Wuhan but its home to one of only a few dozen advanced level by a lapse on the planet. The Wuhan Laboratory was used for research on some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. As it happens, this facility was not far from the socalled wet market where the coronavirus supposedly originated. Kind of an amazing coincidence, if you think about it. It was it actually coincidence or was there a connection between the research lab and the outbreak . It seems like a worth asking. Unfortunately we live in a Political Climate in which asking questions is greatly discouraged and obedience is prized. Speculation about it remain private, mostly online. In february, senator tom cotton of arkansas said it out loud. A few miles away from that food market is chinas only biosafety level for Super Laboratory that researches human infectious diseases. We dont have evidence that this disease originated there but because of chinas duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence has. We have such laboratories ourselves in the United States run by our military, in large part done for preventative purposes. We are trying to discover vaccines or to protect our own soldiers. Tucker of course. Everything about tom cottons questions, the one you just saw, were valid. Was there a connection between the lab and a virus . We ought to see where the evidence leads, but as he said. The people who are paid to follow the evidence review to do that and instead they mocked cotton as a paranoid lunatic. On cnn, serial plagiarist dismissed cotton as a far right conspiracists. Zakaria compared cottons entirely legitimate questions to soviet disinformation from the 1980s that claimed the cia aids. Tom cotton, one of Donald Trumps staunchest allies in the senate, suggested the virus mightve been originated in the highsecurity Biochemical Lab in china. In the 1980s, i remember when the far left traffic in rumors about hiv having been invented in cia labs. The far right has now found its own virus Conspiracy Theory. Tucker what a mediocrity. What a slander. Over on nbc, famed journalist Brian Williams also refused to engage in journalism. Rob other than spend 10 minutes learning about the subject and making his own mind, william simply joined the heart of other dumb people mocking a story they didnt understand. Cotton has been criticized by Public Health professionals for giving just a whiff of credibility there on television and on social media to a Conspiracy Theory going around that they coronavirus originated and was perhaps manmade inside a lab in china, perhaps even as a bio weapon, and was released either intentionally or unintentionally deployed. There is no evidence to support that. Tucker it there is no evidence to support that. It sounds authoritative. Actually Brian Williams had no idea what he was talking about. At the time he said that, the evidence indeed was accumulating. The wuhan what markets they are always cited, turns out it didnt even sell the variety of bats that carry covid19. Those bats were hundreds of miles away. A group of chinese researchers confirm this fact in january when they interviewed 59 people who worked in the market or shop there. That information is widely available. It was online when williams made what he calls his broadcast and issued the airy dismissal you just saw. He just didnt bother to read any of it. None of them did. Tonight williams and all the robots like him owe you an apology. Foxs special reporters from government sources with access to highly classified intelligence, informed people, believe this virus did in fact originate in the bio lab in wuhan. The first infected patient was likely a lab employee who accidentally contracted the virus and then spread it to the rest of the world. That wet market theory, it was just a cover. China push that story to western media to deflect blame from itself and of course are press corps, as they always do, they eat it up immediately. We still do not know conclusively this virus escape from 11 wuhan but tonight we can say with ample evidence that it is the most plausible explanation for the epidemic nonrecognition country. And thats a big story. Why didnt we know this sooner . There was a specific reason for that. The people who bring you the news were lying about it. And they were covering for china. In february, the New York Times announced that senator tom cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins. According to the washington post, tom cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus Conspiracy Theory that was already debunked. Really . By whom . On march 5, vox. Com weyden, rumors coronavirus started in a chinese lab. Heres how we know it didnt. In their signature, smug hurrying tone, box set on fox news and social media, and dangerous Conspiracy Theory about the origin of coronavirus will die. Why was it dangerous . They never explain. As proof that coronavirus could not escape from that lab in wuhan, box said that the lad had same safety protocols as top american lab, meaning naturally, the virus just couldnt escape. It was unthinkable to them that may be china Safety Practices might be different from ours and perhaps inferior. This is my list. This is dishonest. This is infuriating. This story matters. The intentionally of security. In fact, state Department Emails from 2018, two years ago, reveal that the wuhan lab had disastrous Safety Practices. Even then american officials worried that deadly virus might escape from that lab due to chinese incompetence. They put that on paper. But vox meanwhile was quoting the World Health Organizations bruce alward to assure you anything chalk was crazy and immoral and probably