Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s imprisonment for “lying” to Congress over his department’s funding of gain of function research.

Paul told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that Fauci should spend five years in prison but said he doesn’t “have a lot of hope” that Attorney General Merrick Garland was “objectively looking at Fauci’s lying.”

“We’ve referred him to the Department of Justice, but then again, Merrick Garland is the one now going after parents that go to school board meetings, so I don’t have a lot of hope that Merrick Garland is objectively looking at Fauci’s lying,” Paul stated.