of pla shadow labs in wuhan institute of virology and bioengineering university. china has been interested in coronavirus as a bioweapon for many years and reported as far back as 2005 that they had this interest. unfortunately because of china's cover-up we will never know with 100% certainty what actually took place. as dr. redfield said one time it will take the intelligence community to figure this out because china is not going to be cooperative. but several of the agencies have leaned towards lab leak and leaned more and more heavily and i think you may even see that change some more for other agencies as they become more aware of some of the things that were out there. i want to say i'm really grateful to be here today and to be part of this and i want to thank everyone for the kind words and the work committee is doing. a lot of our work is driven by the work of others and what we see taking place puts us in the right direction i think all the time. i am grateful for that. i want to say we've got to do things to make sure that we have the ability to react

he did not loy to congress about gain of function research in wuhan. he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign. today dr. fauci's testimony along with the thousands of pages of documents and dozens of closed door testimony provided to house republicans as part of the covid origins investigation will dispelthese claims and reveal that the people bowing down to a twice impeached president who told themselves to inject themselves with bleach want you to believe not a big political lie but a big medical lie as well. i hope the committee can correct the propaganda and misinformation today and we will be able to return to what the good ranking member has said which is an authentic investigation of the origins of the pandemic. i will yield back to the gentleman. >> i yield back. >> i now recognize mr. griffith for a 3 minute statement. >> thank you, i want to thank the committee for including the energy and commerce committee in this hearing. a senior advisor and chief of staff greg fultzers retenely evaded freed of information act records and that

fauci did not lie about gain in function research in wuhan, china, and dr. fauci debt orchestrated campaign to suppress the lab leak theory. after 15 months the select subcommittee does not possess a shred of evidence to substantiate these extreme allegations that republicans have levied against dr. fauci for nearly four years. now i want to make something very clear. in the past month the select subcommittee has held hearings where we have examined various serious issues of misconduct. following the fact subcommittee democrats have found troubling by dr. daszak including potential efforts to mislead the federal government about the nature of its work through the evasion of reporting and transparency requirements. in less than two weeks away from dr. david about his flagrant violation of the freedom of information act transparency requirements at the potential destruction of federal records. both doctors deserve to be held accountable for betraying the public's trust. to hold them accountable is not anti-sites but it is the defense of our federal scientific

next section pla contractor involved in the construction of the wuhan institute of virology. next section, pla present at wib with institute of virology continued after construction completed and lastly, cyber evidence of pla shadow labs tat wuhan e institute of virology ad bioengineering university. china has been interested in coronaviruses, coronavirus as possible bioweapon for many years and has been reported as far back as 2005 that they had this -- this interest. so unfortunately because of china's cover-up we will never know with a hundred percent certainty what actually took place. as dr. redfield at one time it will take the intelligence community because china is not going to be cooperative but several of the agencies leaned towards lab leak and leaned more and more heavily and i think you may even see that change some more for othern agencies as they become more aware of some of the things that were out there. look, i want to just say i'm grateful to be here today and to be part of this. i want to thank everyone for the kind words that our committee is doing but it

the subject line covid misinformation wuhan lab leak theory.in response to continued public pressure and intense conversation with the new administration we started removing kovic lindsay clein lab leak there. mr. zuckerberg response to this end like a good reminder when we compromise our standards due to pressure from administration in either direction we often later regret it. why was it so important the virus not have starred in a lab? >> wasn't so important that the virus not -- we don't know. >> it was about to some in the biden administration come so much so that the top people at meta-, top people at facebook are asking why we get all this pressure to downplay the lab leak theory and we have an e-mail from june of the same year, june 4, 2021 saying the same thing. it's so important to somebody. >> what does that have got to do with a. >> with i'm asking you because you're the expert on coronavirus. >> am i on those in the. >> was why was the administration still pushing not have the lab leak theory is something is liable? >> i can't add

about wuhan in russia, however, as a the wuhans recognized russians back at the beginning of the 15ths tea house began. the path to europe, which was 70% controlled by russian merchants, is now on the embankment in wuhan, a monument to them. green tea has not taken root in russia, but black tea, which is actually called in china. red has not only taken root, but also grows beautifully in sochi. here it is the birthplace of the chinese chayakimun closest to russians, here it is called qimen huncha, that is, red tea, heroic gate, anhui province is barely considered here at all isn’t it the most tea-like, because three of the ten best chinese varieties are from here? keemun, also known as cemen, is the only red tea awarded imperial status in china; its study here is approached with all scientific precision. all tea differs in shape, in leaf structure, you see, here are the pointed tips, the head of the oldest tea research institute in china, professor wang , specially brought samples from sochi to find out their dna. we have been working with a scientist from sochi for a long time, and i

