but that would move nih further away from basic research, which i think is the main role of nih. because we know that other corporate entities, other businesses, they may do some of the -- some of the non-basic research but they're not going to do basic research. so is arpah -- what's your vision for what arpah is going to be? >> congressman, we're trying to move beyond just the basic research to be able to have transformational results. we've seen, the clearest example is these vaccines for covid. we've seen how quickly the private sector, working with the government sector can move. so we want to be able to continue that basic research that has made america the place to go to when it comes to these discoveries, but we want to trigger transformation faster. that's what we need to do is be prepared. what we have with arpah is an opportunity to combine the best we have, and then make it click. while the law -- it's still fully in development and the concept is there we think we can help make things click faster by putting additional money into that row search and development and l

the research was funded by nih grants. they were first awarded during the 1999 to 2003 doubling of the nih. at that time, one in every three approved proposals for funded, and that enabled riskier projects to receive funding. today, less than one in five approved proposals received funding. it is harder to get riskier things funded. i would say the mrna vaccine are a product of doubling our investment in the nih, a lagging indicator of that investment, and i would say an embodiment of our wondrous times. we also live in uncertain times. there are multiple intersecting challenges that have the potential to become the next global crisis. the covid-19 pandemic is not going to be the last time that science and scientists are going to be called upon to mitigate an existential threat. we are going to be addressing other public health concerns, such as alzheimer's. we have to work on climate change, food and water security, and other colleges which have yet to emerge. we have to ensure our economic vitality, including good jobs.

four nih scientists have been nobel laureates. marshall nuremburg for breaking the genetic code.axelrod for his work, and work on diseases favorable to new guinea. international health had become an area of importance for the phs, one with notable successes. the cdc, for instance, provided leadership for the global campaign that resulted in the conquest of smallpox. in 1967, william stewart had pledged phs personnel in the campaign against smallpox. more than 300 phs physicians, scientists and public health workers led by the cdc's dr. henderson went all over the globe to fight the battle. and they won. by 1977, smallpox had been eradicated throughout the world. in the 1960s, reorganization brought new programs to the phs fold. one of the most significant was the food and drug administration which had been an independent agency since its inception in 1906. its original responsibility was for the protection of the american consumer against adulterated or mislabeled food or drugs. today the agency set standards in the areas of food, drugs, cosmetics, radiation, health and medical d

our own nih run by francis collen and na id run by proxy.know could've started the pandemic and then they paid for a study that proves it wasn't them. how can we trust these people? in july 2014 a group of scientists from around the world came together and set up the cambridge working group to voice their concerns about gain or function research and later that year the obama ministration placed a complete moratorium on it quote, following recent biosafety incidents the moratorium was lifted in 2017. but, function research always had two high-profile supporters, doctor anthony fauci and doctor collins. in 2011 they wrote an article literally saying that generating a potentially dangerous virus in a laboratory is a risk worth taking. this week, one of the very few journalists who has tried to investigate all of this, josh rogan, who earlier reported on safety risk at the wuhan lab had this to say on megan kelly's podcast. >> the head of the entire field really is anthony fauci and the godfather of gaynor function research as we know it. steve:

she used to go to nih to help with the work that happens there.mother on a daily basis was at work every day and worked on weekends. when she was at work and it was after school often my sister and i would walk two houses down to the home of mrs. regina shelton who was a second mother to us. she was a lifeline for our mother. and she would talk on a daily basis about but for millions shelton she cannot have done the work that she did. every working mother needs that support every working parent needs that support. [applause] and a competitive economy requires it. it requires a skilled workforce. that is why we will create more opportunities for education after high school. so let's think about that. twelve years of education is the norm. but in today's world, 12 years of education is just not enough. let's invest in education after high school understanding we must invest in opportunities for folks about which path of education after high school they want to take her they choose to take. think about what we need to do education after high school t

knows the story, when we were young mommy was going to bethesda, she was going later because a place nihin bethesda because you see, my mother was a breast cancer researcher and she had two goals in her life to raise her two daughters and breast cancer and she used to go out to nih and help do some of the work that happens there. so when my mother though on a daily basis, long hours, she worked on weekends and when she was at work and it was after school, often my sister and i, we would walk two houses down to the home of mrs. regina shelton, who was a second mother to us, and she was a lifeline for our mother. and here is the thing i know. she would talk on a daily basis that but for miss shelton, she could not have done the work she did. every working mother needs that support. every working parent needs that support. [applause] and a competitive economy requires it, requires a skilled work force, too, and we will create more opportunities for education after high school. so let's think about that. 12 years of education is the norm, has been the norm, but in today's world, 12 years of

