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Okay, Fauci the flip-flopper.
I I mean, it's getting mind-numbing.
You know, we're actually getting closer to the origins of this Wuhan virus.
And there's some very, very interesting questioning that went on today that uh we'll get into as the as the program unfolds, because you know, this it's called gain of function reset uh research and pause and and what possible role that the NIH might have had in funding the gain of function research at the Wuhan lab.
Listen, the the worst thing, the most damning part of the coronavirus and China is this, is that they uh they had their own xenophobic, hysterical, racist travel ban, because if you lived in Wuhan province, you are banned from traveling to anywhere else in China.
If you're in any other place at China, any other part of China, you couldn't fly into Wuhan province.
Uh, but you could leave Wuhan province and travel to Europe and travel to the U.S. and travel anywhere around the globe.
Uh that means they knew the risk and they weren't willing to put China at risk, but they put the world at risk.
You know, if we've we gotta get to the bottom of how this all happened.
I don't know the answer, but we need one one person that's gonna join us, Dr. Roger Marshall, Senator Kansas.
Uh, he was part of the questioning today.
Rand Paul did a good job with Fauci the flip-flop.
And it's it's very, very frustrating on levels that I I can't even explain to you.
Um, and and the mixed messaging for people, it's they've got to come up with clear, unambiguous messages here.
And I I can't get over it.
I'll repeat it as many times as I need to.
Joe Biden, Joe Biden, both vaccinated, fully vaccinated in January.
He was the one saying after we won't need masks in a hundred days.
Oh, okay.
Just like March of last year, Fauci was saying the mask isn't gonna work.
Then it became one mask, then it became two masks.
Now it's, you know, two masks and probably masks in perpetuity, uh, especially during flu season.
I'm like, all right, do we ever get life back to normal?
Which is what you told everybody, all these people, you know, Dr. Dr. Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci and Dr. Congressman and Dr. Congresswoman, all telling everybody, go tell everybody.
I, you know, uh I I want you to be safe.
I want you to be healthy, I want your family to be healthy.
I want, you know, we did learn things that stayed constant, not many.
The one thing is older people, comorbidities, underlying conditions, compromised immune systems.
You know, what did I say?
Protect mom and dad, grandma, grandpa.
You know, let's get back to opening stadiums and concerts and all that sort of thing that, you know, normal life once again, which is where we'd all like to end up here, which we were told we would end up.
You know, there are people.
I'm very pro-science.
I'm pro-vaccine.
Said it many times.
I don't know why people are demanding that I play doctor on radio and TV.
I'm not a doctor.
I don't know anybody's individual medical condition.
I didn't know they'd put a pause on the Johnson and Johnson uh vaccine.
By the way, of the three of them, it's the one that is historically the old method of vaccination, not the other two are not.
It's this new method.
We've gone over this in detail.
And but what am I supposed to if I had advised women 18 to 48 before they put the pause on that they ran into a short-term problem with blood clotting?
They've addressed it and they've now put forward protocols.
I understand that some things can change.
You know, you you can't even talk about therapeutics.
These these monocolonial uh uh uh cocktails that they have, like regenerron and Eli Lilly's version of it.
And you know, oh God, Hannity's talking about therapeutics that have not been clinically tested.
Well, because Dr. Oz nailed it.
You fight with the army, you have course we wanted clinical trials.
You don't have time when people are dying.
Okay, so then Dr. Daniel Wallace puts out a paper says the risk of hydroxychloroquine is nil.
All I do is inform you.
I don't tell you to take it.
I just say here, this is what this doctor's saying.
The foremost expert that's been prescribing this for rheumatoid arthritis lupus and as an anti-malarial for 40 plus years with the largest lupus rheumatoid arthritis practice in the country from cedar cyanide.
The risk is nil, doses recommended.
Okay, whatever.
Most people don't even know what Ivermectin or regenerron are at this point.
Sad.
You know, I can't tell you how many uh countless hours, and I mean hours and days and weeks, you know, because and I'm not blaming people.
They don't know this, they're not following it like we have to follow it every day.
That had never heard of Regeneron.
They've never heard of it.
And I'm like, have you heard about it?
Have you asked your doctor?
I don't tell people to get it.
I say you might want to ask your doctor.
So you can treat it early.
I never understood this idea that you know, we will just wait till day seven, six, seven, eight, usually in that area is when it could really turn you south.
You're gonna know usually in that time frame whether or not you're in trouble or not in trouble.
And mostly, yeah, it impacted older people with those medical conditions we talked about.
Anyway, we'll get into all of that.
You know, but but Jimmy Carter's house just is the be all to end all confusing moment of everything.
Joe says 100 days masks are gone.
We don't need masks after that.
Okay, then please help me out here.
Why are you wearing a mask outside with your vaccinated wife?
You go in, you see a 96-year-old, you know, the older people that we're supposed to protect.
You take your mask off inside.
There's no social distancing, you're posing for pictures with a 96-year-old former president and 93-year-old former first lady, no mask on.
Then you leave and you're back outside again.
Your mask is back on.
Okay.
How does that make any sense?
And then they say, well, the public is being the left is making how about a clear, unambiguous message.
Can you explain why Florida successfully opened their schools in August, and there are still many districts around the country where they haven't opened them at all?
I mean, you know, this is tough on kids.
I don't I don't even know if you can if you can calculate or factor in what the emotional toll is on kids in this whole process.
And it's it's rough.
But the idea is to get back to normalcy.
And to do that, you need a clear, unambiguous message.
And that part is unfortunately is being clouded by others.
Look, I um I've got a lot to get to today, and we're gonna get back into Israel hit with 400 rockets, they're firing back.
Uh, we just saw that the IDF announced that they took out a military leader of Hamas, killing one of Hamas's top commanders.
They don't have any choice.
And then, of course, the squad members, you know, are blaming Israel for the rockets being fired into their country.
Well, what would America do if rockets were being fired into American cities?
We would defend ourselves.
I hope.
You know, sometimes uh you got to begin to wonder uh where some people's heads are at on a lot of these.
Uh so we'll hit that today.
Um, well, I don't want to give you bad news, but I have to tell you the truth.
So all this new Green Deal energy um planning, which has now been slowly creeping up here, even prior to this cyber attack on the colonial pipeline.
We now have uh Biden's energy plans coupled with this attacks.
Now they have plans to make fossil fuels incredibly expensive.
And I think that's for the left.
Remember, there was one point in Obama's administration, if I recall correctly, where he actually said, Yeah, we want higher gas prices.
Because then what?
Then we're gonna artificially inflate the price by reducing the supply of energy.
You know, we were energy independent not that long ago, a little over a hundred days ago.
That's now gone.
That's that's done.
And it's the lifeblood of our economy.
You know, and by the and then you know, the most the strangest thing, you connect this to Elon Musk going on Saturday Night Live.
I thought he was funny as hell.
And you know, here's a guy that comes up with a workable electric car that's popular, Tesla.
Here's a guy that's talking about well, let's go to the moon.
If you haven't watched the series, The Men Who Built America, I've been I've been watching, I'm fascinated by it.
And some things I knew, a lot of things I didn't know.
I learned a lot.
And this is like the Carnegie, the Carnegies and the Rockefellers and the JP Morgan's, I won't mention all the names, the Henry Fords of the world, and the great that these were I you don't realize how tough these men were and and how visionary they were.
I look at a guy like Elon Musk, is a you know, a visionary of today.
Is he a little eccentric?
Yeah, I guess that's eccentric if you smoke pot on Joe Rogan's podcast, but it's you know makes me laugh to be very honest.
I thought it was funny.
Um but when you think of that brain power and the uh that innovative mindset, we need to learn from innovative minds.
And it's not political.
I want to hear what he has to say.
That mind intrigues the living daylights out of me.
I want to know what's in that head because he's smart as hell.
And here he has the electric car, but oh, we we don't want them on Saturday Night Live.
Why not?
Why not?
I want comedians to now be funny again.
And no holds barred.
Give a warning.
You might be offended.
If you don't want if you if you're a little woke, cancel culture mindset, leave it at the door, or don't enter.
This is an offending zone.
And let comedians be funny.
Um anyway, gas prices, thanks to all of this.
Uh, we have no backup now to this now closed colonial pipeline.
Uh, this is this is pretty bad news.
Pump prices, as they have been heading up anyway, are going up even faster.
And the shutdown of colonial now has pushed gas prices, as I told you yesterday, it was about $3.2 cents a gallon.
