also this: no other president in history has had to put up with what i have had to. it continues, this is political and an affront to the voters who supported me and driven by democrat prosecutors. then comes a false statement about crime in new york, then

this. instead of going after drug dealers and traffickers, they're coming after donald trump. the news continues. let's hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> it's very interesting to note, my friend, everything we heard from the former president is all but meaningless in the forum before which he now finds himself. those are all political statements and they're well and good but in court you only know what you can show and that is what we are about to begin in a way we never have before, with respect to donald john trump. good to see you, coop. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." here we go. it's time for the people to decide whether former president trump should face justice. "the washington post" says that manhattan d.a. cyrus vance convened a grand jury for six months. this move tells us many things. first, vance is now on the clock. but he has a long time. they must expect to show a lot to the jurors after two years of investigation because six months

is a long time to impanel a grand jury. "the post" also says that this move suggests vance believes he has evidence of a crime, if not by trump then by somebody potentially close to him or his company. if you know you have no proof of anything, of course you wouldn't go to a grand jury. but this could be different things. why? vance could be playing it one of two ways. it is assumed that vance will not be running again. his term is ending. this could be a way to leave it to the jury. so if they come up short, it doesn't look like it was on him at the end of his term. we see this strategy occasionally in cop cases, even when there's videotape, they'll go to the grand jury. why? put it on the people to decide whether or not we move forward. or, and this is more likely in this scenario, cyrus vance is ready to make a run at one of the most evasive targets we have seen.

with many advantages for the prosecutor. the grand jury has many advantages for the prosecutor, and we'll go through them for you tonight, including extensive subpoena power to demand evidence to indict one or more people, and is very, very significant, especially because of this key element. in a case like this, an economic case, a white collar case as we used to say, when you indict somebody, you are able to keep the proof behind the charges secret. remember, a grand jury is a secret proceeding. so in a complicated case like this, the prosecutor goes before the grand jury. they can keep it simple. they keep using words that will resonate. and if that grand jury hands down what they call a true bill, an indictment, you'll see the charges against you. but you won't know what they have behind it. prosecutors have been looking into whether the trump organization misled lenders and insurance companies about the value of properties and paid

appropriate taxes. in basic, what does that mean? when you go to lenders, you say this is worth a gazillion dollars. when you go to pay taxes, you say it's worth like 50 bucks. cyrus vance recently reached out to the new york attorney general for more resources. that looks like a sign that vance believes he has a case to make. they got trump's tax returns in february after the supreme court blocked the ex-president's attempt to stop a subpoena. the big takeaway is, starting with this process, you may actually see donald trump get indicted. let's get a reading from the better minds. former sdny prosecutor preet bharara who famously was fired by trump. and tristan snell, former assistant attorney general for new york state. it's good to have you both. preet, we heard at the top at the end of anderson's hour what his response is.

the former president says political, this is all police. -- political. what does the move mean, preet, six months grand jury by cy vance after going to the ig to ask for help with the case? >> i agree with those people who say it's significant. there have been previous stories with respect to other people where folks get all bent out of shape and yell from the rooftops when there's the suggestion that there's some grand jury involvement in something in some way. grand jury involvement is to be expected. subpoenas are called grand jury subpoenas in this context. i assume and believe that the grand jury in some way, shape, or form has been used before. but if "the washington post" reporting is to be believed and is corroborated, it's very specific as to the nature of this grand jury. as you pointed out, the length of this grand jury, specific as to how many days a week they'll be hearing testimony. so i think it's significant. i think a combination of what you mentioned with respect to

letitia james, the new york ag, who is not only contributing resources but who made an announcement that what had begun as a civil investigation was now a criminal investigation and they were cross-designating people to work inside vance's office, means they must come across some evidence as to somebody's state of mind, that the misconduct they were investigating does not seem to be the product of recklessness or negligence or mistake but intentional criminality. the grand jury move in combination with the hiring of a very well-respected outside lawyer to come into the fold, mark pomeranz, combined with the other thing you mentioned, that cy vance is leaving office. the primary to replace him takes place in three or four weeks. he's gone by the end of the year. knowing what i know of cy vance and how prosecutors think about these things, it seems to me that this is the end game and that whether there's a charge against donald trump himself or

not, that the decision about that i suspect is one that cy vance wants to make on his own and not saddle his successor with. that's only a few months to go. so if there's going to be a charge, i expect it to be under cy vance's watch, not under the next person's. >> tristan snell, you investigated and brought a case against the former president in one capacity or another. what does this size up to as you -- you've been nodding along as preet has been speaking. fill in some of the blanks for us. >> preet nails it on the head. you've got a case where not only did they just elevate it to going criminal and then right after that, you find out about a special grand jury, if you had one and not the other, maybe you could think that it didn't really mean that much. but i think when you take the two of them together, yes, we're going to see i think eventually, you're going to find out there was at least some evidence bearing on intent.

