Six fifty on this Monday morning. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. I've been teasing it all morning. The brad Winstrop is going to be here in the seven o'clock hour. But I should not be surprised that a military man is here early, showing up early here army time, oh seven hundred. But you're here early, Brad Weinster. How are you? I'm
doing all right? And in the seven o'clock hour we're going to talk about your report, which is good, but this gives me a little time to what to talk about you and your time in DC is coming to an end. You announced that you were not going to run for re election and what's that process been like.
Well, it's been different, I mean, byron large, it didn't feel any different until after the election. Yeah, after the election in November, then you suddenly felt that.
That's when you feel the finality of it.
Well, yeah, and you feel that, like you know, for a lot of things, you just don't matter anymore. And you start to see all these new people showing up because a lot of the new members are around and they haven't been sworn in yet. But there's just a lot of things. But by and large. I had things that I've been working on trying to get into our final packages, which, of course, it would be a whole lot easier if we just didn't throw everything into one big pale at the end of the year. Instead did
things a little by little. But wrapping up this two years of the pandemic Select Subcommittee has really been all encompassing. I mean, we put together a five hundred and twenty page report, you know, but other than that, it's been kind of business as usual, except you know, now for this last month or so, you have no office. They give you a cubicle in the basement, and you know, you've still got some staff around. Some have moved on, but most of ours have said I'll take my next
job when we're finished, and so that's been good. Yeah, but it's different. And since I had the Select Subcommittee, I have an office to go to where there's you know, it might not, but you know, it's it's bittersweet, for sure. I have no regrets. At the twelve years of serving in Congress. It's been a huge honor. It's it's messier, messier than it needs to be by far. But in a lot of ways, we quietly got a lot of things done that never made headlines, and I'm proud of that.
Well, I mean that's usually the case. You know. I've been to Washington a handful of times and spent a little time walking around the halls of Congress and some of the office buildings there, which are just I mean, it really is just being there and seeing all that. It really is a special place. And and I think so many people get the wrong idea about DC because we talk about it in such negatives way in negative ways, but I mean in so many ways. I mean, it
really is a swamp. It really is so despicable the way things are run in this government these days. But there's got to be aspects of it that when you when I mean when you when you look at how just how how great it is and how meaningful it is to it to really be there on a daily basis, Yeah, it absolutely is.
And you know, the American people don't get the full perception because, uh, you know, I was asked at a little roundtable whether it was departing members three of US, one Democrat, two Republicans, and they moderator said, what can be done to calm some of the chaos? I said, I think it would make a difference if the media paid more attention to those that actually got things across
the finish line than those that never do. Because truthfully, by and large, the people that you see day in and day out that are rowdy, et cetera, they really they don't usually get something done. They don't pass bills, they don't take away bills, they don't stop regulations there you know, and that that is a problem. But I think the bigger problem we have today is something that
didn't exist with our with our founders. When our country was founded, we had three agencies, State, Treasury, and war.
That was it.
I changed my mind on term limits because if you've just if you're only their two terms, you never establish enough street cred if you will to do things right. But in the agencies, those are the people that never leave and they're not elected. That's where we need to make change. It should be like the military, you get if you don't get promoted, you're out, and when you reach the top, you're term limited. We have people that nest there forever and they're controlling way too much.
And see when I look at at DOJE, Okay, the Department of Government Efficiency theak Raamaswami and Elon Musk When I hear them talk, that's what I hear them concentrating on the bloat in the federal government and they're talking about, you know, there's what two hundred and summer five hundred some agencies right now. They're talking about, we can take this down to ninety nine. And essentially they're talking about
the apparatus of government that spends so much money. All you hear in the media is, Oh, they want to cut Medicare, they want to cut Social Security, they want to cut you know, all these entitlement programs. I haven't heard them talk about that at all. They're talking about govern an efficiency, and that's a great place to start. If you can streamline things and make things more efficient, right, efficiencies right there in the name. I think that's an important first step.
It's not bad to have some of the things, but are they working and what does success look like? You go to just go to the website and look at Health and Human Services and all the sub agencies that are part of that, and you look at that and say, what are these people doing that are making us a healthier nation? Because that's really what that agency should be about and work with Congress that we put things in place. Look, I'm glad to have a country with safety nets, but
success means fewer people needing them. That's what success looks like, not putting more people into problem.
I agree with that. And you even in your report you talk about the billions of dollars that got wasted during the whole the whole COVID episode. Absolutely, when when we look at that and act like that, you know, there's a few billion here, a few billions, they're not that big of a deal that that mindset needs to change. And I think you know what, what the work you did on that may be one of the first steps in the sort of change in that mindset.
This should be a roadmap. This should we'll talk about it more, but this should be a roadmap to the future.
All right, get it to a break here, news coming up top of the hour, and then we will continue on with Congressman. Can I still I'll always be able to call you Congressman or Brad during the entire seven o'clock hour, and we invite you to stick around for that and maybe maybe we'll take a call or too,
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so we are all looking forward to that. And as promised earlier in this show, we are going to spend the seven o'clock hour with Congressman brad Winstrip and he and his Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have just wrapped up a two year investigation into COVID nineteen, or as I like to refer to it, the Wuhan and brad Winstrip is here and brad winsterp how are you. I'm doing all right, it's good to see.
