WEBVTT - The Wuhan Coverup 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.680 We have some shocking news about the origins of the coronavirus, 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.920 all while twenty two million Americans are thrown out of work. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:17.640 This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.000 with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, Senator. Just in our 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.639 prep call, I feel like there's so much information that 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.480 there is no way we're going to be able to 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.240 get to everything. The topic on everybody's mind is restarting 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.199 the economy from Michigan to North Carolina, all around the country. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.600 The presidents talked about it. Even the liberal governors have 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.040 talked about it. I know that you are on the 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.720 Restart the Economy task Force. I know you spoke to 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.640 the President yesterday. What did you talk about and what 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.479 is the plan. Look, we got to get Americans back 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.960 to work. Americans are ready to go back to work. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.760 Texans are ready to get back to work. Yesterday I 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.920 spent over an hour on the phone with the President 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.120 as part of the Restarting the Economy task Force. Talk 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.280 about two things really that I emphasized to the President. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.720 Number One, testing, we need to continue to lean in 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.800 and do even more on testing. The Abbot Labs quick test. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.760 You know when I went up to meet with the 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.000 President a couple of weeks ago, and the energy CEOs 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.360 on energy they required actually that was the first day 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.319 they required everyone going in to meet with the President 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.360 had to be tested for coronavirus. And I got that 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:30.559 they had just gotten one of those Abbot quick tests situations, 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.760 you know, And it's interesting that the I know a 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.800 number of people who had been tested on the old tests, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.560 and the old tests they'd stick it up your nose 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.160 and like, way way way up your nose, they said, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.800 I mean it was like going to the back of 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:46.160 your brain. It really hurt and was unpleasant. No, thankfully, 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.440 with the Abbot thing, which is what they had just gotten, 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.920 just put a little swab in each nostril, ran it 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.000 through a machine, and ten minutes later to get a result, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.120 so you don't have to wait four or five six days. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.400 They're producing about fifty thousand of those a day. I've 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.120 spoken this week with Texas hospitals, Texas communities. We're starting 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.320 to get the Abbott lab quick labs. We need to 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.560 get even more and more of them, and we need 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.080 to get even more of the antibody test. One of 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.040 the things the Vice President said in the call yesterday 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.640 with a task force is by the end of the month, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.680 they're expecting to be producing twenty million antibody tests a month, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.800 so that'll start getting out in real numbers. And so 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.440 what I emphasized to the President was two things, lean 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.720 in even harder on testing, getting it out more widely available, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.880 but also we have got to get people back to work. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.600 It's got it very geographically. Obviously, New York City has 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.760 been hammered. It's been horrific, it's been heartbreaking. What's happened 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.040 in New York. No one in their right mind would 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.720 suggest New Yorkers should go back to work tomorrow, right. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.040 But for much of the rest of the country, the 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.960 virus numbers are not nearly as bad. We have flattened 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.959 the curve, we've seen the numbers moving in the right direction, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.880 and we need to segment the population. For those who 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:03.480 are really vulnerable, the very elderly, those with serious health issues, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.720 they ought to remain quarantined, they ought to remain protected 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.760 because those are those are the communities that are really 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.440 vulnerable to this virus. But for everyone else, for young, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.280 healthy people, we need to get back to work, using 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.480 ppe where appropriate, using masks, using gloves, practicing social distancing. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.440 So for example, restaurants, they may need to reconfigure their 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.960 dining rooms to spread the tables out a bit so 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.320 that you can socially distance between tables. But we're imposing 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.560 massive harms on the economy. Twenty two million people out 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.400 of work, millions of small businesses on the verge of bankruptcy. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.040 And Michael, this is something I emphasize to the President yesterday. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.080 If we keep on this path, there is a real 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:51.200 public health consequence to killing the economy. We're gonna see 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.120 mental health issues. We're going to see depression, We're going 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.440 to see increased rates of suicide. We're going to see 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:01.040 increased rates of substance abuse and alcohol abuse, and lives 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.800 will be lost, and we got to protect lives. The 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.520 objectives should be protect as many lives as possible, and 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.320 on both sides of the ledgers, So be smart, follow 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.560 medical science and stop the pandemic, but also don't kill 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.640 the economy and destroy people's livelihoods and cause suffering and 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.080 death on the economics side either, well, we've already seen 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.920 some of the consequences of this. You know, for some reason, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.200 one of the responses