{"id":98590,"date":"2026-07-30T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rand-paul-on-fauci-hearing-we-cant-prosecute-him-but-we-can-refer-him-to-the-department-of-justice\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:42:02","slug":"rand-paul-on-fauci-hearing-we-cant-prosecute-him-but-we-can-refer-him-to-the-department-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rand-paul-on-fauci-hearing-we-cant-prosecute-him-but-we-can-refer-him-to-the-department-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul on Fauci Hearing: &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Prosecute Him, But We Can Refer Him To The Department Of Justice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In an interview on NewsNation&#8217;s &#8220;Katie Pavlich Tonight&#8221; (weeknights, 10 p.m. ET), host Katie Pavlich spoke with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/29\/sen_rand_paul_to_dr_fauci_there_will_be_repercussions_for_your_refusal_to_testify.html\">Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s hearing today before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs<\/a>.  &#8220;So next week we will vote to hold him in contempt of Congress,&#8221; Paul told Pavlich. &#8220;That is a felony, and he can be prosecuted. We can&#8217;t prosecute him, but we refer him to the Department of Justice. So there is a question. Can you plead the Fifth Amendment when you&#8217;ve been pardoned. If you&#8217;ve already been granted immunity, how can you be seeking immunity from self-incrimination if you&#8217;ve already been granted immunity.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/29\/rand_paul_on_fauci_hearing_we_cant_prosecute_him_but_we_can_refer_him_to_the_department_of_justice.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on NewsNation&#8217;s &#8220;Katie Pavlich Tonight&#8221; (weeknights, 10 p.m. ET), host Katie Pavlich spoke with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s hearing today before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. &#8220;So next week we will vote to hold him in contempt of Congress,&#8221; Paul told Pavlich. &#8220;That is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4727,52,16944,6900,2634,1666,15253,3073,30045],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}