seen evidence, as he put it, intelligent estimates that this virus may have originated in that wuhan laboratoryute of virology. president trump said he had a high degree of confidence, as he put it, that that had been the origin of the coronavirus but he would not be drawn on precise details of that. he said that the virus could either have spilled out accidentally or the chinese may have been content to allow it to slip out and spread. us intelligence, of course, earlier today issued a statement today that they had concluded this was not genetically modified or man—made, the virus, therefore ruling out that it was a potential biological weapon, but those same intelligence officials have not ruled out the possibility that it could indeed have originated in a laboratory, such as the wuhan institute for virology, president trump has said that, if that is found to be the case and that china was negligent in this regard, then there would be consequences, possibly they could be in the form of sanctions but the chinese are very vigorously denying suggestions that this originated in the lab. is this a

[indiscernible] to hunt for evidence to support the theory that covid-19 was made in a wuhan laboratory? ms. mcenany: i can ensure you the no one is present -- communication stands. it is in concert with what the president said. i encourage the media to convey the facts to the american people which is we are in line as administration and stand by the intelligence community. that is in concert with what the president said yesterday. that is almost everyone. that is great. >> today former vice president joe biden denied allegations of sexual misconduct against -- does president trump take him at his word, given he has denied allegations against himself? ms. mcenany: we are pleased the former vice president has gone on the record. we are glad to see he is on the record about this. far more compelling than anything they have with respect to brett kavanaugh. what did he mean by that and compelling? ms. mcenany: that is the president's assessment. it was a grave miscarriage of justice with justice brett kavanaugh. there is no need to bring of the awful and false allegations that were made aga

the reports that the chinese -- the ccp ordered the wuhan laboratory, the virology laboratory there toabsolutely clean out, to destroy all specimens of the virus that they had on happened, all samples from the epidemic that broke out in wuhan, is there any -- have we confirmed that? has the united states government confirmed that? >> lou, i've seen those reports as well. i can't say much about the intelligence we've collected with respect to this. but we know enough now to be confident of this: we saw what they did to the journalists that they kicked out, american journalists they kicked out, we saw what they did to some of the doctors who early on raised the flag and said, hey, with we've got a problem. we saw that they wandered off not to be seep again. we've seen this kind of behavior, this kind of activity. it's what authoritarian regimes like the chinese communist party do. they hide, they dis'em bl, they propagate information that we saw when they tried to pin it on the united states seems like forever ago, but a few weeks back. those are the kinds of things that regimes like thi

secretary of state says there is a norm as evidence coronavirus began in a wuhan laboratory. president trump promises a report. forecastses the death to 100,000 as global passes surpassed -- italy reports the fewest deaths since the lockdown. factory output across several asian economies slumped to record low. fresh pmi data out of europe. the week culminated with a grim u.s. jobs report. warm welcome to "daybreak europe the tail risk is back and it is wagging. china-u.s. trade relations in the dumpster. the united states president says as ultimate punishment, pompeo is ramping up the rhetoric. angst deliversde hapedongation of any u-s recovery. that takes bond prices and yields down to 0.25%, maybe even zero. that is the news, the pressure you have. good morning. nejra: yes, the bad news doesn't seem to be piling up with asian factory data overnight, we look ahead to what some have called an unimaginable u.s. jobs report friday with a 21 million plus expected out of that payroll number. then of course you have the risk of tension between u.s. and china you have just outlined

raised questions about the death toll in wuhan, he has backed the secretary of state mike pompeo who has called for independent experts to go into that laboratoryd he has even made the suggestion that the spread of the coronavirus could have been politically motivated stop is at the chinese would do anything they could to stop him from winning the november election. they would prefer sleeping jack, a reference to his democratic rivaljoe biden, because he would be much less tough on tariffs on the chinese. thank u. the british prime minister, borisjohnson has said that the uk has passed the peak of the coronavirus outbreak. but those hoping for an early easing of a nationwide lockdown will have been disappointed. mrjohnson was speaking at his first downing street daily briefing since recovering from covid—i9, and returning to work at the beginning of the week. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. 0ur doors have been closed for 38 days. in city, country, life hidden away, our streets fell silent. behind this door now, decisions must be taken about what's next, with perhaps the worst behind us. good afternoon. i can confirm today that

