Overview
- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened a hearing Wednesday in which Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions.
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham sat behind Fauci and was filmed rolling her eyes, making faces, and briefly taking a selfie, actions that were widely circulated online.
- The Daily Show posted a supercut pairing Ingraham’s expressions with her own prior on-air remarks and the clip drew heavy views and social-media sharing.
- Committee staff had released more than 1,100 pages they described as Fauci’s personal diary that lumped Ingraham with “stooges” at Fox News, and the panel has scheduled a vote next week on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.
- Curtis Ingraham publicly rebuked his sister on X and the episode has sharpened two parallel stories to watch: the committee’s procedural push toward potential legal consequences and the broader political fight over pandemic-era decisions and media coverage.