lives. contentious issue, no clear path forward, sandra. sandra: kelly o grady, thank you. john. john: now this, the house covid committee holding another hearing as lawmakers sparred over whether dr. anthony fauci and other health officials worked behind the scenes to discredit the lab leak theory. griff jenkins with the latest. what if anything did we learn from the hearing. john, we learned we still don t know with a degree of confidence where it came from, was it a lab leak, or natural origins. this committee pressed two top scientists behind a 2020 paper titled proximal origin, whether they suppressed the lab leak theory and from the start the chairman and ranking member were at odds. we are examining whether government officials, regardless of who they are, unfairly and perhaps biasly tipped the scales
censor speech. the government cannot do it but they can t outsource that and they cannot coerce these companies to do the same. what has been uncovered in 20 plus 000 documents, e-mails, direct messages from senior officials in the administration with high-ranking executives of social media giants is shocking. first of all this was almost exclusively related to conservative speech. you have viewpoint discrimination there. you also have threats that are being made whether its investigations, whether it s eliminating section 230 protections. whether it s additional regulations or other legal action to get them to do their bidding on things like origins of covid, the lab leak theory. they didn t want to talk about that. other covid protocols. the hunter biden laptop story. this is far reaching. the judge notes this is perhaps the single greatest censorship enterprise in the history of the country and it has been exposed and that order is a big win for free speech.
to censor speech. and of course, the government can t do it, but they can t outsource that eithe outr and they can t force and coerce these companies to do the same. and what s been uncoveree same.n 20 plus thousand documents, emails direct messages fromct ms senior officials insa s the administrationenio with high ranking executives of these social media giants is shocking . i mean, you had first of all,hi this was almost exclusively relaterelated d to speech. so you ve got viewpoint discrimination. you have viee. and then you also have threats that are being made, whether it s investigationins, whether it s, you know, eliminating section 230 protections, whethe g ser is additionalgula regulations or other legal action to get themtion to do their bidding on things like origins of covid, the lab leak theory. of c didn t want anybody to talk about that. of course, other covid protocols, the hunter biden l laptop story. so this is far reaching. it s the judgey. that this is perhaps the s
emily: the lab leak theory once dismissed by the left is gaining momentum as the cause of the covid pandemic. the director of the fbi spoke out for the first time on the topic to fox news bret baier and likely started from the lap incident in wuhan. and also told bret baier it is difficult to work on investigating the pandemics support. speak with the fbi has for some time now said the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. here you were talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. and that is precisely what that capability was designed for and
the finding that they would make from it and the level of confidence they would put behind it. so in other words the department of energy, with our new assessment at least, this has not seen something new, or how they? they updated their assessment based on some new intelligence, but we don t know what that is. we don t know that is, but it i would not make that big a deal of it because it did not cause all of these other agencies to sway over. so, it is something that to the department of energy s scientists, was the nuance that move them from assessing one thing into maybe another, but with low confidence, which is different without a distinction. scott, i want to bring you in because i don t have to tell you how many people pooh-poohed the lab leak theory, it turns out prematurely. yeah, completely. you had a lot of conservatives at the time that this was all breaking, like tom cotton, senator from arkansas was wanted. but many others and they were