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The greatest national security threat for the United States is not China, it's not Russia, it's not North Korea, it's not Iran.

It's biosecurity.

Biological events have the greatest potential to change the way of life in America in a nanosecond.

This is Dr. Robert Redfield.

For many people, his name might not sound familiar.

But Redfield was the CDC director when the COVID-19 pandemic first started.

A name you'd think would be front and center of the whole crisis.

But it wasn't. Why is that?

When I suggested the COVID virus probably was a consequence of biomedical research,

that it was not received with a lot of enthusiasm by the scientific community. How confident are you that the coronavirus came from that?

So I'm probably 90% confident that the new coronavirus came from bats.

Top scientists who were initially ostracized for that hypothesis are now saying,

told you so.

There was just ferociously strong headwinds.

There was this manufactured consensus.

You knew that in 2020.

Everyone in the research community,

familiar with the basic facts,

understood that a lab origin was a real possibility.

So what is the truth? That I don't mean some conspiracy here.

Where did COVID-19 really come from?

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