to coronavirus in various states was 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.159 to let criminals out of jail. I guess it was 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.880 so that the virus wouldn't spread in the jails. Guess 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.200 what happens That criminal gets released the very next day, 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.720 he committed murder and then he's re arrested. And we've 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.320 seen stories like this around the country. It's very hard 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.000 to quantify that. You know, we can quantify the deaths 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.320 from coronavirus. Is there any way we're gonna be able 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.800 to measure the fallout and end even up to the 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:56.120 deaths caused by an overreaction, Well, we certainly need to 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.119 go back and assess that. And you're right, we're seeing 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.680 that all over the country in Travis coun Annie, Austin, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.400 uh In, Texas, that they're releasing violent criminals, people charged 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:09.400 with with with violent crimes, with assault, with with sex trafficking, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.240 and they're releasing them. That that's really dangerous. When you 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.840 release violent criminals, you're gonna get more violent crime. That's 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.000 the wrong response. And you know, there's a weird backwards 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.360 approach that violent criminals are being released from jail, but 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.599 at the same time that they're arresting people for driving 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.240 in their car, that that they tried to arrest a 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.560 guy in Colorado for playing catch with a six year 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.120 old daughter playing softball. Look, Catherine, my nine year old, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.880 as a softball player, as a as a softball dad, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.440 I'm offended that you'd go after a dad for simply 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.760 paying playing catch with his daughter. He wasn't endangering anyone, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.320 he wasn't near anyone. That's just stupid. And and you know, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.080 crises bring out people's character. And I got to say, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.440 there are some authoritarians, almost all its seems, on the 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.520 democratic side of the ledger, that are just abusing power. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:09.320 You know, Tennessee and Mississippi both places you saw people 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.920 being ticketed for going to church even though they stayed 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.720 in their cars and they were parked there listening to 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.200 the sermon on the radio. Look in your car, You're 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.520 not endangering anyone. That's just stupid. And to all of 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.760 these little petty tyrants, stop it. The governor of New 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.479 Jersey was was doing an interview. He was asked, well, well, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.280 does your order comply with a Bill of Rights and 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.840 the Constitution. He said, well, that's above my pay grade, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.440 that is your job. No, it's actually not. And in fact, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.680 I couldn't help but jump on Twitter and tweet out 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:46.479 the actual goat oath that every governor of New Jersey takes, 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.359 and he takes an oath to support and defend the 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.239 Constitution of the United States. And we need to focus 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.919 on defending people's liberties, letting them go go back to 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.880 work and earn a living and provide for their family. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.400 We can do all of that while being smart and 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.359 mitigating the spread of this virus. Of course. And I've 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.920 noticed this not even just from conservatives, not even just 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.000 from people in certain cities, but all around the country, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.400 even liberal governors. It seems like over the past few days, 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.720 we've reached a turning point. We're now at the pivotal 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.040 moment where all of the energy is not just on shutdown, shutdown, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.080 stay in place. But now it seems that there's a 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.520 growing consensus that we have got to restart things, even 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.080 as certain experts are telling us we can't leave our 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.000 homes for two years. Do you think that moment has happened. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:33.880 We're now on the other side of this. We're at 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.480 this turning point. So I do now listen. I think 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.560 it varies geographically. It needs to be based on the 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.040 medical science and where the virus is, and if you've 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.280 got an active outbreak that is spreading, you need to 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.880 be more aggressive in your efforts to contain it. But 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.920 where we are containing it, I'll give you another example. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.280 We have a lot of places that have shut down 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:59.080 elective surgeries, at elective medical procedures. That's having a devastating 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.480 impact on hospital I've been talking to physicians hospital CEOs 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.600 who are seeing their revenue cut, you know, eighty percent, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:12.400 and they're going broke, They're laying people off, and explain 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.280 to me the reasoning of we're going into a pandemic 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.239 where we desperately need our hospitals and doctors, so let's 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:22.000 slam them and stop them from performing the procedures that 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.120 generate all their revenue. And by the way, that too 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.600 will have a public health harm. Like even though something's elective, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.960 there are a lot of elective medical procedures that are 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.439 nonetheless beneficial. And if we keep delaying them and delaying 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.240 them and delaying them, people don't go into the doctor 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.840 for other health issues, a hard issue, what have you. