released this month showed that some of the rooms were used as living quarters. that means people were in contact with what was at the market, including the virus and live animals. reporter: possibly supporting a natural origin theory that the virus went from animals to humans. but the intelligence team revealed to tv 2 tense negotiations with their chinese counterparts who, they say, at first resisted any mention of a lab leak in the w.h.o. s findings and also say their chinese counterparts later insisted the lab leak theory was extremely unlikely. that conclusion has since been met with heavy skepticism among u.s. politicians who remain skeptical given the chinese government s lack of transparency. 25 miles from the market is the wuhan institute of virology and its biosafety level 4 lab. the trump administration alleged for months that this is where
the market. this is video shot by the head of that international mission as he and the team walked through the now shuttered market. in a tv 2 danish documentary released this month they st stumbled on a space that suggested people were also living ips the market leading up to the outbreak. translator: if these rooms were used as living quarters, that would mean that people were in contact with what was at the market, including the virus and perhaps live animals more intensely. reporter: possibly supporting a natural origin theory that the virus went from animals to humans. but the intelligence team revealed to tv 2 tense negotiations with their chinese counterparts who, they say, at first resisted any mention of a lab leak in the w.h.o. s findings and also say their chinese counterparts later insisted the lab leak theory was extremely unlikely. that conclusion has since been met with heavy skepticism among u.s. politicians who remain skeptical given the chinese
joining us now for that report. it s classified but we do know one thing. that s that it was inconclusive. president biden has been briefed on the findings of this classified review that the president ordered to find the origins of the pandemic. that report is still to share with the public. the intel community is still very much divided between two main theories. that lab leak theory and the natural origin theory which is that the virus escaped from the wild. now while these officials are still kind of figuring out as
president biden has been briefed on the findings of a u.s. intelligence report on the origins of covid-19, the public though will have to wait a few more days to see an unclassified version. david culver is live in beijing with the details. what do we know about the report s conclusions? reporter: it seems like even those waiting for a few days to see what comes out of this aren t going to get much because it sounds according to white house officials that this was in- in-conclusive. you have to remember this was a decision from president biden who was facing a lot of pressure as to what started covid-19 to look at two likely scenarios in particular. one, that it was a natural origin theory going there animals to humans, the other, that lab leak in wuhan, something china has refuted repeatedly. it seems like there is evidence
that s what the biden administration is trying to do. as they re doing it, if they find that the lab leak theory is c coming out at least as likely as the natural origin theory we should look at that seriously because it s not just about the wonderful science dr. goldstein and his colleagues are put ting out but all the other things that go into the forensic investigation of how we got into this mess and the actual science is one small part of it. steven, to that point, you say it s vastly more likely that it begins from nature rather than a lab. but you also cite, based on open source information, the data we have to date, given that you re fairly certain that s the case, why do you think that china refuses to share information critical data and information that could help us come to a conclusion? if they weren t covering up something, why are they hiding it? the chinese probably are hiding things. the argument that they re hiding things with respect to the lab is one side of this