and its national labs. so the question is, how is the department of energy's office of science uniquely positioned to conduct research to solve challenges in this space? mr. baca: congressman, thank you so much for that question. let me start off by saying, all in regard to the comments about the climate challenge, first off, plastics overall have a much lower carbon footprint than any other material. they have been critical, as i mentioned in my statement, to vehicles and insulating our homes and some of the work we're doing with the department of energy and our national labs is focusing on that to understand the life cycle of plastic materials and ensure we understand its impacts on the environment. that work is currently happening. we've been working with a variety of the national laboratories, argon national laboratory, for instance, we worked with the department of energy under the plastics innovation challenge. the key thing is this work is happening right now. we're working with some of the leading s

and the savannah river national lab. so the goal of course with this project is demonstrate the feasibility of fusion as a large scale and carbon-free source of energy. it is the holy grail. and i am super eager to see the project succeed. >> thank you. one last question. will you be able to support these projects at levels that the department has previously estimated would be necessary to minimize their total cost or would these cost estimates need to be increased? >> no, i can assure you that the department is committed to bringing resources to bear on this project and other projects. it is a priority for you, it's a priority for members of the committee. and i look forward to working with you on it. >> thank you very much. i now recognize mr. lucas for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. the united states has vast global geothermal resources. if harnessed correctly, these resources have the capacity to provide clean, renewable, and secure power, not just for oklahoma but for americans across the country. this is

baca i want to start with you in your prepared remarks you describe doe in its national lab how is the department of office of science uniquely positioned to conduct research to solve challenges in the space. >> congressman thanks so much for that question, let me start off by saying this all in regard to the comments about the climate challenge plastic overall have a much lower carbon footprint than any other material they have been critical in my statement to the vehicles and insulating our homes and the work that were doing with the department of energy international lab is focused on the ability to understand the lifecycle plastic materials and ensure that we understand the impact on the environment, that work is currently happening we've been working with a variety of the national laboratories and we work with the department of energy under plastic innovation challenge, the key thing this work is happening right now we are working with a leading scientiss of the world to examine and research the best ways to recover reuse and recycle all of our plastic materials i commend the work

it is also important to recognize the unique role of the department of energy the national labs enabling next generation optimization and advanced recycling. i want to start with you, and your prepared remarks you described accs work with doe at the national labs. so the question is, how's the department of energy office of science uniquely positioned to conduct research to solveso challenges? >> thank you so much for that question. we start off by saying this, when the claimant jumped first off, plastics overall have a much lower carbon footprint than anyth material per they've been critical as i mentioned in my statement and insulating our homes, some of the work we are doing with the department of energy international labs really focusan on that ability to understand the lifecycle of materials. ensure we understand its impact on the environment. that work is currently happening. we've been working with a variety of national laboratories work at the department of energy, the key thing is this work is happening right now. where work with him the leading scientist in the world to examine

in addition, our national labs and all of our program offices have tools to help states integrate more clean energy onto the grid and we can do a lot more and we want to do more and offer to give states and local units as well, the incentives to come up with their own home grown strategies to move toward 100% clean energy. you'll see that in the jobs plan, the state clean energy block grants program i like calling the build back better program... best strategy and if the state government is not so interested and then to support those resources to figure how to innovate those resources and through that vision >> thank you, madam secretary. i appreciate that and i yield back the balance of my time. >> you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you, secretary granholm for what's been a fascinating hearing. in your testimony you mentioned the problems with the colonial pipeline and the threats to the civilian supply chain. obviously that something the committee here has been very concerned about also. we had an investigations and oversight hearing on that exact topic this wee

the work being done by boe and the national labs, those findings should further inform the work we're doing. so es, part of the work committee can do is connect those dots to bring the stakeholders together to solve the problem of plastic waste that could require a tremendous amount of collaboration. not when industry is going to solve it. it is going direct wire -- require collaboration across the scientists, engineers, national labs, governments, ngos. connecting those dots would be a critical first step. >> my final question for you, there's sometimes at some false narratives about advanced recycling. could you discuss how important technologies will be to addressing the climate challenge? >> 100%. advanced recycling is a critical component in solving the waste challenge. we are developing technology at a commercial scale. one is building a plastic to plastic facility in tennessee that's going to cost $250 million. it's going to be critical because what it does is it takes difficult parts to recycle last x, take a pouch manufacture today to keep food fresh. it requires less water p

