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Dr. Ben Carson - March 2nd, Hour 3

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	If you want to be a part of the program, many forget that Dr. Carson, he did such a great job in the Trump administration, but he ran for president.
	At one point, I remember having a conversation with him.
	He'll join us in a minute.
	And I said, Dr. Carson, I think you're too nice, too kind to be in the political arena.
	And I was not being sarcastic.
	It's like he's too nice.
	This is very, you have to be mean and tough.
	And it's not a part of his soul.
	He's such a good guy and spent his entire life saving lives.
	This is a moment from back when he ran.
	In the two hours of this debate, five people have died from drug-related deaths.
	$100 million has been added to our national debt.
	200 babies have been killed by abortionists.
	And two veterans have taken their lives out of despair.
	This is a narrative that we can change.
	Not we the Democrats, not we the Republicans, but we the people of America, because there is something special about this nation, and we must embrace it and be proud of it and never give it away for the sake of political correctness.
	Wow.
	Powerful moment by our friend Dr. Carson.
	By the way, he's with the American Cornerstone Institute, and they have incredible projects over there.
	We'll talk about it in a minute.
	You know, that was a beautiful moment for you.
	And, you know, I don't know if you remember me saying that to you.
	I was not being critical.
	I was like, this is like the nicest person that ever ran for president.
	And I'm like, it's just being nice in politics doesn't always pay off.
	Shelan, I remember that very well.
	And many people have said that to me.
	You're much too nice to be involved in this.
	I know.
	It's a terrible thing to say, but it's a compliment.
	You're like the nicest guy in the world.
	You devoted your whole life to saving people's lives.
	And I love following you on the campaign trail.
	I had many interviews with you.
	And you ended up serving this country, and you did such a good job.
	We're really proud of you.
	Well, thank you.
	I mean, we still have so much work to do to salvage our country.
	And I don't think most people realize how much trouble we're actually in right now.
	You know, our founders worked extremely hard to give us a country that would remain free.
	And when Benjamin Franklin came out of the last Constitutional Convention in 1787 and was asked, what do we have here, Sir Monarchy or Republic?
	He said, a republic if you can keep it.
	Close to losing it right now as we have ever been at any point in time.
	And such things as our fundamental freedom of speech are being challenged severely.
	And people have to recognize it, but you have to do more than recognize it.
	And that's what we do at American Cornerstone.
	We're a think tank, but we're also a do tank.
	That means we do stuff.
	So, you know, in addition to the Little Patriots program to teach the kids the true history of who we are and what our fundamental principles are, free of charge, by the way, we're starting this month the Executive Branch for America, which is a program that will teach, you know, college students, executives, all kinds of people who want to know what goes on in the government.
	How do the different parts of the government function?
	How do they interact together?
	What exactly happens in the executive branches in the different agencies of government?
	How is the budget formulated?
	All of those kinds of things.
	And why is that important?
	Because we need to encourage particularly college students, young congressional staffers, to get in the game.
	And as career employees, right now, the vast majority, 90% of the career employees are people who live in the D.C. area and D.C. political thinking.
	They're the ones who actually make things run.
	They can slow things down.
	They can accelerate things.
	And there's not representation of the rest of the country.
	And we really need to get people in there.
	So we're trying to equip them with what they need.
	We also need to start talking about getting some of the federal agencies out of Washington, D.C.
	Oh, I mean, we need more state-run programs than anything involving the federal government.
	They screw up everything, especially they've screwed up education.
	You know, it's funny you're talking about this because, you know, as my kids have gotten older, I never really pushed my political views on them.
	I never brought my job home with me.
	Yeah, they read about their dad, but they've seen the good.
	They've seen people nice to me.
	They've seen people mean to me.
	You know, it's kind of, they just grew up with it.
	And, you know, my daughter was born 13 days before 9-11.
	And, you know, I remember specifically at some point, it was in high school when she was in high school.
