Why Did Biden Shut Down The Covid Investigation?

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care of. They took care of Hunter, they took care of Joe, They took care of everybody, didn't they And people didn't want to say China. Usually they blame it on Russia. It's always Russia, Russia, Russia. But I said, right at the beginning, it came out of Wuhan, and that's where all the deaths were. Also, by the way, when we first heard about this, there were Buddy begs, dead people laying all over Wuhan Province and that's where it happened to be located. So to me, it was

very obvious. I said it very strongly, and I was criticized, and now people agreeing with me. So that's okay. He was right, folks. Trump was right on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and pandemic, and the haters, the doubters, the anti trumpers were wrong. Yet another one you have to add the list. And not only was Trump right about this despite all the criticism, and but let me say many people right about I always thought the lab theory was

more credible. It just made more sense from the very beginning. If it came from bats at at a wet market, why weren't they all why weren't all the cases traced to the wet market. And if it came from bats in nature, well this didn't happen where the bats live, generally speaking, six hundred miles away. It just didn't add up. But you're concentrating bat viruses in a lab, A bunch of lab technicians and researchers get sick with a bat

based virus. This seems pretty straightforward, doesn't it. You know, it's not straightforward to people that don't really care about the truth but just want to use this for political advantage. And with that we turned to the Biden administration. Joe Biden and all the people around him supposed to be so smart. Oh, they believe the science. That's what they want you to think. They believe the science. Well, here's

what we've since found out. Joe Biden's team shut down a State Department investigation into the Wuhan laboratory as a source of the COVID nineteen outbreaks. According to Daily Mail, the distance of the investigation, run primarily out of the State Department's Arms Control and Verification Bureau, had not previously

been known, nor had the Biden administration's actions. The revelations will lead to uncomfortable hit n't say allegations for Biden that his team politicized the public health effort and harmed the nation by shutting down a useful inquiry begun by his predecessor. The decision to terminate the inquiry was made after Biden officials were briefed on the team's draft findings

in February and March of this year. According to a State Department spokesperson, investigation was shut down because the Biden team had doubts about the legitimacy of the findings. Those involved have told journalists that the questioning of their evidence was unfair and unwarranted, and they had been objective Oh, so this is the Biden team coming in the flax

for mister magoo. Biden coming in and saying no, no, no, no, shut down that investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the basis for the whole pandemic, I mean, as the place where the outbreaks started. Shut it down, or because the findings were being so politicized. If that were true, why didn't we know about this? If that were the case, why don't they make the findings public. Let's let the

people decide who was politicizing this, folks. The mentality that the Democrats have these scorched earth anything for power principles not allowed to stand in the way. Mentality isn't applicable to just certain hot button topics. This is not something that occurs occasionally on the left. This is their approach to everything. And we all know that it was very politicized that Donald Trump was the guy saying, hold on

a second, this virus came from China. This is because of what the country that he was willing to confront in a way that other presidents before him had not. This is because of what China's recklessness and deception led to. He keeps saying this, and sure enough, that meant that Democrats had to push in the opposite direction. That meant that Democrats had to take the position insisted that they

must take the position that this was not true. Oh okay, I thought on something like this, when it comes to a pandemic that's killed millions of people around the world, that infected hundreds of millions, perhaps even it will end up being a few billion people getting it infected with this, We'll never really we'll never know the full number, but when you look at asymptomatic cases and transmission all over

the world, it's certainly hundreds of millions of cases. With that as the situation, couldn't we expect that partisanship wouldn't rule the day, Not with Democrats. Oh no, the Biden

team shut this down. Just imagine for a second that the Trump administration came into office during a pandemic, or even even make it simpler, imagine Trump won a second term and it came out that he shut down an investigation into the origins of COVID nineteen because some of his political appointees didn't really like what the findings were. That would be the top news story all across the country, and you'd have libs shrieking he didn't follow the science.

They'd be completely losing their minds. Fauci would be on TV, you know, more than he already is, if that's even humanly possible. It always followed a science, and it was troubling that the data was not allowed to direct the observation of the you know, that's what we would be hearing. But because the Biden team did it, it's yeah, you know the Stummig deal. Oh, speaking of the Fouch he's wrong again, He's wrong again. How many times does this

guy get to be incorrect? How many times does he get to say something that he has to change his tune on? A week later, a month later, again in the Daily Mail quote, Fauci defended the United States modest and very respectable, very very respective. This is the most respectable funding of the Wuhan Laboratory, which is now the center of speculation as a possible source the COVID nineteen virus.

Fauci appeared before a congressional buddy a budget committee on Tuesday defended allocating six hundred thousand dollars through a group called Eco Health Alliance, which then paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that backed coronaviruses could infect humans. Under the terms of the funding, the money could not be spent on gain of function research, a controversial practice which explores how viruses mutate and become more

transmissible or more dangerous. End quote. Oh, isn't that so cute? I'm sure the Chinese institute was really worried about what kind of research they were going to do with the money that taxpayers from the US we're sending them. I'm sure we could trust them on that, because when you're talking about transparency, truth and accountability government backed institutions in I'm the top of the list. Baby, Yeah, that's right,

the gold standard of honesty. Sure, sure they are. Yeah, this is all looking like the people who were right from the beginning. Now we're in a position to say, not only were we right about the Wuhan coronavirus origins, but also we've been right about lockdowns, about masks, about so much here and oh, one more thing before I get to more more in depth analysis of the of

the latest Fauci flip flop. I just read read a story today about how there is a new study out They looked at seventy five people, so it's not a large study, but a new study, and it said that those who have people even who had low levels of a coronavirus and COVID nineteen infection, had anti bodies for at least at least eight months and as long as eleven months detectable antibodies. Now that doesn't even cover t

seal immunity, but detectable antibodies. They believe it's not just about the blood, but in fact antibodies that emerge from the bone marrow. Now, I bring this up because they're they're once again telling everybody, including the recovered, go get the shot. Go get the shot. It's so much better. And I've been telling you they don't know that. They don't know. There's something called an amnestic immune response, which

often happens from recovery from natural infection. An immune response would cover things like, you know, if you if you get a virus once that you later on come into contact with many years later, your body can actually still deal with it at an elevated level, conferring lifelong immunity in many cases. Is there an amnastic response for COVID nineteen.

The answer they don't know. But just as what they've done with the investigation into the origins of COVID nineteen, just as what they've done on masking and everything else, they don't have answers. They don't have the data to prove what they say they can, and so their response is shut up and do what you're told. I say

enough of that. We had a big scare with saws Coovie one back in two thousand and two two thousand and three, where that particular virus unquestionably went from a bat to an intermediate host to start an epidemic and a pandemic that resulted in eight thousand cases in close to eight hundred deaths. It would have been almost a dereliction of our duty if we didn't study this. And the only way you can study these things is you've

got to go where the action is. So I often say, somewhat tongue in cheek, you don't want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia to find out what the animal human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species. So we had a modest collaboration with very respectable Chinese scientist to a world experts on coronavirus and we did that through a sub grant from a larger grant to

Eco Health. The subgrant was about six hundred thousand dollars over a period of five years, so it was a modest amount, and the purpose of it was to study the animal human interface, to do surveillance, and to determine if these bat viruses were even capable of transient infection to humans. That's a very long way of the FOUCH saying that, yes, in fact, the US government, through a subgrant, did fund research on bat viruses in Wuhan, China. Do

you recall how indignant he was? How dare you he was basically saying to Senator rand Paul on this one, do you recall how outraged the FOUCH was over that? And now here he is, You know, you don't want to study bats in Fairfax, Virginia, you want to do it in Wuhan. Hm. Really, So there was research going on there that was funded by US taxpayer dollars. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's not something that was just

dreamed up on some blog somewhere. And we're supposed to believe that Fouci still has credibility on any of these issues. Why should anyone listen to this clown at all anymore? That's my honest question for you. Why should anyone, in fact, why should he keep his job? Senator Rand Paul once again, as he has done many times here thanks we have somebody in the Senate who loves liberty, believes in the Constitution, and has an MD to challenge the little lab coat,

Tyrant Fauci. Here's Rand Paul on how this never should have happened. It absolutely should not have occurred, and play clip two. We may never know whether the pandemic arose from the lab in Wuhan, but we do know that so far, no intermediate animal host has been discovered. Thousands of animals at the wet market have been looked at, none of them have carried COVID nineteen. We've tried to infect COVID nineteen into bats. It doesn't grow well in bats.

