white house, peter? peter: good morning. the fbi director s comments suggest the chinese government was doing something with this virus in a lab and then something happened. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. i should add that our work related to this continues and there is not a whole lot of details i can share that aren t classified. peter: sources remain a secret, but the chinese foreign ministry is saying certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative. stop smearing china and stop politicizing origins tracing. well, the house of representatives has a lot of interest in that. do you think there s a chance that the wuhan lab was involved in bioweapons research? well, i think that we know
and stop politicizing origins tracing. yesterday the white house stopped short of responding. there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about exactly how covid started. china, though, is pretty clearly accusing the biden administration of smearing them and trying to say that this is baseless, people shouldn t believe it, and it s a politically motivated attack. i m not going to get ahead of where we are in the process, jacqui. the intelligence community and the rest of the government is still looking at this. members of congress are frustrated the white house is not fully embracing the department of energy findings. for the life of me, i don t understand why they are down playing this. it is clear that evidence is stacking up in favor of the lab leak hypothesis and for two years anyone who said that was called a conspiracy theorist and some cases a racist. we didn t allow this to get in the way of us holding the
of the way, by trying to sweep it under the rug, trying a strategy of zero covid that utterly failed. i mean, look, we need to see whether this is true. if it is, i don t find it surprising at all. china, that has repeatedly blocked the world health organization from fully investigating covid origins relaying today through their foreign ministers, certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative, stop smearing china, and politicizing origins tracing. tomorrow there s a house oversight committee hearing on this. expect a lot of questions, including about whether the u.s. government made appropriate policy decisions in light of this news. harris? stop smearing china? they just flew a spy craft across the united states, and this biden administration allowed them to do that. pretty incredible, the narrative they keep pumping out. it is incredible. jackie, thank you.