Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 90

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com the group. DR. BARIC: She was definitely there. MS. SALAZAR: Did you all discuss -- and now we'll move to DEFUSE -- did you all discuss DEFUSE while you were there? DR. BARIC: This is the DARPA proposal? MS. SALAZAR: Yes. DR. BARIC: Oh, I don't know if we discussed the DARPA proposal. Is that, by that time it had been rejected, or was it under review? MS. SALAZAR: It had been rejected. DR. BARIC: Yeah. I'm sure that it came up in terms of it being rejected, but, you know, it happens on grants. MS. SALAZAR: So the DARPA DEFUSE proposal has obviously been the subject of a lot of discussion. I know that for a lot of people it is hard to understand how it did not come up earlier in the conversations. So I'm going to ask, when did you raise, for the first time, with the United States government officials that you were interacting with -- I mean, you interacted with Erik Stemmy on the 7th, Fauci on February 11, 2020. Did DARPA DEFUSE come up in that meeting? DR. BARIC: No. MS. SALAZAR: Is there a reason why? DR. BARIC: I hadn't remembered the grant. That