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Feb. 12, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Tulsi Gabbard & RFK Jr. Senate Confirmation Vote LIVE w/ Viva Frei! And Other Yuge News!

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	I'm going to see what the audio levels are like.
	Let me know if the audio from the YouTube hearing is too loud.
	I listened to this guy, and I said, we have to rewind.
	I didn't realize the objection earlier.
	Thank you.
	Mr. President, I rise once more to oppose the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence.
	Shut your trap.
	Nobody cares.
	As I've said repeatedly, I have great respect for Ms. Gabbard's over 20 years of service to our nation, both in and out of uniform.
	I am, however, Profoundly worried that she lacks the qualifications or judgments to be DNI.
	The job of the Director of National Intelligence is not a duty to be taken lightly.
	The incumbent serves as the principal intelligence advisor to the President and also bears the weight of responsibility to prevent another 9-11.
	The DNI must also represent the tens of thousands of intelligence professionals.
	Professionals who around the world often toil in anonymity.
	They serve as America's first line of defense against terrorists, transnational criminals, and adversarial nations who wish to do us harm.
	Transnational. And she must also represent America to our allies as a trustworthy partner.
	Unfortunately, through her own words and actions, Ms. Gabbard has demonstrated she is not up to the task.
	Ms. Gabbard?
	She took the word of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad against the assessments of our own Department of Defense, State Department, and intelligence community when she claimed that and when she denied that Assad Free and fair election, She knowingly met with a Syrian cleric who was vocally threatened to conduct serial bomb attacks against the United States.
	She sought to blame the United States and NATO, the United States and NATO, for Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
	She publicly praised and defended Edward Snowden when he compromised our nation's most sensitive collections sources and methods then ran off to hide in China and Russia.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Those compromises put at risk not only our intelligence our men and women in uniform in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
	And just last week, even with repeated inquiries From her Republican college, she refused to call Snowden a traitor.
	Speaking of China, when asked about TikTok at her confirmation hearing, she refused to acknowledge the threat posed by China owning a social media company that reaches 170 million Americans.
	And all the way up until she was nominated to be DNI, she publicly advocated for the wholesale elimination.
	I think you mean 702, sir.
	702 is a tool that we use actively in the intelligence domain, a tool that contributes literally 60% of the information that makes up the president's daily brief.
	That daily brief, which will also fall under her responsibility, should be confirmed.
	The environment facing a new DNI today is complicated and fraught with challenges.
	Not only had the traditional threats persisted China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, but we've seen an increased threats from terrorism, cyber actions, and transnational criminal organizations.
	All the while, the intelligence community itself is under attack.
	Some of our most senior and experienced law enforcement and intelligence professionals are being asked to take political litmus tests.
	And those who are seen as insignificantly loyal are being fired or forced to resign.
	Whole agencies are being eliminated and funding impounded in flagrant I don't even know what he's reading.
	I don't even know what he's reading.
	And I've seen no evidence that Ms. Gabbard is prepared to deal with this onslaught.
	Therefore, I must oppose her nomination and urge my colleagues to do the same.
	He just talked about Americans' privacy while condemning Ed Snowden for having exposed the biggest mass surveillance on Americans, illegal mass surveillance ever.
	What's this guy's name?
	Who is this guy?
	First of all, clip the SO2s, because this guy knows so much what he's talking about.
	Senator from Idaho.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	In a moment, the Senate will proceed to a cloture vote on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
	I rise to encourage my colleagues to support this motion.
	As Secretary of HHS, Mr. Kennedy would oversee our nation's expansive health care system.
	From sources of coverage to advancement of public health, Mr. Kennedy's decades of experience and deep drive to advocate on behalf of consumers will set a patient-centered tone at the department.
	As he has demonstrated in both public and private settings, Mr. Kennedy is committed to reorienting our healthcare approach and restoring faith in our institutions.
	His passion for addressing America's chronic No.
	a foundation for a healthier, stronger country.
	dedication to transparency will empower patients to make more informed decisions about their health care and form a responsive rapport with Congress.
	As Mr.
	Kennedy stated during his hearing, if Congress asked me for information, you will get it immediately.
	Over the course of his vetting process, Mr. Kennedy met with dozens of members on both sides of the aisle, spoke with bipartisan Senate Finance Committee staff, appeared before two committee hearings, and answered over 900 questions for the record, not to mention presenting thousands of pages of documents.
	Mr. Kennedy has gone through the same Office of Government Ethics process as all nominees who come before the Finance Committee and has received support for his efforts.
	Similar to all other nominees, we had a letter from the Director of the Office of Government Ethics stating, based thereon, we believe that this nominee is in compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing conflicts of interest.
	He even amended his ethics agreement going beyond what was required by the Office of Government Ethics in response to the request from one of our Finance Committee members.
	I urge my colleagues to join me in advancing this nomination so we can begin to make our country healthier.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Chairman.
	So we're a little bit behind, but it doesn't really matter.
	It's just more of this nonsense grandstanding rubbish, but we'll get to it, I guess, catch up in a bit.
	If we can go here.
	Let's see.
	Chuck Schumer's talking in a bit.
	Maybe he's going to talk about inciting an erection.
	Let's go here.
	Okay, go a little forward here.
	Is this Schumer?
	Oh, here he is.
	Here he is.
	Democratic leader.
	I know I spoke a little while ago on Tulsi Gabbard, but I feel so strongly I just wanted to make one last plea to my Republican colleagues.
	The crackling audio is not me, people.
	Tulsi Gabbard is the next director of national intelligence.
	Every single Democrat, I am really proud to say, will oppose this awful nomination because we simply cannot in good conscience trust This man is a scum bag.
	It's hard to believe, of all the talented and capable people, that this is the person nominated.
	Oh, I hope she gets the dirt on you, Chuck.
	It's a person who has said things like the Ukraine invasion was caused by the United States, not by Putin.
	It's somebody who has denied Assad's use of chemical weapons despite all of the intelligence.
	It's someone who echoes Russian propaganda and falls for crazy conspiracy theories.
	I'd say to my Republican colleagues, please think once again about this nomination.
	This endangers our security.
	And my guess is, if a secret ballot were cast on Tulsi Gabbard, maybe she'd get 10 votes.
	You all know how bad she is.
	You all know.
	Classic argument.
	You all know.
	People feel they want to please the president in his nomination.
	But there are certain times you have to buck and stand up and say, no, this is just a very bad choice for America.
	And the nomination of Ms. Gabbard is simply one of those.
	I plead with my colleagues.
	I know it's the last minute.
	Go to hell, Schumer.
	Go to hell, Schumer.
	And remember, the FBI has six ways from Sundays to get back at any one of you bastards who votes for her.
	Six ways from Sunday.
	Go to hell, Chuck.
	She'll get the dirt on you.
	What an awful, awful excuse for a human being.
	Out of all the people here, they pick her because we don't like her, and therefore she must be public enemy number one.
	Without objection.
	President, I rise today to oppose the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
	Bunch of asses.
	And let me put it very bluntly to my colleagues.
	A vote for Robert Kennedy for this position is a vote...
	There's irony in that judgment considering Mr.
	Kennedy is the figurehead of a mass movement known as Make American Healthy Again.
	But on issue after issue, Mr.
	Kennedy refused to stand up for policies that will keep Americans healthy and out of the hospital.
	From vaccines to affordable health insurance to lower drug prices to women's reproductive health care, Mr.
	Kennedy, through several hearings, ducked and dodged and weaved instead of answering questions.
	The basic questions that came from senators of both parties.
	When he did answer, he demonstrated a shocking lack of knowledge about the federal health programs he'll be charged with running and a willful desire to mislead senators about his views on science matters like vaccine safety.
	The only conclusion I'm left with is that he stands steadfastly by the outlandish views he's expressed over his two-decade career As an anti-vaccine crusader.
	And he's fully prepared to implement the Republican health care agenda.
	That agenda boils down to putting big pharma and insurance companies back in charge while leaving millions of American families to fend for themselves without affordable care.
	And I want to be clear about this.
	Going back to my days as director of the Great Panthers, which is what I did before I went into public service, I can just tell you, It's amazing how,
	Ironically, all of the picks are the worst ever.
	Their legacy will be tarnished by setbacks in science that will echo in America for decades.
	As I mentioned, I spent countless hours as a young man working with seniors to navigate the newly created Medicare program and help them avoid predatory insurance company tactics that remain all too common today.
	To me and many other Americans, health care colleagues is the most important issue.
	Because if you and your loved ones don't have their health, everything else goes by the board.
	And the reality is...
	We need to make sure that Americans have the best and most affordable health care possible rather than having a handful of health care companies being gobbled up in the entire market for health insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, and even doctors.
	The results have been great for shareholder profits and disastrous for American families.
	Costs keep climbing.
	The act of getting a doctor's appointment or filing an insurance claim seems to have become an Olympic sport in much of America.
	The system delays and denies care and rakes in profits while patients are left wondering how they're going to get the care they need.
	So the question before the Senate now is whether we want America's chief health officer to be somebody who's going to take on those corporate interests.
	Somebody who's going to fight tooth and nail the lower costs and improve care.
	Somebody who's going to work to protect and improve the federal health care programs that tens of millions of Americans rely on them and not gut.
	Everything I've seen and heard from Mr. Kennedy over these last few weeks has led me, colleagues, to conclude he is not the person that America needs.
	Well, he's the person that America chose via the election.
	I do, however, have every reason to believe Mr. Kennedy will continue to embrace and amplify anti-vaccine programs.
	Every reason to believe is he will back up Donald Trump's abortion ban.
	And every reason exists to examine the prospect that he'll be a rubber stamp for the Republican health agenda that would rip away the health care of so many Americans.
	Over the next 24 hours, Democrats are going to show the American people why these concerns are so serious.
	So serious.
	It's the end of the world, people.
	If this guy gets in, it's going to be global warming on steroids.
	All time has expired.
	The question occurs on the Gabber nomination.
	Let's go.
	How many is it going to be?
	Is there a sufficient second?
	There appears to be.
	Clerk will call the roll.
	Do it.
	Also, Brooks.
	Miss Baldwin.
	Mr. Banks.
	Mr. Barrasso.
	What happened?
	Okay, so I don't know what they're doing right now.
	Can I skip ahead a little bit here?
	Do we need to...
	Yeah, we're only a minute behind.
	Should I just go live?
	I don't think we're missing anything.
	All right.
	Mr. Cassidy.
	Here we go.
	Okay. Ms.
	Collins. Thank you.
	Mr. Coons.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Cornyn.
	So what are we watching here?
	What's going on?
	Okay, are they voting or are they calling?
	It's Cortez Masto.
	Are they doing roll call?
	Mr. Cotton.
	Mr. Kramer.
	They're voting.
	They seem to be doing the vote now.
	Mr. Cruz.
	Mr. Curtis.
	Mr. Gaines.
	Man, I wish I...
	They're voting, Viva.
	Yeah, but...
	Do we hear it?
	Mr. Durbin.
	Oh, they're going through, and I guess, what are they going to do?
	They're going to tell...
	Mr. Ernst.
	Mr. Betterman.
	Mrs. Fisher.
	See, I wish I knew.
	Do we not know how they're voting right now?