How about those Bengals, Well, we have an offense.
Yeah, that's fact. I mean think about that. You got to go out there and they're saying that, look, you guys got to score forty points every game if you want to have a chance to win it, and it's unbelievable.
Well, they got some work to do in the off season. Yes, oh it's not off season yet.
Darn it. Well when the all season good. That can't get here faster though, And January twentieth can't get here fast enough either. But you know what, thanks for coming in. It's great. It's great to see you again. It's been a little while. But I mean you look good. You look like you've got a little bit of weight. Take them off your shoulders.
Yes, yeah, this two year's log is really not just a two year's log of the Select Subcommittee. But it's been five years. You know, I sit on Intelligence Committee, and I can remember during lockdown, another doctor in Ohio was calling me and he was calling infectious disease doctors in China. We were looking at how do we treat this? What's going on? You know, this thing's novel called that for a reason, no one knew quite what to do.
We were learning what we could learn from from lab work, from cts and you know, what's the best way to try and treat this. But in the process we started sharing other things that we were discovering online. And one of the things was an article from twenty fifteen. He said, take a look at this, and it was Ralph Berrick in North Carolina, Zengli She and Wuhan, China, and they had created chaimeras in the lab. They had taken parts of different viruses, made new viruses and made them more
pathogenic to human beings. I mean, this was unbelievable. And my first thought is bioweapons. That was when I saw that. That was my first thought. I'm on intelligence committee. I've been looking at our adversaries bioweapons for some time before covid Our State Department in two thousand and five said that China has a bioweapons program. In twenty fifteen, they published a book in China about making coronavirus bioweapons.
I mean, what more do you need?
And public statements by Chinese scientists about, you know, the possibility of coronaviruses being bioweapons. It was all there. So my concern went way up in this situation. And then you know, you start to uncover things that like we're actually doing gain of function research in Wuhan, China, which is the idea of making something more infectious to humans.
It's unbelievable. How did we get here? And and so you know, I've been looking at all this stuff and several people on Intelligence Committee especially, and you know, we got a five hundred and twenty page report that's the unclassified version. You know, we've got more on the other side and on the classified side. But let me the overarching thing to all of this is one China's cover up so obvious. They got rid of sequence as samples, they wouldn't let
people in THEIRS was a very clear cover up. They sent me a letter when we started the Select Subcommittee saying they have grave concerns that we're even looking into the origins of COVID. You know this is this has already been settled by that you were doing your own investigations.
Yeah, they frowned on that. Yeah.
I wrote them back and I said, I don't think. I don't think you're going to dictate what we investigated on your land states.
No.
But but then they said this is already done by scientists. I said, well, we have seven physicians on here, and we're bringing in scientists. And I named five of theirs that I'd like to see and one of them, I said, if still alive, if you get my drift there. But that's how they operate. But it wasn't just their cover up. It was a cover up within our own government.
And to me, that's I mean. And I looked at you, look at all the elements of this, and it is one scandal after another. I mean, each one of these things by itself is a huge scandal unto itself. But you pile one on top of the other, on top of the other, and the American people hear about this and their eyes start to glaze over because it's just so much. It really, I mean, it really is. And each one of these it is absolutely jaw dropping the
way you put it in the report. But before we get too far down this road, let's let's go back to the beginning. I think there was a sense in Congress from the very beginning that we want to have an investigation, we want to look into this. This investigation two years you spent on it would not have happened but for Republicans taking control of the House in twenty twelve.
That's absolutely true. And as a matter of fact, the minority during this said we were spending a lot of time on things that we shouldn't be looking into. And I called this from the very beginning, using my military background, this is an after action review we're looking at lessons learned, and we're going to plan out a path forward so that we are ready equipped and able to go the next time this something like this happens, and there will
be a next time. The other cover up though, of the three, if you will, we're international scientists that wanted to steer everyone away from a lab leak theory and only look at the possibility of nature. And in their internal documents they're saying, all right, we're going to write this article and our job is to disprove the lab leak theory. They don't even talk about the lab leak as the theory. They only talk about nature. And in their internal documents they're saying, we can't rule out that
it's engineered. This thing sure looks engineered. We started to get all that information through Freedom of Information Act and then our subpoenas.
But so many times when you have and one of my big issues, when you have uh when you government in general, but when you when you have a committee, when you have an investigation like this, far too often before the work even begins, there's a there's an outcome or a destination that seems predetermined. And this happened so many Times in Washington. My sense is with this committee that you did not start with a desired result, and you wanted your work to lead you to that result.
Am I right about that? I wanted to this committee with the idea of finding fact and exposing what what really took.
Place and then present a path forward. And so you know, as I went through this, this was important to me. I never mentioned political party one time in any of our writings or in a conversation. We did not mention political party on our side because it was about finding facts. But what actually happened, Dan is every time we looked under a rock, there was another rock to look under it, and another lie rock to look under. So yeah, we're going to look at EcoHealth Alliance, who was doing gain
of function research in China. Well, as we're looking through their stuff and their internal documents, we hear from doctor David Moorins, who was doctor Fauci's deputy, and he's saying things like, hey, write me on my Gmail because these blankety blanks are foyering me in other words, requesting documents which belonged to the American people. He goes, and I'll delete anything I don't want showing up in the New York Times. Clear intent to deceive the American people was
right there. So now we look into him and it just.
