“It’s even a curious way in which you wonder what his legal advice was, why they decided to do that,” Ryan Goodman said on CNN’s “OutFront.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before a Senate committee Wednesday morning, days after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than 1,000 pages of his diaries.

The former top health official said he would invoke his 5th Amendment right not to testify to avoid the possibility that Republicans might try to prosecute him for perjury.