A coronavirus vaccine candidate is now ready for full testing in the United States of America. The Trump administration rescinds a rule that prevents foreign students from staying in the U.S. without showing up for class at American universities.
00:00:49.660And by the way, most drug and vaccine ventures in the United States are joint ventures with the taxpayer participating at some level of the research and development.
00:00:58.840But in this particular candidate, you've had 45 people take the vaccine back in March.
00:01:06.660And the testing now shows that the vaccine was successful at blocking the coronavirus for those people.
00:01:14.360And so now the goal is to deploy that vaccine to 30,000 people.
00:01:19.360So a real massive expansion in the application of the vaccine.
00:01:24.640And then at the end of the year, we could have information that would allow us to have wide scale vaccine deployment.
00:01:32.000So the 45 people that took the vaccine before were younger folks.
00:01:36.740So that is one variable that you've got to extinguish by testing both younger and older people in the 30,000 person study that's about to happen.
00:01:47.160But if we get this done, if we get a vaccine candidate across the finish line, this will be the greatest win for the Trump administration.
00:01:55.540You know, it will also signify that we've beat China.
00:01:58.720A lot of the talking heads, a lot of the global health experts that you see on American liberal cable news tell you that China should be a bet on to develop the first vaccine candidate for wide scale deployment.
00:02:13.180But it appears that the United States, despite having information hid from us by China, despite the World Health Organization sort of sticking up for China as we were trying to get access to the virus sequence and other critical information.
00:02:27.520It looks like we could come out ahead to help the world with true medical diplomacy, with true American innovation, with outstanding leadership from the Trump administration.
00:02:38.820So let's hope that this latest vaccine candidate will be successful.
00:02:42.860But it's not the only vaccine candidate.
00:02:44.680Dr. Fauci also points out in the story that there are literally hundreds of candidates.
00:02:49.500We're not rooting for any one of them.
00:02:52.580And with as many people as there are on the planet Earth, we may need more than one vaccine to get the manufacturing and requisite inputs and ingredients together so that we can get our planet vaccinated from this terrible China virus.
00:03:08.640Good luck to the Trump administration and the National Institute of Health and Moderna, Inc.
00:03:14.380We hope that these 30,000 Americans who will receive this test or I should say this vaccine will see the virus blocked as a consequence.
00:03:25.980Some disappointing news in the moments prior to a hearing where the Trump administration was going to defend the rule that I'd covered on the podcast, not allowing students to stay in the United States who don't have to show up for class.
00:03:40.980That rule has apparently been rescinded by the Trump administration as the consequence of litigation filed by Harvard and MIT and a number of other entities seeking to invalidate the rule.
00:03:54.540The Trump administration, I suspect, will refile, will revise.
00:03:59.300But this is a step backwards, in my opinion, on America First policies.
00:04:03.960If someone is a foreign student in the United States for the purpose of showing up to class and there is no class to show up to, there is no reason why those students cannot engage in their learning from their home countries.
00:04:18.740But, unfortunately, we've seen the academia world flex and we've seen that flex prevail temporarily and it's my hope that the Trump administration will respond with a revised rule that can withstand legal scrutiny.
00:04:42.400DJI drones are spying on us from the sky.
00:04:45.760TikTok is utilizing its wide deployment in the United States for facial recognition.
00:04:52.660Chinese genomics companies are sequencing our genes to test our vulnerabilities.
00:04:57.340And I am glad that Britain is finally standing up to China and it appears following the lead of the Trump administration.
00:05:06.160The story comes from our friends at the National Pulse.
00:05:10.000Rahim Kassam has been all over the impacts of Huawei, both in the United States and Britain, that could be negative in terms of the dual use for surveillance and for a strategic advantage for China.
00:05:24.020Rahim Kassam, the editor of the National Pulse.
00:05:26.620And, again, that is a site that covers the CCP corruption and influence and, I think, nefarious activity in the United States better than any.
00:05:38.020So you want to make sure you check it out.
00:05:40.060But by 2027, according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, they will be ripping out their Huawei assets and replacing them with a system that will provide better resilience and better protection for the people of Britain.
