professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should s
coaches congratulated them. it was great. they got to george mason. won the game at george mason. lacrosse game there and hope the coach treated them to great meal. jesse: electric school buss that keep breaking down? thanks, kamala. [laughter] dana: only monday and we are all in quite a mood. stay with us all week. we can t wait for it. that s it for us tonight. bret: i look forward to seeing the chicago mayor on jesse s show. thanks, dana. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, a great big i told you so from a lot of conservatives both in politics and science. scientists at the biden administration energy department now concludes what many thought all along about the coronavirus pandemic and the origins that it likely came from a laboratory leak. a classified report provided to the white house and some members of congress is now providing more backing for that theory, that once inspired mockery,
revolves around donald trump and ththis is no exception in my review. bret: covid story and all of the coverage and talk about it now this report saying it s likely from a lab leak. don t know that for a fact. and we don t have the classified material. but, nate silver, i saw you retweeted. this the behavior of certain cadre of scientists who used every trick in the book to suppress discussion of this issue is something i will never forget. a huge disservice to science and public health. they should be profoundly embarrassed. your thoughts? i think apologies should be in order. it was not just that people refused to endorse the theory of a lab leak. that was perfectly understandable. we don t know for sure if that s what it was. we certainly know now yard that it beyond a reasonable doubt tht yard plausible theory. this came out of the very down in which this laboratory doing this kind of research is located. so it always made some sense that it might have been that and for it to b
professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative
bret: juan, here is media headlines regarding senator cotton on the lab leak theory. the washington post, tom cotton keeps repeating coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed, msnbc, cotton repeats coronavirus girs theory despite evidence. daily beast, new york times. conspiracy theories flourish. then you have the baltimore sun that says the u.s. is experiencing significant surge in attacks against americans. one thing to believe in dubious theories. another to stand by them when they re feeding the mob and they point directly to dr. robert redfield. he was on with martha today. take a listen. the hardest thing for me, since i live in baltimore with all my grandkids, was that baltimore sun having all their first page stories saying that i was a racist because i suggested this came from an asian lab. you know, very disappointing how people want to name-call and not just have an honest, scientific discussion about the possible