Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martini's coming up.

It is that time when you sit back, relax on a beautiful day and enjoy a three martini lunch.

I'm Chab Vincent in for Great Carumas.

We're back next week. As always, Jim Garrity is here.

We give you good, you bad, you bad you crazy we start with the good today Jim the Wuhan lab that whole craziness did we did we help

create gain of function insanity and are we going to be doing it in the future?

Yes, so the news that came out of no less than the Biden administration yesterday was

the Department of Health and Human Services,

announcing it was suspending government funding for the EcoHealth Alliance, which is the nonprofit that

oversaw the gain of function bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

which the Chinese government insists had nothing to do with the outbreak of a coronavirus most similar to those found in bats,

except that it had been somehow enhanced and was different and unique, never actually found

in any bat in the wild.

And that the pandemic started in Wuhan

just a bit down the street from the Wuhan

instead of virology, but hey,

maybe all of that is a coincidence

and maybe this is just a natural evolution.

Bats still a little funny that it was never found in any bat anywhere else in the world.

So yeah, the Department of Health Human Services said they're suspending the funding.

...