white house, peter? peter: good morning. the fbi director s comments suggest the chinese government was doing something with this virus in a lab and then something happened. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. i should add that our work related to this continues and there is not a whole lot of details i can share that aren t classified. peter: sources remain a secret, but the chinese foreign ministry is saying certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative. stop smearing china and stop politicizing origins tracing. well, the house of representatives has a lot of interest in that. do you think there s a chance that the wuhan lab was involved in bioweapons research? well, i think that we know
related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details i can share that aren t classified. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems to be has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we re doing, the work that our u.s. government and close foreign partners are doing, and that s unfortunately for everybody. there s not a complete agreement on this in the intelligence community, katty. talk about the degree of delicacy that perhaps we didn t see last night. richard nailed it when he talked about this being the or one of the fundamental relationships of our time, and while the hostility toward china might be well earned, i was reading my dad s book from his time in the white house, power and principal, and in the back of the book, he has a memo, the actual picture of it that carter sent to him before he sent my
that i can share that aren t classified. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems to be last been doing its best to try to thwart an obfuscate the work here, the work that we re doing, the work that our u.s. government and close foreign partners are doing. that s unfortunate for everybody. that is the most the fbi director has ever said about that covid investigation as that hearing, committee hearing, gets underway of the house republicans going down this road about origins. martha: yeah, you know, it s so interesting having that department of energy report from the livermore lab. they have a very deep dive biological germ warfare division there. also just thinking, bret, about what dr. fauci said in an interview yesterday. oh, we may never got to the bottom of this. what is your sense of how
so, here, you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans and that s precisely what that capability was designed for. i should add, that our work related to this continues and there is not a whole lot of details i can share that aren t classified. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems to me has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. the work that we re doing, the work that our u.s. government and close foreign partners are doing. and that s unfortunate for everybody. bret: on immigration, do you believe the cartels should be designated as terrorist organizations? well, i do believe that the cartels represent a significant threat and we have hundreds, the fbi has hundreds of investigations that go into cartel leadership and i m
they re not being very transparent about some of the facts that i do not believe would influence the special counsel. whether it was in chicago for now with her. meaning the room adjacent to the garage. what is that? how in the world was a document chest found adjacent to the garage? was it in a box? was it on the record player? had anyone accessed it? there was all these little details that would help publicly to explain the fact that look, this is unacceptable but there s been no compromise. and in fact, maybe the documents aren t classified. we ll find out. ironically, president biden could legally declassify these records on like former president trump who could not. mark, thank you, we appreciate your analysis. mark and attorney they think of a wrecker and founder of the james madison project. still ahead on velshi. florida governor ron desantis cannot stay out of the schools.