It's going higher every day.
And that's, you know, we're breaching $3 average now for the first time since late 2014, according to AAA.
Before the cyber attack, the the average gas price had already jumped in recent weeks.
Um now that impacts Joe is saying, well, no, this is not American people aren't gonna have to pay a penny unless you make 400,000 or more a year.
Okay, well, every item you buy that's gonna have a corporate tax put on it, that cost will be passed on to you.
Everything that you buy in a store, that cost is gonna be passed on to you.
Trucking companies aren't gonna make less money.
Drivers are gonna drive for less, and everything that they deliver to every store, you're gonna end up paying more for.
That's how that works out.
And yet nobody seems to want to talk about it.
Then paying more to fill your tank, heat, and cool your home.
Anyway, these supply shortages, now we see lines reminiscent of the 70s.
How many of you don't know what happened in the 70s or don't remember what happened in the 70s?
Because I do.
If you're over 50, you'll remember the horrendous lines of cars waiting at gas stations.
I mean, long waits, and then Even you can only you spend five bucks to put in your car, and that's it.
Stretching in some cases for miles.
That was when the Iranians cut off oil shipments to the U.S. in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
It got so bad we even had gas rationing based on whether your license plate ended in an odd number or an even number, or if you ran out of gas on the wrong day, you were out of luck.
You had to wait until the next day to fill up.
And even then, sometimes you couldn't fill up because there'd be a limit on the number of gallons that you could buy.
And those gas shortages, one of the reasons Carter lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan the next year.
Well, I mean, now we've got gas lines showing up.
I've had friends of mine anecdotally telling me, yeah, I had to wait online.
By the way, is there anything worse than having to wait online to fill up your gas tank?
There were photos posted all over social media showing gas stations around Metro Atlanta running out of gas.
Locations that still have gas are rapidly hiking prices.
Yeah, I mean, they're gonna try and some people take advantage of it.
You know, fuel shortages, lengthy lines of gas stations reported North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
Um one guy quoted in one article in South Carolina, just dumb luck.
I got the very last tank of gas that this particular gas station.
And that's no exaggeration.
You got six states now rushing to rescue their economy from Biden's job killing unemployment benefits.
I'll get to that when we get back.
I'll tell you more about the gas stations running out of fuel as well.
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Gas stations begin to run out of fuel after cyber attack on colonial pipeline.
As it's revealed, 12 other businesses being targeted in an ongoing hack out of Russia.
Now the FBI is saying that they know who did this.
What are the consequences going to be?
What is Joe going to do?
When is Joe going to back Israel that is being hammered with rockets and missiles?
What?
Well, probably at 500 since we've come on the air.
Because we were up to 400 plus.
You know, what is he gonna do with the Iranians now partnering with the Russians and the Chinese, maybe you could bring you know what?
I got an idea.
He can bring Hunter in.
Hunter Biden, he's friends with the oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Barisma, and the Russian oligarch, First Lady of Moscow, and the Chinese National that took him on a shopping spree, and the Bank of China and the Chinese military backed company that he dealt with.
Maybe Hunter can do it all.
He'd be the perfect guy.
Don't you think, Linda?
He could be the perfect guy to broker an agreement.
As they now are sending weapons to Yemen to fuel their proxy war.
The Iranians are sending the Chinese and Russian weapons.
What's Joe gonna do there?
Because, you know, we have the squad members attacking Israel.
We'll get into more detail on that later in the program.
What are we gonna do now?
500, 5,500 mile pipeline that carries nearly half of the East Coast fuel supply between New Jersey and Texas that was hacked on Thursday in every state in between.
And now it's shut down.
Now we have gas lines, gas stations, Atlanta, elsewhere, other states reporting, you know, gas shortages.
What would uh Trump do?
I think we'd have a different response.
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If you want to be a part of this extravaganza, we got a lot coming up on the mixed messages that are being sent by Biden and liberals and the left and the media about now.
We even have fake news CNN.
And I gave a tip of the hat to fake Jake over at Fake News CNN because he asked the right question.
Well, if the vaccine works and you're telling everybody to get it, and life's gonna get back to normal, um, then why is he wearing a mask outside?
Now they're actually asking it at MSDNC and the New York Toilet Paper Times.
They're asking it too.
Why do we call it toilet paper?
Because that's pretty much what it usually is.
Not worth a hell of a lot.
Um we now have six Republican states that have now moving to block Joe Biden's unemployment benefit extension before it completely sabotages their state's economic recovery.
By the way, how is it possible Biden saying, I I don't see any evidence whatsoever.
What that That paying people more is resulting in workers' shortage.
Joe, it's it's today is Tuesday, May 11th, the year's 2021.
Wake up, Joe.
Hello, come on, we need you.
Wake up.
Hello, Joe.
I mean, if we ever had a president this clueless, this checked out.
This is what scares me about all these situations.
You know, if China and Russia providing weapons to Iran and Iran is is transporting it to fight their proxy war in Yemen against the rest of the Middle East, that's a problem.
And what's Joe going to do about it?
400 rockets raining down on Israel.
Israel has to fight back.
And we have squad leaders attacking Israel.
Something so ass backwards about all of this.
Anyway, and then the issue of the economy.
Now we've got all these all these states now being impacted, 17 states.
This is can't that this pipeline, this colonial pipeline between Texas and Joycey, you're talking about 5,500 pipeline miles.
It carries nearly half of the East Coast of the United States fuel fuel supply.
You know, we were energy independent over a little over 100 days ago for the first time in 75 years.
This will impact your spending.
This will impact so much of your life, and all of you will pay more.
There's nobody that can live without any type of fossil fuel energy at all.
Anyway, shut down and respond.
Now there's other ongoing attacks.
That scares me too.
Apparently they're ongoing.
We don't even know what what they're hacking.
You know, it reminds me, you know, at some point it's I and I never understood this years ago when we had interviewed Julian Assange.
What I don't understand is why they want extradite Julian Assange when they should be extraditing Christopher Steele, who now admits that he's destroyed all of his computers.
How is that?
And how come nobody ever made that effort?
Now you could say, okay, maybe you don't like Julian Assange.
All right, well, he was 16 years old.
Allegation is probably true.
I don't know.
But that this guy was so smart at 16 that he was able to hack into NASA and the DoD.
There were other people that age, that smart, they were able to accomplish similar things.
Now, is it the wrong thing to do?
Sure.
Sort of like what I'd argue with my kids sometimes.
Like I'm a professional debater.
This is what I do for a living.
And every once in a while, you know, my son in particular would come come back with some lines, and I'm like, inside I'm saying to myself, and I'm acting otherwise, damn, that's good.
That is pretty clever.
That is really, really smart.
And, you know, see, you gotta say, oh, 16-year-old, that's smart with computers.
How old's Julian Assange now, Lindo?
Is he 40, 50?
I don't know how old he is.
I don't know.
I'll check.
Okay.
So all these years, at one point you say, shame, you know, hack me once, shame on you.
Hack me twice, we'll say shame on you.
When it's 40 years later, and they're still hacking, shame on us.
Why isn't this country developed the defenses to protect our infrastructure in the cyber age?
Why have we not made that a top national security priority?
Because we need to.
And if this is not the canary in the coal mine, I don't know what else is.
You know, we you've got to know and see the world for what it is.
I mean, we got lectures for four years with the hoax and the conspiracy theory about Trump-Russia collusion, that the Russians, yeah, they're a hostile regime.
Putin's a hostile actor.
All right, so Assange will be fifth.
So 34 years ago?
At what time do we not blame ourselves for not doing the due diligence of protecting our nation's secrets, knowing that the world is full of regimes that hate us, that would like to Destroy us and that are hellbent on destroying us.
You know, one of the reasons we we fight so hard to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran is because when you marry radicalism to nuclear weapons, you know, you you now have a prescription for a modern-day Holocaust.
Because if if if people in their fanaticism believe that they're doing God's work by killing infidels, radical extremists, and converter die extremists, and you give them nuclear weapons.
The world's in trouble.
You know, we treat those of us that were conservative, we tried to warn Bill Clinton too.
Kim Jong il, Kim Jong-un's father, he bribed this is a good deal for the American people.
We're gonna go about the work of the American people.
This is a good deal for American people.
No, it wasn't.
They got nuclear weapons and they got the bribe on top of it.
The Iranian mullahs, they got the bribe from Biden and Obama.
We didn't even have any place, any time inspectors.
