Fauci tried to debunk the obvious.. because he funded the lab

Former DNI John Ratcliffe says the CDC Director, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence agreed that Covid was most likely created Wuhan lab, but Fauci labeled the lab origin as a 'conspiracy theory' because he funded the lab:

'You had the top diplomat, the top of the intelligence community, the top public health official all telling you with some confidence level that the most likely origin of this was a lab leak'..