"The Jig Is Up": GOP Accuses China of COVID Origins Cover-Up

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus held another hearing on Tuesday, trying to discern what the available intelligence tells us about China's involvement in the pandemic's origins. While some government agencies like the FBI and Department of Energy maintain that COVID-19 likely resulted from a lab leak in Wuhan, this week's hearing featured testimony from the former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, who said the lab leak theory is the "only explanation" for the origins of the pandemic. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) joins the podcast to discuss the latest committee reports, why he believes there is a 'preponderance of evidence' supporting the lab leak theory, and how we can come to conclusion on COVID origins with China actively withholding information. Thirty years ago today, the Waco siege--a 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians religious group and federal agents--came to a deadly end. Shortly after the FBI's raid on April 19th, 1993, a fire broke out inside the compound which killed 76 people. David Koresh, the cult's leader, was accused of stockpiling illegal weapons and abusing children. Retired ATF Senior Special Agent Blake Boteler was at the siege and joins the FOX News Rundown to discuss his experience, why he thinks the group committed mass suicide, and how the events sparked an anti-government movement. Plus, commentary by FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jimmy Fella. I'm Madison Hallworth. I'm Bill Hemmer and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.1	Wednesday, April 19th, 2023, I'm Jessica Brosnthal. Another deep dive into COVID's origins.
0:14.9	This one from Senate Republicans also concludes it was likely an accidental lab leak that sparked
0:20.1	the pandemic and that it all happened earlier than we thought. The proponents of evidence
0:24.7	shows that this virus was accidentally released from a laboratory and move on China. If they want
0:30.6	to own it or not, you know, they're playing political games. We speak with Kansas Republican
0:34.9	Senator Roger Marshall. I'm Dave Anthony. It's been 30 years now since an FBI raid on a compound
0:42.3	than Waco, Texas turned deadly, ending a 51-day siege. We talked to a retired ATF agent
0:49.7	who is at the first raid that started it all. The first shot I heard was clearly
0:54.4	came from inside the compound. You know, it was a muffled kind of a shot, but it was immediately
0:59.1	followed by dozens and then quickly turned into hundreds of shots. And I'm Greg Jarrett.
1:05.1	I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:12.4	A report compiled by doctors, along with the GOP's help committee staff and released by Kansas
1:17.9	Republican Senator Roger Marshall concludes COVID likely originated from the Wuhan Institute of
1:23.0	Virology in China and was accidentally released. The FBI and Department of Energy came to the same
1:28.6	conclusion, but this 300-page report now public aggregates all the details, including reports
1:35.0	about a bad flu season around Wuhan beginning as early as October of 2019 in order for new HVAC
1:40.8	equipment for a part of the lab in September of 2019. A Chinese government drill in Wuhan
1:46.0	quote at its international airport that included identifying and responding to an arriving passenger
1:51.6	infected with a novel coronavirus, also in September of 2019. The report dives into the genetic
1:57.6	sequence of the virus, the type of research the Wuhan Institute was conducting, that it was well
2:01.8	known, the concerns about safety at the lab preceding the pandemic and numerous other details.
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