Jake Sullivan admitted that in the last press conference; without the cluster bombs, Ukraine would be finished.
Ruiz [COVID hearing]: There is currently no consensus on how this virus came to be. Whether it came from a lab or from nature, is still unknown.
Raskin: Some people think that the finding that it all started with a lab leak would somehow absolve Donald Trump of his lethally reckless response to the pandemic.
Marjorie Greene: It's unfortunate that you all [Anderson, Gerry] are speaking the same pro-China talking points as some of our colleagues on the committee.
Jackson: [A lot of people think that what's going on] is that Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Francis Collin, realized that they had been implicated in the production, or in the creation of this virus, and they were doing everything they could, including getting both of you [Gerrry, Anderson] to come on board as tools or vehicles to undermine that theory.
Dingell is having a fit in her defense of the 'scientists' who insist COVID could not have come from a lab.
Dingell: The suggestion that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins were engaged in some sort of intricate coverup, to suppress the lab leak theory and bribe researchers, is reckless, irresponsible, and grossly inaccurate!
Garry has been nervously fiddling with that binder for much of the hearing.
Ruiz: Rather than following the facts of their own investigation, my republican colleagues have only doubled down on their unproven conspiratorial accusations, using this select subcommittee's far-reaching platform to vilify our nation's scientists and public health experts, in the name of repairing trust after they have manufactured distrust…the fact is the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remain unknown.
Ruiz, and the other democrats in the hearing, have only served to implicate themselves through their vehement insistence of a natural origin for COVID.
Chairman Wenstrup: When Dr. Collins sends an email to Dr. Fauci on April 15th, saying, 'Do more to squash the lab leak", which essentially is halting scientific debate, and Dr. Fauci goes out on the White House lawn the next day, quoting 'Proximal Origins', saying this came from nature, as if definitive, I want to know why.