjarrad: this is not science fiction. this is science fact. we have the tools, we have the technology, to do this all right now. >> whitaker: and you think we can,

and we know that it was originating likely in a wuhan lab. no comment about that, no comment about the way china's communist party cornered our market for productive equipment. the ppe as well. we're not hearing any of that. and yet he says that this is going to show we're competitive with beijing. i totally agree with you, it is all spin. nancy, this fight with china is playing out in the corporate sector as well. a lot of money to be made for companies that get the green light to operate in beijing. but there are real national security risks. do you think corporate america is going to recognize that or continue drilling down and digging in to china's potential 1.4 billion customer opportunity? nancy: yeah, maria, i think the latter. that companies are going to go where they can -- where they they have the biggest market. but you said something super interesting that i think is really more key than infrastructure, and that is drilling down. i mean, we were already improving our cost advantage with china in terms of the low cost of industrial

fauci farmed it out to the wuhan labs. host: ok, ok. we will just stop there. when it comes to investigating the origins of the virus, the united dates landing on doing more investigations of their own, a new face of the probe saying the u.s. is expected to recommend a review of medical records and that international scientists be granted records to strains of the virus and in a january 15 fact sheet they said the u.s. government has reason to believe several researchers inside the institute became sick before the first identified case and that symptoms consisted both of covid-19 and common seasonal illnesses. yonkers, new york, on the no line. caller: are you hearing me? host: yes, we can. caller: i don't wear a mask, the simple reason i don't trust dr. fauci any at all. until the u.s. is able to tell me exactly what the origin and cause of the virus is, i don't think anyone should be wearing a mask. we go to war for less than this. we have lost half a million people. we have not known how this virus originate, and what we know from dr. fauci, not an elected o

team peter -- has been collaborating with the wuhan lab which is looking into researching viruses that can jump different species and this guy peter puts out a statement saying it's asp conspiracy theory to say that the covid virus will leak from a lab and when that already happened in china the sars virus is already leaked from a lab in china what is this guy with peter. >> 's conflictet of interest in part because these funded by the u.s. government to do work in the wuhan laboratory he's been talking about the media the whole past year one of his main points to say he works with the doctor, he admires doctor and she could not possibly do anything wrong she would've bee the one charged if she would've done something wrong at the lab the doctor herself with peter's help put out a number of statements and what is quite fascinating, she set on new year's eve she was shown the virus, what we call the covid-19 virus and she ran into her laboratory close to him midnight on new year's eve to see if all the library viruses she had contained anything like this virus, guess what she did not ha

you know, last year, tucker, we talked about the wuhan institute of virology and we talked about this idea and might have leaked from a lab, oh, that is a conspiracy theory, it's crazy -e chinese and w.h.o. actually went too far when they said this was more likely to have come from frozen food than the wuhan institute of virology, and even the biden administration had to do something about that. so, before we decide we need to inject every 16, 17, 18, 25-year-old who basically has zero risk from this virus, okay, if you are under 25, or even 30, 40, if you are in reasonable health, you are very low risk from this virus. before we decide we have to pause a mandate that, maybe we can ask a few questions about what the side effects are, and if you have this already, ml unity means you do not have to get any vaccine. >> tucker: what is the answer to that question? as someone who has read "the atlantic" most of my life, it was a journal of ideas that challenged you. now you see in "the atlantic" ideas called blindfolded into a dark room and executed. weight really is where ideas go to die,

money back from consumers who have been -- >> thanks for those excellent comments, and now senator wuhan. we may be having technical difficulties with senator luhan. while we're waiting let me ask a question i think it's pretty clear from the testimony we've heard today and everything we know about the ftc the supreme court decision is really an existential threat to the ftc and consumers. and if we do nothing else in the subcommittee we need to re-authorize the ftc's authority to protect consumers and put money back in their pockets. that's essentially what 13b enables the ftc to do, put money back into consumers pockets for their losses. the money that results from penalties goes to the federal government not to consumers. it's a deterrent. it's a good means of punishment, but consumers see none of it. let me ask assistant attorney general alexander because you are doing what i did for 20 years as attorney general of the state of connecticut which is to put money back in consumers pockets. could the state attorneys general fill some of the gaps left by the supreme court's decision in r

