1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app for wherever you get 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Oh, the Fouciites are running for cover more 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: with each passing day, which makes me happy to see. 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: They were completely wrong. They used the tools of fear 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:32,639 Speaker 1: and social media suppression and groupthink to silence dissent. But 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: now it's all coming out, and it should and there 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: should be accountability as well. We'll certainly get into this 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: and more in a moment. 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That's Tony, the owner of RPM Alamo, 38 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: writing in about his success with this. It's so easy 39 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: for your business right now to help you reach more customers, 40 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: get more leads, just have a better user experience for 41 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 1: everybody who's using your product. Get started free today at 42 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: podium dot com. Slash Buck. That's Podium dot com, slash Buck, 43 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: Podium dot com, slash Buck. Well, to understand the origins 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: of the virus rachel rather than being contributory to the 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: development of drugs or vaccines, it's more to prevent this 46 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: from happening again. To understand the origins so that you 47 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: can be able to be prepared whatever the origin is. 48 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: You know, there's this concern is it a natural evolution 49 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: or is it something that happened out of a lab, 50 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: an accident or winning but what have you. It isn't 51 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: important to understand that, but it is being approached now 52 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: in a very vehement way, and in a very distorted way, 53 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: I believe, by attacking me. I think the question is 54 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: extremely legitimate. You should want to know how this happened 55 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: so that we can make sure it doesn't happen again. 56 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: But what's happened in the middle of all that, I 57 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: become the object of extraordinary I believe, completely inappropriate, distorted, 58 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: misleading and misrepresented attacks, which you know, it is what 59 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: it is, but it's happening, and that's unfortunate. Somehow it's 60 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: all about Fauci still. Somehow it's all about Saint Fauci. Oh, gosh, 61 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: we're all supposed to feel so badly because he's receiving 62 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: public criticism. Was he open to other ideas when the 63 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: Democrats and the leftist authoritarians elevated him to the status 64 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: where he could determine policies across the nation that shut 65 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: down businesses, that separated people from loved ones. What was 66 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: he humble at all about what he knew and didn't 67 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: know when people were being prevented from seeing their relatives, 68 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: even relatives who were dying because we had to listen 69 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: to the science. Was there honesty from him about the origins? 70 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: Was there honesty from him about what we knew and 71 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: when we knew it? But it came to COVID nineteen, No, 72 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: of course not. He pretended to know a lot that 73 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: he didn't know. And now we're in a position. Now 74 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: we're in a point where the evidence has become not 75 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: just a preponderance, but the evidence is now getting to 76 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: the point where I would say it is clear that 77 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: this came from a lab. On balance, looking at everything, 78 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: it's a circumstantial case. I'm open to there being other theories. 79 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm open to there being other evidence. But right now, 80 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: if you were if you were a jury and you 81 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: were using a civil case standard where it's you know, 82 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: greater than fifty percent, you definitely would say it's a 83 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: lab I'd say we're getting close to beyond a reasonable 84 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: doubt a criminal justice standard, and I think we're getting 85 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: to the point now where nothing else makes sense. So 86 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: absent other evidence, you'd have to say, this is the 87 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: story of a lab leak, and that's what it is. 88 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: There's a piece in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. 89 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: The science suggests a Wuhan lab league, the COVID nineteen 90 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed 91 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: in a natural coronavirus. I have to say, this is 92 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: where you do get into expertise and levels of knowledge 93 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: that people outside of the scientists community are not going 94 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: to have. If you've never worked with these things, if 95 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: you don't have very specific, high level training, you're not 96 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: going to know what the heck they're talking about when 97 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: they get into CGG or CGGCGG COVE two. I mean 98 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: I didn't even really look I read through as a 99 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: few times. It has to do with genetic sequencing, and 100 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: it has to do with the actual structure of the virus. 101 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: The amino acids. I mean, this is getting down to 102 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: the atomic level of what goes into a virus. And 103 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: here's the basic takeaway, right, These are the here's what 104 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: they write. A genome is a blueprint for the factory 105 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: of a cell to make proteins. The language is made 106 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: up of three letter word words sixty four in total 107 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: that represent the twenty different amino acids. For example, there 108 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: are six different words for the amino acid argonine, the 109 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,559 Speaker 1: one that is often used in supercharging viruses. Every cell 110 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: has a different preference for which word it likes to 111 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: use the most. In the case of the gain of 112 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: function supercharge, other sequences could have been spliced into this 113 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: same site instead of a CGGCGG known as a double 114 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: CGG that tells you the protein factory to make two 115 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: argonine amino acids in a row. You'll obtain equal lethality 116 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: by splicing any one of thirty five of the other 117 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: two word combinations for double argonine. So this is what 118 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: is This is what is being said here in essence, right, 119 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: because they really do get into the science. This is 120 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: by Stephen Kay and Richard Muller. Stephen Kay is the 121 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: founder of ATOSA therapeutic and Muller is an emeritus professor 122 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and a 123 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: former senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These 124 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: are two scientists who are telling you straight up, when 125 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: