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	So now we have not only the FBI, which had previously admitted the lab leak theory was real, now we have the White House, the Energy Department, they're admitting the exact same thing that, in fact, COVID-19 was developed by Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an institute where we knew darn well they did coronavirus research and they did gain of function research.
	Now, this was somehow it leaked out of this lab.
	There was a clear, sloppy attempt to cover it all up with the help of China.
	They're lying to the world.
	Remember, they had their travel ban.
	You couldn't travel outside of Wuhan to any other part of China.
	You couldn't travel from any other part of China into Wuhan, but you could travel from Wuhan to the rest of the world.
	That was pretty damning in terms of what the Chinese knew and didn't care about anybody but themselves.
	And no one has been held accountable at this point.
	And, you know, this is what I keep telling you.
	People want to believe everything the government says.
	They were wrong on everything.
	They were wrong on masks.
	We learned that last week that, in fact, masks weren't working.
	They made no discernible difference at all whatsoever.
	Dr. Fauci was out there telling us face masks made little to no difference in preventing the spread of COVID.
	You know, Republicans now are rightly erupting and there's going to be a full hearing on the confirmation that the Wuhan lab was the most likely source of COVID.
	But then it gets worse because the NIH under Dr. Anthony Fauci was giving grant money to the Eco Health Alliance and part of the EcoHealth Alliance grant money was given to the Wuhan Virology Lab, which means in part we were funding a lab where coronavirus and gain of function research took place and where COVID-19 was likely created.
	You know, all things that we had discussed in great specificity and great detail.
	You know, at the time, Senator Tom Cottony was on our show last night on Hannity.
	He was just excoriated by the mob and the media for suggesting the lab leak theory.
	And here's what they said.
	Senator Tom Cotton actually closed his office this morning calling it the Wuhan virus as he did so.
	And he has, of course, been out in public talking about conspiracy theories, frankly, as to where the virus came from.
	Tom Cotton a couple of days ago spouting a conspiracy theory that the Chinese made this virus up at the lab and where you go.
	Giving just a whiff of credibility there on television and on social media to a conspiracy theory going around that the coronavirus originated and was perhaps man-made inside a lab in China.
	But Dr. Anthony Fauci rejected the conspiracy that coronavirus was man-made in a lab in Wuhan, China.
	And yet this week, Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum, despite his own intelligence community's findings that that is simply not true.
	If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, it's very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
	Well, Brad, I'm really sorry that the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people because frankly, we still don't know.
	There is no evidence really to say.
	Most of the scientific community, myself included, think that is a possibility, but far more likely this was a natural way in which a virus left a bat.
	Then they got furious every time Donald Trump would call it the China virus.
	I don't know, does that mean we're going to change the name of German measles or other countries that have viruses named after them because of their origination?
	China and others have criticized you for using the phrase Chinese virus.
	How do you feel about that?
	You guys continue using that phrase.
	The critics say using that phrase creates a stigma.
	There are some, at least one White House official, who used the term kung flu, referring to the fact that this virus started in China.
	Is that acceptable?
	Is it wrong?
	Are you worried that having this virus be talked about as a Chinese virus, that that might be a problem?
	I wonder who said that.
	Do you know who said that?
	I'm not sure the person's name, but would you condemn the fact that?
	Say the term again.
	A person at the White House, he used the term kung flu.
	My question is, do you think that's wrong?
	Kung flu.
	And do you think using the term Chinese virus that puts Asian Americans at risk, that people might target?
	Why do you keep calling this the Chinese virus?
	There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country.
	Why do you keep using this?
	It's racist.
	You do have people in the Asian American community whose lives are at risk.
	And for the president to call it a Chinese virus or a foreign virus, that is just not.
	It's just so dangerous and not a good thing to do.
	This is a virus that came from the territory of China, but came from bats.
	This is a bat virus, not a China virus.
	It doesn't speak Chinese.
	Anyway, Senator Ram Paul from the very beginning was calling Dr. Fauci a liar and challenging him over the lab league theory and gain of function research.
	But we now know through early emails in January, I believe, of 2020.
	Then the Intercept, they had 900 pages of information that were very enlightening.
	Project Veritas came up with information.
	And then we finally got the NIH emails confirming that they knew pretty much damn well what was going on, but they did not want to tell you, we, the American people that fund them, the truth.
