Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth in US hearing

Former US top doctor Anthony Fauci has faced a Republican-led Senate hearing over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former US top doctor Anthony Fauci has faced a Republican-led Senate hearing over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Anthony Fauci declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Some Republicans in Congress, including Sen. Rand Paul who subpoenaed Fauci to testify, have long called on him to be arrested for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former top US health official Anthony Fauci refused to answer questions at a US Senate hearing about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying he feared Republican lawmakers would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury.

Scientist who fell out with Donald Trump accuses Republican senator of having ‘unhinged obsession’

4 min readUpdated: Jul 29, 2026 07:43 PM IST Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), attends a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 29, 2026. (REUTERS) Former US infectious disease expert D

Fauci refused to answer questions at a hearing that Republicans had hoped would expose him to potential perjury charges and discredit his handling of the U.S. pandemic response.

Anthony Fauci Pleads Fifth, Declines To Answer Rand Paul's Questions In COVID-19 Hearing  HuffPost

Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to testify Wednesday in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the US response to Covid-19. Fauci slammed the proceeding as having been designed to push him into making incriminating statements. (Source: Bloomberg)

The move injects new drama into tensions between Fauci and Republican lawmakers over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and accusations he lied about the origins of COVID-19.

Anthony Fauci will not testify before Congress Wednesday. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was subpoenaed to testify before a Republican-led Senate committee regarding his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he won’t—instead, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment in his op

The former top US health official invoked his constitutional right not to answer questions under oath.

Fauci Pleads Fifth Amendment Rights, Declines To Answer Questions At Senate Hearing  Forbes

Anthony Fauci Pleads The Fifth During Highly Anticipated Hearing

Watch Dr. Anthony Fauci plead the Fifth at Capitol Hill hearing  CNN

Anthony Fauci Invokes Fifth Amendment at Covid-19 Hearing  WSJ

The infectious disease expert is grilled once again on the origins of the pandemic and gain of function research

Dr. Anthony Fauci chose to plead his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent during a highly anticipated hearing Wednesday on his role in COVID-19 pandemic policy before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which is chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Fauci said in his opening testimony that

Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment at the start of his Wednesday hearing, ripping Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for “unhinged” remarks and claiming the only purpose of the Homeland Security Committee’s investigation was to put him “behind bars.” “Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecutio