who was peter dazic. >> has an important role in this story he's the president of an organization ink called the ecohealth alliance. and it is main concern is to study animal viruses around the world that might turn into human pathogens. now, the niaid has we've discussed gave graduate did not do so -- did not give the grant directly to dr. xi at wuhan institute but peter so he's the prime investigator on this grant and subcontracted dr. xi to do work on coronaviruses. mark: let me get this straight this is important to american people. our official federal infectious disease office director fauci runs it. they gave a grant to this intermediary organization ecohealth alliance in new york run by peter dazik. they in turn gave a grant to dr. xi in the wuhan lab to do exactly what? >> well, her task which we know because the abstract of the grant have been matter of public record. her task it was to explore what made this spike protein part of the coronavirus that speaks out and actually attacks out its target on human cells or whatever -- however animal it may be infecting. she was to

some of the experts complained china has blocked them from crucial data and those, like peter dazic haven criticized for their personal ties to the wuhan lab, helping fund and take part in the research in the facility before the outbreak. this virologies was part of the people. she welcomes biden's effort to get more information on the intel and hoping he'll find the findings. >> so if there is really something to it, then it needs to be followed up. >> reporter: in the meantime, china is pushing back with its own narrative and calling the u.s. efforts a smear campaign. their motive is vicious, the spokesperson said. chinese officials are relentrele relentlessly pushed that it began in the u.s. but no evidence of that. even baselessly suggesting it came from outside china on frozen foods. from the chaos and confusion of the initial outbreak to the surge and panic ago the number of deaths soared and the virus spread to hopes that vaccines might bring us back pre-covid-19, we are still left with the question, how did all of this really begin? back to you. >> thanks to david culver in shang

peter dazic and christian anderson were political, not scientific, yet they were amazingly effective. explain. >> well, right from the start, those two groups of virologists captured the national mindset and persuaded the mainstream media was there nothing to look at and a case of natural emergence, just move on. mainstream media, newspapers and television networks, they just bought into that story without doing any serious digging of their own. that is why we have been in this sort of delusion for more than a year. our media has let us down by failing to investigate a very flimsy story that these two groups of virologists put out and looking beyond it to the actual facts that were happening in dr. shea's lab or just a matter of public record in the u.s. as i laid out in my article. >> you heard my opening commentary. do you agree with my thinking that if donald trump were advocating they didn't want to hear it and they were going in the other direction? >> yes. it was disastrous when mr. trump made his statement that is definitely came from the wuhan lab. i'm sure his intelligence se