'If anybody is lying here senator, it is you,' Fauci tells Sen. Paul in heated exchange at Senate

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White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul traded barbs in a heated exchange at a Senate hearing Tuesday over whether the National Institutes of Health funded controversial research Paul claims could have contributed to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Paul grilled Fauci about an NIH funded study that he says qualifies as gain-of-function research, the process of altering a pathogen to make it more transmissible in order to better predict emerging diseases. Fauci previously denied in previous Senate testimony that the NIH has directly funded the research at a lab in Wuhan, China that has come under intense scrutiny as a possible source of the virus.

Paul asked Fauci if he would like to retract that statement from the May 11 testimony, "Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress."

Fauci, who oversees several NIH research programs as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he wouldn't retract his previous statement. "I have not lied before Congress. I have never lied. Certainly not before Congress. Case closed," Fauci said.

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Fauci: Paul doesn't know what he's talking about 'and I want to say that officially'

Anthony Fauci clashed with Sen. Rand Paul (R) on Tuesday, accusing the senator of lying about the role the National Institutes of Health (NIH) played in funding controversial research in Wuhan, China.

During a Senate Health Committee hearing about the federal COVID response, Paul said the NIH funded illegal gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which created a highly dangerous and transmissible virus able to infect humans.

It's an accusation Paul has made before, and one Fauci has denied. But on Tuesday, Paul implied Fauci had previously lied to Congress, and that he was fully aware of what the Wuhan lab was doing with grant money that came from NIH.

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Paul cited an academic paper that purportedly shows the lab was conducting illegal research to create "potential pandemic pathogens that exist only in the lab, not in nature," a claim Fauci angrily denied.

"Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, and I want to say that officially," Fauci said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-paul-doesnt-know-what-hes-talking-about-and-i-want-to-say-that-officially/ar-AAMmJwL

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!!!

[MiHale]

2. KnR

[underpants]

3. Douchenozzle over Rand's right shoulder didn't keep his CSPAN face going

I just wanted to say that officially

[mshasta]

4. Magnificent!!

[Champp]

5. Republican ignorance and duplicity is EPIC

They're not just stupid, they are mean stupid.

[nykym]

6. But it is OK for

a congress critter to lie to the public.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. "Senator @RandPaul , you do not know what you are talking about, and I want to say that officially

I love Dr. Fauci

Link to tweet

[Jim__]

8. Here's a link to a 5 minute video of this exchange.

Paul does everything with-in his power to keep Dr Fauci from speaking: here - there's a short ad at the beginning of the video.

[ConstanceCee]

9. Who Was Chairing This Hearing?

Why did they let Rand Paul constantly interrupt?

And good for Fauci.

[spudspud]

14. Think it was Patty Murray.

And she doesn't do a good job of keeping the Trumplicans in line at all.

[Butterflylady]

10. Feeling sorry for his neighbor yet?

Yeah, me too.

[twodogsbarking]

11. I've never hade a fight with a neighbor but

I never had Rand Paul for a neighbor.

[rickyhall]

12. One scientist, one idiot. Who you wanna believe? No contest. Science wins every time.

Go away Little Paul.

[3catwoman3]

13. Rand Paul is such a slimy, oily, self-important...

…little shit.

I’ll bet that felt good to Dr. Fauci to call him out. I certainly enjoyed watching him do it.