“Unhinged obsession”: inside Fauci’s tense hearing on Capitol Hill

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  Good morning.

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  Dr. Anthony Fauci invokes the fifth amendment in a combative Senate hearing,

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  accusing committee chair Rand Paul of pursuing a vendetta.

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  Any reasonable person who was followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion.

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  It's Thursday, July 30th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shimita Basu.

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  This is Out the News Today.

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  Dr. Anthony Fauci was on Capitol Hill yesterday to face questions over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic,

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  the origins of the virus, and how federal funds were used in China.

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  It was a fiery, dramatic session, even though Fauci himself delivered one answer on repeat more than a hundred times.

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  On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

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  Fauci's opening remarks were his only deviation from that scripted answer.

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  He accused committee chair and Republican Senator Rand Paul of waging a campaign against him,

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  leaving him no choice but to stay quiet.

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  The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee

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  is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges

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  that I end up, in his words, quote, "behind bars," unquote.

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