Kind of thing is, people like Rand Paul were exposing this in real time, and when all this was going on, there was no sense that any of this needs to be investigated, none of this needs to be looked into. And again, we wouldn't be here today had it not been for a change in what happened in leadership.
Yeah, Ram Paul asked the you question, were you doing gain of function research in China?
Doctor Falci said no.
Then later he said, I was thinking of the different definition suddenly that suddenly appeared on their website. I was thinking of a different definition. That's that's why I said it that way.
You know. So he told him, you don't know what you're talking about, That's what he said. Did you ever say that to you, You don't know what you're talking No, he didn't know. He did not, because by the time I had him. By the time I had him, we had a pretty idea what we were talking about, and he knew and understood that and respected that. I think throughout.
And you know, look, we got him going from where he had publicly said, you know, it's a conspiracy theory if you say it came from the lab to No, it's not a conspiracy theory. Doctor Collins, the same thing,
but look, here's the motive. In twenty eleven and twenty twelve, you know, you got articles by Fauci and Collins bragging about gain to function research being a great tool, and their idea was that they could create a virus and that they think will come out of nature eventually, and if we already have it and can create a vaccine
for it, then we're ahead of the game. But they were asked in twenty twelve doctor Fauci specifically, well aren't you concerned about it getting out lab and creating a pandemic? This is in twenty twelve, and he said, well, I think the benefits out weigh the risk.
Oh, for God's sake, all right, yeah, and how many million dead? That's what would maybe you know, frown on that. So wouldn't you want to say that it came from nature? Well? Yeah, wash your hands. Look look at the shiny object over there. Don't look at me. All right, we got to get
to a break. But when we come back, I want to start walking through some of the specific points that you make in the report, and we'll go through those one by one as we spend the seven o'clock hour with Congressman Brad Westerner up here on fifty five KRCV Talks to fifty five KRCD Talk station. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas and Brad weinstervis here today talking about the Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. To your investigation has done,
the report is out. You had a markup that happened. I believe it was Thursday last week. Wednesday, Thursday last week. And what exactly was that about.
The markup was just we had unanimous consent from both sides of the aisle OK to move the reports, our report forwards.
So a procedural thing more more than anything else. That's all I was. Yeah, no fireworks. Let's start with some of the things that jumped out at me. And when we talk about the origin of the COVID nineteen, which I called the Wuhan virus. So the committee finds COVID nineteen most likely emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, And you provide some of the five strongest arguments in
favor of the lab leak theory. One that resonates with me is that the virus possesses a biological characistic not found in nature, and if there was evidence of a natural origin, it would have already surfaced. So when we look at these this sort of evidence, why can we not say definitively that the virus came from a lamb?
Because China didn't cooperate at all, and so that's always going to be the unknown. And if somebody from China were to speak up and tell the whole story and tell the truth and say, you know what they thought, we destroyed the samples, I actually have them, that person probably wouldn't be around very long. But that's the biggest obstruction. But as John Radcliffe, who was Director of National Intelligence and now will be CIA director, what he said was true.
He said nobody had more intelligence in front of them than he did. You know, from across the board, and if you were to put together the forensics the evidence, if you will, on one side you had arguments for nature, and the other side you had arguments for LAB. I mean, the list goes on and on for LAB and it's very short in nature, and you've never found it, which usually we have at some points you find the animal.
And the article that was written called proximal Origins was by a group of scientists that Fauci, Collins and a guy named Jeremy Farrar put together, and they even said in their emails that their focus was to disprove the lab leak theory when they wrote their article. And the very day that doctor Fauci went on the White House lawn and acted surprise, like, whoa, look, here's this article,
which he knew was being written. He said, this article by these brilliant evolutionary virologists are saying that this came from this came from nature, This came from nature, and that should settle it right. The very day one of the authors of that was writing an email and he said, we still can't rule out this thing as engineered.
There's just too much there.
This is what they were saying, but not what they presented to the public, and not what doctor Fauci presented to the public. And when we had doctor Fauci in for interview, you know, I said, well, you tellted this article proximal origins, I said, but you now say that it's not a conspiracy theory that it could be a lab leak theory. He said, did you ever talk to
the authors of or read these articles? And I went through litany of scientific articles by actual virologists that were saying, here's how you can make this in the lab, and how we believe it was made in the lab COVID nineteen I'm talking about. And he said, no, never talk to them. Well, you said you had an open mind, But how can you say you have an open mind if you never looked into the other side and all that was out there, and so but we did, But we did, and we talked to them all. We talked
to people from both sides. We talked to the people that said they thought it came from nature, who all had skin in the game because they do this type of work. And these were people involved that said things like, imagine the s show that will happen if people think this came from the lab. And I'm paraphrasing here, right, but also imagine what this will do to international harmony and our research if it's concluded it came from the lab. They had all the motive, Dan and and now, and
but we discovered it. We discovered their motive it's it's sitting right there. But they didn't think anyone would ever see what they were saying.