you really look at what the COVID nineteen virus is, 126 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: what it is made up of, it is almost certain 127 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: that this involved human in lab manipulation. You would have 128 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: to believe in extreme coincidence. And remember there's always the 129 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: possibility out there of extreme coincidence. Right, Even even when 130 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: they do you know, DNA results, they'll say, well, the 131 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 1: chance of this being somebody else's DNA is like one 132 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: and a billion. Okay, so it's you. You're thinking, you know, 133 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: if it's a crime scene, they got your DNA, it's 134 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: one and a billion. You're the guy. We don't sit 135 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: around worrying about the one and a billion chance at 136 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: some other guy. They didn't give us odds here. But 137 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: they're saying that in that this aligns the structure. The 138 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: basic structure of the COVID nineteen virus aligns with an 139 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: in the lab thesis for gain a function research changes. 140 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: So this is the much more likely situation. This is 141 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: now get to the point where it's it's clear that 142 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: that is what happened, and now China is never They 143 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 1: will never admit it. They'll always say, well, there's a possibility, 144 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: there's something else, because imagine the consequences. Imagine what this 145 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: would open up. I mean, you had Trump over the 146 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: weekend saying that there need to be reparations from China. 147 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: Play nine. The time has come for America and the 148 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:49,959 Speaker 1: world to demand reparations and accountability from the Communist Party 149 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: of China. We should all declare within one unified voice 150 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: that China must to say they must pay, They must pay. 151 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: He says, do you think they will? Do you think 152 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: they plan on it? No? In fact, China the same 153 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: way that they refuse honesty about their own history. I mean, 154 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: you can't teach about Mao's famine and the forty to 155 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: sixty million dead and the weaponization of starvation the Chinese 156 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: Communist Party engaged in against its own people. You can't 157 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: teach that. You can't talk about that in China. You 158 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: can't talk about the one child policy in China. You 159 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:40,239 Speaker 1: can't have these discussions, folks. This is an authoritarian regime. 160 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: They don't care what the rest of the world thinks. 161 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: They've got a lot of influence, a lot of money, 162 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: and a lot of people, and they're going to do 163 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: what they want to do and what they can do 164 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: to maintain power. That's it. It's a moral accountability. But 165 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: bringing this back for a moment to Fauci, he took 166 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 1: us down the wrong path along with many others. Why 167 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: because the most important thing to them in twenty twenty, 168 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: in the election year, well in the election in general, 169 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: was to defeat Donald Trump. That was the single most 170 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: important service they could provide the country in their minds, 171 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: more so than getting the origins of COVID nineteen right. 172 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: They have corrupted science. They have undermined the public's faith 173 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: in actual data, and the ramifications of this are long 174 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: lasting and deeply destructive. People will not will not look 175 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: at scientific data, They will not look at anyone who 176 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: believes there's a consensus around science the same way, at 177 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: least those who are capable of independent thought and applying 178 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: reason and rationality to complicated questions. The sheep who still 179 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: march around with their masks on outside even after excination. 180 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: The sheep are never going to change. But the rest 181 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: of us have an obligation to continue to chase the truth. 182 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: Faucci is a fraud, don't ever forget it. And I'm 183 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: just wondering. And you touch on this in the new book, 184 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: where you see people like the former president and some 185 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: Republicans targeting doctor Anthony Fauci now saying he should be fired, 186 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: painting him as the big villain in this entire pandemic. 187 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: I wonder what you make of that. I think it's 188 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: totally ridiculous. I mean, you know, Fauci has served under 189 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: seven presidents, He's been a stalwart in public health and 190 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: more obviously, more people trust him than trust the former president. 191 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: So I think a lot of the reaction that you 192 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: find from the Trump administration and people that work for 193 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: it is a kind of resentment of you know, the 194 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: fact that Fauci is still in public life and the 195 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:56,359 Speaker 1: former president is on the margins. What an idiotic response 196 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: you get from Laurence right on CNN. But but the 197 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: stupidity that you could expect act in defense of Faucci 198 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: and Faucism knows no bounds. They'll say anything, They'll speak 199 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: about this in ways that you could look at them 200 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: and say, are you actually idiots or are you just 201 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: pretending it doesn't matter? What are they gonna do? Admit 202 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: that they burned all credibility as journalists, as scientists, The lockdowners, 203 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: the fauci its, burned all their credibility pretending to know 204 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: so much more than they did, being wrong over and 205 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,599 Speaker 1: over again, and doing so in a way that ultimately 206 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: led to power for their side. They must defeat Trump. 207 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: This pandemic was the bolt of lightning in our electoral 208 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: politics that gave the Democrats a once in a century 209 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: opportunity to win an election that they absolutely should not 210 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: have been able to win. And there's a lot of 211 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: things that went on. There's a lot of things we 212 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 1: could talk about the pandemic did that changed the way 213 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: in a vote on Donald Trump after four years would 214 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: have gone. But now we see with this Biden team 215 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: that the Democrats, who in churches people, are not good 216 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: at governance. They're not impressive. They're not making America a safer, better, 217 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: stronger place now, they're making it a weaker, less prosperous, 218 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: more onerous, more depressing place to be. That's what the 219 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: Democrats excel in. But we're all in it together equally miserable. 