Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 59

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com DR. BARIC: Not really. MS. SALAZAR: Oh, you're not? Okay. DR. BARIC: So before that I had made a presentation to a group that talked about three possibilities for the origin of the virus. If I spoke, I could change the direction of the conversation, and I wanted to hear what the evolutionary biologists had to say. MS. SALAZAR: What was the presentation that you're referring to? DR. BARIC: I think this falls under the category that is later today, although you have made the document public. MS. SALAZAR: It was provided to us, and, you know, I'll go ahead and my team is going to -- DR. BARIC: I have no problem talking about the paper, but it sounded like it fell under the category of this was this afternoon. MS. SALAZAR: Well, I mean, this is something that I would like to put on the record, because -- MR. ERVIN: Let's see what the question is. MS. SALAZAR: Yeah. I think that's fair. BSEG is not classified. We've had this conversation with -- and this isn't on you, but, you know, people like to talk about it like it's classified. It's not classified. DR. BARIC: Can I ask a point of clarification? MS. SALAZAR: Mm-hmm.