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The nih last year spent $41 billion on research grants, 0.4% of that went to covid. if is he so convinced that masks are needed in kids two and a half years old, why didn't he fund the study? >> brian: he has 80 billion. he gives out 40. he cips 41 and puts 0.4% into covid-19 results and studies. how do you get away with that? >> well, has been there for 40 years, probably 39 years too long. evidence controls all the funding. so people are deathly afraid of him. researcher also not speak out. why have there not been other scientists? i get fox news alerts scientists all the time. can you find ...

As it gives a glimpse of when the pandemic was just beginning, in the pandemic's early days. and now the focus on dr. anthony fauci's view on where the virus started, that's after several news organizations obtained thousands of pages of fauci's emails under the freedom of information act from the first months of 2020 including one sent by dr. francis collins, head of the nih. its subject line, "conspiracy gains momentum," linking to a story on a fox news report suggesting covid-19 leaked from a lab in wuhan. fauci's response, blacked out. many dismiss the idea of a lab leak in 2020. it's now ...

About the funding of the nih funds. a huge chunk of it is redacted. what does that refer to? >> it refers to a criminal investigation. this is an unusual exemption usually this exemption shows up with the fbi or some other enforcement agency and they use that for information that could compromise the current ongoing investigation. so for this to show up in an nih document production is extreme and unusual. >> laura: a criminal infestation into the ongoing gain of function research during a moratorium or an individual who was doing that work recently don't know? >> we really don't know. but it ...

Money, they cite the nih funds they were funded by, that's what the wuhan lab did. whether or not it was gained for function research, and that's how you're seeing the officials parse their words right now, that's a bit subjective. for example, if they say they want to make a change to the speight protein, will that make it more contagious? is it intentional that it's made more contagious by doing that research? a lot of times they do the work without knowing the results. that's a subject of college. could argue it was known to begin to function, you could argue it wasn't known. why are we fun...

Why are we seeing an expansion of the labs that do this work and does that concern you? >> it does really concern me. we all want more research to be done in a defensive way. it concerns me for two reasons. number 1, lab accidents do occur. even these labs operate at much lower safety levels like we saw in wuhan. secondly, there's a lot of duel function research. whether we like it or not, whether we would like to admit it, there are offensive biological programs around the world. you know the actors that do that. this could be used for those nefarious circumstances that we need to be very car...