5 takeaways from the Senate hearing where Fauci refused to answer questions

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) was not going to attack Fauci, he said, but he wouldn’t defend him, either.

Former top US health official Anthony Fauci has refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury.

The former top US infectious disease expert declined to answer questions at a Republican-led Senate hearing, labelling it an "unhinged" campaign to see him imprisoned.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

State of the Union: The former top health official said he was invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid baseless prosecution by Republicans.

Now-retired infectious-disease expert invokes Fifth Amendment, accuses committee chair of ‘unhinged obsession’