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

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

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

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

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

, well the virus did start in wuhan, you know. unfortunately, we are not recognizing what they are up to, the one thing chinese do not believe in is any kind of weakness. the previous administration had a lot of disadvantages one of president trump's advantages he was previoused as random xi jinping didn't know how trump would react the words saying since election to describe this administration, are predictable, conventional. >> predictable conventional means i am not worried about how they are going to react the translation when at bargaining table adversary thinks that of you you are in a tough position. >> i feel corporate america is letting us down on this issue look at big tech censorship you just said that the china virus the coronavirus, originated in wuhan i know that to be true as well. we have been talking about this report on this for a year. but the propaganda kills you on twitter say anything like that they come at you because partly because the ccp is running the propaganda, then big tech just gets on and piles on.

expressed skepticism of mission to wuhan. the one thing that the biden administration can do which the trump administration started to do and that is release u.s. intelligence about the origins of this disease because i think there are probably people in the intelligence people know where it came from but they're not releasing this info. maria: well, we already heard from the former director of the cdc, it came from a wuhan lab. we knew that from the get-go with senator tom cotton told us and even if you want to put the origins aside, the ccp hid it, allowed it to escape its borders. there was a lot of bad behavior in terms of hording our ppe equipment and there are answers that we need from beijing and unfortunately we don't have anybody asking the questions. gordon it's great to have you and we, of course, will continue to spotlight the story, we will see you soon, sir. gordon chang joining us there. stay with us, we will be right back. gordon: thanks, maria. ♪ ♪ ♪ my grandfather had an amazing life, but ancestry show

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

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

just like gianno said, covid came from the lab in wuhan, right. so, look, i don't know. i feel like right now we have an administration with no spine. so i'm not optimistic. maria: well, it's more than just the hurting feelings, it's about money. china is 1.4 billion person population is the reason that ceo's want in on the china, you know, population business. mark: let's see if a company like nike actually stands up. maria: right, exactly. mark: nike is a big sponsor for the olympics, let's see if they say anything. maria: yeah, so far no comment. we will keep watching this because obviously the human rights abuses are there and you do have some people in some countries like australia pushing back on the bad behavior of the ccp but the olympics is on 2022. we will take a break. when we come back, grading the governors, my next guest looks at leadership in the pandemic and how many got the response totally wrong. best by perks, can put you ahead of the tech game. it's all coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ maria: welcome back, good thursday morning, everybody. thank you very m

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

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

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