Dr. Fauci invokes the Fifth during COVID hearing [jw8Risv6vE0]
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he is invoking the Fifth Amendment Wednesday before Congress as the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee investigates the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee is led by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who is known for clashing with Fauci. "Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote," Fauci said. At the start of Wednesday's hearing, Paul wasted little time lambasting Fauci's approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that Fauci ordered staff to delete records and cover up evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab leak. "Instead of an apology, you have for years avoided responsibility," Paul said.