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00:01:26.000And that is because they got the Anthony Fauci Diaries.
00:01:30.000The Fauci Diaries will go down as one of the most embarrassing falls from grace, if he had any, at least with half the country he did, that anybody has seen in recent memory.
00:01:40.000Now, who do we have to thank for this?
00:01:42.000Well, it turns out we have Secretary Kennedy.
00:02:00.000And he found them and then he gave them to Senator Rand Paul and Senator Ron Johnson, both friends, both great patriots that are pushing hard.
00:02:08.000And I mean, nobody has been quite like Senator Rand Paul.
00:02:12.000He has been a dog with a bone to experience.
00:02:14.000Expose Anthony Fauci because I think sometimes with people like Dr. Fauci, you just have this sense that something's pretty off.
00:02:23.000And I think a lot of us did, a lot of you in this audience did.
00:02:26.000And it turns out those suspicions were correct.
00:02:29.000He was a fame seeking, incompetent, with sometimes sinister and malevolent aims to cover his own rear.
00:02:37.000And that has become increasingly clear as we dive further and further into these diary entries.
00:02:42.000Now, while much noise is being made about His contradictions on school closures and restaurants and bar closures, on the origin of the COVID virus, and so much else.
00:02:55.000And obviously, I think driving most of this was his desire to cover up the fact that he was funding gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:03:07.000So that's the driving motivator for this man, not to save lives.
00:03:10.000And that's all very, very, I would say, clear from a casual reading of the text.
00:03:18.000And this is something not many people are making the point.
00:03:21.000I actually caught this thanks to our friend Kane over at Citizen Free Press.
00:03:26.000He had posted Jesse Waters' monologue from last night.
00:03:29.000At the very tail end, Jesse makes a parting comment that says he delayed the approval of the vaccine so that it didn't give President Trump a boost for the 2020 election.
00:03:42.000Now, he didn't support that claim with any evidence.
00:04:04.000He slow rolled the vax with backroom dealings so Trump wouldn't get his quote unquote October surprise.
00:04:12.000And what this says, and we're going to go through it in detail here, is that it is apparent through about five months of diary entries that Anthony Fauci was not only well aware of the fact that an approved vaccine, think what you will about the vaccine, by the way, you don't have to support the vaccine, but at that time, nobody knew if it was going to be good or bad.
00:04:33.000It was definitely going to be politically advantageous to President Trump to have an approved vaccine ahead of the 2020 election.
00:04:42.000So, five months of him being very well aware of the fact that this was going to benefit the president if it got approved.
00:04:50.000And what we see revealed in these diary entries is yet another example of how the deep state conspired to block President Trump to steal the 2020 election.
00:05:00.000Now, we know about mail in ballots, we know about signature verification, easing, we know about Dropbox.
00:05:07.000Galore all over the place, funded by Zuckerberg and others.
00:05:11.000But this has been something that I remember very well.
00:05:14.000I remember after the election a couple days, and then all of a sudden Pfizer gets approval and it's a big deal.
00:05:21.000And I remember thinking, why on earth did they wait until after the election?
00:05:25.000I mean, I knew why, but now we have documentation from Anthony Fauci's own diary that explains what happened.
00:05:34.000So there's a number of players in this story, and we're going to go through them as we go.
00:05:39.000But, namely, you got the FDA commissioner, you've got who's Stephen Hahn, you've got Peter Marks, who's the director of the FDA Center that reviews vaccines, you've got Alex Zarr, Secretary of Health and Human Services, you've got Larry Horowitz, who's a shadowy character.
00:05:51.000I can't even find an image of this guy, but he works closely with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and is Fauci's main source again and again.
00:06:00.000And, of course, you've got Francis Collins and Cliff Lane from the NIH director and one of Fauci's deputies at NIAID.
00:06:09.000Starting in June of 2020, a full Five months before the election, this is a diary entry from Dr. Fauci.
00:06:18.000It's him becoming disillusioned with Deborah Burks, who was the White House coronavirus response coordinator, if you'll remember Scarf Lady.
00:06:28.000Here's the quote Deb has stated that we should not do clinical trials since, quote, I want to see every infected person in a nursing home get plasma early and on steroids later.
00:08:29.000Larry Horowitz, who works closely with Nancy Pelosi, apparently there was a meeting at the White House with Steve Mnuchin, Mark Meadows, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer.
00:08:37.000Steve and Mark told Nancy and Chuck that AstraZeneca will have a vaccine in September.
00:10:35.000Hahn and Marks to grant UA, which is emergency use authorization.
00:10:40.000Prematurely to vaccines, likely AstraZeneca, in time for the election.
00:10:45.000I called, so again, he's this is Dr. Fauci referencing the election.
00:10:49.000I called Peter Marks a couple of days ago, together with Collins and Lane, remember NIH director Francis Collins and Lane, and explained that we would back him if he holds the line.
00:11:04.000We would back him if he denies Trump his October surprise.
00:11:09.000He called the AZ package a hot mess and definitely not in shape for an EUA.
00:11:46.000So, There's more emails or more diary entries throughout August, September.
