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| Glad you are uh with us, 800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Uh all right, so Dr. Fauci has COVID. | |
| Um, so I blame Dr. Fauci for making mistakes, especially early on. | |
| We we gave him a lot of latitude and a lot of time. | |
| We didn't know what we were dealing with. | |
| And it wasn't until later that we discovered we have the NIH emails, and then of course we have Fauci's own emails, a flurry of activity. | |
| This is remember, we only found out about it uh in late December 20 what uh 2020. | |
| No, what was it? | |
| 2019. | |
| And it was heading into 2020. | |
| And then there was a flurry of emails going back between him and other high-ranking officials at the NIH over the funding of the Wuhan Virology Lab, where they knew coronavirus uh studies were taking place and gain a function science was going on. | |
| And uh the flurry was did any of our money go to gain a function? | |
| Then of course the NIH emails basically confirmed all that. | |
| We didn't get that until much later, in year two of the pandemic. | |
| Uh in the interim, we had Project Veritas get us information, then the Intercept got us information that proved that they knew a lot more than what they said, and then of course we have the lack of real science because they never ever really talked much about therapeutics like monoclonal antibodies or these antivirals which we had long before the pandemic that a lot of people like. | |
| Uh uh Paxlavid, for example. | |
| Anyway, so Fauci, remember, if you go back to the beginning, he said if you get vaccinated, you don't have to worry about ever getting infected again. | |
| Wrong. | |
| Listen. | |
| If you get vaccinated after you get infected, your level of protection will go sky high, and then you won't have to worry about getting infected again. | |
| The only conclusion one can reasonably come to from looking what I've told you over the last few minutes is please get vaccinated. | |
| It will protect you against the surging of the Delta variant. | |
| He's wrong on both counts. | |
| Because people that got vaccinated after they got infected, they're getting it a second time. | |
| People that have that got their first shot, the second shot, the first booster, the second booster. | |
| Uh and then on the delta variant, we know that that was not true. | |
| If you got vaccinated, it will protect you from the delta variant. | |
| If you are fully vaccinated, guess what? | |
| You still were getting the delta variant, and that was the breakthrough variant, the first breakthrough variant uh prior to Omicron 1.0 or BA1 and now BA2. | |
| But they never talk about monoclonal antibodies. | |
| Uh, the person that has been in the forefront of exposing Fauci has been Senator Rand Paul. | |
| If Republicans get control of the Senate, he will be calling Fauci under very different circumstances, and we will get to the bottom of this, but this is Rand Paul pointing out and having Fauci point out that there's no scientific evidence that booster vaccines in kids reduce hospitalizations or death. | |
| Dr. Fauci, the government recommends uh everybody take a booster over age five. | |
| Are you aware of any studies that show reduction in hospitalization or death for children who take a booster? | |
| Right now, there's not enough data that has been accumulated, Senator Paul, to indicate that that's the case. | |
| The I believe that the recommendation that was made was based on the assumption that if you look at the morbidity and mortality of children within each of the age groups, you know, zero to five, five to eleven. | |
| So that's so there there are no studies, and Americans should all know this. | |
| There are no studies on children showing a reduction in hospitalization or death with taking a booster. | |
| The only studies that were permitted, the only studies that were presented were antibody studies. | |
| So they say if we give you a booster, you make antibodies. | |
| Now, a lot of scientists would question whether or not that's proof of efficacy of a vaccine. | |
| If I give you 10, or if I give a patient 10 mRNA vaccines and they make protein each time, or they make antibody each time, is that proof that we should give 10 boosters, Dr. Fauci? | |
| Uh no, that I think that is somewhat of an absurd exaggeration. | |
| Well, that is the proof that you use. | |
| Your committees use that. | |
| That's the only proof you have to tell children to take a booster is that they make antibodies. | |
| So it's not an absurdity. | |
| You're already at like five boosters for people. | |
| You've had you know two or three boosters. | |
| It's like, where is the proof? | |
| All right. | |
| Now, one last exchange between Senator Ramp Paul and and Bauci. | |
| I mean, uh Fauci admitting there's no scientific evidence that a booster vaccine in a kid in any way reduces hospitalization or death is pretty remarkable. | |
| Then Fauci in this case refuses to reveal to Senator Rampall which scientists received royalties and from which companies. | |
| Uh, I'd like to know the answer to this question myself. | |
| Why don't you reveal how much you've gotten and from what entities? | |
| The NIH refuses. | |
| Look, we ask them, we ask them. | |
