MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell tore into Senate Republicans, saying they “disgraced themselves” during a hearing Wednesday with Anthony Fauci. While Fauci’s testimony was meant to focus on the origins of Covid-19, O’Donnell said members of the majority spent their time “attacking” a man he said had saved “possibly millions” of lives during the pandemic.
The former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times, as Republicans questioned him about more than 1,000 pages of his personal diary released by the committee’s Chair Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., earlier this week.
Some members highlighted Fauci’s entries about celebrities he had come into contact with over the years, accusing the immunologist of bragging about a newfound fame. O’Donnell said that was “impossible” and questioned how Fauci could be “name-dropping in a document that no one else was ever supposed to read.”
“There is nothing in the diary that reeks of vanity,” he added.
“The Last Word” host lambasted Republicans for trying to undermine Fauci’s work, highlighting the 85-year-old’s long career in public service. O’Donnell noted Fauci’s decades of research on HIV/AIDS and his work at the NIAID, which helped to lay the groundwork that enabled the U.S. to create Covid vaccines in record time.
“There is no higher calling than saving lives,” O’Donnell said. “There is nothing we could ever do more important than saving a single life. And most of us will never know that feeling of saving a life.”
The MS NOW host said all Americans owe “gratitude” to Fauci but argued the physician “owes nothing to Republicans in the United States Senate.”
“Sometimes news stories come down to a very simple right and wrong,” he said. “And this is one of them: Anthony Fauci is right, and every one of those Republican senators is very, very wrong.”
You can watch O’Donnell’s full commentary in the clip at the top of the page.
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