Donald Trump is known for his ridiculous and debunked conspiracies one of them being this conspiracy that the corona virus was developed by these mad scientists in a Chinese lab the intelligence community has already come out to say that this is not a human-made virus but it doesn't matter because Donald Trump has taken it upon himself to allege that that's not the case take a look series but yeah we have people looking at it very very strongly intelligence people and others what gives you a high degree of confidence that this originated from the Wuhan Institute of virology I can't tell you that I'm not allowed to tell you that several sources tell CNN that top administration officials have been pushing the u.
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intelligence agencies for evidence to support that theory so far the intelligence community has not come to any conclusion saying today in a remarkable statement that all they know is that the virus came from China and that it is not man-made or genetically modified the intelligence community will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence the statement said to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan so this this conspiracy theory like this attempt to make Chinese Chinese scientists the bad guys in this whole case like they developed some crazy virus and they released it into the world that's not what happened that that's exactly what the intelligence community said they're trying to figure out whether this was based on some accident that occurred within the lab or if it was really something that happened from someone maybe you know being exposed to the virus outside of the lab maybe at one of these wet markets that's come up so they're still investigating this but what I find problematic John is that CNN is also reporting that a number of top officials in the Trump administration have pushed US intelligence agencies looking into the origin of the novel coronavirus to hunt for evidence linking the virus to a Chinese laboratory that's not what the intelligence community is supposed to do they're not supposed to the theory and then look for evidence to back their theory well look I mean even if they do that I just want to make sure that what they find out is actually accurate if they're being told to suppress information that that goes counter to that narrative or falsify information as we know they have in past international incidents that's the worst case scenario I'd be curious to find out which professionals are putting pressure on the intelligence community is it is it the science people that Trump speaks of honestly I don't know I I dunno exactly I do know though that at least right now if you hear the word China it is just part of an excuse to distract you from the failings of the Troubled ministration that is the only reason he's turned to talking about China Fox News has inspired him to do that he spent the first like six weeks of the US version of this pandemic being incredibly congratulatory towards China and and you know complimenting them in a variety of different ways about their response to it and only once the death tolls started to rise here and he got pressure to change his fall of falling poll numbers did he suddenly start to be more critical of China he doesn't actually care and the thing is we can't stop if it was intentional or if it was an accident we don't have control over that what we do have control over is who our government is and how capable and competent they are when a disaster hits our country I mean 95% of what Trump does is look for a scapegoat to cover up for his failures I think you're absolutely right and Fox News certainly helps him with that propaganda in fact Jarrah put together one of his legendary compilation videos showing you just that US government sources confirm that they believe this virus escaped from either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the other lab in Wuhan do you think that's plausible yeah it's not only plausible it's probable well you heard the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs asked about it that the intelligence was inconclusive but there is a growing belief that the covert 19 virus originated in the Wuhan lab not as a bio weapon but as China's effort to find and deal with viruses to show the world China was as good as or better than the US on that front and when you look at obviously that on Institute of virology is at the top of the list of suspects I've been sent so many of these things look at them I just said can't be true it's like the conspiracy theory I looked into it I never saw any evidence you have evidence tonight they are saying that it is increasingly likely there is increasing confidence that the virus kovat 19 started in that wohoo han lab not as a bio weapon let's just be clear about that there's no one who's saying that this was about how would we know that is it China reopened wet markets about a week ago and that's a real indication that Beijing thought that beijing knew that the wet markets were not the source of the corona virus epidemic we need to get the CDC into China there's really a huge burden on China to tell us where this came from did it come from a lab did it come from a wet market neither of those are good answers and this was a botched effort to contain this and it got out to the population so there's increasing confidence that that's how it starts apparently was accidental not intentional we don't know but that seems likely again you can do natural but still have a botched handling of a virus in one of these labs it's just shocking I mean do you think our own Health Authority first of all do you think it would be worthwhile for everyone who dismissed this out of hand as crazy and attacked the people who raised the possibility maybe it would be time for them to apologize it's just so ridiculous and look if Trump really did have some sort of evidence indicating that this virus were created in a Chinese lab right it was some genetically modified virus created by humans you think that he wouldn't share that classified information with the public he is the ultimate decision-maker when it comes to declassifying anything right and he has certainly shared classified information with the public before so like like this ridiculous childish game where he's like I've seen some evidence but I can't show you we know what you're doing okay we're not stupid and we know what Fox is doing I mean they got to fill their hours some some way and you know Tucker doesn't want to provide critical coverage of the lack of help that Trump has provided to the States or to working-class Americans so he's got to talk about something and the thing is look does it matter where exactly this came from sure I care about the truth and so I would like to know but one thing I do know is that finding out if it came from a market or a lab intentionally or by accident it's not going to bring back one life it's not gonna clear up one case of coronavirus that an American has right now it's here right now that's what matters that's what we should be focused on thanks for watching The Young Turks are really appreciated another way to show support is through YouTube memberships you'll get to interact with us more this live chat emojis badges kind of approaches of me Anna John jr.
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