	That's the question.
	Are these all the names?
	Mr. Gallego.
	Based on the names, it sounds like...
	This is Gillibrand.
	Mr. Graham.
	Mr. Grassley.
	Mr. Haggerty.
	Ms. Hassan.
	Mr. Hawley.
	No, Hawley wouldn't be.
	Mr. Heinrich.
	Mr. Hickenlooper.
	Hickenlooper? That's one heck of a name.
	Mr. Rono.
	Mr. Hoven.
	Mr. Husted.
	I'm going to go to the chat.
	You guys know what the heck is going on right now.
	Viva, they won't release the results until the end, though sometimes you can hear.
	Okay, fine.
	Mr. Kane.
	Mr. Kelly.
	Kelly. J.K.L.
	Kennedy. This is fun.
	Who would have ever thought we'd be sitting here listening to the roll, the vote on a confirmation, not even able to hear anything?
	Oh, that man makes me angry in the beginning.
	Mr. King, Ms.
	Klobuchar, Mr.
	Langford, Mr.
	Mr. Lujan.
	Mr. Lamas.
	Okay, what's going on?
	Well, let's go see what's going on in the chat here.
	The suspense is killing me, says Sonia Barron.
	Me too.
	My hands are actually sweating.
	Mr. Markey.
	Oh, I think I'm losing my bet on Fetterman and what's his face?
	Bernie Sanders.
	We're calling him Backstabber Bernie after this if he doesn't vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
	Mr. McCormick.
	Merkley.
	This is Moody.
	That's Ashley Moody, former Attorney General of Florida.
	She helped me settle my dispute with Verizon.
	I don't know if she did, actually.
	I definitely summoned on her.
	What do we got here?
	Secret vote?
	No, it's not a secret vote.
	This will take forever.
	There's only a hundred of them, so it can't take forever.
	Mr. Mullen.
	I heard him call McConnell.
	Which way did he go?
	Ms. Markowski.
	So they're saying it out loud.
	I'm following the market as they announce it.
	McConnell is now up to 22%.
	Oh, McConnell's down to 19%.
	This is so intense.
	Mr. Padilla.
	Mr. Paul.
	Mr. Peters.
	Mr. Reid.
	Mr. Ricketts.
	How are they voting?
	Mr. Resch.
	So the consensus on the markets is that she's going to get 52 votes or 53 votes, I think.
	Mr. Rounds.
	Mr. Sanders.
	Oh, Sanders, I don't want to hear.
	What just happened with Sanders?
	What's the matter, Mr. Sanders?
	Chicken? Ooh, maybe we call him Backstabber Bernie and Colonel Sanders.
	Chicken. Mr. Schmidt.
	Mr. Schumer.
	No. Well, no, that's Schumer.
	That's Sanders.
	Mr. Scott of Florida.
	Mr. Scott of South Carolina.
	Mrs. Shaheen Okay. Mr. Shaheen.
	Not a vote, a quorum check.
	Attendance only, says Dave Etchells over on Commitube.
	Spaceballs, says Praetorian Gward.
	I just quoted something from Spaceballs and I forget what it was.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	What's the matter, Colonel Sanders?
	Chicken? Mr. Sullivan.
	Mr. Thune.
	Okay, so it's Backstabber Bernie and Colonel Sanders Chicken.
	That's what it's going to be.
	Mr. Tuberville.
	Mr. Van Hollen.
	Mr. Warner.
	Mr. Warnock.
	Thank you.
	Okay, so that's just...
	Okay, today we are reading the phone book for the D.C. area.
	Mr. Warren.
	Mr. Welch.
	Mr. Whitehouse.
	Bend over Bernie.
	Mr. Wicker.
	Is still better, says Dakota from our community.
	Mr. Wyden.
	Mr. Young.
	Bend over Bernie.
	Or bent over Bernie.
	Or Bernie bent over.
	It'll be a new kids book.
	Okay, so let me just say what the markets are saying.
	In the affirmative, Banks, Barrasso, Blackburn, Britt, Budd, Cassidy, Cotton, Crapo, Curtis, Danes, Grassley, Johnson, Lankford, Moran, Mullen, Risch, Rounds, Schmidt, Scott of South Carolina, Sheehy, Tillis, Tupperware, Mr. Hovind?
	Aye. Senators voting in the negative.
	Also Brooks, Coons, Hassan, Heinrich, Kim, Klobuchar, Lujan, Murray, Peters, Schumer, Shaheen, Van Hollen, Wyden.
	Mr. McCormick, aye.
	Mr. Ricketts, aye.
	Mrs. Hyde-Smith, aye.
	Mrs. Fisher, aye.
	I have no idea what's going on here.
	This is the first time I've ever listened to this, people, in real time with such intensity.
	I just counted 21 affirmatives.
	Mr. Schiff.
	Murkowski is a blank.
	Now comes the torturous part.
	McConnell is out to lunch permanently, says Adriana.
	Mr. Schatz.
	No. Mr. Marshall.
	Aye. Mr. Gallego.
	No. 25 to 13 so far.
	Okay. I so don't understand what...
	Did McConnell vote yet?
	Now, there's...
	Seems that the markets are at 99% for basically all Republicans, except McConnell.
	But now he's bouncing back and forth, up and down.
	Between 25 cents and 3 cents.
	Now he's 28 cents.
	Did McConnell vote no or yes?
	And do people not know?
	Okay, so now let's see how many votes on predicted they are saying Tulsi is going to get.
	Mr. Thune, aye.
	Votes for Tulsi, 94% say she's going to get 52 votes.
	Which means 53 Republicans...
	Okay, let's see what's going on here.
	Let me see here.
	They are grabbing the missed votes now.
	This lady sounds like Ben Stein.
	They changed how they've done it.
	C-SPAN is counting.
	Miss Ernst, I. 51 is all she needs.
	Yes, says Vagsphere.
	Miss Collins, Miss Collins, I. Viva Friday.
	The remaining senators who weren't in the room are straggled in to walk up to vote now.
	Okay. They ignored McConnell.
	He just stood there staring.
	They already whipped the vote.
	How do I do this?
	Okay. Oh, can I just bring him up?
	Oh, look at that.
	There's another functionality here.
	I can just click on them.
	No. She has got to get to 50 votes.
	Ms. Cortez Masto.
	No. McConnell's out to lunch.
	Yeah, but he's still got to come back to vote.
	I don't think McConnell even...
	Yeah, this is great.
	Rumble Studio now.
	Just allowed it so that I can just click on the comment to bring it up more easily.
	She should pass easily.
	The system is working overtime to fight against the incoming, the team coming in.
	Absolutely. Man, it's like...
	Mr. Ossoff.
	Mr. Ossoff.
	No. 50 is a tie, and then we get, it says, Crazy Warlock.
	50 is a tie, yeah, and then you get JD to vote.
	On the tiebreaker, and he votes for it.
	But J.D.'s out of town.
	What happens if there's a split?
	Does it have to wait for J.D. to come in, or does it...
	Oh, God.
	Tiger Jaw says 31 to 16. No right now.
	31 yes to 16. No right now.
	Who else feels like a total geek for being so into this?
	She has it.
	Fox News just called it.
	We're watching Fox News right now.
	You want to watch some confirmation hearings?
	Vote for the senator?
	Mr. Welch.
	The kid just got 211 on Wii Bowling.
	Yes. No.
	Close the door.
	Fox News called it, but what's the number?
	News So Bernie Sanders is now forever Backstabber Bernie.
	Let's go to Twitter and see what name...
	What name...
	What name works best for...
	What name...
	What... Nickname.
	Shall be Bernie Sanders' legacy.
	Let's do a vote.
	Yeah. Okay.
	So the vote is going to be...
	Who's Baldwin?
	Bent over...
	Who's Baldwin?
	No. Bernie.
	Backstabber Bernie.
	Add. Colonel...
	How do you spell Colonel?
	Colonel... Colon.
	That's coloner.
	Miss Cantwell.
	Miss Cantwell.
	No. Chicken.
	What other one is good?
	other one is good?
	Sander. Mr. Kelly.
	Mr. Kelly.
	No. No.
	No.
	This is intense.
	Do we not have...
	Is there another platform, another streaming place that is...
	Did I change the channel?
	That's giving us the actual count in real time?
	Whew! You got Bernie'd.
	Eh, not bad.
	Says Snicket Fries here.
	See, now...
	Okay, now when I click on that, I actually brought up the...
	Mr. Graham, Mr. Graham.
	Aye, Mrs. Moody.
	Mrs. Moody.
	Aye. Aye.
	Mr. Warner.
	Mr. Warner.
	What? No.
	No, of course not.
	He's a Democrat, so no.
	Yeah, no.
	Miss Lummis.
	Miss Lummis.
	Aye. Bolshevik Bernie's not bad, actually.
	That's pretty good.
	How many is she going to get?
	Looks like, oh, now it looks like she might get 53, which would mean she got all the Republicans.
	How is this so hard in the age of modern science to do this more efficaciously, efficiently?
	Like, do we not know yet?
	The markets are still undetermined as to how Mitch voted.
	It looks like the market now is going up substantially on predicted to 53 yeas, which would be all Republicans.
	Mr. Husted, Mr. Husted, I. See, what's I?
	Oh, that is yay, okay.
	Or is that I?
	Yes. I is a yes.
	Let me see.
	Backstabber Bernie and Bent Over Bernie seem to be tied.
	All of the above is leading with 50%.
	slotkin miss slotkin no Mrs. Capito, Mrs. Capito, I. This is so intense.
	Who are all these people sitting up in the front here?
	It looks like a young school children may be out for a field day.
	It's like little Timmy goes to Washington to see how his tax dollars are going to be wasted.
	She got it, David.
	Quite certain says abrasive rebuke.
	I don't want to click on the name.
	I want to click on the comment.
	Okay, I'm going to have to tell them about that.
	Here we go.
	She got in quite certain.
	Yes, yes.
	Well, look, it is virtually...
	100% in the markets that she's over 50. It's 1% 50 or under, but who has voted which way?
	And then what happens to Ed Snowden?
	And then what happens to Roger Veer?
	Who are the other ones that deserve pardons in all of this?
	53 votes confirmed, says Sierra Lynn Caron.
	Mr. Murphy, Mr. Murphy, no.
	No, yeah, I'm going to have to go ahead and say no to that.
	Yeah. I'm going to have to go ahead and say I don't really respect democracy, and would you be kind enough to come in on the weekend and vote no again?
	Can you imagine?
	What's Tulsi going to do?
	Is today, day one, like after the vote is confirmed, then she's officially head of DNI?
	Mr. Blumenthal.
	Mr. Blumenthal, no.
	Democrats thought DNI stood for do not investigate.
	Democrats thought DNI stood for don't steal that.
	Do not investigate.
	LOL. Okay, after Tulsi gets confirmed, I'm just looking here on Twitter to see what the consensus is.
	Rick Scott, I met him, he's great.
	Aye. Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Sullivan, aye.
	Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Hickenlooper.
	Hickenlooper? No.
	No, I can't vote for her because she's an apostate of the Democrat Party, so it's going to be a hard no for me, dog.
	Bernie Scanders.
	Mr. Sanders.
	Come on.
	No, Mr. Cornyn.
