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00:00:00.000Joe Biden flails in a friendly town hall with CNN's Anderson Cooper, the Virginia gubernatorial race comes down to the wire, and the National Institutes of Health admit funding gain-of-function research.
00:00:23.000We'll get to all the news in just one moment.
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00:01:47.000And now you've got a neck and neck race between Glenn Youngkin, who's a pretty traditional Republican, and Terry McAuliffe, who's a normally traditional Democrat.
00:01:54.000This should be a walkover, which is why James Carville, the semi-centrist Democrat analyst, he's saying he's deeply worried about what's going on in Virginia.
00:02:16.000Of course, he said he wouldn't be running without Trump, and he tries to run away from him.
00:02:20.000He's kind of slippery, but yeah, it's close.
00:02:24.000There's no doubt about it, and I'm scared to death, and other Democrats should be.
00:02:32.000Okay, what Carville is pointing out here is that all of the attempts to tie Youngkin to Trump have failed.
00:02:37.000And that is why Youngkin is doing well.
00:02:38.000Right now, all of the polls show that he is neck and neck with McAuliffe.
00:02:42.000And the reason for that is because people are focusing on the bread and butter issues.
00:02:45.000Suburban moms are focusing in on the failures of education in the state of Virginia.
00:02:49.000And it's not just about the Virginia gubernatorial race.
00:02:52.000According to Politico, the Virginia House is up for grabs as well.
00:02:56.000Quote, Alex Askew knows firsthand how tight elections can get for Democrats in Virginia.
00:03:00.000He barely won his seat in the State House of Delegates, defeating his Republican opponent by 802 votes in 2019.
00:03:05.000That's why Askew is campaigning furiously ahead of the November election.
00:03:09.000On the first Sunday of Soles to the Polls early voting over the weekend, Askew, 36, attended two church services before an afternoon of campaign events and canvassing.
00:03:16.000He was joined by a colleague, state delegate Nancy Guy, who clinched her seat by an even closer margin of just 40 votes.
00:03:22.000When Virginia voters cast their ballots in two weeks, they're not just weighing in on a closely watched governor's election, one that's been hyped as a bellwether ahead of the 2022 midterms and a judgment on President Joe Biden.
00:03:31.000They're also deciding whether to keep legislative Democrats in office.
00:03:34.000A choice that will determine how much statewide power the party will yield and reveal voter satisfaction with the crush of progressive laws enacted in the last two years.
00:03:42.000Remember, Virginia, when it went blue, started immediately pushing very radical measures that a large percentage of Virginians didn't like.
00:03:48.000Everything from gun control to transgender bathrooms.
00:03:51.000Virginia might become increasingly blue at the presidential level, but Democrats only came to control both chambers of the state legislature in 2019, after nearly two decades of mostly Republican control.
00:04:01.000And next month, they could lose control of both the governor's mansion and the House, all in one day.
00:04:07.000It is a disaster for Democrats because they overshot the mark.
00:04:09.000Democrats have a nasty habit of taking power and then believing that their entire radical mandate has now been approved by the voters.
00:04:16.000Democrats have spent the last two years passing a long list of sweeping policies.
00:04:19.000They implemented criminal justice reform, legalized marijuana, expanded voting rights, raised the minimum wage, enacted gun control, repealed the death penalty, and set a goal of getting Virginia electric utilities to 100% renewable generation by 2050.
00:04:32.000State House Democrats have raised almost twice as much money as the Republicans, but they're still struggling.
00:04:38.000And one of the reasons it's a real problem is because the battle between parents and teachers is growing extraordinarily serious in Loudoun County, particularly.
00:04:47.000A shocking story out of WTOP.com today.
00:04:51.000Remember, we reported at Daily Wire, the news, that there was an alleged sexual assault in a bathroom At a Loudoun County public school.
00:05:02.000And the parent of the daughter in that particular case then went to a school board meeting where one of the superintendents of the school board said that there had been no such assault on record in a bathroom anywhere.
00:05:14.000Well, now it turns out that that guy was just lying.
00:05:17.000According to an email uncovered The superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools did send a brief confidential email to school board members on May 28th, the same day a female student at Stonebridge High School said she was sexually assaulted in a bathroom.