| The NIH, we ask them whether or not who got it and how much. | |
| They refuse to tell us, they sent it redacted. | |
| Here's what I want to know. | |
| It's not just about you. | |
| Everybody on the vaccine committee have any of them ever received money from the people who make vaccines. | |
| Can you tell me that? | |
| Can you tell me if anybody on the vaccine approval committees ever received any money from answering the question? | |
| Sound bite number one. | |
| Are you gonna let me answer a question? | |
| Okay, so let me give you some information. | |
| First of all, according to the regulations, people who receive royalties are not required to divulge them even on their financial statement, according to the buy dole act. | |
| So let me give you some example. | |
| From 2015 to 2020, I the only royalties I have was my lab and I made a monoclonal antibody for use in vitro reagent that had nothing to do with patients. | |
| And during that period of time, my royalties range from $21 a year to 17, $700 a year. | |
| And the average per year was 191.46. | |
| It's all red, it's all redacted, and you can't get any information on the 1800 scientists. | |
| Senator Paul, your time is up. | |
| If If Republicans take the Senate, which I hope in November, uh those hearings will be run quite differently, and Senator Rampall will get the answers. | |
| He joins us now. | |
| Uh Senator, welcome back to the program. | |
| Uh look, I wish Dr. Fauci will. | |
| I don't we we've had enough death in this country. | |
| Um I wouldn't worse wish my worst enemy uh that they get sick from this thing. | |
| And you know, but what frustrates me is I will I will never trust the NIH again, ever, or Fauci again, or the CDC or Willinski, or any politician that is telling me anything about science so definitively like you you get the vaccine, you're not gonna get COVID. | |
| Well, that got blown out of the water five thousand uh times over. | |
| So um I feel like in many ways we've all been lied to, and especially on the origins of the of the coronavirus, uh and the Wuhan Virology Lab. | |
| Think about it this way. | |
| You heard his response. | |
| He says, Well, he got twenty-one dollars in royalties. | |
| Well, the information we got from Freedom of Information Act was eighteen hundred doctors or eighteen hundred NIH employees got a hundred and ninety-three million. | |
| So we're not talking about twenty-one dollars. | |
| He's being disingenuous and he's misdirecting us here. | |
| Eighteen hundred scientists got a hundred and ninety-three million dollars. | |
| We want to know who the scientists were and what company paid them the money. | |
| Because you cannot and should not sit on the vaccine committee if you have been getting royalties from the company that makes the vaccine. | |
| That's uh that's so obvious that I don't think anybody in the whole world could disagree with that. | |
| But when we ask the NIH for this information, they redact the names of the scientists and they redact the companies. | |
| So all we know is 1,800 doctors, 193 million. | |
| We don't know what committees they sit on. | |
| But Dr. Fauci oversees all research, virtually all research, billions of dollars in the country. | |
| We need to know who he gets money from. | |
| The other thing he didn't mention is he got a million dollar prize. | |
| Public servants don't take million dollar prizes. | |
| No politicians allowed to take anything like that. | |
| He makes more money than the president. | |
| He and his wife combined make eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year, and then he gets a million dollar prize. | |
| So the thing is we do want more information. | |
| We want more sunshine, and we suspect him. | |
| Now we did find out one bit of information that's a very good thing. | |
| There's one other little factor here. | |
| There's this kind of incestuous relationship where you have government officials, for example, working with the FDA. | |
| Don't many of them when they leave government service end up working for the drug companies that they've been regulating all those years? | |
| It's a revolving door. | |
| The current guy that Biden appointed was with Big Pharma, and now he's back in government. | |
| So, yes, it's a revolving door between big pharma and government and back again. | |
| Sometimes, like the people that approved the Purdue relationship that made Oxycotton, some of them were working at the FDA simultaneous to also working for big pharma that was making oxy cotton. | |
| Oh, that's not a conflict of interest at all. | |
| Not one bit. | |
| Quick break, we'll come back more with Senator Ramp Paul of Kentucky on the other side, 800-941 Sean, a number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| In early January 2020, as the virus was just taking hold in the country, uh, that there was a flurry of emails with high-ranking NIH officials about whether or not they funded the Wuhan Virology Lab. | |
| Uh, we know the NIH uh what last October uh they they finally released their information that confirmed that they knew coronavirus uh research was taking place and that gate of function research was being held there, and we know through the Intercept and Project Veritas we have even more confirmation. | |
| Does anyone get held responsible? | |
