eddie minsky is following the story. she covers it for the post. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. steve: that may begin with the statement yesterday. has significant was that from the president? >> there was a significant statement on a number of different fronts. the first piece of it was that biden was really reversing a position that his white house has been quite in on, which had been that the world health organization should take the lead in investigating the origins of the coronavirus. a problem with that has been the who had sales in the past to do that. and it's seen as being quite deferential to china. it was a little bit like having them in -- the foxes investigating the henhouse. there were other parts of the statement that were remarkable. one is a debate that is unsettled. typically, presidents don't reveal those discussions. which the intelligence is categorized as. that was odd, too. politically, the president took a veiled dig at president trump in his statement, sort of saying that biden, as a candidate, has been urging m