so-called slab leak theory in wuhan. agencies can come to any conclusion put out for additional information, china has not been helpful. part of the justification the lab leak theory is the fact that employees from wuhan institute of virology located in the same city in china for the first of the cases were discovered in 2019 conducted research on other coronavirus us in the past. lawmakers such as senator tom cotton at the start of the pandemic. lawmakers don t think it s a coincidence. many gop lawmakers questioned doctor fauci and others for using taxpayer dollars to fund gain of function research wuhan lab increased transmissibility. the real question is not whether it was a gain of function, it s just what was it? was funded, what was happening in the wuhan map and that s what we need to get to the bottom of. reports has china s cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusion in the assessment of the origins of
quote. the wuhan virology institute director raise the issue of conspiracy theories reiterating the institute had worked with immediate to stress the need to respect signs in the fight against covid 19 and rebut. the international team visited helped defuse some of the theories that were circulating. it seems clear now a lot of this is in retrospect, a lot of us had questions at the time that china wanted to move off of the slab leak theory really fast and it s best to manipulate this international team that was supposed to be doing some type of investigation early on. your thoughts? at some level flying blind because the chinese writing information from us even then. i do believe in the beginning of a global pandemic the country would hide that information from everyone in the world, that could help us tackle this pandemic origins, even to this
fault, that it was an idea floated by mike pompeo, no, it was a reasonable thing to question and it was tom cotton in late january last year, oh, and then there was of south china university technology who posted a paper about the virus originating possibly from a lab in wuhan, from the lab in wuhan, of course that paper was taken down. but they were so anti-trump that they were antiscience, anti-reason, antilogic, and are perfectly happy with that because if they had talked about today slab leak theory last year, trump might have one and still been the president and that has been the goal all along is it was purely political, they still can t own their mistake. the fact that they are malicious makeup wearing smug monsters who spotted chinese communist propaganda for the past year. harlod: let s assume that the chinese, this lab is where