Dr. Anthony Fauci recently invoked the Fifth Amendment in a Senate Hearing. This hour: we take a look at our Constitution's Fifth Amendment to learn why it exists and what it means for all of us.

GUESTS:

• Akhil Reed Amar: Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His latest book is: Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920, which was a winner of the annual Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize
• James Duane: Teaches at Regent Law School. He is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: What Police Officers Tell Their Children about the Fifth Amendment. His YouTube video “Don't Talk to the Police” has over 21 million views
• Clay Risen: Reporter and editor at The New York Times, and the author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

Music featured (in order):

• A Fifth of Beethoven – Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
• Take the Fifth – Spoon
• When You Say Nothing At All – Alison Krauss
• Take the Fifth Amendment – Joe Tex
• Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon
• Exhuming McCarthy – R.E.M.