The Great America Show - DR. OZ SAYS REALITIES OF LIFE ARE CONSERVATIVE VALUES AND AMERICA FIRST

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:03.880 I'm Lou Dobbs, and it's great to have you with us today.

00:00:07.780 I'm once again coming to you from an undisclosed location today.

00:00:12.400 It seems best to be a little cautious, so we've withdrawn a bit to a defensible position

00:00:18.580 in the wilds of what we'll just call a northeastern state.

00:00:22.920 Is this really a matter of personal safety?

00:00:26.220 Not really, I suppose, but given that of late, I've been upsetting many of the D.C.

00:00:32.160 swamp creatures and denizens of Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

00:00:37.040 You know, those coastal oligarchs, they're not to be trusted, and not a few of the powerful

00:00:43.120 federal agencies as well.

00:00:45.560 I do acknowledge that I've been a little more vocal about what I call McCarthyism running

00:00:50.980 rampant in the Republican Party.

00:00:52.940 McCarthyism is our name on this show for the Republican propensity to almost always put

00:01:00.700 rhinos in charge of the Republican Party, to put them in leadership, whether on Capitol 0.95

00:01:06.680 Hill or the White House or the Republican National Committee.

00:01:10.720 And frustration always sets in within the grassroots and rank and file of the party because there

00:01:18.620 is a tremendous gap, a yawning void between those rhino leaders and Republican voters. 0.50

00:01:26.880 Oh, yes, there's some concern because I also was the first to call for Kevin McCarthy to

00:01:33.080 step down, to resign after listening to leaked audio tapes of his phone conversation, a phone

00:01:40.460 conversation between the minority leader and Liz Cheney, in which he clearly was comfortable

00:01:46.260 telling Cheney that the President of the United States had taken some responsibility for January

00:01:52.280 6th, and McCarthy would tell Mr. Trump to resign.

00:01:57.800 Cheney seemed doubtful, but also seemed to think that was just a buffo idea.

00:02:03.740 Reportedly, and not surprisingly, President Trump said he's good with McCarthy, no hard feelings

00:02:09.660 at all.

00:02:10.260 Mr. Trump can be a generous man, so can I, but not when it comes to swamp rats.

00:02:17.760 I'm not nearly as generous as the President.

00:02:20.280 To me, deceit and treachery are automatic disqualifiers for any leadership role in the Republican Party,

00:02:27.640 or for any job, for that matter, that calls for honesty, integrity, and principled conduct.

00:02:34.700 So, yes, here we are today, coming to you from an undisclosed location, added security, waiting

00:02:42.820 for tippers to cool, appropriate, I think, since McCarthy immediately retaliated against

00:02:48.840 me after my call for his resignation as minority leader.

00:02:53.640 Mr. McCarthy immediately did the unimaginable.

00:02:57.760 He quickly unfollowed me on Twitter.

00:03:01.840 Not good.

00:03:02.660 And if a man will do that, there's almost no limit, is there? 0.98

00:03:07.340 So, back to politics and the inept, impaired President who somehow has taken up residence 1.00

00:03:13.740 in our White House. 0.97

00:03:15.580 What are we to do about a Commander-in-Chief who confuses major policies, is likely compromised

00:03:22.100 by both the Chinese and Russia, gets lost in the White House, often speaks incoherently,

00:03:28.580 and occasionally has to be guided by a large Easter bunny, and nonetheless has a military

00:03:35.300 officer always standing nearby with a nuclear briefcase, a briefcase that contains the daily

00:03:42.200 codes with which to launch ICBM missiles with nuclear warheads at targets of this doddering,

00:03:50.280 confused old man's choosing all around the world.

00:03:54.200 But still, despite the mortal danger this puppet president represents to us and to the world,

00:04:00.580 the corporate media says nothing, and the Marxist left does nothing, and the pretense goes on.

00:04:06.720 Just like the Secret Service, which claims it has no record of visitors to Biden's Delaware

00:04:13.320 homes.

00:04:14.400 The New York Post reports that Biden has spent a fourth of his presidency at those homes in

00:04:20.900 Delaware, but the Secret Service says they didn't record any of Biden's visitors.

00:04:27.780 Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton says the Secret Service is playing a shell game with the American

00:04:33.780 public to keep those records secret.

