During a Senate hearing, Sen Rand Paul Paul seemed to suggest that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress in previous testimony in which he said that the NIAID had “never funded gain-of-function research in China.”
“I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,” Fauci responded to Paul. “The research you are referencing there was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function.”
Fauci added: “You do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially.”