journal columnist and editorial board member james freeman and editorial board member kyle peterson. james, what did we learn from those emails from this week that we didn t learn before? james: well, we saw the researcher from california scripts institute noting that dr. fauci that when you look closely at covid-19, it appeared to have certain parts that looked like they might have been engineered. in other words, not natural. this is in february of 2020. a month later, that same researcher, christian anderson, writes the paper with colleagues essentially ruling out this possibility saying that it could not have been manufactured and that really ended for a time, the pursuit of this question, but we saw at the same time dr. fauci downplaying the
possibility that this thing originated in a lab. now we see that they knew it was a possibility and a year later as there s still the lack of evidence that this was natural is why didn t dr. fauci shared with us everything he knew at the time about the possibility that thus was a vie ross that -t came from a lab. paul: behind the scenes and health officials organized to downplay this because there was the scientific letter also calling it a false possibility. is that something that we should explore? james: a number of implications here. money from dr. fauci s institute, the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases went to the wuhan institute of virology.