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>> dr. fauci, knowing it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded research in wuhan? >> senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. and i want to say that officially. you do not know what you are talking about. if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you. >> i want to take a sec to explain to our viewers what this was about. for those exploring whether covid originated at the wuhan institute of virology or if it was a natural origin, there's questions whether or not nih helped fun gain of function research. one definition is when scientists make a virus more deadly and contagious in a lab in order to identify potential pathogens and prevent pandemics. nih says very clearly that the research the u.s. funded in that lab did not meet that definition. either way, dr. fauci, critics