eagle health alliance is a mechanism or dr. of her ologies the gain of function research specifically diseases originating in bats that was presumably theng covid9 virus, we also have to show the world that china likely mismanaged the laboratory as a dsl foror laboratory there was safety concerns even before france called f into question ad that the coincidental circumstantial evidence is e doe during the virus and originated from the slab, i can go into it but the fact that the media has not covered it in the world health organization and the world so there's nothing to see look the other way andlo move along is very shocking. liz: how much support do you have for your bill to cut funding for the frankenstein super virus research. >> the china task force which is comprised of house republicans democrats won't join they are showing my efforts to defund eco-health alliance you see a lot of support with republicans are crossed but i'm fortunately the democrats have failed to callout china they will not criticize china openly and

money did make its way to the wuhan institute of virology through an outside group called eco health alliances awarded by the nih a $3.7 million grant. eco health gave $600,000 of it to the wuhan lab for a china bat research project. that project helped build the library of 15,000 bat samples, 400 new coronaviruses were discovered including one that had a 96% match to covid-19. lawmakers today wanted to know if the wuhan lab could be using this babb library of viruses to try to engineer one to be more dangerous and more contagious, something called gain of function research. >> we're of course not aware of other sources of funds or other activities that they might have undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed. >> so we could have sent money through eco health alliance, money could have behinded up in the wuhan institute of virology, which might be doing gain of function research. >> dr. fauci was also asked today at a separate event if it's possible that the virus escaped from a lab. >> we don't know 100% the answer to that. since this is a question that keeps being asked, we fee

call the eagle health alliance. the main concern is to study animal viruses around the world. my coming to the human pathogens. and night a grant that did not get the grant directly to the doctorate at the wuhan institute . give it to peter. so he is the prime investigator oof this and he himself contracted the coronavirus. sue and limited the street because is important to the market people partied our the officials infectious disease office director gave a grant to this organization eagle health alliances of new york run by peter. they in turn give a grant to the doctor and the wuhan lab to do exactly what . guest: will her task which we know because the abstracts of the grant are on public record. tells us to explore what made that spike protein, part of the coronavirus sticks out and attacks is target on human cells or whatever. over whatever animal it may be infecting. she was weeks for the range of been infectivity of the spike proteins. in the range of coronavirus is an she would sort them and one by one to a generic coronavirus backbone to see which is spike proteins m

and not the other health alliance has total everything it knows about who. it is due to the end i have now yet as a sense that confrontation on tuesday senator paul is come out and i want to ask you about what gain of function research means found she denies that he and his department that he runs had funded that in one hand but but since then and i wish he would have confronted with it right there but he went on t.v. i senator paul and said here's the proof they did fund that kind of research so tell us what that that that kind of research actually means and do you believe that it was funded by found his department. didn't function simply means you and you take a natural virus and you make it more instructive to humans by genetically engineering . and the reason the rationale for doing this is if you can get a step or 2 ahead of the one issues games to eventually then you'll be better prepared to critics and prevent damage. as to. yes it's not just position that this kind of research did not take place at to an institute i think the jury is out on what he m

and not the other health alliance has total everything it knows about who. institute to the end i have now yet as a sense that confrontation on tuesday senator paul is come out and i want to ask you about what gain of function research means that he denies that he and his department that he runs have funded that in one hand but but since then and i wish he would have confronted with it right there but he went on t.v. i sen paul and said here's the proof they did fund that kind of research so tell us what that that that kind of research actually means and do you believe that it was funded by found his department. to function simply means you know you take the natural virus and you make it law in tracksuits to humans but i just engineering. and the reason the rationale for doing this is if you can get a step or 2 ahead of the one issue is going to do or ensure then you'll be better prepared to projects and prevent and demi. has to. yes it's not just position that this kind of research did not take place at 200 institute i think the jury's out on what he means

going to the lab citing biosafety concerns and those concerns still exist today because eagle health alliancels me there grant money has not beene freed up in the nih hs not told them when or if that will happen. liz: great reporting, great stuff, thank you hillary vaughn let's get to kt mcfarland with her reaction on what happened today, dr. fauci today, good to see you, he did not testify that he told the wall street journal he can't track how china h spens its money and what china is doing francis collins testified to that today, what do you think of theay controversy. >> what are we doing funding research in chinese labs, china is a very wealthy country, why do they need american grants to study viruses or whatever else, how many other grants do we have in other research laboratories in china and for other purposes, why are we doing this, why are they getting back, if we were giving money to a chinese lab and now and a another tiny military actively studying something else, why does that money not give us thebi abilityo find out what was going on with the coronavirus when it started happe

