you heard tom cotton referenced.dlines on how covid originated and from february of 2020 versus may of 2021 you can see the first one being earlier senator tom cotton freeze -- repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins and recently another group of scientists calls for further inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus. what is the big problem with reversals like this and dismissing series when we didn't have the answer then and still don't have the answer now. >> how could we have the answers then when tom cotton brought this up in february of 2020 when a couple weeks before that major journalists from the wall street journal and washington post were expelled from china, we have no boots on the ground. how could anybody verify what tom cotton was saying was wrong, call it a fringe conspiracy theory when there was no way at the time we had all the facts in. when we hear the media made a mistake it is not a mistake. this is what happens when you have the media taking a side, a team or party or president in this ca

arkansas senator come cotton is joining me now -- senator tom cotton is joining me now. >> thank you,. trey: we're all surprised, here we are, you are one of the smartest colleagues that i had, you look smarter now, why reluctance of others to even entertain the lab leak theory who you were talking about it. >> i think there are a few reasons, so many of america's elites are committed to propping up the chinese communist party, they have financial and interests in china. another reason is pause it was me saying it, then donald trump said the same thing, sometimes the mainstream media, as you know, refutes assersions if they don't like the person makes the assertion. trey: i like you, i'll ask you a tough question. you have done a lot better in science, what is relevance of someone sitting in arkansas or south carolina, whether it was a bat sandwich or a gain of function experiment that went awry? >> i think that american people deserve to know what cause worse pandemic in a sent -- in a century, china should be made to pay for negligence and deceitfulness at the outbreak of the pandem

the washington post issuing a correction on the 2020 tom cotton story which suggested covid was likelyost said the story was wrong and debunked. it stems from my interview with senator cotton on "sunday morning futures" last february. here's what he told me. >> this virus did not originate in the wuhan animal market. epidemiologists who are widely respected from china who studied in the international journal, the lancet, have demonstrated that several of the original cases did not have any contact with that food market. so we don't know where it originated. but we do know we have to get to the bottom of that. we also know that just a few miles away from that food market is china's only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases. now, we don't have evidence that this disease originated there but because of china's duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says. maria: that was back in february 2020 that when we did not know much at all. the washington post used that interview to create the

at noon, the manhattan institute has a discussion at -- of -- on crime and policing with senator tom cotton>> saturday on "the

biden starts adding haunch of arcade bird that will make everything more interesting part of the tom cottonnt who is putting for this theory there was an element to it especially with what center cotton was saying that was disturbing which we have not seen evidence of is that he also china created this as a bio weapon for there is no evidence about thus far. we have to be careful what we go that's for sure. we have people in big positions of power moving around him with the rules are moving the goal post, masking, unmasking et cetera per think at the end of the day we did have to meet people yes people reporters could not from this category per the president did put forward that therapy also said xi jinping was doing a great job managing covid he also said it wasn't airborne. kennedy: he did knew that was not true per its >> they all know what they're bunch of liars. especially fauci he knew they were doing this again of function research, gave the bunch of money to that lab knowing what they were conducted because he had been told by u.s. diplomats another scientists and researchers what w

senator tom cotton responds. he's been out front on this issue. and vice president kamala harris is going to the border. now she is beating president trump, former president trump to the punch. he's headed there as well. watch this. >> i've said i'm going to the border. >> when are you going to the border, vice president? >> the administration has asked -- i'm not finished. i've said i'm going to the border. >> martha: the answer is friday. this friday. wednesdays will will is next. if you're a veteran homeowner and need cash for your family, call newday usa. newday lets you borrow 100% of your home's value. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you take out $50,000 or more. use it to improve your home or put cash in the bank. some of life's most important decisions are made right here at the kitchen table. if you're a veteran and need cash, calling newday could be one of the best decisions you'll ever make! [lazer beam and sizzling sounds] ♪♪ ♪ ♪ i had the nightmare sagain maxine.s] the world was out of wonka bars... relax. you just need digital w

