here's rand paul's chain of logic: sunday, marx tweeted, "if i ever meet rand paul's neighbor, i'm goingand buy him as many drinks as he can consume." that led rand paul to complain "just this weekend, richard marx called for violence against me and i received this powder-filled letter. "called for violence"? it was a call to buy someone a drink. but i get it. richard marx has over 300,000 followers on twitte-- i believe they're called marxists-- and with that kind of social media platform, you have to be careful about what you say. still, to think that richard marx is dangerous is just ridiculous. i mean, when you consider the-- >> bwahahahaha! is it, steve? >> stephen: grammy award-winning artist who topped the charts in four different decades, chicago's very own richard marx?! how did you break into my broadcast? >> oh, steve, wherever you go. whatever you do, i, richard will ♪ be right here waiting for you ♪ along with my 300,000 twitter followers. who i call "the richards." >> stephen: okay, but you're not inciting violence against people, are you? >> of course not. all i want is wo

what doesn't make any sense is where rand paul was going. where senator paul was going other than as he seemed to have foreshadowed in a tweet ahead of this hearing that he was just ready to fight. and just wanted to attack dr. fauci. >> yeah. and he's echoing peter navaro's comments. peter navarro is saying it was a chinese communist party plat plot to create the coronavirus type two. it was a distraction so people wouldn't criticize the trump administration. why raise this possibility if we already know that sars like coronavirus are emerging routinely in china. this is why a number of groups began investigated. >> you were looking in the not so way back machine this morning about every time dr. fauci testifies before this committee and senator paul is there, it becomes contentious. if if it isn't about masks, it is about misleading information on vaccines. and now it is about wherever rand paul wanted to take folks down a rabbit hole today. >> right. this is a question about funding. did nih support the research or not? dr. fauci saying th

fauci favorite sparring partner joins us now senator rand paul. r paul, you feel using some of things i just said that dr. fauci was being deceptive today, in what way. >> i think it's incredibly important that the audience knows what gain of function is they take an animal virus that's benign and does not infect humans and they juice it up. they make it a super virus so it can infect humans. now ostensibly this is done to study the virus. there is a danger if that virus leaks it could kill a lot of people. so when i asked him about this research i knew the answer. the answer is this there is a famous scientist in the wuhan lab her name is dr. chi and she published a paper a couple years ago which has been reviewed by mit and says it's a gain of function research but in the by line she has to list the sponsors. she list dr. fauci and the niaid as a sponsor of her research which everybody acknowledges gain of function research, juicing up these super viruses so i don't know how he can get around this. he could argue oh, it was an intermediary group

rand paul's neighbor, convicted, pleaded guilty, basically attacked rand paul and broke six of his ribsyou see, so many lawmakers are pointing out what many in the country feel, social media is dividing this country. we've got unchecked anonymous, poison and vitriol but silicon valley thinks they know better than us, better than you and congress. better than what americans think even though they're routinely canceling and platforming, shadow bang people for talking against things like lockdowns. i don't know how about lifting the section 230 is going to stop it. that seems like a long fight in other words, that is what i'm trying to say. that seems like a long uphill battle to do that. >> it is not just social media. it is media. it is their liberal bias because there is a complete double standard. if you had a conservative media figure, say that about a liberal politician all hell would break loose. there would be all kinds of attacks against that entertainer but if it's a liberal entertainer taking potshots at a conservative politician, that is all fair game. that's righteous criticis

mara: senator rand paul and his wife, kelly paul. they are speaking out against twitter after receiving a violent threat in the mail this past week. the role they say is a social media giant and '80s pop singer richard marx played in inciting this threat. plus, small business struggling to recover after lockdowns and now they are facing it another big threat. head of the largest small business association in america is here to tell me why they are launching a survival campaign against president biden's policies but first let's take a look back at some of the top newsmakers on "mornings with maria" in this addition of the week's talkers, watch. ♪♪ >> we have seen reports of labor shortages, inflation so how do you characterize the economic backdrop today? >> the economy is very close fully employed and it's almost impossible to find skilled labor, which is a big problem. maria: we have a major crisis our border and i was just there three weeks ago and was able to witness firsthand. >> what is the message coming out of homeland securit

