Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield says he received death threats from fellow scientists after saying he believed the coronavirus originated in a lab.
problem. where this started. is it a fair criticism to say you were dismissive of the lab theory early on and you are more open now. why did you change? it s not entirely fair. when this virus first emerged, all of us were deeply engaged in studying the letters and sequence. to understand what the connection was with previous viruss and we could see it was a bat virus that looked like one that had been found in cave in china seven years earlier. it had a lot of differences. then the theory began maybe it s human engineered. app intentional bio weapon. put together with the intention of killing people. that theory didn t hold up. you could look at the letters of the rna code and say no human would have come up with this. that was rather widely spread. the idea it might have been an accidental leak from the lab on
before the world health organization declared covid-19 a pandemic, a virologist at scripps richards told fauci the virus may have been engineered, according again. the unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome, so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features potentially look engineered. a month later, fauci had internal email exchanges with top officials at the national institute of health about fox news reporting that there was increasing confidence in the wuhan lab theory. yet fauci, with the approval of fellow nih members, continue to knock it down. watch. the way the mutations have naturally evolved. a number of very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then
what president trump said and what secretary pompeo was said in terms of the origins of the virus, but it indicates that dr. fauci had knowledge or at least a suspicion of things not happening in an evolutionary manner very early on. and he didn t share that with the task force. that is very troubling and something that we do need to get to the bottom of. sean: mike pompeo said, jim jordan, that in fact fauci had access to everything he was seen. he had a very different interpretation of what we now know fauci had come about these emails seem to reveal a level of panic in dr. fauci. do you sense the same thing? well, what a cozy relationship. he has close ties to china and the world health organization. and of course, he praises dr. fauci after dr. fauci throws cold water on the whole lab theory. after dr. fauci has approved
part off the troubling thing tht we are seeing with these emails that are coming out is not only do they seem to correspond with what president trump said and what secretary pompeo was said in terms of the origins of the virus, but it indicates that dr. fauci had knowledge or at least a suspicion of things not happening in an evolutionary manner very early on. and he didn t share that with the task force. that is very troubling and something that we do need to get to the bottom of. sean: mike pompeo said jim jordan, that in fact faucitg had access to everything he was seen. he had a very different interpretation of what we now know fauci had come about these emails seem to reveal a level op panic in dr. fauci. do you sense the same thing? well, what a cozy relationship. he has close ties to china and the world health organization. and of course, he praises dr. fauci after dr. fauci throws cold water on the whole lab theory.