'The situation is very grave in part because...China was lying from the beginning, and they're still lying today,' the Arkansas senator said.
, Cotton reiterated his assertion that the Chinese government has been"lying from the beginning, and they're still lying today" about the gravity of the virus and perhaps even its origins.
Cotton went on to praise President Donald Trump and his administration for implementing a travel ban on flights from China to contain the virus. "Epidemiologists who are widely respected from China who published a study ... have demonstrated that several of the original cases did not have any contact with that food market," Cotton said."The virus went into that food market before it came out."
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