china lab theory as some kind of vindication. enough to play i told you so with fauci. why did you dismiss the lab leak theory as credible? i didn t dismiss anything. i just said it s a high likelihood that this is a natural occurrence from the environment of an animal reservoir that we have not yet identified. no one knows, including me, 100% what the origin is, is the reason why we re in favor of further investigation. tony fauci answers the questions. why wouldn t you, senator rubio? why don t you come on and answer why did you ignore president trump making light of the pandemic when all the science was against it? why did you ignore when president trump was saying that it was a hoax, it was just a bad flu? that it was too much testing that had people worried? where was your concern then? if you were so confident, why did you fail along with trump to
intelligence to redouble efforts to collect information, suggesting that intel has coalesced around two likely scenarios but hasn t reached a definitive conclusion and there s not enough sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other. that takes us back to the china point. however, there s also a political point here. the two. covid was passed from animals to humans, or it originated from a lab accident. now, the second is a newer notion, okay? the government had not been open to the lab theory. that is why it is so politically charged. it was dismissed as a conspiracy early on. but now is under serious consideration. why? an intel report determined several researchers at the wuhan institute of virology were hospitalized in november of 2019 the month before china reported its first covid case.
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 he ll make whatever the intelligence community finds public. will you pledge to release the report in full after 90 days? yes, that s unless there s something i m unaware of. with me in studio still cnn s lauren fox, sun ming kim of the washington post joins us, and dr. monica ghandi. dr. fauci was on capitol hill. republicans who have long thought the government was not doing enough to explore the lab theory, were pressing him, listen. why did you dismiss the lab leak theory as credible? i didn t dismiss anything. i just said it s the high
seriously. now we know that three of them were sick enough to go to hospital. that raises a red flag about why did they have to go to hospital? we don t know that it was covid. but the fact that three of them went to hospital with serious enough symptoms at the time covid was emerging in that city suggests they may have had covid. i did an interview with actually a doctor in australia who was one of the very first doctors in the world, and the australians have been really in the forefront of this theory, to push for an investigation of that lab, to push for, you know, more information from the chinese. and the one thing he told me is that there is something about the nature of the pathogen of covid-19, the way it spreads so efficiently from human-to-human, that had always made him suspicious of the notion that it came via an animal. he said, this pathogen didn t look to him, as a virologist, like something that came from an animal, it looked more like it came from humans and that made
it is like out of the matrix to be honest. i don t mean to be hyperbolic but it is too real. harris: i may be the only american who has never seen that series. i have to watch it now because of you, will cain. thank you very much. good to see you today. are democrats getting a wake-up call on woke culture? why a new york times op-ed suggestions wokeness could be kryptonite for the democratic party. i said the times is writing that. why cnn anchor chris cuomo is getting called out for his claims about the coronavirus lab leak theory. oh, there is more with chris. trumpers who were complicit in playing down the pandemic reality in america are now seeing more interest in the china lab theory as some kind of vindication.