CNN anchor Chris Wallace grilled retiring infectious disease honcho Dr. Anthony Fauci about the origins of Covid-19, asking how certain he was that the virus spread naturally.

Wallace confronted Fauci directly about the Wuhan lab leak theory during an interview for the final batch of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace this season.

"How, as you sit here today, how confident are you?" Wallace asked Fauci, referring to the outset of the virus. "How certain are you that it came from a natural spread and not a lab leak?"

Fauci admitted that there was "no certainty" surrounding the spread of Covid-19, yet stressed that independent international evolutionary virologists are confident "this was a natural occurrence from an animal host into a human."

"Has it been definitively proven? No, is a lab leak possible? Of course, I keep a completely open mind that we don’t know definitively what the origin is," Fauci confirmed to Wallace.

He conceded, "It might possibly have been something that the Chinese were doing, a virus that they isolated in the wild and we’re having it in the lab, and then somehow it escaped out.

At another point during the interview, Wallace pressed Fauci about his heated exchanges with Sen. Rand Paul on that same topic.

He also asked Fauci, point-blank, “What do you think of Donald Trump?”

Kudos to Wallace for pressing Fauci on tough topics, and asking the questions on everyone's minds.

Journalist and former Fox News figure Cathy Areu was arrested in Miami, Florida on charges that she allegedly kidnapped and exploited her elderly mother for money. 

According to the Miami Herald, Areu -- often referred to as the “Liberal Sherpa” -- was arrested on Friday with charges ranging from fraud, kidnapping, and exploitation. She has not been convicted.

Investigators claim Areu could have taken more than $224,000 from her 88-year-old mother including funds from a reverse mortgage, and from numerous bank accounts and credit cards opened in her name.

Areu allegedly attempted to use power of attorney twice in attempts to place her mother in assisted living facilities and control her assets. The Florida Department of Children and Families released Areu's mother both times after concluding she was not in need of that type of care.

According to a Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office press release, a judge signed for Areu's arrest in June, and she is believed to have been evading arrest in Mexico. While Areu has not yet been convicted, the investigation has been ongoing since 2019, according to the Miami Herold.

Areu's mother reportedly denied signing a quit claim deed that turned her home over to her daughter. Areu, on the other hand, claimed other people were exploiting her mother, who was suffering from brain damage or dementia.

Whether or not Areu kidnapped and exploited her elderly mother getting slapped with those charges is already pretty grim.