00:00Here I am sitting in front of you six years later, saying who the f**k do you think you were
00:04for doing that?
00:05Anthony Fauci's Senate committee hearing on COVID-19 was bound to be full of heated moments and fiery questioning.
00:12But what actually unfolded shocked senators and viewers alike?
00:15Here are the five most jaw-dropping moments.
00:18Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
00:22stunned the panel and millions of Americans watching when he pleaded the fifth over and over again during the hearing.
00:30Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,
00:36his repeated slanderous comments about me,
00:40the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee
00:48is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges
00:58that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars.
01:03Under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution
01:09to refrain from answering your questions. Thank you.
01:14Fauci went on to invoke the Fifth Amendment 111 times,
01:18whether being pressed on COVID or questions as simple as,
01:21what day of the week is it?
01:23Fauci's attorney, David Schertler, sat next to the former COVID-19 czar
01:28during the testy hearing and repeatedly tried to speak up
01:31after Senator Rand Paul suggested his client would face repercussions for refusing to answer questions.
01:38Schertler ignored Paul's repeated warnings that he was not authorized to speak
01:41until finally Paul ordered security to escort him out.
01:46Security, please remove him from the room.
01:54One of the most heated moments came as Senator Bernie Moreno spent his round of questioning
01:58scolding the former White House COVID-19 czar for his handling of the pandemic.
02:04The Ohio Republican furiously recalled reading a news story during the pandemic
02:08about a mother and her children being arrested for not wearing masks outside while watching a football game.
02:35Another fiery moment came when Josh Hawley accused Dr. Anthony Fauci
02:39of illegally using his staff to solicit prize money during his time as director.
02:44You got rich while people were dying, hundreds of thousands of Americans,
02:49over a million in the end, and you were getting rich.
02:52And not only were you doing that, you were using federal employees
02:55with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally.
03:02You turned your staff into a full-time application machine.
03:06You actually wrote to people and said, do you think maybe I'd qualify?
03:11And you got cash for all of this.
03:13In a moment that raised eyebrows across the room and at home,
03:17Senator Joni Ernst claimed that Fauci approved the use of, quote,
03:21aborted baby body parts in mice research.
03:24NIH-funded coronavirus researcher, Dr. Ralph Baric and his colleagues at UNC put parts of livers,
03:33thymuses, and chunks of human fetal lung that they got from aborted, almost five-month-old human babies.
03:42They put those parts in their research mice.
03:45They disgustingly named them BLT-L mice and wrote they had created a, quote,
03:54sandwich of aborted body parts in the mice.
03:58Get it, folks?
04:00BLT.
04:01A BLT sandwich.
04:04Dr. Fauci, yes or no?
04:07Do you think that human aborted parts should be put into mice for coronavirus research?
04:16The advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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