a sun rise guy. always but always been a coors banquet beer guy. love it. i like it. i was always a hard coors light guy. i love it. when you get you know, don t get mad at me but i m not a beer fan but a tequila, champagne gal. tequila and champagne? i don t know if i ve ever done that, actually i have done that. yes. but no i usually like them separately but there s a drink french 75 champagne and genb lemon juice it s a good thing. not for saturday morning, though. not the saturday morning kind of drink. like a 10-01 drink. newly unredacted e-mails suggest that he was not sold on the natural covid origin theory despite what he was telling the public. former state department investigators fauci part of a coverup. griff jenkins life we get big smiled on our face when we see griff. i drink coors when the sun comes up. house select committee on covid has questions for you. chief among them did covid come from a lab leak because it appears in this latest
obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
we did not fund a gain-of-function research at the wuhan institute of virology. i keep an open mind as to what the origin is. the cdc was responsible for those kinds of guidelines to schools, not me. would you have any reason to cover up any new scientific evidence relating to the origins of the covid-19 virus? absolutely not. john: a live look at capitol hill where dr. anthony fauci, the face of the federal response to the covid pandemic, as testifying publicly for the very first time since retiring from government service. it s been quite a hearing so far. hello, i m john roberts in washington. it begins a new week, sandra. sandra: welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. they ve been pressing fauci on everything, from gain-of-function research to what triggered the outbreak in the first place. john: 16 is quick to deny allegations he tried to cover up the possibility that the pandemic originated from a laboratory in china,
I think the salient points made by our memo still exist and they are still true. A little bit of it is creating so much dust and clout that people just give up and saying, you are saying that, i am just going to tune out. That may be part of it too. Martha it seems like one of the Big Bones Of Contention would be whether or not it was essential to the fisa surveillance. You have argued that it was essential, that without it, they would have not received the authorization for the warrant from the fisa court. Do they have you said that there is other information about carter page. You said they are basically three things. You have yahoo news article, the dossier, and other information about carter page. Can they argue that other information was substantial enough . They didnt make that argument to the judge. If you have enough without the dossier, then why did you
include the dossier . If you have enough without the dossier, why did you, in your court filing, lead with the dossier . Lawy
their freedoms taken from them. john: just ahead, we ll speak to dr. david asher who led the state department investigation into covid origins for the trump administration. sandra: but first, let s get to mike emanuel. he is live on capitol hill with us with more of today s highlights. while we are there, some fireworks in that room, mike. sandra, good afternoon. certainly some dynamic moments here on capitol hill capitol hill. lawmakers digging into dr. anthony fauci s leadership during covid and the way the government handled the pandemic. fauci admitted that 6-foot social distancing rule which kept schools in business closed for an extended period back of time during the pandemic was not based on scientific study. he was pressed on whether he tried to circumvent government records laws when evidence suggested one of his top advisors use personal email. dr. fauci, did you ever delete an official record? no. dr. fauci, did you ever conduct official business via email?