Tucker: Why did they lie to us for so long

>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT." A LITTLE OVER 15 MONTHS AGO, A GROUP OF CHINESE SCIENTISTS WORKING ON THE GROUND AT THE SCENE OF A NEW VIRUS CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS CAME FROM A GOVERNMENT LAB IN WUHAN. THESE CHINESE SCIENTISTS SAID THAT IN THE CLEAREST POSSIBLE TERMS AND POSTED ON THE INTERNET. FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, THIS WAS AN AMAZING AND IMPORTANT STORY AND PLAUSIBLE. WE EXPECTED A FLURRY OF MEDIA INTEREST IN IT. WHERE DID THE VIRUS COME FROM? IT WAS WORTH KNOWING AS PEOPLE WERE DYING OF IT. NOBODY ASKED THE QUESTION. INSTEAD, THERE WAS SILENCE PUNCTUATED BY ANTI-ASIAN RACISM AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES. THAT'S WHERE IT STOOD MORE THAN A YEAR UNTIL JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO. SUDDENLY FOR REASONS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND, ALL THE SMIRKING MORONS IN THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA CHANGED THEIR VIEW OVERNIGHT. OF COURSE, CORONAVIRUS ESCAPED FROM A CHINESE LAB. DO YOU THINK IT CAME FROM A WET MARKET? AN AVALANCHE OF EVIDENCE CONFIRMED THAT THE FIRST CORONA VICTIMS WERE RESEARCHERS WORKING WITH BAT VIRUSES AT THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY. BUZZ FEED OBTAINED THOUSANDS OF E-MAILS THAT TONY FAUCI KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING THAT COVID WAS MANUFACTURED IN CHINA IN DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS THAT HE HELPED PAY FOR. THE LAB LEAK THEORY WAS NEVER CRAZY. IT WAS ALWAYS LIKELY TRUE. SO WHY DO THEY LIE TO US ABOUT IT FOR SO LONG? A SHOCKING NEW PIECE OF ALL PLACES THE CELEBRITY SUCK-UP MAGAZINE VANITY FAIR ANSWERS THAT MAGAZINE IN GREAT DETAIL. YOU SHOULD READ IT. IN SHORT, MANY RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ARE ADDICTED TO AMERICAN TAX DALLAS. IF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC UNDERSTAND HOW RECKLESSLY THEY HAVE BEHAVED, ENDANGERED THE WORLD WITH THEIR POORLY REGULATED LABS IN CHINA, THAT MONEY MIGHT DRY UP. AS A FORMER NFC OFFICIAL PUT IT, IF THE PANDEMIC STARTED AS PART OF A LAB LEAK, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DO TO VIROLOGY ABOUT WHAT CHERNOBYL DID TO NUCLEAR SIGNS. THEY LIED ABOUT IT. THEY INTIMIDATED ANYONE THAT TRIED TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT INCLUDED THE DIRECTOR OF THE CDC. ROBERT REDFIELD RECEIVED DEATH THREATS AFTER HE SUGGESTED A VIRUS CAME FROM THE LAB. >> I'M OF THE POINT OF VIEW THAT THE MOST LIKELY ETIOLOGY OF THIS PATHOGEN IN WUHAN WAS FROM A LABORATORY. YOU KNOW, ESCAPED. OTHER PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE THAT. THAT IS FINE. SCIENCE WILL FIGURE IT OUT. IT'S NOT UNUSUAL FOR RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS TO AFFECT THE LAB WORKER. >> Tucker: YOU'D THINK THE WORLD WOULD STOP AND ASK FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS LIKE WHY DO YOU THINK THAT? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. I WAS THREATENED AND OSTRACIZED BECAUSE I PROPOSED ANOTHER HYPOTHESIS REDFIELD TOLD VANITY FAIR. HE SAID I EXPECTED IT FROM POLITICIANS BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT IT FROM SCIENCE. MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE. REDFIELD HAD DARED TO BUCK THE ORTHODOXY. IT BEGAN FEBRUARY 19, 2020, JUST AS THE VIRUS WAS GETTING TO THIS COUNTRY. AT THAT MOMENT, THE LANCET PUBLISHED A LETTER SIGNED BY 27 SCIENTISTS. THAT LETTER DECLARED FLATLY THAT THE CORONAVIRUS DID NOT ORIGINATE IN A LAB IN WUHAN AND YOU'D HAVE TO BE A BIGOT TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE. NOW, THAT