	Goodbye, Bernie.
	That's it.
	Wipe your nose.
	I got a cold.
	I got to go get my pharmaceutical injections.
	I might have COVID for the seventh time.
	I'm asking you one more time donate to my campaign.
	Only one and a half million dollars out of 200 million dollars.
	10 million of which also came from big corporations.
	Now I'm going to go back to my house on the water.
	Because environment climate change is so hot.
	I've got to get out of DC. See you next time.
	Thank you.
	Bernie is such a loser.
	He shall forever be known as a loser.
	And I'm old enough to remember when I didn't think he was a loser.
	Back in the day when he had similar non-interventionist foreign policy to Donald Trump.
	No, Mr. Reed.
	Yeah, no.
	Mr. Reed.
	No, Mr. Markey.
	Mr. Markey.
	No, Ms. Warren.
	Ms. Warren.
	No, Mr. Kramer.
	Mr. Kramer.
	No. Aye, Mr. Paul.
	Aye. Mr. Paul.
	Well, just every time anyone's in a bad mood, I'll do my Bernie Sanders expression.
	Impersonation, not expression.
	Oh my goodness.
	Thanks to Paxilvid, I'm getting over my cold a lot better.
	Of course, Pfizer didn't donate to me.
	Neither did the executives after I gave back their money.
	When I told them no money from executives, only upper-level employees and hold your office raffle for everyone who donates to my campaign gets a draw in the raffle.
	Speaking of draws and raffles and $17.75 coffee, it's delicious.
	And this is not an ad because this is one of the sponsored one, but I'm drinking the coffee and I'm riding the Tesla Cybertruck this week.
	They're giving it away.
	Get a bag of delicious $17.75 coffee.
	Every dollar spent gets you in the raffle to win a Tesla Cybertruck in $30,000 cash.
	Bernie Sanders should get the Tesla Cybertruck.
	It's good for the environment.
	He can take it from his D.C.
	apartment to his lakeside house to his Vermont place, and he won't use any gas.
	you.
	How many votes does she get?
	Mr. Fetterman.
	Mr. Fetterman, no.
	Mr. Fetterman, no.
	Fetterman got the call.
	Fetterman, so now these are the rules, right?
	Fetterman is a filthy misogynist, also a racist because I believe Tulsi Gabbard fits one of the checkboxes.
	Fetterman and Sanders are white men, racist, misogynist bastards.
	Those are the rules.
	I didn't make them.
	Mr. Wicker, Mr. Wicker, aye.
	So it looks like McConnell voted no.
	McConnell voted no.
	Thank you.
	Mr. McConnell.
	Mr. McConnell.
	No. Oh, there you have it.
	What a POS.
	That's not bad.
	Well, McConnell's done.
	Three losers.
	They're all Democrat losers, but McConnell is effectively...
	Yeah, there you go.
	52 votes is now the consensus.
	That's it.
	She's in.
	It's amazing.
	How much longer do you think Mitch is for this earth?
	It's not even going to be him that has to live.
	His whole family is going to turn Democrat after this.
	Thank you.
	Mrs. Gillibrand.
	Mrs. Gillibrand.
	And when McConnell...
	Not to talk cynical stuff, but we all live and we all pass.
	When McConnell passes, he's going to be the biggest hero to the Democrats.
	They're going to sing his praises.
	What a treacherous scumbag.
	Although you can't even necessarily blame him.
	Not running again.
	Mitch is not clearly of this planet, even though he's here physically.
	Mr. Whitehouse.
	Mr. Whitehouse, no.
	Alright, well that looks like it's it.
	Retire Cocaine Mitch.
	Retire Cocaine Mitch.
	She has 44 votes.
	No, it looks like it's going to be 52. We're witnessing history.
	I mean, it's unbelievable that...
	Tulsi could be so hated by the worst people on Earth.
	And that should tell you everything.
	That RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth are hated by the most vile creatures on Earth.
	Yes, I'm referring to Democrats as creatures, which is a grave insult to creatures.
	Yes. Yes.
	Mr. Booker, Mr.
	Booker, no.
	Well, that's it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It is amazing that quite clearly McConnell is barely alive and is being manipulated and exploited by family, who knows whom, other foreign interests.
	And the amazing thing, I just realized this as I tweeted it out, it's funny how Democrats seem to love demented old men and young children.
	And then you ask yourself why.
	Why they're obsessed, first of all, with idolizing, lionizing demented old men.
	They're easy to manipulate.
	Why do they focus so much on young children?
	They're easy to manipulate.
	No, Ms. Rosen.
	A party of deceit and manipulation.
	No. Yep, Eric says CCP.
	Chinese Communist Party.
	Mr. Durbin.
	Mr. Durbin.
	No. Mr. Warnock.
	Mr. Warnock.
	No. Oh, no, no.
	Apparently she's there.
	It looks like 52. 98% chance she got 52, because it seems every Republican, except Daryl Mitch, voted yay.
	No. That's 52.
	No. No.
	No.
	Yep, just like Biden and Pelosi.
	It's amazing.
	Mr. Kennedy, Mr.
	Kennedy, aye.
	Yep. They loved McCain after he was dead.
	They loved Bush Sr. after...
	Which one was it?
	I think it was Bush Sr. after he was dead.
	They love dead Republicans and demented old Republicans who are effectively brain-dead Democrats.
	And children.
	Won't someone think of the children?
	Tulsi is...
	I don't want to...
	I think Tulsi has been called confirmed in.
	Is Tulsi in?
	Let's ask question marks.
	Clears Key Center.
	That was the Senate hurdle.
	Okay, we've got one week.
	28 minutes ago, Senate voting.
	It looks like it's as damn near confirmed as possible.
	Dirty old Mitch McConnell.
	Sealed his fate.
	As did Bernie Sanders and Fetterman.
	You know, the good thing about Fetterman is he'll always be able to get a speaking gig on CNN and he'll be the sharpest one there.
	Yeah.
	They love dead Republicans because they start voting Democrat.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	We got Sammy with the $1 crumble rant.
	It says, Benedict Bernie, what an asshole.
	Asshole is how you actually said it.
	Yeah, that's wild.
	Okay, well, so now what do we do?
	Do we wait until...
	Let's go into our locals community here.
	We got a meme with Bernie.
	It says, in his last years, Bernie Sanders retired to farming.
	And it's spelt with a P-H-A-R-M-I-N-G.
	That's funny.
	Hmm. Okay, well, that's it.
	So we're waiting for confirmation.
	But it looks like, if we go to Twitter, it looks like it's going to be...
	Mr. Haggerty.
	Mr. Haggerty.
	Aye. Okay, Charlie Kirk is confirming that she's been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence.
	This is a massive...
	Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee.
	Is there a video?
	Oh, this is Fox News that's confirming it.
	Okay. Libs of TikTok confirmed.
	Here, I'll just show you my...
	No, I can't show you what the Twitter feed looks like because we're watching a video.
	Various accounts.
	Libs of TikTok breaking.
	Fox News confirms, or at least she says, Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as President Trump's Director of National Intelligence.
	D.C. Drano posts a picture of...
	Tulsi with the bulletproof vest and that firearm.
	And it says, say hello to your new director of national intelligence.
	Tulsi Gabbard was officially confirmed by the Senate.
	Breaking. Tulsi Gabbard.
	This is from Nick Sorto.
	Nick Sortor.
	Tulsi Gabbard confirmed another massive loss for the deep state.
	Congratulations, Tulsi.
	Colin Rugg announcing the same thing.
	Western Lensman.
	Mr. Cruz.
	Mr. Cruz.
	Playing a video of...
	I. Wyden.
	What's his name?
	No, Blumenthal.
	It was Blumenthal from the beginning.
	There you go.
	Mr. Padilla.
	What are they going to do now if they think they have an aide to Russia as head of DNI?
	My goodness.
	These people whip their demented, psychotic base up into a frenzy with these existential threats.
	Manufactured accusations.
	Aye. Ms.
	Murkowski, Ms.
	Murkowski, aye.
	Aye.
	Okay, how many are we at?
	I mean, it's in, but...
	Well, you imagine, basically these Democrat scoundrel criminal scumbags have just announced to their unhinged lunatic base of millions and millions of people who think the earth is going to be over in 12 years that Trump is coming to round up transgender people.
	They basically just told their entire base that Tulsi Gabbard answers to Russia and Syria, and now she's head of DNI.
	What do they think that is like in the ears of their psychotic base?
	Yeah. Kimmy Hunt says, Murkowski, I, we have the votes.
	It's official, I guess.
	But we'll wait for the cheering.
	You think these...
	Kids are going to cheer in the front?
	It still says 45 to 45. No.
	No. Well, Bernie.
	It's so sad.
	But he's so isolated from everything, he won't even know or care if he does know.
	Like Justin Trudeau.
	Like Bill Gates.
	Like Anthony Fauci.
	They're going to live in their heavily fortified ivory tower.
	Where they're not going to have to deal with the everyday people who loathe them, they've betrayed.
	So they'll live out their days in compelled isolation of sorts, hanging out with equally vile scumbags because...
	Ordinary, peace-loving, patriotic Americans don't want to have anything to do with them.
	Aye. Hawley votes aye, obviously.
	Yeah, they said 12 years ago was about 7 years ago.
	We've got 5 years left.
	No, I'm pretty sure it was actually Al Gore said if we don't do something he was in 2000 that we'd be dead by now.
	of us.
	Go to the Doge hearing, Viva.
	Yeah, we can do that in a bit, actually.
	I want to wait for the moment here, although I think it's pretty much confirmed.
	I've got the Doge hearing open in another window.
	you.
	Okay. So, can we just get this confirmed here?
	Yeas are 52, nays are 48. Nomination is confirmed.
	Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered.
	Mr. President, I move to waive the mandatory quorum with respect to the Kennedy nomination.
	Is there objection?
	Remove the mandatory quorum.
	report, the motion to invoke cloture.
	Float your motion.
	We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 22 of the standing rules of the Senate, to hereby move to bring to a closed debate on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of California to be Secretary of Health and Human Services signed by 17 Senators.
	He's the biggest threat.
	By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
	A quorum is present.
	A question.
	The question is, is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of California to be Secretary of Health and Human Services shall be brought to a close?
	The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
	The clerk will call the roll.
	Ms. Also Brooks, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Banks, Mr. Barasco.
	Do we want to skip this and go over?
	Do we want to go over to the Doge hearing?
	Let's go over to the Doge.
	Consensus in the chat.
	Yes, we go to the Doge hearing.
	Skip. Doge hearing is an effing joke.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Okay, let's go to the Doge hearing for a bit.
	I have it over here.
	Watch live.
	I think we got this guy, Gil.
	The Democrat Party has for decades systematically grown and weaponized the administrative state against the American people, and the American people have had enough of it.
	Right now we're talking about $2.7 trillion in improper payments since 2003.
	We're uncovering what could be the biggest money laundering scandal in American history.
	And the other side of the aisle could care less.
	They have no concern about where this money went, to what entities it went, to what governments, to what people are...
	If your matching set doesn't make you this excited, then you just haven't tried a comfort set yet.
	Comfort is a mental health supporting brand that makes all...
	So it does make me wonder if they don't care about where it's going, do they have an idea?
