Fauci looked like a con man who’d been discovered and whose only remaining agenda was survival. said Fauci had no right to plead the Fifth because he has been pardoned. Hawley told Fauci:You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you’ve been pardoned, as you very well know. Terrible ThingsHawley spent a good deal of his time making the case that Fauci got rich while people suffered. Fauci mentioned this during his short opening statement, the only time he said anything other than pleading the Fifth.