The Latest: Dr. Anthony Fauci will face questions from Senate Republicans about COVID-19 origins

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. scientist who helped lead the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response, is set to face off — again — with a Republican senator probing the origins of the coronavirus

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

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

Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci went scorched earth on Republicans and accused Sen. Rand Paul of being obsessed and unhinged before invoking his Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to answer questions after being hauled in for a hearing on Capitol Hill. Fauci, 85, is the former director of the Na

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.

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.

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

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

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the nation's infectious disease efforts during the pandemic, invoked the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee investigating the origins of COVID-19. Why it matters: Fauci said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the head of the Senate homeland security com

Anthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the US response to Covid-19, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.

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

Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical adviser, invoked his Fifth Amendment right on Wednesday when he appeared before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing held by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). In his opening remarks, Fauci blasted Paul’s “obvious obsession with calling for my prosec

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

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

At a highly anticipated Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci evoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions about the Covid-19 pandemic and its origins.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped lead the U.S. response during the COVID pandemic, invoked the Fifth Amendment ahead of plans to testify before the Senate on Wednesday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci declined to answer senators’ questions at a hearing Wednesday on the origins of Covid and the government’s handling of the pandemic, saying in prepared remarks that he would invoke his 5th Amendment right not to testify to avoid the possibility that Republicans could try to use his testimony to prosec

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