Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) joins me to talk about the Democratic attempt to federalize our elections, and the growing number of military whistleblowers in the US military. Also, I question a Navy Admiral about whether or not he is a hypocrite.
00:01:21.920So tell me about what happened yesterday and what it means.
00:01:28.640Well, Chuck Schumer brought to the floor the Democrats radical election bill that would federalize all elections and it would mandate taxpayer funding for political campaigns and put Democratic operatives in charge of drawing our congressional district lines around the country.
00:01:46.220And we blocked the motion to proceed to debate on that.
00:01:49.580Now, the Democrats got up on their high horse.
00:01:57.440First off, they did that hundreds of times in the Trump era.
00:02:02.080And second, we don't need to have a debate about federalizing our elections.
00:02:06.660If you ask me, what's the Republican plan to federalize our elections, I will tell you, we don't have one because we don't think we should run elections out of Washington.
00:02:16.840We think our states and our counties do a pretty good job of managing these elections, and we shouldn't grab power away from them for the purpose of dictating a one-size-fits-all election system to the entire country, which, by the way, is designed to elect Democrats in perpetuity.
00:02:34.200So what do you think about Joe Manchin?
00:02:36.000Did he fold in the end, or was this just a political game when he saw it's not going to pass anyway, I might as well vote for it?
00:02:44.300Well, sir, I don't support Senator Manchin's proposed amendments to the bill.
00:02:48.360Again, I have a disagreement in principle.
00:02:51.460I certainly think that he would have improved the bill.
00:03:09.800The Constitution reposes in our states the chief authority for regulating our elections.
00:03:16.780This is a very hotly debated and carefully considered provision of the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention.
00:03:24.180And the federal government does have some residual authority.
00:03:26.900But that was considered to be in extreme cases, Glenn.
00:03:30.260In cases, for instance, when a state just refused to hold elections, period, because, say, they wanted to deny the Congress a quorum to act in the early days of the republic.
00:03:40.560It was not because certain states are, say, requiring photo ID to vote, which, by the way, has the support of more than three quarters of the American people, even if Democratic politicians don't like it.
00:03:54.620Let me go to the whistleblowers in the military.
00:03:59.040What's happening in our military is very disturbing.
00:04:02.840We are labeling people that voted for Donald Trump, let's say, as extremists, and we're shoving CRT down their throat.
00:04:12.920Tell me about the whistleblowers that you have heard from and how prevalent is this in our military.
00:04:20.440So Congressman Crenshaw and I have created a website to encourage people to contact us in the military or veterans or families of service members.
00:04:31.300If they were being exposed to critical race theory training sessions, this kind of deeply anti-American notion that there are certain races who are inherently oppressive or privileged and certain races that are inherently victimized or oppressed,
00:04:48.040that we should judge people by the color of their skin as opposed to their character and their performance in the line of duty.
00:04:54.600It's one thing, Glenn, for woke corporations or left-wing college campuses to truck in this kind of nonsense.
00:05:03.660It's another thing for our military, the most important institution in our society, because they are literally what keeps us free and what keeps us independent and preserves our Constitution.
00:05:13.400We have received hundreds and hundreds of complaints from service members, whether it's frontline training in their duty units or the service academies or professional military schools like the War College.
00:05:28.960I've raised it now twice in committee hearings with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin yesterday with the Chief of Naval Operations, Mike Gilday, that this needs to stop.
00:05:37.580We should not be trying to indoctrinate our young troopers and young officers in this kind of nonsense.
00:05:45.960I got to say, Glenn, it's not just critical race theory either.
00:05:48.480You know, we've had reports of mid-career officers at those professional military schools having to take extended classes on climate change.
00:05:57.820I mean, what does climate change have to do with being a major in the Marine Corps or being a battalion commander in the Army?
00:06:03.960They need to be studying tactics and operational excellence and military history and biography to learn their craft and their trade.
00:06:29.100Biden is putting in a lot of these policies without going through Congress, because, quite honestly, Congress gave the power years ago to the administrative branch.