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government national lab that concluded that the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a chinese livewuhan is in fact plausible and deserves further investigation. the journal, citing sources inside the government, says a study was prepared in may 2020 by the lawrence livermore national lab in california. and was offered by the state department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic's origin during the final months of the trump administration. >> i think no one has yet found conclusive evidence which is why the president ordered the intelligence community to do an intensive total government 90 day review to see if we can finally come to a determination of what happened, where you haven't, why happen. >> this as new data shows that biden administration faces the very real prospect of missing its vaccination goals set for next month. mr. biden wanted 70% of adults to have at least one shot and 50 million to be fully vaccinated against the virus by the fourth of july. as of monday, only close to 64% of adults have received at least one shot of the vaccine. that is so shy up the p

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lee ktvu, fox two news lawmakers are focusing on a classified report from the lawrence livermore national lab as they look into the origins of the coronavirus. cnn says the paper was drafted in may of last year, it reportedly finds that it is possible that the virus escaped from the lab in wuhan, china, but it also says it could have developed in the wild and gone from animals to humans. secretary of state antony blinken said the white house is looking at both scenarios. so it's i can't put a percentage on it. i think there are two possible um and like scenarios. one is the one you just described that it emerged from the laboratory. the other is that it was naturally occurring. the energy department and lawrence livermore are expected to play a role in the intelligence community review on covid's origins ordered by president biden. now it's a napa county where officials there say a woman died of the coronavirus more than 30 days after being vaccinated. authorities say the woman had received the moderna vaccine. she was over the age of 65. officials say she also had underlying medical conditio

the other hand, there was inadvertent support the very pro nuclear director of the oak ridge, national lab, alvin weinberg always harboured concerns. he thought that there should be one nuclear plant here and one nuclear plant there, that it would be better if we had 6 in one nuclear reservation. so that you could use what he called the small number of very competent scientists and engineers to manage it. just as the opposition was growing, stronger, global events suddenly made nuclear power. look a lot more appealing in 1900. 73. the big middle east producers cut off oil shipments. 2 major consuming countries on the embargo was lifted. the price of foreign oil had jumped from $3.00 to $12.00 a barrel, 4 times higher than before. this nation in 1980 can have all the energy we need. now, don't write an editorial on this, you're really going to attach it from your readers if you do, because it scares the. nope, you're out. think of the bach. i think of the possibility that what i'm going to pull up my house and san clemente is just miles from the southern california edison company, the nucle

the other hand, there was inadvertent support the very pro nuclear director of the oak ridge, national lab, alvin weinberg always harboured concerns. he thought that there shouldn't be one nuclear plant here in one nuclear plant there that it would be better. we had 6 in one nuclear reservation so that you could use what he called the small number of very competent scientists and engineers to manage it. just as the opposition was growing, stronger, global events suddenly made nuclear power. look a lot more appealing in 1900. 73. the big middle east producers cut off oil shipments. 2 major consuming countries on the embargo was lifted. the price of foreign oil had jumped from $3.00 to $12.00 a barrel, 4 times higher than before. this nation in 1980 can have all the energy we need. now, don't write an auditorium on this, you're really going to attach it from there. because it scares the nope, you're out. i think the bach, i think of the possibility that what i'm going to blow up my house and san clemente is just miles from the southern california edison company. the nuclear power plant . it'

science for the future act invests $50 billion over five years in the office of science and the national labs. national scientific user facilities and the thousands of researchers it supports. the d.o.e. science for the future act is an investment in our technological and clean energy future. it funds research in the materials, chemical, biological, and environmental sciences as well as fusion energy, advanced computing capacities, and cutting edge technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum sciences. we already know that investments in basic research pay large dividends. for example, basic research conducted at our national labs gave us improved hydraulic fracturing technology and allowed us to produce clean natural gas. it helped us become a net total energy exporter for the first time in decades. that's why everyone who cares about clean energy must care about the research supported by h.r. 3593. investing in high-risk, early-stage research into cutting edge technologies is the only way to ensure that america stays at the head of the clean energy economy. another important provis