	They know where it's going.
	What we've uncovered so far is that so much of the waste, fraud, and abuse...
	Of our federal government is actually funding their side of the aisle.
	It's funding media outlets that are running cover for Democrats routinely.
	The NPR, PBS, the BBC, Politico.
	It's going to fund left-wing NGOs that are facilitating the invasion of our country.
	It's going to fund left-wing transgender activism and sex changes all over the globe.
	This is money that's being used, taken from the American people, and used against their interests.
	If you care about rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, we should be serious about this.
	I'm very excited to be on this committee.
	I'm excited to expose what's being going on.
	Thank you, Madam Chair, and with that, I yield.
	Okay. The gentleman yields.
	In closing, I want to thank our witnesses again for their testimonies today.
	I now yield to the ranking member for closing remarks.
	Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.
	Well, I never thought so many conspiracy theories and wild accusations could be wound into one five-minute speech, but I appreciate my friends across the aisle.
	First of all, let's talk about this massive mandate that supposedly brought Donald Trump into office.
	He didn't even win the popular vote.
	Donald Trump did not run on putting an unelected billionaire in charge of dismantling the federal government.
	He didn't even get 50% of the vote.
	He ran on lowering prices for Americans.
	And three weeks later?
	I think it's interesting that while we're sitting here this morning, the of the New York Times is reporting that inflation has risen unexpectedly as food and energy prices have soared.
	Thank you.
	What's going on, guys?
	I thought you were going to tackle inflation and food and energy prices.
	Isn't that what the executive orders were supposed to do?
	Oh, wait.
	Or is dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion in our federal agencies and putting an ideological agenda and trying to fire the federal workforce, your actual agenda?
	Have you been too busy trying to actually address the fiscal health of this country?
	Because the numbers are telling us that you have.
	So let's be real about what's going on here.
	I also want to point out that literally while we've been sitting here for the last almost two hours getting lectured, Fiscal responsibility.
	Literally, the Republicans just released their plan to raise the debt limit while we were sitting here.
	And they want to raise it by $4 trillion.
	Okay, guys.
	Literally, I'm just without words.
	Inflation is going up.
	You want to raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
	You want to gut Medicare.
	You want to gut Medicaid.
	You're talking about going after Social Security after promising that you wouldn't.
	I mean, really, what the heck is going on here?
	We're not trying to take down Elon Musk as a businessman.
	This dude is literally breaking the law inside of the federal government.
	And for a party that is supposed to be the party of law and order, in quotes.
	I really do not see you holding him accountable and doing your most basic constitutional responsibility in the separation of powers.
	So, I want to end where I started.
	We are the Oversight Committee.
	We are the People's House for the United States of America.
	We represent the American people.
	And so, Mr. Elon Musk, if you would like to appear in front of the Oversight Committee, you have been duly invited.
	Please, come tell us what you're doing.
	Come testify in front of the American people.
	And please, come hold yourself to account.
	With that, I yield back.
	The gentlelady yields.
	I now recognize myself for closing remarks.
	President Trump was elected with a mandate to rein in unaccountable bureaucracy in Washington and to wage war on waste.
	I know that because I campaigned alongside him and so did my colleagues.
	This hearing was the first battle of that war.
	And in the coming days, the subcommittee will release a report with legislative solutions to the problems we have identified here today.
	We aren't going to wait all the way until the end of this Congress.
	We're going to get to work immediately.
	The bureaucrats who have run Washington for decades are beyond the point of forgiveness.
	Their sheer incompetence and pure spite for the hardworking American people have resulted in total failure.
	The federal government has made over $2.7 trillion in improper payments since 2003, including $236 billion in 2023 alone.
	Those are trillions of dollars that honest Americans have paid in taxes, at gunpoint over the years.
	Quite literally sometimes.
	As we approach April 15th, Americans are once again preparing to do their taxes and fork over Their unfair share of money it takes to run this country.
	And I have to tell you, the American people have not been getting their money's worth for a long time.
	Most improper payments in recent years were issued through five programs.
	Medicare, Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, pandemic unemployment insurance, and the Paycheck Protection Program.
	But a total of 16 federal programs had improper payment rates of 10% or more in 2023.
	That includes SNAP, the federal food stamp program, which paid out $10 billion taxpayer dollars improperly.
	To get their arms around this problem, Elon Musk and the Doge team went straight to the source.
	They went to the Treasury Department's fiscal service, which makes about 90% of the trillions in federal payments issued annually.
	The audit of these payment systems was long overdue.
	Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave DOGE employees working for the government read-only access to these systems so they could conduct that initial audit.
	That audit is already paying dividends.
	Musk learned that the databases federal agencies are supposed to check to prevent payments to fraudsters, crime rings, and dead people are not being kept up to date.
	Going forward, we are going to get more mileage out of these do not pay databases.
	That means fewer improper payments and less fraud and waste of taxpayer dollars.
	Despite this fraud, that's already been revealed.
	A federal judge in New York issued a ruling last Friday that ran totally contrary to the will of the people.
	The judge blocked not only Doge, But the Treasury Secretary himself from accessing his own agency's payment systems.
	That's absurd.
	Only Career Treasury Department unelected bureaucrats can access the system.
	The judge ruled.
	This turns the Constitution on its head.
	We will hold this judge and others who try to stop the will of the people and their elected leaders accountable.
	As is written in the Federalist Papers, the judiciary has no influence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or the wealth of the society.
	It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment, and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm for the efficacy of its judgments.
	But the whole D.C. swamp is freaking out that the unelected officials from DOGE were allowed access to these systems.
	That makes no sense.
	Federal judges were not elected.
	The Treasury bureaucrats were not elected.
	And they have failed to fix the problem that is enabling American taxpayers to be robbed.
	So why not bring in skilled outside experts like private companies and private citizens who are successful in the real world to do everyday work that we need to get done here, like audits?
	Of course, federal payment systems are only one link in the improper payment chain.
	We need to look at other links in the chain.
	We need better front-end identify verification to screen out fraudsters.
	And we need to close eligibility loopholes.
	That means not letting applicants self-attest to their own eligibility.
	And it means ending categorical eligibility, which lets someone who fraudulently qualifies for one federal benefit automatically get other federal benefits.
	We need to better coordinate fraud prevention efforts between federal governments and the states.
	These are all issues that we will be taking a hard look at in this committee and coming up with solutions to including legislation and referrals to committees of jurisdiction that will deliver for the American people.
	With that and without objection, all members have five legislative days within which to submit materials and additional written questions for the witnesses, which will be forwarded to the witnesses.
	If there is no further business without objection, the subcommittee stands adjourned.
	Okay, well, we missed a lot of that.
	We can go back and see, I don't know, a couple of these things.
	Let's listen for hot mics.
	That's always where you get some good information.
	Stoner Guy says, Marjorie Taylor Greene is an example of not super hot, but super sexy.
	She's so brilliant and hot, I would do it.
	What day did I just bring up here?
	I saw Marjorie Taylor Greene in Milwaukee.
	She's very muscular, but we all know that from her ability to squat.
	I'm surprised Vivo doesn't protect his chat.
	Anything... Anything at all here.
	I'm surprised Viva doesn't protect his chat.
	Anything at all here, but I block the ones that seriously should be blocked off the channel.
	It's not a question of protecting chat.
	I don't block people.
	Spammers get blocked.
	That's pretty much it.
	And if you break YouTube's rules, you're going to get blocked.
	But other than that, chat away.
	Okay, so we're going to get back.
	Let's get out of this.
	Let's put this on mute.
	Well, actually, let's just wait for a few seconds.
	it looks so glamorous when they show you from the front and then you see it from the side and it's like a like a like a cafeteria turned into a hearing room All right, well, let's see if there was so many good stuff here.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Let's go down to this guy right here.
	Has worked very closely with our IG community.
	Is that right?
	The Inspector Generals?
	Yeah, that's correct, Congressman.
	I know your work is very much similar to what we ask our Inspector Generals to undertake.
	I want to ask you, what do you think?
	So in the most recent report from the Inspector Generals, and this is the Council of the Inspector Generals, a nonpartisan group on integrity and efficiency in government, They identified more than $93 billion in potential savings.
	All right, let's go back to...
	I've got to pause that.
	We're going to go back to RFK.
	We can go watch that afterwards, and I've got some clips in the back.
	That's the Doge Committee.
	RFK is here.
	No, that's my here.
	That's our live stream here.
	Get this one out of here and bring up this one, is it, I believe.
	Let's see what we've got here.
	Okay, so where are we on this?
	This is Senate votes to advance Gabbard, the RFK Jr.
	Gabbard confirmed to DNI.
	What an ascension of a career.
	Mr. Tobin, aye.
	Mrs. Hyde-Smith, aye.
	Okay, here we got the votes.
	Okay, so let's go to predicted and just see what they have by way of the markets for RFK.
	RFK, it looks like, based on the statistics of the number of votes, if I continue talking while it's spinning in a circle, let's see what we got here.
	Yeah, 83 cents for the dollar that it's going to be 52 senators who vote for him.
	I guess everybody's factoring in now Mitch McConnell.
	Little scumbag bastard traitor is not going to vote for RFK either.
	Mrs. Blackburn, I. Oh, and by the way, while we're here...
	Ms. Warren, no.
	As we're listening, speaking of making America healthy again, let's make our children creative and love reading again.
	Louis the Lobster, Returns to the Sea, by David Frye, illustrated by Abigail Marden.
	A member, a daughter of a member of our locals community.
	Get it on Amazon right now.
	Here is the link.
	Boom. $14.99 US.
	$4,000 Canadian.
	Is the vote for RFK today?
	Yeah, the vote is right now.
	And it looks like he's going to get through with the same number of votes as Tulsi Gabbard.
	Mr. Welch, no.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Round's Eye.
	I came to Rumble to view different sometimes offensive language and I do not like and do like.
	Stop asking the mods to block people.
	21 Reset, I'm inclined to block you as a joke.
	I don't ask the mods to block anybody and I only have one or two mods on the channel and the only thing they block is spam and posting links.
	So don't come here from YouTube and act like a YouTuber Karen and tell me what to do.
	Especially when I'm not doing it.
	Viva, go to the Senate site.
	The vote for cash is tomorrow.
	That's going to be the big one.
	I mean, they're all big.
	They're all big.
	But this is...
	Remember, if you've been following vivabarnslaw.locals.com or watching the Sunday night show, this is a transformational presidency right now.
	And Trump is a transformational president and not a transitional president.
	Mr. Hickenlooper, no.
	Well, hold on one second.
	Stop trying to seduce the chat.
	Blue Steel.
	Thank you, Kelnon.
	Kelnon. Okay, we got, I guess, the...
	Okay, no, never mind.
	Go Viva.
	Crash and dog.
	Oh, by the way, I'm going to be on the unusual this afternoon.
	four o'clock live.
	you.
	Mrs. Moody, aye.
	Mrs. Moody, aye.
	Yar! Let's see what we've got by way of the...
	All right, let's see here.
	I don't know.
	So if I go to the Senate website, Senate website.
	I don't know what I just did.
	Not now.
	Senate.gov.
	Here we go.
	Wednesday, February 10th and convened floor.
	Recent Senate call votes.
