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NO AMNESTY FOR COVID, ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FAUCI, & Its Time To Fire The DHS Misinformation Office. · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 1: you as well today. So nice to have you with
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Speaker 1: a senator. I know you're really excited about this idea
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Speaker 1: that was put out there a couple of days ago
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Speaker 1: entitled in the Atlantic, let's declare a pandemic amnesty and
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Speaker 1: let's focus on the future and fix the problems that
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Speaker 1: we still need to solve. I'm not buying it. I'm
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Speaker 1: not going forward. Maybe you want to do this, but
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Speaker 1: I say I have two words in response, Hell no.
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Speaker 1: Look that this is, you know, a leftist writing this
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Speaker 1: article saying, let's just forgive and forget everything that happened
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Speaker 1: on COVID. It's all okay now. And it actually that article,
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Speaker 1: in turn, was then tweeted out by Randy Weingarten, who
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Speaker 1: is the you know, the head of one of the
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Speaker 1: big teachers unions, and she said, I agree, we ought
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Speaker 1: to have a COVID amnesty. And they basically what she's
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Speaker 1: saying is okay, Look, my policies were an absolute disaster.
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Speaker 1: They hurt tens of millions of kids. Because I was
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Speaker 1: a shameless partisan hack, I got Democrats and the Biden
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Speaker 1: White House to support school closures for over a year.
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Speaker 1: We now have national reading scores. We now have national
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Speaker 1: writing or math scores that our kids scores have plummeted
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Speaker 1: because Democrats shut down schools, because the teachers Union and
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Speaker 1: Randy Weingarten in particular pushed it. We also know that
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Speaker 1: the racial gap, the gap and test scores between black
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Speaker 1: kids and white kids grew by the largest amount in
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Speaker 1: the last year of any time in history. All of
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Speaker 1: that was predictable, And it wasn't just predictable, it was predicted.
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Speaker 1: Many of us, myself included, were screaming from the mountaintops
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Speaker 1: when this was happening last year. In the middle of
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Speaker 1: the school shutdowns, I forced vote after vote after vote
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Speaker 1: to try to stop it. I forced to vote on
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Speaker 1: the Senate floor to cut off new funds to schools
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Speaker 1: if they were still shut down. Every single Democrat voted no.
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Speaker 1: Just a couple of months ago, I forced to vote
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Speaker 1: on the Senate floor to stop the District of Columbia
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Speaker 1: schools from enforcing a COVID vaccine mandate, which would result
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Speaker 1: in throwing out of school twenty percent of the kids
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Speaker 1: and forty percent of the African American kids. Once again,
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Speaker 1: every Democrat voted no after two years of unbelievably abusive
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Speaker 1: policies and abusive policies running the gamut from shutdowns that
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Speaker 1: destroyed stores and small businesses and jobs to people being
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Speaker 1: fired for making their own choices about whether or not
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Speaker 1: to take the COVID vaccine, to shutting down schools and
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Speaker 1: damaging kids in all likelihood for the rest of their
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Speaker 1: lives with the educational loss that was inflicted. These democrats
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Speaker 1: now want everyone just forgive and forget. Never mind they
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Speaker 1: ignored welfare. I don't think anyone's willing to do so.
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Speaker 1: And we've talked about why this election is going to
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Speaker 1: be such a big red wave. This is a big
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Speaker 1: part of it. People are furious. People who are not
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Speaker 1: engaged in politics are furious about the policies these petty
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Speaker 1: tyrants put in place that hurt them, and the idea
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Speaker 1: that there should be no accountability that is absolutely wrong.
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Speaker 1: When we take the majority, there needs to be real accountability.
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Speaker 1: I don't want a COVID amnesty. I want everyone who
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Speaker 1: hurt people and did so because of politics, I want
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Speaker 1: them to be held accountable for those decisions. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's some decision, Senator that obviously we should learn from, right,
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Speaker 1: mistakes that were genuine mistakes early on in the pandemic
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Speaker 1: that we would learn from. But as you mentioned, many
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Speaker 1: of the mistakes that were made were one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: a political decision where people got drunk on power. People
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Speaker 1: decided that their lives and their livelihoods they should get
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Speaker 1: paid from working from home. They didn't want to educate kids.
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Speaker 1: They didn't look at the harm they were doing to children.
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Speaker 1: And that's the part we should never say, you know,
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Speaker 1: let's just hit pause and move on from We need
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Speaker 1: to make sure there's accountability so that never happens again.
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Speaker 1: Because even right now, we have seen Democratic candidates running
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Speaker 1: in different parts of country over the last week who
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Speaker 1: have said they would even remask children. This happened in
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Speaker 1: Florida recently. One of the Democrats said, Hey, I will
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Speaker 1: listen to the scientists. They tell me to remask the
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Speaker 1: kids in the schools, I'll do it. Well. One of
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Speaker 1: the things we learned is that many of our institutions
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Speaker 1: have become hopelessly politicized and rendered corrupt. You know, you
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Speaker 1: look at someone like Anthony Fauci, who has described self says,
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Speaker 1: I am science, I am body science. When people are
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Speaker 1: criticizing me, they are criticizing science. That number one, delusional
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Speaker 1: grandeur is really bizarre. But number two, I don't know
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Speaker 1: of an individual in modern times who has done more
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Speaker 1: to lessen the credibility of scientists and doctors and the
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Speaker 1: medical institutions that out anthy Fauci because he deliberately said
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Speaker 1: things he knew were lies, and he's admitted he knew
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Speaker 1: they were lies. He said, at first, mass don't work.
