(3 Jun 2024)
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Washington DC – 3 June 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Chairman, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic:
"Dr. Fauci, whether intentional or not, you became so powerful that any disagreements the public had with you were forbidden and censored on social and most legacy media. Time and time again, this is why so many Americans became so angry, because this was fundamentally un-American. If I make a mistake, I answer to the people of Ohio elected me and to my own conscience. When you and your agency made mistakes, Dr. Fauci, what happened? We all need to be held accountable. Sometimes it’s as simple as saying we were wrong."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Raul Ruiz, Ranking Member, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic:
"And what we have found is the following. Dr. Fauci did not fund research through the EcoHealth Alliance grant that caused the Covid 19 pandemic. Dr. Fauci did not lie about gain and function research in Wuhan, China, and Dr. Fauci did not orchestrate a campaign to suppress the lab leak theory. After 15 months, the Select subcommittee still does not possess a shred of evidence to substantiate these extreme allegations. That Republicans have levied against Dr. Fauci for nearly four years."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Anthony Fauci, Former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
"The accusation being circulated that I influenced these scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous. I had no input into the content of the published paper. The second issue is a false accusation that I tried to cover up the possibility that the virus originated from a lab. In fact, the truth is exactly the opposite."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Anthony Fauci, Former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
"Another issue is that of Dr. David Morens, who has the title of senior advisor to the NIH director and who recently began has been investigated for conduct unbecoming a government official. Naturally, given his title, a connection is made to me with respect to his recent testimony before this subcommittee. I knew nothing of Dr. Morens’ actions regarding Dr. Daszak EcoHealth or his emails."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Anthony Fauci, Former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
"Finally, in a majority staff memorandum of May 22nd, 2024, there is a statement quote, Dr. Fauci may have conducted official business via personal email, unquote. Let me state for the record that to the best of my knowledge, I have never conducted an official business using my personal email."
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STORYLINE:
Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing heated questioning from Republican lawmakers about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The top U.S. infectious disease expert until 2022, Fauci was grilled by the House panel behind closed doors in January.
On Monday, they’re questioning him again, in public and on camera.
The Republican-led subcommittee has spent over a year probing the nation’s response to the pandemic and whether U.S.-funded research in China may have played any role in how it started.
Democrats opened the hearing saying the investigation so far has found no evidence that Fauci did anything wrong.
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