I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Monday, November 28th, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.

Protests across China are continuing as thousands of demonstrators are lashing out in response

to the Chinese Communist Party's zero COVID policy.

Ten people died in an apartment fire late last week, and citizens claim that the CCP blocked

emergency workers from the area due to the country's COVID policies.

Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci

said this week on NBC's Meet the Press that it is possible that COVID came from a lab,

but he reiterated that he believes there's evidence that the virus might have occurred

naturally.

Fauci also blamed former President Trump's accusatory relationship with the Chinese for

the Communist nation's refusal to be transparent about the virus.

If you look at the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had right

from the very beginning, and the accusatory nature, the Chinese it in a flinch back and

say, oh, sorry, we're not going to talk to you about it.

Keep the politics out of it.

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut told The Press that President Biden has probably not

secured the needed 60 votes to pass gun control in the lame duck session of Congress.

Appearing on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Murphy threw cold water on Biden's

hopes to pass a so-called assault weapons ban.

I'm glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault

weapons ban.

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