00:00:30.400But before we get to that, the story that will just make so many people frustrated and want to just throw something against their computer screen is the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci, he went behind closed doors and they asked him about social distancing.
00:00:51.740Now, this is a guy that shut down our entire economy.
00:00:53.900He shut down our schools, he shut down our businesses, and they asked him about social distancing and that random six-foot rule and his words, and I'm quoting Senator, it sort of just appeared.
00:01:07.300Really? That's how they came up with the science that we were supposed to follow?
00:01:16.020Look, it's infuriating, and I think Dr. Fauci is the most dangerous, the most damaging, and dishonest bureaucrat our nation's history has ever seen.
00:01:24.500Anthony Fauci is 83 years old, and the damage he did during the COVID vaccine, he got, you know, there's an old line about drug dealers, don't get high on your own supply.
00:01:34.680He got high on his own supply, and he believed, he believed in what he was saying, but he didn't care if it was true or not.
00:01:45.360You know, we've talked on this podcast a number of times about my brand new book, Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.
00:01:52.400There's an entire chapter in Unwoke that is focused on science, and it's focused on the politicization of science, that science and during COVID, medical science becoming a political endeavor rather than being based on actual data and evidence.
00:02:09.760So, how this came public is Dr. Fauci gave closed-door testimony to the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and he said a number of things.
00:02:23.420He said what you just pointed out when he was asked about the six-foot rule.
00:02:29.260He said, quote, it just, it sort of just appeared.
00:02:34.940The hell does that mean it sort of just appeared?
00:02:38.500Look, on masks, and I go through this at length in the book, Unwoke, on masks, when Sylvia Burwell, who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Obama, when she asked, hey, should I wear a mask?
00:02:52.040He said in writing at the beginning of COVID, no, you shouldn't wear a mask.
00:02:59.580And then just a couple of months later, boom, everyone must wear a mask, or you're thrown off an airplane, you're banned from public society, and you're killing people.
00:03:08.500I mean, it became so overstated, and he was also asked, he was also asked about the lab leak hypothesis.
00:03:18.560Now, one of the things I'm most proud of this podcast, we did in March and April of 2020, right at the beginning of COVID, we did two full episodes laying out all of the evidence back then that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government lab.
00:03:39.440I think as early as March of 2020, that evidence was clear.
00:03:44.720I think it is overwhelmingly likely that the COVID virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:03:51.520I also think it is quite likely, not as overwhelming, it hasn't been demonstrated as conclusively, but I think it is more likely than not that the COVID virus was manufactured in that Chinese government lab,
00:04:04.300that they started with a naturally occurring virus, and then they engaged in gain-of-function research to change the virus to make it more deadly, to make it more transmissible, to make it easier to target humans.
00:04:17.340And we know, and this, again, I lay out in great length in the book Unwoke, that Dr. Fauci asked Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook,
00:04:28.220will you suppress anyone saying that this virus came from a Chinese government lab?
00:04:35.340And Facebook was more than happy to do so, and now, a couple years later, Fauci is all but admitted that there's real evidence this came from a Chinese government lab.
00:04:49.580I want to go back to the six-foot, and then we'll get into the Wuhan part, because I do think it's important that we break this down a little bit for people.
00:04:56.980I was envisioning, and I was trying to figure out in my mind, I'm like, all right, how would you have come up with, you know,
00:05:03.600remember, these people were saying, follow the science, and how would you come up with a six-foot rule?
00:05:09.080And there's part of me, Senator, that thinks there were some people in a room at NIH, and they're like, all right, we need to come up with some regulations here.
00:05:16.880We need to come up with something that looks proactive.
00:05:19.280And they're like, all right, well, what if we just told everybody to stand further apart from each other?
00:05:23.720And they're like, all right, well, how many feet?
00:05:56.500And there's no basis for six feet being the magic number for a virus.
00:06:01.060Now, look, I'll give them a little bit of grace.
00:06:04.840At the time the COVID pandemic started, people were scared and they didn't know what they were dealing with.