220 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: That's they that's what they offer as the end result 221 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: of their policies. Oh, it's so much better than it 222 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: was under Trump, right, that's what they tell you. Oh yeah, 223 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: how in what way? What has gotten better? I could 224 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: talk to you, But a lot of things have gotten worse. 225 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: But now they create strong men and they throw up 226 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: all these defenses of Fauci and it's so mean. And 227 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: Fauci's a great Listen to this guy. He served under 228 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: seven presidents. He's a bureaucrat who sat around going to meetings, 229 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: you know, telling people to have safe sex and wash 230 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: their hands during flu season. That was really his contribution. 231 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, you think I'm exaggerated, go 232 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: back and look at some of the stuff he used 233 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: to say about HIV. Totally wrong, totally wrong. And what 234 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: do they always say, Oh, well the science evolved. Well, 235 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: you see, if they had some humility and we're willing 236 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: to admit that they were making conclusions, they were drawing 237 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: conclusions and making policies that they shouldn't have been based 238 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: upon the actual certainty or lack thereof, of the science, 239 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: I'd be more forgiving. But they create false consensus. They 240 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: leverage fake certainty, and then when we finally prove it 241 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: they're wrong. They say, well, yeah, I guess we learned 242 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: some new stuff. Think of the psychological damage that has 243 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: been done to this country. I was out this weekend. 244 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: I was in Central Park in Manhattan, and the people 245 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: out in the park were thankful unmasked. But then I 246 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: walk out and you go on the streets and everyone 247 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: still masked up. I was going to make a reservation 248 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: at a restaurant that said that you can't that for 249 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: all people who dine inside. You have to eat in 250 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: the restaurant. You have to show proof of vaccination. And 251 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: I just want to say, well, your staff must all 252 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: be vaccinated, So what the heck is the problem? They're fine, 253 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: they're protected. What Oh, I see this is now a 254 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: The vaccination card is going to become the new virtue 255 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: signaling that masks. Masks are going out of style now 256 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: for people who take the virus seriously. Now it's going 257 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: to be vaccination cards and they can demand you know, 258 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: private places are going to demand proof of this. You 259 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: gotta show me the email, you gotta show me the 260 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: card you have, otherwise you can't eat here. Oh as 261 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: if that's reasonable or rational. I mean, I hope the 262 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: places that do that, at restaurants that do that, suffer 263 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: business wise dramatically because what they're doing is absurd, it's 264 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: not rooted in the science, and they're acting like a 265 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: bunch of babies, all right. Their staff, the staff, I know, 266 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: the staff at this particular restaurant. They're young people. Actually, 267 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 1: one of them is that a guy who grew up 268 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: with They're not at high risk to begin with, and 269 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: they're all vaccinated. So they're gonna tell someone like me, 270 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: who is immune from a prior COVID in faction that 271 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: has been cleared, They're gonna tell me that I can't 272 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: eat in their establishment because I'm not going to get 273 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: injected with a vaccine that I don't need and that 274 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: six months from now I might have to get a 275 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: booster for anyway, I'm not welcome there. Okay, let's let's 276 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: have that conversation then, you know. But but ultimately this 277 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: became so politically tribal, and the left made this such 278 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: an issue of virtue signaling and being part of the 279 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: in group and everything else that people now you see, 280 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like they're suffering emotional and intellectual damage 281 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: from Fauci is and that just lingers on simply absurd. 282 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: It's absurd. And we're supposed to believe what the Biden 283 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: administration is going to hold China accountable. Now I don't 284 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: think anybody really believes that. And I'm seeing that Donald 285 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: Trump is feeling a little bit more, a little bit 286 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: more of a need to get out there and speak 287 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: about what happened in that Chinese lab and speak about Fauci, 288 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: who is as I've said along, I am proud every 289 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: time I called Fauci an evil, little totalitarian smurf, a 290 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: Democrat lab coat tyrant, a you know, an authoritarian who's 291 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: just not that bright and who's been skating along as 292 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: a bureaucrat for decades and decades. Every time I said 293 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: that was true. Trump also knew this guy was. But 294 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: Trump should have fired him, but he wouldn't do it. 295 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: Play eight. The media, the Democrats, and the so called 296 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: experts are now finally admitting when I first said thirteen 297 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: months ago, the evidence demonstrates that the virus originated in 298 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: a Chinese government lab. Couldn't say it, You couldn't say it. 299 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: And doctor Fauci, who I actually got along with. He's 300 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: a nice guy's a great promoter, you know, not a 301 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: great doctor, but he's an ele of a promoter. He is, 302 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,439 Speaker 1: isn't he. That's that's what you're that's what you're seeing. 