Senator Bernie Moreno Confronts Anthony Fauci Over COVID-19 Policies and Demands Apology for Americans Harmed

[00:00] I'll echo Senator Johnson's comments

[00:02] about your opening statement, Mr.

[00:03] Chairman. I think it was it was dead-on.

[00:05] Very, very well done.

[00:07] Mr. Fauci, do you know who David

[00:09] Schertler is?

[00:13] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[00:15] decline to answer based upon my rights

[00:17] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[00:18] Constitution.

[00:21] >> Fifth Amendment Fifth Amendment of the

[00:23] Constitution. What does the Fifth

[00:24] Amendment of the Constitution say?

[00:35] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[00:36] decline to answer based upon my rights

[00:39] under the Fifth Amendment of the

[00:40] Constitution.

[00:41] >> No, I'm just asking you what it says.

[00:44] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[00:46] decline to answer based upon my rights

[00:48] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[00:49] Constitution.

[00:51] >> I'm going to give um the Constitution to

[00:53] my aide to help bring it over to you so

[00:54] you can have it for future reference. I

[00:56] think it's

[00:57] uh something that every American should

[00:58] know what the Constitution says. Do you

[01:00] know who wrote the Fifth Amendment?

[01:03] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[01:05] decline to answer based upon my rights

[01:07] under the Fifth Amendment of the

[01:08] Constitution.

[01:09] >> So, you're invoking a right that you

[01:11] don't know who wrote it or what it says.

[01:12] Is that correct?

[01:14] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[01:16] decline to answer based upon my rights

[01:18] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[01:19] Constitution.

[01:21] >> Wow.

[01:22] Well, let me tell you who David

[01:23] Schertler is for the audience because he

[01:25] was ejected by the chairman. He's a

[01:27] high-profile criminal attorney.

[01:30] He's represented some really great

[01:32] people like Senator Bob Menendez. Maybe

[01:35] that's

[01:36] uh somebody who my Democrat colleagues

[01:38] may remember

[01:39] uh took gold bars as bribes

[01:42] from the Egyptians.

[01:44] And there's an article here in the

[01:46] Washington Free Beacon

[01:47] that talks about

[01:49] why you would hire a guy like David

[01:51] Schertler. And the comment is, "If

[01:52] you're in deep that's who you

[01:54] call." Do you feel like you're in deep

[01:58] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[02:00] decline to answer based upon my rights

[02:02] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[02:03] Constitution.

[02:07] >> Clearly,

[02:09] what you think today is that somehow

[02:11] you're above reproach.

[02:14] Somehow you feel like you

[02:16] don't need to be treated like a normal

[02:20] American.

[02:24] Can you do me a favor in the audience

[02:26] and stand up if during

[02:28] the time of the COVID pandemic, you were

[02:32] called a racist for calling the virus a

[02:35] Wuhan virus or the China virus. If you

[02:37] thought the 6-foot rule was total crap.

[02:40] If you thought the vaccine wasn't

[02:42] something that you should take. If you

[02:44] thought it was outrageous the way the

[02:46] mask policy was rolled out. If you were

[02:48] fired from your job for not taking that

[02:52] vaccine, including members of the

[02:54] military. If you thought closing schools

[02:56] was catastrophically stupid and that you

[03:00] thought that during these times saying

[03:02] these things made you somehow a lesser

[03:05] human being.

[03:10] Dr. Fauci, can you just turn around and

[03:12] look at the people behind you?

[03:16] You're not willing to do that?

[03:19] Is that a question? It's not a question.

[03:21] To your lawyers, not a question. It's a

[03:23] request.

[03:26] All you have to do is look up from your

[03:27] lawyers

[03:29] and look at the people who were

[03:31] absolutely shamed

[03:34] for saying what we know now to be the

[03:36] truth.

[03:37] You can't even look at them?

[03:40] That's a That's a question. Are you able

[03:42] to look at them?

[03:43] You can sit down. The audience.

[03:51] There was a um,

[03:53] in Ohio

[03:55] during the depth of the coronavirus

[03:58] pandemic,

[04:01] decided to go to her high school

[04:02] football game for her son.

[04:05] They hadn't been out much.

[04:08] The kids had been learning at school,

[04:11] and then the school got shut down.

[04:15] They hadn't really gotten much out of

[04:16] that education, as any parent knew

[04:19] that remote learning was no learning at

[04:21] all. But it was a Friday night.

[04:24] Her son wanted to go watch

[04:27] a buddy go, uh, play football.

[04:30] So, they went to the stadium. They sat

[04:31] alone,

[04:33] far from everybody else, just a mom, a

[04:35] dad, few kids.

