Fauci’s Return to Capitol Hill

Panelists joined to discuss the doctor’s Senate hearing, and more.Courtesy of Washington Week With The AtlanticAugust 1, 2026, 10:10 AM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here.Anthony Fauci returned to Capitol Hill this week, where he faced attacks from Republican lawmakers during a Senate hearing. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss his response, and more.“The hearing was such a perfect encapsulation of Washington at this moment, with a lot of raised voices and a lot of yelling and virtually no new information,” Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch, said last night. “With a more serious government we would have gotten closer to answers through that hearing.”Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker; Hayes; Nancy A. Youssef, a staff writer at The Atlantic.Watch the full episode here.