here is senator tom cotton.ator come i was thinking to myself watching this train wreck unfold today. does this mean we won't have secure border until we fix all of the problems in central america, which have been decades and decades and decades in the making? >> laura, kamala harris didn't have to go all the way to guatemala and mexico to find the root causes of the border crisis because they are not there. and january 20th when joe biden took office. and essentially open the borders. very effective policy that had the borders under control. and it's true even in the eyes of the president of mexico and guatemala who during this trip said that joe biden is also responsible for his rhetoric on the campaign trail and transition and his policies on the administration. that is why we have had three straight months of record high illegal immigration, the highest number reported in 20 years. this is not going to stop until joe biden recognizes the heirs of his ways and begins to stop this crisis at the border. >> laur

if tom cotton is saying something it can't be true.ey crapped all over it while pretending to be objective because of confirmation bias, group think, and general incompetence. tds for trump derangement syndrome. >> bill: chris bedford senior editor of the federalist. bill mcgurn takes it on today. joe biden's covid science, his desire to do the opposite of trump on everything is one cause of his mistakes. start there. >> that seems like it was the entire idea across the country for a lot of people in the democratic party. for a lot of people in the press when donald trump was president. from the beginning of when he was president. some of it seemed funny and donald trump said gang members like ms-13 were bad people you would have people in the press say no, they're good people. that kind of stuff was absurd. if donald trump went to france and everyone in the meeting said he didn't say anything bad about the war dead, one source said -- when it came down to issues like this and the people in america actually need people they can trust a

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now, senator tom cotton, republican of arkansas, he pushed back against democrats' idea of expanding beyond daca. it's the american dream and promise act. here is his argument. >> i have to say that we heard from senator coons in terms that we often here, about children brought here through no fault of their own who have never known another country and that's why we need a solution like the house bill. the house bill would give a green card, though, to, say, an 18-year-old who arrived here in december. so that's very different than what senator coons portrayed or what the democrats portray that this legislation would do. that's why this hearing itself is so ill-advised. we have a crisis at the border. illegal migrant flows that we haven't seen in a generation. the vice president galivanted around mexico and central america last week looking for the root causes. i could have saved the taxpayers their money, the root cause is joe biden and kamala harris running on an open borders campaign, that message being heard across the world and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens showing up

here now to react is arkansas senator tom cotton. all right, senator, 1.4 billion people in china.n't begrudge nike from going after that market. but, i don't like the sucking up to the communist chinese regime that just basically let a virus escape and kill 600,000 of us. >> i guess nike's attitude towards genocide in china is just too it. >> jesse: i mean, you have to have some sort of self-awareness as a company, senator, to be doing business with a brutal regime that's been accused of genocide the sloppy lab killed millions of people worldwide, covered it up, and actively trying to undermine the united states of america. what kind of danger does this pose to the u.s. consumer? >> well, jesse, it poses a big danger because nike ceo is just another example of what i call china lobby. all of the woke ceos the big hollywood move studios, the university presidents who depend on full freight chinese students coming to their campuses. the lobby firms in washington. the news networks that are either owned by or affiliate with those hollywood studios needing access to the chinese market

. >> that is republican senator tom cotton, the same tom cotton who vehemently denounced being canceledhreatens the very principles of free inquiry and open debate upon which our society is based. >> the same tom cotton who railed against being canceled after "the new york times" op-ed got so much backlash from those who felt it was inaccurate and inflammatory, the one he called for sending the military to deal with american protesters. >> i published an op-ed there that said simply, while we respect peaceful protesters, we can have zero tolerance for looting. >> so he supports peaceful protesters, but he'd like to cancel gwen berry. then there is congressman dave crenshaw. >> we don't need more activist athletes. she should be removed from the team. the entire point of the olympic team is to represent the united states of america. that's the entire point, okay. >> it's a pretty diverse country. he not only wants to cancel gwen berry but thinks that's a quota on activists. this is the same time crenshaw who said it's time to cancel cancel culture over statues. wake up, america, he wrote

captain tom cotton is precisely right. he served in iraq and afghanistan as well. when i was in guantanamo bay, my -- half of my platoon was hispanic. in iraq, my platoon sergeant was hispanic. my battalion commander was black. none of it mattered. all that mattered is that we shared a mission and we believe in each other, the man on the right and the man on your left. bore i wore makeup and had my hear long, i had a high and taught and had camo face paint. when you tear down the barrier by creating skepticism, you create doubt and you waste time. tom cotton is right. you waste time on theories that divide us. you mention china. you're exactly right. in fact, there was a babylon bee satire. the communist chinese might as well be training their troops to yell the incorrect pronounces as they charge them. what do we do when we're mislabelled? you want to laugh but it's scary. we must be the most lethal right now. the big question what will it look like in five, ten, 15 years when you have a generation of troops that have been thought to think of the world through a m

