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WATCH: Fauci makes opening statement in Senate hearing on COVID origins
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July 29, 2026
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2:58Now PlayingDr. Anthony Fauci, a former top official and scientist at the National Institutes of Health who helped lead the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response made his opening statement Wednesday in a hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
The hearing was aimed at again questioning Fauci on the origins of the coronavirus. Committee chair Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., subpoenaed Fauci to appear, and released more than a thousand pages of his pandemic-era diary over the weekend.
Fauci has vigorously denied Paul’s accusations that he lied about the pandemic, calling them “preposterous.”
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