is that enough to ultimately get pleas or get a conviction? we don't know yet. are we going to see indictments? i would imagine almost certainly yes. i think if they've taken it this far it's because they've believed there's going to be enough there to indict. are there instances in which grand juries do not indict? of course, that's happened, but it's rare. as everybody knows, there's the old line about how a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. is donald trump a ham sandwich? i don't know. the statistics i've seen say 98 to 99% indictment rate by grand juries. so this is very likely going to go that way. one thing that's interesting about the special grand jury is that they don't actually have to bring indictments. so they could just use this to further the investigation. but i think that what preet just said about not wanting to leave this for his successor, that rings true to me. i think with the fact that you're going to see vance leaving office in january, i

still hold by my prediction last week that we would not see indictments by christmas. i think we might see them in january. i think that we might see them right before vance leaves office, you'll actually see that happen, they'll draw this to a conclusion. maybe it will also mean we see a slight extension of the six months. they can go to a judge and get it extended. >> right. preet, you said something early on that will be in the weeds for most people, but i happen to agree with you. i do believe that we've seen indications that they've already been using a grand jury. but it doesn't mean it's this one. two things can be true. they used the grand jury for some other subpoenas, but this is now a special one, as tristan said, that will be impanelled and stay continuous for the six months. what does that mean to you in terms of whether this is about charges or just learning more? >> yeah, i mean, i agree with what tristan said and further to what i said before -- and look, we're all on the outside. you stressed in your opening remarks, correctly, that a lot of what's going on is secret, is legally kept secret.

it's a crime for them to reveal what's going on behind closed doors in a grand jury. it's a sacrosanct kind of black box. so we're really intelligent people who have had jobs in the arena. but we're speculating a little bit. but, you know, again, the sum total of actions taken and the seriousness with which cy vance has been proceeding, and the seriousness with which i think he conducts himself generally, and he's a human being who thinks about what his legacy is going to be. he's been in office for a number of years and there have been ups and there have been down. just pause for a second to reflect on what we're talking about here. after years and years of seeing impeachments and other kinds of proceedings, as you said, chris, at the beginning, this is not the kind of proceeding we've seen before. it's not a pure political proceeding. if there's a trial, if there's a charge and a trial, there are judges, there are defense lawyers, there's open press, there are rules of evidence. it's a strict kind of proceeding. and no former president has been in this position ever before.

and so when cy vance -- we like to think that every case is the same, and you bring the same amount of sort of sensitivity and deliberations into every case. i think that's generally true. this is a thing different from any other case, if it gets brought, ever brought in the history of the united states of america. and if you're going to do it, you've got to do it right. and i have a word of empathy for the prosecutors in the case. if there is a charge against the former president, based on the things that he's done before and the way that he speaks out against his adversaries in the legal field, you know, they need to eat some serious breakfast because they're going to become household names and be attacked, just for doing their jobs, mercilessly by the former president and his minions every day for a long time. >> tristan is a good-looking guy but he bears the scars of exactly what you just talked about, preet bharara, you've taken a swing at him before and realized how he hits back.

what's the insight? >> i mean, i got lucky. by the time that was all happening he wasn't nearly as high profile. he did not have all of those minions as you call them. so the attack on -- and i was the line prosecutor on it, so i wasn't as out front. my name was on the court papers, but, you know, it's not like being the u.s. attorney for the southern district, as preet was. it's not like being the attorney general of the state of new york. so i escaped the worst of that. but there were, in the court papers they actually said they were going to -- they threatened to subpoena me and the other attorneys on the case and accused me in their court papers of falsifying witness testimony. they said that i made it up and that the consumers who said that they had been ripped off and baited and switched by trump university had not been and that i concocted it all.