this is a man who six months ago called it the wuhan virus and blamed china for the existence of the epidemic. this is all really troubling. it has no place in science. it makes for a very big struggle for folks at cdc and state health departments. how do they fight the disinformation? how do they get people to feel safe and confident, and not only protecting themselves but others. today, nicole, the cdc released a remarkable study based on a small town in illinois that had a big opening of a bar, and from that bar opening 46 people got infected. it spread so widely in the small town that they had to shut down the school and all those kids had to go back to at-home education, all because of one bar. that shows how fragile this moment is. we've achieved so much with vaccination, with education, we can't squander it now. we don't know how many people put themselves in harm's way over the pastover and easter holidays. we won't really know those numbers for another couple weeks because that's how long the incubation time and so on is. but then we'll be right up to memorial day weekend, a

the cluster of cases in wuhan. the responsibility of the party for suppressing intelligence. suppresses doctors and scientists, and information related to this, zero reference to closing off wuhan from the rest of china but opening it to rest of the world or propaganda campaign to blame the united states, americans want to know when a half million americans died last year, who is responsible for that? and china will be held responsible. and yet early returns are that there is no action taken by the biden administration to do that. mark: i feel certain that the chinese like the russians and iranians and north koreans are watching this administration, among other things, john, the biden administration made public its budget. a 16% growth in domestic spending. and a decline in defense spending. a slight increase but they know it is not enough to cover increase in salary or medical benefits for u.s. military. while the chinese are moving their trajectory north in terms of spending and aggressiveness, we're not only flat lining but we're worse than flat lining, does this not send

the report also suggests the seafood and meat market in wuhan, china, was not where the outbreak began instead, the w.h.o. investigators point to the country's wildlife farms in southern china, here's nbc's janis mackey frayer. >> reporter: in the mystery of where the pandemic started, could the missing link be here, on the farms that long raised wild animals for food, fur and traditional medicines, like bamboo racks, deer, hedgehogs? it was a lucrative trade here. until february 2020, as the virus was spreading, virus abruptly shut down the entire industry farmers were given buy oweds to get rid of animals there were no more, he says of his porcupines they were sold or released into the mountains. china's crackdown shuttered some 20,000 wildlife farms nationwide in u nam, most clustered near the border with myanmar and laos an area also rich in bat species known to carry coronaviruses. >> particularly speaking we're very, very confident the virus came from bats the bat is without any doubt the highest risk factor. >> reporter: it is here that covid's closest known relative was identif

this serious because this is a major crisis that is still -- we still don't know what's going on in wuhan. >> shannon: we don't know. >> bruce: pick up the phone, joe. >> shannon: by the way, i want to point this out that in march of last year, kurt ferguson the president of coca-cola, greater china and korea think it to the chinese government. decisive actions once again and thank you for controlling a wide world academic and congratulations to your work. that is the headline coke will stick with china. quick word to you, jason. >> jason: i want president biden to talk to the president of china. i also want him to go to the border and actually see what is happening down at the border. and i want him to talk to mitch mcconnell, for example, so they can actually have some bipartisan discussion to try to unite the country with joe biden and no interest in doing. >> shannon: has talked about that, bipartisanship and i think the two has had a little chat but there is much more ripe for discussion. jason jason improves, come back soon. >> things, shannon. >> shannon: new video of volcano erupt

our teams were in one, china -- -- in wuhan, china working with the sources there to identify the sources of this pneumonia at the time. our sources were used in shanghai to publish a first viral genome of sars-cov-2 in general area -- in january 10th of 2020. we have been working with vexing many factors like biontech and moderna to help the bell of the mrna vaccines that are being rolled out around the world -- help develop the mrna vaccines that are being rolled out around the world. also australia, the cdc here in the u.s., to develop a national surveillance infrastructure, to watch how the virus is spreading, but also how it is mutating. we now have sequencing set up around the world to identify these new variants. that is very important. because it tells us if the tools we are using to fight the pandemic, the testing we are doing, the vaccines, the therapies, whether they are going to continue to be effective or not or they need to be modified. it also helps us with policy decisions. should we you travel restrictions? -- should we enact travel restrictions? this is also useful looki

