Sen. Rand Paul’s demand to have Dr. Anthony Fauci’s attorney forcibly removed from a Wednesday Senate hearing faced immediate blowback. Paul then ordered security to remove Schertler from the hearing after stating, “Would you behave this way in a courtroom? Schertler later told an NBC News correspondent, “Dr Fauci has a valid 5th amendment privilege and he has the right to assert it. That’s what I was trying to tell the committee and that’s all I was trying to tell the committee.” “Rand Paul is such an a--,” wrote media analyst Jeff Jarvis, before adding, “Their willful antiscience ignorance is deadly.”