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Speaker 1: Then he said, you gotta use him, and he went
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Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth. He insisted, No,
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Speaker 1: the COVID virus was not did not escape from the
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Speaker 1: Wuhan Institute of Virology. It did not escape from the lab.
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Speaker 1: It was not man made. Then oh well maybe it did. No,
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Speaker 1: the US government did not fund gain a function research
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Speaker 1: that may well have created did the COVID virus in
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Speaker 1: that Chinese lab? Then the NIH puts out, well, yes,
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Speaker 1: we actually did fund that research. The repeated lies and
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Speaker 1: also the correspondence that has come out between the Biden
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Speaker 1: administration and the teachers unions where the teachers unions were
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Speaker 1: the ones who drove the school shutdown. It wasn't based
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Speaker 1: on studies about infection and kids. It wasn't based on
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Speaker 1: on fatality rates, which we know that that the COVID
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Speaker 1: virus was much much, much less serious among kids that
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Speaker 1: it was with the very elderlier people with severe additional
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Speaker 1: health issues. It wasn't science at all. It was a
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Speaker 1: political decision, and I got to say, going forward, we're
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Speaker 1: going to need to talk about you know, we will
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Speaker 1: have some other health crisis at some point in our lifetimes,
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Speaker 1: and it could be, you know, last time it was COVID,
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Speaker 1: maybe next time it's you know, God forbid, something like
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Speaker 1: a bowl or something something that you know, really horrific
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Speaker 1: our institutions now, I don't know what the answer is
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Speaker 1: how you actually get an institution to focus on science
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Speaker 1: once it's been politicized, and I think the damage that
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Speaker 1: was done it may be permanent. I worry that it's permanent. Senator,
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Speaker 1: because there's so many people now that if there is
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Speaker 1: something that happens in the future that maybe is less complicated,
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Speaker 1: maybe much more straightforward, are just not going to trust
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Speaker 1: the health officials of the United States government. And the
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Speaker 1: reason why is because the way that they try to
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Speaker 1: divide this nation to two groups of people. And I
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Speaker 1: two groups of people. This was last Christmas. He said this.
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Speaker 1: If someone in your family isn't vaccinated, she asked them
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Speaker 1: not to show up. Oh yes, I would do that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're dealing with a serious enough
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Speaker 1: situation right now that if there's an unvaccinated person, I
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Speaker 1: would say I'm very sorry. But not this time. Maybe
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Speaker 1: another time when this is all over. Centator. That wasn't
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Speaker 1: based in science. That was based in dividing this country
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Speaker 1: into two groups of people. You're either with us and
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Speaker 1: a vaccinated individual that is indoctrinated by the government, or
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Speaker 1: you're an outcast in an outlier in society where you're
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Speaker 1: not welcome. Yeah. Look, these people got drunk on power,
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Speaker 1: and Fauci was the drunkest of all, and it was
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Speaker 1: whatever he decreed. Now, mind you, we also saw the
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Speaker 1: videos of him going to the Nationals game and happily
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Speaker 1: taking his mask off right when he was ordering everyone else,
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Speaker 1: you must where you're ask at all times. Listen that
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Speaker 1: the hypocrisy Senate Democrats, routinely behind closed doors when they
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Speaker 1: were insisting everyone must be masks to show their virtue,
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Speaker 1: would take their masks off and they would yuck it up,
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Speaker 1: and it was no big deal, you know. I remember,
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Speaker 1: I remember going to Bob Dole's funeral, and Bob Doo's
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Speaker 1: funeral was in the National Cathedral in DC, and I
10:24
Speaker 1: went and I was sitting with other senators and I
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Speaker 1: didn't wear my mask because I was idiotic, It was stupid,
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Speaker 1: and I was one of very very few people who
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Speaker 1: didn't wear their masks. All the other senators, all the
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Speaker 1: d's were ostentatiously wearing their masks, and sadly, most of
10:40
Speaker 1: the Republicans were wearing masks as well. And the corporate
10:44
Speaker 1: media had a field day saying, you know, Cruiz is
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Speaker 1: endangering the lives of his fellow senators, how dare he
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Speaker 1: do this? Now here's the ridiculous part. Ben the senators
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Speaker 1: all rode to that funeral in a bus together. We
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Speaker 1: rowed back in a bus together, in the bus. Everyone
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Speaker 1: took their mask off, one hundred percent, Every Democrat, every Republican, nobody,
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Speaker 1: not a person had their mask on in the bus.