It seems most adapted and suitable for humans. We may not know whether this ever arose out of a Wuhan lab, but I think gain of function research where we take a deadly virus, sometimes much more deadly than COVID, and then we increase its transmissibility to mammals is wrong. In twenty fourteen, NIH stopped all of this research. I'm using the same definition to say any gain of function research should not be funded in China with US taxpayer dollars,

and I recommend it. Yes, thank you. Any problem with that? Any want to take the opposite point of view, given what we've just gone through around the world and here at home in America, anybody think that that's a strange thing for Senator Ran Paul to be suggesting at this point he has been right. He was right on the theatrics of Fauci wearing masks, and it is not, sir, it is the science. It's the science because there could be droplets coming out of my mouth and those droplets

are being stuck in the mask. Yeah. Sure, that's worked so well, hasn't it. It just shut down the virus all across the country. All the mask wearing we were doing pure idiocy. Here people are still wearing masks in my gym as of yesterday, ten people in the gym in New York City. I'm the only one not wearing a mask. And I'm proud to saying that somebody has taken down the you must wear a mask signs in there. I don't know who it is. There's some anti mask

bandit who has been pulling down I don't know. I mean maybe I know, but I don't know. Can either confirm nor deny that someone is pulling down the mask signs in the gym in my apartment building, which you know is a pretty big gym actually because it's a large building. And those those folks who go in, they still mask up. They're on the treadmill, dry heaving into their mask on their face because they think I'm big. I'm taking the virus seriously because I'm listening to Fauci.

I listened to Fauci. Fauci will save us. These people have it's a mental illness. They've got a real problem. I don't know if you want to say it's pandemic PTSD or it's Fauci induced anxiety disorder, but they got an issue. These people are vaccinated two folks. I can tell you that right now, and they're still freaked out about it. But we have been lied to so much. If anything, what this has been a massive exercise in is a reminder for everybody that credentialing or credentialed experts

who make policy do not necessarily make good policy. And when they tell you shut up, I have a degree in this, you should always always question them right away. What do you mean? Okay? So why does that mean that you know more about this issue? Why does that mean that you're making a better judgment call about this issue.

That's where it really all falls apart. But FAUCI has come out and said that they were there was a US grant and it was going to gain a function research or I'm sorry, it was going to bat research. Whether there was gain a function going on or not. Fauci does not no, So who us closer to the truth this whole time, people saying that money was going US taxpayer dollars were being funneled to the Wuhan lab for a gain of function research, or people who were

saying that's crazy. This came from bats that live in cave six hundred miles away from Wuhan, and there's no intermediary species they can really find that shows where the leap occurred. And there are people that had nothing to do with the Wuhan wet market who were coming down with this virus in considerable numbers before the major outbreak. Shut up and listen to Fauci, this is what it

turned into. We have really been separated, I mean human beings around the world, but particularly here in America, into those who think for themselves and those who must be a part of the herd, the massive sheep situation. That's

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door moinkbox dot com, slash buck Colifi. I mean, is an unjust doctrine that has been codified in statute after statute that has allowed for law enforcement to operate with callous disregard of black and brown bodies, with reckless impunity for our lives without any consequences. You know, George Floyd was brutally murdered. Why did that happen? It happened because we have to affirm the fact that black lives matter. Because our lives have not mattered, they have not been valued.

There was no humanity, no grace extended or afforded to him. Black folks have been dehumanized and consequently have been brutalized, survey profiled, murdered, lynch So what will be the determined to that we have much work to do beyond just one bill. This is the kind of anti cop rhetoric and the dishonesty that is central to the BLM movement which has resulted in disaster for this country. I want everyone to be clear on this. I don't want there

to be any question. When you look at the data, you look at the timeline of the last twelve months in America, BLM has resulted in a massive spike in homicides and shootings across America. More people are dead, more families are shattered because of the narrative that is being pushed here by people like Congresswoman Pressley qualified immunity for example, Let's just take a look at qualified immunity. Okay, they

say it is a racist doctrine on the left. Well, no, it's actually a very straightforward doctrine established back in nineteen sixty seven by the Supreme Court, and there are many statutes that codify it. It protects state and local officials, including police officers, from personal liability unless they have violated clearly established statutory or constitutional rights. So what this means, it's very straightforward. But the left relies on ignorance and emotion,

especially around the racist cops lie. Our cops are not racist. I'm sick of this crap. Our cops are not racist. You know it, I know it. Thanks to our cops. We live in a very large and very complicated country where people, mostly in their day to day are doing really well and safe. And you know it's not the purge, so thank you for that. But the lies continue anyway. Qualified immunity. Let's take a look at this for a moment.

If you got rid of qualified immunity, what it would mean is that a person I get arrested by a cop, I can sue the cop personally in court and say that he was you know, that he was rough with me, that he violated my rights in some way, and he's got to go defend himself in court personally. And if he were to lose, he loses his house, he loses

his pension, you know, he loses his bank account. What qualified immunity does is it says, hold on a second, you can't even drag a cop into court personally if he's acting within good faith in his job. Now, if a cop pulls me out of a car for no reason and handcuffs me and then you know, breaks my kneecap with his nightstick for fun, and it's all on video, and he clearly violated my rights in this process. Qualified immunity can be waived by the department, and it often is.

But you see, I can't do what the Left wants to be able to do, which is, if nothing has there's no violation of my rights, drag a cop into court and see what I can get think of all the ambulance chasing lawyers that would want to take this one up the way that they would try to exploit the cries of racism and police to try to try to get a jury to go along with Oh, well, even if the cops seemed like he was doing a good doing his job lawfully and within the scope of

his authority, acting in good faith, we're gonna We're gonna sue him. Anyway. Maybe the jury will decide, you know, this is a makeup call. You'll start getting all these makeup call juries. Well, they'll say, well, this cop didn't do it. But there's listen to what Aana Pressley says in Congress, all the racism, all the evil from law enforcement. This is so divisive and destructive, and it's actually not reflective of what the American people overwhelmingly believe about their

cops and about each other. America is not a country that is the shining example of racism. America as a country where it's a very diverse country, more so than any other country even close to its size in the world.

America is a very diverse country where we treat each other with respect and dignity, overwhelmingly, and we see each other as Americans, and instead of celebrating that greatness, instead of celebrating where we are as a country, the left just seeks to exaggerate our faults and tear us down. You know, if you've ever been in a relationship, a personal relationship where somebody exaggerates the faults of the other person, doesn't look at the whole reality of it, but looks

at just small things. This can manifest through nagging, This can manifest through being hypercritical it. You'll destroy the relationship. Do you have to remember if somebody you know, if your wife is kind and loyal and honest, and you know family first, but all you do is say, you know, honey, you know your food, you're you're really your cooking really isn't that good? You know? And your cooking actually represents your lack of interest in this relationship in fact, because

you're not a better cook. I can't believe that you even take this relationship seriously. You can destroy anything by exaggerating imperfection, by lacking context, by lacking proportionality, to destroy

any relationship, destroy any business arrangement, anything. So this is and this is central by the way to the whole Marxist ethos, which is to look at inequality in human existence and pretend that it is the result of nothing but systemic, systemic forces of oppression, not luck, not life is unfair, but we do the best we can, and we have laws that are supposed to treat people and seek to treat people equally. And we are not all equal in gifts, talents, abilities, work, ethic We're not, and

so there's not going to be equal outcomes. But instead of that perspective, you see, what the left provides is the exaggeration of a deficiency and really a maniacal fixation on deficiency to create the crack in the dam, to bring the whole thing down. That's what they're doing. This is how Marxists use class warfare and envy in the more traditional context of Marxism. And it's how right now you're seeing racial division used to try to bring society down.