and it was part of eco-health alliance was the one that was involved in funding this bat coronavirus research with the wuhan lab. so it is a matter of public health, bio security and we will not leave any stone unturned until we get answers. >> john: let's take a moment to rewind the clock back a year. the eastern white house where the press conference, i had this exchange with him. let's listen. >> have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the wuhan institute of virology was the origin of this virus? >> yes, i have. yes, i have. and i think the world health organization should be ashamed of themselves because they are like the public relations agency for china. >> john: here is what the mainstream media was saying about this. scientist debunk lab accident theory pandemic emergency. "washington post" tom cotton keeps reporting conspiracy theory that was already debunked. debunk conspiracy theory that covid-19 was created in a lab. the claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. this time last year, congresswoman anyone who entertained the idea, even

paxton, rare footage and rare sound you mayto not hae seen from the head of the nonprofit echo health alliancee is doctor peter, he isof denying the lab theory pushing back on super virus funding research, all of that news he is pushing back and denying trying to deny this is the theory that dr. fauci in the nia's hid nonprofit money and then that turned around and funded the wuhan lab we have doctor peter disick on tape saying we were researching with china coronavirus is 46 - 7 years and we created a new man-made super virus not seen in nature inside labs in china, were gonna show you this 18 scientist from mip harvard nel worked on super viruses with the wuhan lab say investigate the covid lab leak theory y is seen in pushing back on this which has a major incentive to cover up the worst pandemic of recent memory, guess who cnn is blaming we are following this sna hearing today but it's what the senators did not drill into that you don't want toar hear about that can ht your wallet. were gonna bring you the story more on the three former top obama officials now pushing back and criticizing

you know we found footage, you know the doctor at echo health alliance that got money from the nih andurned around the wuhan lab's research. dr. peter dash schick. throwing cold water on the lab leak theory. he is saying that is not true. he admits in tape we're about to show that yes, he has been researching researching the viruses inside of china for six to seven years and he worked with the wuhan lab to spike viruses to make a man-made lab-generated virus not seen in nature. congressman, let's take a listen to this. i want your reaction on the other side of it. watch this. >> we focused on sars coronavirus emerged from a wildlife market and was the first pandemic of this century. so it was a big event. so we started to trace back from the wildlife market which species carried the virus that came into those markets. we found it was bats, not -- which was original idea. we looked where did they come from. we went to southern china, surveillance of bats across southern china. we found after six or seven years of doing this over 100 new sars-related coronaviruses, very close to sars. el

people talking 600,000 over five years came out of the niaid through echo health alliance through chinas time to open the books, and are you going to say open the books of nihaid, dr. fauci and will congress do that? >> the transparency needs to be there. here is the other type of research being done on what is a very potent pathogen was there the proper security lab in this country, we have the cell four labs are intense security to make sure biological threats do not accidentally get out into the public and was that same type of care taken in the, in the lab in wuhan and do this day i don't know the answer to that question. elizabeth: why farm out this kind of frankenstein research to a dangerous lab whose own top scientist said it was sloppy in substandard in safety, after the wuhan outbreak, a general from the peoples liberation army had to step in and take it over? let's watch dr. fauci's rhetoric. watch this. >> do you still support sending money to the wuhan virology institute. >> we do not send money to would you hand. >> do you support sending money? under your tuttle landing t

it funded a nonprofit group called echo health alliance which then funneled the money into the gain ofunction research in wuhan. strangely enough, the president of that nonprofit was a part of the w.h.o.'s investigation into the origins of the virus. his conclusion, china said they didn't do it and they are trust one way or the other, right? >> we met with them and said do you audit the lab? they said annually. did you audit it after the outbreak? no. do you test your staff? yes. >> you are just taking their word for it. >> well, what else can we do? >> brian: peter daszak. make a very public stink about it. china is not helping. they are covering things up. of course, if you are the guy who helped fund the program that started the pandemic, you got a lot to lose. that explains why dan zak claimed this covid emerged naturally and didn't come from the lab they worked. in why dr. fauci is adam matted that the nih money wasn't used to study gain of research in wuhan. how would it look if the face of the pandemic response accidently created the pandemic or played a role. the only way we wi

