WTH is Going On with the Lab Leak Cover Up? Josh Rogin on Why We Must Get to the Bottom of the Origin of COVID
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
More than three years later, we are still investigating the origins of the deadliest pandemic in recent history. The DOE and FBI have given credence to the explanation that the virus originated in a Chinese government lab in Wuhan – so why don’t lab leak theorists feel vindicated? Because, as our guest alleges, this is just the beginning. China owes the US reparations; Biden owes the American people a focused investigation and explanation; Dr. Tony Fauci and Francis Collins owe more than an apology for their scandalous cover-up. This is a democracy, and the truth will come out eventually – but a deeper truth has already seen the light: our public health institutions have been corrupted, as has our media.
Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Washington Post and a political analyst with CNN. He is also the author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century. Previously, Josh covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week magazine, and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name |
| 0:21.7 | knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. And I'm Martisan. |
| 0:37.9 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:41.3 | Well, I think we're back at a previous What the Hell. |
| 0:44.7 | Mark, what the hell now? |
| 0:46.6 | Well, what the hell now is the COVID lab leak theory is back. |
| 0:52.0 | And people who said that this leak from the lab, that the Chinese government |
| 0:55.9 | was responsible for the pandemic, were dismissed as a bunch of cranks and a conspiracy theorists. |
| 1:02.1 | This was poo-poohed by Anthony Fauci. It was poo-pooed by Francis Collins. It was dismissed by |
| 1:07.4 | the media and all the rest of it. And it now turns out that as more investigation |
| 1:12.0 | has gone on, the energy department believes that it was likely that it was a lab leak, the FBI. |
| 1:17.7 | Now Christopher Ray just told Brett Baer on Fox News that they think it was probably a lab leak. |
| 1:23.6 | We don't have a smoking gun yet. But honestly, Danny, I think you'd have to be living under |
| 1:27.6 | a rock, not to think that the odds are this came from the Wuhan lab. |
| 1:32.1 | But it's not proven yet, but it is certainly being taken much more seriously again. |
| 1:37.2 | So I will tell you, you know, okay, fine. |
| 1:39.9 | The lab leak theory is now legitimate. |
| 1:42.8 | Those of us who actually read the data, understood what the gain of function research was, |
| 1:48.1 | understood why this was so unlikely to have been a natural evolution of a virus. |
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