00:11:51.000Then on the 8th of October, Horowitz flags that an FDA official needs support against a hydroxychloroquine authorization being pushed by Peter Navarro.
00:12:05.000And that Hahn told her to hold her decision so he could speak with Meadows.
00:12:10.000On the 24th, Pfizer CEO, remember him?
00:12:13.000Albert Berla calls Fauci worried that AstraZeneca will get an authorization before the other companies finish their trials.
00:12:21.000On the 26th, after the FDA authorizes convalescent plasma, Fauci writes that Hahn likely caved to Meadows, who is looking for good news before the election.
00:12:32.000There seems to be one player in this story that is hyper fixated on the upcoming election, and that is Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:12:41.000October 29th, we're just five days out now.
00:12:48.000Some potentially nefarious stuff going on.
00:12:51.000The FDA career scientists are hesitant to grant emergency use authorization to Lilly's and Regenerons MAB based on the current data.
00:13:00.000Alex Azar is really pushing them and furious because he thinks FDA is slow walking the process so as to not have it out before the election in five days.
00:13:08.000Clearly, Alex wants to please POTUS so that they can say that they have a breakthrough right before the election.
00:13:57.000And a little over two weeks later, the same back channel that's been feeding Fauci all this information, which is, of course, Nancy Pelosi's Larry Horowitz, calls and tells Fauci the following Got a call from Larry Horowitz tonight telling me that Peter Marks told him that Trump called up Steve Hahn today and told him that Alex Azar said that Steve lost POTUS the election by holding up the news about the Pfizer vaccine.
00:14:22.000Well, you can imagine why President Trump might think that.
00:14:27.000Pfizer announced six days after the election.
00:14:31.000Trump was cursing Steve on the phone and then hung up.
00:14:34.000Steve did not know if he was going to get fired and told this to Peter, who called up Larry.
00:14:38.000Still not sure what's going to happen.
00:14:46.000This is the story of how Dr. Anthony Fauci back channeled, weighed in with the top scientists at the FDA and HHS, and even took stabs at Deborah Burke, Scarf Lady.
00:15:01.000To block the emergency use authorization of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
00:15:06.000And in so doing, knowingly worked against President Trump's reelection hopes.
00:15:17.000Not only is he a fame whore, not only was he absolutely obsessed with his own press clippings, not only was he obsessed with celebrities wearing Fauci shirts and being sainted through the legacy media, not only was he obsessed.
00:15:32.000With funding gain of function research in China and then covering it up, the man very well could have cost President Trump the 2020 election single handedly.
00:15:46.000This is the real story of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a sinister, lying, fame hungry, incompetent, a bureaucrat that put his thumb on the scales of the 2020 election.
00:15:59.000And we all, unfortunately, saw the devastation caused by that.
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00:17:09.000Some might be surprised to see a New York Times journalist on the Charlie Kirk show, but for those who didn't know and don't know, you and Charlie were actually friends.
00:17:18.000And you guys knew each other pretty well.
00:17:19.000I actually know you because of Charlie.
00:17:22.000So maybe that's a good place to start because I know you mentioned him in your book, Regime Change Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.
00:17:29.000But you talk about Charlie in this book.
00:17:51.000And I got to know him through Trump's first term as he was very young, building this organization that at the time not that many people had heard of, but it started to really build momentum.
00:18:04.000And it was very obvious to me straight away A, that he was a very sophisticated and smart operator.
00:18:12.000I mean, he'd already developed a friendship with Donald Trump Jr., and he was starting to build at the time.
00:18:20.000A very close relationship with the president.
00:18:23.000And so, one thing you sort of try to figure out when you're reporting on people who are activists, leaders, movement leaders is are they running an organization that is essentially an AstroTurf organization?
00:18:38.000Because there's a lot of people who are sort of put out there as well, this person is a leader, this person leads a movement.
00:18:43.000And you scratch a little bit under the surface and actually, no, it turns out this whole thing is sort of ginned up with algorithms and it's fake.
00:18:51.000You could see very quickly and very clearly that that was not the case with Charlie Kirk.
00:18:56.000He had really huge, these events, the crowds at these events, you can't fake that.
00:19:04.000And it was very obvious to me that he was not just building himself as an activist leader, as a movement leader, as an advisor to the president, as a fundraiser, but in the view of, I could tell you, quite a few people around Trump, Kirk had a choice.
00:19:25.000They thought he was either going to be the heir to Rush Limbaugh or potentially the Republican nominee for president in a future cycle.
00:20:13.000We have in the book what we try to describe in the book is the effect that Charlie's death had on the president of the United States and the people around him, his inner circle.
00:20:25.000And we have a scene in the book where the president learns about Charlie's death, and he actually learns about it from his son, Baron, who was a huge fan of Charlie's.
00:20:40.000He was very distressed, very distraught.
00:20:44.000And The president was trying to absorb this news, but also trying to comfort his son.
00:20:51.000And people who were in the West Wing that day describe it almost like it was just a zombie land, in the sense that people were just in a state of shock.
00:21:01.000Charlie Kirk was considered a member of the family by many of these people.
00:21:08.000And so we just describe, you know, again, I don't want to belabor it too much with you, but, you know, we have an insight in the book into how they.