wuhan, and the money is still going to this wuhan virology lab from exactly the placeyou echo health allianceure lift the pause and nobody tells president trump they are lifting the pause. >> there is i think two key questions one was again of function research dr. fauci told senator paul wasn't it others say that it was this kind of research was in fact going on in wuhan lab in china, that is the first key question the second is if it was, how does this review process work the truth is we don't know anyone who sits on this board if you are going to do research and pay for it supposed to go through this -- review board how does it work how many projects we don't know anything about this process, again, it if it happened dangerous kind of research with american tax dollars, those are questions dr. fauci should answer. i think this is what senator paul was trying to get at a few weeks ago i would with love to have dr. fauci back in front of the select can he where we get a chance to him these questions. >> final question i want to move to other issues the agenda so incredibly radical we have to

is the executive vice president for health and policy at eco health alliance that's a global nonprofit organization dealing with scientific research into the connections between humans animals and environmental health it's good to have you on the program this story had people in the newsroom interested and excited there was a combination of vaccine talk about vaccines and meows going on but before we talk about that i want to ask you about the corona virus is there an agreement among scientists and researchers that the virus that causes a scene that it originated in or in animals in a wild animal. well it's most likely is all the closest cousins of the corona virus have been found and that is quite a few of them really hundreds of related corona viruses and a large group really related to cope at 19 that is found normally and bat so whether or not that happened in the last year or that was several years ago when it became established 'd in humans or maybe it got into some other type of animal and then into humans i'm all the evidence points to that if a vaccine has been produced for an

suspense he probably does not because he did not directly funds extrude an organization in new york health alliance and it's not clear how holland has total everything it knows about who. it is due to the end i hate now yet as a sense that confrontation on tuesday senator paul is come out and i want to ask you about what gain of function research means found he denies that he and his department that he runs had funded that in one hand but but since then and i wish he would have confronted with it right there but he went on t.v. i sen paul and said here's the proof they did fund that kind of research so tell us what that that that kind of research actually means and do you believe that it was funded by found his department. to function simply means you know you take the natural virus and you make it more insects it's to humans might just be engineering . and the reason the rationale for doing this is if you can get a step or 2 ahead of what an issue is going to do or ensure then you'll be better prepared to projects and prevent and demi. has to. yes it's not just the station that this kind of resear

a deputy director with the nih wrote to echo health alliance asking them to stop this research, sayings happening in this wuhan lab. neil? neil: all right hillary vaughn thank you very much but now, to hillary's point you need the chinese to cooperate on such an investigation, and let's just say they are not cooperating, and they don't think that this is even necessary, that this is just united states trying to embarrass them, congressman mike gallagher, the republican congressman with us right now. congressman, we really can't move forward unless, and until, the chinese say we can. the world can. the world health organization can, and they're not. then what? >> well, i believe we can move forward, and we shouldn't pin our hopes as the biden administration seems to be doing on a transparent investigation coming from the w. h. o. they have failed to conduct a transparent investigation in part because its been corrupted by the chinese communist party so what we can do in the absence of w. h. o. or ccp cooperation is declassify all of the related intelligence. at anthony blinken do is put

suspense he probably does not because he did not directly from 6 through an organization in new york health alliance and not alcohol and has todo everything it knows about who. it is due to the end i have now a sense that confrontation on tuesday senator paul is come out and i want to ask you about what gain of function research means he denies that he and his department that he runs had funded that in one hand but but since then and i wish he would have confronted with it right there but he went on t.v. i sen paul and said here's the proof they did fund that kind of research so tell us what that that that kind of research actually means and do you believe that it was funded by found his department. again function simply means you take a natural virus and you make it more instructive to humans by genetic engineering. and the reason the rationale for doing this is if you can get a step or 2 ahead of a one issues game to do the injury then you will be better prepared to critics and prevent and demi. asked to. yes it's not just position that this kind of research did not take place at through an instit

that tony fauci had authorized payment for the research, for five years from 2014 to 2019 the health alliancen by a man you may recognize, and he contracted with a doctor who conducted gain of function experiments of the lab. just before it became public knowledge on december 9th 2019, he sat for an interview streamed online. in the interview, he bragged about how easy it is to manipulate coronaviruses in the lab experiments. >> coronavirus, you know all this stuff, but you can manipulate them in the lab and it's smart protein draws the world of what happens in the coronavirus. you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we did. you can do some work in the lab. >> tucker: so, just days after that was shot it became clear that this new version of the coronavirus, the novel coronavirus, now covid-19, was running rampant through wuhan and then china, then the world. since the pandemic began, not surprisingly he appeared on virtually every media platform available to deny in the most strenuous and dismissive terms the wuhan lab could be in any way linked to the outbreak, since he has

