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It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and Senator Finally, we've got some real action from the President of the United States of America on the border, with executive actions that he said he could never do, but now all of a sudden, he's all about it.
Well, that's exactly right.
We saw yesterday a campaign speech from the White House, the President now claiming he's tough, tough, tough on the border, and he's going to impose tough executive action now, just coincidentally, five months before an election. We're going to break that down. We're going to explain exactly what he did. We're also going to talk about doctor Fauci. Doctor Fauchi was on the hill, Doctor Fauchi was testifying, and spoiler alert, doctor Fauci thinks every single thing we did during COVID was
a great idea. Shut every damn thing down, mask everyone down, force everyone to be vaccinated, never mind the science. We're going to talk about that. And finally, I'm going to mention a trip that I'm taking today. I'm going to be flying to France. I don't go to France often, but I'm going to France today for Normandy for the eightieth anniversary of d DA. I'm going to talk about that. It's gonna be a great show.
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the border. He just did it, you know at normal Washington, DC. He's a guy that's like, hey, there's a problem down there. But it's the fault to the Republicans. And he said for the last three years he wasn't he couldn't do anything, his hands were tied.
It was a Republican's fault.
They need to pass amnesty and then get a bill together through through Washington, through Congress, and then all of a sudden, Biden comes out and signs executive order that quote will dramatically tighten the border.
That's the white now said. The problem is it doesn't at all.
Well, listen, let me focus on a couple of things you said. Number one, you said he didn't do this at the border. There's a reason for that. Joe Biden doesn't go to the border. Kamala Harris doesn't go to the border. Democrats senators don't go to the border. Democrat House members don't go to the border. And the reason is, if you actually see what is happening at the border,
nobody can defend it. If you see the dead bodies, if you see the people who are suffering, if you see the children who are being brutalized, if you see the women who are being repeatedly raped you cannot defend it. So he did it from Washington. This was not about immigration, this was not about policy. This was a political speech. And so today he announced boldly, we are enacting an
executive order to secure the border. Now understand what he's admitting when he said that today is he's admitting he could have done this in twenty twenty one. He could have done this in twenty twenty two. He could have done this in twenty twenty three. He could have done this last month, the month before, the month of four of the month before, he didn't.
What are you saying that Joe Biden lied to the American People Center every day he said he couldn't do anything.
Every day he's been in the White House, he's been lying he could have enact in an executive order. Actually, he didn't need to understand. When Joe Biden became president January twentieth, twenty twenty one, he inherited the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty five years. All he had to do with nothing was nothing. He didn't even have to have an executive order. He had to do nothing
and accept the success that he had inherited. I worked hand in hand with Donald Trump, we had incredible success securing the border. If Biden had done nothing, he could have accepted that success. He could have worked on like, you know, socialism or whatever other policy he had. He didn't do that. Instead, he deliberately systematically broke the border. He did that the first week in office. There are
three decisions that caused this border crisis. Number One, he immediately haulted construction of the border wall, by the way, he didn't reverse that today. Number Two, he reinstated the disase Astros policy of catch and release, so now when people apprehend illegal immigrants, the Biden administration lets them go. He didn't change that today. Number Three, he pulled out
of the incredibly successful Remain in Mexico agreement. That is how we achieved the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty five years.
He did not reverse that.
Those three decisions took us from the lowest rate in forty five years up to the highest rate ever recorded. Eleven million illegal immigrants have crossed under Joe Biden. Understand this is deliberate. This is the outcome they want. They're willing to overlook every person who dies, every criminal who comes into this country, every terrorist, who comes into this country, every child who's brutalized, every woman who is raped, all
of that they're willing to overlook. Why because they look at eleven million illegals and they say, those are future Democrat voters, and we want power, and if people have to suffer and die, we'll take that trade off.
Now, go ahead.
No, my question was you look at this and you mentioned the timing and the intro that this is five months before election day, and the White House gonna say, no, this is significant. I go back to the headline from NBC News. It says Biden sign's executive order dramatically tightening
the border. He has faced political pressure as migrants have continued to arrive at the US Mexico border, saying that this is because of the facing mounting political pressure over the migrant influx at the US othern border.
And this is significant.
You're saying that the news is lying as well, because this is not significant at all.
