Valuetainment - February 08, 2026


“This Is ABSOLUTELY China” - Vegas Biolab LINKED To CCP In National Security Threat


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13 minutes

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2,457

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207

Misogynist Sentences

2

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Chinese linked lab discovered in Las Vegas home sparks federal investigation with SWAT response. 8 News Now s David Charnes breaks the latest details on the lab and the possible link to the Chinese government. We also hear from the mayor of Las Vegas and the police chief of the city where the lab was found.

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00:00:23.980 Chinese linked biolab discovered in Las Vegas. Adam will go 50 times if we don't stop him.
00:00:29.720 This is something that's important.
00:00:31.180 Chinese linked biolab discovered in Las Vegas home sparks federal investigation with SWAT response.
00:00:37.960 Rob, if you have a clip on this, go for it.
00:00:40.140 Our 8 News Now investigators breaking yet more news about that biolab that was raided over the weekend.
00:00:45.880 Documents we obtained reveal several people got sick from it.
00:00:49.900 8 News Now investigator David Charnes breaking that story.
00:00:52.640 And David, what are you learning about it tonight?
00:00:54.020 Well, these new documents say several people became sick from that suspected lab inside a house that police and the FBI are labeling as an Airbnb or a short-term rental.
00:01:04.600 Metro's showing this video of the inside of that lab inside that Northeast Valley's home garage.
00:01:10.100 We've learned a person tipped off the FBI in early January that that garage was locked and that there were fridges running inside.
00:01:17.360 A person telling those investigators that it smelled like a hospital with a, quote, foul, stale, stagnant air smell.
00:01:25.920 Now documents say several days after entering that garage, two people became, quote, deathly ill.
00:01:31.800 They said they couldn't get out of bed.
00:01:33.920 And several other people had gotten sick there before.
00:01:36.700 Also learning items from this lab were moved from a different location here in the valley,
00:01:41.220 possibly from several years ago when that location failed to get a state license.
00:01:45.580 Now, as we first reported over the weekend, this lab is connected to a lab the feds actually raided three years ago in 2023.
00:01:54.460 That location there in Reedley, California, outside Fresno.
00:01:58.460 Inside, officials found similar equipment and pathogens like HIV and malaria.
00:02:03.760 Court documents in that case mention Las Vegas and possible warehouses here.
00:02:08.340 And today, I asked the city manager for that community about her reaction to this latest lab.
00:02:14.220 What was your reaction when you saw over the weekend that all these same people were involved in yet another potential biolab, but this time in Las Vegas?
00:02:23.960 I will say that I was not surprised.
00:02:27.320 You can pause it right there.
00:02:28.800 Vinny, thoughts?
00:02:29.800 So, Congressman, this is a question that's going to come to you after I talk about it.
00:02:33.860 I don't know how this isn't one of the biggest stories.
00:02:37.300 Me and you talked about this yesterday.
00:02:39.000 So we just found this out.
00:02:40.540 In June, the DOJ arrested two Chinese nationals in Detroit for smuggling fungus that was going to be an agricultural terrorist weapon.
00:02:48.120 During the Biden administration, China bought land, congressmen, all over the United States, including next to military bases.
00:02:54.080 They flew spy balloons at will.
00:02:56.140 Nobody stopped them.
00:02:56.900 Nobody said anything.
00:02:57.900 Gavin Newsom rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping.
00:03:00.600 All the homeless people disappeared.
00:03:02.600 Maybe they should have him visit more often.
00:03:04.320 It'll save the taxpayers billions.
00:03:06.220 And then China, let's go back.
00:03:07.840 Right, Tom?
00:03:08.440 Xi Jinping's here.
00:03:09.240 Clean up the homeless people.
00:03:10.740 China, in my opinion, my, Vincent O'Shawn's opinion, unleashed COVID on the world.
00:03:16.320 Never been held accountable.
00:03:18.000 And anyone that even opened their mouth and said China virus, we're all considered racist.
00:03:23.020 So my simple is, my question is very simple, congressmen.
00:03:26.500 At what point are we going to start treating China like the enemy that they are instead of saying that they're the adversary and continue to put Americans at risk?
00:03:33.640 God, this is one lab that we found.
00:03:35.920 Who knows what else is here?
00:03:37.080 Because the border was wide open.
00:03:38.540 How many, the amount of Chinese nationals that crossed over were absolutely insane.
00:03:42.080 I'm just curious to what your, what your take is on that.
