Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) knows what he wants to have happen to Dr. Anthony Fauci — to be held in contempt, prosecuted for Perjury and sent to jail.

Cruz’s words come after the former White House COVID-19 advisor invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times during a Senate hearing Wednesday.

"Years from now, they'll look back and say, ‘What collective madness overtook this country?’" Cruz told Fox News Digital.

"I think Anthony Fauci has had contempt for Congress and contempt for the American people for decades," the senator said. "His diary shows that he deliberately lied to the American people over and over and over again."

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul announced he will seek contempt charges against Fauci after he did not answer questions at Wednesday’s hearing in favor of not incriminating himself.

"Dr. Fauci ought to think about what it says about the end of his career, that what he will be remembered for the most is pleading the Fifth more than 100 times," Cruz said. "He's been the most damaging bureaucrat in the history of America."

Cruz and Fauci have not been on friendly terms over Fauci’s handling of the outbreak. Cruz and other senators think Fauci was dishonest about the origins of COVID-19 to both Congress and the American people.

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"In his diary, he wrote early on that it was clear that the COVID virus did not come from the wet market in Wuhan, and then he turned around and said exactly the opposite thing on national television," Cruz said.

Cruz also accused Fauci of pushing for the lockdown of schools.

Fauci wrote in his diary that he convinced both New York and California government officials to lock down their state’s school systems. This was, not what he said publicly, when he claimed he "did not close the schools."

"In his diary, he brags about convincing Democrats in New York and California to shut schools down, and yet he goes on TV and says, ‘Oh, I wasn't for shutdowns,’" Cruz said.

"The school shutdowns, which Fauci bragged that he was responsible for, may well be the single most destructive public policy step we've seen in decades. That learning loss will stick with those kids the rest of their lives when they're 90 years old,” Cruz continued. "They will still be suffering the consequences of Anthony Fauci's corrupt and dishonest shutdowns.

"The fact that he knew he was lying to the American people — he should be held in contempt, he should be prosecuted for Perjury, and he should go to jail,” he added.