Fall in invoking the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions from elected officials. asked the color of his tie and the day of the week, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment. Paul later explained, “In no courtroom in America can you have your witness plead the Fifth Amendment, then your attorney gets to testify.” Incurious Democrats refused to ask questions in the same rote manner that Fauci refused to answer them. “You can sit for In Style magazine,” a frustrated Hawley told Fauci, “but you can’t answer questions for the American people.”