According to two sources with direct knowledge, key lawmakers on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were briefed by top intelligence officials on the classified report, which cited new information leading the Energy Department to back the theory with “low confidence.” A U.S. official confirmed a report from the Wall Street Journal saying it was a lab “mishap” and stressed there’s still consensus this was not a Chinese bioweapon.
» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.
Connect with NBC News Online!
NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80
Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621
Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC
Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC
Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC
Get more of NBC News delivered to your inbox: nbcnews.com/newsletters
#China #Covid #Bioweapon
Somebody needs to tell Jimmy Kimball 🤭🤪
I thought this liberal news station along with the Communist News Network raged about this being 100% a right wing conspiracy theory.
Liberal always fall for propaganda from the disinformation spread by the Democratic party. The democratic party needs to be held accountable for once. They enabled China to get away with this. The democratic party is ruining our economy and still giving away money we don’t have overseas. We need trump back because he has a backbone and holds other countries accountable to do their part, such as NATO, etc. The democratic party is controlled by feminist who hate the word of God and worship the devil.
Report made with “low confidence”. Calm down Brent
@Ben And the FBI?
@Casper Malmborg yea they seem more definitive. All I’m pointing out is how none of the news agencies are putting this important context about this report in their headlines, for whatever reason.
Conspriacy theorists laughing at the bat-soup believers now 😂
Can I take my tin foil off now or do you have to put yours on.
Given that the report was made with “low confidence” but all the msm is choosing to leave that out of their headlines, and people are terrible at actually reading beyond headlines, yea you can leave it on.
Ok time to come clean about u.s.a funding it.
Honestly YouTube helped cover this up too. They allowed a bunch of fake Chinese accounts to flag any news about it and helped them squash online discussion. Coincidence?🧐
Report made with “low confidence”
Seems it’s not racist to say so anymore. It sure is hard to keep up.
Of all the cities and towns in China that have wet markets, COVID 19 occurs in the city that has a lab studying coronavirus. What are the odds of that?
Because they put labs in the kinds of places they think or predict the kind of viruses the labs study will come out of lol. They’re not going to put a lab that studies covid in the himmalayas or something.
“What?? A lab a studying a virus was built in the geographic location that scientists expected that type of virus to come out of?? No frickin way.”
@Ben It’s easy to move something to someplace else.
LOL. Trump right again
The report was made with “low confidence” so no, not really.
So in short TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN!!!
The report was made with “low confidence”, so not really.
@Ben Do you honestly think they would even report this if it was ‘low confidence’? Continue living in denial
@Corn Pop that’s literally in the report lol, but if you need to take the parts that fit your bias and dismiss the parts that don’t that’s your choice. Could be that it gets more views if they leave that out of the headlines or it could be that the connections the msm undeniably has with the US military industrial complex is intentionally trying to ramp up public anger towards China. And I’m no fan of the Chinese government, and don’t dismiss the possibility of the lab leak theory, just exercising some critical thinking and media literacy. Again, the report was made with “low confidence”, that’s literally part of the report.
@Ben so the media that ran deflection on the china origin theory for years is now going to reverse their course out of nowhere? We know FOR CERTAIN it originated in China. The Wuhan lab it came from we know FOR CERTAIN specializes in covid research. We also know FOR CERTAIN that this virus has spike proteins derived from HIV DNA. A little deductive reasoning would go a long way here my guy
@Corn Popcan you admit the report was made with low confidence, or do you disagree with what the report says… about what the report says?
Are we in the midst of a biological and chemical attack from China when considering fentanyl? Could the Trojan Horse be a technological attack via TikTok? Seems plausible as of late.
Was it the “US funded military Lab” people were talking about 3 years ago?
As a full blown dem my whole life.. This is crazy. We need to admit we were wrong. People were not racist or xenophobic for simply stating it was a lab leak. I am afraid of retribution just from writing this post.
How are all of these people not on trial facing charges of crimes against humanity?
The department of energy..not the department of health or center of disease control..This country is in zombie mode.
You’re about 3 years late to the party dipsh!ts. Trump was right, again…
gonna be fun to see cnn, fox, msnbc, cbs and all the other news media owned by china try to walk back their comments from days of old
So in United States Intelligence Committees and Energy department act as biologists, aren’t they for defaming cover-up operations?
Let’s dig in and find out which corporations benefit the most from the coronavirus outbreak, truth is not far from where the money is at!!
Just think of all the Scientists and Medical professionals that got “Cancelled” or otherwise had their lives destroyed merely suggesting such a thing … a year ago.
Rand Paul was right. Put Dr. Fauci in jail.
Fauci was personally financially involved in the research taking place. Then he profited off the vaccines. Insanity. Fauci’s daughter worked at twitter during the pandemic by the way.
