a semblance of your oldself we have to get behind you because buttigieg and warren were unelectable as well. meanwhile the biggest story is the same old story. carley: let s talk about the coronavirus. omicron is a major topic of conversation this morning, of course. but, nih director francis collins outgoing nih director because his last day on the job was yesterday. he was on with bret baier yesterday. and they talked about the origins of the coronavirus. remember the important topic where this virus came from. listen to what he had to say here. brian: it s outrageous. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people because frankly we still don t know. there is no evidence really to say most of the scientific community. myself included think that is a possibility but far more likely this was a natural way in which a virus left a bat, maybe traveled through some other species and got to humans. and there was no lab leak involved. we won t know unl