, rand paul is blaming twitter for allowing attacks against him to run rampant.e says he wants to talk to twitter, twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok our slam for allowing anti-anti-semitic tweets and social media posting, plus this you won't believe what is happening now, to obama officials, officials who work for president obama in his demonstration they are criticizing biden's policy one even calling biden green agenda ridiculous, a new push is on to refund the police, boost police budget after a year of riots and crime and violence as police respond to gun shots and george floyd square in minneapolis, just after year of his death. texas governor greg abbott says he will defund the city then defund the police, we have more local mayors in town seen the bidenn administration is leaving them stranded with weak policies they have a deal with rising border violence from illegal crossers, many with guns and weapons, thanks for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now, ♪. liz: welcome to the show you're watching the foxge business ne

the fbi investing in a package with white powder in a threatening image sent to senator rand paul's kentuckytor with five rib fractures. paul wrote in the statement "i take these threats immensely seriously, i've been targeted multiple times now, it is reprehensible that they allow celebrities to advocate for violence against me and my family." what is he referring to? well, just this weekend for richard marx -- remember him? call for violence against and now we received this powder filled letter. can you imagine calling him a celebrity? i guess he has. he is history's second biggest jerk named mark was apparently a musician and tweeted over the weekend that he would love to hug and buy drinks for the neighbor who had assaulted paul. he said three number one singles, including this one. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ whatever it takes ♪ ♪ i will be right here waiting for you ♪♪ >> greg: that was actually written about rand paul 20 years ago. it makes no sense. okay, dave. which was more dangerous walking through times square or being rand paul? >> rand paul walking through times square. i just realize you were talk

kentucky senator rand paul receives a death threat. the fbi as well as capital police are investigating. >> why isn't president biden pushing for more access. >> we are and we have repeatedly called for the w. h. o. >> once donald trump mentioned the possibility that this could have come from a lab, the entire media decided that he had to be wrong and that was just an absolute mistake. >> just uncovering an algorithm that reportedly could be used to target facebook's political enemies. >> facebook has beta tested this vaccine hesitancy score tiering system. >> the state resting its case in the mollie tibbetts trial. christian rivera charged with first degree murder. >> the prosecution questioned investigators. >> stunning footage captured of a tornado developing. >> damaging homes and buildings >> those storms targeting the same parts of the country over and over again in western kansas we could see even worse weather for tomorrow. ainsley: we start with a fox news alert. kentucky senator rand paul receives a death threat. steve: fox n

whether or not senator rand paul will be having them respectfully with dr.ci, i think that's another matter entirely. >> his passive, aggressive tweet told us all we need to know about this and also look we have the receipts on senator paul and we're going to talk about that a little bit later. we have to roll the tape on that. lauren, thank you so much. >>> a world on edge, jerusalem spirals. a school shooting in russia. and a new standoff between the u.s. and iran. we'll take you there. >>> plus the fbi says a criminal gang is holding the u.s. hostage in the pipeline cyberattack that's threaten the supply line up and down the east coast. >>> and caitlyn jenner speaks with cnn about her republican run for governor. what she says about donald trump's influence. this is "new day." >> announcer: "new day," brought to you by fast side. when it's hot outside your car is like a sauna steaming up lingering odors. febreze car vent clips stop hot car stench with up to 30 days of freshness. get relief with febreze. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out the

but you just heard rand paul.disturb towing hear about the fact that there is money going from the united states to the world health organization that is funding this mechanism, this gain of function to get a virus to go from an even mall to human. what do you think of that? >> a couple points. his point that there are 11 labs in the united states doing that kind of research deeply disturbing. i agree that gain of function -- you may have a virus in nature that does go occasionally to human. but species barriers prevent it from suddenly easily going human-to-human. as you put it, ginning up the virus so it's easily transmissible is extremely dangerous. the world health organization, i have a contact there who says the entire organization is deeply compromised from tedros on down and that we are carrying water for china the whole time. one other thing -- judge jeanine: i don't have a lot of time, i want to ask you. >> go ahead. judge jeanine: the question right now is americans who have the virus, or have the vacci

i don't think the big news of the day is that rand paul had another epic showdown with dr. fauci.ppens all the time. but when you have "the new york times" and susan collins saying to the cdc we have lost confidence in you, people don't trust what you say, to me, that is epic that you have such a failure at the cdc. it's not just a communication standpoint of which has been abysmal. but something fundamentally is happening there where they are not actually following the science. and they are not communicating that to the public. and that is very dangerous because this pandemic was extremely serious that it wasn't as fatal as some pandemics could be. so i think one of the things the cdc has to consider doing is some sort of dependent after action report where everything is turned upside down and looked at with a microscope so that they can figure out a way to improve their credibility for the next time, because there will be a next time. >> jessie: katie, so do you think the cdc purposely inflated the number to lie to the american people? and if so, why would they do that? >> katie