. >> the eco-health alliance was -- here is what journalist wade wrote about fauci and others involved in filling that money to wuhan, for the first 3 years of the grant there was a moratorium on funding, why didn't the two agencies therefore halt the federal funding? someone wrote a loophole into the moratorium, doctor anthony fauci or doctor francis collins or both would have invoked the footnote in order to keep the money flowing. this is serious. we've got all these people dead, all these horrible restrictions on american life that left enormous suffering, don't we deserve an answer? >> we deserve answers and tony fauci needs to give us answers, he has been wrong about a lot, masks, schools, now he's wrong about summer camps for kids and he's also wrong today to say directly or indirectly funded this kind of research, the report you mentioned by nicholas wade i recommend to all your audience to read it, anthony fauci and his agency need to provide answers to the american people what role they may have played in funding research in these laboratories, perhaps it wasn't directly what

taxpayer dollars, granted by his organization, went to something called the eagle health alliance which funded making coronavirus more infectious at the wuhan institute of virology. we need to follow the money to understand whether our taxpayer dollars were funding the very research that may have started this entire thing. and in exchange with senator paul dr. fauci at best hid behind a very narrow and legalistic view. i believe is not being fully forthcoming in my own open-source analysis of the matter of the week i have found multiple funding streams from the u.s. federal government including dod, through darpa, the sensory reduction agency like the eco-health alliance funding this research. the only american allowed on the w.h.o. team was none other than peter -- sick. the one human being in the world who had the biggest conflict of interest. this whole thing stinks. we need a new transparent, independent investigation and the biden administration living up to w.h.o. was unacceptable. jen psaki said that they could not confirm the latest "wall street journal" report. that's a lie. we

is the executive vice president for health and policy at eco health alliance that's a global nonprofit organization dealing with scientific research into the connections between humans animals and environmental it's good to have you on the program this story had people in the news room interested and excited there was a combination of back seeing talk about vaccines and meows going on but before we talk about that i want to ask you about the corona virus is there an agreement among scientists and researchers that the virus that causes a scene that it originated in animals in a wild animal. well it's most likely is all the closest cousins of the corona virus have been found and that is quite a few of them really hundreds of related corona viruses and a large group really related to cope at 19 that is found normally and bat so whether or not that happened in the last year or that was several years ago when it became established in humans or maybe it got into some other type of animal and then into humans all the evidence points to that if a vaccine has been produced for animals i mean th

. >> looked, the chinese were definitely doing that, and equal health alliance and peter drazic havef questions to answer, and i think you are right, i think fauci does have questions to answer about this but again, i want to point out the institute he ran had a multibillion-dollar budget, and he and a lot spent on aids research and ebola research and other research. when he says he was not entirely sure with the chinese are doing there, i tend to believe him. here is my biggest problem with tony fauci, okay? when you look back at the statements tony fauci has made over the last 20 years, they are astonishing. he is deeply, deeply in love with himself and he wanted to curing it and get credit for curing it, and it did not happen, for being the guy who is a stop the hiv crisis. corona comes along and he is going to be the guy who saves corona and does it with vaccines. there are two good drugs that have come out in the last year that have actually helped people with coronavirus. one is dexamethasone, and injectable steroid, that came out of a british trial, and the other antibodies th

. >> laura: yeah, that eco-health alliance.ence journalist nicholas wade wrote about fetchet and others involved. for the first three is, of the grant, there was a moratorium on funding and gain of function research. what did the two agencies halt -- didn't the two agencies called? both would have invoked the footnote in order to keep the money flowing. senator cotton this is serious. -- senator, this is serious. we have all of these horrible restrictions on american lives that have left enormous suffering. don't we deserve an answer? >> we do deserve answers, laura. and tony fauci it to give us answers. he has been wrong about masks and schools. but he is also wrong today to say that the nih did not fund this kind of research. it was mentioned by nicholas wade. tony fauci and the -- and his agency need answers to the american people about what role they may have played funding research is laboratories. perhaps it was not directly into what ultimately resulted in this worldwide pandemic. but why in the first place what american

peter daszak you said the president of the echo health alliance of new york he got a grant from infectiousartment. he used a grant to fund some of the research at the wuhan lab. well let me ask you this, mr. wade, dan ac there's a publication called what did they wind up doing in turn when the pandemic first broke out? >> when it first broke out, there were two very reasonable scenarios for the origin of ours one jump naturally from animals other it could have escaped from lab after in middle of wuhan is through virology as we've said. but right from the beginning, public perception favored natural emergence over lab escape and that perception was very much shaped by a letter that appeared in the lansit and conspiracy theory and the way this emerged we should all stand shoulder to shoulder with our chinese colleagues on the forefront of the disease. now, this letter it later turned out had been drafted and organized by dr. daszak who, of course, if the virus have indeed escaped from wuhan lab he might personal will perceived as -- as being at fault for not overseeing it better so he had a

