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	Senator Ram Paula, Kentucky, also medical doctor Ram Paula, Kentucky, has probably been the most outspoken critic as it relates to COVID.
	Dr. Fauci identifying Fauci was lying very early on and informing the American people that certain medical truths do exist.
	For example, about natural immunity, et cetera, et cetera.
	I'm not trying to read litigate all of that, but we have more and more evidence coming to light showing how deep the manipulation was of our entire country as it relates to the pandemic and COVID.
	We have the FBI, the DOE recently, both releasing reports stating that the COVID-19 pandemic was due to a lab leak.
	We already knew that gain of function coronavirus research took place at the Wuhan Virology Lab.
	We found out very early that NIH money was funneled to the EcoHealth Alliance that gave money to the Wuhan Virology Lab.
	In other words, your tax dollars, which is, I can't even fathom why American tax dollars are going to China, but they were our number one geopolitical foe.
	Anyway, he's been asking, Senator Paul's been asking for all the documents and information related to COVID-19.
	He sent over 25 letters to more than eight federal agencies now requesting documents related to COVID-19.
	He has asked three Senate Democratic Committee chairs to sign letters requesting these documents, and so far, none of them are willing to do so.
	And with both the FBI and Department of Energy now coming out in an agreement that scientists believe in a possible leak from the Wuhan lab, there is clearly merit to that which Dr. Paul has been telling us and anyone with common sense suspected for the last couple of years.
	We have other news today where Fauci commissioned, edited, and approved a paper in an attempt to disprove the lab leak issue.
	And meanwhile, we have now text messages from the NIH, Dr. Fauci, even going back as early as January of 2020, but then the ones that came out later in November of 2020, then the intercept information that came out 900 pages.
	And anyway, what they found is evidence that Fauci ordered, edited, and gave final approval of a paper about the origins of COVID-19 published February 17th, 2020.
	Two months later, Fauci used that same publication to waive away any concerns that the virus may have come from this Wuhan virology lab.
	Let me take you back in time and play Rand Paul clashing with Dr. Fauci about the issue of natural immunity and Rand Paul accusing Dr. Fauci of not taking previous infection into account when approving vaccines.
	When you're trying to tell us that kids need a third or a fourth vaccine, are you including the variability or the variable of previous infection in the studies?
	No, you're not.
	Because when you have approved vaccines in recent times and the committees that have approved it for children don't report anything on hospitalization or death or transmission.
	They only report that if you give them the jab, they'll make antibodies.
	And you can give kids hundreds of jabs and they'll make antibodies every time, but that does not prove efficacy.
	So what you're doing is denying the very fundamental premise of immunology that previous infection does provide some sort of immunity.
	It's not in any of your studies.
	Almost none of your studies from the CDC or from the government have the variable of whether or not you've been previously infected.
	So let's look at adults.
	I've had three infections.
	Should I get a fourth one?
	If you're going to measure whether I get a fourth one, you need a category that has a fourth one in it, and you need one that has nothing in it, no vaccine or the fourth vaccine.
	But you also need to know whether they've been infected.
	If you ignore whether they've been infected, you're ignoring a vaccine, basically.
	So you're ignoring a variable.
	So what you're giving us is this, you decry and people decry vaccine hesitancy.
	It's coming from the gobbledygook that you give us.
	You're not paying attention to the science.
	The very basic science is that previous infection provides a level of immunity.
	If you ignore that in your studies, if you don't present that in your committees, you're not being truthful or honest with us.
	Senator, if I might respond, I have never ever denied fundamental immunology.
	In fact, I wrote the chapter in the textbook of medicine.
	Is it anything?
	Immunology.
	Any of the guidelines for vaccines?
	Do any of the guidelines for vaccines from the government include previous infection as something to base your decision-making on with vaccines?
	Do any of the guidelines involve previous infection?
	That's why you're ignoring previous infection because it doesn't involve any of the guidelines.
	Wow.
	Anyway, Senator Ram Paul, Dr. Ram Paul's with us.
	I know that was a big lead up, but I thought it was valuable.
	Now that we're learning all that we're learning today, what do you suspect really happened here?
	Because I sense a massive cover-up.
	And I suspect that they knew at the NIH, they knew at the EcoHealth Alliance at the highest levels that, in fact, this was, number one, the origins were the Wuhan Virology Lab.
	And number two, you can't deny your arguments over natural immunity.
	Without question, Fauci orchestrated the biggest cover-up ever in modern history of science.
	January 31st, 2020.
	We're just learning that this pandemic is occurring in Wuhan.