the other hand, there was inadvertent support the very pro nuclear director of the oak ridge, national lab, alvin weinberg always harboured concerns. he thought that there shouldn't be one nuclear plant here and one nuclear plant there, that it will be better if we had 6 in one nuclear reservation. so that you could use what he called the small number of very competent scientists and engineers to manage it. just as the position was growing, stronger, global, and then suddenly my nuclear power looks a lot more appealing in 1900. 73. the big middle east producers cut off oil shipments. 2 major consuming countries on the embargo was lifted. the price of foreign oil had jumped from $3.00 to $12.00 a barrel, 4 times higher than before. this nation in 1980 can have all the energy we need. now don't right another probably a lot. now you're really gonna catch it from your readers if you do, because it scares, nope, you're out. i think of the bach. i think of the possibility that what i'm going to go up, my house and san clemente, just miles from the southern california edison companies, nuclear po

one of the many national labs that has been studying the question of where the coronavirus came from.-19 may have been man made in a laboratory and accidentally leaked was plausible. and this, of course, was very early on. it was at a time when the intel community wasn't really giving a lot of credence or weight to the theory that this could have originated in a lab. it was more inclined to conclude that this had originated through animals. and now lawmakers on capitol hill are pointing to this report and saying what other information might we not have had access to in the last year that perhaps could help us understand better what evidence these researchers had that allowed them to conclude that perhaps this lab leak theory was plausible? of course, getting to the answer of what caused this pan em diddic is of top importance to the administration and to lawmakers on the hill. >> no question. i mean, health implications also political indications. because if this is the truth, china hid it, major political consequences. natasha, thanks very much. >> the food and drug administration, t

are doing is they're requesting briefings from the energy department which oversees all of these national labsnd of a jumping off point to say, looking scientists early on here thought it was plausible that this came from a lab, why are we only learning about this now. of course, some lawmakers and some staffers on the hill downplayed the significance of this report, telling us that actually it doesn't reveal that much more than we already know because the intelligence community has come out and said, look, it could either be a lab leak or come from animals, we just don't know yet. the report says much the same. >> time t timing of it, why didn't they know sooner. natasha, thank you for that report. >>> a stark warning from energy secretary jennifer granholm. targeting of food and gas and water and hospitals. >> reporter: just in the last few weeks we have seen these attack os an pipeline. numerous government agencies, the meat industry, and that's just to name a few. now we have the secretary of energy saying in no uncertain terms that these bad actors do have the capability to completely shu

study, reveal a respected national lab in california found it completely plausible that the virus hadd from the lab in wuhan based on its genome construction. this is the construction that we find in engineered viruses, not in naturally occurring viruses. mike mccall says that this is a devastating report. he says it calls this host thing the worst cover up in human history given the devastation it's wreaked around the world. first, to the state department. rich edson. hi, rich. >> good afternoon, martha. former state department officials say they use this analysis in their own investigation into how this pandemic began. the report from the lawrence livermore laboratory analyzed the genome and found that the lab work was plausible. anthony blinken is testifying before congress. it's the second hearing of the day on capitol hill. earlier blinken said the trump administration's report was flawed. >> it's my understanding the trump administration had real concerns about the methodology of that study, the quality of the analysis, bending evidence to fit preconceived narratives. that was s

liver more national lab felt it was possible. >> it was deemed a conspiracy theory. were censored or shut down or they wouldn't track those different comments on their facebook pages. absolutely that is happening. now suddenly the experts at facebook believe there is actually a possible connection it did come from a lab. now those type of comments are okay. they're 100% directing and determining what speech is appropriate for their platform that is publish, publicizing editorializing, it should be stopped under section 230. they have liability protection. until we fix that they will behave in the manner which they're behaving. elizabeth: trump brought up the wuhan lab leak possibility last year. are facebook, social media, are democrats, is the gain of function bureaucracy in the government, are they hurting the national conversation and the american people because of their hatred for trump and blocking information about something that affected everyone's health? >> yeah. this has been political from the very beginning. look at all the different mask mandates, shuttin

