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Fauci Hides Behind the Fifth | Episode 342 · V

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to Vince. Great to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday. Can you believe it? Thursday already. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about. Anthony Fauci appears before
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  Speaker 1: the Senate yesterday and he pleads the fifth. Wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was willing to answer any question, any
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  Speaker 1: question at all. We're going to talk about what Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Fauci did yesterday and why he may have just committed
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  Speaker 1: yet another crime. Actually, the details on that coming up. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a great guest on that subject, Phil Kirpin.
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  Speaker 1: who has encyclopedic knowledge of the sins of Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot to discuss with Phil. That's ahead
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  Speaker 1: on the program. Also, the fate of John Thune hangs
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  Speaker 1: in the balance right now because the fate of the
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act continues to hang in the balance. The
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  Speaker 1: president issuing another warning to John Thune that his future
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  Speaker 1: is very much on the line here. We've got the
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  Speaker 1: details of the president's remarks. So much more election integrity developments.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of things to discuss. It's all ahead.
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  Speaker 1: for details and boom. Well, well, well, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in the hot seat these days because, well, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of people to scrutinize. That includes the
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  Speaker 1: majority leader of the United States Senate, John freaking Thune,
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  Speaker 1: who was lying to us earlier this week about the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of using the filibuster to pass the Save America Act. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: we went over the details, but he appeared on Fox
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  Speaker 1: and he said something to the effect of, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that Civil Rights Act of 1965. Yeah, it didn't pass
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  Speaker 1: using a filibuster. It passed under regular order. It passed
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  Speaker 1: with a filibuster, dude. Stop lying. Stop lying to us.
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  Speaker 1: Pass the Save America Act. Here's the president of the
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  Speaker 1: United States. Oh, I should gavel. You're right. I know.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, chat. You're so right. You're always right. The
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act. The president of the United States saying,
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  Speaker 1: The jury is out on John Thune. He was asked
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  Speaker 1: yesterday by a reporter about this, whether or not John
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  Speaker 1: Thune is still the man for the job. You can
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  Speaker 1: answer that question if you don't mind in the chat.
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  Speaker 1: Is John Thune still the man for the job? Here's
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  Speaker 1: how the president answered that question while you're doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Senate Majority Leader John Thune, after the
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  Speaker 2: comments you heard regarding Native Americans and other stuff, do
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  Speaker 2: you think he's.
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  Speaker 1: Still the man for the job?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to find out, and I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: He's holding out hope. He could be the man for
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  Speaker 1: the job if he achieves the job. If he actually
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  Speaker 1: does the job, he could be the man for the job.
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  Speaker 1: And what would the job be? What would that job be?
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  Speaker 1: Does the president really need to spell it out? Here
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  Speaker 1: he goes again. Watch, cut to.
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  Speaker 4: Leader Thune, what's.
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  Speaker 1: Your reaction to him saying that There's no evident path
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  Speaker 1: to success on killing the filibuster or passing the Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's too bad for him. I mean, that's too
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  Speaker 3: bad for him and too bad for the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 5: He's got the votes. He should get it done. He
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  Speaker 5: should be able.
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  Speaker 6: To get it done.
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  Speaker 1: He should pass the Save America Act. He should get
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  Speaker 1: it done. He's got the votes. He's got 53 Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get 53 Republicans to vote for, what's it
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  Speaker 1: called again? Election integrity. You can't get 53 people to
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  Speaker 1: do that. What kind of leader are you? Like what?
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  Speaker 1: You can't get 53 people. This is insane to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane. So just so you know, if you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the audio podcast, let me tell you what the
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  Speaker 1: chat is saying about John Thune.
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  Speaker 5: You ready?
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  Speaker 1: The question was fundamentally, is John Thune the man for
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  Speaker 1: the job? The president said, we'll see. The Vince chat says,
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  Speaker 1: hell no. Everyone's saying hell no. Sorry, John. You're just
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  Speaker 1: not the guy. You're just not the guy. Send Rick
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  Speaker 1: Scott in. Let's see what he can do. Can we
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  Speaker 1: get a reliever warming up in the bullpen? Any chance
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  Speaker 1: we can do that? Can Rick Scott start warming up
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  Speaker 1: the arm? We need to get somebody else out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, throw some strikes right across the plate. Might
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  Speaker 1: be good. You know, Mike Lee, can Mike Lee be
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  Speaker 1: the Senate leader? He certainly seems to know the rules
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  Speaker 1: of the Senate. The guy keeps telling everybody to the
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  Speaker 1: consternation of every establishment Republican senator, Mike, stop telling everybody
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  Speaker 1: we can do this. If they know we can do it,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get angry at us for not doing it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we are.
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  Speaker 1: We're pissed off. You're not doing it. And Mike Lee
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  Speaker 1: keeps telling us that it is entirely possible. Make Mike
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  Speaker 1: Lee the leader. Actually, some people want to see Mike
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  Speaker 1: Lee on the United States Supreme Court. That wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: a bad idea either. Michael, he's a patriot. Why don't
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  Speaker 1: we keep him in the fight wherever we can have him?
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  Speaker 1: But the idea here is really clear. Just give us
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  Speaker 1: election integrity. We're not asking that much. We're just asking
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  Speaker 1: for the bare minimum. We'd like a trustworthy society, please. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the president goes on and says, look, we got all
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  Speaker 1: these senators. We got 53 of them. This shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: a close call. We should have unanimous Republican support. Watch,
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  Speaker 1: cut three.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have to look at it, but they should get
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  Speaker 3: to save America. How simple can it be? Voter identification.
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  Speaker 3: Proof of citizenship. Now, you have to understand, the Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: not one Democrat will sign because they want to cheat.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way they can get elected if that happens.
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  Speaker 3: But we should have unanimous Republican support. And if we don't,
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  Speaker 3: people should look at those Republicans.
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  Speaker 7: But think of it.
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  Speaker 3: Who would not sign voter identification with photo? And who
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  Speaker 3: would not sign proof of citizenship? Only people who want
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  Speaker 3: to cheat.
