This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batchel. Professor Richard Epstein, the Hoover Institution

teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago, is someone I go to whenever the Wuhan lab leak

story comes up, because that is an unsettled matter from 2019, all of those years in between now on the other side of the

pandemic is still value in determining what happened and who did it and why it was covered up

and why if it's the wet market we don't have evidence and why if it's the Wuhan Lab we don't

have evidence. An article in the the Wuhan lab, we don't have evidence.

An article in the Wall Street Journal within these last hours.

Behind closed doors, the spy world scientists who argued COVID was a lab leak.

Wall Street Journal headline. Subhead. The idea that the pandemic's origins lie with a research facility in China

was once labeled a conspiracy theory. Richard, a very good evening to you, a conspiracy theory.

That reminds me of, it's like a golden oldie. That was the Biden administration's opinions

of anyone who raised his or her hand are brought forward

reason to believe that the WHO investigation, the only one we know that actually visited the

Wuhan lab outside of Chinese authorities, concluded without convincing argument, that it was a wet market. However, since then, the wet market

theory has come under criticism because in the thousand miles or so between the Batcave,

said to be the fertile ground for the virus and Wuhan, no other wet market.

None other in all of China had this same problem, just the wet market in Wuhan, which was

within easy walking distance of the Wuhan lab that we know had done research for years on bats and viruses and the possibility

of an outbreak. Good evening to you, Richard. Yes, and it's a pretty bad story you're about to tell.

FBI, man by the name of Bannon, Jason Bannon, FBI headquarters.

Bannon had been told by his superiors to be on hand in case the Federal Bureau of Investigation

was asked in 2021, early Biden administration, was asked to join a top intelligence community

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