{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-a-special-counsel-must-investigate-fauci-his-auto-pen-pardon/", "Senator Marshall: A Special Counsel Must Investigate Fauci & His Auto-Pen Pardon", "2026-08-02", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Marshall Joins Fox News Sunday Morning Futures\n\nWashington \u2013 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox News\u2019 Sunday Morning Futures to discuss Dr. Fauci\u2019s lies to the American people and how he can be brought to justice, the Senate\u2019s priorities next week including the SAVE America Act, and why voter ID requirements must be passed before the Senate leaves on recess.\n\nClick HERE to download the full video.\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s Senate hearing:\n\n\u201cYeah, Maria, well, good morning. I think, you know, first of all, Fauci was literally shaking as he read his opening statement. And through that hearing, he took body blow after body blow, and eventually, when it\u2019s all over with, he\u2019s a man that\u2019s broken \u2014 he looks like an old punching bag that\u2019s worn out and is done in the gym. And why wouldn\u2019t he? You know, if Americans take the time to read his diary, they\u2019re going to see that this was a guy that was full of pride. He was drunk with power, he was drunk with pride, he was drunk with his own celebrity. This is the Anthony Fauci that I saw through those five years: never any remorse, never any concern for the people dying \u2014 let alone the ones he was locking out of churches, out of schools, out of their jobs. He was not only reading his own press clippings, he was putting them in his own diary as well \u2014 regaling over every one of them. So sad day for America, we still don\u2019t have closure, there\u2019s so much he could have told us. There\u2019s so much that he could have told us so we could learn for next time.\u201d\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s diary entries:\n\n\u201cRight. So, again, he writes in his diary one thing but tells America something else. The end of January 2020, he is sitting there saying, \u2018There\u2019s no way that this virus came from this wet market, that it was a spreader event,\u2019 and \u2018Oh, by the way, this biosecurity level four lab is just like a couple blocks away.\u2019 So which one do you think is more likely\u2014that a bat traveled 2,000 miles, got off on a bus, and then suddenly got into that market? Or do you think it was leaked from the lab four blocks away? So, he says one thing to his diary and something else to us. On February 1st, he has a phone call with 12 of the best scientists in the world on this gain-of-function research \u2014 10 of the 12 tell us that they think it came from a laboratory, but he tells the President, he tells all of us, that he thinks that this came from this wet market. So, he lied, he lied, and he lied again to protect his own reputation.\u201d\n\nOn bringing Dr. Fauci to justice:\n\n\u201cRight, and beyond that, 20 million Americans still have long COVID \u2014 including one of my loved ones \u2014 so those people deserve answers as well. But this is why I\u2019m calling for a special counsel: we need to get this out of Washington, get the politics out of it, and then go back and build this case that Anthony Fauci, for over 20 years, funded gain-of-function research, then he led this cover-up as well. Then we got to get into the autopen pardon \u2014 by the way, this was an autopen pardon, and so maybe he\u2019s not immune from what he said in the past. Look, this guy\u2019s slick, he\u2019s lawyered up, I don\u2019t know that if we can throw him in jail over this, but I think that certainly a special counsel needs to get a hold of this. There\u2019s no way we can address this in one morning hearing in Congress.\u201d\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s autopen pardon:\n\n\u201cYeah, so Maria in my opinion, yes \u2014 I think there is evidence that should be investigated. But this would take a special counsel to dive into all of them, even just the validity of this autopen pardon. I mean, I understand that maybe on some rules that maybe the President didn\u2019t have to sign it with his own pen, but this autopen was being run by somebody else. So, I think there\u2019s a lot more here \u2014 we need a special counsel up and running.\u201d\n\nOn the Senate\u2019s priorities next week:\n\n\u201cWell, I feel like we\u2019re trying to put 20 pounds of potatoes in a 10-pound bag. But we need to prioritize and get as much done as we can, starting with the funding of the government. Remember, Chuck Schumer and big-government socialists \u2014 they\u2019ve shut the government down three times already. So, it\u2019s time to move that, and hopefully we\u2019ll get on these other bills as well.\u201d\n\nOn passing the SAVE America Act before recess:\n\n\u201cYeah, Maria. So certainly, we have 50 Republicans that would support some version of the SAVE Act, but it takes 10 Democrats to go along with this, and that\u2019s what we can\u2019t find. So, we\u2019re going to continue to work through the process. I\u2019m asking that we stay in D.C. though, till we take up voter ID, till we take up proof of citizenship, and then do something else with the mail-in ballots.\u201d\n\n\u201cI do. I think we\u2019ll be doing good to get done next weekend at the earliest.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-03T08:26:20Z", "2026-08-03T08:27:37Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-a-special-counsel-must-investigate-fauci-his-auto-pen-pardon/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8719698525965214, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}