been doing, a virus that the isolated in the wild, and having it in the lab and somehow it escaped. i don't think that happened, but i have an open. mind >> the different professional opinions resulted in a political firestorm. >> government signs -- gain and function -- i >> don't -- you are saying things that are not correct. >> according to the intelligence community's assessment, first published in 2021. on the origins of the virus will remain elusive until china cooperates with global investigations. >> why at this point you say it's possible, maybe even probable that the virus came from a lab? and accidentally leaked out? >> the sars-cov-2 virus have ancestral origin in a type of horse shoe that, that doesn't exist in wuhan. if this comes from nature, there would have to be some evidence of it coming from nature. right now we don't have bad evidence. >> now house republicans are demanding more information from the state department, fbi, india we on the origins of covid-19. >> we believe it's, novel if china's not -- >> there some information that we already have and there's other information that i think that