WATCH: Jim Jordan demands answers from Fauci on COVID origin

Heather Hunter

March 05, 04:41 PM March 05, 04:41 PM

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Sunday that he wants to know why Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease official who became the face of America's COVID-19 pandemic response, was "so consumed" with countering the narrative surrounding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both the Energy Department and the FBI recently revealed that new intelligence prompted the federal agencies to conclude that a laboratory leak in China "most likely" caused the Coronavirus pandemic. Despite labeling the conclusions “low confidence,” it was the first revelation from any federal agency giving credibility to the virus originating from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China.

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"The fundamental question is, why was Dr. Fauci so consumed with making sure the narrative wasn't about the lab?" Jordan asked Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo.

"I think it's because they were doing gain of function research there. He didn't want that out, and that was the narrative that everyone to the Left bought into—even though the facts and common sense, maybe most importantly, pointed to the lab leak theory," Jordan said.

The House Judiciary Committee chairman explained how Fauci received an email on Jan. 31, 2020, with the analysis that the virus "looks engineered" and was "not consistent with evolutionary theory." The following day on Feb. 1, the infectious disease expert allegedly received another email from a doctor saying, "I don’t know how this happens in nature, it would be easy to do in a lab."

Jordan then pointed to Fauci organizing a conference call with top virologists leading to all of the doctors contradicting their initial analyses of a possible lab leak.

The Ohio congressman further pointed to the suspicious nature of these key infectious disease doctors who changed their findings also received a "several million dollar grant to continue their research" three months later.

"Time and time again, they told us things that were not accurate," Jordan told Bartiromo. "Again, the fundamental question is, why? What was—was it politics motivating or what? But I always tell people, I always say we’re Americans, we’re big boys and girls, we can handle it... quit lying to us."

The congressman pointed to two key Capitol Hill hearings coming up this week that will tackle the government's handling of Coronavirus. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the pandemic's origins on Wednesday, March 8, and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will hold a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 9 to explore "the politicization of the FBI and DOJ and attacks on American civil liberties."

House GOP leadership released a new memo from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Sunday suggesting Dr. Fauci had worked to "disprove" the COVID-19 lab leak theory.

"New evidence released by the Select Subcommittee today suggests that Dr. Fauci ‘prompted’ the drafting of a publication that would ‘disprove’ the lab leak theory, the authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal," the memo says.