00:04:37.140 One of the Republicans running this year to change the direction of government and the

00:04:41.340 permanent bureaucracy is Dr.

00:04:43.860 Mamet Oz.

00:04:45.080 You know him, of course, from television over many years.

00:04:48.840 He's now running for the U.S.

00:04:50.340 Senate from the great state of Pennsylvania.

00:04:52.840 That Republican primary is coming up next month, May 17th.

00:04:57.660 President Trump has endorsed Dr.

00:04:59.660 Oz, and in the latest polling by the Trafalgar Group,

00:05:03.780 Dr.

00:05:04.640 Oz is leading the large field of opponents in the GOP primary.

00:05:10.940 Dr.

00:05:11.120 Oz, great to have you with us back on the Great America Show, and I want to congratulate you

00:05:16.420 first and foremost on your new position, strong position, in the latest polls, the Trafalgar

00:05:24.140 Group, showing you with a significant lead.

00:05:28.100 Congratulations.

00:05:29.680 Well, you're very kind, Lou.

00:05:30.960 We've been speaking for many years, and as you know, when you have a bold, loud voice,

00:05:35.100 as you have had, it helps the electorate make a decision.

00:05:38.760 People are just trying to decide if you're the person to defend what they know is wrong

00:05:43.140 in America.

00:05:43.860 And I've been able to do that on my show for many years, taking on big governments, big

00:05:48.060 tech, big agrochemical companies, big pharma companies.

00:05:51.220 And it's unfortunately one of the skill sets you must have to be in the United States Senate.

00:05:55.900 And we don't want to have a backbencher senator. 0.99

00:05:57.780 We need people with bold voices to strive forth into the culture wars, because they're using

00:06:02.520 knives on the Democratic side, and Republicans walk into these culture wars with index cards. 0.99

00:06:07.060 And we want to stop doing that and get our points across.

00:06:10.140 Absolutely.

00:06:10.620 And I want to say to the audience, I've known Dr. Oz for quite a while.

00:06:14.580 And in the earliest days of the pandemic, he was still a strong and independent voice,

00:06:21.380 skeptical of just about every aspect of what was going on, and a scientific skepticism,

00:06:30.720 and a man of considerable reason and judgment.

00:06:34.780 So I have to say that about you, if I may, Dr. Oz.

00:06:37.840 I always respected you and was grateful for your voice on my show.

00:06:44.980 I want to turn, if I may, to the issue of something very similar, and that is schools.

00:06:51.100 Right now, Ms. Weingart of the Federated Teachers is saying that teachers should have the privilege

00:07:02.300 of zero, zero cases of the virus before that they're in session, before they lift any mandates

00:07:12.620 on masks.

00:07:13.900 Your reaction?

00:07:15.120 This is a typical example of a false narrative.

00:07:17.580 There is a pretend belief that if you have lockdowns, if you put masks on everybody forever,

00:07:24.260 that you'll actually meaningfully change a number of cases.

00:07:27.940 And one of the reasons President Trump endorsed me in the Senate campaign in Pennsylvania,

00:07:32.300 is because he wanted someone who would be smart and tough.

00:07:35.720 He used both those words.

00:07:36.580 He wrote that announcement himself.

00:07:38.360 The issue around smart is critical.

00:07:40.600 If we fight on their battlefield, then what Rainer Weingart is basically saying is,

00:07:44.980 how many lives will you sacrifice before you start putting masks on?

00:07:48.700 Well, that's a horrible question to even contemplate.

00:07:51.900 The truth from a scientist's perspective is, you're not saving lives by these actions.

00:07:57.020 So when you pretend that you are, you're virtue signaling.

00:07:59.960 That's why we see some of the massive shifts that are occurring across America, because

00:08:03.800 legislative leaders were never following the signs.

00:08:07.160 They were following the political signs.

00:08:09.060 And when voters start saying, enough, we don't think this works.

00:08:11.800 We're disbelieving you.

00:08:12.700 We think you're misleading us.

00:08:14.960 Then they start to make decisions.

00:08:16.280 Here in Philadelphia, where I am right now, Lou, this is crazy.

00:08:18.880 On Monday, they passed a mask mandate.

00:08:20.560 Now, the reason wasn't the reasons they've given in the past, like we don't have enough

00:08:24.640 rooms in the hospitals, we want to prevent hospitalizations.