racist. This was the same bruce alward who is becoming a professional shill for the government of china. One interviewee played a couple weeks ago, alward refused to acknowledge the existence of the nation of taiwan. Why . Because his masters invasion might disapprove. Voxs article on the wuhan lab ended we need to be patient for chinese investigators to get to the bottom of it. Right. Lets let china do the reporting for us, because they are objective. Its hard to believe any of this is real, but it is real. We shouldnt be surprised by it. These are dogmatic defenders of the Chinese Government posing as american journalists. They are the very same people who promote travel bans to north carolina, then fly off to beijing for green energy conferences. These are the ones who run Central Committee press releases as news, as he had ended yesterday, and kill stories critical of the Chinese Government as bloomberg has more than once. They censor movies and silence their own employees to keep china happy. Hollywood specializes in that, they fill their universities with the offspring of chinese oligarchs, displacing our own c. They have outsourced our prosperity across the Pacific Ocean they have gotten rich while doing it. So of course they are repeating chinas lies about this pandemic. They have been training for this for years. Will they be punished . We dont know. But remember their names. You should also remember the people who told the truth about all of this when it was unfashionable to do so. Steven mosher is one of them. He was on the story months ago. I think it escape from the lab because we have the Chinese Government basically telling us that it did. Wuhan is the only level 4 laboratory and all of china, so thats where you would put a dangerous pathogen, whether you were genetically engineering it to be a weapon or not, thats where youd be experimenting on it, so it makes sense that the epicenter of the epidemic that the lab there would be the source of that virus. Tucker Stephen Mosier awaits an apology from fareed zakaria. Meantime, he is the president of the Population Research institute and the author of bully of asia why china stream is the new threat to the world order. Mr. Mosier, thank you for coming on. You have one of the most informed researchers on this question, now you been to a large extent vindicated, tell us what we know right now about the origins of this virus. Well, we all know now that a bat, solitary back, did not fly 600 miles from its cave dwelling in another province to the city of wuhan and landon someone soup. Everyone now agrees except for a few marginals that it escape from a socalled High Containment Laboratory i chuckle when i say high containment because obviously it failed at what it was supposed to do. It was operating at level 2. But now the question becomes what is a naturally occurring horseshoe bad coronavirus that was isolated in the Wuhan Institute of virology and then accidentally escaped from the lab by infecting a lab worker . Or was it a virus that the researchers there were working on using gain of function technology. You take an existing coronavirus and you make it more infectious and more deadly. Why would you ever engage in gain of function research . Why would you ever seek to enhance natural pathogen in this way to make it more deadly and more infectious . The idea of the scientists when they first discovered that they could do these things easily by using Recombinant Technology west we are going to create superbugs in the lab and were going to figure out how to defeat them. We are going to develop in theory, were going to develop vaccines. We are going to develop therapeutic treatments and so when the real superbug comes on the scene, we will be ready for it. Thats all well and good. Thats all fun and games until you create a superbug in the lab and it escapes before you have a chance to develop a vaccine or therapeutic treatment for it. Im not saying thats what happened in this case and im not saying that its a bio weapon. Quick changing the subject, which is what the other side loves to do. We know that the lab director at the Wuhan Institute of virology who was their team leader for virology resource, the doctor, using research for years to create new, more deadly and more infectious coronavirus. Dr. Sure needs to tell us what she was doing and how she was doing it. The Chinese Communist party needs to release the secret records of the Wuhan Institute of virology and then well all know for sure whether this was a coronavirus in the lab it was escaped, whether they were tinkering on in any way. I am not naive at all. I know that china will probably have already destroyed the records, the Research Records at the Wuhan Institute of virology. Theyve been destroying records left and right already. They probably already warned the doctor that shes not to talk to anyone about her research. They warned other people. I dont think we are ever going to have a people are demanding, hard evidence. Because the chinese, and his party has destroyed it. Tucker welcome of course. Of course. Theres a reason that they bought and paid for the world health organization, eights becoming clear. Mr. Mosier, think as much for joining us tonight. Fascinating. Hope youll come back. Thank you, tucker. Tucker so the question of whether coronavirus originally came from, a lab or a wet market, isnt some irrelevant fact, interesting only to specialist. Its not going to be the answer to a jeopardy question in 20 years. Its meaningful right now. Heres one reason. If this virus came from a wet market, then the pandemic was at least a natural disaster. But if this disaster began in the