	He's exchanging emails till 3 in the morning.
	Every one of the emails are, let's get organized.
	Let's get our stuff together.
	Let's get our story together.
	Within two or three days, he has a meeting with all these virologists, the most famous virologist in the government grant world.
	They come to him and they say, you know what?
	We think the virus looks like it came out of a lab.
	This looks manipulated.
	We have not seen this in nature before.
	All of his best friends are telling him this.
	They have a meeting.
	By the way, I want to go back.
	If I recall, that's January of 2020.
	Am I mistaken or was it February?
	January 31st of 2020.
	They're having this meeting, and all of his colleagues are saying, We think it came from the lab.
	They have an in-person phone call.
	The next day, all of them come out and hit their assignment from Fauci is write a paper and justify this in one of the journals, and then I'll refer to that as the justification for why this couldn't have come from the lab, and it's a crazy conspiracy theory.
	He orchestrated the whole thing.
	Why?
	Because he was guilty, guilty of funding the Chinese totalitarian government of sending our best science to them and guilty of funding this.
	Not only civilian research, our government has been funding military research over there.
	We now know that NIH money went to UC Davis and other universities, and then they transferred that money to military researchers in China.
	It's called the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, AMMS.
	They got NIH money through universities, through U.S. universities, not for civilian research, for military research.
	Senator, why do I hear this from you?
	And my mind is racing and spinning.
	Correct me if I'm wrong.
	Is China not our number one geopolitical foe?
	Did President Xi not yesterday take direct aim and attack the United States of America, blaming Washington for pretty much everything wrong in the world?
	China warning that war with America is possible if the United States doesn't give in to his demands, part of which clearly would be reunification with Taiwan, which we both know means taking over Taiwan.
	You would think our Defense Department would be defending against a potential act from an adversary like China.
	Instead, China's busy applying for defense money, our defense money.
	We have a group called DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Project.
	We have another one called DRTA, Defense Reduction Threat Association.
	I've been asking them, did you give any money to EcoHealth Alliance?
	They won't answer me.
	In fact, we have email traffic going back and forth to them saying, well, it's just one senator.
	Let's ignore him.
	Let's ignore him until they get a Democrat on board.
	So I've asked three Democrats.
	I'm asking a fourth Democrat today, the head of the armed services.
	I'm going to ask him to sign a letter to have this revealed to us.
	What we do know is a whistleblower at DARPA, this Defense Advanced Research Project, they released to the public that in 2018, the Wuhan lab wanted to get U.S. defense money to put a furin cleavage site into coronavirus.
	What's a furin cleavage site?
	It's the infectious part.
	It's what makes and enables the virus to invade a human cell, has not been seen in nature before.
	But Wuhan was asking for money from our defense agencies to put one in there.
	And fortunately, this time they turned it down.
	But the next question is: how many times has Wuhan asked DARPA for money?
	How many times have they asked DRTA, another defense agency, for money?
	Well, there's one other thing you've got to add to that.
	This is the same Fauci in 2012 that supported gain of function research, even if it resulted in a worldwide pandemic.
	Am I right about that?
	His entire career, he has supported it and said the knowledge is worth it, even if a pandemic should occur.
	Even if a scientist would be bitten by an animal and spread the pandemic to a city, it would be worth the knowledge.
	He will go down in history as having made the most dangerous, most foolish decision ever made in our country, and that is to share our dearest technology, our most risky and dangerous technology.
	The woman in Wuhan, Dr. Xi, the batwoman, she could have never done these experiments except for we sent her mice that had human lungs.
	So they've discovered how to make mice and change their lungs so that they appear immunologically as human.
	And through these mice models, you can send a virus over and over and over again until it adapts to infect human mice.
	And lo and behold, you take a virus that didn't infect humans and you create a virus that infects humans.
	This is the crazy research that's going on.
	It's going on in 12 different places in the United States.
	And then we're sending money to a country that has no freedom of speech and imprisons people who one of their leading scientists mysteriously died in 2020.
	The guy who invented the Chinese vaccine, he was gone.
	He invented it and patented it in February 2020.
	In April, he's gone.
	He's dead, mysteriously gone.
	Two months after he patented the vaccine.
	So this is the kind of country you shouldn't be sharing your most closely kept secrets, your most closely kept scientific knowledge.
	We should not be giving this away to China.
	All right, quick break.
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	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.
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	We continue now with Senator and Medical Dr. Ram Paul from the great state of Kentucky.
	I feel like I'm the only one that keeps pointing out there was a travel ban before Donald Trump's early travel ban, and that was within China.
