Fauci says he's guilty of 'trying to save people’s lives'

Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) appeared on The View Thursday, telling the hosts that he’s "guilty" of "trying to save people’s lives."

Co-host Sara Haines noted that  "tensions have not cooled" regarding the topic of Covid, which was on "full display during your congressional hearing earlier this month." 

"Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't the only Republican that's actually calling for your criminal prosecution or imprisonment. How seriously do you take those threats," Haines asked.

"You know, obviously, you always take threats that people make seriously but I quite frankly don't know what they're talking about. What are the charges, that you save millions of lives with the vaccine that you helped develop, or that you got people to do things that were interventions that made them more safe against a deadly pandemic that killed 1.2 million people? So if trying to save people's lives is a crime then I am guilty, you know."

In an early June congressional hearing, Greene told Fauci "We should be recommending you to be prosecuted. We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison," in relation to the hundreds of millions of dollars that NIH scientists in royalties from drug makers. The NIAID is one of the institutes under the umbrella of the NIH.

Fauci also testified before the House Select Subcommittee in early June that he does not believe any vaccine is "100 percent effective" and that the Covid vaccine had "limited" protections.

X owner Elon Musk has also called for Fauci’s prosecution, writing "Prosecute/Fauci" in response to a top NIH official admitting that taxpayer money had gone to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.