Fauci declines to testify after subpoena as Senate revisits COVID response

Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a high-profile Senate hearing led by Sen. Rand Paul, refusing to answer questions about the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the origins of the coronavirus and federal research funding.

Watch live coverage as Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as part of Committee Chairman Rand Paul's investigation into the origins of Covid. Lawmakers are expected to question Fauci about what he knew and didn't know as the pandemic was unfolding.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has testified in Congress more than 20 times since COVID-19 was discovered in China, but Wednesday's appearance occurs before a panel led by his chief Republican antagonist, who would like to see him criminally prosecuted.

In years’ worth of journal entries, Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote about the uncertainty surrounding the origins of COVID-19, the media attention he received during the pandemic and his “unique” relationship with President Trump. The office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released the entries, which Fauci wrote while he led the Nat

Key entries from Fauci's diary criticized the CDC, discussed his relationship with Trump and lab-leak discussions.

The vanity of Anthony Fauci will be his undoing. Until now, the deceitful health bureaucrat’s reputation has remained intact despite damning revelations about his attempted cover-up of the origins of COVID-19, suspected involvement in outsourcing dangerous research on bat viruses to China and mishandling of the pandemi