Fox News host Laura Ingraham was on hand to watch Dr. Anthony Fauci answer questions at Wednesday's Senate hearing, sitting behind him and standing up when Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) asked about people being "shamed" during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Moreno requested people in the audience stand up if they had controversial beliefs or actions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and may have faced backlash for those beliefs or actions, Ingraham stood.
"All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth," Moreno told Fauci during the hearing.
Ingraham, as the COVID-19 pandemic was raging in the U.S., criticized the use of coronavirus vaccines and said that Americans should not have to receive them.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, conservatives often raged against public health measures and advice meant to protect against the virus, including masking and vaccinations.
Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser, invoked his Fifth Amendment right at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday held by the committee's chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Fauci went after Paul's "obvious obsession" with calling for the health official's prosecution. Fauci and Paul have a history of tension during congressional hearings.
"The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, 'behind bars,'" Fauci said.
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