and to those two judges, two courts have blocked that program so far. because vice and discrimination is wrong and confrontational regardless of the group. sandra: and if you have not seen the budget proposal because it came out friday late in the day. we saw today. some in the media making a major mistake of dismissing the wuhan lab theory, but will others follow suit?
have informed speculation, congressman mccaul, has some information we perhaps haven t seen, top republican on the house foreign affairs committee. he told my colleague jake tapper he believes covid came from a lab. let s listen to what he said. i do think it is more likely than not it emerged out of the lab. most likely accidentally for several reasons. this is the worst coverup in human history that we ve seen resulting in 3.5 million deaths, creating economic devastation around the globe. if insinuating it was a coverup, we know that, we know former fda commissioner scott gottlieb believes it may never be determined. he says viruses escape from labs, quote, all the time. so given that, why has the lab theory been treated by so many doctors as this fringe theory if it s happened all the time as the former fda commissioner
thought about as well. the car crash on the highway is a bigger story than the traffic is running smoothly and so the facts about covid-19 transmission need to reach viewers, need to reach readers and we need more explainers, you wrote about the faulty outdoor air transmission sites for example. but this week you wrote about the lab leak theory and how the conversation about the possible covid escaping the wuhan lab theory has been re-evaluate and reckoned with. why is this back in the news? so it is pretty clear that we don t know how covid started. many people think the most likely explanation is that it jumps from an nomianimal in wuh china. but it is also plausible with this research at a top virology
msnbc s chris hayes last may and this week. a lot of people love the phrase, escaped from the lab, because it sounds like something from a comic book. the lab leak hypothesis, it s not completely insane. it s indicative of this strange narrative first a approach of so much of the conservative media s coverage of the virus. howie: joining us to analyze the coverage, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist and leslie marshall, radio talk show host. mollie, why were most of the media so intent for so long on dismissing and ridiculing the wuhan lab theory as being some cockamamie idea. it s an example of what plagued the media throughout the trump presidency. they viewed their jobs as not reporting facts but doing whatever it took to oust donald trump from power. for them, they viewed the entire
howie: as the media are abruptly acknowledging the seriousness of the wuhan lab theory, some conservative commentators are pointing fingers. they covered up for china and smeared those of us who asked questions. all because they wanted to hurt trump politically. your abusively biased colleagues in the media mob, you hated trump so much that you were willing to push chinese problem began da problem began da from the world health organization propaganda from the world health organization. howie: three researchers were hospitalized with covid like symptoms in 2019. some pundits are following up skeptically or tying it to conservative politics. all of this could fuel speculation that the disease originated in the chinese lab. this theory that it was from the lab is gaining traction, especially here. especially in political circles on the right. howie: here for instance is