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  Speaker 1: Only the cheaters. And only the people who are too
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  Speaker 1: lazy to protect the law abiding. That's it. That's the
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  Speaker 1: only reason that we have a slowdown on this. I
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  Speaker 1: hate to say it, but it's true. You know, did
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  Speaker 1: any of you get a chance to check out my
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  Speaker 1: conversation with Sean Farish yesterday? Sean Farish, the mighty Sean Farish,
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  Speaker 1: whose program is launching. On August 17th, do I have
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  Speaker 1: that date right? I think I do. I keep asking
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  Speaker 1: because I don't check the calendar. I think it's August
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  Speaker 1: 17th that he'll be joining us on the Silverlock lineup
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  Speaker 1: on Rumble. He's wonderful. He's been filling in for Dan
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  Speaker 1: Bongino all week this week. And he's back today, actually,
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  Speaker 1: in the 10 a.m. time slot on Rumble. Rumble.com slash
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  Speaker 1: Bongino to see it. But in our conversation, we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about how frustrating this is, how deeply frustrating this
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  Speaker 1: whole process has been. The fact that you and I
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  Speaker 1: have to keep browbeating these idiots to do the job
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  Speaker 1: that we sent them to Washington to do in the
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  Speaker 1: first place is a very annoying thing, because you and
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  Speaker 1: I already have jobs. Now, my job, of course, does
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  Speaker 1: involve watching them like a hawk. But fundamentally, people have
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  Speaker 1: got jobs. They've got other things in their lives. They
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  Speaker 1: have civic requirements. They got to take care of their kids.
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  Speaker 1: They've got bills to pay. You know, the government keeps
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  Speaker 1: taking money out of their paycheck. There's all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: priorities that you've got in your life. And having to
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  Speaker 1: be a parole officer to a United States Senator was
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  Speaker 1: not on what I don't want to say on your
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  Speaker 1: bingo card. I don't like that. I don't like that analogy.
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  Speaker 1: But I was not on the list of things that
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  Speaker 1: you should have had to do today. And yet here
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  Speaker 1: you are because they're not doing their jobs. So you
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  Speaker 1: have to hover over them like their parole officer. And
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  Speaker 1: when I was talking to Sean about this yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sean was talking about like the amount of kind of
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  Speaker 1: the vibe of it was kind of the pessimism out
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  Speaker 1: there about these guys failing. And I just I just
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  Speaker 1: said yesterday, I'll just remind you now here that like
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  Speaker 1: anything worth doing, it actually takes time to achieve. Have
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  Speaker 1: you noticed this? Like, it's one thing to just crack
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  Speaker 1: open a bottle of Gatorade and start chugging it when
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  Speaker 1: you're standing in your kitchen. It's another to hike up
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and when you reach the peak, crack open
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  Speaker 1: that Gatorade and drink it in victory. Have you noticed
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  Speaker 1: the difference? It's a big one, actually. It's a big one.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing like that. That distinction. And that's true in politics, too.
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  Speaker 1: That's true in politics. There's nothing like enduring through something,
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  Speaker 1: doing it the right way and finally achieving victory, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: those victories are long fought. Now, of course, I've talked
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  Speaker 1: a lot about the Save America Act because time is
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  Speaker 1: of the essence. With each successive election that passes that
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  Speaker 1: we don't have election integrity, that's another successive election that
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  Speaker 1: puts us deeper into the Chinese finger trap that the
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  Speaker 1: left has developed for us, where we just won't be
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  Speaker 1: able to get it back. We won't be able to
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  Speaker 1: get our constitutional republic back. So we have to move
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  Speaker 1: as swiftly as humanly possible. But as this process plays out,
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  Speaker 1: You should count your blessings. Think about the number of
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  Speaker 1: people that we fired as a result of this process.
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  Speaker 1: We have fired John Cornyn. Texas voters just got rid
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  Speaker 1: of that guy. Bill Cassidy just got fired in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Tillis saw the writing on the wall. He gets
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  Speaker 1: fired in North Carolina just by realizing, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to resign before they can fire me. These
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  Speaker 1: things are happening. And each of these senators are exposing
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  Speaker 1: themselves for who they truly are. Are they a patriot
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  Speaker 1: or not? Are they on your side or not? Are
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  Speaker 1: they here to do the business of the American people
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  Speaker 1: or not? And as they expose themselves during this moment,
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  Speaker 1: you know exactly who to replace and fire. The president
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  Speaker 1: was just saying that yesterday. If we can't get these
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  Speaker 1: Republicans to do it, well, then maybe people should look
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  Speaker 1: at those Republicans, he said.
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  Speaker 2: And we are.
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  Speaker 1: We're staring directly at them. In fact, we're glaring at
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  Speaker 1: them until they do the job or until they leave.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's happening. If you go back to overturning Roe
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  Speaker 1: versus Wade, what did it take to get to the
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  Speaker 1: Dobbs decision? It was well over half a century of
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  Speaker 1: political activism, prayer, fighting, working, getting Supreme Court justices picked
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  Speaker 1: by virtue of our election of President Trump to the
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  Speaker 1: Oval Office. That was a hard-fought, long-fought, deliberative battle. Were
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  Speaker 1: there costs along the way? Yes, there were. Millions of babies,
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  Speaker 1: millions of babies killed in the womb. as the left
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  Speaker 1: continued this demonic march against those children. Yet Americans endured.
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  Speaker 1: We kept fighting. And in the end, we overturned Roe
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  Speaker 1: versus Wade. I thank my ancestors for their role in that.
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  Speaker 1: My beloved grandmother, my late grandmother, Mildred Colonese, would stand
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  Speaker 1: outside of abortion mills protesting, praying, fighting. These are the
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  Speaker 1: fruits of her efforts. And every single American who actually
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: put the work in to achieve something great, was there
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: pain along the way? Yeah, there was a lot of death.
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  Speaker 1: There was genocide going on. And yet they stayed in
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  Speaker 1: the fight. They stayed in the fight and they won.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, American history is full of examples like this.
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  Speaker 1: So as dire as the situation is and as annoying
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  Speaker 1: as it is to deal with these senators the way
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  Speaker 1: we have to deal with them right now, the reality is,
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  Speaker 1: that you should count your blessings and you should understand
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  Speaker 1: that if they're not going to be in the fight
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  Speaker 1: for us, we will stay in the fight until we
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  Speaker 1: get people who are. We can win this. We can
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  Speaker 1: definitely win this. And that's why the president's staying locked
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  Speaker 1: in on it, too. He wants the Save America Act
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  Speaker 1: and he wants it as quickly as humanly possible. Now,
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  Speaker 1: who's on our side here?