Well, yes, and no. Look, we're five months out from an election. I'm gonna make a prediction. We're gonna see the numbers of the border drop over the next five months. They're not going to drop massively. They're going to drop modestly and Joe Biden and the Democrats are going to jump up and down and say, see, we solve the problem. And we've seen this game. Listen, they only have about three plays in their playbook that they're not subtle, they're
not sophisticated, they're not complicated. Think before twenty twenty two, what did Biden do before the election? That he did a couple of things. Number one, right before the election, he released massive quantities of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Yeah, it's in an all time low, by the way, in our oil reserves. And didn't care that that made us vulnerable.
He doesn't care national security. Protecting the country doesn't matter to this administration. They have consistently undermined national security from day one. But it was all designed to lower gas prices. So gas prices, the price of gasoline had doubled under Joe Biden, so he does this massive release from the spro Why because he wanted a lower gas price and he succeeded. They lowered gas prices a little bit, and
then they campaigned, see gas prices are going down. And by the way, they enjoyed some electoral success because I think in part break, gas prices went down. I'll give another example, student loans. Right before the election in twenty twenty two, Joe Biden announces I'm giving away a trillion dollars young people, I'm giving you money. I'm Santa Claus. All you got to do is vote for Democrats. I give you money.
Now.
Joe Biden knew that that was not going to survive. I promise you Every lawyer in the administration told a mister president. As president, you can't give away a trillion dollars. There's no power in the constitution for the president to give away a trillion dollars. The only way to spend a trillion dollars is if Congress appropriates that money. They haven't done that. This will be struck down by the courts.
I promise you doj said that. Even the White House Council said that every lawyer around Biden said, this ain't going to survive. And you know what they said, we don't care. We're going to announce it because their view is they think young people are stupid, and they think young people will be like, ooh, free stuff, vote for Democrats. And by the way, again twenty twenty two, they enjoyed some electoral success. Now let's be clear, Biden's done it again.
He announced a brand new I'm giving away hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans. That's gonna be struck down.
Two.
Biden knows it, but he thinks young people are morons, and so he thinks he will buy votes, and so this announcement is entirely designed. In three weeks, he's going to be debating Donald Trump, and he's gonna stand on the debate stage and he's gonna say Donald. He's not gonna call him mister President. He's called him Donald Donald. I just entered an executive order to secure the border because you and he's gonna blame Donald Trump. You killed
the fabulous bipartisan bill that would have solved this problem. Now, every syllable of every word of that sense this is a lie. And I'm gonna wager you a white claw.
I can't anything else. Those things are terrible.
You don't want to win the wager you get what are you doing?
And not for a white claw that's losing.
By the way, for those of you all listening, why are we wagering a white claw? Because when I was riding in the Houston Astros victory parade for winning the World Series, some lefty twenty something guy through not one but two white claws at me and and and so that's why we wager a white claw because and the secret is Ben really loves the raspberry pomegranate with the umbrella white.
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They should? They absolutely, Actually.
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Back at diploma. That's that.
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I take that back.
It's like a hard one between bud light or I big white. No, it's not bud light.
White Claw over bud Light. That's not even close, dude, Yeah it's light.
I can't go back.
All right, So let me say this.
And by the way, all right, I'm gonna make a connection to the Houston Astros World Series twenty twenty two we're winning it. I've been so for the last seven years. Houston Astros have been in the ALCS for seven years consecutively.
Yep.
My youngest daughter, Catherine, she's thirteen now. She was seven when we won the first World Series in twenty seventeen. We have been to virtually every single home game in the playoffs for the last seven years. It's been I got to say, actually, as a dad, what a joy it has been to like take your daughter. These are memories. And I keep telling her she's sort of used to it. In fact, she made a comment a year or two ago, She's like, hey, Dad, when are we going to go
to the playoff? Well, when are we gonna go to an Astros game? Because we hadn't been in a while. Yeah, And I made a comment. I felt incredibly embarrassed as I said, I said, well, wait to the playoffs. And I like stopped and I'm like, Catherine, oh my goodness, I'm tempting the baseball gods.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, like I immediately told her, but I'm gonna tell you another Catherine comment, which you'll really like. So twenty twenty two, and you know, my girls very very well, yep. But twenty twenty two, so alcs, we're getting ready to head and and you had the Yankees in Cleveland playing, and Catherine asked me, she said, okay, who do we want to win? Because we'd already made it the and the Yankees in Cleveland were still playing, and I said, well,
the Yankees are better. So if we want to say what maximizes the chance of the Astros winning, we probably want Cleveland. And Catherine, at age eleven, I think it was, she said, Dad, no, if we're gonna win, I want to beat the best. I want the Yankees to win, and I want to beat them. And I got to tell you, as a dad, I don't know that there's been a moment I've been more proud of that girl.
