bret giroir and iowa's representative mariannette miller-meeks. house panel yesterday. thanks for joining us. dr. giroir, first to you, reports coming in from nbc and other networks yes, the chinese military for years has been working on secret coronavirus research at the wuhan lab. that the wuhan lab has top connections with chinese military officials. what do you say to this report? >> i would say you just about said it all. we heard yesterday from dr. asher who is in the state department and had significant intelligence agency ties, the wuhan lab, as many labs in china are intricately intertwined with the chinese military and yes, the chinese have offensive biological weapons program and it seems very clear that they were using coronavirus as part of that program. elizabeth: well this is terrifying. congresswoman, you and i were talking about this yesterday. representative michael mccaul says there is evidence the chinese military took over, seized control of the wuhan lab earlier than thought in 2019. why were they doing that? >> i think it is