fauci approved $3 million going to ecohealth, and ecohealth sent some of that money to this lab in wuhana. dr. fauci knew that when he approved the money from american citizens going to this lab. why are we sending money to a lab in china in the first place? don't we have great labs here in the united states? but we need democrats in the congress willing to do the investigation. today they are not willing to do so because we asked for it and so far they have not taken us up on our request. judge jeanine: why do you think fauci was so committed to not even make that possible? why was it in his interest that that not be out there? he could have said, look, i don't know if it's animal to human because china won't give us the data. maybe it was this. bio warfare going on all over the world. >> we don't know for sure, judge. but as you rightly point out, he downplayed it last year that it could have originated in the land. he downplayed that after he had given the $3 million to mr. daszak at ecohealth. and after dr. fauci downplays it, he gets an email from mr. daszak that says thank you for

they refused to subpoena and the head of ecohealth, the only individual part of the w.h.o.ugh not authorized by the nih. there are a lot of questions where the democrats could actually join us. this could be truly a bipartisan issue. there are 600,000 american lives lost. we have four million people worldwide, not just incumbent upon the democrats. it is incumbent against all world leaders to get to the bottom of this so we can hold communist china accountable. so we can insure this never happens again. so we can better prepare for future pandemics. elizabeth: all right. representative nicole malliotakis, thank you so much for joining us. come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: next up, we've got more reports coming in on that hunter biden laptop. it allegedly contains photo evidence of then vice president joe biden meeting with hunter and his mexican billionaire business partners inside of the vice-presidential residence despite the president saying he knew nothing about hunter's best dealings. is this the story that is for real? is it serious? is it controversial? sure i

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we know for a fact money was given to ecohealth.wuhan lab and the would wuhan lab wasg research so his statements to congress at a minimum are suspect. elizabeth: he never at any point addressed the facts, that the money was given to the wuhan lab, was for gain of function. wuhan lab chief scientist said so in 2017 they attributed nih funding for supervirus research. records at mit looked at that work and it was gain of function. the nih started funding this more than a generation ago before the sars virus broke out. again the issue of oversight is huge. he can't sit there testify he doesn't know how the wuhan lab money was used, taxpayer money was used he is authorizing and signing off on? >> yeah, his integrity is somewhat in question, here they are saying clearly from a pang owe lynn. no one has found the pangolin yet. the longest it ever took to find the vector was nine months. we're well over 18 points now. we still haven't found it. china sacrificed hundreds of thousands of animals to try to find the vector. they haven't found

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number three, since that 2015 publication, there have been multiple grants to the ecohealth alliance, all entitled in -- and from the limited publicly available information appear to be using the exact same laboratory methods that could create novel hybrid pandemic pathogens. number four, independent scientific studies have concluded the first cases of covid in china occurred sometime between mid october and mid november 2019. this is the exact timeframe, according to u.s. intelligence, that some lab workers became ill with a respiratory infection, and according to the wall street journal, three lab workers sought hospital care for an unknown respiratory illness. finally, the bottom line is i believe it's just too much of a coincidence that a worldwide pandemic, caused by a novel bat coronavirus that cannot be found in nature, started just a few miles away from a secretive laboratory doing dangerous research on bat coronaviruses. sometimes, the most obvious explanation is indeed the correct one. the w.h.o. cannot be relied upon to do an authoritative investigation, because it is a mul

the department sent millions of dollars to ecohealth.hat group then subawarded hundreds of thousands of dollars of that taxpayer money to wuhan institute of virology. reports have indicated that $600,000 to $826,000 was sent to wuhan institute of virology so folks, what we have here is taxpayer money that was sent to the communist chinese government. that's a pretty scary proposition. when we sent taxpayers' money to the chinese government, if there's no oversight done on that money, then we really don't have any idea how it's used. just look at the news about china kicking the french at the wwuhan -- out of the wuhan laboratory. china can't be trusted, period. but i'm not sure bureaucrats share that same view. i'm talking about bureaucrats of our government. to illustrate, dr. anthony fauci has said that chinese scientists are trustworthy, that, quote, we really always trust the grantee to do what they say. end of quote. as a threshold matter, if a government worker doesn't show at least a little bit of skepticism about how a grant reci

