COVID Lab Leak Theory Hearing Analysis

Thank you, Chairman.

For two years, myself and the

other Republicans on this subcommittee connected the dots.

We exposed the evidence supporting our strong belief

that COVID was developed and leaked from the Wuhan lab.

And during those same two years,

the same Democrats that sit on this committee,

they only hindered, they obstructed,

they refused to hold hearings and get to the truth.

Now we see mounting evidence supporting the

COVID-19 originated from the lab in Wuhan, China,

run by the Communist Chinese. party,

and this hearing is about getting to the truth.

I thank the chairman for making this the very first hearing

because the American people who have seen just as

many fellow Americans die from COVID,

as nearly as many die from COVID

that died in every war since the American revolution combined

deserve to know the truth.

Dr. Redfield, you pointed to the lab leak theory

even before we did.

In mid January of 2020, you expressed concerns to

Dr. Fauci, to... Jeremy Farrar of UK's Welcome Trust

and to Dr. Tedros of World Health Organization

that quote we had to take the lab leak hypothesis

With extreme seriousness,

and you urged dr. Fauci to investigate

both the lab and the natural hypotheses

shortly thereafter on February 1st

Farrar convened a meeting of a group of 11 top scientists

across five time zones and

asked dr. Fauci to join and he wrote quote

my preference is to keep this group really tight

Obviously ask everyone to treat in total confidence unquote

Dr. Redfield, you were excluded from this call,

but up until then,

you had been on every single –

you were included in every other conversation.

What changed?

Why do you think that you were excluded from these conversations?

Thank you very much.

I think, just to emphasize,

in early to mid-January, I did have multiple calls with Fauci,

Farrar, and Tedros

about how important I thought it was that

science get engaged in aggressively pursuing both hypotheses.

I also expressed, as a clinical virologist…

that I felt it was not scientifically plausible

that this virus went from a bat to humans

and became one of the most infectious viruses

that we have for humans.

All viruses are not the same.

So when you look at coronaviruses for SARS and MERS, for example,

when they entered the human species, which they did via an intermediate,

they never learned how to go human to human.

Even to this day,

they don't know how to go human to human.

So, you can't equate Ebola with a coronavirus.

Now, why do you think you were excluded from those calls?

Because it was told to me that they wanted a single narrative

and that I obviously had a different point of view.

Okay.

And emails following the conference call for the 11 scientists told

Fauci that they all found the genetic sequence inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory,

basically what you're saying.

However, just three days later, these four scientists

had drafted a paper arguing the exact opposite.

And that's now the infamous proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Our investigations show this paper was prompted by Dr. Fauci among others

with a goal to disprove the lab leak theory

What is the likelihood that these scientists came across additional information

just three days after making these statements to conclude with such?

Certainty that kovat 19 came from nature instead of the lab leak

that they thought it was three days earlier

Yeah, I think it's unfortunate again.

I've said this before that this whole approach that was taken on January

February 1st and subsequently in the month of February

If you really want to be truthful, it's antithetical to science.

Thank you.

Science has debate and they squashed any debate.

Thank you.

Given what we know now and looking at all the conversations

in February of 2020 and before the release of the paper,

do you think that Dr. Fauci used this paper

to hide the gain of function research created,

the gain of function research created this virus?

I can't talk about Fauci's motivation.

Do you think that the paper does hide the truth?

I think it's an inaccurate paper

that basically was part of a narrative that they were creating.

Remember, this pandemic did not start in January at the seafood market.

We now know there was infections all the way back into September.

This was a narrative that was decided

that they were going to say this came from the wet market,

and they were going to do everything they could to support it,

to negate any discussion about the possibility that this came from a laboratory.

I've got 20 seconds left.

Dr. Fauci was affirmatively told in an email

that NIAID had a monetary relationship with the Wuhan virus.

Institute through EcoHealth Alliance.

He was told this in January 27th of 2020.

Do you think that Dr. Fauci intentionally lied

under oath to Senator Paul when

he vehemently denied NIH's funding of gain-of-function research?

I think there's no doubt that NIH was funding gain-of-function research.

Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain-of-function research

that created this virus?

I think it did, not only from NIH,

but from the State Department, USAID, and from DOD.

I'm out of time.

Thank you very much.