00:08:26.880 That was, they knew that wasn't the case.

00:08:28.720 Hospitalizations are down 90% since earlier this year.

00:08:31.580 What they said was, we changed the goalposts, move them back a little bit.

00:08:35.120 We're going to just use total numbers of cases as our excuse.

00:08:38.280 And then that didn't change enough.

00:08:39.840 So they finally last night rescinded this mask mandate.

00:08:42.160 But the real reason they did it was enough businesses said, are you out of your minds?

00:08:47.140 No one is coming into Philadelphia.

00:08:49.080 They'd rather stay in the surrounding communities where they're not having any of these crazy

00:08:52.780 rules that don't make us any safer anyway.

00:08:54.980 And who wants to cross the street to get slapped?

00:08:57.580 And so those are the real drivers of these decisions.

00:09:00.240 They were virtue signaling.

00:09:01.620 What Randy Weingarten is saying is, I'm pretending that I'm fighting for you, the impoverished teacher

00:09:07.860 that no one pays attention to.

00:09:09.200 I love teachers and I care about them.

00:09:11.140 And I know they know they can't teach kids effectively when everyone's wearing masks or

00:09:15.660 if they're doing it remotely.

00:09:16.800 And so she's not helping the process.

00:09:19.100 And as a doctor, I'll speak to the fact that we don't have convincing data that wearing masks

00:09:24.060 makes much of a difference for the kids or even for their teachers.

00:09:27.380 Quite the opposite.

00:09:29.040 Surprising maybe to the Democrats, it doesn't seem to work.

00:09:32.100 So the truth is, let people live their lives because we know there's a damage done by imposing

00:09:37.500 these mandates and you're not providing us health safety.

00:09:39.880 And there are lots of consequences of wearing masks that we don't understand.

00:09:44.260 A number of reports on developmental issues for children, a number of reports on actual

00:09:50.460 IQ testing that has been done because the kids have been at home.

00:09:55.680 They are not as active.

00:09:56.980 They're not as engaged, socialized at all sorts of reasons.

00:10:00.500 We also have a CDC report coming out about a mystery hepatitis outbreak among a lot of

00:10:07.600 kids in the United States and UK who have a mysterious liver disease.

00:10:13.160 And the speculation is it's because of weakened immune systems from the lockdown.

00:10:17.760 And no one wants to talk about these consequences.

00:10:21.300 Your reaction to this early report?

00:10:23.680 I don't know much about the hepatitis issue, but I do know that we have caused a significant

00:10:30.180 developmental delays in children.

00:10:32.900 This has been documented well enough that it's raised a lot of concerns.

00:10:36.140 We don't know if it's reversible.

00:10:37.800 I know this is a scary concept, but without question, when you put a mask on a child and

00:10:42.300 the teacher, the kid doesn't see the mouth move.

00:10:44.840 They have trouble articulating themselves.

00:10:46.860 5% of kids wear glasses.

00:10:48.440 The glasses fog up like they do with adults.

00:10:50.220 They don't have any recourse because they have to wear their mask all day long.

00:10:53.400 But here's the bigger issue, Lou.

00:10:54.840 You put a mask that's not a high quality one on a child, you're probably not making much

00:10:59.560 of a difference anyway.

00:11:00.640 Plus, if the kid doesn't wear it correctly all day long, which they don't, plus it gets

00:11:04.760 wet, therefore it doesn't work for more than a couple hours.

00:11:07.580 And you add that to the reality that when kids do who are healthy get COVID, they don't

00:11:12.640 seem to have much of an issue, especially with these newer variants.

00:11:15.660 Well, then I'm left believing that there's not much benefit.

00:11:18.440 And any risk at that point becomes too much to tolerate.

00:11:21.840 That's why many parents, most parents, are not vaccinating their small children.

00:11:26.160 They don't think their children are at risk.

00:11:27.800 Many already had COVID, have native immunity, and many others are healthy and therefore not

00:11:32.300 going to have significant consequences.

00:11:35.900 Exactly.

00:11:36.840 And I want to talk to you about a number of issues.

00:11:40.160 But it seems to me that there are two or three basic foundational issues that are rising up

00:11:47.640 in this campaign nationwide in this midterm election.

00:11:52.460 And we're talking about on one grouping and within one issue, it's about parental rights.

00:11:59.340 It extends to our schools.