As a matter of fact, we had no inspectors anywhere in Iran even allowed as part of that idiotic deal.
And now reports that Joe is pressuring South Korea to give the Iranians another $7 billion.
How, you know, be me up, Scotty.
What is wrong with this?
You know, we did lose 100 million human souls in the last century.
It's a lot of people, a lot of isms, communism, you know, Mao, China, Stalin, Russia, Mussolini, fascism, Nazism, Imperial Japan, Paul Pot, killing fields, all happened.
100 million human souls destroyed in the name of government fanaticism and evil.
So we need the biggest, baddest, meanest, toughest kick-ass military on the face of the earth so we can preserve freedom, which of course, you know, is always in in jeopardy, but one generation away from extinction, as the great Ronald Reagan once said.
Um, now, anyway, back to the economy in these six Republican states have now announced they're gonna stop participating in the federal government's supplemental pandemic unemployment program early because they want to get people back to work.
And the reason is is with the supplemental unemployment money, it's incentivizing people not to go back to work.
And this is now widespread.
It's in other words, it's hurting the recovery that we desperately need.
And on Tuesday, Iowa became the most recent state.
You have Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, uh, North Dakota, Montana.
They've now also notified their labor forces.
Iowa governor Kim Reynolds said, well, the pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs initially provided crucial assistance at the outset of the health crisis, they're now discouraging some Iowans from finding work.
I told you I had an opportunity to see this massive manufacturing center this weekend.
I just uh I'm just I'm interested in things that I don't know why I'm interested in them, but I am.
And when I meet interesting people, I want to know more about them.
I love hearing people's success stories.
You know, how did they find themselves in this particular line of work or this particular business?
And in some cases, they're so highly successful.
And I don't get impressed that often.
I saw massive, massive, massive warehouse that everything is automated, and it blew me away.
And at this particular place, they run 24-7.
It's a beverage industry.
They're pounding out 1,500 bottles, cans, whatever it is, a minute a minute.
24-7 with only 60% staffing.
And I asked how much you're paying anywhere 20, 22 to start an hour.
22 an hour.
That's not terrible.
You know, I if I was out of work, I'd take that job in a heartbeat.
One of the worst things you can do is stay home.
Biden warning anyone on an unemployment offered a suitable job must take it.
Oh, yeah, that's really going to impact people.
After it was revealed, anyone on a $32,000 salary before COVID now earns more in benefits.
$32,000.
Joe Biden Says there's no evidence though of people being paid to stay home, but no one should be allowed to game the system.
Yeah, Joe's really going to intimidate them just like he intimidates Russia, China, Iran, the North Koreans, and everybody else.
They're so afraid of Joe.
Joe's saying Americans must accept a job or lose their unemployment benefits.
How are you going to prove that, Joe?
Well, we're gonna have people ratting out other Americans, like the masked police that you want to hire and the government, you know, censors of information that your administration's been talking about.
You know, bailing out states.
We're opening a portal for state and local governments to apply for the first funds.
How did Joe Biden think that it was a good idea that they put a writer on the bill in the blue state bailout monies where states are not allowed to cut their taxes?
Who wants that deal?
Basically, blackmailing states into their stupidity, just like they're trying to pressure other countries into adopting a worldwide corporate tax so that American companies don't decide to pack and leave and take their tax money and their jobs with them.
Like is happening in New York and New Jersey and Michigan and California.
I mean, Mick Mulvaney's not wrong in saying that, yeah, remember he's former OMB director, that this is a very dangerous place for us to be.
Everybody's talking about inflationary pressures and rising interest rates.
Janet Yellen and one other administration official mentioning it mentioning it last week.
I mean, the you know, I know many of you are all happy with the stock market.
I don't have a lot of faith in the stock market.
Want to know my gut feeling?
Don't follow my my advice here.
I don't know anything.
Talk to your own financial people.
My gut feeling, interest rates are gonna start climbing.
Inflationary fears will become reality.
The stock market that has, you know, been on a uh a ride one-way trajectory for a while.
Uh, I would imagine what they call a correction is probably in our future, but what the hell do I know?
I don't know a whole lot about it, and I don't invest a lot in it.
I don't I need to feel it, touch it, be able to see it.
Not into, I always feel like we, the little people, are the last to know what really goes on in these deals.
So I just stay as far away from it as I can.
Linda, you know all the deals that I've turned down.
I'm saying, uh, no, I'm gonna pass.
Yeah, I'm gonna pass.
There's a lot.
That's okay.
A lot.
Um, Democrats celebrating, you know, into believing the farthest left president was a was a moderate.
Joe Biden is not a mod moderate.
He never has been a moderate.
You know, now we have our eyes off the border disaster that is unfolding.
You know, dramatic video showing illegal immigrants streaming across the Rio Grande.
You see this in like a long line?
Then being assisted by border patrol.
Welcome to America.
We'll help you in.
The HS Secretary Mayor saying the border uh is closed.
Really?
Hasn't stopped them.
Has he has he been watching the video that is now out there?
Not sure he has.
And meanwhile, everyone else seems to be concerned more with wokeness.
And let's see, critical race theory.
And oh, by the way, the the woke brigade is up that is upset.
Tim Tebow is reportedly signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Why do they care?
If he can play and the team wants him, God bless him.
Good for him.
Why?
Because he believes in Jesus and God.
What a horrible thing.
He wants to be a better person, admit he's a sinner, and wants God to make him a better person.
What a horrible thing to be.
By the way, the Army's first female infantry officer ripping separate physical tests for men and women with equal opportunity comes responsibility.
The Army's first female infantry officer warning that implementing a separate physical fitness standard for men for women could endanger all soldiers.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I haven't thought about it.
Golden Globes are imploding.
Anyway, MBC dropped them for lack of diversity.
Tom Cruise returned his old trophies.
The woke brigade upset Tim Tebows back in the NFL, but not Colin Kaepernick.
Well, I would argue that Tim Tebow probably, because he was so outspoken in his faith, probably paid a price in that too.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
So, a lot of mixed...
I mean, this is actually insanity when you get to the bottom line of all of this, and that is how is it possible?
And I went through this in great specificity and detail.
You know, everybody's vaccinated.
We were told repeatedly that, oh, once you get vaccinated, life can return to normal.
We all remember that, right?
Everybody remember that little part of it.
And you know, so what happened?
How is how is it possible that we're not back to normal and Joe's still wearing his masks outdoors?
Goes into Jimmy Carter, 96-year-old former president's home with the first lady, 93 years old, former first lady, and he's got his mask on outside with Joe Biden, totally socially distanced from anybody.
And he goes inside, and they're on top of the 96 and 93 year old with no masks on, and a picture I thought was photoshopped.
Turns out it was real.
Then they leave the home back outside, again, socially distant, and then they're like, uh, the masks are back on.
And so it it raises, you know, interesting important questions like what uh is it do we have a problem with the vaccine?
Is this is this extra precaution that Gensaki says you're taking?
Is it something that we need to be aware of?
Is it something that we need to all do ourselves?
Because if it is, it would be nice if they tell us, and then the media mob wants to blame conservatives for the fact that that some people are vaccine hesitant.
Well, I'm pro-science, I'm pro-vaccine, I but I'm pro, but I'm not your doctor either.
I know everybody wants me to tell people what to do.
I I do want everyone to live and to be healthy and to not infect others and to research on your own, using your own brain.
Because all the information is out there, it's not hard to get.
It's all available.
We could even put a whole package up on Hannity.com, everything that you want to know about vaccinations, but you can do that yourself.
It's simple.
And then talk to your doctor or doctors and the And the medical professionals you know, like and trust.
I mean, now you've got MSDNC even and fake news CNN and the New York Times as well saying why the conflicting messages here?
Because the behavior suggests, I don't know, do they not want us to get back to normal?
Is there a lack of confidence in this vaccine?
What's going on here?
Anyway, uh the great Anthony Fauci, who in March of last year said, Pha, masks don't work.
Anyway, he was uh in front of the Senate committee with Rand Paul and and battling over whether the NIH is funding the Wuhan lab and and gain of function research, and again, just listen to two of these exchanges with Fauci.
Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?
Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute.
Do they fund Dr. Barrett?
We do not fund Dr. Barracks' gain of function research.
Dr. Barrett does not doing gain of function research, and if it is, it's according to the guidelines and it is being conducted in North Carolina.
Not during a bat virus spike protein that he got from the Wuhan Institute into the SARS virus is gain of function.