But but but this, this gave rise to this, this bigger notion that the only narrative that we are supposed to accept, the only narrative that is uh that that we will allow to be on the news, is the one that we want that and and and I think that was one of the most dangerous things that come out of this, the notion that we can only accept the approved government narrative of a of a particular Yeah, and think about this, and that gets into a whole lot of, you know, bigger things in general society.
I think everyone will remember when Donald Trump said we're going to restrict travel. Okay, we asked doctor Fauci, were you in favor of that? Did you recommend that we restrict travel? And he said yes, it was a good idea. And I'm thinking, well, where were you when all that was on the news and everything out of the politicians from the other side of the aisle, which none of this should have been political started saying, oh, that's racist and xenophobic.
So I asked doctor.
I asked doctor Fauci, was restricting travel racist. He said no, was it xenophobic? He said no, Well, why didn't you say that when that became the narrative to the public. You're supposed to be a public health leader, then clear the record of what is actually what you recommended, by the way, and and so that's just another example. But we saw things FDA rush for full of approval of the vaccine. Look, I believe the vaccine saved hundreds of
thousands of lives of the most vulnerable. And I was for the emergency Youth authorization authorization for those that we knew were dying.
Well the state to hold that dot because I want to get into the vaccine as we continue, we got a ton of stuff to get to here, but we got to get to a quick break and we'll continue on with brad Redstrip right after this on fifty five KRC, the talk station. Right now, you can save up to twenty seven twenty eight time from the nine first morning forecast rain today a high of fifty six, then cloudy tonight,
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Fifty five kr CD talk Station seven twenty nine, we continue our conversation with Congressman brad Winstrip. So the lab leak, and one more thing on the lab leak, and then I'll want to move on. But in the fall of twenty nineteen, months before COVID nineteen was discovered at the Wet Market or I guess at least that narrative was out there, China chose not to disclose this information that there was a couple of researchers at the Wuhan Lab
who came down sick with with COVID nineteen. They didn't tell the United States, didn't tell the CDC, NIH World Health Organization. So this is where things really start to unravel in our relationship with China as it relates to this issue. Is that accurate?
Yes, And for those in the arena, people were starting to see rumors of a new type of pneumonia developing in China. They also as time went on, they changed their ventilation system in the woman lab to be one that filters better. They had reports over time of accidents in their labs, and they were using for this a BSL two, which is a lower level of security. And even Ralph Berrick, who does this type of research in North Carolina, he said needs to be done at a
level three or four, nothing less. But there that's what was being done. And then their military took over the lab. I mean, all of these things are pretty good indicators of what was going on. But the bottom line is President She lied. He said things were in the controller light to the who he manipulated, the who he lied. You know, I would hear people say Donald Trump lied, I suddenly lied. He just believed President She was being
honest and he wasn't. And quickly. I think President Trump figured that out pretty quickly.
One of the least surprising things to me is that federal and state governments were not coordinated and were unprepared to oversee the allocation of WUHAN Relief Funds paycheck protection program supposed to help working Americans. At least sixty four billion dollars was lost to chislers and criminals. There another one hundred and ninety one billion went down the drain
through fraud and federal government unemployment system. So all this money that was wasted when you talk about these programs that were supposed to help people out, this is another scandalous, unbelievably scandalous aspect of this that all this money went out the door and there was essentially no accounting for
any of it. And then there were some half hearted efforts, I think, to recoup some of that money, but by and large, we just you know, flushed, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars down the drain, and no one seems to care.
Yeah, we're trying to incentivize states by being able to maybe keep some of what they recover to do that, and that really was was held up. But the biggest thing. The one that was the most egregious dand through the whole thing is with unemployment and you and what was put in place against our wishes on Ways and Means committee was this self attestation. In other words, you just say you're unemployed. You know, we weren't asking for verifying data,
which was easy to get. And actually Horowitz, who also was the inspector General for Faiza, going back to the fake Russian collusion narrative, you know, he pointed that out that this was absolutely the worst thing that we could do is just let people do that, and he pointed out how easily it could have been done. So again, solutions oriented as well, but it was there from the beginning. It should have been able to be done that way.
But the theft is absolutely appalling at a time when we are so far in debt and now we're just aiding a bend people that hate us, that are stealing money, because a lot of it were foreign adversaries that were stealing.
But see, I think that's what I think about that this report. Then why it's important that you document all those things because during the course of your investigation you said, well, look at this element of it, and instead of just leaving that alone. You detail that in the report, and I think that's really important. This report does not reflect
well on doctor Fauci. Are the dots if someone wants to go through this report and connect the dots on doctor Fauci And I don't know that there's been a referral for him to be investigated criminally on this, but are there are the dots there in this report to be able to connect if somebody wants, oh the dots are there? Maybe a legitimate media outlet wants to do that.
The dots are there to connect. The question is was anything done illegal? Look, I would say this early on people were going to be subject to being what about the fund wrong?
That's the fun It wasn't there already something in place? Oh let me go through that. Yeah, let me go through that that that we're not allowed to do this sort of funding and yet he was signing off on it anyway. Yeah, so let's go through that. I'm glad.
