It will be in contempt of Congress,” Paul told reporters after the hearing, which featured Fauci refusing to answer one question from lawmakers. “We believe that with his… immunity from criminal liability, that he didn’t need to hide behind the Fifth Amendment and that maybe the Fifth Amendment doesn’t attach when you have a pardon in place,” Paul explained, noting it will be a legal question. And after his own line of questions, which Fauci refused to answer, Paul said that there would be repercussions. This is about contempt — contempt for this body and contempt for the American people,” he added, noting that Fauci did not want to answer questions because he did “all kinds of terrible things” during the pandemic. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times.