[04:39] They didn't feel they needed to wear

[04:40] masks

[04:41] because it was stupid,

[04:44] cuz they were outside,

[04:46] they all live together, they're not near

[04:48] anybody.

[04:52] Dr. Fauci, do you know what happened to

[04:53] that mom and that family?

[04:57] That's a question.

[04:59] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[05:01] decline to answer based upon my rights

[05:03] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[05:04] Constitution.

[05:05] >> They were

[05:06] dragged out of that stadium

[05:10] and arrested.

[05:16] Those policies

[05:18] were put in place

[05:20] because you had moronic politicians

[05:23] that listened to the words of a

[05:25] megalomaniac

[05:26] who was more interested

[05:29] in having met a Kardashian

[05:32] than the suffering of the American

[05:33] people, and that is you.

[05:36] Your

[05:38] advice

[05:40] to communities like that, to idiotic

[05:43] politicians who enforced those rules,

[05:47] arrested that mom

[05:49] for watching a football game

[05:51] with her own family

[05:53] outside.

[05:55] When that story broke,

[05:58] I said to myself,

[06:01] "I cannot stand idly on the side and

[06:03] watch this happen."

[06:05] It was about 6 years ago today

[06:08] that I decided,

[06:09] "I'm going to give up my businesses,

[06:11] sell them all,

[06:12] run for office, run for the United

[06:14] States Senate." Here I am sitting in

[06:16] front of you 6 years later saying, "Who

[06:18] the do you think you were for doing

[06:20] that?"

[06:23] It is a total disgrace what you did to

[06:26] this country. And if my Democrat

[06:28] colleagues are standing there defending

[06:29] you, I hope the voters of the United

[06:32] States of America watch the clips of

[06:34] every one of you doting on a guy

[06:38] who was more interested in being a

[06:39] celebrity

[06:41] than saving American people.

[06:43] I will make it my mission

[06:47] to make certain that every single one of

[06:48] those Republic uh Democrats who did that

[06:52] will see that clip over and over and

[06:55] over again.

[06:58] Because defending There is no defense of

[07:01] what you did.

[07:04] You may have had a 50-plus year legacy

[07:08] of public service,

[07:10] but it ends in total and complete

[07:13] disgrace.

[07:15] So, let me ask you

[07:16] an opportunity to answer one question.

[07:19] Will you apologize, just apologize,

[07:24] to the people who you harmed through

[07:27] your actions? Will you say, "I'm Do you

[07:30] have the dignity

[07:32] to just say you're sorry?"

[07:38] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[07:40] decline to answer based upon my rights

[07:42] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[07:43] Constitution.

[07:44] >> So, you won't apologize to the military

[07:46] members who Joe Biden summarily

[07:49] dismissed from the military for not

[07:50] taking the vaccine?

[07:53] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[07:55] decline to answer based upon my rights

[07:57] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[07:58] Constitution.

[07:59] >> apologize to the business owners that

[08:01] lost their business,

[08:02] shattered their lives, and they'll never

[08:05] recover?

[08:07] >> On the advice of counsel, I respectfully

[08:08] decline to answer based upon my rights

[08:10] under the Fifth Amendment to the

[08:11] Constitution.

[08:13] >> Will you apologize to the moms who had

[08:15] to force their infant children, two,

[08:18] three, four-year-olds, to put masks on,

[08:20] and what that did, and how that

[08:21] traumatized those kids?

[08:29] >> under the Fifth Amendment to the

[08:30] Constitution.

[08:31] >> Will you apologize

[08:32] to the family members

[08:34] of the people who died because they took

[08:36] your advice, and not only got the first

[08:38] vaccine, but the five, six other

[08:40] boosters that they did not need?

[08:47] >> to answer based upon my rights under the

[08:49] Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

[08:51] >> Will you apologize to that mom from Ohio

[08:53] for being arrested

[08:56] for watching a football game with her

[08:57] family?

[09:05] >> Amendment to the Constitution.

[09:08] >> So, you didn't know who wrote the Fifth

[09:10] Amendment. It's James Madison.

[09:14] Lived in this town.

[09:17] I can only wonder what

[09:19] he would think

[09:21] of somebody like you invoking his

[09:23] writings

[09:25] to shield culpability

[09:27] for the actions that you took.

[09:31] It's no secret why you have to hire the

[09:34] biggest dirtbag attorney on on on the

[09:36] planet

[09:38] because of what you did.

[09:40] I hope you're paying him well.

[09:42] And I hope that one way or the other,

[09:45] somewhere, sometime, you answer for your

[09:48] crimes.