Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

We've made it to the end of another week.

And, Jim, we got plenty to get to you today.

I thought yesterday was a busy day.

Today is as well.

A couple days ago, we talked about the Jim Comey indictment and how we didn't think those

charges would probably stick in the end.

There was another indictment this week, though, that we're going to start with today

that I think is also significant and probably carries a lot more

weight and is more likely to go somewhere. Justice Department announcing actually on Tuesday that

former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases employee David Morins, who was a senior

advisor, basically to Anthony Fauci from 2006 to 2022, is facing indictment

for his role in a scheme to evade Freedom of Information Act requests and connection with COVID-19

research grants. He is charged with conspiracy against the United States, destruction, alteration,

or falsification of records in federal investigations, concealment, removal, or falsification of records in federal investigations,

concealment, removal, or mutilation of records, and aiding and abetting.

Basically, this all relates to the origins of COVID, something that you've looked at quite a bit.

And back in the time that this was being discussed, there was certainly an effort by Fauci

and others to make us think that it was all natural, wet market, that sort of thing, not the fact that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was just down the road.

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