no on a bio weapon, but yes on a possible leak out of that wuhan laboratory, because somebody got infecteda virus. >> harris: yeah. and the word that rhymes with leak, weak. because they weaken to the rest of the world as they were vacuuming up the personal protective equipment and other things that any of us would need to deal with such a vicious killer. the international world now pressing against china. what do you think they'll do, china? >> well, china has more global pressure on that than they've ever had since tiananmen square. i do agree with the think tank's proposition. what we see is the major disinformation campaign in earnest, that they are always very good at this, but they are in a full court press because china is absolutely paranoid, harris, about their image. there international and public image, and also their domestic image. they are pushing back on this considerably. also, they are stepping up military activity in the south china sea, in the east china sea, in the western pacific, because they want to demonstrate to our allies that the united states, as it's going thro

that he's seen intelligence suggesting and could be in a wuhan laboratory. seen intelligence suggestingems to lean into the idea that they started in a laboratory where is the statement that we saw from the d is the statement that we saw from the band is the statement that we saw from the d and i said were still investigating those two options that theyjust laid out. is the president and any way creating mixed messages by personal investigating. let me remind everyone intelligence isjust an estimate insect or essentially for topics up to policy makers to decide to what to do without evidence. in this case the president of the united states will make that decision at the right time. the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, has outlined a plan to reopen his country's economy. the strategy will unfold in five stages, with measures reviewed every 3 weeks. it'll begin on the 18th of may, when its planned that people who work outdoors — such as construction workers — can return to theirjobs. here he is speaking a little earlier. we have a plan to ease restrictions from the 18th of may. but bef

that he's seen intelligence suggesting and could be in a wuhan laboratory.idea that they started in a laboratory where is the statement that we saw from the d and i said ——dni were still investigating those two options that theyjust laid out. is the president and any way creating mixed messages by personal investigating. let me remind everyone intelligence is just an estimate insect or essentially for topics up to policy makers to decide to what to do without evidence. in this case the president of the united states will make that decision at right time. the world health organisation has dismissed the evidence but donald trump. ...again and again to numerous scitentists who've looked at the sequence and looked at this virus. and we were assured that this virus is natural in origin what the natural host for this viruses. us democratic candidatejoe biden has flatly denied sexually assaulting a former staff assistant nearly 30 years ago. mr biden‘s former aide, tara reade, was one of eight women who came forward last year to accuse the former vice president of

secretary of state mike pompeo has doued down his claim he believ the coronavirus originated from a wuhan laboratory we don't have certainty and there is significant evidence is came from a laboratory. those statements can be true. the administration officials have made them. focus on the most important piece here. the most important piece is the american peoremain at risk. we don't know -- we don't have certainty about whether it began in a lab or somewhere else. there is an easy way to find out the answer,y. transpare kasia: he criticized the chinese 'governm's handling of this pandemic thing the lack of transparency has cost lives. here is our dtateartment correspondent. >>here are other countries whod have critici the chinese thing they have not been ttranspar enough. the americans in particular have really hit china hard and relentlessly and consistency. although there is concern abo china's behavior and as long as there is a lack of transparency, mo people lives wille lost. the ctics believe the administration is trying to deflect attention from its own slow responses to the virus by hitting b

peter, mike pompeo said there is enormous evidence the virus originated in a wuhan laboratory.? that's the thing, he hasn't provided any evidence. he didn't talk about any evidence. he didn't talk about a ny fa cts any evidence. he didn't talk about any facts to back up those state m e nts any facts to back up those statements we just heard him any facts to back up those statements wejust heard him make. they echo what president trump has been saying over the last couple of weeks, that he believes there is evidence that the virus originated from the wuhan institute of virology. what seems to be in question, at least in their minds, is whether this was a virus that was released deliberately or whether it was released as a result of sloppy laboratory work. either way, the us administration, the trump administration, the trump administration, would say china is to blame for this, and it clearly is a legitimate question, to ask how this virus managed to get out of china. that is where it originated. was it deliberate? was it accidental? us administration saying china is not coopera

