{"id":98667,"date":"2026-07-31T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/fetterman-fauci-hearing-was-excessive-is-it-really-necessary-to-force-the-dude-to-invoke-the-fifth-111-times\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:42:10","slug":"fetterman-fauci-hearing-was-excessive-is-it-really-necessary-to-force-the-dude-to-invoke-the-fifth-111-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/fetterman-fauci-hearing-was-excessive-is-it-really-necessary-to-force-the-dude-to-invoke-the-fifth-111-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman: Fauci Hearing Was Excessive, Is It Really Necessary To Force The Dude To Invoke The Fifth 111 Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was present Wednesday as Republican colleagues grilled former White House medical adviser Tony Fauci about COVID-19. I do think it&#8217;s entirely appropriate to really hold Fauci accountable, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really appropriate to pound an 85-year-old man \u2026 just to try to humiliate the guy, Fetterman tells CUOMO.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN (D-PA): I do think it&#8217;s entirely appropriate to really hold Fauci accountable, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really appropriate to pound an 85-year-old man 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes just to try to humiliate the guy.  You know, I didn&#8217;t really appreciate-he does seem like he was a little fixated on his own fame. That wasn&#8217;t, like, his best look, but overall, at some point, hey, it was excessive, you know? And it&#8217;s like, is it really necessary to force the dude to say, you know, fifth, fifth, fifth, you know, 111 times? Those aren&#8217;t great optics. But hold him accountable, absolutely, and point out some of these things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Watch Fauci plead the Fifth:  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dnpCSdU6yMk?si=ObvfBttxxhZm9Y5g\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/30\/fetterman_fauci_hearing_was_excessive_is_it_really_necessary_to_force_the_dude_to_invoke_the_fifth_111_times.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was present Wednesday as Republican colleagues grilled former White House medical adviser Tony Fauci about COVID-19. I do think it&#8217;s entirely appropriate to really hold Fauci accountable, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really appropriate to pound an 85-year-old man \u2026 just to try to humiliate the guy, Fetterman tells CUOMO. SEN. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10079,29968,16944,22518,1170,2601,6900,15104,1452,1974,4049],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98667"}],"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=98667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}