00:21:19.000Regathered themselves at that moment, got together.
00:21:22.000Of course, they still didn't know who had done this or any of the details.
00:21:27.000The vice president was in a state of acute distress.
00:21:34.000He credits JD Vance, credits Charlie Cook more than anyone with his political career.
00:21:41.000I mean, I think it's an objective fact that without Charlie Cook, JD Vance would not be United States senator, he would not be vice president of the United States.
00:21:52.000Charlie Kirk was the one who vouched for JD Vance to the Trump family initially when they were very skeptical about someone who had a history as a never-Trumper who had said all sorts of things about Donald Trump.
00:22:04.000In early 2021, Charlie Kirk was, I would say, of all the people, him and Don Jr., but really it was Charlie Kirk vouching for JD Vance that established him within that circle.
00:22:16.000And then, of course, he had a huge role in helping him become vice president.
00:22:22.000We, you know, we describe in the book the emotions that the vice president was going through, but also the decision he made very quickly to take Air Force Two to collect Charlie's casket, to comfort his family, to comfort Erica, and that whole sequence of events, which, of course, you're very intimately familiar with, Andrew.
00:22:43.000I can tell you, he comforted all of us.
00:22:46.000I mean, I was on that flight as well, and he came back.
00:22:49.000I mean, he sat up with Erica and Usha.
00:22:52.000But he came back and he talked to us too.
00:22:54.000And you could tell he was in a bad way, like we all were, but he put on a brave face and, you know, put his hand on our shoulders.
00:23:52.000Even the skepticism from the U.S. intelligence, just to take a backward step, in the book, we describe Netanyahu, this pretty astonishing meeting where he comes to the White House Situation Room and essentially pitches.
00:24:05.000President Trump on his plan for a regime change war with Iran.
00:24:10.000And he's got, you know, on the screen behind him, he's got the head of Mossad, Israeli generals, and he lays out scenarios, including the Kurds coming across helping to overthrow the regime and a video montage which has potential replacement leaders in Iran, including Reza Pahlavi, who's the son of the last Shah.
00:24:30.000So they absorb all of this, and overnight the CIA does an analysis on it.
00:24:36.000And the skepticism was in a very I wouldn't say narrow because it's pretty darn important, but it wasn't like they said, oh, we can't achieve any of these objectives.
00:24:47.000We can't degrade or dismantle the ballistic missiles.
00:24:50.000We can't do anything to suppress Iran's defense industrial base.
00:24:54.000The really hardcore skepticism concerned the regime change scenarios.
00:24:59.000And I'll tell you, everyone on the Trump team basically was skeptical about this.
00:25:04.000Vance happened to be the one who vocalized that most aggressively with Trump, but others did too at different times, and particularly that intelligence, Ratcliffe and Rubio.
00:25:14.000Express skepticism to President Trump about it.
00:25:17.000Look, people will debate about how and why we went to war, but every piece of reporting I've done and everyone I've talked to in the inner circle, and I think Trump has made this clear in different ways, maybe less bluntly publicly, is that he had a feeling, he had a gut feeling that this Iranian regime would collapse quickly.
00:25:35.000And even if it wasn't going to end up in regime change, he thought it would, he thought it was worthwhile going ahead with this mission, even with the more limited objectives of trying to degrade.
00:25:45.000And dismantle both their nuclear program and their ballistic missile program.
00:25:51.000And, you know, he did hear a range of skeptical views, but I will say, not expressed to him in a particularly forceful way, with the exception of JD Vance.
00:27:48.000Honestly, I never even really heard anyone say this because no one who actually knows what's going on, who's working in the administration at a senior level, has ever suggested that to me.
00:27:58.000President Trump asked JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner to negotiate with the Iranians.
00:28:06.000Now, that's not to say that Trump thinks Trump has been at different times very skeptical of whether they would succeed or not, but that's a separate question from whether he asked them to do it.
00:28:49.000But I think JD has gone into these negotiations very aware that they could back out at any time and that they could, that might have to restart military kinetic operations, which they've had to do.
00:28:59.000But once again, we're in a position where we're seeing, The push towards an MOU.
00:29:04.000You saw President Trump this morning with Lindsey Graham and his funeral saying, you know, Lindsey was pushing for a peace plan with Iran.
00:29:12.000He's like, Lindsey loved war, but even he was pushing.
00:29:18.000So, I mean, basically, your point there's two narratives, really that JD went rogue with this peace plan or that he was, you know, being naive, something along those lines, and that Trump got dog walked into Iran by Israel.
00:29:31.000Those are the two, I think, competing narratives.
00:29:34.000That you see at both the start of this operation and in the attempt to conclude it, right?
00:29:40.000So maybe let's go back to the first, the start.
00:29:43.000You know, obviously it's clear Netanyahu was in the situation room.
00:29:47.000Did Trump get, you know, pushed into this war by Israel?
00:29:57.000Yes, Netanyahu made a very aggressive campaign, as everyone knows, over many, many months to try to bring America into this war.
00:30:06.000But actually, the The reality you could talk to anyone in Trump's inner circle, literally anyone, talk to anyone who was actually there who saw these decisions get made.
