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Dr. Kelly Ward talks about how the left is using coronavirus to push for nationalized health care. The death toll from the virus continues to rise, but traffic deaths in the U.S. are down by 23% compared to the same month in 2019. President Trump orders a halt to all funding for the World Health Organization while a review is conducted.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today, Glenn starts the show drunk.
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We didn't think it was going to happen. It's sad. He's recovering, but he just couldn't help himself.
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We talk about the small business problem that we're having in this country right now, which is massive.
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Pat Gray joins us. We have the governor of South Dakota on.
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They just launched the first clinical trial statewide of hydroxychloroquine, and she talks about what it's like in a state that's, you know, not getting hit very hard with coronavirus, yet having to deal with a lot of the same issues from the government, as well as Dr. Kelly Ward.
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She's on to talk about the way the left is using coronavirus to push for nationalized health care.
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There's a lot of that going on, plus how annoying Zoom calls are, because that, I think, is the thing that's affecting most of us right at this moment.
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Really, only up 40,000, 50,000 from yesterday, which is great.
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Total confirmed deaths worldwide, up only 7,000.
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The U.S. now has 614,000 confirmed cases and 26,000 deaths.
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The U.S. now leads the world in both total cases and deaths from COVID-19,
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but it is 15th in deaths per 1 million people, 19th in cases per 1 million people.
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Officially, all 50 states now have at least one death attributed to COVID-19.
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Just to note, on the scale side, if you will, traffic-related fatalities in the U.S. were down by 23%,
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So we saved some lives by not going out and doing anything.
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The death toll in the U.S. increased after New York included at-home COVID-19 fatalities for the very first time.
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They had 270 deaths yesterday that were attributed to the virus from people who died at home in New York City.
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New York City's health department says the total death toll now is 10,000,
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including the 3,700 total deaths that were added on Tuesday that included the backlog of several thousand people who died at home
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Health officials have cautioned the deaths are a lagging indicator.
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They don't mean that the sweeping stay-at-home restrictions are a failure.
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The peak in deaths across the U.S. is expected this week, according to the CDC.
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So, the WHO, do we have the audio of Donald Trump yesterday in an announcement in the Rose Garden?
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I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess
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the World Health Organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.
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American taxpayers provide between $400 million and $500 million per year to the WHO.
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In contrast, China contributes roughly $40 million a year and even less.
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As the organization's leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability.
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One of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHO was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from China and other nations.
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Fortunately, I was not convinced and suspended travel from China.
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All right, so here's the real bell that rang yesterday.
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It is a it's a memo from December 2019 from epidemiologists in Taiwan.
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They issued an urgent memo to the WHO about numerous cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China.
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And the memo suggests that there is human to human transmission and urged the WHO to prevent to prevent further testing to find the pathogen.
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The WHO ignored the warnings from Taiwan and continued to reiterate all of China's false talking points,
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that there was no evidence of human human transmission, that it was no big deal.
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This is before anybody really even knows about it.
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Two days earlier, by January 12th, more than 700 people had been hospitalized.
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They failed to mandate that Chinese officials share the strains that would have allowed all kinds of diagnostic tests.
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Why didn't the WHO listen to the epidemiologists from Taiwan?
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I'm not making this up because Taiwan doesn't exist.
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Taiwan is just an arm of China, and so we don't accept any information from Taiwan.
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We get all of our information about China from Jed.
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Here's the problem with the withholding of the funding.
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Will Congress hold back that money and stop paying the WHO?
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A study of mobile phone data shows only 35% of Americans are following stay-at-home orders across the U.S.
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A study including thousands of mobile phones tracked from all 50 states.
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On average, they say Americans were still taking two non-work-related trips out by car per day.
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Utah, Colorado, New Mexico were the worst offending states with over 2.5 non-working trips out of the house by car each day.
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I totally question the assumptions of the study, right?
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Like, just because you're going out of your house a couple of times does not mean you're not doing the whole social distancing thing.
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So, these trips include fast food restaurants, which you can go to a fast food restaurant and you can be completely safe.