I'm like that, that is my daughter. That's stout.
See that's when you know you raise them right right there. You just got to get them addicted to the sports and your home team.
And by the way, to be clear, the Yankees won and then we swept them in four games. And I went to Yankee Stadium for Game four and we beat them in Yankee Stadium and I was in bright orange Astro's colors and it was glorious. And I will say, by the way, we have a crap ton of listeners on Verdict who live in New York. I'm sorry, but as Houstonian, I take great joy in our beating the Yankees.
That part about going, hey, trust me, they gave you enough high fives in the air, right, you know, I had at the least I had.
At least two hundred New Yorkers suggests that I do something anatomically impossible.
Yeah, that's when you know you're in a playoff game.
And I mean bright art and I'm just smiling, and all I say is I point up and I'd say scoreboard, and they're just like, ah, I'm like, I hope you enjoy watching the World Series on TV.
Now.
I will say this right now, the Astro season is less than optimal. So maybe they turn it around, but it's not feeling like a fantastic year right now.
All right, I got to ask you two questions real quick about the border one of them, and I want to know your thoughts because I'm genuinely torn on this. You NBC News, they came out and they're like, Hey, this executive at order from Biden is one that probably isn't going to have that big of an impact. And at first I'm like, Wow, they're telling the truth. But then there was a second part of this in my mind,
and I want to know your thoughts. Is this NBC News carrying water for the White House to those that are angry that Biden would even think about using an executive action that looks like something quote Trump would have done, right or did that's a better way of putting it. And so they're trying to kind of wink and nod to the hardcore extremist space of his movement that hey, guys, don't worry. This is all for the cameras, this is all for show. This isn't actually to secure the border.
We're fine, We're going to keep flooding America. And I want your response after I play it, listen.
Based on the details of this executive order and how it actually function functions that we've learned so far today, I actually have to say I'm quite skeptical that this is going to have any kind of immediate, widespread, dramatic impact on the border, on the number of migrants we're crossing the border, on the number of migrants who managed to stay in the United.
States as a result.
And there's a few complicated reasons for that, but the main one is that I and a lot of other people were expecting that this authority to quote unquote close down the border was going to be dependent on the United States being able to summarily expel migrants with no due process, no access to the assylum system, immediately back into Mexico shortly after they cross. That does not appear to be the case, mainly because Mexico has not agreed
to accept any more migrants than it already does. Mexico has pretty strict specific requirements on the number of migrants that it acts accepts and on the nationality of migrants that it accepts, and the US cannot simply return people to Mexico without Mexico's active participation.
It's weird because, like, all right, they're telling the truth. But is it because they want the Biden sports to know, Hey, don't worry, this is all fake.
Look, I think that's actually a little too cynical. And I'll rarely say that. I actually think the NBC reporter was telling the truth there. I think he was saying, this is not going to be effective, and I'm going to make a prediction. I'm actually going to make prediction that's going to surprise you. I think this order will be marginally more effective than NBC just said it would be. Really and here's why. We're five months out from an election.
I think the Biden administration wants the numbers of the border to drop, and I think what we're going to see is we're going to see a drop. I'm going to make a prediction We're going to see a drop in illegal immigration of twenty percent, enough that they can say the president took bold action and delivered results and understand he controls this. Yeah, the reason we have an invasion is because Joe Biden and the Democrats wanted it.
So he can reduce the numbers. And I think he's going to direct his Homeland Security Apartment for the next five months stop letting as many illegals go now. To be clear, if God forbid Biden wins in November, the numbers of skyrocket immediately. They want this invasion. They want eleven million to become fifteen million, to become twenty million, to become thirty million, because they view it as this
is how we the Democrats stand in power forever. So This is a short It's like gas prices, it's like student loans. It's a short, little burst right before the election that they're gambling. Number one, they know the corporate media will lie and say, oh, Biden solve the border. But number two, they're hoping that voters who are not engaged will be deceived by this. So I am predicting, and there are fairly few Republicans and Conservatives who are
predicting this. I'm predicting the numbers will go down between now an election day. But it is purely political camouflage designed to fool the voters, and I don't think it's going to work. I think the American people are actually quite savvy. I don't think they're stupid.