00:05:55.020Also, the plans to utilize Chinese infrastructure for 5G technology in Britain have also been scrapped.
00:06:04.740And Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives credit to the Trump administration, saying that U.S. sanctions were a total game changer on Huawei and have convinced Britain to flip their strategy.
00:06:16.320So I think this is really an excellent opportunity for Britain in the United States now to work with other countries to try to limit the Chinese infiltration and surveillance through these various technology platforms.
00:06:32.500Now, I asked these questions in the Judiciary Committee because too much of rural America is being connected by Huawei parts.
00:06:41.420And it was startling to me to learn that Huawei actually sits on the board of entities that are involved in planning out and strategizing rural broadband connection.
00:06:52.280Here's the hearing from the Judiciary Committee.
00:06:54.140Ms. Bennett, do your members contain Huawei or ZTE equipment?
00:06:59.300We have about 25 percent of our members have those two Chinese vendors in their networks.
00:07:05.400They did it because they had universal service funds to spend.
00:07:08.480They were trying to look for a low-cost, economical way to spend their money, and they did deploy those back in 2010, 2011, before it became known that it was a problem.
00:07:19.640So for the sake of cost, your members do have Huawei and ZTE parts.
00:07:24.320Do your member—or does Huawei sit on your board?
00:07:27.960We do have a member—a Huawei representative on our board.
00:07:31.440So there's more to do in the United States, more to do around the world, but it's great to see that our great partners in Britain are rejecting Chinese domination and are standing up for Western civilization.
00:07:45.540Oranges might not be the only thing getting juiced in the state of Florida.
00:07:50.840The coronavirus numbers may be getting juiced as well, artificially enhanced for the purposes of hospital or other medical center funding.
00:08:01.200I talked with congressional colleagues and state leaders, and here was my fear.
00:08:06.100That some hospitals may designate people as coronavirus victims or having coronavirus without a true positive test so that they could enhance funding to their hospital system.
00:08:21.420The hospital industrial complex is not your friend.
00:08:24.760The hospital industrial complex in Florida and throughout the country has been a cost driver in the provision of health care.
00:08:33.380And one of the biggest problems that I think both parties have is that we're all focused on health insurance and health coverage as the centerpiece of a health care plan when we really haven't done enough to drive down health care costs.
00:08:46.100And the cost drivers are these massive infrastructures in hospital systems that have so much overhead, that have so much, I think, waste and fraud and abuse in some circumstances.
00:08:58.760Not in every circumstance, but in some.
00:09:00.720And it appears that our friends at Fox 35 News in Orlando have done some very thorough investigative reporting at Orlando Health.
00:09:09.980And by the way, I know the folks at Fox 35, Orlando, very centrally located in Florida.
00:09:15.600I'm by there for a lot of media hits, and they are nose to the grindstone real journalists there.
00:09:23.300That at Orlando Health, in some of the records where they were indicating a 98% COVID rate, that rate was actually 9.4%.
00:09:33.840So moving a decimal, squiggling a number can make a real difference in the overall number of cases, but it's just straight-up fraud.
00:09:42.660And there are some people who might characterize it, oh, as a Scrivener's error or a mistake, but I doubt that.
00:09:48.700I think that there is a desire to show your health system as an inflection point for COVID so that you get more money.
00:09:55.760And it's a perverse incentive that makes our state look bad, unreasonably and unnecessarily.
00:10:01.700Not just Orlando Health, also at the VA in Jacksonville, a 76% reported rate upon thorough review and discovery was actually a 6% rate.
00:10:13.980So let's do more to get the numbers right.
00:10:16.540Let's ensure that we actually drill down into the positivity rates versus deaths or ailments that cannot properly be categorized as coronavirus.
00:10:27.100And let's not allow the hospital industrial complex to seize the untoward opportunity to grab money off the table by mislabeling their data and mislabeling their results.
00:10:38.840I think that in Florida, we need a more thorough audit of our full health care system, in particular, our major hospital systems, to ensure that there are not funny numbers, improper reporting for the sake of acquiring resources.
00:10:56.220Great reporting from our friends at Fox 35 Orlando.
