MaddowBlog: This morning was the sixth time Sen. Paul tried to quarrel with Dr. Fauci. If the senator thinks the exchanges are going well for him, he's mistaken.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was back on Capitol Hill this morning, appearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which meant one inevitable thing: Sen. Rand Paul would pick a fight he'd inevitably lose.Paul grilled Fauci about an NIH funded study that he says qualifies as gain-of-function research, the process of altering a pathogen to make it more transmissible in order to better predict emerging diseases.
Fauci, who oversees several NIH research programs as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, replied,"I have not lied before Congress.... If anyone is lying here senator, it is you."
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