[0000.05 --> 0002.55] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[0002.55 --> 0004.41] Well, nothing says honesty like taking the fifth,
[0004.41 --> 0006.49] Hondak.
[0006.49 --> 0008.37] Let's try something.
[0008.37 --> 0013.82] What day of the week is it today?
[0013.82 --> 0016.50] On the divisive council, I respectfully
[0016.50 --> 0018.70] decline to answer based upon my rights
[0018.70 --> 0020.54] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0020.54 --> 0023.74] Oh, color tie you, Erin.
[0023.74 --> 0026.22] On the divisive council, I respectfully
[0026.22 --> 0028.38] decline to answer based upon my rights
[0028.38 --> 0030.58] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0030.58 --> 0035.81] What color's the carpet in front of you?
[0035.81 --> 0037.97] On the divisive council, I respectfully
[0037.97 --> 0040.25] decline to answer based upon my rights
[0040.25 --> 0042.37] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0042.37 --> 0043.37] Let's just get one thing straight.
[0043.37 --> 0045.41] You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment
[0045.41 --> 0048.17] because you've been pardoned as you very well know.
[0048.17 --> 0050.81] As a Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more,
[0050.81 --> 0054.73] Brown v. Walker, 1896, when he has been pardoned,
[0054.73 --> 0057.97] he may not stand upon his privilege.
[0057.97 --> 0060.05] You know that, your lawyer sitting behind you now
[0060.05 --> 0062.37] shifting nervously in their chairs, they know it.
[0062.37 --> 0064.73] This isn't about the Constitution, this isn't about the law,
[0064.73 --> 0067.57] this is about contempt, contempt for this body
[0067.57 --> 0070.21] and contempt for the American people.
[0070.21 --> 0071.57] But I think I know why you're doing it.
[0071.57 --> 0075.01] It's because you don't want to answer questions.
[0075.01 --> 0078.17] It's because you did all kinds of terrible things.
[0078.17 --> 0081.65] It's because during the pandemic, you got rich, didn't you?
[0081.65 --> 0084.69] You got rich while people were dying,
[0084.69 --> 0087.77] hundreds of thousands of Americans over a million in the end
[0087.77 --> 0090.49] and you were getting rich and not only were you doing that,
[0090.49 --> 0094.69] you were using federal employees with taxpayer money.
[0094.69 --> 0099.93] To apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally.
[0099.93 --> 0103.77] Cash prizes, totalling over a million dollars,
[0103.77 --> 0106.77] you did all of that during the pandemic, didn't you?
[0108.05 --> 0109.05] That's a question.
[0110.21 --> 0111.45] On the advice of counsel,
[0111.45 --> 0114.25] I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights
[0114.25 --> 0116.29] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0116.29 --> 0118.29] You remember Greg Falkers?
[0118.29 --> 0119.13] Who was that?
[0120.65 --> 0121.93] On the advice of counsel,
[0121.93 --> 0124.73] I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights
[0124.73 --> 0126.61] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0126.61 --> 0128.21] Your Chief of Staff is the answer.
[0128.21 --> 0130.89] Do you remember Patricia Conrad? Who was that?
[0132.13 --> 0133.33] On the advice of counsel,
[0133.33 --> 0136.05] I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights
[0136.05 --> 0138.21] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0138.21 --> 0139.65] Shoes your personal assistant.
[0139.65 --> 0143.01] And what were these individuals doing in the depth of the pandemic?
[0143.01 --> 0147.13] In November of 2020, when millions of Americans were suffering
[0147.13 --> 0148.61] from COVID, what were they doing?
[0148.61 --> 0150.41] I tell you what they're doing?
[0150.45 --> 0155.25] Falkers was on your behalf soliciting and gathering information
[0155.25 --> 0156.61] for a cash award.
[0156.61 --> 0157.45] Let's look at it.
[0157.45 --> 0161.25] We've got his email right here, right over my shoulder.
[0161.25 --> 0163.37] Falker says, I'm working on this nomination
[0163.37 --> 0165.05] for the Dan David Award for Fauci.
[0165.05 --> 0166.81] We need to beef up the COVID part.
[0166.81 --> 0168.69] Do you have language in the can
[0168.69 --> 0171.37] that you can share that delineates how we responded
[0171.37 --> 0172.57] in new ways to COVID?
[0172.57 --> 0175.33] He sends this to multiple federal employees.
[0175.33 --> 0179.86] What was the Dan David Award? Do you remember Doc?
[0179.86 --> 0182.34] On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline
[0182.34 --> 0184.06] to answer based upon my rights
[0184.06 --> 0186.22] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0186.22 --> 0191.22] It was a $900,000 cash award, $900,000 cash award.
[0195.06 --> 0199.38] And he got it because he used federal employees to get it.