00:30:14.000Donald Trump himself was more hawkish about Iran than just about anyone on his team.
00:30:20.000I think actually more than anyone on his team.
00:30:22.000The closest probably was Pete Hegseth.
00:30:25.000And remember, Trump has a long history of this.
00:30:27.000People choose not to see it, and that's their prerogative.
00:30:30.000But if you choose to actually just deal with objectively with what Trump has his long record on Iran, A, he's been talking about Iran for a very long time.
00:30:40.000Very long time, even before he went into politics.
00:30:42.000In the first term, there were senior advisors that he had who counseled him to stay in the JCPOA, Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
00:30:50.000Trump ignored their advice and pulled out of the deal.
00:30:55.000And then again, later in his term, January 2020, there were many people who thought it was unwise to order the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian general.
00:31:06.000Trump went ahead with it and did it anyway.
00:31:09.000And then in his years out of power, He was briefed by the FBI that the Iranians were trying to kill him.
00:31:31.000And ultimately, Donald Trump decided to go into this war.
00:31:35.000He made the decision, and a skeptical case was put to him, most aggressively by JD Vance, but in certain more narrow respects by others too.
00:31:44.000So let's go into everybody wants to talk about the 2028 horse race.
00:31:47.000We've probably given it too much attention on this show.
00:31:51.000I know your book is about the first year, but what can you glean from that first year as we head into the midterms?
00:31:57.000What is the mood inside this White House?
00:32:11.000I mean, these are smart political operators and they're immersed in data and they can see what everyone else can see, which is the president has a low approval rating.
00:32:23.000Presidents always, their party always tends to, history shows they tend to perform, not always, but almost always.
00:32:30.000Tend to underperform in midterm elections.
00:33:36.000But The effort by James Blair and others to redraw the maps has definitely helped them.
00:33:43.000The structural advantages are definitely on their side.
00:33:46.000So, and they've got here's the other thing that people aren't really talking about, I think, nearly enough.
00:33:50.000For the first time in my memory, the Republicans have an overwhelming financial advantage.
00:33:57.000And a lot of it is because of the shift in Silicon Valley and the crypto money and the changing landscape in the donor community, which I think is really under indexed.
00:35:50.000Our next guest needs no introduction to this audience, and that, of course, is Sean Davis, CEO and co founder of The Federalist.
00:35:57.000An amazing, amazing news institution analysis, opinion, and reporting.
00:36:04.000Sean, welcome back to the show, my friend.
00:36:07.000I couldn't help but notice you're rather, in pure Sean Davis fashion, you're very reserved tweet this morning, railing against the neocons.
00:36:19.000And I think that's a good place to start.
00:36:21.000We were originally planning to talk about Fauci, but when I saw this tweet, I was like, okay, we got to start there.
00:36:30.000Few sentences here because it's a long tweet.
00:36:33.000It is inarguable that the war in Iran is a massive drag on Trump's numbers, as well as those of the Republican Party heading into November.
00:36:40.000This is largely driven by consistently high gas prices, which also drive up the price of everything else.
00:36:46.000Trump obviously knows this, which is why he's been searching for an off ramp for months.
00:36:49.000He knows he was elected to get gas prices down and the economy in shape, which he did until the war jammed up the gears.
00:36:55.000But a major problem for Trump's presidency right now is that nearly everyone outside his inner circle is pushing for this war.
00:37:02.000And this includes the entirety of the so called conservative pundits who never found a war they weren't willing to make others fight and pay for.
00:37:09.000It also hates Trump and especially Vance and sees the war's negative effects on his popularity as a secondary benefit of the war they've been salivating over for decades.
00:37:18.000To them, his declining numbers are a feature, not a bug.
00:37:23.000Yeah, so let's go back a little bit in time to 2016.
00:37:26.000There was a very infamous magazine article, and the cover said against Trump, and it was signed by a bunch of so called conservative luminaries.
00:37:37.000Almost to a person, every person who wrote in that article against Trump, trying to make sure he wasn't going to become president, these are the same people whispering in his ear or shouting from behind microphones now on television and podcasts, telling him, No, no, no, no, Mr. President, actually, everyone loves this war.
00:37:59.000We don't want him, but just keep doing the war, Mr. President.
00:38:03.000It's like watching Grima Wormtongue give advice to King Theoden, watching how these neocons constantly try to manipulate.
00:38:12.000And distort what's going on to get Trump to do something that's not going to be good for him, not going to be good for America, but is going to be great for neocons who just want wars and who want Trumpism and MAGA and America First or whatever you want to call it gone forever.
00:38:26.000And so this is kind of just like my plea, Mr. President.
00:38:30.000Understand that the people trying to push you into expanding this war, getting into a ground combat, these people do not have your best interests at heart.
00:38:37.000And to the extent that the advice they give you hurts you, they are fine with that.
00:38:42.000It sort of reminds me of The Empire Strikes Back, right?
00:38:46.000You've got Trump leads this takeover of the GOP, a hostile takeover of the GOP, bends the entire movement and popular will to his will.
00:38:58.000And now there is this opportunity that they've seen to scurry back in and get the president's ear, win the influence of the presidency and Trump 2.0.
