Louisiana AG says state will investigate Fauci after Senate hearing
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Comments: by Tara Suter - 08/02/26 9:12 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Tara Suter - 08/02/26 9:12 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said her state will investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci after a recent fiery Senate hearing where the retired government scientist pleaded the Fifth Amendment in response to questions from Republican lawmakers.
In a post on the social platform X on Saturday , Murrill said that “Louisiana and Missouri deposed Dr. Fauci.”
“At the time, he claimed to not recall many key details of his own actions and now we are discovering contemporaneous records he kept,” she added. “Louisiana will join Alabama & Florida in investigating Fauci and whether he committed any other offenses that could be pursued in our State courts.”
On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said he was beginning an investigation into Fauci after the former chief White House medical adviser invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a Senate hearing focused on the COVID-19 pandemic .
“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social media. “My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.”
Fauci’s Senate hearing on Wednesday turned into an hourslong chance for Republicans to express criticisms, arguments and theories on the response to COVID-19, with Fauci refusing to answer questions.
A few days before the hearing, over a thousand pages of Fauci’s personal diary entries and work records were released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The longtime health official called the action from Paul an attempt at “embarrassing and intimidating” him.
The Hill has reached out to an attorney for Fauci for comment.
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