>> do you agree or disagree with the who assessment it was very unlikely covid-19 originated in the wuhan lab quick. >> as this stage this is something we are still analyzing with the benefit of all the sources the intelligence community can bring to bear. >> the who said it's unlikely, very unlikely is that consistent with the intelligence community? >> i don't think that's the assessment we are prepared to make at this point we are weighing both the options that director haines describes. >> would you say that is inconsistent quick. >> as indicated we do not make the assessment the who report is exceedingly unlikely or extremely unlikely is there language. that is not our assessment director haines what is your assessment of the transparency and legitimacy and fairness of the relationship between china and who? >> please repeat that. >> there is concern whether the relationship is truly at arms length or if there was covert or not transparent relationships between who and china. >> we certainly have seen indications that china is trying to influence the who efforts in this area that bey

one was 7224 people in wuhan, china, where they did very strict contact tracing one of the infection's was traced to outside 232,000 people in a irish study. and the risk of outside transmission is one in 1000. and then i review here from you see a seven also another one from university of canterbury. showing outside transmission is extremely well, that's one argument that our risk for outdoor transmission is very low. the second, i think is to restore trust in public health messaging. it makes sense to update guidelines. when you have science that shows you that the risk is so much lower and with such high rates of vaccination that you just advertised on they're going around around the united states. this seems like the time. get us that kind of extra hope to lift our outdoor mass mandates. and then we can think about the indoor once and we're all vaccinated. who wants to be vaccinated? do you think part of the reason that that health officials on the federal level the state level the local level are hesitant to lift these mask mandates is because maybe they're concerned that that som

trump banning travel from wuhan china, that was enough public and racist. when they can't beat us on the fact they can't beat us on the constitution it goes to racism which is completely absurd to say that we -- democrats trying to bring the state of dc and make it estate when it is very clear in the constitution that the area of the district of columbia was set apart by the framers of the constitution to ensure that it wasn't estate and the land came from maryland. of democrats cared about representation of the people that live there, give a portion of the property back to the state that it came from in maryland but it is all political. they want two more democratic senators and another vote in the house that would be a democrat. stuart: we understand that. i don't think it is going anywhere because i don't think you can legislate dc becoming a state. you've got to change the constitution for that at least that is the way i see it. >> you need two thirds in the house and senate, you need to change the constitution in order to do that. democrats are arguing

strain the south africa can strain the brazilian strain wuhan is off limits. we have to ask ourselves why. the answer is crystal clear to me. it is that china has mastered the art of using wokeness as a geopolitical tool back against the united states. and if there is any doubt about that, just look at the comments of xi jinping when european he cites black lives matter as a way of saying the u.s. is no better. top diplomat in alaska last month falsely claiming that black americans are being slaughtered and he hopes the u.s. does better on human rights. they have mastered this game and they are using americans here as pawns by now deflecting accountability for covid-19 by claiming that any allusion to china is now racist and that's laughable. brian: vivek i hear you. what about chinese virus the kung fu or whatever you want to do that insights americans to take out anger on asian americans. >> i think the rising tide of asian violence in the united states is an issue and needs to be addressed. that is separate. i personally believe that it is more racist to co

long way to planning what needs to be done did any of the authorities in china say you shouldn't be in wuhan you should be in italy given their code without bodies were circulating in italy in september of 2019 way before december i mean there's no doubt the virus exploded in with them there's no question about that now the issue is was a virus circulating out of the parts of the world around that time or even a bit before and yes there is evidence mutually it's a bit from spain and some from france or some from the united kingdom and what did you feel when reportedly you weren't given some of the data you wanted i mean have you got this rule patient going to 174 covert patients from december 21000 the you are requesting. sort of do a number of things. to do before we go through including going back to looking through the last couple of months before december trying to identify potential traces of mist and we insisted on that and then they didn't and they presume to know we were of course only there for a short period of time so no although we would normally asked for in this sort of built f

