Live updates: Fauci invokes Fifth at Senate COVID hearing; Blanche nomination at stand-still

Summary

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a face of the government’s pandemic response, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to decline to answer questions before the Senate Homeland Security panel and a critical Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on COVID-19’s origins. Fauci repeatedly took the Fifth under questioning on queries related to COVID and not. In concluding the hearing, Paul…