303 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: That's the reality of this circumstance. Doctor Fauci understood the 304 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: politics as a bureaucrat. That's really his skill set, which 305 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: weighs the wind blowing. How do I elevate myself in 306 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: this system and remain protected by this system? What did 307 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: he do that was helpful in this whole process? What 308 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: was the what was the Fauci decision that, now that 309 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: we have even more information, you say that was really smart, 310 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: made a lot of sense. I'm telling you I said here, 311 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: I don't think there is one. I don't think there 312 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: is a place where doctor Anthony Fauci made a call 313 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 1: that in retrospect you say that was a smart, gutsy call. 314 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: I think this guy was wrong on everything at every 315 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: moment that had counted. And the Democrats don't want to 316 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: admit this because he was their single most effective tool 317 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: against Donald Trump's reelection and it was all a fake, 318 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: a fraud. That's who he is. The more we see, 319 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: the more we know every sign, every piece of evidence 320 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: that we've seen today continues to stack up to suggest 321 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 1: that this did indeed come This Huhan virus came from 322 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: the virology lab there in Huhan. I was in almost 323 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 1: no evidence that supports the zoonotic theory that it's somehow 324 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: leapt from a bat to another species. This wasn't the 325 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: politically correct thing to say back in the spring of 326 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: last year when I began to see evidence accumulating in 327 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: that direction. What precisely happened we don't know, But every 328 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: one of those laboratories that the Chinese engaging, just like 329 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: frankly every state on enterprise, is operated and controlled by 330 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: the People's Liberation Army or their security apparatus. That's certainly 331 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: true at the Uhan Institute of Virology as well. We 332 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: don't know precisely what was taking place there because the 333 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party is covering it up, won't let us know. 334 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: But there are a lot of unanswered questions about what 335 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: these activities were, why they were engaged with them, were 336 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: they connected to their military in anyway, And if in 337 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: fact this lake came from that laboratory, is it beyond 338 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: the pale? Now this is a theory. I want to 339 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,880 Speaker 1: be very clear on this. I'm not saying this happened. 340 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: I'm asking us to think about this possibility, especially given 341 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: what we weren't allowed to say according to the consensus, 342 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: the Democrat consensus on science that has been exposed as 343 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: a fraud. But let's just think this through for a moment. 344 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: Is it possible. Is it plausible that the Chinese Communist 345 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: Party and the People's Liberation Army of China, Is it 346 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: possible that they may have wanted to understand gain of 347 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: function or understand where a virus can be made more lethal, 348 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: how it can be made more lethal through gain of function, 349 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: not just to be able to deal with a possible 350 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: outbreak better, but to have at their disposal should they 351 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: want to the weaponized a weaponized virus. Is that Is 352 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: that something that's so immoral? I mean, China's got a 353 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: lot of nuclear weapons. China's got all kinds of stuff 354 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: that I'm sure we don't know about or even talk 355 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: about in this country. This is an immoral regime. This 356 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: is a regime that puts people today in concentration camps. 357 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: This is a this is a country a government that's 358 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: willing to sterilize people. It's own people that will that 359 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: enforce day one child policy. This is a government that, 360 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: in its history, as I mentioned earlier, because of its 361 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: incredible stupendous Communist Marxist induced blunders, created an enormous famine 362 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: with the Great Leap Forward that killed over forty million. 363 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: I mean the estimates of it. They don't really even know, 364 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: but millions and millions of people starved to death, horrible 365 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 1: way to die. Families, whole villages starved to death. This 366 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: was in the sixties, all right, This was not long ago, 367 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: and I think that everyone needs to start to see 368 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: this as I'm sorry, you know, it was fifty eight 369 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: to sixty two, so to be clear, I mean I 370 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: when I say it's the sixties, I mean it's kind 371 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: of the late fifties, early sixties. But when you start 372 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: to look at what really is at the heart of 373 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:04,959 Speaker 1: the Chinese communist regime, there's no moral revulsion from doing 374 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: extremely horrific things to their own people. You don't think 375 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: that they would have, at least as a possibility, want 376 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: to keep open the possibility that they could unleash a 377 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: plague anywhere in the world they wanted to. I mean 378 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: They've got nuclear weapons that they am sure would be 379 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: willing to use if if they felt that it was 380 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: not even if it was in self defense, they would 381 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: feel if it was in their interests, they should use 382 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. This is a government that is willing to 383 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: embrace extreme, calculated evil, and so I think we have 384 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: to at least leave open the possibility. I'm not yet 385 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: at the place where I find it. I don't find 386 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: it plausible. That's not the same thing as saying I 387 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: don't think it's that I can tell you for sure 388 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,239 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. I don't find it plausible that this 389 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: was intentionally released. I don't find that plausible. That doesn't 390 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: make sense to me. But I understand people will make 391 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: that case. Sometimes they say, well, China is willing to 392 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: sacrifice some portion of itself in order to get a 393 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: jump on the rest of the world from this. But 394 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, I don't find that theory compelling. 395 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,360 Speaker 1: I don't That doesn't add up to me. I do believe, 396 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: and I'd put it at seventy five percent certainty in 397 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: my mind. That's in my mind. That's just I'd put 398 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: it at seventy five percent certainty that this was an 399 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: engineered virus coming out of a lab, and some of 400 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: you're probably yelling at me, buckets, you should be ninety 401 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: five percent. But I just just to leave open the 402 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: possibility of some zoonotic missing link thing that we haven't 403 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: been able to found. I've been able to find, or 404 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: they have been able to find. I would say it's 405 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 1: seventy five percent. But would China have been willing to 406 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: engage in gain a function research Not so that they'd 407 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: be better able to stop a pandemic should if it 408 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 1: were to break out naturally, but so they'd have a 409 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: knowledge about how to supercharge for weaponization purposes should they 410 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: choose to use it for that reason. Do I believe 411 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: that China as a government would have in its mind, 412 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: we want to learn how to turn a virus ultra 413 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: lethal and ultra fast spreading. I do think that that's possible. 