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
disservice. you know what, bret, i think once again we have the donald trump factor. because, mr. trump was attracted to this theory. you may recall he called it a chinese virus and he was asked, you remember, in a news conference why he did that because he said well it came from china. seemed to be gadd answer county at the time. even him saying that was considered to be racist or debunked or debunked or both. this once again, our media and many of our elites were, i think, thrown off what might have been their normal course of inquiry by their dislike in reaction to donald trump. and the lesson of it is upper if you are a journalist if you don t like a particular person you are covering keep your wits about you because if you don t it might lead you astray as as happened here and a number of other cases. bret: good advice as always. brit, thank you. tech stocks put wall street in a positive territory today. the dow gained 72. nasdaq finished up ahead 72.