Morning Joe 5/12/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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House Republicans are planning a vote on Wednesday to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from the No. 3 position in caucus leadership after she vocally rebuked Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?
0:06.9	Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute.
0:24.3	Government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function.
0:27.6	I don't favor gain of function research in China.
0:30.6	You are saying things that are not correct.
0:34.1	You're fooling with Mother Nature here.
0:35.9	You're allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality. It's very dangerous. I think it was a huge mistake to share this with China. And it's a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the United States. And we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from. I fully agree that you should investigate where the virus came from.
0:57.0	But again, we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
1:04.8	No matter how many times, you're parsing words.
1:06.6	You say it.
1:07.5	There was research.
1:10.3	It's like ripped from the pages of QAnon.
1:13.7	I mean, it really.
1:15.0	I don't know why he does.
1:16.2	It's really strange.
1:17.3	It's more than strange.
1:18.9	It's disturbing.
1:20.0	It's part of a bigger picture.
1:21.2	Dr. Anthony Fauci pushing back on Senator Rand Paul's allegation that the National
1:26.7	Institutes of Health had been funding the Chinese lab in Wuhan.
1:31.4	Really, we've been watching this now for six months. It's really strange to the guy that has a doctor at the front of his name.
1:38.5	For some reason, it seems to go further out there than anybody else.
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