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I look back at, I'm looking at the numbers, and
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  Speaker 1: as of last night, I saw there were some 14
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  Speaker 1: Republican senators. The good news as of this morning is
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  Speaker 1: actually the numbers continue to grow because it's actually getting
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: harder and harder to keep track of how many Republican
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  Speaker 1: senators are now saying they're giving up their vacation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a majority yet. There's 53 Republican senators, but
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  Speaker 1: by my count, it's around 16, maybe 17 this morning.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers keep accruing because you keep bothering these guys
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  Speaker 1: until they say they're going to finally stand up for us,
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  Speaker 1: which I which I really love. And in fact, I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you another example of this in case those in
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  Speaker 1: case you guys were wondering, especially those of you in Texas. OK, like, look,
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  Speaker 1: I know John Cornyn is not going to be on
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  Speaker 1: my side because Cornyn is bitter, bitter, bitter that President
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  Speaker 1: Trump did an endorsement, endorse him and the voters just
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  Speaker 1: fired him. But what about Ted Cruz? Where's Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 1: in all this? Like, you would think Ted Cruz would
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  Speaker 1: be on our side. Jake Sherman at Punchbowl News tells
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  Speaker 1: us this. Ted Cruz says he supports canceling August recess
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  Speaker 1: to pass save. We should do anything and everything, including
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  Speaker 1: working through the August recess to get that done. Ted
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  Speaker 1: Cruz joins the fight. Good to have him. Saw the
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  Speaker 1: writing on the wall. He was like, wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: I better join in on this. Ted Cruz is not alone.
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  Speaker 1: We also got some other senators who have joined us
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  Speaker 1: in this fight overnight. Senator Jim Risch of Idaho has
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  Speaker 1: also joined the fight. He has issued a statement saying
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  Speaker 1: that every U.S. citizen should have confidence that their vote counts.
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  Speaker 1: Idaho has the best run, most secure elections in the nation.
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  Speaker 1: The Save America Act bolsters every American citizen's right to
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  Speaker 1: vote and holds the rest of the country to the
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  Speaker 1: same high standards as as Idaho. The Senate must vote
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  Speaker 1: on the Save America Act and reconciliation now, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: committed to doing whatever it takes to make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, staying in August. Staying in August. Now,
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  Speaker 1: will they stay in August? John Thune was asked about
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  Speaker 1: this yesterday, and boy, is he annoyed that he has
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  Speaker 1: to deal with this. You can tell. He's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anything's really achievable. I don't know about
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  Speaker 1: giving a vacation. This doesn't really seem like a fun idea.
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  Speaker 1: Here's John Thune yesterday basically saying, I don't think we're
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  Speaker 1: going to cancel August recess. But boy, the pressure is on.
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  Speaker 1: Cut five.
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  Speaker 8: Watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm for.
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  Speaker 9: Anything that we can do to get the Save America
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  Speaker 9: Act passed. What I always ask, the question I always
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  Speaker 9: ask is.
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  Speaker 5: What is your picture of victory at the end? What
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  Speaker 5: is the end game here?
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  Speaker 9: And if, in fact, staying here for the month of
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  Speaker 9: August means that we assume at some point there are
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  Speaker 9: going to be 10 Democrats that cross over and vote
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  Speaker 9: for the Save America Act, I think we can stay
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  Speaker 9: here until Christmas. That's not going to happen. And the
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  Speaker 9: other thing I would say about that is that there
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  Speaker 9: aren't going to be 50.
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  Speaker 5: Votes to get rid of the legislative filibuster.
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  Speaker 9: So if budget reconciliation is a path forward, if we
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  Speaker 9: conclude that there is actually a chance to get an
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  Speaker 9: outcome or a result there, I'm open to do it,
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  Speaker 9: and I think all of our colleagues would be open
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  Speaker 9: to staying around here if that were true. But I
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  Speaker 9: think that we have to see, first of all, that
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  Speaker 9: can be proven to be the case. But I don't
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  Speaker 9: think having a Congress sitting around here for the month
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  Speaker 9: of August in quorum calls or having to vote on
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  Speaker 9: Democrat amendments is probably.
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  Speaker 5: A good use of anybody's time.
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  Speaker 9: So we will see and see where the conversation goes.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a yes. I really don't want to give
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  Speaker 1: up my vacation. I love my vacation. That's the thing
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  Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to since the last vacation. They're
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  Speaker 1: always on vacation. We have all these must-pass bills. None
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  Speaker 1: of them are election integrity.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You're really starting to piss us off. In fact, starting,
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  Speaker 1: it happened a long time ago. This is why the
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  Speaker 1: chat is saying, hell no, you're not the right guy
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  Speaker 1: for the job. Show some fight, son. Get up there
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  Speaker 1: and be like, hey, these guys better do this. And
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  Speaker 1: if they don't do it, yeah, we're going to forego vacation.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get this done. You know, part of
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  Speaker 1: the way you get to yes, here's the secret. Rachel
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  Speaker 1: Bovard has talked about this a lot. You know, part
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  Speaker 1: of the way you get to yes in the United
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  Speaker 1: States Senate is you make senators uncomfortable. And leadership can
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: do that. John Thune can do that. Take away their
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: creature comforts. Give them no vacation. You get no recess.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: You know, I love that we call it recess because
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: they're children, you see. They get recess. Where's Mitch McConnell?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: He's in the nurse's office. He's been away for a while.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: His tummy hurts. They want their recess. How about no recess?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: You take away recess, the kids start behaving, don't they?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Take away their vacation. Create pressure on these guys. You know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: starting the filibuster, the Civil Rights Act, the reason it passed,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: one of the reasons is because of the pain of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the filibuster. Eventually, people start tapping out. They cry uncle.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: They throw in the towel. You pick your metaphor. They
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: want to get out of this thing. They don't want
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: to be held up on the floor forever. They don't
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: want to be stuck in the Senate forever. They already
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: booked their tropical vacation. They've got a hotel room reserved.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: They already paid for airline tickets. They want to get
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the hell out of Dodge. All right, create pressure. Threaten
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: them with taking away their vacation. You see, this is
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: what you would do if you were a leader. This
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is the kind of pressure you would create. You would
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: use the leverage that's available to you to achieve the
• 18:18
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• 18:22
  Speaker 1: presenting individual bills right now. Let's do voter ID independently.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Let's do American citizenship proof when you register independently. Just
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: do each one. See what happens.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Try, son, try.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Now, they say they want to do this through reconciliation,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: through some sort of budget bill, a lot of like
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: just hand-waving, like, oh, it'll appear in something somehow. You're
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: going to need to be more specific than that, a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: lot more specific. Because again, we're your parole officers. We're
• 18:55
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• 18:57
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• 19:00
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• 19:02
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• 19:06
  Speaker 1: We will get rid of you. and find somebody who
• 19:08
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• 19:11
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• 19:15
  Speaker 1: All right, more ahead on the program, including the problems
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• 19:23
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• 19:27
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  Speaker 9: So.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: These senators continue to be a pain in the ass,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them, including John Cornyn. John Cornyn
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and Thom Tillis have been standing in the way of
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the president getting Todd Blanche to be the full Senate
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: confirmed attorney general. And I've been over the details with
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you a bit, which is basically they're upset that President
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Trump ever devised, well, the Justice Department specifically, ever devised
