00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:02Well, nothing says honesty like taking the fifth, huh, Doc?
00:06Let's try something.
00:08What day of the week is it today?
00:13On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
00:20Constitution.
00:20What color tie are you wearing?
00:23On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
00:29Constitution.
00:30What color is the carpet in front of you?
00:35On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
00:41Constitution.
00:42Let's just get one thing straight. You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you've been pardoned.
00:46As you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more, Brown versus Walker,
00:521896.
00:53When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege.
00:57You know that. Your lawyers sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs. They know it.
01:02This isn't about the Constitution. This isn't about the law. This is about contempt.
01:06Contempt for this body and contempt for the American people.
01:10But I think I know why you're doing it. It's because you don't want to answer questions.
01:14It's because you did all kinds of terrible things.
01:18It's because during the pandemic, you got rich, didn't you?
01:21You got rich while people were dying.
01:25Hundreds of thousands of Americans over a million in the end.
01:28And you were getting rich. And not only were you doing that, you were using federal employees with taxpayer money
01:34to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally.
01:39Cash prizes totaling over a million dollars.
01:44You did all of that during the pandemic, didn't you?
01:47That's a question.
01:49On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
01:55Constitution.
01:56You remember Greg Fulkers? Who was that?
02:00On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
02:06Constitution.
02:06Your chief of staff is the answer. Do you remember Patricia Conrad? Who was that?
02:11On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
02:17Constitution.
02:18Uh-huh. She was your personal assistant.
02:19And what were these individuals doing in the depth of the pandemic?
02:22In November of 2020, when millions of Americans were suffering from COVID, what were they doing?
02:28I tell you what they're doing. Fulkers was on your behalf soliciting and gathering information for a cash award.
02:36Let's look at it. We've got his email right here, right over my shoulder.
02:41Fulkers says, I'm working on this nomination for the Dan David Award for Fauci.
02:45We need to beef up the COVID part.
02:47Do you have language in the can that you can share that delineates how we responded in new ways to
02:52COVID?
02:52He sends this to multiple federal employees.
02:54What was the Dan David Award? Do you remember, Doc?
03:00On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
03:05Constitution.
03:06It was a $900,000 cash award.
03:11$900,000 cash award.
03:14And he got it because he used federal employees to get it.
03:19And this wasn't the only award, was it, Dr. Fauci?
03:22In fact, you applied for and received at least eight other federal cash prizes on federal time using federal employees
03:31and federal resources.
03:32Here they are over my shoulder.
03:34Besides the Dan David Award, you've got the Partnership for Public Service.
03:37You've got the Adelson Prize.
03:38You've got the Smithsonian Award.
03:40You've got the National Academy of Medicines Award.
03:41You've got the CDC Foundation.
03:43In fact, you turned your staff into a full-time application machine.
03:47You actually wrote to people and said, do you think maybe I'd qualify?
03:52And you got cash for all of this.
03:54And it wasn't just one or two employees, was it?
03:57In fact, you used eight separate federal employees on federal time using federal resources to solicit cash awards.
04:06Isn't that true?
04:08On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
04:14Constitution.
04:14Here they are right over my shoulder.
04:16Here's all of them.
04:16The people that you use, federal employees, so that you could go and get cash money.
04:22And the most hilarious part is that you weren't content to even dragoon them into applying for all of these
04:29cash awards.
04:29You then had them go out to the ethics agencies and ethics watchdogs and demand that you be able to
04:36get the money.
04:37That's right.
04:38We've got it in your emails.
04:42Your staff and employees on federal time using federal resources being paid with federal dollars are soliciting cash for you.
04:49And then they're turning around and saying to the agency, we don't want just an answer.
04:53We want to get to yes.
04:55Because Fauci wants the money.
04:58He wants it.
04:59We want to get to yes.
05:01And yes takes time.
05:03This is your chief of staff again.
05:04Using federal email to pressure the agency's own ethics people so that you could get money.
05:12So that you could get rich.
05:14And it violated the law.
05:16Didn't it, Dr. Fauci?
05:18Didn't it?
05:20It violated the law, didn't it?
05:23Is that a question?
05:25It is a question.
05:26You can answer.
05:26Go ahead.
05:27On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
05:32Constitution.
05:33Federal law, as you very well know, prohibits the solicitation of cash awards or other personal benefits for federal employees.
05:42And it certainly prohibits using your own employees to do this.
05:475 CFR section 2635-205B.
05:51It says it right there in black and white.
05:54You cannot use federal resources, federal dollars, federal employees, federal offices, federal email, federal time to solicit cash awards.
06:04And you did all of it.
06:06And the worst part is thousands of people were dying while you were doing it.
06:09You were supposed to be the nation's doctor and you're playing one on TV.
06:13But this is what you were doing with your time.
06:15Isn't that true?
06:20On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
06:25Constitution.
06:27Yeah.
06:27Yeah, I can see why.
06:29I can certainly see why.
06:31You know, what I can't quite figure out is that why you were so obsessed with it, because you're already
06:35rich.
06:36I mean, and your scheme worked here.
06:38I mean, you're not worth now is north of 12 million dollars.
06:42You got over a million dollars in cash awards during COVID, during a 12 month, 24 month span during COVID.
06:50A million bucks you knocked down in cash money using federal resources.
06:56Now you're worth more than 12 million dollars.
06:58You've got a pension that in its first year paid out north of $400,000 a year.
07:04A million people dead, you're getting rich.
07:07A million people dead, you're using federal employees to get cash awards for you.
07:12A million people dead, and you're here taking the fifth.
07:15Because you don't want to admit that what really happened in all that time was a multi-month, multi-year
07:21course of self-dealing.
07:23Isn't that true, Dr. Fauci?
07:27On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the
07:33Constitution.
07:34Yeah, we'll silence his admission.
07:36And here's the real thing.
07:38At the end of the day, it wasn't just about the money, really, was it?
07:41It was really about a power trip.
07:43I mean, through all of this, you want to be the most famous scientist in the world.
07:47You were so focused on getting every award and every drop of cash that you could, all because you wanted
07:52to be on TV.
07:54You wanted to be the sun god of science.
07:56You wanted to be the guy who was in charge of it all.
07:59You wanted to blambass Trump.
08:00You wanted to make sure that nobody else stole your spotlight.
08:03You wanted to be the guy.
08:06You had time to sit for InStyle Magazine.
08:10Here's what you were doing with your time.
08:11You could sit for InStyle Magazine, but you can't answer questions for the American people.
08:17You could sit for InStyle Magazine, but you're here taking the fifth.
08:20You could sit for InStyle Magazine and get a million bucks in cash awards.
08:24But now the cat's got your tongue.
08:27I bet he does.
08:29I tell you what, here's my conclusion from all of this.
08:32This was really all about you the whole time.
08:34Somewhere along the way, you lost your way.
08:38You may have been a good public servant at one time.
08:40I don't know.
08:41But what I can tell you from reading your emails now, from looking at what you did, how you
08:45used your employees, somewhere along the line, it became all about you.
08:49You became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar.
08:54And you've lied to the American people and you've lied to this body.
08:57And you've disgraced your profession by doing it.
08:59You called yourself the most famous scientist in the world.
09:02You've done more to harm science than anybody in my lifetime.
09:06And I hope you'll go home and write that in your diary.
09:10Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
09:11Senator Fetterman.
