i m not obfuscating the truth. you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals, i totally resent that. and it could have been. if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you. brian: answer the question. did you fund gain of function research in the wuhan lab? here to react former white house coronavirus task force testing czar admiral brett giroir. admiral, what should we know about that exchange. it was a concerning exchange and i do believe probably dr. fauci was hiding behind a technical definitions of what the nih might consider, quote, gain of function research. what they did fund was exactly what rand paul said. they funded researchers to go in the hundreds of miles away into the back of bat caves, extract dangerous viruses from bats that have never been seen by humans before, and bring them to a city of 10 million people in the wuhan lab. next, they chopped up those viruses and created new
i thought it was very interesting that you and your colleagues raised the fact of the activity around the wuhan lab back in october 2019. and this was something that tom cotton raised with us a long time ago, the fact that there was no cell phone activity, no cars, nothing around the wuhan virology lab in october 2019. they pretty much shut it down. let s just recognize where we are. we re not talking about bat caves in the suburbs. right. maria: wuhan is a major city in china larger than new york city. no activity for several weeks in october 2019. around the lab. right. so page 12 of the report lays out the concerns about thing activities happening at wuhan and then the occurrences at the lab right before the virus breaks out and goes worldwide, both the lack of activity and reports of individuals becoming sick. this really shows, i think, a grave concern of both the
report. tell me what strikes you most. i thought it was very interesting that you and your colleagues raised the fact of the activity around the wuhan lab back in october 2019 and this is something that tom cotton raised with us a long time ago the fact that there was no cell phone activity, no cars, nothing around the wuhan virology lab in october 2019. they pretty much shut it down. let s just recognize where we are. we re not talking about bat caves in the suburbs. wuhan is a major city in china, larger than new york city. no activity for several weeks in october 2019 around the lab. right. so if you go to page 12 of the report it lays out the concerns about the activities thatut are happening in wuhan and the occurrences at the lab right before the virus breaks out and guess worldwide, both for lack of activity and reports of individuals becoming sick. this really shows i think a grave concern of both the activitieses that were there,
permission of china. and there is no power under international law to make that happen. we can t send in human forces. there will be no invasion of the blue hats to make this happen. we need to do this through diplomacy. it s not clear that the kind of investigation that secretary pompeo was doing would have led us to that. the u.s. has actually given some funding to that lab for the study of coronaviruses in bats. fauci today defended that. these chinese bat caves have long been a focus point in virus research. why are they so critical? what makes them so critical? yeah. so coronaviruses are common in bats. there was research going on at this particular lab into coronaviruses. that s appropriate. we have had multiple epidemics and pandemics in the past involving coronaviruses.
aren t in cord today, yesterday they met face-to-face and phalanxes, of course. i don t know if it was in bat caves or what. there s still no settlement. the judge has told everyone to try to continue to settle and they ll be back in court. there s a whole lot of rumors floating around out there. the talks have been going on all summer. even before roger goodell ruled on tom brady s appeal, the brady camp was saying, hey, we ll take some sort of punishment, maybe, as a middle ground for failure to cooperate, the whole destroying the cell phone or not being entirely forthcoming with the information. the nfl has said, no way, you