Yeah, and they've seen the crime that has come with the legal immigrants as well. They've seen it that every major city in America now is a border ste Now.
So let me jump in, let me jump in on that. Ben.
You look at this week, you had two New York police officers who were shot, and they were shot by the illegal immigrant that Joe Biden released. And this was a Venezuelan. He was a Venezuelan illegal immigrant. His name was Bernardo Raoul Castro Mata. Now this is a name out of Charles Dickens. Mata is Spanish for he kills. His middle name is literally a communist murdering dictatories named after Raoul Castro. This Venezuelan illegal immigrant came to America,
came to Texas. He was apprehended an eagle pass. Now, if Joe Biden and the Democrats had just said we're going to follow the law, they would put him on a plane. They will send them back to Venezuela. They didn't do that. They let him go. He went to
New York and he shot two police officers. By the way, Joe Biden could have entered this executive order a month ago or two months ago, or three months ago or four months ago or five months ago or three years ago, and he could have prevented this individual from being released.
He didn't do that.
He could have prevented Lake and Riley from being murdered, He didn't do that. He could have prevented Jeremy Casra's from being murdered. He didn't do that. But they because Biden has the control over the dial, he is going to reduce the numbers enough that the press can claim Biden has solved the problem. It will be a lie, but they're going to say it.
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You're playing politics. If you were serious about it, you would have reimplemented building the wall. If you were serious about securing the border, you would have done the things I was doing. And there's a list of things that he had in place. What should he say.
He should prosecute the case.
For three and a half years, you presided over an criminal invasion of the United States of America. We have seen people dying across this country. We have seen children being brutalized. We've seen women being raped. We have seen in the last couple of years, over one hundred thousand Americans dying year after year after year of drug overdoses, fent in all over doses. All of that is your fault.
Why did you allow and by the way, you've made Mexican dreg cartels multi billionaires in the most powerful forces in the country of Mexico. You've utterly destroyed Mexico. Why have you done? And you've put out a red carpet for every jihadist, every Hamas terrorist, every Hesbala terrist who wants to murder Americans. You have had an open invitation two million got aways in this kind of tree. Why have you allowed America to be invaded? And he'll come back with oh I just did an order. He had
nonsense three and a half years, eleven million people. Why did you allow America to be invaded? He needs to prosecute the case. And then he also needs and we're going to talk more about the debate as we get close to it, he needs to let Joe Biden talk. I will say, if you go back to twenty twenty the first debate, Trump talked a lot. He was so eager to talk that he bailed Joe Biden out. The man is is is senile and has dementia.
Let him talk, Let him talk.
A great, great point speaking of letting people talk. Doctor Fauci was in front of Congress. And this is a guy that is an unbelievable narcissist that was elected by no one. I think we prove it on the show before he is I am the science, Ben I am the science.
I am science.
By the way capital T and capitals, I am the science.
This is a guy who I think it's pretty clear, lied to Congress. You look at what he said back even in twenty twenty one compared to what he said before Congress. There's a montage I want to play and I'm going to get your reaction to it. But it's it's obvious. Fauci basically says, I didn't do anything wrong. Everything was right. I do it all over again, and know you're not going to get me to admit that we screwed up on anything, or most importantly, that we
deliberately lied to the American people. That you're gonna know which Fauci's from twenty twenty one if you pay attention compared to what it sounded like on Capitol Hill in the last twenty four hours.
Take a listen.
Did the COVID vaccine stop transmission of the virus?
That is a complicated issue because in the beginning, the first iteration of the vaccines did have an effect, not one hundred percent, not a high effect. They did prevent infection and subsequently obviously transmission.
However, it's important to point out.
Something that we did not know early on that became evident as the months went by, is that the durability of protection against infection and hence transmission was relatively limited, whereas the duration of protection against severe disease hospitalization and deaths was more prolonged.
We did not know that in the beginning.
In the beginning, it was felt that in fact it did prevent infection and thus transmission, but that was proven as time went by to not be a durable effect. When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health that of the family, but also you contribute to the community help by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community.
In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community. And that's exactly the reason, and you said it very well of why we encourage people and want people to get vaccinated. The more people you get vaccinated, the safe of the entire community is.
That was Fauci in twenty twenty four. At the beginning, Fauci in twenty twenty one, and he's sitting there and he's acting like he never said what he said in twenty twenty one. He flied out, lied to the American people, and he knew he was lying to them, but it was to go all in no matter what.