It is so reckless, it is so disgraceful, but it is a central theme of democrats because unfortunately it works. It's a powerful tool. We all have envy, we all have insecurities, resentments everyone, But do we control it, do we have perspective on it? Are we honest about our own roles in what frustrates us in life? Or do we blame the system? Do we blame the other for all the ways in which our lives are not quite

what we think we want them to be. And as you know, oftentimes when you get things in life that you think you really want, you find out, Yeah, I just wish I'd spend more time with my kids, or my grandkids, or my brothers or my sisters or whomever, my best friends. I wish I had focused more on that. So much of I think what drives the leftist mindset as well is an obsession with the superficial. Yes, of course, in the context of the racial Marxism that we see,

they're obsessed with skin color. Leftists are obsessed with it, but also with this idea that if only material circumstances changed a little bit for people, you know, if people if student loan debt was erased, let's say, you know, this is a big push by aoc oh, it would be life changing for the people. And I'm not saying there aren't things you can do literally help people, and that you know, being out of debt isn't a good thing. But if you're really looking at the macro perspective, if

you're looking at what matters in life. I think the leftist has the wrong focus. I think the left has replaced God and a sense of the everlasting and our purpose on this earth with a devotion to the state and state authority and state power. And this has played out in other societies. This is not some crazy dream I've come up. But this is what you have in the Soviet Union before it collapsed, and to some degree

it's still in Russia today. This is what you have in China today, the obsession with power and the elevation of material and superficial things over what is really our purpose? In what way do we matter in our day to day How does the left answer those questions? What by making sure that the state pays for gender affirmation surgery. That's really how we know that we've become a country with actual worth. That's how we know we've become a

country where people have meaning in their day to day lives. Really, just pick an issue, oh, where a woman has a right to terminate or pregnancy at any point over the course of nine months of a pregnancy, any point for any reason. That's that's how we affirm, that's how we realize that we have purpose as human beings. No, I think the left, unfortunately, isn't just a corruption of politics. It's a corruption of the soul. And you see this with much of the rhetoric and the approach of the

BLM movement. They are maligning law enforcement. They are maligning those who are making sacrifices day in and day out, who are taking risks, who are carrying a burden for the rest of society. And they do so to pander, They do so to fan the flames of resentment, to divide society. You know, what is the left's answer in what way do they want to build? Take more money from people, spend more money, but how do they build us as human beings, as a nation as Americans? Division?

Always division, always anger, And it's just frustrating to see this as a person who wishes the best for this country. I mean, here's a perfect example what I'm talking about. This was on ABC News last night. To tweet from ABC News's official account, former President Barack Obama. Since George Floyd's death, quote, hundreds more Americans have died in encounters with police. Parents' sons, daughter's friends taken from us far too soon. End quote. Or he said, but the last

year has also give us reasons to hope. Okay, so that's the full quote. All right? Are there hundreds of murders by police that have occurred that we don't know about?

Why is the former president, you know, taking special time to mourn people who were killed by law enforcement when let's live in reality, a vast majority of those people were killed in justified shootings, meaning they were trying to kill somebody or in the act of committing a violent felony, often against a police officer, but sometimes against just the innocent bystanders. Why is Barack Obama focusing on this because

you have to dig into it a little bit. Otherwise you just hear, yeah, cops kill the hundreds of more people. They're terrible. Cops are so racist. Barack Obama gross and reckless and misleading pandering, which is really an Obama specialty. If he thinks that police have committed hundreds of unpunished murders in the last year, he should say so instead of being an intellectual coward. That's part of why we want a bipartisan bill that is supported by most Americans.

In this country. This country should be united behind police reform. This is not anti police, This is just pro people pro policing. This is about constitutional policing in the United States of American. That African Americans and other minorities should not be fearful of interactions with the police, and they should leave those interactions alive and able to go home to their families. And we think that that is a

message that the entire country can get behind. And if the entire country is behind it, like we think they are, then we can make sure we pass this on a bipartisan basis and hurry up and get this done so that we can move this country forward and protect human life. How about this as a message for the whole country, a message for all of us. Don't commit violent felonies,

don't resist arrest. And you have about as much reason to fear law enforcement statistically as you do being killed by a deer coming through your windshield while you're driving down the road. Not saying it never happens, but you know it's a few dozen people a year. Maybe don't don't do those don't commit a violent felony, Okay, which is a fair ask. I think of all of us no violent felonies. Don't resist arrest when the cops say

you're under arrest. This would be good messaging. When the police say are under arrest, everyone in schools across the country should be told guys, when that happens, it's it's game over. Take it up in court, hands behind your back, be polite, don't say a word, get in the back of the car, go to the police precinct. If someone does that, I don't care what color they are or

in anything else. If someone does that and a police officer then decides to man handle them, hurt them, abuse them, I'm I'm gonna be at the front of the line saying that officer needs to lose his badge and go to prison. We can't have that crap. But let's let's set some real standards here, because here's here's the reality of law enforcement in America today. All right. And I saw it up close as somebody who is you know, I was in the MYPD, but I was really a

civilian counter terrorism expert. I was kind of almost like like an in house academic slash former or spy. I wasn't really a you know, I wasn't a cop, but I was with cops all day, and I was doing surveillance with them and out with them, and I saw law enforcement up close end personal. You know, it's like the equivalent of doing an eighteen month ride along. In many ways, our cops are good people. Our cops are

doing a good job. And there's the reality is that some federal bill is not going to change the abernt events where you have a bad cop doing bad things. It's not gonna make any difference. We have all the laws on the books really that we need when it comes to you know, state and local law enforcement and the way that they're conducting themselves. I think our cops

are good. You know. It's it's like if you're looking at if you're looking at a professional sports league, do we need a massive transformation of the rule book or is the league working out and the rules we have are good. It doesn't mean that there aren't sometimes people that need to be suspended or kicked out of the league. I think our cops are doing a good job, and in fact, they were doing a better job before BLM said they were doing a bad job. The violence needs

to stop. It's unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood. They deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That's unacceptable. We should be holding those perpetrators accountable, and it's going to take a very comprehensive effort. Yes, it includes safety beyond policing, and it

includes police. And you know, I'm one that has been working lockstep with our chief are Adondo, and I'm calling on the council members to try to work with them as well. It's just the reality of the situation. You know, when you make big overarching statements that we're going to defund or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers, there's an impact to that, and there's an impact. Do we need massive change, Yes

we do. We need accountability and culture shift within our department. End when your police walls don't work was the dumbest slogan the Democrats ever had. And then defund the police came along took the number one spot. That was Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, who is admitting, I mean he's trying to soft pedal it a little bits. He's trying to downplay it but admitting that. Yet there's been a huge spiking crime in Minneapolis and it's a disaster and it

is directly related to the defund the police narrative. Is this a surprise to anybody? Does anyone find this information out and go, oh, my gosh, You mean getting rid of law enforcement resources and personnel and undermining police in their jobs and making it harder for them to do their jobs. You mean that results in bad people doing bad things even more so. But wait a second. I thought by constantly be rating and maligning law enforcement, we

were going to make our streets safer. I thought we'd make them safer if we're oh oh, nobody really thought that. But there are all these other things brought into the conversation. All these other ideas get mixed into this, and that's how you get to a place where defund the police is a mainstream chant because it's not about safety, it's about social justice. It's not about making sure that cops

are accountable. It's creating a narrative of why there is crime in some communities that law enforcement seems unable to lower, That why there are some parts of the country where there's violence going on it has nothing to do with people making decisions in those communities. It is the cops fault, and that's very comforting for people's that's something that they

want to hear. They'd rather believe that it's the cops than that it's the breakdown of families, otherlessness, drug abuse, victimology, narratives, any of these things through all over the country is true in any high crime community. It is a preferable thing for a lot of the activists, leftists and Democrats to hear that cops are the problem. This is a huge distraction and this is a this is a lie, but it's one that has gained mainstream traction all over

the Democrat party. And everyone should be really really disgusted by this because this is not just something that happens that we can say, all right, you know, maybe the tax rate shouldn't have gone up, maybe maybe we slowed some economic growth a little bit with that tax increase. This is people getting shot and killed in greater numbers.

This comes with real consequences for people who are relying on sound judgment, which is always a risky proposition from the elites and the people in power, and what they get in return, what they get in response is just utterly incompetent nonsense. I mean, the defund the police movement is is an abomination. It really is. It's a horrible idea. And you've got the mayor of Minneapolis who is straight up saying, yeah, maybe we've been a little too far

with this. People should be embarrassed. They should there's there's shame attached to this. They there should be a real sense of, uh, you know, people, we should be indignant about it. It's so obvious, but we had to go through a year of this before all. It turns out if you, you know, get rid of cops and cut the budget, you know, things get worse. Of course they do. Some people know that this was the wrong move all along, and some states are taking action in the right direction

all the moment. Tom is with places like Florida and Texas, red states with Republican governors. That's where it feels like good decisions, at least for large states, good decisions are being made. Blue states are just hemorrhaging people. They're a mess. Texas Governor Greg Abbott's out there just saying, look, we're gonna take action against cities at the state level. We

will take action against cities that defund police. Play five. Well, the reason it's stronger is because, as you pointed out, I'm about to sign a law that will ensure that cities in the State of Texas will not be able to defund police. First, the context, and that is that you pointed out what's going on in Minneapolis or it is both a tragedy and a disaster. What's going on for the residents of Minneapolis because of the defunding of police.