The msm needs to apologize to Trump and the Republican party..
Remember when you called us all conspiracy theorists and censored our questions – F off NBC, you guys are a little too late to the party
President Trump was right all along. Someday it’ll come out how he was right about election fraud.
Why is the department of ENERGY involved with this? Covid is a virus, not a source of energy. Shouldn’t the department of health and human services be making this announcement? or the CDC?
I remember when the corrupt democrats including Jotato and Fauci said that it did not come from a lab leak. Well, that’s democrats for you.
The US: if you aid Russia, I’ll say you created Covid.
China: even Americans are not that stupid to believe in that bs.
The US: you have no idea, I’ll show you on a YT comment section.
Trump said this and you people cried racism 🙄
Many replies are muted on this board! Still free speech?
And y’all getting vaccines lol
Why was NBC covering this up? 😈😈😈😈
Trump said that the media is the enemy of the people.😠😠😠
Who here took the experimental injections? 🤔🤔🤔
leaked from a lab but did not infect anyone untill it reached fort belvoir, then it travelled all the way back to china just in time for the world military games in wuhan
there are no journalists left at nbc. they are all lemmings. TELL THE WHOLE STORY YOU COWARDS. millions dies because you followed marching orders, covered up fauci’s wuhan involvement, covered up china’s lockdown orders, fanned the flames of racism, empowered antifa, criminalized parents who questioned masking and vaxxing kids – THE MEDIA needs to be held accountable now
You missed the key word “likely” from your title
won’t be long before they admit that vax is poison
Thanks for all the lies NBC. They just keep coming.
What happened? The MSM attacked every single person who said this two years ago. Labeling us terrorists and conspiracy theorists.
Took long enough for you 😂
The UN should hold the Chinese government accountable for all this. So many lives were destroyed.
Covid19 & mRNA vaccines are US Military bioweapons, everyone pretending otherwise, is guilty of Misprision of TREASON.
US is afraid of its own shadow as China 12 points peace proposal get underway.
Russia has seized 300 bioweapon military labs in Ukraine where they found US, the devil was helping Ukraine to develop sars, covid, anthrax, swine virus…..
One of the point China raised is stop using bioweapon and nuke weapons in war.
Cheers devil!!!
Biden lied that’s why being on china’s payroll is dangerous
And that lab had joint funding from the USA
Trump was right again
Boycotte china
There is an Indian movie related to this 😅 movie name :7aum Arivu
10% for the big guy don’t forget. #chinamustpay
Remember when MSNBC called you a MAGA supporter if you mentioned this?
Comments range but most people didn’t say covid came from a lab. Racists were saying it was a Chinese disease by the Chinese people.
Like saying Americans are child killers because of what we’ve done in wars past.
US has been waiting for an opportune time to resurrect the accusation or “theory” again. Now is the time since the Chinese government is revealing a new leadership team under President Xi Jinping in the coming days. US simply wants to steal the thunder from Xi Jinping, knowing that it will be major news viral in the world. This will serve to undermine President Xi leadership as well as to embarrassed him and China. It’s not Covid, but Covert Operation seen from an independent viewpoint.
The far right will not be shutting up about the theory being right. As if an investigation was stopped due to us believing China. Remember that time Trump believed Putin without an investigation in Pootin’s involvement in the election? An investigation was done and they released what happened, that’s how it works. Countries can’t go on blaming others without an investigation. Brings to mind Bush and the Iraq war.
How dare you NBC this is obvious misinformation. We all know this came from a weird bat played by robin williams
Time to bring the world 🌎 together against China 🇨🇳. It was not unintentional it was planned and now the world must plan how we take care of China. I say no mercy, the country should be leveled and destroyed. Sometimes you have to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Trump figured this out just after the the virus was discovered. lol Democrats are slow.
But, but, but, but… “China Virus” is racist! LOL
And all The Lame Stream media like MSNBC and CNN called the president a xenophobe for saying same. Meanwhile MDNBC are the ones who coined the term “Wuhan Virus”. Maybe because so many members of congress and senate are in chinas pocket lead by the Big Guy.
block Chinese from coming to this country ….period
What this proves is that our government, dr. Falsy and the communist media all betrayed America and the world! NEVER again should and will anyone trust them again. We know our government and the democrat party are treasonous and now the scientific community is lumped in with them
Want a better world…stop watching tv
So they just figured out what everyone already knew.
The government propaganda machine MSM was given permission to release the truth on where Covid came from. Now the question is why did they release this now? Is it because a war with China is brewing and now they want Americans to hate China so the war machine will get the support of the American people?
This is about as strong as the department of transportation giving us a financial report. WTF is the department of energy doing saying anything if there is low confidence on a topic that they don’t have control over?
Big government, big pharma, big food and the mainstream media… don’t trust any of them with anything, it’s just lie after lie !