	Anyway, here's Ram Paul challenging Dr. Fauci.
	So what you're doing is defining a way gain of function.
	You're simply saying it doesn't exist because you changed the definition on the NIH website.
	This is terrible.
	And you're completely trying to escape the idea that we should do something about trying to prevent a pandemic from leaking from a lab.
	The preponderance of evidence now points towards this coming from the lab.
	And what you've done is changed the definition on your website to try to cover your ass, basically.
	That's what you've done.
	You've changed the website to try to have a new definition that doesn't include the risky research that's going on.
	Until you admit that it's risky, we're not going to get anywhere.
	It's a dance, and you're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people dying around the world from a pandemic.
	And let's send Dr. Fax.
	I have to.
	Well, now you're getting into something.
	If the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a sub-award from EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-CoV-2, that's where you are getting.
	Let me finish.
	We don't know.
	Wait, wait a minute.
	It didn't come to the lab, but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab.
	There will be responsibility for those who funded the lab, including yourself.
	I totally will allow the witness totally resent the lie that you are now propagating.
	All right, joining us now is Dr. Stephen Kway.
	He has been a leader in studying the origins of the virus since the pandemic began.
	He briefed Congress on his research.
	And in 2021, he and two dozen other scientists called for an international investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in two separate open letters, both published by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
	And his work was mentioned in a Vanity Fair piece that gave a behind-the-scenes look into the fight to uncover the origins of this virus.
	It said, quote, much of the public discussion is focused on circumstantial evidence, mysterious illnesses.
	In late 2019, the lab's work intentionally supercharging viruses to increase lethality, meaning it was more lethal, known as gain of function research.
	The Chinese Communist Party has been reluctant to release all the relevant information, and reports based on U.S. intelligence even suggested the lab collaborated on projects with the Chinese military.
	But the most compelling reason to favor the lab leak hypothesis is firmly based in science.
	In particular, consider the genetic fingerprint of COVID-COV-2, the novel coronavirus responsible for COVID-19.
	In gain of function research, a microbiologist can increase how lethal a coronavirus is enormously by simply splicing a special sequence into the genome at a prime location.
	And if you do that, it leaves no trace of manipulation, but it does alter the virus, spike protein, rendering it easier for the virus to inject genetic material into a victim cell.
	And since 1992, there have been at least 11 separate experiments adding a special sequence to the same location.
	The end result has always been supercharged viruses.
	Dr. Kway, I think you were a little ahead of your time.
	I give you a lot of credit.
	You were speaking out at a point where you were excoriated for speaking out.
	Well, that's correct, Sean.
	I mean, if you go back to March, April of 2020, the science was leaning completely towards this being a lab-constructed virus.
	I mean, when I say that, 95% is from nature, 5% is the scientists themselves.
	But nonetheless, that's what it means when it's man-made.
	And now we're finally getting to the truth.
	Okay.
	What do you think the truth is here?
	And how did they get away with lying for so long?
	And I want you to specifically focus in on the NIH and the EcoHealth Alliance money that was given to them by the NIH and where that money went.
	So first of all, what I believe happened was that as they said they want to do in a grant in 2018, they wanted to put this fancy site, as you spoke of, pure and cleavage site, always makes it more lethal.
	They wanted to put it into a virus and do research on it.
	And we think we, and they did that.
	Now, I think rather than talk about the market, I think a laboratory person in the lab was infected and they went to line two of the Wuhan subway, which carries a million people a year and goes where?
	Straight to the airport.
	So my work showing that it was a 1 in 86,000 probability that line two was the actual, what I call the line two conduit.
	That's what spread it to the entire world.
	And the instrology happens to be on that line.
	So is the PLA hospital, where the first cluster that I found is on the same subway line.
	So, you know, this is clearly work that, I mean, it's once again, it's, you know, sort of U.S. brains, a little bit of U.S. money, and then that's repeated in China in a different way.
	Their laboratories there have much lower biosecurity standards.
	I know specifically this laboratory is doing three kinds of gain of function research.
	I found the sequences in the laboratory.
	Nipah virus, 60% lethal.
	Influenza virus, 39% lethal.
	MERS virus, 30% lethal.
	I have them in the middle of an experiment with a test tube and a pipetta in their hand doing those experiments.
	That's direct evidence.