And you've seen the same thing and Portland and Seattle and Chicago and New York, etc. Harris, Unfortunately, we had the same thing happened here in the State of Texas where the city of Austin defunded police, which is why you saw that tragic situation reported in Austin, Texas, and because Austin defundi police. We wanted to do two things in this session. One, we wanted to make sure that there were going to be consequences for the city of Austin.

The second is we wanted to make sure that no other city in the state of Texas would defund police. So here's what we're doing in the State of Texas to put teeth into this law that provides real consequences for cities that do defund the police. One, We're going to dry up their revenue sources in a way that basically will put the city out of business. What happens is a residency. We're going to defund the city, defund the city if they defund the police. This is the

public safety measure. It's the kind of action that needs to be taken. This is what people should expect. Well, they should demand that this happens. I mean, I was in Austin some weeks ago, maybe about a month ago now, and I met with a member of the only Republican member of the Austin City Council and she walked me through it took me through city Hall in Austin and also talked to me all about the crime situation there and how things have gotten much worse and quality of

life is going down. Vagrancy is going up, assaults going up, all kinds of criminal offenses on the rise. They cut the police budget over one hundred million dollars. Why should the police budget in Austin be cut over one hundred million dollars because one cop killed George Floyd in Minneapolis?

I mean, can you imagine for a second, if we if the response after sometimes, for there'll be someone in the military who, over the course of fighting a war, they'll kill a civilian in a way that under UCMJ is a murder, and that will happen. Would anyone say, oh, well, there's one guy who snapped and kill the civilian while in uniform in the military, so let's defund the military. Now that that would be crazy. But it's very much what goes on here with the defund the police movement.

So I'm happy to see Governor Abbott, Governor DeSantis, people that are in charge of large states making sure that that they're doing everything they can to just stamp out this nonsense. Just get rid of this craziness. It's just not I mean to say, it's not helpful, as is a real understatement. It's not sane, it's not reasonable. This was never a good idea, and we've already seen what

it results. We've done the experiment. We shouldn't have had to, but we've done the experiment, we've seen the results, and they show us that defund the police, as I've said, is perhaps the dumbest Democrats slogan in living memory, and it's got a lot of competition. Well, I mean, I think that the party has been completely taken over, and I know that a lot of people had hoped that once Trump had left Washington that maybe they would get

their party back. Clearly that is not the case. And so there's only a couple of directions to go here. Either the party is reformed or a new party is created. And so we will see. But the impact as long as you have a network that continues to be the mouthpiece that continues to spread just tremendous lies about everything under the sun. I mean, people still believing that the election was stolen, people still trying to investigate the election.

So with all of that going on, it doesn't surprise me. But joy one thing that's different now since January sixth my Republican colleagues who know better, but they are still beholden because they are afraid. In the past, they were afraid of a primary opponent. Now they're afraid for their se and that's a profound change. That's very frightening. Oh

that's right. Let's take advice from a left wing member of Congress on what's going well, or let's take the analysis of a left wing member of Congress on what's happening within the GOOP now, because she really wants what's best for the GOP, as I'm sure you already know, she really wants to see a Republican party that's united and strong and sure all that you know, this is now the focus on the deficiencies of the GOP, whether

it's the GOP voter or GEOPE politicians. This is going to become a deafeningly loud narrative from the corporate Democrat media because Biden is a loser and the Democrats are a disaster at governing. We all see it. They're not good at this. Their ideas are bad. And so what is their response you'll get from the people in charge?

You think they'll have introspection and self correction or will they just double down on all the things that haven't worked before, either in recent or distant memory, and find a way to make this about the insurrection on January sixth, Oh the insurrection. Yeah, it was the most terrifying thing to happen in this country since the Civil War. I mean, this stuff that's being said about it is appalling. But

they're okay, So now there's the insurrection. These are the primary Democrat talking points, the insurrection, the threat of white nationalist terrorism. Right, there's all these things they say, But there's also the oh, GOP members don't accept the results of the election. They don't accept the results of the election. Oh my gosh, what are we gonna do? Meanwhile, Biden's president. You know, every the country's marching on, but they act

like there's some huge deal. Smarmy, you know, smarmy O'Donnell over at MSNBC. He's he's getting all high and mighty on this one. I just want to give a important context to what this claim is. But this is being made all over the place by leftists that they that Donald Trump supporters think that he won and that's so crazy and destabilizes our democracy and all this sort of stuff. Here's that jerk O'Donnell play fourteen. Well, they definitely are

in sync with the Trump vote. We have a new poll showing that fifty three percent of Republicans fifty three believe that Donald Trump is the true president. So that means fifty three percent of Republicans fail a basic mental competency test question, who is the president of the United States the true president? What they mean by what people are saying is they think that Biden gained the system

and that there was malfees into the last election. They don't think that Donald Trump is actually in the White

House right now running things. So I mean, either the way the way he frames this I think is absurd, But beyond that, Democrats spent four years while Trump was president pretending Hillary won the election and not just in you know, it wasn't just something that they told themselves so they'd feel better about supporting Woa like the worst human being ever to be in American politics in the in the post World War two era, Hilary Clinton. I mean, they were trying to make it seem like that was

a normal thing. And beyond that, they got a special counsel. They took serious legal action based upon this lie that there was Russia collusion, which was I'll never forget when President Trump told me, he actually told me this in the Oval office. He's like, Russia collusion, It's such a stupid idea. It's such a dumb thing to do. Even if somebody was willing to do it, which Donald Trump

was not, it wouldn't even make any sense. You're gonna work with the Russians to hack in to the DNC server so that then they can release information about how Bernie Sanders was being treated badly by the DNC and expect that to throw the election. Of course, Bernie said, we all knew Bernie Sanders was getting the rough stuff from the DNC. We all knew that that was what happened. It wasn't some big surprise. It was just proved it.

But Hillary was still running. There wasn't. There wasn't some you know, smoking gun moment where oh, I don't know. In fact, Hillary was completely caught breaking the law many times over with her email sending classified over an unclassified server, doing all kinds of really bad stuff and was bailed out by the system because the system believes she's one of theirs, and this system thought that she was gonna win, so they don't want to be on the wrong side

of her either. But they spend four years pretending that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. And what they won't do is understand that now for a lot of people, yeah, you know, maybe they maybe they're not sure about some of these election claims. Maybe maybe they're you know, they don't they're still waiting to see some of the evidence or whatever, but they'll say that because what's fair is fair. You wouldn't accept ours, We won't accept yours. That's the

attitude I understand. That's how people feel about this. You know, you wouldn't accept Donald Trump's legitimacy. Well, a lot of Trump voters saying they don't accept Joe Biden's legitimacy. It's you know, reciprocity here, it's a it's a reprisal belief in many ways, and it's just fun. I'm sure in these polls to tell some polster you know who, then oh my gosh, they're they're threatening our sacred democracy with their ideas, you know, all that stuff. So that's something

you know, we could be focused on. The Democrats could be focused on real problems, like spending too much money, inflation. Here's say Senator Roy Blunt on how folks, this is gonna this is not gonna end? Well, play fifteen. If we spend seven point one trillion dollars, that adds fifty six thousand dollars for every American family to the national debt. Every American family can do a lot with fifty six

thousand dollars. They could send somebody to a public institution of higher learning for about five years for fifty six thousand dollars. They could make a lot of house payments for fifty six thousand dollars. That's how much seven point one trillion dollars would add to the balance sheet for every single family in America. We've got to get reasonable and real about spending or inflation will be a problem. Government stability will be a problem, the dollar will be

a problem. And we don't want any of those things to happen. We don't. But Democrats don't look into the future and deal with reality. They see this as they're in charge. They've got power, They're going to spend your money. If you've got a problem with that, they're feeling is too bad tough for you, not something that's going to slow them down one bit. And I just worry. This is another instance where we're going to We're going to

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and much more? Also, what's going on with the latest in terms of border policy and the second order effects of it that go far beyond the actual border and border zone itself. We're joined now by Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee to talk about this. Senator Blackburn, thanks thanks for being with us. I'm delighted to be wishy, thank you for having me on. What are your biggest takeaways a member of the US Senate who now is going to be looking at the issue of US funding through

a subgrant that doctor Fauci has admitted occurred. Money went from taxpayers funneling through a third party to the Wuhan Lab doing research into bat viruses. We also know that Fauci has flip flopped on a number of issues and people are calling for some accountability here. What do you think should happen and do you believe that there's a

role for the Senate to play? Well? I do think that there is a very important role for the Senate to play because we are responsible for this oversight and when you look at the money that when into various groups that were funding at this research, and when you he will not answer the question as to whether or not there with participation in gain a function research and if that was funded during the time of the Obama administration.