Good thing the MEDICAL experts at the DOE made a conclusion about a MEDICAL issue?
Who made this decision? Is it like Indiana Jones, TOP MEN?
yeesh
Also, it was made with “low confidence”
@Ben like all conspiracy nuts they ignore all evidence that does not support their claims.
It was Seafood market on the southwest side.
So in others words, a government agency decided something was true based on no hard evidence.
When have we heard THAT before?
Oh right. When government agencies determined there was wmd in Iraq.
Again, no evidence.
When will people learn???
I would be ashamed to be associated with the DOE right now.
Someone paid someone off to make this ridiculous claim.
The department of ENERGY?
When do they make decisions about medical related matters?
All those in the Biden Admin need to be removed from their jobs if they suppressed the people that believed Covid 19 was a lab leak from China. Covid killed more than 1 million Americans, more than all the combat dead in American wars, yet these people were protecting China. I am sure my option will be banned by NBC or Google Ytube.
I don’t know why the media keeps blaming China for the COVID outbreak. COVID has been on the planet Earth for more than 700 years. Its origin isn’t China. With the invention of Lysol Disinfectant Spray, the issue of killing the virus has already been addressed by this invention.
Now we’re all hearing China this and China that, which makes me feels like the George Bush days of weapons of mass destruction FARCE. Is the same kind of crap happening right in front of our eyes? All of a sudden the virus is a leak. If they believed that WHY now is it being exposed? Trump KNEW then and praised China in early 2020, that figures. Then there’s the spy balloon, which is concerning but shooting down a bunch of crap all at the same time to creat fear? There’s some serious threats possible with China and Russia and North Korea. Why at this time add fuel to the fire? Do they want a for profit war at the expense of soldiers lives?
Now both leaders are puffing up beating their chests like apes.
Honest to goodness I feel like I’m watching another lie unfold just like GW Bush, actually both those liars. The twins
In 2014 Barack Obama Melinda Gates and Dr Anthony fauci made a trip to Wuhan China to donate money to a lab and Wuhan China for the study of the production of a virus hmm
Duh we knew 🖕🏿China. You people let them come over here and treat them better than African Americans.
Hay NBC didnt Trump say that over 2 years ago? You are all lying crap news.
You mean the CHINA VIRUS CAME FROM CHINA, LIKE THE REAL PRESIDENT SAID ALL ALONG? WHAT A SURPRISE THE REAL PRESIDENT WAS RIGHT AS USUAL!
TRUMP 2024!🇺🇲
WW3
They know and we still bring them here and buy they cheap quality products boycott China goods
Why would China even entertain the notion that the COVID-19 virus originated in a Wuhan lab? China doesn’t even acknowledge that the virus started in CHINA!
The lack of mention from news outlets that this report was made with “low confidence” and the amount of people acting like it’s conclusive proof without actually looking into what the report says is… not surprising.
It’s insufferable to hear NBC report on news we’ve all already known for years… Day late and a dollar short from all you supposable News outlets… Your bias has ruined your credibility..Your terrible work coined the phrase ” fake news” nice accomplishment…
Na you’re not gonna turn around and say this after all these years saying we were crazy conspiracy theorists
“It’s not a bio weapon”
Who said it was?
That’s very suspicious
FAKE NEWS( MAYBE IS WHAT THEY OFFICIALLY STATED) [ REAL TRUE FACTS NOT ALTERNATIVE FICTION LIES ]
Trump said it and they called him racist over it lol
Only the average leftist is “Surprised” by this. 😒 Considering they openly labeled this a “Right-wing conspiracy theory” and social media outlets were banning anyone stating this objective fact.
Repent! Turn away from all your offenses, then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Ezekiel 18:30,31 Believe in Jesus as savior & repent today.
I caught covid a year ago. I now have stage 2 kidney disease. Before that I’ve been healthy my entire life.
Comments section looks just about exactly what I was expecting 😂😂😂.
Yeah NBC we knew it when you covered it up. I’m not sure how anyone ever believed you but unfortunately you the media have the power of influence… maybe next time try influencing with facts instead of what you desire people to believe.
We The People learned that in the beginning of 2020.
How does this situation fall in the same category as Pancake shenanigans?
We all knew this already
How do we know this isn’t actually a cover-up for the actual truth of what really happened? I need definitive evidence… Not this she said he said crap
Yes and our government lets Chinese immigrants come here legally in droves. We hand visas out to Chinese citizens like candy 😂😂😂 gotta love it
entj intj istp estp!!!!!!!!!! eveything is comparametlzinse d.
protct fbi dreictor chirstopehr wray.
Unreal it took this long and so much drama from Facebook fact checking all the people who were saying this was right the whole time. Being harrased amd ridiculed for telling the truth!!!