	We're not getting anything more up to date here.
	Let's go to X and see what's going on on the X-verse.
	I wish I could share two screens.
	Mr. Wicker, aye.
	Mr. Cassidy, aye.
	Okay, let's go to RFK now and see if there's news breaking about him.
	Confirm Tulsi, confirm cash, confirm RFK, make America great again.
	That's from GOP.
	That 23 seconds ago, Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the DNI head.
	This is Alex Jones breaking it.
	So thus far, nothing.
	I just saw a guy swimming with a mask, and he put it on after he came out of the water.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, I actually know what?
	I'm going to play this afterwards.
	This is great.
	I'm going to put this on the backdrop.
	It's a great ode to trusting the science.
	Everything that we were forced to do or did during COVID.
	Let's get back here.
	Okay, so thus far, I'm going to go to the chat and just see what's going on here.
	Viva Frye supported Justin Trudeau.
	I have the records.
	Mr. Warner, no.
	Oh, hey, Rakata.
	How you doing?
	That's not really Rakata Law, by the way.
	I voted for him in 2015, so if that's what you mean.
	That's funny, but I think that's either a joke or one of them trolls.
	Their roll call is a joke and just inefficient as government.
	Is that a fake Mickey?
	It's got to be a fake Mickey.
	Nick also, yeah, he didn't have the standard YouTube.
	Oh, no, let me see.
	I can go check it out.
	In Commitube, I got a super chat.
	What's this?
	RFK with a steel chair?
	He's chasing the old commie.
	It's Baldwin.
	No. That was from...
	MedicMark22 over on Commitube.
	Then we got Ed2276.
	Do you think exposing USAID and the other agencies and the court's outrageous attempt to take over the executive branch will rein in Rhino Congressman to support Trump's agenda?
	I think so.
	I mean, I think now that at least any reasonably, mildly self-aware public is fed up with this.
	You got a freaking rogue judge out of New York telling the president what he can and cannot do?
	What websites he must and must not put back on the internet?
	It's his presidency.
	He is the...
	What's the word I'm looking for?
	Mr. Schumer, no.
	Yeah, it's good.
	The trolls are disgusting today, Viva.
	It says Janice Mansbridge.
	It's good.
	It's a sign that we are...
	we're reaching new crowds hmm sigh But the trolls are always out.
	Man, you should see what I have to deal with on Twitter.
	My goodness.
	Is it I, yay, or nay?
	Pick one.
	Yeah, they do.
	I thought they were going between I and yay.
	Nay has been nay.
	It's not no.
	I don't think they say no.
	This is to end the debate voting.
	Then it will be 30 hours until the final voting.
	I don't believe that that's true.
	They already voted for the cloture of RFK, unless I'm mistaken.
	Let me just go here and double check.
	Okay. Okay.
	This is the final vote, I'm sure.
	Okay, no.
	So, the full Senate is expected to hold a procedural vote on his nomination at 11. February 12th.
	This procedural vote is a step towards the final confirmation vote, but it's not the final vote itself.
	Oh, you might be right.
	This is the cloture vote.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	This is coming from our locals community, so...
	This is the vote to invoke cloture, says, okay, so correct me, people.
	And this is Tzvi Hanses in our locals community, who I don't think Tzvi has ever been wrong.
	So the vote is for the cloture vote, which is going to be obvious, and then they're going to do his vote tomorrow, I guess?
	Or do they do it?
	They're not going to do it.
	Would they not do it right away?
	I mean, I guess they...
	Why wouldn't they do it right away if they know that they have everyone there they just did?
	I guess maybe we've got to go with the votes.
	Give us 24 hours to go beat the shit out of Mitch McConnell so that he votes against RFK Jr.
	Let me see here what we got.
	Cloture to end debate.
	Okay, good.
	Yeah, we got that.
	And let me go here.
	Viva, I was wrong, but appreciate the thought.
	Well, we've all been wrong.
	You know what I'm getting at.
	Reliable, consistent, thoughtful.
	Thank you.
	So, we don't care about this.
	Let me go see what's going on on the interwebs.
	I don't think we care about this, people, right?
	Okay, I guess we're going to get out of here.
	The cloture is going to be...
	Democrats can delay for debate for 30 hours.
	Okay, so we're not going to have the vote on him next.
	Alright, so I'm going to take this out and I'll keep it open in the backdrop.
	But we got one big W today.
	Let me see something here.
	The vote is open for 30 hours.
	The final vote will be tomorrow.
	Okay. We got this.
	I like this new system here.
	I can just click on the comment and it comes up.
	Let me go into the...
	Donation section here and see if I miss anything.
	I hate death is in the house.
	Also known as fanatophobia.
	Sorry, I just turned tuned.
	And when that lady was saying, like, literally, like, literally, I can't even.
	Good lordy.
	I'm going to put the back stuff on mute so I don't hear this as I'm talking.
	All right, so we got one big W today.
	Tulsi Gabbard is in as head of DNI.
	I nearly wouldn't have thought it was the biggest deal on earth, but the...
	This vitriol and the vigor with which the worst people on earth opposed her nomination leads me to believe that there's a good reason why they're doing that, and they have confirmed to me that it is fantastically awesome, transformationally good, and we're about to witness something great with Tulsi Gabbard.
	Now, what did I want to bring up here?
	There was something that I had in the backdrop because it was funny.
	Liz Churchill posted this.
	This is why they...
	This is why they want to oppose RFK Jr.
	RFK Jr. is a conspiracy theorist that knows nothing about healthcare the last four years.
	Let's watch this.
	This is actually just going to make me angry.
	This is probably a joke.
	I'm going to put the music down because I don't want to get copystruck.
	That, I think, has to be a joke.
	Yeah, I'll definitely get claimed if I put this music up.
	Yep, spraying down people with random...
	I mean, if that's liquid vodka, hook me up.
	This I can attest to.
	I remember I was on a plane with my daughter and she was eating and the woman said, literally pull it up in between bites.
	Why would they wrap the kids up and not wrap the adults up?
	These things happened.
	I just would say this.
	I don't remember things quite like this, but I do remember tweeting out at the time kids playing in hula hoops to keep them socially distanced.
	This, I think, must have been a joke, but that's hilarious.
	What are we looking at here?
	Yeah, that's definitely real.
	Pfizer, what are they, syringes?
	That has to be a joke.
	It's a man with like 55. That I remember, by the way.
	This guy thinks that's the safe thing to do.
	He's going to spritz that toxic liquid spray gel.
	Okay. The swimming with the mask, I think, has got to be fake.
	I remember this.
	This was an Israeli invention.
	This I do remember.
	This is psychological abuse for everyone involved.
	This I definitely remember.
	That's got to be a joke.
	Okay, and then we're watching it.
	So mixing some jokes in there with some not jokes, but yeah, that's what we just lived through for the last four years.
	The conspiracy theorists have been right.
	And the people who said trust the science, I don't say that they were conspiracy theorists.
	They were just idiots.
	Wrong. And yes, psychological abuse, 100%.
	Intended to demoralize a population into subservience and into a submission.
	And I dare say it worked on a lot of people.
	They're still broken.
	Let me see.
	Here we got...
	I also saw a picture of a guy inside someone's guy's car and he had to put a mask on the air vents inside.
	Well, that's not...
	That's thinking smart.
	That's not thinking crazy.
	Nip it right at the bud.
	Filter that COVID air that's coming in through the car.
	I remember the argument I had with a family friend.
	The person was supporting wearing masks outside.
	I was like, what's the thought process here?
	Set aside the fact that at the time we knew that there hadn't been any cases of outdoor transmission.
	And the person said, well...
	If I'm jogging and I cross paths with you and you happen to sneeze at that point in time and you happen to be COVID positive and I happen to inhale the particles, it's possible.
	What's the big deal?
	Wear a mask.
	I'm like, you're fucking crazy.
	Like, do you hear the words that are coming out of your mouth?
	You're batshit crazy.
	You might want to think about seeing a psychologist, not a doctor.
	These were the discussions I had to have.
	I was actually thinking about it.
	I was going to go back to my Twitter feed from the period in question.
	And drive myself crazy again, just remembering everything that we went through.
	Watch this.
	I'm going to go advanced search.
	I'm going to go...
	The account is going to be The Viva Fry.
	And we're going to go to time frame.
	Month? April.
	We'll do 2020.
	This is going to be cool.
	I haven't done this.
	This is going to piss me off.
	And we're going to go to May.
	Let's go to May 23rd because that's my birthday and we'll see how pissed off I was on my birthday.
	Now we go like this.
	Search. Check this out.
	Okay, we're going to take a trip down memory lane.
	This is Chef Antonio Park in Canada.
	At Park Restaurant, best restaurant ever, breaking down a 300-pound tuna.
	We made a video to that.
	That was fantastic.
	Operating on the basis that the tickets are $292 and more.
	That's a total of $735,000 or more in tickets that the island of Montreal alone gave because they were giving tickets for not physically, socially distancing.
	Add that...
	To the administrative costs if people can test these tickets, all on taxpayer dollars imposed on people who are unable to work.
	This is me in May 2020.
	Oh yeah, there you go.
	I made fun of it.
	They need that eating compatible face mask.
	And let's just go back to April because as we go down to...
	What was this one about?
	We are being conditioned and traumatized to fear other people.
	At the same time, we are being taught that we live at the mercy of our government.
	Our very freedoms, our very livelihoods, our very existence exists at the whim of the government.
	We have now learned that if the government deems a risk to be great enough, they can take your existence away.
	They can lock you in your homes indefinitely with no end in sight, with no objective in sight.
	Loss of our most basic civil liberties, being conditioned to fear other people, totally ignoring the casualty tradeoff that is necessarily going to follow from these draconian measures.
	Now we're being warned that as a result of the cure implemented by the government, it might cause hundreds of millions of people to starve to death.
	What do you think the governments of the world are going to do then?
	They're going to find a solution to the bigger problem they created while trying to solve another problem.
	The measures implemented don't...
	...
	school for a demographic that statistically has virtually no risk.
	Okay, it's not being done for them.
	It's to protect those who are at risk.
	Well, here's an idea then.
	Protect those who are at risk while allowing those who are least at risk to get back to life.
	And then to...
	That aged well.
	Let me just, if I may, quote this.
	This aged well.
	That was May of 2020.
	And for anybody wondering what's on my forehead, it's not a pimple.
	Right there.
	You see that?
	So I had this metal roadrunner.
	It was a roadrunner made out of scrap metal.
	It was an artist, a Quebec artist who did it.
	I got it for my wife for Valentine's Day.
	Holy crap, what day is it today?
	And so it was a roadrunner.
	Imagine a roadrunner made out of scrap metal.
	And the beak was two sharpened pieces of sharp ass metal.
	And I went down to pick something up.
	And it's a big ass.
	It was like three and a half feet tall and weighed like 70 pounds.
	Bashed me right in the forehead.
	Right there.
	I still have the scarf.
	Where is it?
	Here? I can feel the scar.
	No, I did not cut my forehead shaving.
	I smashed my head on the beak.
	And the funny thing is, another person in the house also did it.
	I screamed so loud and cussed so loud.
	I swear to you, the neighbors heard it from down the street.
	Wow, this is amazing.