| Is it true that American taxpayers help fund this virology lab in Wuhan? | |
| Without question, American taxpayers paid for this research, and why in the world would we be giving any money to China, this large rich country that is our competitor? | |
| Why would we give them any money? | |
| But I've passed an amendment already that should stop that if Nancy Pelosi lets my amendment stand as her as this bill Goes forward. | |
| If I if we win in November and I'm chairman of a committee, I will use subpoena power to get every last shred of evidence. | |
| We will bring in scientists of all persuasions, not just Republican scientists, we will bring in scientists of all political persuasions, but that are concerned about gain of function research. | |
| And we will talk about whether or not did this come from a lab, what's the evidence in support of that? | |
| But we will also talk about what do we do to prevent this from happening again. | |
| A million people died in America. | |
| Six million people died worldwide. | |
| There has not been one congressional hearing or investigation of the origins of this virus. | |
| We have investigations every day on whether or not a plastic in your bottles causes cancer, but we have not had one investigation of where the pandemic started. | |
| This is outrageous. | |
| A million Americans dead and not one congressional investigation. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Let me move on to another issue that not many people in Washington talk about. | |
| That's the debt and the deficit. | |
| Years ago, Congressman Connie Mack came out with the quote Penny Plan. | |
| I know I think you co-sponsored it in the Senate or sponsored a similar similar bill at the time. | |
| But when Donald Trump was president, he talked about a nickel plan. | |
| Now you're talking about a sixpenny plan. | |
| In other words, to get the the federal budget within balance. | |
| And why don't you explain it because it's really simple. | |
| And I think the average household because of Biden inflation and the extra uh six thousand dollars per household that they're paying because of the inflation and the extra two thousand dollars they're paying for gas because of his gas crisis that he caused. | |
| Um, I think most Americans can relate to cutting back on spending, and you're just trying to rein in spending at the federal government level. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| The balanced budget amendment to the Constitution is uh something that we've all voted for. | |
| Almost every Republican in Congress has voted for it. | |
| And uh when it comes forward as a budget, though, when I put forward a budget that actually balances in five years, we lose half of the Republicans. | |
| So there they'll vote for something they know won't pass to be symbolic, but when they get a real chance to vote for a budget in the Senate that will balance in five years, they don't do it. | |
| When I started presenting this years ago, you could freeze spending and the economy would grow and you would balance the budget in five years. | |
| Then it became the penny plan. | |
| Connie Mack and others were on it as well, and you could cut one percent, cut one penny out of every dollar, and it would balance in five years. | |
| Now we're up to six pennies. | |
| Why? | |
| Because spending has exploded. | |
| But it's important that we have a budget. | |
| And one reason you want to have a budget, and one white reason you want to minimize debt is that's where inflation comes from. | |
| The high price of gasoline and groceries, it's because we run a deficit, the Federal Reserve buys the debt, the Federal Reserve creates new money, the money supply expands, and that new money chases the goods and chases the prices higher. | |
| It's as simple as that. | |
| See if all these Biden administration officials say, Well, we don't know what to do, we've done everything. | |
| Well, no, they've done everything wrong. | |
| They keep adding more debt. | |
| The way you fix inflation is quit spending so much and quit going so far into debt. | |
| By the way, uh when you see Mo Brooks over the weekend, I know you're doing two town halls with him. | |
| Um I'm supporting him as well. | |
| Uh, he used to fill in on my radio show when I was a local host in Huntsville, Alabama, and he was the Madison County District uh attorney. | |
| And I know you're gonna be doing one event in Huntsville, and I'm not sure where the other event is. | |
| I think in in Homewood, Alabama, somewhere around there. | |
| And uh just uh tell Mo we uh said hello and wish him luck in this runoff. | |
| We'll do. | |
| I'm gonna be with Mo Brooks Friday, this Friday at noon in uh Homewood at the Valley Hotel, and then this Friday at three o'clock, I'm gonna be in Huntsville at uh Four Points Sheraton. | |
| We think Mo Brooks has a chance. | |
| Runoffs are extraordinary. | |
| He is the conservative uh candidate. | |
| All of the establishment in Washington wants the other candidate because all the establishment wants a rubber stamp for big government. | |
| I promise you, Mo Brooks is a fighter, and I'm all in for him. | |
| Uh we support him as well. | |
