hill he s facing a grilling from republican about the origins of covid-19. also today for the first time in history, the son of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. jury hey, selection now underway in hunter biden s federal gun case and history is being made. mexico elected its first female president claudia sheinbaum. we ll have a live report. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening. now up, i m capitol hill republican lawmakers are turning up the heat on the man who led the us government s response to the covid pandemic dr. anthony fauci faces more questions on that response and the origins of the virus that killed nearly 1.2 million americans. dr. fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his top advisers a subpoena from the republican-led committee turned up emails were dr. david borons appears appears to be trying to avoid public record laws cnn s lauren foxes up on capitol hill for us,
public servant, committed the public health and he is not a comic book supervillain. he did not fund research to create the covid-19 pen denmark. he did not lie to congress about gain of function research and wu han, and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign to cover his tracks and the questioning is just beginning in this hearing, but already you re seeing from democrats that they are saying getting dr. fouchier for his service during the pandemic, for his long tenure at nih. they are also laying out the importance of the vaccine that he helped shepherd through the process it says over the course of the pandemic saying that it s saved lives. that is something else. so you can expect republicans are going to be pressing on in the days and hours ahead. or excuse me wolff, sorry, lawrence them by i want to get back to you, but i want to bring in meg right now. meg, what are the medical topics likely to be covered in today s hearing well well, i