00:05:28.000In an email provided to WTOP by the school system, Superintendent Scott Ziegler alerted the board that the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office was investigating the incident but provided few details.
00:05:37.000The purpose of this email is to provide you with information regarding an incident that occurred at Stonebridge High School.
00:05:42.000This afternoon, a female student alleged that a male student sexually assaulted her in a restroom.
00:05:46.000The LCSO is investigating the matter, according to Ziegler.
00:05:49.000Last week, Ziegler apologized for the school system's reaction to recent sexual assaults by students and outlined steps he said would improve the system going forward.
00:05:57.000That assault was not made public until the victim's father told the Daily Wire that the same 15-year-old charged in the daughter's attack was later charged with groping a different girl at Broad Run High School on October 6th.
00:06:07.000Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney's Buddha Bibiraj told WTOP the same 15-year-old has been charged in both crimes. Bibiraj said the boy was on pre-trial electronic monitoring for the May 28th sexual assault when he was charged with sexual battery and abduction for the October incident.
00:06:21.000Remember, Ziegler had said in public that they had no record of anybody being assaulted in a bathroom.
00:06:28.000Bill Stanley, the attorney representing the family, said in a statement, Ziegler's comments confirmed what the family already believed, that the school's board and administration failed to provide a safe environment for their child.
00:06:42.000This has become a gubernatorial issue, of course, because the Republican candidate, Youngkin, has been accusing the county of a cover-up and noting that the school system run by the teachers' unions has been doing a poor job of protecting students and failing to indoctrinate them as well.
00:06:57.000In a Thursday statement, LCPS said it was releasing Ziegler's email after it received a number of questions from community members regarding it and if and when the school board was made aware of the alleged sexual assault.
00:07:07.000The school board was not provided specific details or the names of those involved and were advised by Dr. Ziegler that they would not receive updates regarding this matter as it was being investigated by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.
00:07:19.000So the big question is why Ziegler answered no to a school board member's question about whether he was aware of sexual assaults in school bathrooms.
00:07:26.000Ziegler said he wrongly interpreted the question as incidents involving transgender and gender-fluid students, since the questions moments earlier had been about the county's transgender policy.
00:07:33.000But if the entire line of questioning was about whether girls are at higher risk if boys can come into the bathroom, then that seems like a relevant consideration.
00:07:43.000So people are going to lose their jobs over this as well they should.
00:07:47.000Meanwhile, in an attempt to fight back, Terry McAuliffe is activating the teachers' unions.
00:07:51.000Not only are the teachers' unions actually...
00:07:54.000Cutting ads on behalf of Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.
00:07:58.000It turns out that the teachers' unions are now using public dollars in order to stump for Terry McAuliffe.
00:08:02.000There's no other way to interpret what is happening in, for example, Richmond.
00:08:07.000According to WWBT, in a Richmond public school direct update on Wednesday evening, Superintendent Jason Camras said the division will be closing school additional days the first week of November to help with employees' mental health.
00:08:18.000Now, that sounds like it might be kind of a coincidence, right?
00:08:20.000Because students already had off November 2nd for Election Day.
00:08:23.000November 4th for Diwali, November 5th for virtual parent-teacher conferences.
00:08:26.000Now, the division is going to close November 1st and November 3rd.
00:08:29.000So namely, the day before the election, they're going to close the schools so the teachers can go out and knock doors.
00:09:08.000So Virginia is a real bellwether for the Democrats.
00:09:13.000If this thing is even close, Democrats are going to be in an utter state of panic.
00:09:16.000And this is why, and Terry McAuliffe has been doing a horrible job of this because all he's been doing is downplaying parent concerns this entire election cycle.
00:09:24.000How long can you do this before parents rebel?
00:09:25.000Terry McAuliffe yesterday, for example, he was asked about trans students in sports, and instead of taking the question seriously, he suggested that really nobody should worry about it because there are very few trans students in sports, which makes no difference if a competitive boy is running against girls.
00:09:40.000We're talking about a very infinitesimal amount of students.
00:10:06.000Why are we going after children who are already dealing with so many challenges?
00:10:10.000Why are we not helping them and trying to lift them up and trying to find an avenue path so that they can get that education and feel comfortable?
00:10:18.000Good line of attack here by Tara McAuliffe, that if you are a parent who is concerned about a boy racing against your girl or wrestling your girl or being in a bathroom with your girl, that this means that you are somehow a bigot.