00:39:11.000And they really don't care if it hurts President Trump.
00:39:14.000And I think that's the key point here.
00:39:17.000These voices, they really don't care what happens to the coalition that won him the White House because, in their mind, the conservative movement would be better off if it didn't have MAGA to deal with.
00:39:29.000If they could just get rid of these pesky populist America First policies that have gotten in the way of so much good K Street lobbying money, then they would be better off.
00:40:23.000But it is politically driven because the reality is that Iran and any other sort of despotic regime, whether it's Iran or North Korea or whatever, they understand that their survival is based on having nuclear weapons.
00:40:37.000That was the lesson of Gaddafi, who gave up his weapons program during the Iraq War and who was then removed from power at the behest of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
00:40:46.000At that moment, every tyrant on earth understood that if we have nuclear weapons, that's the only thing that saves us.
00:40:53.000So, you have to acknowledge the long term reality of geopolitics, which is that Iran is not trustworthy.
00:41:00.000It's a completely total mess of a nation.
00:41:03.000They are going to try and get nuclear weapons regardless of what they say right now.
00:41:07.000And so, the best hedge, the best way to protect against Iran or any other despotic regime having these nuclear weapons is to make sure you have a strong Republican in power who they're terrified of.
00:41:19.000This is why they were trying to build it under Obama, they were building capacity back up under Biden.
00:41:25.000And what has happened with this war right now is that by making it less likely that Republicans hold Congress, by making it less likely that a Republican can hold the White House in 28 and 32, they are making it more likely that an Iranian regime under the next Democrat president will be able to build up and perhaps even deploy nuclear weapons.
00:41:45.000And so I get the principled argument, but the problem with so much of this interventionist neocon nonsense is they're never thinking past the current move.
00:41:53.000They think, oh, I'm going to move the pawn here and I'm going to take this piece, and that's it.
00:42:16.000And everything you're doing right now is making it less likely that Republicans will be in charge and in a position to stop despotic and tyrannical regimes like those in Iran.
00:42:26.000Sean, I think the interesting part of your analysis, though, is you said it's a feature, not a bug.
00:42:31.000Are you alleging that they wanted to leave the king totally exposed?
00:42:37.000That was part of the move here so that they could then say, look, see, Trump's policies are really unpopular.
00:43:39.000They weren't part of building this coalition.
00:43:41.000They didn't have sleepless nights knocking doors and making the argument, or in Charlie's case, visiting.
00:43:48.000Dozens and dozens of college campuses, and all the videos and the billions of views trying to pitch this to young people and to this new coalition that we build.
00:43:57.000So they have no skin in the game if it falls apart.
00:44:00.000They just get to go back to the old way, and that's really depressing.
00:45:28.000And he gets it for political reasons, as you said.
00:45:31.000What is your advice to this admin right now?
00:45:35.000What needs to be focus number one and number two?
00:45:37.000Yeah, so I think the first focus needs you need a peace deal and you need to get the U.S. out of there.
00:45:42.000And the thing that is complicating that is the economic situation in the straight there.
00:45:47.000There's so much oil that moves through there.
00:45:49.000But the reality is that most of that oil, and I understand that we have a global oil market and spot prices and all that.
00:45:57.000The bulk of the oil there is not going to the US, it's going to Europe.
00:46:01.000And so I think the solution here actually has to deal with getting Europe to take charge of its own energy and take charge of its own security situation.
00:46:09.000America has been the world policeman for way too long, whether it's doing nuke policing or whether it's having to put bases all over Europe or whether it's going to Iraq or whether it's doing what it did in Syria or Libya.
00:46:23.000We're stretched too thin, and it is long past time for Europe to take ownership of its own future.
00:46:29.000Now, whether that means Europe taking military control of the Straits, I don't know.
00:46:33.000Maybe it is in massive rapid investment of pipelines along so you can make the Strait no longer necessary.
00:46:41.000But to me, it is largely a European problem, which it was when we first went in at the beginning of the second term to Yemen and started dealing with the Houthis there because they were attacking ships and all that, making things difficult.
00:46:55.000The energy problem there is actually a European problem.
00:46:58.000And if we want to deal with the situation we're having with spot prices, we need to Rapidly expand energy extraction in the US.
00:47:06.000We have more than we need here to support us.
00:47:09.000And we should probably be exporting a whole lot less energy, whether it's liquid natural gas or oil.
00:47:17.000But this idea that we remain completely dependent because of the interconnectedness of global markets on the Middle East, that is a major, major problem.
00:47:26.000It is a massive weak link in the chain that simply doesn't need to be there.
00:47:29.000So I think that's the long term solution for this.
00:47:32.000It strikes me as something where we could put together a coalition to blockade the strait, keep the pressure on if that's what we need to do.
00:47:40.000With European allies, while you said we just do that for a couple years while these pipelines get built, and we could exist in a detente and gas prices would come down.
00:47:50.000And I mean, it would maybe it's not the ideal solution, but at least it would get rid of that choke point through the straight.
00:47:57.000And we could probably just do that for a couple years without a huge, huge lift.
00:48:02.000But you got to make sure that Europe pays their fair share.