This is something that we do need to review. What we do know is that during Secretary Pompeio's time at the Department of State that our diplomatic scientists had expressed concerns about what was happening at the Wuhan Lab. So it is time for doctor Fauci to actually, you know, tell us what he's what he knows, and it is

time that we began a series of investigations. If the President is going to shut down the State Department's investigation into the Wuhan lab, it's going to depend on those of us in Congress to pick that up and figure out exactly what happened. We know that over a series of decades, China took our jobs, moved our manufacturing to China, encourage US companies to become reliant on then and then

what did they do? They sent us this virus, so finding out how it started, knowing if it did indeed escape from the lab through gain a function research that they were doing at that lab, this is a question

that needs to be answered. We also know that the as you mentioned that the Biden administration, there's a report out that they may have shut down or that the Biden administration came in and said that State Department officials who are trying to look into and collect information about what happened with the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, that Biden said no more, that they cut this off. Well, what possible reason, Senator, could they have for doing that.

Aren't we all supposed to be on the same page about getting to the truth about what happened with the origins of this virus. We should all be on the same page. You can't prevent something like this from happening again if you don't know how it happened in the first place. So it is only something that would embold in China. But look at Joe Biden's policy. He wants to go to green energy. Okay, well, who makes solar panels? China? Who makes wind turbines China, Who makes the batteries for

electric cars? China? Who is it that is cornering the market when it comes to manufacturing antibiotic and active pharmaceutical ingredients that are necessary for vaccine? There again, that is China. And what President Biden has done with his decisions is to make decisions that are going to encourage China and then decisions that are not going to bolster US manufacturing, US research, US sovereignty. Look at the border, US protecting US citizens. Look at what happened with COVID nineteen, So

the priority should be protecting this country. We're speaking of Senator Marcia Blackburn of Tennessee Senator, I want to ask about something going on in your home state. There reports the Biden administration is flying illegal alien children into Tennessee, often in the middle of the night. It seems like they're trying to keep a very low profile on this without any involvement or knowledge of the community elected officials like the governor. You, as a senator for Tennessee, what

can you tell us about this? And does AJHS have answers for you. HHS does not have answers. Indeed, they are avoiding answers. And in addition to the four Plaims that landed at Wilson Air in the middle of the night, we talked to a Tennessee and who has He was on a flight from Dallas to Chattanooga that ended up landing at about one o'clock in the morning, and there was a chaffrone for I think ten to fifteen children that were not US speaking children, They were migrant children.

This individual talked to the chafferone they were going to Chattanooga to go to be housed in a facility. They

had new backpacks, clothes, iPhones. So this is taxpayer dollars that are being used to help the cartels finish the job that they are doing to keep to get these migrants into the country and to position them, whether it is in a shelter or sending them to a sponsor, which many times the sponsor, so called sponsor they're going to, is affiliated with a labor work crew or an MS thirteen gang, or a drug ring or a sex trafficking organization.

Senator Blackbird, I know you've introduced a bill recently that would try to deal with the border crisis which keeps its ongoing and actually worsening. Everyone that I've talked to down there, and I recently was at the border myself, no one thinks that this has been dealt with effectively. Really hasn't been dealt with at all by the Biden administration. Kamala Harris, the Vice President, and borders are has still

as I speak, you yet to go down there. Can you tell us about your effort to in state migrant protection protocols here? Yes, the migrant Protection protocols, This is basically President Trump's remain in Mexico policy, and I have turned that into legislation that we are seeking co sponsors for in the Senate. We are trying to push this forward.

The border Patrol regularly talks about how effective that policy was because if you had people coming to the southern border and they wanted to apply for asylum, they had to remain either in their home country or in Mexico until the time of that asylum hearing. Some people were granted asylum, some were sent back to their home country

because the claims were not valid. Now, the Biden administration did away with that policy, and what they have done since Joe Biden was sworn in, they have had over a half million, over a half million illegal aliens approached the border to claim asylum. So thereby they are having to process them, which is catch and then release them into the country the release part of catch and release, and then at some point in the future, maybe a year or two years, three years, they will have an

asylum hearing. So this is what this is a big part of what is wrong with that process, and reinstating those protocols would be a tremendous help to our border patrol. Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you being here. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you, bye bye. Well, listen, they're talking

about it's a time for choosing. The American people have already chosen, and they showed up in unbelievable volumes that said, what we want is a president who will keep America first. Joe Biden is America last. We don't have to look any further than the cancelation of the Keystone Pipeline. And then what do they do for Russia? They take off the sanctions so that they can finish their pipeline. We see surprisingly today that the Palestinians actually referred to Secretary

Blincoln as Secretary Clinton. Well, that's because they're reverting back to a Clinton way of doing business. And what did they get. What did the Biden administration do two thousand rockets into Israel? And what did they get in return? They get all kinds of concessions from the Biden administration. That's not leadership. It's time that we can revert back to what works, and that is peace through strength, a oldness that President Donald Trump brought to the American people. Now,

that's not what Democrats want to do. Democrats would much rather do what we would all expect them to do, which is reward bad behavior, bend the knee to our enemies. Just just essentially do everything in their power to make life as as difficult as possible for the bulk of the American people while going around the world and trying to buy off play kate and assist even palettes of cash delivered sometimes some of the worst actors on the

global stage. There, he had former White House Cheep of Staff Mark Meadows this saying, look, Biden takes an America Last approach, and that's true that the Democrats have deeply internalized a philosophy of America is a problem and America needs to pay the price for that that we have historically and to this day oppressed other people's all over the world, that we've caused instability and misery and our

imperial power. I mean, this is they don't talk about a lot of the Democrat Party, but this is well, they do in some places, but this is internalized. They believe this stuff. They think the greatness of America is exaggerated, even jingoistic to talk about. Here's a Secretary of State b Lincoln who's just saying, you know, okay, well, now we're about to write a check. The American people are writing to give three hundred and sixty million dollars to

the Palestinian people. Play nine. We're also working in partnership with the United Nations, the international Community, the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian people, the Government of Israel to assist in the relief and recovery efforts in Gods. This relief is urgent. We have to respond to the profound need to help

people in this moment. To that end, I informed President of Boss and earlier Prime Minister Nyago that the United States will notify Congress of our intention to provide seventy five million dollars an additional development and economic assistance for the Palestinians in twenty twenty one. Will also provide five and a half million dollars an immediate disaster assistance for Gaza and a little over thirty two million dollars for

US emergency humanitarian appeal. This new assistance comes on top of significant support that the United States has recently committed and resumed to the Palestinian Authority, Palestinians to different different agencies in groups. In total, we are in the process of providing more than three hundred and sixty million dollars in urgent support for the Palestinian people. Three hundred and

sixty million dollars. Now, I understand when you're a government as ours is right now with Biden running things, that's talking about spending trillions of dollars. Three hundred sixty million dollars doesn't seem like that much money. But I also have to ask a question here, why is Gaza America's problem? Now? You could ask this about a lot of foreign policy situations all over the world, but why is Gaza our problem? I think it's fair to ask this. There are a

lot of countries in the region. There are a lot of very wealthy Muslim majority countries in the Middle East. There's of course our European friends and allies. And you know, there's a very wealthy countries like Japan and China. Why is Gaza our problem? Now? Look, I feel I feel sympathy for any human being who is suffering through no

fault of their own. I feel sympathy for the Palestinian families that have lost you know, housing because of Israeli air strikes, or people who have lost family members, as as as collateral damage in these air strikes, which I do understand that phrase. You know, collateral damage is easy to say when it's not your family, and I understand that, I fully admit that, and um, but it was an unintentional killing. You could say that unintentional loss of life

on the part of the Israeli strikes. But why is this something that America and the Biden administration leads leaps into with this we have to we have to send them three hundred and sixty million dollars. I mean, that's money. The federal government is taking the money, the productivity of the American people to write these checks. And it's not clear at all to me as to what, First of all, what will this even accomplish in Gaza. I'd want to know.

