yet he has also denied that there was any support for gain of function research. exactly. they are just playing a definition game. dr. fauci should have said, you know, we funded that research 10 years ago, and we would never do that today because we have learned a lot more about what s going on in china and its research on bat viruses, our relationship with china has changed, and the relationship cannot one of trust as it was in the past. instead he went into this ridiculous thing where he claimed that rand paul was accusing him of killing 4 million people, which is not exactly what rand paul said at all. paul: okay. so where does the investigation, homan, stand now in terms of what we re trying to find out about what happened at wuhan and the u.s. role in financing that? yeah, the world health organization now has taken up the chance that we must get to the bottom of the wuhan lab. i think that s because the world health organization knew it was on the verge of becoming the
is from the wuhan lab. charles: former assistant hhs secretary. so france helps them out 2015. 2017, china severs their ties over complaints. when this lab was built, was it always built with the intention of focusing on gain of function, which is controversial since america seems to also made investments in china s ability to manipulate viruss in the first place. it s hard to know the intent in 2004-8 when the lab was being built. we had clear evidence that gain of function research or if not technically gain of function research, dangerous research bringing highly pathogenic bat viruses was going on back to a city of seven million. that s why most of us call for a true bipartisan committee to investigate specifically what
about the lab in wuhan, china, you know, the one they expeer meanted bat viruses that look like the one we are dealing with right now. they are looking at leaks that happened, i don t know, in fort dietrich in maryland. they tweeted this out. half a million chinese have signed a joint statement letter to the w.h.o. demanding an investigation into the u.s. lab at fort dietrich. tom cotton is the republican senator from arkansas. now, senator, you famously said look at that wuhan lab. they are coming back over a year later and saying it s time for the americans to. point guilty finger at military lab and military games happened in china last year. this is just about as pervasive as their case a bat kissed a skunk and must have introduced this virus into human beings. look, from the very beginning it s been obvious that the most likely source of this virus is
the initial way when people are exposed to a new strain, they get sick symptomatically. there s no real precedent for this. this is something that dr. li, the head of the lab that created this thing as far as we can tell, the bat lady, she was working on how to develop asymptomatic spread to stop this from occurring. it s crazy. why would you do that? if it were not trying to create a bio weapon. you pointed us to the mit review that reads in part, now that u.s. officials have said the possibility of a lab accident needs to be investigated, the spot lot has fallen on funding of the less safe research. now scientists are coming forward to say this is a misstep. even if there s no link to covid-19, allowing work on bat viruses at dsl-2 is a scandal what is your take on the so-called gain of function
might be listening to join in the letter and anyone else out there who wants to get involved in this issue, i invite them to go lee for senate.com and register their concerns. this is something that we really need to look into. because everyone is concerned. everyone has reason to worry when the government doesn t respect its own boundaries and when government doesn t follow its own process. will: we will be watching senator, i hope you push for all truth and justice. thank you senator mike lee. thank you. will: you bet. next, a new report detailing google s role researching bat viruses. could this help explain why the tech giant has been so eager to censor stories about the origin of covid-19? this story is brand new tonight and almost too hard to believe. hi baby. -hey ma, how are you doing? i m doing good, how are you? good. we are just on our way back from the beach.