LETTER WE NOW KNOW WAS ORGANIZED BY PETER DAZEK. HE HAS EVERYTHING TO GAIN BY PRETENDING THAT COVID CAME FROM A WET MARKET. HE WAS INVOLVED IN GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH AT THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY. HE SELECTED OTHER SIGNATORIES TO THE LANCET LETTER SO THIS CONFLICT OF INTEREST WOULD REMAIN SECRET. AT ONE POINT, HE WROTE TO ANOTHER SCIENTIST ALSO WORKING ON GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH TELLING HIM NOT TO SIGN THE LETTER. HERE'S WHY. "WE'LL PUT IT OUT IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T LINK IT BACK TO OUR COLLABORATION SO WE MAXIMIZE IN THE INDEPENDENT VOICE." SO THE WHOLE THING WAS A FRAUD. YET IT WORKED. IT WAS IN THE LANCET. EVERYBODY TRUSTED THE LANCET. TONY FAUCI HIMSELF CITED DASZAK'S LETTER. >> IF YOU LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION OF THE VIRUS IN BATS AND WHAT IS OUT THERE NOW, IT'S VERY, VERY STRONGLY LEANING TOWARD THIS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ARTIFICIALLY OR DELIBERATELY MANIPULATED THE WAY THE MUTATIONS NATURALLY EVOLVED. A NUMBER OF VERY QUALIFIED EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS HAVE SAID THAT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE STEP-WISE EVOLUTION OVER TIME STRONGLY INDICATES THAT IT EVOLVED IN NATURE AND JUMPED SPECIES. >> Tucker: OF COURSE. COULDN'T HAVE BEEN. THIS IS THE STORY ABOUT THE SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONE THAT IS THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY. THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING. DIDN'T HAVE WMD IN IRAQ. IT WASN'T JUST TONY FAUCI AND THE BUREAUCRATS THAT CITED THAT LETTER. SELF-DESCRIBED FACT CHECKERS THAT CONTROL THE FLOW OF INFORMATION IN OUR COUNTRY USED THE LANCET TO CENSOR ANYBODY ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT MENTIONED THE POSSIBILITY OF A LACK -- LAB LEAK. 27 SCIENTISTS SAY IT'S NOT TRUE. ONE SCIENTIST SAID DECENTRALIZED RADICAL AUTONOMOUS SEARCH TEAMS, SOMETHING THAT ALL SCIENTISTS SHOULD BE. JAMIE METZEL JOINED THE GROUP. LAST YEAR IT WAS BECOMING CLEAR THAT THE LAB LEAK THEORY WAS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY. IN FACT, IT WAS PLAUSIBLE. >> I THINK THAT IF I HAD TO BET BASED ON WHAT I READ AND LOGIC, I WOULD BET IT'S MOST LIKELY THIS WAS AN ACCIDENTAL LEAK FROM A LAB. >> SO TURNS OUT THAT METZEL WAS NOT SPECULATING. THEY FOUND THE OFFICIAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS WAS DOCTORED AT THE SOURCE. IN ONE INSTANCE, THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE BAT LADY IN WUHAN HAD COLLECTED SAMPLES OF A BAD CORONAVIRUS THAT WERE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO COVID-19. WHERE DID SHE GET THESE SAMPLES? SHE FOUND THEM IN A CAVE IN THE HUNAN PROVINCE IN CHINA. SEVERAL MINERS WERE KILLED THERE AFTER INHALING THE BAT FECES. SHE RECOGNIZED IT WAS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT MOVED TO HUMANS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH AN ANIMAL HOST FIRST. THE CHINESE SEEMED TO BE LOOKING FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS VIRUS THAT THEY COULD FIND. IN THAT CAVE THEY FOUND OUT. AFTER THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC BEGAN, LI TRIED TO HIDE THAT COVID-19 WAS IDENTICAL TO THIS VIRUS THAT SHE SELECTED IN THE MINE. IN THE RECORDS, SHE RENAMED THE VIRUS THE HIDED SOURCE. AND PETER DASZEK PUBLISHED A PAPER. SOMEHOW AND YOU'LL BE SURPRISED BY THIS, THEY OMITTED THE DEADLY VIRUSES FOUND IN THE HUNAN MINE. FUNNY. WERE THOSE VIRUSES SIGNIFICANT? THE GOVERNMENT OF CHINA THINKS THEY ARE. LAST YEAR JOURNALISTS OF THE