I'm glad you brought that up because that, to me is one of the key findings of everything.
Because he did that behind Trump's back, and this is before the WUHAN even started.
Well, let me tell you all that, let me tell you about the grant process. Yeh yes. So first of all, EcoHealth Alliance wanted to do gain a function research where they are going to insert what's called receptor binding domains on a bat backbone. So from another animal, you take a receptor binding to me. In short, that makes something more infectious stickier to human cell.
Okay.
They also wanted to add a fure in cleavage site. COVID nineteen is a type of coronavirus that never had a feur and cleavage site on it in nature.
Never. But now I don't know what that means. What does that mean?
Well, the fure in cleavage site is if you think of like R two D two when he extends that arm and can get into a system.
All right.
The fur and cleavage site is part of the virus that when activated does pop out okay and gets into the human cell on particular respiratory Okay, okay, So that gives that gives you some idea. So two components that you add to a bat backbone of a virus. So you start with a bat virus, you put it's like legos. Now you're putting in parts, you're moving some out putting others in. And that's as simple as I think I can I can put it. But that was their proposal.
What was interesting is in an email with Ralph Berrick in North Carolina and Zengli she in Wuhan, China, Peter Dazik, the head of Eco Health Alliance, is saying, we'll just tell them we're going to do this in North Carolina, but once we get the money, we'll shift it over to Wuhan. Do it at a BSL too, a less safe lab because it costs less.
We'll do that. Ralph Barrack said, no, no, no, no no.
That initial proposal went to DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Government military agency.
Right.
They said, no, this is this is too risky. We're not we're not issuing that grant. They go over to NIH. Now you're talking Francis Collins and Tony Fauci. They go over there, they get the grant. So we asked doctor Fauci about the grand process. Doctor Fauci, you signed off on on these grants, and uh, you know who basically who's responsible? He said, well, you know, I just I do just sign them. At one point he said, we get billions of dollars in grants. I can't know what's
in all of them. I just sign them. He said, we have an advisory board that looks them over. Okay, that looks them over. And once they do that, then I just sign them. And we said, doctor Fauci, they didn't comply with the grant. They were not doing their periodic reporting. They developed a pathogen that should have been reported, they didn't do it. They were two years late with that. Does a flag go up at N I H or N I A I D that you're in charge of,
to say, where's your report? He said, that's over in compliance. I have nothing to do with.
You, of course, of course. Yeah. And when and when we were we were talking about Doge earlier, this is the cod this is what we're talking aboutvik Ramaswani and Elon Musk are going to be looking at that and this, this is why so many billions of dollars goes out the door and and no one, there's no account bil And.
One step further on that, I said, look, you're doing dangerous research. You know it's dangerous. You've said that is from the very beginning. You're doing dangerous research in a lab of an adversary, And what's your oversight?
Are you in the lab?
Are you able to see what's going on every step of the way he goes. I wouldn't even know how to do that. So we know that they're working on bio weapons over there, and we allow this kind of money to go out the door.
And it wasn't supposed to happen though what there was already guidelines against us.
There was already there was a pause on it, but there was there was a little glitch clause that allowed them to work around it. These are these are the things you're talking about, right, These are the things we got to fix, make sure something like this can never happen again. They get its accountability and transparency that there's a lack of, and they've gone wild with this, able to cloak themselves and be blameless on many things.
All right, we're way late for a break here fifty five KRC, the talk stays, Hie, Ryan, come us here for foreign extime? Fifty five KRC, the talk station. How much does that report weigh? You got a giant buying to there. Five hundred and something pages of the Select Subcommittee Coronavirus Pandemic Report two years worth of work right there. One of the biggest things to me was the and you get into this a lot, and the report was
about the whole thing about misinformation. And I mean, we see how bloated, how inept, how fraudulent our federal bureaucracies really can be. But when it comes to misinformation, you talk about the spread of misinformation through conflicting messages, knee jerk reactions, lack of transparency. The most egregious examples of her basis miss information all flabel drug use, lablaque theory. And the biggest purveyor of misinformation, it turns out, was the federal government, without a doubt.
And this goes to one of the things that I said from the very beginning, and I said that it's a secretary of Asar America needs to hear from the doctors treating COVID patients. Imagine the difference every day if you had a doctor all anywhere around the country stepping out to a flood of microphones, lowering his mask, saying here's what I saw today.
Well, and I remember a group of doctors coming out who were treating COVID patients at the time, and this one doctor who had like a Jamaican accent. A big woman came out and said, I'm treating these patients with hydroxychloriclin. It's working, This is working, this is working. And those people got shut down. I mean they were never seen or heard from again.
They got shut down by people that were never standing over patients watching them die, desperate to try and save a life. And it's easy for them because people were just numbers on paper to them, and that would be the difference. That's why we had the wrong messenger. That's part of this report too, is who's going to be the messenger in a situation like this?
Trust it is. It is one of the most Unamerican things that I can possibly think of, that our government was actively involved in shutting down a dissenting voices like this, not because the information was wrong, but simply because it went against the official government narrative.
