After telling ABC's "This Week" that "there is a significant amount of evidence that this [virus] came from that laboratory in Wuhan," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seemed to contradict his own words:
ABC later released the transcript. Following is an excerpt, taken from The Guardian:
RADDATZ: Your Office of the [Director of National Intelligence] says the consensus, the scientific consensus [is that the virus] was not man-made or genetically modified.
POMPEO: That’s right. I agree with that. Yeah. I’ve seen their analysis. I’ve seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly. I have no reason to doubt that that is accurate...
(CROSSTALK)
RADDATZ: OK, so just to be clear, you do not think it was man-made or genetically modified?
POMPEO: I’ve seen what the intelligence community has said. I have no reason to believe that they’ve got it wrong.