	And I realized she didn't know much about that day.
	She knew some, but she wasn't being taught much.
	You know, our kids are not, you know, you learn the history of the world, but the last thing you learn in high school is American history.
	It's unbelievable to me.
	And so I love what you do, and I think it's a great idea because I think the people know, I think the more people know about freedom and liberty and our Constitution and how this nation was formed and our framers and our founders, I think a more educated population is going to be more inclined to understand how precious and rare freedom is around the world.
	And recognize that there is an attempt.
	I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but there seems to be an attempt to dumb down our population.
	And you look at what's going on with some of our schools, particularly in the inner city.
	Let me give you an example.
	Baltimore, Maryland, 13 public high schools.
	Not one kid is proficient in reading or math.
	That pretty much says it all.
	23 public schools in Baltimore.
	Oh, it's 23.
	I thought it was 13.
	No, it was 23.
	Wow.
	And there are some places that are even worse than that.
	And what are these people going to do?
	They graduate from high school and they're functionally illiterate.
	Well, think about it.
	If you can get a large portion of people to be dumbed down, you can control them.
	You can say things to them like, there's no problem at the southern border.
	And they'll say, oh, okay, they said it was okay.
	You know, you need people to think for themselves.
	That's what America was founded on.
	People who understood the Constitution.
	That's why, you know, in 1831, when Alexis Tuckville came here and started studying our country, because they couldn't understand how in the world a nation only 15 years old could be competing with all the capitals of Europe.
	And he found mountain men who could read.
	Mountain men who understood our Declaration of Independence.
	That was something that characterized us and our school system and the test that the kids had to take and what they were expected to know.
	We were an educated people.
	I think that's one of the reasons that we accelerated so quickly from zero to 60.
	Look at the love your own mother showed you by forcing you to stay in, not play with your friends, not go out and hang out, and made you read and look at what it did to your life and all that you have achieved as a result of her love for you.
	We should be doing that with every child.
	I believe we're all children of God and that God put talent in all of us, unique talent, just like we all have a unique fingerprint.
	We have unique talents and gifts that he's given us.
	And it has nothing to do with the color of your skin.
	No, it's just the fact that one of the highest per capita families are Nigerians in this country.
	They have black skin.
	But if you go to a Nigerian family, you will find bachelor's degree is the baseline.
	And there's a tremendous amount of emphasis on family.
	I wonder if we started emphasizing those things rather than pointing fingers at each other and saying, you're causing my problem, might we not see a significant acceleration in people's progress?
	Let me ask you something else.
	We just learned, this is more of a health question.
	We just learned that everything we were told about masks of huge study shows that they were wrong.
	We were told that if we got a vaccine, that we would never get COVID.
	That proved not to be true very early on with the Delta variant.
	People, you know, we're being told that we should be vaccinating even young children, even though they've not even fully tested the impact on young children.
	We've been lied to at a level I can't even imagine as a country.
	We were lied to about the origins of COVID.
	We know now that the NIH knew damn well it was likely that this was likely created in that Wuhan virology lab, but yet they were talking about wet markets and anyone that dared to say, well, we know coronavirus research takes place at that lab.
	We know that gain and function research takes place at that lab.
	It made sense that it came from the lab.
	And now we know it did come from the lab based on, you know, not only the FBI, but Biden's own energy department.
	And there are still people in the Biden administration denying what their own energy department is and their own FBI is saying.
	It's pretty incredible.
	And they also denied the validity of natural immunity.
	They recently have come around to say, well, yeah, okay, natural immunity is just as good, if not better.
	And one other thing, the one therapeutic that worked that I saw and everybody agreed on, they took away emergency authorization for monoclonal antibodies.
	Why would you do that?
	And of course, they poo-pooed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and things that have been shown to be quite effective.
	Why?
	Because they wanted to push the vaccine.
	Isn't it interesting that the head of the FDA at that time is now on the board of Pfizer?