she had to go to nih to do some of the work that happens there.n my mother on a daily basis was at work every day for long hours, she worked on weekends. when she was at work and it was after school, often my sister and i we would walk two houses down to the home of miss shelton. she was the second mother to us. she was a lifeline for our mother. here's the thing i know. she would talk on a daily basis about how if it wasn't for miss shelton, she could not do the work she did. every working mother needs that support. every working parent needs that support. [applause] vice president harris: and a competitive economy requires it. a competitive economy requires a skilled workforce. which is why we will also create more opportunities for education after high school. let's think about that. 12 years of education is the norm, has been the norm. in today's world, 12 years of education is just not enough. let's invest in education after high school. understanding that we also must invest in opportunities for folks about which path of education after high

nih director dr.y on "gma." >>> behind bars, as derek chauvin awaits sentencing, the department of justice looking into a september 2017 incident involving a black teenager that was caught on camera. chauvin allegedly using excessive force causing the boy to lose consciousness and need stitches. wh

the move prepared the nih for its period of rapid growth in the post war years. 1941 saw the country's entry into world war ii public health service officers served in several different branches of the armed forces. many were signed to the coast guard and did everything from making see bourne households while on convoy patrol supporting amphibious landings perhaps one of the most fundamental changes brought about by the war was in nursing. the strain of the war on how countries health care system made it clear that something had to be done to increase the supply of nurses the answer was the kodak nurse corps, which was ford formed to meet and they need. their nursery schools had received a free education. we were paid a salary by the peaches and we're obligated to perform military or federal service in return for their education 85% of the nurses graduated in the years 1943 to 46 were in the cadet nurse corps the quality of nursing education was changed forever. as a result of pages policy and funding nursing poles were no longer in the shadow which i previously been their soul sponsor

they give nih the money and they decide how to spend it. that wasn't true. congress had done that for the national cancer act and in the early 90s with aids creating bypass budgets for the last nih to ask for how much money it would want and bypass the congressional appropriations process. it wouldn't go until finally i chronicled in great detail the work of some clever activists in the alzheimer's association who managed to get a bypass for alzheimer's disease and boost the funding. what happened since there is an enormous boost of funding since about 2011 for the alzheimer's research which has led to a growth in the field. anecdotally i remember when i started out it was so hard to get funded. you struggled and if the research is looking to see how hard it is to get funding you know i don't want to say they follow the money but they certainly know the width of it. we are seeing now that it is possible to get funded over the last several years we are seeing more folks wanting to go to the deal. we've got culture, the failure to recognize the disease and we'

with regard to the virus, the one used by j&j, the nih has been funding for decades a highly skilled and accomplished person from harvard medical school who had been working on this for a considerable time and demonstrated how immunogenic this particular vector would be. next slide. then you get to immunogen design -- really the most fascinating component of this story, and it goes to a different discipline. next slide. and that is the crystallography and capability of investigators throughout the country who are working to get the right confirmation of the hiv envelope trimer -- nothing to do with coronavirus. they were using these technologies to develop an hiv vaccine. next slide. this work was done was done with great intensity also at the nih vaccine research center, and i circled two investigators on the slide pit the one in the lower left is peter, who is predominantly an hiv investigator, and the one on the upper right is much more interested in respiratory virus. next slide. what peter did is that he used this structure-based vaccine designed to get the right confirmation of

this work was done was a group -- with great intensity also at the nih vaccine research center, and i circled two investigators on the slide pit the one in the lower left is peter, who is predominantly an hiv investigator, and the one on the upper right is bonnie, who is much more interested in respiratory virus. next slide. what peter did is that he used this structure-based vaccine designed to get the right confirmation of the hiv envelope in what is called a pre-fusion form, which would be the most immunogenic and combined to broadly neutralizing antibodies. next slide. when bonnie graham took his interest in virus and collaborated in the same lab with peter and jason mcmillan, they had a major back through -- breakthrough, developing mutations that stabilize the immunogen to make it be used successfully for an rsv vaccine, but the story goes on. next slide. when mayors came about, they did the same thing in an attempt to develop a coronavirus vaccine, namely taking the spike protein and stabilizing it by mutations into a pre-fusion form. then, the combination of the story, next sl