	I didn't want to get pissed off, but now I am.
	Let's go back down here.
	Oh yeah, that's the thing.
	That's the thing right there.
	I stabbed myself in the forehead with this ornamental roadrunner.
	That little son of a bitch.
	Oh, God.
	It was deep, too, by the way.
	That was like a deep-ass puncture wound.
	Okay. Now, I just wanted to go back down to April.
	Unpopular opinion.
	I don't find it beautiful that a 90-year-old married couple are reunited by the grace of government after being separated for months, denied each other for a better part of the remaining of their lives due to knee-jerk reaction to government policy.
	That's May 2020.
	I was thinking about going back and seeing if I ever said anything really tremendously stupid, like, Don't be stupid!
	Get the job!
	Never, never, never said that.
	May 18. Well, I was tweeting a lot back then, so good for me.
	May 16. Oh, maybe that's it.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Our government officials either don't appreciate the irreparable harm they are creating with their irrational and overzealous response to a perpetually moving target, or they do, and I'm genuinely not sure which is scarier.
	Well, that was a trip down memory lane that I didn't want to take, but thank you for being here with me.
	What I was going to say...
	Oh my god, Viva, with his wild hair, don't even recognize you.
	I have to say, though, the one good thing is if I ever need to go into hiding, shave my head bald.
	Shave my face and maybe shave my eyebrows and I will be powder level unrecognizable.
	I will be lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins unrecognizable.
	Not much else to do in 2020.
	Anyway, that's good.
	It's nice to see that at least, you know, I may have complied.
	In the beginning part, I do remember trying to make the best of the situation by stacking golf balls, making videos.
	But I don't think I ever really...
	I did not support the nonsense.
	And as sure as sugar did not force anybody else to...
	To do that.
	Viva Fry's getting old.
	He's going to tear an Achilles.
	Jeff, you say that, actually, and I just jumped on a 30-inch box yesterday to impress my kid.
	I'm like, holy crap, I can feel things actually starting to be very, very potential for popping.
	All right, so there's nothing more that we're going to watch in terms of the confirmation hearings, correct?
	I mean, this is it now?
	Let me see what's going on in vivabarnslaw.locals.com.
	Tzvi Hansen says, Viva, I will recognize you anywhere.
	That needs a smiley face afterwards so that...
	I'm joking.
	I'm joking.
	I'll recognize you anywhere, Viva.
	And dump the glasses.
	Yeah, but then I won't be able to see anything.
	Critical thought over in our locals community.
	I have to admit that Viva Fry groked it quicker than I did.
	But I didn't live in Kanakistan either, so there's that.
	No, I'm fairly certain I was onto it from April.
	Okay, let me go back to this.
	I'm fairly certain that I was onto it from April.
	I'm going to go like this.
	I'm going to do everything only in April.
	So we're going to do...
	April. No, we'll do March.
	It was March that they shut everything down.
	March 10th, 2020.
	This is fun, too.
	Let's do April 20th.
	2020. Let's see what we can get in here.
	While we're all here, just watch it.
	Oh, doesn't want to do that?
	Okay, whatever.
	I'll do it afterwards.
	I did have some stuff that I did want to actually talk about.
	Okay. Maybe I'll do a separate segment in the car as well.
	The ostrich farm people, speaking of government overreach tyranny, trying to terrorize you into submission, they're doing the exact same thing now with the H5N1 avian flu bullshit.
	I had on Katie from Universal Ostrich Farm a couple of weeks ago, and they got a temporary reprieve from the government that was trying to slaughter 400 plus of their healthy ostriches.
	And they got a temporary injunction enjoining enforcement of the order from the CFIA, which is the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, until such time as they could have a hearing on the order itself, because the order to kill the animals is kind of irreparable.
	So you can't undo the killing and therefore balance of the inconvenience, color of right on injunctive relief.
	They said, we're going to pause the order.
	We're going to have a hearing on the order itself.
	And if we say, yeah, then you go ahead and be forced to slaughter your animals.
	OK, the freaking government.
	And this is the release that I got.
	This is from the Ostrich Farm.
	It says the DOJ lawyers filed appeal.
	This appeal is in addition to the motion for clarification and an expedited judicial review hearing already before the court.
	The Department of Justice lawyers acting on behalf of the CFIA, which is the Canada Food Inspection Agency, Filed more documents yesterday.
	Late this morning, the ostrich farm owners, Karen, etc., etc., they were informed by the CFIA is now appealing the injunction granted by the Judge Batista, prohibiting the execution of the now healthy ostriches.
	They are also seeking an expedited hearing on the judicial review.
	Fine. Speaking on the family farm...
	Katie Pazitney states, It is obvious in addition to the emotional assault, the deliberate infliction of psychological pain and suffering, bankrupting us by destroying our business, the CFIA is now attempting, is now amping up their legal assault against us in the hope we will finally break, we will fight.
	Supporters from around the world have joined in the effort to save the ostriches campaign.
	A team of volunteers has ignited the newly established social media platforms with videos of CFIA agents in hazmat suits admitting the ostriches look healthy but must be eradicated.
	The videos went viral.
	Okay, that was the email.
	This is the actual appeal.
	We want to just go to the grounds of the appeal.
	The appellate is basically the government of Canada.
	Grounds of the appeal.
	The motion's judge, so the judge who heard the injunction, erred in law and in principle, and or seriously misapprehended the facts, by finding that irreparable harm in the form of the closure of its 25-year-old business of the respondents.
	Decades longer, yada, yada, would flow to the respondent if an injunction were not granted, notwithstanding that injunction motion was only in respect of the notice and not in respect of the ministry's authority to dispose of the ostriches.
	The judge said injunction, especially on a provisional, emergency injunction, balance of inconvenient, color of right, oh jeez, I keep forgetting the other one, irreparable harm, and public interest, give or take, something along those lines.
	They're talking about ordering someone to kill 400-plus of their animals.
	There can be nothing more irreparable than death.
	Scumbags. The error was finding, erroneously concluding that not issuing the injunction would render the underlying application moot.
	It was the last part here.
	To the extent the motions judge made an order in joining the ministry, the minister from disposing of Universal's ostriches, yada, yada, yada, the motions judge erred in law and principle, including by exceeding his jurisdiction.
	Basically what they're trying to say is the judge has no oversight over this administrative body.
	We are the judge, jury, and literal executioner.
	Come on!
	Let us kill your ostriches!
	Science says so!
	So literally judge, jury, and executioner.
	There's the link to the tweet.
	Share it around.
	I'll be following it.
	And I'll do a car vlog just to condense that into a video.
	That was one thing I wanted to talk about.
	Maybe the other stuff I'll save for tomorrow because we'll have a show tomorrow as well.
	Amazing stuff that hostage or the prisoner in Russia, Mark Fogel, was finally released.
	Negotiated release.
	I hate getting the last sip and if it's not a full mouthful, I feel left...
	Unsatisfied. And I hate leaving liquid in the can.
	Mark Fogle has been released.
	You know, when people think it's like, you're being racist or misogynist by saying he traded the merchant of death for a basketball player.
	Joe Biden traded the merchant of death for a basketball player.
	And the reason I say it like that is I don't care if she's a man or a woman.
	Lesbian, straight, gay, whatever.
	I don't care.
	I don't care about race, religion, or creed.
	We're talking about a game of Pokemon here.
	I can't use that analogy.
	We're trading baseball cards here.
	Joe Biden just traded a Joe DiMaggio rookie for a...
	What was his name?
	Ben Sanders?
	Error rookie card?
	There was a...
	It was the most expensive upper deck card in 1993.
	It was the Ben Sanders mid-stop in the SS.
	The shortstop was upside down.
	Joe Biden traded a Joe DiMaggio rookie card for Don Mattingly, Donruss rookie card.
	It's nothing to do with it.
	He did.
	He traded the merchant of death for a basketball player.
	I don't care who she was, who he was, whatever.
	That's a terrible trade.
	I mean, you'd think at least, at least.
	Okay, look.
	I've got Don Mattingly.
	Not Don Mattingly.
	I've got the Joe Maggio rookie card.
	Don Mattingly and Manon Rayom rookie card.
	At least.
	Just give me those two.
	Give me a basketball player and a teacher for the merchant of death.
	That's all Biden had to do.
	It seems that he left the white male rotting in a prison in Russia for the exact same charges that the black lesbian basketball player was detained for as well.
	She allegedly had two vape pens or one pen, two cartridges, something along those lines.
	Said it was medicinal, whatever.
	But the guy's name, Mark Fogle, had a half ounce of cannabis medical for pains in his back.
	He rotted for another, an extra, what, two or three years?
	2022? Three years.
	Because he was a white male.
	And Joe Biden wanted the, yeah, look, you don't understand.
	You're not valuing the cards properly, Viva, because you got a Babe Ruth.
	Rookie card.
	But that Don Mattingly.
	Well, the way it's nicked right in the corner makes it extra special.
	My basketball player is a black lesbian woman.
	That's three.
	What do you have on yours?
	Babe Ruth?
	Just one?
	So anyways, Trump saved a man's life.
	Another man's life.
	And it's flipping amazing.
	Ah. Ah.
	Thank you.
	So that's what's going on there.
	Now, I had something that I wanted to bring up, which was Elon Musk.
	You know what's an amazing thing?
	For the amount of people who say what a narcissist, psychopath, self-absorbed man Donald Trump is, I listened to this conference with Elon Musk.
	The way Donald Trump sits there humbly and respectfully listening to someone who I suspect...
	What makes Donald Trump smart?
	It's that he surrounds himself with smart people.
	I have no doubt that Trump knows that by having Elon Musk on his team speaking so eloquently about government waste, it reflects well on Trump.
	But a narcissist does not sit there and give the spotlight to someone who might risk, Trump doesn't like anybody who's going to outdo him.
	Look at the way Trump sits there listening to Elon Musk with respect, admiration of his intellect.
	That's not something a narcissist does or is capable of doing.
	But the purpose of this video is watch Elon Musk's kid towards the end.
	If you look at, say, Treasury, for example, basic controls that should be in place in any company, such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment, and that if a payment is on the do not pay list, that you don't actually pay it.
	None of those things are true currently.
	So the reason that departments can't pass audits is because the payments don't have a categorization code.
	It's like just a massive number of blank checks just flying out the building.
	So you can't reconcile blank checks.
	You've got comment fields that are also blanks.
	You don't know why the payment was made.
	And then we've got this, a truly absurd, a do not pay list, which can take up to a year for an organization to get on a do not pay list.
	We're talking about terrorist organizations.
	We're talking about known fraudsters, known aspects of waste, known things that do not match any congressional appropriation.
	It can take up to a year to get on the list.
	And even what's on the list, the list is not used.
	It's my boy.
	Let me put my face back in there only after I show you what I wanted to show you.
	Look at the kid's face.
	Even he is choking on the...
	Governmental rub it.
	Oh, I can't.
	That's not where it's from.
	You can hear my voice.
	I know that.
	Hold on.
	I got to go down here.
	Got to go here.
	Got to go here.
	Look at the kid.
	Where is it?
	He gets shocked at the government waste.
	It can take up to a year to get on the list.
	And even what's on the list, the list is not used.
	What? It's my voice.
	Get on the list.