	What a great little incestuous relationship that sounds like.
	You know, I never read a study about ivermectin, so I was always agnostic on it.
	I just don't know.
	But there are multiple studies that did come out later about hydroxychloroquins, and they said taken early, it mitigates some of the symptoms.
	Now, we didn't have anything to offer people at that time.
	And the person that was the foremost expert, what is his name, Dr. Daniel Wallace out at Cedar Sinai in Los Angeles, he had been prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
	He has the largest lupus practice in the country and rheumatoid arthritis practice in the country.
	And he said the risk is zero.
	There's no risk at all if you took it.
	Nobody wanted to hear from him.
	That was, I think, in April of 2020.
	We have 60 years of clinical experience with this stuff.
	And it's not been problematic then.
	So why would it suddenly become problematic now?
	You know, all you have to do is apply a little bit of common sense and actually look at the real data.
	And that's been part of the problem.
	And I think that's the reason that people have lost confidence in government science.
	It's going to be a very long time before we get it back.
	And that is very detrimental to us.
	All right, quick break more with Dr. Benjamin Carson.
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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 Napok 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.
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	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	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.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	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 Napok 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.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	All right, we continue now with Dr. Benjamin Carson of the American Cornerstone Institute.
	The one thing I want to add, and I really applaud what you're doing for young people, and now you're branching out into, you know, kids in college, etc.
	You know, I made a decision a long time ago as it relates to my kids.
	I kind of figured out they're not going to get their real education at college.
	You know, both my kids were athletes, so it was a little bit in terms of different circumstances.
	However, you know, but I still viewed it as my responsibility as a parent to make sure that they get the education in areas that they're interested in.
	And so far, it's paid a lot of dividends.
	I see, you know, my son who graduated college, you know, he pursued his interests on his own, and he loves what he's doing, and he's having fun at it, and he learned how to make some money doing it.
	You know, doing a lot better off than I was at his age, I'll tell you that.
	Absolutely.
	We have what's necessary to be successful.
	We just got to get people to focus on it.
	And isn't it wonderful, you know, what's going on at some of our colleges now, the kids, the revivals?
	They're starting.
	Oh, my gosh, isn't that amazing?
	I saw the one in Kentucky.
	I saw the one at Texas A ⁇ M. Absolutely.
	They're starting to see that as we move further and further away from our core values and our Judeo-Christian foundation, we are spiraling downward.
	And they don't want to get to the bottom.
	So they're starting to turn it around and push back.
	And that's what it's going to require.
	It's going to require courage.
	We can't just stand around looking at our feet and hoping that nobody calls us a nasty man.
	You can't do that.
	You got to be brave.
	You got to be the to be the land of the free, you have to be the home of the brave.
	I mean, that's so well said.
	You know, I'm so happy you're doing this.
	By the way, if people want to get in touch with the American Cornerstone Institute and get their kids better educated, how do they do it?
	Very easy.
	AmericanCornerstone.org.
	And for the kids, you can go to littlepatriotslearning.com.
	And by the way, what I said to you about being a presidential candidate, I sadly stand by it.
	And this interview proves that everything I believe then is true now.
	You're just one of the nicest people I've ever met.
	And don't ever run for office again.
	Forget it.
	It's just a toxic wasteland in politics.
	It's going to take a lot to make me get the great Dr. Benjamin Carson of the American Cornerstone Institute.
	We really appreciate you being with us, Dr. Carson.
	We love having you on the show.
	Thanks, Sean.
	Always good to be with you.
	800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
	By the way, Jason, you're looking at me and you're laughing.
	I mean, I'm right.
	He's just, I think he's too nice for the political world.
	It's so vicious out there.
	I couldn't believe he got in in the first place.
	I mean, he's like, he's a legitimate article.
	He is a legitimate legal.
	He's the real deal.
	There's very few of them out there.
	And, you know, the story about his life and his mom and how he became a doctor and a brain surgeon.