That that's exactly right, and that sounds pretty communists or socialist to me.
And then you had people like Jay botechat and our media was cheering it on the whole time.
Well, they're part of it, They're they're part of it, They're they're right in on it. They get their talking points from the Democrat Party and they go for it. And that's the administration that was leading this. And I mean within the agencies. I don't know if somebody's a Republican or Democrat, but I do know in the White House what they are. And so if that's where things are coming from with a political directive, it's a problem. And you saw people like Jay Badacheria, who you know
the Great Barrington Declaration. Okay, you may disagree with parts of it, but have the scientific debate. You know, we found out there was no science behind the mask, there was no science behind six feet. Actually that was being more directed by the teachers union who wanted a trigger to close the schools. That's in the report as well. But you had these people that were actually just having a scientific debate and they were being chastised, they were
being humiliated, they were really being told. The public was being told that these people don't know what they're talking about, and actually they do. And I just give you examples. So the doctor patient relationship was just destroyed. If the government's going to tell you here's the mandate, you've got to do it. They sped up approving the vaccine so the government could issue the mandate because then they made it fully approved. You had two people from the FDA
walk away saying, no, this is wrong. You're speeding this process up for political purposes. The mandate, to me was one of the most obscene things. Americans want to be educated, not indoctrinated, and they.
Want to start. See.
Well, that came from somebody who was hesitant to take the vaccine. When I explained who's vulnerable and what it does and what it doesn't do, person said, I'm more likely to take it now. But you just educated me. I don't want to be indoctrinated. That's where I got And so this is just human nature. These are the things that we talk about in our report of how we can do things better. But you put shove these people aside. You ended scientific debate, and American people quit
falling for it. By and large, even though their favorite news station might continue to spew these things, people fell off. That's why Donald Trump went overwhelmingly one of the reasons why.
Yeah, it's amazing how this the tentacles of this to carry on into everyday life, every day people's interaction with government every day, and it's going to continue, I think for a long time. To come seven forty six, another quick break in here, and then we'll continue on on fifty five KRC, the talking fifty five KRC, the talk station. Bred Winstrip is here talking about the five hundred, five hundred and twenty four pages.
Five twenty and then seventeen pages of recommendation. Yeah, the future, Yeah, And I mean there are so many elements to this. And then I was talking earlier about how each one of these is a major scandal. I mean, why don't we deal with scandal in this country the way we used to deal with it. You know, it used to be truth justice in the American way, right. You know, even as a teenager when Watergate was going on, you know, I was proud of Republicans because everyone was just after
the truth. And you know, if that meant there's ramifications, then then so be it. I had the same approach in my mind on Intelligence Committee when we were looking into the fake well we didn't know it was fake Russian collusion. I went in open minded if Trump did
something wrong, and so be it. Well, we quickly found out not only did he do nothing wrong, whatsoever they did they they paid for that whole thing, and and and you know, at the end of the day, even though the Inspector General proved it and they knew it was fake, still nothing else, and.
They and they continued to lie to them.
They were they were part of it and unble. But because why that's media the media should be driving, like why haven't heads rolled? Why haven't heads rolled? Because if their side's the one doing the scandals, and they have a side in media, then they don't want to pursue it. And look, we saw this teachers union, the teachers Union were the Biden transition team reached out to the teachers union right away after he won and basically started asking them what they would want for schools as far as
closures and the rules. The teachers union, not scientists, not the CDC. Randy Winingarten had Randy Winegarden had the head of the CDC, Willensky, director Willenskey's personal sell And you go through the Teachers' Union's documents and their internal conversation and I'm not blaming every teacher on this, I'm blaming the leadership of the union. They said, we need a trigger to close. What we're after is a trigger to close.
So what they wanted was like ten feet of distancing. Why, well, you can't go back to.
School in person, kids, but you look at the unintended consequences there, and so we ended up with six. Yeah, you got kids working from home and parents looking over their shoulder at what they're learning on the computer. And the parents are like, what the hell is this? Learned that? We learned that? And wait a minute, this is what's going on in the school and uh and and the
rest and the rest is history. There talk a little bit about Andrew Cuomo, Yes, in New York, and you've recommended him for criminal investigations.
Yes, and that criminal retro is because they issued a report that tried to play down the nursing home deaths and lower the number. And that was discovered even by the Attorney General. And he destroyed documents. Uh, he never he produced documents. He didn't really produce documents. He he often claimed he didn't know anything. So for example, God, so he wrote a book? Did he wrote a book about his great leadership during the wuy case? In point, when we asked him how he wrote his book, he
pointed to his head and said it's all here. We said, what what what did you refer to? What documents? Did you refer to. He pointed to his head ghost writer up there, and he said it was all right here. But then he doesn't recall anything, so this is amazing he doesn't. So he issues a directive and I think this is something I really want the audience to hear. Is what he did, and where we had biparts support from physicians to call it malpractice. CDC guidance issued guidance
guidance talking about quarantining this and that. So when we came to nursing homes for some reason, Governor Cuomo issued a directive, not guidance, but a directive.
That's an order, right.