	And even what's on the list, the list is not used.
	What? Classic.
	It's mind-blowing.
	It's classic.
	Let me bring myself back up here.
	How do I get back into the stream?
	Here, like this, like this, and bring this out.
	Yeah, even the kid.
	The kid's going to be smart beyond his years.
	daddy is bringing up some serious, serious government waste.
	So that's what I wanted to show you.
	Now, the question is this.
	What time is it?
	12.30?
	So we're not going to get anything more from the hearings today.
	And we had fun watching it.
	What was this?
	I had this in the backdrop for some reason.
	Oh, yes.
	Extraordinary claims of government fraud by the president and similar claims of maximal transparency by Elon, but little evidence to back either up.
	We're keeping them honest.
	By the way, do you notice how...
	Keeping them honest is capitalized?
	Why would that be?
	Is that the name of the show?
	As we begin tonight, keep them honest with the extraordinary claims of government fraud by the president.
	Am I almost too cynical at this point?
	We're keeping them honest.
	It was not a statement of fact.
	It was the name of the show.
	As we begin tonight, keep them honest with the extraordinary claims of government fraud by the president and similar claims of maximal transparency by Elon Musk, but little evidence of either to back it up.
	In fact, strong evidence to the contrary for Musk's contention that he and his Doge team are doing what they do in a way that, quote, maximally transparent.
	He said that in the Oval Office, wearing a ball cap and T-shirt with one of his kids nearby.
	In the president...
	What did that have to do?
	Now all of a sudden they care about a ball cap and T-shirt?
	First of all, how do you know that that's a T-shirt?
	He's wearing a long jacket, a ball cap.
	Now do Fetterman.
	I was thinking about that they were actually going to go after Elon Musk for being informally dressed in the Oval Office.
	Scumbags of all scumbag extraordinaire.
	Trump just visited Putin.
	Trump just invited Putin to visit.
	Amazing. He will resolve the war in Ukraine.
	There was a video of Pete Hegseth that I wanted to bring up, actually.
	Did I have that in the backdrop?
	Pete Hexeth talking about the demands that are not going to be met in terms of ending that war, going back to the pre-2017 borders.
	No, we don't have that.
	Alright, people.
	I think what we're going to do is we're going to finish up the show now.
	I'll go over to Rumble for our Rumble after party.
	And I will see you all tomorrow.
	I'm going to get ready for the unusual suspects.
	It's 4 o'clock live.
	Live, live.
	In live, live.
	Well, let's see.
	Okay, hold on.
	People want to know what's going on with RFK.
	Let me bring up what's going on with RFK here.
	Right now, there's a measles outbreak in Texas that's sickened more than it does.
	This is just going to be the debate against Tulsi.
	The number of kindergartners showing up with exemptions for required vaccinations jumped to a record high last fall.
	The two facts are connected, and Mr. Kennedy and his allies can take the credit for it.
	Now, Mr. Kennedy is fond of saying he's not making recommendations about whether parents should vaccinate their kids.
	He's just asking questions and giving people choices.
	That's a slippery tactic used by conspiracy theorists to dodge any real responsibility for their words and actions, and it's absurd coming from somebody who's about to be confirmed for a job that is entirely about making recommendations.
	This is what they're going to do for the next day.
	And the vote's going to be tonight.
	If somebody shows him the science to prove he's wrong, well, then he'll apologize and retract his statements.
	When did that ever happen, sir?
	Basically will not accept it.
	Basically. That's why Bill Cassidy told Mr. Kennedy he was struggling with his nomination.
	So even Republicans like Senator Cassidy, someone I work with frequently on the Finance Committee and respect his opinion, he knows how dangerous this guy is.
	And it is not hyperbole to say that when Mr. Kennedy becomes Health and Human Services Secretary, if he does, and has control over how our government rolls out vaccines or make them available, I believe...
	It's not hyperbole.
	illness i believe kids will die vaccines start to rise in states across the country and hospitalizations and death tolls mount my republican colleagues are going to regret voting if they do for mr kennedy today or early this
	morning and when disease rates for illnesses that have effective vaccines start to rise in states across the country and death tolls you know mount again we will see republicans say this is something that could have been prevented what else should we have done republicans will be responsible for every child that dies as a result of of not being vaccinated.
	He doesn't want to be hyperbolic, though.
	They care more about staying in the good graces of Donald Trump than they do about protecting the lives of kids.
	Again, this is something they will regret for years to come.
	Now, before we turn to...
	Senator Murray's remarks, I'd just like to touch on Mr. Kennedy's stance on reproductive choice, an area where Senator Murray has been our leader for years and years in the Senate.
	In the lead up to and during his failed presidential campaign, Mr. Kennedy repeatedly claimed he supported a woman's right to make her own health care decisions.
	Less than a year ago, in an Instagram post on June 14th last year, He stated that he supports the emerging consensus in this country that abortion should be legal up to a certain number of weeks.
	Fast forward to his confirmation again at the Senate Finance Committee a few weeks ago.
	He was pressed repeatedly by Democrats about his stance on abortion.
	Instead of clarifying, Mr. Kennedy defaulted to a clearly rehearsed talking point that he repeated over and over again.
	Clearly rehearsed talking point?
	Confession. I agree with President Trump.
	Every abortion is a tragedy.
	While that answer doesn't give us much clarity, it's certainly telling.
	Mr. Kennedy has a long history of changing his stance on healthcare issue after healthcare issue to whatever position benefits him at the moment, as long as it earns him power or it earns him a paycheck.
	As far as I can tell, Mr. Kennedy will believe, or at least pretend to believe, whatever you want him to.
	He's willing to give up his principles and all of his beliefs that women and mothers are better equipped to make their own health care decisions and politicians.
	And it's all about, as we talked about on this floor, staying in Donald Trump's orbit of power.
	While Mr. Kennedy recites for Hearst talking points on the subject, this is an issue that has had real, deadly consequences for women, as Senator Murray has said again and again.
	Donald Trump spent his first term packing the Supreme Court with right-wing extremists willing to rip away the reproductive freedoms guaranteed to us under Roe versus Wade.
	In the wake of the Supreme Court's gutting Roe, millions of women living in red states have had their reproductive freedoms ripped away from them, all due to Donald Trump.
	In the years since the overturn of Roe, there have been countless headlines about the consequences of these abortion bans.
	Women bleeding out in parking lots or in emergency rooms because they were denied care.
	It doesn't want to be hyperbolic, but children will die, women will die.
	Everyone's going to die if you vote for her on Kate Jr.
	Because they couldn't get care.
	And in the very worst cases, women dying.
	So it should horrify every American that we don't actually know where Mr. Kennedy stands.
	The man who could become our nation's chief healthcare officer, we don't know where he stands on reproductive health.
	Short of...
	Perhaps just saying he's a yes man for anything Donald Trump tells him to do.
	So I think at this point, Mr. President, I want to yield the floor to my friend and colleague from Washington State, because she knows so much about the challenge of ensuring that women's reproductive health services are being protected.
	And as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mr. Kennedy could do so much damage to the well-being and health of women.
	Very pleased to be able to yield the floor to her to discuss that and other pressing issues.
	Mr. President?
	Senator from Washington.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	Thank you to my colleague from Oregon who has very clearly stated why this nominee is not someone who should be holding the title of Secretary of Health and Human Services.
	Nobody cares, guys.
	I appreciate all his work on this and his wise words.
	I hope everyone hates them.
	Mr. President, the American people are watching now with alarm because the vast majority of people know vaccines are safe, they're effective, they are life-saving.
	But we are now on the verge of confirming as our nation's highest health official, a man who has spent considerable time, money, and effort undermining that basic fact.
	A man who has abused his platform by refusing to acknowledge the well-established science that shows that vaccines are not linked to autism.
	Fear about that point, fueled by RFK Jr. and others peddling misinformation, is a leading reason that parents do not get their kids vaccinated against preventable, dangerous diseases.
	That is why elevating a man like RFK Jr. to lead HHS would be so dangerous.
	Just giving him any platform to spread vaccine doubt is dangerous.
	But to give him one of the biggest megaphones in the world, it is truly shameful that we even are debating this.
	My colleagues should know better.
	They actually do know better.
	They are looking the other way.
	They are choosing to pretend like it is in any way believable that RFK Jr. won't use his new power to do exactly the thing he has been trying to do for decades, undermine vaccines.
	Never mind the fact that CDC has already modified webpages with information about vaccines and other vital public health information, which a federal judge has now ordered the Trump administration to restore it.
	Never mind that the Trump administration is also...
	Uh-oh.
	What just happened there?
	This was not me, people.
	Did I do something?
	Let me just put it on mute.
	Did they say enough is enough of this crap?
	Holy shit, they outdid the bullshit meter on YouTube.
	Alright, let me put that on mute because that's really annoying.
	And let's just see if this is anywhere else.
	Let's go to YouTube.
	Okay, let's go.
	Tulsi Gabbard vote.
	Watch the Senate here.
	Here we go.
	Not cause autism.
	He's had two weeks since that hearing to look at the same settled science as everyone else.
	Settled science.
	Sometimes science is not settled.
	Sometimes we get it wrong.
	He's totally up to speed on that front.
	Are my colleagues really buying this guy will take an impartial look at the science?
	If you think RFK Jr. will change who he is, you are lying to yourself.
	Ah, thank you.
	Thank you for the address.
	He has given no evidence to suggest that that and all the evidence in the world to the contrary.
	Given his long and growing track record, we cannot just pretend if RFK Jr. finally gets power to undermine vaccines, a cause he has dedicated a considerable amount of time and effort to that he'll just give up.
	That is not believable.
	And I know I've been talking a lot about vaccines because it is so obviously alarming.
	But the responsibility he would have goes far beyond that.
	So let's break some of this down.
	Both the ways he could undermine vaccines as HHS secretary and the other responsibilities that would be at stake.
	To start with, the CDC...
	is under HHS.
	That means that the Secretary directly appoints people to CDC's Vaccine Advisory Board.
	That board is responsible for making recommendations about vaccines, and it is those recommendations that determine whether or not certain vaccines have to be covered by insurance.
	So simply put, changing those recommendations will change what vaccines millions of Americans Including kids, would be able to get from their health care provider.
	If he is confirmed, there would be nothing stopping RFK Jr. from firing the entire board and replacing them all with vaccine skeptics.
	After all, he has said many times, and in many ways, he thinks CDC is corrupt and bought by pharma, as usual, by the way, without any evidence.
	RFK Jr. would also oversee the Food and Drug Administration.
	That is another agency he has repeatedly tried to discredit and attack, where he says he plans to fire hundreds of scientists on day one, and an agency that plays the crucial role of making sure our drugs and our treatments, including vaccines, are safe and effective when we purchase them.
	Not only would Mr. Kennedy have a key perch from which he would undermine vaccines on a scale like never seen before, he could also use that platform to peddle quack treatments.
	No basis in science.
	RFK Jr. would also have jurisdiction over NIH.
	That alone means influence over billions of dollars in medical research, research that is responsible for a significant portion of our economy, and more importantly, research that patients are desperately All of these are filthy lies.
	These are just all filthy lies.
	This is exactly how they've been running the government.
	Hundreds of researchers and pause infectious disease research for eight years.