if the point that you are making is the grant that was funded as a sub-award from ecohealth to wuhan -- >> it all points to the lab and there will be funding for the lab, including yourself. >> i totally resent the lie that you are now propagating, senator, because if you look at the viruses that were used in the experiments, that were given in the annual reports, that were published in the literature, it is month ele-- molecularly impossible -- >> we're saying gain of function research was going on in that lab and it funded it. you are obfiscating the truth. >> i am not obfiscating the truth. you are. i want everyone to understand that if you look at those viruses, and that's judged by qualified virologists and evolutionary biologists. those viruses are molecurly impossible to cause covid-19. >> i'm saying they are animal viruses to contain the virus. >> and you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals. i totally resent that, and if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you. >> senator smith. >> thank you, dr. fauci. and thanks to all of our paneli

questions and demanding to know why the federal government was giving money to a third party entity, ecohealth the wuhan lab? why in the world are we using taxpayer dollars to fund research in china to give an advantage to the chinese communist party? it simply does not make sense. jackie: it doesn't make sense. it's a really good, reasonable question but i can give you an example in dr. fauci's own words going back to 2013 why this makes sense to him, going back to 2018 why it makes sense to him. listen to this. >> you have to have some restrictions in the sense of you don't do work that could actually hurt people in the sense of, if you have a laboratory accident, you have to have the right containment. once you start being too restrictive you then impede creativity for so many of the good things that can come out of the same type of work. so let me just go on about nih lifts funding pause on gain of function research. so a framework has been now established to guide funding decisions on proposed research that might be anticipated to create, transfer or use enhanced potential pandemic pathog

we know that ecohealth alliance and peter daszak's group was involved in taking money from niaad whichdr. fauci's group and putting it into the lab. president trump cautioned, stop giving money to this lab. the lab is controlled by the chinese communist party and we know that secretary pompeo sought to do an investigation of this lab and it was slow-walked by some of the career diplomats that were there at the state department. so dr. fauci is trying to do a little game of cya and rewrite history. elizabeth: okay. we hear you loud and clear, senator. dr. makary, i want to get both your reaction to this heated exchange. watch what happened between senator rand paul and dr. fauci. watch this. >> knowing that it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded gain of function research in wuhan? >> senator paul, i have never lied before the congress and i do not retract that statement. >> did come from the lab but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those who

so peter daszak was from ecohealth alliance who was part of the funding of gain of function researcho do the first investigation. he was completely compromised and had a viewpoint that he didn't want the lab leak theory to come out. so, yeah, american scientists, i think, have been part of the problem, i think dr. fauci's been part of the problem, but if you care about the health of the world, if you make a mistake, we might be angry about it, but that's objection. we just don't -- that's okay. we just don't want it to happen again. jackie: oh, absolutely. >> the people around the globe that have died, let's find out what went wrong so we can implement procedures so it doesn't happen again. jackie: absolutely. there's a learning lesson no matter where this came from. this is really interesting to your point about the conflict with the scientists and dr. fauci specifically. i want you to watch him in 2013 say don't be restrictive with scientists, and in 2018 talk about lifting the ban on funding superviruses. watch this. >> you have to have some restrictions in the sense of you don't

if the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a subaward from ecohealth to wuhanlet me finish. >> we don't know. we don't know if it came from a lab, but all the evidence says it came from the lab and you will be responsible for those who funded the lab, including yourself. >> this committee will throw witness to on. >> i totally resent the lie you are prop gating, senator, because if you look at the viruses that were used in the experiments, that were given in the annual reports, that were published in the literature, it is molecularly impossible -- those viruses caused the pandemic, what we're alleging is the gain of function research was going on in that lab and nih fund it. you can't get away from it. it meets your definition and you are object if you say indicating the truth. >> i'm not, you are the one. >> the time is spexpired. >> i want everyone to understand if you look at those virus, that's qualified by vierologists, those viruses molecule larly impossible to result. >> no one is saying those viruses caused the pandemic. >> senator paul -- >> we're sayi

