forgotten. i want to sty with you for the long haul because i know there s a lot of attention in the beginning and then it begins to subside as people forget and move on. the death toll from last weekend s tornados just in kentucky stands at 77. thousands of people are putting their lives back together and mourning their losses after those deadly tornados last weekend. one of them is charles sherrell of mayfield, kentucky. he survived the storm by getting into his bathtub and here is what he told me last sunday. so this is your house. where was the bathtub? right there. that s where you were, right in there? yes. look at this. you were right in there. right there. laying down right there. right in there.
the wuhan lab of virology. we ve been reporting on it since february 2020 when senator tom cotton became the first u.s. lawmaker to go on the record on this program and question whether the pandemic originated there at that lab. he joined me last sunday right here to share what he learned since then. every bit of circumstantial evidences to include evidence that came out in the final days of the trump administration that some employees and staff at these labs may have had coronavirus like symptoms as early as october or september of 2019, continues to point to these labs as the origin of this virus, not that food market that the chinese communist party used as a cover story from the beginning. that s why it s so imperative that the biden administration hold the chinese communist party accountable and demand answers for all of these questions. maria: and in fact n the final days of the trump administration, former secretary of state mike pompeo launched an inquiry into the connection
the way you think it should, frame it in a different manner. that s probably the best way to look at the last two and a half weeks and how this will probably end with the stalemate coming in january. and he has told his caucus members treat this seriously, treat this soberly because they want the point that lindsey graham are out there saying this is not what we re doing. so there is a lot of questionable statements all around. we have to take a quick break, but i will say dick durbin told me last sunday or the sunday before, i m losing track of time, that he admonished senators in both parties, including in his own caucus. everybody stand by, because up next the president s 2020 messaging is not just about democrats and impeachment,
president trump has indicated he would ideally like to bring u.s. troops in syria home within a six-month period. last week on sunday morning futures retired four star general jack keane had this warning about leaving syria too soon. how we end a war is actually more important than how we begin it. you ve got to not just win the conflict of the war, maria. you ve got to win the peace that follows after that and that s about stability and recovery. if we don t, i guarantee you, guarantee, that isis will re emerge and it will be another jolt in the arm and it will start all over again. maria: general jack keane with me last sunday, joining me right now is house armed services committee chairman max thornberry republican from texas mr. chairman it s good to have you on the program this morning thanks so much for joining us. thank you, ma am. maria: first your reaction to what has taken place in syria this morning. these people are butchers and not only do they use
ultimately end of the day, you can make it about the media. and this is what makes this so it s obvious what the easy thing to do is politically. to let a little steam out. of course. it s obvious. to the chairman s point, get in front of it. it s easy. get in front of it. and that is it goes back to the editorial review, and that is the head scratcher. the obvious solution here, to essentially you could actually compartmentalize this for at least a while. focus an obamacare, whatever. my suspicion is what s driving this right now is exactly what you said. it s that number two. is that sense that donald trump has that this is all about delegitimizing his win. that this is about the only way you won is because you had that s what he told me last sunday. that certainly a positive explanation. let s be honest about that. until right the only other explanation