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It includes hardware stores and home improvement stores.
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And that one, that one's a little dicey because I think it is essential for our sanity to be able to go to the Home Depot and do some things around the house.
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But, so hardware stores, which is, they are essential.
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And not to mention, I hate the fact that they, I mean, I get it.
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But the fact that these people are so easily able to put together these tracking studies of everywhere we've gone is revealing.
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I want to study on how fast these guys have found ways to track all of us.
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By the way, Texas was among the most compliant states with just below two trips out per person per day so far in April.
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I'd like to know if they went to hardware stores, grocery stores, or restaurants.
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Now, here's the latest study on COVID and how it's spread.
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Air conditioning systems may help spread the virus.
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If you think I'm going to turn off my air conditioning unit, I'm not going to.
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By the way, five new viruses have been found to live in bats.
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And this one's better than the California list.
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No, I would say definitely New York is not genuinely low.
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And the problem here, of course, is testing is not even.
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We're doing far less tests than some other states here in Texas, even though we have a large population.
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So, we're not just taking people off of the street and finding out if they have COVID-19.
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That way, you'd be able to tell how many people are actually sick and asymptomatic and contagious.
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We're instead just testing people with symptoms.
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But still, I mean, you can get something out of that.
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You've got to come up with some sort of metric for that.
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The next one is a well-functioning monitoring system capable of promptly detecting any increase in incidence of infection.
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We've noticed one thing that is really frustrating is Sundays and Mondays tend to have really bad reporting because they're reporting the deaths from the previous day, and those days are weekend days.
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So, like, these deaths, they're happening, but they're not getting reported for two and three days, which is why yesterday's number was the highest it was.
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But the day before that was a really encouraging number.
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You know, I keep going back to this thing with the thermometers where they have these internet-connected thermometers.
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And they have sort of a heat map that was able to detect a lot of these breakouts early because a lot of people were taking their temperature and they were seeing fevers.
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Like, if we're going to spend another $2 trillion, let's say, on another package, maybe it would make sense to optionally, and that's important, optionally provide these types of thermometers to people so they can take their temperature and we can have, again, aggregated data, not specific to you, but aggregated data.
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Because we can see when there's a flare-up in a particular area and we should increase testing there, right?
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It doesn't seem like anybody's talking about that.
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But what they're talking about, the way you do this, of course, is South Korea or Hong Kong or, you know, those types of situations, which there's way too much monitoring there to fit into our Constitution.
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So, I don't know how you do this exactly while maintaining the rights that we are supposed to have in this country.
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Well, you'll get your rights back as soon as you do these four things, and I'm only on thing number three.
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The public health system is reacting robustly to all cases of COVID-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.
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I mean, this is the United States of America here.
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A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.
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Well, two out of the four seem not real vague and seem like we should be able to do it.
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But what is reacting robustly to all cases of COVID-19?
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This is the CDC's standard on being able to open the country back up and let you out of your house.
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This is insane that we're even talking about this.
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This is child's play compared to what California is asking for and how they're going to open up California again.
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We are headed for an interesting few weeks, to say the least.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Mr. Pat Gray is joining us now from Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear on most of this network.
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And also, you can get him at any time with his podcast.
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I'm so glad to talk to you and see that you're still around.
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I thought maybe I'd like to show you the new Mao Trophy that we're giving away.
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And, you know, it's an honor just to be nominated to win the Mao.
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But we're going to we're going to award this maybe maybe Friday, maybe next week.
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But in this, this Mao Trophy has got to go to the right recipient.
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And I would like people to start nominating who the biggest tyrant I'm sorry, who the biggest Maoist is in America right now.
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And I mean, I think there's lots of people to choose from.
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The sheriff of in in in Los Angeles is really quite good.
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Even the governor of of Virginia might be a good might be a good candidate.
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For me, it's got to be it's got to be Andy Beshear of Kentucky.
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I he's done such a great job in clamping down on people in his state, which is, you know, a mostly a majority Republican state.
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And so it makes it even more profound what he has done there.
