Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 35

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com was his second in command that was doing most of the questioning, and I can't remember his name. Again, the email should have a list of all the people that were going to be there. MS. SALAZAR: Was it Hugh Auchincloss? DR. BARIC: Yes. Thank you. Yes. Yes. MS. SALAZAR: And so was Dr. Fauci there when -- I mean, did he ask you anything specific? Was he part of the conversation at that time? Or did he just say hello and leave? DR. BARIC: No, no. I think he participated in terms of introducing, asking the question about the new virus and my thoughts about it, I guess, in terms of what I knew at the time, which wasn't a whole lot. But I knew some things. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. Do you know who Matt Freeman is? DR. BARIC: Yeah, I trained him, yeah. MS. SALAZAR: I'm going to read you -- again, this has been FOIA'd -- he sent, in a Slack message, and I'm just going to read it out loud. "I talked to Ralph for a long time last night. He sounds beat. His ACE2 mice are breeding up but not ready for anyone to have. He said he sat in Fauci's office talking about the outbreak," and I'm going to ask you, is it chimeras? DR. BARIC: Chimeras.