00:03:44.120 Well, I mean, first of all, based on this, I need to go home and clean up my garage fridge.
00:03:48.420 I mean, there's some stuff in there that's old that definitely is a biohazard.
00:03:52.180 So the guy, by the way, there's a guy, the guy in jail for the first lab.
00:03:56.660 This is also his lab.
00:03:58.060 This is his.
00:03:58.760 He's connected to this lab.
00:03:59.340 And he's, he, and we got him the first time.
00:04:01.620 This is China.
00:04:03.080 Yes.
00:04:03.320 This is directly linked to the CCP.
00:04:06.660 Yeah.
00:04:06.840 To have this stuff here just in case.
00:04:10.860 Okay.
00:04:11.400 There's just no doubt about it.
00:04:12.780 First of all, remember I did the COVID response for the entire state of Florida.
00:04:15.480 I didn't see my family for four months.
00:04:17.740 I was quarantined with my whole team in the EOC.
00:04:21.320 We lost a lot of doctors, a lot of nurses in those hospitals.
00:04:23.860 I was doing, you know, all sorts of PPE, testing, vaccines, the whole deal.
00:04:28.380 That virus came out of a lab.
00:04:30.260 There's no doubt about it.
00:04:31.300 The idea that it's like, okay, there's this lab that is called the coronavirus Wuhan lab,
00:04:37.300 but it didn't come out of there.
00:04:38.340 It came out right across the street from the wet market.
00:04:42.780 I mean, come on.
00:04:43.760 So it came out of the lab.
00:04:44.820 Now, whether it was an accidental leak, okay, or it was an intentional leak, that I don't know.
00:04:48.980 Whether China allowed it to leave so that everyone got it, not just them.
00:04:53.360 I mean, they let people leave China.
00:04:55.140 Of course.
00:04:55.520 They didn't lock down.
00:04:56.040 They could have done that.
00:04:57.200 This is absolutely China.
00:04:58.940 China is our number one foe.
00:05:02.660 Yes.
00:05:03.080 We have to also understand and deal with the fact that they are a major economic force, okay?
00:05:08.340 They're not like anybody else.
00:05:10.020 We can't deal with them from a military point.
00:05:13.220 It's a totally different.
00:05:14.160 We're totally encumbered with them.
00:05:16.160 We offshored a lot of our stuff to China so we could have cheaper goods here.
00:05:21.080 And so we are intricately linked.
00:05:23.260 We have made them a rich nation.
00:05:24.960 We have done that.
00:05:25.720 Becoming a consumer nation and making them a manufacturing nation.
00:05:30.180 But this is absolutely China.
00:05:31.480 There's no doubt about it.
00:05:31.800 So, Congressman, my question is then how do we address – I get exactly what you're saying.
00:05:36.160 That's where I was going to talk a little bit earlier.
00:05:38.260 But how do you address this?
00:05:39.840 Yeah, we need each other for business.
00:05:41.140 But you are trying to destroy – like, if this guy was another COVID congressman, we're finished again.
00:05:47.340 You've got to weaken them.
00:05:48.240 You've got to weaken them economically.
00:05:50.200 And so what you have to do, which is why I wasn't a fan of the tariff situation.
00:05:54.520 What I was a fan of was trying to onshore jobs back to America, right?
00:05:59.660 Get some of these factories.
00:06:00.960 Get some of these corporations.
00:06:01.900 Between the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the Trump administration, we spent $8 trillion in these COVID rescue packages.
00:06:10.420 You know how much money we put in there to onshore jobs back from China?
00:06:13.760 Zero.
00:06:14.740 That was our opportunity to do it.
00:06:16.660 You know, the Chips and Science Act, some of that is the same thing, trying to onshore some of the stuff out of Taiwan back to America.
00:06:23.760 We've got to get manufacturing back here.
00:06:25.880 First of all, God forbid we got into a world war.
00:06:28.640 We don't make shit here.
00:06:30.320 Okay, nothing.
00:06:30.900 I saw that during COVID.
00:06:32.420 We had to convert factories to make masks and ventilators.
00:06:36.280 It took 10 weeks to do that.
00:06:38.100 Nobody could figure it out, and we had to put so much money into it.
00:06:42.140 China has so much control over everything that's made.
00:06:45.160 Like 90% of medical ingredients come out of China.
00:06:48.240 By the way, it comes out of Wuhan, out of all places.
00:06:49.500 Weird.
00:06:50.320 Okay, we have to get some of these jobs back.
00:06:52.720 That means prices are going to go up here.
00:06:54.980 And now with the tariffs, I just don't know that we have the ability to do that.
00:06:57.760 So when you said we need to weaken them economically, I feel like the reason that they unleashed COVID was because Trump was trying to weaken them and put the tariffs and do the trade deals with them.
00:07:07.520 I think that was their response was, okay, we're going to destroy him.
00:07:11.180 He's not going to become president.
00:07:12.760 COVID.
00:07:13.440 Boom.
00:07:13.880 So now what do we do?
00:07:14.600 We haven't even mentioned the critical mineral issue.