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The good work he has done, keeping people out of church, keeping people in their homes and not allowing anybody to do anything in the state of Kentucky.
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Yeah, I think the ankle bracelets on people who refuse to stay at home.
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I think that was a nice touch that really only only Mao really would have tried to pull off in Kentucky.
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I mean, can you imagine in a state like Kentucky?
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That's the kind of stuff that's going on right now.
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It's, you know, and fortunately, people are starting to push back a little bit.
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People are getting a little bit nervous about this or get a little pissed off about this.
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And they're starting to stick up for the rights.
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I love the people who are getting into their car and putting together protests.
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You know, they're all they're all going to the, you know, the mayor's office or the and they're all staying in their car.
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They're just doing tea party rallies in their car, which I think is tremendous, tremendous.
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By the way, if you're organizing one of those for the state, for your state or community, I'd love to hear from you.
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I'd also like to hear your nominations for the biggest Maoist in the country today.
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I think we it's we have to stand up against this stuff.
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We have to start pointing these people out because this is this is insanity.
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Did you hear the thing in Michigan where Gretchen Whitmer said, if you have if you have a vacation home, you know, and a lot of Michiganders do because they've got some great lakes to have cabins on and all that.
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Like if they have two homes, they can't go to the other one.
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Well, because you're you're spreading your potential virus around a different community then.
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But you've gone from one place to another and you've brought new germs with you, I guess.
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I pull up to my driveway of my cabin on some lake in Michigan and might be even make Lake Michigan.
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Well, it is possible, Glenn, that you could go to one of the local businesses and purchase something, maybe some food and take it out and bring it back home.
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And then you've spread your germs around the community.
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I mean, what do you think you are to be able to do this stuff?
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By the way, did you hear what she did with the DeVos family?
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You know, because Michigan is one of these that they're having these.
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They want to start gathering in their cars and protest her.
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And she said, it's the DeVos family that is doing this.
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Well, the DeVos family is the owner and the originator of Amway.
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And so they checked, you know, did the DeVos family, are they starting this?
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And they did write a pretty big check to help fund this thing.
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She said it's their money that they're spreading around that is that's causing all of this
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So those damn DeVos people are just they're horrible, aren't they?
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So the next day she had to come out and make a statement.
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She just in her in her briefing, she said, and I just want to thank Amway.
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They have really been helping with the PPEs and they've been helping with disinfectants
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And they've really played a real role, an important role in our state.
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He said, Glenn, I'm a 34-year-old police officer in Iowa.
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I want to thank you for being such a strong, clear voice of reason and principle for so
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Several years ago, I had conversation with my sergeant's assistant chief and the chief
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about constitutionality of some of the orders that were given by governors throughout
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I'm happy to say that some are very concerned about governmental overreach.
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However, some were more concerned about the spread of the virus.
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I've revisited these conversations several times with them as time has gone on and more
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and more stories of people being arrested and fined for exercising their constitutional
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I've made it known that I will not violate the constitution, that I swore an oath to uphold
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and protect regardless of what our governor says.
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I've not received any backlash yet, but I haven't been in a position yet where I had to defy
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orders, even while our mayor is asking the public to call police if they suspect anyone
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I just want you to know that while there are many people who seem to be paving the road
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to hell with good intentions, there are many of us who take our oaths to the constitution
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I hope, God willing, that this passes soon and cooler heads will prevail.
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Thanks again for the service you've done for the country.
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You know, yesterday I watched, um, uh, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, uh, with the kids
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and, you know, they were like, the ones that don't have color, why it's black and white.
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Uh, and Cheyenne said afterwards, this is one of my favorite movies.
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And if that isn't the story of our times, I mean, think of the guts that it took in 1939
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to make that movie where the movie is about graft in, in the Senate and passing these big,
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these huge, uh, bills just to save the farmers and the workers.
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But what's tucked inside of the bills is toxic.
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And, uh, Jimmy Stewart is sent to Washington and he doesn't know anything about it.
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And, and, uh, he figures it out along the way and stops it.
