Previewing Fauci Capitol Hill Grilling, Paris Stabbing Spree, Sailor’s Wild Rescue: AM Update 7/28

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**Megyn Kelly** (0:32)
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Tuesday, July 28th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.

**Rand Paul** (0:39)
I expect he will not tell the truth. I expect him to dissemble. I expect him to filibuster, but I don't expect him to be honest.

**Megyn Kelly** (0:48)
Dr. Anthony Fauci set to return to Capitol Hill under subpoena tomorrow as newly released diary entries reveal his decade long fixation on fame and media attention. A knife-wielding attacker stabbing three women in Paris, then claiming Allah commanded him to do it as French authorities hesitate to name a motive.

**Kai Sato** (1:09)
Yeah, like ecstatic. You know what I mean? Like I was like trying and like so happy.

**Megyn Kelly** (1:14)
A California sailor found alive after spending weeks adrift in the Pacific, reportedly surviving on makeshift repairs, scraps of food and sheer determination. And the Cracker Barrel CEO behind the chain's disastrous makeover stepping down. Nearly one year after customers forced the company to restore its traditional identity. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, set to return to Capitol Hill tomorrow, testifying under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about the federal government's response to COVID-19.
Committee Chairman Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, issuing the subpoena last month after Dr. Fauci reportedly agreed to testify voluntarily in June, then backed out. Senator Paul telling Semaphore the reversal, pushing him to a breaking point, leading him to issue his first subpoena since becoming chairman. Lawmakers expected to press Dr. Fauci about U.S.-funded research involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the scientific and political decisions that shaped the government's pandemic response. The hearing marks the latest chapter in a years-long investigation into what federal officials knew about the origins of COVID, when they knew it and whether they withheld evidence pointing to a possible laboratory origin. Tomorrow's hearing marks Dr. Fauci's first appearance in front of Congress since June 2024, where he repeatedly denied allegations that he helped conceal the origins of COVID. Senator Paul in a recent Fox News appearance earlier this month on what he expects to hear from Dr. Fauci in this next round.

**Rand Paul** (4:13)
I expect he will not tell the truth. I expect him to dissemble.
I expect him to filibuster. But I don't expect him to be honest. He has not been honest in the last six years. But we have the evidence now that he destroyed records, that he encouraged others to destroy records. We have evidence and the opinion of many of the people who worked around with him, that the research that was funded in China and Wuhan was dangerous, gain-to-function research, and that this was perhaps the worst public health decision made in our lifetime, maybe in history, to fund this research in a totalitarian country, an opaque country, with a less-than-safe lab and very, very dangerous research. This was a terrible decision, and we know it was made consciously because Fauci has told us repeatedly that he supports this research even if an accident should happen, even if a pandemic should occur. He thinks that the knowledge is worth the risk. And I think the lives of 15 million people who died approximately would counter that.