00:11:01.760The New York Times should not be considered the paper of record in America.
00:11:07.140It is a bastion of liberal groupthink, and it is oftentimes a home for anti-Americanism.
00:11:16.660Barry Weiss, the former now opinion editor, pens a just blistering critique of the Times and their liberal groupthink.
00:11:25.900And I'm going to read just part of it to you, but this is absolutely worth a read.
00:11:30.820We're going to put it out on our social media.
00:11:32.560It exposes the New York Times and I think a lot of the media companies in the United States because they have a lot of these similar conditions.
00:11:41.460But let me read to you from Barry Weiss's letter.
00:11:43.860I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago.
00:11:48.340I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages.
00:11:53.260First-time writers, centrists, conservatives, and others who would not naturally think of the Times as their home.
00:12:19.380But the lessons that ought to have been followed during the election, lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans,
00:12:26.540the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society have not been learned.
00:12:35.500Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper,
00:12:42.380that the truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job it is to inform everyone else.
00:12:54.040Twitter is not the masthead of the New York Times, but Twitter has become its ultimate editor.
00:13:00.280What rules remain at the Times are applied with extreme selectivity.
00:13:04.280If a person's ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutindized.
00:13:12.660Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome.
00:13:15.920Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.
00:13:20.980Op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an editor or a writer in serious trouble if not fired.
00:13:28.300If a piece is perceived as likely to inspire backlash internally or on social media, the editor or writer avoids publishing it.
00:13:36.760If she feels strongly enough to suggest it, she is quickly steered to safer ground.
00:13:41.300And if every now and then she succeeds in getting a piece published that does not explicitly promote progressive causes,
00:13:47.840it happens only after every line is carefully managed, negotiated, and caveated.
00:13:53.860It really is something now, and I'm speaking in my own voice here, that someone hired with the express purpose of remedying this horrible liberal bias at the New York Times
00:14:05.360would have to be forced to resign because they see the truth, the very truth that I've been telling the American people for years now.
00:14:12.660And that is that the press in our country no longer seek to record events and report them.
00:14:32.220We get too many politicians that are willing to just watch the world go by and allow their service to be handed off to the special interests that donate the most to their campaigns.
00:14:42.320And then we've got journalists who, instead of reporting on information, want to go and shape events with their advocacy.
00:14:49.100So I'd like more advocacy in public service and less handing it off to the special interests and perhaps less advocacy journalism and more honest journalism.
00:15:27.080So there are apparently Democrat staffers who are now riding around on aircraft between major hubs trying to catch members of Congress in an unguarded moment without a mask on.
00:15:39.840And in this particular photograph, you clearly see Senator Cruz is holding a coffee cup, obviously taking a, you know, about to take a sip and removed his mask.
00:15:50.360Now, if the Democratic Congressional Committee can figure out a way to sip a cup of coffee with a mask on, I'm all ears.
00:15:58.220But this mask shaming thing has just gone too far in our country.
00:16:02.900Look, I wear a mask as much as practical in the public.
00:16:06.580I can't say that every time I take a bite of popcorn or a sip of coffee that I don't lower the mask for a moment.
00:16:12.860And I think it's far more productive for us to work together as Americans to encourage one another to have better hygiene and to socially distance rather than engage in political mask shaming.
00:16:25.140Is this the best you can do from the Democratic Congressional Committee?
00:16:28.540Are these the people you want leading the country just to go around and try to troll people for their mask off moments?
00:16:40.340Senator Cruz, enjoy your coffee sip on your next airplane ride and then put the mask back on.
00:16:49.360As Americans get ready for school to restart, there's a lot of interest in the extent to which the coronavirus does or does not spread in the schools.
00:16:59.540And there's news from The Telegraph's Justin Huggler entitled German Study Finds No Evidence Coronavirus Spreads in Schools.
00:17:08.200So in this particular study from Dresden University, they test 2,045 students, 13 teachers in schools where there had been coronavirus.
00:17:19.260And what they found is that not only did the virus not present in a lot of these students, also the antibodies did not present.
00:17:26.180So that would seem to suggest that there's not like a lot of asymptomatic spread that's occurring.