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a means by which Americans could get some payments for
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: being tyrannized by their government. Remember, a settlement fund was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: set up at one point, $ 1. 8 billion, specifically actually $ 1. 776 billion,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: go America, in order to offer payments to American citizens
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: who've been tyrannized by their government. There's a lot of those,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of those. And the reason that settlement came
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: up at all was because President Trump had his personal
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: information stolen by the IRS and disseminated to the New
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: York Times and ProPublica. Well, the president then sued, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the settlement involved no money to him, instead just money
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: available for American citizens who've been tormented by the government.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Establishment senators hated this. They really hated this, despite the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: fact that establishment senators did vote for half-million-dollar payments for
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: themselves when the deep state was spying on them.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that never became law because the House stripped it out.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: But the senators were pursuing half million dollar paydays for themselves.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That's so sinister. It's disgusting. So now we've got we've
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: got basically Tom Tillis and John Cornyn throwing a bitch
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: fit over the fact that President Trump's administration cares about
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: American citizens. And so in an effort to try and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: upend Todd Blanche's nomination process, they've been insisting, you've got
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to remove this in writing. You've got to remove this
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: in writing. So that's what the back and forth has
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: been about. It's so completely stupid. The Hill reports scorned
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: senators force retreat on Blanche confirmation vote. Senators Cornyn and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Thom Tillis are showing no signs of backing down on
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: their demands concerning Todd Blanche's nomination to become the permanent
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: attorney general. Throwing his confirmation into serious doubt is what
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the Hill says. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley canceled
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the panel's scheduled meeting to vote today, Thursday, on Blanche's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: nomination after negotiations throughout the day failed to win over
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the pair of YOLO caucus senators. YOLO caucus? You only
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: live once?
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: What?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: These guys are both leaving. And increasingly frustrated, Cornyn told
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: reporters that the DOJ stonewalled his request. They've simply refused
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to cooperate, he said. Cornyn and Tillis have been pushing
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Blanche and the DOJ for a formal written declaration that
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the settlement is not going forward. The DOJ has already
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: said it's dead. Todd Blanche already said it's dead in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: sworn congressional testimony. And you guys are still barking up
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that tree? I mean, you just, at this point, it's
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: just petty nonsense. It's just about trying to get your
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: get back. Oh, I'm mad at Trump, so I'm going
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to try and upend this. Screw you people. Todd Blanch
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: should be the attorney general. Boy, has that guy earned it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: With haste. With haste. All right, enough on that subject,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: but we'll keep our eyes on what happens with that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: The White House is trying to smooth things over with
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: these idiots, but again, we'll keep tracking it. Todd Blanch
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: should be the attorney general. Should have been the attorney general.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Senate confirmed. I get it. He's the acting attorney general,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: but Senate confirmed. It should be done. But not yet.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: It ain't done yet. Yesterday before the United States Senate,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Anthony freaking Fauci showed up. Yeah, Dr. Fauci. You know,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Fauci at one point had promised that anytime he's called
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: into the United States Congress, he's going to answer all
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the questions. He's just there to serve. Even if they
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: are torturing him by demanding he show up to answer
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: more questions, all the time, Remember this, cut eight. Watch
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci saying, I'm going to be so forthcoming.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Well, if I become a punching bag, I'm a punching bag.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: But I am very happy to testify before any congressional
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: oversight committee. I have nothing to hide. I can explain
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: and validate everything that I've done. So You know, it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: going to be inconvenient if they actually are out there
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: essentially threatening to make my life miserable. But it's I mean, I'm.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Going to do what I need to do.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: And that is cooperate fully because we have nothing to
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: hide at all.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, we've got nothing to hide. I would never hide
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: anything at all. And then he pled the fifth. He
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: showed up yesterday. He bought the fifth 111 freaking times.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Josh Hawley just really
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: leaning in. Watch this.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you've been pardoned, as you very well know, as the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Brown versus Walker, 1896. When he has been pardoned, he
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: may not stand upon his privilege. You know that your
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: lawyers sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: They know it. This isn't about the Constitution. This isn't
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: about the law. This is about contempt, contempt for this
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: body and contempt for the American people. But I think
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I know why you're doing it. It's because you don't
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: want to answer questions. It's because you did all kinds
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of terrible things. It's because during the pandemic you got.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Rich, didn't you?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: You got rich while people were dying, hundreds of thousands
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: of Americans, over a million in the end, and you
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: were getting rich. And not only were you doing that,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you were using federal employees with taxpayer money to apply
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: for and solicit cash prizes for you personally. Cash prizes
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: totaling over a million dollars. You did all of that
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: during the pandemic, didn't you? That's a question.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that happened over and over and over again,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: including when Josh Hawley asked him what color his tie was.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: What color is the floor? At one point. Rand Paul
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: straight up asked, is there a folder sitting in front
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of you? Under advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Amendment right under the Constitution. Now, this whole thing about
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: having a Fifth Amendment right, you heard Josh Hawley describe
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: it pretty well. Fifth Amendment, what are you talking about?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: The Fifth Amendment is a right against self-incrimination. You have
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: a right not to incriminate yourself.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But Anthony Fauci received a pardon. I just want to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: walk through the logic of this, and I'll talk to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Phil Kirpin in a moment about this too. But Anthony
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Fauci received a pardon nominally from President Joe Biden.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Nominally.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Now, you and I both know that the pardon was
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: actually signed by a robot, by the auto pen, which
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of course should be tested. But let's assume for a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: moment that that the pardon is legitimate. Certainly, Anthony Fauci
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: would want you to think the pardon's legitimate, that he's
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: not culpable for any of the crimes he committed over
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the course of an entire decade or so. Well, if
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that's the case, then anything he says relevant to that
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: time period could not be incriminating. He's been pardoned. So
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: in other words, every invocation of the Fifth Amendment is
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: not protecting him from any sort of criminal accountability. It's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: just protecting his ego. And that's not a good enough
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: reason to obstruct Congress, which is why Rand Paul announced
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: yesterday that consequences are coming, that you can be held
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in contempt of Congress for obstructing a lawful congressional investigation
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: because you have no basis to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: You're fully protected. Just to give you another example of this,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you know, in a court of law, if prosecutors are
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: able to arrange an immunity deal, In other words, we're
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: not going to prosecute you so long as you give
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: us information about what actually happened. That immunity protects you
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: from any sort of criminal accountability for your actual crimes.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So you can tell the truth because the public benefit
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: is derived from the truth being told at that point.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci should just tell the truth. Tell us the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: truth about everything you did.
