White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul traded barbs in a heated exchange at a Senate hearing Tuesday over whether the National Institutes of Health funded controversial research Paul claims could have contributed to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Paul grilled Fauci about an NIH funded study that he says qualifies as gain of function research, the process of altering a pathogen to make it more transmissible in order to better predict emerging diseases. Fauci denied in previous Senate testimony that the NIH has directly funded the research at a lab in Wuhan, China, that has come under intense scrutiny as a possible source of the virus.
In the May hearing, Paul pressed Fauci on NIH funding for gain of function research at the Wuhan lab. In his testimony at that hearing, Fauci replied that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Fauci, who oversees several NIH research programs as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he wouldn’t retract his previous statement from the May hearing. “I have not lied before Congress. I have never lied. Certainly not before Congress. Case closed,” Fauci said.
“You are implying that what we did resulted in the deaths of individuals,” Fauci responded as he pointed his finger at Paul. “I totally resent that, and if anyone is lying here, senator, it is you.”
Me thinks Senator Paul should stick with what he knows. He has no shame.
3:16 And why is that? Paul has a medical degree and Fauci lied about funding to the Wuhan Lab.
So please enlighten me as to why Paul “should stick with what he knows”.
Bless your heart. You really should try using that brain God gave you. Me thinks you’re a sheep?
He knows the highest paid turd in US government is full of shit and should had retired twenty five years ago.
It is in the record that Fauci lied. Look it up and educate yourself for a change.
Me thinks you stupid
Me thinks you are just a turd stirrer or just brain dead.. are you the scarecrow from the wizard of oz
Oh? Are you suggesting Hogan isn’t a brain surgeon?
Fauci is a Democrat MARXIST operative. He used US tax dollars to fund this man made virus for human race destruction.
DR Rand Paul Senator is more informed and truthful than Fauci the Democrat Marxist operative who can not tell the truth since he alters his false claims every week.
Mask don’t work then they do stop the virus flue shots help prevent covid infections then it doesn’t you have to keep a distance of 4ft then 6ft then 10ft apart must I go on? You need the one shot now you need 2 shots now you need 6 month booster
These vaccines are experimental drugs and not FDA approved. You have the right to refuse to be a Guinea pig. Government cannot force US citizens to take experimental / illegal drugs.
Fauci does not know the side effects and how dangerous they are. Fauci will not tell us these drugs create severe effects to your mind or severe consequences with heart complications.
Other DOCTORS have stated on national news networks that the vaccines do not prevent the virus but possibly keep the symptoms from being so severe.
Fauci should be in prison with no tax dollar pension or benefits
GOTCHA !!!! Fauci going to Prison for Treason !!!!!!
His 15 minutes of fame are up and his career light is out. I predict that he will be relieved of his position, his medical license stripped, and some sort of severe fine will be leveled and he will fade out to obscurity.