	If you were in Wuhan province, you were forbidden from traveling to any other part of China.
	If you were in any other part of China, you were forbidden to fly to Wuhan province.
	But if you were in Wuhan, you had full permission to travel around the world.
	And that's what makes this even more sinister.
	But I want to go back to the House Select Subcommittee on the Pandemic and the Origins of COVID and what was published by Dr. Fauci, because what we're learning here, I think, is very deep and very profound and goes to the heart of an allegation you made early on.
	And that is that in fact, he knew way more than he was telling us.
	And that is, you know, this document that we're talking about that he edited and wrote from.
	Isn't that proof positive that in fact he knew a lot more than he was telling us?
	And what he was putting out publicly is now contradicted by every bit of evidence we have.
	So January 1st of 2020, Fauci's exchanging emails with all these virologists all night long till three in the morning.
	The next morning, they're up early and they're starting again.
	Within two days, they have a meeting.
	It's a video meeting.
	They're all in this phone call.
	There's like 10 or 12 of them.
	And from the minutes of that, from people's recollections, we have that basically Fauci is commissioning the writing of this paper.
	He gets these four scientists to write it, but then there are copies of it that go back and forth to Dr. Fauci before its publication.
	So we also have other evidence that Dr. Fauci and others, Dr. Collins, have gotten involved with trying to suppress information as well.
	There was a Jesse Bloom, a scientist from Washington, who had written a paper, and out of courtesy, he sent it to Fauci and Collins.
	And he scheduled a conversation with them before it came to be printed.
	And in that conversation, this has been written up by Vanity Fair.
	In this conversation, there are comments that, well, maybe we could edit your paper before it's published because some of this might not make the Chinese happy.
	And some of this looks like you're being accusatory.
	And I've talked with his scientists and read his stuff.
	None of his stuff is political.
	None of it's accusatory.
	I really accused somebody of anything.
	But he discovered eight viruses that had been taken off the NIH website that were from Wuhan.
	So Wuhan took them down.
	The NIH just let him take them down.
	Well, he discovered a way to figure out what these viruses were, and they were coronaviruses.
	And it's an amazing research project.
	It's an amazing paper.
	And yet, Fauci and Collins and others were trying to edit that in advance and discourage him from publicly putting out the paper.
	Great work, Dr. Ram Paul.
	You were right the whole time.
	I have a funny feeling now this is about to hit a head here.
	And I think Dr. Fauci has a lot of explaining to do down the road.
	And I hope it's sooner than later, especially with the House committee with the Republicans in charge in the House.
	I would expect that's going to happen.
	Dr. Ram Paul, Senator Ram Paul, thank you, sir.
	Appreciate it.
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	Joe is in Long Island, New York.
	Joe, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Oh, sir, Sean, wonderful man you are.
	I just want to tell you something.
	Born in Harlem in 1952, grew up with blacks, whites, Swedes, Irish, Germans, Italians.
	And we all want to know one thing.
	Can you help us with this?
	When we go to vote for a president, senator, congressman, mayor, governor, we go and we vote.
	And there's an outcome to that.
	We didn't vote in the mail-in, the not on voting day, two weeks later, voting, ballot harvesting.
	Who's voting that in that we have to succumb to and have to be participant in?
	I mean, there's a group of people.
	What is it, American Idol?
	I mean, it's funny, but you're asking a pretty deep and profound question.
	And I have a very short answer for you.
	If you want a long one, I'll give you a long one.
	The short answer is that would be the states that decide, state legislatures and governors.
	They're against it.
	They're anti-Americans.
	Well, they come up with rules, and they think this is more inclusive.
	I have a very strong disagreement with it.
	And I've gone through this often.
	I think we should have voting as a national holiday.
	Election day is a national holiday.
	I think you make exceptions for people sick, infirmed, our military, people that may be out traveling for their job and they can't get back and vote.
	They should have a right to vote and apply for an absentee ballot.
	I believe we need signature verification.
	We need voter ID, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls.
	And then I would make Election Day a national holiday, have partisan observers watch all of the voting in every precinct all day long.
	When the polls close, then partisan observers watch up close all of the vote counting until they're finished, and they can hopefully declare a winner.
	Okay, but let me ask you something.
	When did this serve?
	That's not the system that we have.
	That's the one I wish we have.
	In the meantime, if you want to change the system, you've got to win elections to make that happen.
	Did Obama, Bush, Clinton have this enter?
	This did not come in with Trump.
	Did it come in with Trump just because they want to get him out?