00:12:01.040 It extends to vaccines, to children's sex education, parental rights.

00:12:07.520 Where do you stand on the issue of vaccinating young children?

00:12:14.120 How important is it?

00:12:15.520 I want to ask you about a host of issues there.

00:12:18.680 Well, let's go through parental rights because I think it is the hottest topic next to energy

00:12:23.380 in my state of Pennsylvania.

00:12:25.240 And they are related issues in a way because they're both spitting false narratives offered

00:12:30.500 by the left against common sense solutions offered by conservatives.

00:12:34.700 Parents love their kids more than anybody else.

00:12:37.460 I think everyone, Democrat, Republican, everyone agrees with that.

00:12:40.680 Therefore, ignoring the parents' desires in this process is dangerous.

00:12:44.100 We saw that in Virginia.

00:12:45.400 It's going to be apparent here in Pennsylvania when I win the general election in November.

00:12:49.520 The parents' desire to make sure their kids hear the right things at the right time and

00:12:54.640 are protected as much as possible are often ignored.

00:12:57.920 In the case of vaccinations, it's done by mandating vaccines.

00:13:01.740 And that's happening more in college kids and kids a bit older.

00:13:06.420 But most parents don't think the vaccines make sense for their small children.

00:13:11.120 My daughter, Daphne, who you probably know she's hosting my show right now since I had

00:13:15.560 to step off my program to campaign, we have four grandkids.

00:13:19.780 She's not going to vaccinate a 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old.

00:13:23.000 Not going to vaccinate them.

00:13:24.420 First of all, I'm very highly confident they've already had COVID.

00:13:28.120 But secondly, she doesn't think the unknown in the future, as small as it might be or significant

00:13:33.600 as it might be, is worth it when there's not a significant upside.

00:13:37.040 Then just transition, if I can, to this issue of what we teach the kids in a way.

00:13:41.120 In New Jersey, there's a new law that every 1st and 2nd grader must be exposed to complex

00:13:47.680 gender ideas.

00:13:49.600 These teachings are, I believe, not appropriate for children of that age, especially if the

00:13:54.500 parents aren't involved.

00:13:55.620 Do we teach our 5-year-olds calculus, Lou?

00:13:59.080 We don't, right?

00:13:59.840 Because they're not ready for it.

00:14:01.960 So why would I push that on children?

00:14:04.540 And again, one of the reasons President Trump endorsed me is because he knows I can bring

00:14:08.440 science to these discussions.

00:14:09.460 So let me give you one fact.

00:14:11.120 85% of young children who think they're transgender, 85% will go back to thinking that they're

00:14:18.520 biologic sex by the time they're adolescents if you just leave them alone and love them.

00:14:24.020 So again, the child has to feel adored no matter what's going on.

00:14:28.260 But don't get into their head and make them think that just because they walked in their

00:14:31.380 mother's shoes one day, they're transgender. 0.96

00:14:33.660 Let them find their way.

00:14:35.000 Their brains are evolving and developing, and they will naturally find the right path if

00:14:40.000 we leave them alone to do that and not get in their way.

00:14:42.680 And this is the kind of debate that Republicans should be bringing forward.

00:14:46.220 When Jen Psaki, the White House spokesperson, said that Republicans are trying to hurt children

00:14:50.080 by not educating them about transgender issues, that's a dishonest statement.

00:14:54.160 There is no evidence that you change what children do based on embracing who they think they are

00:14:58.940 or not.

00:14:59.600 Yet that's the false narrative.

00:15:01.220 Again, making Republicans argue on a terrain that is inhospitable, but also wrong.

00:15:09.020 It's not true.

00:15:10.960 Absolutely.

00:15:11.900 And I couldn't agree more.

00:15:13.060 I think most parents would say, how could any group, teachers, administrators, and schools

00:15:19.880 think that they have the right to make such a decision absent the parents' influence and

00:15:28.300 knowledge?

00:15:30.120 And we have, again, the federated teachers saying that what Florida is doing is akin to starting

00:15:40.280 a war because they demand that parents be involved.

00:15:46.660 They're not some sort of vocal minority, as a number of people have said.

00:15:50.980 Teachers should respect those parents.

00:15:54.340 And the idea that they would even discuss sex of any kind with kindergartners through third

00:16:01.680 is appalling. 0.63

00:16:02.920 And to do so without parent involvement and approval is disgusting.