they learned about wuhan in russia, however, as about the russians in wuhan, back in the early 16th centuryus tea route to europe began, which was 70% controlled by russian merchants, now... green tea has not taken root in russia, but black tea, which in china itself is actually called red, is not just has taken root, but also grows well in sochi. she the birthplace of the chinese tea kemun, closest to russians, here it is called qimen huncha, that is, red tea, the heroic gate, the anhui province is generally considered to be perhaps the most tea, because three of the ten best chinese varieties are from here. keemun, also known as qimen, is the only red tea awarded imperial status in china; its study here is approached with all scientific precision. all tea differs in shape, in the structure of the leaf, you see, it’s pointed here. head of china's oldest tea research institute, professor wang i specially brought samples from sochi to find out their dna. we have been working with a scientist from sochi for a long time, it turned out that tea culture in russia is also very developed, the kimu

came up with what i view a ruse this was a new pandemic that somehow came out of the wet market and wuhan in late december of 2019. >> thank you for that explanation. david your deputy secretary at the time. he said he thought it was preventable. could you add to what he said about what china did in those early months about covering it up? >> sure. it is been said for years as a sometimes today that public health is an obvious area of cooperation. washington and beijing can pursue together. as u.s./china relations grown so much more tense in recent years at their urban arguments for the united states and our allies to take fundamentally more defenses and suspicious and pessimistic and competitive posture towards china entered the chinese communist party for the argument there are opportunities to still cooperate in major areas with china persist those major areas are sometimes cited to include climate and environmental issues and public health issues and an absolutely priority weight. well, unfortunately we have a run this experiment for many years in many different ways most significantl

about wuhan in russia, however, they learned about the russians in wuhan back in the early 16th centuryoute began to europe, which was 70% controlled by russian merchants, now on the embankment. same taste, same color, but the aroma is completely different, and we want to understand what influenced the tea genome. freshly cut leaves are poured with liquid nitrogen, crushed into powder. now this is the material from which we will get the extract. the extract will be run through dozens of devices using hundreds of parameters, a full chemical analysis, again an important indicator is the aroma, here it is fruity, with a floral tint. feel it, right? in china it is believed that it is kemun that has an amazing ability to enhance the beneficial properties of other products, and also stimulate the nervous system, improve memory, increase work with... large tea companies, and here only local varieties, leaf by leaf. weight in china is not measured in kilograms, and dzin, one dzin is 500 g, half a kilo, and the price of tea per day varies from ten yuan to several thousand and even tens of thousa

could the coronavirus have been developed at wuhan as part of a gain of function study? >> dr. that were studied were evolutionarily so far distant from what turned out to be sars-cov-2 that no matter what you did with those viruses you would not be will to do that. that doesn't mean that somewhere in china it is conceivable that someone may been working on something, bringing it out for the environment. that's the reason why we keep an open mind as to what the cause of it is. >> stephen: so a lot of controversy about what the origin of it is. a, why is it so important that we know? and b, is there anything new that we've learned recently? >> dr. fauci: no. well, first of all, it's important to know because you want to make sure you put into place things that would prevent that from happening again. so since we unlikely will know, any cooperation between china and the united states. >> stephen: their processes are black boxed. >> dr. fauci: and the hostility between the countries is such that there is not going to be cooperation. so if you say it's one of the other, it's either

same with mers back set over spill over we now know >> we all know that covid-19 began in the wuhan areabably somewhere between august and october of 2019 where the cases began to appear. so really had nothing to do with the origin paper that's really a paper that should be retracted and had nothing to do with the black market. the other thing i'll say for people's reference points cause as a virologist i've always felt that the origin of this virus was gain of function research, laboratory action. why did i think that as a virologist? when a virus goes from an animal into humans, it take as long time for that virus to learn how to efficiently transmit human to human. you're kind of witnessing that look at the bird flu epidemic in dairy farms and fourth dairy farmer worker infected but that virus doesn't know how to go into humans right now. whe covid came, immediately was one of the most infectious viruses that i've seen as a clinical virologist behind the measles and it was educated to know how to infect humans, and we now know there were papers published by the lab in 2014 and 2015 an

