>> Donald Trump is known for his ridiculous and debunked conspiracies, one of them being
this conspiracy that the coronavirus was developed by these mad scientists in a Chinese lab.
The intelligence community has already come out to say that this is not a human made virus.
But it doesn't matter because Donald Trump has taken it upon himself to allege that that's
not the case.
Take a look. >> Theories, but yeah, we have people looking
at it very, very strongly. >> If scientific people, intelligence people
and others what gives you a high degree of confidence that this originated from the Wuhan
Institute of virology? >> I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed
to tell you that.
>> Several sources tell CNN that, top administration officials have been pushing the US intelligence
agencies for evidence to support that theory. So far the intelligence community has not
come to any conclusion saying today in a remarkable statement, that all they know is that the
virus came from China and that it is not manmade or genetically modified.
The intelligence community will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and
intelligence. The statement said, to determine whether the outbreak began through contact
with infected animals, or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan
>> So this conspiracy theory like this attempt to make Chinese scientists the bad guys in
this whole case they developed some crazy virus and they released it into the world.
That's not what happened. That's exactly what the intelligence community said. They're trying
to figure out whether this was based on some accident that occurred within the lab, or
if it was really something that happened from someone, maybe being exposed to the virus
outside of the lab, maybe one of these wet markets that's come up.
>> Yeah. >> So they're still investigating this. But
what I find problematic, John, is that CNN is also reporting that a number of top officials
in the Trump administration have pushed US intelligence agencies looking into the origin
of the novel Coronavirus to hunt for evidence linking the virus to a Chinese laboratory.
That's not what the intelligence community is supposed to do. They're not supposed to
have a theory and then look for evidence to be back there theory.
>> Well look, I mean, even if they do that, I just wanna make sure that what they find
out is actually accurate.
If they're being told to suppress information that goes counter to that narrative or falsify
information. As we know they have in past international incidents, that's the worst
case scenario. I'd be curious to find out which professionals are putting pressure on
the intelligence community. Is it the science people that Trump speaks of?
Honestly, I don't know exactly. I do know though that at least right now, if you hear
the word China It is just part of an excuse to distract you from the failings of the Trump
administration. That is the only reason he is turned to talking about China. Fox News
has inspired him to do that.
He spent the first like six weeks of the US version of this pandemic, being incredibly
congratulatory towards China and complimenting them in a variety of different ways about
their response to it. And only once the death toll started to rise here and he got pressure
to change his fall of falling poll numbers that he suddenly start to be more critical
of China.
He doesn't actually care. And the thing is, we can't stop if it was intentional or if
it was an accident. We don't have control over that. What we do have control over is
who our government is and how capable and competent they are when a disaster hits our
country.
>> I mean, 95 percent of what Trump does is look for a scapegoat to cover up for his failures.
I think you are absolutely right. And Fox News certainly helps him with that propoganda.
In fact, JR put together one of his legendary compilation videos showing you just that,
>> US government sources confirm that they believe this virus escaped from either the
Wuhan Institute of Virology or the other lab in Wuhan. Do you think that's plausible?
>> Yeah, it's not only plausible, it's probably. >> You heard the chairman of the joint chiefs
asked about it that the intelligence was inconclusive.
But there is a growing belief that the COVID-19 virus originated in the Wuhan lab, not as
a bio weapon, but as China's effort to find and deal with viruses to show the world China
was as good as, or better than, the US on that front.
>> And when you look at Wuhan, obviously that Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the top
of the list of suspects.
>> I've been sent so many of these things, look at them, I just said it can't be true,
it's likely conspiracy theory, I looked into it I never saw any evidence. You have evidence
tonight. >> They are Saying that it is increasingly
likely there is increasing confidence that the virus COVID-19 started in that Wuhan lab,
not as a bio weapon.
Let's just be clear about that. There is no one who's saying that this was a viral.
>> How would we know that? >> China reopen wet markets about a week ago.
And that's a real indication that Beijing thought that or Beijing knew that the wet
markets were not the source of the Coronavirus epidemic.
>> We need to get the CDC into China. >> There's really a huge burden on China to
tell us where this came from. >> Did it come from a lab, did it come from
a wet market? Neither of those are good answers. >> And this was a botched effort to contain
this and it got out to the population.
So there's increasing confidence that that's how it starts.
>> Apparently was accidental, not intentional, we don't know but that seems likely.
>> Again, you can do natural. >> But still have a botched handling of a
virus in one of these labs. >> It's just shocking.
>> Do you think our own health authority first of all, do you think it would be worthwhile
for everyone who dismissed this out of hand as crazy and attack the people who raised
the possibility?
Maybe it would be time for them to apologize. >> It's just so ridiculous. And look, if Trump
really did have some sort of evidence indicating that this virus were created in a Chinese
lab, right, it was some genetically modified virus created by humans. You think that he
wouldn't share that.
Classified information with the public. >> Yeah.
>> He is the ultimate decision-maker when it comes to declassifying anything, right?
>> Yeah. >> And he has certainly shared classified
information with the public before. So this ridiculous childish game where he's like,
I'm seeing some evidence, but I can't show you.
>> We know what you're doing, okay? >> Yeah.
>> Okay, we're not stupid. >> And we know what Fox is doing. I mean,
they got to fill their hours some way. And Tucker doesn't want to provide critical coverage
of the lack of help that Trump has provided to the states or to working class Americans.
So he's got to talk about something. And the thing is, look, does it matter where exactly
this came from? Sure, I care about the truth, and so I would like to know. But one thing
I do know, is that finding out if it came from a market or a lab, intentionally or by
accident, it's not gonna bring back one life.
It's not gonna clear up one case of coronavirus that an American has right now. It's here
right now, that's what matter. That's what we should be focused on.