00:16:07.140 Parents have to take back, and I'd like to know if you'll go this far, parents have to

00:16:13.600 take back control of their local schools.

00:16:16.420 They have to be engaged.

00:16:17.920 They're getting engaged.

00:16:19.000 And if they can't involve themselves in an effective way with the school system, they

00:16:23.420 pull out of the school system.

00:16:24.960 Lou, 10%.

00:16:26.140 One in 10 children is homeschooled now.

00:16:29.560 What a damning indictment of the public school system when one in 10 taxpaying parents pull

00:16:36.300 their kids out of the school to homeschool them.

00:16:38.980 And they're doing it because they don't trust the school system.

00:16:41.680 There's a significant number of systems now that are being threatened by charter schools

00:16:47.160 and other private options because parents aren't finding satisfactory answers in the

00:16:52.060 public school system.

00:16:53.260 This, again, is challenging the entire foundation of public school, which is based on an 1830s

00:16:58.920 agrarian society.

00:17:00.220 It hasn't evolved.

00:17:01.260 It hasn't kept up.

00:17:02.240 And this is not an indictment of teachers.

00:17:04.320 I really do love teachers.

00:17:05.580 I appreciate how hard they work.

00:17:07.340 We don't respect our teachers enough.

00:17:08.900 But this is not about that.

00:17:10.420 This is about lobbyists, like teachers unions, controlling hook, line, and sink or the Democratic

00:17:16.240 Party.

00:17:17.060 You know, I mean, I grew up just south of Philadelphia.

00:17:20.120 And in that area, there's a lot of charter schools.

00:17:22.720 And the charter schools are used by parents, not because their graduation rates are so high,

00:17:28.200 although they are, not just because their buildings are brand new and work well, but that's

00:17:32.240 true, not just because the teachers who are, by the way, the public school teachers who

00:17:35.220 left to come to this much better environment.

00:17:37.460 Now, that's all that's true.

00:17:39.000 That's not why the parents leave.

00:17:40.320 The parents come to these charter schools because they're safe, Lou.

00:17:43.460 They know their kids won't get hurt.

00:17:45.500 This is the degree of pathology in the public school system.

00:17:48.120 But the students' parents, some of them are elected representatives in Harrisburg, in our

00:17:52.400 state capitol.

00:17:53.000 They will vote against charter schools, even though their own kids go there, because they

00:17:57.500 know they're dependent on public school funding.

00:17:59.940 And it costs almost $18,000 a year for the average public school student in this country.

00:18:08.160 It costs the taxpayer $18,000, which is completely insane.

00:18:14.480 And by the way, the simple matter is we're not getting what we're paying for.

00:18:18.700 And teachers bear great responsibility for that, but so do parents, so does the community

00:18:24.180 for not taking control and responsibility for those schools, in my opinion.

00:18:28.720 I want to turn to the issue in Florida, the law that they passed on parental rights there,

00:18:37.460 the role of a corporation.

00:18:38.580 In this case, we're talking obviously about Disney, which has lost 30% of its value on the

00:18:44.600 stock market.

00:18:45.260 There is a tremendous national backlash against Disney, and I have to give Ron DeSantis, the

00:18:55.300 governor of Florida, great credit for having the courage, first of all, to drive that parental

00:19:00.180 rights legislation, and secondly, to tell Disney to back off and get out of the relationship

00:19:06.240 between the schools and their parents.

00:19:11.100 Your thoughts?

00:19:11.920 We are witnessing a gathering of powerful forces, the federal government, big media,

00:19:22.020 the higher educational centers, leaders of this country, and big industry.

00:19:26.840 And together with big tech, they're telling us what to think.

00:19:29.640 When you have big business, big government, big media, and our universities all saying the

00:19:35.300 same thing, that's a totalitarian model, Lou. 0.53

00:19:37.520 That means we're stifling thought.

00:19:39.880 It's not just a coincidence that they take these strong positions on issues they shouldn't

00:19:43.740 even be involved in.

00:19:45.080 And I believe that if we as Republicans are unable to say what we see and do it in ways

00:19:52.500 that are compelling for most Americans, then we're failing our country.

00:19:57.020 Again, the reason President Trump endorsed me was not just because he believed I have conservative

00:20:01.280 values that I share with most conservatives, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, strong border

00:20:06.760 against crime, support the police.

