stephen mosher joins us. thank you so much for coming on.his is one of those topics no one wants to touch, but because we don't actually know where it came from in point of fact, it is worth exploring all potential explanations. tell us why you think it is possible this virus escaped from a lab. >> well my think it escaped from a lab because we have the chinese government basically telling us that it did. let me be specific on the 14th, president she ping held a meeting and he talked about the need with lab safety at biologil research laboratories. if that was not clear enough, the following day, the very next day, the ministry of science and technology produced a long document entitled "restrictions on strengthening vital security management and microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus." like the novel coronavirus, they are strengthening the handling of dangerous pathogens and viruses in the middle of an epidemic, which suggest what? that they mishandled the virus that they were experimenting on in their lab

we also reached out to mosher m not heard back. in san francisco, kpix 5. >>> at san francisco city hall, the mayor's relationship with it disgraced former publics works director is under scrutiny tonight. veronica de la cruz? >> reporter: she had a prior romantic relationship and received a gift from mohammad nuru, who is at the center of an fbi corruption probe. she described the relationship is happening happened two decades ago. she added that they have remained very close friends. there also admitted that he paid $2600 for a repair on her vehicle just last year. she says that the gift was legal and did not require previous disclosure. >> well, i have checked with the city attorney every step of the way. whether it it is the relationship, the car, whether it is you know, what decisions i should be making, and ultimately you know, mohammed reported to the city administrator. this is never impacted my job as mayor. not in one instance. >> reporter: the explanation has not satisfied some city supervisors. the district 9 the superv

you know, to call out and thank my leadership team and our leadership team, and the assistant chief mosher and mcchecker rercen. and we're all on the same page, we need to provide the best cases that we can provide the district attorney so that his prosecutors -- when it's appropriate to charge these cases can charge these cases. we have to stay focused on our jobs, our job is not to prosecute cases but to -- when those crimes do occur we do our investigation thoroughly and we make sure that we get the evidence there and we give the district attorney and his team the good cases to prosecute. and we need to be open to ne ideas. we have to be open to new ideas. and there's been a call for changes in the criminal justice system. and we're one piece of that system but we have to be open to strategies that hold people to account but past that as i said, what next. what happens after they do their jailtime, are they going to come back to our city and be assets and good for our city, or come back and victimize people and harm our city? so there's a lot that goes into that and it's not just about

. >> so when "the new york post," a piece by stephen mosher, he is very susceptibl skeptical. he is controlling bio security risks to people's health. i doubt the chinese people will find not reassuring. i know neither should we. >> line is not a bug in the chinese system. it's a feature of the system. surveillance of their people is not a bug, it's a feature of the system. you can't believe what he says because his interests are in the communist party. not of the good of his own people or the people around the world. >> we have to look at the globe where the coronavirus is. there are more more questions about some of the originations of some of these cases. they can't track them to travel. was there a gap in the notifications to the rest of the world that allowed some of this to happen before china gave us a full picture? >> absolutely. probably since the first days of december and the world didn't learn about it until late january. there is an outage now in china where everybody supplicate's and bows the chairman. he controls north to south, east to west. he is on the compet

the supply chain, and the contract moshers are exposed to china, but the software companies are not.t companies are not, so there's still a lot of opportunities within tech. >> what about specific companies like appears that directly warned, do you think that concern is overstated, or are you saying there's plenty of companies without that level of exposure >> when it comes to a company like apple, we can expect lower iphone numbers as a result of supply and manufacturing issues. that's to be expected. i think the market is basically assuming that demand is -- given the uniqueness of the iphone itself, so -- and we'll probably see other companies announce that the manufacturing process has slowed, but again, it's not going to destroy the demand, just push it out we have yet to see the coronavirus turn into a global pandemic beyond the response that we have seen, so as long as we continue to hear these comments about the precautions being taken and the quarantines and the various steps, i kind of feel like the market understands the issue, and seems to be under control. it's really th

