2026-08-06
1 小时 8 分钟Can you explain to the committee why you chose to fund this dangerous research in China?
On the advice of counsel,
I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
I'm Neil Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
And no, don't adjust your devices.
Bill Whelan's off this week.
So I am sitting in his chair as moderator.
However, my fellow good fellows are also here.
And they are the one and only HR McMaster and John Cochran, who are also senior fellows here at Hoover.
Hi, HR and John.
Our guest today used to be a visiting fellow at Hoover, but he got an even better job last year.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the director of the National Institutes of Health
and I think the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Welcome, Jay, or should I say welcome back.
Nice to be here, Neil, although it's an open question whether those jobs are better than being a professor at Stanford.
We'll see over time.
We'll get you to comment in more detail on that later on.
I want to take you back in time.
To your last appearance, which was November 9th, 2021. Back in those days,
you were just a mild-mannered academic like the rest of us.