boss daughter, you got this data strong enough to united house of the dragon streaming exclusively on macs good morning, everyone. you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm alison chemla radha in for jim acosta today. >> at any moment, the scientist who guided did the government's response to the covid, pandemic faces a grilling on capitol hill. >> dr. anthony fauci will be questioned, again by lawmakers on that response and on the origin of the virus that has now killed nearly 1.2 million americans fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his senior advisers. a subpoena from the republican committee turned up those emails in which dr. david moran's appeared to be trying to avoid public record laws. let's talk about this. we have cnn's lauren fox for us on capitol hill cnn medical analysts, dr. jonathan reiner also joins us. and so to cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell. okay, great to see all of you. lauren hasn't dr. fauci already faced lots of congressional questions. how is today different yeah. >> i mean, he has faced questions from lawmakers during a series of hearings back during the coronavirus pandemic. but this is the first time that lawmakers are going to hear from him since he retired back in 2022. now, they met with him behind closed doors back in january, but this is public testimony in opportunity for them to air some of their grievances with him before an audience and before of course, the american public now democrats are arguing that this is just a rehashing of conspiracy theories. they say that republicans had been trying to put out there for years now, they argue that dr. fauci has done nothing wrong, that he did not lie about the origins of covid, that he was not responsible for the origin genes have covid. in fact, they released a new staff report this morning on capitol hill, laying out a rebuttal of those republican talking points. here was representative jamie raskin earlier this morning this investigation of dr. fauci shows that he is an honorable public servant, committed to the public health, and he is not a comic book supervillain. >> he did not fund research to create the covid-19 pandemic. he did not lie to congress about gain of function research which in wu han, and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign to cover his tracks now you can expect that republicans are also going to be zeroing in on whether or not dr. fauci ever used a personal email address as you alluded to in your intro, there has been questioned it's about whether or not some of his subordinates were trying to skirt public records laws. >> you can expect a republicans are going to be pushing him on those questions, but democrats are arguing that 15 months of investigations about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic could have been better used with yeah we're we're obviously having some audio problems. >> there with lauren, but as you can see, this is live on your 3a1. this is dr. fouchier sitting in front of this subcommittee about to take questions from republicans and democrats, and we just saw the media scrum around him as he entered the subcommittee room, doctor reiner, as you know, sometimes it's hard to separate the political grandstanding from the public health value of hearings like this. but republicans have long tried to make dr. fouchier the villain of anything that went wrong with the covid pandemic. >> but i guess my question is dr. fouchier didn't set the policy he was an advisor. >> why aren't lawmakers asking these questions of president trump or the cdc? i know they're upset about the six-foot social distancing policy, but he was just an advisor. he can't implement policies. so why is he the the fall guy here? >> all right. that's an excellent question. >> well, i think it's long overdue for a whole of government comprehensive 911 commission style review of the us's really catastrophic response to the coronavirus pandemic. the year before the pandemic came to the united states the us was ranked demos prepared country in the world for a pandemic. but despite that, we as you've mentioned at the outset, 1.2 million americans die, wir 5% of the world's population. we are 15% of the covid, mortality. but the problem is covid came to the united states in an election year and now it's an election year. and the most unpopular items for the conservative base, the lockdowns, the school closures the masking, the vaccine development itself vaccine requirements were all promulgated during republican administration. so what they've done essentially is used dr. fauci as a bogey man and try and pin all of the unpopular pieces of at least our first and second year of the covid pandemic on him not on the ruling. republican administration at the time. all right i mean, the trump administration did push back on some things. >> they didn't like. for instance, the first proposal i believe from the cdc was ten feet of social distancing that trump administration rejected that and pushed back. and so we ended up with six, but they could have rejected six if they had wanted to. i mean, all of this you know, it's mega look, it's it's hindsight is 2020. and in the middle of a pandemic, it's hard to know exactly what to do, but these are some of the things that they're going to be asking dr. fauci. now to look in the rearview mirror about, we know that there will be some here's what we expect in terms of the questions origins of covid. the covid era policies like the six feet of distancing as