00:01:47.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:07.000Last year at Turning Point USA, we did a video where we went into detail about the origins of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:02:19.000It was very obvious to us, and Benny Johnson did a great job for us and our entire productions team, that the virus did not come from some sort of wet market.
00:02:28.000It didn't come from Chinese eating bats, which is something that they do.
00:02:35.000No, it was very obvious that it came from the Wuhan University of Technology or the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:02:44.000We know that Wuhan was the jumping off point for the virus.
00:02:50.000We know that it was almost designed for human beings.
00:02:54.000And yet, our activist press seems completely uninterested in investigating the origins of the virus that uprooted all of civilization, that killed hundreds of thousands of people, that forced us to go into temporary economic recession, create $8 trillion out of thin air, massively erode the purchasing power of the dollar.
00:03:20.000We're just supposed to not care about where the virus came from.
00:03:26.000And I think the question of where it comes from is more than just a human interest story.
00:03:31.000And by the way, if any journalist took this seriously, if any person in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal took this seriously, this would be considered groundbreaking journalism.
00:03:42.000But because it does not accomplish any sort of political objective, the activist media has completely laid off of this story.
00:03:53.000Any sort of reporter at the New York Times or the Washington Post or Wall Street Journal, if you are interested at all, and the Wall Street Journal has done some work into this, in becoming well-known and building a career, which is what journalists, I think, care about, but I don't think anymore, at least they used to.
00:04:09.000Now it seems that they're more interested in reinforcing the narrative than actually trying to expose truth or try to break stories that currently aren't being covered.
00:04:25.000And I was really struck as I was reading about this over the weekend, and I was spending a couple hours diving into this, when Dr. Anthony Fauci said he's not convinced that the virus developed naturally.
00:05:01.000It sounded as if Dr. Fauci wanted that to get out there so he can move the frame of the debate ever so slightly that a couple months from now, Dr. Fauci will come out and say, of course, we've always known it as manufacturer.
00:05:15.000And that's the way that debate happens now is you almost have to go back to the newspapers that existed a year ago and say, no, hold on a second, this was not just a little bit debated.
00:05:26.000This was those of us that said this came from a lab were called conspiracy theorists.
00:05:33.000And so, did you know the United States actually heavily funded the Wuhan Institute of Technology?
00:05:40.000The original grant money of our taxpayer dollars was provided to EcoHealth, $3.7 million, $76,000 of which was slated for the Wuhan Institute.
00:05:52.000This funding was approved with the backing of the NIH and Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the agency that Dr. Anthony Fauci was leading.
00:06:01.000The contract was conveniently canceled in April of last year.
00:06:13.000Why was the United States funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
00:06:17.000Why was the United States funding potential gain of research, which basically means you have to create a virus so bad to eventually be able to develop a vaccine around it?
00:06:31.000Why was the United States involved in that?
00:06:35.000Do you know that zero Democrats have signed on into the investigation of the origins of the Chinese coronavirus?
00:06:42.000That just goes to show that whatever we're going to find, the more we look into this, it is not going to make the Democrats politically more comfortable.
00:06:51.000It just goes to show that the more information we're going to find around this issue, the more likely our original Suspicions are going to be confirmed.
00:07:10.000Now, there is no transparency or in any of this.
00:07:13.000Our government, it seems as if it's trying to cover this up.
00:07:18.000And we know this did not come from a bat or a wet market.
00:07:24.000The more we've looked into this, and those by we, I mean just House Republicans or people that are even slightly interested in the truth, A test of 80,000 animals in the greater Wuhan area found that none of them had any traces of COVID-19 or the Chinese coronavirus,
00:07:46.000meaning that there were no animals in the general area that were carriers of the species jump that would have been necessary for the original narrative to be true.
00:07:57.000In fact, this almost feels like it acted like it was designed simply and solely for human beings.
00:08:05.000As if this was built in a laboratory, released intentionally or not, I don't know, remains to be seen.
00:08:16.000But it seems as if this was manufactured.
00:08:22.000MIT identified work by Shi Zeling, a top scientist in the Wuhan lab.
00:08:27.000I'm reading from the New York Post, as an example of, quote, gain of research, gain of function research, a method of developing vaccines by first making a virus more potent and tailored to attack human cells.
00:08:38.000She told Scientific American, quote, China in general has history of research leaks resulting in infections.
00:08:45.000And the State Department issued warnings about these specific experiments and the lack of trained personnel as early as 2017, what we were funding.
00:08:53.000And the Chinese media were discussing improper waste disposal at the Wuhan Institute and employees selling lab animals on the black market before the outbreak.
00:09:02.000Did you know that cell phone use in the Wuhan Institute of Virology stopped for three weeks in October, suggesting that there was a work halt and perhaps for evacuation or decontamination in October of 2019?