lab, if it escape from the lab, its a completely different thing. It is a manmade disaster. If it escaped due to chinese mismanagement and spread because china was determined to cover it up, its Something Else completely. In 1984, Union Carbide pesticide plant in india had a gas leak, almost 4,000 people died. Maybe more. Tens of thousands were sickened and injured. Union carbide and the end paid almost a billion dollars, adjusted, to settle damages from that disaster. If it turns out that chinas lies and secrecy and incompetence have killed more than 150,000 people worldwide, then thats very different. Trillions of dollars in economic damages. This could trigger a fullscale global depression. That would suggest that may be the rest of the world is due a settlement from china. Will leaders begin asking about this . Maybe they should. Bret baier hosts special report and was behind yesterdays news which forms the basis of our open tonight. Brett, thank you for that, to you and your team, for digging up that information which i think is really significant. Where do you think it will lead from here . A couple things. More sources today saying that theres a fullscale investigation. The intel is not conclusive, as we reported, that there is more open source and classified material pointing to the wuhan lab. Not as a bio weapon but is a mistake, a sloppy effort that was warned about, as you mention coming these cables two years ago. Where doesnt go from here . Theyre all already lawmakers talk about possible pay back what does that look like. There are a lot of different options. This is bipartisan, concerns about what it looks like. While it is inconclusive about the lab part of it, theres high confidence, 100 conclusion that china covered up the early stages of this virus on the ground. To an amazing extent. Could have changed the dynamic around the world. So whats the big thing they could do . They could amend the foreign sovereign immunities act and allow class action lawsuits against china. The ccp, the communist party. Believe it or not, therell already tonight to class action lawsuits filed in the United StatesDistrict Court in miami against the ccp. There would have to be a change in congress would look at that. Were already seeing bills about pulling back manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry. That could be expanded to other aspects. There would be an effort to make china feel some pain for their actions, whatever it turns to be. Tucker let me ask you a final question, since you follow this for a living and youre there in washington. Do you think this is a beginning of a sea change in the attitudes of our leaders in washington toward china . I do. I think its not just our leaders but leaders around the world are going to take another look at the relationship with china. The thing that complicates it this year is the election. And how will joe biden and democrats fashion this and kind of, will they try to say that we need to be friendlier to china to get things done . I dont know how thats going to come down politically but clearly is raising a lot of eyebrows on capitol hill. Tucker it sounds like it is. Really important reporting. Thank you for that. Bret baier. See you, tucker. Tucker Gretchen Whitmer has spent most of her working life and the grubby small confines of Michigan State politics. Its not a Training Ground for excellence. When she was elected governor a little over a year and half ago, no one expected her to morph into a wife and inspired a wise and inspired chief executive. When the coronavirus hit, she had no clue what you so she responded with a mixture of comical ineptitude and a weird kind of arbitrary fascism. She banned the sale of carpets and paint and potted plants. Usual people they couldnt finish or go to church or drive alone to their own homes. But at the same time, whitmer kept Liquor Stores, weed shops, and lotto kiosks open because, and this was purely an epidemiological matter, in the interest of Public Health, those were essential services, quote. They also happen to provide massive tax revenue to her government. The whole thing was ridiculous. It was just a matter of time before the people suffering under this insanity said something about it. Yesterday they did. Thousands of michigan residents drove to the State Capitol in lansing to express their displeasure. They didnt hurt anyone while they were there. They did it peacefully, as is their enshrined right constitut. Governor whitmer didnt like ou. If theres one thing Gretchen Whitmer doesnt care for, it is civil disobedience. Especially when its aimed at her. As witmer explained yesterday, complaining about her decisions could kill people. You know come on people flying the Confederate Flag and untold numbers have gassed up on the way here, grabbed a bite on the way home, we know that this rally endangered people. Tucker when you disagree with Gretchen Whitmer, you endanger the public. Thats the new standard in michigan. Debbie dingell supports that standard. She has a long time gm lobbyist, car lobbyist, who inherited her congressional seat from her husband who in turn inherited it from his father. A dingell has represented for 88 years. The Family Businesses politics but its really a form of monarchy. Youll be surprised to learn Debbie Dingell is very popular socially in washington. She shares with her neighbors they are an undisguised loathing for the people of michigan. She expressed that contempt this morning on nbc. What happened yesterday was an excusable peer people did not have masks. They didnt have gloves. They didnt distance themselves. They had Confederate Flags, swastikas. They blocked an advil is