RAND PAUL: There’s probably never been a government official caught more red-handed in a lie than this because now he has proved the lie in his own words.

So, at first, he kind of acted like, ‘oh, we don’t have anything to do with the research over there.

We don’t fund the research in Wuhan.’ So, we found the actual scientific papers, we found the grant number proving that it came from his agency.

And then he said, ‘oh, well, yeah, we’re funding it, but it’s not gain-of-function.