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Speaker 1: When the bus arrives and their TV cameras suddenly, the
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Speaker 1: senators all dutifully put on their mask, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. There is no science that justifies that it
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Speaker 1: is more dangerous in a cathedral where the roof is
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Speaker 1: seventy feet high than it is in a closed in
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Speaker 1: bus where I'm sitting next to senators Democrats with no mask.
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Speaker 1: But once a TV cameras there, then the virtue is strong.
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Speaker 1: This was always about power. There's a question that I
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Speaker 1: get asked a lot on the road, and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: you've gotten asked this question a lot. How is it
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Speaker 1: the doctor Fauci and I believe based in facts that
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Speaker 1: he has clearly lied under oath before Congress on going
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Speaker 1: to a function research on Wuhan Lab on different issues
12:01
Speaker 1: like you just mentioned with masking. Some of your colleagues
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Speaker 1: have gone after him at Centator Paul really hard and
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Speaker 1: believe that he flat out lied to them. Number one,
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Speaker 1: do you believe that he lied? And number two, why
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Speaker 1: is it if he did lie? There's no accountability for lying,
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Speaker 1: especially when your highest paid member of the United States government,
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Speaker 1: he makes more than the president of nine States of
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Speaker 1: America does. There is no accountability because this Biden administration
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Speaker 1: is fundamentally corrupt and partisan and political. I have repeatedly
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Speaker 1: called on the Department of Justice to appoint a special
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Speaker 1: prosecutor to investigate Anthony Fauci for lying under oath to Congress.
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Speaker 1: He came in and he testified flat out that the
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Speaker 1: federal government did not fund gain a function research in
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Speaker 1: the Wuhunt Institute for Virology, and subsequently the NIH admitted
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Speaker 1: in writing, yes, it did fund gain a function research
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Speaker 1: at the Wuhunt Institute of Virology. The two statements are
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty degrees contradictory, and it is a felony,
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Speaker 1: a federal offense to lie under oath. I will say,
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Speaker 1: much to my great frustration, I've never had the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to question doctor Fauci because none of the committees I
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Speaker 1: sit on, chaired by Democrats, have ever called him in.
13:16
Speaker 1: They don't want him in. So you're right. Rand has
13:19
Speaker 1: had some great back and forth because he's on the
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Speaker 1: Health Committee, and that's the only committee it testifies before
13:24
Speaker 1: I very much hope when we have majorities, I hope
13:27
Speaker 1: that he comes before the Judiciary Committee. I hope he
13:29
Speaker 1: comes before the Commerce Committee. And he needs to testify
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Speaker 1: under oath, and I believe he should be investigated, and
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Speaker 1: unless there is an explanation that is not evident on
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Speaker 1: the face of the words, he should be prosecuted for
13:42
Speaker 1: lying under oath to Congress and to the American people vicariously.
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Speaker 1: And I want to be clear. This is one of
13:51
Speaker 1: the things that I think we need to be very
13:53
Speaker 1: very clear about. We're not asking for political revenge. We're
13:56
Speaker 1: asking for accountability for actually breaking the law. And that's
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Speaker 1: the difference between Republicans and Democrats, especially when they're in power.
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Speaker 1: As Democrats abuse their power and want to lock up
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Speaker 1: anybody that was connected to Donald Trump on lies of
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Speaker 1: Russian collusion. All we're saying is there are laws. When
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Speaker 1: you raise your right hand, you know that you're under oath,
14:15
Speaker 1: you say you're going to tell the truth, and when
14:17
Speaker 1: you deliberately lie to the United States government and to Congress,
14:22
Speaker 1: there should be accountability for that well. And there's a
14:26
Speaker 1: reason that it is a felony, a federal criminal offense
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Speaker 1: to lie under oath to Congress, because when Congress is
14:32
Speaker 1: having a hearing, it's not just senators asking questions because
14:36
Speaker 1: we're kind of curious about some stuff. We are doing
14:39
Speaker 1: so in our constitutional capacity of representing our constituents and
14:44
Speaker 1: asking on behalf of our constituents. And particularly, Look, it's
14:48
Speaker 1: one thing if someone says something by mistake. If you
14:52
Speaker 1: say something by mistake, that's not a crime. Making an
14:55
Speaker 1: error is not a felony. And it's it's even another
14:59
Speaker 1: thing if someone says something that is wrong, but it's
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Speaker 1: a matter that is not of terribly high consequence. In
15:08
Speaker 1: this instance, the matter on which it appears that Fauci
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Speaker 1: lied is incredibly consequential. I hope and believe when we
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Speaker 1: have Republican majorities, I want multiple hearings on the origins
15:21
Speaker 1: of the COVID virus, where this came from, what the
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Speaker 1: culpability of the Chinese Communist government was. I'll tell you
15:28
Speaker 1: this podcast, the Verdict podcast early on, right at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of this pandemic, back in like March and April,
15:36
Speaker 1: when things got started, we did multiple podcasts laying out
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Speaker 1: the evidence that this had escaped, this virus had escaped
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Speaker 1: from the COVID Institute of Virology. It was at a
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Speaker 1: time when social media was banning anyone who dared say
15:52
Speaker 1: such a thing. I don't know how this podcast ended
15:55
Speaker 1: up escaping that censorship, but this was one of the
15:59
Speaker 1: very few places where you could get that information. Now,
16:02
Speaker 1: subsequently we learned that not only was that research going on,
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Speaker 1: but that the US government was actively funding it. And
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Speaker 1: gain a function research where you take a dangerous virus
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Speaker 1: and you go in and you genetically manipulate it to
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Speaker 1: make it more infectious, to make it more deadly, to
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Speaker 1: alter it, to make it a hell of a lot
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Speaker 1: more dangerous. Well, that research is by its nature incredibly dangerous,
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Speaker 1: and if Fauci chose to deliberately lie, he was concealing
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Speaker 1: it from the American people, the culpability that he personally
16:43
Speaker 1: might have had in the creation of COVID nineteen. Now,
16:48
Speaker 1: in discussing this, I've several times said potentially, and maybe,
16:52
Speaker 1: because for it to be a criminal offense, he has
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Speaker 1: a chance to explain it himself. I'm not a scientist,
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Speaker 1: so maybe there is some ex planation he can marshal.