but we all know now that our national lab, which is highly respected in this country, lawrence livermore issued a report in may of 2020 that said it's very plausible that the virus originated as a result of an accident in the wuhan laboratory. we also during the course of that year in 2020, we had our intelligence agencies reporting to the trump administration about the mrausability of that but they didn't have concrete evidence because they didn't have prime fascia evidence from somebody in the lab. all the circumstantial evidence went in that direction and why secretary pompeo in the later part of 2020 was actually making one public statement after the other pointing the finger at china and the wuhan lab. so listen, there was plenty of evidence that moved in that direction and now it's an avalanche of evidence in that direction. i don't believe for a minute that china will ever give us the original data upon which to make the judgment that it came out of the lab. why? because xi is covering this up is criminal behavior that puts him and his regime at risk as becoming an international p

you had livermore national labs saying yeah, investigate it, its plausible.ens of scientists from harvard, stanford universitys from around the world say investigate it. let's listen to the former secretary of state mike pompeo on this. >> we have a really good idea what happened here. there is enormous amount of evidence there was a leak from the wuhan institute of virology. there is pile of evidence 100 feet high. i have confidence that is the case. we pressed the chinese communist party really hard. not just the state department but others too. we withdrew from the w.h.o. which had become politicized. the administration chose to get back into that. i don't know what tools they think they will use. elizabeth: former fda director said scott gottlieb dr. fauci in the spring of last year did brief world health leaders it might have leaked from the wuhan lab. now he is flip-flopping, he is saying on the podcast of chelsea clinton he is the object of a pham noll amount of hostility merely for promoting simple public health principles. people are getting angry of

nations. one is the so-called natural occurrence going from animal to human. the other is a lab leak. we couldn't determine with any degree of certainty which one it was buried with the president has ordered now is to -- with the intelligence community, bringing all of the different agencies of government and also our national labs, other experts, bringing all of that expertise to bear to look at every piece of information we have two see if we can make a determination. going forward, the thing that is most critical besides accountability is, again, making sure that every country, including china, cooperates with the international community in making sure that we have the transparency, we have access for experts in real-time, we have information sharing so if something starts to percolate again, we are on top of it. >> chris: finally, your immediate predecessor, secretary pompeo, is waiting on the wings, going to be coming up in the next segment. if briefly, what would you tell him it's the biggest difference between biden foreign policy and trump foreign policy? >> secretary blinken:

government was looking at the national lab out of livermore, california, to try to figure out where thisy of state antony blinken is back before congress. he is testifying for the second straight day. the secretary says the international community will hold accountable for failing to cooperate in an independent investigation into the virus' origins. >> if china doesn't cooperate with us in finding out the root causes of the coronavirus leak what should we do? >> there needs to be accountability for what happened and there needs to be accountability for the failure to cooperate including making information available, having transparency. >> perfect. >> from expert. >> i have sanctions that would be available to you if they fail to cooperate. would you support those sanctions? >> certainly take a look. reporter: in response to the u.s. government calling for independent investigation, into china, into the origins of this virus, the chinese foreign ministry says quote, we urge the u.s. to stop politicizing the study of origins, stop smearing china, adopt and open and transparent attitude on

your viewers the truth and start talking about what scientists are talking about, what livermore national lab were only seven hearings into gain of function from 1995-2020? that's 25 years. >> you're exactly right. and all the way back with richard nixon we banned biological research. this goes back decades. this kind of thing was inherently wrong. there is a small caveat only for research to help get vaccines. it was misused, clearly misused. elizabeth: okay. congressman darrelln issa, thans joining us. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: up next, we've got james carafano if on a super-spreader event. coming right back. ♪♪ ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa retirement income is complicated. as your broker, i've solved it. we're made for. that's great, carl. but we need something better. that's easily adjustable has no penalties or advisory fee. and we can monitor to see that we're on track. like schwab intelligent income. schwab! introducing schwab intel

with the intelligence community bringing all of the different agencies of government and also our national labsher experts, bringing all that expertise to bear to look at every piece of information we have to see if we can make a determination. going forward, the thing that is most critical besides accountability is, again, making sure that every country, including china, cooperates with the international community in making sure we have the transparency, we have access for experts in real-time, we have information sharing, so that if something starts to percolate again, we're on top of it. chris: finally, your immediate predecessor, secretary pompeo, is waiting on the wings. he's going to be coming up in the next segment. briefly, what would you tell him is the biggest difference between biden foreign policy and trump foreign policy? >> chris, i'm resolutely looking forward, not backward. please say hello to mike. we've had a lot of good conversations and i look forward to the next one. but we're focused on the future moving forward. we've had a very good couple days with the g-7, demonstratin

