Sen. Rand Paul confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci with entries from Fauci's recently released private diary during a heated Senate hearing, arguing the notes conflicted with some of Fauci's public statements about the early origins of COVID-19. Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions. The hearing reignited debate over the Wuhan wet market, the lab-leak theory, gain-of-function research, and the U.S. government's pandemic response. Fauci has maintained that his diary is consistent with his public position that the market was an amplifier rather than the original source of the virus, while continuing to support a natural animal-to-human origin.

Sen. Rand Paul has released a tranche of Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci is set to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday on the origins of…

Republican Senator Rand Paul has released what he calls "Tony's Diary," a collection of Dr. Anthony Fauci's private journal entries, ahead of the former White House COVID…

The post comes after Paul released 1,141 pages of Fauci's writings ahead of the former NIAID director's scheduled Senate testimony.