report concludes that is likely how the pandemic first began. in a house select committee heard testimony today from a former top u.s. intel official that a chinese lab leak is the only explanation. our money to a lab in china that wasn t up to code that was doing gain of function research and that s where this thing came from. that s what they didn t want us to know. do you agree with that mr. ratcliffe. i do agree with that. communist china the target of bipartisan criticism in washington on tuesday. china has not been forthcoming. where a house select committee held a hearing on the origins of covid-19. i can very well argue the lab leak theory because, you know, china cannot cooperate. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, who began his term two months into the pandemic, also pointing the finger at china. a lab leak is the only explanation credit dibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. the chinese embassy
to the committee s republican chairman saying in part we call on the u.s. side to respect science and fact we freezing rain from targeting china put a stop to the hearings and put a stop to the politics led driven origin. we have news for beijing these intimidation tactic also not work. on the senate side similar findings, a newly released senate report 20 months in the making concludes in part the preponderance of information supports the plausibility of unintentional research related incident that likely resulted from failures of biosafety containment during sars cough v 2 research. dr. marshall spearheaded that report. 95% of that evidence is on the lab origin. this virus was too perfect it. fit like a key lock into the human lungs cells. reports findings matching up with the fbi director told fox s bret baier in february. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed the origins of