	I mean, it's so inspiring.
	All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
	Thank you for being with us.
	So the New York, I love reading.
	I still like to read a hard copy of a newspaper.
	And I know for some people, it's like an outdated thing.
	I just like the feel of it every day.
	And I get the New York.
	I'm sorry, I don't get the New York Times.
	I get the New York Post, the Daily News, even though that's liberal, the Wall Street Journal every day.
	And I like to read the hard copy.
	The front cover of the New York Post says, police arrested the protesters behind this flyer.
	Now taxpayers have to give the same radicals $6 million in money to burn.
	Now, it's a picture of a NYPD van, obviously a victim of arson.
	And it said today, 6.30 p.m., the Bronx, 149th and 3rd Avenue, the hub.
	So police end up arresting 300 protesters.
	Remember the summer of 2020, 574 riots, thousands of injured cops, dozens of dead Americans, billions in property damage.
	Anyway, so they were arrested, these 300 people in June of 2020 at a rally labeled F the Police, and they advertised with an NYPD van in flames.
	Now the city is poised to give each person arrested, and they had a legal curfew in place.
	Each person arrested is going to now get $21,500 for the arrests, even though no one was seriously hurt or even held in custody for very long.
	You want to know why New York is losing nearly 1,000 residents a day and California's losing nearly 1,000 residents a day?
	It's because of idiocy like this.
	The city has now agreed to give $21,500 to each of the more than 300 protesters who were confined and, you know, on this night.
	Now, some were, look, they were not obeying the curfew at the time.
	They advertised by putting up a picture of a police van, an NYPD van on fire.
	So obviously everybody was expecting trouble.
	And the police do their job.
	They enforce the law.
	They enforce the curfew at the time to protect innocent citizens.
	And that's the result.
	You can't even make that up.
	And if you think it's that bad, I'll give you another reason why people are leaving New York.
	So New York now wants to spend at least $9 billion to build new jails in four boroughs, but they don't put people in jail, which is kind of a joke.
	Now, you're not going to believe me when I tell you this.
	Mayor Adams, you know, year into his let's get stuff done regime, and they can't build five.
	They need to build, they want to build five public toilets.
	Maybe they never heard of Port-a-Potty.
	I don't know.
	Port-a-Potty, from what I understand, is probably not that expensive.
	We should look it up.
	Katie, look up how much it is to rent a Port-a-Potty.
	Anyway, so they want to build five public toilets on the street, and the cost for the five of them are $5.3 million.
	That's New York.
	You want to know why people are moving out of New York?
	Because they're the ones that have to pay for this crap.
	Are the bulls made of gold?
	No, it's not made of gold.
	$5.3 million for five of them.
	You should bring this up to Simone next time he tells you someone never wants to leave New York.
	You know what?
	That's a good point.
	Next time I have Simone on, I'm going to bring it up with him.
	By the way, I am looking forward to seeing Chris Rocks.
	He's going to do a live Netflix hit.
	I think it's, what is the date on this thing?
	It's like, I think Saturday just before the Oscars.
	I'm not really sure when, but maybe it's going to air one, almost just short of a year after he got slapped by Will Smith.
	It's in Los Angeles on March 27th, and it's going to be live on Netflix.
	I was like, March the 4th.
	On March the 4th.
	I apologize.
	Okay, thank you.
	And he's going to answer and tell all these jokes about Will Smith, and he's not going to hold a single thing back.
	I can't wait to see that.
	Oh, by the way, you want to know another reason people leave New York?
	I'll give you one more.
	A Long Island teacher forced a fifth grade girl to go by a male name and male pronouns, confusing the child so much that the child ended up having suicidal thoughts according to a lawsuit.
	The fifth grade teacher at what's called the Terryville Road Elementary School in Port Jefferson Station started calling a nine-year-old Leo and using the opposite gender pronouns towards the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, according to a lawsuit filed in Suffolk County Court in Long Island.
