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By Mona Austin Invoking the Fifth Dr. Anthony refused to answer a single question regarding his advisement and leadership during the COVID-19 in a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday morning. In his opening he saud he came out of respect from Congress but realized the goal of Republicans was to entrap him. Fauci was pardoned under Pres. Joe Biden due to attempts to pin the blame of the U.S. having the most deaths on the former head of the NIH. DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: "On the advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer based on my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution." Sen. Rand Paul continued to question Dr. Fauci about scientific experiments involving gain of function research saying that millions died because of it. His last statement was about Fauci allegedly saying the benefits outweigh the risk of the gain of function research. He quoted experts who were against it and asked Fauci if he had at least changed his views. Paul warned,...

(File this one in the "Don't-forget-where-you-came-from" folder) SUMMARY AP: In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it. ===================================== By Mona Austin Mark Robinson (R-NC), the first Black man to run for governor of North Carolina is eating his own words. Yolanda Hill has run a free lunch program through a non-profit organization she founded, Balanced Nutrition, solely funded by tax payers for years. The organization, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding under the state Department of Health and Human Services since 2017, while bankrolling the careers of Hill, Robinson and other members of their family. The business helped child care centers get federa...