00:48:06.000And it does strike me as a little bit like we break it, you buy it.
00:48:09.000But nevertheless, The fact of the matter is, real politics is that it does affect them way more than it does us.
00:48:16.000Sean, I want to pivot really quickly to Anthony Fauci because I've been waiting for this all day.
00:48:21.000We did a whole rundown of how he actually slow walked the vaccine, and obviously, it got approved six days after the election.
00:48:30.000Fauci was very aware of the politics there.
00:48:32.000But in general, what do you make of the Fauci diaries?
00:48:37.000He's been pardoned by Joe Biden's auto pen.
00:48:40.000I don't know what the options on the table are.
00:48:42.000But what has been the biggest revelation for you when it comes to these?
00:48:46.000I will admit that I was wrong about Anthony Fauci.
00:48:49.000And the biggest revelation to me is that he is a much, much bigger demon, a far more narcissistic, nefarious presence in government than even I assumed.
00:48:59.000And I was calling for that guy to be fired in April and May of 2020.
00:49:04.000So I'm actually shocked, as cynical as I am, I'm shocked that he somehow comes off even more megalomaniacal and more narcissistic in his diary than I ever assumed.
00:49:17.000You know, there was one of his diary entries dating back to 2013.
00:49:21.000Somebody at the CDC had blocked him from doing a Wolf Blitzer interview on CNN, and he lost it.
00:49:29.000They're worried that I'm a rock star, that I'm taking away the limelight from them.
00:49:35.000I mean, and even with his descriptions of his relationship with President Trump, he's like, President Trump seems quite fond of me, even though I'm stealing the limelight from him.
00:49:42.000This man is, you use the word narcissist, that is actually a very, very fair.
00:49:49.000Description of him and the way he was fawning over his own press clippings and the love affair.
00:49:55.000He's talking about how he's the most recognizable and famous man on the planet.
00:49:59.000I mean, this is a sick, sick deal with this man who ultimately probably cost President Trump the 2020 election.
00:50:07.000Genuinely, I don't think that's overstating it.
00:50:09.000There were many factors at play, many deep state actors contributed to that, certainly.
00:50:15.000But he, with the prominence of the COVID story in 2020, I think that case is very fair.
00:50:21.000What do you make about What we can do about it now with this pardon?
00:50:25.000Is there anything that can, I mean, Rand Paul's saying if he lies in front of Congress again, he's not covered by the pardon?
00:50:37.000I don't think he's off the hook at all.
00:50:39.000The question is are there any red state attorneys general or prosecutors who are willing to hold him account to account for the crimes he did?
00:50:48.000And again, the Democrats set the playbook here.
00:50:51.000It wasn't enough when they went after Trump for J6 to do it in federal courts.
00:50:55.000They also had their people in Georgia, in Arizona, go after anyone who was involved.
00:51:01.000And so I think the solution for Anthony Fauci here is I guarantee you he committed some kind of crime or multiple crimes or conspiracies across multiple states that we have state attorneys general or prosecutors who can go after him for.
00:51:15.000So I don't know if it's James Uthmeyer in Florida, you know, maybe it's a prosecutor in Tennessee or Texas or Missouri.
00:51:24.000I guarantee you he has legal liability in various states.
00:51:28.000And I don't think we have to wait for him to perjure himself before Rand Paul tomorrow.
00:51:32.000I think there are lots of avenues for state.
00:51:34.000Prosecutors and attorneys general to go after him for what he did.
00:51:37.000The man's a psychopath responsible for the deaths of millions who is eating dinner with Jake Tapper while he made you watch your loved ones die alone in hospitals.
00:51:52.000I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend.
00:51:57.000And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, it was what was behind the scenes.
00:52:03.000That was an unwavering commitment to his faith.
00:52:06.000His love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:52:12.000Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:52:16.000He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:52:19.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:52:23.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:52:26.000This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie, it's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:53:08.000She speaks at our events all the time, visits college campuses, and Gets into a bunch of trouble with crazy left wing lunatics, and we love her for it.
00:53:38.000And I thought of you because there's this crazy story out of Minnesota, which, of course, Minnesota, as Turned into ground zero for every woke, just ridiculous policy you could imagine.
00:54:15.000And I'm excited to talk to you about a project we've been working on at the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health called My Gender Dolls.
00:54:23.000These dolls were designed by transgender and gender diverse artists.
00:54:26.000They are intended to be a therapeutic tool for transgender and gender diverse kids to explore how they see themselves or how they'd like to see themselves in terms of gender identity and gender expression.
00:54:38.000Along with the choice of bodies, the My Gender Dolls also include genitals.
00:54:42.000This is important because kids can learn that all gender identities and gender expressions are valid no matter how your body looks.
00:54:50.000There are lots of different ways to be a girl, a boy, or anywhere along a gender spectrum.
00:54:56.000So, as somebody that has gone through this process and come out the other side and now advocates against it, how damaging is it?
00:55:04.000These are apparently for four to 10 year olds, they're designed for four year olds.
00:55:09.000How damaging is it to a child's psyche to be even talking about their gender at four years old?
