Let’s hear from two authors of the COVID-19 origin paper.
https://www.science.org/content/article/politicians-scientists-spar-over-alleged-nih-cover-up-using-covid-19-origin-paper
Tho Garry mentions that Fauci mostly just listened to the science, did Andersen and Garry mention that some of the discussion did not pertain to science, as pointed out in an email to Andersen from the Oversight Committee to retain and produce his records ?

Feb 4, 2020.

And Feb 8. That it happened in Wuhan, where all of the work was being done is unfortunate.

Hey guys, we need to get a group together to work on the evolutionary origin of Covid. Maybe we could title it The Proximal Origin ...... ?

Feb 9. See, they also thought so..

And an email to Jon Cohen regarding the rumors beginning after their mentions that the virus looked engineered, Proximal Origin would say it wasn't and that the article was contrary to what the virologists on the call had explained.

And a nice leading question by Raskin to Andersen, 'you set out to refute a lab leak, didn't you ?'
He really, really wishes he could, but he couldn't do it.