That is not a minority because at least 200 scientists have signed a statement from the Cambridge Working Group saying that it is gain of function.
Well, it is not.
And if you look at the grant and you look at the uh progress reports, it is not gain of function.
Despite the fact that people tweet that report sending money to the Wuhan Virology Institute, we do not send money now to the Wuhan.
The NIH and NIAD categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
We have 11 labs doing it, and you have allowed it here.
We have a committee to do it, but the committee is granted every exemption.
You're you're fooling with Mother Nature here.
You're allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality.
It's very dangerous.
And it was a huge mistake to share this with China, and it's a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the United States.
And we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from.
I fully agree that you should investigate where the virus came from, but again, we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
No matter how much words, your party say it, there wasn't happening.
There was research done with Dr. Xi and Dr. Barrett.
They have collaborated on gain of function research, where they enhanced the SARS virus to infect human airway cells, and they did it by merging a new spike protein on it.
That is gain of function.
That was joint research between the Wuhan Institute and Dr. Barrett.
You can't deny it.
You can't believe this is where we all are here.
A guy a year ago saying, masks are no good, then I'm gonna do anything on 60 minutes.
Dr. Roger Marshall, Senator, great state of Kansas, uh gave uh Fickel Fauci some tough questions himself in this morning's session.
Uh he also dropped a Senate resolution that calls on the Select Committee on COVID uh that they'd create a a bipartisan group to investigate the outbreak and the origins of the Wuhan virus, COVID 19, and also is put forward a plan introducing ending the extra 300 in unemployment benefits,
seemingly keeping and preventing people from taking the many open employment opportunities uh that that employers are desperately trying to fill.
Senator Doctor, thank you so much for being back with us.
Explain your take on what was going on there.
Well, well, Sean, you know, as far as does this virus go, your listeners need to understand that the NIH was funding uh a lab in North Carolina and Dr. Xi in China.
And what they did, they took the original SARS virus and they combined it with another virus called Rat G13.
But what people need to know that's the closest known virus to COVID 19 that's out there that we've been able to find.
So they did some gymnastics with with those two viruses and uh came up with a mosaic and anyway, Dr. Fauci wants to say that's not gain of function studies.
I I disagree with them, but that's why we need to look into this.
Uh we here we are 15 months since I stood on the house floor concerned about this virus, we the key questions have not been answered.
Was this virus leaked from Wuha Wuhan lab?
And is it naturally c occurring, or is this something that was concocted in a lab, and does did the United States have some sort of funding to it, maybe not exactly to the final step, but but where would we participate in that in that process uh making a virus into a super virus?
That's where we are.
You mean there's a possibility we assisted in this?
Well, I I I think that you know, I hate to jump to that conclusion, but but you put the pieces together here, and w we were we developed a humanized mouth that would have the receptor, the same receptor that uh the COVID-19 uses.
So we helped develop that, and we taught Dr. Xi how to combine uh SARS-1 with rat G13.
And and we but we don't know what happened after there.
That's why we need to investigate it.
We have no idea what happened.
There's no precursors to COVID-19 and that rat G13 virus as well.
So you've got more questions than I can answer, but but China could disprove me, right?
They can show prove that I'm wrong, and that's all we're asking.
Show us the the lab work, let us talk to the people.
Uh we hope this is not a a virus that's been made in a lab, uh, but but we need to know that for sure.
This is too dangerous, it's too important that for all of us to know that answer.
And is there any I I guess because we're talking about a hostile regime here, and they they never the Chinese never got as much pushback or threatened or or frankly intimidated by any American president but for Donald Trump who insisted on free and fair trade and imposed uh tariffs on China that they'd never had before.
I mean, is there do you do you see any possibility that this was a an attack on the United States or is that not even on the table?
Well, I'd like to think not.
And I'm gonna give folks the benefit of the doubt.
You could convince me they were studying this in hopes of developing vaccines to few future SARS-like viruses.
I think we need to give them the benefit of the doubt, Sean, but but here's my question.
In 2013, President Obama shut down gain of gain of function for viruses.
Uh there with a few loopholes that only Anthony Fauci could supersede that, and maybe somebody else at NIH, those loopholes continue in 2017 after an exhaustive uh study, uh, this is restarted.
And my question for Dr. Fauci this morning was did you consider the dual use of this of this research?
Or did it not enter your mind that doing this research with China that this could end up in their military hands or terrorist hands?
Was there anybody in that room from a national security standpoint, the State Department, the the uh Department of Defense saying, whoa, this stuff is more powerful than a nuclear weapon potentially.
Uh what are the guardrails surrounding that?
And and by golly, we're working on that hearing as well, and what legislation we need to come up with, put those guardrails on gain of function studying.
Um this has a huge, huge potential uh uh consequences if you've got in if placed in the wrong hands.
You want to explain to people that may not know what gain of function is, because it's a whole process.
Yeah, I'll do my best.
So a virus uh think of it as something really small, but it needs another organism to attach to and replicate.
And viruses run around and they have some uh impact on the ability to bind to the cell, and then others have are even more lethal.
Once they enter the cell, they do big damage.
So basically, you can take these viruses, manipulate their DNA and come up with a super virus.
So in the case of COVID-19, it's a soup looks like a supervirus.
Its ability to select out human cells is just amazing.
So it selects human cells, but but uh not as much bat cells, but more amazingly what this vat virus does is humans have a have a cleaver in their lung cells to chop this uh this spike off in half, activating the cell, and then it just goes to town, right?
But it doesn't affect vats nearly as much.
So somehow this super virus, what it seems like, uh impacts humans more than bats, even though it came from bats.
Some of these things happen spontaneously in nature through multiple mutations.
But what we see between RAP G13 and this uh the COVID 19 virus, it looks like it would have taken 20 or 40 or 50 years to do that through spontaneous mutations, and it looks like it happened overnight.
So these are our theories again, Sean.
You know, I'm the same.
But when you think of ro if you think of enemy states, if you think of, for example, the last century, for those that think, well, maybe evil doesn't exist on a level.
Well, I would like to remind people of you know the hundred million human souls that that died under Mao's communist China and Stalin's Russia and Mussolini and Fascism and Hitler and Germany and Japan.
Uh yeah, we lost a hundred million souls at least in the last century.
Yeah, evil does exist.
Are we talking about the possibility of weaponizing now viruses like this to destroy enemy states?
That's a real possibility, and I would imagine that you know, people that believe, for example, in crazy ideologies.
I'll take one, for example, convert or die, um, like ISIS or these crazy, you know, radical terrorist groups.
Um, you know, what would stop them from doing something like this?
Yeah, Sean, this this to wrap people's minds around.
Yeah, this is this is like science fiction, Doctor.
I mean, you you can't make this up, but we do have nuclear weapons.
I mean, so it's not beyond human comprehension, right?
Exactly.
This is exactly why we don't want uh Iran to have nuclear weapons, right?
Or or or North Korea.
This is more powerful than a nuclear weapons if it gets in the wrong hands.
We need some really strict guard drills on who and where we're gonna do this.
And it looks like to me they were doing a lot of this research in what we would call it a a biosecurity level two, which is no different than being in a dentist's office.
So they were doing this j this gain of function studies uh originally in very, very simplified labs with long histories of leakage of the virus.
Uh Secretary Pompeo tried to communicate that in effect you ways on what a big problem this was going to be, that the that their labs were antiquated and not practicing uh proper rules and and and so it's just too feasible that something like this could have happened, that there could have been a lab leak, and we need to know.
We don't want to see.
Well, we know one thing for sure, and I'll say this, and I'm I'm just gonna wrap up because of the constraints of time, Doctor.
But we do know that there was a travel ban.
China put a travel ban in effect that people in Wuhan could not travel to the rest of China.
People in China could not travel to Wuhan province, but they could travel to the rest of the world.
So they knew something was bad and they contained it in their country and let it go grow wild around the world.
They did do that.
That's a fact, correct?
Yeah, uh absolutely.
And with and we know that they know this virus started back in the fall of 2019.
The wet market was just a red herring that they threw us off track.
Uh, but they they put a a travel ban within their own country, let but let people leave Wuhan, and then they started grabbing all the uh protective equipment out there that they could, and then they're gonna be.
Uh our travel ban or they're travel ban.
Yeah, I I do not know the the date of that.
That'd be worth knowing.
Um all right, we appreciate you uh being with us, Dr. Roger Marshall, also the senator from Kansas.
Uh take it on Fauci earlier today.