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: Did.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: There's no criminal accountability coming if you admit the cover-up
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that you were orchestrating, that you admit that you drove
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: all that money into the Wuhan serverology, that you admit
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the extent to which you lied to the public about
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the quality of the vaccines. If you just admit to everything,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: there's no criminal accountability coming for you, at least at
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the federal level, So just admit it. But he didn't.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: He pled the fifth. Now, why would he plead the fifth?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Why would he do that 111 times? Well, one theory, certainly,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: is it's possible that Anthony Fauci believes that his pardon
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't hold up in a court of law. What if
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: his lawyers have contemplated that the auto pen may not
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: actually qualify for a real presidential pardon? That could be
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the theory that his lawyers are operating under. But one
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: way or another, Anthony Fauci refused to even give any
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: answer to questions yesterday. In other words, once again, Anthony
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Fauci lied to the public. He told us, I just
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: played a clip for you a moment ago. Oh, I
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: will answer all the questions no matter what. If the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Senate calls me, I stand ready to answer every question.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: They called him and he didn't. So he lied again.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: All right, more in a moment. We'll be joined by
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a great guest, Phil Kirpin. He's got a great knowledge
• 30:54
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• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So Fauci appears before the Senate. He just sits there
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: refuses to say anything other than his opening statement when
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: he just says that he's being tormented. He's being utterly
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: tormented by Rand Paul. He just wants to throw me
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: in jail. He said it over and over and over. Yeah, well,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it's because you deserve it. And it's because the facts
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: tell us that. For more on that, I want to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: bring in Phil Kirpin. Now, he's the president of American Commitment.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: He's been tracking this bad doctor for years now. Phil,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: good to have you back on the show, sir. Thank
• 33:33
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• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Hey, my pleasure, Vince.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: What did you make of him pleading the fifth 111 times,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: despite the fact that the auto pen gave him a pardon?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's absolutely remarkable. You know, I think that most
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: likely he knows or his lawyers know that if he testified,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: he would be incapable of not perjuring himself because every
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: time he ever testifies, he perjures himself. And so this
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: was like, you know, it wasn't like I can't testify
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: because I'll criminalize myself about crimes that I've already committed
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: because he's been pardoned for those. but he knows he's
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: going to commit more crimes as soon as he speaks.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: But that's not a valid application of the Fifth Amendment.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: You can't, you know, your protection against that is to
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: just tell the truth. You can't plead the Fifth because
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: you would otherwise commit new crimes. That's not a valid
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: application of the Fifth Amendment. So I think it was disgraceful. But,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: you know, I actually, Vince, to be honest with you,
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: this guy's such a sociopath that I thought he would
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: answer everything and be smooth and sort of deflect. And,
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: you know, we wouldn't be able to pin him down. Instead,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: he kind of went the total opposite direction, right? He
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: clammed up like a like a you know, he looked
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: very guilty.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: He looked guilty to those of us who are aware
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: of how guilty he is, which should be the preponderance
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: of the American public. But I do think that part
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of this was also an act yesterday. I suspect that
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: part of this was to play the victim in order
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to try and earn a media shield yet again, which
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: of course did actually happen. CNN and Ms. Now, all
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of these various left-wing networks immediately suggested that this is like,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: this is like the Joe McCarthy era, which of course
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: they continue to get wrong anyway. But they're saying that
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: he's being tortured and this is terrible. And this is
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a dog pile. I saw headlines this morning, dog pile
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: on Anthony Fauci. And by pleading the fifth and looking
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: all weathered as he did it, I think the part
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of this was trying to play the victim. Like I just,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I just, I'm being tormented by you people.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Well, look, if we learned anything from the Fauci diaries,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: it's that this is a man who loves his media
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: friends and his celebrity friends, and they love him. And,
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: you know, well, one of the reasons he kept the
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: diary was so every time he got a note about
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: how great and wonderful he is from, you know, Dionne
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Warwick or Joan Baez or Jane Fonda, he would have
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: a place to paste it for safekeeping. I mean, this
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: is a guy who is obsessed with fame, and the
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: media adored him to the moon. Yeah, we had a
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: gravy and put out a crazy two minute thing of
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: just the media gushing over him. I'm not sure if
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: You saw that, but it was pretty devastating, I think,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: for how complicit all these media outlets were in all
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: of the things that he got wrong and building this
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: guy up. And it's not surprising that they don't cover
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: his downfall because it would implicate them.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, it would. You know, in his opening statement yesterday,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: he was bitching about the fact that his private diary
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: was released to the public. But Phil, there was nothing
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: private about that diary, right? He was keeping it on
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a government computer, which is how Rand Paul got a
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: hold of it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, when your private diary is all the
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: things that are going on, respective to your work on
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: a hugely consequential public health and economic policy issues, everything
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: that was going on, and you keep it on your
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: work computer, your private diary is not a private diary.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: It's a public document. And the fact that it was
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: not produced in response to the FOIAs that the public
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: repeatedly filed to get all those documents is actually more
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: misconduct by him. Because this was work product. We should
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: have seen this a lot earlier. We should have seen
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: this years ago, to be honest.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: This has echoes of Comey, by the way. This is
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the same sort of sociopathic, I can do whatever I want.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I'm actually in charge of my universe behavior that James
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Comey was guilty of. Because Comey would keep all of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: these documents on his conversations with the president of the
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: United States and then later pretended like they were personal memos.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that he was allowed to keep at his house and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: these types of things. And it's like, wait, wait a second.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: What do these people think this is? You get diaries
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of your conversations about the most consequential things inside of
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the government?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Fauci was literally the highest paid government employee, by the way,
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: at the time this was going on. And one of
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: the things that's in the diary, there's a list of
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: outside grants that he had staff trying to get for
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: him for his personal income also. This guy was This
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: guy was benefiting enormously from everything that was going on.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: So this idea that there was some distinction between the
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: personal and the professional at a time where everything he
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: was doing was about building himself up personally, kind of
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: using the auspices of his office, I find it comical, ridiculous, really.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: It is so crazy. And the money you're talking about
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: is pretty big. I mean, for I think a lot
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: of people, a million dollars would be a lot of money.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: It's so crazy. I mean, and that's just what we
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: know about because Josh Hawley was detailing this yesterday in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the hearing. He said that Anthony Fauci had tasked over
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: eight employees, government taxpayer-funded employees, with hustling to earn him
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: over a million dollars in personal income. How is that
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: not a violation of the law? I have people in
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: our chat, military people, people who have worked in the government,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: who have been telling me, Vince, that's crazy. That's a
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: total violation of the law to use government resources for
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: personal enrichment.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Well, as you may or may not know, the chief
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: bioethics officer of the NIH at the time this was
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: all going on was his wife.
