Rand Paul: “the public desperately wants you to get out of partisan attack mode and start working together to find solutions.”

The chair directed Anthony Fauci to answer. He refused again. That is what we are voting on today - not his opinions, not his policies, not anything he said from a podium six years ago.

We are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence.

It was a judgment error. It was a profound judgment error.

It’s a good legal discussion, and we will make those legal points to DOJ in sending the referral over.