but certainly the chinese providing information being in a participant in the process would aid the effort. this congressional report recommends the administration implement a series of additional sanctions against china including on china s research facilities that failed to meet certain safety standards and those that withhold information. mike? mike: rich edson live at the state department. many thanks with that bring in our panel the washington post mara liasson. marc thiessen national public radio and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. a lot to get through there. let s start with rich edson s exclusive at the state department. here is former secretary of state mike pompeo on the china cover-up hang gel. they know that they have lied to the world. they know that they have lied to their own people. they know they foisted this virus on the world costing millions of lives and billions and billions of dollars worth of wealth. the last thing the chinese chiewn
heard dr. fauci said was even if you have had covid, you should get a vaccine because your immunity that having had covid gives you is not that long lasting. that s what i thought he was saying. not that the vaccine you can still get reinfected. the bottom line the vaccines work. they prevent serious illness and death. the number of people who have been hospitalized with the break through infection is infinitesimal and the good news is that vaccination rates are ticking up. people who have been resistant are now coming forward and getting it. mike: all right, trey, the initial pitch was get vaccinated, get rid of the masks. the masks are back. your thoughts on where we are in this pandemic? well, look, i m vaccinated and happy to wear a mask. here s what i need. i need someone i trust to tell me why, why now, what changed, when it changed and you know,
but, as marc said the circumstantial evidence keeps on pile up. i think it s important to figure out how it started but it doesn t change the fact that the only way to stop it is to get everyone vaccinated. mike: all right, to our panelist who has done his chair of congressional reports trey gowdy. trey, your assessment of this one? you know, mike, i just can t get over how non-receptive the mainstream media was when tommy cotton and pompeo and john ratcliffe all mentioned this as a viable theory. they were laughed at. here s what i can promise you. our intelligence community already knows where that virus originated. now, the biden administration may not want to share that but after a year and a half, if a member of the minority party has access to information, then you know intelligence community has it or else they should rename rr community. mike: peter doocy s reporting
reassessment of mcconnell is rooted in the way he brokered after january 6th and says trump bears responsibility for the riot. when he said he vote for the infrastructure bill trump attacked him for, quote, weak leadership. mcconnell has never much cared about being roasted and ridiculed by elite commentators and warriors i asked the senator if he is enjoying brief it applause he says i don t think it affects him one way or the other. mike? mike: why one olympic sprinter is on the run after refusing to return home. assured she had a safe place to stay last night.
mike, science has is a casualty of this pandemic. i mean, a year and a half ago, we believed doctors. but, when doctor intention 23458ly misrepresent facts because they think they have a higher good. when they tell us science changes but it s not, it s their understanding of science, then when you have elected officials who say i have got a great set of rules for you but i m not going to follow them. i mean, that s what i worry about is the lack of competence in medicine and science. mike: trey, we are up against the clock. is there hypocrisy here president obama having a big party on march that s vineyard and the d.c. mayor going out and socializing all weekend without a mask? i think the d.c. mayor, yes. i have got a birthday come up and i have five people coming to it actually two said they couldn t make it. so now i m down to three. i don t want to criticize president obama. i have a big birthday coming up, too. mike: all right, panel. we will catch up with you later. up ne