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now to that breaking news and exclusive ABC News investigation out this morning reports that the National Center for Medical Intelligence warrant the military and the White House late last year about the spread of Corona virus in China.

A senior White House correspondent, Cecilia Vega, joins us now with the details.

So it was just yesterday that President Trump said no one had even heard of the virus two months ago.

But we're now learning that as far back as late November, American military medical investigators overseas sounded the alarm to officials right here at home about a contagion that was sweeping through Wuhan.

Those concerns that the virus could be devastating were detailed in a report, and multiple sources have described that report to our team now.

It's not just that there were repeated briefings for policymakers across the federal government through December, and by early January the warnings made it into the president's daily briefing.

But it wasn't until late January that President Trump made his first public comments about this virus, saying that he wasn't at all worried about it and that he had it totally under control.

Of course, this is now raising serious questions about whether the administration could have ramped up the response efforts before it actually did.

Michael, so far, no comment from the Pentagon or officials at the White House.

We know you're going to stay on them today, Cecilia, but we also heard the president in the middle of this pandemic.

He threatened to cut off funding to the well world world.

World health organizations are about that.

And it's because he says he's angry with the group, saying that they've been two's China centric during this outbreak, and he said, Point blank, We're going to put a very powerful hold on the money given to them.

But then, just a few minutes later, he seemed to backtrack, saying that he's now strongly considering it, Michael.

But if this does happen, it would be huge.

Is the largest single contributor to the W H.

We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars, Michael, and not long ago he was praising the w h o.

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