we know fauci's organization funneled us taxpayer money to the health alliance run by doctor peter desert built his career and reputation on doing research including gain of function institute with the wuhan institute of virology and is the only american allowed on the who investigative team. the one person the world with the biggest conflict of interest, the one person we allowed to investigate the institute of virology. that is absolutely insane. to say we have hope the who will investigate this in a more transparent manner, that is an acceptable. we cannot rely on the who which has been corrupted by the chinese communist party to get to the bottom of this as we have to do an independent investigation, get the intel declassified and the intel community was corrupted by the same scientists they are relying upon in april of 2020 and said the intel community agrees with the scientific consensus that it was a natural immersion, not a lab leak and i guarantee you -- >> what do we get for all this money we give to the intel communities. we are funding a woke military right now that is doing c

fully forthcoming and we know for the fact that fauci's organization funneled money to the eco-health alliancedr. peter danzig, he built his income. career on gain of function research with the wuhan institute of virology. he's the only american that was allowed on the w.h.o. investigative team, the one person in the world who has the biggest conflict of interest in the one person we allowed to investigate the wuhan institute of virology. that's insane and for him to go out there and say that we have hope that the w.h.o. is going to investigate and the more transparent answer, but that's unacceptable. we can't rely on the w.h.o. corrupted by the chinese communist party to get to the bottom of this. independent investigation, do all the intel declassified and final thing i say it's the community corrupted by the same scientists that we are relying upon in april. 2020, the dni went out there and said the intel community agrees as our natural emergence and i guarantee. >> laura: i've got to ask you, what do we get for all the money that we give to the intel community? we are funding a woke milita

and access has been denied. >> nih with a nonprofit eco-health alliance was not only funding researchdr. ralph barrick who did a gain of function research prior to the u.s. government moratorium on the research. dr. barrick showed his result in 2014 with china's that lady. dr. sheedy denies conducting gain of function research which makes the virus more avirulent and shows how it can move from animals to human beings, and dr. fauci denies funding gain of function research at the wuhan lab, but more and more experts are wanting to know whether covid-19 came from a lab accident. >> john: at those are being increased asked on an increasing basis. i'm >> sandra: not to the crippling top cyber attack on our nation's biggest fuel pipeline, calls for action from the by the white house and that panic taking hold as millions of americans are still struggling to fill up their gas tanks. >> john: and columbia pike want to make pipelines in each market should be receiving gas by midday today but even if the fuel is flowing analysts say it could take days, maybe even a couple of weeks for things t

communist join me in recognizing endorsing universities and hs trust and sector due together with health science alliance and health initiative that will take us forward from jobs. >> prime minister. >> yes mr. speaker i thank great advocate as part of our plan to move from jabs, jabs to jobs, jobs i'm delighted to say there were a billion pounds of worth of government innovation project taking place across the northwest thanks large and least this part to her advocacy. >> let's go to leader of s&p in -- >> can i thank the prime minister for comments on the murphy inquest -- mr. speaker, as a member of scotland community understand just how disastrous brexit with australia caused by this government be for scotland and sectors. and reports that this will lose livelihood, and businesses will come out and ultimately families will be living off the land and let's be very clear if that happens, does u.k. 20 government will be fully responsible. so just for once, prime minister, to these families were living with this today. can the prime minister categorically that his government is prepared to sign up for a

fauci would've approved it looks like he allowed money to geton equal health alliance and they fundedion but what purpose making a pandemic virus, it's hard to see why. elizabeth: got it, congressman andy biggs, thank you for joining us. former dhs acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli on this omission the acting border patrol chief coming clean does the binder administration is doing catch and release as a border crosses because authorities are overwhelmed. we have the story next. ♪ obsession has many names, this is ours. the lexus is. all in on the sports sedan. lease the 2021 is 300 for $369 a month for 36 months. experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ow! front desk. yes, hello... i'm so... please hold. ♪♪ i got you. ♪ all by yourself. ♪ go with us and get millions of flexible booking options. expedia. it matters who you travel with. these are the people who work on the front lines. they need a network that's built right. that's why we created verizon frontline. the advanced network and technology for first responders. built on america's most reliable network. built f

