i mean that s an astounding thing to consider. mailing congressman jamie raskin sits on the committee for the coronavirus and the selected committee that is investigating the january 6th attack, a lot of news from both of those committees tonight. thank you for your diligence as a member of congress putting it all the extracurricular activities that can be done as a member of congress right now, thank you for your time tonight for being with. us and thank you rachel. appreciate it, we ve got much more to get to tonight, busy night, stay with us. h us to help keep the gum seal tight. new parodontax active gum repair toothpaste. on ancestry i discovered more about my great-great-grandfather baptiste caretto. ancestry threads all of the little facts together into a narrative so you get to feel like you re walking the same path they did. together into a narrative so you get to feel like hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business,
entourage and activities. this included being delegated to go out to arizona to work on their efforts to spread the big lie out there. and try to overturn the 2020 election. so the public health of america was in the hands of people like this, because he was classified as a volunteer, rather than actually put on staff. he did not have to go through ethics review. and that means there was no conflict of interest check into any of his private activities. one of the other things that does stick out, going through these documents today, is that while he appears to have downplayed to the committee his role in the coronavirus response, he certainly played it up in his correspondence too many of the people he was emailing with. talking and bragging about how influential he was, how much time he was spending. that this had become a more than full-time job. as you mention, while he was classified as, formally, a
he has. we are talking about a virologist who was working, he said, ten hours a day, seven days a week, on covid-19. he was enthusiastically talking about the hydroxychloroquine cure for covid-19. he s an active vaccine skeptic. he was urging the firing of doctor fauci and pretty much everything he said was, at least parallel to what president trump ended up saying. it would be interesting to know which way the influence was flowing, back and forth. but he was clearly someone who was meaningfully involved in their covid-19 efforts. and i use that word in a very liberal way. but what is curious about him is that he was also a political actor, and as you are saying, at the end, he began to range far and wide, in trump s
down some of those very weird cul-de-sacs. just last week that committee turned up something new, or i should say someone new, someone who was not advised on the coronavirus response. his name is dr. steven hatfield. he s a virologist. in 2020 he started working with the white house trade representative, peter navarro, as an advisor on the pandemic response. which is why, as the congressional investigation was continuing their course of looking into the u.s. government response in the first year of covid, dr. steven hat field s name started popping up all over the place, even though he had not been publicly declared to be involved in the response. you could see in this guy s correspondence that the committee has dug up so far that his involvement with the white house tracks with some of those otherwise inexplicable bizarre
peter navarro on a study that had not come out yet, a study that dr. hatfill would prove once and for all that hydroxychloroquine would prove survival for covid patients. look how he ends his e-mail, quote, if fauci and steven hahn of the fda had done their jobs, 30,000 less people would have died. they have blood on their hands. what he means there is 30,000 americans died because dr. fauci and dr. hahn did not respond to the virus. if it was a legitimate national security crisis, in 2021, five people were killed after letters were sent containing anthrax powder. they named steven hatfill as a person of interest in the anthrax attacks. he was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, he was never charged with any crime, he was in fact exonerated. steven hatfill sued the doj for those personal attacks.