00:06:47.020So, Glenn, there's a few things that I'm doing.
00:06:49.400So, first, the simple fact of shining a bright light on it, like we're doing here, like I've done in these hearings, I think will create some tension inside the Department of Defense of people who don't want this and say that, you know, look, Senator Cotton just questioned Secretary Austin.
00:07:04.140Secretary Austin said we shouldn't be doing this, and you should report it to your chain of command.
00:07:08.240So I think it's very helpful that this get exposed.
00:07:11.060Second, this summer, when we write the annual defense bill, I will be proposing amendments that prohibit exactly this kind of training session.
00:07:19.880And third, you know, we confirm thousands, probably actually tens of thousands of officer promotions every year on the Senate.
00:07:28.380Those are largely done just by a voice vote.
00:07:30.680Obviously, you know, we're not going to get into who's being promoted for second lieutenant to first lieutenant.
00:07:34.560However, there are only a few dozen, a few hundred general officer promotions every year.
00:07:41.140And if the military doesn't knock this off, maybe it's time that we start digging a little more deeply into what those generals have been doing or tolerating or even promoting in their demands.
00:07:52.240So, I mean, I don't want to agree 100 percent, but I will if I have to.
00:07:58.460One last topic here, as we're looking at the state of our union right now, how are we ever going to get the truth on COVID and China with their lab leak theory?
00:08:18.840They, I mean, they control almost everything.
00:08:23.620The United States, clearly, the administration is beholden to China.
00:08:31.660Because I think Fauci said yesterday we may never know.
00:08:35.460So, Glenn, I think there's a good chance we may never have hard, conclusive proof, you know, the kind of direct evidence or smoking gun, in part because China has probably destroyed most of those evidence and disappeared or even killed persons who had firsthand knowledge.
00:08:50.140Now, it's possible that we might have a defector or whistleblower that brings evidence out of China and shares it with us.
00:09:13.460Look, this virus didn't originate up in some remote mountain village next to a cave full of bats.
00:09:18.500It came out of a city larger than New York.
00:09:21.480Coincidentally, just a few blocks away from those labs that research exactly these kind of viruses, a lab that is run by a woman whose nickname is literally the Bat Lady.
00:09:32.420I mean, I think most Americans can look at those facts and say China is responsible for this virus.
00:09:38.420But if we're not going to punish China because we may not have the evidence, shouldn't people here be punished for the whitewashing and the out-and-out lies?
00:09:56.440I mean, we know now about hydroxychloroquine and what the media and what scientists, even scientists now, we now know we're part of a cover-up and threatening violence on people that we're speaking up for things like hydroxychloroquine.
00:10:20.980So, well, first off, Glenn, to get back to China, I think it should pay a price, and we should make that price very steep.
00:10:27.200We don't need a Perry Mason moment to hold China accountable for what happened in Wuhan and what they unleashed on the world.
00:10:35.160And then second, there's a lot of people that have a lot of answering to do.
00:10:37.720I mean, look, Tony Fauci has basically become a democratic activist in a white lab coat.
00:10:43.100He, for many months, prevaricated, dissembled, misdirected, evaded on what his agency had done.
00:10:50.260It had funded indirectly through an American nonprofit, gain-of-function research in those Wuhan labs, which was prohibited by the Obama administration at the time.
00:11:00.440Yet, Tony Fauci, like so many of these bureaucrats, think they know better, think that they don't have to respond to elected officials, and it's time for him to go.
00:11:08.380And if he won't resign, then Joe Biden should fire him.
00:11:15.740Well, I seem to notice that he's not out there nearly as much.
00:11:18.660I think even the Biden administration is beginning to recognize that he's become a liability and that the American people have lost faith in him.
00:11:24.900Are you sensing at all in the Senate that there is a healthy respect at all that is starting to be gained of the American people as they are starting to stand up and speak out about things like critical race and some of these extremists?
