During an exclusive interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., promised to discover the truth behind the origins of the novel coronavirus and to hold China and the World Health Organization(WHO) accountable for their mishandling of the outbreak.

Scott, who serves on the Senate‘s Homeland Security Committee, discussed the congressional probe he will be leading and pledged to come up with answers that will help guide governmental decisionmaking long into the future.

“We have failed to call out China for who they are — call out these international organizations for who they are, and you see Democrats out there trying to defend the WHO. It’s the craziest thing in the world,” he said. “This is a group that said there was no local transmission when they knew there was. So we’re doing an investigation. I’m on the Homeland Security Committee, so I’m going to lead the investigation of the WHO. We’re going to find out what was their pandemic plan, did they follow the pandemic plan, and when did they get different information from what they put out.”

The WHO has been criticized for being an apologist for the Chinese government during the pandemic and faced backlash over a January tweet that cited China officials who claimed there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of COVID-19.null

Scott claimed the agency is in China’s pocket and said the U.S. has failed to put adequate pressure on its leaders. He then pledged to discover if the virus was created in a lab, how it spread, and which key players are responsible for the hundreds of thousands of deaths that have occurred around the world.

“[The WHO] does not have our interests at heart. They’re just a parrot for the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. “And it doesn’t appear that anything we’re doing has had any impact on the WHO yet. They haven’t changed anything. I don’t think Tedros [Adhanom Ghebreyesus] feels any pressure.

“From what I understand as I’ve been learning more about the WHO, they clearly had technical information that they did not put out publicly,” Scott added. “We’ll figure out whether the virus was created, whether it was released. Over time we will figure that out. But the reality is, whether it came out of the wet market or whether it came out of the lab, the worst thing is they intentionally did not tell the world and look at what’s happened.”

LEAKED WESTERN INTEL DOSSIER REVEALS HOW CHINA DECEIVED THE WORLD ABOUT CORONAVIRUS

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China has faced condemnation in recent months for expelling journalists from the country in an effort to limit fact-finding. It has also been accused of interfering with those who attempted to sound the alarm about COVID-19’s potency in a leaked dossier compiled by the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance.

The dossier states China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the outbreak to obfuscate its origin, denied international organizations access to live samples for a vaccine, and censored media reports to keep the crisis quite.