BBC TRIED TO VISIT THE MINE TO GET ANSWERS. WHEN THEY GOT THERE, THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY PLAIN CLOTHES POLICE OFFICERS. THEY FOUND THAT THE ROAD TO THE MINE HAD BEEN BLOCKED BY A BROKEN DOWN TRUCK. SO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT COVERED THIS UP. HERE'S THE WORST PART AND THE MOST SHOCKING PART IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN. SOME IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HELPED THEM COVER IT UP. THEY KNEW THIS WAS GOING ON BUT BURIED THE TRUTH, TOO BECAUSE THEIR INTERESTS WERE ALIGNED WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. CHRISTOPHER PARK SAID "NOT TO SAY ANYTHING THAT WOULD POINT TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S OWN ROLE IN GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH." WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT? TURNS OUT HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE 2017 DECISION TO LIFT THE FEDERAL MORATORIUM ON FUNDING GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH. VANITY FAIR OBTAINED A MEMO FROM THE ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S ARMS CONTROL BUREAU. IN THAT MEMO HE WROTE THAT STAFF FROM TWO STATE DEPARTMENT BUREAUS HAD WARNED LEADERS IN HIS OFFICE NOT TO PURSUE THE INVESTIGATION OF COVID-19 BECAUSE IT WOULD OPEN A CAN OF WORMS. THESE ARE AMERICANS WORKING TO HIDE THE TRUTH OF THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19 FROM A COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY COVID-19. YOU CAN'T PREVENT OUTBREAKS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND YET FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS PREVENTED US FROM LEARNING WHERE THIS CAME FROM. ONE OF THE OFFICIALS THAT WANTED TO SMUT DOWN THE PROBE IS CHRIS FORD. A FORMER ADMINISTRATION FIRM WITH DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROBE, DIRECT KNOWLEDGE, TELLS THIS SHOW THAT CHRIS FORD WAS BRIEFED ABOUT THE LAB LEAK INVESTIGATION EARLIER THAN DECEMBER 2020 WHEN FORD CLAIMS HE FIRST HEARD ABOUT IT. WE'RE TOLD THAT FORD WANTED IT SHUT DOWN. HE WAS OVERRULED BY THE SECRETARY STATE, MIKE POMPEO. FORD WAS NOT A PERMANENT BUREAUCRAT. HE WAS A POLITICAL APPOINTEE. HE SPOKE FOR MANY IN THE BUREAUCRACY. MANY OF WHOM WERE TOLD WANTED TO BURY THE PROBE OUT OF POLITICAL ANIMUS. THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE ADMINISTRATION THAT THEY SERVED AND DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE IT POINTS. THEY ACCUSED ANYONE THAT ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE THE VIRUS CAME FROM OF BEING A CONSPIRACY THEORIST. AND IN OUR CONFIRMIST CULTURE THAT IS ENOUGH TO SHUT PEOPLE UP. THEY DID NOT ACT LIKE FEDERAL OFFICIALS THAT WERE SWORN TO PROTECT AMERICAN LIVES. THEY WERE NOT PROTECTING AMERICAN LIVES. THEY WERE PROTECTING THE CONSENSUS AND THAT ENDANGERED AMERICAN LIVES. MSNBC ANCHORS HAVE REGRESSED TO CHILD-LIKE INCOHERENCE. WATCH THIS GIRL DROOP OVER FAUCI LIKE HE'S THE BASSIST IN A GIRL BAND. >> YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE WITH THE DATA. I WAS TRYING TO TELL THE TRUTH ON THE BASIS OF WHAT THE DATA IS AND IT WAS NEVER DELIBERATELY SOMETHING AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. IN FACT, HE SPOKE ABOUT MY E-MAILS. LOOK AT MY E-MAILS. I NEVER SAID ANYTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> THE TRUE MARK OF SOMEONE IS IF THEY LOOK GOOD WHEN THEIR PERSONAL E-MAILS COME OUT. YOU PASSED THE TEST. >> Tucker: I LOVE YOU, TONY FAUCI. STILL TALKING ABOUT TRUMP.

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Length: 11min 45sec (705 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021