The criminal code creates a felony and a five-year penalty for lying to congress on your last trip to our committee on 11th you stated that the has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the institute of virology and yet gain of function research was done entirely in like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record the virology paper entitled discovery of a rich gene pool of bat related coronaviruses please deliver a copy of the journal article number of the grant that she was given 00:54 by the in this paper she took 00:58 two bat coronavirus genes 01:01 spike genes 01:02 and combined them with a related 01:04 backbone to create new viruses that are 01:07 not found in nature 01:09 these lab created viruses within to 01:11 shown to replicate in humans 01:14 these experiments combine genetic 01:16 information from different coronaviruses 01:18 that infect animals but not humans to create novel 01:22 artificial viruses able to infect human 01:25 cells viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the lab to gain the function of infecting 01:34 humans 01:36 this research fits the definition of the 01:39 research that the said was subject to the pause in 2014 to 2017 a pause in 01:46 funding on gain of function 01:48 but the failed to recognize this 01:52 defines in a way it never came under 01:55 any scrutiny e bright a molecular 01:58 biologist from described this 02:00 research as construct novel chimeric coronaviruses able to infect human cells 02:12 and laboratory animals this is high risk 02:15 research that creates new 02:17 potential pandemic pathogens 02:20 potential pandemic pathogens that exist 02:22 only in the lab not in nature 02:26 this research matches these are words this research matches indeed epitomizes the definition of gain of function research done entirely in for which there was supposed to be a 02:40 federal pause knowing that it is a crime to 02:44 lie to congress do you wish to retract 02:47 your statement of 11 where you 02:49 claimed that never funded gain 02:51 of function research in microphone your microphone senator have never lied before the congress and do not retract 03:06 that statement 03:08 this paper that you were referring to 03:11 was judged by qualified staff up and 03:14 down the chain 03:15 as not 03:16 being gain a function 03:19 what was let me finish take an animal to humans right you're saying that's not 03:25 gain of function talking about quite frankly and i 03:31 want to say that officially you do not 03:34 know what you are talking about 03:37 okay you get one person let's read from the function this is your definition that 03:43 you guys wrote it says that scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain 03:52 of function they took animal viruses 03:55 that only occur in animals and they 03:57 increase their transmissibility to 03:59 humans how you can say that is not gain 04:01 a function it is not it's a dance and 04:03 you're dancing around this because 04:05 you're trying to obscure responsibility 04:07 for four million people dying around the 04:09 world from a pandemic and let's well now you're 04:14 getting into something if the point that 04:16 you are making is that the 04:18 the grant that's where you are getting let 04:28 me finish we don't know 04:30 wait a minute came to the lab but all 04:32 the evidence is pointing that it came 04:34 from the lab and there will be 04:35 responsibility for those who funded the 04:37 lab including yourself i totally this community will totally the lie that you are 04:45 now propagating senator 04:47 because if you look at the viruses 04:51 that were used in the experiments 04:54 that were given in the annual reports 04:57 that were published in the literature it 05:00 is molecularly impossible no one's saying that it is positive it is caused the pandemic what 05:08 we're alleging is that gain of function 05:10 research was going on in that lab and funded it that is away from it meets your definition you are obfuscating the truth am not obfuscating the truth you are the one expired but will allow the witness to 05:22 let me just finish want everyone to 05:24 understand that if you look at those 05:26 viruses and that's judged by qualified 05:30 virologists and evolutionary biologists 05:33 those viruses are molecularly impossible 05:39 pause the pandemic 05:41 we're saying they are gain of function viruses because there were animal 05:44 viruses that became more transmissible your time has expired and will allow 05:53 witnesses who come before this committee 05:55 to respond you are implying 05:58 that what we did 06:00 28 trillion dollars in debt 06:04 whose fault is it republicans democrats 06:08 the answer is on both fronts 06:11 both parties are responsible for the 06:13 debt 06:14 now one side is honest about it one side 06:16 will tell you they don't give a fig 06:18 about be damned we're 06:21 for a new monetary theory spend as much as you've got borrow as much as you can somehow we're going to combat the influence of china by borrowing more 06:31 money from it doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense that's where we have before us a bill that will simply add to the debt we will go further in debt
You must be logged in to post a comment.