[0199.38 --> 0202.46] And this wasn't the only award, was it, Dr. Fauci?
[0202.46 --> 0205.66] In fact, you applied for and received at least eight
[0205.70 --> 0209.94] other federal cash prizes on federal time
[0209.94 --> 0212.50] using federal employees and federal resources.
[0212.50 --> 0214.46] Here they are over my shoulder.
[0214.46 --> 0215.98] Besides the Dan David Award, you've got
[0215.98 --> 0217.30] the Partnership for Public Service,
[0217.30 --> 0218.46] you've got the Adelson Prize,
[0218.46 --> 0219.86] you've got the Smithsonian Award,
[0219.86 --> 0221.74] you've got the National Academy of Medicine Award,
[0221.74 --> 0223.10] you've got the CDC Foundation.
[0223.10 --> 0227.78] In fact, you turned your staff into a full-time application machine.
[0227.78 --> 0230.18] You actually wrote to people and said,
[0230.18 --> 0232.54] do you think maybe I'd qualify?
[0232.54 --> 0234.90] And you got cash for all of this.
[0234.90 --> 0237.06] And it wasn't just one or two employees, was it?
[0237.06 --> 0241.26] In fact, you used eight separate federal employees
[0241.26 --> 0244.18] on federal time using federal resources
[0244.18 --> 0248.65] to solicit cash awards, isn't that true?
[0248.65 --> 0251.05] On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline
[0251.05 --> 0252.69] to answer based upon my rights
[0252.69 --> 0254.41] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0254.41 --> 0255.77] Here they are right over my shoulder.
[0255.77 --> 0256.69] Here's all of them.
[0256.69 --> 0259.37] The people that you use federal employees
[0259.37 --> 0263.73] so that you could go and get cash money.
[0263.73 --> 0265.09] And the most hilarious part
[0265.09 --> 0267.49] is that you weren't content to even dragoon them
[0267.49 --> 0270.17] into applying for all of these cash awards.
[0270.17 --> 0272.93] You then had them go out to the ethics agencies
[0272.93 --> 0275.09] and ethics watch dogs and demand
[0275.09 --> 0278.09] that you be able to get the money.
[0278.09 --> 0279.09] That's right.
[0279.09 --> 0280.93] We've got it in your emails.
[0282.05 --> 0285.05] Your staff and employees on federal time
[0285.05 --> 0287.69] using federal resources being paid with federal dollars
[0287.69 --> 0289.81] are soliciting cash for you.
[0289.81 --> 0292.29] And then they're turning around and saying to the agency,
[0292.29 --> 0293.69] we don't want just an answer,
[0293.69 --> 0295.29] we want to get to yes
[0295.29 --> 0298.17] because Fauci wants the money.
[0298.17 --> 0299.81] He wants it.
[0299.81 --> 0302.97] We want to get to yes and yes takes time.
[0302.97 --> 0304.53] This is your chief of staff again,
[0304.53 --> 0307.89] using federal email to pressure
[0307.89 --> 0310.17] the agency's own ethics people
[0310.17 --> 0312.21] so that you could get money
[0312.21 --> 0313.65] so that you could get rich.
[0314.69 --> 0316.49] And a violent of the law,
[0316.49 --> 0317.57] didn't it, Dr. Fauci?
[0318.97 --> 0319.81] Didn't it?
[0320.93 --> 0325.11] A violent of the law, didn't it?
[0325.11 --> 0326.03] It is a question.
[0326.03 --> 0327.31] You can answer, go ahead.
[0327.31 --> 0328.55] On the advice of counsel,
[0328.55 --> 0331.39] I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights
[0331.39 --> 0333.27] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0333.27 --> 0335.83] Federal law, as you very well know,
[0335.83 --> 0339.03] prohibits the solicitation of cash awards
[0339.03 --> 0342.35] or other personal benefits for federal employees.
[0342.35 --> 0346.51] And it certainly prohibits using your own employees
[0346.51 --> 0348.15] to do this.
[0348.15 --> 0352.23] 5 CFR Section 2635-205B,
[0352.23 --> 0354.43] it says it right there in black and white,
[0354.43 --> 0357.63] you cannot use federal resources,
[0357.63 --> 0359.99] federal dollars, federal employees,
[0359.99 --> 0362.31] federal offices, federal email,
[0362.31 --> 0364.75] federal time to solicit cash awards.
[0364.75 --> 0366.07] And you did all of it.
[0366.07 --> 0367.47] And the worst part is,
[0367.47 --> 0369.59] thousands of people were dying while you were doing it.
[0369.59 --> 0371.59] You were supposed to be the nation's doctor
[0371.59 --> 0373.23] and you're playing one on TV,
[0373.23 --> 0375.15] but this is what you were doing with your time.
[0375.15 --> 0380.60] Isn't that true?
