White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Tuesday was forced to explain basic concepts again Fox News Correspondent Peter Doocy.
On Monday, Doocy insisted on conducting foreign policy from the press conference room, strongly suggesting that if President Biden just picked up a phone, China could get huge amounts of data from China on the origins of the novel coronavirus. He also insisted that the US bypass the World Health Organization’s investigation.
“I think you misunderstand how this process actually works,” Psaki Doocy had to say. “First, we need access to the underlying data and information in order to conduct this investigation.”
At the center of his argument is a right-wing theory that the coronavirus was either made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, or that it “escaped” from that laboratory, or, as Doocy claimed today, both.
“Does the President think these theories that we are hearing more about now that COVID-19 was man-made and escaped from a laboratory in China are some crazy conspiracy theory or based on what he hears and teaches?” does he think is possible? ”Asked Doocy.
Psaki put her schoolteacher’s hat back on and responded politely as he explained how the facts are determined.
“Well, we did this trip together yesterday, so let’s do it again,” Psaki replied. “The President believes that there needs to be an independent investigation carried out by the international community. It’s an international pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. He believes the Chinese need to do more to make data more transparent, and in the second phase of that effort, he certainly hopes it will. And he believes that any theory should be examined through this process, but that we should not reach conclusions until this data and information is available. “
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Psaki: Well we did this trip together yesterday so let’s do it all over again pic.twitter.com/jBwSHaF4KL
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