LIVE: Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth at Senate hearing on COVID-19 (FULL)

Watch live as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. scientist who helped lead the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response, is set to face off again with Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky probing the origins of the coronavirus. Paul subpoenaed Fauci to appear before a Senate committee as part of his yearslong accusations that the now-retired infectious disease expert had lied about the pandemic, something Fauci has called “preposterous.” Credit: U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee fauci live hearing coronavirus covid19