you know, those were pretty serious professional charges that they were levying. but yes, he has a pattern of practice of lashing out at the people who are actually trying to bring him to justice. he's been doing it for years, we've been seeing it. yeah, the folks who are working on this case, this is a thousand times bigger than anything else that has been brought against anybody of this stature. this is going to be -- it is, it's going to be one of the most -- this could be one of the most high profile cases in american history. and yes, these people are going to get attacked. i hope they're ready for it. i also know, just to turn that on its head, it does mean that these people are going to be proceeding with the utmost caution. that's part of what makes me think they really do have something, because when you're taking on a high profile case like this, and we felt this even with trump university, which is microscopic in comparison to have been this is going to be, we felt the burden of bringing

the case against a public figure like him and knowing how litigious he had been in the past and how much he was going to attack us. and he wasn't president yet. he didn't have the power and the sway that he has now. so we were still operating with that kind of caution and prudence. you know that the people that are bringing this case now are doing that. and so if they are taking these overt steps to further this case, it's because they believe they have something. >> although as we all know, the former president doesn't control this game. these are regular men and women who are not beholden to him politically and they only need a majority to bring charges. and just to put a fine point on it, when i investigated the former president's net worth at abc news, christopher velasto, now the head of investigations over there, and i got a letter that purported to be from a lawyer but sounded like the ex-president, he threatened to sue me and my parents because he said he was effectively damning me back to the womb for my

reporting. that is the way this guy rolls. how will it work here? we will all see because this is the beginning of the process. preet, thank you. tristan, appreciate it as always. no one who thinks so-called mainstream republicans, okay, because now we're going from this, where, whoa, trump has no control over this, secret proceeding, regular people, now we look at the other end of the spectrum which is what his response to the law was about tonight. politics. we now have new evidence to prove the game to you. the wizard of odds has numerical proof of how disinformation, the game, is polluting the party of trump. next, the numbers.

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if they weren't peaceful, the violent ones, those, the claim is that they were left wing agitators, right? a majority of republicans say that the violent ones were left wing agitators according to the new polling data. 54% of this, this is a claim, this is obviously fugazi, false, not true. somehow they're holding these two things up, they're like paradoxes, yet republicans seem to believe both of them. either they're left wingers if they're violent or they were mostly peaceful yet republicans seem to be holding two opposite views, they manage to hold both of them. it's obviously crazy, chris. >> if you look at the with the next piece which is how they view trump's responsibility. >> right. none of this is donald trump's fault. how much blame does trump get? just 24% say a lot or some. 72% on average say little or none. so if there's any blame to go around, it doesn't lay at the feet of trump, it lays at the feet of the left wingers.

that's what these republicans seem to believe, at least the majority of them. obviously there are some that disagree with it. but overall it's very, very clear that republicans in the electorate do not want to blame the former president of the united states, they want to blame anyone else even if it's a conspiracy theory. >> how many of them believe the big lie about the election? >> so many of them. this number tells everything we need to know. look at this. who is the true president right now? among republicans, 53% say donald trump is the true president right now. just 47% say joe biden. i don't really even know what this statistic means except that it's really scary. joe biden was sworn in on january 20. joe biden got over 270 electoral votes. yet 53% of republicans say donald trump. they are out to lunch. it's one of the scariest numbers i have ever seen. >> the only good news would be if the people who own being republican now are just trumpers.

people who were republicans don't call themselves that and wouldn't respond to the poll. otherwise you've got a real problem on your hands. and very interestingly, running again, mcconnell might not want it but the majority sure seems ready for it. among republicans, yes, 63%. and very interestingly, on the idea of the grand jury, people are saying, you know, trump's going to float that he may run again, so what? the one place that doesn't matter is in a grand jury and in a court of law. you can play politics, everybody, everywhere else, even the media wants to play the game, he's going to say he's going to run again. it doesn't matter when it comes to the grand jury. as we see, when you get out of the grand jury, he's got a lot of support. harry enten, appreciate you, wiz. >> thank you, sir. i flagged as a bolo last night, but it's even bigger and more important than i made it, okay? you have to look at who is behind the fraud in arizona.

