Jackson: If you [Fauci] or your employees, or your organization that you oversaw, were systemically avoiding transparency and illegally hiding or destroying documents that rightfully belong to the American people, then you should be criminally charged, and they should as well. In addition, Dr. Gregory Folkers, your chief of staff, also engaged in illegal practices in which he crafted messages using symbols instead of letters to avoid FOIA exposure.

Jordan: Do you agree that there was a push to downplay the lab leak theory?

Fauci: Not on my part.

Jordan: Really?

Fauci: Really!

Jordan: Wow.

Fauci: Wow.

Jordan: I think most of the country would find that amazing.