00:55:16.000I mean, this is something that is bringing a lot of disgust, a lot of shock to a lot of people, rightfully so, because anybody who's sane will recognize that this is a violation of children's innocence to lie to them.
00:55:29.000About human design, about the way that God made us, and then to tell them that they were born in the wrong body, and the only way they can fix that is by going through what basically amounts to medical experimentation.
00:55:39.000And as somebody who once was part of the transgender community myself and went through that childhood abuse under the guise of gender affirming care, I know exactly why they are targeting children so hard.
00:55:51.000This is, I mean, for one, it's an ideology of people who are, I mean, the most prominent ideologues are people who.
00:55:58.000Are unable to reproduce themselves because they've taken upon these treatments.
00:56:02.000Some of them were young, and so if they can't reproduce, if they can't have children of their own to push this ideology onto, they're going to target the children of the people who are healthy and are able to have kids of their own.
00:56:14.000And what better way to teach children and indoctrinate them through the way that they know how to learn best, which is through play, through the use of adults?
00:56:21.000And one of the core tenets of transgender ideology is that this is an innate condition that transgender people cannot help being the way that they are, that it's not just a mental health issue.
00:56:31.000And that the earlier you catch somebody in an attempt to change their sex, the better.
00:56:36.000And that's, I mean, I think that point can't be underscored enough that these are children that don't know that the tooth fairy isn't real or that the Easter bunny isn't real.
00:56:46.000And they're being basically handed over a grooming tool that tells them that their body is wrong, that God made them in the wrong body, and that it's okay if they want to be a girl and they're a boy or vice versa.
00:57:03.000Behavior that is predatory behavior, and what makes it all the more obscene to me is that these are researchers who are receiving taxpayer funded grants to advance something that is this abusive and harmful to little kids.
00:57:19.000They're dressing it up as if they say, What do they say?
00:57:48.000He's famously pushed pro transgender policies in Minnesota, but he was bestowed the same institute.
00:57:56.000He was bestowed with the institute's inaugural Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award in 2023, a title they created just for him.
00:58:05.000We've got a picture of him with that, accepting the reward, $179.
00:58:10.000As you can see, this is him posing for an award from these people.
00:58:16.000And by the way, one of the people that is the creators of this doll is pictured in that, and that would be Nick Ryder, who is a PhD LP and LP of My Gender Doll.
00:58:27.000So they're trying to monetize this now.
00:58:30.000And if you look at this person, I guess it's a they, them, their bio, it's really, really sick.
00:58:38.000So this is a sociologist, a psychologist, rather.
00:58:44.000At the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health.
00:58:48.000And their professional interests are in areas of intersectionality, improving various health disparities, sexual health, and pleasure, which is ironic because a lot of kids that get this procedure done or trans surgeries can no longer experience sexual pleasure when they're older.
00:59:07.000Decolonizing healing justice, whatever that means, systems change, and social justice advocacy.
00:59:16.000Okay, so this is one of the inventors of this.
00:59:37.000I mean, how many of the people that you've seen that advocate for this stuff have totally perverse personal lives and weird fixations and they cloak it in this academic language?
00:59:49.000I think on every single level, Physically, emotionally, psychologically, to do this to any child, to do this to anybody who is confused about their sex and to refuse to give them proper counsel and instead push them down this lifelong route of confusion and experimentation, that is abuse under the guise of activism and love for these people.
01:00:13.000I find it incredibly insulting that they're using these terms like making gender identity fun because realizing that you regret.
01:00:21.000Every single part of the last few years of your life that you've lost your fertility, you've lost parts of your sexuality and your identity for life is not fun.
01:00:30.000It's something that I and thousands of other children are going to have to grapple with for the rest of our lives.
01:00:36.000You mentioned that they cloak it in this language like they love you, they care, they're the ones that really care about you.
01:00:42.000And I've noticed in life that so often the predators are the ones that use that language the con artists, the scam artists, the snake oil salesmen.
01:00:51.000They're the ones that will claim that they are your best friend, that they are here for you to help you.
01:00:56.000In your personal experience, is that the way they talk to you that it was cloaked in concern for your well being?
01:01:02.000Yeah, they use all of these rosy terms like gender affirming care, top surgery, bottom surgery, loving people for who they truly are in order to rope you in.
01:01:12.000That's how they convince people into this in the first place.
01:01:15.000That's how they get people like my parents who are well meaning to allow their children to do things that go against their very instincts by telling them, your child literally cannot live without this.
01:01:25.000This is who they are, and they cannot change that.
01:01:27.000And the longer that you go, Without allowing them to be who they truly are, the more likely you are pushing them into suicide.
01:01:35.000And that is exactly why we have to investigate these clinics, these activists who are pushing this on our children, and make sure that the doctors who do this are all held to account and make sure through legislation and culturally this never happens to any child ever again in the United States.
01:01:51.000Yeah, that point you just made where they emotionally manipulate parents by holding out the specter of your child's going to commit suicide if you don't do X, Y, and Z. Literally chop off their genitalia, or if you don't, you know, chop off the breasts, whatever it is.
01:02:07.000I mean, I know that it's extraordinarily traumatic, probably still to even think about, but you know, from your parents' perspective, 30 seconds, what, when they talk now about that, what are they telling you?
