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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Second hour of The Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show gets going right now, give you a

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Speaker 1: little quick roadmap as to where we are going. Third hour,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have fascinating discussion with Senator Rand Paul, the

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Speaker 1: Good Doctor, about the hearings on Capitol Hill with regard

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Speaker 1: to gain a function research. And they have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of experts who have testified saying pretty terrifying stuff about

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Speaker 1: what can go wrong with gain of function and that

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Speaker 1: this was being done in some places, notably the Wuhan

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Speaker 1: Institute of Virology in China, makes it something that we

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Speaker 1: should certainly focus in on, get to the bottom of,

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Speaker 1: get some answers about. And also the latest with the

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Speaker 1: Democrat Reconciliation Bill, they're looking to really create a lot

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Speaker 1: of jobs, a lot of jobs for IRS agents. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about that here in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: But you know this Britney Griner situation, she just got

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Speaker 1: sentence in nine years And you know, it's always funny.

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Speaker 1: We can tell people we love whenever we get calls

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Speaker 1: in on any subject, and it's honestly, such an honor

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Speaker 1: that so many of you listen across the country. You

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Speaker 1: spend time with us. We hang out together, we learned together,

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Speaker 1: dive into what matters, have some fun too, and so

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Speaker 1: I always really appreciate it. But it is funny because

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Speaker 1: sometimes you hit a topic and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I can see producer Greg who's working the phones right now,

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Speaker 1: the lines just light up like a Christmas tree. People

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Speaker 1: are really fired up about this, and I look, I

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Speaker 1: will tell you, I think there are There are definitely

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Speaker 1: nuances here. There's a lot of there's the foreign policy

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Speaker 1: component of this. How much of this is Russia trying

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Speaker 1: to make a point against the US. How much of

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Speaker 1: it is they just want to have leverage in a

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Speaker 1: negotiation with us? But also, what kind of special treatment

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Speaker 1: is Britney Grinder getting because she is a famous celebrity.

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Speaker 1: How much our Democrats focused on this even more because

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Speaker 1: she's a celebrity female and minority then they would and

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Speaker 1: say the case of Paul Whaler, there's I understand, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of layers here, and we got all the

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Speaker 1: lines loot up. So I'll take a couple more on

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Speaker 1: this one to get some of those additional components into

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Speaker 1: our discussion, and then we'll talk reconciliation. Bill Monica Crowley

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Speaker 1: also producer Raley about half an hour, right, I should

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Speaker 1: be with this little less than that. Monica Crowley formerly

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Speaker 1: the Treasury Department, great analysts of a whole range of things.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's start here with Mark in Maine. Mark,

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Speaker 1: you've got some thoughts on this one. Hey, guys, thanks

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Speaker 1: for taking my call. So you know, I listen to

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Speaker 1: a few of your callers in I just I guess

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Speaker 1: I want to ask them, you know, where's your compassion

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Speaker 1: for your fellow human being? I think that being okay

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Speaker 1: with someone being put in prison for nine years for

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Speaker 1: doing cannabis oil is really really extreme, and it's like,

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Speaker 1: how do you celebrate freedom in this country and be

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Speaker 1: okay with someone getting that much time for just you know,

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Speaker 1: taking a little marijuana and they're not hurting anyone. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was point seven grams. My understanding is that that

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Speaker 1: that's about a teaspoon. And they charged her with transportation

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Speaker 1: of a quote large scale transportation and significant amount of drugs. Basically,

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Speaker 1: they hit her with a drug trafficking charge for a

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Speaker 1: teaspoon's worth of cannabis oil, as if she was going

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Speaker 1: to sell it to other people in Russia. She was

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Speaker 1: not going to get rich selling a teaspoon of cannabis

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Speaker 1: oil in Russia that much, I could assure folks up.

