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Of these xoangts of the nih national institute of health have a lot of money to give out, found lots of research with hundreds of millions of dollars if not approaching a billion. mark: who is director national institute of allergy and infectious diseases? >> that is dr. anthony fauci. mark: been there a long time by my calculation what is institute? >> that is leading center in china for studying coronaviruses. and it is in wuhan, and the chief scientist there is called jang lee xi expert on ba...

Highest possible infective ties on human cells. is this what shes known to do? >> shes not known just for that but known as a general expert on -- on coronaviruses. mark: i assume if youre making coronaviruses more lethal that theres some level of safety you need to have at these labs you said there are four degrees of safety. designated b sl-4 to bl most resign and designed for deadly pathogen and like ebola virus and we have a new bls and state of redness alarm state department inspectors who ...

Go through -- some of this so it is understandable to all of us. some of the institutions, some of the names and you can fill it in for us if you dont mind sir so lets begin with identify egg institution and actors. what exactly is the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases in washington, d.c.? >> well thats a bunch of the national institutes of health and it awards grants to scientists in the u.s. and abroad who study matters of interest to allergy and infectious diseases and in ...

>> ralph barrick is her counterpart in u.s. you might say a distinguished coronavirus researcher. he trained dr. xi in many of his techniques in particularly those for genetically engineering coronaviruses. and hes a leader in his field. mark: going through this and what american people to know so we understand -- the individuals that you write about we understand these institutions and then we can -- draw some more information out about them and whats been taking place here what is gain of func...

A jump on virus and jump on gains to do naturally and that would give us a leg up in trying to predict and prevent future pandemics that was the rational for game of function on these viruses. mark: so basically create in a lab more lethal viruses from the original virus. so you can try to figure out what to do it should it become more lethal and jump into human beings? is that about right? >> yes. thats right. with -- one exception is youre not always working with the original virus. you often ...

Responsible for funding biomedical research which is one of the great glories of american science, and i think we should retain our faith in them to investigate themselves. fully fairly and lay out what happened there. theyre not the villain here. they seem to have been, you know, a party to what may not be a terrible oversight if indeed virus did indeed escape from the lab. but then i think we can reasonably look to them to try to -- find out what on earth happened put things right and make sur...

Who are risk horrific happened shouldnt they have some responsibility to try to get to the bottom of it including saying look were trying to get the data that communist regime in china wont give it to us? >> mark i think thats an excellent point. the national institute of health even more so and media -- surely had a duty to investigate the origin of the virus as carefully as it could to lay out role many it and explain why it continued funding research even during a u.s. government moratorium o...

Illogicality because to you create a dangerous coronavirus in bsl2 your safety precautions may be inadequate and it may well escape. mark: so in this lab -- the wuhan lab, theyre working on viruses. im putting this in marks plain english viruses that could become more killer viruses more lethal viruses to human beings. the level of safety in this lab one, two, three, four being highest is a two, and i want to ask you a couple of other questions related to this, sir. who was peter dazic. >> has a...