# Badlands Daily: 7/29/26 - Fauci Pleads the Fifth, Funeral Diplomacy & Georgia's Vote Bombshell

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-07-29T17:34:20+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-72926-fauci-pleads-the-fifth-funeral-diplomacy-georgias-vote-bombshell/
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## Resource

CannCon and Ashe cover a genuinely wild congressional hearing day as Anthony Fauci shows up citing advice of counsel and looking to plead the fifth, his own attorney gets physically removed from the chamber for refusing to sit where instructed, and RFK Jr faces questions about a pardon that may not hold up to legal scrutiny. They also dig back into Fauci's diary entries for a look at how obsessed he seemed with his own celebrity during the pandemic. From there the show shifts to some fascinating funeral diplomacy in DC, with Trump hosting both Netanyahu and Zelensky, a refresher clip on F35 sales tension from the NATO summit, and a pointed comparison of how differently two world leaders were received on the tarmac. They close out drawing striking parallels between Georgia's shaky 2020 election audit and today's Venezuela situation. Plenty to unpack.

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