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| So I'm reading yesterday a story about Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, um, who's been a real fighter and and a great Congresswoman from the great state of Colorado. | |
| And anyway, there's this group, I I've heard of them before, Mud Rakers, American Mud U Breakers PAC. | |
| And they made such unbelievable claims against her. | |
| I w I I sit sat there and I said, This is incredible. | |
| And she denies every one of them, claiming she was an unlicensed, paid uh escort, uh, making uh allegations that she didn't have one, that she had two abortions, um, uh, saying, you know, basically accusing her of being uh a call girl and everything in between. | |
| I I don't even want to get into the specifics of it. | |
| Congressman Bobert is with us. | |
| Congresswoman, thank you for being with us. | |
| And I know that you and your lawyers have said absolutely every allegation is blatantly false and disgusting, and it won't uh stop you from advancing freedom and conservative values. | |
| Uh, you pointed out this group's vile conduct and uh demonstrates why people have fed up with politics. | |
| I'm not gonna stand by and pretend this is normal behavior. | |
| This political committee, funded by far-left democratic donors, run by two left-wing political operatives, published pages of false statements. | |
| They knew were completely fabricated, you said. | |
| The law on this type of defamation is clear, and this conduct will be subject to civil and criminal penalties. | |
| Um, let's first talk about where where did this all come from? | |
| Well, uh, I'll tell you, Sean, first of all, thanks so much for having me on to talk about this. | |
| Uh, but i I think if we're going to start with uh the the malice being proved here, uh muck rakers, they came out and said, We're gonna go after Lauren Bober in Colorado. | |
| Uh they didn't say we're going to Colorado, we're gonna try to learn more about this person. | |
| They said we're going after her, we're taking her down, we're gonna fire her. | |
| And so there was malice intent uh from the very beginning of all of this, and then um there is no evidence to back up any of their claims, and it's really a shame that I have to come on your show and defend myself from such baseless and horrific allegations. | |
| When I decided to run for office, I I knew that I'd take shots from the squad, the left, and even rhinos in my own party, but never, Sean, in my wildest dreams did I believe that some political hack could say I was an escort, licensed or unlicensed, I don't care. | |
| Uh say that I had two abortions, say that I was a meth addict, all totally false, and with zero evidence that and it even trended number one on Twitter and would be written up um uh by reckless publications later. | |
| So I'm going to defend myself, uh, defend my name, defend my family, and I'm taking legal actions against this guy, David Wheeler and Muckrakers, and we're moving forward with a lawsuit. | |
| Now, I guess the reason that some people picked up on this is this is the same group as I understand it that went after Madison Cawthorne. | |
| Only in his case, I guess some of the allegations were true and backed up by photographic evidence. | |
| Isn't that true? | |
| Right. | |
| This is the same group that that went after Madison Cawthorne, and uh, you know, they they felt a little high and mighty after uh af after his um unfortunate loss there um and they decided to come after me. | |
| They said, hey, we got a good thing going here. | |
| But you know, the thing with this is Sean, it's it's so floppy. | |
| The allegations are sloppy and false. | |
| And I I couldn't have even had uh two abortions when they said that I was. | |
| I was pregnant with two of my sons when they're claiming I had these abortions, and I've never had one to begin with. | |
| So their so-called anonymous source uh is it's uh supposedly proved I was an escort by sending this guy a photo that wasn't even me. | |
| It's been ver verified as another woman, and worst of all, we have the text where this man was told by his source that one of his allegations uh was made up before he released it. | |
| He knew it was false, and he moved forward anyway, even published his source saying this is totally made up, and then changed his story later. | |
| So my team has spoken uh with with multiples attorney multiple attorneys, and we're going to speak uh with uh with more to find the right fit, and and we're gonna make sure that this political hack never has the opportunity to do this to anyone else again. | |
| So they published a picture uh a picture, supposedly as from years ago, and apparently that person has been identified as not you. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| That's correct. | |
| Yes, the woman is not me, and it it's completely smeared all over um these reckless publications and all over social media um saying that this is me. | |
| Uh, you know, uh Sean, this is the politics of personal destruction, and this is why people hate politics. | |
| I've been in DC this week, and I I I mean, I just want you to put this in perspective. | |
| I head home tonight, and I have to explain to my nine-year-old what an escort is, and that mom never did that. | |
| I have to reassure my four boys that I didn't have two abortions, that they don't have two siblings that never made it. | |
