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Senator Rand Paul - March 7th, Hour 2
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Senator Rampolla, Kentucky, also medical doctor Rampolla, 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, etc., etc.
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 the gain of function coronavirus research took place at the Wuhan Virology Lab.
We found out very early that NA NIH money was funneled to the Eco Health Alliance that gave money to the Wuhan Virology Lab.
In other words, your tax dollars, which is uh I I can't even fathom why American tax dollars are going to China, but they were our number one geopolitical foe.
Uh anyway, he's been asking, uh 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 the none of them are willing to do so.
And with both the FBI uh and Department of Energy now coming out in an agreement that scientists believe in a possible leak from the Wuhan lab, uh, there is clearly merit to that which Dr. Paul has been telling us, and anyone with common sense suspected uh for the last couple of years.
Uh, we have other news today where Faust Fauci commissioned edited and approved a paper uh in an attempt to disprove the lab leak uh issue.
Um, and meanwhile, we have you know, 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 uh information that came out 900 pages.
Uh and anyway, what they found is evidence that Fauci ordered, edited, and gave final approval of a paper uh about the origins of COVID-19 published February 17th, 2020.
Two months later, Fauci used that same publication to wave away any concerns that the virus may have come from this Wuhan virology lab.
Let me take you back in time and play uh Rand Paul clashing with Dr. Fauci uh 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.
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 any that's any of the guide 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 Rampall Dr. Rampall is 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 w 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 Eco Health 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 uh 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 three in the morning every one of the emails are let's get organized let's get our 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 M Military Medical Sciences, AMMS.
They got NIH money through universities to U.S. universities, not for civilian research, for military research.
Senator, why do I hear this from you and I my mind is racing and spinning?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Is China not our number one geopolitical foe?
Uh 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.
Uh China warning that war with America is possible if the United States doesn't uh uh 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 defense against a potential act from an adversary like China.
Instead China's biddy 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 Eco Health 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 US 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 an invade a human cell has not been seen in nature before 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 uh DORPA for money?
How many times have they asked DRTA, another defense agency for money?
Well was 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 our dearest technology our most risky and dangerous technology.
The woman in Wuhan, Dr. Shi, the Batwoman, she could have never done these experiments except for we sent her mice that had human lungs.
So they've they've discovered how to make mice and to change their lungs so that they appear uh 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 twelve 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 uh closely kept secrets your most closely kept scientific knowledge we should not be giving this away to China.
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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 Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
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We continue now with Senator and medical doctor 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 uh to fly to Wuhan province.
But if you were in Wuhan, you had full permission to travel around the world.
Uh and and that's 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 and that is, you know, this this document that we're talking about uh that he edited and wrote from.
Uh 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 uh is now contradicted by every bit of evidence we have.
So January first of twenty twenty.
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 uh, you know, a video meeting.
They're all on 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 uh in Washington, who had written a paper, and out of courtesy he sent it to Fauci and and Collins, and he scheduled a conversation with them before it became to be printed.
And in that conversation, this has been written up by Vanity Fair.
In this conversation, they s 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 uh being accusatory.
And I've talked with this scientist and read his stuff.
None of his stuff is political, and none of it's accusatory.
I don't think he accused somebody of anything, but he discovered eight viruses that have been taken off the NIH website that were from Wuhan.
So Wuhan took them down.
The NIH just let it take them down.
Well, he discovered a way to to figure out what these viruses were, and they were coronaviruses.
And it's uh 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 public publicly uh putting out the paper.
Uh great work, Dr. Rampall.
You were right the whole time.
I have a funny feeling now this is about to hit uh a head here, and I think Dr. Fauci has a lot of explaining to do uh down the road, and I hope it's sooner than later, uh, especially with the House Committee with the Republicans in charge in the House.
I would expect that expect that's gonna happen.
Uh Dr. Rampall, Senator Ramp 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.
Uh I just want to tell you something.
Um, born in Harlem in 52, 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 there's a group of people.
What is it?
American Idol, who the three.
I mean, that 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.
Uh the short answer is that would be the states that decide.
State legislatures and governors.
They're against the anti-Americans.
Well, they come up with rules and they think this is more inclusive.
I tend 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, confirmed, uh, our military, people that may be out traveling for uh 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, uh, 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 uh 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 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, uh you've got to win elections to make that happen.