last year, hhs debarred the wuhan institute from receiving federal grants for 10 years. and just last week, suspended all funding for echo health alliance and plans to debar them, too. i think both of those probably should have been done much sooner. the nih has a credibility problem here, when it comes to gain of function research, and i strongly encourage you and dr. marrazzo, too, in your new roles, to restore strength and research integrity and trust to the nih in this area. thank you very much. look forward to your testimony. >> thank you, senator capito. i will now introduce our witnesses. we have dr. monica bertagnolli, the director of the national institutes of health. we have dr. gary gibbons, he is the director of the national heart, lung, and blood institute. dr. hodus is the director of the national institute on aging. and dr. jean marrazzo is the director of infectious diseases. dr. kim russell is the director of the national cancer institute, and dr. nora volkoff is the director of the national institute on drug abuse. thank you, all, for being here today,

the second has to do with the lab in wuhan. the two alternatives are that it was deliberately created as a weapon of mass destruction in the lab. the second alternative is it was being researched in the lab and leaked out. at "newsguard," we have settled on the idea there is still a debate over whether it leaked out of the lab or came from some other place like the market. we have followed most of the experts. we are not experts but we rely on most of the experts who generally agree it was not deliberately created by the chinese in the lab as a weapon. host: that goes to our point, bill's point, that was more information. during the covid pandemic, a lot of information about the lab was pooh-poohed or said it was not possible. guest: that is a debate. that is not an attack on the media to say some people believe something, some people doubted something. that is what happens with everything, especially something new and unknown and mysterious at the time. the caller said the declaration about herd immunity which was totally bogu

the second has to do with the lab in wuhan. the two alternatives are that it was deliberately created as a weapon of mass destruction in the lab. the second alternative is it was being researched in the lab and leaked out. at "newsguard," we have settled on the idea there is still a debate over whether it leaked out of the lab or came from some other place like the market. we have followed most of the experts. we are not experts but we rely on most of the experts who generally agree it was not deliberately created by the chinese in the lab as a weapon. host: that goes to our point, bill's point, that was more information. during the covid pandemic, a lot of information about the lab was pooh-poohed or said it was not possible. guest: that is a debate. that is not an attack on the media to say some people believe something, some people doubted something. that is what happens with everything, especially something new and unknown and mysterious at the time. the caller said the declaration about herd immunity which was totally bogu

d-backs response to house committee last week when asked if nih grant funded function research at wuhan, dr. answered quote, if you're speaking about the generic term, yes we did. last year hhs barred -- debarred the wuhan institute from receiving federal grants for 10 years and just last week suspended all funding for echo health alliance and plans to debar them too. i think both of those should have been done much sooner. the nih has a credibility problem here when it comes to gaining functional research and i strongly encourage you and dr. marrazzo , in your new roll, to restore strength and research integrity and trust to the nih in this area. thank you very much. i look forward to your testimony. >> thank you, senator p i will not introduce our witnesses. we have dr. monica bertagnolli . she is the director of the national institutes of health. we have dr. gary gibbons. he is the director of the national heart, lung, and blood institute. dr. richard hodes is the director of the national institute on aging . dr. jean marrazzo is the director of the national institute of allergy and

the second has to do with the lab in wuhan. the two alternatives are that it was deliberately created as a weapon of mass destruction in the lab. the second alternative is it was being researched in the lab and leaked out. at "newsguard," we have settled on the idea there is still a debate over whether it leaked out of the lab or came from some other place like the market. we have followed most of the experts. we are not experts but we rely on most of the experts who generally agree it was not deliberately created by the chinese in the lab as a weapon. host: that goes to our point, bill's point, that was more information. during the covid pandemic, a lot of information about the lab was pooh-poohed or said it was not possible. guest: that is a debate. that is not an attack on the media to say some people believe something, some people doubted something. that is what happens with everything, especially something new and unknown and mysterious at the time. the caller said the declaration about herd immunity which was totally bogu

