The name of the reporter is Josh Rogin who works for WaPo and CNN.
"I feel that the lab theory has more compelling circumstanial evidence ... there was a huge coverup ... the virus database went mysteriously offline somehow in December 2019 ... Robert Redfield, CDC Director, says I took a look at this virus and concluded that it was so powerful it must have been evolved in a lab setting and he pointed to the gain-of-function research ... and they called him a racist/bigot/conspiracy theorist and all the rest.Now here's the controversial part, the godfather of that industry, the head of that pyramid, is a guy you may have heard of -- Anthony Fauci. The most important person in the gain-of-function research that there is - dispersing grants, turned it back on after Obama turned it off, turned it back on without consulting the White (Hut), the WH put a pause on it and Fauci undid the pause.
A lot of people that I know inside the Obama Administration had no idea that this had been turned back on ... in the midst of the Trump Administration. Fauci worked the system. That's his whole career."
Joe Rogin.