of course, was challenging at the time. so can you put it in context, first on the wuhan labs. what do you think is happening here? well, andrea, i think it s quite clear that there s uncertainty in the intelligence community about the origins of the pandemic. i think as your previous guests said, it may be you know, never that we actually know. it s clear that there is some intelligence available that the department of energy believes tilts the balance in favor of saying that it probably started from the leak from the wuhan laboratory. but i think the jury is still out overall because the chinese have not shared information and will not share information about it. so this basically comes down to a judgment. analysis based on what intelligence might be available. expertise that is lent to this issue and then the individual agencies will make their judgments. but i must say that low confidence is the lowest level of confidence that is used
ever open up, i m doubtful that any of the evidence still exists. i hi it s i think it s been destroyed. but there s a lot that we can do here in america. when republicans win back the congress later this year, of course, our first priority is going to be getting inflation and crime under control, but oversight is an important constitutional authority for congress. one top priority for oversight will be getting answers from francis collins and tony fauci and what their agency was doing to fund very dangerous research inside those wuhan labs. maria: yeah. senator, before you go, all of this questionable response from joe biden leads me to question what will happen this upcoming week when we have truckers planning to do a convoy in the u.s. let me show you their route, because we know that the people s convoy taking a page off the canadian truckers route, will start on the 22nd, this upcoming week, they will start in california. they will truck through ohio, they are going to end on m
senators, is nothing but a bureaucrat who works for those people who democratically elected all 100 senators. attacking him in a partisan way. this is not tony fauci changing or turning over new leaf. this is who he s been from the very beginning. it is a simple fact that he testified to congress by the way, that he did not fund through his agency gain-of-function research in the wuhan labs. making the coronavirus is there more dangerous and more transmissible. yet his agency has since acknowledged they in fact did fund that kind of gain-of-function research. both things can t be true. fauci should be investigative or lying to congress. laura: doesn t he seem more angry at people like you and senator cruz that he is at china? he s far angrier at republicans. i think he thinks you guys are a far bigger threat to world health than president xi and that scientist at the wuhan lab. do you agree? from the beginning tony fauci and they know it all public