	And the parents say that they were the, you know, they were only clued in about what was happening in January of 2022 when the school principal called them, telling them that their child, referred to in court papers, they didn't give the child's name, rightly so, had drawn a picture of a girl writing, I want to kill myself, and I feel sad like a lot.
	I mean, why do these teachers feel that they have the right to circumvent parents and their parent parental authority with their own insane woke values?
	How about, you know, parents are not potted plants.
	By the way, I don't know, you're a big sports fan, Jason.
	Did you see the brawl that broke out at the SEC women's basketball tournament, University of Kentucky and University of Florida?
	Yeah, I saw that and the use of the word brawls a little much.
	It could have been because it was getting interesting.
	Because the woman was running towards a Kentucky player, and she had the arm cocked back like she was ready to just lay her out.
	But fortunately, she thought better of it and she got separated, or else it really would have been a full-blown brawl.
	You know, I'm one of those people.
	I like the fact that they're still fighting in hockey.
	By the way, how great is it the New York Rangers got Patrick Cain?
	Oh, yes.
	Tonight is the first night.
	I love Patrick Cade, and I'm a Rangers fan.
	So I think that's a big get for them.
	I mean, he's been one of the greatest players, you know, in our modern times.
	He might arguably end up being the best United States player of all time, better than Mike Madonna.
	Madonna was great.
	When they got the great one, Wayne Rogretzky, I mean, it helped the Rangers.
	And Messier was on the team.
	That was a great team.
	And then they had, you know, I think bringing in Patrick Kane was a great, great call on their part.
	By the way, Prince Harry and Megan enjoy a date night at an exclusive $4,200 a year private members club in L.A., but they want their privacy.
	Unbelievable.
	Apparently, post-COVID, there's new data from Pew Research showing that 63% of men under 30 are single, up from 51% in 2019.
	And COVID isolation, quote, and this is their study, not mine, don't blame me for this, and women's high expectations for something serious are the main reasons they're avoiding going out and coupling up.
	Dates feel more like job interviews, one guy said.
	I'll tell you the other thing.
	They like to watch sports and they like to play Xbox.
	You know, even my own son still loves those.
	You know, he plays international games.
	You know, does he play solo or does he play with people?
	He plays both.
	I mean, they communicate with each other.
	It's kind of cool.
	He loves it.
	And as far as I'm concerned, it keeps him out of trouble.
	I like when you keep your kids out of trouble.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones.
	You've been so patient.
	Thank you.
	800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Walt is in Utah.
	Walt, how are you?
	As I said earlier, I wish I had a Crown Burger in front of me.
	Those are great.
	Those are wonderful.
	Anyone was talking about these educationals they want to forgive.
	Why is it that we're not just making it so if you take out bankruptcy, the loan is forgiven rather than make the taxpayers?
	That makes the schools, the colleges that got the money, they're the ones that lose the money.
	And most of them are inflated and making you pay a huge fortune, you know, to get nothing.
	Listen, the idea that people in this country want to empower their government to take money from other citizens to pay for their education, to pay for their housing, to pay for pretty much everything in their life, and they're comfortable empowering the government.
	It is mind-numbing to me.
	When I was poor and had no money and I was living paycheck to paycheck, which was a pretty big part of my early adult life, I didn't even realize that I really was broke, but I was.
	And it never bothered me.
	But I never expected anybody to give me anything.
	I wasn't raised that way.
	I was taught that you go to work and you work hard hours.
	And lo and behold, when I became, you know, I started a little painting business and then wallpaper and then tile and then finish work.
	I mean, I became really good at home improvement and I started making money, had people work for me.
	And, you know, I enjoyed it, but I also had the personal satisfaction of knowing I earned it.
	You know, I could transform a room in somebody's house in a day and I felt good about myself.
	I felt a sense of accomplishment.
	You know, why do other people think that they're entitled to other people's money?
	I don't get it.
	It's like they tell me that my social security is an entitlement.
