fentanyl overdoses today blamed the president for their death. she also said that hundreds of thousands of other kids have died on the president s watch. the president owes me an apology and all of the other parents who have lost their children. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene agrees. blaming their deaths on biden s refusal to, quote, stop the cartels from murdering americans every day by chinese fentanyl. she is very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl that that i killed her sons. well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. ha ha ha. what a horrible human being. how can he sit there and joke about it. being. republican lawmakers are now piling on, quote, shameful and embarrassing. what, president biden, do you find amusing about this? the white house isn t too amused with continuing questions about covid-19 sor-ins which the fbi director now says likely came from a w
threats that those could pose. so here you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. and that s precisely what that capability was designed for. i should add, that our work related to this continues and there is not a whole lot of details that i can share that aren t classified. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems, to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. bret: director wray s comments were as definitive as any official has said publicly about the origins of covid. two agencies though remain undecided in determining those origins. china meantime continues to deny the lab leak theory. saying this week rehashing that will only hurt the reputation of the united states. republican lawmakers on capitol hill are also investigating the
virus. and we soon realize infections from a novel coronavirus are fueling a fast-spreading global pandemic. by mid month the first u.s. case of covid reported in washington state. health experts conclude the outbreak is due to human-to-human transmission. it s really a big difference with the chinese this time now they look like they are being quite transparent and cooperative with us. inian of last year fox news obtained internal from the national institutes of health. those emails from the earliest days of the crisis revealed nih head dr. anthony fauci was warned covid may have leaked from a chinese government-run lab. the wuhan institute of virology. ian 27th, fauci is told the national institute of allergy an infectious diseases has been indirectly funding the wuhan lab through ecohealth alliance, a u.s.-based scientific nonprofit that had been working with novel coronavirus.
the covid-19 virus originated in the wuhan lab, not as a bioweapon but as china s effort to find and deal with viruses to show the world china was as good as or better than the u.s. on that front. later that day president trump is asked about our reporting. more and more we are hearing the story. we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation that happened. the next day april 16th a frustrated collins emails fauci wondering if there is something nih can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy. collins email includes a link to our special report and foxnews.com reporting. a day later fauci replies, quote: i would not do anything about this right now. it is a shiny object that will go away in times. had a month later we learn a $90 million research grant fro
covid-19 sor-ins which the fbi director now says likely came from a wuhan lab leak. the white house says it s not willing to punch punish china us all 17 intelligence agencies agree. that s why the president wants the intelligence community to get to to hopefully get symptom answers that we can rely on. right now there is just no consensus. gillian: there is also no cob census between president biden and washington, d.c. s mayor. he announced he will not veto a g.o.p. bid to repeal changes to the d.c. criminal code. well, the president was asked by a reporter again today when he plans to kick off his 2024 election bid. he responded by saying he will announce when he announces, not a moment sooner. he also, bret, said that he does at some point intend to visit the site of that toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio. he did not give a date though. bret? bret: gillian turner live on the north lawn. thank you. later in this hour we will take