angle. laura: when donald trump s lawyer paid off a porn star before the 2016 election. democrats were quick to inary trump himself had the intent to falsify records. they didn t care that hush money payments aren t illegal or that the president didn t himself order invoices to be labeled as legal expenses, which i still contend is entirely reasonable by the way. but, in their small minds, trump was guilty before the jury was even impaneled. laura: how different their approach is demagogy anthony fauci. although he has with every charged with a crime he too had a senior adviser who found himself in major hot water recently. emails revealed he deleted records and even used back channels to help dr. fauci keep evidence secret. but when the good doctor is asked about this specifically on the efforts to evade foia requests and protect this guy named peter daszak how may remember we know he received federal grants for his work with the wuhan lab. fauci was all denials. i nev
That he was the wrong man at the wrong time to help formulate a common sense plan to deal with the wuhan flu and that s the angle. joining me now is brad wenstrup subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. i object turnerrest and. let s start with you. what do you think the most important fact that you have uncovered in all of your investigations? i think that the numerous facts that we have uncovered have led to the very notion that dr. fauci as director of the ninid take into what happened when it comes to the grant process, nefarious behavior within his agency. the lack of control that exists within his agency it s us everything. more so i would say the messaging was absolutely horrible and so was bedside
Possibilities inherent in natural viruses circulating in bats in china. mark: would it be responsibility of a government agency to make sure that a lab that is getting ultimately federal dollars for this sort of research has the security and safety measures that it ought to have apparently state department didn t think it did? i think that s a very interesting question and probably we can t answer it quite yet. i mean, if suppose there was a virus escaped from a lab in the u.s. a lab that was funded by ninid i don t think we would immediately say unid are responsible for thane look to direction of the lab and say was he following all applicable safety rules? or say precaution so i think the responsibility lies first and foremost with the lab director and then if you wish to go one step back, in this case, you
Possibilities inherent in natural viruses circulating in bats in china. mark: would it be responsibility of a government agency to make sure that a lab that is getting ultimately federal dollars for this sort of research has the security and safety measures that it ought to have apparently state department didn t think it did? i think that s a very interesting question and probably we can t answer it quite yet. i mean, if suppose there was a virus escaped from a lab in the u.s. a lab that was funded by ninid i don t think we would immediately say unid are responsible for thane look to direction of the lab and say was he following all applicable safety rules? or say precaution so i think the responsibility lies first and foremost with the lab director and then if you wish to go one step back, in this case, you