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John Ratcliffe: “With the original SARS virus and with the original, with the…”

Featuring: John Ratcliffe, Republican | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | National

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Published | Video Starts at 02:49

And I think over time, Dana, what you're going to find is that the entire intelligence community will reach that assessment because our intelligence very clearly supports that assessment. But if the Department of Energy is saying this, would they not know? With the original SARS virus and with the original, with the MERS virus. Those intermediary hosts were found within a matter of months. We're now three and a half years from the origins of COVID 19. And no intermediary host, nothing tying this to the natural world has been found, which is why … (02:49–02:58)

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Asserts that intermediary hosts for SARS and MERS were identified within months, unlike COVID-19.

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