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in a moment, the ranking member, james comer joins us. serrie. >> the national institutes of health has ordered one of its grant recipients, a nonprofit called eco health alliance to submit any unpublished data regarding experiments that eco health funded at a laboratory in wuhan, china. in that experiment in question, lab might mod fight to mimic the human immune system became sicker when exposed to a certain virus pound in bats. the nih says this was an unexpected result, not something the researchers sat out to do. senator rand paul and other critics insist this amounts to gain of function research where you genetically enhance an organism. nih officials say it's not. either way, it raises questions about activities at the lab. >> the real question in my mind is not whether it was or wasn't gain of function. it's what was it. what was funded, what was happening in the wuhan lab. that's what we need to get to the bottom of. >> the nih issued a statement explaining the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied under the nih grant are

dagen: james comer, senator burn burn and ws marsha blackburn, bill mcgurn. tough questions and angry exchanges with senators over his memo aiming doj power at concerned parents. pressed on the border crisis, crime the durham report and more. there were calls for his resignation. we'll talk with a senator from that hearing. the supply chain crisis hitting the economy and impacting the holidays. estimated $24 billion in goods stuck off the coast of los angeles. americans already experiencing rising prices and empty shelves. plus the vaccine mandates could force more people to leave their jobs and create a health care crisis as well as impact to the holiday travel. then the chaotic afghan withdrawal. the pentagon confirms more left behind. nearly 450 americans trapped in afghanistan. a look at why this number keeps changing and what is being done to bring them home. the border crisis. republicans sending a letter of accusing the biden administration tying the hands of border patrol agents calling new i.c.e. rules affront to rule of law as tens of thousands of m

in the new letter to republican congressman james comer, and the nih official admitted the truth thatnt was conducted at the wuhan lab backed by u.s. funding "to test if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in china were capable of binding to the human receptor in a mouse model." h that would be by its very definition a gain-of-function research. now trying to damage control claiming that the eagle health alliance, who they gave the grant to, and receive your tax dollars, subcontracted with the wuhan lab. respond on twitter, i told you so doesn't begin to cover it here. dr. paul was right, flip-flop fauci wass wrong and appears to have lied repeatedly including ig congress. you might remember this. >> dr. pal tree, knowing that it's a crime to lie to congress, never funded gain of research in wuhan? speak with microphone is off. >> senator paul, i've never lied before congress and i do not retract that statement. the animal virus and -- you say that's not gain of function? at>> senator paul, you do not kw what you are talking about right frankly and i

energy commodities, coal, our commodities editor, andrew james comer is with me. martin, let me bring it to you first of all because what we have here is an oil market on fire. everyone is saying it is switching from gas into oil but there is more to it than that. about $100 and 80's be with a much bigger cyclical shift. what do you make of it? martin: that's right, and energy seems to be running short. in china, we have seen coal futures hit record highs, so jumping 11% to a record high. that is because of the recent shortages of the fuel compounded by fears about the flood in a major call -- coal hub. the latest news is those floods are not causing the harm we thought they were. the damage is receiving a bit. that still leaves china, even if that is not an issue, with a big headache in terms of getting energy supplies to carry it through the high demand season in the winter. that means importing fuel, producing more coal, and all of those add to the upward pressures on global energy markets. dani: andrew, i am back. my sound is back. let's bring you into the con

we have the letter to james comer where the nih admitted they funded dangerous research at wuhan labto account? >> next time before he comes into congress, him or dr. collins will both have to answer why they told congress there was no gain of function research going on. we never funded it. none of our funds ever flowed to it. we found out the wuhan institute of virology was conducting dangerous gain of function research. we were funding the research enterprise even if not the particular project. elizabeth: "the washington post" had reported that dr. fauci and nih come up with their own definitions of what is supervirus gain of function research. they are saying you know, this research they claim in this letter wasn't shown to be supervirus research because they didn't prove that the coronavirus could infect humans. all right, is that really the low standard there, low threshold there, you coin prove it just yet, really, that's good enough? >> it is interesting, that the letter said although it was kind of recognized this research could result in a bad out come they left it to the wu

pipeline and rejecting democrats comparison to the big tobacco hearings from 1994 here's congressman james comeroncerns about the legitimacy of democrats so-called investigation of america's oil and gas companies. this hearing is simply a distraction from the crises the biden administration's policies have caused for the american people >> today's marathon hearing lasting more than six hours as democrats tried to use the spotlight to get the executives to make new promises, to reduce their production to fossil fuels and stop lobbying against policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the ceos standing firm, making no real new commitments while arguing they're already doing their part through technology. and some fairly small clean energy investments to fight climate change kelly? >> josh letterman tonight, thanks >>> last night we reported on the rising number of stolen cars in the united states tonight we're focusing on where some of those cars are ending up after their swiped off the street andrea day with officials on what they're doing to cut down on the crime >> right here i'm going to sa