fauci around the media for denying the wuhan lack theory after the livermore national lab says it isuote plausible. it deserves investigation. officials now avoiding any association with the controversial and dangerous gain of function supervirus research that dr. fauci advocated. "vanity fair" reported that the big government gain of function bureaucracy stonewalled the state department's wuhan lab leak probe. tonight why was the u.s. working with china on this dangerous research to begin with, given china's dangerous history of lab leaks and safety problems? who exactly lifted the three-year ban on taxpayer funding of this research and why? we'll talk to one of the lawmakers leading the charge to completely open the government books. new details in the expanding probe that new york governor andrew cuomo. federal prosecutors now reportedly subpoenaing information and material related to the the emembat aled governos recent memoir of the cover up of the nursing home deaths. the investigation is widening. >>> doesn't seem like a tough question. vice president kamala harris botched it.

fauci in the media for denying the wuhan lab leak theory after the livermore national lab announces plausiblet deserves investigation, officials avoiding any association with a controversial and dangerous gain-of-function super virus research that dr. fauci advocated, vanity fair reported the big government gain-of-function the state department wuhan lab, why was the u.s. working with china on the dangerous research to begino with given china's dangerous history of lab leaks and safety problems. who exactly lifted the three year ban on pair funding on this research and why, the lawmaker leading the charge to completely open the government books, new details in the expanding probe near governor andrew cuomo, federal prosecutors subpoenaed information and materials related to the recent memoir touting his handling of the pandemic of the cover-up of nursing him deaths by his administration. it doesn't seemed like a hard question but critics say vice president kamala harris botched it. today the vice president tried to laugh vi it off when asked again by nbc news about why she is yet to visit the

c are focusing in on a classified report from the lawrence livermore national lab as they look into the origins of the coronavirus and secretary of state. anthony blinken is appearing before a senate appropriations committee today. lauren blanchard has the story. secretary of state antony blinken, facing more questions from congress today over the role a lab in wuhan, china may have played in the covid 19 pandemic. this is a critical moment for the united states and for our global leadership. we have major tests, including stopping covid-19 on monday, secretary blinken did not rule the theory out to u. s. officials have said they need china's government to provide access and data from the beginning of the outbreak in order to determine where the virus came from. but so far china has work. refused to grant an independent investigation and said the world health organization's initial study was complete despite international criticism. there is going to be a an increasing international demand that countries including china, meet their responsibilities when it comes to providing information

i would like to start, the gentleman from pennsylvania made a statement about how our national labs innovated us into this leadership role in the united states. i would like to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from pennsylvania to explain about those innovations and how that contributed. mr. lamb: thank you, i'll try to do it in 30 seconds. the bulk of our admissions reduction have come from the transition from coal to natural gas. most of the critical science nd the shale revolution was developed within the national lab system, particularly at the national energy technology laboratory proud loy li located in western pennsylvania. of course private sector innovation played a huge role but there are many advances that would not have been possible without federal investment paid for by this very congress. that's how we are responsible for many of the emissions reductions that have taken place and will continue to take place in the future. thank you and i yield back to the gentleman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. mr. graves: madam speaker, i couldn't have asked the gentleman to

i trust our national lab scientists and our army scientists. the pocket by chinese scientists, i'm sorry, bill. >> bill: we'll speak again soon. david asher, thank you for coming in today. >> take care. >> martha: dr. anthony fauci is following in the footsteps of andrew cuomo. he has a book coming out on the lessons that shaped his life philosophy as a public health expert. the book, the mask is coming off dramatically in that photo. it will come out in november. it is controversial with critics accusing him of trying to profit off of the pandemic. and president biden rolling back another trump era program. he has now suspended all oil and gas leases in alaska's arctic wildlife national ref iej. it contains huge oil reserves. it was opened for drilling by president trump in 2017. travel rebounds now but production cannot keep up with demand. of course we lost the keystone pipeline and we had the columbia pipeline shut down temporarily. another avenue towards independence is energy was closed down by the white house. >> bill: you pay $1 a more

