report concludes that is likely how the pandemic first began. in a house select committee heard testimony today from a former top u.s. intel official that a chinese lab leak is the only explanation. our money to a lab in china that wasn t up to code that was doing gain of function research and that s where this thing came from. that s what they didn t want us to know. do you agree with that mr. ratcliffe. i do agree with that. communist china the target of bipartisan criticism in washington on tuesday. china has not been forthcoming. where a house select committee held a hearing on the origins of covid-19. i can very well argue the lab leak theory because, you know, china cannot cooperate. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, who began his term two months into the pandemic, also pointing the finger at china. a lab leak is the only explanation credit dibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. the chinese embassy
cuba. significant amount of head pressure. a lot of ear pain, eventually stabbing ear pain to the point that i started blacking out. bret: so what caused these strange illnesses? the majority of the people who i know who i have talked to about this who do know the field agree it certainly fits with the microwave beam as the attacking element. bret: meet physicist. i m expert in high powered microwaves both the devices and the effects of such radiation. bret: have you looked specifically at the havana syndrome situation? extensively and i m a very familiar with the national capabilities of our country and foreign countries. bret: last month, u.s. intelligence agencies released an assessment on havana syndrome concluding, quote: it is very unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible. the report adds, quote: intelligence community agencies assess that symptoms reported by u.s. personnel were probably the result of factors that did not
that no official estimate has been pessimistic enough for just how quickly afghanistan has fallen to the taliban and now with evacuations ramping up and time running out, we have new nbc reporting on the toll this crisis is taking. people are furious and disgusted, said one former intelligence official. one defense official said he grew nauseated as he considered how many afghan allies would be left behind. joining me now is someone who spent more than a decade as a top u.s. security leader, former director of the cia and an nbc news security analyst, john brennan. as always, thank you for being here. i want to get to the havana syndrome situation as well as we had another potential incident in vietnam where the vice president s visiting. i want to start with just your, if you have a sense of how many, when we were all trying to figure out how many people are left to be evacuated, there s americans then this next group