>> metzl: pretty much that... >> stahl: whoa. >> metzl: ...was it.retty much that was it. imagine if we have asked the soviet union to do a co- investigation of chernobyl. it doesn't really make sense. >> stahl: china had ruled out a lab accident long before the w.h.o. team arrived at the airport in wuhan on january 14 and were greeted by people in full p.p.e. gear. the team included some of the world's leading experts on how viruses are transmitted from animals to humans, but even though there have been accidental lab leaks of viruses in china in the past that have infected people and killed at least one, no one on the team was trained in how to formally investigate a lab leak.e r a ss n, but two of those weeks re snt holp tel in qraey h some tense exchanges with their counterparts, a team of chinese experts, over their refusal to provide raw data. >> reporter: are you getting the access you need? >> stahl: if the virus originated in animals, one of the mysteries has been: how did it travel the thousand miles from the bat caves in southern china to

jamie metzl served in the clinton administration and then the w.h.o.committee can't be described as a right winger. but the report was just too much for jamie metzl and he said so. >> i wouldn't really call what's happened now an investigation. it's essentially a highly chaperoned, highly curated study tour. everybody around the world is imagining this is some kind of full investigation. it's not. this group of experts only saw what the chinese government wanted them to see. it was agreed first that china would have veto power over who even got to be on the mission, secondly,. >> and w.h.o. agreed to that? >> w.h.o. agreed to that. imagine if we had asked the soviet union to do a co-investigation of chernobyl. it doesn't really make sense. >> tucker: so why are so many people in positions of authority, including the so-called scientific community so adamant that there is nothing to see here? well, here is one suggestion. last year richard ebright, who is a microbiologist at rutgers sat for an interview at boston magazine. he explained why the scientifi

jonathan metzle.n laws in missouri and what happened when missouri loosened their gun laws. let me just read you this one thing that he wrote. he said, "in 2015, white men comprised roughly 40% of the population of missouri but were victims of nearly 80% of gun suicides." that's in missouri. in documenting what happened when they loosened their gun laws. and so i think something needs to be done to limit the number of guns in people's hands, but also, limit the number of guns, to david's point, that are awash in the country. >> woodruff: do something-- everybody agrees, or a lot of people agree we need to do something, david. but as we heard president biden say yesterday, or suggest, you know, the likelihood that something is going to happen quickly, there's going to be some agreement, the chances of that are almost vanishingly small. >> before i get to, that i just want to emphasize, though mental health is a problem for some people who commit gun violence, most people who suffer from mental health i

jamie metzl says beijing also vetoed participants. on the mission.he drafted an open letter, signed by 2 dozen experts, calling for a new international inquiry into china. it wasn't an investigation at all. a 2 week study tour with very limited access to records samples and personnel is not an entire waste of time, but it's not even remotely close to the kind of. busy an unrestricted, international forensic investigation which we need. the u.s. and other countries have signed joint statement raising concerns about the report. w.h.o. directed general at 100 gay priest has issued his strongest criticism of china to date. same group, difficult to access and will hand ladley theory required more extensive assessment . the w.h.o. says they never expected the mission to produce a definitive answer about the origin of carbon 19. and the 2nd phase of research is required. but as international criticism builds of the chinese role in the study, they may find a new one comes increasingly like this moment in the market walked off in between al-jazeera, a russian

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jamie metzl was on "60 minutes," adviser, former clinton adviser and also somebody who is an adviser the w.h.o. brought through in a dog and pony show through -- for the wuhan lab and try to find out how this pandemic started well, here is what jamie said last night. >> i wouldn't really call what's happened now an investigation. it's essentially a highly chaperoned, highly curated study tour. this grouch experts only saw what the chinese government wanted them to see. brian: dr. fauci had a chance to respond to that. and he punted. oh the w.h.o. in china we still don't know where it started. why wouldn't he be more incensed than anyone that we don't have the origins of this virus? >> well, he should be, brian. as you know, the nih was involved with research going on in the wuhan institute of virology. and i have a question. which is this. it's a question dr. redfield was asking on that show, which is okay, maybe it started in a bat cave in southern china and maybe it was in a coronavirus there. but how did it get to wuhan? well, guess what? the wuhan institute of virology studies ba

adviser and former national security council jamie metzl joins us now.your information, if so? >> thanks, brian. i have read the full report, and i think we should be very upset about this process. it is entirely inadequate. they have done a thorough job of investigating the first hypothesis that you mentioned that it jumped from bats to other animals to humans and that's possible. they entirely discounted without any significant inquiry the very likely possibility that covid-19 began from an accidental lab leak. brian: why? why wouldn't they look at all scenarios? what else are they doing? why pursue one hypothesis? >> it's really outrageous, the problem is ultimately structural. this isn't the w.h.o. issuing the report. it's a joint report of a study between an independent advisory committee appointed by the w.h.o. and their chinese government counterparts. and the chinese government was never going to sign off on this possibility. that's why in my view, this entire study process was flawed from the start. and i think we need to really start over. bria