It's just so sad.
Anyway, we gotta get to the bottom of it.
We need to know what the hell's going on in these other labs that are around the world that maybe we're not paying attention to.
It's a clear and present danger, obviously now.
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When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
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What difference at this point does it make?
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Let me update you on the situation with uh Israel, Hamas, the terrorist organization firing over 400 rockets raining down on Israel.
Again, you see the magic of the Iron Dome, which is we we saw this on one of our trips to Israel.
It's incredible.
Um, and we were there during tensions and hostilities.
We we ended up in a kibbutz on a border town in Gaza the night before.
They were hit with rockets.
And um, anyways, so you have 400 rockets being fired into Israel, and Congresswoman Omar accusing Israel uh of terrorism.
Where does that anti-Semitic logic come from?
You know, they got the here we go, the the anti-Semitic wing of the Radical Democratic Party at it again, trashing Israel, the victim of being having these weapons fired at them.
Usually, by the way, human beings used as human shields.
Senator Ted Cruz accusing Omar of uh siding with Hamas after she charged Israel with committing an act of terrorism.
Why is a member of Congress acting as the press secretary for Hamas?
Remember, the charter of Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel.
And then Cruz asked, Does Biden agree?
And his response came after Omar tweeted, Israel airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza.
That's an act of terrorism.
Well, Hamas often fires their weapon into Israel and uses uh, let's see, hospitals and schools as cover, human shields, so that the Israelis that care about human life are less inclined to defend themselves.
Well, they've had to strike back.
Israeli defense force is now swung into action.
They are already taking top Hamas commanders off the battlefield.
The IDF tweeting today, we just killed the commander of the Hamas anti-tank missile unit in charge of carrying out anti-tank missile attacks on Israel.
Our aircraft are currently striking additional terror targets in Gaza.
And if you're using hospitals and schools as shields and neighborhoods as shields, and the Israelis fight back, uh, you can blame Hamas for the rockets that they're firing from that location for any retaliation that is going to be forthcoming when you declare war on an innocent state.
Overnight response to the rocket fire into from Gaza at Israeli territory.
IDF stroke uh struck 130 terror targets belonging to terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.
They're not gonna back down.
But, you know, of course, some people have it asked backwards.
Now, I was telling you yesterday, I wanted to give you more details on the story I was telling you about yesterday.
And that was Biden now reinstating funding for the Palestinians, 235 million, just one more month before they attacked Israel.
I mean, okay, foreign aid that Donald Trump wasn't giving.
He had stopped because of their failure to recognize Israel's right to exist.
And April 7th, Reuters reported the Biden administration will provide at least 235 million in U.S. aid to Palestinians, restarting funding for the UN agency, supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut off by then President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the map.
Oh, is it a coincidence now that they have the money to fight the war?
Because this is this is their history.
The tunnels that were dug 50 feet below the ground, made with Israeli and American money and cement and electricity that was supposed to be for schools and hospitals so that they could sneak into Israel and commit acts of terrorism, which is what those tunnels were used for.
I've been in them.
And I think I'm the only person in American in the American press that reported on it.
And Israel is telling the Biden administration you better butt out of this conflict.
Good.
They're not going to help get out of the way.
Israel's warning the U.S. you better not intervene after U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expressed that the Biden administration's serious concerns about the situation in a call with his Israeli counterpart.
This is the first time the Biden administration has weighed in on Israel's actions in the West Bank and Jerusalem following the Trump administration's hands-off approach.
By the way, what would America do if its cities were being hit?
You think we might react?
You think we might fire back?
You think we might hit ten times, a thousand times harder than we're hit?
You know, because the Biden administration is now weighted into escalating tensions in this particular case, and they're funding one side of this.
New York Post pointed out that the squad members, like Congresswoman Talib, who once said she gets a calming feeling every time she thinks about the Holocaust.
What?
Sullivan reached out to the Israeli National Security Advisor to discuss the developments.
Israeli officials told Axios the Biden administration and the international community need to keep their distance.
International intervention is a reward to the Palestinian rioters and those who backed them and were seeking international pressure on Israel.
Top of the story, which I had mentioned to you yesterday, is that the Iranians were caught sending Chinese and Russian weaponry to Yemen to fight the proxy war against the Saudis and others in the Middle East to create more instability there.
None of this is good.
And as these rockets are being fired, yeah, uh the Biden administration needs to stand with our closest ally in the region.
But I'm not holding my breath because I don't have a lot of faith.
This was a pretty interesting article I saw in the American Thinker that it hasn't gotten any play that I've seen, except for here.
And the headline is over 120 generals and admirals warning the administration policies or national security threat, and they're speaking specifically about HR one.
Anyway, day before the Senate markup on HR one, Democrats, this is what they want.
They want no voter ID at all.
They want no signature verification at all.
They want felons to have the right to vote.
They want mass automatic registration, no checking if you're legal or illegal, or have a constitutional right to vote.
124 admirals' generals issuing an open letter to the American people warning our nation is in deep peril.
We're fighting for our survival as a constitutional republic like no other time since our founding in 1776.
Among the dangers facing the nation created by the administration's policy, the retired flag officers singled out HR 1 SR1.
Without fair, honest elections, they warn that our constitutional republic, their words, not mine, is lost.
Under our federal system, the states and not the federal government set the controls to ensure election integrity, and there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen.
State legislatures are tasked by the Constitution with setting the election rules, using government IDs, verified signatures, or Just common sense controls, and uh the flag officers argued to ensure honest elections.
But today many are calling such commonplace controls, quote, racist in an attempt to avoid having fair and honest elections.
Then they talked about and blasted the tyrannical intimidation tactic and using racial slurs to stop criticism of the power grab.
Pretty much what we've been telling you.
Pretty scary times.
You know, Senator Ted Cruz is out there been literally fighting on this.
This is very simple things that I've been telling you we need to do.
Voter ID, picture ID, just like you need to visit Joe or your congressman or senator, just like you need to buy a jewel pot, a pack of cigarettes or beer, or wine or spirits, just like you need to get in the DNC convention and signature verification,
just to make sure it's you, and you need chain of custody, uh integrity, which means when mail in ballots come in that both sides have an opportunity to make sure there's no tampering with it whatsoever by anybody, partisan observers should be able to observe, and the roles ought to be updated every election season.
What's so hard about that?
All right, to our busy phones we go.
Let's say hi to Diane in Georgia.
Diane, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, how are you doing today?
I'm good.
How are you today?
Glad you called.
I am good.
Yeah, um, I was gonna chime in about this colonial um cyber attack.
And you know, things like that just I do not really believe things like this would have happened if Trump had been in power.
I tend to what do I know?
I know me too, right?
But you know, just really things have seemed to go on way downhill since Biden has taken over because I really believe it's because he is a limp, and he is just not leading this country the way he should be leading it, and everybody's looking at him like he is a joke.
If my assessment, and by the way, what's so interesting to me is I said it all throughout the campaign.
The Biden we see today is not the Biden that left four years ago in 2017.
It's not the same guy.
I mean, he's he's he's weak and frail, and we're struggling cognitively in ways he never did before.
And you can see the tape research now.
And then he becomes president, then they go what am I doing here?
I don't even think he knows what day it is half the time.
That's scary.
But our enemies see what we see.
You know, the media mob can ignore it all they want.
The reason they stopped attacking me for saying it is because I keep playing the greatest hits of Joe, and it and it really looks bad.
And I'm saying there's all the proof you need that something is way off here.
So now they just figure, okay, we won't poke the Hannity Bear and try and get them all worked up on this again and let them keep playing the tapes because they're embarrassing.
Now, whether we like it or not, Russia, Putin, they're hostile regimes, hostile actors, same with China and President Chi, and same with Kim Jong-un and North Korea, the same with the Iranian mules.
Now, if we don't believe that they're making their own assessments about Joe Biden, and we are really dumb and naive.
They are studying every single thing he does every minute of every day.
We spy on them, they spy on us.
That's how the quote game is played.
They are hostile regimes to this country, and they will take advantage if they sense, feel weakness of any kind.
And my personal view is they feared Donald Trump.
They found him unpredictable.
They they knew that he meant what he said, and that he would follow through, because he often did.
And that fear, you know, you know, fear in that sense could be very healthy.
Because then they're less likely to initiate conflict.
And I think there's a certain emboldening of countries when you show weakness.
And I think right now America's projecting with Joe Biden weakness.
Am I wrong?
