>>> AT LEAST TWO SEPARATE THINGS ARE TRUE ABOUT THE CHINESE
GOVERNMENT AND THE CORONAVIRUS.
ONE IS THAT THE CHINESE
GOVERNMENT REALLY DID FAIL IN
THE EARLY PARTS OF THE OUTBREAK
QUITE CATASTROPHICALLY.
QUITE CATASTROPHICALLY. OFTEN PROFESSOR SUGGESTED MAY
HAVE BEEN WHAT HAPPENED IN THE
SOVIET UNION WHERE THE TRUTH
DOES NOT GET UP THE CHAIN TO THE
LEADERS BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF
PASSING ALONG BAD NEWS AND
REFUSAL TO BELIEVE THE WORST.
QUOTE, HUBEI AUTHORITIES MAY
HAVE LIED TO THE PUBLIC AND UP
WRD TO THE
WARD TO THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CLEARLY
IN THE MOST OBVIOUS WAY WANTS TO
TURN THIS CRISIS INTO A KIND OF
RHETORICAL HAMMER THEY CAN WELD
AGAINST CHINA IN ORDER TO
OBSCURE THEIR OWN CHINESE
GOVERNMENT-LIKE FAILINGS BY
BLAMING SOMEONE ELSE.
NOW, SOMETHING YOU PROBABLY HAVE
HEARD FROM CERTAIN CORNER OF THE
RIGHT IS THIS THEORY THAT THE
CORONAVIRUS QUOTE ESCAPED FROM
THE LAP.
THE LAP. >> IT LOOKS LIKE THERE IS
EVIDENCE THAT THIS VIRUS ESCAPED
FROM THE LAP.
>> THIS NOTION THAT THIS ESCAPE
FROM A LAP ACTUALLY I THINK IS
SUPPORTED BY THE VAST MAJORITY
OF THE SCIENCE THAT WE SEE OUT
THERE.
THERE. >> CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IS
SURFACING IN THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY THAT THE CORONAVIRUS,
COVID-19, THE SARS COV 2 VIRUS
DID ESCAPE FROM THE WUHAN LAB.
>> A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT
LOVE THAT PHRASE, ESCAPE FROM
THE LAP BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE
SOMETHING FROM A MARVEL MOVIE OR
COMIC BOOK.
COMIC BOOK. A MAN MADE VIRUS CHINA WAS
WEAPON NEWSINGIZING THAT GOT OUT
CONTROL.
CONTROL. IT WAS SEEMED TO BE IMPLIED THIS
WEEKEND AND IMMEDIATELY HAD TO
BE WALKED BACK.
>> DO YOU BELIEVE IT WAS MAN
MADE OR GENETICALLY MODIFIED?
>> THE BEST EXPERTS SO FAR SEEM
TO THINK IT WAS MAN MADE.
I HAVE NO REASON TO DISBELIEVE
THAT AT THIS POINT.
>> YOUR OFFICE OF THE DNI SAYS
THE CONSENSUS, THE SCIENTIFIC
CONSENSUS WAS NOT MAN MADE OR
GWINNETTGA
GWINNETTGA GENETICALLY LYALLY MODIFIED.
>> THAT’S RIGHT.
AGREE WITH THAT.
I SAW THE SUMMERY THAT YOU SAW.
I HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT THAT
IS ACCURATE.
IS ACCURATE. >> NOW I’M GOING TO CHALK THAT
UP TO A CONNECTION FAILURE BUT
DID SEEM LIKE THE SECRETARY OF
STATE SAID THAT’S MAN MADE, AND
THEN SAYING THAT’S CORRECT, IT’S
NOT MAN MADE.
TO BE CLEAR, WHEN THEY SAY
ESCAPED FROM THE LAB, IT DOESN’T
MEAN A MAN MADE BIO WEAPON THAT
GOT OUT.
GOT OUT. SCIENTISTS AND INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY AGREE THIS CORONAVIRUS
WAS NOT MAN MADE.
THAT IS NOT A POSSIBILITY.
IT CAME FROM A NATURAL SOURCE,
IT DIDN’T COME FROM A LAB.
PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED AT THE GENES.
THE TRANSMISSION WAS LIKELY FROM
ANIMAL TO HUMAN.
EVEN DR. ANTHONY FAUCI SAID
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE IT WAS MADE
IN A LAB.
IN A LAB. WE DON’T KNOW HOW IT MADE ITS
WAY TO HUMANS BUT THAT’S NOT
PART OF THE ESCAPE FROM THE LAB
THEORY.
THEORY. WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IS
CHINESE SCIENTISTS, PUBLIC
HEALTH OFFICIALS, VIROLOGIST
HARD AT WORK TO PREPARE THEIR
COUNTRY AND THE WORLD FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF A NOVEL
CORONAVIRUS, STUDYING ONE MAYBE
THAT CAME FROM BATS OR ANOTHER
ANIMAL AND IN THE PROCESS OF
STUDYING IT SOMEHOW TRAGICALLY
CONTRACTED THE VIRUS UNBEKNOWNST
TO THEM AND SPREADING IT.
I SHOULD TELL YOU RIGHT NOW
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THIS.
CERTAINLY NO CONCRETE EVIDENCE.
IF IT WERE TRUE THAT THIS WUHAN
VIRAL
VIRAL VIRALOLOGY LAB WAS STUDYING THIS
IT WOULD BE TRAGIC FOR THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE ONE
OF THE EARLY MORE PLAUSIBLE
THEORIES TO EMERGE WAS THAT THE
WILD LIFE WET MARKET IN WUHAN
MADE A SPECIES JUMP FROM ANIMAL
TO HUMAN AND HERE IS THE THING,
WILDLIFE WET MARCHKETS ARE WHERE
EXOTICTIVE LIVE ANIMALS ARE
STORED IN CLOSE QUARTERS AND
SLAUGHTERED ON SITE AND WOULDN’T
BE THE FIRST TIME THIS HAPPENED.
IT HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE
SARS OUTBREAK AND PUBLIC HEALTH
AUTHORITIES IN CHINA HAVE BEEN
FOR A LONG TIME RAILING AGAINST
WILDLIFE WET MARKETS AS
ESSENTIALLY GLOBAL BIO HAZARDS
BUT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT
REFUSED TO SHUT THEM DOWN
PERMANENTLY AND THAT’S THE
THEORY THAT MAKES THE CHINESE
GOVERNMENT LOOK WORSE.
THE THEORY THAT IT CAME OUT OF A
WET MARKET MAKES IT LOOK LIKE
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT SKEWED UP
UP AND THEY KEPT THOSE MARKETS
OPEN.
OPEN. AND UNLEASHED A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
AND IF THAT’S TRUE, I THINK
THAT’S THE FAR MORE INSIDIOUS
VERSION WHILE THE ESCAPE FROM A
LAB THEORY IS A SCIENTIST HARD
AT WORK TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD
FROM A GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND
TRAGICALLY MANAGING TO RELEASE
IT?
IT? IT’S KIND OF BENIGN BUT TRAGIC
STORY.
STORY. BUT HERE IS THE THING, NONE OF
THE FACTS MATTER HERE BECAUSE
THEY LIKE THAT PHRASE ESCAPE
FROM THE LAB SO MUCH IN CHINA SO
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS SO
DESPERATELY GRASPING AT STRAWS
TO FIND SOMEONE TO BLAME THEY