The fight between Rand Paul and the nation's top infectious disease expert continued Tuesday during a Senate Health Committee hearing.

During an update on the country's COVID-19 response, Paul suggested Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about whether the National Institutes of Health helped fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab that could have started the outbreak.

The Kentucky Senator asked Fauci if he is aware that it is a crime to lie to Congress. Fauci responded that he had never lied before Congress, and reiterated that NIH never funded gain-of-function research. 

"Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially," Fauci said. "You do not know what you are talking about."

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