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All right, now we're taking a look at big reporting that just came out.

All right, the story tonight from the Washington Post is about whether or not

we could have been ready for the pandemic sooner.

Specifically, that back in January, intelligence officials were trying to get the attention

of the White House. And they were not being taken seriously.

At the White House and staff didn't want to listen to the information that a pandemic

from China was likely. Now, this is not about going backwards.

Our focus is forwards, but we need to know how we got here to understand what lessons must be learned

going forward. One of the reporters on this is Josh Dawesley from the Washington Post.

Josh Dawesley, thank you very much for joining us. What do you know?

So, in January and February, Chris, the intelligence community was presenting the president

different global threat reports that showed ominous symbols of his pandemic.

So the Chinese were not telling the truth about how many cases they were,

but they were not telling the truth about how badly it was and that it could be spreading

previously and quickly across the world. And they were trying to flagless to the White House to say,

hey, this is something you need to be paying attention to.

What I reporting indicated that the president at that time, I was very skeptical of these reports.

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