	It's been a slow, steady movement that a lot of people were not paying attention to.
	Early voting, mail-in voting, Dropbox voting, all of this.
	You know, we're now very familiar with it.
	And that's why I am urgently trying to get Republicans to wake up and understand that their reluctance and resistance to mail-in balloting, their reluctance and their resistance to early voting has got to stop.
	And that Republicans, there are most states have some form, 25 in particular, of ballot harvesting laws that make it legal.
	And Democrats focus on ballot harvesting.
	They don't focus on ideas.
	They don't focus on going to fairs and meeting people, shaking hands, kissing babies, taking selfies, and doing town halls or media evails.
	They spend their time ballot harvesting and running negative ads.
	That, unfortunately, is what they're doing successfully.
	Yeah, it showed up just around Trump's time, though.
	You notice this.
	It didn't show up with Obama.
	Well, certainly in 2020, there's no doubt.
	I mean, so many states have laws that say partisan observers get to watch the vote count.
	Okay, we're in the middle of a pandemic, but they did not make accommodations for partisan observers to observe the vote count.
	You can't watch a vote counting from 100 feet away, six feet away, or 1,000 feet away.
	You just can't.
	You know, I'd like to hear from some Benz and Ribs Call your show, Sean, and explain to us just how great things are going for them.
	Well, but forget about them.
	I like to focus on the things that we can control.
	And what I'm urging people to do and Republicans to do in every state is they've got to match the legal efforts.
	I would never encourage anyone to do anything illegal.
	The legal ballot harvesting policies that their states have adopted.
	And then when they win back state legislatures and they win back governorships, they can change the law and make it same-day balloting, same-day voting, Election Day as a holiday.
	And I think I believe there's a lot more integrity in that system.
	All right, let's go to Mark is in Michigan.
	Hey, Mark, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thank you for taking my call, Sean.
	I want to make sure that everybody understands I'm a Trump supporter in every possible way.
	He is going to win the reelection, and he can make a difference.
	He can get us out of this catastrophic mess.
	He's a businessman first, a successful businessman, a billionaire businessman, which is a difficult thing to become these days.
	There's a lot of detail involved with that.
	Anybody can stand up and say, I want to be a politician, but you have to be successful, like the art of the deal.
	How many hundreds of deals did he make?
	A lot.
	He got a lot done in the four years he was there.
	He got more done than we actually noticed, but he did put the country back on the right track.
	I think he did a great job as president.
	I think he had a great foreign policy.
	He made us energy independent.
	He followed through on his promise to build the wall.
	The economy, we were setting record low after record low on employment for every demographic in America.
	The pandemic hit.
	That was a game changer.
	But even with the pandemic, overall, you know, not knowing much, especially the first year, I think he did the best that he could do with the knowledge that he had at the time.
	And he went to the free marketplace and said, guys, this is what you do.
	We need your help.
	And Operation Warp Speed came into effect.
	And, you know, there's still a lot of unanswered questions, but I think he did a great job.
	I do believe that world leaders, in a good way, feared him.
	I don't think they feared Joe Biden.
	I think that Joe Biden doesn't have a clue about the economy.
	I think his reckless spending is going to impact our kids and grandkids their entire lives.
	I don't even think he knows that today is Tuesday.
	So, you know, this is where we are.
	Unfortunately, elections have consequences.
	Yeah, he's pushing us to the edge of the cliff.
	Now, we can be saved or we can go into the abyss.
	Donald Trump can bring us back and put us back on the right track.
	Once he's elected president in 2024, which he will be, I'd like to see him make one law change if possible.
	Give a president the option of a third term.
	If he thinks you can run and win, that's great.
	Good for him.
	But I think that's important to the country, too.
	I actually think two terms is fine.
	I do.
	And look, the president is leading in the polls right now.
	We don't know how many other people will be getting in the race.
	I suspect a number of new people will get in.
	And if you count Donald Trump out, you do to your own peril.
	One thing I'm glad about Republicans and conservatives, we have a really strong bench.
	We have great people that probably many of whom will one day be president.
	I can see all that happening.
	So, you know, the process is going to work itself out.
	And look, you know, people always say, well, you guys on radio and TV have all the power.
	No, we don't.
	The people have the power.
	I, like you, have only one vote here.
	The best thing that I think I can offer you, my audience, is access to the candidates so you can really deeply know and understand where they are on the positions that matter most to the country and then make the decision.
	That's going to be in the hands of the American people at the end of the day.
	Yeah, CPAC had it.
	The writing's on the wall.
	He got 63%.
	The nearest one was 19 or 20%.
