chinese president? >> and they weren't with me the entire time. maria: they weren't with him the entire time, john, and he says, yeah, they're just not going to be transparent. why don't they just release the splint i'm not buying that he even brought it up, but even if he did, what do you think about his answer there? >> well, none of that's good. you know, does not remember the conversation he had with president xi. if he had a three-and-a-half hour summit, i'm not sure what's worse, that he did raise issue as he's now claiming, contrary to press reports, that he did raise the issue that the a u.s. intelligence community, all 18 agencies find that the lab leak at wuhan is one of only two plausible explanations that caused the pandemic and killed a million americans or that president, and i's response to that was, as you just heard from joe biden, no, we're not going to cooperate, you know, go pound sand, get lost, you know? none of those scenarios is good,