I'd want to see. We've been I mean, Gaza as a place has been receiving international aid for years and years and years, and it never really seems to get much better. They have hum Moss as the elected government, which is terrifying. But there's so much wrong thing from Democrats on foreign policy. They approach it all. It's it's like they're trying to do the wrong thing. I mean, here's the Secretary of State again on the Iran nuclear deal,

which they want to rejoin. Play eight to run you No, I think the most important thing when it comes to when it comes to this, is what we committed to do from day one of this administration. Well, we've said along that if there was an opportunity, we would seek to return to usual compliance with the JCPOA. But we also said that from day one we would be keeping our closest allies and the closest partners fully and contemporaneously informed of what we were doing and where we're going.

And that's what we've done, and that's what we'll continue to do. That is how you keep faith with your partners and allies on some thing that, of course is of great consequenced Israel. Uh, we understand that. And again we have the same objective. And let's see where where things going the next in the next few weeks. But I can again tell you that we are fully fully engaged with our with our partners here in at least making sure that they're fully informed of what we're doing. Man,

this guy is poring, Isn't he sorry about that? Listening to the current Secretary of State, Buddy, the Biden administration foreign policy, it's just going to be a continuation of Obama's eight years of foreign policy, which we're really an unmitigated disaster. So that's what's coming your way America. With Memorial Day weekend ahead, flag season is officially upon us.

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We will join our friend here, Pedro Gonzalez, who's the author of this piece at American Greatness American great am Greatness dot com. Reckoning with the Aftermath of George Floyd. This week obviously was the anniversary of George Floyd's death, Pedro, thanks for being with us, Hey Buck always going to

be here. So you went through this in substantial detail in your in your piece, What is the takeaway that you think America should have now that we are one year into the post George Floyd movement era or the the the movement era, I should say, of of George Floyd. Right, Well, the left thinks that we didn't go far enough. That's that was what CNN's John Blake wrote on the anniversary of Floyd's stats was that we didn't have our racial reckoning, that that we had a missopportunity. Either it was a

missopportunity or a false start. But basically, after everything that happened last year, we're still back at square one. As far as people like Blake and many other leftists agree, this is I think this is actually the general consensus is like, there's still so much work to do and last year was either the beginning or, like I said, a kind of false start. And I think conservatives are in this weird place where the GOP's official stance is basically like, yeah, a lot of the basic arguments of

like systemic racism are true. So that's why we've made Tim Scott our figurehead, and that's why the GOP is committed to criminal just reform because we basically agree. I mean, we don't agree on all the you know, on all the details, but we yeah, okay, okay, America is bad, but it's better now, and you know, we're going to show you it's better by basically also going all in

on on criminal just reform. So and of course, like everyday Americans, who I think are in many cases conservative and their sensibilities, disagree with that because they're the ones that lived through the riots on the street level and saw businesses get destroyed, at homes get vandalized, and friends, family, and police officers get injured, maimed and even killed. So in a way I actually agree with Blake. We haven't had a reckoning. It's just not the one that he wants,

but America needs well. I think in your you're raising here that there's there are there are fundamental lies that are at the heart of the of the BLM movement. For example, the narrative is zag and it's not that easy to explain without getting into some specifics, but that that young, unarmed black men are systemically in large numbers killed by police without legal justification and without punishment for the officer, which is which is central to the belief

of BLM. This is a lie and this is just not true. That's not the same thing as saying it never happens. But to suggest that this is an urgent national problem, I mean the urgent problem is the enormous increase in homicides. But quite honestly, the homicide rates in places like Chicago and Saint Louis and Memphis and New Orleans and Baltimore was far too high before the BLM

homicide spike. And yes, these are in predominantly minority black and brown neighborhoods where a lot of these shootings are occurring, which means that they're suffering from them more. That is the reality of what's going on in America. But that is not what we're talking about. It. It's still if you brought up center to Tim Scott, if we pass some law, this is going to change what is supposed to change here. No cop is ever going to be an e lethal force situation and perhaps make the wrong

decision or use excessive force. That's never gonna happen. Right, Yeah, you've already lost if that's your position. No, we'll pass a law and fixes it's you've already you've actually already given up the most important issue here. But when you look at things retrospectively, how has the country changed. Well, violent crime has soared because police have retreated from policing violent crime, especially in inner cities. So you know that

was a huge backfire. But of course it's not true that they're completity policing, because it also seems to be the case that not just law enforcement, but also the military and the intelligence community, after last year's devastating riots, their principal targets now are This is not hyperbole. It's like Trump supporters and people who are identifiably conservative. You can find examples of There's a guy named Bishop Garrison who is in charge of the Pentagon's who's overseeing a

lot of the Pentagon's project to ferret out extremism. This is a guy who thinks that white supremacy is a nation ending threat, and he connects his explicit support for the sixteen nineteen project to his work at the Department of Defense, And like, that's the guy that's overseeing the military's anti extremism efforts. How do you think that's going to go? And I mean you're seeing the same with police departments. There's an instance that I wrote about with

Jonathan Petland where basically cobs served. You know, they're happy to enforce like pandemic measures, and they're also happy to politicize these confrontations between civilians and criminals, especially if they're black. But what about violent crime, you know, things that actually matter. They're retreating from that. So there's basically the country has changed in a really bad way. And on top of that, obviously like all these small businesses were destroyed, and who

did that benefit? It benefited the people like Jeff Bezos and these huge corporations right that were also in a lot of ways materially and morally supporting the riots. So that the country has changed in a fundamental and awful way. And I think that when you just give a cursory examination to the events last year, it's it's absolutely horrific, and it's mind boggling that we don't even talk about it.

There was one instance that everyone seems to have forgotten about where a police officer in Vegas was shot in the head while trying to while dealing with the BLM rights. He's not paralyzed from the neck down and is on twenty four hour respirators support and basically his life has changed forever. No one seems to care about that. And that's just one example. You know, you had security contractors

killed and a security contractor killed in California. You had a retired police captain killed the Missouri and you had not to mention all the people that were injured and maimed, Like, why doesn't anyone care about this? Speaking of Pedro Gonzalez, he's a senior writer at American Greatness. He has a piece at am greatness dot com reckoning with the aftermath of George Floyd. You know, Pedro to that point. Earlier this week there was a live news shot at at

George Floyd's square. And I do, I do think there's something. I think there's something really really grow morally grotesque about elevating this man as as a hero, certainly as a martyr, but really as a hero. I mean there are murals of him in Europe as if that has you know, as if their situation is the same as ours when it comes to law enforcement, their history, whatever, whatever, we're talking about. I mean, this is a man who was

who was a had a long criminal history. This is somebody who, during a home invasion this is all a matter of public record, pointed a loaded firearm at the belly of a pregnant women who he was robbing. And this is somebody whose face is now in murals as though he's some kind of a saint. And at the live shot at the George Floyd Memorial, gunfire was ringed. This happened on live TV. Gunfire bam, bam bam, shots

just ringing out. You would think that there would be some embarrassment that this is what happens at a at a seemingly holy sight to the left. But no, not at all. But by the way, the gunfire wasn't from cops, folks, in case you know anyone was curious. Yeah, no, it's it's crazy, But no, there is no shame, there's no contradiction in these things. They don't care. And if anything,

it's somehow attributable to white people and white supremacy. I mean ultimately that this this all goes back to that, and I think that's the really pernicious thing is we have not reckoned with the theoretical justification of all these things, which is that even when there's violence in inner cities or shooting at the at the the Floyd Square, it all somehow can be reduced to a symptom of white supremacy.

