Fauci: Project Veritas "Distorted" The Meaning Of ECOHealth Alliance, DARPA, Gain-of-Function Documents

At Tuesday's Senate Health Committee hearing, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci about "Project Veritas" reporting that EcoHealth Alliance "approached DARPA in March 2018 seeking funding to conduct gain of function research of bat-borne coronaviruses."

According to the documents, NIAID (under the direction of Dr. Fauci) later went ahead with the research in Wuhan, China, and at several sites in the U.S.

Fauci replied: "What came out last night in Project Veritas was a grant that was submitted to DARPA, they distorted it to say we funded...