	Listen, there's going to be a lot that happens.
	By this time next year, we will be preparing for Super Tuesday.
	We will already have had the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primary, South Carolina primaries.
	I cannot tell you with any degree of certainty today how any of this is going to play out.
	I can tell you that it is critical that we win the next presidential election.
	That I can tell you.
	Anyway, good call, my friend.
	Glad you're out there.
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	Ryan in Michigan, what's up, Brian?
	How are you?
	Thank you.
	Taking my call.
	It's an honor.
	Again, forgive my skepticism.
	Was what happened, all the shenanigans that happened in November of 2020?
	What makes Mr. President Trump, excuse me, think that he can overcome the same thing if they did it once?
	Well, I interviewed the president on the program yesterday.
	I don't know if you've heard the interview.
	And I did call.
	Okay.
	I did ask him because the president himself had been in the past resistant towards early voting and voting by mail.
	But he now is saying, no, Republicans have got to adopt it.
	It's not the system he likes.
	It's not the one I like, but they've got to adopt it.
	And what the Democrats are doing with legal ballot harvesting in these states, Republicans better match those efforts and, frankly, surpass those efforts.
	And that will help them win elections.
	You can't start Election Day down by a million votes and expect that you have very high odds of making up that type of difference.
	You know, people, what if you have bad weather on Election Day?
	That tends to keep people away from the polling places.
	So I think Republicans have got to embrace early voting, voting by mail.
	And I think every, especially every swing state, needs to adopt what the Democrats are doing with ballot harvesting and do it themselves and do it better.
	There was more than ballot harvesting going on in November of 2020, in my opinion.
	Well, listen, they didn't follow the laws that partisan observers could watch the vote count.
	That's for sure.
	Start there.
	The Pennsylvania Constitution has very specific examples, very limited examples of how people are legally allowed to vote by mail and not vote in person.
	And the legislature, instead of going through the process of a constitutional amendment, they just passed legislation that to me was unconstitutional.
	No court wanted to take it up.
	You know, read the 3-4 decision, the dissent written by the Chief Justice in Wisconsin, excoriating the other four justices, saying that if you don't follow the law, this is going to keep happening again and again and again.
	Nobody wanted to hear from people that signed affidavit after affidavit under the penalty of perjury about irregularities that they saw.
	Those were the things I talked about extensively daily on this program.
	Linda, how often did I mention every single thing here?
	Well, ad nauseum.
	We talked about it all the time.
	Now, there were people that had different points of view, what they thought were happening.
	I talked about the things that I knew well that I believe went wrong.
	And I think every one of these items can be fixed.
	And they're not going to have the luxury, I don't think, I would assume not, I pray not, of not allowing and enforcing the law that allows partisan observers to observe up close.
	I think if I may, what the caller is saying, and I think what a lot of us feel is you made a lot of great points.
	There were a lot of things that you said that mattered.
	But the larger problem was we weren't allowed to talk about it.
	Like they just shut us out.
	They called us election deniers.
	Nobody was a bigger election denier than Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Hillary Clinton.
	Jamie Raskin, the list goes on.
	Yeah, I think that's the frustration.
	I think that's my frustration.
	I think part of it was because of COVID.
	And I think that the pandemic allowed people to take liberties that they should not have been allowed to take.
	And even with a pandemic, they should have made accommodations that would have ensured that the law was followed to the T.
	That did not happen.
	Partisan observers, we have videotaped.
	They're 1,000 feet back.
	You can't observe counting 1,000 feet back.
	That's just one example.
	But I don't think they'll get away with that next time.
	It's going to be up to the American people.
	Look, I'm going to tell you one other thing that you're not going to want to hear, but I'll tell it to you anyway.
	It is unfortunate, but there are way too many of our fellow Americans that buy into this new Green Deal, climate alarmist cultism, redistributionism, socialism at a level that is, that to me was unimaginable years ago when I started my career.
	You know, moderate, you know, old Democrats don't exist anymore.
	They are a new radical breed of socialist, climate alarmist cultist that run and cling to power in the Democratic Party.
	That is pretty much the whole party.
	There's no more, there's no such thing that I see as a moderate Democrat anymore.
	I don't see it.
	So, you know, Republicans are going to have to fight harder and smarter.
	If they want to win, you have to play within the rules as they are, not as you wish they would be.
	And then when you win elections, you know, you can put more integrity measures in place.
	You can change the paper ballots.
	You can have only same-day voting with the exceptions that I mentioned.
	But you have to win an election before you can do any of that.
	Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, we'll continue.
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