the question remains. dr. fauci is saying that it s placeable that the virus did originate in china, but not necessarily in the wuhan lab. first, let s bring in david asher that led the state department task force. he s a senior fellow at the hudson institute. david, always good to have you with us. i want to start by playing a sound bite from an interview in august with dr. robert redfield. we were talking to him about how it would change this virus if it had been created in the lab originally. he said it would super charged and it would lead to more variants. it s not just that its mutating, this virus is replicating at a high capacity
caused a virus that didn t exist in nature. it made nice sicker who had humanized cells. that s not gain of function research? according to the framework and guidelines you are defining away gain of function and saying it doesn t exist because you changed the definition. this is terrible. you are trying to escape the idea we should do something about trying to prevent a pandemic from leaking from the lab. there is a preponderance of the evidence to try to cover your ass. so let s bring in david asher, he led the state department task force that was busy looking into the origins of covid-19 and trying to find out the role of the chinese government. they were doing that under the
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dr. katherine martha, a leading expert on lab safety which indicates they re open to the possibility of the lab leak. despite the fact that she discounted the idea. off the team is dr. peter daszek who had ties to this wuhan lab. preempting the announcement, china says that they would analyze 200,000 blood samples to traces of covid. china also said they would do the analysis itself and not allow foreign scientists to see the data. china said that their contributions to the who effort are or and highly unlikely they ll get inside china and scientists believe that this investigation will yield any significant results. trace? trace: thanks, benjamin. let s bring in david asher that led a state department task force that led into the origins