Josh Hawley clashes with Dr Fauci: 'You got rich while people were dying' #SenateHearing #COVID19 #Coronavirus

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic during a Senate hearing that he described as a years-long partisan crusade intended to smear him. The infectious disease expert invoked his right against providing testimony to the panel 111 times while under oath. Fauci’s lawyer, David Schertler, was escorted from the room after the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s Republican chair Rand Paul warned of “consequences” and “repercussions” for Fauci’s refusal to testify Wednesday. “You are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive. Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge would put you in jail,” Paul told Schertler as he tried to speak. “I can’t do that today, but I can have you escorted from the premises.” gmailPaul said the hearing is “not a game with his lawyers.”