Exclusive -- CIA Director Ratcliffe: 'Day-One Thing' to Get to Bottom of Chinese 'Origins of COVID,' Wuhan Lab Leak

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : So, really putting the focus on that and continuing that is really going to be something President Trump needs.
52% : "As President Trump deals with President Xi, he needs to be armed with the very best intelligence and to be able to talk about China in a way that if they caused or contributed to the death of a million Americans, the president needs to be armed with that," Ratcliffe said.
44% : Ratcliffe also mentioned to Breitbart News a joint op-ed he wrote with former Deputy Director of National Intelligence Cliff Sims for the Wall Street Journal on exactly this matter in September 2023:More broadly than just confronting China on COVID, Ratcliffe said his role will be arming President Donald Trump with the facts and intelligence he needs about China so that way when he negotiates and communicates with his counterpart in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump has all the information he needs to succeed.
41% : He said Trump wants him to prepare the CIA to truly position the U.S. for the 21st century on this front and catch up with the fact that China -- not Russia -- is the biggest geopolitical threat the United States faces.

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