The interview was hosted by Fox News & starred by FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom was appointed in 2017 by President Donald Trump. Within this sentence, there are three factors that could lead to a bias in how this information was shared and worded.
There has been no definitive answer made for the origin of COVID-19 and its transmission to Humans, although academic theories collected and explained by the National Library of Medicine see here cite that, like SARS-CoV and MERS-Cov, the virus could have been originally hosted in an animal that then transferred it to Humans.
Regarding the theory of COVID-19 being an experiment from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the National Library of Medicine has this to say:
"In general, the storage and handling of biological products in biological laboratories follow strict management measures, and personnel involved in the experiments have also undergone professional training, so it is difficult to cause laboratory infection. If the relevant experiments carried out in the laboratory do not meet the corresponding laboratory safety level, the researchers engaged in irregular operations, and the waste disposal is improper, the risk of laboratory leakage will be increased. Although rare, laboratory accidents do occur, with bat coronaviruses being used in different laboratories around the world. There has indeed been precedent for events leading to sporadic infections and short chains of transmission in past laboratory studies (Senior, 2003). With the exception of Marburg virus, all known laboratory escape viruses are easily identifiable viruses that can infect humans. Those escape events were associated with persistently high titre cultures (Geddes, 2006; Lim et al., 2004; Senior, 2003). There is only one documented instance of epidemic or pandemic resulting from a wide‐ranging vaccine test: the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic in 1977 (Rozo & Gronvall, 2015). Early in the COVID‐19 pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) became the target of widespread criticism of the laboratory origin hypothesis. However, there is no indication that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had studied viruses similar to SARS‐CoV‐2 or artificially modified coronaviruses before the COVID‐19 pandemic (Holmes et al., 2021)."
FBI Director Christopher Wray's statement is both exaggerated and misleading by saying that it is "most likely" a lab leak, with no further explanation as to how they've determined it to be most likely. Furthermore, you hear the Fox anchor word it as: "Director Wray admitting what many Americans already knew about the likely [cover their asses with that] source of COVID-19". Framing this short excerpt to say Wray is "admitting" a truth, in which there is no truthful or reliable statement made in the interview.
Rating: Exaggerated/Misleading
