Fauci pleaded the Fifth throughout his testimony today. No clarity on what he did, said, agreed to, or funded.

Rand Paul raised the question of contempt. And there may be a real legal problem with how Fauci's team handled it: he opened his testimony with a statement about his "decade-long cooperation with Congress," testifying 200 times.

"You can't use it as a sword and a shield." Once he opened the door to that topic, pleading the Fifth on everything else may not hold up.

@delbigtree