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Think of that in 1939, but think about that today.
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And he's getting the same kind of flack too, from both sides of the aisle.
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And it's, it's really a shame because he's such a good guy, a patriot, a true conservative,
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He's, I mean, is there anybody who's other than us in this room that are siding with Thomas
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I think there are maybe, maybe Shapiro, but it's, they're few and far between.
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I, yeah, I'm not sure, but I will say that I know we can fast forward a year or two and
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there will be a lot of people who very much embrace the idea that the spending of $2.2
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You know, it's a wild theory that a couple trillion dollars, the biggest, you know, package
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we've ever put together in, in U.S. history, maybe we should have had the representatives
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You're pretty picky if that's what you're saying.
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I have to tell you, I think, I think that there is, I think there's something bad brewing
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possibly, you know, the, the stock market, everybody's talking about the stock market's
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Look, the stock market's still, of course, the stock market is doing well.
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This, this idea about the stock market being our benchmark and nobody is talking about the
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I mean, I really think every time I see, did you guys see the story of the, the Chiron and
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He was doing a deal where he said the stock market had its best day since 1939.
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This doesn't have anything to do with anything.
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There are no metrics involved on anything anymore.
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The reason why the stock market is doing well is because they've already got their money
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And most taxpayers are not going to get the $1,200, uh, you know, as a free gift from the
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So wait a minute, I paid $16,500 and you're giving me $1,200 back.
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I don't think that sounds like a good deal because I'm not helping saving the businesses
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They're all standing in line and everybody's saying, well, no, you don't have the right,
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You know, you don't have this, you don't have this, or we're already out of money.
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Well, that sounds like they're really bailing out main street.
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It's hard for me to believe too, that they look, they, they approved $350 billion for
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Uh, the only reason it's not empty yet is because they've had so many delays, but it's
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They, they've already asked for another $250 billion, which, uh, you know, they have not
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And now they're not going to be in session until at least like May 8th is the earliest
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they're going to have a chance to vote on this with the current schedule.
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All of these small businesses, all of these small businesses, they're all going out of
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And the only business that will be left are the big businesses in America.
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We are not just Procter and Gamble and, and Amazon.
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We're the Microsoft with Bill Gates in his garage.
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We're the ones where a guy has an idea and he starts to build it.
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If you get rid of all of the entrepreneurs, if you get rid of all of these people who you
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get rid of all the people who are struggling, but making it, what do you have left?
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I don't want to, I, I, I'm not, I'm not interested in saving GE and Procter and Gamble and, and
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Oh, and by the way, did you also see that the airlines got the bailout, but Donald Trump
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insisted that they not only pay it, pay it back, which I'm fine with.
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But he also insisted that we get a piece of it, that the United States government becomes
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I don't think the United States government should have anything to do with any business
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Our next guest grew up on a farm and a ranch in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
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And from the time she could walk, she worked beside her dad on the ranch and worked with
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And maybe that's what gave her a little bit of extra common sense.
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She's now serving as South Dakota's 33rd governor.
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And I want to go over what you announced on Monday and what you're doing and why this
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We announced the first statewide state-backed clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine.
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Uh, it's the, we really desired to go on offense against this virus.
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So we partnered with our healthcare systems leading the clinical trial will be Sanford
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But we also have two other systems within the state of South Dakota that are participating
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as well to make sure that we're getting a wide swath of individuals participating in
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So it will be the first ever statewide one and one that a state is helping to fund and
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facilitate that will encompass virtually, uh, 80 to 90% of our doctors in the state and
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up to a hundred thousand people throughout the process.
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So, uh, we're focused on making sure that we're not just dealing with taking care of
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our people, but also putting the research in to make sure we have a long-term solution
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Uh, I mean, if you look at the press, everyone is, is downplaying hydroxychloroquine.
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Well, we have a healthcare system, Sanford, that's world renowned for their research abilities.