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a lot of people on the political left and in the media said, wow, if tom cotton is saying something it can't be true or they assumed that. >> cotton says he wants answers. >> the only sense i have is a sense of relief that we're finally going to try to find the true origins of this virus. i think all the evidence points toward those labs in wuhan. >> a senior figure and coronavirus research at the wuhan lab, president of echo health alliance, personally thanked dr. fauci in april of last year for downplaying the theory that covid-19 came from a lab. documents were obtained by buzz feed. the fauci said the scientific evidence was totally consistent with it being transmitted from an animal to a human. >> shannon: much more to discuss on that. coming up, there is a report tonight that a ransomware attack on meat backer jbs has shut down 1/5 of u.s. meat processing activity. according to the "seattle times." a white house spokeswoman says the biden administration is in conversation with russia over the likelihood the attack originated from a criminal organization in that country. the attac

this whole specter of tom cotton very much badgering secretary of defense lloyd austin just, i think,enator crenshaw, don't like the fact that the pentagon at long last is starting to confront some of the racial inequities within the department of defense. they call this -- so now there's this new phrase that's been coined. they're now the woke police. they're going after the pentagon for being too woke, and the pentagon leadership for being too woke. they don't like the idea that, for instance, the pentagon is going to be having some -- putting out some sort of juneteenth observance, for instance, coming up soon. they're not crazy about the whole idea of renaming all of these confederate bases. there's a whole list of things, but keep in mind that on january 6th, you know, as the capitol was being stormed by pro-trump rioters, we found out afterwards that many, many of them were former military. >> mm-hmm. >> and many of these extremists had military background and were even active duty military. we've had active duty military now charged in the capitol riots. so the pentagon has now

this whole specter of tom cotton very much badgering secretary of defense lloyd austin.dn't sit well with a lot of people at the pentagon. a lot of this is going on because the right wing of the republican party led by tom cotton and by senator crenshaw don't like the fact the pentagon at long last is starting to confront some of the racial inequities within the department of defense. they call this -- there is this new phrase that's been coined, they woke police. they are going after the pentagon for being too woke. and pentagon leadership for being too woke. they don't like the idea for instance the pentagon is going to be having, putting out some sort of juneteenth observance, for instance, coming up soon. they aren't crazy but the whole idea of renaming all of his confederate bases. there is a whole list of things. keep in mind on january six, as the capital was being stormed by pro trump rioters, we found out afterwards many of them were former military, and many of these extremists had military background, and were active duty military. we've had active military ch

some already are like tom cotton and josh halley. the fact is post afghanistan we need a plan to make our military more functional and less political. beyond reasserting civilian control of the armed forces we have to illuminate all unnecessary spending, cut everything from needless weapons systems to pointless deployments to the hiring of any racial or gender identity consultants. of troops aren't served by bloated budgets, only the bureaucracy and defense industry benefits from that. thirdly our focus should be almost entirely on china, staying ahead of the ccp and their influence wherever we can. it is not going to be easy. it will be the great challenge of the century. but we must take it more seriously. fourth, we need new leadership. anyone who seeks to purge patriotic volunteers from the military based on changing political wins and anyone who spends more time thinking about january 6th in china shouldn't be leaving our troops, we need more victories against our adversaries abroad and less animosity toward our own people at ho

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. >> gillian: with senator tom cotton on deck with his response. good afternoon john. >> good afternoon. it's just turning five here in geneva. president biden touch down just a short time ago. it will take place across geneva harbor from us at a place. it is a lovely location with a big park in front of it. that is where the national media will be assembled. this will go a long way for setting the tone for what they brush all u.s. relations will look like for the next four years. leaving brussels, belgium, a little while ago, president biden dialing at back the rhetoric. joe biden said that he was laughing too. listen here. >> look, he has made clear that dashed out the answer is i believe he is in the past essentially acknowledged that he was -- that there were certain things he would do or did do. >> a long pause there as president biden figured out exactly the right words to say. he doesn't want to, in to this summit tomorrow with a lot of bad blood. obviously there's a lot of tensions between united states states and russia. president biden sa

