Cotton: China likely destroyed COVID-19 evidence and disappeared knowledgeable witnesses
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Senator Tom Cotton speaks with Joe Lonsdale about whether investigators will ever definitively uncover the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan.
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“I suspect most of the evidence has been destroyed in Wuhan and anyone in China who knew about it has probably been disappeared.”
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