months ago which was started when donald trump was president. that is really and other thing is that you remember president trump pulled out of the w.h.o. they were doing investigations president biden rejoin w.h. so. that who u.s. should be looking for this investigation or somehow go off on own using intelligence? well it should use intelligence service as the world health organization is entirely untrustworthy and had one investigation you ll remember that a few months ago at the center party to china to investigate. the chinese actually did quite a lot of work in picking who would go and i think that the world health organization has been largely discredited over the course of the past year. how do you see president biden rejoining? well i think that one of the things that guides president biden is to do exactly the opposite of whatever president trumple trump did you see this across his policy aghtd also rejoined paris which the paris accords which president trump pull
experiments on coronaviruses so you know, it was always very, very suspicious. as you say lots of evidence has emerged now. but one of the things that we saw early on in this was leaping biden news media to try to suggest this was a conspiracy theory. one of the things that really fueled that conspiracy theory was a letter in a medical journal called the lansit organized bis someone who was actually responsible for sending 600,000 dollars of national institute of health money to the lab. and because of that, an he didn t disclose that. this was published and then organizations knew organizations like the washington post described this as a conspiracy theory. that has been debunked it was never debunked it wasn t even investigated one other thing that i think is really porpght to note is although president biden has now called for a thorough investigation, his administration actually shut downage investigation into the lab leak theory only three
earlier on fox news live. calling for china to be held accountable for its role in coronavirus pandemic. his comments come after president biden asked u.s. intelligence agencies to invest in wuhan and deliver findings in 90 days. the president saying in a statement, quote, united states will also keep working with like moonedded partners around world to press china to participate in a full transparent evident based investigation to provide access to all relevant da and evidence. hugo is editor and chevre of the washington examine he joins us now. hugo thank you so much for being with us today. we go back just a year and we know that we knew back then a number of facts we knew that the institute of virology in wuhan was working on coronavirus and gain of function research making it more deadly. we know that three plea employees were hospitalized they don t want more scrutiny there and yet having known that for a year,