	It's not an entitlement.
	I worked hard.
	That was your money.
	Money for that.
	Right.
	And by the way, they promised they put it in a lockbox.
	I hate to tell you, Walt, they raided the lockbox.
	There's no lockbox anymore.
	They squandered it.
	Yeah, and they're up to a trillion dollars now.
	I know.
	Well, listen, at some point, they can talk all they want.
	Oh, we're never going to touch Social Security.
	They're going to make major changes to Medicare and Social Security because they don't have the money.
	Anyway, good call, my friend.
	God bless you.
	Have a Crown burger on me today, all right?
	Think about me when you take a big bite of that burger and I wish I had one.
	So good.
	They're great.
	They are great.
	They're amazing.
	Doug in Kansas.
	Hey, Doug, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	I'm good.
	How are you?
	I'm good, my friend.
	Glad you called.
	Say, listen, I've listened to you since Alan Combs.
	Wow.
	I can't thank you enough because you've given me a life that I don't deserve.
	Thank you.
	Well, I'm totally, I'm just totally frustrated with the FBI and our Justice Department.
	When you lose your Justice Department, you lose your country.
	The Durham report was it.
	It was going to come out in the summer of 2020.
	I think he's retired.
	It is so frustrating that the people that used the, first of all, the people that were responsible in the FBI for exonerating Hillary Clinton and not pursuing obstruction of justice charges with 33,000 deleted emails and BlackBerries and iPhones, you know, busted up with hammers and no SIM cards, bleach bit, all that stuff, is unbelievable to me.
	Then the same people in the FBI, they go all the way to Great Britain, offer a million dollars to Christopher Steele if he could corroborate his dossier.
	He can't.
	But then they use it at the end of the month anyway.
	And then three times in nine months, James Comey signed off on those FISA applications.
	It says verified at the top of it.
	Not only was it not verified, it was not verifiable because it was all BS.
	It was all a lie.
	That's our country.
	And then we have the FBI in 2020.
	They're sending agents all over the place.
	Oh, watch out for foreign misinformation.
	It may be about Joe Biden and Hunter.
	Oh, so the Hunter Biden laptop story comes.
	The FBI knew it was coming.
	The FBI had the laptop since 2019, and they're scaring the hell out of every big tech company.
	And they primed them to be suspect of what became a true story, and that was the New York Post story about the laptop.
	I mean, you tell me, how do we fix that country?
	But what happened to them?
	Nothing.
	Absolutely nothing.
	Nothing.
	After the Supreme Court now, the Supreme Court, they're under attack.
	The justices are threatened.
	And what's Christopher Wray?
	What's he doing?
	Absolutely nothing.
	Once we lose our justice system, which I think we have, and after the Supreme Court is jeopardized because of what they're doing, is America dying?
	I am very worried if we don't get equal justice and equal application of our laws, if we don't fix the DOJ and we allow them to remain weaponized, if we don't fix the FBI and get all politics out of it, I worry about the future of this country.
	I've been warning people now for years this is going on.
	And we saw the last two days, Christopher Wright, Merrick Garland, and it was a national disgrace, the answers that they were giving.
	It was terrible.
	And I'm very worried about the future of the country.
	There's only one antidote and one answer, and that happens in November of 24.
	And that means firing all of these people.
	That would take a Republican president, Republican House and Senate to make that happen.
	I can always pray and hope.
	I always have faith.
	Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
	God bless you.
	So as the committee well knows from my confirmation hearing, I promised to leave the matter of Hunter Biden in the hands of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware who was appointed in the previous administration.
	So any information like that should have gone or should or should have gone to that U.S. attorney's offices and the FBI squad that's working with him.
	I have pledged not to interfere with that investigation, and I have carried through on my pledge.
	You know, I hear these claims of politicization, but I can tell you that the FBI is and it's going to stay independent.
	And that means following the facts wherever they lead, no matter who likes it.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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