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Speaker 1: But on the face of it, the statements are blatantly contradictory.
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Speaker 1: And the ridiculous thing is Merrick Garland in this Department
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Speaker 1: of Justice simply won't enforce the law. They don't care
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Speaker 1: at all. And by the way, I will say Fauci
17:18
Speaker 1: did enormous damage under Biden. But let me let's be clear,
17:22
Speaker 1: Fauci should have been fired in the Trump administration. And
17:25
Speaker 1: it was a mistake of the Trump administration not to
17:28
Speaker 1: fire Fauci early on because he very quickly began abusing
17:33
Speaker 1: his power and the media elevated him. I understand why
17:35
Speaker 1: they didn't because the pandemic media crucified him, right, I mean,
17:41
Speaker 1: the real reason why Trump didn't fire him is because
17:45
Speaker 1: his advisors saw that the media would absolutely destroy Donald
17:48
Speaker 1: Trump and it would ruin his chances of a reelect
17:52
Speaker 1: to be honest, because they would say, this is how
17:54
Speaker 1: psycho he is. He fires the guy that's been there
17:57
Speaker 1: for as long, you know, as long as anybody's been watching,
18:00
Speaker 1: and he's so trusted by the world, How on earth
18:02
Speaker 1: could you possibly get rid of him? Well, and I'm
18:06
Speaker 1: sure that was the reasoning, and there's some force to that.
18:08
Speaker 1: The media would have done that now I would say
18:11
Speaker 1: they're doing that anyway, and removing him from having the
18:15
Speaker 1: power to inflict harm on millions of Americans would have
18:18
Speaker 1: been the right thing to do. But I think there
18:22
Speaker 1: needs to be accountability, whether accountability for Fauci, whether accountability
18:25
Speaker 1: for the teachers unions, whether accountability for the military that
18:31
Speaker 1: fired soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines who declined
18:36
Speaker 1: to get the COVID vaccine. Accountability for the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: These Democrats want to escape accountability for the decisions they
18:46
Speaker 1: made that were knowingly inflicting harm and that they did
18:50
Speaker 1: so for purely political and partisan reasons. You mentioned a
18:55
Speaker 1: moment ago about you talking about the Wuhan lab and
18:58
Speaker 1: how did it not get silence or since by big tech.
19:01
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Speaker 1: This is going to be huge. This bombshell report that
19:18
Speaker 1: came out Center is showing that Twitter and Facebook not
19:22
Speaker 1: only did they have regular meetings with the Department of
19:25
Speaker 1: Homeland Security to discuss censorship, but the Intercept is now
19:29
Speaker 1: reporting that according to a draft copy of the Department
19:33
Speaker 1: of Homeland Securities review the DHS's Capstone Report, outlining the
19:39
Speaker 1: department's strategy and priorities in the coming years. Had this
19:45
Speaker 1: listed the department plans to target quote inaccurate information on
19:51
Speaker 1: a wide range of topics, including the origins of the
19:55
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic and the efficiency of the COVID nineteen vaccines,
20:03
Speaker 1: also racial justice, the US withdraw from Afghanistan, and the
20:09
Speaker 1: nature of the US support to Ukraine. Translation, the Department
20:15
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security basically said, what are the bigness weaknesses
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party going into the midterm elections? During
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Speaker 1: the next presidential election, we will go out there to Facebook,
20:26
Speaker 1: into any other big tech company and will tell them
20:30
Speaker 1: to silence these stories that make the Democrats look bad
20:34
Speaker 1: in our tax dollars. Apparently have been used to do
20:37
Speaker 1: this now for years, dating all the way back to
20:39
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. This office needs to be shuttered.
20:46
Speaker 1: The people in charge of it need to be fired.
