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🗓️ 24 August 2021
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0:35.3 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency. |
0:41.3 | We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America and we'll be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American |
0:48.8 | politics. The answer, of course, is no. I'm joined today by Catherine Eban, who is contributing editor of Vanity Fair and author of |
0:59.8 | Bottle of Lies, the inside story of the generic drug boom. |
1:05.0 | Catherine has also done a lot of reporting this year for Vanity Fair about the pandemic, |
1:10.5 | and she quite recently wrote a groundbreaking report |
1:15.1 | called the Lab Leak Theory inside the fight to uncover COVID-19's origins. And we're going to be |
1:22.7 | talking about the latest on that Lab League theory because Catherine, as I'm sure you know, it's 90 days |
1:29.0 | since Joe Biden gave the intelligence services 90 days to get their act together and come up |
1:35.4 | with a report on the origins of COVID-19. The report is due today, but it is classified and we are |
1:42.8 | expecting some sort of unclassified report in the next |
1:46.8 | few days. I don't want to ask you to give away any scoops, but I wondered if you had any sort of |
1:52.0 | heads up or impression as to what was going to be in that. Are there any particularly juicy |
1:56.4 | details that are going to come out? And if you can't do that, just tell us what your expectations are |
2:01.5 | for what the report might look like. Thanks for having me. Great to be on with you. Thank you for |
2:05.6 | coming. First of all, I would say that whatever is in this report, it's groundbreaking in one |
2:12.7 | respect, which is it's going to be the first time that the U.S. government has taken a concerted and unopposed |
2:22.9 | look at the question of COVID origins. The story that I published in June really took readers |
2:30.5 | inside of a dispute within the government in which those who were investigating a lab |
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