Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom to discuss House Republicans’ hearing to investigate the origins of COVID-19. Whip Scalise called out Speaker Pelosi for refusing to hold a single hearing to examine claims that the coronavirus started in a Chinese lab and questioned why House Democrats are covering for the Chinese Communist Party. Whip Scalise also slammed Democrats’ ridiculous attempts to distance themselves from their support of the “defund the police” movement and noted that their radical anti-police agenda has caused a dramatic rise in crime in cities across the country and record rates of police retirements.  

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  On the need to investigate COVID-19’s origin:   “You would think that Speaker Pelosi would be joining with us to want to get to the bottom of how this virus started. Especially when you've seen mountains of evidence recently come out that point even more strongly to the likelihood that it started in the Wuhan lab. Look, we were calling over a year ago, House Republicans, for a hearing. We weren't saying we knew it started there; we just saw a lot of evidence that pointed to it starting in the lab. In fact, many medical experts, over a year ago, were saying it may have started in the lab, and for some perplexing reason, Speaker Pelosi keeps trying to cover up for China [and does] not [want] to have a hearing and [not] have some accountability to get answers.   "So, we said if they're not going to do it, we'll just do it ourselves. So, we're having a hearing today. We've got a lot of medical experts [and] other people who have done extensive research into the origin of COVID. I mean, look, this has killed over 600,000 Americans, millions worldwide. Why wouldn't Speaker Pelosi have a hearing? [The] name of our committee is the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus [Crisis], and yet they refuse to have a hearing on the origin of the coronavirus. So, we're going to do it [ourselves], and I think we're going to start getting some answers.”   On Democrats’ ludicrous efforts to distance themselves from the “Defund the Police” movement:    “Everybody knows it was Democrats who started this crazy, radical, extremist move to defund police. All the big city mayors that defunded their police, whether it's New York, Los Angeles, [or] Chicago, they're all Democrats. And, in fact, you had Democrats here in Congress – Speaker Pelosi [last year] called police ‘stormtroopers’ – you had one of her top lieutenants in Congress – on the Democrat side – who said police are inherently racist and need to be abolished. That's Democrats who did it. Now, they're seeing the dumpster fire they created. I mean, crime is up, yet almost 80 shootings in Chicago over the weekend where they defunded police, and so what is their answer to admit that they were wrong? They never admit they were wrong. They just want to try to blame somebody else, and the public gets this.”   On Democrats’ refusing to take responsibility for their anti-cop agenda:   “The public has dramatically rejected this crazy ‘Defund the Police’ idea. And, in fact, in many of those big cities where they defunded, the police are where people are against it the most because they're the ones who have to live through the consequences. You see, so many of these council members who voted to defund police are begging for private security while they voted to take security away from everyone else. They're all Democrats who voted to do that, and now they're seeing the results of it. The public's turning against it because they see crime out of control. They see police resignations off the charts, and so what's their answer? They should be working to admit it was a mistake and then go fix it. And instead, they just want to try to blame somebody else. It's not working, but it shows you how failed of a crazy idea 'defund police' really is.”