and that's why i call it fraud-it, because you more you learn and the more you look, the worse it is. it may be crazy, but it is real and happening. and there is a new conductor helping to drive the crazy train. it should tell you everything you need to know about the legitimacy of this effort to try to overturn the presidential election results in the state's largest county of arizona. seven months after the vote. the republicans say they did it right. they looked at it twice. the people who were on the board overseeing it, who are all republican, don't understand why this is happening. but now you will. this man is former overstock ceo patrick byrne. he has turned crazed trump sympathizer, very passionate about it. he's helping bankroll this clown show in maricopa county with a group he runs called the america project. his group is apparently helping not just raise money but to

decide who counts the ballots. they are recruiting the volunteers as a liaison with the republican-controlled state senate. he's launched a website that aims to raise nearly $3 million for the sham. and claims to have already raised well over half that to prove trump was the rightful winner. you may be thinking, i like overstock, what's the big deal? byrne is the guy who says he was present at that bonkers meeting at the white house in the final days of trump's presidency about martial law, the one attended by sydney powell and disgraced former national security adviser michael flynn. there was allegedly talk of martial law and seizing voting machines to overturn the election. byrne was there. he came on this program a couple of years ago with one of the wildest allegations i've ever heard, saying the so-called deep state was directing him before the last presidential election to pursue a romantic

relationship with convicted russian operative maria. maria butina. remember this? they never told you you needed to have a romantic relationship with somebody? >> yes, they did. this gal, maria, highest national priority. and they said, and the very honorable men and women, the men in black, they said we want to be clear, this never happens in the united states, we're the good guys, we don't work like the bad guys, but we need to ask you to rekindle a romantic relationship with maria butina. >> members of the fbi that you're sure were members of the fbi asked you to do this and you know their names? >> and i know their names. >> here's the problem. former top fbi officials said no, he doesn't. there's nothing to this. then byrne kind of flamed out into oblivion, resigned from

overstock over the conspiracy talk. but now he's back again, one of the main forces behind what's happening in arizona. the cyber ninjas, it's a funny name, but the fact that this is the man organizing this situation, picking or helping to pick the people who are going to count the ballots? bolo. all right. it took nearly a week. house republican leaders are now condemning qanon kook marjorie taylor greene's latest insanity. she compared mask mandates to the holocaust. it was stupid. it was cheap. it was dangerous. they knew all that but they didn't want to say anything. why say something now? let's bring in a better mind on the right. next. discomfort back there? instead of using aloe, or baby wipes, or powders, try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h. because your derriere deserves expert care.

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here's what you need to know, the latest with mtg, the qanon kook in congress. her offensive and ridiculous comments comparing mask mandates to the holocaust. it took five days for her party's leadership to come out and condemn them. she knows what she's doing. they all know what they're doing because that's part of the game. she knows what she said was wrong but it also gets you attention and that's part of the game. how do i know? here's some video from 2019, uncovered by our k-file team,

where mgt or mtg, whatever it is, explains the problem herself. back then she was shaming aoc for comments she made comparing trump's migrant camps to the holocaust. listen. >> it's just so disturbing that aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez, could actually compare that, that concentration camps, the murder of 6 million jews, the murder of more than 5 million other people because of their skin color, because of their religion, because of their culture, because of their ethninticity. >> ethninticity, that's the keyword. she knows the game. she's playing the game. she knows better but she did it anyway. you compare nothing to the holocaust. we know why. we know why you don't qualify it, because that degrades it. she just showed you she did.

why did she do it? because that's the game. why didn't they go after her and condemn her and say she is not us? because they like the people who she wants to like her who are the base, who like the anger, the animus, and the division. that's what's going on. and that's why guys like charlie dent, former member of congress, true republican, is on the outside and trying to figure out what to do. look, they don't want to talk about her. they want her to make her noise and they're okay with that. and even when they address it, charlie, they do it with an immediate turn to how this is really a democrat problem. >> chris, i was chairman of the ethics committee. i served with a few speakers. i watched speaker pelosi, speaker boehner, and speaker ryan deal with members of their own parties who became embarrassments or scandals and

they forced them to resign because they thought it was important to maintain a certain standard of conduct. now we have taylor greene and her anti-semitic comments. i'm glad that the leadership pushed back on her, belatedly. that said, there has to be a consequence. and that consequence should be expulsion from the house republican conference. >> never gonna happen. >> well, i said that at the time she was nominated for that seat in georgia that she should never have been welcomed into the conference and not assigned any committees. i think they should do it. i am sure leader mccarthy is feeling some pressure from some of his members in those marginal districts who do not want to have to explain or answer to her insanity any longer. >> look, but charlie, hold on a second. even if he's getting pressure, they still want him to wind up in the same place she is, which is you use any ugly tactic you can to blame something bad on democrats.

