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Pandemic in january 2020. i think if we had, we would have been able to make a lot of corrections in our thinking that would have impacted the american public. >> martha: thats something. dr. marc siegel joined me now along with david asher that led the investigation that dr. redfield discusses in this interview in the origins of the virus. dr. siegel, its a remarkable interview. were glad you have the opportunity to do it. i whatnt to let everybody know that theres more coming in the show and y...

Testing like south korea had. lets test everybody over vast tracks to see if they could have had it. we were going by a model that you had to have symptoms at first. >> martha: this may sound like a strange, you know, segue here. but david asher -- this is jon stewart. keep in mind that facebook was shutting down anybody who went on facebook and talked about the potential that the lab might have been the source here. so there was a concentrated effort across a number of platforms to shut down an...

They called that the security equivalent of a dentist office. if this was as deadly as it was and we were handling it in level 2 laboratory, they created the grounds for it to leak out. imagine -- its outrageous what happened in china and more outrageous that we ignored this until this began to be covered by journalists like you. >> martha: and you were shut down by the current administration. somebody said look into the lancet and asked why they allowed a letter to be published by 24 scientists...

>> yes, we need to declassify but the more i look into it, this was squashed by ecohealth alliance, nih, especially in ho and china itself. the american public deserves it with all of the turmoil that is been caused by at. >> sandra: we will seek answers in just a moment and will be speaking to david asher, a former u.s. official who went to a task force on the origins of the virus for then secretary of state mike pompeo. we look forward to that. >> john: that he was shut down in the spring by t...

Came from a laboratory, in wuhan, china and it has the fingerprints of genetic manipulation for gain of function research. >> its too much co incident that a novel virus that cannot be started in nature started from a secretive laboratory. sometimes the most obvious explanation is the correct one. >> were entering an era of biological warfare, this is the beginning of a threat level that will affect us the rest of our lives and probably generations to come. >> martha: that was david asher, one o...

And the chinese government lied about it. so why dont we know more? according to the same david asher, the state department did not want to know more. they didnt like the investigation. whose side are they on? and david asher is wondering the same thing. quote. soment colleagues played down e possible links to chinas biological weapons programs. and: thats a reference to the money that the u.s. went through nih to the wuhan lab to do research that may have been connected to this pandemic. david ...