lab in chiwuhan, china. and in east palestine, the new technique to track contaminated water from that city. and the growing concern to other cities taking in truckloads of contaminated soil. and an image in oklahoma, cnn is on the scene. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the groundbreaking assertion with the u.s. energy department that the covid-19 pandemic likely began from a lab leak in wuhan, china. this all comes after the energy department updated its 2021 report with this claim, saying it made the new conclusion, based on new evidence coming to light. two sources telling cnn the department is issuing the report with, quote, low confidence. that s a term that doesn t mean that they don t believe their own conclusion. it means that the evidence as of now is only circumstantial. the new assertion reveals that the u.s. intelligence community is more divided than ever on how the pandemic began. four other agencies in the u.s. government said the outbr
natural origin, from animals to humans, that that s where it happenbut giving to circumstantial evidence to the lab theory, it s about a 30 minute drive to the institute of virology. but jake, go two blocks to the seafood market and that s where the wuhan cdc is located so that in itself is very speculative. and the cdc is a bsl-2, a little lower level of research, they still looked into that and coronaviruses. i do want to read you what the chinese have to say about this, by the way. the foreign ministry coming out quite strong. they from the podium today said that china has always actively supported and participated in global science-based origin tracing. the relate parties should stop stir-frying the argument of a laboratory leak and stop vilifying china and politicizing the issue. they also said, jake, that the w.h.o. concluded in the field
hands on new intelligence? very hard to know. we don t know what that intelligence is. we know they ve had this assessment as low level. you can make a pretty strong argument for either scenario. but without more evidence, we don t have proof of what happened. we do have proof that labs all overly the world need to be safer. and the animal human interface where people encroach on nature may get infected with new organisms, we need to do better at increasing that barrier to keep us all safer. the world health organization roar from last year left all possible explanations for the outbreak on the table. and the w.h.o. calling on china to cooperate with the investigation. do you thinkever think we ll ge the bottom of this if the chinese refuse to cooperate? incorporate ootsz very challenging even with full cooperation to get a definitive answer. what we doll know definitively
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