that means everything is possible. don t rule out anything. don t rule out anything, he says. but the lab leak theory was ruled out. perhaps its association with this man helped cast it as a conspiracy theory. have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the wuhan institute of virology was the origin of this virus? yes, i have. as did the claims from some western scientists of overwhelming evidence that the virus, which started in bats, passed naturally to humans, perhaps via other animals in a market, a route by which deadly pandemics are known to have emerged in the past. it was that past precedent that influenced the world health organization mission to wuhan when it too effectively ruled out a lab leak. one of the scientists tells me in an interview for our podcast. everyone is biased, i am
until he was forced to leave in 2021 he s sent this report from new york. ever since the world got its first glimpse of the deadly disease circulating in wuhan, china has dismissed the theory that covid might have leaked from a lab known to have been experimenting with coronaviruses, as a lie. but now, one of china s most senior scientists seems far less forthright when i ask him about that possibility. you know, i haven t seen anything. you know, a lot of people have some suspicions, but i haven t seen anything. but nor can you rule it out? for science you have to be open minded. that means everything is possible. don t rule out anything. don t rule out anything, he says. but the lab leak theory was ruled out. perhaps its association with this man helped cast it as a conspiracy theory.
aapi communities, that have been dealing with the rise and hate for the past few years? we re certainly worried about that. we re worried about copycat shooters, sometimes mass shootings lead to our ripple effect of more shootings. what we ve seen, because as the news comes out, if you look at different live feeds, chats that even when we don t know what the intent of the shooter was, there s a tremendous amount of hate motivated speech happening in reaction. people are saying, good riddance for asians, and speaking and really violent and racist language against asians in response to we certainly don t rule out that there will be our politifact. that our asian community could be targeted. so, we re being careful as we
nominee, i can t imagine voting for them. idealogically progressive, versus someone orchestrated an attack on the capitol, as you said in your words, you still might vote for him. mm-hmm. it s hard for me to project what the future holds. the question is always a comparative one, you have to make a choice between two people. i don t believe in throwing my vote away on a third party. you don t rule out voting for president trump again. no, i don t, depends on the circumstances. it remains astounding, he has done this before, to lay out the case, not just a political or policy case against donald trump but a moral case against him. a case for democracy against donald trump. we can t afford to have him there. he s failed, and he goes down, ticks down the list. i ll have to see, maybe i ll vote for him. we have to see what happens. it likely will be joe biden running against him. it s not necessarily a wild eyed
prison sentence for murdering fellow student. the defense has called the dna evidence in the case flawed. the appeals case is in its final stages. and back in the country a florida jury has convict ad millionaire developer in the death of his wife. they found bob ward guilty of second-degree murder. diane ward was found dead in their mansion back in 2009. at the time media reports said ward told a 911 operator quote, i just shot my wife. he contended that his wife was suicidal and that she was shot when the two struggled with a loaded gun. in california the jury has been selected for the trial of michael jackson s personal physician, dr. conrad murray. murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the singer s death. opening statements are expected on tuesday. that defunct satellite we ve been talking about has finally crashed to earth in pieces. nasa says it fell somewhere over the pacific around midnight but the agency doesn t have the exact location. bonnie schn