{"id":1162526,"date":"2021-12-27T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1162526"},"modified":"2021-12-27T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:34:33","slug":"exclusive-jim-jordan-republican-majority-house-will-investigate-fauci-gain-of-function-and-lab-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-jim-jordan-republican-majority-house-will-investigate-fauci-gain-of-function-and-lab-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Jim Jordan: Republican Majority House Will Investigate Fauci, Gain of Function, and Lab Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-jim-jordan-republican-majority-house-will-investigate-fauci-gain-of-function-and-lab-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1162526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Monday told Alex Marlow, host of the <em>Breitbart Daily News<\/em> podcast, that Republicans, if elected to a majority in the House of Representatives in November, should investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci \u2014 the president\u2019s chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) \u2014 and gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans must \u201cdo the oversight that needs to be done,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Marlow highlighted the Democrats\u2019 ostensible \u201cinvestigation\u201d of the events of January 6 as a congressional focus at the expense of substantive inquiries into matters of public importance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17807754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Doug-Jensen-confronts-Capitol-police-January-6-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17807754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Doug-Jensen-confronts-Capitol-police-January-6-ap.jpg\" alt=\"In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters, including Doug Jensen, center, confront U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. Some followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are now turning to online support groups and even therapy to help them move on, now that it&#039;s clear Donald Trump&#039;s presidency is over. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jordan remarked, \u201cThe top investigation \u2014 which I think will primarily be done on the Oversight Committee \u2014 is on Fauci and the gain of function and the lab leak, which is the most likely scenario how we got this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThat\u2019s kind of oversight you\u2019re supposed to do, not this crazy January 6 political attack that they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Democrats go down this road of kicking Republicans off committees, trying to put a good man in prison, like Mark Meadows \u2014 they shouldn\u2019t do this stuff \u2014 but if they\u2019re going to, if they\u2019re going to cross this bridge, if it\u2019s good enough for one side, it should apply to the other as well,\u201d Jordan added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10564395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mark-Meadows-and-Jim-Jordan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10564395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Mark-Meadows-and-Jim-Jordan.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan (J. Scott Applewhite\/AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jordan described Democrat leverage of government power as partisan \u201cweaponization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio congressman said Republicans should investigate the Department of Justice\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/27\/tom-cotton-blasts-ag-garland-over-fbi-probe-into-domestic-terrorists-parents\/\">coordination<\/a>, under Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s directorship, with the left-wing National School Boards Association (NSBA) in targeting parents opposed to the left\u2019s imposition of \u201ctransgender\u201d ideology onto their children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jordan stated, \u201cWe should be looking at what the Justice Department really did do, the information that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/21\/ag-merrick-garland-admits-he-took-word-of-national-school-boards-association-to-target-parents-as-domestic-terrorists\/\">passed<\/a> back and forth when they decided to go after moms and dads in this whole school board issue [in Virginia].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan also called for investigations of the \u201cdebacle\u201d on the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9631262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Honduran-Migrants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9631262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Honduran-Migrants.jpg\" alt=\"MATIAS ROMERO, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 02: Members of the Central American migrant caravan move to the next town at dawn on November 02, 2018 in Matias Romero, Mexico. The group of migrants, many of them fleeing violence in their home countries, last took a rest day on Wednesday and has resumed their journey towards the United States border. As fatigue from the heat, distance and poor sanitary conditions has set in, the numbers of people participating in the trek has slowly dwindled but a significant group are still determined to get to the United States. President Donald Trump said Wednesday as many as 15,000 troops may be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to prevent members of the migrant caravan from illegally entering the country.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Breitbart News Daily&nbsp;<\/em>podcast is&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/the-breitbart-news-daily-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">available<\/a>&nbsp;for listening and download via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Monday told Alex Marlow, host of the Breitbart Daily News podcast, that Republicans, if elected to a majority in the House of Representatives in November, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}