Rand Paul blasts Fauci after latest fireworks in Health Committee hearing
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul sounds off on 'The Story'
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Sen. Rand Paul sparred once again with Dr.
Anthony Fauci in a Senate hearing on Tuesday, with the lawmaker pressing the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on reports he sought to quash "fringe" epidemiologists'
coronavirus mitigation strategies.
The Kentucky Republican also asked Fauci to address accusations that he is at least tangentially culpable in the creation of viruses through gain-of-function research.
Following the hearing,
Paul told Fox News' "
The Story" there is evidence on a probability of "90 to 10" that the COVID-19 virus came from a Wuhan,
China, laboratory and was engineered via gain-of-function research, despite Fauci's denials.
"[Fauci] funded the lab," Paul told host Martha MacCallum. "He tried to obscure the idea that he was giving money to the lab and then he steadfastly, for two years, said it wasn't gain of function, that they weren't taking viruses that don't exist in nature, creating them and creating viruses that are so dangerous that they could actually wipe out a portion of humanity."
"He continues to deny that if this came from the lab -- yes, he's culpable," Paul added. "So when you ask him to investigate it, he's not exactly interested. He has a conflict of interest because it came from the lab."