absolutely incorrect you are. what came out last night on project veritas was a grant that was submitted to darpa, then it distorted and said we funneled the grant. we have funded the grant. we have never seen that grant, and we have never funded that grant. maria: let s get to the bottom of it. that was dr. anthony fauci on tuesday, once again changing the subject to mislead after kansas senator roger marshall asked him about project veritas documents that revealed his agent i city green lit gain of function research in wuhan, china, and at sites across the country in the united states despite the department of defense rejecting the same study over safety concerns of gain of function research. james o keefe is the founder of project veritas, and he says he s committed to exposing corruption at the highest levels of government and media. his new book, american muckraker, hits bookstores on january 25th, and we are happy
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to have him ahead of that release. james, thanks very much for being here. good morning, maria. maria: tell us about those documents that were just referenced in the hearing. what do they tell us? well, ecohealth alliance approached darpa, which is a division of the department of defense, for this funding on the gain of function, and it was rejected on, over safety concerns which was in direct opposition to anthony fauci s testimony. so so we had a source come to us with these documents written by a a marine corps major. joe murphy, is his name. we reached out to that marine corps major for comment, and all of this was mentioned in the hearing. fauci mentioned project veritas by name, but darpa rejected the proposal because it was too risky. they cited safety concerns. so the question remains why did fauci proceed with that gain of function research under niaid when the department of defense
thought it was too risky? paw chi seemed to corroborate the authenticity of the documents in the hearing, but he sort of changed the subject and defrequented. obviously deflected. so there are a lot of questions here, and fauci s in the hot seat after this story came out on monday. maria: so how can he sit there urn oath and say that the documents under oath and say that the documents were distorted? connect the dots for us. well, it could be a deflection because the grant that was presented by cohealth alliance to darpa may not have been identical to the one that fauci proceeded with you should niaidd under niaid, but there s no question these documents are real. the marine corps major gave a statement on the record. this is a former fellow at darpa. so the documents are 100% authentic. people can pull into question the marine corps major who wrote them, but there really is an inconsistency here, and now we ve had members of congress,