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.200 We're going to have more and more deaths the more 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.000 we freeze and shut down our economy and we've got 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.800 away life. On both sides of the ledger, maximize the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.240 protection of life. Yeah, on the medical science front, I 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.800 want to turn for a moment from the economy into 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.680 the virus itself, and I want to take just a 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.319 slight victory lab because I remember on this very show, Senator, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:10.240 on March tenth, over a month ago, you suggested that 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.439 there was very likely a link between the Wuhuan Institute 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:18.079 of Virology and this virus that just so coincidentally happened 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.440 to occur within a couple miles of that institute. During 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.960 that time, the mainstream media said this was crazy, this 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.360 was a conspiracy theory, There was no evidence of it. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.400 Now we are getting multiple reports all saying that the 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.320 virus came from the lab. My question here is not 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.400 My point is not just to take a victory lap. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.840 My question is did the US government know that the 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.200 Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducting this sort of dangerous research? 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.680 And if we did know, why didn't we stop it? 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.800 Absolutely yes, the US government knew, and and in fact, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.439 when when you and I brought this up on March tenth, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.520 over the month ago, you're right, it was treated as 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:04.079 tinfoil hat biracy theory nut jobbery. Well, it turns out 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.400 there was wasn't just one. There were two labs within 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.200 miles aware this outbrook break occurred that were studying coronaviruses 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.000 from bats, and that there were Internal State Department wires 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:21.120 before this pandemic, raising concerns about the security in those 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.120 labs and that an accidental a virus could escape and 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.160 cause a global pandemic. But I'll tell you it's worse 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.439 than that. And let me give you some some breaking 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:36.679 news right now, which is the US government was funding 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.719 the Chinese research at the Wu Hunt Institute of Virology. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.719 Your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars, and let me 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.280 give you specifics that we just got today today and 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.360 inquiring of the National Institutes of Health, did any of 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.840 your money go to the Wuhun Institute of Virology. The 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.240 answer is yes, and and here's here's what they told 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.920 us in writing today. They ad in fiscal year twenty nineteen, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.240 the funding for the Wu Hunt Institute for Rology was 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.559 seventy six thousand dollars and the three hundred and one 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.480 dollars seventy six thousand, three hundred and one dollars. Now, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.080 what did it go to? And I'm repeating what NIH 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.600 has told me in writing. It went to It was 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:23.640 part of an overall three point seven million dollar funding 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:32.680 program that went to six years in sights in China, Thailand, Cambonia, Laos, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.760 and Men March. And here's what they were studying. These 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:41.280 are nah's words. The project included studying viral diversity in 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:48.800 animal parentheses, bats reservoirs, surveying people that live in high 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:56.600 risk communities for evidence of bat coronavirus infection, and conducting 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:02.880 laboratory experiments to analyze and predict which newly discovered viruses 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:08.120 pose the greatest threats to human health. That's what the 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.439 NIH funding was going to. And we followed up and said, okay, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.240 that's what you described as the project in all of 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.280 these countries. How about at the wu Hunt Institute of Virology. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.440 What specifically did US taxpayer dollars go to at the 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.400 wu Hunt Institute of Virology. Here's what the NIH said 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:29.439 in writing said said the project supported the following activities 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.160 at the wu Hunt Institute of Virology, coronavirus screening and 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:43.840 psyology of non human samples, viral pathogenesis, syriological testing, host 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:51.839 receptor binding spike s, protein sequencing, and in vitro and 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.000 in viva virus characterization, and it goes on to say 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.640 that they had not supported the creation of recombinant viruses 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.360 at the wu Hunt Institute of Virology. I just want 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.520 to make sure what your tax dollars and my tax 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.319 dollars went to. I want to make sure that I 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.160 have got this right, because obviously, if there were State 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.960 Department memos about this, a lot of people knew about 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.559 this from the very beginning of this pandemic. And what 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.040 you're saying right now, according to the NIH IS for 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.800 the past month and a half, two months even more, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.280 we've been told the Wuhun Institute of Virology had nothing 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.880 to do with this coronavirus. It's just a coincidence. Get 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.719 your tinfoil hat off. No way that that happened. Not 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.040 only do we now hear serious reports that it came 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.400 from the lab, now we are learning whoopsie daisy, I 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.880 guess we forgot actually US taxpayer money was being used 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:51.560 to fund that very viral research at the laboratory. Well, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.200 and let me make clear we don't have confirmed evidence 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.040 that it did come from the lab. We still don't 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.520 know that just reports. What we know is that US 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.880 tax dollars were going to the Chinese government to fund 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:09.280 this research on bat coronaviruses on how they could, how 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.720 they could be infectious to humans, how they could be 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.360 transmitted to humans, how they could be dangerous to humans, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.360 at the same time that the State Department was raising 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.640 real concerns about the safety and security protocols at the 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:27.600 lab that we're partially funding, and and and that I 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.840 gotta say that is nuts. And given that they were 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:35.120 studying these bat coronaviruses, the Chinese government needs to answer 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.760 the question right now where they studying the novel coronavirus? 