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i want to go to tom cotton.of this, might have had a tough sell. but a version in the house is moving along nicely. the question is if the chinese are unwilling to help out on the sources of this, can we sue them to force answers or those that lost loved ones to sue outright? where does this stand, senator? >> thanks for having me on. early last year, i was one of the first to ring the alarm bell on the coronavirus and the first to suggest that we should make china pay. make sure that they pay to the harm that they caused to americans and families and businesses. there's a model for this. we've done it with 9-11 victims and various terrorist victims. it's in the house, too, another bill and it has bipartisan support. this is one of the ways to make china pay for unleashing the pandemic on the world. >> neil: doesn't look like they're budging. those that do try to sue, getting money could be tougher, right? >> yeah. lawsuits have succeeded in the ayatollahs in i ran for their terror campaigns or other for rippers

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tom cotton said we don't know where it originated but we have to get to the bottom of it.'s laboratory that researches human infection diseases. this was not a crazy conspiracy theory. at the time it was a logical argument but curiosity a key part of any good journalist dna was not applied here because a republican senator was saying it. >> martha: that is the point. lack of curiosity. if you're not curious, you cannot be a reporter. if you're not interested in digging into the sides of the story and figuring out what happened. how does something that killed over three million people not even evoke the slightest bit of curiosity in the lab that was across the street from the wet market where they said it started. >> i agree with joe's point about the curiosity of the journalistic class. there's something more sinister with big tech. in february 2020, we ran a column by the china scholars at the "new york post." it was perfectly well-reasoned. he didn't say it leaked from the lab. what he did say it's plausible. the epicenter of the pandemic happens to be the city where the

first of all, we are trying to assign blame and we haven't yet -- i've been long convinced that tom cottonright. i have a friend who studied this whole issue for years and has been deeply concerned about the wuhan lab because we have experience and evidence that it was not up to snuff when it came to handling these dangerous pathogens but we have yet to prove this and we may not be able to prove this unless we take some very affirmative steps, but also by the international community as well. we can stay stuck about what did dr. fauci know and when did he know it but that is not really the important thing. take for example this exchange he has with the intermediary who is received the funding and passed it on to the wuhan lab. he makes a statement, fauci makes a statement saying the most likely outcome, a natural jump from animal to human and he gets the email saying thanks for knocking down the conspiracy theory and his responses thank you for your nice note. what we know as it did make a natural jump from an animal to a human. and in all likelihood it happened however inside the wuhan lab

senator tom cotton is like, oh, this is not how things usually go.nd, despite the long odds, republicans failed to get enough votes in their caucus to repeal the affordable care act because tens of millions of americans have insurance today they would not have because of the law. one reason people started showing up in those town halls well organized and in big numbers was because of a grass roots group called indivisible. what made indivisible different from other grass roots groups at the time was that it was started by former congressional staffers who knew what kind of pressure worked on individual members of congress because they had experienced it firsthand from the other side. they started from the key insight that people should only call and contact and pressure their own member of congress, their own senators. they help people follow the simple path of doing that, calling your member of congress, showing up at his or her office, asking for town halls, getting lots of people to go to town halls to express themselves. senators and members of c

joining me now republican senator from arkansas tom cotton.enator, thank you very much for being with me. i appreciate it as you could tell, i'm a little charged up there seems to be a lot of things that are pretty obvious in the midst of our world. you clearly now have a reputation for seeing things early for being willing to stand up to them. can you start by explaining when we hear now the arguments about we saw the hacks of the oil pipeline of the meat supplier, the warnings about the power grid. how is congress because we don't see it how is it that they spend their time demonizing americans as the enemy when these things are happening in realtime and a affecting our lives today? >> well, it's happening because democrats realized the conditions they are creating in the country and the results of their policies are not going to help them at the ballot box next year. you know, we just spent a week back in our home states out of session in the congress. and i didn't hear once comments about the past or about nancy pelosi's obsession with thi