00:10:30.000And the Biden administration, by the way, has taken up this message at the national level.
00:10:33.000You'll recall that it became a national controversy when because of cases like Loudoun County, The DOJ started talking about how they were going to investigate parents as possible domestic terrorists.
00:10:44.000So Merrick Garland, who is supposed to be, remember, this kind of nonpartisan figure.
00:10:47.000You remember when Barack Obama nominated him for the Supreme Court and then he was denied his confirmation hearings because of Senator McConnell.
00:10:55.000And the notion was that he was going to be just, you know, completely nonpartisan justice.
00:11:01.000Garland, in testimony yesterday, admits that he initiated that DOJ targeting of parents because of a specific letter from the National School Board Association.
00:11:08.000They wrote a letter to the DOJ saying that parents were out of control and like domestic terrorists.
00:11:13.000And the DOJ flipped and, boom, started investigating parents.
00:11:25.000When did you first review the data showing this so-called disturbing uptick?
00:11:29.000So I read the letter, and we have been seeing over time threats... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:11:34.000I didn't ask you... So you read the letter, that's your source?
00:11:38.000So, let me be clear, this is not a prosecution or an investigation... Is there some study, some effort, some investigation someone did that said there's been a disturbing uptick, or you just take the words of the National School Board Association?
00:11:49.000The National School Board Association, which represents thousands of school boards and school board members, says that there are these kind of threats.
00:12:12.000He's already called in Barack Obama in order to try and shore up his campaign.
00:12:15.000And now, unbelievably, he's going to try and call in Joe Biden, which is a giant fail.
00:12:20.000According to Fox News, as the polls show the Virginia gubernatorial election neck and neck between former Governor Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin, President Biden is scheduled to appear with the Democrat on the campaign trail.
00:12:31.000The McAuliffe campaign put out a media advisory alerting the press that Biden would campaign with McAuliffe in Arlington on Tuesday, exactly one week before the election.
00:12:39.000McAuliffe announced the Biden event along with a slew of other events featuring politicians from Virginia and the nation at large.
00:12:44.000They're trying to nationalize the campaign because the more local it is, the more likely McAuliffe loses.
00:12:53.000And they're going to call in Joe Biden.
00:12:56.000The big problem, of course, is that Joe Biden is not popular in the state of Virginia.
00:13:00.000In fact, Joe Biden is not popular nearly anywhere.
00:13:02.000The polls right now show that Joe Biden is in the low 40s to high 30s in terms of approval rating.
00:13:07.000So Democrats are flailing, and you will see why in just a moment, because Joe Biden did a town hall presser last night, a town hall with Anderson Cooper on CNN.
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00:15:01.000He gave up Afghanistan, completely destroying whatever possibility of a future there was for 19 million Afghan women, as well as thousands of SIV holders who are still sitting imprisoned in Afghanistan.
00:15:13.000He's got crises up the wazoo, the president of the United States.
00:15:17.000And so they sent him out there to stop the bleeding.
00:15:19.000The problem is that if you're going to send someone out there to stop the bleeding, you don't want them congenitally falling on their own knife.
00:15:57.000The question is whether it is high priority for most Americans to force their neighbors to get vaccinated and whether people who are anti the vaccine mandates are very passionate.
00:16:08.000And when they become an intransigent minority, which is what we have been seeing in places like Southwest Airlines or GE, they can shut down the entire economy.
00:16:14.000They can shut down major businesses saying, we are not going to do something that you are trying to force us to do.
00:16:20.000So Joe Biden's tack here is to say that if he forces you to get a vaccine against your will, or to vaccinate your child against your will, which is what they're trying to do with kids 12 to 19, and I guarantee you within three weeks, they're gonna be trying to do this with kids five to 11.
00:16:33.000When Joe Biden says this, when his take on this is, stop whining about your freedom, this old authoritarian, that ain't gonna go over great.
00:16:43.000The two things that concern me, one are those who just try to make this a political issue, freedom.
00:16:50.000I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.
00:17:37.000Because if the idea is that your mere breath creates externalities, whether you're vaccinated or non-vaccinated, we are talking now about masking up until the end of time.
