word with lawrence o donnell. speaking of great, i am in no less off of your greatness but it s less of a mystery now that i got to spend time hanging with your mother and father a little over a week ago. you know, listen, anyone with that mother and that dad i just you have such a great launch in life. i did. i had a book event in provincetown. lawrence came with his brothers. it was fantastic and really nice and i did not get to see you at the event at all, but you sat with my family and they are all in love with you. my mom said, how old is lawrence? it is an official secret. my dad instantly knew what she was on about. and it was great. it was very kind of you to come. i was invited backstage to interrupt you and tony as you are preparing to go on stage, but my rule is never interrupt the stars before going on stage. had i known you were lurking, i would ve clung to you. a packed house in provincetown. by the way, andrew weissmann s sister was there and i
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
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
identification of this new virus, safe and highly effective vaccines were widely available and unprecedented accomplishment in the history of vaccincology that saved tens of billions of lives. tens of millions of lives saved by the work of dr. anthony fauci. he read one of his own emails urging at the beginning of the pandemic research on a possible lab leak of the virus. i now quote from an email i sent to a professor on february 1st, 2020. jeremy, i just got off the phone with christian anderson and related his concern about the site mutation in the spike protein of the virus. i told him that as soon as possible he and eddie should get a group of evolutionary biologists together to carefully examine the data to determine if his concerns were
i had no input into the content of public paper. the second was a false accusation i tried to cover up the possibility the virus originated from a lab. in fact, the truth is exactly the opposite. i now quote from an email that i sent to professor ferrar on february 1, 2020. quote, jeremy, i just got off the phone with christian anderson and related to me his concern about the site mutation in the spike protein of the virus. i told him that as soon as possible, he and eddie holmes should get a group of evolutionary biologists together to carefully examine the data to determine if his concerns are validated and they should report it to the appropriate authorities. i would imagine that in the usa, this would be the f.b.i. and in the u.k. it would be mi5.