The senator explains Fauci's Fifth Amendment protections no longer applied because of his presidential pardon and that Fauci also waived any remaining privilege by delivering opening testimony. Fauci refused to answer anyway, which Paul says amounts to obstruction of a congressional investigation.
It was Jay Town, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, who explained in a analysis at the Federalist that nothing new was learned at the hearing, but the Supreme Court has made it clear "that pleading the Fifth is 'confined to instances where the witness has reasonable cause to apprehend danger from a direct answer.'"
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