examined a report that claim to the lab leak in on was plausible, that was first reported in "the wall street journal," the report last year from the lawrence livermore national laboratory analyzed the genomic sequence for the virus that causes covid had been 19, found a lab leak was plausible and state officials use that information in their report, fast forward a few months, secretary of state now testifying on a second straight day before congress and downplayed that trump administration report on the potential covid-19 began in our lab. >> the trump administration, it's my understanding has real concerns about the methodology that that study, the quality of the analysis, bending evidence to fit preconceived narratives, that was their concern that was shared with us but -- >> some former officials at the state department said they were concerned about the methodology on that report although others say many of the objections were unreasonable and largely designed to so stonewall an investigation into whether the virus had leaked from the wuhan institute of virology. blinken said the u.s. intelligence committee is examining two theories here, that the virus

unleash the power and the innovation of all our great universities and national labs who will figure out how to do these hard things. and then, yes, even after we do all that, make significant federal investments in the things that the private sector is not very good at. like transmission. like coast-to-coast broadband. like charging stations. we've done it before. it's how we built the railroads and electrified the country. it's not going to be easy. but it will be necessary. it will be inspiring. and it will be the story that we tell our grandchildren about. because we'll be able to tell them that we were there in this moment. we saw what was necessary and we made it possible. i think that's something worth doing. it's our opportunity. it's our moment. thank you and i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. johnson, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. johnson: well, thank you, mr. speaker. the ot

matter mccarry, why is most of the nation learning that lab leaks are commonplace?ue and somehow missed this entire topic because they perceived that it was political on its side but they didn't support but the reality is that many of under the circumstances have long suspected that the lab leak hypothesis was the default conclusion this proven otherwise. jillian: makary. china confirms first case of h1n1 3 bird flu. this is a report. according to reports china's national health commission is saying that a 41-year-old man was hospitalized on april 28th with this bird flu was diagnosed a month later. tell us what you know about a bird flu. is it as serious as something like covid because i think a lot of people are going to wake up to this news and say oh my gosh, not again. tell us what you know about that but also the transparency, i guess you could say, from china on this. >> jury, jillian, understandable people will be skittish when they hear about a new virus out of china especially houson is i advertised they are right now. we see bird flus emerge out of deposi

in fact, i started off as a chemistry major, working at lawrence livermore national lab as an intern. chemist i realized that probably wasn't the best field for me. and since i was such a talker, i decided, why not go into politics, they talk a lot. and i was lucky enough to get this internship. during that time that i worked as an intern, i also worked cleaning houses and i babysat and i worked at wells fargo bank because i wanted to make sure -- i mean, i was living in poverty my grandmother raised me and i was still living with my grandmother and she was struggling, and our family was struggling, and i didn't want to give up. i didn't want to walk away from an opportunity to learn about the city in the mayor's office. and so when i worked in the mayor's office as an intern, i spent a lot of time doing the grunt work. the filing -- and at the time -- you guys have technology and you can pull things up right away, but i didn't have the ability to do that. i had to look at indexes at the library to do research. and there were roladexs and fax machines and other ways to communicate. bu

the time now for arts and culture and coming up, no mission is impossible for claim nations sensation victo asian lab will take a look behind these high speed scenes at the filmmakers, paris studio. and the wonders of nature, german filmmaker, yon hufton holmes in on his home country in breathtaking time when. oh, come to arts and culture focusing this time on film and photography. and we'll start with photos taken somewhere that's generally the opposite of glamorous teenagers bedrooms. but beyond the piles of smelly socks and the slamming doors, kids rooms are so much more. they can also be a safe haven or more recently a quarantine. so german, photographers, bailey and pizza, went on a mission to capture these important spaces and their inhabitants. a young person's most intimate space is their bedroom. it's a kind of transition zone between childhood and the adult world. everything happens here and not only in pandemic times. and it's a place that's off limits to most people, especially someone with a camera, but photographers, feely and pepita were granted access to take portraits of kids in thei

young but had very broad bipartisan support it invests in next generation technologies, in our national labship with the private sector president biden this week in europe will be meeting with our most important allies and pulling together the democracies who need to stand up to russia and its aggression and need to have a common strategy for how to out compete china in this century. >> what does that look like? >> what that looks like is coordinating our investments in new technologies i'll give you one example. 5g driving the next generation of communication in the last administration secretary pompeo went around the world and talked to our closest allies and said there are real security threats if you use huawei, a chinese company for your chinese backbone. what a lot of our allies said, well, that's interesting what is your alternative there wasn't an american alternative. there were some south korean and scandinavian offerings that were competitive but not organized, not coordinated. the investments this bill which is going to the house will make in semiconductor chips, in 5g, quantum c

