{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-to-jake-tapper-dr-fauci-clearly-lied-to-you/", "Senator Marshall to Jake Tapper: Dr. Fauci Clearly Lied to You", "2026-08-06", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Marshall Joins CNN\u2019s The Lead with Jake Tapper\n\nWashington \u2013 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined CNN\u2019sThe Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss Dr. Fauci being held in contempt of Congress, how he misled the President and the American public during COVID, and how Americans deserve an investigation into the COVID pandemic to uncover the truth.\n\nClick HERE to download the full video.\n\nOn Senator Rand Paul holding Dr. Fauci in contempt of Congress:\n\n\u201cWell, certainly it\u2019s within Chairman Paul\u2019s abilities and privileges to do what he\u2019s doing. But beyond all this \u2014 this is why I think we need a special counsel, that the Department of Justice needs to appoint a special counsel to dive into all this. I mean, we haven\u2019t talked about the autopen yet \u2014 this was an autopen pardon. How does that come into the area as well? So, I think there\u2019s a lot out there. And I think, to me, more importantly, this is about what\u2019s morally right to do. There was a moral obligation to the million families that lost a loved one, to the 20 million Americans who have long COVID to this day, and all just the emotional challenges we have because of those years of the COVID response. And what we do know is Anthony Fauci clearly lied, misled Congress, and misled the President. What his diary said was completely different than the advice he was giving the President, as well as the American public.\u201d\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s lies revealed in his diary:\n\n\u201cYeah, January 26th, he tells his diary that there\u2019s no way that this virus came from a wet market in Wuhan, China. But he goes out publicly and says that it came from nature \u2014 that it came from this wet market. And then just four days later, he\u2019s meeting with all the gain-of-function scientists \u2014 the top gain-of-function scientists in the world \u2014 and 10 of the 12 say that this came from a laboratory, but he never offered that explanation to the President or to the American people. And I think the President\u2019s response would be completely different if he\u2019d walked in there and said, \u2018Look, there\u2019s a new virus out there, it was made in a lab, by the way. America\u2019s help funded the development of this virus; we\u2019ve been doing this research for decades. We have no idea what this virus is going to look like when it gets out into the world, but we do know that nobody has any immunity to it.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cJake, I mean, what I\u2019m disappointed here is Dr. Fauci didn\u2019t tell you about his decades of funding viral gain-of-function research \u2014 that\u2019s not in question at all\u2026. I just don\u2019t think there\u2019s any way he wouldn\u2019t have known about it. I think he clearly lied to you about all that \u2014 he was clearly, through EcoHealth, funding this. When President Obama told him we didn\u2019t want to do this type of research anymore, he found some type of loophole to do it, and when that loophole was closed, he took this research out to foreign countries. He orchestrated this. This was his ticket to the Nobel Prize \u2014 he thought if he could get this gain-of-function research done, he was going to get a Nobel Prize. I think that those are facts. And for him to even begin to deny that this came from a laboratory is beyond the pale to me. He never could show any type of an intermediate species or progenitor of this virus; there\u2019s just a plethora of evidence to say that this virus came from a laboratory, and he knew that.\u201d\n\nOn whether an invalid autopen pardon would give Dr. Fauci the right to plead the 5th:\n\n\u201cSo, it does. But I\u2019m saying that needs to go to a special counsel and go to the Supreme Court. There\u2019s no way that I could even begin to answer that legal question. And I think if the Supreme Court was on our call tonight, that it would be some type of a split decision. But I think there\u2019s so many questions here that are going to go unanswered \u2014 that\u2019s why we need this special counsel. And take it out of Washington, take it out of the politics, and let the special counsel dive into all these issues, starting with the autopen pardon.\u201d\n\nOn establishing a 9/11 style commission to look into the COVID pandemic:\n\n\u201cYou read my mind, Jake. So, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand \u2014 a good friend of mine \u2014 and I, had that bill \u2014 we\u2019ve been pushing for that for years. You know, she lived through the 9/11 stuff there in New York herself, and that\u2019s what she said from the beginning. I said, \u2018You\u2019re right. You\u2019re absolutely right.\u2019 And again, get it out of Washington. To me, this is what we would call an autopsy, right? You lose a patient, you don\u2019t know why, family members want to know why, that\u2019s why we need a postmortem examination here. And we did make mistakes \u2014 we all made mistakes through this process, let\u2019s learn from those mistakes so we can have a better response next time. You\u2019re spot on.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-07T06:11:19Z", "2026-08-07T06:12:42Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-to-jake-tapper-dr-fauci-clearly-lied-to-you/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0289260428398848, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}