House GOPers Call on Top Scientist to Clarify Comments About Lab Leak Theory

House GOPers Call on Top Scientist to Clarify Comments About Lab Leak Theory
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) (R) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) speak to the media outside of a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 29, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and other Republicans called on Dr. Kristian Andersen to clarify earlier comments he made about suppressing the COVID-19 lab leak origin theory.

In an earlier appearance before Congress, Andersen suggested that he had not suppressed information about the lab leak theory; according to the GOP letter released today, those earlier claims may be untrue in view of statements Andersen made to Vanity Fair.

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