Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci, Wuhan Gain-of-Function Funding
Senator Rand Paul confronts Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate committee hearing regarding NIH funding for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Paul cites a paper by Dr. Shi Zhengli and comments from molecular biologist Richard Ebright to allege that the NIH funded the creation of chimeric coronaviruses. Fauci denies the allegations, stating the research was judged by qualified staff as not being gain-of-function and asserts that the viruses studied are molecularly impossible to have resulted in SARS-CoV-2.
rand paul· anthony fauci· nih· wuhan institute of virology· gain-of-function· dr. shi· sars-cov-2
00:00 Dr. Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress section 1001 of the US Criminal Code creates a felony and a five-year penalty for lying to Congress on your last trip to our committee on May 11th You stated that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology And yet Gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was funded by the NIH I'd like to ask unanimous consent insert into the record of the Wuhan virology paper entitled Discovery Of A Rich Gene Pool Of Bat SARS Related Coronaviruses Please deliver a copy of the journal article to Dr. Fauci In this paper, Dr. Shi credits the NIH and lists the actual number of the grant that she was given by the NIH
00:55 In this paper, she took two bat coronavirus genes spike genes and combined them with a SARS related backbone to create new viruses that are not found in nature. These lab created viruses were then shown to replicate in humans These experiments combine genetic information from different coronaviruses that infect animals but not humans to create novel artificial viruses able to infect human cells. Viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to gain the function of infecting humans. This research fits the definition of the research that the NIH said was subject to the pause, in 2014-2017 a pause in funding on gain of function but the NIH failed to recognize this defines it away
01:53 And it never came under any scrutiny. Dr Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist from Rutgers described this research in Wuhan as the Wuhan lab used NIH funding to construct novel chimeric SARS related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and laboratory animals This is high-risk research that creates new potential pandemic pathogens potential pandemic pathogens that exist only in the lab, not in nature. This research matches... These are Dr. Ebright's words. This research matches indeed epitomizes the definition of gain-of-function research done entirely in Wuhan for which there was supposed to be a federal pause."
02:42 Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan? Senator Paul I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement This paper that you were referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function. What was... Let me finish. You're saying when you take an animal virus, and you increase its transmissibility to humans? Right. You're saying that's not gain-of-functioning? Yeah, that is correct. And Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly. And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about
03:36 Okay, you get one person. Let's read from the NIH definition of gain of function This is your definition that you guys wrote It says that scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain of function. They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and they increased their transmissibility to humans, how you can say that is not gain of function? It's a dance and you're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility for four million people dying around the world from a pandemic. And let's send Dr Fauci... Well now you getting into something if the point that you are making
04:17 is that the grant that was funded as a subaward from EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-CoV2. That's where you are getting, let me finish... We don't know. Wait a minute I can... It did come from the lab but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those who funded the lab including yourself. This committee will allow the witness to respond. I totally resent the lie that you are now propagating Senator, because if you look at the viruses that were used in the experiments that were given in the annual reports that were published into literature. It is molecularly impossible. No one's saying those it caused it. It is a legend of those virus caused the pandemic what we're alleging is the gain of function research was going on in that lab and NIH funded
05:13 That is not... Get away from it. It meets your definition and you are obfuscating the truth I'm not obfuscating the truth, you're the one. Senator Paul's time has expired but i will allow the witness to finish Let me just finish. I want everyone to understand that if you look at those viruses and that's judged by qualified virologists and evolutionary biologists Those viruses are molecularly impossible to result in SARS-CoV2. No one's saying they are, no one is saying those viruses caused the pandemic. We're saying they are gain of function viruses because they were animal viruses that became more transmissible in human and you funded it. And you... I admit the truth! And you implying... Senator Paul your time has expired and I will allow witnesses who come before this committee to respond. And you are implying
05:58 that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individual. I totally resent that and if anybody is lying here, Senator it is you! From the front lines of The Information War It's Alex Jones. It's Tuesday July 20th year 2021 And I'm your host Alex Jones and we are seeing history take place in front all our eyes We're seeing world government with the express aim of sterilizing and killing us, openly establishing a worldwide medical ID passport system that will finally end with an implantable microchip under the skin in the words of United Nations head operative Klaus Schwab.