00:07:16.800 Right?
00:07:17.220 Like I was one of 10 Democrats that voted for the bill just yesterday.
00:07:20.380 I'm getting a lot of crap for it because it had to do with mining.
00:07:22.780 But for me, it's all about critical minerals.
00:07:25.660 People don't realize it because, to your point, it's not a top story, right?
00:07:29.140 We're not educating the voter.
00:07:31.420 China controls 80% of the world's critical minerals.
00:07:35.080 Putting aside that we need those things for cell phones and chips, all of our military weapons, all of them need these critical minerals.
00:07:42.620 And they control 80% of not just where these mines are, but the processing.
00:07:48.220 That's the key.
00:07:49.100 The processing.
00:07:50.540 We got to get control of some of these mines.
00:07:53.500 We're going to have to mine here to find some of these critical minerals.
00:07:56.260 We're going to have to mine other places.
00:07:57.420 That's why I never understood this idea of, oh, America first means we're going to retract from the world.
00:08:02.660 You retract from the world, China takes the world.
00:08:05.820 They take the whole world when we retract from the world.
00:08:08.760 We can't do that.
00:08:09.640 That is not America first.
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00:08:15.340 Bitcoin is sort of inevitable at this point.
00:08:17.740 I think it would come down to precious metals.
00:08:20.520 I hope we don't go cashless.
00:08:22.720 I would say land is a safe investment.
00:08:25.220 Technology, companies, solar energy.
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00:08:55.620 Tom.
00:08:56.780 So this is exactly why you're seeing Trump.
00:09:02.120 Minerals was on the table on the first, second, and third offers for Ukraine.
00:09:08.680 It was mineral mining so that they could be processed.
00:09:12.700 Minerals in Greenland was part of the discussion.
00:09:16.980 And there's a variety of things that are going on in the U.S., alternative means of getting lithium,
00:09:23.840 like getting lithium out of seawater, although just like desalination, it costs a fortune to do that
00:09:28.680 unless you use fifth-generation small nukes and would actually decide you're going to permit those
00:09:33.620 because they create a lot of electricity where you could run desalination,
00:09:36.780 just like they do in Saudi Arabia, by the way.
00:09:38.960 That's why parts of Saudi Arabia are getting so green, because they desalinate a lot,
00:09:42.900 and they've got the power to do it.
00:09:44.720 And so what Trump has been on a run on this, what's it, USA Mineral or USA, the company that was created.
00:09:53.340 So you're absolutely correct, and he is trying to reduce that dependence.
00:09:58.180 You know, rare earth minerals and magnets will bring the defense industry to its knees,
00:10:04.780 particularly magnets, if they suddenly stop.
00:10:07.360 But the president has been looking at, you know, national security in terms of two things.
00:10:12.580 Defense and economic security is national security.
00:10:16.420 And that is what you're seeing.
00:10:18.460 The president's progress has been made on rare earths, and he should keep driving it.
00:10:22.960 So, Adam.
00:10:24.700 Yeah, this story should scare the hell out of you.
00:10:28.080 So China releases in a wet market next to across from the Wuhan lab, the COVID in 2020,
00:10:37.360 basically getting their entire country sick and turn their entire world.
00:10:40.600 They said to themselves, why do it in our own country this time?
00:10:44.460 Let's go do it in Wuhan, Las Vegas.
00:10:46.540 So I'm reading this story, and I'm like, what in the Wuhan lab breaking bad Anthony Fauci world is going on here in Las Vegas?
00:10:54.960 Imagine if they let a virus out right now in Trump's second term, trying to derail Trump's second term for the second time.
00:11:03.560 So, like, this is very scary.
00:11:05.320 Here's a little marketing idea for anyone that wants to get some eyeballs on probably the most important story of our lifetime,
00:11:12.500 which is China trying to take over the world.
00:11:14.820 The guy that owned the house was Jia Bezhu, but the property manager was a 55-year-old named Ori Solomon.
00:11:24.980 Just say that Ori Solomon has ties to the Mossad, and he met Xinjing Zhu in Epstein Island.
00:11:33.420 I knew it!
00:11:33.800 And everybody will focus on this thing moving forward.
00:11:38.300 Oh, Chinese people in Las Vegas with a lab leak.
00:11:41.980 No big deal.
00:11:42.680 But he was on Epstein Island once.
00:11:45.000 Whoa!
00:11:45.720 Get that Chinese.
00:11:46.320 Allergy authorities.
00:11:47.520 Because attention flows where energy flows.
00:11:50.340 Tension flows where energy goes.
00:11:51.860 Unless you take the attention off of Epstein and put it on really things that are changing the world,
00:11:56.500 like Chinese lab leaks in America, nobody's going to pay attention to this.
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