EXCLUSIVE: Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn, Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton are calling on Dr. Anthony Fauci to resign, saying he has “lost the confidence of the American people” amid controversy surrounding the origins of COVID-19 —and if he won’t step down, the Republican senators are urging President Biden to fire him.
This week, White House Coronavirus Task Force Director Jeffrey Zients defended Fauci against attacks, crediting him with helping to"invent and invest" in the mRNA of vaccine platform"over the last two decades so that we would be ready in case the worse should happen.
"Can you imagine any circumstance where President Biden would ever fire him?" Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked. In one email National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins sent Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , a link to athat gave credence to the theory coronavirus could have originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology with the subject line"conspiracy gains momentum." Fauci's response is entirely redacted.
"I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Daszak said in an email. Fauci replied:"Many thanks for your kind note."
A source familiar told Fox News that the administration is not ruling out scientifically credible hypotheses but is focusing its attention on the scenarios mentioned in the president’s statement Wednesday.
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