that funding was about $17 million was directed to echo health alliance, and rather than $600,000, much of that was sent to the wuhan lab. can you account for the 17 million that was allocated to echo lab and speak to the disparity in the amount you are discussing, dr. fauci? dr. fauci: congressman cline, it is absolutely correct, about $800,000 was allocated and about $600,000 was spent over a five-year period. no more than that. that comes anywhere between 125 and $150,000 per year, then went into collaboration with wuhan. so the hundreds of thousands as opposed to the millions is correct. the millions number is incorrect. i don't know the exact amount that went to eco-health, but we would be help you to get you that precise number. rep. cline: i see it now. 13.7 million was allocated to eco-health, 17 tracks by nia, providing awards for the research of bile emergence in bats in southeast asia. some of its funding too, the wuhan lab and 2020 nih made efforts to obtain information about wuhan lab related to concerns about the origins of covid-19. it says, in europe, in your letter to e

house republicans launched an investigation into a federal grant to echo health alliance which awardedo study the coronavirus in bats in the early 2000s. they want to know whether the lab was conducting research outside the grant that could make a virus deadlier. two bipartisan bills were introduced in the house this morning. the first it would strip china of sovereign immunity. that would allow families to sue the chinese government for damages that is same later to actions taken about saudi arabia against 9-11 and review the actions of the world health organization. the second bill would establish a bipartisan commission modeled after the 9-11 commission that would focus on covid origins response. the goals were mirrored in the health and human services and dod budget requests which were also released today. meantime, another effort to establish a 9-11 style commission failed on capitol hill today after senate republicans blocked a bill that would investigate the january 6th insurrection. president biden is committed to a full and independent probe. neil? >> thanks, jackie. have a wo

minor collaboration for what was going onan with funding in the wuhan lab, 1.1 million the echo health alliance but were looking at the broad context of what the nih and dr. fauci nih agency doing. >> i think that's a greatk question and is quite clear if you look at the documents the nih or the united states taxpayer has been funding research within the wuhan, china mob, woody's trying to do is sidestep so people don't investigate. elizabeth: he is saying, talk about the wuhan lab, china accredited its own lab at the biosafety level for, china itself gave the level to the wuhan lab, what needs to be debated, open the books, show us some money, show us where the money went and talk about how dangerous virus like smallpox and sars house escape from viruses and laboratories, show us what the u.s. is funding, that is it. >> we need transparency here when it comes to covid we need transparency and where the u.s. money went, how that affected, we have 3 million people die from covid and there has been very little transparency about the origins, we don't know definitively that it came from the wuhan

fauci would've approved it looks like he allowed equal health alliance and they funnel money to the wuhanpotential pandemic virus it's hard to see why. elizabeth: got it, congressman andy biggs, think for joining us, just ahead former dhs acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli on this stunning admission acting border patrol chief coming clean that the biden administration is doing catch and release of illegal border crossers because the border authorities are really overwhelmed, we got that story next. ♪ x it? ten-x is the world's largest online commercial real estate exchange. you can close with more certainty. and twice as fast. if i could, i'd ten-x everything. like a coffee run... or fedora shopping. talk to your broker. ten-x does the same thing, - but with buildings. - so no more waiting. sfx: ding! see how easy...? don't just sell it. ten-x it. i order my groceries online now. shingles doesn't care. i keep my social distance. shingles doesn't care. i stay within my family bubble. shingles doesn't care. because if you've had chicken pox, you're already carrying the virus that causes

answer and as of this date is still pending but a a valid question s nih been funding with a health alliancet's a valid question needs to be asked we need to understand how we became a problem and we don't ever wanted to happen again and it will help us in our understanding of how to get through this episode. liz: the thing is 3 million people are now dead 600,000 dead in the u.s. from the coronavirus nicholas wade who did write for the new york times he's reporting the nih did band using taxpayer money to support he said there's a major loophole letting u.s. money go to research thatil would protect public health and national security you could drive a mack truck through the loophole, people keep talking about 600,000 over five years that came out of the mia d to china and itsh small stuff, we don't know how much money went there is a time to open the books are you going to say open t the boos nih, tell us really will happen, are you going to do that. >> the transparency needs to be there and here's the other part of the issue is that type of research being done on a potent pathogen was the

the wuhan institute of virology but there was but it was laundered by a company called eagle health allianceies it was only american on the w.h.o., that money $1.5 million went to the wuhan institute of her obligee and it was used in the gain of function testing. were gonna find that out, that is going to be the truth, there is aut lot of circumstantial evidence. open the books and let us eat. liz: openokok the books. >> we already know there's a big problem, it indicated this is going on this virus has never been identified in the wild there's not organism or animal that we know this by wrist existing we know when this happened remembers in november before the chinese declared that the first case of the virus was taking place in chinait was hospitalized with symptoms that were consistent for coronavirus, we also know that they shut roads down of the wuhan institute of virology in a period of time that there wasabo scell phone activity, a lot of strange stuff was happening around the time that this virus would've broke out. i figure a lot of circumstantial evidence that it came from the slab

