Marco Rubio: “Anytime you hear that there's some disease that infected someone in a lab anywhere in the world, you're going…”

“… now might be the accidental release of an intentionally modified strain at the plague that was altered by Russia? What is your level of concern? Well, look, first of all, Anytime you hear that there's some disease that infected someone in a lab anywhere in the world, you're going to be concerned about it. especially given recent events not so long ago, obviously, in 2021. So in 2020, when we saw that happen, that said, it would be irresponsible for me here to sit and speculate because we just don't have all the information yet.” (22:43–22:49)

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