intelligence agencies to hunt for evidence to support the theory that covid-19 was made in a wuhan laboratory. >> i can assure you that no one is pressing the intelligence community to come to a determination. the intelligence community statement stands. it's in perfect concert with what the president said. i encourage the media to convey the facts to the american people, which is that we're in line as an administration and we stand by the intelligence community and that is in complete concert with what the president said yesterday. round two, that's great. yes? >> thank you. former vice president joe biden denied allegations of sexual misconduct against him. does president trump take him at his word given that the president said he has denied allegations against himself? >> what i would say is that we are pleased that the former vice president has decided to go on the record. it took him less than, what, 16 hours to follow the advice of the president of the united states and come out and publicly address those claims. we're glad to see he's on the record on this. >> something the president s

i can tell you that there's a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. >> do you believe it was manmade or genetically modified? >> the best experts seem to think it was manmade. i have no reason to disbelieve it at that point. >> your office at the dni says, the consensus, the scientific consensus wasn't manmade or genetically modified. >> that's right. i agree with that. i have seen their analysis. i have seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly, i have no reason to doubt to accurate. >> so just to be clear, you don't think it was manmade or genetically modified? >> i have seen what the intelligence has said. martha, you have to put it in context. here's what's important, martha, here's what's important, the chinese communist party had the opportunity to prevent all of the calamity that has befallen the world. here with we are, this is an enormous crisis, created by the fact that the chinese communist party reverted to form, to the kinds of disinformation, the kinds of disinformation that authoritarian regimes do. had those scientists

two, that it began with contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in wuhan. so i consider that consistent with what the president said, that he has seen intelligence suggesting it could be a wuhan laboratory. reporter: he seems to be reading into the idea that this started in a laboratory where the as the statements from the dni say, we are still investigating those two options. as the president in any way creating mixed messages? reporter: let me remind everyone, intelligence is an estimate of essentially and it is up to policymakers to decide what to do with that intelligence. the president will make that decision at the right time. reporter: is a president" deciding what to do about china question mark has he received any recommendations, is he ready to make that decision? ms. mcenany: i will not get ahead of the president and his decision. but he takes this very seriously because the decisions of china that i referenced, slow walking some of that information, put american lives at risk and this president has one priority and that is the safety and well-b

his secretary of state talked about enormous evidence that the virus started or spread from a wuhan laboratoryinese have said it didn't. why hasn't beijing put this to rest by inviting the who to organise a big international investigation to come and just investigate it to the roots and just have done with it? that is asking why a tiger doesn't change its stripes, really. this is not a regime that invites outside scrutiny not certainly on its own soil. it is aggressively battling back any narrative that says it was in the wrong on how it handled the pandemic, trying to really control the story out there saying that what they did was absolutely correct and is what equipped the rest of the world to take proper measures, if the rest of the world had heeded what china had done. they won't allow who they fear will be politically motivated investigators on chinese soil to check out highly sensitive areas, such as this virlology institute in wuhan. it is not in the nature of this regime. nesrine, picking up on other things that are not in the nature of our times, i suppose, it is hard enough to modif

they won't let anybody look at the records of these two wuhan laboratories. markets closed. but they think it's either a lab leak, again, witches strongly from the president, or an infected animal the market. >> dana: all right, bill gertz, pleasure to have you on the show. we follow you and all of your expertise. thank you so much. >> thank you, dana. >> dana: and the murder hornet. have you heard about this? arriving in the united states for the first time. were going to tell you about the potential threat these two engines expose. that's next on "the daily briefing." because heart and kidney disease shouldn't prevent you from pushing your limits. because every baby deserves the very best start in life. because a changing environment should mean caring for the land that takes care of us all. at bayer, everything we do, from advances in health to innovations in agriculture, is to help every life we touch. at bayer, this is why we science. veteran50-year lows.ortgage rates have fallen to but did you know that your va benefit lets you easily refinance to a low

i can tell you there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from this laboratory in wuhan. >> welcome back. secretary of state mike pompeo doubled down on his claim that the source of the coronavirus pandemic originated in a wuhan laboratory. the same claim previously made by president trump. and while both have said that they have evidence to back this up, the intelligence community says there is no such smoking gun. the office of the director of national intelligence went so far as to release a statement, last week, saying they have reached no such conclusion about how the outbreak began. this comes after nbc news reported that the white house has tasked the intelligence community with investigating questions about the origin of the virus, including the extent to which china covered it up. and it comes as "the associated press" was first to report according to a department of homeland security report, also seen by nbc news. that china intentionally concealed the severity of the virus, while stockpiling supplies. betsy woodruff-swan, msnbc contributor. both have been repo