national institutes of health. on the hot seat. he's e-mail surfaced calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory. but now he's saying it needs to be thoroughly investigated. that is moments away. stick around for that. first, texas governor greg abbott declares a disaster on the southern border with mexico. texans struggle to protect their property. border patrol officials try to take care of the children that are abandoned at the border. this issue should unify democrats and republicans. the white house mostly avoids the question of this topic when people. but this video of this terrified little boy that was dumped by a smuggler and crying for help has captured the attention of this whole country. hear that little boy crying for help. amid new reports that vice president harris' team is panicked about being tied to a crisis and that she is really eager for areas where she can achieve political victory. ken cuccinelli joins me in moments. first, aishah hasnie live at the border in texas where the members of congress just were. aishah? >> hi, martha. yeah, the members of congress just addressed th

lab. national security correspondent jennifer griffin picks up the story this evening from the pentagon. >> peter daszek, the british born zoologist has revised his statement published in the lancet following a campaign of public pressure suggesting his conflicts of interest should have forced him to recuse himself from any investigation into the origins of covid-19. >> now they're fearful. we don't want it to go back to the kind of research we do. let's do everything possible to steer peel away from it and cover it up. that's what he did. he rallied scientists that didn't disclose their conflict. >> daszek's nonprofit helped pass more than $600,000 of u.s. taxpayer money to the wuhan virology lab with the goal of preventing a pandemic. he helped organize a statement from 27 scientists in february of last year. calling lab leak hypotheses conspiracy theories. the lancet explained 27 authors of the letter to reevaluate their competing interests. peter daszek has expandon his disclosure statements for three pieces related to covid-19. neither daszek or eco health alliance have received fundi

lab in wuhan, china, and not the exotic animal market theory first popularized. when covid was first spreading, one email sent to him from the head of the national institutes of health suggested the lab notion was more of a conspiracy theory, and here's what he's telling willie geist. >> we didn't know and we still don't know what the origin is, that if you look historically in the way things rolled out, we all felt, and still do actually, willie, that it is more likely to be a natural jumping of species from an animal reservoir to a human. >> we should reiterate fauci received and did not actually send any of the leaked emails, that interview airs on today at 7:00 a.m. following "today in the bay." >>> the new findings from the university of michigan are accurate, america's most recent federal stimulus worked as planned at least temporarily. researchers looked at real time census pulse data measuring americans' mindsets during the last two rounds of stimulus in december and april. the rate of food shortages fell by more than 40%, financial instability cut nearly in half and anxiety and depression fell 20%, the sharpest drops happened when the months the payments to

lab was at the center of it. >> laura: one officials went on "face the nation" to lay out the lab leak evidence.probably don't remember it because it never aired. but here it is now. >> the types of research that work underway by the surveillance stance and also military researchers were studies into exactly the kinds of viruses that you know, once that art 96% similar to the virus that is now making us all sicknick they were doing gain of function research using humanized mice. >> laura: could this information indicate that we can't necessarily just rule out that this just was not some lab leak or, you know, could even be a dual use situation? >> we don't know. i thought the statement that matt made we knew the same thing. we saw the same data. your view risk should note, people talk about this as if we don't know anymore. we knew a lot. effect that this lab was level four and had security leaks before. there were doctors who became ill and work hospitalized in the fall of 2019. we have an awful lot of evidence pointing to what happened. what was that chinese communist party's intention? we kne

fauci's ally, peter daszak, he fought to censor the wuhan lab leak possibility, he was removed from a united nationsnvestigation of the origins of the pandemic due to conflicts of interest. daszak reportedly did not disclose his non-profit funding and connections to the wuhan lab. also tonight, why did the nih continue to give millions of dollars to daszak's non-profit after former president trump at that time said no, can sell the money. no more funding. plus native-american business leaders now defending an oil and gas pipeline that the far left wants to defeat. we'll explain that one. and the major outbreak of drug cartel violence and crime just across the border from u.s. cities. seven mexican border towns now rank among the world's most violent. that is according to a watchdog group that tracks whom sigh rates worldwide. border authorities are warning that the cartels control things at the border. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: let's get right out of the senate right now voting on that controversial voting rights bill. this as