Biden won't stand up to the bad guys.
I mean, he I mean, just right here in America, he wants to defend the police.
He wants to pull out the military, he wants to break down every one of our defenses.
And scary.
We can't do that.
All right, Dan.
Good admonition.
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During the 2012 military offensive in Gaza, you tweeted, Israel has hypnotized the world.
May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.
How do you put that into context now?
And what do you say to American Jews?
So I remember when when that was happening, um, watching TV and really feeling as if um no other life was being impacted in in this war.
Uh and that really unfort those unfortunate words were the only words I could think about um expressing at that moment.
The the thing that was interesting in the class was every time the the professor said Al Qaeda, he sort of like his shoulders went up, and you know, he's in command al-Qaeda, you know, hospital.
All right, as we continue back to our busy phones.
Uh let's see.
Gilad is in uh Maryland, Sean Hannity show.
Gilad, hi.
Hey, how are you?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
Listen, it's such an honor.
I listen to you every day as I was listening to Israeli news all day.
I'm American and Israeli.
I'm watching Channel 2, Kishit.
And they're so leftist and biased, and it's like they're telling a story so apologetically, and they won't really explain what caused this to happen.
They just kind of say, well, you know, there's conflict on both sides.
And this is in Israel.
So I went home and I said, okay, let me check out what the American media and BBC and all them in Al Jazeera had to say.
And it was awful.
It was such slander and libel.
So first of all, I wanted your thoughts on that, but I also wanted to thank you for being a real friend of Israel.
I remember the reports back in the day when you were in the tunnels and really explaining why am I the only one reporting this stuff, and it's just so sad.
It's such a sad time.
Um it's even sadder when you when you have flagrant anti-Semitism by members elected to Congress.
That bothers me.
Yeah, you know, Rashida Tleb conflating uh, you know, all these police things has nothing to do with these rockets.
So it kills me.
It kills me, and you're such a good friend.
And If you could just talk about that media bias.
People don't understand this.
You know, when we took a helicopter ride up the coast from the Mediterranean and Tel Aviv all the way up to through the old city, you see how small this country is.
It is a tiny country surrounded by enemy states.
But what's so fascinating, we we got so close to a reconfiguration of the Middle East out of necessity.
You have the Israelis, the U.S., Jordanians, Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates.
They're all sharing intelligence like never before.
They're getting along better than ever before.
And it was it was Donald Trump that made that possible.
Now we got the Chinese and the Russians partnering with the Iranians to provide weapons for a proxy war.
But I got a roll.
We're praying for our friends.
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We touched on this earlier in the program with Senator uh Dr. Roger Marshall from Kansas.
And, you know, we're we're we're watching something that I I can't really even wrap my arms around.
You know, Mr. Followed the Science, you know, the ever forgetful, cognitively struggling, frail and weak Joe Biden.
You know, he's defying his own CDC.
He's wearing the mask outside, even though he's been vaccinated since January, you know, ordering every American, you must get vaccinated for God's sake, get vaccinated, get vaccinated.
Everyone's, you know, playing doctor on in politics and on radio and TV, and I refuse to do that.
And now even fake news CNN, even MSDNC, even the New York Times is saying, what the hell is going on here?
Why are you wearing a mask outside, socially distant with your vaccinated wife?
You're wearing it outside.
You go into the home of a 96-year-old former president and a 93-year-old former first lady, and you have no mask on, and you're on top of each other, taking pictures, then you leave their house and you put your masks on again outside.
Gives a speech, can't find his mask, wears his mask, it's in his own pocket.
And, you know, I I keep telling you, I'm I'm actually I I we can't say enough good things about medical professionals in this country, medical researchers, scientists in this country.
And and the fact that we were able to break down the sequence of this virus in six weeks, three vaccines that that you can fully, I strongly urge everybody to do their own research to get into it deeply, to check in with your doctor or doctors, to check in with the medical professionals that you know and that you trust.
I'm a I'm a person that loves the science.
I love the fact that our our medical researchers and scientists have done so much, even therapeutics.
You know, we've talked at length about regeneron.
We have talked about, you know, success that has been experienced by other doctors, Ivermectin and then and some others.
You know, and at the time, you know, when we knew nothing and had no therapeutics, none whatsoever, I would bring doctors on that said, you know, we're seeing signs anecdotal at this point, including, you know, our medical aid team at Fox and George Farid and Dr. Oz.
And we we put on a variety of opinions, just for me, allowing doctors to give a point of view, just freaked everybody out in the media.
Look, some of which I agree with, some of which I disagree with, but I want you to learn as much as possible.
And we didn't have anything at the time.
You know, and as Oz used to always say, he said two things.
You fight with the army you have.
Of course we'd love clinical trials, but we don't have that now.
So that's the army we have.
And then whenever politics and medicine crisscross, well, politics always wins wins.
He was right about that too.
You know, all these people trying to pressure me to tell you what to do.
I'm not a doctor.
I'm urging you to research hard.
Look out, seek out opinions that you may disagree with, read the research.
You can read the clinical trial studies.
You can read on all three vaccines.
You know, my personal, if you want my as I have done my own research, which one I think is is probably the best because it's the old style of vaccination.
well, that would be the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
Now, if I had been saying, get the shot, get Johnson and Johnson and a woman 18 to 48, they had a temporary halt because of the blood clotting that I think impacted.
It was about it was originally six women between 18 and 48.
It ended up, I think, being eight or ten total.
It's something they're watching.
There are now signs to be looked for in doctors, they've they're now allowing the vaccine to be used again.
Um what if I had recommended it?
What am I practicing medicine without a license?
I'm not going to do that.
But if you look at what we were told, you know, by Joe Biden, et cetera, you know, think about how far we've come.
Biden said masks for only the first hundred days of his presidency.
Well, now his press secretary is saying, well, he's wearing the mask, even though he's vaccinated, even outside to be extra cautious.
Well, there are people that are on the fence about this, and if he believed the science, followed the science, the way he's telling us that he we should, then if you're vaccinated, why do you need the mask?
And that's a fair question.
Even the New York Times, MSDNC, CNN, and others are now even asking the question and catching up to where we've been.
Anyway, here to help us sort it all out is Dr. Brian Tyson.
He's board certified family medicine, 14 years, ER hospital of medicine.
Um, uh All Valley Urgent Care, El Central California.
Uh he's treated over 1,700 COVID patients.
Um he was a believer in hydroxychloroquine and ZPAC and zinc and and other things, and uh Ivermectin, Dr. Farid is with us.
Um, and and he also has been on the front lines dealing with and treating over 2,000 COVID 19 patients.
I mean, his background, Harvard Medical School, it's impeccable, former research assistant NIH, former Harvard assistant professor, developed uh th three patents on cancer drugs, uh, established the first HIV clinic in California's Imperial Valley, served as a team physician for some of the tennis greats on the U.S. Davis Cup, like Agassi and Courier and Pete Sampras.
I mean, pretty incredible credentials, just like Dr. Wallace at Cedar Sinai, the former uh expert on hydroxychloroquine said the risk is nil in the doses that would be used.
He said for 30 to 60 days, and no doctor was even prescribing it that long.
Anyway, uh Dr. Tyson, thank you for joining us.
And Dr. Fried, welcome back.
Always good to have you on the program.
Thank you, Sean, for doing my having us.
It's an honor.
All right.
Let me let me ask you both the same question.
Dr. Tyson will let you answer first.
Is this mixed messages Joe is sending?
Well, yeah, I mean, the problem the problem is uh there's there's been too many mixed messages, there's been too many flip-flops.
Um when you're looking at uh what we've seen in the in the clinics, um, you know, the vaccines, um, the rollout was was meant to uh protect the the the very frail, the very uh elderly, those who are at risk.
That's what this was supposed to be.
Now it's being extended to uh all walks of life, all populations, and now we're seeing in the pediatric population, which clearly they don't need it.
Um and then they're saying, well, if you do the vaccine, then you should be able to go back to your everyday life.
Okay, great.
So everybody got vaccinated and everybody wants to go back to life, and then we're being told, well, no, you can't go back to life because you still need to do all of these X, Y, and Z things.
And the problem is is none of this is based on actual science.
None of it.
We we don't know the effectiveness of the vaccines.
We were told they were 95 to 100 percent, and we're finding a ton of breakthrough cases.
I can tell you that majority of my sick patients right now in our urgent care are patients who have had the vaccine, not those who have not been vaccinated.