00:17:49.000That's a freedom issue, especially when, again, everyone around you has the freedom to protect themselves.
00:17:54.000As I've said before, what Joe Biden is basically arguing is no longer that you must wear a seatbelt.
00:17:59.000What he is arguing is that if somebody else doesn't wear a seatbelt, you have to put a mattress on the front of your car to catch them when they go flying through their windshield.
00:18:25.000Okay, so moving on from his vaccine policies, which are deeply unlikely to actually bring an end to the pandemic, he then is asked about rising gas prices, because as it turns out, inflation is crippling a lot of American families right now.
00:18:36.000The gas prices are out of control, and prices at the shelves are out of control.
00:18:54.000I could go on the patrol and reserve and take out and probably reduce reduce the price of.
00:19:01.000gas, maybe 18 cents or so a gallon, it's still going to be above three bucks.
00:19:08.000And one of the things that I refused to have happen, because I didn't want anybody, I made a commitment if you pass the stuff I'm talking about, not one single penny in tax would go against anybody making less than 400 grand.
00:19:21.000And so if you notice, this is these highway bills are not paid for by gas tax.
00:19:26.000They're paid for by direct expenditures in other areas.
00:19:29.000So the average person is going to have to pay more.
00:19:33.000So really, he's lowering your gas price by spending a lot of money.
00:19:51.000We have millions of people who aren't going to fill them.
00:19:54.000And his answer is less than satisfying, shall we say.
00:19:58.000People are now using this as an opportunity to say, wait a minute, do I want to go back to that $7 an hour job?
00:20:04.000I won't name the particular restaurant chain, but they found out when they couldn't hire anybody, when they found out they started to pay 20 bucks an hour, everybody wanted to go back to work.
00:20:21.000He's now admitting that people are faking about being afraid of COVID in order to raise their own wages.
00:20:28.000They are relying on government benefits to try to pry higher wages out of businesses that are then going to pass on that cost to consumers.
00:20:35.000Because when you artificially raise the cost of labor, just like if you artificially raise the cost of any other input in a product, you artificially raise the price of the product at the end of the supply chain.
00:20:46.000He's admitting it and he's happy about it, right?
00:20:48.000He's happy that he's artificially increasing the wages of labor, which is resulting in the inflation that we are seeing right now.
00:20:55.000He is creating the labor shortages and he's excited about it.
00:21:00.000That isn't a bug, that's a feature of his plan.
00:21:02.000So if you're worried about inflation, he's promising you more of it.
00:21:05.000If you're concerned about supply shortages, he's saying it's good that there are supply shortages, because finally, those $7 an hour workers will be getting $25 an hour for the same work.
00:23:14.000So during the middle of this town hall, Joe Biden was talking about the Long Beach port, and he started asking what he was doing.
00:23:21.000I was able to go to the private port with 40% of all products coming into the United States of America on the West Coast, go through Los Angeles and and what am I doing here?
00:23:36.000The Long Beach, Long Beach. Thank you.
00:23:45.000So, remember that time that Rick Perry ran for president, and he wanted to name three departments that he wanted to cut, and he only came up with two, and it ended his presidential campaign?
00:23:52.000Here you have the president of the United States, not remembering the Long Beach port, and instead of finding something to cover for it, just saying, and another port in the area.
00:23:59.000Instead he goes, what am I doing here?
00:24:01.000And Anderson Cooper jumps in to save him, as our media members typically do.
00:24:17.000Here's Anderson Cooper asking him a question.
00:24:19.000And the visual is the president of the United States holding his arms at 90 degrees and clenching his fists with his thumbs up as though he is going to clock in on Jeopardy for the hot round of questions.
00:24:32.000About that, just in terms of inflation, because you had told us at a town hall, I think it was in July, that it was just near-term inflation.
00:24:42.000The Wall Street Journal recently talked to like 67 financial experts who said that they saw high inflation going all the way, or deep into 2022.
00:24:58.000Either the President of the United States is losing it, or he is Cornholio in search for TP for his bunghole.
00:25:05.000Those would be the only two possible options here.
00:25:07.000I do not know what the President of the United States is doing here.
00:25:10.000Remember every time Trump did something weird, people would like jump on it and it was it was evidence that he was crazy and that they needed to use the Constitution to get rid of him.