| This is absolutely disgusting. | |
| It's sick, and it needs to stop. | |
| Let me ask you about because Fox Digital uh talked to the I guess the president of this organization, and they claim that uh only one person, the one person that can answer these questions is you, and they stand behind their source. | |
| Now, my understanding is is that there's one source and they're claiming they have text messages, or any of the text messages from you or to you or from you or anybody you know. | |
| No, this is a personal string of text messages from this anonymous source between this anonymous source and David Wheeler. | |
| Uh, these are the only two people that are talking. | |
| Uh this anonymous source uh grabbed uh wrong photos from the internet and put them in the text string and says, This is Lauren Boebert on some sugar daddy website um that I was trying to obtain clients and uh you know, and then I called this pay-per-play. | |
| Uh I I mean absolutely disgusting. | |
| So his anonymous source is his only source, and then he turns around and says, Lauren Boevert is the only person who can answer these claims, and I stand by my source. | |
| So you if he's you stand by the source, but if the photo isn't really a photo of you and that's been pointed out, uh why wouldn't they at least correct that part of the story? | |
| Right. | |
| Uh and even after that was uh was made apparent in these publications, um uh even the Daily Beast came out and said, This is not Lauren Boebert. | |
| And uh and and they still said we stand beside b beside our source. | |
| I believe it was the Washington Examiner article. | |
| Uh he said, no, our source says this is her, that they saw this on the website. | |
| The the photo isn't on the website, uh, and and it's not me. | |
| Um so for for them to continue this uh it is is absolutely nonsense. | |
| And this is why I have um legal involved. | |
| But I I do want to assure your listeners that these lies will not stop me from fighting for freedom, liberty, and conservative values. | |
| I don't get my identity from Twitter trolls or fake news. | |
| My adity, my identity is found in Christ, and that will never change. | |
| Now the issue is uh who are you going to sue? | |
| And and obviously the organization or the PAC in this particular case, but I assume they're getting their their money to do this work from high-end liberal donors. | |
| Do they are they held accountable for the for the actions of the people they hire? | |
| Well, this is what we're looking into right now uh with my attorneys. | |
| Uh I I got off the phone with the attorneys to to join you. | |
| I'll be calling them again once we we end this and uh and really trying to button this down. | |
| Um, but they they see the allegations, um, they see they see the truth in what I'm saying and the things that I'm able to prove, and they believe that this is a a really strong case. | |
| And the law is clear, Sean. | |
| If you knowingly spread lies to hurt someone, that's libel. | |
| That's exactly what's happening here, and that's why I'm not letting this go. | |
| I've been working uh with these lawyers, you know, talking with defamation specialists, and I'm going to see this through. | |
| Lawsuits are expensive. | |
| Um, so I I mean, of course, you know, we're gonna need a lot of help to see this through to the end. | |
| Um, any listeners willing to to help contribute to defend um my name, which I think goes really to the greater good to make sure that this can never happen again. | |
| And and something that we're really focusing on is defamation per se. | |
| I I mean that is that is very weighty, and you cannot accuse someone of a crime. | |
| You cannot accuse someone of having an SPD. | |
| You cannot impugn the chastity of a woman. | |
| And uh, and that's exactly what they're doing here. | |
| Uh so I you know, I don't think it's uh a coincidence that these lies were spread while voters in my district are currently casting their ballots. | |
| Radical Democrats want me out of office and they'll lie and break the laws to try to beat me, but that's not going to happen because my district knows the good people of Colorado know that I uh uh that I am fighting for them and I know that they will have my back. | |
| Um I've got to imagine that this is probably the most winnable libel, slander, defamation case of a public figure that I've seen in my lifetime. | |
| Yeah, you know, and and proving a defamation claim against a public figure does in fact fall under a heightened standard of proof. | |
| It it not only requires proof that the statement was false, but requires evidence that the defendant knew or should have known that the statement uh uh w was false. | |
| So what is uh what is legally and financially disastrous for muckrakers is the fact that we also have evidence, including internal muckraker's text and email communications that demonstrates muckrakers did in fact publish statements, knowing those statements to be false. | |
| Further uh numerous statements and images uh, you know, that they that they published. | |
| Um with even a a five minute web search, uh the muckrakers would have been able to see that this was false. | |
| So as I said, Sean, um muck rakers, they are sloppy, reckless, and wildly irresponsible. | |
