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Biden's recent comments that he did ask xi jinping about the origins of covid-19 and that china will not be transparent. we have not seen the transcripts and we do not know if the question was asked to pick my test was one of the first to question what exactly took place in that wuhan lab. he's demanding the white house declassify all of the intelligence related to the pandemic origins. wisconsin congressman mike gallagher-- gallagher. congressman, great toothy-- see you. what can you tell about your investigation. you uncover these e-mails between fauci and the director of nih. >> well, huge ...

This virus, but we will win it only because -- and because we apply the things we have. the interventions. we are so fortunate that we have a highly effective and safe vaccine. we know with public health mitigations work. we have just got to hang in there. we can't give up. >> we have the tools to do it. but we need the american people to do their part. to protect themselves, their children and their communities. >> reporter: and then, of course, there are those studies that suggest that the omicron variant causes milder symptoms. but just this week, the head of nih, dr. francis collins saying...

Pandemic we see this senator gh going back to that playbook. how do you get a large percentage of people when you have united states senators saying this is not really a threat? >> and i wonder, dr. reiner, if this is really just a strategy and it is to drive dr. fauci out of his job. >> well -- >> they want to scout. >> they've tried to blame the virus itself on dr. fauci through the funding of nih. they've tried to doubt his voracity. they're looking for a scapegoat when what is clear to anyone who has looked at this objectively is that the initial 12 months of the management of this pandemi...

Make clear we still have a lot to learn about this variant, and a lot of that information is going to come in in the next week or two. >> a lot can happen, though, in those interim days, dana, right? like any administration when facing a potential crisis, and more importantly i think growing fear about what is not known, they need to do something but not create unnecessary panic. how do they get that right? >> it's a difficult line to walk. i interviewed dr. francis collins, the head of nih, on "state of the union" yesterday, and he was walking it, explaining what jeremy just said, that the re...

It's outrageous. if you are going to force people to take a drug, you have a moral obligation to understand the effects of the drug and be honest. they have are not doing that. people closest to these decisions have a good sense of what is going on. they know transparency with they see it and know lying when they see it. the other day the head of nih and cdc admitted half of their employers were not vaccinated? why? you think they would be first in line. it's not because they are ignorant. maybe it's the opposite. in texas one group of healthcare workers, some of the most informed patients in ...