So doctor Anthony Fauci is the most dangerous in damaging American bureaucrat in the history of the United States of America. He was willing to put politics ahead of science. He did more damage to science and medicine than any person in our lifetime. People no longer believe what the so called experts say because Anthony Fauci was willing to say what was politically convenient rather than follow the science. The
policies he advocated were was disastrous. He advocated shutting down businesses across the country that lost billions, if not trillions of dollars. He advocated shutting down schools across the country. I think we will look back one hundred years from now as that being the most catastrophically stupid public policy in modern times. Children tens of millions of children for more than a year did not go to school. The damage they faced, the learning loss they face, is massive.
And by the way, nobody has done more harm to African American and Hispanic kids than Anthony Fauci because shutting down schools had a disproportionate impact on minority kids. He did enormous damage. He advocated shutting down churches, shutting down gym shutting down stores, shutting America. He also advocated mask mandates despite the fact that there was no science behind it.
He also advocated vaccine mandates despite the fact there was no science behind it, and vaccine mandates for children and there was zero science behind it. And yet he is brazen. He is unapologetic. He is proud of his role shutting the country down. You mentioned that he's unapologetic. Congressman Jim Jordan a good friend of the show. Here he questioned fauci on US tax dollars going to a grant recipient to the lab directly in China. I want you to hear what he had to say when he was asked
about this. It was honestly a little bit shocking to hear, just the arrogance from Fauci.
As prior to that call would have been on the call. Well, the quill was arranged by Jeremy Farrah. You should ask him.
Okay, did US tax dollars flow through a grant recipient to the lab in China? I'm sorry, did US tax dollars flow through a grant recipient to the lab in China?
Yes?
Of course it was a sub award to the one who approved that award, excuse me, and who approved that award.
What agency approved that award?
National Institute of Ology and Infectious Disease.
Your agency approved that, right, yes it did.
After does that have anything to do with this downplaying the lab leak theory?
No, nothing to do with it. Nothing.
What This is a guy that still wants you to believe that the lab week theory was a theory and not reality and that this somehow came from a wet market. There and then the other question that was asked of him was from Representative Brad Winthrop, a Republican from Ohio. This was the question he asked, and listen to the anger from Fauci.
The vaccine saved millions of lives, and I want to thank you for your support and engagement on that. However, despite statements to the contrary, it did not stop transmission of the virus. Did the COVID vaccine stop transmission of the virus?
That is a complicated issue because in the beginning, the first iteration of the vaccines did have an effect, not one hundred.
Percent, not a high effect.
They did prevent infection and subsequently obviously transmission. However, it's important to point out something that we did not know early on that became evident as the months went by, is that the durability of protection against infection and hence transmission was relatively limited, whereas the duration of protection against severe disease hospitalization and deaths was more prolonged.
We did not know that in the beginning. In the beginning, it.
Was felt that, in fact it did prevent infection and thus transmission, but that was proven as time went by to not be a durable effect.
I mean, well, I didn't really get it wrong.
It was just, you know, the science that I'm in charge of was not what we thought it was. They'll never admit they really screwed up on any of this.
So listen, let me give a moment a benefit of the doubt to Fauci.
I agree.
When this pandemic was starting, people didn't know what we were facing. No, people were concerned, and there were people dying, and in the face of a pandemic, I understand the decisions. Look, Donald Trump signed off on shutdowns early on the decision to have shutdowns for a week or two.
Yeah, it was two weeks, remember, to stop the spread.
Two weeks to stop the spread.
In hindsight, that was a mistake, But I can understand why people made the decision. At the time, we didn't know, we didn't know what the spreading was, we didn't know about what the lethality was, and it was trying to save lives. If Fauci said, listen, we had limited information. We were trying to do steps to stop the spread of a contagious virus, and these were steps that made sense. That would not be a crazy thing to say. But
by the way, he doesn't admit any mistakes. And what Fauci did that was fundamentally wrong, is he elevated politics above science. If he admitted we didn't know at the time we made those decisions. In hindsight, some of those decisions were right, some were wrong, that would be rational. But his position is everything we did was right. Be glad we shut your schools down. Be glad your children didn't go to school for a year. Be glad their
mass scores and reading scores have dropped. Be glad that they will face learning loss for the rest of their lives. Be grateful that we, the benevolent dictators, did that. There is an arrogance this man. Look, he publicly says, when you attack me, you are attacking the science. Because I am the science. There is an arrogance. He embodied the leftist arrogance. And to be clear, look, he early on when people asked him, okay, our masks do they make sense,
he said, no, you shouldn't wear masks. They don't do any good. A mask is not going to stop the spread of a virus. And then going forward he said everyone's got to be masked. And he didn't explain the change. And by the way, when it came to the Wulhan lab, leap understand Anthony Fauci personally funded the research that I believe created the COVID virus. He was desperate to cover his own ass. He was desperate to argue no came from a wet market. We now know that is false.
