Welcome and his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, the headline senator,

and I want to get your reaction to this.

It's something you've been talking about literally now for years.

The lab leak and that theory of the Wuhan Institute of virology, they're now admitting,

is most likely the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wish I could say that we're

shocked, we're not. And anyone that said this early on, you were included was a conspiracy theorist.

Give me your initial reaction to this. Well, we now have yet another part of the Biden administration

admitting what I think has been blazingly obvious for a long time, which is that the COVID virus very likely escaped from a Chinese government lab.

Just in the last 24 hours, the Biden Energy Department, the news has broken, has concluded that

that is the likely source of COVID. Now, you didn't have to wait until 2023 to find that out.

This podcast has been laying out the facts that connect the COVID virus to the Wuhan Institute for Virology to the Chinese

government labs in Wuhan, China, laying out the facts and fighting against the deliberate

disinformation from Democrats, from the media, from big tech, and from the Chinese government itself with the American

government often arm in arm in spreading disinformation and trying to squash what the facts

actually demonstrate. I want to play for people something that is probably not going to be played anywhere else.

And it's something that we wanted to do today to go back in time to remind you of this narrative.

And if you go back to February 9th of 2020, the defense that was taking place by China was if you point the finger at us,

if you point the finger at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, you are a racist, you are trying to

turn people against people that are Chinese and you are a bigoted individual.

This happened on Face the Nation, February the 9th, 2020, the ambassador from China was a guest,

and I want everyone to hear this. Take a listen.

And in fact, this week, Senator Tom Cotton, who sits on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committee,

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