But since the two government agencies lined up on the issue, Congress has taken steps to nonetheless get answers about how the pandemic began.
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Jordan joined “Sunday Morning Futures” to talk about why Fauci remains adamant in countering the lab leak theory, as China now faces new calls for answers.
“So the basic question is, why is Dr. Fauci so busy making sure the narrative isn’t about the lab?” asked host Maria Bartiromo. I need it to come to light, and for the narrative that everyone on the left bought, even though the facts and the non-unusual sense, perhaps most importantly, pointed to the lab leak theory. “
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the origins of the pandemic on March 8.
“At the hearing, we will collect data on the origin of the virus that has claimed nearly seven million lives worldwide,” the committee said in a tweet last week.
The announcement follows a Wall Street Journal report alleging that the Energy Department amended a 2021 document from the office of Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, assessing that the pandemic was likely due to an accidental leak at a lab in China.
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The National Intelligence Council and 4 other agencies assess with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from the herbal transmission of an inflamed animal, while the CIA and the anonymous firm are undecided.
The updated report maintains a consensus among all intelligence agencies that the pandemic was not the result of a Chinese biological weapons program.
FBI Director Christopher Wray also told Fox News that the pandemic started “probably at its peak” with a “prospective lab incident” at a lab in Wuhan, China. probably a possible lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray recently told Special Report anchor Bret Baier. “Here he is talking about a possible leak from a laboratory controlled by the Chinese government. “
He went on to say that the Chinese government had tried to “thwart” the investigation into the origins of the start of the pandemic.
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Jordan has called out to Biden’s management for his handling of COVID, pointing out how in the past the narratives sold have proven false.
“With this virus, they told us all sorts of things that turned out to be false,” Jordan said. “We were told it didn’t come from a lab. Even now, it turns out to be the case, because the Department of Energy, the FBI, they all say it came from a lab. Now they said it didn’t serve as a study gain. They said it wasn’t our tax money used at this Wuhan virology institute. Yes, they were, through EcoHealth. ” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
But many critics have also criticized the media for selling now-debunked narratives around COVID.
One such critic is Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. , who last week jeopardized the genuine “conspiracy of silence” in “Mornings with Maria. “
“The only conspiracy in early 2020, a conspiracy of silence between liberals in the media and the federal bureaucracy and Democrats in Congress, to try to suppress the non-unusual evidence-based conclusion that so many Arkansans had reached is that the Chinese communists were guilty. for his negligent practices in this lab for triggering this pandemic on the world,” Cotton told Bartiromo on FOX Business.
“This is the only conspiracy. . . theory that circulates and, unfortunately, you still see, to some extent, this conspiracy of silence,” he continued.
Despite new developments around the FBI and Energy Department assessments, Jordan says there are still important questions that need to be answered before the congressional hearing.
“Again, the basic question is why?Was it politically motivated or what?” Jordan asked. ” I say, we’re Americans. We are big boys and girls. We can take care of that. It is meant to be a government of the people, through the people, for the people, so tell us, the people, the truth. . . Stop lying. “
Danielle Wallace and Adam Sabe of Fox News contributed to this report.
Bailee Hill is an associate editor at Fox News Digital. La story can be sent to bailee. hill@fox. com