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Other options might have occurred, including a possible lab leak. we just dont have evidence to be able to say what that likelihood is. >> reporter: one of bidens top covid-19 advisers was harshly critical of the w.h.o.s investigation with china. >> we need a completely transparent process from china. we need the w.h.o. to assist in that matter. we dont feel like we have that now. >> reporter: biden is also taking a shot at his predecessor, saying the failure to get our inspectors on the ground ...

Mushroomed into the global pandemic we now know as coronavirus, at a covid jumped from animals to humans or that covid started in a chinese science lab, the presidential directive comes amid new pressure and new evidence lending at least some credibility to the so-called lab leak theory, last hour president biden promising hell make whatever the intelligence community finds public. >> will you pledge to release the report in full after 90 days? >> yes, thats -- unless theres something im unaware...

Cyber security coordinator 24/7 and theyre going to be required to make sure within 30 days that they are in line with the current guidelines by tsa for pipeline companies. now, if they fail to do these things, fail to follow the new directive, there will be financial penalltypenalties. around 100 pipeline companies are going to be affected by this. according to dhs, they know that theyre part of the critical infrastructure, but more than anything, john, this really underscores this understandin...

Directive today is they do believe there could be some credibility to that theory that covid-19 did come from a lab, a lab accident potentially and thats what he wants the intelligence community to find out within the next three months. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. meanwhile, china is slamming the lab leak theories, calling them smear campaigns. cnns steven jiang reports from beijing. >> reporter: the chinese government has been saying for days that these latest allegations from wash...

Information about the cartels, about the threat that we are facing as now we have learned the drug cartels are embedded in our own country in our communities as they are monitoring these individuals. we wanted to hear what our country was doing about this crisis. and we were denied that opportunity. and this went all the way up to the white house and we believe this is from the department of justice, the directive from them and the attorney general not to let us in. and we think that that is jus...

Whats going to happen again. >> pretty much. >> lawrence: wow. colion noir, thank you so much. >> absolutely. thanks for having me, man. >> lawrence: thats just crazy. also here tonight karl rove, former deputy chief of staff for george w. bush and kayleigh mcenany co-host of outnumbered. karl, when you hear colion talk about the history and now you have a guy thats getting ready to try reinforce that history, you know, we fought to get these rights. these are our rights now. and now you have a ...

Harris. >> harris: we talk about education that will take us all forward with our little ones. you are saying we took a deep step backwards. >> no doubt about it. i have these conversations often with friends and i would like to think i know that i have friends that come from not just different ideological and political spectrums but across the racial divide as well. one of the things that people can do a ride along on a wave of platitudes. i use that phrase the trojan horse a moment ago. people...

To prove coronavirus originated in a chinese lab. >> i am confident the evidence will find is consistent with a lab leak. >> reporter: the state department says the investigation was not shut down but simply came to an end. regardless what the new directive from president biden shows is that they are taking the idea that it could have stemmed from a lab leak, seriously, and now president biden has taken the tone where he is saying the u.s. should be in charge of the investigation after several d...

To provide advice to give him the distance essentially -- one area removed from being able to say that here was my specific intent, here was my directive. it makes it a more challenging, not impossible, case. you look for weissleberg who can provide information about the intent of the person who might be your larger target. weissleberg already is a pretty large target. if he werent attached to former president trump, the head of a huge organization like this and having that capacity as a cfo and...

There or just rise and accentuate in the months ahead and the possibility that the state department have to fly an extra personnel to process these visas frankly even that as some officials are suggest that go may be the case thats unlike leg to get through the 18,000. a very stark series of measures are required here in the months ahead to make this last moment of americas longest war not an acute failure of those afghans who served them. back to you. >> very well part. thank you so much for yo...