. ♪ ♪ >> colleagues at the wuhan cdc, the wuhan center for disease control, 2014, took me there reallyplace, this is the kind of place where emerging microbes may appear." and i took lots of photographs, because they are quite jarring. there were snakes, cats, raccoon dog, and they were sometimes in individual cages on the floor and sometimes stacked on top of each other. >> narrator: after sars, beijing had passed a law requiring markets to maintain sanitary ignored.s, but it was widely >> people will kill animals in front of you. there's feces, guts, blood, organs lying around, with wild birds coming down and feeding on it. you've got thousands of people congregating. it's a really good place for a virus to spread from one person to another and get out into the community. >> narrator: it's not known whether the market was where the virus first made the leap from animals to humans, but by mid-december, several people were turning up at nearby hospitals. doctors noticed a pattern-- strange white spots in patients' lung scans. >> doctors put two and two together. if you're in a hospital

wuhan lab in china doing the research. there were multiple labs, at a university and china's version of the cdc.question is that being used, that fact to cloud the issue? let's watch dr. fauci on camera back in 2012. watch this. >> the nih has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute. >> do they fund dr. baric? >> dr. baric is not doing gain of function research. if it is, it is according to the guidelines. because the research gain of function, trans missability, et cetera on h5n1 pathogenic is minor part but a important part of our portfolio. it is part of four research projects that contain this, it is around 10% of the entire h5n1 portfolio. less than 1% of the total niaid flu research funding. questions have come up about the concern of danger of people you fund. niaid, nih, certainly cdc, only funds and conducts gain of function research on h5n1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses for researchers who are highly trained, skilled, experienced and adequately regulated. there is disagreements as to the scientific and or public health value of these

former cdc director robert redfield on explosive new documents from the outset of the pandemic that reveal that doctors anthony fauci and others intentionally down played the wuhan lab leak theory to the american people. new evidence that was unveiled last night on special report. that's coming up. >> notes of that hastily arranged meeting reveals suspicions of a wuhan lab leak are suppressed over concerns that public revelations of chinese involvement would do, quote, great potential harm to science and international harmony. the pandemic made teaching and learning really hard. but instead of working to help students safely return to the classroom, the san francisco school board focused on renaming schools and playing politics. and they've even saddled our district with a $125 million deficit. our children can't wait for new leadership. here's our chance for a fresh start. on february 15th, please recall school board members collins, lópez and moliga before our kids fall even further behind. >> martha: russia is promising, quote, retaliatory measures if the united states rejects russia's demands. as a potential invasion of ukraine continues to loom. those deman

were funding and doing in the wuhan virology, that lab that we really don't have all the answers to yet either. >> we're not close. that was a devastating report, bret. the cdcefore verdict. a, they had their conclusion that it wasn't coming out of the lab. they had their narrative that they had looked at it very carefully and had their motive. dr. collins email that you disclosed in the "special report" that in the interest of science and international harmony, basically we have to stop this story. the next question is what did they tell the white house? president trump was taking all the arrows on their behalf. he defended the cdc when they botched the testing. he defended the cdc at every turn. but now we have a record that you have exposed tonight and we will see what people say tomorrow, of a cover-up that is at least as damning as any i have heard of in the last few years. >> bret: all right. listen, we will stay on this story. the big thing about going forward is trying to fight this and morgan, there is this battle over monoclonal antibodies whether they should be approved. the florida governor saying it's being shut down. the next step is really imp

wuhan virology lab. these are not small issues to me, these are big issues that they got wrong and why should anybody trust them now? i have no trust for him or the cdcr any of these politicians. >> when you think about it, there has not been one issue that they have been correct on. as though they are adjusting to things in a moment, this is particularly shocking because fauci has been in this position for decades, you would think with all of his experience, he would know this is not our first experience with the pandemic, the kind of virus. they weren't entirely surprised, they would necessarily have to know about vaccines, how can the vaccine company make statements that end up being ultimately false when it comes to the veracity and the strength of the vaccine and what the vaccine itself would do. combined, someone should of been able to said wait, this is wrong, ultimately we know he was correct the first time around before all of the politics got poured into that bowl. we have to remember there are certain things to assess and we can make determinations about this, take information that seems correct, make judgments when sepals seem to be lying

wuhan strain, we had a better handle on the incubation testing. a lot has changed and been truncated with omicron. >> speaking of the confusion, last week the cdc cut to isolate if you got covid from five days to ten. over the weekend, dr. anthony fauci suggested the cdc might be reconsidering that guidance and saying you need a negative test before you can get out of ice lachlt isolation. which get nothing sense, which leaves school boards, businesses, state and county boards of health trying to figure out what the heck they're supposed to do at this point. >> i'm smiling, only sunday night i was testing friends in and out of government saying, is this changing tomorrow morning what are we going to do? so i completely commiserate with that here's what i think, it's going to be hard they don't have enough tests to make a very hard bar to say everyone needs a negative antigen test by the way, i think there is still controversy how much infectiousness with omicron and negative or positive antigen tests confer we know some people want infectious even after an antigen test is negative it's much less likely. here's who we do know, a positive is a positi