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Fauci pleads Fifth with 'zero legal justification' as critics erupt and demand contempt charges

Former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci repeatedly refused to answer substantive questions from Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, leaving the Kentucky Republican frustrated and critics enraged.Fauci and Paul previously engaged in heated exchanges during an earlier hearing, when the lawmaker warned the immunologist against lying to Congress about his role in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic and his support for gain-of-function research."I served at the NIH for over 54 years, 38 of those a...