So I'm you know, I don't know what's really going on with that aspect of uh we're dealing with a tiny percentage, and there are people that have had reactions.
I have read that in the literature.
There are people um that similarly have have contracted COVID post-vaccination, but from all I've read is those numbers are very low.
Uh, that's not what we're seeing in the clinic, Sean.
Unfortunately, that's not.
Um in it's not just COVID, though.
It's it's other illnesses.
There's been a lot of reactions, a lot of shortness of breath, a lot of cough, a lot of nausea, a lot of vomiting.
Um there's been uh lymphatinopathy, there's been uh swellings in the lower extremities.
There's been a lot of adverse reactions, and a lot of the people that we're seeing, we see probably a hundred and twenty to a hundred and fifty patients a day uh in our urgent care, and I would say majority of them have all had the vaccine.
Now, is that coincidental?
Maybe.
It could be coincidental that you know, more people have been vaccinated, so those coming in sick have been vaccinated.
But they're not showing up with traditional illnesses.
Uh they're showing up with very similar illnesses compared to the population that has not been vaccinated out here coming in with, you know, uh a regular uh say strep throat, for example.
Yeah, the the phenomenon of what would they are calling long haulers has not been really discussed either.
I mean, people that had this uh virus back in March or April of last year still have not regained taste or smell and and other implications as well.
But I'll ask you, Dr. Fareed, uh great to have you back.
Is the question of Joe Biden and and what he's been saying and then his behavior post complete vaccination, does it send mixed messages to the country?
Sean, thank you very much.
It I believe it does.
I I support everything Brian has said.
We've been on the same path uh since the inception uh 15 months ago.
Um uh with regard to the um problem of uh masking, uh I mean how that's uh the mixed messages on that, uh and i it it's clear that uh they there isn't a clear message that if you're immunized or if you've recovered from COVID 19, you you're not uh spreading it.
You're not able to spread it right regular uh readily.
Uh masking should not be required, or uh certainly it should be reduced in in that category in that situation.
Uh what I am uh see, I I see the same that Brian does.
Uh by the way, my numbers are not Brian's over 5,000 that he's cured with our protocol.
Um I I'm in the round eight to nine hundred.
And I'm the sad thing is I'm still getting calls from around the country from Idaho or from other parts of California and other states of patients that can't get early treatment and they uh and are still uh suffering with uh the COVID-19.
And I treat them how how is that possible with the monocolonial cocktails and regenerative Eli Lilies?
Yeah, very good point, uh Sean.
That's an excellent agent, and uh we incorporate it in our in our protocol.
But they these patients uh people call me and they don't even know about that.
And then they're eight, ten days into the infection, and I say, get over it, get the monoclonal if uh as soon as possible.
But uh it's uh it it's only one part of the treatment.
It's not the complete treatment to to be completely safe and effective one has to add in the uh the the combination of of medications uh such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin or fluvoxamine,
along with the antibiotic toxic and resithromycin and zinc and uh vitamin D. It's a five-day treatment that monoclonus would be just one one part of that treatment, and not necessarily the the the full treatment, not uh in most instances that I've seen.
And and you're speaking from real life experience and uh etc.
etc.
As we continue, Dr. Brian Tyson and Dr. George Fareed are with us.
Let me ask you a question, because everybody says to me that I ought to be telling people what to do.
Now, um I am trying to tell people to to hear from a variety of views.
You can read about the clinical studies um on your own, and I urge people to do that.
Everybody has a doctor, many people have doctors in their lives, plural.
Um others, you know, know people in the medical profession, and and I'm urging people to make that consultation based on your background and and your specific health condition.
Are there any people that want to be vaccinated that have health issues, Dr. Fareed, that you would advise them against getting vaccinated?
Uh uh I would say that uh there are not many in that uh who fall into that category, Sean.
I I think patients that are in this swath of uh over fifty years of age and have comorbidities, that it's worthwhile to take the chance with the vaccine.
It's proven to be fairly um safe for that category of people, and that's where it would be most helpful.
What uh the other aspect of the other thing is that the other thing is.
And those are the people that the one thing that did bear out the entire time was those people older, pre existing conditions, comorbidities, uh compromised immune systems.
That stayed constant.
And those are the ones that do deteriorate with COVID nineteen and end up on ventilators, and that's what we don't want to have happen again in our country.
What I'm seeing uh also I think Brian agrees with this that patients that recover from COVID 19 have durable, long-lasting immunity, and they shouldn't be forced to get vaccines.
That they they're uh they may they're more likely to have these side effects that Brian talked about, and that spike protein that's produced by all of our vac all these vaccines is a pathogenic uh uh uh molecule.
And it can can spread.
If it does, it may provoke severe lung symptoms.
And um in addition to the other problems that uh Brian talked about.
So so it's uh that's why I'm particularly worried about giving it widely to children and to young people who don't have any chance of deteriorating with COVID nineteen and that can be treated with our early treatment.
I got I'll come back to you.
Do you worry about the variants and the mutations that are coming along?
It was one report out of uh Europe that it uh people in their 30s now were ha were struggling where they hadn't before with one of the mutations with one of the variants.
Well, I think those are more early infectious.
Brian, go ahead and pitch in on this if you'd like.
Yeah, let me let me speak on that.
And I and the reason why I'm saying that is because at our clinic, um we've seen over seven of the variants already.
Uh we've also seen the Brazilian variant, we've seen the UK variant that everybody's been talking about.
What about the South African variant?
I heard that was very virulent.
I uh the South African I have not.
Uh, but we've been seeing variants in coronavirus since back to July.
Um, and I can tell you that they still respond to treatment.
Um every one of them has still responded to treatment.
Going back to almost we're over five thousand patients.
We've only had uh ten hospitalizations, and we've had three people pass away with partial treatment.
Um everyone else who's had early treatment, we have a hundred percent success in treatment, despite all of these variants that you're hearing about.
Yes, the younger people are getting infected, but when you get them started on treatment early, they all seem to do well.
Yeah, and Sean, these these variants don't uh develop resistance to this combination of agents.
It's sort of like HIV treatment.
We use a combination of agents to effectively suppress HIV multiplication in HIV patients.
In in the COVID-19 variant situation, they're all still very susceptible to the combination, and that's why we use a combination of safe agents.
I will come back on the other side.
Final thoughts, Dr. Tyson, Dr. George Farid, 800-941 Sean, then your calls final half hour.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of this uh extravaganza.
Uh last question.
Where can people read?
Where's the best where's the best source of information?
Is it the CDC?
Is it the NIH?
Is there any, or do you urge people to get into the clinical studies themselves?
Real quick, quick answers, Brian first.
Um from our standpoint, it's American Frontline Doctors, AFLDS.com.
We have a research page which has all the cited articles you can look up and uh with the links that'll give you all that information.
And Dr. Farid, where do you recommend people start?
I I recommend that as well as the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, uh, the AAPS that uh and and the guidelines that have been presented and all the l uh references there.
And then there are rigorous peer-reviewed publications now from Dr. Peter McCullough that and uh we've been included as co-authors, uh Brian and myself, but uh it there's plenty of l uh sources for good information.
And I urge people to research the the thing that happened today with Fauci and Rand Paul and and uh by the way, uh uh your your network has done a f phenomenal job.
I never understood with with all that became available therapeutic-wise, why uh it's there are states that completely they all wait until day seven or eight when it's now a real serious health issue.
It made no sense to me.
But uh anyway, we appreciate you both being with us.
Dr. Brian Tyson, thank you.
And also we always thank you, Dr. George Farid, 800-941 Sean Tollfrey telephone number.
Right, Maria's in Utah.
Maria, hi, how are you?
Thanks for checking in.
Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you.
So I I just wanted to call and talk to you because I'm listening, and the parents are trying to do the research for their children and what's best.
And we're trying to make these medical and mental health decisions for our children, and we're being shut down by school boards, by school districts.
Um we've sent in multiple documentations, not only from medical health experts, but mental health experts that are showing the damaging effects that masks are having on our children.
And we're being told that's not a valid enough reason.
We're being told that sorry, even if you have a medical or a mental health expert recommendation to be masked your child, that's not good enough.
It has to be done by a medical provider.
Not only that, but they're then taking this out on our children.
My child alone has been kicked out of class, been yelled at, been bullied, and now has been told that she can no longer ride the bus to school, or else she'll be cited for trespassing.
Because I have told her her health is more important than anything else.
I will back her up 100% to take care of the health.