	You could take it to court.
	You can do anything, you know.
	And so this is, this is, we have to get to the bottom of this, and we have to prevent it for the future because I believe a 10% or greater lethal virus will end civilization as we know it.
	And I have evidence they're working on three viruses that are well above that level.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll come back more with Dr. Stephen Kway on the other side, 800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
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	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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	What 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 Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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	And I'm Ted Cruz.
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	All right, we continue with Dr. Stephen Quay on this new on these new revelations regarding COVID-19.
	And yeah, it was a lab-created virus after all.
	And masks didn't work after all.
	You know, when I look at this virus in particular and I look at our government and what they told us, we now have article after article after article pointing out something that, for example, face masks made little to no difference.
	Americans were told by everybody, you know, from Fauci on down that if you got the vaccine, you're not going to get COVID.
	That turned out to be a lie.
	That vaccinated immunity is better than natural immunity.
	I always thought that was dumb.
	I never thought that was an intelligent statement myself.
	Or that masks will prevent COVID transmission.
	Even Fauci in his first interview on 60 Minutes said it's probably not going to work at all.
	That school closures reduce COVID transmission.
	Well, we know in the state of Florida, their schools opened in August of 2020 and they weren't having the problems that so many predicted that they might have.
	They didn't have them.
	The vaccine has no side effects.
	That wasn't true either.
	How many examples of myocarditis, for example, have we had as a result?
	Do you believe that's directly related to the vaccine?
	Well, I mean, in the book I wrote, Stay Safe, you know, Physician's Guide to Coronavirus, I wrote that in May and June of 2020 before there was a vaccine.
	Chapter 4 says, here's why we'll never have an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
	Because coronaviruses are resistant to making vaccines, too, and we've tried for 20 years.
	And so to suddenly think this one would be different was a fool's errand.
	But, you know, a lot of the policies, you know, I'm migrating into that area, but they were untested.
	They were applied to 300, 400, 350 million people in an untested fashion.
	And most of them, or all of them, did not work.
	So my question is, now, are we going to learn from this or is America going to put its head in the sand and just try and brush this aside?
	Well, it's my firm belief that we need to learn from it and that Congress needs to put in some new guardrails around this kind of research.
	Clearly, the scientists that are doing this research are not able to self-govern their own activities.
	Not uncommon, but nonetheless, it's proven in this case.
	So if we do not pass new legislation to put guardrails on this kind of release, we'll have this repeated, and not with a 1% lethal virus like SARS-CoV-2, but with a 30 or greater virus.
	And we just, we won't survive as a civilization.
	I mean, that's a pretty scary scenario.
	And if canoe function research continues, we're all in trouble.
	We really appreciate your time.
	Thank you for being with us, Dr. Kway.
	We appreciate it.
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	In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
	You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
	I'm not joking.
	You don't know my state.
	My state was a slave state.
	My state is a border state.
	My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.
	We got the first sort of mainstream circle American who is articulate and bright and clean, nice looking guy.
	I mean, that's a story.
	Unchain Wall Street.
	They're going to put you all back in chains.
	It's a long way until November.
	We got more questions.
	You got more questions.
	But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for mayor Trump and you ain't black, we have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it.
	Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
	I'm a 29-year-old oddball.
	The only reason I was able to raise the money is I was able to have a national constituency to run for office.
	Because I was 29, I'm like the token black or the token woman.
	I was the token young person.
	If we don't, they will, or a portion of them will, become the predators 15 years from now.
	And Madam President, we have predators on our streets.
	I think the two-party system, although my Democratic colleagues don't like me saying this, I think the two-party system is good for the South and good for the good for the black in the South.
	Yes, and by the way, what you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community.
	Although I and my colleagues behind me revere the Senate, Robert C. Byrd elevated the Senate.
	He was fiercely devoted, as you've all heard, to his principles.
	Even once he became power, he always spoke truth to power, standing up for the people he proudly was part of.
	By the way, you know, I'm not, I may be a white boy, but I'm not stupid.
	I know where the power is.
	I know where the power.
	You think I'm joking.
	And by the way, on the issue of, you know, race, you know, Jill Biden, Joe's wife, she does claim that Joe's not a racist.
	She claims that.
	You know, I think that they were looking at the past.
	I mean, the one thing you cannot say about Joe is that he's a racist.
