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Tom Cole: “Whatever our financial commitment was to the Wuhan…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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A Conversation with Congressman Tom Cole

Published | Video Starts at 39:00

So there's been a lot of damage done here, I think, by the Chinese, quite frankly, and sad to say, I see it spill into domestic politics. I hear a lot of people, Whatever our financial commitment was to the Wuhan Laboratory, and that's serious, we should know what that was. And it was through a third party. We're talking maybe $600,000. correct? You may that that's not a lot of money in the operation of a lab, it sounds like. And that spread over several years. (39:00–39:12)

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