that some of the features of the virus looked phonily engineered. months later anderson released a report saying the virus was not constructed in a lab. eflail april of last year a fox news report that many believe it originated in the wuhan lab before accidently escaping the email subject line is conspiracy gains momentum. sent by nih director francis collins to fauci. fauci says he wasn t down playing the lab leak but talking about the idea that the virus was bioengineered as a weapon. dr. fauci says he believed last year and still does, it s more likely that this virus jumped from an animal to human although he says we don t know for sure. and the white house defended his value amid calls from republicans that he needs to testify on the hill about what he knew and when. i will let him speak for himself and he has been undeniable asset in our country s pandemic response. but it s not obviously that advantageous for me to
homemade cloth masks. is there proof that these are effective? at the moment, there is no hard evidence to back that up. there is no evidence that shows masks are going to be effective, except perhaps an at 95 masks. laura: the ingraham angle was called a responsible for suggesting the studies on the cdc website already said. second, fauci s email was on china and the leak is a gold mine. there were those close to fauci s office that tsai don t mike scott she knocked on my china s malfeasance is a possibility. regarding covid origins article fauci writes, this just came out today, it s of interest to the current discussion peer to which anderson response, the unusual features of the virus making up
governor cuomo s book. that is unpurchased. lawrence: is the pandemic over, brian? when did he write the book? can we get back to normalcy now? does that mean everything is over? why are they writing the books in the middle of this by the way, they keep telling us a second surge is come? did you include that in the book and predict that? ainsley: interesting information this morning. buzzfeed they used the freedom of information act to obtain 3200 pages of fauci s emails what they found is unbelievable. key figure at the wuhan lab that has gotten grants to investigate or do research on coronavirus. brian: from the nih which fauci heads. ainsley: is he the president the ecohealth alliance. so he sends an email to fauci last april after it was starting to spread in new york and in california here in the u.s. and he thanks him, personally thanks him for down playing the lab leak theory. this is what one of the emails said. i just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our atf
who knows? i think well, i ve worked in intelligence operations for a large part of my career. lots of people are told to do certain things and didn t even necessarily know. who knows what this guy s motivations are? he was sending notes to fauci in mid-january so was a guy named christian anderson and who wrote the letter for nature saying it couldn t have come out of nature. we found out february 1 yesterday he wrote a letter to fauci, a note to fauci this said this thing was lab altered and genetically engineered. so can you trust these scientists? i don t trust these scientists right now. i trust our national lab scientists and our army scientists. i don t trust the paid in the pocket by chinese scientists, i m sorry, bill. bill: we ll speak again soon. david asher, thank you for coming in today. take care. martha: dr. anthony fauci is
and news on another front tonight, mary, with us again this evening, on the campaign. and we know that the trump team had been using dr. anthony fauci s words in a campaign ad. fauci appearing to praise the response. we reported last night here, fauci says he was taken out of context, accusing the campaign of harassing him, and tonight, president trump now going after dr. fauci? reporter: well, david, the president is trying to have it both ways. today, he lashed out at fauci on twitter, saying his, quote, pitching arm is far more accurate than his prognostications. a reference to fauci s unfortunate attempt to throw out the first pitch on opening day. but the president is also trying to use fauci s voice to lend credibility to his campaign ads. what is clear tonight, anthony fauci is getting fed up with it all. david? mary bruce with us again tonight. mary, thank you. and mary, as you know, coming up thursday night, an abc news town hall with joe biden. george stephanopoulos wit