regarding the grant termination. does that violate policy? it was inappropriate for him to go doing that for a grantee as a conflict of interest, among other things. on march 29, 2021, dr. morens edited a letter that dr. das yak was sending to nih. does that violate policy? yes. he provided him with advice regarding how to mislead nih on eco health s late progress report. does that violate policy? it was wrong and inappropriate and violated policy. on december 7th, 2021, dr. morens wrote to the chair of eco health s board of directors to quote put in a word, end quote, for the doctor. does that violate policy? should not have done that. that was wrong. it violates policy. i m not sure of a specific policy. i imagine it does. he should not have been doing that. in addition to all those actions dr. morens wrote to the doctor peter from tony s recent comments to me they are trying to protect you, end quote. did you ever talk to dr. morens about dr. daczak and e
proximal origin pushed the natural origin theory. april 16, 2020, dr. collins emailed you expressing dismay that the nature medicine article which was based on proximal origin didn t suppress the lab leak theory and asked you for more public pressure to suppress the lab leak theory. the very next day in response to dr. collins request to do that you cited the nature medicine article that discounted the lab leak theory from the white house podium. my question to you, sir, did you cite this article at the white house because the nih director asked you to suppress the lab leak theory? i did not do that in response to anybody s suggestion to suppress anything. it was in response to a question that someone asked at the podium. and i did not edit any paper as
director francis collins to dr. fauci from april 16, 2020, and the subject line reads conspiracy gains momentum, referring to that lab leak hypothesis. this is from collins. i m wondering if there is something nih can do to put 24 very destructive conspiracy down with what seems to be growing momentum. i hope the nature article on the genomic sequence would settle this. it s a shiny object that will go away in time. congressman, it was a bad bet. didn t go way but the most significant question you pose in your email is did they alert anyone in the white house or hhs about this lab leak theory, and if not, all these prominent people suggested it on february 1. why did they not?
mark meadows joins us in a moment. we begin at the state department. rich edson is tracking everything down for us today. good morning there. good morning. a massive international health conference has wrapped and the world health organization appears no closer to an independent investigation in china into how this pandemic started. the organization that oversees the w.h.o. finished its meeting with no commitment of china to allow an independent research team to examine the covid origins. they elected new members to the executive board including syria, regime that even the w.h.o. has acknowledged has bombed its own hospitals. chinese state media say the u.s. investigation into a possible lab leak from the wuhan lab will be america s waterloo costing the u.s. credibility. in the united states more scientists have come around the to at least a lab leak investigation. buzz feed has secured thousands of pages of dr. anthony fauci s emails. in one from april 16, 2020 the