you know, to call out and thank my leadership team and our leadership team, and the assistant chief moshermcchecker rercen. and we're all on the same page, we need to provide the best cases that we can provide the district attorney so that his prosecutors -- when it's appropriate to charge these cases can charge these cases. we have to stay focused on our jobs, our job is not to prosecute cases but to -- when those crimes do occur we do our investigation thoroughly and we make sure that we get the evidence there and we give the district attorney and his team the good cases to prosecute. and we need to be open to new ideas. we have to be open to new ideas. and there's been a call for changes in the criminal justice system. and we're one piece of that system but we have to be open to strategies that hold people to account but past that as i said, what next. what happens after they do their jailtime, are they going to come back to our city and be assets and good for our city, or come back and victimize people and harm our city? so there's a lot that goes into that and it's not just about poli

you know, to call out and thank my leadership team and our leadership team, and the assistant chief mosher and mcchecker rercen. and we're all on the same page, we need to provide the best cases that we can provide the district attorney so that his prosecutors -- when it's appropriate to charge these cases can charge these cases. we have to stay focused on our jobs, our job is not to prosecute cases but to -- when those crimes do occur we do our investigation thoroughly and we make sure that we get the evidence there and we give the district attorney and his team the good cases to prosecute. and we need to be open to new ideas. we have to be open to new ideas. and there's been a call for changes in the criminal justice system. and we're one piece of that system but we have to be open to strategies that hold people to account but past that as i said, what next. what happens after they do their jailtime, are they going to come back to our city and be assets and good for our city, or come back and victimize people and harm our city? so there's a lot that goes into that and it's not just about

you know, to call out and thank my leadership team and our leadership team, and the assistant chief moshere're all on the same page, we need to provide the best cases that we can provide the district attorney so that his prosecutors -- when it's appropriate to charge these cases can charge these cases. we have to stay focused on our jobs, our job is not to prosecute cases but to -- when those crimes do occur we do our investigation thoroughly and we make sure that we get the evidence there and we give the district attorney and his team the good cases to prosecute. and we need to be open to new ideas. we have to be open to new ideas. and there's been a call for changes in the criminal justice system. and we're one piece of that system but we have to be open to strategies that hold people to account but past that as i said, what next. what happens after they do their jailtime, are they going to come back to our city and be assets and good for our city, or come back and victimize people and harm our city? so there's a lot that goes into that and it's not just about policing and we have to sup

i want to bring in china watcher steven mosher. the authorities have already taken what i would call draconian action. is it working, and can we proceed on the expectation that this virus peaks at some point in the near future? >> yeah, i think the chinese communist party can do one thing well and that is launch a war and control any aspect of the economy or society they want to. meanwhile, they neglect everything else. right now, xi jinping has declared a people's war against the epidemic but let's translate that into english. what that means is there is now a war on people who have the virus. they are going through and they are radically amputating from society, isolating, quarantining, whatever you want to call it, people who show any signs of the virus. that's why they are building these thousand bed hospitals. they're not hospitals -- stuart: i understand that we don't particularly care for the communist party, but i'm wondering what else can they do? >> no, they will succeed at controlling the epidemic by these draconian mean

you know, to call out and thank my leadership team and our leadership team, and the assistant chief moshercchecker rercen. and we're all on the same page, we need to provide the best cases that we can provide the district attorney so that his prosecutors -- when it's appropriate to charge these cases can charge these cases. we have to stay focused on our jobs, our job is not to prosecute cases but to -- when those crimes do occur we do our investigation thoroughly and we make sure that we get the evidence there and we give the district attorney and his team the good cases to prosecute. and we need to be open to new ideas. we have to be open to new ideas. and there's been a call for changes in the criminal justice system. and we're one piece of that system but we have to be open to strategies that hold people to account but past that as i said, what next. what happens after they do their jailtime, are they going to come back to our city and be assets and good for our city, or come back and victimize people and harm our city? so there's a lot that goes into that and it's not just about polic