the ongoing movement to undermine the election of 2022, state by state trumpist push to replace the people who held the line in 2020. then europe s so-called last dictator using a fighter jet to stop a passenger airplane and arrest an journalist, increasing boldness of autocrats. note of caution over the wuhan lab theory. and what looks like real progress on bipartisan reform bill. all in starts now. good evening, i m chris hayes. lot of news on the democracy front. weird thing to say but in 2021, possibly most important beat there is. our democracy survived awful assault this year when rioter descended to everturn the results of free and fair election. we re still sifting through what happened.
comes as there has been renewed interests in this possible wuhan lab theory. there were folks who said earlier on it was unlikely and it should be looked at. this is a really interesting time as the u.s. and the rest of the world tries to figure out the origins of this virus. kate? kylie, thank you. outfront is dr. david ro roman, he s arguing more must be done to investigate the virus. dr. roman, thank you for being here. with so much that s unknown about still the origin of where this pandemic bebegan, do you think it is a mistake to shut down any investigation? we are urging a proper investigation and by proper we
they wouldn t have diminished to the lab theory if it wasn t for their emotional hatred for trump. their emotional dislike actually prevented them from logically thinking about this. who s been pointing out this to sort four years? we have but now they ve just admitted that their own trump derangement syndrome has caused them to trash science and even ignore possibly the most plausible theory because when you think about, think about the other theory, the most obvious explanation tends to be the truest, they thought that the most obvious explanation was that it came from a wet market from a pangolin or a batch that was eaten. that is somehow, somehow more plausible than a lab that is literally down the street doing experiments with novel corona viruses that are known to not be totally competent when it comes to their hygiene, known for
of this. even though the president owes his nomination to china, and kept saying china is doing a great job handling this, in the end, he looks at the report and said yeah, we need to go back and really get better access. even the w.h.o. says don t believe the report i handed out. ainsley: we don t trust china. china won t let us in the lab and they won t release the blood samples. we don t know where this started. is there a possibility it started in the lab? yes. why are all the media outlets saying they claim to know where it start the when they won t even let us in the lab? steve: to your point, ainsley, the washington post did a fact check a year ago, they wrote the trump-pompeo were pursuing unsubstantiated lab theory. that was their fact checker. how can you fact check something where you don t have the facts? they didn t have the fact a year ago. but they made it, once again, it was political. donald trump so it s a fringe thing. at this point, we don t know but at least pe
health organization should be ashamed of themselves. the guardian said nobody is buying trump s wuhan lab theory and liberal commentators piled on. a lot of people don t love that s escape from the lab because it sounds like something from a marvel movie or a comic book. when senator come to the con calls for a probe in february. the washington post says tom cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked. the new york times, senator tom cotton repeats fringed theory of coronavirus origins. now that more circumstantial evidence is emerging such as the wall street journal report that three researchers at the lab were hospitalized with covid-like symptoms in 2019, many news outlets are playing catch up. new reports raising questions about the origins of covid-19. site depunk bunked the rumor editor s note yesterday that scientific consensus has shifted. anthony fauci who once called