00:20:09.240 All these are traditional ways of thinking about the world because the realities of life

00:20:13.500 are conservative.

00:20:14.420 But we have to actually be brave and bold enough to go out there and say what we are seeing.

00:20:19.860 And what you pointed out with a significant impact on Disney's bottom line, I believe, in

00:20:25.200 the future, is an example of companies overstepping what people really think they should be able

00:20:30.940 to speak to.

00:20:31.900 And they don't want to have a small number of disgruntled, busy employees compelling a

00:20:36.100 massive corporation that's very trusted in America to start taking on elected officials

00:20:40.760 who are doing their best to address overreach by teachers unions and others.

00:20:44.820 And these are the kinds of issues that animate Republicans.

00:20:47.960 That's why we're going to have a very, very strong turnout, not just in my primary on May

00:20:52.460 17th here in Pennsylvania, but across the country in November.

00:20:56.040 I think you're exactly right on that as well.

00:20:58.420 I want to turn to the issue of energy because behind all of this in some fashion or form is

00:21:03.800 the Marxist left White House inhabited by a puppet president by the name of Joe Biden.

00:21:10.080 And the energy policy of this administration is anti-American.

00:21:14.740 It's not just un-American.

00:21:16.880 It's anti-American.

00:21:17.860 And we'll roll us back in terms, in my opinion, of this economy of 20, 30 years.

00:21:25.240 Your thoughts on fracking, on the policies of this administration?

00:21:30.300 If you go have a pancake at a diner in Pennsylvania, your waitress will sit next to you as she's 0.57

00:21:35.440 pouring your coffee and lecture you on energy policy.

00:21:37.960 That's how frustrated and angry voters are here. 0.90

00:21:41.180 And the reason for it is they see all the things you're pointing to, which I'll cover

00:21:45.380 in a second.

00:21:45.920 But they also recognize that right beneath our feet here in Pennsylvania, we have two

00:21:49.240 Saudi Arabias.

00:21:50.340 We have more natural gas than we could ever use.

00:21:52.820 Hundreds of years to supply the entire country if we wanted to.

00:21:56.800 But here's the deeper pathology.

00:21:58.620 Despite all the realities of natural gas being able to help our country protect itself and

00:22:03.900 help our allies, it's also better for the environment.

00:22:06.920 The lie is that the Green New Deal is the path forward. 0.67

00:22:10.020 It is scientifically impossible to deliver on those promises in the time allotted.

00:22:15.440 I've never heard of an energy expert who really understands renewable sources argue

00:22:19.300 anything differently.

00:22:20.500 So what we're really saying is, because we are so ideologically stuck as far-left Democrats

00:22:25.860 to the idea of a Green New Deal, we're not going to allow any rational thought about what

00:22:30.120 might work in the meantime.

00:22:31.320 And what does work is natural gas, which is brought up in ways that are so clean that if

00:22:36.580 we were to ship it overseas and actually help our allies, it will be the equivalent,

00:22:41.400 Lil, this is important, equivalent to electrifying every vehicle in America, the entire fleet,

00:22:48.040 plus putting a solar panel on every roof, plus doubling wind energy production every

00:22:54.000 year for 30 years.

00:22:55.100 This is a massive opportunity for us to save the environment if you really care about the

00:22:59.460 environment.

00:22:59.820 And in fact, America, this is going to shock people, has actually met the Paris Accords.

00:23:05.140 We've dropped our CO2, our carbon emissions.

00:23:07.300 That's what we're focused on dramatically because we have been using more of our natural gas.

00:23:12.220 Let's get it out of the ground.

00:23:13.500 Pay people with well-meaning, with motivations, good money to build their communities, make our

00:23:20.000 country energy independent and energy dominant, and then go help our allies overseas.

00:23:23.820 And President Trump has told me it helped him immensely that America was energy independent.

00:23:28.560 It changes how you negotiate with other countries.

00:23:31.540 We have to be a dominant force.

00:23:32.940 The world is looking to us, begging us for leadership.

00:23:36.420 We have to offer it, and we haven't been.

00:23:38.340 My show, Louis, was in 100 countries.

00:23:40.660 I traveled the world.

00:23:41.900 They would tell me the same story repeatedly.

00:23:44.380 Help us by staying healthy in America.