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And, and they've been working in several different areas to have that kind of capacity in our
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And I was watching what was happening across the country, uh, and everybody reacting to
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the virus and not being proactive to really make sure we were getting in front of it, that
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we could give a therapeutic to folks so that they didn't necessarily have to hide from the
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They could get out there and fight it off and make sure that they could get back to their
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So, um, for me, it was, it's part of the solution.
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Uh, you know, we're doing, um, some, you know, recommendations to folks to follow CDC guidance.
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And we're also making sure that we're using technology to do contact tracing, but then
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having the ability to have this drug trial in our state for such a wide percentage of our
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population allows us to really go on offense and go after this and make sure we have an option
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When I heard about this, uh, that you were going to do this last weekend, I knew you were
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going to be dragged through the mud by the press.
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Washington post didn't, uh, you know, pull any punches on that.
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They said that you were the one who said there's not going to be a statewide order to stay home.
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Uh, it's the individuals, not the government should decide.
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And now you've got a meat processing plant with 400 people that are sick.
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Well, you know, that article is completely inaccurate.
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Um, and it doesn't surprise me cause I've seen it a lot, not just in national press,
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but even here locally with details being left out of articles, but you know, the, the pork
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processing plant that we do have today, that's a hotspot that we have an outbreak going on.
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There is a critical infrastructure business, regardless on if I had chosen to put a shelter
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in place order across the state of South Dakota, that plant would have been up and operating
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because it's such an important part of our food supply.
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And it frankly, having it running as a national security issue.
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So, uh, that would have not impacted that issue, but you know, the post decided to not
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use the facts and run with an agenda that, that I think is unfortunate for the public.
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I think it's a grave disservice to our public when they don't tell all the facts because
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they're misleading them and creating this fear culture at a very important time to discredit
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people that, um, our scientists, our doctors, our researchers, our elected officials during
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a period of time when we need to rely on the fact that they have information and have access
00:33:42.240
information, uh, to do that at an important time like this, when literally it's the difference
00:33:50.200
Now you have, because there are those cases for the meat processing, processing plant, but
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outside of that, how many, how many people are sick in your state?
00:34:00.140
We have a less than a thousand positive COVID-19 cases in the state of South Dakota, about 300
00:34:09.300
Um, but, but the vast majority of the cases are, are tied to this meat processing plant
00:34:18.420
So we have over 500 cases that are tied directly to that incident there.
00:34:23.040
So we are, we also are coming up with more positive cases because we're aggressively testing
00:34:28.460
You know, we put all of our resources there, um, to be proactively testing people, isolating
00:34:34.280
them, doing the contact tracing to, to tamp it down.
00:34:37.480
So the rest of our state is doing very, very well, uh, and we'll get this one under control
00:34:43.000
and make sure that we're slowing down the spread.
00:34:45.420
But I think what I've constantly had to remind the public is the science of this virus tells
00:34:52.740
Um, so we have to use the facts that we have in front of us just to slow it down so that we
00:34:57.860
can take care of people in our healthcare systems.
00:35:00.180
So that's been my constant message to the people of South Dakota and that all the control
00:35:03.960
in the world is in their hands that, that they have a personal responsibility to make
00:35:09.220
good decisions, to take care of themselves and their families.
00:35:12.080
Uh, and I, I will do all that I can to partner with them.
00:35:15.680
But ultimately that responsibility does lie with them.
00:35:19.520
So before we, before we change subjects, I want to stay on the meat processing plant one
00:35:23.560
more time, because I want to get ahead of something that I think could be damaging from
00:35:29.640
Um, this is a meat processing plant that had been sold to China.
00:35:34.360
Um, but, and I know that there have been stories then, you know, people have been saying, oh,
00:35:46.440
Has there, was there anyone in the factory that had traveled to China or, uh, somebody from
00:35:55.760
Do you know, we do know who patient zero is because we obviously have identified every
00:36:01.740
single person and have been working with them in the state of South Dakota that did test
00:36:06.320
We do not have any ties, um, to China from this outbreak at this plant.
00:36:12.520
And I think that, you know, this is a, this is a plant that originally there was a couple
00:36:17.400
of positive cases, but a lot of the spread that we're seeing is happening outside the plant.