00:26:47.000And right now, he has no leverage inside his own party.
00:26:52.000Democratic voters are getting very upset with Joe Biden because they feel like he's not able to use his leverage, but he doesn't have leverage, guys.
00:27:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats in Washington remain divided over the scope of President Biden's expansive domestic policy agenda.
00:27:31.000But their voters, both moderates and progressives, have largely rallied around the push to increase government spending and say they worry lawmakers will fail to come to an agreement.
00:27:39.000Several recent polls bolstered by interviews with more than 50 Democratic voters across six swing states in recent weeks indicate broad party support for legislation to expand social safety net programs and pass measures aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.
00:27:53.000Democratic leaders have proposed paying for well over a trillion dollars in expanded government services, in part by higher taxes.
00:27:59.000Top Democrats acknowledge that would have been considered too liberal a few years ago.
00:28:02.000Now they say it has broad party support, but they don't actually have the support of Manchin or Sinema.
00:28:07.000According to Politico this morning, Neither Manchin nor Sinema are on board with the big spending, big taxation plans that Joe Biden is pushing, which is a disaster for him.
00:28:48.000Joe said, I'm comfortable with nothing.
00:28:51.000So Joe, and by the way, Joe Manchin has no incentive here.
00:28:54.000Manchin yesterday said, I'm a centrist, deal with it.
00:28:57.000You know, the fact of the matter is that he is from West Virginia, a state that went for Donald Trump by something like 40 points.
00:29:04.000The fact that there's a Democrat from West Virginia in the Senate is a weirdness of history in and of itself.
00:29:09.000Manchin knows that, and he knows the minute that he votes for this bad Biden bill, he's done as a senator.
00:29:14.000He will not win re-election in West Virginia.
00:29:16.000Here he is basically acknowledging that.
00:29:18.000If anything that was ever said, that we've ever talked about, if I'm an embarrassment to my Democrat colleagues, my caucus, the president being the leader of the Democrat party, Chuck Schumer and all them, and I said, me being a moderate centrist Democrat, if that causes you a problem, let me know, and I'd switch to being an independent, but I'd still be caucusing with Democrats.
00:29:43.000Both Cinema and Mansion have basically said that they are not in favor of massive tax increases.
00:29:48.000Those seem to be largely off the table at this point.
00:29:52.000But meanwhile, it's such a divide inside the Democratic Party.
00:29:54.000And normally the president bridges those divides, right?
00:29:56.000The president brings everybody together inside his own party.
00:29:59.000Not so with regard to President Biden.
00:30:02.000And this is leaving the so-called moderate senators not knowing which way to turn.
00:30:05.000A good sort of bellwether for this is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:30:10.000He has been reelected to his Senate position several times by wide margins.
00:30:14.000Now he's running so scared of the AOC wing of the party that he announced he was endorsing India Walton to be mayor of Buffalo.
00:30:20.000Giving the winner of the Democratic primary a crucial boost only days before early voting begins in her race against Mayor Byron Brown.
00:30:27.000Schumer's decision gave Walton backing from a centrist Democrat at a time when other figures like Governor Kathy Hochul and Representative Brian Higgins of Buffalo refused to take sides in a battle between an upstart primary winner and a four-term incumbent who's waging a write-in campaign.
00:30:39.000That's because India Walton's like an actual honest-to-God socialist.
00:30:43.000So Schumer endorsed her because he was afraid that he'd be outflanked by AOC and then Walton would go ahead and win the election.
00:30:50.000They're all feeding the progressive alligator.
00:30:52.000Because normally the person who would be able to stand up to the alligator is the President of the United States and he is too busy sleeping and taking his early afternoon nap before watching the rerun of Matlock.
00:32:36.000So you saw the story this week that ESPN had basically fired Alison Williams, this super talented sideline reporter, college football, basketball.
00:32:43.000They fired her because she was trying to get pregnant and didn't want to take a COVID-19 vaccine.
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00:33:54.000And meanwhile, the biggest story of the day that you won't see on the network news, a top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S.
00:34:05.000taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S.
00:34:11.000nonprofit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing.
00:34:17.000Now, shouldn't this be the biggest bombshell in America?
00:34:20.000That your dollars were funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.
00:34:29.000Now remember, the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory.