20:49
Speaker 1: The Department of Homeland Security is badly, badly off the
20:54
Speaker 1: rails if they believe their job is censoring Americans to
20:58
Speaker 1: prevent them from criticizing the government. The last I checked,
21:02
Speaker 1: we haven't stepped into George Orwell's nineteen eighty four yet.
21:06
Speaker 1: But if these guys have any say in it, that's
21:08
Speaker 1: where they want us to go. It is not a
21:11
Speaker 1: thought crime to disagree with the Biden White House. You know,
21:16
Speaker 1: Biden was going to nominate this looney woman I don't
21:20
Speaker 1: remember her name anymore, the one who was like sang
21:23
Speaker 1: all the time and was this hardcore partisan, was going
21:26
Speaker 1: to be in charge of this Office of Disinformation and
21:29
Speaker 1: empowered to silence you and me and anyone else that
21:32
Speaker 1: she disagreed with. She was such a loon that they
21:36
Speaker 1: actually backed off and decided not to appoint her. But
21:39
Speaker 1: the fact that this was institutionalized, that this was set
21:43
Speaker 1: up as a regular portal for government officials to go
21:48
Speaker 1: to big Tech and say, silence this, silence this, silence
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Speaker 1: this silence, This is incredibly dangerous. This is nowhere in
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Speaker 1: DHS's actual job funk of protecting our safety and security
22:02
Speaker 1: from terror attacks. And interestingly enough, Ben, this also intersects
22:10
Speaker 1: with a topic we discussed over a year ago on
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Speaker 1: this podcast as well, which is, as you know, Donald
22:18
Speaker 1: Trump filed a lawsuit against Big Tech alleging that its
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Speaker 1: censorship violates the First Amendment. Now, the challenge with that
22:29
Speaker 1: lawsuit is the First Amendment does not apply to non
22:33
Speaker 1: governmental entity. So the First Amendment begins with Congress will
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Speaker 1: make no law in the First Amendment applies to censorship
22:42
Speaker 1: by the federal government or through a doctrine called incorporation
22:45
Speaker 1: by the state or local government. But a private company
22:49
Speaker 1: is not the government. There is, however, a Supreme Court
22:53
Speaker 1: doctrine that has extended that that says a private entity
22:57
Speaker 1: can be liable for a violation of the First Amendment
23:00
Speaker 1: if it is acting as an instrumentality of the government,
23:03
Speaker 1: in other words, if it is acting at the behest
23:05
Speaker 1: of the government, if it is acting if it is
23:08
Speaker 1: the means by which the government is exercising its censorship powers.
23:13
Speaker 1: And what we talked about on the podcast well over
23:16
Speaker 1: a year ago was the email exchanges that came out
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Speaker 1: between doctor Fauci and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and owner
23:24
Speaker 1: of Facebook at the time, where Fauci was asking Zuckerberg
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Speaker 1: to take things down from Facebook and to block them,
23:33
Speaker 1: and it actually it's the same topics we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that he was asking Facebook to
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Speaker 1: take down was discussions about the origins of COVID nineteen.
23:42
Speaker 1: So not only was he not furthering the interest of
23:45
Speaker 1: science of knowing where in fact this disease came from,
23:49
Speaker 1: he was actively stifling science, fighting science, saying no, we
23:54
Speaker 1: don't want any discussions of that. And Zuckerberg saluted and said, sir, yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: happy to help. And I noted on this podcast over
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Speaker 1: a year ago that that email exchange made Trump's lawsuit
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Speaker 1: much much stronger and would feed centrally into the argument
24:13
Speaker 1: that Facebook was acting as an instrumentality of the government.
24:17
Speaker 1: We subsequently learned that the FBI requested a Facebook and
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Speaker 1: Twitter that they block stories about Hunter Biden's laptop right
24:27
Speaker 1: before the election. Again that that was done at the
24:30
Speaker 1: behest of the government government censorship. We now know those
24:34
Speaker 1: stories were true. So you literally had big tech censoring
24:37
Speaker 1: and silencing true stories that were politically harmful and inconvenient
24:42
Speaker 1: to the Democrats at the behest of the deep state.
