Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 109

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com DR. BARIC: No, she didn't. MS. SALAZAR: And where is she now? DR. BARIC: She is at Pacific Northwest Laboratories. MS. SALAZAR: Peter Daszak never raised it? DR. BARIC: I can't say he never raised it. I can say that I don't recall him ever raising it in the time frame we're talking about. MS. SALAZAR: Zhengli Shi? DR. BARIC: I don't communicate with her that much, so no. MS. SALAZAR: Tonie Rocke? DR. BARIC: I don't know. MS. SALAZAR: Do you talk to Tonie Rocke? DR. BARIC: No. MS. SALAZAR: So no one from the government either raised this with you? DR. BARIC: No. Not that I'm aware of. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. I mean, it is -- DR. BARIC: I mean, do you have records that I could look at? I'd be glad to look at them. And I'm sorry, but again, I guess the other issues you need to put this in context are, Kristian Andersen, in the Proximity [sic] Origins paper, made a pretty articulate argument why he thought it was not engineered. And it's based on, one, you have to have a molecular clone that would be identical or