at a time when the jewish people face increased violence and threats. true. anti-semitism is on the rise, true. but where does he say it's on the rise? in the democrat party. and is completely ignored by speaker nancy pelosi. this is who you guys are now. this is not about pelosi and the democrats. that's not where the anti-semitism is coming from. but that's what he says. how does that show pressure from real republicans? >> well, look, to be fair, there are left wing agitators who are anti-semitic just as there are these right wing folks like taylor greene and others who spew anti-semitism. we saw it in the insurrection, the guy wearing the "camp auschwitz" sweatshirt. there comes a time when you're leader of your caucus that you have to stand up and bring the hammer down on your members. it's not fun, it's not easy. kevin mccarthy did it to steve

king when he made his racially inflammatory comments, he kicked him off the committees, and they found a primary opponent for him, they got behind that primary opponent and they defeated him. taylor greene, by failing to go after her, they're not tacitly approving her, but at the same time they're not doing enough to push back. she's been able to monetize this notoriety and it's gotten so bad and so horrifying that some of the numbers we saw suggest that her favorability ratings are higher than those of liz cheney among republicans and mitch mcconnell. that's what's happening. the extremists are too often being stood next to and the rational members are being marginalized like cheney and kinzinger. >> the only people who realize the game is ugly and has to be destroyed are people on the fringe. charlie, and we need the people who are reasonable and in the middle and the centrists who want progress to realize it's a

game and to stop playing it. the crazier you get, the more popular you'll be. charlie dent, i appreciate you coming on trying to speak to the reasonable. right now i don't think it's getting a lot of resonance. let's talk about something else we should all agree on. it is one year since the death of george floyd. it is a horrible marker to have in our society. but it should be at least motivated into a position of relevance so that we can remember the risk, remember why we want to be better, and remember the cost of being worse. his family met today with president biden at the white house. look at this moment captured by a photographer. a marine opening the door for floyd's young daughter gianna who once said her daddy changed the world. remember that? so how is that going? what is the chance of any real reform in the biden administration? one of the key players in congress joins us, next.

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marchs and memorials across the country this evening. we're marking one year since the murder of george floyd. and what followed, which was supposed to be the nation's reckoning with racial injustice. over the past year, we've seen

it on a local level. city, state lawmakers have passed more than 250 policing bills designed to address police behavior, accountability. what about on the federal level? there's a bill named after george floyd yet to pass. negotiations are under way in congress. the floyd family met privately with the president the day after it. they renewed their calls for lawmakers to act. >> we just want this george floyd policing act to be passed. because this is the thing. if you can make federal laws to protect the bird which is the bald eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color. >> democratic congresswoman karen bass is the lead house negotiator of the george floyd justice in policing act. she also met with the family today. it's a good point that he made. you know, you guys can pick a bird, but you can't help us. now, obviously a lot of policing is state and local level. but do you believe you'll be able to get something done?

>> i absolutely believe that we'll be able to get something done. and it was very moving to meet with the family today. and i was really pleased that they were not disappointed that we did not produce a bill today. they were far more concerned about the quality as opposed to us rushing and having something symbolic which is unacceptable. >> what is the state of play? >> well, the state of play is that the negotiations are continuing. i'm working very closely with senator booker, senator scott, josh gottheimer, pete stauper, brian fitzpatrick in the house. i do believe we will get there. it will take us a little longer. we needed more time. but we're all having discussions in good faith. >> what is the major point of opposition? >> well, everybody knows that holding officers accountable is one of the most important things we can do. because frankly, chris, we are

tired of seeing video after video. and so qualified immunity, reducing the standard for prosecuting officers, raising the standard of policing in the united states, banning chokeholds, banning no-knocks, all of those are very important features. holding police accountable and definitely a contentious point. but we're still working it through. >> anything in there to insist with some kind of funding mechanism that police departments comply and have a uniform standard for reporting on -- just reporting. we're reading the other day about one of the states in play, only a fraction of the police departments in the entire state even report up to the federal level about arguable uses or abuses of force. anything in there about that? >> exactly. yes, it is. i mean, there's an entire section of the bill that looks at data. because you're exactly right. you know, we have 18,000 police departments around the country. and no national standards.