Did Obama Bush Clinton have this enter?
This did not come in with Trump.
Uh did it come in with Trump just because they want to get him out?
Because I don't know.
It's been a slow, steady movement that we that a lot of people were not paying attention to.
Our early voting, mail-in voting, drop box voting, all of this.
You know, we're now very familiar with it, and that's why I am urgently uh trying to get Republicans to wake up and understand that their reluctance and resistance to mail-in balloting, their reluctance and their resistance uh 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 or media avails.
They spend their time ballot harvesting and running negative ads.
It's that's that's that unfortunately is what they're doing successfully.
Yeah, it's 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 a hundred feet away, six feet away, or or a thousand feet w away.
You just can't.
You know, I like to hear from some bens and ribs call your show, Sean, and explain to us just how great things are going for them.
Well, but you it's forget about them.
I 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 uh policies that their states have adopted.
And then when they win back state legislatures and they win back governorships, they can change the law uh and and make it same day balloting, same day voting, election day as a holiday, and and I think there's I believe there's a lot more integrity in that system.
Uh 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 gonna 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.
Anyone can stand up and say I want to be a politician.
But it 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.
Uh he made us energy independent.
He followed through on his promise to build the wall.
Uh the economy, we were setting record low after record low unemployment for every demographic in America.
Uh the pandemic hit, that was a game changer.
Uh, 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 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, we there's still a lot of unanswered questions, but um, I think he did a great job.
I think I do believe that world leaders in a in a good way feared him.
I don't think they fear Joe Biden.
Uh I think that Joe Biden doesn't have a clue about the economy.
I think his reckless spending is is gonna impact, you know, our kids and grandkids their entire lives.
I don't even think he knows that today's 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 think to I actually think two terms is fine.
I do.
Um and look, the president is leading in the polls right now.
Uh 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 it's uh I uh I if you count Donald Trump out, you do to your own peril.
Um one thing I'm glad about Republicans and conservatives, we we have a really strong bench.
We have great people that that probably many of whom will one day be president.
I can see all that happening.
So, you know, the process is gonna work itself out.
And look, you know, always people always say, well, you guys on radio and TV have all the power.
No, we don't.
The people have the power.
I 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 gonna be in the hands of the American people at the end of the day.
Yeah, CPAC had it.
The writings on the wall, he got 63%.
The nearest one was 19 or 20 percent.
Listen, there's gonna 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 am telling it's it's I cannot tell you with any degree of certainty today how any of this is gonna 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, Ryan?
Thank you.
Take my call.
It's an honor.
Um forgive my skepticism.
Was what happened, the all the shenanigans that happened in November of 2020?
What makes Mr. Tr 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.
Um I call.
Okay.
I did ask him because the president himself had been in the past resistant towards early voting and and voting by mail.
Uh, 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 striction day down by a million votes and expect that you you have very high odds of uh making up that type of difference.
You know, people what if you have bad weather on election day?
That that tends to keep people away from the 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, I they 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, the very limited examples of how people are legally allowed to vote by uh 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, the read the the three four decision, uh, the dissent written by the chief justice in Wisconsin, uh excoriating the other four justices saying that if you don't follow the law, this is gonna 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.
Uh Linda, how often did I mention every single thing here?
Oh, ad nausea.
We talked about it all the time.
Now, if uh now there were people that had different points of view, what they thought were happening.
I talked about the things that I I knew well that I believe went wrong.
And I think every one of these items can be fixed, and they're not gonna have the luxury, I don't think, um I would assume not, I pray not, uh, of not allowing and enforcing the law that allows partisan observers to observe up close.
Um 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.
Yeah, it that's 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 uh ensured that the law was followed to the T. That did not happen.
Partisan observers, we have we have videotaped.
They've, you know, a thousand feet back.
You can't observe counting a thousand feet back.
Um, that's just one example.
But I don't think they'll get away with that next time.
Um, you know, it's it's it's gonna be up to the American people.
Look, I'm gonna tell you one other thing that you're not gonna want to hear, but I'll tell it to you anyway.
Is 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, mod you know, old Democrats don't exist anymore.
They are a new radical breed of of socialist climate alarmist cultist that run the and 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 gonna 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 are, 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 that you have to win an election before you can do any of that.
Uh anyway, 800-941 Sean, our number will continue.
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