Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation’s most visible public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic, declined to answer questions from a U.S. Senate committee in a tense and confrontational hearing Wednesday, citing his Fifth Amendment rights. @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ncpol

Fauci pleads the Fifth to COVID questions by US Sen. Rand Paul at intense hearing • NC NewslineFauci said during a brief opening statement he believed Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., was trying to get him to make statements under oath that would l...ncnewsline.com