Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. James Comer

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Joining us now are two Republicans who were at that hearing. Tennessee congressman and former Army medic, Mark green; and Kentucky Congressman James Comer.

All right. Congressman Green, Congressman McCaul says he received new testimony, revealing the Chinese Military potentially took over the Wuhan lab in 2019. How much longer can the Democrats ignore this?

REP. MARK GREEN (R-TN): Well, thanks for having us on the show. And I can't believe that they're still pushing the narrative, avoiding the discussion, actually, that this potentially came from the Wuhan lab. When you look at the evidence that was presented today, as a physician it really resonated with me, particularly the discussions on genomic sequencing and the infamous [ph] codons that were kept out of the sequencing at the beginning.

This came from a lab. It could not have come from the market, and our Democrat colleagues don't want to talk about it. They just simply want to excuse China, because it's politically beneficial to them.

PIRRO: Well, let me ask you. Is - I mean there are - the whole world was affected, almost 4 million people were killed, died as a result of this worldwide. 600,000 in this country. Are other countries concerned about this, or are we the only ones trying to find out what's going on? I can't imagine that's the case. Either of you can answer that.

GREEN: Go ahead, John.

REP. JAMES COMER (R-KY): Well, (inaudible) obviously, I think that every country is concerned about it. But China has such a grip on many countries and a lot of countries because they don't want to be fall into the trap that they would have to agree with President Trump are trying to do things behind the scenes. And I think that that's a big part of the problem, the world leaders, many of whom didn't like Trump because he stood up to whom he wanted him to pay their bill to the United Nations and other World Health Organization top entities. And I think that they realize now that President Trump was right.

We had four expert witnesses here. Every witness testified to the fact that there's overwhelming evidence that it started in the lab. And that the theory that it was started from animals just by nature is not possible.

PIRRO: I want you to listen to Admiral Giroir today who revealed something I had not heard before. Listen.

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GIROIR: When this pandemic first emerged in China and began spreading around the world, the only eligible nation that did not have a member on the WHO executive board was the United States. That is because after I was nominated for the executive board by President Trump in November 2018, my nomination was repeatedly blocked by Senator Schumer and his Democrat colleagues, and I was not confirmed. And thus the U.S. did not have this ability at the executive board level until May of 2020.

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PIRRO: Congressman Green, we have given $3.5 billion to the WHO. And that's a very interesting twist. Why wasn't this publicized earlier that Schumer and the Democrats kept our person off the board of the WHO?

GREEN: Well, I can't really tell you why it hasn't been in the press. But I know we've known about it. And I will say this, the World Health Organization is complicit, at least they're complicit. And we know they held out certain information about, for example, we can trace back the two - because COVID actually mutates like clockwork, we know exactly who the first people were who got infected.

And three of the four never went to a wet lab. And the World Health Organization kept that out of their initial publications on the virus. They intentionally misled the world. And we've spent all this money. Trump was right to pull out of the World Health Organization. And it's really a shame that Joe Biden jumped back in.

PIRRO: Well, not surprising, given his connections to China. And here's what former State Department official David Asher said during the hearing about China's bio weapons program.

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DAVID ASHER, SENIOR FELLOW, HUDSON INSTITUTE: Were they deliberately working on developing the capability to use advanced pathogenetic capabilities of war in a way that no one's seen ever employed? Yes, they were. Of course, they are. That's what the Chinese have been talking about publicly.

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PIRRO: Congressman Comer, is the idea that COVID was some sort of biological weapon being seriously considered?

COMER: It is about Republicans. And that's something that we've been questioning for many months now. And the Democrats again refused to hold any hearings. This hearing today was put on by Republicans. We're really not supposed to host hearings, because we're in the minority. We've been calling on the Democrats to hold a hearing on the origination of COVID for months now, and they refuse to do anything, so we took the matters into our own hands. And I think we had the most productive hearing, all Congress.

The evidence is overwhelming. China knew about this. It's almost overwhelmingly certainty that this originated in the lab in Wuhan. The WHO complied with China, they covered up. The Democrats did nothing to try to have American representation on the WHO. And I think that the American people need to know this. I hope that this will force the Democrats to hold hearings like we forced Kamala Harris to go to the border, and hopefully we can find some answers and hold China accountable.

PIRRO: Yes. But the border and the real border. Anyway, Congressmen, thank you so much to both of you.

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