china made great use of this pandemic, which came from wuhan and it's not racist to say that. they cracked down on hong kong and brought these freedom-minded young people to their knees. and all the while, american interests from the nba to apple to google to the biden family to the biden family looked the other way you know about the disney corporations to the chinese. chao the beautiful 23-year-old who supporters call her the real mulan was willing to go to driven for her beliefs. a simple straightforward idea that people are born with the right to be free. as a child of the 1980s, i grew up seeing one movie after the other where the soviet union rightly depicted as an evil empire the russians were bent on world domination and time again on the silver screen americans would fight back against them. where are such depictions of china today in the chinese communist party subjugates its people. it has embarked on the mission of genocide against the uyghur muslims. it threatens tijuana, it hacks our government. it is a malevolent force in the world that hue mill united states ou

redfield at the centers for disease control, came from the wuhan lab. and basically, we have fauci not only funding that lab with american taxpayer dollars, he authorized this thing called gain function research. he allowed the chinese communist party, the people's liberation army, to genetically engineer a virus using gain of function -- i call it the fauci virus. if he wants to be the father of something, he's the father of >> jimmy: i agree.immy: i agree dr. fauci needs to go on the maury povich show right now, to [ laughter ] news and onto some antipipipipi. [ laughter and applause ]e seeing on a daily basis now would be shocking if we were capable of being shocked anymore. the tunes have changed so much from a year ago. and so now it's time to look back at what was in the news one year ago this week. in a new installment of "this week in covid history." >> this week in covid history, as we head into april 2020, president trump is a ratings hit. mr. trump an updates have attracted an ion. roughly the viewership of the season finale of "the bachelor.

the best done study was in wuhan, china, one out of 7320 for infections. we're linked outdoor transmission with very careful contact tracing so because outside air disperses the viral particles, it's a lot more safe. so that's independent of the vaccination status of an individual. so the w h o actually says unvaccinated people because they made these recommendations before vaccines do not need to mask outside. unless they can't states mew feet away from someone so we could have opened that even more and said on leon, vaccinated peopleave. they should mask in crowded situations where they can't socially distance, okay, let's switch scares now talk about india very dire situation in india, california announced today it is sending help to india where they're battling that huge covid outbreak right now. is there something more that california could do? other than sending all those oxygen supplies. what are your thoughts on that? yes, i do think it's amazing that the u. s is stepping up. i really have to say that biden administration releasing raw materials fo

it's probably the wuhan institute of virology. there's 568,000 americans who have succumbed to the disease and china spread it beyond their borders. biden is trying to help them by rejoining the world health organization. on critical infrastructure, china turned off the lights in india's mumbai last october. what did biden do? in his first hours in office he repealed president trump's may 1st, 2020 executive order that prohibited grid operators and utilities in the u.s. from buying chinese equipment, equipment that probably is sabotaged. what biden is doing, it's worse than not doing anything at all, maria. what he's doing is he opened the door to china turning off america's lights. maria: it's unbelievable, gordon. i mean, why? is this administration compromised by the communists because of money, because of money exchanging hands? i'm trying to understand why. i've seen your tweets this week, gordon and you're talking a lot about china's regime needing our money, they need our technology. so how come we're selling things? you sa

though we all know the coronavirus originated in wuhan. you know, are we going to see a change in u.s. policy? joe biden has still not brought up the coronavirus to xi jinping, now we have as one of the featured speakers at this white house event, even knowing that it is all bs they are not keeping any climate promises yesterday we have not candidateed asked xi jinping where coronavirus you originated from do you find that odd. >> i don't know what they talk by priflt no one knows how this originated a problem the fact chinese communist party was not transparent from the very beginning you could see say has led to the death suffering, economic calamity all over the world, and to this day we had open hearing last week i asked the director of national intelligence, she admitted right there in front of everybody we still do not know, you know, sort of conventional theory out there is -- zoo infection went to population not established equally likely scenario is one in which there was an accident in a laboratory that led to someone being being

