both hypothesis including the lab leak they ended up hurting the credibility of science. dana: the debate over the origins of covid and credibility of our health officials leading the charge comes back today. dr. fauci is about to testify before a house panel on his response to the virus in his first public testimony in nearly two years. remarkable. it has been two years. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. i thought dr. redfield was very interesting last hour. i m bill hemmer. the pandemic may be officially over but the world may never fully recover from the damage it posed. a lot of questions finally getting more pointed. republicans on that committee are digging into the lab in wuhan china and whether a key fauci advisor was looking to evade laws, a cover-up. dana: the founder of public vcc. you follow it closely. i want to play some sound from democratic lawmakers questioning the conduct of dr. morens last week. what
it saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. i will now use my remaining time to directly address certain issues that have been seriously distorted concerning me. the first issue concerns my actions regarding the possibility that sars covid two might have resulted from a lab leak. on january 31, 2020, i was informed through phone calls with jeremyfer area, the director of the welcome trust in the u.k. and christian anderson a highly regarded scientists at scripps research institute that they and eddie holmes, a world class virologist from australia were concerned the again alm i can sequence of sars suggested the virus could have been manipulated in a lab. i participated in the conference call with a dozen international virologists to discuss this possibility versus a spillover from an animal reservoir.