this lab work is going on. even if you say it s a guide idea to investigate the viruses, what trips them up and makes them lethal in case we have to cobb front something like this. why would you give money to a lab that you tonight have complete control over in china with u.s. tax dollars to do that kind of really cutting edge dangerous work? exactly. for that exact reason first the obama administration in 2014 put a stop to that kind of funding. the trump administration when it lifted the ban put in place a tough regulatory process that said any kind of research like that has to be flagged for review, go through a separate process. the real question that this i.g. inspection has to answer, did dr. fauci go around that process in order to push this research of which he has been such a prominent advocate. martha: you re right.
let s talk juul here. now that the e-cigarette was under fire for the fda for how they market their products there was a ban put many place. the fda sent a sharp letter to juul warning them over illegal illegally marketing their cigarettes as less harmful but because they didn t get the trademark to say modified at risk pro dekts. and juul has launched this campaign called make the switch, again, without getting verification from the fda beforehand. now, earlier in the summer an economic and consumer policy panel also testified that juul had been deploying a sophisticated program to specifically target children and teenagers. and, of course, many take offense with that. juul has said that the fda order juul to correct the violations
trump s terror groups plus as the tour de france nears the finish line we meet the racers oldest living champ in the former eagle toledo tells us why he thinks money is ruining the city. i m called aspen welcome to the program we start in hong kong where police are cracking down on protesters marching to demand action against gang attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations police have fired tear gas at today s rally in the district of when the long grass where protesters are marching despite a ban put in place by authorities this area was the site of violence last week as men in white t. shirts attacked democracy protesters and bystanders demonstrators are angry about the slow police respond. those attacks on months of protests triggered by
e-mails or those documents as well. that s a very standard investigative technique. special counsel robert mueller s team slapped the trump campaign with a subpoena even though they previously handed over more than 20,000 documents. do you think the campaign should be concerned here? is mueller s team going after something specific, and if so, what could that be? well, there are two areas that subpoena was focused on. one is the wikileaks information and whether or not there was any involvement by the trump campaign with respect to the hacking or the release of the wikileaks documents. second was whether or not there was any, what they call, a back door effort by russian officials to connect with the trump campaign. so those are the two areas that the mueller investigation seems to be focused on right now. very interesting developments here. john, thank you so much for your time this morning. thank you. also new this morning, the trump administration backing off a controversi
the original ban put in to place by the obama administration because the number of elephants have been dropping. where did this come from? it s a change to a ban in effect that the obama administration put into effect. it leaked out. it has not been officially announced yet, but conservation groups, of course, are jumping all over this, specifically in zimbabwe, because it relates to permitted legal hunting. u.s. officials would actually help conservation efforts and incentfies doing it right.