00:06:10.780And there are at least some people, there are some government doctors who were trying to be helpful and trying to figure out rules.
00:06:16.780And what actually made common sense, particularly when this thing was started, is to engage in protective steps for people who are vulnerable.
00:06:27.180We saw COVID, that people who were very elderly, people who had significant immunodeficiencies, they were vulnerable.
00:06:36.220It made sense to protect the vulnerable, particularly at the outset of this.
00:06:39.800What didn't make sense is to become just obsessive tyrants about masks, about COVID vaccines.
00:06:50.660And so, look, I can understand when they're trying to say, okay, what might help?
00:06:56.440And there was some desire and a reasonable desire to reopen society, like any rational person wanted to reopen society.
00:12:12.720By the way, now, several years later, the FBI has publicly concluded that they believe the virus came from the Wuhan Institute for Virology.
00:12:23.880But Dr. Fauci, has he ever once went on national television and said, I'm sorry, no.
00:12:28.720And he's so self-righteous that those words could not come from his mouth.
00:12:32.940It's not just that they won't come from his mouth.
00:12:35.800There's also questions now about did he mislead or, use another word, lie to Congress under oath on some of these issues when he was asked.
00:12:45.500Well, compared to what he's talking about now, there's a lot of people asking, will there ever be accountability?
00:12:51.120I'm going to ask you, I think I know the answer.
00:12:53.440Is there ever going to be accountability for anyone if they mislead or flat out lie to Congress if you're on the Democratic side?
00:12:59.580You know, there hasn't been in our lifetime.
00:13:02.740And I will say, as long as it is the Biden Department of Justice, this Department of Justice is politicized, it's weaponized, and they have zero interest.
00:13:12.160I've asked the attorney general, I've asked the Department of Justice, are you going to prosecute Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress under oath?
00:13:19.680And they just defiantly say, we don't comment on investigations, which is their way of saying no, but it's also their way of saying, I don't answer to the American people, screw you.
00:13:31.120And that, sadly, is the view of Merrick Garland and the DOJ.
00:13:34.420Which brings me to story number two, perfect segue here.
00:13:38.020Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance.
00:13:43.700The reason why I say it was a stunt is based, in fact, the Secret Service was there more than an hour before he showed up for this House Oversight Committee markup hearing on holding him in contempt.
00:13:53.640We also know that the Democrats had poster boards made for his surprise appearance, so they clearly were in on it as well.
00:14:00.840And Hunter Biden showed up at this House Oversight Committee markup hearing on holding him in contempt.
00:14:08.100And the reason why I think he did it and knew he could do it and could show up in what many described as a shocking appearance at his own contempt hearing is because he knows what you just mentioned,
00:14:20.200that the DOJ is not going to prosecute him for contempt of Congress charges, even though they did do it against every person they get their hands on that was ready to Donald J. Trump.
00:14:29.940But they will not hold the president's son accountable for his actions here.
00:14:34.800And that's the part that is, I think, the most disgusting about this.
00:14:39.720Then we'll dive more into the story about some of the questions he was asked as well at this committee hearing after he left.
00:14:45.200Look, Hunter Biden embodies the same arrogant contempt that Dr. Fauci does.
00:14:50.800In both instances, they have the belief that they will never be held to account, that they can do whatever they want if there are no consequences.
00:14:58.220Hunter Biden showed up just to say, screw you to the Congress, but to say, screw you to the American people, that I'm the son of the president.
00:15:27.020First, this administration has a dripping contempt, number one, for Congress.
00:15:32.640They do not believe any oversight is appropriate on anything.
00:15:36.360And number two, for the American people, because, look, if you're contemptuous to Congress, listen, when I'm in a hearing and I'm asking questions, what I'm trying to do, Ben, is ask the questions that I believe 30 million Texans want me to ask.
00:15:50.160Ask the questions on behalf of the American people and this administration believes it owes no answers whatsoever.
00:15:59.340Hunter showed up because he knew there would be no consequences.
00:16:02.900Now, frankly, I wish they'd said said Hunter, come to the table right now.
00:16:06.300Let's question you right here and now.