daszak revealed that the renegotiated grant would rely on continued work from the wuhan institute of virology. and he confirmed that nih was unaware of this continued collaboration when certifying eco-health complaints. this means that based on false statements, nih approved federal funding to go toward work involving the debarred wuhan institute of virology. dr. morens, do you agree that the nih should have a rigorous review process to ensure that the grants are a responsible use of the federal taxpayer dollars? >> yes.>> do you agree that the strict processes are especially important when evaluating a grantee who is out of compliance and determine if they are still receiving funding?>> yes.>> thank you, yes is the answer. you wrote to dr. daszak in an email titled for urgent review, questions raised by eco-health alliance grant proposal, you wrote, do not worry, behind-the- scenes, nih is sticking up for eco-health, and proceeded to forward internal nih communications to dr. daszak. what did you mean by saying that the nih was sticking up for eco-health behind-the- scenes? >> i don

the day before, as part of the twentieth round of the chinese championship , they beat wuhan freetown away 2:0. this is the eighth victory in a row for shanghai-shinhui within the championship. in the standings , leonid slutsky’s team is in second place, two points behind the team that has also not lost this season, this is shanghai port. the leaders of the chinese championship will play each other on august 17. the day before, another episode was released on our channel. russian football programs. the guest of the episode was the former head coach of grozny akhmat miroslav ramashchenko. in krasnodar there is only one cordoba from the attack group, so it is difficult to constantly call up, go to your national team to play here on two fronts, and the national championship, the national cup, the team’s tasks are high, so they need help. fedor smolov is back where he is... there is just over a month left before the start of the new season in the continental hockey league; this week khl clubs begin training camps, right now there is an active stage of transitions. the nizhny novgorod torp

however, they learned about the russians in wuhan at the beginning. centuries, because it was from hereed by russian merchants, now on the bukhan embankment a monument to them has not taken root in russia, but black tea, which in china itself is actually called red, not only has it taken root, but is also growing beautifully in sochi. here it is, the homeland of the closest thing to russians chinese chaikimun, here it is called qimen huncha, that is, red tea, heroic gate, province. here, in general , it is considered almost the most, because three of the ten best chinese varieties are from here. keemun, also known as qimen, is the only red tea awarded imperial status in china. moon has an amazing ability to enhance the beneficial properties of other products, and also stimulate the nervous system, improve memory and increase performance, so the task that scientists have set for themselves quite practical, the genome of chinese-kuban tea they deciphered will help create new varieties, enhancing their beneficial properties. such spontaneous tea markets in fujian province near the slopes a

the day before, as part of the twentieth round of the chinese championship, they beat wuhan freetownictory in a row for shanghai-shinhua in the championship. in the standings, leonid slutsky’s team takes second place, they are two points behind a team that has also not lost this season is shanghai port. there are two championship leaders. clubs from shanghai will play each other on august 17. the day before, the next episode of the russian football program was released on our channel. the guest of the episode was the former head coach of grozny akhmat miroslav ramashchenko. in khrasnodar there is only one cordoba - from the attack group. accordingly, it is difficult to constantly volunteer, to go to your national team to play here on two fronts, and the national championship, the national cup. the team’s tasks are high, so we need help. fedor smolov returned to where he spent his best or part, let’s say, in his career, where everything is familiar to him, and this is also a high-class footballer, this is the first, well , according to yurka gazzinsky, i can say that it’s probably sti

the wuhan government did nothing. in fact, what they did was to suppress information and to punish the whistle blower, because. so so you saw very lax measures in the first days. and the same time the wuhan government reporting this matter to upstairs right i mean so because they want to get the clearance from upstairs before deciding what to do but it missed the golden's opportunity to control this disease and they waited for weeks to get clear instructions by the time it got the instruction and then they initiated this massive lockdown. it's already too late. thing has spread all over the world, become a global pandemic. yes, china was able to get things under control within a few months with. a very costly and very dramatic lockdown. but it came of a huge cost. right. and then at a later when omnicom and mudge and it's proving extremely difficult to continue to stick with president xi's zero culverts policy. china was then backing off from that policy until it's really realized that it had generated protests and a