>> reporter: and the white house now further pushing the theory that the virus started in a wuhan laboratory. last week cnn returned to wuhan and traveled to the lab in question. wuhan institute of virology. we captured a feewag images fro the gate. china dismisses accusations that it started here. and a statement from u.s. intelligence says that the coronavirus was not manmade or genetically modified but noted that it was still evaluating theories linking the outbreak to the lab. cnn's early reporting revealed china's covering up and silencing of whistleblowers, and reports also putting into question china's official number of cases which has been revised repeatedly and widely believed to be vastly underreported. however china believes that the u.s. and the trump administration in particular is trying to deflect for its lack of preparedness in battling this virus within the united states. and so you've got this heated rhetoric, this increased blame, and the world's two largest economies no longer looking at international collaboration but rather in the midst of this animosity filled faceoff

. >> the white house now further pushing the origin theory that the virus started in a wuhan laboratory. last week cnn returned to wuhan post lockdown and traveled to the lab in question. the wuhan institute of virilology, a part of the chinese academy of sciences. we captured a few images from the exterior of the gated campus. chinese officials dismiss allegations it started here. a statement thursday from the u.s. office of the acting director of national intelligence said it concluded that the coronavirus was not man made or genetically modified. but noted it was still evaluating theories linking the outbreak to the lab. cnn's early reporting of this revealed china's covering up and silencing of whistle-blowers. our reports also put into question china's official number of cases which has been revised repeatedly and is widely believed to be vastly under reported. however, china believes the u.s. and the trump administration in particular is trying to deflect for its lack of preparedness in battling the virus within the united states. so you've got this heated rhetoric, this increased

. >> reporter: the white house further pushing the origin theory that the virus start in a wuhan laboratoryst week, cnn returned to wuhan post-lockdown. we travelled to the lab in question, the wuhan institute of virology. chinese officials dismiss allegations that it started here. and a statement thursday from the u.s. office of the acting director of u.s. intelligence said it concluded that the coronavirus was not man-made or genetically modified. but noted it was still evaluating theories linking the outbreak to the lab. cnn's early reporting of this revealed china's covering up and silencing of whistle-blowers. the report also put in number the official number of china cases which is widely believed to be vastly underreported. however, china believes that the u.s. and the trump administration in particular is trying to deflect for its lack of preparedness for battling the virus within the united states. so you've got this heated rhetoric, this increased blame, and the world's two largest economies no longer looking at international collaboration, but rather, in the midst of this animosi

two, he began to contact with infected animals or with the result of an accident of her laboratory in wuhanso i consider that consistent with what the president said that he seen intelligence suggesting it could be in the will hand laboratory. >> to lean into the idea that this started in a laboratory, as a statement that we saw from the dni that we are still investigating those two options that you laid out. as a president anyway creating mixed messages? >> let me remind everyone, intelligence is just an estimate essentially and it's up to policymakers to decide what to do that intelligence. in this case the policymakers, the president of the united states and how make that decision at the right time. >> is a president close to deciding what to do about china? has he received recommendations on the consequences, is he anywhere in your decision? >> i will get ahead of the president's decision or the timing but he takes his very seriously because the decisions of china that i referenced slow walking some of the information put american lives at risk and rest assured, this president has one p

officials have pushed agencies to hunt for evidence to support the query that it was made and a wuhan laboratory>> secretary mcenany: i can assure you that no one is pressing the intelligence committee to come up with a statement. they stand in perfect concert with what the president said. so i encourage the media to convey the facts to the american people, which is that we are in line as an administration, and we stand by the intelligence community. that is incomplete concert with what the president said yesterday. we are in round two, that's great. >> reporter: today former vice president joe biden denied allegations of sexual misconduct against -- does the president take him at his word saying that he has denied allegations himself? >> secretary mcenany: i would say that we are pleased that the former vice president has decided to go on the record. it took him less than 16 hours to follow the advice of the president of the united states and come out and publicly address those claims. so we are glad to see that he is on the record. >> reporter: let me ask you about something the president said