That's what you're actually seeing, and that the violence and the criminality these are not causes but symptoms of a basically what the sixteen nineteen Project has said about America, that America is fundamentally bad and evil, and you're not allowed to point out these contradictions. And I think another aspect of this that has flown under the radar is that this is I think a tremendous indictment of the

entire American political system. I don't know how else to put it, but leading up to the BLM riots last year, you had a bunch of prisoner releases. A bunch of people got out of prison early on the grounds that they had to stop the spread. And apparently the virus was running rampant through prisons something because we were releasing murderers, rapists, drug dealers, burglar's serial offense like really bad people. In many cases, they went on to repeat offend almost as

soon as they were released. There's at least one instance I can remember off the top of my mind where a guy got out of prison and within like forty eight hours he stabbed and killed somebody else. And there's examples of like sex offenders who were released because you know, we don't want them to get sick in prison, and then what do they do. They go and expose themselves

to someone almost immediately after the release. So here's a good question, because these releases happened just before and during the riots, how much of the violence is actually a tribute to policy decisions on the state and local level, to politicians, bureaucrats, administrators, and governors letting people out of prison early or just letting them out of prison altogether

in order to stop the spread. And then these people went on to participate in writing and looting, and then if they got caught in a place like New York where you know they've limited to cash bail, they get caught and then immediately released. This is another thing that I think is huge and we haven't discussed, and it is a I think a tremendous crime against the country that we did this, and also that we're not asked in a lot of ways it parallels the whole the

pandemic origin thing. Right, We're not supposed to talk about the fact that it really looks like this thing came out of a lab. You're supposed to ignore that it's

very similar to that in this sense. Speaking of Pedro Gonzale, senior writer at American Greatness, and if you go to am greatness dot com you can see his piece they're reckoning with the aftermath of George Floyd Spader, I want to note, you know, it seems that there's always this I write a lot of the commentaries this week from various leftists and corporate media democrats where where they point to disparities, they'll say that this community, this, this racial

ethnic community is arrested at this rate compared to other communities. And then that is always that has always put forward as as de facto evidence of racism from the police.

When when I sit here, and I mean I can, I can just off the top of my head tell everybody that you know, Riker's Island, the main prison in New York City where I am is over ninety percent black and hispanic, uh is the claim of the left seems to be that that is because of racist cops and and the thing is, no one really believes that, right, it's not racist cops that are the reason for that,

but we're not allowed to talk about it. Yeah. Well, basically, what you're saying is that people people don't have agency, is what you're saying, and specifically that blacks and non whites generally do not have agency. They're not in control of their actions. And there is a topical example. In twenty sixteen, a black man snuck into the home of a ninety five year old World War Two veteran over thanksgetting weakened and beat him to death with his own

mantle clock, which he later pawned. And in court he said that it wasn't a cold budded killing, that he the reason he lashed out and murdered this old man was because he was white and he resembled his oppressors, and that you have to this is what he in his defense attorney argued that you have to consider the environment that he grew up in, that he's a product of his environment and he can't be held accountiful for his actions, and that it was not a coal bludded crime.

It was a it was a warm blooded crime of kind of like it was a cry for help. And he said, you know, I stole not because I enjoyed it, but because I needed to steal. And I think that the great part about that was that his mother and his sister were in court and they were deeply obviously sorry to the family of the World War two veteran. And when he said that, the sister told the press, no, we had everything we needed when we were growing up.

But even obviously even if they didn't, that still doesn't justify murder. But but what's underlying that whole argument is that he doesn't have agency. He's not in control of his actions. So that's basically what this argument is is that people and specifically non white minorities have no agency.

I hate to take the system, the system effectively is and this is where you get the system is making people do things, or the system is responsible and Pedro, I mean, you had the White House say community violence recently, referring to acts of violence, right, not not violence. It's that the community is responsible for violence, not violence against the community. Right. Yeah, yeah, you're all you're all responsible.

That was actually what this man's attorney side, like that basically the community had a responsibility for the way that he turned out just totally absurd. And I hate to use this line that I'm really critical of, you know, like saying like this is real racism or Democrats through racist, But I mean, in a way it's true. If you're saying, well, blacks don't have agency, you're taking this kind of paternalistic stance that they have to be protected from themselves and

others because they're just not in control the actions. They can't operate freely in society. The conservative political philosophy believes that all people are equal in the eyes of God, the law, and end each other. But we'll have to leave it. They're right now, Pedro, thanks so much for joining us, Pedro Gonzals of American greatness. We'll talk to

you soon. Thank you. He has asked the Department of Education to issue this review and brief, and last I checked, I believe that they're in the process of developing that route, that brief and review, and I believe that once the Department of Education comes back again knock on wood, but very hopefully saying that he does in fact have the legal authority to cancel student loan debt, not he can do it without Congress with a stroke of his pen.

Then once they release that brief then it's on us and to then triple down on our organizing and to get him to do it. He has expressed, you know, some talk around a ten thousand dollars level. I don't think that that's enough. We need to push him. I believe in full student loan debt cancelation, but we have to push him to at the bare minimum a floor, a fifty thousand dollars that Senator Warren and Senator Schumer

have also advanced. The Democrats really are the party of selfishness and childish behavior, which is why AOC is actually such a good spokesperson for the modern Democrat party, why she's so powerful, why she has the following that she does. Fifty thousand dollars, just just wipe it away. You got student loans, fifty grand wipe it away. People that have for the last twenty years been paying offer student loans. Too bad. Oh you have mortgage debt, you have credit

card debt, NA, Sorry, that's your problem. Oh you had to run up credit card debt to pay for groceries or for for gas for your car to get to your job. Now you should have studied, you know, gender studies of the Caribbean eighteen fifty to nineteen fifty at University of Who gives a crap, right, that's what you should have done. But you know, instead you got a job, or you did you did things the way that you

thought were responsible, because they were. And you know you're but you're not part of the You're not part of the folks that are going to get all this all this government money thrown at them, because so democrats do try to find ways to take money from some and give it to others. Again effective, just like politics of envy. Effective. You get power this way. But a lot of you out there that either didn't that paid off your student loans or didn't you know, I didn't go to a

business school. I didn't get a master's degree, and I got into some of the humble brand. Not a humble bragg is a brag. I got into some of the best business school programs in the world. I didn't go because I didn't want to run up two hundred grand and student debt. How was a government employee before that? I don't have any money. Oh but now I could have run at least like ac count on fifty grand according to AOC to get wiped away. Man. I guess

you know. The government really is just a lot of resystem. Now, some people win, some people lose, depending on what AOC thinks. Are they targeting Trump with a grand jury in New York question, we have to look at now, that's what the reporting is saying. This is really interesting, really concerning important stuff that I want to break down for you here. This is again all dailymail dot com. The grand jury will sit three times a week for the next six

months in New York. Will also weigh charges against other Trump organization executives. He has been accused of inflating values of his assets for tax benefits. He's facing two investigations into his business practices at the state level. Trump has denied all wrongdoing. It says the probes are further examples of democratic which hunts. All right, this shows you what we are up against. In case you were wondering, in case there was any lingering doubt, which I doubt there was.

But this should be a reminder to all of us of what it means to be a conservative leader in America today. A Republican politician, a man who created effectively a movement by running for office. Here he is now being targeted after leaving the over love, no goodwill, no

good faith from the other side. How many times have I come on air here and told you that the only real motivating principle for the Democrat Left, the only thing that binds all the different elements and interest groups and all the rest of it of the left together, which now is the Democrat Party, is the pursuit of power. Whatever they have to do, whatever they can do to that end, that is the deciding factor. Donald Trump is now living down in mar Lago. I guess he's at

Bedminster's in New York this week whatever. He moves around a little bit, but he's basically in mar Lago for the wintertime. And he's a former president. He has been deep platformed, DP platform from Facebook, from Twitter, from these different very powerful tools that he used better than any Republican before him. There is no person to this day who was more effective on the right on Twitter than

Donald J. Trump. And I was honored that there were so many times when he saw fit to retweet my Twitter account, which was always a an illuminating experience because of all the crazy Hollywood celebrities and left wing pundits and people that would start attacking me. Oh, they all like to make fun of my name is if Ooh you got me there, you know, and now you really won the argument with that one. But as we know, the left is full of childishness and stupidity. So none

of that is none of that is surprising. All very aware of the way they operate. But this now just goes to show you how much they play hardball, how much the other side of the aisle here will use power in very real ways, not in rhetorical terms, but at the end of the day, they will use this state. They will use the prosecutor's office to send men with guns to take you from your family and lock you in a cell for the crime of being a conservative,

for being important to the conservative movement. Now do I think that they will actually do this, because this is the rubicon. Friends, Once they cross this, we are in a different political world. I mean, they've got to be joking. They're convening a grand jury here because they say Donald Trump inflated assets. Well, a lot of the time the assets were talking about here, whether it's his brand, association

or real estate. There's going to be some differentiation. There's going to be a sliding scale of people that think it has one value, it has another value. So, yeah, did Trump probably air on the side of thinking his assets were worth more? Did he believe they were worth more? Sure that would surprise me. You're gonna bring a criminal charge against it. Notice it's not even he may owe some back taxes. That's not what the story is. It's we want to go after him for fraud. That's what

they want everyone to take away from this. The fact that this would even be leaked is so interesting, isn't it. A grand jury is supposed to be secret. As you know, grand jury proceedings are not public. So why are their leaks? Oh we all know why. Because this district attorney in New York is a Democrat hack pretending to be an even handed prosecutor. Si Vance wants to be a I get a big book deal, I'm on the boards of lots of companies, and I'm beloved at liberal cocktail parties. Guy.

