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The Fox News Rundown

Extra: Why The Ex-CDC Chief Says Dr. Fauci Is Being "Highly Misleading"

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Will we ever know definitively where COVID came from? The US is still investigating and in a rare instance of bipartisanship, Congress has unanimously approved a bill that would declassify information related to the origins of the COVID-19 virus. During a hearing earlier this month, Republicans took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci for pushing theories that the virus originated "naturally" from animal exposure while accusing him of shutting out voices who questioned that narrative and believed the pandemic began via an accidental lab leak. One of the voices was former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield. Dr. Redfield, who served at the CDC as the pandemic began, joined host Dave Anthony on the Rundown to discuss why he is confident the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, the dangers of gain-of-function research, and why he believes the mystery surrounding COVID's origins can now only be solved by America's intel community. Dr. Redfield also weighed in on his ongoing dispute with Dr. Fauci, and why he thinks the Former NIAID Director is being 'untruthful' about the investigation into how and when the virus spread. Due to time limitations, we could not include all of the discussion in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire interview with former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield and hear even more about the COVID virus, how it began, and how the current fight against it is going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today, the still simmering debate about where COVID actually came from in China may never

0:18.0

actually be fully known.

0:20.5

There is a growing consensus that it leaked out of that lab in Wuhan, China back in 2019,

0:26.6

something that many Republicans in Congress believe.

0:29.8

So does the former director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Robert Redfield.

0:34.2

We talked to him the other day, after he had testified at a house hearing about why he

0:38.4

believes COVID leaked out of that lab.

0:40.6

Now we also talked to the doctor who was leading the CDC when the pandemic was declared in

0:45.6

2020, about attempts to tamp down that lab leak theory as disinformation around that time.

0:52.8

The math involves another key Trump advisor who also later became a Biden advisor on COVID

0:59.0

Dr. Anthony Fauci.

1:00.6

You'll even hear Dr. Redfield react to what Dr. Fauci said about his testimony.

1:06.4

So as you can imagine, the conversation was too long to fit entirely into our rundown

1:11.6

segment on Friday.

1:13.3

Today we play all of it for you, and as always, thank you for listening and invite you

1:18.5

to come back every day.

1:20.5

And now Dr. Robert Redfield on the Fox News rundown, extra.

1:29.0

Joining us again on the Fox News rundown is Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of

1:33.4

the Centers for Disease Control, back when the pandemic first hit and was declared in

1:38.8

the Trump administration.

1:40.2

Dr. Redfield, thank you for being back with us.

1:42.8

Hey, thanks for having me there.

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