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.600 This virus, Yeah, the virus that has killed over one 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.520 hundred and forty thousand people worldwide. Was that a virus 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.280 that was studied at one or both of the Chinese 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.640 government labs in Wuhan. They won't answer that question. They 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.000 need to answer that question, and over one hundred thousand 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.760 lives have been lost while they refused to answer that question. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.640 You know, I wish the media would ask them that question. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.440 I think if the mainstream media would tune in and 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.960 watch our show. They might be able to get a 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.400 little ahead of the curve here on these news stories. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.560 I can't expect, And honestly, you know, it is beneficial. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.160 You and I have an advantage that the mainstream media 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.280 doesn't have, yeah, which is that our revenue stream doesn't 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.080 depend on access to the Chinese market. It helps that 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.840 we don't have a revenue stream, so that that makes 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:28.280 it even simpler. But everyone, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, they 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:34.280 make millions of dollars every single year from access to China. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:40.000 They're terrified, they're terrified of ticking off the Chinese look. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.960 They edit out you know, I was reading something recently. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.480 Remember the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah, Yeah, wonderful, wonderful movie 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.240 about Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, lead actor one 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.520 Best Actor Oscars. Fantastic movie. Do you know in China 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.960 when they aired that, they edited out the fact that 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.360 Freddie Mercury was gay. It's just that minor detail, Like, 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.840 how do you watch a movie about Freddie Mercury and 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.760 edit out that he's gay. I mean, it's kind of 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.760 a pretty central element of the guy's life. And the 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.160 Chinese censors demanded it be edited out, and you know what, 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.200 our free speech defending Hollywood said, okay, thank you, and 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.800 they just happily edited it out. And there was an 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.560 article this week that I tweeted out about Bloomberg Media 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.960 silencing a story about Chinese corruption. Why because they didn't 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.680 want to piss off the Chinese government. Our media needs 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.600 to stop being This week, CNN wrote a story You 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.400 actually can't make this up, Michael. They took the Chinese 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:49.000 Communist parties propaganda website. Yeah, that said, the Chinese military 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.800 is doing better than the American military in fighting coronavirus. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:57.200 It's literally the propaganda website from the Communist Party. CNN 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.560 writes a story Chinese military doing much better than American military. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.120 Thus saith Chinese propaganda. They don't even say propaganda, they 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:10.719 treat it as news. These guys are behaving like money 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:15.240 grubbing purveyors of lies. Yeah, and anyone in the media 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.240 who gives a damn about integrity, who gives a damn 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.600 about truth, ought to be investigating these labs and ought 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.680 to be speaking the truth. I'm sorry, I'm getting pissed off, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.600 but but but it the media's complicity in this and 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.520 China's responsibility in this is mass. I think really CNN 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.560 should just give the Chinese Communist Party the log incredentials 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.720 to the website. They can just write their own stories. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.880 You'll be able to cut out all of the middlemen. Obviously, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.640 we can't expect honest. I actually think the Chinese would 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.720 make them a little more balanced. They feel they needed 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.400 some credibility. They wouldn't just shamelessly reproduce the Chinese website, 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.520 right right. You know at least sometimes that the Chinese 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.280 Communist Party is competent. You know, we can't expect honesty 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.520 out of them. Is the trouble. They've just revised up 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.280 their death numbers. We know that China was lying about 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.000 the death numbers from coronavirus. They've now gotten a little 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.520 bit more honest, but we obviously still don't have the 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.280 whole story. Unfortunately, we can expect that from the Chinese 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.080 Communist Party. Even worse, the World Health Organization, which we 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.120 should be able to trust, has been parroting that very 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.159 same propaganda. The President announced just this week that he 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.560 is going to defund the Who What do you make 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.440 of that decision? I think it makes an awful lot 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:33.720 of sense. The WHO sadly operated throughout this coronavirus epidemic 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.639 as really a parrot, a shill for the Chinese Communist Party. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.160 In January that the WHO sent out a tweet saying 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.200 no evidence of human to human transmission and China is 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.480 doing a lip skip any good job. Let's see if 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:47.760 he may not have been in there, but it was 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:54.760 implied for the translation. Look, it's you remember Baghdad Bob. Yeah, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.960 that's right. I don't know how many people do remember 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:01.479 soon so so Baghdad Bob. The press secretary for Saddam 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.760 Husaying or Sadam who's as forty one fabulously did as 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:10.720 psyops who just spread their proper like we repeat their propaganda. