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The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Rundown Extra: China, Biden Administration Under Pressure Over COVID "Lab Leak" Theory

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

After a tumultuous few weeks, U.S. foreign policy has been under more scrutiny than ever. If recent violence in the Middle East and escalating tensions with the Russians wasn't putting enough pressure on the Biden Administration, new information suggesting the coronavirus originated in a virology lab in Wuhan, China forced the President to address the geopolitically sensitive theory. Earlier this week, host Dave Anthony spoke with former Secretary of State during the Trump administration Mike Pompeo about some of the international crises the current White House is forced to cope with. Sec. Pompeo explained how the Chinese Communist Party has made concerted efforts to cover up the origins of COVID-19 and shared his take on the new evidence supporting his long-standing belief the virus originated from a Wuhan lab and was not passed from an animal to a human. He also explained why he believes the Biden administration should continue to preserve stability in the Middle East via allyship with Israel, the importance of avoiding deals and imposing costs on Iran and taking hard stances against Russia. The interview was too long and we could not include it all in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our complete unedited conversation with former Sec. of State Mike Pompeo and hear more about his take on the Chinese, the Russians and the Biden Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Fox News rundown, Extra.

0:19.0

I'm Dave Anthony. Today a Republican who's done a lot the last four years.

0:29.2

From Congressman to CIA Director to Secretary of State for President Trump from April 2018 until January.

0:37.0

Mike Pobteo was now a Fox News contributor.

0:40.6

We caught up with him just before he took a trip to the Middle East this week right after his successor,

0:45.0

Secretary Anthony Blinkin's trip there, trying to shore up an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire that ended 11 days of fighting.

0:53.7

We also talked to former Secretary Pompeo about China at a time when more people are believing

0:59.7

this whole COVID outbreak that started in Wuhan might have really leaked out of a lab, something

1:06.0

he has been talking about for a year.

1:09.0

Now our discussion was too long for us to include all of it the other day but that is what these extras are for.

1:15.2

One more thing.

1:16.6

We talked to him before news came out that the Biden administration had ended a Trump

1:22.3

Arab probe at the State Department into COVID-ZORIs. Biden administration had ended a Trump era probe

1:23.0

with the State Department into COVID's origins.

1:25.9

And then after that broke, President Biden

1:28.0

ordered a new 90-day review by US intelligence

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