00:09:18.000Did you know that three Wuhan lab researchers were hospitalized in November of 2019?
00:09:25.000Three researchers at the Chinese lab that has been scrutinized as the possible origin of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic went to the hospital due to an illness in 2019.
00:09:35.000The money that NIH received, according to Senator Tom Cotton, went to an American organization which turned around and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to these Wuhan labs to investigate coronaviruses and yes to find ways to make them more contagious and more dangerous.
00:09:54.000This is the biggest story of the last 40 years.
00:09:59.000Never before has human life been so disrupted.
00:10:01.000I'm talking about just the flow of your daily schedule, how your children are educated, how our economy moves, walking around with a cloth mask, suicide rates increasing, drug usage increasing, alcoholism increasing, the way that we interact, communicate, the introduction of new language of new speak, social distancing, stopped the spread.
00:10:26.000This is the most important story, and yet our leaders are worried about whether or not you're wearing two masks when you shower.
00:10:39.000How the people in charge are so uninterested in this shows that there's something deeper at play here.
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00:11:51.000Alexander Solshenitsyn, the man who took down the Soviet Union without a gun, not a weapon, not a missile, but with his pen.
00:11:59.000The Gulag Archipelago is one of the most powerful pieces of literature ever written.
00:12:05.000If every single child in America or young person in America was made aware of the Gulag Archipelago and read Soshelnitsin and read it correctly, instead of Nicole Hanna-Jones and Tahanisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo, the world would be a much better place.
00:12:20.000I believe that a steady diet of C.S. Lewis and Thomas Soule and Alexander Sochelnitsyn and Russell Kirk would do our generation a lot of good instead of the smear merchants that are currently selling books to your children to teach them to hate themselves and hate the country.
00:12:38.000Alexander Solzhenitsyn had a famous quote.
00:12:43.000I think it pertains to the Wuhan laboratory leak perfectly.
00:13:06.000I remember a story back in January of 2020, right as the Chinese coronavirus started to spread.
00:13:15.000As soon as we started to hear reports of China acting in a very strange way, lockdowns, masks, and do you notice how the Western media didn't take it very seriously at first?
00:13:26.000How China sent people all around the world, despite the fact that they knew this was a very contagious virus and they saw how it was changing their behavior.
00:13:36.000Well, as soon as that was happening on January 28, 2020, Dr. Charles Lieber was indicted by the United States Department of Justice.
00:13:47.000Well, do you know that he worked as a strategic scientist for the Wuhan University of Technology?
00:13:54.000Now, this is a story that has not been covered at all.
00:13:59.000And I might write an op-ed about this because I just remembered this and I dug it up.
00:14:03.000Do you know that he received $15 million from our government and was also working at the Wuhan University of Technology?
00:14:12.000In addition, he was also paid $50,000 a month by the Chinese government for being a biological specialist.
00:14:22.000Now, I can believe in coincidences up to a point, but you're supposed to tell me that the man that was earning $50,000 a month from the Wuhan University Technology that got $15 million from our government from Harvard at the top level of biochemistry was indicted the moment that all of a sudden the virus started raging across the world.
00:14:46.000Oh, we're just supposed to believe that's a coincidence.
00:14:49.000You see, if you read his indictment, he was interviewed by federal investigators back in April 24th, 2018.
00:14:58.000So we're supposed to believe that they just sat on the information of him lying to investigators?
00:15:28.000We call this the China virus, and we should, because the Chinese Communist Party lied about it.
00:15:33.000It probably was developed in a laboratory.
00:15:35.000Whether it was leaked intentionally or not remains to be seen.
00:15:38.000They sent their citizens all across the world.
00:15:40.000But what is hard for us to admit is that our government was probably intimately aware of what was happening in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, gain of function research, the development of vaccines, and all roads lead back to this man who is now indicted, Dr. Charles Lieber and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:15:58.000You want someone to do what you want them to do, indict them, all of a sudden, they will become very obedient.
00:16:04.000You want to make sure someone doesn't leak information to the press?
00:16:08.000Keep them in a framework that they might go to jail sometime very soon.
00:16:13.000Dr. Charles Lieber received 1 million Chinese won and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at the Wuhan Institute of Technology.
00:16:24.000Well, if I was Senate Republicans or House Republicans, as soon as you take back a chamber of power, I would subpoena Dr. Charles Lieber immediately in front of Congress and ask him some questions.
00:16:36.000Well, since you were paid over $158,000 and $50,000 a month by the Chinese government, you had a working office in the Wuhan Institute of Technology, what were you working on?
00:16:49.000Those are questions that are critical to finding out where this virus came from because we know they're lying to us.
00:16:56.000And we know they're lying to us either because they're bought and paid for by China or that they want this virus to continue and the lockdowns to continue to execute a totalitarian power grab over our people.
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00:18:14.000Why are Democrats so afraid of talking about the origins of the Chinese coronavirus?
