Good morning and welcome to everybody today. Our select subcommittee is holding harbored hearing, remembers her the option of appearing either in person...

sleep. Nobody would have

ever thought a thing like this could have happened. The disinfectant

where it knocks it out

in a minute, one minute and is there

a way we can do something

like that? Bye injection.

I've read a lot

about hydroxy,

I happen to

think that it has an

impact. What you were saying it was going to disappear. It is going to disappear. It's going to disappear.

Cases are up

wire cases up

because we test more than anybody in

history. They

hate it when I say we're rounding the corner consistent with these dangerously inaccurate statements President trump and his adviser sideline public...

Thank you Mr Chairman. And I'd like to welcome dr berks and appreciate you being here. Also like to thank you for your four decades of service to our...

Of course,

I welcome Dr Burke's testimony today. But I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the irony of those past statements talking about the past. It is noteworthy...

this virus came

from a lab said it's quote a blunder of biotech, not a natural spillover. And now it's being reported that Dr Tedros. Yes. The head of the World Health...

to use

the chairman's own words, quote, using the issue of the origin of the virus to shift accountability from President trump to dr Anthony Fauci as we were...

what

she has to say about china's involvement and how the U. S. And the rest of the world were misled by china and the world health organization back in...

Over the course

of the pandemic. Americans have lost trust in what once was a premier public health organization. Their failures must be confronted in order for that...

Thank you very much. Mr Scalise. Dr birch. Welcome to the select subcommittee. Thank you for taking the time to testify. Please rise and raise your right...

Thank you Chairman. Thank you. Ranking member Scalise. I really appreciate the time of the committee and your brilliant staff who have been working on...

Well thank you very much. Dr birch. Each member will now have five minutes for questions and the chair now recognizes himself for five minutes. Dr birch....

Thank you Chairman Clyburn. So when you don't have tools, when you don't have vaccines, you don't have antivirals, you don't have knowledge of effective...

Well thank you very much. You also told us that the consequences of President trump's failure, failure in regards were devastating And you estimated...

Yes. Mr Chairman. And as I write in my witness statement, um, we continue to lose american lives at a rate that I find completely unacceptable. I think...

I thank you very much for that. You know, one of the things I've been advocating for for years. Ever since. I've been here before. I got here. Uh,...

Thank you. Mr Chairman Dr Marx when were you the coronavirus response coordinator? I came on board um the second of March um and left I think the 18th...

Yeah,

So March of 2022, 2021. Gotcha. Was there? We we've had these conversations with with some other witnesses including Dr Fauci over a year ago when...

Thank you. The chair now recognizes Mr Maloney for five minutes dr Blix.

Earlier this week, the select committee released a report on how the trump. White House embraced a dangerous and discredited herd immunity via mass infection...

without objections.

And it is up on various places for people to see So dr bricks in this email you wrote that there was a quote dangerous meeting in the oval office end,...

We'll have a second round. So you may hold on to that question. The chair now recognizes Mr Jordan for five minutes. Thank

you. Mr Chairman Dr berks. Why should americans believe anything the government says about covid?

I mean

last summer last summer president biden said this quote, you're not gonna get covid if you have these vaccinations, If you're vaccinated you're not going...

So I

come back to my original question, why should we believe anything. The government tells us about coming. Well that's why um to be honest, that's why...

Thank you for getting back. That's amazing. The president of United States just started lying 11 months ago With that the chair yields five minutes...

Thank you MR Chair and thank you dr berks for for your service and your your talented trying to talk sense to politicians who think that they know...

Thank you. The chair now recognizes Dr. Miller meeks for five minutes.

Um First I'd like to thank you dr brooks for your service and for coming before the committee to testify today. Um Like you um as a physician, as a...

Thank you. The chair now recognizes mr Raskin five minutes.

Mr Chairman thank you for calling this important hearing dr berks. Pleasure to see you. I want to thank you first for your service uh in the White...

thank you gentlemen for yelling back the tear now concludes the first round with recognition. Mr Christian Martin for five minutes.

Hello, thank you so much. Chair clyburn and thank you to uh dr berks on april 2020 april 23rd 2020 during the briefing Then President trump said I...

We Had

I thought um developed pretty strong consensus um throughout the White House that resulted in use of data and science to drive our response resulting...

Thank you very much that concludes our first round of questions

and to begin

the second round, the chair recognizes himself for five minutes dr birch began by asking the question um when we saw in the clips up there president...

I don't know. I can't speak to what he was thinking. I think a lot of these statements that are made are concerning the virus often reflect people Hope...

Well, thank you very much. I'd like to ask you about the a statement that you made to our staff during your interview with the select subcommittee's...

We have assembled the data and analyses that I believed I believe to this day, um really pointed out where virus was and where it wasn't and where we...

Thank you. I think we've all been noticing with the current hearings Taking place with the January six committee that even after the election, what house...

So I optimistically throughout september and october had um created a false strategy for full implementation. Um of course, I would have wanted to start...

Well, thank you very much. The chair will recognize Mr Jordan for five minutes.

Thank you. Mr Chairman. Dr um should the United States be in the World Health Organization? The United States should not should both be part of the...

or not.

I am no longer in government. No, I'm just asking I believe that we should have a clear accountability and milestone associated with the funding that...

all of us remember that debate very well and I think we all were following the scientists when they continued their research and came to the conclusion...

Mr Chairman thank you. Um The January six Committee has determined that Donald Trump has knowingly and deliberately lied. It's obvious from all of the...

There's a

One of the things that's come out in the January six hearings is the idea that Trump, knew that he would get more voters showing up on election day because...

Thank you. Gentlemen from peeling back the chair now recognizes Mr Foster for five minutes. Thank you.

Mr chair.

Um since the

beginning of the pandemic, I pushed for greater flexibility and speed and the way that we research and authorized treatments uh as free as possible...

Thank you john for yelling back recognizes mr maloney for five minutes.

Thank you. MR Chairman Dr. Brooks asked you earlier about an email you sent in August of 2020 you were describing an oval office meeting with President...

Thank you very very much. I think that we've exhausted uh 2nd round and

mr chairman.

Yes, I yield to them.

Um mister um I'd like to ask unanimous consent to introduce this excellent staff report called the atlas dogma. The trump administration's embrace of...

without objection. As a student of history. I often quote George Santayana. This admonition that those who cannot remember history condemned to repeat...