if tom cotton said something it's not true. that's not right. a lot leaped to dismiss the lab leak theory where it was coming from. we don't know how covid started is the reality. >> harris: i want to get your reaction to the snap back to reality of maybe we better look at china's communist government on covid and i want to go deeper on something. first your reaction to that. >> i'm glad jonathan carl has woke up to the idea that the warnings that were coming out a year ago weren't just made up. we have the best biggest baddest military and intelligence services on the planet. there is a reason why people like secretary pompeo and the president of the united states donald trump were saying them. this isn't like a cat that was in a cage and did it get out or not. that is a virus. i don't know how you begin to track this. >> harris: so woke to the truth of origins of covid in the wuhan laboratory if we can get to the details. i don't know what they'll let us have access to all this time much later. i want to talk about specifically, though, that l

it's interesting to hear about the tom cotton not bad in light of the french army letters published in the last month under what context for those allowed if the cotton op-ed would not be and tell us about that and other areas as a journalist where you could not publish stuff in france, that would be published in the us. concerning the od army letter. i think it's a bit early to really comment on the the the legal aspect of it because it might it could go to toilet complaint could be file and i don't know what would happen quite frankly in terms of i think also that some of the authors were seeing that they're relations to the french army were cut off, you know, so it's already a form of sanction, but and clearly also it wasn't published by the same kind of an institution. it was first published by i think a blog then it was got republished by and ultra conservative weekly, so it's not the same publication as where the thumb cartoon appeared and it's not the same thing as it doesn't. with an app the same kind of a general appeal so it's difficult to compare them because these things ma

so in some ways it isn't surprising that you have tom cotton saying let's throw them all in jail evenugh you have greater discourse about this, people who are either drug addicts or they're selling drugs. there's some different way to address this rather than lock people up and throw away the key. >> if you're joe biden, imagine this. so in 1994, you're part of the crime bill. you're a primary sponsor of this crime bill saying democrats are tough on crime. you run in the primary, the democratic primary, and you have to run away from that crime bill, which gave you mandatory minimum sentencing, which everybody criticized as putting too many people in jail, et cetera, et cetera. now they're saying, look, he has his bona fides, he's tough on crime. and joe biden has to continue to walk this line on crime a generation later. >> fa s nating stuff. we'll see what he says. >>> one of the biggest names on the progressive left now telling president biden to stop trying to please republicans when it comes to infrastructure. that's next. >>> and it's looking as though you might need another covi

leader in public life has exhibited more foresight and more courage on this issue then senator tom cottonf arkansas. senator cotton has defended mandatory minimums for pilot answers cries for user might of many of his colleagues that the true victim is not the criminal facing sentencing but the person victimized by violent crime. last summer would many of our most prestigious outlets were legitimizing riots and looting, senator cotton argued in the near times that american citizens were entitled to live under the rule of law and that there was a president for the te federal government nationalizing its state national guard when cities and states were unable or unwilling to assert themselves. publishing senator cotton caused the times editorial page editor his job. there are costs speaking uncomfortable truths about the state of our cities but they pale in comparison to the costs of staying silent. last year we saw the largest ever year over year increase in the murder rate since we began keeping records. my colleague rafael mangual will be in conversation with the senator has shown the co

any of this negotiable with tom cotton?> brian, what i would say is some of those proposals i could support if joe manchin and i and the rest of my colleagues were state legislatures in arkansas or west virginia. but there is really no basis for washington to be dictating this practice to the states. some states have longer early voting periods. some states have no early voting periods. some states have no excuse absentee, some states have excuse only. i think that's fine. it's actually a resilient part of our democracy that each state, really each county runs its own election systems. >> brian: right. >> so although i don't agree with joe manchin on this specific bill, i am pleased of that joe has once again reiterated to his more radical colleagues that he is going to respect the rules and the customs of the senate. if the democrats wanted to enact their agenda, rather than changing the senate rules, maybe they should change their agenda and focus on bills that are a little more popular. >> brian: so there is this comprom