00:18:24.020If Biden were to win, I think he'll delay the pardon until right before Hunter goes to jail.
00:18:29.640But if Biden is losing, I'd put the odds at 95 percent that in December of this year, if Biden has just lost the general election, that he pardons his son and he gives him a scot-free get-out-of-jail pass.
00:18:43.200And so understand, Hunter's legal strategy is delay 11 months.
00:18:50.220Delay 11 months, don't go to jail for 11 months, and then daddy gives you a get-out-of-jail-free card.
00:18:55.500And it's why the House needs to keep their eye on the ball and bring Hunter for the public hearing.
00:19:02.260Now, maybe Hunter will refuse to show up there, but it's harder because he's been so vocal, saying he would do it in public, take him up on the offer, call the bluff.
00:19:12.400You know, one of the things that they said at the House Oversight Committee, and I'm going to quote, it says,
00:19:16.320Donald Trump Jr. came before this committee, he came before the House Intelligence Committee, he came before the House Judiciary Committee, he came before the Senate Intelligence Committee twice, he came before the so-called January 6th Committee.
00:19:29.740All of those were behind closed doors, where lawyers can sit down both sides of the aisle and have a conversation and go through documents all under oath, which is the precedent for any committee.
00:19:44.260What is Hunter Biden afraid of? That was a question asked by Congressman Waltz, who ripped into the Democrats' hypocrisy during this House Oversight Committee hearing.
00:19:55.620He's absolutely right, but there is a lot of Americans right now that are listening to this, they're going to say,
00:20:01.240OK, we're angry, we're upset, but it seems like the game is rigged, it seems like the system is rigged, Republicans go to prison, Democrats don't even have to show up for a hearing, it's just not right.
00:20:27.600The book I wrote before that is Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System.
00:20:32.140This really began in serious form under Barack Obama, where Barack Obama began using the Department of Justice, began using the FBI, began using the IRS, began using the intelligence community to target his political enemies.
00:20:48.240And the double standard, Barack Obama was treated by the media as Saint Barack.
00:20:54.540And what happened, for eight years, he weaponized, he put in place hardcore partisans who burrowed in to senior career positions.
00:21:04.380When Trump became president, those partisans were in senior career positions, and they spent four years with the federal government, the executive branch, waging war on the democratically elected president of the United States.
00:21:17.720Now, under Joe Biden, they're out in the open.
00:21:38.620Hunter Biden will never be held to account.
00:21:40.400And Joe Biden, especially, especially, especially, will never be held to account.
00:21:44.300The only answer is to elect a president of the United States who appoints people to the Department of Justice, to the FBI, to these government agencies, who is strong enough, who is insightful enough, who knows what they're doing and will clean out the hardcore partisans that have corrupted these agencies.
00:22:02.500One of the things that I also think, and we go back to what I said a moment ago, and I do want to get your take on this, is that this was all just a stunt.
00:22:09.680And it very well could have been to actually make money.
00:22:12.940There is a camera crew or camera crews, plural, that were on Capitol Hill, and there is a documentary that's being filmed about Joe Biden and, I guess, Hunter Biden and all of this, quote, persecution against him.
00:22:28.320If this was for the cameras and they're using Congress in this way, what does that also say just about where we are as a country and the fact that we're allowing this to happen within the walls of Congress, where it's like, hey, you want to do a documentary?
00:23:39.920It's by the way, you know, Hunter has no business that we know of in England or France or Germany or Italy.
00:23:48.500He has no business in in countries that are allies and friends.
00:23:52.720His business is going to corrupt nations who are often our enemies or the minimum significantly antagonistic to us and getting paid massive seven figure amounts from those corrupt.
00:24:09.920And that the arrogance of this, I'm sure the Biden White House was very unhappy.
00:24:16.820Hunter did this because it drew a lot of attention to just how contemptuous he is.
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00:25:06.200One of the things that you mentioned was this this really didn't go well from the White House perspective.
00:25:11.780A perfect example of that was after he walked out of this meeting, he was asked a question.
00:25:17.720And this was the question from a Fox reporter.