• 38:52
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: That might have helped him get, you know, she wasn't
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: tasked with, you know, his ethics. She was doing like
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: the ethics of clinical trials or whatever, but she's in
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: the ethics office. It probably helped get these things cleared.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: It's amazing to me. And that, by the way, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: think kind of evaded some scrutiny yesterday. It didn't come up.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Somebody should have brought it up just to see if
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: you could piss him off and get him to answer
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: some questions. But he didn't answer anything. any questions.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: By the way, that's how Trump got him to finally retire,
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: by the way, is he transferred his wife to a
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: remote outpost at the Indian Health Service in Alaska, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: then they both retired.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Trump's so great. I want to talk about consequences and accountability,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: like what's actually achievable here. Rand Paul said that they
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: want to have a vote as of next week to
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: hold him in contempt of Congress, presumably under the theory
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: that he was obstructing Congress through a phony invocation of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment yesterday. Which, of course, Rand Paul readily admits, look,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: this will be tested in the courts, especially because it
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: dances right on top of what he's an assumed constitutional right.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: But the reality here is like clearly he he had
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a pardon. You can't theoretically you can't be incriminated for
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: anything covered by the pardon. So the Fifth Amendment is
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: nothing but obstructing Congress in its investigation yesterday. And then separately,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: there are state investigations into James, sorry, into Anthony Fauci
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: that I want to get into. But Phil, what do
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you make of this, of contempt of Congress, which would
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: go to the Justice Department and provide a fresh opportunity
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: to prosecute this man?
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Look, I'd like to see them try. You know, maybe
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: this all gets, you know, maybe this all gets knocked
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: down in courts. Maybe his pardon's bulletproof. But there are
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: a lot of questions, obviously. We don't even know whether
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: you can pardon someone for totally nonspecific conduct like this.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: This is not a normal pardon. This is not like
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: this particular charge defense is now pardoned or, you know,
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: this particular conduct is now pardoned. The way that this
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: auto pen thing was written, it was like everything he
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: did for 15 years, you know, whatever it was, he
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: could have killed someone. Whatever he did for these, it's
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: a pardon. We don't know if that type of pardon
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: is valid. We don't know if an auto pen pardon
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: is valid. And, you know, and... And it's never been tested.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: No, but to your point on the pardon, it's never
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: been tested. I mean, the origins of this, as I
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: understand it, were basically Ford's pardon of Nixon. He just
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: kind of gives him a blanket pardon. And that was
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: never subjected to any sort of court test. And since then,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: there's been a number of times, including for Hunter Biden,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: where entire periods of time were merely just pardoned any
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: crimes that may have been committed during this time period.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: But none of those pardons have actually ever been tested
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: in court. Correct.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: And now we've got an interesting situation, right? Because if
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: the pardon is valid, he can't really claim the Fifth Amendment.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: And the way that Rand Paul crafted his questions was
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: very specific. I mean, he asked in his questions pertaining
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: only to your conduct within the period of time covered
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: by the pardon. And then he said, I plead the Fifth.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: And so it's almost like saying, hey, maybe my pardon
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: is not valid. Maybe I'd self-incriminate if I answered your question.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: So I'm going to plead the Fifth. You know, if
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: the pardon is not valid, of course, we've got huge
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: amounts of evidence that he committed many crimes, most significantly
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: perjury and all his previous congressional testimonies. But if the
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: pardon is valid, then that's not a valid application of
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: the Fifth Amendment. So he's got a problem either way.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like the mountain of evidence against Fauci
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: is so obvious. And then meanwhile, they were like prosecuting
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: President Trump in an election year over and over for
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: fictional crimes. And it's like, OK, our justice system is
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: like entirely broken. At some point, we need real accountability
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: for the people who are actually breaking the laws. Now,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: what about at the state level? I saw James Uthmeyer,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the attorney general of the state of Florida, yesterday, Phil,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: he said that he's opening an investigation into Anthony Fauci
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: and his conduct. A federal pardon wouldn't be applicable for
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: violations of state law. What do you make of this strategy?
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: Well, it seems like it would be a stretch to
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: come up with, you know, a state law theory to
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: prosecute a federal official. I don't know what conduct he
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: might have engaged in that has, you know, valid jurisdictional
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: nexus to Florida. So it's a challenge. Now, I will
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: say there's a lot in the diary of him hating
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Governor DeSantis and, you know, for disobeying him and disputing
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: him and all this kind of stuff and how dare
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: he's opening these schools and You know, there's actually a
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: paragraph in his diary where he sounds like one of
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: these zero COVID nuts and says, you know, we shouldn't
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: open the schools until we've eliminated the virus. Vince, they'd
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: still be closed right now. They'd be closed forever. So
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: I think the, you know, whether that, you know, rises
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: to the level of some sort of a violation of
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Florida law, I'm somewhat skeptical. And I think This is
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: almost in a way, this almost in a way feeds
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: what Fauci's trying to claim, right? Because he'd say, oh,
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: I might have a federal pardon, but the states are
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: going to come after me, so I have to plead
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: the fifth. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure there's
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: much to this. I mean, they can look at it,
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: but it may not go anywhere. I would tell people
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: not to get their hopes up too much about a
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: state prosecution.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: You know, does he still have a medical license? They
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: call him Dr. Anthony Fauci. Does he still have a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: medical license?