When all said and done, and he knows that even going after Donald Trump in this way makes him a hero to the left. Oh, they'll say he's being brave. That's one of the great things about being a leftist. You get to do what benefits you, what appeases and pleases the mob, and then act like you're a hero

for doing it. How many times have you seen, even on a college campus, you know, some student will stand up to shout at a conservative speaker on a campus and everyone in the room erupts in praise, and they'll say, Oh, that person's so brave. Yes, it's so brave to chant what the mob wants you to, to do what they demand of you. That's really brave, isn't it. Donald Trump

was a president that the left will never forgive. They won't forgive us for voting for him, and they will not forgive him for the four years he put them through. For holding the mirror up to the corporate media, showing a bunch of frauds with a bunch of faith they are, for taking the fight to the other side, for showing that conservatism could be something that was a cultural phenomenon too. Young people were excited to go out with their Maga

hats on and go to Trump rallies. Trump expanded the Republican Party with unprecedented numbers of minority, particularly black and Latino voters, coming out for him relative to GOP norms. So there's a lot about him that they hate, but they always took it personally. They viewed Trump as someone who betrayed his class. He betrayed the elites by running the campaign he did, by saying the things he did about them, by showing us all that the emperor had

no clothes. He became the emperor then said, look, you can say I don't have clothing, but all those other guys did either. It's really all a charade, this DC thing. It's a farce and not a good one. And now they want payback. Now they want to go after him. And this was leaked. It was leaked to smear Trump.

This for all the Trump haters out there, for all the Democrats that still believe that he colluded with Russia or any number of other absurd things that are said, for all those people, this is a vindication of sorts

all they're thinking about prosecuting him. But just remember that Donald Trump here went through two in one term, two impeachment proceedings, a special council, so many different, you know, efforts in the media to create a narrative of him as a traitor, as a rapist, as a thief, as a criminal, as you know, just you go down the list as a white nationalist. They threw all this stuff at him, and just the fact that he made it through four years was a repudiation of their ability to

set the narrative and determine the agenda. Right. They want the power to be able to destroy with someone. When the corporate media and the Democrat Party decides that somebody must be ruined, nobody can withstand that, because then it's like when somebody stands up to Amafia don right. If you can get away with it, other people might think the same thing. If Trump is able to endure all that they threw at him, and so far he's been

able to. I know he didn't win a second term, but they weren't able to get him removed from office, and he beat them in twenty sixteen soundly and left a movement left Make America Great Again as a rallying cry for the right. If Trump could endure all they threw at him, other people, Ronda Santis, you name it, other other Republicans could come forward here and say that they could also withstand it all. They could be in a position to take all the slings and arrows of

the left. They can't have that. That would then hurt their power, which, as we've already discussed, is the single most important thing to Democrats in all cases. So what do they do now. They're deciding whether they're going to convene I'm sorry, whether they're going to indict, to bring formal charges via the grand jury against Donald Trump former.

And notice this is a state level, so there won't be any pressure on Biden to for the sake of you know, political harmony, not that that's a thing really, but for the sake of political continuity. Remember we had you had, you know, Ford after a Nixon um, there there'll be a push for Biden to part. And if it was a federal charge, and not that Biden wo as I've said, but at least there will be something. But this takes it entirely out of Biden sense. This

is entirely this is a state function. They'll bring charges in New York against him. I'd like to think they won't do this, but the Democrat base, I mean just because not that they're above it, but they would have to understand at some level how politically ruinous this would be to any sense of unity and any sense of a shared American political stability between Democrats and Republicans. This would be not a shot across the bow. It would

be a a barrage right into the bow. And I would like to think that they're not so vicious and reckless that they would do this, But I can't. I can't say they won't. How could I say that the people who lied about Russia collusion for four years are unwilling to sully themselves in this way, go to this level. How could I believe that the people who sent dozens of men to arrest Roger Stone at five am with a CNN crew watching to maximize the humiliation, long guns drawn,

like they were arresting Pablo Escobar in the nineties. They didn't arrest him, they shot him. But how could I think those kinds of people wouldn't be willing to bring criminal charges against a former president for inflating and inflating the worth of his assets for tax benefits. They're sending the irs in a sense after Trump. That's the game

the Democrats play. Don't ever forget that. In recent days, Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren, former presidential candidate from Massachusetts, has made it clear she thinks that this tripling of IRS agents as part of the Biden infrastructure plan is a great idea. Why do you think Democrats love the IRS so much? Is it really? Yes, It's that they want more revenue, which means taking more of your money. They higher taxes, more taxes, more of your money to spend.

They know how to spend your money better than you do. Don't you know that Democrats are convinced of it. But then again there's a whole other level. And we remember from the Obama years, and this is just a replay of all the Obama strategies with Biden at the helmet instead of Obama. The targeting of the Tea Party by Lois Learner and the IRS. The IRS is a fearsome weapon to be used by Democrats in partisan warfare. Who's going to want to be the person who speaks out?

Who's going to want to be the conservative who's in the crosshairs of an engorged a newly funded, enlarged IRS. Who's going to want to be the person that has to worry about that? Even if you're right and they have nothing on you, think of all the lost nights of sleep and all the all the expense and all the exhaustion, the anxiety you go through. Better to just go along, better to not get treated like Trump, a

former president. This is how they do their business. We sit around on the right and say, oh, but what about what about this historical precedent? Or wait, I see, I think we're being too rough with the other side, And we get lectures from Sass and Romney and Kinzinger and other jackasses. But they say, let's try to throw a former president in prison for some trumped up pardon the phrase, nonsense. That's what they say. That's what they come at us with, and we have to respond with

the full recognition of the severity of this act. If they go forward with it. I can't say, I'm I can't say it's inevitable in my mind, but I cannot tell you by the same token, I can't tell you they won't bring a criminal charge against Trump. Here. It's looking more likely. And that's the whole point, isn't it. We're not gonna get to roll call today. We'll definitely get into some of it tomorrow, but we'll have a

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me from doing What is your day? Like? When when this show is done? What kind of things do you do? Honestly, I'm gonna be very candid with the audience for a moment. See, my wife still isn't here during the week, as you know, we still haven't moved yet. So I just go play video games and then I watch the Mets or whatever sports are at night. That's basically my lift. Now that's kind of nice. Yeah, it sounds really nice, but when you do it every day, it just gets mind numbingly boring.

What are the video games you're into these days? Usually I'm just playing NHL or well I just rotate to the the sports games. Ah See, I just played the Last of Us, which was a wreck from somebody on Team Buck from a long time ago. It's it's very much like a what's that Walking Dead? It's very much like a Walking Dead rip off, but as as a video game. But it's really it's a really good game

play experience, I will say. And I was then even going to get the second one, which is the last of US two, but I've I've been told that it's very social justice e and there's all kinds of stuff. There's all kinds of stuff in there, so I'm probably gonna probably not gonna get too into that. But the only sports game that I play on PS four is the FIFA game. What's the best PS four sports game? I would say NHL is usually the top one. Could I play it? Even if somebody who doesn't really understand

or know much about hockey? Oh yeah, that was the thing we did in college all the time. Even our friends that didn't like hockey at all would love the video game. I will have to check this out. So there, maybe maybe we can join like a co op thing where I play with you too. You know, Oh, I think you are the one person in the world that could probably beat well, there we go. We'll see about that, there, wise guy, we'll see about that. Everybody, let us know

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