00:17:34.260In this case, you only saw 12 that even showed the antibodies after this test had been conducted.
00:17:41.120So I hope that this means that perhaps students, I don't know if it's behaviors, I don't know if it's just the cell division that's occurring during adolescence,
00:17:50.760but it appears to be greater resilience on the part of the young people in this particular German study.
00:17:56.380So it's something to look at for our educational professionals as they get school open.
00:18:00.920And it's certainly my hope that this is not a virus that is going to ravage young people.
00:18:05.560What has ravaged young people is the diminished learning that has resulted from these lockdowns and from the inability to have in-person instruction.
00:22:38.420So the people that don't have it have – are a little – and I'm going to say this carefully – are a little less in where the term actually comes from.
00:22:50.720Because I'm bringing it all the way back around to Minister Farrakhan to where they may not have the compassion or the – when they were sent to the mountains of Caucasus, when they didn't have the power of the sun, that was – that the sun then started to deteriorate them.
00:23:51.220So they're the ones that are actually closer to animals.
00:23:54.600They're the ones that are actually the true savages.
00:23:58.300Calling people savages, pretending as if they have diminished ability or diminished capability for intellect or empathy or care for one another, is explicitly racist.
00:24:12.480Someone's skin color is an immutable trait.
00:24:17.320And so I don't believe that any American, whether they're white, black, Asian, Native American, Samoan, Eskimo, whatever it is you are,
00:24:26.000I think that all people should be treated equally.
00:24:28.620I don't think we should go into any interaction with another human being trying to diminish or even enhance their contribution solely as a result of their skin color.
00:24:39.180The fundamental premise of America is that we are equal in the eyes of the law and we should treat each other with that kind of respect.
00:24:46.900Calvin Coolidge, former president, said that Americans are the peers of kings.
00:24:52.220And if we truly are, then we ought to treat one another with that type of reverence and care.
00:24:57.540And if we do, we'll have a better, more loving, more empathetic and understanding society.
00:25:02.640But we don't get there with rants like Nick Cannon's.
00:25:05.020I hope he is fired from every program he's a part of until he shows some ability to demonstrate care and concern for everyone.
00:25:14.460And again, you know, I'm not applying a double standard to cancel culture, but the left surely is.
00:25:20.220You know, if a white person said this about someone of black skin color or brown skin color, they would be gone.
00:25:27.800I mean, you would never hear from them again.
00:25:32.000They would be shamed and rightfully so, because these aren't things that that folks should say.
00:25:37.000And I am also troubled by Instagram's embrace of this notion of diminishing someone's contribution as a consequence of their skin color.
00:25:48.160They had a an Instagram sticker that was mute white people.
00:25:52.920And folks had used that until Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr., I should say, and a number of other conservative journalists spoke out against it.
00:26:00.920And now Instagram has removed the mute white people sticker from their platform.
00:26:09.140Who thought it was okay to say that because of the color of your skin that you should be muted, that people shouldn't listen to you?
00:26:16.300This is a very dangerous time in America.
00:26:18.420And by the way, if people of color think that it's a good idea and cheeky to utilize these stickers, utilize the phraseology of Nick Cannon, know that that is not only bad for people that don't look like you.
00:26:34.100It's bad for you, too, because what it does is it reinforces the notion that Americans can use the skin color of another person to treat them differently.
00:26:43.000And in this case, particularly to treat them worse, that's not a good thing for people of color.
00:27:22.500I'm often asked by Americans what people can do to help contribute to an America first success for our country.
00:27:30.320And one thing we really need is for you to help enhance our content and our ability to speak to the American people.
00:27:36.940I've covered on the podcast a lot the challenges we face from big tech trying to silence our voices and enhance our opponents.
00:27:44.180And so what you can do is share this podcast, subscribe to this podcast, rate and review this podcast.
00:27:51.220And then whenever you see folks who are tweeting, Facebooking, Instagramming themes that promote our country and that bring us together, I hope that you'll also share and promote those as well.
00:28:03.260Let's get out there and unify our great country and ensure that we have American proud success for generations to come.