the world about reforming the world health organization and perhaps coming up with a better model, but with that said i think its credibility will only be undermined further if they don t if they aren t able to persuade the chinese communist party to come up with the data pertaining to this virus and provide access to some of the chinese nationals who were working on this virus. i don t see any other way for the world health organization to restore its credibility in the eyes of americans and many across the world who have seen them frankly place more trust in the chinese communist party leadership and more deference to them than they to the western world. yeah. in the final months of the trump administration the state department was trying to investigate in some way the wuhan lab theory, but sources tell cnn the biden administration when they came in they should that down and today your republican colleague john kennedy from louisiana pressed
all that is happening, the wall street journal has a story that is actually, people in china went to the hospital and it looks like it could be coming from a lab and now all of a sudden there s a new investigation. how does the sit with you? jesse: you get joe s schedule every day. usually one half event comes out. today s schedule comes out, it s nothing. nothing. very light day. so on a day that he has nothing to do, the report comes out that says he just killed the investigation into the lab, he comes out and releases this big statement and says, oh, we are going to investigate this lab theory and it was the day after the white house press secretary said we didn t need to actually do this. come on, and now the spin comes out that oh, yeah, the people that were doing the investigation for trump, kind of sloppy. the guy doing it was a bloodhound, dana, he
i think the randy weingarten twitter account is the most entertaining thing going right now, so shockingly oblivious, every tweet gets ratio into oblivion and she keeps doing it. we don t have an independent press that actually holds people accountable for what they say, they just gloss over it, the stakes are so high. we had to ignore the wuhan lab theory or overlook a conspiracy theory, she spoke about trump s handling of the school reopenings. watch. i big the trump administration to do exactly what the biden administration did which is real safety guidance and recourses. if we had actually listened to doctor redfield and the cdc last may, the former president hadn t kept on changing his mind and changing these things, we would
has not been forthcoming about the ornls of covid from the very start and for trump, the question of the lab theory was less about finding the truth and more about finding a scapegoat as he made racist comments deflecting for his own poor political performance and coincided with higher rates of hate crimes against asian americans. all different names. wuhan. wuhan was catching on. coronavirus, right? kung flu, yeah. kung flu. covid, covid-19. so our next guest is making the case for more than a year that it is a real possibility that the virus leaked from a lab. joining us vaccine scientist and professor at university in australia, nick lie. thank you for being with us. you ve been consistent that this
plus, a note of caution of the right wing media over the wuhan lab theory. congressman jamal bowman on what looks like a real progress on a bipartisan police reform bill. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. a lot of news today on the democracy front. this is perhaps a weird thing to say but, in 2021, possibly the most important beat there is because, our democracy survived an awful assault this year, when rioters descended on the capital on january six in a violent attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election. now, more than four months later, we are still sifting through what happened and every day, day after day, after day, particularly if you are atuned to this beat as i am and we are on the show, more and more evidence of the fundamentally dangerous and anti-democratic orientation of the republican party across all its various factions.