And he said that no nursing home will can deny someone admission to the nursing home with a diagnosis of COVID nineteen or a presumed diagnosis of COVID nineteen. And then he said, and you are prohibited from even testing them for COVID nineteen. What kind of nonsense is this?
And how can the nursing home treat the patient appropriately and protect the other patients appropriately if they don't know the status, don't know who should be quarantined and can't say we can't take you because we can't quarantine you. That's what that directive did. It made no sense, and the CDC guideline said, you can refuse someone if you
can't adhere to the proper protocols. You don't take someone highly contagious and put him next to the most vulnerable, which the elderly were they most and they have co morbidities. They are the absolute most vulnerable population in America. And he took highly contagious people and made them be admitted to the nursing homes. Then it's an interview months a month or so later and people asked him about it. He said, oh, I didn't know anything about that. He said,
he knew nothing about it. Well, there's evidence to the contrary. But besides that, then he wanted to report put out that said that wasn't as bad as they're saying it was. You know that we didn't have all these nursing home deaths. What they ignored was people that were in the nursing home got covid, went to the hospital and died. They ignored all those deaths to lower the number. He said, he didn't have anything to do with any of this. Well,
it was interesting. We asked him if he edited that report in any way, shape or form, and he said, no, Well, guess what. Whistle blowers came forward. We have emails that said, here are the governor's edits, and then we got the edits in his handwriting on the report. That's why he was referred, that's why he was.
Lying in front of Congress. Is still frowned upon. I'm glad to hear it. It's frowned upon by Congress, that's for sure. Thank you very much. All right, can you do you want to hang around for another half an hour?
I wish I could go, I wish I could write obligations.
I do, and I head back to d C today as well. But because we literally could have done the whole show from five o'clock on. No, I agree with you. I agree with you. There's so much here and the more and the more you talk about it, the more my memory has jogged about things that I want to talk to you about. But you know what, maybe we can do it again sometimes.
You know, it's so true, and even during our two years, you know, as I look back on stuff that we did in the first couple of months, it's like, gosh, I almost forgot about that.
Yeah, it's amazing and we forgot that really that it really is. But this report is great. This is a lot of material for future talk shows for me. So I want to thank you for that. Well, and I'll be around more importantly. I'll be around, yeah, more importantly for the American people exactly, and for America going forward.
And we tried to make it an easy read for people, you know, not overly scientific, and in the case of that, we're making break it down, explain it. And I think I think that we did that and people can take it one section at a time, like I'm interested in the school closures. I'm in masks. I want to see what you found about all these things.
All right, Well, I got to talk to Chris Sminman after eight o'clock, so well we'll hear what he has to say. But brad Winstrop, you're looking good, brother, great to see you.
Well, you know what, I can stay fifteen more minutes if you want me to fifteen minutes, I can stay another fifteen minutes.
All right, sounds good. Let's do that, and uh, Joe will do that. And we got to get to the news here at the top of the hour, though, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas with brad Winstrop on fifty five krs the talk station, Your voice, thank you for day McCall, your country. It's here at every day fifty five krs the talk station, This report, Dave Sponsor more minutes with not Greg Landsman, but brad Winstrop and brad weinst used to be my We were talking about that off the air.
It used to be my congressman. But then they changed districts on me. I didn't move, but the district moved. And now and now you're you were you know, you're not my representative Ohio.
A loss to seed, which you know doesn't help us anyway, that's part of it.
That's thanks. But I mean we're talking about the report two years were the work from the subcommittee that you were the chairman of, and I mean you get into every single aspect of everything that was related to COVID nineteen one. That we haven't touched on a lot yet is the vaccines. You were in favor of Operation Warp Speed. Absolutely you said before that it saved lives. There's a lot of people who would probably argue with you on that that the COVID vaccines actually wound up maybe doing
more harm than good. That maybe they you know, some people died because of taking the vaccine who didn't need it.
Yeah, let's talk about that, because you know, I followed the trials closely. Actually I tried to get in the trial, but when I went over to UC, I had just given blood and that disqualified me.
So I couldn't get in it. But I watched it very closely. Well, what about all the reporting that the big pharmaceutical companies withheld information about the trials that they did.
What about all Well, I don't think they withheld information. I think from the trials because the trials were pretty clear. You're not going to you know, we didn't do a good job of and this is part of our report. We didn't do a good job of adverse effects of the vaccines, things like that vaccine injuries. We got to clean up that. But look, think about what was going on.
Millions of people did die. People were dying, but we knew who was dying and who was most vulnerable to a large degree, you know, ndred percent, but to a large degree. What the trials showed. And I said this from Storry, here's what the trial showed that just because you get the vaccine doesn't mean you can't get COVID. It's different from the others. The mRNA technology is different from the vaccines. We grew up with that being said. That should have been something everyone was aware of.
But yeah, that was part of the original narrative from this government and from the media was that if you get the vaccine totally, you can't get it, you can't spread.