00:34:31.000It was labeled such by all of the elitists in our society.
00:34:35.000It was labeled as such by social media.
00:34:39.000It was anti-Chinese racism to even mention it.
00:34:42.000And if you mentioned that the NIH, under the auspices of people like Dr. Fauci, was funding gain-of-function research, if you did that, this meant that you were some sort of crazy conspiracy theorist.
00:34:54.000And now gain-of-function research, for those who don't know, is where you take a virus that is not transmittable to humans and you make it transmissible to humans.
00:35:01.000This is in sort of the colloquial sense.
00:35:03.000The very technical sense is where you make a virus that is transmissible more transmissible.
00:35:07.000So what Fauci had been arguing for a while here is that it is not gain-of-function research to take a bat coronavirus and make it applicable to humans.
00:35:13.000And that is a distinction without a difference.
00:35:59.000Well, I mean, I think it's a pretty good indicator that you shouldn't be giving money to the Chinese government.
00:36:04.000In a letter to Representative James Comer, a Republican of Kentucky, Lawrence Tabak of the NIH cites a, quote, limited experiment that was conducted to test if, quote, spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.
00:36:20.000Lab mice infected with the modified bat virus became sicker than those infected with the unmodified bat virus.
00:36:25.000That revelation vindicates Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over that gain-of-function question.
00:36:36.000At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying the United States had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:36:45.000In keeping with Fauci's refusal to use gain-of-function terminology, Tabak also avoids the term, though the work he describes matches its commonplace definition precisely.
00:36:55.000A previously unpublished EcoHealth grant proposal filed with the NIAID obtained by The Intercept had already exposed that almost $600,000 of the total grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology was for research designed to make viruses more dangerous and or infectious.
00:37:09.000Richard Ebright, biosafety expert, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, had previously rebutted Fauci's claim that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology as, quote, demonstrably false.
00:37:24.000Ebright told National Review, the NIH-financed work at the WIV epitomizes the definition of gain-of-function research, which deals with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens, or those pathogens resulting from the enhancement of the transmissibility and or virulence of a pathogen.
00:37:39.000Apparently Tabak also revealed that EcoHealth failed to comply with its reporting requirements under the grant.
00:37:45.000EcoHealth was required to submit to a secondary review in the event of certain developments that might increase the danger associated with the research.
00:37:50.000So, when Wuhan researchers successfully bound a natural bat coronavirus to a human ACE2 receptor in mice, they were supposed to inform the NIH.
00:38:00.000Hey, that is a full-scale disaster area for the NIH and for Anthony Fauci, because now you have to ask, okay, so they took a bat coronavirus, they bound it to a human ACE2 receptor.
00:38:10.000We're supposed to believe that this then naturally occurred in the wild, that it wasn't a lab leak, and that that sort of research that we were funding had nothing to do with the death of millions of people around the world?
00:38:20.000Should give us a different perspective on whether we ought to be doing business with China.
00:38:24.000Should certainly give us a different perspective on whether the experts ought to be trusted on this stuff when they have been lying to us consistently.
00:38:30.000You want to talk about the blowout of institutional trust?
00:38:33.000You have Dr. Anthony Fauci presiding over an agency that was, in fact, funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology now, according to these new communications, lying to the American people about it, and then proceeding to take every possible position on every possible issue throughout the pandemic, and then, when people have doubts, they're like, well, I don't know why you don't trust us.
00:38:52.000Okay, so, Fauci's new push, and the push of this administration, is to get kids vaccinated.
00:38:58.000Now, if you think for one solitary second that the push to get kids vaccinated ends with your kids unmasking in school, you're out of your mind.
00:39:06.000The reason it ain't gonna happen is because, as we already know, the virus is still infectious.
00:39:11.000Even if you are a vaccinated person, the CDC has been urging you to continue to mask up, and Rochelle Walensky said over the weekend that if your kid gets a vaccine, then your kid should continue to mask up, in perpetuity, forever.
00:39:26.000So what exactly is the strong case for kids getting vaccinated?
00:39:30.000Well, Fauci says we have to stop kids from getting the disease at all.
00:39:38.000The chances of being hospitalized or dying as a child are lower than your chances of being hospitalized or dying if you are a vaccinated adult in the vast majority of cases.