00:11:48.040Is there any awakening that you're seeing on the other side that makes you believe that, geez, we might have been reaching too far here?
00:11:56.440Well, not so much from the Democrats, Glenn.
00:11:59.580I mean, I think Republicans have long held the American people and their good common-sense opinions and respect.
00:12:07.360I think some Democrats may be waking up and growing fearful of that opinion and what it means for the Democrats in the midterm elections next year.
00:12:14.700But I also think a lot of them are still trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people for a little bit longer.
00:12:21.940The last question I have is on this new task force that the White House is announcing and getting into bed with high tech to try to weed out these domestic terrorists.
00:12:36.860Things that every Democrat pushed against when you were even talking about the extremists overseas, they're now spying on us, the American people.
00:12:48.800They've got a new whistleblower line where you can turn in your neighbors or your own family if you think that they are extremists.
00:12:58.980And is anybody on the Hill talking about it?
00:13:00.760Well, yeah, I mean, we shouldn't have big tech engaged in this kind of censorship or surveillance, especially surveillance for the Biden administration.
00:13:09.600I mean, their opinion of a domestic extremist is probably any of the 74 million people that voted for Donald Trump or another Republican candidate for office last year.
00:13:18.620But I think we've seen the consequences over the last year of these big tech companies thinking they know better, just like Tony Fauci, and they're going to suppress information.
00:13:27.560And it turns out the information they suppress is often correct.
00:13:30.200What's best, and this is something that good old-fashioned liberals once believed, you know, back in the 1950s and 1960s, is to have a robust and vigorous debate.
00:13:40.600And if you think someone is spreading lies or has weak arguments, the way you prevail is not to try to silence them using the power of the state or these giant monopoly companies, but present better evidence and make more compelling arguments.
00:13:54.620Senator Tom Cotton, thank you so much.
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00:16:41.380And one of the guys who spoke, now this is up in Bucks County in Pennsylvania, one guy who spoke to their school board, which was trying to silence people, again, not having open hearings, he addressed the school board.
00:17:43.720I'm quoting to you now from the United States Supreme Court 1964 case, New York Times v. Sullivan.
00:17:50.420This is constitutional case law in this country, and I'm quoting you from the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:17:55.840The judges wrote that this nation is founded on the, quote, profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues shall be uninhibited, robust, and wide open,
00:18:08.460and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
00:18:16.720That's constitutional case law in this nation.
00:18:38.820If you edit this tape, then you're going to have a big legal problem on your hands,
00:18:43.080because my right to critique your fascism, which is what this is, is constitutionally protected.
00:18:49.460There are emails, public record emails, in which the Director of Equity is lobbying and advocating for public comment to be censored in this school district.
00:19:05.900We've got the school board president saying she'll do better at hitting the moot button in blatant violation of the Constitution.
00:19:12.020For her lobbying and her advocacy of unconstitutional censorship, I want you, the school board, to terminate the employment of Dr. Theresa Gibson with immediate effect.
00:19:41.700But I think that parents have had enough.
00:19:46.440When you're coming after our children, you've crossed the line.
00:19:51.840And all of this, this fascistic stuff of trying to, for instance, in Loudoun County, where they are, the county attorney is part of the problem.
00:20:06.240When the county attorney is on a Facebook page encouraging people to dox the parents and the children of those who are against CRT, you've got a problem.
00:20:25.120And if these school boards and local officials, if they want people to be kind and proper and not call them Benito Mussolini, then they should stop acting like it.
00:20:40.860You don't have the right to shut people down.
00:20:46.180You don't have the right to do it behind our backs in Texas.
00:20:51.520That's why two people did lose their job.
00:20:54.540In fact, two people went to jail because they had memos going back and forth saying, look, the public is never going to understand this.
00:21:09.340Well, that's against the law, and they went to jail, and so should anyone else.
00:21:15.980You may not be able to have the power to affect things nationally, you think, but I'm telling you, you have the power to change things locally, and that is the most important thing you can possibly do.