biden when it comes to anything related to abortion, but i do trust francis collins, the head of the nihrong christian, and makes a good argument that the vaccines, for example -- there only connection to abortion is the cell line from an aborted fetus was used from 50 years ago to study and to produce this. i know some people might feel squeamish about that. i would ask people to consider, if you had a child that needed to an organ transplant to live, and one was available but it came from the body of a child that had been shot to death, would you refuse it because it was connected to a murder? probably not. i think we need to be very careful about this, and whatever we do, we cannot incentivize the barbaric practice of abortion. >> 26 house democrats writing, the previous administration's restrictions on fetal tissue research, medical advances blocking intramural research is an discouraging extramural researchers. the trump administration's policy was politically motivated and unnecessary. a father frank, is this politics or moral issue? >> we see another example of how disconnected th

it's the same at treasury, commerce, the nih, energy, even the agency that protects and transports our nuclear arsenal. the hackers also hit the biggest names in high tech. so what does that target list tell you? >> i think this target list tells us that this is clearly a foreign intelligence agency. it exposes the secrets potentially of the united states and other governments as well as private companies. i don't think anyone knows for certain how all of this information will be used. but we do know this -- it is in the wrong hands. >> reporter: and microsoft's brad smith told us it's almost certain theac created additional back doors and spread to other networks. the revelation this past december came at a fraught time in the u.s. president trump was disputing the election and tweeted china might be responsible for the hack. within hours he was contradicted by his own secretary of state and attorney general. they blamed russia. the department of homeland security, fbi, and intelligence agencies concurred. the prime suspect? the svr, one of several russian spy agencies the u.s. labels

the cdc and nih are considered by many to be the gold standard for public health guidance and medical direction. as we've seen throughout this pandemic on key issues, they have been either woefully wrong or pathetically late in their recommendations. to make matters worse, various made-for-tv doctors and analysts mindlessly repeat their drivel, few have actually treated covid patients or even remember their 11th grade biology. to this day, few have been held accountable for their mistakes. tonight that changes. these people because the needless deaths and help fuel social unrest. our experts have hurt our kids and done crippling damage to our businesses, they also have helped bring about something far more dangerous to the future of america than a virus, the election of joe biden. now the same people who helped exacerbate an already incredibly difficult situation, they are scrambling to save their credibility. given all of their screw ups, none of these people should ever be let near a public policy decision again. take the simple issue of covid comorbidity, namely those pre-existing

the cdc nor nih nor the white house have provided is satisfactory or consistent answer to that question and the absence of logical guidance, americans have done what americans do better than anybody in the world. they've taken the initiative to safely get back to their everyday activities and lives as best they can. i know we've learned a lot along the way and we are still learning about this virus, but the data now shows that the harshest lockdown did not work. school closings did not work. in fact they've done devastating damage to these young kids and still in many states they are destroying future opportunities for millions of young children across america when all the science shows schools should not only be reopened but should be reopened safely. despite the evidence, some local communities especially in northeastern states have chosen to remain locked down. some communities more so in the south have chosen to lift mandates and reopen schools as well as local businesses. as of today the ten states with the highest infection rates are all northern states. michigan, new york, new je

we're grateful to you, grateful to everyone at nih for what you're doing.>> glad to be with you, wolf, any time. >>> coming up, i'll speak with cnn's don lemon about the conviction of derek chauvin and how far the country has come since the killing of george floyd. we'll be right back. when a truck hit my car, the insurance company wasn't fair. i didid't t kn whahatmy c caswa, so i called the barnes firm. i'm rich barnes. it's hard for people to k how much their accident case is worth.h barnes. t ouour juryry aorneneys hehelpou the insurance company getenwasn't fair.ity y cablele. i didn't know what my case was worth, so i called the barnes firm. llll theararnes rmrm now the best result possible. ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ >>> we are following the reaction to the historic derek chauvin's conviction to police reforming here. my friend, don lemon, the author of "this is the fire." when i spoke to you last month that you told me you were in fear of the world for your nephew. but your fear subsided yesterday. >> it does help. there is some culpab

