we can do judiciary oversight and we need investigation on the oversight to find what did we use those funds for. did we study bat viruses and their impact on human life? doesn t answer it that we need to have. we are 15 months out from covid-19 and we very few ideas of how it started. john: dr. anthony fountain has insisted that they were not used for gain of function. but when pressed last week by louisiana john kennedy, he sounded like he wasn t able to confirm 100% weather that didn t happen. have you ever had a grant to lie to you? i cannot guarantee that a grantee has not lied to us. you never know. john: he has not noted a grantee to lie to him but he doesn t know that they have
coronavirus more contagious and dangerous. they need to come clean with the american people and need to explain why they funded that research. apparently in violation of at least the spirit if not the letter of an obama white house directive. dana: dr. fauci has said in the past that the gain of function was not something that was authorized to do in that lab. does that matter? well, if that s the case they need to answer why their oversight of their grant is so sloppy. they gave hundreds of thousands of dollars indirectly to the wuhan labs. the chinese scientist who investigated these bat viruses thanked fauci s agency in her research. if they didn t know what the money was funding they need to tell us why there is such lacks oversight on their grant processes. dana: there was an article senator tom cotton pointed and pressed china for answers.
of these xoangts of the nih national institute of health have a lot of money to give out, found lots of research with hundreds of millions of dollars if not approaching a billion. mark: who is director national institute of allergy and infectious diseases? that is dr. anthony fauci. mark: been there a long time by my calculation what is institute? that is leading center in china for studying coronaviruses. and it is in wuhan, and the chief scientist there is called jang lee xi expert on bat viruses. mark: she s been called bat lady. actually been collecting bats from caves from southern california where bats hang out for many years and she has enormous collection of them. mark: who is ralph s. barrick?
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More than a year after COVID-19 began to spread across the world and nearly a month after a team of investigators arrived in Wuhan to study its origins, the World Health Organization says it has no answers as to where the pandemic began – but it nonetheless strongly discounts the possibility the virus came from a lab.