the echo health alliance hired the wuhan lab to look into dangerous superviruses.ut we're looking at the broad context what was the nih and fauci's niad agency was doing for isn't. >> i think that's a great question and it is quite clear if you look at the documents, that the nih or the united states taxpayer has been at times funding research within the wuhan china lab. i think what he is trying to do here is sort of sidestep so the people don't investigate it. elizabeth: you know, ford he is saying, yeah, talking about the wuhan lab, the point is china accredited its own lab as a biosafety level four. china itself gave that level to the wuhan lab. what needs to be debated is, open the books, show us the money, show us where the money went, and talk about how dangerous viruses like smallpox and sars have escaped from viruses. from laboratories, right? show us what the u.s. is funding. that's it. elizabeth: look, you're absolutely -- >> you're absolutely right. we need transparency when it comes to covid. we need transpare currency when where the u.s. money went. w

institute of virology through the ecogroup health alliance. they gave $600,000 of it to the wuhan lab for a china bat research project. the project helped build a library of 15,000 bat samples, 400 new coronaviruses were discovered from those and lawmakers today wanted to know if the wuhan lab could have been using this bat library of viruses to try to engineer one of them to be more dangerous and more contagious, something called gain of function research. but the nih director today told lawmakers their grant did not fund that. but he doesn't know what else the lab was up to. it was those concerns that prompted grant money to be frozen, that ecohealth alliance was rewarded. nih last year over concerns what may have been going on in the wuhan lab wrote to ecohealth alliance in july saying this, the nih received reports that the wuhan institute of virology has been conducting research at its facilities in china pose serious biosafety concerns. we have concerns that wiv has not satisfied safety requirements under the award and ecohealth alliance

maria: yeah, by the the way, the nonprofit was the eco health alliance run by peter who by the way trieditter that it's likely that it came from the lab, he's one of the people involved and he was on the wu team -- the who team, rather. congressman: we don't have accounting for all the money. i'm sure a lot of the money was being used for good research. should somebody like this allocating the money should be invested for the origins of the virus. not sure that would be appropriate. maria: one more question here. when the pause was lifted, was this done through a back door? did president trump understand that they were lifting the pause on the research in the united states? congressman: we don't know that. we don't know what type of research is being done at this point and those are some of the questions that we are asking that need to be answered, what is being done in the united states. maria: okay, and you are also asking why he's allowing this waiver for intellectual property, the vaccine makers spent a decade and time and money coming up with a vaccine because of warp speed and they

what i'm saying is the wuhan lab was doing work with usaid, eco health health alliance, homeland securitycience foundation, et cetera, et cetera, tens of millions of dollars of contracts to work with risky viruss to see what's what, and all of those documents could tell us something about what the wuhan labs might have been working on. that's not to say we funded the research that caused the pandemic. that is to say we know a lot about the labs that we're not saying that the administration hasn't revealed and also the intelligence that went into that statement which says the "wall street journal" reports the researchers went to the hospital in november 2019, there's a whole body of intelligence that the biden administration is sitting on that the state department has in its files that they won't reveal for some reason. what you're seeing is increasing calls, mostly republicans, but it's starting to be democrats, too, including what's going through the senate for the state department to release all of that information so we can see what's what, so we can see how much we actually know about

president of the eco-health alliance. but now, we have to ask whether he had skin in the game.vating that answer. how so? his organization funded coronavirus research at the wuhan institute of virology. and he was, also, part of the w.h.o. team sent to china to investigate the origins. so, let's now go to one of the first people to connect the dots on the lab-leak theory. that is, jamie metzel, former nsc staffer under president clinton. jamie, thank you. let us start with the most flagrant of the notions and work our way towards where you think we are best suited, in this moment. they did it. they weaponized it. and they did it to hurt us. and then, they sent it to us. do you believe that? >> yeah. i think that's extremely unlikely. as you've mentioned, i have been -- i was one of the worst people to raise very, very significant questions about the origins of the pandemic. and the likelihood, even as i see it, that this stems from a lab accident. but the idea that they weaponized it, and purposefully released it just doesn't make sense. i've seen no -- even circumstantial -- e