	I mean, he got into politics because of his commitment to civil rights.
	And then to be elected, Barack Obama, and then someone is saying, you know, you're a racist.
	As soon as I heard those words.
	You're not a racist.
	I know, but as soon as I heard those words, I thought, uh-oh, what's coming next?
	And I think the American people know Joe Biden.
	They know his values.
	They know what he stands for.
	And they didn't buy it.
	You don't think that, well, because you took a hit in the polls.
	And some of African people.
	The polls are coming back up.
	The polls are coming back up.
	So we just saw that today.
	And I think the more people get to know Joe, the higher the polls will get.
	I mean, it just is unbelievable to me.
	It really is unbelievable.
	Now, the Biden administration, you know, I've been watching all week.
	And here we find out that the lab leak story, in other words, with the origins of COVID, turn out to be true.
	Everybody says it's true.
	The only one that says it's not true is John Kirby and Corine Jean-Pierre.
	At the Biden administration, they don't even want to acknowledge that which we now know to be true.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	Listen to this.
	Did the coronavirus pandemic start in a lab?
	Is that what you believe now?
	Well, Dana, there is a variety of views in the intelligence community.
	Some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other.
	A number of them have said they just don't have enough information to be sure.
	And if we gain any further insight or information, we will share it with Congress and we will share it with the American people.
	But right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question.
	There is not a consensus right now in the U.S. government about exactly how COVID started.
	There is just not an intelligence community consensus.
	Right now, there is no consensus.
	There is no consensus.
	You heard this from Jake Sullivan yesterday.
	You heard this from my colleague just moments ago.
	And we are going to do everything that we can.
	The president is asking his team to do everything that they can to figure out where it originated because of what could potentially happen next.
	Now, another lie that we caught them in this week is the Biden administration, you know, they've been telling this lie about, well, we're not using 9,000 oil permits.
	Yeah, all of that turned out to be untrue also.
	Never mind the problems associated.
	Just because you have a permit open, no oil company has any idea if there's actually going to be real oil just because the permit is there.
	And so, but now they're finally admitting that it was a lie and not true, but that didn't stop them from peddling that lie again and again and again.
	This idea that they don't have oil to drill and to bring up is simply not true.
	This piece of the Republicans talking about Biden shut down fields wrong.
	9,000 of them, okay?
	And of the remaining 10% that occurs on federal land, the oil and gas industry has millions of acres leased.
	They have 9,000 permits to drill now.
	They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year.
	Nearly 60% of leased acres remain non-producing.
	That's a lot in the range of 20 million acres.
	So there are 9,000 unused approved permits to drill in.
	That should not require us inviting them to do that.
	They should do that themselves.
	And we will continue to produce more oil.
	There are 9,000 approved drilling permits that are not being used.
	So the suggestion that we are not allowing companies to drill is inaccurate.
	And he will seek to require oil and gas companies sitting on the thousands of approved but unused permits and idle wells on federal land to either start producing or pay a fee.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones.
	David, South Carolina, next, Sean Hannity Show.
	What's up, David?
	How are you?
	Hi, Sean.
	I want to thank you for all that you do for us Americans.
	Well, thank you, my friend.
	You give me this microphone.
	I'm trying to do the best job I can.
	Well, we couldn't ask for a better person doing it.
	I wanted to say that I'm a farmer, but that wouldn't be correct because it's not just me, it's my whole family, my two young sons, my wife, we make up the farm.
	And everything we've done in the last 10 years is just pouring everything we can into it to make it a good farm, a good business.
	Can I ask, what do you farm?
	We have cattle, Black Angus cattle.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	I need to make a big order.
	I got a big freezer.
	I'm hearing from ranchers.
	I'm hearing from farmers.
	I'm hearing the same thing.
	Is the cost of feed, the cost of fertilizer, the cost of seed, the cost of repairing equipment if you can even get spare parts.
	It is killing ranchers and it is killing farmers.
	And we're all going to pay the price because we're going to have to pay higher prices on everything, dramatically higher prices.
	Is that what you're seeing?
	Yes, I do.
	And we're kind of caught in a perpetual one-two punch.
	This situation is fuel and fertilizer equipment.
	There's no way to keep up with the expenses.
	And so the only thing you can do is to cut back on expenses because you can't spend your way out of this.
