developments we go to matt finn in our west coast newsroom. the national institute of health now admits that u.s. tax dollars were used to fund a limited experiment at the wuhan lab to test its spike proteins from coronavirus is in china were capable of binding to humans. director from the nih states that lab mice that were infected with a modified bad virus became sicker than mice that were given an unmodified bad virus however the nih claims that these particular bad virus is tested in the wuhan lab could not have become the covid virus and the director also claims the nih granted funds to a new york city-based nonprofit eco-health which then sub granted money to the wuhan lab and without being transparent about the testing taking place. all of this information comes as dr. fauci repeatedly denied that u.s. dollars were funding gain-of-function research at the