you tell me a profession that has the power of policing where police can take away your freedom and take away your life but have virtually no transparency, very little accountability, and 18,000 different ways of going about their job. no other profession functions like that. >> how hard is it for you on your side of the ball here? progressives are pretty hard on not wanting a compromise bill. they did not give you good leverage with all of that defund the police talk. so how do you make them happy and find a deal in here between extremes? >> first of all, understand that in the house of representatives, in the democratic caucus, we have over 200 members. now, we do have members that support the concept of defund the police, but it is a very small number. but i view it a little differently. i mean, the way i say it is, re need to refund communities. because chris, you know over the years we've shredded the safety

net and dumped society's problems on policing to pick up the pieces. mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, a lot of issues that should be handled because they are social, health, and economic issues. so we need to refund communities. in that regard there's a part of the bill where we provide grants to communities to reenvision policing. mental health is huge. if you look at the number of people killed since george floyd was murdered, and it's well over a hundred, and i looked at many of the cases, and a number of them involved people that were having a crisis. now, if we provided proper health care, people wouldn't deteriorate to the point of a crisis. why is it that we have the police responsible for that? why don't we have the police partnering with social workers? there are best practices around the country. but those practices need to be centralized and frankly, they need to be expanded nationally.

so you know we're only looking at federal policing. but we do control the pursestrings. and so we can influence state and local efforts by conditioning grants to reforms. and we're looking at all of that. >> you know, i must say, congresswoman, i think you are the first democrat player i've had on the show, the crew will tell me if i'm wrong and i'll have to call you and apologize, but i think the first one to mention that policing has gotten harder, that as there has been social net breakdown, more and more things are put on their plate that they weren't training. i'm not saying the things they do do, that they do right all the time. you say you're tired of seeing the video, i'm tired of not seeing the video, when states don't release these videos. it's not about police being bad. it's about police being put in bad positions. it will be interesting to see what you can come up with. congress woman karen bass,

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it's good to have you. professor of immunology at yale. i can't even say it. so we need to know why, why not? if we want to find out, what are the real questions to ask? >> right. so we still don't have a clear answer as to where the virus originated, whether it was a natural transformation from an animal or a lab leak. the w.h.o. did conduct an investigation into the origin of this virus and released a report at the end of march. however, the report did not contain enough data to conclude one way or the other. that is why we need to have further investigation of the origin of the virus so we can prevent future pandemics from happening. >> do you believe it is knowable whether -- discoverable whether this was from animal intermediary, from bat to something else to us or from a

lab accident? >> yes. we believe it is a knowable fact. we just need the data. we need to be able to have access to the data to be able to know whether it was an animal transmission or a lab leak. >> now, is it suggestive to you that chinese have not said yes, it was an animal transmission, because that would be beneficial to them, and instead they have just stonewalled? what does that mean? >> so in the report they did investigate 80,000 different animal samples for possible evidence of arrest is cov-2, the virus that causes the pandemic. and they have not found it. they also have not found any evidence of lab leak either and they really didn't report on the lab leak part of the investigation very well. so we really need more transparent data to really conclude either one way or the other. >> so we had peter dazak on this

show early on. and he said no way it came from the lab. we were in the lab, we were using the lab, i know it wasn't in the lab. it wasn't in the lab. you have a letter that is much more open to that possibility. the one in the lancet statement was drafted by dazak and he says that is a conspiracy theory. why do you believe you are in better footing than dazak and "the lancet"? >> well, first of all, if it wasn't a lab leak incident, then we would really want to see the data that really there was evidence for no lab leak. we really haven't seen any evidence to support either one way or the other, as i mentioned. so without evidence, how can a scientist conclude that it wasn't a lab leak? that's where we differ, i think. we are basically calling for an unbiased, rigorous scientific investigation so that we can understand better where it came from. >> and you believe the proof is

still there, it's just to be discovered? >> we believe -- yes. there should be a lot more information that we can have access to, yes. >> professor, thank you very much. we will stay on this. please feel free to to contact us and let us know where it's going or where it isn't and why it matters. appreciate you and thank you. we'll be right back. you hear that? that's your weathered deck, crying for help. while you do nothing... it's inviting those geese over for target practice. today, let's stain™. right now get incredible savings on select behr premium® stains. starting at $26.98*.

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