414 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: I do find that credible, and could that have influenced 415 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: some of the research going on in this laboratory with 416 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: some degree of plausible deniability that that's really what they 417 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 1: were doing? Right? They say it's so they can stop 418 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: a plague, But isn't it also possible that they wanted 419 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: to know how to start one just in case, Just 420 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: in case, I think the answer is yes. Pompeo, who 421 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: was a very able Secretary of State under Trump, is 422 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: making the rounds now telling everybody that we need to 423 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: stop just thinking of China as a competitor. Right, we 424 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: can be friends. We are economic competitors with the EU, 425 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: for example, we're economic competitors with Britain, France, Germany, but 426 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: we're not looking to undermine those countries. We don't want 427 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: to see economic catastrophe in those countries. We feel a 428 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: kinship with not just the people, but with the governments 429 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: of those countries and many others. Japan is another one 430 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: whether our allies. It's like a it's like a tennis 431 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: match that we're hoping that we win. But at the 432 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 1: end we shake hands and you know, they're millionaires, were millionaires, 433 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: and we get to go give you know, our interviews 434 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 1: to the media, and everyone lives, lives to play another day. 435 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: Kind of a thing. With China, it's different. They want 436 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,239 Speaker 1: to beat us, they want us to you know, then 437 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 1: they want to crack. They want to crack a racket 438 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: over our head and end our career. And that's it. 439 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: I mean, they have a very different approach to the 440 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: sense of competition they have with the United States, and 441 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: Pompeio understands that. He's out there telling everybody that play three, 442 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party presents the most significant challenge to 443 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: our way of life from any adversary that we have 444 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: out there today. I heard him the other day said 445 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 1: that they were a competitor, that China will somehow a competitor. 446 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: Europe is a competitor. Japan as a competitor. The Chinese 447 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: Communist Party wants to take us out. They want the 448 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: world to operate on a system that looks like the 449 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: one that they operate, a tyranny, authoritarianism. We can't let 450 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: that happen. And if President Biden is going to tout 451 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: miles traveled and hours spent as the hallmark of success, 452 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: I promise Yushi Hinping, we'll see that as weakness and 453 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: our children and grandchildren will live in the United States. 454 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: That's very, very different. They want to take us out. 455 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: That's one of the major philosophical differences when it comes 456 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: to foreign policy between the Trump America First and just 457 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: general right in America versus Biden, the Democrats, and the 458 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: Marxist leftist types. They really think that the problems of 459 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: policy all come from the US, and that our opponents 460 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: are competitors. None of them are really truly enemies. Whether 461 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: it's the Iranians, the North Koreans, or the Chinese, they're 462 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: not enemies. We just have created a circumstance where there's misunderstanding, 463 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: and if only we, the Americans, do things differently, we 464 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: can fix the problem. I think this is a fundamental 465 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: misconception of what's going on in the world and the 466 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: approach of different regimes and how they treat their own 467 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: people and humanity in general. I think that there's always 468 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: a reluctance. I know there's a reluctance among Democrats to 469 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: be willing to say that America is a more moral regime, 470 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: that America is a more ethical state than these other countries, 471 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: and that the problems that we are dealing with, the 472 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: challenges that we are facing, are a result of their transgressions. 473 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: I notice that that in America, I mean here, the 474 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: focus of our media was always when Trump was in office, 475 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: away from Chinese culpability for the virus. It's seen a phobic, 476 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: it's racist, and on Trump, on America, on the anti maskers, 477 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: that was the problem. No, I think we've all seen folks. 478 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: I think we're pretty clear on the fact that it 479 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: was gain a function research in the Wuhan lab and 480 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: the escape virus that was the problem. It was not, 481 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: in fact, Donald Trump and hydroxy chloroquin and bleach and 482 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: whatever other nonsense they talk about. So to get those 483 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: answers to do a proper investigation, you're going to need 484 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: The US is going to need access to the labs. 485 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: Will you demand that? Will we put teeth on it? 486 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: Will you even go as far as sanctions on China 487 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: if they keep inspectors out. I think the international community 488 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: is clear that we have to have The international community 489 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: has to have access, it has to have information, it 490 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: has to have meaningful So what's the real pressure the 491 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: US will put on China for access to the lab? 492 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: If China denies the information, denies the access, denies the 493 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: transparency that's needed, and well, let's see, Mike, at the 494 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: end of the day, it's profoundly in China's interest to 495 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: do this as well, because look, it's suffered too in 496 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: the in the outbreak of this pandemic. It presumably has 497 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: an interest as well, especially if it purports to be 498 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: a responsible international actor, to do everything it can to 499 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: provide all the information it has to make sure we 500 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: can hopefully prevent this from happening again, no pressure to 501 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: speak of. They'll talk about it, but they won't do anything. 