00:21:31.720Right now, the media is on this kick of saying that, no, no, no, no, we don't, CRT isn't even being taught.
00:21:41.460It's just these conspiracy people, just all these people, these right-wing fanatics, these fascists on the right.
00:21:51.820I want you to listen to a 1943 pamphlet that was written for the communists in America on how to deal with dissent.
00:22:52.020They are calling us fascists, white supremacists, etc., etc., and it is becoming a reality in the mind of the everyday person that is not involved.
00:23:12.520At the same time, they're saying these are extremists, right-wing zealots, a.k.a. white supremacists that are against critical race theory.
00:23:23.840And they're saying it over and over and over again, and it is becoming reality for a lot of people.
00:23:29.780That is why you must never, ever be seen being out of control.
00:23:37.640I don't think that guy was out of control because he had his facts in hand, and he knew exactly what he wanted to say, and he said it.
00:23:47.420He said it forcefully, but he said it.
00:23:49.860But we can't ever look out of control because that's what they're doing.
00:23:56.940They're smearing us, just like that 1943 pamphlet said.
00:28:29.020Now the mighty and the wise are pushing that down our throats.
00:28:33.080Be glad you're part of the foolish and those who are called weak, because we know the truth.
00:28:44.120We are neither of those things, and God will prevail.
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00:30:06.940And now the word Invermectin is trending.
00:30:11.240We have a guy who has been writing and taking the hits and being banned from social media for saying that word, Invermectin, Daniel Horowitz.
00:30:37.640No, I actually wrote an article on the censorship of Invermectin, and it was censored from Facebook.
00:30:44.560And look, I mean, the people that are running Facebook's fact-check operation are funded by those that are producing the vaccines.
00:30:52.340And I think we all know the problem is not just statutorily that if you have other treatments, you can't pursue an experimental emergency use authorization, but also it takes away from their market share and their ability to control people.
00:31:05.760So, you know, Glenn, this is not just about Ivermectin.
00:31:08.760This is about any early, cheap, proven treatment.
00:31:15.160You are not allowed to treat COVID with something less than $1,000 a dose.
00:31:20.720And this is a very big problem because commensurate with your belief on how serious this virus is, is your culpability in squelching our ability to actually treat this.
00:31:33.320So I understand, you know, why we, you know, in the first few weeks, we didn't know what we were dealing with.
00:31:40.760And so, you know, we, we locked down and I think that was right, et cetera, et cetera, at the beginning until we had a handle on what was going on to see if it was as deadly as all these people were saying.
00:32:42.320Obviously, if people no longer fear the virus, meaning that they believe that there is a non-invasive, you know, not like the monoclonal antibodies, you got to go to the hospital or someplace, but something that you could take even prophylaxic, you could take preemptively, first sign of trouble and it and it works.
00:32:59.700They'll no longer fear it like they no longer fear the flu or a cold or a headache.
00:33:04.660The minute people fear it, they're willing to go along with the mask, the lockdowns, and certainly they're going to go along with the vaccines without questioning it.
00:33:13.960And then also there is that legal authority issue that according to the emergency use authorization statute, it can only be granted if there's no adequate, approved, available alternative for diagnosing, preventing and treating the disease.
00:33:28.480And to me, that's really the kicker, because like everyone else, I never heard of hydroxychloroquine until last year.
00:33:34.760I didn't even know how to pronounce it.
00:34:14.280And there are plenty of antiviral, anti-inflammatory, safe, proven drugs out there.
00:34:20.200But it seems like ivermectin in particular was almost made for this.
00:34:24.760It's had 57 studies vouching for its efficacy, 30 randomized controlled trials.
00:34:30.200And what's funny is the naysayers keep saying we need more data.
00:34:34.800But then you look at their alacrity to approve either the experimental vaccines or drugs that are very expensive, like remdesivir, $3,000 a pop.
00:34:47.800Often with one RCT, or in the case of remdesivir, the World Health Organization seemed to show it didn't work.