biden when it comes to anything related to abortion, but i do trust francis collins, the head of the nihxample -- there only connection to abortion is the cell line from an aborted fetus was used from 50 years ago to study and to produce this. i know some people might feel squeamish about that. i would ask people to consider, if you had a child that needed to an organ transplant to live, and one was available but it came from the body of a child that had been shot to death, would you refuse it because it was connected to a murder? probably not. i think we need to be very careful about this, and whatever we do, we cannot incentivize the barbaric practice of abortion. >> 26 house democrats writing, the previous administration's restrictions on fetal tissue research, medical advances blocking intramural research is an discouraging extramural researchers. the trump administration's policy was politically motivated and unnecessary. a father frank, is this politics or moral issue? >> we see another example of how disconnected the democrats are from the moral and religious concerns of tens of m

almost $9 million going to nih, and if you will forgive my personal -- the name of my deceased son.t meant a lot. but so many of us have deceased sons, daughters, relatives who died of cancer. i could think of no more worthy investments, i know of nothing that is more bipartisan. so let's end cancer as we know it. it is within our power to do it. [applause] investments in jobs and infrastructure like the ones we are talking about have often had high partisan support in the past. as president harris and i met regularly in the oval office with democrats and republicans discuss the jobs plan and i report -- applaud the group of republican senators who put forth their own proposal. let's get to work. i want to lay out before congress my plan before we got into deep discussions. i like to meet those who have ideas that are different that they think are better. i welcome those ideas. but the rest of the world is not waiting for us. i want to be clear. from my perspective, doing nothing is not an option. [applause] look, we can't be so busy competing with one another that we forget the com

we get all of our funding in nih or niaid which is the national association of infectious diseases whichs run by dr. fauci for years and years and years. so we can't say anything like oh, gain of function research might be dangerous or it might have come from the lab because we are going to lose our careers. we're going to lose our funding. we are not going to do the work. lawrence lawrence it's important because dr. fauci is the highest paid federal employee. rumored he makes more than the president. when it comes to public health community is he one of the most powerful. so the message is just simple. criticize fauci at your own expense. now why would dr. fauci want to silence his peers from talking about this crazy theory that the covid-19 came from a chinese lab? >> the head of the funding, the head of the entire field, really is anthony fauci. he is the godfather of gain of function research as we know it. now, that, again, just what i said there is like too hot for, you know, tv because people tonight want to think about the fact that our hero of the pandemic, dr. fauci, might also

dollars in grants through the nih to the wuhan institute of virology. that is the infamous wuhan lab. they were doing dangerous studies on bats that could transmit the coronavirus to human beings. u.s. diplomats even -- a number of years ago, raise alarms about what they were seeing at that laugh. -- at that lab. that we were sending taxpayer dollars two. they threw up the warning flag. they alerted folks in washington dc and said there are dangerous, unsecure conditions at the slab. and yet, they continued to receive our dollars. it is things like that that we are ferreting out with the other entities, like the white coast -- white coat waste project. we are out there coming up with these horrible, horrible spender chairs through the u.s. government but we are trying to put a stop to it. those are the things i have been working on with my staff. i could give you literally billions of examples of dollars that have gone to projects like that. for the life of me, i cannot believe we send millions of dollars to the commonest party of china to do those type

also, some comments the administration made today, both this morning in a public interview from the nih director and also tonight, on the press conference announcing the resumption of the johnson & johnson vaccine, some interesting comments from administration officials about how this rare side effect from the johnson & johnson vaccine is actually treatable, if you catch it early, which would very much change the calculus about whether or not that is unacceptable risk even at the individual level if you're thinking about what vaccine to get. that conversation is coming up just a moment. big news on the vaccine front because of it. but also, in terms of what else we have been covering today, i did not expect to be talking about this story again at this point in the show but unexpected lynn, it turns out that a greased pig twister tournament has been taking shape in the american southwest in a national politics story that is still almost impossible to believe. now this is the story that we told you about on last night show, boy howdy, did it get weirder today. but as we reported last nigh