00:18:23.000Well, partially because they know that once the truth comes out, every single one of the charlatans that they have partnered with have either defended or received money or helped steer money towards the source of the outbreak.
00:18:39.000You see, all of this is centered around a defense of one man, and the Democrats have made a political bet that you are stupid.
00:18:47.000The Democrats' political bet is that you don't care that China, working with the top levels of health officials in the United States, have any sort of concern about where this epidemiological Pearl Harbor originated from.
00:19:01.000They just think that as long as you receive stimulus checks or assistance from the government, that you don't care what your leaders do.
00:19:13.000And this transitions actually nicely to something that I've been wanting to talk about.
00:19:19.000And it also happened this last weekend.
00:19:35.000I'm going to tell you why they don't care.
00:19:36.000It's because pleasure supersedes virtue in our society.
00:19:41.000We don't demand virtue out of our leaders.
00:19:43.000We just want them to give us pleasure.
00:19:46.000Give me food that tastes good, wine that will get me drunk, and enough cash so that I can get a dopamine rush.
00:19:56.000Because we have a misunderstanding of what liberty is.
00:19:58.000Liberty is not doing things that make you feel good.
00:20:02.000Liberty should be the pursuit of virtue.
00:20:07.000Governor Gretchen Whitmer was found this weekend, was photographed, for going to a local restaurant with a large group of people without a mask on.
00:20:22.000She said, yesterday I went with friends to a local restaurant.
00:20:25.000As more people arrived, the tables were pushed together.
00:20:28.000Because we were all back vaccinated, we didn't stop to think about it.
00:20:30.000In retrospect, I should have thought about it.
00:20:35.000Of course, she also went down to Florida during the lockdowns to go vacation and enjoy the sun while her citizens remained masked up and locked up.
00:20:50.000And so this kind of recurring trend, and we call these people hypocrites, but I think that's a really sloppy word.
00:20:56.000That's an easy word, and it's partially true.
00:20:58.000It's just we all know about Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who enforced some of the strictest lockdowns, but that didn't stop him from eating at a restaurant with his family.
00:21:10.000Or how about Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania?
00:21:12.000After he called business owners cowardly for wanting to end strict lockdowns, he went to a non-socially distanced BLM Incorporated rally in Harrisburg.
00:21:22.000You all remember the people that were celebrating Joe Biden's win as a mosh pit in the street.
00:21:27.000Or how about Nancy Pelosi, where she went to Chinatown and said that all of the people that said this came from virus were being xenophobic and fear-mongering.
00:21:37.000And then, of course, she goes in and breaks her own lockdown measures, going maskless to go get her hair done.
00:21:42.000Or Diane Feinstein, who urged the FAA to make all employees wear masks in airports, and yet she was found walking the streets without the halls of Congress without a mask.
00:21:53.000Or how about Lori Lightfoot, who, of course, she wanted everyone to cancel their traditional Thanksgiving plans, but she was seen not wearing a mask in a megaphone and then vacationing in Maine because she needed some personal time.
00:22:07.000How about J.B. Pritzker, who went to Lake Geneva, the governor of Illinois, in the midst of all the lockdowns?
00:22:13.000And hello to all of our friends on AM560, the answer.
00:22:16.000Or how about Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, constantly berated people wear masks, but he removed his own to celebrate with a non-socially distanced crowd of Biden supporters in New York City.
00:22:28.000Or Chris Cuomo, despite his brother Andrew Cuomo, who's embattled, but he'll survive because the media is keeping no pressure on him, saying that if you don't wear a mask, it could literally kill somebody.
00:22:40.000He walked the streets, no mask on, no social distance.
00:22:48.000Governor Gavin Newsom, one of the most famous, found himself in French laundry after reportedly racking up a $15,000 alcohol tap.
00:23:00.000That's some expensive wine for only 11 people.
00:23:04.000Have you guys spent $15,000 on wine in one sitting?
00:23:12.000And of course, he was there without a mask, no social distancing.
00:23:15.000How about Dr. Anthony Fauci saying that everyone must wear a mask, and then he was found maskless at a baseball game, the Washington Nationals baseball game.
00:23:24.000And Governor Andrew Cuomo, who wrote a book about the Chinese coronavirus, about his leadership in that moment.
00:23:34.000And then, of course, he was found walking the streets of New York without a mask on.
00:23:39.000So what does that all teach us as we look at Governor Whitmer, who's under fire right now?
00:23:43.000She'll get through this, of course, because in reality, the people don't really care anymore what their leaders do.
00:23:51.000They have such a low confidence in their leaders, they just want stuff from their leaders, not virtue.
00:24:03.000Well, first of all, they believe that you are a subject, not a citizen.
00:24:58.000It also goes to show that they don't even believe their own nonsense when it comes to the virus.