24:46
Speaker 1: And now this latest piece band that you just referred to,
24:49
Speaker 1: which is this process was institutionalized with a formal portal
24:55
Speaker 1: and a much broader ambit where some of the stuff
24:58
Speaker 1: like now you know, disagreeing with Joe Biden and the
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Speaker 1: Democrats on Ukraine. Now that is subject to censorship at
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Speaker 1: the requests of the government. Disagreeing with the catastrophe of
25:10
Speaker 1: Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and surrender to the Taliban, Now
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Speaker 1: apparently that is subject to censorship. This is it. You're right,
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Speaker 1: This is a big, big story. It is a topic
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Speaker 1: I can promise you when we have majorities next year,
25:27
Speaker 1: will be front and center for congressional hearings. And if
25:31
Speaker 1: there was one Democrat in Congress who gives a flip
25:37
Speaker 1: about free speech, he or she ought to be outraged
25:42
Speaker 1: at this. And sadly, my prediction is that democrat doesn't exist,
25:45
Speaker 1: at least doesn't exist in the United States Senate. No
25:49
Speaker 1: Democrat anymore in the Senate cares one wit about the
25:53
Speaker 1: threat to free speech from government censorship. You know, even
25:56
Speaker 1: getting rid of the Senator, the lady you're supposed to
25:58
Speaker 1: be that, you know, the distant from nation chief, right,
26:01
Speaker 1: the the decider of what is real and what is
26:05
Speaker 1: not in the US government. Obviously we finally got rid
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Speaker 1: of her, but behind the scenes, this is clearly still
26:12
Speaker 1: going on. And from this new report it says, quote,
26:14
Speaker 1: there is a formalized process now and it's been there
26:18
Speaker 1: apparently for years for government officials to directly flag content
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Speaker 1: on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled
26:27
Speaker 1: or suppressed through a special Facebook portal portal that requires
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Speaker 1: a government or law enforcement email to use. At the
26:35
Speaker 1: time of writing, the content request system at Facebook was
26:38
Speaker 1: still live. DHS and Meta, who the new name of Facebook,
26:44
Speaker 1: did not respond to request for comment, and the FBI
26:47
Speaker 1: has also declined to comment on this because they're the
26:50
Speaker 1: ones that basically asked to be setting it up. But well,
26:52
Speaker 1: we do know is in a March meeting an FBI
26:55
Speaker 1: official warrant that the threat of subversive information on social
26:59
Speaker 1: media could mind support for the US government. Therefore they
27:03
Speaker 1: need to have this there Something else that's very weird
27:06
Speaker 1: and I want to get your take on this is
27:08
Speaker 1: at this meeting that happen in March, with this FBI
27:11
Speaker 1: officials warning of this threat of this information right the
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Speaker 1: submersive information that could quote undermine support for the US government.
27:19
Speaker 1: In attendance, we're senior executives Center from not only Twitter,
27:24
Speaker 1: but also JP Morgan Chase. Why would a financial institution
27:30
Speaker 1: like JP Morgan Chase be in on this type of
27:33
Speaker 1: meeting that scares the hell out of I think of
27:35
Speaker 1: a lot of the people that have bank accounts with
27:37
Speaker 1: JP Morgan Chase or financial accounts with them. Well, we
27:41
Speaker 1: are unfortunately seeing corporate America more and more becoming the
27:45
Speaker 1: enforcers for the woke left. And we're seeing that with
27:48
Speaker 1: the Fortune one hundred. We're seeing that with big banks
27:52
Speaker 1: where they're trying to cut off customers that they disagree
27:55
Speaker 1: with their politics, whether they happen to be a gun
27:57
Speaker 1: store and supporting our Second Amendment rights, or whether they
28:03
Speaker 1: happen to have political views that are out of favor
28:07
Speaker 1: with the current White House. And I think the left
28:10
Speaker 1: is all about power and using power to extort to
28:15
Speaker 1: force you to comply, and I will say it is
28:21
Speaker 1: deeply concerning. Look, when we talk about energy, Wall Street
28:24
Speaker 1: plays a big part in cutting off the cash for
28:29
Speaker 1: US energy production, and they do so at the active
28:34
Speaker 1: urging and at the behest of the Biden administration, whether
28:37
Speaker 1: it's the banking regulators or the SEC. We're seeing these
28:42
Speaker 1: green New Deal radicals trying to cut off all the
28:45
Speaker 1: debt they can and all the equity they can for
28:47
Speaker 1: new oil and gas production. They're doing this on multiple fronts,
28:51
Speaker 1: because if they can't get it through legislation, they're willing
28:55
Speaker 1: to use power and power over your livelihood, power over
29:00
Speaker 1: your ability to earn revenue if it's demonetizing a tech platform,
29:07
Speaker 1: or power over your ability to to have banking services,
29:12
Speaker 1: and all of that I think is a complete abuse
29:14
Speaker 1: of power. Ever since you went on the View, they
29:18
Speaker 1: seem to have really been unhinged by your appearance, Senator,
29:21
Speaker 1: and now Sunny hosting on the View has said something
29:27
Speaker 1: today that I think is racist. I think it's disgusting.