00:36:25.800
We've seen a growth in cases, but a lot of the folks who work here, um, to deliver our
00:36:30.800
nation's food supply, you know, they live in close quarters.
00:36:33.600
They've got a lot of family members, um, and neighbors, um, in housing developments that
00:36:39.580
are, they're sometimes two to three generations, uh, very closely living together.
00:36:47.780
And this plant in particular has up to, I think, 70 different languages spoken at it.
00:36:55.940
So, you know, there's, it's a unique situation, um, that, that I think, uh, you know, people
00:37:01.500
have been blaming, blaming the plant and, uh, when a lot of the spread is happening outside
00:37:07.760
And that's why we have a pause going on to put up mitigation measures inside the plant.
00:37:13.020
And then also do an education process with a lot of the folks that work there.
00:37:16.860
I have a guest on who is a guy who watches the cattle auctions and, uh, you know, he's,
00:37:22.880
he's really big in the cattle industry and people would know him.
00:37:29.200
Um, but he's, he just issued a report recently that said that we are, we have plenty of cattle.
00:37:35.400
There's lots of cattle coming up already for auction, but, uh, there's no slaughterhouses.
00:37:41.340
There, there are no processing plants to, to get this meat from farm to table.
00:37:46.860
How concerned are you about the, the food supply, uh, when it comes to meat?
00:37:53.860
Well, a small disruption, uh, in the system, um, has huge effects across our food supply chain.
00:38:01.940
Uh, and that's one of the reasons that this plant is so important.
00:38:05.200
This is a pork processing plant, but it's the same in the cattle industry.
00:38:09.120
Um, and, and we have, it's the largest, it's the largest pork, uh, plant in the country.
00:38:17.000
It's very large and it feeds other plants that refine the products even more that end up on
00:38:23.300
So, uh, we have 550 producers, you know, and a lot of them, South Dakota producers that
00:38:30.000
Um, and then, uh, that food ends up, you know, right here on American shelves to feed,
00:38:36.620
And, you know, the virus does not travel through food products.
00:38:40.520
So that is one thing that I think we have to really be aggressive in telling folks as
00:38:44.560
they get concerned about the food that would be coming through this plant.
00:38:47.140
And that just absolutely, um, is not even a factor.
00:38:51.140
Um, the food is wonderful and it will be safe for people to eat.
00:38:54.800
Um, but you know, I think in the cattle market too, we see a lot of manipulation.
00:38:58.700
Uh, there's some investigations that need to happen with our packing industry and control.
00:39:03.140
And a lot, as this gets streamlined and as it becomes more and more efficient, it also
00:39:07.340
allows for a few players to manipulate the markets and the supply chain.
00:39:11.660
And that's why I've said for years, um, Glenn, and I haven't known you for years, but I have
00:39:17.000
said for years that it's important we keep family farms, uh, because it's important.
00:39:24.540
Um, we never want another, we never want another country to control our food supply because then
00:39:30.280
And if we have one or two people controlling the whole supply chain, we're in the exact
00:39:35.200
So, um, this, this diversity, having 550 different producers that feed into this one plant, um,
00:39:42.200
is important because it's diversity and it's, uh, it's, it's making sure that we do have a
00:39:48.580
national security issue, um, taken care of because we don't have one person controlling our entire
00:39:56.160
I think the America first, or as the hippies would say, think globally, act locally is
00:40:02.380
beginning to ring true to more and more Americans right now.
00:40:08.540
I think there's a lot of things that are ringing true to Americans today.
00:40:11.460
It's, it's about the importance of this country.
00:40:13.860
Uh, what makes us special, uh, the importance of the constitution, what powers it gives to the
00:40:19.160
people and to the States and to the federal government.
00:40:22.580
And I've decided that every opportunity I have, I'm going to use it to educate folks
00:40:28.580
really on why, um, the United States of America is the best country in the world and why it
00:40:36.540
And in times of crisis is when you see people, um, overstep and grab power.
00:40:43.060
And we're seeing that in so many places of the country.