00:39:47.000Here is Dr. Anthony Fauci trying to promote kids getting vaccinated.
00:39:50.000Again, I'm not saying kids shouldn't get vaccinated.
00:39:51.000I'm saying that the governmental mandates that are sure to follow this, and they will come, are utterly out of line with both the science and with basic human decency.
00:40:01.000Talking about kids ages 5 to 11 and that's something that will be considered very soon and perhaps given an emergency use authorization very soon.
00:40:08.000How concerned are you that parents are going to stand in the way of children getting these vaccines?
00:40:16.000I mean, that's one of the reasons why we want to make sure that we outreach to the parents with trusted messengers, particularly some of the most trusted messengers are the family pediatrician, who most parents have a good deal of confidence in.
00:40:31.000And we're trying to get people to realize it is for the benefit of the children as well as for the entire family unit to get the child vaccinated.
00:40:39.000The vaccinations and the vaccines in question are highly, highly effective Okay, I mean, a few reasons not to are that the kids are basically safe from hospitalization and death from COVID without the vaccine.
00:40:56.000The entire study sample size was about 2,300 kids.
00:40:59.000Myocarditis only appears in 1 in 9,000 kids, so the sample size isn't even big enough for you to determine what the alternative Symptoms are.
00:41:08.000We don't, again, it's one thing to risk the possible cost of the vaccine downstream for people who have a higher level of risk of hospitalization or death.
00:41:20.000When you're talking about kids, most of whom are asymptomatic, you have to make a pretty strong case as to why kids should get vaccinated.
00:41:25.000And the case that they might infect adults, I'm sorry, this is endemic.
00:41:41.000And so he's also been pushing the notion that, for example, the spike that we are seeing in Britain right now is due to kids.
00:41:47.000So he said this, quote, What they are seeing is spread among children, which for the most part, at least 50% is without symptoms.
00:41:53.000But children are then spreading it to members of the family.
00:41:55.000So they're seeing people get infected.
00:41:56.000So right now they're re-examining what their policy is going to be about vaccinating children, right?
00:42:00.000So he's blaming a current UK spike on the unvaccinated kids.
00:42:04.000Except for the fact that the people who are being hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated adults and or vaccinated adults who had the vaccines a long time ago and happen to be old.
00:42:14.000But instead of focusing on the adults, we're going to go after the kids.
00:42:17.000Why you would trust these people, I just don't understand.
00:42:19.000I really don't understand what they have done to earn your trust.
00:42:22.000So if you talk to your family pediatrician, and your family pediatrician recommends the shots, listen to your family pediatrician.
00:42:27.000But why you would trust Anthony Fauci on a blanket level here is beyond me.
00:42:31.000And why you would trust political actors is really beyond me.
00:42:34.000So you have Jerry Nadler, for example, yesterday in the House, they were having some sort of committee meeting. And Jerry Nadler starts calling out the Republicans who are not masking on the committee. I would remind all members that guidance from the Office of Attending Physicians states that face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space, such as committee hearings, except when you are recognized to speak. And that means you, Jim and Marjorie and Matt and
00:43:00.000a lot of other people I can't recognize because of distance, etc. So please, everyone, observe that rule. Okay, my favorite part of this is that literally half of the room is unmasked.
00:43:48.000We are done, but not according to our public officials, who maintain control in their sclerotic, pathetic hands.
00:43:54.000The more control you choose to give to moron politicians, the more control you choose to give to overarching authoritarian bureaucrats, the more you deserve to be controlled.
00:44:05.000And if you believe that they can save you from disease, or save you from poverty, or save you from the vicissitudes of life, you are out of your damned mind.
00:44:14.000The only thing that can save you from these things is good individual decision making, which is why I've encouraged individuals to get vaccines if they're in any way vulnerable.
00:44:21.000And it's also why I say that you need to perform individual risk assessment, because when you allow everybody else to control your life, it is worse for you and it is worse for everybody else.
00:44:30.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:44:32.000First, you can't forget to end your week by checking out the Andrew Klavan Show.
00:44:49.000And more importantly, I think it's a slap in the face to the Vaccine authoritarianism you're seeing at places like Disney where they are forcing people to lose their jobs if they don't do what Disney wants.
00:44:57.000So if you want to support that, head on over to DailyWire.com.