| And these uh these actions have created substantial legal liability for muckrakers, David Wheelers in his personal capacity, and uh probably each uh donor to the organization who chose to fund the effort knowing that it would result in defamation. | |
| You know, it's uh it's it's just a sad thing. | |
| Quick break. | |
| More with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on the other side. | |
| Then your calls. | |
| I more with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado. | |
| When we were vetting Barack Obama, I knew that I had to get every fact right. | |
| And we checked and we double checked and we triple checked, and we had numerous sources, and we even uh we sent people the Reverend Wright's church and we bought tapes that they were selling there. | |
| And the same with Bernadine Dorn and and Bill Ayers and ACORN and all these different organizations they were part of. | |
| When we were investigating the the conspiracy, Trump Russia collusion, which we were totally vindicated on. | |
| I mean, there were we we double checked. | |
| We had always had more than one particular source. | |
| We had background information. | |
| Because I knew if I got it wrong, um I I would be in trouble, but I'd also be putting people that work for me in in potentially legal in harm's way legally or or my my partners in radio and TV in in a bad position. | |
| So I always try to do it very thoroughly, and and maybe it doesn't go as fast as you want. | |
| Um it seems like this was all rushed, and I'm I'm a little bewildered that it's we're talking about only one source here redacted, and they're not releasing these quote so-called evidence that they have uh that would prove this, and you are denying it as emphatically as anybody I've ever heard. | |
| And I've known you long enough to believe you. | |
| Um I think it's Horrible in the middle of an election for you to have to go through this. | |
| Yes. | |
| And you know, it's interesting. | |
| Um, even with the uh horrible abortion claims, I I am a staunchly pro-life. | |
| I I I defend uh the most vulnerable of our nation. | |
| I I'm excited to see this Roe v. | |
| Wade decision come out, and hopefully we will begin to send save uh hundreds of thousands of lives with that decision. | |
| Uh we've lost sixty-three million children in our nation since Roe v. | |
| Wade has has passed. | |
| Um, but even even in a uh a recording, uh a recorded phone call that David Wheeler has published on his website um with another person uh who he was trying to get information from. | |
| He he led that person and said, you know, well, tell me about abortions. | |
| And and she is like, what are you talking about? | |
| Uh this this person said no. | |
| Um I I I don't believe that she's ever had an abortion. | |
| I don't know anything about that, and I know her better than anyone. | |
| And so before this anonymous tech stream even um it was even published, maybe before it even happened, uh, he asked somebody who said that they were very closely connected with me. | |
| And that person said, no, she's never had an abortion. | |
| So he was even trying to back this up and couldn't, and still went ahead with that information, saying that I had abortions, which is, I mean, absolutely horrible. | |
| And like I said, Sean, I have to go home and explain this to my children. | |
| Now I've I've I've I've I've lived this with you. | |
| I know exactly the feeling. | |
| It's not fun. | |
| It's not. | |
| And you know, this is why I always urge my audience and my audience does understand this. | |
| Uh never rush to judgment. | |
| Always believe in the presumption of innocence. | |
| And I'm listening to the with the passion in which you are defending yourself and your honor and your family's honor and integrity. | |
| And I hope the people of Colorado uh give you that presumption because that is fundamental in in our societies, our system of justice. | |
| And uh allegation so salacious like this is just uh the worst kind. | |
| Uh and it hurts. | |
| It's painful. | |
| Uh talk about pain and suffering. | |
| This is painful. | |
| This this causes suffering in families. | |
| And you're right, there are kids involved as well. | |
| But uh, we'll stay on top of this, Congresswoman. | |
| Let us know any updates you might have, and we'll watch it closely. | |
| But I have not seen a case like this that is more clear-cut in my life. | |
| Uh based on everything you just told us. | |
| So we appreciate you you sharing it. | |
| We're sorry you're going through it. | |
| Thank you so much, Sean. | |
| I I certainly appreciate you uh allowing me to come on here and talk about this. | |
| I I trust the the voters in my district, I trust the American people. | |
| And if any of your listeners want to help make sure I get re-elected in the in the primary and continue this fight, um, please go to Lauren for Freedom dot com. | |
| Uh, you know, this this stuff can get uh uh it can get pricey, and you know, I mean, just every little bit helps um to combat these lies with truth. | |
| Appreciate Congresswoman Lauren Boebert out in Colorado, who's been a fighter for conservative causes. | |
| Thank you for being with us. | |
| Quick break right back. | |
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