{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.moreno.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/moreno-unloads-on-fauci-demands-he-apologize-for-lives-he-ruined/", "Moreno Unloads on Fauci, Demands He Apologize for Lives He Ruined", "2026-07-29", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "OH", "Bernie Moreno", "M001242", "www.moreno.senate.gov", "moreno", "https://www.moreno.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "When prompted by Moreno, Fauci refused to apologize to or acknowledge audience members hurt by his policies.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) blasted Anthony Fauci for refusing to answer for the damage inflicted on millions of Americans by his failed pandemic leadership and vanity that denied children proper schooling, shuttered small businesses, and kept families apart.\n\nWatch Senator Moreno\u2019s full questioning HERE or below.\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s Criminal Defense Lawyer:\n\n\u201cLet me tell you who David Schertler is for the audience, because he was ejected by the chairman. He\u2019s a high-profile criminal attorney,\u201d said Senator Moreno. \u201cHe\u2019s represented some really great people like Senator Bob Menendez, maybe that\u2019s someone who my Democrat colleagues might remember, took gold bars as bribes from the Egyptians. And there\u2019s an article here in the Washington Free Beacon that talks about why you would hire a guy like David Schertler, and the comment is, \u2018if you\u2019re in deep sh*t, that\u2019s who you call.\u2019 Do you feel like you\u2019re in deep sh*t?\u201d\n\n\u201cOn the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution,\u201d said Dr. Fauci.\n\n\u201cClearly, what you think today is that somehow your above reproach,\u201d said Senator Moreno. \u201cSomehow you feel like you don\u2019t need to be treated like a normal American.\u201d\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s Refusal to Acknowledge the Lives he Harmed:\n\n\u201cCan you do me a favor, in the audience and standup if during the time of the COVID pandemic you were called a racist for calling the virus the Wuhan virus or the China virus? If you thought the six-foot rule was total crap. If you thought the vaccine wasn\u2019t something you should take. If you thought it was outrageous the way the mask policy was rolled out. If you were fired from your job for not taking in the vaccine, including members of the military. If you thought closing schools was catastrophically stupid and that saying these things made you somehow a lesser human being. Dr. Fauci, can you just turn around and look at the people behind you? You\u2019re not willing to do that,\u201d said Senator Moreno.\n\nOn Dr. Fauci\u2019s Refusal to Apologize to the American People:\n\n\u201cYou may have had a fifty plus year legacy of public service, but it ends in a total and complete disgrace,\u201d said Senator Moreno. \u201cSo let me ask you an opportunity to answer one question. Will you apologize, just apologize to the people you harmed through your actions? Do you have the dignity to just say you\u2019re sorry?\u201d", 1, "2026-08-10T06:13:07Z", "2026-08-10T06:14:46Z"]], "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.moreno.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/moreno-unloads-on-fauci-demands-he-apologize-for-lives-he-ruined/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8422490209341049, "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"}