pensions committee, rand paul's attacks took a new turn as he accused dr. fauci of trying to silence other scientists. >> do you really think it's appropriate to use your $420,000 salary to attack scientists that disagree with you? >> the email you're referring to was email of dr. collins to me, if you look at the email -- >> that you responded to and hurried up and said i can do it. we have something in wired magazine. >> no, no, i think in usual fashion, senator, you are distorting everything about me. >> did you ever object to dr. collins' characterization of -- did you write back and say they're not fringe, they're esteemed scientists and it would be beneath me to do that. >> you responded you would do it and immediately got an article in wired and said look, i got them, i nailed them in wired, of all scientific publications. >> there you go again. you just do the same thing every hearing. >> okay, before we get into what