Fauci said it, and you know, I pointed out to him that's not true, and the trials had shown that. But people were dying and people were people did well. The trial has showed that if you get the vaccine, you're less likely to die and less likely to get as sick, but you can still get COVID. It was
not a dead end for the virus. Like doctor Fauci said, that to me was a form of malpractice, if you will, by telling the people that, because that's not true, and you know how it is with drugs, you got to list every side effect, you guys, you got to be honest about it. This is where we went way wrong. We weren't honest about it. So it was a proved for emergency use. That should be a decision between you and your doctor, as we have data of who's dying,
what's worse. Does the benefit out weigh the risk for you depending upon your health status. That's where we were, That's what it should have been. And again at the beginning, it was just for the most vulnerable. But then they wanted you know, your two your you're two month old to get vaccinated. I mean, it was ridiculous, no evidence out there to say that that should happen. And we
talked before. People want to be educated, not indoctrinated, and that comes from sitting, having a chance to sit with your physician discuss your health. I'll give you an example. So I was told that before I could go to Germany for a security conference and I needed to get a booster. And I said, okay, Well listen, I had two doses of Pfizer. And months later I was cooking and I couldn't smell garlic salt and I said to my wife, I've got COVID or had it? I said
maybe last week. Remember I had a chill one day, I probably got COVID. I didn't go get tested because I figured I had it OK and recovering and now you know, doing fine, and no one in my family was sick either. Now, before I was to get this booster, I said I want to get my antibodies and T cells and on that on the hill, they said, oh, we can't do T sells. Our lab can do antibodies's let's see where they are. A strong number was forty.
My number was eight hundred and twenty one. If you sit with your doctor and your number is eight hundred and twenty one, your doctor's going to say, I don't see what a booster's going to do for you. Matter of fact, I'm a little concerned you might get a hyperimmune response. That's what doctor Winsterrop would say to a patient, right. But this is the environment that we were in. And it's interesting now that they don't if you see the ads, they don't call it the COVID vaccine anymore. They call
it the COVID shot, COVID shot of the COVID booster. Yeah, and variants are not a new idea. That's what viruses do. So when we had COVID and then we had variants, it shouldn't be shocking. The conversation should be there's probably going to be some variants. We'll see if they're more infectious or less effect infectious.
What do we have to have to do. Are we supposed to believe, because it's being put out to us now that hey, your your annual flu shot and get your COVID shot at the same time, that these two things are kind of akin to each other.
And I think that's a conversation you have with your doctor. I would tell you my kids are young, eleven and seven. We're at the pediatrician's office, and the pediatrician says, I just don't see where there's benefit compared to the little risk of getting this vaccination. And not only that, we really don't know. And I said this from the very beginning, to be honest with patients. I can't tell you what we're going to know about this vaccine ten years from now,
twenty years from now. I'm not certain just my own observations. We know that COVID was creating clots. People were throwing clots with COVID. Yeah, we know that people young males were getting myocarditis from the vaccine.
So well, I mean, so I don't know what se So that's one of the other elements. There are so many anecdotal stories out there about young people athletes who are in good shape. People you know mari on runners, basketball players dropping dead after they get the vaccine. Yeah.
I had a parent call me. He's a county commissioner, and he said, hey, my son's in high school. They're telling him he has to get the vaccine. I said, is he healthy and he said yeah. I said, well, are you worried about myocarditis from the vaccine?
He said yeah.
I said, well you should be. You should be. I said, but think, maybe do this at this point. I said maybe, at this point. What you do is you get one dose of pfiser, go to your doctor, talk to your doctor about it. Get one dose of pfiser, and that gives you good protection because the myocarditis is occurring after the second dose. Very few, if any had it after the first dose. Then you'll have coverage and you know, get a note from your doctor saying he's covered, he got he got the one dose, he's.
Good to go. The school boards were rejecting things like this. Who were they?
Do you understand where I'm saying, But we have to have a better reporting system, data system, so that doctors with their patients can make decisions this best for their patient.
All right, a minute and a half left, and then I know you got to go. It seems like the melding and the overlap of politics and science and health, it seems like these things we'd be better off if we can keep these things in separate lanes. I mean, keep the politics out of health information, yes, and science information. How important is that moving forward?
Absolutely? You know there's a White House pandemic Preparedness team right now and a former Air Force surgeon heads it, and he wanted to meet with the Republican Doctor's Caucus, which he did, and he said, how do we re establish trust? And I said, get it out of the White House. Get it out of the White House. And that's in our proposals that we put a con struck together. We're a team, an agnostic team that may be part of the executive branch, but is out of the White House,
not sitting in the White House. And they will they will decide CDC does this, NI H does this, n I A, I D does this? F D A has to do this, and you all report to us because we got different messages from different components of our government throughout. That can't happen, and you have to not only say, here's what we think, but here's why.
That's what we need to do. All right With that, brad Winstrip will let you go. Thanks for the time, great great seeing you again. Thanks for being here. You too, and I'll be around.
You know, I'm leaving Congress, but I'm not not gone.
I know you'll be around. But whatever your your next chapter in life holds, you're going to knock it out of the park, just like you've done up to this. Oh you're kind. Thank you. I mean, I mean I've seen you in action. Thank you know, I mean you still look great in the uniform. And I've seen you speak at that ends events and Memorial Day things and things like that, and it's been fantastic. But thanks for the time, and I have a great day, and we'll
talk some more about this down the road. Thank you, God, blessure. All right on fifty five KRC Detalk Station