and they argue that china didn t pick up anything that it otherwise couldn t have gotten from other methods of intelligence collections, including from satellites and things like that the other thing that we learned, chris, was there that there was a mechanism in the balloon to self-deconstruct so basically, if china wanted to, they could have pulled the trigger and had it self-destruct. they didn t do that, and what the u.s. doesn t know is if they chose not to do that or if that mechanism somehow malfunctioned. a number of things that are coming to light as this investigation continues, chris. carol lee, fascinating, thank you so much. now to russia where authorities say they have arrested a suspect in the bombing attack that killed one of the country s most prominent military bloggers in st. petersburg just last night nbc s josh lederman is back with us the kremlin describes this as a terrorist attack, placing the blame on ukraine, and an
factor. china and russia will determine events in the world. that is an arrogance that was coupled with so many other bad developments this moment. martha: when things first started to open up between the u.s. and china, a lot of american workers that went to china, went to hong kong. having small story, but that caught our attention. the mince group is a due diligence group. china took in the workers of this group. nobody knows what happened to these people after they raided the offices in beijing. no one has heard from them since. this means essentially china knows that its numbers that its reporting to the world on its economy, they ve been exaggerated. china didn t grow 3.0% last year. probably contracted 1 or 2%. if you have these due diligence groups out there, people will find out about it. that s why china is cracking
inserting it of humanized mice. china didn t bury the data from that wuhan lab because they nothing to hide. china buried the data because the data implicated china. of course the entire time they have their friends in the media here in the united states help them brand anyone who questioned the party line as conspiracy theorist. donald trump turning his intelligence community to not investigate a conspiracy theory about covert coming from a lab in wuhan. dr. fauci rejected a conspiracy that it was man-made in a lab in wuhan, china. and yet this week, donald trump is still pushing the debunk. laura: things went even deeper sources telling fox that jeff zucker, the then president of cnn would not allow his reporters to investigate the lively theory because he believed that it was a donald trump talking point. everyone agrees that it s highly unlikely that this virus came from the lab.
dangerous, in the early days the pandemic they thought themselves that this might actually have resulted from this pandemic absolutely resulted from research that they supported. laura: again, we say this could be one the most shocking medical coverups in all of human history, i know it sounds completely hyperbolic just coming out my mouth i understand that, but when you see that he push for that paper to be published in nature christian anderson is a renowned from scripps research, he initially was very measured and how he looked at the possibility of the origin. he pushed forward under dr. fauci s direction. and then citing that of the white house briefing room, president donald trump didn t know this stuff. no one would expect him to know it all. it was relying on tony fauci s reputation and suppose a good fate and our founding out that that was a lie. he was involved in writing that
to angrily deny the lab leak theory and condemn it as a sign of phobic slur. which would have a lot more weight if china didn t have a record of suppressing information and silencing covid whistle blowers. over time, more and more evidence has suggested that a lab leak theory can t be dismissed including intelligence report that wuhan lab workers got sick from an unspecified illness in november of 2019. shortly before public reports of a local infection. and may 21, the washington post offered a helpful time line on, quote, how the wuhan lab leak theory became credible. that biden administration intelligence assessment came back with a mixed bag with most agencies saying there wasn t enough evidence to determine a lab leak. director chris ray doubled down on just yesterday. on the flip side, summer of 22, two review articles published in the journal science found the most likely origin is natural transmission through the wet