and the secretary of state that the virus originated ina state that the virus originated in a laboratory in wuhan wuhan. dr fauci has rubbished it. even if true, the virus would have had to be in the wild beforehand anyway. absolutely, there is absolutely no evidence of this was a manufactured virus. however, even a virus that may have led from the lavatory, that theory has been thoroughly debunked. the us intelligence community have said that. uk and australian officials have said there is no evidence. while donald trump and mike pompeo have said this is true, they have not provided evidence and what they be doing is what the george w bush administration did with the iraq war, in order tojustify their rush to war in iraq and in this case the trump administration is trying to insinuate china may have had this leak as a way to justify pursuing this new cold war which would actuallyjust endanger the us and the rest of the world. the venezuelan government has released footage it claims shows an american private security contractor confessing to helping organise a coup against president nicholas madu

should say, aligning with the united states, demanding to know exactly what happened in the wuhan laboratories clear, the chinese have no defense. the can chinese communist party admitted they destroyed samples of the virus in those laboratories in the early stages of the outbreak in hue bay province. china just doesn't seem to understand, however, that they are now on the verge of full-on economic war with more than 120 nations who are aligned with the united states who are demanding a full and complete investigation of the origins of the wuhan virus and the actions of the communist chinese government. it is a push that president trump enthusiastically supported and has led. he tweeted today: we are with them, referring to those nations. beijing is also paying a higher price for its actions than it has acknowledged in any form or forum. we learned today that china has sealed off some 108 million of its citizens in the country's northeast region. they are back under lockdown amid fears of a new and growing contagion of the wuhan virus in that region. the virus also has created a disaster econo

china is obviously very secretive about what happens at the wuhan laboratory. >> we know that at thatcility, they were researching highly infectious diseases, including coronaviruses that derived from bats and so there is a very natural question to ask well did somebody make a mistake? were they studying this virus? did it escape accidentally, and is that part of why the communist government in china tried so hard to cover this up? maria: one of the earliest known coronavirus patients fell ill in wuhan in december. but reports say that the chinese were aware of this virus as early as the fall, 2019. despite having a highly contagious and deadly disease ripping through their country, in january, china sent government officials to the white house to shake everybody's hand, for a phase one china deal. then they sent the largest delegation ever to davos. on top of that they were encouraging tourism to china and allowing their citizens to travel unrestricted across the world. the "new york times" reports that 430,000 people traveled from china to the united states after the coronavirus was

undo influence at the wto but it is clear in, to me at least, that something happened at that wuhan laboratory about the middle of october. there is public information out now that indicates that the level of activity there decreased dramatically from where it had been, like something happened and suddenly nobody wants to go into that lab for a while. i think that is pretty positive proof that this is a point we ought to be looking at. it was clear that the chinese would not let cdc in early. they wouldn't cooperate with us early and early was probably a whole lot earlier than we thought it was at the time. neil: looking back to even november, december, of 2019, senator. while i have you, sir, this issue whether our meat supply is compromised or even safe, the latest indication, a number of firms from tyson foods, a host of others, smithfield, they will reopen facilities but they're concerned. you have that in your neck of the woods as well. a few hundred workers at a, you know, a in buchanan county have come down with the virus. are you worried that food processing plants of any sort is vulne

claims that there is strong evidence the virus came from a wuhan laboratory. watch. >> mr.spoke repeatedly, but has never presented evidence, because there was no such thing. i think the question should be left to scientists and medical experts to answer. in the politicians should not keep lying on the issue for the needs of domestic politic politics. >> harris: that's rich. power panel now. matt gorman, former communications director for the house republicans campaign arm. marie harf, former state department spokesperson under president obama and fox news contributor. marie, i will come to you first. what do you make of that? >> marie: well, we do need to get to the bottom of how this actually started and what china did or didn't do. china bears much of the blame. they hold a lot of the responsibility, and they should be investigated. i also think that, as that investigation happens here in the united states, it should be the intelligence professionals and the medical experts who are doing it. we are dr. fauci in an interview come out this weekend really backed down the la