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, probably, but I don't think he's practiced medicine
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: since the 60s or something.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I know, but insofar as we impose consequences on him,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: we should strip it from him. Because the fact that
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: he would lie to the public so frequently about matters
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: of public health should be a reason to remove his
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: medical license. I mean, if the Hippocratic oath is do
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: no harm. Nobody's done more harm as a medical doctor
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: than Anthony Fauci. Because Fauci lied. I mean, Phil, you've
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: read through the diaries. He lied about everything. He lied
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: about the fatality rate. He lied about the origins of COVID.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: He lied about the efficacy of masks. He lied about
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the efficacy of vaccines. You had government agencies, to include
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the CDC, who wanted to tell people that the vaccines
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: weren't really all that effective. And we just saw a
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: note in his diary that complaining that that message ever
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: made its way to the public, that he was trying
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: to suppress it from being known. The guy is just
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: a torrential liar, Phil.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty bad. I mean, there's actually a June
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: 2020 exchange between him and Birx in the diary where
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: they are sort of saying, yeah, I don't know why
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: these lockdowns don't seem to make much difference for viral transmission.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: It rises and falls, you know, kind of regardless of
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: whether areas are listening to our recommendations or not. And
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Birx is like, yeah, I stay up at night wondering
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: about this. And then the next day they go right
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: back to telling everyone that we know this worked. So
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: there's an extraordinary level of dishonesty. And in particular, the
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: confidence with which they made all of their public statements
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: when privately they were not at all convinced about any
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: of the things they were telling the public with full confidence.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: And in many instances, they were very doubtful, including on
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: the origin question where he's saying publicly, this definitely comes
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: from a wet market. While he's saying probably every single
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: expert is telling me it probably came from the institute.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And that's January, 2020, January 20th, literally before the lockdowns,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: before any of this, he said, yeah, that thing did
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: not come from a wet market.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So I think he's extraordinarily dishonest, but the other
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: aspect of this is it's not just the dishonesty. It's
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: also just sort of the casual incompetence and the obsession
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: with self-promotion and fame and you know, which celebrity sent
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: them a note, by the way, there's a, there's one
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: in there that hasn't got a lot of attention, but
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: I found amazing where there's one thing in the diary
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: where he's like, I spoke with Dionne Warwick, who's one
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: of the top advisors to Biden on COVID policy. And
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: I'm like, Dionne Warwick was advising Biden on COVID policy,
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: which I find absolutely hilarious. But he's obsessed with all
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: of this stuff that's personal to him, all of this
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: self-promotional stuff. And he actually had a very poor understanding
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: of the viral dynamics, of the way that the curves
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: were actually moving, the actual burden on hospitals, a lot
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: of the stuff. The UNI and a lot of other
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: people who are just amateurs on the outside were tracking
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: so closely when we were looking at all the data
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: on a daily basis. And we had a lot of
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: very sophisticated monitoring tools. And he's posting like the world-o-meter
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: case count in his diary. And I'm like, doesn't he
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: have like real data? This is incredible to me how
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: unsophisticated he was in actually doing the job of understanding
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: what was happening.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: When he was barricading people away from the meetings.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: While he's issuing all these pronouncements. that have massive implications
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: destroying people's businesses, blocking kids out of school, all of this.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: He didn't actually have much curiosity to understand what was
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: going on. You and I probably had more.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: He was blocking Robert Redfield from their meetings. He was
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: blocking Scott Atlas from their meetings. He treated all of
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the- Well, Atlas.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: Was coming with studies and data and making well-informed arguments.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: And he was just like, well, I'm just going to
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: move against this guy and get rid of him and whatever.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: He was playing sort of political games and PR battles
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: while Atlas was trying to make scientific arguments and data-based arguments.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he was also demonizing all the Great
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Barrington Declaration guys.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Three stooges, he calls them, every time he refers to them.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also freaking sick.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: But I love that one of the stooges is running
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: the NIH.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I love Jay Bhattacharya. Yeah, he's great. And in fact,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: this week announced that they have new rules that are
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: completely banning gain-of-function research funding by the federal government, which
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I love, and I'm glad that they're doing that. But
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: But the long tales of Fauci's sins, so of course
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: we want to see Fauci held accountable. God willing, we
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: can do that. I know people are frustrated that it
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet. But the long tales of all of
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: that dishonesty, Phil, is not only did it create chaos
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: during the COVID period, it also created massive amounts of
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: societal distrust in our institutions. Now, in terms of like,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: you know, the number of conspiracy theories that you feel like, oh,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: we got to bat that down. Why do people not
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: trust anything? Why do people believe all these guys are
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: on the take? Why do they think that there are
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: sinister intentions behind why the Save America Act's not passed?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Everything we talk about is animated by this underlying dishonesty
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: that upended all of our lives.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, although I think it's a double-edged sword a little
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: bit because a lot of people say, oh my God,
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: this is so terrible. We've lost all trust in these
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: government institutions. And I kind of said, well, wait a second.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: If they weren't worthy of our trust, maybe it's good
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: that people are skeptical. So I do think a little
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: skepticism isn't the worst thing, at least until these institutions
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: show they deserve some deference and they haven't shown that yet. No, no,
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: not at all.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Although President Trump is, to his credit, working on it. Phil,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: thank you. Phil Kirpin with American Commitment. God bless you, sir.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: And thank you, as always, for your wisdom. Appreciate you today. Thanks.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Have a good one.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: There's Phil Kirpin as we break down what the hell
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: broke down yesterday with Anthony Fauci. It is amazing. Why
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: was the pardon specifically dated back to 2014, the auto
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: pen pardon? Why did Anthony Fauci get a pardon that
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: was dated so specifically back to 2014? You could have
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: chose any year at any point in all of God's
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: wonderful history. Why did you choose 2014?
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Here's Cut14 to perhaps explore the answer to that question.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Senator Ashley Moody, watch.
• 49:43
  Speaker 10: I'm just very interested why it was this date. Did
• 49:46
  Speaker 10: it have anything to do with the fact that 2014
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: was also the year that the NIAID or NIH began
• 49:53
  Speaker 10: funding eco-health alliances understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence grants?
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: And this is the same grant that funded the work
• 50:08
  Speaker 10: on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute on Virology. Millions
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: of Americans are questioning what happened during COVID, why we
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: were given misleading information, misleading advice, why you gave conflicting statements.
