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.
Testified and answered the chairman s question that you never had any communication with the intelligence community throughout all of covid? did i understand that correctly. no, you heard wrong. i said i did have communication. i was briefed by the intelligence community multiple times during the covid issue. gentleman s time is expired. i recognize the ranking member of the full committee mr. raskin for five minutes of questions. first, dr. fauci, thank you for your testimony. your service to the american people. was there anything you wanted to clear up in that last exchange that where were interrupted? no, i think i made it clear that we re talking about my knowing about a lack of compliance. that became clear, congressman raskin, well after the fact. it isn t as if they were not complying and i was not monitoring their non-compliance. i didn t know about it until it was a done deal. you ve been a scientist and
yes, i have. well, dr. fauci, i want to join my colleague from florida in apologizing to you that some of our colleagues in the united states house of representatives seem to want to drag your name through the mud. they are treating you, dr. fauci, like a convicted felon. actually i probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felons. they treat them with love and admiration. some blindly worship them. anything else you want to say to the american people about your service to america during the course of the covid-19 pandemic? my main job during the covid pandemic was to play a role with my team at the vaccine research center to develop a safe and effective vaccine and we did that in an unprecedented short period of time never seen before in the anals. as we all know, that vaccine and
No. did you ever encourage dr. morens to use his private email address for official business? no. my next question, sir, is on february 1, 2020, you, yourself, dr. fauci, the nih director collins and at least 11 other scientists were on a conference call to discuss the origins of covid. a number of the scientists said they were concerned that covid was the result of a lab leak at the wuhan institute of virology and were concerned that a revelation of the lab leak theory who hurt their relationship with china. cdc director redfield testified he wasn t invited on the call because he believed the lab leak theory was possible. three days later on february 4th, 2020, four participants on the conference call authored a paper proximal origin sent to you for editing.