to 15 does this mean mandatory vaccination for middle schoolers are in the future this as senator rand paul has taken dr fell to task about the origins of coded then someone joins us to discuss plus is the u.s. government paying people not to work well dr wolfe will help us decide and meanwhile is it google going back on the word and still tracking your activity we're going to update you on the latest and what you can do about it i'm sorry no he's in all of these stories on today's edition of news he is used right here on our to america. we start the show with escalating conflict between the israelis and the palestinians now you are currently looking at a live picture on the left of your screen of the israel gaza border as a nice quiet seems to be very quiet now but that is in large comparison to the video on your right is earlier when the skyline was being lit up by fire power from both sides now sirens are going off across all of israel and both sides seem to show signs the fighting is going to continue to escalate and there is a lot of there's a lot of volved in the scituate situation an

$15.00 does this mean mandatory vaccination for middle schoolers are in the future this as senator rand paul has taken dr fell to task about the origins of coded bin swan joins us to discuss plus is the u.s. government paying people not to work well dr wolfe will help with decide and meanwhile is a google going back on the word and still tracking your activity we're going to update you on the latest and what you can do about it i am starting now here you can all of these stories on today's edition of newsweek right here on our to america i. we start the show with escalating conflict between the israelis and the palestinians now you are currently looking at a live picture on the left of your screen. of the israel gaza border as the nice quiet seems to be very quiet now but that is in large comparison to the video on your right is earlier when the skyline was being lit up by fire power from both sides now sirens are going off across all of israel and both sides seem to show signs the fighting is going to continue to escalate and there is a lot of there's a lot of volved in the scituate situati

rand paul is here with us. good to have you here.argeted reprehensible now that twitter allows violence against me and my family. let's start with this investigation. any investigation on who sent this letter with the white powder? >> no. they will investigate it. it hard to find people that send things through the mail but they'll find them. the song writer that nobody has heard of. you know, hundreds of people on twitter every day are wishing me violence, wishing my family violence. twitter claims they have a policy but they don't take it down. twitter now announced today this guy doesn't violate their policy. so he's offered to buy drinks to somebody. i almost died at one time from the infections and from the long surgery that i had. they are allowed to get on twitter. it's a private company. they can do it if they want. this is a private company that hates conservatives, hates republicans. they don't want us on there and maybe the answer is republicans need to just quit. we need to leave it. because every day they allow hundreds

fauci as rand paul, senator from kentucky, was pressing dr. fauci about the origin of coronavirus, the novel coronavirus that has attacked the world. we know it started in china, but now the questions come back to that lab at the wuhan institute where potentially they were studying something like what the world is suffering with and could it have either begun there, escaped from there, what happened? what we saw on record today was dr. fauci stating now that he does not know what the chinese government may have done there in that lab. he fully supports an investigation into what may have happened or did not happen in that lab and about the origins of coronavirus. perhaps he has said that before in ways that were not clear or in different circles. now he is saying it in front of the full senate committee. and now he is saying it at the information gathering and push from senator rand paul. what a moment. let's go deeper. i want to bring in trey gowdy former state and federal prosecutor and house oversight committee chairman and fox news contrib

jillian: the death threat to rand paul. >> fox news obtaining a video of the disturbing message on yourkie ibanez joins us with more. >> a package containing that letter and a suspicious white powder was delivered to paul's kentucky on monday. fox news exclusively obtaining this picture that shows paul wearing a neck brace and a cast on his arm. hard to see but there is also an image of a gun pointed directly at paul's head. at the bottom of the letter, quote, i will finish what your neighbor started. the senator presumably implying death kentucky republican after he was attacked by his neighbor in 2017. in a statement paul says in part i take these threats seriously. i have been targeted multiple times now and this comes just days after sinker richard marx, quote, if i ever meet landfall's neighbor i am going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume describing his comment as a wisecrack. blaming the tax thing is reprehensible twitter allows celebrities to advocate violence against me and my family. this must stop. he's been the victim of several scary encounters while at