00:25:42.680He didn't answer the second part of that question.
00:25:44.680He just kept walking, but I think he realized, OK, maybe this wasn't perfect because those are the questions that he opened himself up to in the halls of Congress as he was making the long walk out of that committee hearing room.
00:26:22.640So that question you would never hear a congressional Democrat ask in the House or the Senate.
00:26:28.760I want to move lastly to another major issue that is broken and it deals with our national security.
00:26:34.640And I want to know what you think about these new warnings that are coming.
00:26:39.200And that is it's not shocking, but it certainly is a sobering moment.
00:26:44.380We know we have an open southern border.
00:26:46.160We know that more people on the terrorist watch list were caught last year coming across the southern border than the last five years before it combined.
00:26:54.300And now there's a new report coming out from Politico that American intel officials are warning of a risk of a Hezbollah attack, not just on U.S. men and women around the world and service members and in some of our bases,
00:27:08.820but also a real elevated risk at home for officials familiar with the intelligence have confirmed this to Politico that they're worried about attacks here outside of what we've seen from ISIS and Al Qaeda,
00:27:23.920where it's lone wolf type attacks, where they could be coming into this country already in this country and planning a major attack.
00:27:33.680And I've said before, I think the risk of a major terrorist attack in 2024 is greater than it has been at any time since September 11th, 2001,
00:27:45.240that we have right now, number one, a war in the Middle East and Israel.
00:27:52.080Hamas and Hezbollah have called upon their terrorists to wage jihad, not just against Israel, but against America.
00:28:01.260And we have an open border on our southern border due to Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:28:06.2209.6 million people have crossed illegally into this country under Joe Biden.
00:28:12.640When I was last down on the southern border, I'm down there a lot, multiple border patrol agents told me they were deeply concerned
00:28:19.920about the risk of Hamas terrorists and Hezbollah terrorists crossing the border because Joe Biden, it continues to be an open border to this day.
00:28:30.800As we are speaking, Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists could be crossing in.
00:28:34.680And what is so frustrating is if you were a Hamas commander, Ben, you would send terrorists in.
00:28:44.520It's a glaring vulnerability that Joe Biden and the Democrats don't care to solve.
00:28:49.980So this political article that just came out quoted a senior U.S. intelligence official as saying, and this is a quote,
00:28:57.440quote, Hezbollah could draw on the capability they have to put people in places to do something.
00:29:04.180It is something to be worried about, said the official.
00:29:07.800And this is consistent with we did a previous podcast where we read the memo that Customs and Border Patrol had sent to Border Patrol agents saying be on particular guard for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists
00:29:22.160and also Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists trying to cross the border.
00:29:27.320And it is astonishing to me that even in the face of that risk, which suddenly the FBI is publicly acknowledging, where six months ago they were not acknowledging it, they are now.
00:29:38.880And what that tells me is the classified intel is even worse than what we know in public.
00:29:46.300You know, you don't have to leap very far to get from point A to point B on something as simplistic of, hey, if you are a terrorist organization,
00:29:54.560are you going to take the risk of putting people that could be on the terrorist watch list on airplanes and try to get them to the country that way?
00:30:01.900Or are you just going to get them to come across the southern open border when there's millions of people that have already it's worked successfully for?
00:30:09.020You know that if you are not on the watch list and they catch you, about 80 plus percent of you are being released into the interior of this country.
00:30:16.340And if you want to be one of the gotaways, it's not that hard.
00:30:19.680You've witnessed it firsthand at the southern border, and yet this administration refuses to admit that it's a national security risk.
00:30:27.040And I think even now, if you ask them, they would refuse to acknowledge the existence of a real terrorist threat because of an open southern border.
00:30:36.460And you've got to ask yourself at that point, like, what does it take for them to get their heads out of the rear end, Senator?
00:30:41.800And understand, this isn't just about an open border or border policy.
00:30:46.820This is about a national security policy as well.
00:30:54.060You know, Christy Abizade, who is the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a congressional hearing in October, here's what she said.
