will see our committee do. john: you mentioned people dismissed as conspiracy theorists if they embraced the lab leak idea. rewind the clock. con conspiracy theory going around the coronavirus originated and was perhaps man-made inside a lab in china. and then there is this theory, widely debunked. paper from two chinese, saying it could have leaked from two labs near the seafood market. weeks ago dr. anthony fauci rejected the virus was man-made, and yet donald trump is still pushing. escape from the lab, it sounds like something from a marvel movie or comic book. the lab leak theory is plausible, even as john kirby said yesterday there is no
there. aishah has any on the hill. john: katie pavlich, pick up where aishah left off. china has blood on its hand, precursors to fentanyl are flooded into mexico and china knows what s going on. for benny thompson to blame the trump administration? it s absurd, cowardly way not to deal with the crisis in front of him with a mother talking about this issue where two of her sons were killed as a result of fentanyl poisoning. you are correct about the china issue. you have seen republicans, michael waltz and dan crenshaw introduce legislation to treat mexican cartels to go after them with military force. they acknowledge that border patrol and local law enforcement are completely overwhelmed, they can no longer handle this issue, and you when you listen to the administration and you say well, all of the fentanyl is coming across, what what s your response to the idea that 55 million people could be killed as a result of this, they say
listen here again. if we had chinese troops lining up along our southern border with weapons aimed at our people, with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our cities, you damn well know you would do something about it. we have a weather balloon from china going across our country. nobody died, and everybody is freaking out about it. but 100,000 die every year and nothing is being done. you talk about children being taken away from their parents. my children were taken away from me. this is a war. act like it. do something. john: how do you ignore that? look, president biden and his administration including secretary mayorkas made a decision at the beginning of his tenure in the oval office to
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
primetime hearing tonight, she will join us live next. but jacqui heinrich is live at the white house, jacqui. hey, sandra. dr. fauci says that the world may never know the true origins of covid, but china for one thinks that the book is open and shut on that matter after they strong armed the world health organization into writing a report saying that a lab leak theory was extremely unlikely. china pointed half of the scientists who wrote that report also withheld access and information and all this prompted the w.h.o. chief to publicly raise doubts about that report in a highly unusual step. now china has been using this report to swat down findings from the biden administration probe saying the conclusions about natural transmission as the cause was accurately recorded in the missions report and has received extensive recognition from the international community. certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative, stop smearing china