guidance on this is crystal clear, even if someone has already had covid-19, and recovered, like rand paul, they should be vaccinated. the reason for this is also quite clear, as you said we don't yet know exactly how long immunity lasts after infection and the duration likely differs from person to person, all of us have different immune systems, rand paul's recovered from covid-19, it is possible, though thankfully to date quite rare, that he could get reinfected and the rate of reinfection may increase over time, especially as immunity wanes and more importantly with the emergence of some of these variant strains. so vaccination is the safest and most effective way to build a durable immune response that protects you, your family, your friends and your community. >> i want to make clear here, this is what i'm going to call an equal opportunity outrage, a picture of the democratic governor of michigan, gretchen whitmer, by breitbart, the governor violating her own protocols, six people at a take maximum. she says she went out for drinks with friends, more friends showed up. everybody was

i have been targeted multiple times now, this after richard marx tweeted if i ever meet rand paul's neighboro hug him and by him as many drinks as he can consume. he described his comments et al. wisecrack. senator paul blaming big tech saying it is reprehensible twitter allow celebrities to advocate for violence against me and my family. this must paul has been the victim of several scary encounters last fall while meeting the republican national convention at the white house. an angry mob surrounded the senator and his wife as they walked back to their hotel. police had to force their way into the group to protect the couple. investigators sending a sample of the white powder to a lab for testing at the fbi and capital police are investigating. todd: disturbing how much influence richard marx has on our society. here we are in 2021. >> a pilot is killed after military jet crashes in a residential neighborhood near a nevada air force base. >> reporter: call out if you can hear us? jillian: the plane operated by military contractor plummeted from the sky moments after taking off from nellis

rand paul said i've recovered from covid-19.tected. dr. fauci says he only feels safe because he's fully vaccinated despite the fact that all evidence showed that natural immunity is providing the same protects from severe covid-19 reinfection as vaccination. why aren't those questions being answered? unfortunately we're continued to be suppressed. any form of contrarian thought that goes against what dr. faux economy and the cdc says. >> let me go back to what i thought was the biggest indicator china knew. devin nunes. okay. china had a travel ban. couldn't fly out, couldn't travel from anywhere in china to wuhan province. you could trans from wuhan to the rest of the world. doesn't that seem how bad it was and didn't care about anybody but themselves? >> sean, also the chinese party put out through their propaganda machine that this originated from some chinese dude that eat an animal in a market. there's no evidence of that other than what they told us. i should note, go back in history. remember when the virus was spread so

fauci and senator rand paul yesterday during a senate hearing. >> dr. o you still support funding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan? >> senator paul, with all due respect you're entirely and completely incorrect that the nih has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. >> government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function. >> i don't favor gain of function research in china. not correct. >> dana: dr. marc siegel is here to weigh in. lucas tomlinson is at the pentagon. what can you tell us? >> many republicans in addition to senator paul are pressing the chinese to cough up more information how this virus originated and accusing beijing of a cover-up. dr. fauci says he does support a full investigation. >> will you in front of this group categorically say the covid-19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory? >> i do not have any accounting of what the chinese may have done and i'm fully in favor of any further investigation of what went on in china. however, i will repeat agai

thankfully, most people are not rand paul. there's good news about covid in the u.s.tty much everywhere you look, and i'll tell you all about it in vax-sce.in ♪ let's talk about vax, baby let's talk about antibodies ♪ let's talk about getting dirty after herd immunity ♪ let's talk about vax. let's talk about vax ♪ let's talk about vax let's talk about vax >> stephen: as of yesterday nearly 50% of all americans have gotten at least one dose, and covid deaths are as low as they've been since last summer. yes, low death summer. myitys alb. unfortunately, there's one grou sc their vaccine status, which has prompted speaker nancy pelosi to leave the house mask mandate in place. good. no one should be subjected to matt gaetz's face. jimmy? put a mask on him. let's double mask him. that's better. shocking news out of eastern europe because yesterday belarus forced a commercial plane to land so they could seize a dissident. there was some warning for passengers. the pilot had turned on the "no opposition to murderous dictator light." the dictator in question is evil nutcracke

and other law enforcement officials are investigating a package with white powder sent to senator rand paul'sob richard marx is behind it after he tweeted he would buy drinks for the neighbor who broke paul's ribs in 2017 in a backyard attack. well, the tweet has been taken down by twitter for violating the site's rules. in a statement to politico, the senator says that marx called for violence against me and now we received this powder-filled letter. there is no evidence of that. marx responding to critics on twitter saying he was just making a wisecrack and sarcastically saying i am the only person on twitter who ever refe referenced rand paul's neighbor? he was awarded a $500,000. he had six broken ribs and bruised lungs after getting angry over a brush pile. people, pull it together. violence. never the answer. >>> next, a grand jury convened in the criminal investigation in a former president trump business. that jury, well, the jury that could decide whether to indict him. who goes right back to sleep after getting an alert of an unusual charge on their credit card? you do. round the cl