00:34:55.060And I think history has proven that to be true.
00:34:57.100So that juxtaposition is very disturbing, and that could only lead me to the conclusion that this is more about political science and money than real science.
00:35:08.220Okay, so I'm looking at the updated guide on therapeutics and COVID-19 from the WHO.
00:35:16.980You had this in one of your Blaze articles.
00:35:18.900And they looked at the effect estimates.
00:35:24.600Standard care, 70 died out of every 1,000.
00:35:49.640So what's funny is it was just published in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a really strong study showing the safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.
00:36:03.300And one observation they make in this paper is that when it comes to things like dextamethasone, it's one of the only things that has been written in the NIH protocol on treatment.
00:36:17.020That was approved after a single RCT, you know, showing promise.
00:36:35.600Let's go to just the trifecta of vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc, especially at long term.
00:36:42.380You know, we've had 15 months warning to bulk up our vitamin D levels.
00:36:47.440This virus is almost exclusively a vitamin D deficiency problem for those that get it very seriously.
00:36:54.200If you have over 30, 35 vitamin D levels, it's extremely unlikely you're going to have a problem with the virus.
00:37:00.640How many people do you know that even know about this that are checking their vitamin D levels, getting supplements, and not the, you know, 800 IUs that some of them recommend, but a lot more than that?
00:37:19.140Rather, it's very hard to escape the conclusion that the reason they're censoring this is something a lot more sinister than just a concern over the right data and accuracy.
00:37:32.100So I saw a story in passing, and I'd like to know if you've heard any more on this and if it is true.
00:37:39.960But I have heard that the FDA is starting to come after holistic treatments of things, you know, even all the way down to essential oils.
00:37:52.760And they're starting to come after these things, which would lead me to believe again they're just trying to herd us into pharmaceuticals above everything else.
00:38:18.940They stuck a provision called the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act.
00:38:23.280And it basically allows the Federal Trade Commission to go after anyone who they believe is peddling a cure or diagnosis for COVID that is unproven, which I think should apply to a lot of the pharmaceuticals that are being put out.
00:38:42.600But this, the DOJ put out a press release, oh, I think in April, going after a Missouri chiropractor, Eric Naputi, who had this quick work cocktail, basically, of zinc and vitamin D.
00:39:00.600And there are tremendous amounts of studies showing that if you bulk up your zinc and vitamin D levels, it's almost impossible to get a cytokine storm, that inflammatory reaction.
00:39:10.820And he now has federal charges against him.
00:39:13.440And this was newly passed in that December omnibus bill from last year.
00:39:44.780You know, one of the interesting things is since I was a kid, like everyone else, I've always heard that, you know, bacteria you could treat with antibiotics.
00:39:54.340But what a lot of these doctors that have really done the research on how to treat COVID are now saying is that there are a lot of things that have antiviral qualities to them.
00:40:06.140And some go so far to say that flu season is really a redundant manifestation of a vitamin D deficiency season from October to March above the 35th parallel or sometimes farther south where it's so hot.
00:40:19.740People just want to remain inside in the air conditioning and people nowadays don't get enough vitamin D, that there is a lot of treatments out there that are safe and effective and just well-known things, even like melatonin that sometimes you use for kids to go to sleep at night that seem to work against COVID.
00:40:38.920And that's the question, how many other things, such as flus and mono that have ailed kids, do we now have the benefit of possibly treating?
00:40:50.000And remember, we've pumped in billions of dollars to HHS to hand out as contracts for these wonder drugs and wonder vaccines.
00:40:59.200But imagine if a little bit of that money was just spent on research on repurposing off-label cheap drugs that are known to have these qualities.
00:41:08.880But I think we know, given the politics, that they have no incentive of doing that.
00:41:17.180I'll tell you, Daniel, I took hydroxychloroquine as soon as it came out that it was a possibility.
00:41:25.480I started taking it and zinc, and the minute I stopped taking it, I got sick.
00:41:33.640My whole family was sick over the summer.