Fauci’s SHOCKING Diary Confessions & Special Status for Haitians Revoked | 7.28.26

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**Georgia Howe** (0:19)
Dr. Anthony Fauci faces an upcoming grilling in front of the Senate as the fallout grows from his leaked diary.

**Anthony Fauci** (0:25)
Do you agree that there was a push to downplay the lab leak theory?

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Not on my part.

**Anthony Fauci** (0:31)
Really?

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Really?

**Anthony Fauci** (0:32)
Wow.

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I've kept an open mind throughout the entire process.

**Georgia Howe** (0:36)
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**Georgia Howe** (1:06)
And as Trump removes Haitians' protected status, new embarrassing details come to light about the anti-ice hunger strike activists.

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**John Bickley** (1:52)
Senator Rand Paul has released around 1,000 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary entries from the COVID era. They suggest he knowingly misled the public from the very start and had an obsessive preoccupation with fame. Fauci is set to testify under subpoena tomorrow.

**Georgia Howe** (2:09)
Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham is here now with more. So Megan, quite a few shocking revelations from this diary. Can you walk us through some of the most disturbing sections?

**Megan Basham** (2:19)
Yeah, so Paul released portions of this diary as part of his investigation into COVID origins, and Fauci's handling of the pandemic. And I would say that the most explosive revelation concerns the origins of the virus and evidence that Fauci knowingly lied to the public, basically from day one, Georgia. So in a diary entry dated January 26, 2020, Fauci wrote that evidence indicated that the earliest infection was not connected to Wuhan's market. Fauci's exact conclusion, and I'm quoting here, is that now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. A few days later, he noted that during a conference call involving roughly a dozen scientists, only two were confident that the virus could have arisen naturally. Now that matters because after that, Fauci made public statements arguing that the market itself was the likely point of origin. So in an April 2020 interview with Fox News, again, well after those diary entries, he insisted that the pandemic was a quote, direct result of wet markets. And he continued making that claim in congressional testimony and in his 2024 memoir.
Yet Fauci denied before the House in a hearing in 2024 that he deliberately misled the public. Now that said, the diary doesn't prove that Fauci privately believed that COVID escaped from a laboratory. In that same January entry, he did write that he still believed the virus had jumped from an animal to a human somewhere. But it does suggest that he knew that many highly credentialed virologists were questioning that claim, even as he and his boss, NIH head Francis Collins, were out framing that as a conspiracy theory.

**Georgia Howe** (4:04)
Right, and censoring anyone who disagreed. Now I'm also seeing a lot of chatter online about how his diary talked a lot about meeting famous people.
Tell us about that.

**Megan Basham** (4:15)
Yeah, I would say arguably that's even more embarrassing, though of course less significant from an investigative standpoint. Essentially, entry after entry displays, I think what we could call Fauci's rather unseemly interest in fame. So in March of 2020, just as we reached nearly 5,000 US deaths, he wrote about a quote unquote, very flattering front page Washington Post article. And he declared that, quoting again, national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. He added that it was not hyperbole to say that, today, I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable persons in the world. And then shortly after that, when cases were soaring past 30,000, he wrote, quote, press is going wild with me.