‘COVID didn't start at Wuhan market': Rand Paul confronts Fauci with his private diary entry | WATCH

Sen. Rand Paul confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci with entries from Fauci's recently released private diary during a heated Senate hearing, arguing the notes conflicted with some of Fauci's public statements about the early origins of COVID-19. Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions. The hearing reignited debate over the Wuhan wet market, the lab-leak theory, gain-of-function research, and the U.S. government's pandemic response. Fauci has maintained that his diary is consistent with his public position that the market was an amplifier rather than the original source of the virus, while continuing to support a natural animal-to-human origin.