00:23:46.740 And I said, why does it matter?

00:23:47.940 They would say, because we quibble here in Singapore, whatever country I was in.

00:23:51.920 We look to you for leadership.

00:23:53.400 You're the bright city on the hill that is a North Star for us.

00:23:58.160 We cannot afford to be weak, because when we fail, China succeeds. 0.55

00:24:02.300 And nobody wants an authoritarian, controlling country, a government like China's, ruling

00:24:11.320 them.

00:24:11.660 And that's what we'd be ceding to.

00:24:13.300 And that's exactly their objective.

00:24:16.160 That is dominion over the globe, including, of course, with their strategic partner, Russia.

00:24:22.180 I want to ask you this as we conclude on the issue of foreign policy.

00:24:26.580 Would you style yourself as an America first policy conservative?

00:24:35.200 Would you say that your policies, your thought on America's role are America first, that Trump

00:24:41.640 is the leader of the Republican Party?

00:24:43.720 Do you have any problem saying that out loud?

00:24:46.040 No, I believe that we have to be a strong country.

00:24:50.520 It will bring peace to the globe.

00:24:52.700 America first is the right way to think about it. 0.77

00:24:54.820 Not selfishly, but it is actually, as I was articulating earlier, a way that the entire

00:25:00.440 planet will feel like they are offered an option, like capitalism built on democracy.

00:25:06.380 That's what they really want.

00:25:08.100 Only if we fail, if we trip, if we fall, does plan B come into effect, which is China.

00:25:13.260 But we should be awake to the reality that China wants us to fall.

00:25:17.280 It's not just a zero sum game for them.

00:25:19.620 We need to fail so they will thrive.

00:25:21.900 That's why I'm so focused on Taiwan.

00:25:24.020 And the Chinese, as you know, they don't tell you what to think.

00:25:28.320 They don't convince you.

00:25:29.740 They condition you.

00:25:31.640 They make you think a certain way before they even bring it up so that you're already on

00:25:35.440 board.

00:25:36.200 70 percent, 70 percent of Chinese nationals think they should take Taiwan right now.

00:25:40.900 They already think that.

00:25:42.000 That's not an accident.

00:25:43.660 They've been brainwashed to think that so that if it were to happen, they would be happy

00:25:48.240 that it happened.

00:25:50.160 Do you believe the United States should out loud say directly that we will defend Taiwan

00:25:56.440 against communist China's imperialism?

00:26:00.260 We have to message that loudly enough that no one can mistake that for a soft whisper.

00:26:07.200 We have to turn that island nation into a porcupine, arm them well, ally with the Japanese and the

00:26:14.840 Australians and others in Asia who are on our team and make sure that the message is very clear

00:26:20.500 and be heard by China that this will carry significant consequences because that is our

00:26:25.920 best chance of preventing them from taking an action that they will regret and will bring

00:26:30.640 a ton of pain into Asia, similar to what we're witnessing in the Ukraine.

00:26:36.180 Dr. Oz, great talking with you.

00:26:38.620 Thank you for sharing some time with us.

00:26:41.260 Dr. Oz, running for the U.S. Senate in the great state of Pennsylvania.

00:26:46.200 And we appreciate your time and we appreciate your candor.

00:26:51.300 Thanks so much for being with us.

00:26:52.000 God bless you, Luke.

00:26:52.600 Take care.

00:26:52.940 Thanks, Dr. Oz.

00:26:54.860 God bless you.

00:26:56.360 As I said, Dr. Oz is the leader in that Pennsylvania primary race for the Senate.

00:27:01.360 For more on his positions on every issue, you can go to DrOz.com.

00:27:06.640 That's DrOz.com.

00:27:09.640 Please join us here tomorrow for the country's best investigative reporter, Peter Schweitzer.

00:27:15.300 Peter Schweitzer's revelations on the D.C. swamp are astonishing.

00:27:19.880 As Tom Fitton puts it, D.C. is now a nightmare, and it's always worse than we think.

00:27:28.120 Peter Schweitzer, here tomorrow.

00:27:30.020 You don't want to miss it.

00:27:31.520 Till then, God bless you, and God bless America.

The Great America Show - April 24, 2022

DR. OZ SAYS REALITIES OF LIFE ARE CONSERVATIVE VALUES AND AMERICA FIRST

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