paul only wanted to know if support of nih through ecohealth if it was significant source of fundingstified in may of this year there was no u.s. funding of gain of function research in the lab. a top scientist says there was. here is the issue, isn't dr. fauci responsible for oversight how china uses tax dollars and u.s. technology in this research? this is lethal research. it requires extraordinary oversight. doctor, i want to you listen to this sound in 2013. he said you can't be restrictive with scientists doing this lethal work. they have to get creative. might have good things coming out of it. watch this. >> you have to have some restrictions in the sense of you don't do work that could actually hurt people in the sense of, if you have a laboratory accident, you have to have the right containment. once you start being too restrictive you then impede creativity for so many things that could come out of the same type of work. elizabeth: this is the same person who said benefits outweigh the risks, right? we're talking about four million people dead. 600,000 here in the u.s. what

if the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a subaward from ecohealth to wuhan> we don't know. we don't know if it came from a lab, but all the evidence says it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those who funded the lab sclug yourself -- >> i totally resent -- >> this committee will allow the witness to respond. >> i totally res ept the lie that you are now propagating, senator, because if you look at the viruses that were used in the experiments that were given in the annual reports, that were published in the literature, it is molecularly impossible -- >> no one's saying those viruses -- >> it is molecularly -- >> no one's sawing those viruses caused the pandemic. what we're alleging is game of function research was going on in that lab and nih funded it. you can't get away from it. it meets your definition. and you are obfuscating the truth. >> i'm not obfuscating the truth. you are the one -- >> your time has expired. but i will allow the witness to finish. >> let me just finish. i want everyone to understand that if you look at those vi

now you have peter daszak, he is running that ecohealth alliance that funded the wuhan lab using taxpayerwell clearly something. and again, covid didn't discriminate between republicans and democrats. it didn't discriminate between white and black. americans of every background, every color, creed, race, religion, we should all be demanding answers for the origins of coronavirus, right? unfortunately democrats are more concerned with driving a security colleagues we are demanding an investigation into the origin of the wuhan lab leak because we know now that this was a lab leak. we know based on the science, based on the facts on the ground and based on the emails that have been uncovered that this definitely came from the wuhan lab and it was funded using taxpayer dollars. americans across the board, as well as the rest of the world demand answers. they deserve answers for what has taken the lives of so many and ruined so many families across this globe. so we just got to get tough. it is well past the point of rhetoric. we've got to take action. elizabeth: you know democrats are in the

. >> reporter: the nih recently confirmed money went to the wuhan lab through the ecohealth alliance,up. the nih emphasized their application did not propose research to enhance any coronavirus to be more transmissible. earlier this week, dr. fauci pushed back against the claim that u.s. money supported so-called gain of function research that may have made the virus more dangerous. >> dr. fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded gain of function research in wuhan? >> senator paul, i have never lied before the congress, and i do not retract that statement. you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. >> reporter: would providing the records strip away the politics? >> absolutely. transparency is the key. we need to have answers. we need to know the origins of covid-19 so that we can protect ourselves moving forward and that this doesn't happen again. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, the nih says it has provided information requested by congresswoman mcmorris

fauci is part of the nih and they gave $600,000 to ecohealth alliance which paid the wuhan lab, accordingl, which paid the wuhan lab to study coronavirus, bat coronavirus and how they would affect humans. and they argued about it. watch this. steve: man, did they. >> dr. richard ebright, a molecular biologist from rutgers described this we search in wuhan as: the wuhan lab used nih funding to con be structure novel sars related coronavirus the definition of gain of function research. done entirely in wuhan. for which there was supposed to be a federal pause. dr. fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded gain of function research in woo wuhan. >> senator paul, i have never lied before the congress and i do not retract that statement. i totally resent the lie that you are now propagating, senator. you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals. i totally resent that. >> you could. >> talking about gain of function research. this has been evaluated multip