regarding the grant termination. does that violate policy? it was inappropriate for him to go doing that for a grantee as a conflict of interest, among other things. on march 29, 2021, dr. morens edited a letter that dr. das yak was sending to nih. does that violate policy? yes. he provided him with advice regarding how to mislead nih on eco health s late progress report. does that violate policy? it was wrong and inappropriate and violated policy. on december 7th, 2021, dr. morens wrote to the chair of eco health s board of directors to quote put in a word, end quote, for the doctor. does that violate policy? should not have done that. that was wrong. it violates policy. i m not sure of a specific policy. i imagine it does. he should not have been doing that. in addition to all those actions dr. morens wrote to the doctor peter from tony s recent comments to me they are trying to protect you, end quote. did you ever talk to dr. morens about dr. daczak and e
actions dr. morens wrote to the doctor peter from tony s recent comments to me they are trying to protect you, end quote. did you ever talk to dr. morens about dr. daczak and eco health alliance. we knew he was a grantee. i may have mentioned and discussed him because he is a grantee but i never spoke about protecting him. he just made that up? you are testifying that dr. morens just made that up. i don t know where he got that but it is not true. by this point, dr. fauci, when these emails were written, you should have known that dr. daszak was two years later on a required progress report for his grant. he conducted an experiment that resulted in a novel virus showing excess growth.
he failed to report that experiment, that he was protecting the wuhan lab and not sharing its lab notebooks and that he failed to disclose obvious conflicts of interest. so why were you trying to protect him and eco health alliance? i repeat on the record i have not tried to protect him and that s number one. number two, you said something that is not true. because i did not know about the compliance issues until well after the fact when i was being briefed for going to before a congressional committee. so it wasn t as if these things were going on i knew that he was withholding. did you know about dr. morens close relationship with dr. daczak. he made it clear he was his friend. i did not engage in the interaction between them. and just lastly, you