made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
believes the pandemic likely resulted from a laboratory leak in wuhan, china, peer that is according to classified intelligence recently provided to the white house and members of congress. the energy department now joins the fbi and the virus from a mishap from a chinese left you will say that it was dismissed by the media by debunked conspiracy theories. so, we will proceed, guy as jonathan turley points out for years the media and government allied to treat anyone raising lab theory is 1 of 3 possibilities. he writes, conspiracy theorist, racist or racist conspiracy theorist? he s absolutely right. guy: remember for a while it was racist you couldn t talk about how this virus originated at all from the perspective of these gatekeepers. and i just keep coming back to the term misinformation and conspiracy theory. this is use to disqualify points the media and others disagree with and over and over again, they are proven wrong. i m not saying there aren t things such
did it come from a lab? this question is fundamental to help us predict and prevent future pandemics. expert witnesses putting holes in the story, we ve been told, for the last three years. why do so many people believe the virus came from nature? the natural origin camp got its story out first, always a big help. painted the lab leak as a conspiracy theory. it was promoted by science administrators in the united states. dr. fauci dismissed the lab leak theory, for years in fact. he expected it to be a big topic today, new e-mails reveal covid s top doc prompted drafting of a paper to disprove the lab leak theory. former site chairman jason chavetz and marc siegel are on site, interesting to see how they explain this one, mark. interesting details coming out of the hearing this morning, members say they are trying to answer straight-forward, but important question. how did covid-19 first spread? there has been speculation for years, no firm answers. the hearing got un
lawrence jones. we are awaiting a news conference from senator lindsey graham on the cartels, set to begin any moment. it comes after the horrifying kidnapping of four americans. we know two americans are dead with two of them hospitalized, after getting caught in the cross fire between rival cartels. this happened just blocks from the united states southern border. two people were killed, their friends and survived. what they endured was absolutely terrifying. senator graham wants to introduce legislation that would treat these cartels as terrorists groups and allow the president to use the military to go after them. am going to introduced legislation to make certain mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary to protect america from being poisoned coming from mexico. what would lindsey graham do? i would tell mexicans if you don t clean up your act, were going to clean it up for you. see three he
operational decisions and will always honor the sacrifice of those 13 americans. former secretary state mike pompeo who, by the way, was in the middle of this planning in the previous administration will join us in moments. first to mark meredith live at the white house. mark? trace, good afternoon to you. this report that you re talking about basically blames the trump administration for what happened in august of 2021 under president biden s command where the u.s. ended the longest war in afghanistan. it basically detail what s the u.s. government has learned since that date. repeatedly blaming the trump administration for the conditions on the ground during that time period. the report says president biden still believes that pulling out of afghanistan was the right thing to do and the president thought staying in afghanistan was not an option. the white house admits it was surprised that the afghan government fell as quickly as it did and evacuations should have happene