us secretary of state pompeo has repeated the claim that virus began in a chinese laboratory near wuhanassachusetts is rachel esplin 0dell. she's a research fellow at the quincy institute for responsible statecraft. welcome, thank you very much. you can see absolutely, can't you come away the trump administration would want to blame a foreign enemy, rather than really engage with any shortcomings in its own handling of the pandemic. there are likely to be penalties, aren't there, if there are further following up with the us and china, as it takes medical equipment from there? yes, it is trying to deflect blame in managing its own problems. the problem with the effort in this situation is our enemy is a virus, not another country. and while china did mishandle early aspects of the outbreak, retaliating against china will only worsen the current crisis and make it harder to access medical supplies we need and would economic the economic crisis the world is immersed in. it's also likely to make it harder to persuade the chinese to investigate properly or accept an international investigat

him high confidence the coronavirus outbreak was the result of an accidental release from a wuhan laboratoryces stand by the conclusion from the intelligence community which said that the virus was not manmade, but has not determined whether it emerged accidentally from a lab or was transmitted to humans through animals. nbc news reported last week that the white house has tasks the intelligence community with investigating this and other questions about the origins of the virus. the extent of which china covered it up and whether the world health organization was complicit in that cover-up. some are concerned the white house is pushing intel agencies to validate a conclusion that helps them politically by distracting the attention of whether they acted soon enough. china and the world health organize deny they were less than forthcoming and china says the virus could not have come from one of its labs. in an interview with national geographic yesterday, fauci said this, if you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now is very, very strongly leaning towards this vir

. >> i there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. >> the u.s. now threatening to retaliate. >>> the nightmare in the air. a packed plane and then an all out brawl forces an emergency landing, plus the science more -- signs more people are starting to fly again. >>> and there is good news tonight the americans taking their stimulus checks and paying them forward. and the neighbors paying tribute to the flag ♪ god bless america >> this is nbc "nightly news" with kate snow. >> good evening, across so much of the country tonight, it is starting to feel like the grip of this pandemic is loosening. many states have reopened public spaces this weekend and as we start the workweek tomorrow, more businesses will reopen in more than half the states. but we got a stark reminder today that families are still losing loved ones at an alarming rate in a 24-hour period this country saw the highest deadly death toll yet with deat rates increasing outside the new york area we begin with blayne alexander in atlanta. >> reporter: the rate to reopen is heating

wuhan lab? >> martha, there's enormous evidence that that's where this began. i can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. >> reporter: but the administration has not made any evidence public. when asked if the virus spread was accidental or intentional, the secretary said he could not answer. the director of national intelligence has said they're investigating whether it began through contact with infected animals, or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in wuhan. the chinese government knows it's not just donald trump placing blame. the chinese ministry of state security has reported to chinese leaders, anti-chinese sentiment around the world is at its highest level since the tianamen square massacre in 1989. so high, the report says, china should be prepared for the possibility of war with the united states. >> some bold words. jon, with us live from d.c. the secretary of state telling martha that the u.s. will hold china accountable. so what is the o white house saying about any possible retaliation? >> reporter: the president said on friday, he wants to find out what happened bef

wuhan lab? >> martha, there's enormous evidence that that's where this began. i can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. >> reporter: but the administration has not made any evidence public. the director of national intelligence has said they're investigating whether it began through contact with infected animals, or it was the result of an accident in a laboratory in wuhan. the chinese government knows it's not just donald trump placing blame. the chinese minister of state security has said -- so high, the report says, china should be prepared for the possibility of war with the united states. >> some bold words. but as you point out, the critique isn't just from the u.s. when it comes to china. the secretary of state telling martha the u.s. is going to hold china accountable. >> reporter: the president said on friday, he wants to find out what happened before making a decision on retaliation. yesterday, the president was asked if new tariffs could be part of any retaliation, and he said we're all playing a very complicated game of chess or poker. it's unclear what he has in mind. >> jon, thank y

off with what we heard from mike pompeo, again returning to these claims that it came from a wuhan laboratoryistration. well, clearly, the trump administration is trying to deflect, and today commits a very grim day. we need to also talk about how between the united states and the united kingdom, 100,000 civilians have died. today is the day where we marked that from pope and 19. and instead of taking it seriously here at home, the trump administration is trying to blame china for its failure to prepare. it's also critical to remember that throughout january and february, it's also critical to remember that throughoutjanuary and february, the trump administration was praising china, saying that china was transparent, sending protective equipment to china, not getting access to the labs in china. now, all of a sudden, there is a new villain to blame, so is trying to work his way out of this box by blaming china. we were just playing with the president has been saying about the task force, 2a hours, they we re about the task force, 2a hours, they were talking about ago, they were talking about

