Fauci, who is director of the National Institutes of Health, added: 'This was back at the very beginning of February. Fauci also appeared on MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily, where he spoke about himself in the third person while defending himself over the same lab leak claim. Fauci has also come under scrutiny for a $600,000 grant the NIAID gave the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that bat coronaviruses could infect humans under Fauci's leadership. But, Collins said, the National Institute of Health would not be aware of other experiments being done at the lab. Now, Republicans are calling for Fauci to be removed, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy calling for Fauci to either resign or be fired.

Source: Daily Mail June 09, 2021 21:21 UTC