fauci would've approved it looks like he allowed equal health alliance and they funnel money to the wuhanpose can you have for making a potential pandemic virus it's hard to see why. elizabeth: got it, congressman andy biggs, think for joining us, just ahead former dhs acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli on this stunning admission acting border patrol chief coming clean that the biden administration is doing catch and release of illegal border crossers because the border authorities are really authorities are really overwhelmed, we got that story ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... the world's first six-function multipro tailgate. available on the gmc sierra. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance the world's first six-function multipro tailgate. so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ what makes new salonpas art

we know through the echo health alliance which is sort of a proxy for the wuhan lab that we've indirectlyded this lab with united states money. we know china is developing biological weapons, we know they've been involved in working with covid-19, covid viruses, you know, for years, and now this is being revealed by intelligence. it's time for the chinese to come forward and admit what happened and tell us the truth. we shouldn't have to do an investigation. they should come clean, you know, with the world health organization and all off us. elizabeth: the u.s. agency for international development also is said to have funded this research as well. should dr. fauci and the cdc, hhs, should everybody open the books and give a full accounting, show all the records? >> absolutely. i think the american people have a right to know. this t virus kill over half a million people just in the united states alone, and it has shut down our economy, shut down businesses, it's been a tragedy, and china needs to be held accountable. i'd like too see the transparency. i think it'se time now to put those r

even as the world health alliance meets right now, they're not even thinking about this question.t? one of the scientists joining the push for answers is my next guest, akiko iwasaki. it's good to have you. professor of immunology at yale. i can't even say it. so we need to know why, why not? if we want to find out, what are the real questions to ask? >> right. so we still don't have a clear answer as to where the virus originated, whether it was a natural transformation from an animal or a lab leak. the w.h.o. did conduct an investigation into the origin of this virus and released a report at the end of march. however, the report did not contain enough data to conclude one way or the other. that is why we need to have further investigation of the origin of the virus so we can prevent future pandemics from happening. >> do you believe it is knowable whether -- discoverable whether this was from animal intermediary, from bat to something else to us or from a lab accident? >> yes. we believe it is a knowable fact. we just need the data. we need to be able to have access to the data

listen to the head of the non-profit echo health alliance, dr. peter daszak.yeah we were researching coronaviruses in china for seven years. we have man made superviruses and you you have to take china's word for it what happened. watch this. >> we went out to southern china and did surveillance of bats across southern china. we now found after six or seven years of doing this over 100 new sars-related coronaviruses, very close to sars. you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus. >> yeah. >> see zoonotic risk. we can get the protein. worked with ralph barrick at unc to do this. >> right. >> do some work in the labs. we met with him, did you audit the lab? annually? dud you audit after the outbreak? yes. was anything found? no. >> taking their word for it? >> what else can we do. there is limit what we can do, we went right up to the limit. elizabeth: there is a lot of money to be made in vaccine research, right? >> that's right. that's right. there is a lot of money to be made period. you n

she said it was meant to create super viruses more than a million bucks went to wuhan, the echo health alliancering from dr. fauci and testimony. >> is equivocation at best for possiblele theories that's what all the data looks like, everyone whose objective, unfortunately that does not include the world health organization, we have some systemic problems, frankly that is exactly what president eisenhower cautioned in his farewell address, everyone is aware of the complex he also against the scientific elite putting their own interest to have a national interest and i really fear that is what dr. fauci has done for this past year end prickly for a long career. elizabeth: dr. fauci supported creating in the lab super viruses against vaccines, this is after the sars virus broke out in the early 2000, smallpox virus and sars has repeatedly broke out a rebel tories by accident, that is not going on in congressman i want to response to this, dr. fauci told the wall street journal that it is impossible to account for all of wuhan labs activities or how china spends u.s. money on this, he is lying in

we know through the echo health alliance, a proxy for the wuhan lab we indirectly funded this lab withted states money. we know china is developing biological weapons. we know they have been involved working with covid-19 or covid viruses, you know, for years, now this is being revealed by intelligence. it us time for the chinese to come forward to admit what happened, tell us the truth. we shouldn't have to have an investigation. they should come clean with the world health organization and all of us. elizabeth: the u.s. agency for international development said to funded this research as well. should dr. fauci, cdc, hhs, should everybody open all the books, give a full accounting, show all the records? >> absolutely of the american people have the right to know this virus killed half a million people in the united states alone. it has shut down our economy. shut down our businesses. it has been a tragedy and china need to be held accountable. i would like to see it. i would like to see the transparency. i think it is time to put those records out. elizabeth: devin nunes and house int