flowing. it may have been going back and forth, but he clearly was someone who was meaningfully involved in their covid-19 efforts, and i use that word in a very liberal way. but what was curious about him is he also was a political actor, and as you were saying at the end, he began to range far and wide in terms of the trump entourage s activities including being delegated to go out to arizona to work on their efforts to spread the big lie out there and to try to overturn the 2020 election. so the public health of america was in the hands of people like this because he was classified as a volunteer, he didn t have to go through an ethics review and there was not any background check into any of his prior activities. one of the other things that dust seem sort of sticks out going through these documents
what was that all about? we can also show more evidence tonight, released to us by the committee, of not only doctor steven hatfill pushing the idea that hydroxychloroquine was a miracle cure for covid, but that quack advice was being received at the highest levels. the fda warned everyone to stay away from hydroxychloroquine but here is doctor steven hatfill writing to the chief of staff, mark meadows. he says to mark meadows that trump has been grossly missed advised on the proper pandemic response to covid. he says that both doctor anthony fauci and dr. stephen hahn need to be fired immediately. and he offered his advice on what the country and president should do instead, which includes, naturally, drumroll please, the outpatient and prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine with zinc
through, and we re breaking through some of it here for the first time. let me just ask you, based on your role in both committees, if i ve gotten this wrong or misstated any of it as far as you know. believe it or not, everything you said about dr. hatfill is consistent with what we ve been able to learn from different sources, but, of course, we sent him this s&p because we want all the documents that he s got. we re talking about a virologist who was working, he said, ten hours a day, seven days a week on covid-19. he was enthusiastically hawking the hydroxychloroquine cure for covid-19. he was an active vaccine skeptic. he was urging the firing of dr. fauci, and pretty much everything that he said was at least parallel to what president trump ended up saying. and it would be interesting to know which way the influence was
in the end he got $4 million when the justice department settled that lawsuit with him. that s this previous turn in the public eye for steven hatfill, again, totally unrelated to this. it was sort of all-around weird to see this guy turn up in e-mails that the house committee started releasing last week as part of their investigation. frankly, they generated more questions than answers. why was steven hatfill providing the covid response? why was it never announced publicly? what was the extent of his role? what exactly did he advise the white house to do? tonight we have something new to add to that. the house committee that is investigating trump s response to covid has just unearthed new documents during the time of steven hatfill s time in office.
the covid response, in a way that appears to be contradicted by the documents that have turned up already. and so they have therefore sent the subpoena for documents. like i told you, when it rains, it pours. and in this case, with a story, it does feel like it s the beginning of the story. joining us now is congressman jamie raskin, congressman for maryland. he sits on the select subcommittee. he s also a member of the january 6th select committee. you are a busy man, congressman raskin, at the best of times. thanks for being with. us i m delighted to be here, rachel. it s a lot of news to get through. we are breaking some tonight here for the first time. let me ask you, based on your role, have i misstated any of this or gotten any of this wrong? believe it or not, everything you have said about dr. steven hatfill is consistent with what we have been able to learn from different sources. we have sent him this subpoena because we want the documents