But he reached out. He asked Mark Zuckerberg, will Facebook suppress any allegations that this came from a Chinese government lab. And to be clear, I want you to go back if you look at this podcast. In March and April of twenty twenty eight, at the beginning of COVID, we did two different podcasts on Verdict where we let out the evidence. Then early on that I thought the clear evidence was this virus escaped from a government lab. I
think that is now overwhelming. It is almost indisputable as strong, but it is clearly the overwhelming way to the evidence is that it escaped from a Chinese government lab. And I think the majority of the evidence this is not as strong, but I think it is greater than fifty percent, is that this virus was deliberately created by the Chinese government. Now I don't think they created it because they wanted
people to die. I think they were creating it because they were engaged in research and they were irresponsible and reckless. But they took viruses and they made them that they engaged in gain of function research, which is they made them more deadly, and they made them more transmissible to humans, and then I think the virus escaped in the world faced back.
There's something else that's also very shocking, and that is doctor Fauci has asked a very simple question, and I'll wrap with this, but it's an important one, and that was about the unvaccinated. And I want you to hear just some of the kind of disdain they're still shaming the unvaccinated.
Yes, it's proven that.
And do you also agree that it's saved hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of lives in America and across the world.
That is absolutely correct, and it's very clear that it's saved millions of lives here and throughout the world. The Europeans have done the same studies that we have, and the data are incontrovertible that they save lives.
Sir, And do you think the American public should listen to America's brightest and best doctors and scientists or instead listen to podcasters, conspiracy theorists, and unhinged Facebook memes.
Now I'm listening to people who you just described is going to do nothing but harm people because they will deprive themselves of life saving interventions, which has happened.
And you know some have done studies.
Fido Hootz has done an analysis of this and shows that in people who refuse to get vaccinated for any a variety of reasons probably responsible for an additional two to three hundred thousand deaths in this.
An additional two to three hundred thousand deaths in this country. They're still shaming anyone that asks a question. Remember the ivermectino. You guys are getting horse to warmers. I mean the list goes on and on.
And by the way, in a subsequent pod, we should play Chris Cuomo when it was called out for his lying on ivermectin. But it is the corporate media crawled in bed with Anthony Fauci, crawled in bed with the left wing, dishonest political, scientific medical world, and they just lied to people. And I will say, if you look at something like COVID vaccines for children, for children under six,
there was zero scientific evidence to back that. I get why someone who was eighty or ninety, or even someone who was fifty or sixty made the decision to get the COVID vaccine because look, you could make a rational cost benefit analysis that we don't know everything about this vaccine. There are risk to it, but we also know this is a very infectious disease and they're particularly for people
who are health compromised, it can be really damaging. And so people who are older could make a rational decision to get the vaccine for a five or six year old. I think there was no rational decision to give a child that because the rate of fatalities.
Behind that, as there was behind the six foot role, which apparently he's admitted.
Now, yeah, we just kind of made it up.
He just made it up.
It This was all about politics and power, and Fauci was willing to put politics in power above medicine and science.
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Well that's exactly right. Later today, I'm gonna get on a plane. I'm going to fly to France for the eightieth anniversary.
Of D Day.
I'm going to go to Normandy.
I'm going to be there for the celebration. President Biden's going to be there. We're going to have about twenty five senators are going over and hold on and I.
Go on Air Force one. Are you are now? You guys, so you didn't get the invite?
No?
Now, why would he possibly bring any of us. We're going to go on a separate plane, but we'll be over there. And I get to say, I'm excited. So five years ago was the seventy fifth anniversary of D Day, and I wanted to go, but I had a scheduling conflict and I didn't go. And I got to tell you, Ben, I've kicked myself. I've been mad at myself that I didn't go to the seventy fifth anniversary.
I missed it.
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