502 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: And this was one of the moments of Trump's presidency 503 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: that was honestly among the most revolutionary. That not only 504 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: was he did he identify the challenge and the problem 505 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: of China in a really important, powerful way, but was 506 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 1: willing to do something about it. I remember when we 507 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: were told that Trump's tariffs on China would result in 508 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: economic and enormous economic losses for Americans. Oh my gosh, 509 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: trade wars lead to real wars, was a thing used 510 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: to hear. Meanwhile, China had all kinds of tariffs and 511 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: bearers in place against us. We just weren't weren't doing 512 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: anything about it. But it took Trump to come along, 513 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: somebody that felt like they knew what was really happening 514 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: and have those those gut instincts about who the good 515 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: guys are and who the bad guys are. That's one 516 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: of the big failings of Democrats. They don't have the 517 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: gut instincts about good and bad people. Good and bad things. 518 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: It's all moral relativism. It's all kind of well, a 519 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: little bit of this, a little bit of that. Everybody 520 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: makes mistakes, except for you know, white male Americans, who 521 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: are the bad guys. For white male Republican Americans, pardon me, 522 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: who were the bad guys always and forever for everything. 523 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: We're the cause. White male Republicans in America are the 524 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: cause of all the world's great evils. And everybody else 525 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: is just kind of misunderstood or oppressed or you know, 526 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: having a tough day. And why do we have to 527 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: get on China's case so much? Right? We don't, you know, 528 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: we do bad things too. This is the this is 529 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: the pathway to liberal lunacy. Moral relativism is really the foundational, 530 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:32,479 Speaker 1: foundational precept of all contemporary liberalism in America today. And 531 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: I know that I hate using the term liberal for them, 532 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,959 Speaker 1: but they've hijacked our language for their own purposes too. 533 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: They're not they're anti liberty. They really should not be 534 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: called liberals. They've made liberal a term that conjures up 535 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: some degree of disdain in the listener's mind, because we 536 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: know that liberals just keep doing that. They're just getting 537 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier, doing dumber and dumber things, always pushing 538 00:33:53,320 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: into more areas where a rational approach would be contrary 539 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: to whatever it is that they're doing. But they they 540 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 1: have had a remarkably clear strategy for a long time. 541 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: The left in this country has had a strategy of 542 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: use government to implement their will, use power in ways 543 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: they want to. Now, I know, that's that's such a straightforward, 544 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: such a simple thing to say, almost overly simplistic. Right, 545 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: don't we do the same thing. No, we don't. No, 546 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,720 Speaker 1: Conservatives sit around and they they want to reach across 547 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:34,240 Speaker 1: the aisle. They want, you know, durability of institutions. They want, 548 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: you know, to hold hands and sing songs together, you know, 549 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: and and find the middle path, the third way whatever. 550 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: Look at the last twenty years in American politics and 551 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: find me the place where conservatives where the right decided 552 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 1: they were just going to make the other side, you know, 553 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 1: just deal with it. We're ramming it through. We're getting 554 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: it done. Stings for you. I can think of tons 555 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: of places the Democrats have done that, tons of places. 556 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: I mean, then you look at the Obama administration. They 557 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: did with Obama Care for example, but look look what 558 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 1: they did. They're the ones that created the instability in 559 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: Congress from shifting the rules to suit their temporary partisan whims. Right, 560 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: They're the ones, with Harry Reid that knoke the filibuster. 561 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: We called it the nuclear option. Turned out it wasn't. 562 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,319 Speaker 1: I guess so nuclear because they're willing to do it. 563 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: But Trump has been correct. Trump has been seeing this 564 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: for what it is when it comes to China for 565 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: a long time. And that's one of the places where 566 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: his outsiders status and willingness to break with the elite 567 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: consensus of both parties on China was somewhat revolutionary. That 568 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,719 Speaker 1: was such a big change, And he was right. And 569 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 1: all the people that study this and say, oh, but China, 570 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: you know his approach to it. No, no, no, It 571 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: is essential that we see the challenges ahead for what 572 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: they really are here. And the Chinese Communist Party is 573 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: a big problem for the whole world, a big problem 574 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: with the Belt and Road initiative, a big problem with 575 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:26,840 Speaker 1: the really mercantilist approach, the taking of the leveraging of 576 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: Chinese authority and power to strip as much in the 577 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: way of natural resources from the developing world as possible, 578 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,320 Speaker 1: while also undermining democracy in those countries and doing whatever 579 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 1: they can, I mean, a really mercenary approach from the 580 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: Chinese communist parties. What you get. We can either allow 581 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: this to continue on or we say that we're going 582 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,320 Speaker 1: to see China for what it is as a country, 583 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: which is one that has to be dealt with now 584 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: firmly and where there are zero sum aspects of our relationship. 585 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: That's the way it has to be going for it, 586 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: or else we can have them dictating what can be 587 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 1: in our movies, what companies are allowed to allowed to 588 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 1: exist and thrive in America because of the global pressure 589 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: that China can bring. You know, we can allow them 590 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,399 Speaker 1: to influence our politics directly and indirectly the way they've 591 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: been doing. You know, we can allow them to try 592 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 1: to buy off people like oh, I don't know, Hunter 593 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 1: Biden and just sit around that act like it's no 594 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,799 Speaker 1: big deal. This is the future we face, folks. This 595 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: is the choice that we all have to make. Do 596 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,239 Speaker 1: we confront China or not. Joe Mansion has become the 597 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: new Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell, during Obama's presidency, said he 598 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: would do everything in his power to stop Obama. He's 599 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: also repeated that now during the Biden presidency by saying 600 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,960 Speaker 1: he would do everything in his power to stop President Biden. 