doctors jeremy farrar, peter darshak and ralph baric. joining me now is dr.jays doct bhattacharyaor, professor of medicine at stanford university. dr. b , it's great to see you. now, when covid hit inemic was the pandemic was declared in march, 2020 peter darshak at echo health alliance that goty a lot of the federal money and worked with luján and ralph, barika unsee. do not te they did not tellll the worl thn 2018 about their own grant proposal back in 2018 that was denied when they were goinghan to collaborate back then with the wuhanla lab to insert those furin cleavage sites. i know it's getting wonky here and the glucose dilation sites in these low ris his lowk sars coronaviruses. what do you think that means? why? because they were both foremostr experts on coronaviruses. but we heard nothing. there was definitely a research program to the words gain of function to make coronaviruses more transmissible to humans. t the idea, i think, was to see they hav if they had pandemic potential and develop vaccines and that that that that grant that make a ventio

have >> h have you attempted to get folks like dr.eco- hea peter darshak from the health alliance to appear before your committee? >> what can we expect that?? yes, absolutely.ol utely.he is a key figure in thi. as you know, we're also before we bring him in the committee, we're going to bring in every government employee that had anythingad anyth to do with sending eco health alliance a grant. anyone in washington that hade o anything to do with the knowledge that eco healthir gra alliance was out of compliancent with their grant, that they lied on what their grantald was actually doing, where itoi was being spent, what it was being used for. so every person iner this government that had anythinghinr to do with anything pertaining to the woonona lab is goinge an to be brought in front of thatvx committee and they're goingr acn to have to explain their actions. e re >> well, there arenown other pei who are renowned experts in the coronavirun the s and just t research, global experts like ralph barek at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. he's, he's a brilliant gai research

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