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Speaker 1: So she was not charged with simple possession. That would

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Speaker 1: be different, right, She was charged with transportation and the

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Speaker 1: Russian equivalent of intent to distribute. So does that seem fair?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, is she the Pablo Escobar of

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Speaker 1: vape pens? I don't think so. So I do believe

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Speaker 1: that there should be some you know, we need to

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Speaker 1: other side plays politics with everybody all the time. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that we can't just look at this as an

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Speaker 1: the Russian criminal justice system they get determined. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Just thinking that the president, Harris and Pelosi

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Speaker 1: But it's not going to be before the mid terms,

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Speaker 1: the most. Oh, I think that they always like the

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Speaker 1: time these things for maximumical effect. That's how democrats, That's

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Speaker 1: hear our interview with President Trump last week where he

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Speaker 1: just said, look, it's a bad deal. So yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: it looks like that's what I think they're gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: maybe my numbers are a little bit off, but disparate trades.

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Speaker 1: We value life and justice and decency as a people

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Speaker 1: It was obvious before the invasion and decimation of Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: in there. Obviously, some folks feel very strongly that, look,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're you go to Russia, you've got to

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Speaker 1: be on guard about this. And she did have you know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't plant it on her. That's not the claim

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Speaker 1: it's being made, So that would be a whole different thing, right,

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Speaker 1: But it is a teaspons worth of of cannabis oil.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, let me see, Yeah that did I was

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Speaker 1: right about this. Um Israel back in nine eighty five

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Speaker 1: the stuff does happen. All right, let's get to thank

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Speaker 1: reconciliation built one part of this that everybody should be

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Speaker 1: at this, as You've gotta be kidding me. Eighty seven

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Speaker 1: bill funds eighty seven thousand new IRS agents, imagined IRS

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Speaker 1: by the way, these IRS agents aren't there to go

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Speaker 1: after billionaires. They're there to go after you. They're there

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Speaker 1: to go after your small business. They're there to go

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Speaker 1: after your family. The Democrats idea is if they audit

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Speaker 1: money they can raise. Now, I gotta say, as I've

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Speaker 1: people yearning for a lot of things in America. I've

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Speaker 1: IRS agents. I mean, this is big government rona muck

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Speaker 1: it is. You know, they talk about what's fair in

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Speaker 1: the tax code. All right, libs, how about this one.

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Speaker 1: Why don't we have a fair tax or a flair tax?

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Speaker 1: Combination of a flat at a fair tax, the flair

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Speaker 1: a lot of vibe to it, you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: I just I had a conversation with Ted Cruz years ago.

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Speaker 1: a what's the thing you send in the mail that

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Speaker 1: Thank you, good job Buck. Buck is good with the

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Well, hold on, what else does it do?

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Speaker 1: what nineteen months, this is an historic catastrophe. And now

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Speaker 1: trillion dollars made up of hundreds and hundreds of billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars in new tax increases, which will affect you

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Speaker 1: and me. This is going to affect every single American.

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Speaker 1: It's going to affect every small business. This is not

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Speaker 1: just about going after the billionaires and the millionaires. They

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Speaker 1: like to demonize the wealthy in this country. This is

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Speaker 1: now going to affect to everybody. They are lying to

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Speaker 1: you when they say no one making under four hundred

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Speaker 1: a straight up lie. It is going all the way

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Speaker 1: down the income scale to those making even thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. So this is what they want. They

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Speaker 1: want to put the squeeze on everybody. The critical element

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Speaker 1: to this, too, is they are going to hire between

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Speaker 1: seventy five and eighty seven thousand new IRS agents. And

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Speaker 1: they say they want to do that book for enforcement

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Speaker 1: to try to squeeze more money out of industries and billionaires.

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Speaker 1: That is false. They are coming after the place where

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Speaker 1: the most money is, and that the American middle class,

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Speaker 1: and that in small business in this country. So enjoy

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Speaker 1: your audit, because you will be audited because they've got

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Speaker 1: to squeeze as much money out of the rest of

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Speaker 1: us as possible, and in terms of the macro story,

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Speaker 1: spending another trillion dollars in this kind of inflationary environment book.