01:02:23.000Like, what was that like for them to be a parent in that position?
01:02:26.000They tell me all the time that they wish the doctors told them that we had another option, that we didn't have to do this, and that they didn't lie to them the way that they did, but they are very grateful that.
01:02:35.000Not only have I been able to come out of it, but also to be able to use our story as a family to make sure that other families do not have to go through what we did.
01:02:44.000And God bless your parents too, because it's so obvious in the way you talk about them that you care about them and that they care about you and that they were just trying their best.
01:02:52.000And there's so many parents out there that have been caught in this that probably just thought they were trying their best.
01:02:58.000I mean, if a doctor comes to you, somebody you're supposed to trust, and they say your kid's going to commit suicide if you don't do this, I mean, what?
01:03:05.000You just can't imagine the excruciating, terrible choices in front of parents like that.
01:03:11.000I just got to give a few more details on this story because it's so bizarre.
01:03:15.000The paper dolls with gender neutral names like Sam.
01:03:20.000Rory, Avery, and Parker have removable internal and external genitalia, along with more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, accessories, and hairstyle.
01:03:31.000Think of it like a trans Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.
01:03:36.000The goal is for kids to, quote, learn about the different options that exist for who they can be, end quote, according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota, who spent over a half a decade developing the project funded by their government.
01:04:07.000It will be made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatrician, and mental health providers, according to a website for My Gender Dolls.
01:05:10.000We've had 26 states over the years pass legislation to protect children from this in some form.
01:05:15.000We're having federal legislation like the Chloe Cole Act being proposed that recently passed through committee, actually, and will seek to not just protect a select few children in a few different states, but federally, all across the board, through all 50 states.
01:05:31.000Ban this treatment, ban this abuse for kids, and make sure that every kid who's already been harmed gets a private right to action.
01:05:39.000And we have a lot of motion moving in the culture as well, as well as a lot of investigations.
01:05:43.000But gender transition for children has not gone away.
01:05:48.000These clinics and these ideologues have only found better ways of hiding it from us.
01:06:05.000A lot of these schools will have policy changes that are as simple as changing the name of a program so that they can just get away with it.
01:06:12.000And we have recorded cases of hospitals like, I believe, Texas Children's committing fraud, basically committing insurance fraud by saying that these children don't have a mental health issue, that they have an endocrine issue that is otherwise unspecified in order to continue the abuse and the medical experimentation on them.
01:06:30.000But there also are cases like these so called gender dolls where they are doing it out in the open, loud and proud.
01:06:36.000Because they know they can, because they're being protected by the state, because they have governors like Tim Waltz who are actively pushing for this.
01:06:43.000For as long as this is legal anywhere in the States, as long as it's encouraged anywhere by anybody in power, no child in the U.S. is going to be safe until we take the industry down ourselves.
01:07:51.000And the question then becomes how do we best achieve that end?
01:07:55.000Now, tell us more about the Chloe Cole Act.
01:07:58.000Who's sponsoring it and what would it achieve?
01:08:00.000So, the Chloe Cole Act was implemented by, was written by Representative Bob Onder of Missouri.
01:08:09.000And it's, as I said earlier, it seeks to ban this treatment across all 50 states and all territories of the U.S. and make it so bad.
01:08:18.000Is it surgery and therapeutics, or what does it ban?
01:08:22.000Every single aspect of the transition process from the medical, the affirmation, the use of surgeries, the use of hormone treatments and blockers.
01:08:34.000And it makes it so that I believe there is about a 20 or so year period after the minor turns 18 or after they first discover that they regret this and want to detransition, want to see damages for what they've been through.
01:08:47.000Which is something that is very desperately needed right now because I have many friends who have cases of their own.
01:08:53.000I'm currently in a lawsuit of my own right now with Kaiser, and many of these cases are being thrown out on the basis of statute of limitations or people aren't even able to sue or get justice for things that they went through at very tender ages because in many states, the statute of limitations for treatments in hospitals is as little as two to three years.
01:09:13.000And that is not nearly enough when we are abusing children and confusing them for life.
01:09:17.000Yeah, isn't that very convenient for them?
01:09:19.000So they get a young kid, 10, 12 years old, maybe four in this case.
01:09:25.000They medically mutilate them, they psychologically abuse them and brainwash them.
01:09:31.000And then it takes a little while, understandably, in any of these cases, to figure out what has been done to them, that they have been victimized by these absolute monsters that call themselves PhDs and researchers and clinical psychologists or whatever.
01:09:48.000And then they get off scot free because it takes young people like yourself that detransition a certain amount of time to figure that out and to come out of that.
01:09:57.000Because when you spend so much of your formative years as a child going down a road to hell, it takes you a little while to turn it around and figure things out.
01:10:06.000So I totally support that, by the way.
01:10:08.000I think that's brilliant, extending the statute of limitations on these lawsuits, because I genuinely believe that the way you really take these people out is you sue them into oblivion.
01:10:18.000If you start getting lawsuits from all these kids speaking up and you get a whole infrastructure around that, you will stop them in their tracks.
01:10:26.000They will not want the financial liabilities that come with it.