00:40:46.700
And I took an oath to uphold the constitution of the United States when I served in Congress.
00:40:52.700
And I took an oath to uphold the constitution here in the state of South Dakota.
00:40:57.820
And I'm constantly guided and using that as my foundation and every decision that I make,
00:41:03.740
and then talking about it to people about why it's important.
00:41:07.300
I think a lot of people think at a time of crisis is when you can wave
00:41:10.480
that aside and take any action you think is necessarily.
00:41:14.220
I think that's when our constitution and foundations become even more important.
00:41:18.940
Um, because it helps you make wise decisions based on facts and based on science and not
00:41:25.000
be manipulated, um, emotionally into making poor decisions that aren't for the benefit of
00:41:31.780
You know, it's a, it's amazing, uh, to me, a, you're exactly right.
00:41:36.600
Um, on, you know, when the constitution matters is when it's popular to do the other thing.
00:41:42.660
Um, it was also amazing to me that people, uh, have flocked to the government taking more
00:41:53.300
and more power, uh, and that you have been such an outlier, um, and been hammered by the
00:42:01.000
national press, uh, because you gave, I think some of the, you've given some of the best
00:42:05.860
statements of anyone in this crisis talking about the rights of the people.
00:42:10.720
And it's up to the people to take care of themselves.
00:42:13.840
Has it been shocking to you to be on the receiving end of such backlash just for standing up for
00:42:27.280
I mean, I think I, I, I came from this wanting to be, I wanted to be a farmer and rancher my
00:42:33.240
whole life, my whole life kind of got turned upside down when my dad was killed in an accident.
00:42:38.540
But, you know, I served in the state legislature.
00:42:44.240
I got a good education on the divisiveness of politics and the national media.
00:42:51.040
I would say that, that, um, that I have to keep my focus on, I do my job and I take my
00:42:59.480
And, um, I also know that when I campaign for a role, I tell people who I am and what
00:43:06.880
my, what kind of person I am, my values and my beliefs and show them and talk to them about
00:43:12.700
how I will use those to make decisions that are best for them.
00:43:15.820
Um, and I, I also will, will be accountable to explaining that to them.
00:43:20.320
So while we've done a great job here in South Dakota, um, taking care of folks and, and doing
00:43:26.300
all that we can to get ahead of this virus and be proactive, I think it's also important
00:43:31.080
to remind people, um, about the rights that they have individually as well too.
00:43:36.560
So many times, um, I see people wanting somebody else to make decisions for them when in reality,
00:43:43.880
uh, they need to recognize the value and the special thing we have in this country is we
00:43:56.980
Let me just ask one more quick question of the governor.
00:43:59.080
And that is when are we going to see any results from the testing that you're doing now with
00:44:09.540
Uh, we, I asked the white house and the administration if they would help us.
00:44:13.760
By supplying 1.2 million doses of hydroxy to participate in this trial, there'll be two
00:44:21.100
One that will be for COVID-19 positive patients.
00:44:23.960
The other branch will be for those that have been exposed and also for healthcare workers
00:44:31.840
Again, these trials, we have enough doses to treat up to 100,000 people in the state of
00:44:37.920
And having all three of our systems on board makes it extremely comprehensive.
00:44:46.600
Uh, and people are excited about having an option that they can go to with their doctor
00:44:52.040
that not only will help them feel better and save their, possibly save their family's
00:44:57.380
lives, but also, um, lead to a longterm solution to fight off this virus and potentially
00:45:03.820
more in the future, um, the South Dakotans have always stepped up and been willing to
00:45:08.320
contribute in, in ways, uh, above and beyond what I think other folks across the country
00:45:14.640
I, I always say we punch above our weight and I think that we, um, we are definitely doing
00:45:19.560
that and people are excited to be a part of the solution.
00:45:25.240
We've been wanting to talk to you for a long time.
00:45:27.340
You have a bunch of fans at the blaze and on the Glenn Beck program and all of the shows
00:45:31.740
here, uh, keep up the good work and, uh, we'll keep you in our prayers.