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Speaker 1: If you think inflation is bad, now, just wait. If

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Speaker 1: it's going to take all of these negative economic indicators

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Speaker 1: on steroids. It makes absolutely zerological sense unless you understand

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Speaker 1: exactly where they're coming from, which is this is about

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Speaker 1: the fundamental transformation of the nation. This is about moving

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Speaker 1: us away from economic freedom and individual liberty and toward

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Speaker 1: a neo Marxist state. That is what they want. That's

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Speaker 1: why they are spending this way. They're driving us into oblivion.

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Speaker 1: They are deliberately torpedoing the US economy. All of this

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Speaker 1: is by design, So it makes logical sense when you

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Speaker 1: has been leading these congressional hearings focused on gain of

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Speaker 1: function research. Gain of function research. Now, we were talking

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Speaker 1: about this much more in the news cycle because there

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Speaker 1: was the whole where did the Wuhan coronavirus come from? Right?

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Speaker 1: What was involved here? Initially, social media, as you remember,

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Speaker 1: was shutting down any talk of the lab leak theory

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Speaker 1: was quite a coincidence that one of the very few

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Speaker 1: places in the world, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was

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Speaker 1: a place where they were actually doing gain of function research,

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Speaker 1: and that there were some US funding going through a

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Speaker 1: carve out a third party making its way to that lab. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that all of a sudden got a whole lot of attention. Well,

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Speaker 1: what is gain of function research in the first place?

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Speaker 1: Kind of regulations exist around it? What do we know

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Speaker 1: about it. This is something that people should certainly have

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Speaker 1: is looking to pass an amendment that would amendum to

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Speaker 1: the Package of Domestic Semiconductor Manufacturing that would ban all

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Speaker 1: US funding for gainer function research in China. But Senate

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Speaker 1: Democrats have objected to this. That's kind of weird, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: What does gain a function research? Well, here, you don't

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Speaker 1: listen to me. Here's MIT professor doctor Kevin Esvalt, who

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Speaker 1: was at this hearing. The question is if they were

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Speaker 1: not intending to determine whether a novel recombinant event between

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Speaker 1: these coronaviruses could lead to something that might kill millions

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Speaker 1: of people, then why were they doing it? If there

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Speaker 1: was no chance that it would come up with a

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Speaker 1: result that, like it was more dangerous, what's the point?

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Speaker 1: What's the scientific hypothesis? So, again, whatever you call it,

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Speaker 1: what they were trying to do was identify a biological

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Speaker 1: agent that has a good chance of being able to

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Speaker 1: kill millions of people if released. And they shared the

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Speaker 1: description of what they did, and they shared the genome

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Speaker 1: sequence because they thought that this would make us safer,

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Speaker 1: because they think that knowing which viruses in nature might

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Speaker 1: cause pandemics makes us safer. They did not consider the

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Speaker 1: security risks, apparently not think about this. You've got scientists

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Speaker 1: in China deciding that they're going to mess around with

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Speaker 1: naturally occurring viruses to see, I mean, could this with

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Speaker 1: just a little bit of a tweak here, a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a touch up there, could this virus turn

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Speaker 1: into something that is the Spanish influenza pandemic, or like

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Speaker 1: the bubonic plague, which was actually, as we all know,

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Speaker 1: carried by it was a bacteria that was carried by

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Speaker 1: the fleas on the backs of rats, particularly among other animals,

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Speaker 1: were mostly on rats. Would it be something along those lines,

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Speaker 1: essentially a global mass killer of humanity pathogen? And they

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Speaker 1: were tinkering with these things with the idea that, well,

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Speaker 1: if we know what could be really bad, then we'll

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Speaker 1: at least have some way of getting ahead of it

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Speaker 1: if it happens. Without thinking, well, hold on, maybe if

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Speaker 1: we tinker we'll make it into the really bad thing

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Speaker 1: that we were worried about in the first place. MTS

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Speaker 1: Professor Esvalt continues, and it's worth noting that both USAID

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Speaker 1: and H funded those particular coronavirus chimera studies. USAID, to

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Speaker 1: my understanding, has since disavowed those chimeric recombination studies and

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Speaker 1: announced that they will only focus on finding natural pandemic

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Speaker 1: capable viruses, which is at least a step in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. But again, I would call that Gaina function.