i want to start with the sublime and then we'll get to rand paul. i remember how it felt in september. we were sort of white knuckled about a potential holiday surge, but we had survived the summer, and we were cautiously optimistic. do you think we can keep going down? >> yeah, i do think that cases are continuing and will continue to go down in the future weeks, nicole, double-digit decreases, which is great, not to mention, obviously, hospitalizations and deaths going down as well. and i think it's because not only have people been getting vaccinated, and we still need to work on that, but you're also seeing that, you know, the restrictions and people wearing masks indoors, we now know so much more about indoor transmission, that that works. so, it's great news. many of us are hoping the cdc will update guidance to start giving people relief from wearing masks when they don't need to, and that will be getting to those percentages, 60% to 70% of people vaccinated in your community. >> and i think you're talking about vaccinated people. let me show

kennedy: kentucky senator rand paul and doctor fauci at it again for you know.d over the origins of the coronavirus two separate morning shows. first doctor fauci said this to gayle king. >> you know gayle, i just don't want to get into that. i just don't understand what the problem is with him. i'm just going to do my job and he can do what he wants to do will see what happens. >> i don't know what his problem is all these questions. the kentucky center is not letting doctor fauci off the hook accusing him of being evasive about possibly finding the virus creation. mcafee is being interviewed by a journalist they would have asked, did the nih commager specific division of the nih give money to the wuhan lab? that is incontrovertible true. what he's arguing in these parsing his words he knows his group gave money. but he is saying it wasn't producing up the super viruses. we gave it for other research. kennedy: that is such hot malarkey there is no weight doctor fauci can prove that money from the nih did not know to juicing up the viruses. can they keep pressur

kentucky senator rand paul confronted dr.ut this in a hearing earlier this week. >> would you in front of this group categorically could not have occurred through passage of laboratory? doctor: i do not have any accounting of what the chinese may have done and i am fully in favor of any further investigation of what went on in china, however, i will repeat again, the nih and nid categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the wuhan institute of virology. >> you're fooling with mother nature here and allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality is very dangerous and huge mistake to share this with china. maria: there you have it. now we have breaking news this morning. congressman devin nunes, intelligence committee, here to unveil a new report that he's worked on the origins to have coronavirus. he sent a letter last night to president biden -- on friday rather with 25 questions. congressman, great to see you this morning. thanks very much for joining us. give us a scope of your repo

doctor, senator rand paul has been picking fights with dr.rings, and today he is tweeting -- and i quote -- looking forward to tomorrow's hearing, dr. fauci, exclamation point, linking to an article about fauci's happiness at being politicized by politicians like senator paul. what are attacks like rand paul's doing to public confidence in dr. fauci and other scientists who are just trying to save lives? >> yeah, you know, attacking tony fauci is sort of like firing your oncologist when they tell you you have cancer. you know, tony fauci has been, you know, working to put this fire out for the last, you know, 15 months. and the folks on the far right have basically taken his actions as an affront against their freedoms. you know, rand paul has felt that the coronavirus somehow has impeded his libertarian principles. he's just a buffoon and a sideshow, and tony fauci should just flick him off his shoulder like a dead cicada. >> speaking of which, similar, politicizing, fox and particularly tucker carlson have been spreading misinformation and

rand paul was going after dr.auci to suggest the united states government somehow funded the wuhan lab, and it was not doing enough now to figure out, did the virus originate in the wuhan lab? dr. paul likes to clash with dr. fauci. what did you make of that? >> john, senator paul is a known cons conspiracy theorist, and like many others, he's also a doctor. he's not an infectious disease doctor and not even an internist. he's an eye doctor. but he uses that credential to spread his conspiracy theories. and unfortunately we wasted time during this hearing listening to him grand stand and try to attack dr. fauci again when we should have spent time speaking about the public health emergency add hand. >> i want to get to another exchange, this is senator bill cassidy, also a doctor, republican senator from louisiana, he was essentially pushing, saying is the cdc being quick enough? it's all of government but especially the cdc moving quickly enough to update its guidance when we learn more about the coronavirus. he