	It should go without saying viruses aren't going to take a break.
	And here's the thing.
	The attacks on medical research are now already happening under Trump.
	From his day one executive orders, President Trump has already been threatening medical research.
	Suddenly, all of our grants are at risk because they are looking at addressing barriers to care.
	Or understanding why Black and Native American women have higher maternal death rates.
	And now President Trump also is trying to illegally, arbitrarily, and suddenly change NIH guidelines to set an unrealistic low cap on indirect cost rates.
	That will mean researchers laid off, studies canceled, including life-saving clinical trials, and kids not able to get the treatment they need.
	All because President Trump and Elon Musk don't seem to understand how we actually fund important research and couldn't even be bothered to find out before taking an axe to our medical research labs.
	At a time when life-saving research like this is already under attack from President and the richest man in the world, no one who truly values medical research should vote to install one of the biggest attackers of medical science.
	As the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
	Mr. President, insurance is another huge portfolio for HHS.
	Last time Trump was in office, we saw millions of people lose their health care coverage.
	The uninsured rate went up after years of hard-won progress.
	And we all know he still wants to rip up the Affordable Care Act, which will drive up costs and kick people off their coverage.
	There's no reason to think Mr. Kennedy will stand up to that effort.
	Indeed, there is no reason to think he has the experience and understanding of the system to actually do so.
	During his committee hearings, RFK Jr. confused Medicare and Medicaid.
	This is basic stuff.
	He failed to describe the components of Medicare.
	We're at another one of my listings here in Boca Raton, and this is what it looks like now.
	This is of grave importance right now.
	In his hearings, not only did RFK Jr. confess to having no real understanding of EMTALA, that is a law which requires patients have access to life-saving emergency care, including, in some cases, abortion care.
	He also showed that he will be totally open to Republicans' fact-free efforts to rip away access to medication abortion.
	Like so many other issues that RFK Jr. is simply wrong about, the science on that has been settled for many years now.
	Mr. Kennedy made clear, though, he's very open to revisiting access to the abortion pill based on a Republican argument against the science that basically boils down to nah.
	Nah. Putting up barriers to accessing the abortion pill or ripping it off the market completely, as Republicans have made very clear they want to do, would be absolutely devastating.
	And let's not forget about pandemic threats.
	The lies that RFK Jr. spread during the last pandemic already make clear he is not the man to do this job.
	But if that were enough, when there was a pandemic threat response planning session for this new administration, he skipped it.
	He didn't go.
	It would be almost comical if this wasn't so serious.
	Mr. President, everywhere you look, everything about this nominee is so concerning.
	We cannot take this man at his word.
	Something he has changed and gone back and forth on time and time again.
	But we can take him on his record, which he is that he has consistently undermined vaccine confidence.
	And by the way, note.
	He profited from that.
	And we can take the threat of what he might do seriously, especially given the alarming things that are already happening.
	If RFK Jr. gives you his word of honor that he won't freeze research, guess what?
	We're already seeing the Trump administration totally upend medical research.
	Thanks to the Trump funding freeze, NIH hasn't issued any grants award in weeks.
	If RFK Jr. swears that he's not going to take down information about vaccines, he's not going to silence experts, well, don't look now.
	But the Trump administration has already taken down or changed CDC pages about vaccines.
	They have already silenced public health experts.
	If RFK Jr.
	Pinky promises you that he won't undermine medical science or studies and he won't ignore global health threats, well, you might want to sit down for this, but President Trump has completely demolished our global health aid work.
	He has already completely demolished it.
	The fallout is utterly heart-wrenching.
	Already we know of a woman who died because the USAID supported hospital, She went to for oxygen, was forced to discharge her because they got a stop work order from the Trump administration.
	It's not clear if she was the first death caused by Trump's complete freeze.
	But there is no question she will not be the last.
	And Mr. President, let me make a really important point here.
	It is not just people across the world who will be affected by this.
	There was a study being done.
	On a new HIV treatment with thousands of volunteers.
	Study being done, already having a thousand volunteers doing the treatment.
	But now, without their regular injections, which are cut off by Trump's move, there's going to be too little of the drug in their system to protect those people from HIV.
	But enough of the drug that if they contract HIV, it could mutate to become drug resistant.
	So for all the absolutely unhinged conspiracies we've heard about, medical research from RFK Jr. and the like, where is the concern of this actual risk in this actual study happening right now?
	Guys, if you want to watch this...
	...
	cut off foreign assistance.
	RFK Jr. has been silent about that risk.
	This is going to go on for 30 more hours.
	This is absolute mind-numbing political retardation, and I think we're going to be done with it right now.
	Here's the link if anybody wants to go watch that on Commitube.
	Let me bring up a few of these, and then we're actually going to go to the locals for our after-party because I'm going to start getting ready to go to unusual suspects.
	Snuggle Struggle says Roe v.
	Wade was cut because Joe Biden pressed too hard, too fast, leaving SCOTUS to rule upon it again.
	Only this time they fixed what Ruth Bader Ginsburg said was her greatest regret.
	Biden's at fault.
	Yeah. Who was it that the...
	If someone else had retired in time for them to fill the seat with someone who wasn't...
	I forget exactly how that works.
	But I remember consensus was that Roe v.
	Wade was always bad law.
	Always. Even on the Democrat side.
	Andy Pearson says they say the ball cap violates the Hatch Act.
	I get jokes.
	Then we got Bill Tong in the House who says...
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	Code Viva for 10% off.
	And what do we see here?
	Federal rule, judge, federal judge, federal judge, federal fudge ruled for Trump.
	I think you mean a federal judge ruled for Trump.
	And I'm going to get to that in a second.
	I'm going to just Google what you're talking about.
	Sorry, I just tuned in.
	Okay. Now, by the way, before everybody leaves...
	Make sure that you hit subscribe, turn on notifications on Commitube and on Rumble, but come on over to Rumble.
	We're nearly at a half a million followers, or whatever you want to call them, on Rumble.
	We're at 448,000.
	Pretty amazing.
	But we're not going to watch it anymore.
	I can't listen to that.
	Let me see what the news is of a federal judge.
	I was actually going back.
	I got some tweets from April.
	Look at this.
	We'll just have another little trip down memory lane here.
	And then we're going to go see what the news was.
	Although if anybody's watching who has the link, send it to me and I'll get it right now.
	This was what I was doing back in April.
	This was April 24, 2020.
	We got a bird feeder.
	Is it me or is he going crazy?
	Let me put the volume down.
	I'm going to get claimed on my own.
	Look at this.
	And then they come and they sit.
	I had my iPhone and I had it on slow motion.
	We got a bird feeder at the dollar store to keep ourselves entertained.
	And now the bird's going to eat.
	Why do birds...
	And then he just kicked the bird out of there.
	Yeah, that's what I was doing in April.
	I was getting some of the great stuff here.
	Our city seems to have shut down the outdoor dog parks.
	And it seems to me the government response to coronavirus has gone from flatten the curve to avoid overloading the healthcare system to one death is too many, and even if it means destroying a nation.
	I'm not being facetious.
	It seems there's been a silent shift in overall objective.
	April 2020.
	All right, good.
	What I was going to say, yeah, we're going to go over to VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com.
	I'll give everybody the link.
	You can go watch that stuff.
	I'm not going to, you know, just sit here and leave it play for...
	No reason.
	Go over to our Locals community for an after-party, and then we're going to go.
	Critical Fuzz says, I have to admit that Viva Fry...
	Oh, okay, I got that one before already.
	Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	We've got dashman91, says Bert Baccarat.
	That's from Austin Powers, a classic movie.
	Over on Commitube, have I missed anything?
	I love you, Viva Fry.
	Says Matt and Tina.
	Matt and Tina, nice to see you.
	Federal Fudge.
	Oh, yeah, that's what I want to see.
	What was the news here?
	Let's see.
	Of course, I've got to go to like...
	Okay, so Gabbard's in.
	Trump says he spoke with Putin about ending Russia's war.
	Secretary Besant in talks with war-torn country for deal on whatever.
	Let me see here.
	Google federal judge Trump.
	What's the news?
	Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding...
	Judge finds Trump administration violated court order.
	That's a day ago.
	Here's what the federal judge could do if they're ignored by the Trump administration.
	I don't see anything that's brand new, but...
	Oh, judge...
	Judge... Buyout blocked.
	Judge extends.
	Pause on Trump's federal worker plan.
	Okay, whatever.
	It's just...
	It's... Wait for the impeachment.
	Impeachment 3.0.
	Okay, everybody, we're going to go on over to locals for our after-party locals here.
	Get the book.
	We're going to get on Amazon bestseller list.
	I don't know how to do it, how it happens.
	Viva Frye.
	Oh, that's David Frye.
	Illustrated by Abigail Martin.
	Louis the Lobster returns to the sea.
	We're working on sequels now.
	We got Harry the Heron.
	What was the other one we had?
	We're going to have Ali the Gator.
	I don't know.
	We're going to do another one sooner than later.
	But get your butts on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com if you're so inclined.
	If you're not, don't.
	And we'll be there anyhow.
	And I'll see you tomorrow.
	So tomorrow is going to be Thursday.
	And Cryptis just sent me something.
	What do we got?
	What do we got?
	This is a tweet from Real Donald Trump.
	I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with Vladimir Putin of Russia.
	We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar, and various other subjects.
	We both reflected on the great history of our nations.
	We reflected on the great history of our nations and the fact that we fought successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we likewise lost so many.
	We each talked about the strengths of our respective nations and the great benefit that we'll someday have in working together.
	But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the war in Russia slash Ukraine.
	President Putin even used my very strong campaign motto of common sense.
	We both believe very strongly in it.
	We agreed to work together very closely, including visiting each other's nations.
	We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately.
	We will begin by calling President Zelensky of Ukraine to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now.
	I have asked the Secretary of the State Marco Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Mike Walz, and Ambassador Special Envoy Stephen Wilcoff to lead negotiations, which I feel strongly will be successful.
	Millions of people have died in a war that would not have happened if I And did not happen.
	But it did happen, so it must end.
	No more lives should be lost!
	I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call and for the release yesterday of Mark Fogle, a wonderful man that I personally greeted last night at the White House.
	I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion hopefully soon.
	Best damn president ever, and it's just the first month.
	And while we head on over to Is it this one that I saw?
	This was what he said, President Trump.
	When I saw Mark Fogel's mother at a rally, she said, if you win, will you get my son out?
	I promised her.
	She's 95 years old.
	And I said, we'll get him out.
	And we got him out pretty quickly.
	And you watch the way Trump was looking at Fogel, listening to him talk.
	And if anybody comes out and says, man, that guy's a nice narcissistic psychopath, you're an idiot.
	You are the idiot.
	You are the narcissist psychopath who is projecting onto a man who sits there politely, respectfully listening to people to understand them.
	Amazing stuff.
	Okay, so that's it.
	Thank you all for being, if you're not coming over to VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com.
	We're doing the transition right now.
	Stay tuned for more me drinking beautiful 1775 coffee, driving around that Tesla Cybertruck until Saturday.
	Get yourself some coffee and get yourself entered in the raffle to win.
	Updating the stream, people.
	Coming over to Locals right now.
	Thank you all for being here.

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