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But the Trump administration itself remains divided over how best to proceed.

Wuhan plans to execute the mass testing effort in just 10 days.

"We knew how it was going to look, and he can sometimes be a bit naive about that."

"There will be plenty of time for after-action review."

"These actors have been observed attempting to identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property."

Graham said he was convinced that had it not been for "deception" by China's ruling Communist Party, the virus would not be in the United States.

"The stakes are too high to sit idly by."

Trump blasts China and says the US needs to re-open

"They knew. China could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide."

"We ought to be looking at reparations from China."

"These are not the first times that we have had the world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab."

The trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the pandemic.

"China will do anything they can to have me lose this race."

"We're doing very serious investigations."

"The United States has called on the People's Republic of China to permanently close its wildlife wet markets and all markets that sell illegal wildlife."

The Trump administration has criticized China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

"They may get it to the market before we do.

"They will probably kick us out of the country."

"We also hope that the economic teams of the two countries can sit together or hold video conferences to assess the changing situation."

"The numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side."