601 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 1: And now Joe Mansion is doing everything in this power 602 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,160 Speaker 1: to stop democracy and to stop our work for the people, 603 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,160 Speaker 1: to work that the people sent us here to do. 604 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: Here you have a member of Congress from New York 605 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: saying that Joe Mansion taking a position to represent the 606 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 1: state of West Virginia that is completely within his scope 607 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 1: and within the rules, that Joe Mansion's decision itself is 608 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: a threat to or a stoppage of democracy. A stoppage 609 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,840 Speaker 1: of democracy. What this is democracy? This is the system 610 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 1: we have. And I know we have a republican not 611 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,280 Speaker 1: a democracy, but as you know, democrats use these terms 612 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 1: interchangeably all the time. But it is important for everybody, 613 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,719 Speaker 1: I think, to know. It is important for em to 614 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: remember that the Democrats could, they could be able to 615 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,359 Speaker 1: they could get around this filibuster entirely. They all they 616 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,320 Speaker 1: would need to do is just win more Senate seats. 617 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,680 Speaker 1: And that's the whole reason that we have some of 618 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,879 Speaker 1: these procedural checks we do is because decisions have been 619 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,839 Speaker 1: made by or elect government in the past that they 620 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:07,319 Speaker 1: want for big things, you want big majorities. And so 621 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 1: that's why what we see here is just changing of 622 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 1: one's position. Democrats change how they feel about things like 623 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 1: the filibuster depending on what is most advantageous for them 624 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: and for their power. That is it. There's no broader principle, 625 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,800 Speaker 1: there's there's no bigger nope. That is it. That is all. 626 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 1: And I just think it's so interesting that that Mansion 627 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: is now being treated like the bad guy by Democrats 628 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,840 Speaker 1: because he won't go along with HR One, which is 629 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:43,440 Speaker 1: a highly partisan and would be a very facile political act, 630 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,880 Speaker 1: would result in a lot of a lot of bad blood, 631 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: a lot of dissension among Republicans, and what we'd see 632 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,879 Speaker 1: is the attempt to federalize elections that it would result 633 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: in a lot of lawsuits and constitutional challenges. And so 634 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,120 Speaker 1: Mansion saying no, I'm not going to go along with that. 635 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: And what do they say that this is somehow it's 636 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 1: not even obstructionist. It's stopping our democracy from working. No, 637 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:16,400 Speaker 1: this is our democracy, this is our system. When things 638 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,560 Speaker 1: don't happen the way the Democrats want, they can do 639 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,839 Speaker 1: this babyish crying thing. They can say, oh, but you're 640 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: you're you know, you're a threat to our democracy, and 641 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,879 Speaker 1: they can say all this stuff. It's nonsense. No, this 642 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,799 Speaker 1: is the way the system actually works. It doesn't it 643 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 1: doesn't have to give the outcome that Democrats want for 644 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,919 Speaker 1: it to be legitimate, even though that's how they think 645 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 1: about all of this, even though that is their approach 646 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,759 Speaker 1: right the moment that you know, because a lot of 647 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,720 Speaker 1: this stuff, they know they're not going to convince people, 648 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,800 Speaker 1: they're not going to get the political support they need, 649 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,920 Speaker 1: so they just want the raw exercise of power through 650 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 1: the system to be open to them. And while I 651 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,960 Speaker 1: don't think that they're going to do it anytime soon, 652 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,319 Speaker 1: there will now be an effort to still get rid 653 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,560 Speaker 1: of the filibuster. There'll be an effort to do that 654 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: through continued pressuring pressure on Cinema and on Mansion and 655 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 1: on anybody who has been a problem for them in 656 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 1: this regard. So don't think that this is over. It's 657 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,880 Speaker 1: not over. They'll continue on in whatever ways that they can. 658 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 1: But for right now, what we're seeing is Obama. You know, 659 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: you're seeing a kind of obamasm through the Biden administration, 660 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,839 Speaker 1: but without a without a president that had the rhetorical 661 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,520 Speaker 1: rhetorical abilities that Barack Obama had. I mean, look, I 662 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,760 Speaker 1: had plenty of problems with Obama and was a staunch 663 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: critic of his administration for all eight years. But the 664 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,920 Speaker 1: guy's better at giving a speech than Joe Biden is. 665 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,840 Speaker 1: I don't think that's a news flash to anybody. I 666 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: think that's just observing reality. But now you have an 667 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:07,319 Speaker 1: Obama administration through Biden's stewardship in a sense, right through 668 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:14,919 Speaker 1: Biden as the conservator of the Obama vision for America, 669 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,240 Speaker 1: and even with many of the Obama people around Biden, 670 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,640 Speaker 1: as we know. But they're not gonna get Obama Care through. 671 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,319 Speaker 1: They're not gonna they're not gonna be able to get 672 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,360 Speaker 1: these transformational legislative acts through. So they're just gonna spend 673 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,759 Speaker 1: a ton of money. I mean, they're gonna spend money 674 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,880 Speaker 1: in ways that you wouldn't have even thought was possible 675 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,240 Speaker 1: ten years ago. The federal government's just gonna spend, spend, spend, spend, 676 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,799 Speaker 1: and then they're gonna be They're gonna play a lot 677 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:45,040 Speaker 1: of games rhetorically on talking about the threat toward democracy 678 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: and oh the need for January sixth Commission. Right, they 679 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: went from the most important issue in America for four 680 00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:02,359 Speaker 1: years was the fake phony Russia a collusion lie. That 681 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: was the most important thing in America for those years. 