Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Michael McCaul
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Anyway, here to explain, ranking Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul.
You said it was a likely the worst scandal in history. You read these emails. I find them pretty damning. What are your thoughts?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX): Well, we do know that the uh the bat lady, Dr. Shi, was working with Dr. Peter Daszak, and they were working on gain of function research which means genetically modifying, manipulating viruses to make them stronger, more deadly, more contagious.
They took the bat specimens out of the lab -- the caves a thousand miles away brought them to the lab, and then tried to create like a super SARS virus to create a vaccine.
Peter Daszak is the guy who wrote "The Lancet" report that tried to rebut all the conspiracy lab theories and he was actually working with the CCP directly. They asked him to write this report. He got 24 virologists to weigh in on this and suddenly, Dr. Fauci believes in everybody else.
And the entire scientific community falls for this great hoax that Dr. Peter Daszak perpetrated on the world.
And to make it worse, Sean, as you mentioned, you know, we have NIH funding going into this dangerous manipulating research at the Wuhan lab itself, we cannot allow this to happen again.
HANNITY: And they knew at the Wuhan virology lab that they were involved in coronavirus research and gain of function research. And these emails that Dr. Fauci, we now see show us that he knew on January 31st, 2020, but then in public, he denied it, didn't he?
MCCAUL: Yes, and you know, there were public papers between Peter Daszak and the -- Dr. Shi, the bat lady, they're publicly discussing gain of function research and genetic manipulation to sort of breed a monster out of a laboratory. I can't imagine Dr. Fauci would not know about that when he approved the NIH grant.
So I think, you know, look, I think -- I think we need to have a serious investigation, call these people before the Congress and it should be bipartisan, Sean. But unfortunately, the Democrats don't seem to be very interested in this.
HANNITY: Great work, Congressman McCaul. Thank you.
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