but there is some circumstantial evidence that it would have come from an accidental escape from the wuhan institute of virology. we know from state department cable back in 2018 that the u.s. was concerned about biosafety. they lacked standards for a level 4 lab dealing with highly contagious and dangerous viruses. and the state department released a declassified stat sheet in mid-january laying out some more interesting details, data research being conducted at the wuhan lab, secret military experience -- experiments. the wuhan lab apparently collaborated with the chinese military and the lab itself also apparently was in possession of and studying covid-19's closest known genetic relative as well. so circumstantial evidence, to be sure, and certainly not proven in any way. that sort of evidence does suggest it is a plausible hypothesis worth investigating further. it is kind of an interesting and disappointing thing that the who team would say it is not worth looking into further. host: why would dr. redfield say accidental release? guest: that's a great question. the intelligence commu

, but it's right in the middle of wuhan, and that's where this disease exploded on the world. how can you not or consider this a highly plausible theory? paul: dan, what do you make of the wuhan theory, and why do you think so many in the united states just don't want to hear about it? >> well, it's a good question. i think the burden now falls on the united states government which for the past two or three years has been collecting intelligence, as you suggested, about the wuhan virology institute. and the w.h.o. apparently just did not consider the evidence that the united states had, and considering the seriousness of this, paul, i think the burden is now on the united states to release to the mix some of the intelligence -- to the public some of the intelligence it has. the stakeses are simply too high to allow the chinese to get away with this propaganda. this isn't merely about economic issues, this is about the health of the entire world. so i would hope the biden administration would release that intelligence that they have collected about the wuhan virology lab here s

wuhan was the most severe exampl that city was locked down. people shut out from the rest of the world. after that they, closed the borders, getting in out of this country has been very tough. china has been super, super vigilant. you can do that because it has infrastructures in place, administrative infrastructures, dealing with a couple of hundred of people. it has the enforcement mechanism in place. a vast police network. also most important, -- most importantly, digital infrastructure. how caps on phones. it is successful in containing covid and has been staggering. a city on the east coast of here last year, they tested 9 million people for covid in five days. a similar outbreak in the west, they teste almost 5 million people in a . they have not had to deal with much dissent because the truth is they contained it here and things got back to normal. people are very fearful of covid coming back. much everyone is playing along. ros: one year along -- one year on, local and national media are praising the return to normal life and the econo

more interesting detail, research being conducted at the home lab, secret military experiments, the wuhan lab apparently collaborating with chinese military and the lab itself was studying covid-19 known genetic, relative as well so circumstantial evidence, to be sure certainly not moving in anyway but that evidence suggests it's a plausible hypothesis worth investigating further so it is interesting disappointing the who team would say it's not worth looking into for the. >> why would he say accidental relief? >> great question. the intelligence community weighed in on this, a rare way last may and they said the intelligence community agreed this not a man-made bio weapon but they were taking seriously the possibility it was from these you are not forthcoming from animals, they were also taking seriously the possibility that there's an accidental leak. it looks like the lab was studying some dangerous viruses, known for coronavirus research. it known for having biosafety standards and u.s. intelligence is correct on this, it's also tengaging in secret experiments with the chinese militar

almost all fingers point to wuhan, china, the epicenter the initial outbreak. some say it came from a wet market in the city. others say it originated at a lab there that studies viruses. on tuesday, the w.h.o. released the long-anticipated report on the question. the study was controversial from the start especially since as the front page of the report said it was jointly conducted with the government of china. and as the u.s. and 13 other nations complained that the team lacked access to samples among other issues. peter daszak was one of the w.h.o. investigators on that report. peter, let me -- welcome and begin by asking you, you know, what is the central question that people are asking and have charged, which is why is the report confident that the virus, coronavirus did not originate in that lab in wuhan, the institute of virology? >> well, this is a scientific report. so what we did here is look at scientific evidence, data, and information about all of the possible pathways this virus could have taken from the wildlife host, which we think is a bat, in