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Speaker 1: She equated white suburban women Republican voters as roaches. I
29:38
Speaker 1: want to play this for everybody. This was a real
29:40
Speaker 1: conversation on the View Republicans. But what's also surprising to
29:44
Speaker 1: me is the abortion issue. I read a poll just
29:49
Speaker 1: yesterday that white Republican suburban women are now going to
29:54
Speaker 1: vote Republican. Why it's almost like roaches voting for raid, right,
29:59
Speaker 1: it's their own okay, so we democracy or not? Because
30:10
Speaker 1: just saying that it's it's insulting to the voter. People
30:13
Speaker 1: make up decisions on what's white for their family, and
30:15
Speaker 1: the idea that well you should have a save I
30:18
Speaker 1: mean Senator. When you equate white Republican suburban women voters
30:24
Speaker 1: as roaches voting for raid, not only I think is
30:29
Speaker 1: at a bigger and racist statement, but the fact that
30:31
Speaker 1: it's still not been condemned by anybody on ABC or
30:34
Speaker 1: the View. Uh, this was even a new low for them. Well,
30:38
Speaker 1: I guess it's the new war on women. Um, look
30:42
Speaker 1: the View. They are all rich, they are all hard leftists,
30:50
Speaker 1: and they are utterly out of touch with people in
30:54
Speaker 1: this country. Sonny unfortunately says nasty, offensive, insulting things on
30:59
Speaker 1: a day basis. But if you look at this comment,
31:03
Speaker 1: so she's saying, all right, if you're a woman, you're
31:07
Speaker 1: not allowed to be concerned about inflation, that you can't
31:10
Speaker 1: afford to put food on the table anymore, you can't
31:13
Speaker 1: afford to fill your car or your truck or your minivan,
31:16
Speaker 1: you can't afford to pay your bills. You're not allowed
31:19
Speaker 1: to be concerned about crime, even though you and your
31:22
Speaker 1: family are at greater risk and you're seeing outside your
31:25
Speaker 1: door perhaps crime rates going up and up and up.
31:28
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to be worried about that. You're not
31:30
Speaker 1: allowed to be worried about nearly five million illegal immigrants
31:33
Speaker 1: in under Joe Biden coming in and over one hundred
31:37
Speaker 1: thousand ft and all overdoses. Nope, Nope, you're not a woman.
31:40
Speaker 1: If you're worried about the people your kid's dying of
31:42
Speaker 1: a drug overdose, that's your woman card is revoked. According
31:47
Speaker 1: to Sonny and the elite leftist, the only thing you
31:50
Speaker 1: were allowed to care about if you're a woman, according
31:53
Speaker 1: to the view, is you must be an abortion maximalist.
31:57
Speaker 1: You must believe that abortion should be legal in every instance,
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Speaker 1: no matter what, up until the ninth month of pregnancy.
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Speaker 1: Anything else be damned, and that has to be the
32:08
Speaker 1: only thing you care about them that Look, there's a
32:13
Speaker 1: reason why across the country we talked about on the
32:17
Speaker 1: last podcast that suburban women had moved twenty six points
32:23
Speaker 1: away from Democrats and towards Republicans because the policies coming
32:30
Speaker 1: from Democrats are hurting suburban women, they're hurting suburban men,
32:33
Speaker 1: they're hurting they're hurting just about everybody. And the approach
32:37
Speaker 1: of the Democrats is not, oh yeah, I can see
32:41
Speaker 1: how not being able to pay your bills and provide
32:43
Speaker 1: for your family and keep your kids safe would be
32:46
Speaker 1: a problem. Maybe we should do something about it. No,
32:49
Speaker 1: what do they do. They insult you. You're a cockroach.
32:52
Speaker 1: That's their answer. You're a cockroach unless you obey us. Now,
32:57
Speaker 1: look personally, I think the Democratic National Committee how to
33:02
Speaker 1: take Sonny's comments and pay to run them on every
33:05
Speaker 1: TV station in America, because I think that's really a
33:08
Speaker 1: great political strategy. Just call the voters you want to get,
33:11
Speaker 1: called them all cockroaches, and that they'll clearly understand that
33:16
Speaker 1: you have their best interest in mind and vote to
33:18
Speaker 1: keep you in power. For that, you know, It's it's amazing.
33:21
Speaker 1: I think how bad the closing argument has been for Democrats.
33:26
Speaker 1: You saw the President give his speech in prime time.
33:30
Speaker 1: This was something that obviously was very important to the president,
33:34
Speaker 1: and they said to come out and kind of give
33:36
Speaker 1: this closing argument. There were a lot of lies in
33:40
Speaker 1: that closing argument, and make no mistake about it, him
33:43
Speaker 1: claiming that the deficits drastically down him claiming that people
33:47
Speaker 1: were better off now than they ever were before. But
33:50
Speaker 1: even Biden's chiefest staff Ron Klain, said that that Biden
33:54
Speaker 1: his speech last night was quote a final warning. Take
33:59
Speaker 1: a listen. The President decided a few days ago that
34:01
Speaker 1: it was important to issue one final warning on this issue,
34:06
Speaker 1: to make very clear, to leave no doubt that we
34:08
Speaker 1: have people out there still peddling the big lie people
34:13
Speaker 1: now raising the issue of election denial in this election.
34:16
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still going back to January sixth, Obviously,
34:19
Speaker 1: he's still going back to election deniers, denial and trying
34:23
Speaker 1: to make the entire election about something from several years ago.
34:28
Speaker 1: This was a terrible closing argument for him, which is
34:31
Speaker 1: the reason why I think a massive red wave is coming.
