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>> martha: a live look at capitol hill. secretary stated anthony blinken is in the middle of a tough line of questioning as leaked portions of a classified study from may of 2020, a u.s. study, reveal a respected national lab in california found it completely plausible that the virus had leaked from the lab in wuhan based on its genome construction. this is the construction that we find in engineered viruses, not in naturally occurring viruses. mike mccall says that this is a devastating report....

Do you have faith in that study? >> i always thought -- the level 4 facility in china, they were studying coronavirus-like bats and how to develop a vaccine. the very thing that covid-19 is. and in 2004 with sars, they accidentally leaked the sars virus at another lab. they have a very poor track record for safety. i think the likely is very probable that this got leaked out of that lab. >> martha: thats why i asked. after they look at everything that you looked at, will they be more open or pot...

Covid-like symptoms in november of 2019 and then we had the statement department cables questioning the safety protocols. i think all roads lead to the lab here. theres an argument that is accidentally released but we may never know what the real truth is unless the chinese communist party opens up. >> martha: that is probably not too likely. you heard the secretary state blinken saying, well, we had concerns about the livermore study and the trump administration had concerns about it. they felt...

First, to the state department. rich edson. hi, rich. >> good afternoon, martha. former state department officials say they use this analysis in their own investigation into how this pandemic began. the report from the lawrence livermore laboratory analyzed the genome and found that the lab work was plausible. anthony blinken is testifying before congress. its the second hearing of the day on capitol hill. earlier blinken said the trump administrations report was flawed. >> its my understanding ...