group that did the original u.s. funded experiments with the chinese at the wuhan institute of virology received a $7.5 million grant over five years from dr. fauci. president biden a year later tanks the u.s. intelligence community to probe the covid origins, but its august report was inconclusive due it in large part to china s unwillingness to assist with the investigation. you clarify that you thought it was not a weaponized thing from the chinese but that it may have been a lab accident. it seems more and more pointing that way. are you confident saying that or closer to that? you know, i don t think i have any more new information to be able to tip the balance. certainly possible that this was somehow understudy in the lab even though it was not human engineered from scratch. i m quite confident of that. bret: eight intelligence agencies participated in a review of the coronavirus origins. four of those along with the
exactly four amino acids 12 nucleotide that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain that function. that, and you don t change any other amino acid ns 2. i just can t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. of course, in the lab, it would be easy to generate the perfect 12 base insert that you wanted: notes of the meeting also revealed those suspicions of a wuhan lab leak are suppressed over concerns that public revelations of chinese government involvement would do, quote, great potential harm to science and international harmony. dr. garry later says consensus released for drafting a report, quote, one, don t try to write a paper at all. it s unnecessary or, two, if you do write it, don t mention a lab origin as that will justed a fuel to the conspiracists, just four days later, five american british and australian researchers who are all on that fauci conference call author
preliminary findings that abandon their earlier private beliefs that covid was likely the result of a laboratory leak. it s unclear what new evidence prompted such a drastic 180. private communications show the various drafts of their report are sent to fauci and collins for editing and approval. the records do not reveal if they, in fact, edited the new version. weeks later a final version of that report is posted. again, a total reversal of what those virologists wrote in private emails earlier. march 17th, in nature medicine: our analysis clearly shows that covid is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. but that was not enough to tamp down what multiple sources inside and outside government believed that the wuhan lab was, indeed, the covid ground zero. multiple sources say this may be the costliest government cover-up of all time by china. there is a growing belief that
origins of covid. and have launched a select committee over that matter. and the u.s. taxpayer dollars that were funneled into the wuhan lab. bret: as you look like live on capitol hill the house intelligence committee will hold its annual hearing on worldwide threats next thursday. among the speakers there fbi director christopher wray, cia director william burns and director of national intelligence avril haines. up next our whatever happened segment the update on havana. and later the panel on president biden s pitch to democrats and some recent stomach bletion.
january 31st, dr. kristian andersen, a noted virologist at the scripts lab privately tells fauci that after discussions with his colleagues, some of covid-19 s features, potentially look engineered and, quote: the genome is inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. fauci reacts immediately and organizes an all hands on deck conference call with colleagues. he tells the deputy director of the agency dr. hugh as youen clots of the urgency read this paper as well as the email that i will forward to you now you will have tasks today that must be done. fauci also holds a conference equal a dozen virologists from around the world. some immunologists were not convinced the virus occurred naturally. dr. robert gary of tulane university wrote i really can t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very similar to it to end cov where you insert