[laughter] is like wuhan -- [laughter] the whole thing was amazing. know climate an immigrant legal and i moved here and became an american citizen, that's the most excited i've been since. i have a daughter and a wife and it pales in comparison. [laughter] that rnc was off the chart and hogan's wife came to my show in tampa saturday, got a text the next day, hogan hates you for making his wife laugh as hard as she did. that is rock 'n' roll. >> what you gonna do? >> the president continuing to play mind games with his opponent tonight. >> pretty good memory unlike somebody else that happened to be running. >> let's go back to you, a week ago tonight trump got shot in what finally underscored for me how insane of a moment we are living in is when i heard tiger woods say he lost sleep over the trump shooting. this guy can fall asleep driving as we know. [laughter] when tiger woods is losing sleep, it's a mess out there. how insane of a moment reliving and? is there any way to quantify this? >> this is bigger than what reagan was, a huge shift in americ

next year davis spoke to wuhan university students.nese entities own 6000 acres of homeland in davis's district. the congressman running against davis joins me now. is your district benefited in any way from davis's ties to china? >> very good question. visibly it is not, we can't see anything good coming in. maybe don davis is getting something out of it, my district is not. >> todd: group that brought davis to china is called association for friendship with foreign countries. that's a mouthful. it seeks out foreigners friendly to china to engage in people to people diplomacy and shape a alliances with social groups and individuals to strengthen the overall position of the party and sow division. that is from nonpartisan d.c. think tank. isn't it reasonable to question motives and judgement of somebody that takes a trip funded by someone like that? >> i've had clearance for 40 years, top secret clearance, for me it is shocking. the internet existed for a long time and he was a sitting state senator when he did this. the fact he would

there is a shady lab in wuhan doing risky research on coronavirus with no security? let's give them $50 million and see what happens. this was the state of play for too long. matt and others in the trumpet administration on his team said enough is enough. they rebalanced our relationship with china in ways that were long overdue and necessary. they expanded our conception of competition beyond the military arena and recognize this is as much an economic and technology competition as it is a military competition. they put taiwan and deterrence in this high one straight at the center of our -- in the taiwan straight at the center of our policy. they wanted a global campaign of huawei not only to get them outside of the 5g network but to warn partners and allies about the risks of doing business. on the alliance front, they made several important moves including providing the quad and embracing the free and open indo pacific concept and setting us on a much more positive trajectory in the indo pacific. for all of that, thank you. it was long overdue, necessary and frank

they downplayed the wuhan lab week theory while trump was in office so he could not blame china becauseed to blame him and have him lose the election and then they downplayed the hunter biden laptop and said it was russian disinformation and now they went along with the story about how joe biden's health was really just fine. there's a series of big lies and what do they have in common? they have all taken place when donald trump is on the ballot in 3 separate elections. there's no objectivity, no sense of even handing this. the polls show majority of journalists do not believe they need to be handed in their coverage. trump in their mind is such a threat to democracy that all the regular rules about how we do our job-- [ simultaneous talking ] >> martha: it's like by any means. by any means it's okay to break the rules and do your job and i thought it was interesting megan mccardle wrote a piece in the washington post in the paper that you write columns for how the media sleepwalked into joe biden's debate disaster and she said a lot of articles about biden's age were couched in langua

we didn't know what was going to happen when that disease moved over the rest of the world from wuhandn't know. but if you remember, we had spending bill after spending will after spending bill. thank god joe manchin was alive. we would another 2.5 to $2 trillion of gasoline thrown on this fire. they went incredibly overboard on the way up and now they're not going to be able to take that much out on the way down before they'll have to stop contracting the balance sheet and start expanding it again. so we exported like 50% inflation to the rest of the world, and we broke many of the countries that were already moving along the bottom in the emerging markets, we broke them. so the financial architecture of the emerging world hasn't looked this bad, call it, since the end of world war ii. that's why we won't have some rapprochement to these conflicts. >> in this country, if you think the incumbent is going to be voted out, who is that incumbent that will be voted out in november? >> i mean -- i mean, my -- my guess is it's going to be kamala. you know, if you look at the supporters in t

well, there's been another lab leak in wuhan or whatever it is. >> but when actually happens, it's alle are it's all out the window, isn't it, new people are in it's all out the window, isn't it , new people are in charge, it, new people are in charge, but yes, the creation of a single independent statutory body responsible for preparedness and response are another statutory body . another statutory body. >> yeah, that's just what we need. more government, i think. >> more government, more government. that's exactly what we need. let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay. of course it was all a very traumatic experience for a lot of you , i imagine, but lots of of you, i imagine, but lots of you have been getting in touch , you have been getting in touch, particularly about that debate we just had on the primary school with all the kids, with the pride flag and whatnot. we're going to read out some of those after this short break. well. good afternoon. britain. it is now 149 in the afternoon. of course. and we had a bit of a fiery debate earlier. if you were tuned in this was all a