• 50:29
  Speaker 10: based on, I guess, how you were feeling that day.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Could it have something to do with that's when the
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: money started flowing to Wuhan? It's like, did the auto
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: pen people specifically choose that date for a reason? You think?
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: You think? Of course they did. Of course they did.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: It's all one big corrupt cover-up. By the way, does
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci make house calls with that medical license? Could
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: you have him stop by and be like.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I got a real problem. My shoulder's been acting up.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. Can you take a
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: look at it? What is he going to tell you?
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, but what does that do for my shoulder? How
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: does that help me? It's like the whole time.
• 51:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: You know, Democrats basically skipped the hearing yesterday. A couple
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: of them showed up to complain that Anthony Fauci was
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: being poorly treated, which is freaking insane. One of them
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: showed up, though, who doesn't usually wear a suit. Any guesses?
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Which Democrat senator, I'm stroking my fictional beard, doesn't usually
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: show up with a suit to his job? Who could
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: it be, chat? Who could that guy be? I'll give
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: you a hint.
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: Hoodie.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: He's got a hoodie. Somebody says Strokeman. Yes, you're right. Fetterman. Festerman.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: That's right. Uncle Fetterman showed up yesterday and he did say,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe I got the lab leak wrong. Here's
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: cut 16. John Fetterman, the only Democrat to say something sensible.
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: But one that I it's not about much more your regrets,
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: but I have one. And that is early on that
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: there was the theory that the virus could have emerged
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: from the lab. And early on, that became like a
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: right wing kinds of theory. And I thought it seemed
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: to make sense. Now, there was a really advanced lab
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: that was close by. And then you have this unknown virus.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Out.
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: So but that became a very partisan thing.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: And now.
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: It seems now it's more and more emerging theory that
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: that would have come from from the lab. Now, you know,
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: I hope I think that the next time our nation's
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: facing something like this, we are not become, you know,
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: as I might have been blinded by the partisan idea
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: that maybe the truth might come from a side that's
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: different than than you are. But I think we should
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: really be willing to pursue truth no matter where that
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: may have emerged, you know, after.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: So just to translate, John Fetterman says, I don't care
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: who's telling me about this. We should pursue truth without
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: fear or favor. Bingo. Absolutely bingo. Thank you, Senator. So
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: one Democrat made some sense. That's the closest thing to
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: a Democrat making sense, by the way, John Fetterman. And
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: then there was some dramatic moments yesterday. In a hearing
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: with 111 Fifth Amendment invocations, you would think it would
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: become kind of a boring affair. But there were some
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: exciting moments yesterday. Anthony Fauci's attorney, who was told ahead
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: of the hearing he wasn't allowed to sit at the
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: table with Fauci. He had to sit behind him like
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: everybody else in the audience. He sat at the table anyway,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and then he kept running his sock. So Rand Paul
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: threw him out of the hearing. which was kind of satisfying.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Cut 12, watch this.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: You're not recognized.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: You're not recognized. If you are unruly, you will be
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: removed from the proceeding. You are not recognized. And you
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: are not recognized, sir. Sir, you are not recognized. You
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: are not recognized.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Security. I don't think he's recognized. I'm pretty sure he's
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: not being recognized. We'll hold off.
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: But you will respect these proceedings.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: You were told not to sit at the table. You
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: insist on sitting at the table.
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: And we told you you would not be recognized. You
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive.
• 54:55
  Speaker 8: Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: the judge would put you in jail. I can't do
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: that today, but I can have you escorted from the premises.
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: So I would say, sir, sit quietly and don't say
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: another word. I said, sit quietly. You are not recognized.
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: Another word and you're gone.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: He's just testing.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 55:17
  Speaker 7: Chairman, I'd like to hear what the attorney has to say.
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: He is not recognized by the committee or the chair
• 55:24
  Speaker 8: if he speaks again. He will be removed from the room.
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: This testimony is from Anthony Fauci. This is not a
• 55:32
  Speaker 8: game with his lawyers. He can advise. His lawyers can
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: give him advice. He's got a half dozen here. They're
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: all allowed to talk to him.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: But the attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney
• 55:44
  Speaker 8: was told not to sit at the table, and he's
• 55:46
  Speaker 8: not obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir.
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: That's where you were told to sit, and you're not.
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: And now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so, look, this
• 55:55
  Speaker 8: is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered. For
• 55:58
  Speaker 8: a lawyer not listening to the rules, that's the way
• 56:00
  Speaker 8: you want to be remembered, and that's what you're going
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: to do. You are not recognized, sir. Security, please remove
• 56:08
  Speaker 8: him from the room.
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: The applause.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Everyone's clapping. Yeah, get the hell out of here, you jackass. Go,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: get him out. Trebuchet that dude out of here. Who
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: is that guy, by the way? Well, we found out
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: because Bernie Moreno laid out the details yesterday. Cut 13,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the senator said. Actually, that's the attorney you call when
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: you're in deep shit, just like Gold Bar Bob did.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Watch this. Cut 13. Mr.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Fauci, do you know who David Shurtler is?
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: Well, let me tell you who David Shurtler is for
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: the audience, because he was ejected by the chairman. He's
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: a high-profile criminal attorney. He's represented some really great people,
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: like Senator Bob Menendez. Maybe that's somebody who my Democrat
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: colleagues may remember took gold bars as bribes from the Egyptians.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: And there's an article here in the Washington Free Beacon
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: that talks about why you would hire Guyly Thurber-Shurtler. And
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: the comment is, if you're in deep shit, that's who
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: you call. Do you feel like you're in deep shit?
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: On the advice of counsel, I respect you decline to
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: the Constitution.
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Clearly, what you think today is that somehow you're above reproach.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: Somehow you feel like you don't need to be treated
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: like a normal American.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Bernie Moreno lacing into him. Very satisfying. But we need more.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: We need more. And Rand Paul announced next week the
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: contempt vote is coming. Here's what we need. Here are
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the pieces we need to move on that chessboard. You ready?
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: We got to get Todd Blanch fully confirmed by the Senate.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Let's get that done immediately. Get Cornyn and Thumbelina out
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: of his way. Get him through. Have him be the
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: fully empowered attorney general of the United States of America.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Rand Paul produces that contempt vote, sends it right to
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the United States Department of Justice, and they get to
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the business of prosecuting Anthony Fauci. Boom, boom, boom. Boom.
• 58:28
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