those vaccines have resulted in saving of hundreds of thousands of lives in the united states and millions of lives throughout the world. well, you have fought aids and h.i.v. and fought covid-19 and you are fearless in doing so. do you have any reason to be afraid of scientific evidence or data or the truth? not at all. thank you, i yield back to you, mr. chairman. now recognize mr. griffith from virginia for five minutes of questioning. thank you, mr. chairman. good to see you, dr. fauci. take a deep breath because my questions change sometimes based on things that happen in the hearing. i want you to follow the bouncing ball with me. and there is no gotcha at the end of this. i m trying to figure this out. you told dr. ruiz in his questioning that it was absolutely impossible for any of the viruses that you all were funding, i get that, it was
labs ornate you are my pub con colleagues and friends are trying to pin blame on hin, naiad and dr. fauci for the covid-19 pandemic. let s bring everything in. i want to have a discussion about animal testing, too, but i m really not sure how that comes into here. so i want to be perfectly clear, though, that the select subcommittee has seen no evidence of this. however, allegations by my republican colleagues amplified in the media have led to real tangible consequences for dr. fauci in his personal life in a way that should be unacceptable to all americans. dr. fauci, you and i have known each other for a long time and i m not going to admit how long. during that time i have seen
organization. the one you that americans of lost their trust because of misinformation like this? when you talk about misinformation, i think that you have to be careful. it s not this information. it was information that ultimately proved when you put the rationalization and that it was not an effective role. 6-foot beaded distancing. dr. fauci, let s move on. on april 21st, the email that there is no wary about i can neither on his private gmail and hand it to him at work or house. he is too smart to let colleague send him stuff that could cause trouble. do you realize the impact considers today? this is your lead trusted researcher who works with you, your advisor? do you realize the impact of that? it was a terrible thing. it was wrong. it was inappropriate.
and that really goes across the board because you are dealing with something that needs to be modified because it is a moving target. zika was a moving target. covid was a moving target. thank you very much. i want to thank the democratic staff for your minority report and if it s not already submitted for the record i would like to ask unanimous condition sent to offer into the record the democratic staff report just completed. republicans fauci flops led committees 15 month probe fails to find evidence of extreme claims linking dr. fauci to covid-19 s origin. thanks the staff. an outstanding report folks should read. thank you, mr. chairman. many of the us are the committee are disturbed by revelation toes this committee there were officials at nih that deleted government records, deleted
if this committee wants to do something let s talk about the infamous research study where 400 black men in this country were injected deliberately with syphilis and allowed to die slowly over a 40-year period without any attempt to help them at all. it was condoned by the u.s. public health service and if we want to talk about testing, let s talk about that as well. i want to talk about covid right now. mr. chairman, i have the floor. i want to say to you, mr. chairman. ask you to suspend, please. i want the remind the audience of decorum. recognize the congressman. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you and ranking member ruiz for this opportunity. dr. fauci, we owe you an apology