682 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,920 Speaker 1: Now fast forward a little bit. What is the most 683 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,600 Speaker 1: important thing today? The January sixth insurrection. Now does anybody 684 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,120 Speaker 1: really think that these are issues? If you were to 685 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,040 Speaker 1: line them up, you'd say, yeah, they're taking a fair 686 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,320 Speaker 1: minded view of these things, and it really is about 687 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: protecting our sacred democracy, of course not. These are issues 688 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,400 Speaker 1: that are first and foremost about the power of the 689 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,120 Speaker 1: Democrat Party and destroying anybody who would get in the 690 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:40,320 Speaker 1: way by creating other false or exaggerated narratives of fundamental peril, 691 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,880 Speaker 1: existential threat to the United States. This is what Democrats 692 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,560 Speaker 1: have been doing. I mean, you can see this. These 693 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: stories are of existential threat to America when there's really 694 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,560 Speaker 1: no threat. I mean, the Russia collusion thing was a 695 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,439 Speaker 1: fairy tale, was a fantasy, didn't happen. And how much 696 00:43:58,440 --> 00:43:59,879 Speaker 1: did you see on that? I mean, how many people 697 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:05,839 Speaker 1: there are leftists who built careers on that lie. You 698 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,560 Speaker 1: know that there was a guy who wrote a book, 699 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,120 Speaker 1: He's a moron. He wrote a book called Proof of collusion. 700 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,520 Speaker 1: I remember I had a couple of Twitter exchanges with 701 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,719 Speaker 1: this guy. He's just a fantasist. The guy's delusional. I 702 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: wrote a book proof of Collusion. There is no collusion, 703 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: didn't exist, but you write books on I'm sure he 704 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,319 Speaker 1: sold a lot of copies to you know, the left 705 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:30,000 Speaker 1: wing Chardonnay moms living in you know, Westchester and uh 706 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,640 Speaker 1: in New York. It's a fancy suburb where Hillary Clinton 707 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:37,400 Speaker 1: is U Santa Monica or you know, or Hollywood. H No, 708 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,239 Speaker 1: I guess not really, Holly, That's not really where you'd 709 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:44,360 Speaker 1: have it. You'd have it Malibu, Beverly Hills, you know, 710 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,000 Speaker 1: and fancy, fancy places. You know that you had all 711 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,239 Speaker 1: these all these people that watched too much CNN that 712 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,799 Speaker 1: thought that this was really a real threat, that there 713 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 1: was a real challenge to America coming from Russia collusion. 714 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,080 Speaker 1: And now with this this January sixth obsession, you just 715 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,040 Speaker 1: see the continuation of the same strategy. They're going to 716 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:09,080 Speaker 1: remind us of this all the time, and it means 717 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:13,480 Speaker 1: that they don't have to explain their failings really to 718 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,359 Speaker 1: their own side, to their own voters. They don't have 719 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,239 Speaker 1: to deal with the fact that the border is open, 720 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:24,480 Speaker 1: that they're spending too much money, that jobs aren't what 721 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,239 Speaker 1: they should be, the economy hasn't recovered as quickly and 722 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,800 Speaker 1: strongly as it should because of Democrat policy, because of 723 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,799 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. They don't have to explain any of that. 724 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,160 Speaker 1: All they have to do is points say, we are 725 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:39,279 Speaker 1: the only thing between you and the insurrectionists on the 726 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:44,160 Speaker 1: other side. We're the only thing that stops a white 727 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,160 Speaker 1: nationalist overthrow by force of the United States government. Now, 728 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 1: to you and me, this sounds like the ravings of 729 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,760 Speaker 1: a lunatic, and it is, but it's done for a purpose. 730 00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:02,040 Speaker 1: These are ravings that unfortunately are highly effect div at 731 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,520 Speaker 1: creating a perception among Democrats that whatever they do is right, 732 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:12,360 Speaker 1: whatever failings they have are irrelevant because they're keeping the 733 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:17,120 Speaker 1: country alive. That's right. They're like the doctor with the 734 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,640 Speaker 1: with the trodes, you know, electrodes, the paddles, you know, 735 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,000 Speaker 1: going clear clear. I don't know if that really made 736 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,600 Speaker 1: a good electric sound. That's that. I'm more like a 737 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,200 Speaker 1: duck was having a bad day. But you know what 738 00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,560 Speaker 1: I mean where they're taking the electrodes and they're uh 739 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 1: that that. You know, what are gonna do? You gonna 740 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,239 Speaker 1: get in the way say, oh, but you know, you know, 741 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,480 Speaker 1: you really didn't you really didn't handle that. Uh, the patience, 742 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,040 Speaker 1: you know, toe looks like it's pretty badly bruised. No, 743 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,080 Speaker 1: we're trying to keep the heart going. That's the that's 744 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,440 Speaker 1: their approach to dealing with criticism anything else. Because of 745 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,319 Speaker 1: the insurrection, that's all that matters. Whatever they need to, 746 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,120 Speaker 1: they'll go back to this. They'll they'll raise this issue 747 00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,160 Speaker 1: as the primary point of discussion all the insurrection. Oh, oh, 748 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,839 Speaker 1: you don't support us on spending, you must you must 749 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,440 Speaker 1: be one of those people supports the insurrectionists. Oh, you 750 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,840 Speaker 1: think Joe Biden's is bad running the economy as Barack 751 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 1: Obama was, Oh, don't pay attention to that. You're one 752 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,719 Speaker 1: of the insurrectionists. It's now the preferred It used to 753 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:21,000 Speaker 1: be you're a traitor for Russia. Now insurrectionists has replaced 754 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:25,640 Speaker 1: that as the preferred baseless slur of Democrats against their 755 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,360 Speaker 1: political opponents. Which is why this issue is so potent 756 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 1: for them, so powerful for them, because it allows the 757 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:39,279 Speaker 1: mob to continue to fail and to overreach and to 758 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,880 Speaker 1: be a mess. The Democrat mob can continue doing all 759 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:46,440 Speaker 1: these things and feel sanctimonious while it does it because 760 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,239 Speaker 1: they're fighting the insurrectionists, they're not having to look people 761 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,080 Speaker 1: like you and Mimi Eyes and explain how Joe Biden 762 00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,200 Speaker 1: is making smart decisions for the economy when we all 763 00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,759 Speaker 1: know Joe Biden's an idiot. It's not a smart guy, 764 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,319 Speaker 1: never has been. A smart guy, doesn't understand how things work. 765 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,680 Speaker 1: But they don't want to have that conversation. They want 766 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:05,840 Speaker 1: to yell insurrection