00:25:04.000It also goes to show that they don't even believe that the virus is nearly as threatening as they say it is.
00:25:09.000They look at it as a crisis that can present a wonderful opportunity to remake America in their own leftist image.
00:25:21.000And finally, this is a fire alarm for our republic.
00:25:27.000The Founding Fathers wrote about this extensively in the Federalist Papers.
00:25:33.000They said that when leaders are able to live outside of the laws that they pass, you will be entering a period of despotism, of authoritarianism, or totalitarianism.
00:25:57.000That our government is built primarily under the belief that when one of your leaders passes a law, they must equally be affected by that law.
00:26:08.000That you cannot carve out an exemption of Obamacare as a member of Congress like they did.
00:26:15.000You cannot carve out saying that a member of Congress is allowed to pay a different tax rate than you are.
00:26:26.000It's not allowed, even though they find ways to do that.
00:26:29.000This is why we were supposed to get rid of congressional insider trading.
00:26:38.000Even though Nancy Pelosi and her husband is able they're able to own one million dollars in Tesla stock despite pushing green energy type initiatives.
00:26:50.000So this is something that we should take very seriously.
00:26:52.000As this separation continues between you and the leaders and there is no political, what are you supposed to do?
00:28:09.000Instead of being very clear about putting forth a set of public policy measures that build things that are eternal and that matter, we say that our leaders think they're above the law, and that's true, but they're just kind of, they have no concern for the law.
00:28:29.000For example, Energy Secretary Jennifer Grenholm for Joe Biden has sat on the board of Proterra.
00:28:36.000She owns $5 million in stock options in that company.
00:28:40.000So you have the person who's in charge of the energy department of the United States government, who has $5 million in stock options in an electric car vehicle startup.
00:28:53.000Has anyone said that's even remotely corrupt?
00:28:57.000Now, I think one of the issues with the conservative movement is our hyper-fixation on economic freedom.
00:29:22.000You're only truly free when your leaders are not completely and totally purchased, when your leaders are acting ethically.
00:29:31.000The countries that are the most desirable to live in now in the world are the ones that are the least corrupt, the ones that pursue virtue and not momentary pleasure.
00:29:44.000Look, for many of you that watch our live stream or our radio show, listen to our radio show, you know I talk about Relief Factor a lot.
00:29:51.000And look, truth is, I know millions of people are in some kind of pain, maybe from exercise or just getting older, that can do it.
00:29:58.000That's why I'm so impressed with Pete and Seth Talbot.
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00:30:04.000Seriously, they recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their number of total happy customers in the next year.
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00:30:37.000But it's also because we, the people, do not demand ethical behavior from our leaders.
00:30:42.000Let me tell you about a president by the name of Warren G. Harding.
00:30:48.000Warren G. Harding, by all objective measurements, was a pretty good president by what he did.
00:30:58.000But Warren G. Harding found himself involved in a certain scandal known as the Teapot Dome scandal.
00:31:07.000The Teapot Dome scandal, somewhat complicated, set the entire country on fire because the American people in the 1920s could not possibly fathom the idea that their leaders would be involved in a deal of an oil reserve in Wyoming of something that would be set aside for possible potential personal use.
00:31:34.000It actually ended up being the scar that ended Warren G. Harding's presidency.
00:31:42.000Calvin Coolidge came after Warren G. Harding.
00:31:48.000There was a time when the American people, we demanded ethical behavior from our leaders.
00:31:53.000Not to say they always fulfilled that.
00:32:44.000We believe markets and private property, entrepreneurship, and risk-taking is the best way for human beings to improve their life and the life of people around them.
00:32:52.000But if you have a system that is so incredibly corrupt, any sort of economic freedom you have is a temporary mirage.
00:33:20.000I'm sure there's no correlation at all, of course.
00:33:22.000This is according to transparency.org, followed by Singapore, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Austria, Belgium, Iceland, Estonia, Japan, Ireland, UAE, Uruguay.
00:33:54.000So if you want to fix the problems that exist in America, we have to go after public corruption because that is the thing that ties everything that I've talked to together.
00:34:03.000That is the tie that binds all of this together.
00:34:06.000Why is it that no one cares about the origins of the Chinese coronavirus?
00:34:26.000Why is it that Hunter Biden is allowed to continue to do what he does?
00:34:29.000It's because we have, as a nation post-1990s, been so overly fixated on the excesses of individualism and allowed the republic, the nation, our home, to crumble around us.
00:34:43.000And every time there's been any form of societal decay, we say, that's not my problem.
00:34:53.000If conservatism is going to be relevant at all for the next couple decades, we must focus on how the ultimate destruction of a society comes when its leaders have no concern for its citizens, but for themselves, but even worse, when the citizens don't care what their leaders do.
00:35:12.000And the public corruption index at transparency.org should be a fire alarm for Western society, and that must be where we focus our attention.
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