such a lovely sentiment that senator rand paul's strategist tweeted about dr. ci in response to fauci giving his opinion this week on the future of masks. that they might be a, quote, seasonal thing. claes classy retort. senator paul is also trolling fauci ahead of another appearance this morning on the pandemic which has now claimed more than 600,000 american lives. in response to fauci saying he's being politicized by extreme people which is just a fact, paul replied, looking forward to tomorrow's hearing, dr. fauci, passive aggressive exclamation point there at the end. to be clear, fauci is not immune from questions or scrutiny but senator paul who is an eye doctor, approaches these hearings as if they are a wwe match, instead of titillating a witty crowd he blows disinformation all over them p. as much as i disrespect you, dr. fauci, i don't think you are the one person who gets to make a decision. >> i've never made myself out to be the end all. >> developed enough community immunity that they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immun

we need to ask the questions, rand paul did a fantastic job of getting this on the agenda.irst time dr. fauci has been directly asked about this. i noticed he ran out of time. there was no time for follow-ups that we need. there are others of whom we need to ask questions, what can you do. in the minority to force that questioning of dr. fauci. this something that has to wait until the republican party retakes congress, perhaps in midterms. >> it can't wait, i have a bill to declassify relevant intelligence. and create a commission to investigate this. the reality is being in minority of bills will not pass, we have to increase pressure with every member of congress asking the questions, the dam is beginning to break within the scientific community, some scientists who were previously afraid to speak out because the funding and representation is tied to the grants, i think we have a window opportunity to continue to ask the hard questions, increase pressure, we can't wait two years. we cannot wait, we need to get to the bottom of some people propose increasing funding for g

in a violence, vulgar message sent wow containing white powder sent to the home of senator rand paul. the breaking details on this disturbing story coming up. in one year after the death of george floyd, calls for justice and for some, calls to defund the police. the u.s. is facing surging crime rates in big cities nationwide. and now many localities are reconsidering the millions they stripped away from law enforcement. we begin tonight with the latest development giving significant new way to one potential theory that covid-19 originally escaped from a lab in wuhan, china. white house correspondent tracking it all for us tonight. good evening, kevin. >> great to be back with you. the origin story of covid-19 as you know has been a bit of a forbidden topic in the corporate/mainstream press for the past 16 months. often people bring it up on social media and they are immediately subject to banishment or media ridicule and so-called "fact-checking." even now as a country against to reopen from the pandemic, more and more people are asking questions about how we got here in the first pl

once again, republican senator rand paul clashed with dr. anthony fauci. nator paul used the time to question the origins of the virus in a theory about the wuhan lab. here is part of the exchange. >> for years, dr. ralph baric, a virologyist in the u.s. has been collaborating with a doctor with the wuhan virology institute, sharing his theories about how to create super viruses. this gain of function research has been funded by the nih. dr. fauci, do you still support funding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan? >> senator paul, with all due respect, you're entirely and completely incorrect that the nih has not ever does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. >> do they fund dr. barrack? >> we do not fund -- >> do you fund dr. barrett's gain of function research? >> dr. barrett does not do gain of function research and if it is, it's according to the guidelines and being conducted in north carolina. if you look at the grant, and you look at the progress reports, it is not gain of function despite the fact that people tweet that -

so senator rand paul once accused dr. fauci of partaking in mask theater.g people that they needed a mask even if they had been vaccinated or had covid-19. now today dr. fauci admitted that it was in a sense for show. watch. >> i am now much more comfortable in people seeing me indoors without a mask. before the cdc made the recommendation change, i didn't want to look like i was giving mixed signals. being fully vaccinated person, the chances of my getting infected in an indoor setting is extremely low. >> martha: that would have sent a strong message. republican senator rand paul of kentucky joins me now. senator, good to see you. thanks for coming back today. >> thank you. >> martha: what goes through your mind as you listen to your friend dr. fauci say that? >> my question is did you not believe in vaccine immunology when you did this weeks ago or was it for show? we have known that when you're vaccinated that you're not transmitting it and not getting it. we've known that for months now and also vaccine immunology, that's what happens. you don't have t

kentucky senator rand paul confronted dr.e hearing earlier this week. >> will you in front of this group categorically say that the covid-19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory. >> i do not have any accounting of what the chinese may have done and i'm fullly in favor of any investigation of what went on in china. i will repeat again the nih and niad categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the wuhan institute of virology. >> you're fooling with mother nature here, you're allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality, it's very dangerous. it was a huge mistake to share this with china. maria: there you have it. chnow we have breaks news this morning, congressman devin nunes is here to unveil a new report that he worked on, on the origins of the coronavirus. devin nunes has been investigating china for over a decade. he sent a letter last night to president biden, on friday, rather, with 25 questions he wants answered by the end of the month. he joins us no