00:31:01.800Quote, Iran, Hezbollah, and their linked proxies are trying to calibrate their activity, avoiding actions that would open up a concerted second front with the United States or Israel, while still exacting costs in the midst of the current conflict.
00:31:28.520Here's what Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, said, quote, this is a moment of profound tension in the region.
00:31:37.340This is a conflict that could easily metastasize.
00:31:41.640And yet, even as they're admitting that, they're not willing to secure the border.
00:31:46.260Here's what Chris Wray said in a congressional hearing on November 15th, quote,
00:31:50.280The arrest of individuals in the United States, allegedly linked to Hezbollah's main overseas terrorist arm and their intelligence collection and procurement efforts, demonstrate Hezbollah's interests in the long term contingency planning activities here in the homeland.
00:32:08.100And none of this is persuasive to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Alejandro Mayorkas or any of the congressional Democrats who are all willing to turn a blind eye and say,
00:32:21.500Whatever you're listening to this podcast, if you're listening to this podcast at six in the morning, if you're listening to this podcast at noon, if you're listening to this podcast at 6 p.m.
00:32:32.640or if you're listening to this podcast at midnight, whatever time you're listening to it right now, there are people crossing illegally into this country.
00:32:41.240and the biden administration is doing nothing to stop them in the last three years there have been
00:32:46.880over two million gotaways those are people that have evaded capture we know about them but that
00:32:53.600but they didn't turn themselves in whereas the bulk of the people who came did turn themselves
00:32:58.200in the gotaways are the most dangerous you want to know where the terrorists are they're the
00:33:02.360gotaways you want to know where the criminals are they're the gotaways the murderers the rapists
00:33:06.720they're the gotaways you want to know where the gang members the ms-13 are they're the gotaways and
00:33:11.960i i don't know what it will take to get this administration to actually step up and say
00:33:19.060we're going to keep the american people safe from a terror attack is it arrogance last question on
00:33:25.280this is it arrogance that you know oh we know better uh because there is a a younger age that
00:33:33.200is serving in the house now that we've seen that maybe doesn't understand or remember truly what
00:33:38.080happened on 9-11 is it an arrogance of the democratic party that they just don't care about history in
00:33:43.560the past i mean i remember 9-11 like it was yesterday i know you do as well and many americans
00:33:50.240do and when you hear this type of threat you can imagine it because you've lived through 9-11 you can
00:33:55.780imagine what it looks like when you allow hezbollah terrorists to come across the southern border
00:34:00.920and what they can do if they are well trained which they are uh and if they can get their hands
00:34:06.560on what they need to carry out a significant terrorist attack and i sit here and go how do
00:34:10.940you not remember 9-11 where is the disconnect here well look for one thing 9-11 was 22 years ago
00:34:18.70022 years ago is a long time um you and i although we think we're spring chickens we're not anymore
00:34:25.040um you're in your 40s i'm in my 50s there are a lot of people there is not a single college kid who
00:34:31.920remembers 9-11 uh there are a lot of people in their 30s who who 9-11 is a distant memory from
00:34:39.420their childhood and and look i get it you know for me i think about like pearl harbor i know about
00:34:45.120pearl harbor it's a horrible day in history it's a horrible day in u.s history but do i have
00:34:50.340a personal emotional reaction to pearl harbor no it happened long before i was born so it's kind of
00:34:57.120i've read about it but i didn't live through it so there is a dynamic that that many people in
00:35:02.760america were getting far enough beyond 9-11 that many people don't have a personal acute memory
00:35:09.000and then i think beyond that what has happened is is that that we've seen the democrat party in
00:35:15.880washington radicalized and and it it it's been happening for a while barack obama started this
00:35:23.520process of radicalizing it and then trump becoming president broke their brains they hate trump so
00:35:30.220much that that i actually just think they've convinced themselves that anything is justified
00:35:38.160fighting trump and and the result of it is that they're embracing radical policies and because
00:35:45.900the press trump broke the press the media doesn't report on this and and and so the democrats are
00:35:55.360radicalized because they know they will never be asked back home about the extreme policies they're
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