On Tuesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci, calling him a “filthy little demagogue” after Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) had confronted Fauci earlier in the day at a Senate hearing.

Carlson began, “Turns out, Tony Fauci’s even more loathsome and complicit even than his toughest critics ever alleged. Today, two Republican congressmen, James Comer and Jim Jordan, released emails that show Fauci was warned by scientists at the very beginning of the Corona pandemic this virus very likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That’s the same lab where a Fauci agency was funding gain-of-function research.”

Carlson cited a letter from House Oversight Committee Republicans which stated, “On February 1, 2020, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and at least 11 other scientists convened a conference call to discuss Covid 19. … It was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci & Collins were first warned that Covid 19 may have leaked from the WIV &, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.”