underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear
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
lab leak. two things, dana. first very disappointing to me as someone who spent more than 40 years in public service that it was such an orchestrated effort to get around the freedom of information rules and record rules. dr. morens testimony was disheartening for those of us in public service that there was such a concerted effort to get around the freedom of information and more that will come out hopefully in the hearing today. related to origin, i have always said i hear all the time on the news that all the evidence points to spillover. i will argue there is no evidence for spill over. a lot of opinions by people for that. as you commented, the evidence that s mounted over the last three or four years is highly supportive of a laboratory origin for this virus and i happen to believe that the fact that certain people i think took this position, nih in particular, the leadership, to
public had with you were forbidden and censored on social mead and legacy media time and time again. why so many americans became so angry. it was fundamentally unamerican. i make a mistake, i answer to the people of ohio who elected me and to my own conscience. what happened when you and your agency made mistakes? what happened? we all need to be held accountable. sometimes it s as simple as saying we were wrong. you took the position that you presented the science, your words came across so many people as final and as infallible in matters pertaining to the pandemic. but such rigid demands of an ideologically di verse people like americans shattered public trust in american health institutions. because i said so, has never
card and phone would be gone forever, correct? yes, i threw it away. you did not transfer anything from your old phone to the new phone, correct? that s correct. prosecutors have called a state police to the stand this morning looking for evidence at the scene. the prosecution is not that close to resting. still a number of witnesses expected and then the defense will have their chance. bill. bill: we ll follow it all. thank you through your eyes and ears, molly line in massachusetts. thanks. the evidence has mounted over the last three or four years is highly supportive of a laboratory origin for this virus. certain people i think took this position, nih in particular, the leadership, to go after spillover. they thought they were protecting science. i think in reality what they did by not aggressively going after