	I had other businesses in my lifetime, and there were times you could spend your way out.
	But if you try and spend your way out of this, it won't work.
	And we're basically, you know, we were talking, or you were talking earlier about going green and what it means for the fuel industry.
	And I want people to think about the fact that going green to the liberals also means, or to the leftists also mean getting rid of farms.
	And, um, our, our situation, well, what do they think they're going to eat?
	Even if they like plant based food.
	What are they going to eat?
	Well, Brazil is 60% of the production of cattle at this point.
	And I frankly don't want my beef coming from Brazil.
	No, I want my beef coming from your ranch in South Carolina.
	And by the way, I don't like Wagyu beef.
	Do you?
	No, I don't.
	I don't.
	I don't like it at all.
	Beef.
	Listen, look, I'm glad that other countries, they're raising cattle, et cetera.
	But you know what?
	I'm kind of, I want to support American ranchers.
	I want to support American farmers.
	And if you don't want to buy beef, don't buy beef.
	I like beef.
	I love beef.
	I'm pretty much paleo keto-friendly in my diet.
	And that's a big part of my diet.
	That and eggs both are through the roof in terms of prices now.
	And, you know, it's sad to me that we're not protecting and helping and aiding and abetting America's farmers and ranchers.
	It also boggles my mind that we're allowing China to buy farmland, ranch land, and land near military installations.
	How stupid is that?
	That's what our country is doing right now.
	Well, one last thing.
	I wanted to ask the question: why can't Ukraine give us fertilizer?
	A lot of fertilizer comes from there.
	In fact, most of it right now is coming from Ukraine and Russia.
	Well, you know what?
	I didn't know that, but if they have fertilizer, yeah, they owe us after they got $120 billion of our dollars, we should be their best customer and we should get the best price that they have.
	Yeah, I agree with you.
	Good point.
	Yeah, our governors, our presidents should be getting fertilizer for us farmers because Brazil is going to be the only option because I'm able to cut back on expenses and stay because we don't have a bunch of loans.
	But I'm watching everybody in my community just quit doing cattle.
	Wow.
	You know what?
	That's going to be awful.
	And it's the same with the price of bacon, the price of beef, the price of chicken, the price of eggs.
	Everything is going higher.
	And you know what?
	I'm able to afford it.
	I'm blessed.
	There was a point in my life where I was living paycheck to paycheck.
	That was for many years of my early adult life.
	I didn't like it.
	And I feel so bad that two-thirds of our fellow Americans right now are living paycheck to paycheck.
	And many are now, for their bare necessities, they're charging it on their credit card.
	And then others are tapping into, with big penalties associated with it, their retirement accounts.
	And it's because of Biden inflation and the horrible economy that he's created.
	And by the way, it's not getting better anytime soon, which is even worse.
	Listen, I love you guys.
	You farmers, you feed the world.
	We can't thank you enough, my friend.
	God bless you and your family.
	And I hope you're able to ride this out to better, more prosperous times for you and your family, my friend.
	Brian in Wisconsin, what's up, Brian?
	How are you?
	Hey, Sean.
	Just I got two different topics to bring up, but I'm just going to tell you, you're like 100% of the truth.
	Like everything you've ever said when fake news was doing this, doing that.
	Like, I just can't believe everything is the truth that you said over the past five to seven years that I've listened to you.
	Well, thank you.
	We work very hard at telling the truth.
	If I can't confirm something or corroborate something, I don't go with it.
	You know, a lot of people say, well, Hannity said this.
	And I look back and I'm like, Hannity never said this, never said that.
	This is what Hannity has said.
	We have tapes of everything that I've said.
	And it's frustrating when people purposely take your words out of context.
	They do it on purpose.
	There are well-funded organizations that want to take this show down and take every other conservative voice down.
	And I'm not whining or complaining.
	It's just the reality of the environment that we have to work in every day.
	But, you know, we do it with a smile on our face and we feel blessed to be able to do it.
	And we're going to do it as long as God lets us do it.
	It's that simple.
	Anyway, I appreciate it, my friend.
	Brian, you're a good man.
	God bless you.
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	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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	I mean, Biden just lost it today.
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	Apparently, she got attacked.
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	You'll also meet Anna Paulina Luna, who says her military records were leaked by the Air Force.
	And this is now becoming a massive scandal.
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