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let's bring in the great state of arkansas tom cotton. need to get down there and see the race some day. ainsley: me too the set son manchin is there the guy who gave us the hat. >> right. ainsley: just a little fun fact to take to the water cooler today. steve: hey, senator, from the get-go, you questioned whether or not covid could have originated at that lab. you were roundly mocked. a lot of republicans joined you. they were mocked. you know, the social media companies shut it down. yesterday, jake sullivan, who is the president's national security adviser, was talking over on one of the other channels about how we will get to the origins and it's not very optimistic about how the government is going to leverage the assets of the federal government to get china to give us the truth. here's jake sullivan. listen to this. >> what joe biden did in europe this week was rally the democratic world to speak with a common voice on this issue for the first time since covid broke out. president trump wasn't able to do it. president biden was. i

tom cotton, senator from arkansas reacted last night as well and we'll get your take. >> i don't thinkcompete under the stars and stripes in the olympics for them to simply honor that flag and our anthem on the medal stand. if miss berry is so embarrassed by america there is no reason she needs to compete for our country. she should be removed from the olympic team. >> dana: reaction ranged from what jen psaki said to what tom cotton said. >> i said the same thing all along. if her point was to be on the platform to fight systemic racism, was the best i can get so far because when you do -- when someone typically makes a statement like this, turns their back on the american flag, they usually follow it up with the reasons for that. and the only reasons we've got from her at this point was she was really mad they played the song and it was for her people and now you are obsessed with me. i don't know what you thought would happen when you are competing for the right to be in the olympics and you earn a spot and turn your back on the flag. i guess you didn't expect people to actually hav

she has tom cotton coming up. >> martha: thanks.entures out for his first foreign visit as president. he's on his way to the g-7 as he lands in the u.k. moments ago. the stakes are really quite high in these meetings. these countries will be taking the measure of the new u.s. leader. we expect a remark from the president that will set the tone. those will get underway shortly. he

just to push back a little bit on tom cotton.from what had passed the house, what was being offered by democratic leaders in the senate. it wasn't going to be nearly as dramatic a change in our election laws. when stacey abrams, a big voting rights advocate in georgia agreed to it, said it is a cutback but enough for her, i'm not sure that helped in terms of republicans but then you also had mitch mcconnell as you say flatly saying no, even the stripped-down version is not enough and it will be interesting to see whether or not joe manchin is willing to change the filibuster. he keeps talking about bipartisanship and there may be on infrastructure but it looks like on the issue of voting rights there will be no deal. >> dana: that point about the filibuster. one of the things that manchin said 60 is where i plant my flag. 60 votes. as long as they know i'm going to protect the filibuster we will look at solutions and he thinks that 55 might be the right number. what do you think about that? will it get momentum? >> i think it mig

senator tom cotton is still with us. we took this in together, sort of unexpected as he just wrapped a news conference as he took a shorter amount of questions almost than he did just that. senator cotton, to the last point the president made a come of the world has reached a fundamental inflection point he's had in recent years, on what it's going to look like ten years from now. telling reporters that they have two negative open outlook, when they were asked about nuclear arms control and the discussion with vladimir putin on that. at one point he questioned reporters, why would i openly negotiate with you? your reaction on what you just heard from the president. >> it's more mumbo-jumbo, joe biden is trying to describe what is in vladimir putin's best interest. it's humiliating joe biden and the united states and pushing us around and perceive the world around. if joe biden had done the summit from a position of strength, i nuclear arms agreement with russia, if he had shut down the russian pipeline we would have been

they said, wow, as tom cotton is saying something it can't be true where they assumed that and that's not right. and it seems like a lot of people, including a lot of people in the media, leapt to dismiss the lab league theory. because of where are we coming from? and the reality is, we don't yet know how coven started. so in other words, if trump had said 2 plus 2 equals 4, news outlets probably would have tried to convince the public that that was also a deranged concept. i'm sure they would have even found plenty of experts to back it up. but now that it's not trump, but the bite administration that is interested in the origins of colored, suddenly it's a completely plausible theory. and the mainstream media is going all in on it. although even some of amazon's own columnists can seem to ignore the huge flip flop, most m s. n reporters didn't ignore the lab leak theory. they actively all over it for a year while pretending to be objective out of a toxic mix of confirmation, bias source bias. the scientists sources my to them group think tedious and general incompetence. but even wi