[0380.60 --> 0381.76] On the advice of counsel,
[0381.76 --> 0384.44] I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights
[0384.44 --> 0386.92] under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
[0386.92 --> 0389.72] Yeah, yeah, I can see why.
[0389.72 --> 0391.44] I can certainly see why.
[0391.44 --> 0393.24] You know what I can't quite figure out is that
[0393.24 --> 0394.72] why you were so obsessed with it
[0394.72 --> 0396.16] because you're already rich.
[0396.16 --> 0398.48] I mean, and your scheme worked here.
[0398.48 --> 0403.08] I mean, you're not worth now as north of $12 million.
[0403.08 --> 0407.08] You got over a million dollars in cash awards during COVID,
[0407.08 --> 0410.76] during a 12-month, 24-month span during COVID,
[0410.76 --> 0412.60] a million bucks,
[0412.60 --> 0414.76] you knocked down in cash money
[0414.76 --> 0416.08] using federal resources.
[0416.08 --> 0418.60] Now you're worth more than $12 million.
[0418.60 --> 0421.08] You've got a pension that in its first year paid out
[0421.08 --> 0424.64] north of $400,000 a year.
[0424.64 --> 0427.32] A million people dead, you're getting rich.
[0427.32 --> 0428.68] A million people dead,
[0428.68 --> 0432.16] you're using federal employees to get cash awards for you.
[0432.16 --> 0433.76] A million people dead,
[0433.76 --> 0435.64] and you're here taking the fifth
[0435.64 --> 0437.24] because you don't want to admit
[0437.24 --> 0439.36] that what really happened in all that time
[0439.36 --> 0443.60] was a multi-month, multi-year course of self-dealing.
[0443.60 --> 0447.46] Isn't that true, Dr. Fauci?
[0447.46 --> 0448.70] On the advice of counsel,
[0448.70 --> 0451.54] I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights
[0451.54 --> 0454.22] under the fifth amendment to the Constitution.
[0454.22 --> 0456.82] Yeah, well, silence is admission.
[0456.82 --> 0458.34] And here's the real saying.
[0458.34 --> 0459.18] At the end of the day,
[0459.18 --> 0461.26] it wasn't just about the money, really wasn't.
[0461.26 --> 0463.46] It was really about a power trip.
[0463.46 --> 0464.62] I mean, through all of this,
[0464.62 --> 0467.18] you want to be the most famous scientist in the world.
[0467.18 --> 0469.38] You were so focused on getting every award
[0469.38 --> 0471.58] and every drop of cash that you could
[0471.58 --> 0474.22] all because you wanted to be on TV.
[0474.22 --> 0476.62] You wanted to be the sun god of science.
[0476.62 --> 0478.86] You wanted to be the guy who was in charge of it all.
[0478.86 --> 0480.66] You wanted to blambass Trump.
[0480.66 --> 0483.70] You wanted to make sure that nobody else stole your spotlight.
[0483.70 --> 0486.30] You wanted to be the guy.
[0486.30 --> 0489.14] You had time to sit for N-style magazine.
[0490.30 --> 0491.54] Here's what you were doing with your time.
[0491.54 --> 0493.98] You could sit for N-style magazine,
[0494.98 --> 0497.30] but you can't answer questions for the American people.
[0497.30 --> 0499.30] You could sit for N-style magazine,
[0499.30 --> 0500.74] but you're here taking the fifth.
[0500.74 --> 0502.54] You could sit for N-style magazine
[0502.54 --> 0505.30] and get a million bucks in cash awards.
[0505.30 --> 0507.90] But now the cat's got your tongue.
[0507.90 --> 0509.74] Betty does.
[0509.74 --> 0512.86] I tell you what, here's my conclusion from all of this.
[0512.86 --> 0514.70] This was really all about you the whole time.
[0514.70 --> 0517.06] Somewhere along the way, you lost your way.
[0518.46 --> 0520.30] You may have been a good public servant at one time.
[0520.30 --> 0521.74] I don't know, but I can tell you
[0521.74 --> 0523.42] from reading your emails now,
[0523.42 --> 0526.30] from looking at what you did, how you used your employees.
[0526.30 --> 0529.82] Somewhere along the line, it became all about you.
[0529.82 --> 0534.06] You became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar.
[0534.06 --> 0535.50] And you've lied to the American people
[0535.50 --> 0537.50] and you've lied to this body.
[0537.50 --> 0539.62] And you've disgraced your profession by doing it.
[0539.62 --> 0542.54] You called yourself the most famous scientist in the world.
[0542.54 --> 0544.30] You've done more to harm science
[0544.30 --> 0546.06] than anybody in my lifetime.
[0546.06 --> 0549.95] And I hope you'll go home and write that in your diary.
[0549.95 --> 0551.27] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.