we're saying, and vaccine mandates, travel restrictions. but in terms of what doctor reiner was just talking about, what medical questions where we have answered today. >> well, i think when you say hindsight is 2020, i'm not even sure it's going to be in this instance because everybody i've talked to you in the public health world from both sides of the political spectrum served in both democratic and republican administrations don't expect any significant scientific revelations to come out of today. there is a lot of cynicism about whether either the point of this hearing it's purportedly this subcommittee exists to examine the origins of the pandemic i can to better prepare for potential future threads. but there is potential threat out there right now in terms of h5n1 bird flu, we're not hearing about that at all now, most people say that that threat right now is very low, but you think you have dr. fauci, there would be here any questions about that? and i'm not hearing from anyone that that is expected to be the topic today. we did see a republican staff memo based on the transcripts of the interviews with dr. fouchier behind closed doors back in january 2 straight days of questioning of him, and they did say they're going to focus on covid origins, covid era policies, and things like that. i think specifically we're going to hear a lot of focus on the origins of the pandemic in. grants given to a specific group, ecohealth alliance and any 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judged fairly. those are the big big questions we anticipate that this is gonna go fairly quickly talking to the lawyers of the last couple of days. they thought they could get a jury there today or tomorrow morning and this trial could go on for about a week. so we'll see how quickly that that happens. but right now though first lady, jill biden is inside the courtroom. she's there to support a hunter biden. of course, this is a case that has loomed large for the family from all political standpoint and of course, from a personal standpoint, we know that as part of this case, we're going to have a lot of 100 biden's personal life really put on display, including his struggles with drug addiction or their to be text messages from his infamous laptop that show him talking about using drugs around the time that he bought this firearm in 29 2018? he possessed this gun for 11 days. that's what this case is about, according to prosecutors, hunter biden lied when he when he filled out the form required by the atf in order the passed a background check and by that firearm that the prosecution, of course, is saying that there's proof from some of his x's. we're going to be brought called as witnesses. that he was using drugs during that period. so the odds are very long, 400 biden we expect his defense to center on the idea that jury during the time that he was buying this firearm, he was not exactly on drugs during that day. and so tried to poke some holes in the prosecution's case okay. >> and caitlin, can you explain the dynamic between hunter biden's legal team and the prosecution because we understand there's still tension from that plea deal falling apart last year yeah, there was a lot of tension and this legal team is contesting not just this case, but a second case against hunter biden, that the special counsel's office has also brought in california's federal court on tax charges. >> that isn't going to trial until at least september but this is a case that on the gun issue, it's been hotly contested. >> hunter biden has a very experienced set of trial lawyers representing him that they tried to cut a lot out of the prosecutors case here. there is not going to be any politics. it's going to be brought into the courtroom outside of jury selection and just asking the jurors if they know the box biden's things like that, but as this case progresses forward in court, there are going to be a lot of active lawyers we should expect that just because of what we know about this legal team, abbe lowell is the chief defense lawyer for hunter biden here and this case could turn quite personal quite quickly as evan was discussing. >> oh, yeah, it sounds like it well, we saw the first lady they're entering. do we know how president biden is going to deal with the trial yeah. >> president biden has actually given a comment this morning publicly about this. he hasn't commented on the case itself or his own justice department charging his son in these two federal cases. but what he has said so far is as the president, i don't and won't comment on pending federal cases. but as a dad, i have boundless love for my son, confidence him in him and respect for his strength. our family has been through a lot together and jill and i are going to continue to be there for hunter and our family with our love and support, seeing their jill biden going to court and apparently hugging hunter biden in the courtroom as she entered with her security detail. this morning before the proceedings began, there may be jurors that recognize the first lady in the courtroom, the president is not there, however, allison evan, what do we know about the judge in this case this judge judge maryellen noreika, she's been on the bench since 2018. >> she was nominated in 2017 i appointed by nominated by president trump. but with the support of the two democratic senators from delaware so obviously the politics of this case looms very, very large there's 100 biden's 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