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\n A Senate subcommittee investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of his iPhone, a spokesperson for the panel\u2019s chair, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, told CNN on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Department of Health and Human Services provided the phone to Johnson\u2019s panel, the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ahead of a planned vote to hold the retired scientist in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a hearing last week.\n <\/p>\n

\n Johnson\u2019s possession of a copy of the phone \u2013 which Fauci used during his time as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases \u2013 could boost congressional Republicans\u2019 efforts to probe and potentially attack Fauci and his actions during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHopefully, this device will address many of the questions he refused to answer at last week\u2019s hearing,\u201d Johnson wrote on social media Wednesday night.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to a spokesperson for Fauci for comment.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n Sen. Rand Paul \u2013 who chairs the full Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and has long clashed with Fauci \u2013 in June subpoenaed the 85-year-old former head of NIAID to appear before Congress.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last week, Fauci invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination more than 100 times throughout the high-profile and often-contentious hearing that Republicans had hoped would open him up to claims of perjury \u2013 after a yearslong investigation aimed at validating Paul\u2019s and other Republicans\u2019 belief that Fauci orchestrated a cover-up of the origins of the coronavirus.\n <\/p>\n

\n Frustrated Republicans have sought to cast Fauci\u2019s noncooperation as fresh evidence of culpability, despite being unable to prove it. For Democrats, the hearing marked just the latest episode in a long-running GOP effort to downplay the seriousness of a pandemic that killed more than one million Americans \u2013 many of them on President Donald Trump\u2019s watch.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Wall Street Journal was first to report on Johnson\u2019s panel obtaining Fauci\u2019s phone.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will vote Thursday morning on a resolution to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress for invoking the Fifth Amendment throughout his testimony.\n <\/p>\n

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\n When asked earlier this week whether the panel would have the votes, Paul said, \u201cWe\u2019ll find out Thursday.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Paul also said the committee would immediately send the results to the Department of Justice, insisting the panel does not need a full Senate vote to refer Fauci for contempt charges.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe don\u2019t do charging, the Department of Justice does. If we win the vote on Thursday my plan is to send it to the Department of Justice,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Prior to Fauci\u2019s contentious appearance on the Hill, Paul\u2019s committee released more than 1,100 pages of his personal diary from 2019 to 2022. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News that he had handed the files over to Paul and Johnson after finding them on government servers following an eight-month search.\n <\/p>\n

\n The entries documented his frequent media appearances and growing fame, shining a light on his interactions with celebrities and dozens of members of the news media, including some CNN journalists.\n <\/p>\n

\n The diary entries also narrate Fauci\u2019s growing concerns about Covid-19, frustrations with the government response and conflicting relationships with both Trump and Biden administration officials.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pressure from Paul and others led President Joe Biden to preemptively pardon Fauci during his last days in office, shielding Fauci from charges pertaining to any comments made in previous years.\n <\/p>\n

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