Earlier Tuesday, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway warned Democratic lawmakers against conducting their “usual fishing expedition” if they hear testimony from Fauci, and said his prospective appearance on Capitol Hill should not mirror Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings — which were marred by allegations of sexual assault.
“I just hope that the people who are asking the questions are asking intelligent, rational questions that are actually relevant to the American health, because we’ve seen what they do before,” Conway told “Fox & Friends.”
“For example, they say stupid things like, ‘This is a job interview — this is a job interview for a lifetime appointment’ about Brett Kavanaugh. ‘Let’s believe all women’ — or at least those three women, most of whom then retracted or didn’t have corroborating evidence,” she added.
Conway also said she hoped lawmakers would break with what she characterized as a pattern of partisan inquiries launched by Democrats that included last year’s impeachment inquiry and earlier probes into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“We had two years of collusion nonsense, then we tried to impeach a president, remove him from office,” she said. “None of that worked. It better be about health.”
Still, Conway left open the possibility that Fauci or other task force members could appear before Congress this month, arguing that their testimony “would shed a great deal of light.”
“Listen, if the president has no problem with that, there’s no executive privilege attached to that based on the task force conversations, then I’ll leave that to the lawyers and to the different testifiers,” she said.
But Conway declined to conclusively state “one way or the other” that Fauci would testify before the Senate and not testify before the House, again deferring to the administration’s attorneys. “If they were to say yes to that — and I didn’t say they said yes to that — then I certainly hope people would make good time,” she said.
Daniel Lippman contributed to this report.
Source: politico.com
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