i will say in my past life, i was able to work with the national severe storm labs in norman, oklahoma, and i know the interaction between the national weather service and state agencies is very strong. and we utilize a lot of that satellite technology and that there have been conversations about how effectively those can be used at the noaa level also. but i'm unaware of anyone that's speaking directly to them. but i do agree, it's a huge opportunity for us all. mrs. kim: so you are familiar with the high resolution model? have you had input on that development of any of these models? and in your opinion, what further research and development is needed to make existing models more effective? mr. geissler: a lot of it is being coordinated through the wildland leadership council where we have all of the partners at the table. so you not only have state foresters, but you also have mayors and other members of the various levels of government really having those discussions. so it's a really powerful forum to kind of discuss the needs and where we go forward. so going into the future, we'

the burning question intensifies, why was the united states sending money to a lab in an adversarial nationt was doing dangerous gain of function research? in other words, making viruses more deadly in a lab. steve hilton joins me. good to have you with us. i'd like to started by replaying dr. robert redfield on this and how so complicit nations are in this. >> the united states fund add lot of that research. it's not just china. i don't think it helps by pointing fingers at china. gain of function research being pursued in laboratories was not just a china decision. many european scientists, many american scientists have been pushing gain of function research. so i think in the sense there's a broad responsibility. >> martha: which may lead to why this was a theory that was so doused with water so early on, steve. >> exactly right. we talk about the lab leak theory. there's two parts to it. the second part is did the virus leak from that lab sometime towards the end of 2019. a lot of evidence pointing to that. of course, that points to the chinese regime. their bio safety procedures that a

national institute of health. our tax dollars are going used to fund labs outside of the united states.akin to money laundering but clearly legal. the nih will fund a not for profit who then gives money to labs for questionable purposes. by doing so, they have a disclaimer as well as no oversight requirement issue. on the basis of the indirect nih funding to the wuhan lab, the question remains, why didn't fauci -- affirmatively act. is poo-pooing of the idea that the virus had to be engineered to infect humans shows he acted to prohibit our knowledge of suchr such. tmp tmp -- our knowledge of such. he should have engaged the lab in the united states. he had a fiduciary responsibility to institute methods to protect and arrest the spread of the virus. why wouldn't he protect american interests? all he needed to say was, tell me what's going on to his friends in the chinese communist party as well as the world health organization. they both received our money. buff he was too busy giving money to not for profits who then gave money to the chinese. dr. fauci, you work for the united states

lab was at the center of it. >> one at the center went on face the nation in february to lay out the lab leak evidence and you probablyt remember it because it never aired but here it is now. >> the types of research that were underway by the civilian staff of the wuhan institute of virology and also military researchers, studies into exactly the kinds of viruses that are 96% similar to the virus now making us all sick. they were doing gain of function research using humanized mice. >> could this information from an extremely smart individual indicate we can't rule out that this just wasn't some lab leak or even a dual use situation? >> we don't know. i saw the statements matt made. we had seen the same data. your viewers should know people talk about this is if we don't know very much. we know an awful lot about what was going on with gain of function research, the fact this lab was level for with security leaks and there were doctors became ill and were hospitalized in fall 2019. we have an awful lot of evidence pointing to what happened. what was the chinese, party's attention, there was military activity taking pl

had an acute conflict of interest with the lancet.he chanced the funds from the national institutes of health to the wuhan lab. if there was a leak, he would be at fault. he failed to declare this conflict of interest and indeed his letter concludes by saying we declare no conflict of interest. >> martha: we know that he and dr. fauci had an e-mail exchange where he thanked dr. fauci for having his back in this part of the debate. but then i look at an interview that dr. redfield, the former head of the cdc did on cnn. this caught a lot of attention and has continued to draw my attention. we played this sound bite many times. here's what he said in a look back at the early days of this virus. watch this. >> normally when a pathogen goes from a zoonote to a human, it has to figure out how to be efficient in human-to-human transmission. i don't think it makes biological sense. >> must have been a debate with fauci and redfield. they're saying opposite things, nicholas. >> they have been, yes. dr. fauci in public until recently has stayed a natural emergence and no credence of a lab escape. i think we're going t