liz: they accredited their own wuhan lab as a biosafety level four, china given that standing. the wuhan lab leaked the virus, what is happening here gives nothing short of terrified what china is doing here. we have republican congressman on foreign affairs talking to the daily caller news foundation about this, he said it's really concerning that dr. fauci and i did not notify a federal review board about this money going out the door to the wuhan lab, should dr. fauci be called in to testify, democrats probably won't allow it, what is going on here. >> this is a problem of two levels, a lot of heads should roll, how we would ever give money to this laboratory for sustained research. let's look at this from another bubble, biolab four, i've been to one when i worked at the intelligence agency this is the most dangerous biological research takes place, i don't know why china has one but there's so easily used to make biological weapons the u.s. government should have nothing to do with them and no money should go to china i see funding research like this in france and germany

i probably would be crying too. >> wuhan is the city that's massive, 11 million people. it is essentially shutdown. it is locked down. they are not letting anyone out via airport, via train station. >> how much did you trust the information coming out of china initially? >> i always had skepticism about it because of what we went through with sars. you know, people forget but in sars, the chinese were saying, it's flu, it's flew and then the next thing you know that sars was all over the world, in canada and australia, all over the place. so they are not very transparent in the past. it wasn't outright lying. they just didn't give you all the information. >> how big of a difference would it have been if our own investigators had been on the ground in china? >> i think it would have been a significant difference. >> i think we would be dealing with a different beast. they sold us this is like sars and this is like flu. well, sars and flu, you can go after symptomatic case findings, because they cause symptomatic disease. unfortunately, this virus, the majority probably of

it has virtually all the superfast trains go through wuhan. it has one of the most important domestic airports. and you know, 13 million people. it is a massive parade we do not have a city that large. and it is a city most americans have never heard of. and so i was monitoring it and getting increasingly anxious. my new year's eve, i was really freaked out. i thought this is it, this is the big one. at the very least this is sars comeback. it might be something worse. but, when i would tweet about it or send out a kind we get death threats. one person posted on twitter we should skin her live in torture her to which i said that is redundant. and the mountains of threats i received from scientists, from random who the heck are they i don't know, from alleged public health experts were huge. and yet, by the 30th of december i was aware of postings. and also other chinese scientists or mds actually in a wuhan posting. and i was absolutely dumbfounded i was not seeing this reflected a thing from w.h.o. so as we go into january of 2020, my life is

but actually what we are seeing also was the fact this was not limited to wuhan. this was spreading. we're very concerned about making sure our colleagues who were basin wuhan were safe and able to be from this to the extent possible from what we new at that time. we had to understand the impact this had not just in china but on a worldwide basis especially in regard to the ability for us to continue to produce our medicines that insights around the world and also make sure we're going to be able to take appropriate steps to address this challenge that was becoming more and more apparent it was going to be a world wide challenge we had to step up to meet. >> host: you for the argument for many americans of vaccines not safe i'm not going to get one, address that. >> guest: one of the things people are concerned about is the short period of time it took to develop the vaccine for the case with the pfizer mrna vaccine a seven half months from the time the first person received that as a vaccine candidate to the time and had emergency use authorization for that's an

because part of my organization is based in wuhan. we were following it carefully. as the story emerged, we realized it was probably not safe for me to go there, so we canceled the trip. but actually what we were seeing also was the fact that this was not limited to wuhan. this was spreading. we were very concerned about making sure that our colleagues who are based in wuhan were safe and were able to be protected from this to the extent possible of what we knew at that time and then we had to understand the impact this had, not just in china, but on a worldwide basis, especially with regard to the ability for us to continue to produce our medicines insights around the world, and also to make sure we are going to be able to take appropriate steps to address this challenge that was becoming more and more apparent -- it was going to be a worldwide challenge we had to step up and meet. host: you have heard the argument from many americans, the vaccines are not safe -- i am not going to get one. address that? guest: one of the things peop