34:34
Speaker 1: New Herschel Walker numbers have just come out. Walkers leading
34:38
Speaker 1: the Democrat Raphael Warnock now over the fifty percent threshold,
34:41
Speaker 1: which is needed. You and I talked about not wanting
34:44
Speaker 1: to have a runoff there, which is very important, and
34:47
Speaker 1: now look at where we are. Well listen, I will
34:50
Speaker 1: say in defense of the Biden White House, they demonstrated
34:53
Speaker 1: that they are capable of learning. That they did one
34:56
Speaker 1: thing right, which is from their previous speech. This time
35:00
Speaker 1: they didn't bathe Biden and red light and have him
35:04
Speaker 1: do his oppression of the Emperor Palpatine from from Star Wars.
35:08
Speaker 1: So I guess that's an improvement that that that that
35:11
Speaker 1: that they you know, avoided, you know, Actually, the Palpatine
35:15
Speaker 1: lighting would have been better if they had Kamala Harris
35:17
Speaker 1: just laughing in the background. I'm per cackle would have
35:20
Speaker 1: made it really frightening. But look for a closing argument. Nationally,
35:32
Speaker 1: if you look at the polling, the number one issue
35:33
Speaker 1: in the country is inflation. What did Biden say about inflation?
35:36
Speaker 1: Not a damn word. The number two issue in the
35:40
Speaker 1: country is crime. What did Biden say about crime? Not
35:42
Speaker 1: a damn word. The number three issue in the country
35:45
Speaker 1: is illegal immigration. What did Biden say about it? Illegal immigration?
35:48
Speaker 1: Not a damn word? Instead, what did he do to
35:52
Speaker 1: use ron Klain's language, He gave one final warning. Look,
35:56
Speaker 1: this is Biden doing the same thing Sonny did, calling
35:59
Speaker 1: the voter's cockroaches. And it's a really troubling shift in
36:05
Speaker 1: political rhetoric. It is not uncommon for politicians to attack
36:09
Speaker 1: each other. Biden attacks me frequently. It's not uncommon. We
36:14
Speaker 1: shouldn't be surprised that Biden calls Trump an s ob
36:18
Speaker 1: and that Trump calls Biden a sob. That as long
36:22
Speaker 1: as we've had elections, one candidate has said nasty things
36:25
Speaker 1: about the other candidate, that that's to be expected. What
36:29
Speaker 1: is new is demonizing the voters. You know the Palpatine
36:35
Speaker 1: speech where Biden stood up and said, half of America,
36:39
Speaker 1: anyone who voted for Donald Trump, anyone who voted Republican,
36:43
Speaker 1: is a semi fascist. Normally, you don't go after the voters.
36:48
Speaker 1: You don't attack the voters. You may attack your opponent.
36:51
Speaker 1: My opponent's a big jerk. But but it is a
36:55
Speaker 1: strange new threshold where the voters are the bad guys.
36:59
Speaker 1: And that's what was saying. If you vote, you're a cockroach.
37:04
Speaker 1: You're a semi fascist cockroach. You know. Kathy Hawckell, the
37:09
Speaker 1: Democrat governor of New York, her comment a couple of
37:13
Speaker 1: months ago where she said, if you vote Republican, if
37:15
Speaker 1: you vote for Trump, get out of the state. You're
37:20
Speaker 1: not a New Yorker. I mean, that's a bizarre statement.
37:25
Speaker 1: I don't know of Look, I've been actively following politics
37:31
Speaker 1: pretty much my entire life. I literally do not know
37:34
Speaker 1: of another analog of any elected official telling a big
37:40
Speaker 1: chunk of his or her voters get the hell out,
37:44
Speaker 1: you do not belong in my state. Listen. I say
37:47
Speaker 1: this as a person who is elected to represent thirty
37:50
Speaker 1: million Texans. There are a lot of liberal Texans. There
37:55
Speaker 1: are a lot of Democrats. There are millions of Democrats
37:58
Speaker 1: in the state of Texas. Thankfully they're more Republicans. But
38:02
Speaker 1: I represent both the liberal Democrats in Texas. It's my
38:07
Speaker 1: job to represent them. No, that doesn't mean that I
38:09
Speaker 1: agree with them on every issue. That's why we have elections.
38:11
Speaker 1: I lay out what I believe and the voters can
38:13
Speaker 1: decide if they want a representative that follows through on
38:17
Speaker 1: those beliefs. But it is my job every day been
38:20
Speaker 1: to fight for the rights of the Democrats in Texas.
38:25
Speaker 1: Fight for their liberties, fight for their free speech, fight
38:28
Speaker 1: for their religious liberty, fight for their safety, fight for
38:31
Speaker 1: their security, fight for their ability to educate their kids,
38:34
Speaker 1: fight for their ability to be able to get a
38:36
Speaker 1: good job. All of that that is my job. I
38:39
Speaker 1: cannot imagine saying what the Democrats are saying, which is,
38:44
Speaker 1: you people are cockroaches. Get out of the state if
38:47
Speaker 1: you don't agree with me, if you don't comply, you
38:51
Speaker 1: are otherised. And you know this goes back to doctor Fauci,
38:56
Speaker 1: and you're not welcome to come to Thanksgiving your Christmas
38:58
Speaker 1: dinner either. Yeah, it is truly shocking that this was
39:02
Speaker 1: their closing argument, but it is their closing argument center
39:06
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