he seems to be focusing clearly on this laboratory just seems to be focusing clearly on this laboratoryjust outside wuhanent trump over the last couple of weeks that they believe the virus originated. there is no secret the virus started, the outbreak started in china, but whether it was from this laboratory is still up in the air, indeed it is a legitimate question around the world. how did this virus manage to spread so did this virus manage to spread so quickly within china and then of course outside of its borders and around the world? winners certainly didn't answer the question as to whether he believed that the virus, if it came from the laboratory, was released deliberately or indeed accidentally. it may well have been the result of some sloppy work by a lab technician. that has happened before. clearly, there are lots of questions still to be answered. he is perhaps going a little bit further than the president has them talking about the significant evidence, enormous evidence that he believes points to this laboratory. how has all of this affected us—china relations? has all of this affected us

wuhan. >> the intelligence community should do its work and verify so we are certain. there is significant amount of evidence this came from that laboratoryn wuhan. haidi: ros krasny is in washington. endpoint weogical can see with regard to the antagonism pompeo and the others towards china? we see retaliation from beijing as well. down anothereading rabbit hole of possible retaliation similar to the trade war we only ended a couple of months ago. it is interesting how this theory about wuhan labs has moved from the fringes of republican circles to the center-right with the president and pompeo. i don't know what the endpoint is. we have seen trump in the past week escalate efforts to pin the blame on china. i think as the u.s. death toll rises, that will ramp up. there were rumors or talks about what trump might do including ,topping u.s. mutual funds government mutual funds from investing in chinese stocks, very serious things. it is really unclear. i think it is going to be a line of rhetoric for weeks to come. shery: we know the reopening is well underway, president trump will be speaking tonight. what are we expecting? ros: tonight

would "continue to rigorously examine whether the outbreak was the result of an accident at a laboratory in wuhan community time to verify the theory. here's some of his interview. do you think they intentionally released that virus, or was it an accident in the lab? i don't have anything to say about that, i think there's a lot to know. but i can say this, we've done our best to try and answer all of those questions. we tried to get a team in there, the world health organization tried to get a team in there and they have failed, no one has been allowed to go to this lab or any of the other laboratories. there are many labs inside of china, martha. this risk remains, this is an ongoing challenge, we still need to get in there, we still don't have the virus samples we need. this is an ongoing threat, an ongoing pandemic and the chinese communist party continues to block access to the western world, the world's best scientists, to figure out exactly what happened. so i can't answer your question about that because the chinese communist party has refused to co—operate with world health experts. with

i can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. the words from america's top diplomat seemed designed to cause maximum offence to the chinese. the president last night said they would bring forward evidence at the right time. my opinion is they made a mistake, they tried to cover it, they try to put it out, just like a fire. it's really like trying to put out a fire. against the backdrop of the lincoln memorial, donald trump again raised the potential death toll in the us to as many as 100,000. but each time he does that, so it brings fresh scrutiny of his own erratic handling of the crisis. with an election six months away, having someone else to blame — the chinese, the world health organization — has become politically essential. but this is about much more than electoral politics. there is growing unease in the white house that china has become way too powerful on multilateral bodies like the world health organization and world bank, and that america needs to reassert itself. the coronavirus pandemic is becoming a defining, an

would "continue to rigorously "examine whether the outbreak was the result of an accident "at a laboratory in wuhanigence community time to verify the theory. here's some of his interview. do you think they intentionally released that virus, or was it an accident in the lab? i don't have anything to say about that, i think there's a lot to know. but i can say this, we've done our best to try and answer all of those questions. we tried to get a team in there, the world health organization tried to get a team in there and they have failed, no one has been allowed to go to this lab or any of the other laboratories. there are many labs inside of china, martha. this risk remains, this is an ongoing challenge, we still need to get in there, we still don't have the virus samples we need. this is an ongoing threat, an ongoing pandemic and the chinese communist party continues to block access to the western world, the world's best scientists, to figure out exactly what happened. so i can't answer your question about that because the chinese communist party has refused to co—operate with world health experts