the director of the nih. for those wondering technically, dr. fauci's boss. dr. collins, thanks for coming on and sharing your views with us. >> thanks, chuck, it's always a pleasure. good morning to everybody. >> you got it. >>> later in the broadcast we have our new nbc news poll on president biden's first 100 days in office. >>> but next, what the derek chauvin verdict means and doesn't mean for the future of policing and then some. the panel is next. the panel is . e a that works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. with just one pill a day, you get 24-hour heartburn protection. take the prilosec otc two-week challenge. and see the difference for yourself. prilosec otc, 1 pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. is skincare from around the world better than olay? olay regenerist faced 131 premium products, from 12 countries, over 10 years. olay's hydration was unbeaten every time. face anything. find out more at olay.com >>> welcome back. the panel is with us. "washington post" columnist eugene robinson. nbc correspondent morgan radfor

the national institutes of health, the nih i believe should create a similar advanced research project agency for health. [applause] a singular purpose to develop breakthroughs to prevent, detect and treat diseases like alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer. i will still never forget when we passed the cancer proposal in the last year, almost $9 million going to nih and excuse the point of personal privilege naming after my deceased son it meant a lot. but so many of us have to see sons, daughters and relatives die of cancer. i can think of no more worthy investment. i know of nothing that is more bipartisan. so let's and cancer as we know it. it is within our power. it's within our power to do it. [applause] investments and jobs and infrastructure like the ones we are talking about have often had bipartisan support in the past. vice president harris and i met regularly with democrats and republicans to discuss the jobs plan. and i applaud a group of republican senators that put forth their own proposal. so let's get to work. i want it to lay out before the congress my plan before we got in

somehow neither the cdc nor the nih has gotten behind regeneron's terrific job i think this is total negligence by the u.s. government the governor of the besieged state of michigan gretchen widmer painted its praises in a speech yesterday, giving the stock new life cdc, nih, will you stop putting the hate on regeneron? medical stocks all rallied hard today. how hard even the beleaguered johnson & johnson managed to go up now the market didn't overlook the fact that we got some blowout retail sales numbers, allowing retailers to roar and because interest rates went down signaling lower infection, the secular growth stocks that we all know and love, twilio, okta, they just soar that's what happens when interest rates go down big on the other hand, the banks gave up the ghost, not because they put up bad numbers, but numbers are real good one, that one later, but because the smart money was betting that fed chief powell would have to raise rates to combat inflation. that's such a cliche and good news for the banks. but when you see bond yields plummeting, that suggests those rate hikes

. >> we'll talk to nih lead vaccine developer. >>> welcome to "inside politics sunday." i'm abby phillip. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your easter sunday about us. joe biden campaigned for the white house as a transformational candidate, a bridge to the next generation of american leaders. but in his first months in office, he's governed as a president with far bigger ambitions. and with infrastructure week finally here, his $2.3 trillion plan is one of the most sweeping presidential proposals in decades. >> it will create millions of jobs, good-paying jobs. it will grow the economy, make us more competitive around the world, promote our national security interests and put us in a position to win the global competition with china. i'm convinced that if we act now, in 50 years people will look back and say this was the moment that america won the future. >> the american jobs plan spends hundreds of billions on traditional infrastructure priorities like modernizing the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, repl

the national institute of health nih. i believe she create. a similar advanced research projects agency for health. >> you know, do. we have a singular purpose. >> to do all of breakthroughs. to prevent detect and treat diseases like alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer. i still never forget. we. the cancer proposal last year as vice president. almost 9 million dollars going and i each. you just used a point of personal privilege. >> i forget you stand a mention saying named after my deceased son. it meant a lot. but so many of us. and to see sons, daughters and relatives died of cancer. i could be done. no more worthy investment. i know nothing. that is more bipartisan. so let's end cancer as we know it. it's within our power. >> our power to do it.

and the other highly anticipated moment is the reopening of the nih and that's. today it's still a construction site the original building dates back to the 1960 s. it was designed by german american architectural legend me. ask. 6 years of renovation of the emblematic building opened in august covered allowing of course that's what i did and you know what does the law enough to mean to berlin and to berliners it was a premier building for art in 20th century berlin built in 1968 when the wall was still up so it was the building for art in west berlin and today in the reunified city we have several national galleries ultimates you know gallery for the art of the 19th century and this one for the art of the 20th century designed by nice vandar. yes but they are like busily renovating now what can visitors look forward to after the renovation it's not. renovated the building very strictly as nice found out or originally planted in 1968 we wanted to preserve as much of that as possible and so we'll be reopening with an exhibition that i think he would have liked ver