Tom Cotton weighs in on whether Biden will sign bill to declassify intelligence on pandemic origins

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said during an interview over the weekend that he expects President Joe Biden to sign legislation that was unanimously passed by Congress to declassify U.S. intelligence on the origins of the COVID pandemic.

“I do think he’ll sign it,” Cotton told Maria Bartiomo during a Sunday interview on Fox News. “I suspect they’re trying to get their ducks in a row on what they will and will not release.”

“But what I can tell you is the observations I made on your show now three years ago, and ever since then, have been based not really on any kind of classified intelligence, but just common sense and the facts in front of our faces,” he continued. “I think any farmer or trucker in Arkansas with an ounce of common sense will tell you this virus almost certainly came from those labs, and a large majority of Americans now believe that as well.”

“The Biden administration simply doesn’t want to align itself with that view, they want to continue to stress…