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Speaker 1: Another reasonable scientists would say, no, that's not Gaina function

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Speaker 1: because the term is so ill defined. Chimera, my friends,

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Speaker 1: so we all know the chimera from ancient Greek mythology.

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Speaker 1: Which do they even still teach that in schools? They

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Speaker 1: should dart it. I feel like they probably have A

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Speaker 1: mythology is amazing. There's a lot of focus on North

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Speaker 1: mythology these days because everyone's like, oh, Thor he's so cool,

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Speaker 1: look at his big arms. Norse mythology is good, but

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Speaker 1: ancient Greek mythology is better. I might get some angry

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Speaker 1: calls about that one, but I'm just gonna say it.

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Speaker 1: A Greek mythology is amazing. The reason why the Romans

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Speaker 1: were like, yeah, that's really cool. We're just gonna take

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Speaker 1: it and change some of the names because works pretty well.

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Speaker 1: But the chimera in Greek mythology was a monster with

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Speaker 1: the head of of a lion, a goat's body, and

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Speaker 1: a serpent's tail, right, But in in um genetics it

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Speaker 1: is an organism composed of the cells of more than

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Speaker 1: one distinct genotype. In in virology, it would be mixing

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Speaker 1: a couple of different things with the genome to essentially

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Speaker 1: create Kimra is a better a better word for it

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Speaker 1: than a Frankenstein because you know what happens whenever you say, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: people go Frankenstein, wasn't the monster. Frankenstein was the doctor. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we all know, okay, but when we say the Frankenstein monster,

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Speaker 1: we all have you even read it? Actually it is?

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Speaker 1: It is really good. You want a book recommendation that

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you can get for free on Kindle

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Speaker 1: when you downloaded it might be ninety nine cents that

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Speaker 1: still to this day is phenomenal. Bram Stoker's Dracula amazing

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Speaker 1: novel to this day. And I know you're saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: I know the story, and you think of the guy

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Speaker 1: from the movie, and like the nineteen fourties was like

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Speaker 1: I won't suck you're blood, Like you know, and then

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Speaker 1: we get count Chocula and all that stuff. The original

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Speaker 1: Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. I don't care if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're sixteen or sixty. Great reading still to this day,

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Speaker 1: just really really incredible. And I got distracted from gain

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Speaker 1: of function research. Let's get back to how this could

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Speaker 1: basically turn into a WMD situation. This is also from

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Speaker 1: the hearing Rutgers professor E. Bright Gaina function research and bioweapons.

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Speaker 1: What's the connection there? I mean, what role does gain

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Speaker 1: a function play? As I mentioned, there are no civilian

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Speaker 1: practical applications that are immense bioweapons practical applications. As you've

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Speaker 1: heard from doctor Spelt. The potential pandemic pathogens that can

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Speaker 1: emerge from such studies are potential weapons of mass destruction, inexpensive, accessible,

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Speaker 1: easily distributed weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction

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Speaker 1: that actually really just tribute themselves. All they need is

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Speaker 1: to get out once and then they are self replicating. Right.

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Speaker 1: You know, you let out poison gas, as scary as

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Speaker 1: it is VX gas or something. The gas scenaria dissipates

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Speaker 1: in the atmosphere, you know, horrible, but it's done, you'll

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Speaker 1: let out one of these things. A chimera virus manipulated

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Speaker 1: by scientists to find the most dangerous version possible. It

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Speaker 1: keeps going and going, various iterations of it, even perhaps

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Speaker 1: even we see it as a virus that could be

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Speaker 1: aerosol eyes. Friends, we've got Sonar and Rampaul joining us

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Speaker 1: talk about this and the latest faucia madness and spending

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