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.320 We're winning right as they were losing. The WHO is 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.720 like that there's no human to human transmission. I gotta 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:18.960 tell you one of the things we're gonna do in 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.960 the next podcast. Yeah, we're gonna walk through a timeline 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.359 of what happened in China and Jim Garrity a National 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.920 Review did a fabulous timeline that we're going to spend 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.560 some time walking through carefully. By the way, National Review 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.840 not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party, 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.960 so they actually can cover news. Where's the New York Times, 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:41.240 Where's the Washington Post? Where are actual people who pride themselves, who, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.359 by the way, give each other prizes for journalistic courage 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.280 because they stand up and scream orange man bad Oh, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.240 you're so courageous. You're so courageous. You don't like Trump. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.160 I don't like Trump. We all don't like Trump. Yeay, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.200 how about show some real courage and stand up to 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.679 the line communists who have direct responsibilities for covering up 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.280 this pandemic and endangering the lives of millions across this planet. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.359 That would be journalistic courage, even if it costs your 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.600 employers a few bucks and market access. You know, Senator, 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:16.760 I was sort of thinking that, now that you're outside 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.960 of Washington for a few weeks, you might be able 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.960 to take some downtime. But unfortunately, now you've got to 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.679 work to restart the economy. You've got to work to 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.600 get real information out of China, which is basically an 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.880 impossible task. There's so much to do. Have you had 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:36.679 any downtime whatsoever? You know, I'm having every day. I 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.440 have lunch and dinner with the girls. Two days ago 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.919 was Caroline's twelfth birthday, So April fourteenth, she turned twelve, 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.160 which is a bits a little traumatizing. I'm not sure 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.520 how she got to be twelve so quickly. But we 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.159 had planned a whole party. We're gonna go to a 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.640 roller rink, all the kids, we're gonna go skating. Well, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.480 obviously you can't go to a roller rink right now, 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.320 So what do you do with a sixth grader where 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.760 you have a birthday party? And she's like, all right, dad, 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:04.159 this sucks. Um. So what we ended up doing is 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:06.919 we did this thing where we invited all the girls 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.399 who were coming to drive by the house and to 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.280 wave and like they hung signs out the car windows 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:14.879 that are with their parents and they would wave and 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.720 they yelled happy birthday. And we put up three poster 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.000 boards and the kids came and all wrote little sign 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:22.600 We put them on our driveway and the kids came 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.159 and wrote happy birthday, we love you Caroline. And it 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.080 was fun. Like Caroline stood at the front door and 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:28.960 waved it's like high and jumped up and down. So 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.800 I mean it was a nice thing to do to 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.520 have a birthday celebration. Look, it's in the age of 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:40.400 social distancing. But it but it but it was still 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.159 it was. It was a nice and fun birthday. I 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.359 hope the kids dropped off the presence too, you know. 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.639 I know the economy has taken a big hit, but 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.920 they better not have taken those presents away from your daughter. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.879 That they did drop off the presence, including Heidie, and 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.560 I got Caroline an electric scooter, which which both girls 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.800 have been enjoying. By the way, I will confess, although 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.240 we're a capitalist household, we have a little bit of 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.840 socialist policies with the girls in that we told Caroline 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:09.960 she has to share the scooter with a younger sister, 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.520 which she thinks is an outrage because it was her 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.080 birthdache present. But both girls they ride like crazy on 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.640 that electric scooter and it's they're having fun with you. Well, 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.399 I fear that, you know, if we don't get this 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.320 economy restarted soon, we're all going to be socialists. Obviously, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.119 the Democrats in the House are trying to push to extend, 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.080 you know, the relief coverage to now be two thousand 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.520 dollars every single month until we've got full you know 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.840 employment again. A lot of fears coming out of that. So, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.520 how long do you think I want to get to mailbag, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.400 but just briefly, how long do you think we have 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:48.399 before we will have to restart the economy again or 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:52.800 else face really dangerous political consequences. Look, we have got 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:54.760 to get people back to work. You know, the last 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.040 two weeks, I've done a teletour all around Texas. So 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:02.000 I've had video conferences with with people in East Texas, 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:04.760 people in West Texas, people down in the Rio Grand Valley, 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.440 people all over the state. It's interesting. City and government, 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.640