BREAKING: FBI director says COVID pandemic 'most likely' originated from Chinese lab
The 'Outnumbered' panel discusses past media coverage mocking the COVID lab leak theory and the Biden White House's claim that there is no consensus on the origins of the virus.said that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
"The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday."Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab." "I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart, and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that's unfortunate for everybody," he added.FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Wray's comments come after the Department of Energy assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by an accidental lab leak in China. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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