Look, there has been conflicting messages sent.
That's not even it at issue here.
And, you know, look, I would understand if they would just simply explain, okay, if you get Moderna, you get Pfizer, you get your second shot.
At what point are you fully vaccinated?
Um and and again, I I go back to what they told us, their words, you know, and and they were telling us over and over again that the vaccine was uh, you know, fully effective.
And and yet all, you know, we seemed that now Americans are saying, what?
Now we still have to wear the mask even outdoors, then you're told you don't have to wear the mask.
You know, it just gets very frustrating for people, rightly so.
And you know, because people want to get back to a normal life.
I mean, that that's the bottom line.
He said masks are only for the first hundred days of his presidency.
So what why the mixed messages?
If you explain, okay, this changed, and this is why we're saying this or suggesting this.
I remember reading, you know, all right, how long does it take the vaccine to actually kick in?
And you know, what is the efficacy rate of success means for vaccinated people and and things like that.
Um, I know anybody that wants a vaccine in New York can get one at any time at this particular point.
And they're even talking about people that come to New York to visit New York.
Uh no reason to understand why they would in light of the violence that's happening in Times Square and elsewhere in New York City.
But if they come, they would they would have an opportunity even as a visitor to get vaccinated had they not been vaccinated.
Um, you know, the the bottom line is I just personally feel that this and and I'll and I'll tell you, um I have trepidation for another reason is they keep changing the moving the bar all over the place.
And they've been wrong so often.
I'm having a hard time with flip-flopping Fauci.
And I and I tried to be fair.
I tried to be understanding that they were doing their best, that there was a lot of unpredictability here, uncertainty here.
We didn't know fully what we were dealing with in the beginning.
So, you know, a year ago when he's on 60 minutes saying, masks aren't gonna work.
It's now evolved into one mask into two masks, into you might be wearing masks uh every year now during flu season.
I'm like, okay, guys, can you just get your your Adam Shift together and give us the straight scoop, what we know, and what people can do.
And just be, you know, just lay it out very clear terms and stop with the mixed messages.
It's uh a lot of people, it's causing a lot of people anxiety and concern uh for people that perhaps are inclined to get the vaccine.
They We now are seeing hesitancy, and I would argue that hesitancy is coming because of the conflicting messages of the Dr. Fauci's and Joe Biden's of the world.
You know, that that made a lot of sense wearing a mask outdoors with his vaccinated wife going into Jimmy Carter's house and leaving Jimmy Carter's house, but inside takes the mask off with no social distancing, right on top of a 96-year-old former president and former first lady.
That doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, does it?
It it really doesn't.
It really doesn't.
Neither does masking our children or or not allowing the parents to look at what's going on with their own child and be able to make the decision to demask them.
Do whatever's medically necessary for the health and the benefit of their own children.
You know, it we're we're getting to the point here where I actually do look at Biden contemplating the idea idea of mandatory vaccination for people in the military.
Well, uh what if somebody is a for whatever reason, maybe it's a health condition, maybe it's their doctor, maybe it's you know, maybe it's their own d uh decision, because I believe in medical privacy, medical freedom.
I believe in in the idea of patient uh doctor privilege, and and there's a lot of pressure coming from a lot of people and a lot of moving goalposts all over the place, and and they have wrought this confusion themselves.
That this is all on them.
I I love science.
We had no therapeutics.
We now have Regeneron.
We have Eli Lilly, we have, you know, uh all the all the science, if you want to read it on other therapies that that that some people criticize, but others swear by, like Ivermectum or hydroxychloroquine.
You know, I can't make these decisions for people.
I just urge them to to do their research and read.
There's so much literature available online and information available online that you can be an expert in in in a week if you just spend an hour or two a day reading and reading and and talking to and consulting with your doctor or doctors and medical professionals you like and respect.
Um the idea that people are trying to tell me what I ought to be telling people to do medically is a joke.
Because I'm not your doctor.
I don't know anything about your medical condition.
I I I'm not gonna practice medicine without a license, but I'm urging people to be smart and to be safe and to protect others that they love.
You know, I got criticized for saying that in the interim I don't mind wearing a mask to protect grandma, grandpa, or mom and dad, and and that we can get back and and watch a baseball game or or go to an outdoor concert or indoor concert again.
Um, and then I learned that I liked it because it gives me anonymity, which I haven't had in a long time.
Uh, although it's really bizarre, Maria, when some people recognize me with glasses, a hat, and a mask on.
That kind of freaks me out a little bit.
But you know, it's a serious thing.
I don't want anybody dying.
I don't want anybody sick.
I don't want anybody traumatized by all of this.
Young people still we have no evidence that shows widespread problems for young people at all.
And but yet nobody seems to want to ask that question.
I think it's a legitimate one.
I'll give you the last word.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
You know, we don't want to have anyone else caused harm, but just like you said, the school districts here need to are making those decisions, those medical and mental health decisions when they're not qualified.
They're making them for our children, which is frightening.
It's frightening as a parent to continue to watch my child suffer.
Well, the whole school system in general scares the hell out of me.
To be very, very blunt about it.
You know, I I mean, we we have school, entire school districts in Baltimore, like 13 public schools, not one kid proficient in reading and writing, but we're gonna talk about wokeness and the 1619 project and critical race theory.
I mean, can we learn reading, writing, and math first?
Can we just get the basics first and do a better job at that?
And you know, the idea that Florida schools have been open since August, and they're still debating opening schools in other states at this time is nuts.
Anyway, I wish you the best, Maria.
I know it's these are tough times for for parents, and I I really sympathize with you.
Um Laurie is in Michigan.
Hey, Lori, how are You.
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
What's going on?
Well, I wanted to know, speaking on that personal choice thing, if you know anything about Governor Whitner's plan here to open us up.
So basically, what it is is everybody has to put their head on the desk and tell enough people are good that we can all get out.
So at this point, we are at 55% vaccination rate of at least one vaccine.
Last week we were at 50.
I believe maybe it's up a little bit because snowbirds are coming home and they're telling their doctors, and probably most of them met the criteria, especially in Florida, to be vaccinated.
But we need to be at 65% or 70% for everything to be lifted.
And if we're at 65%, and what percentage are you at now?
Because I think New York.
What is New York, Linda?
It said 30% that last time I read.
I don't remember.
Fully vaccinated New Yorkers.
You know, I I don't know what the no, I just know that anybody that wants it can get it.
And I do know that people are calling me and asking me why the mixed messages.
And I I don't have an answer for them, except that I'm not in charge of it.
That part I can tell you.
And you know, I'm getting texts every day from my hospital system about you know, vaccines are available.
Tell all your friends about it.
And uh but yeah, I listen.
I mean, you know what the you know what the real answer for people is if you have the ability to move to a state that has lower taxes, less bureaucracy, that is more free and more open, where you can save more of your own hard-earned money.
Um that's the real answer.
Now many people can't make that decision, but I think more and more this mass exodus out of California, New York, New Jersey, and yes, Michigan is gonna continue.
You would think Michigan learned after they lost half the population of Detroit and were bulldozing neighborhoods uh to consolidate services or buying homes on eBay for a buck.
You'd think they would have learned by now.
Apparently they've not got only three counties elected this woman in.
And um, and so you know, that's just the way that it is, and we're stuck with her.
But yeah, I we own two businesses here and would love to to be gone.
But um at this juncture, I don't, you know, there there is no freedom as far as choice per se.
If you're a restaurant owner, which I'm not, and I do want to say that I um have asthma and I am fully vaccinated, so nobody thinks that I'm just a vaccine hater because I'm not.
I made the choice to do it.
But if you own a restaurant and enough people say, No, I don't want to get vaccinated, there are 16 and up.
Too bad.
We stay on lockdown in indefinitely.
Because until we reach 70 percent, she and or there's a variant, and it has to be two weeks past that.
Like right now, we just hit 55, so in two weeks, everybody can go back into work if they want to.
Before that, we couldn't.
Um, but now we have increments that we have to hit five percent, five percent, five percent.
So basically, if you're a sports stadium, whatever, you know, it's 50 percent, you can be at 25%.
Yankee Stadium's thinking about the vaccinated section and the unvaccinated section, and I have no idea how they're gonna determine who goes to what section.
Maybe it's the honor system or they're gonna start these crazy passport ideas.
That they give you.
But you don't need ID to vote just to go to a ball game.
Yeah, but you need a card to go to a Yankee game.
Good point.
That's a very good push.
I made it myself.
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