00:08:30.060So, sorry, I have my own COVID ruined my wife's life story, so I'm going to tell that briefly.
00:08:36.140So, we were in the heat of the primary campaign, and what turned into a very, very intense campaign.
00:08:41.160And, you know, my wife was 39 weeks pregnant, so we're, you know, very bad at family planning.
00:08:47.280So, my wife gets COVID, and she actually, I got, for me, it was like a mild cold.
00:08:52.480For her, she got actually pretty sick, which maybe has something to do with the fact she was 39 weeks pregnant.
00:08:57.860Nine days afterwards, she starts going into labor.
00:09:01.080And we called the hospital, and they said, try to wait another few hours, because if you come in now, you're going to have to wear the full mask, body gear set up, complete quarantine.
00:09:13.060Your husband can't be in the room with you, but if you wait a few hours, then you've reached the quarantine period.
00:09:26.080In other words, there were a lot of people, of course, who were prevented seeing loved ones in their final moments, and that is heartbreaking.
00:09:31.780But the failure to be honest about this virus with the American people ruined a lot of lives.
00:09:36.960And the fact that they called us conspiracy theorists for stating the obvious, I mean, credit to you guys for talking about this.
00:09:44.140Credit to Tom Cotton for talking about this.
00:09:45.920But it was, I mean, look, there were always two options, right?
00:09:49.180Like, one was a bat that had COVID flew into a guy's soup, and it sort of wafted into his nose, and he got human COVID.
00:11:25.120In November of 2019, not one, not two, three scientists, employees at the Wuhan Institute for Virology, check themselves into the hospital with serious illnesses that may well have been the beginning of the pandemic.
00:11:46.080When the pandemic erupted, we discovered that China had been stockpiling protective medical equipment several months before the pandemic, and China ordered the Wuhan Institute for Virology to destroy the samples.
00:12:05.340Now, look, in a court of law, and I'm sorry, you have two lawyers here.
00:12:13.820In a court of law, in a civil case or a criminal case, if someone destroys evidence, a judge will instruct the jury.
00:12:23.920You are entitled to draw an inference from the destruction of evidence that that evidence was incriminating, that there's a reason they destroyed the evidence.
00:12:32.840In this case, it ain't complicated what the reason was, that the Chinese government said, destroy all the samples.
00:12:41.560I think now and then it was overwhelmingly likely that COVID escaped from a Chinese government lab, and I think it is significantly more likely than not that it was, in fact, altered in that lab through gain-of-function research, that it was a natural virus, that they made more dangerous, more deadly, and that's why China doesn't want culpability for it.
00:13:04.380And I will say this, if you want to know the facts on what's going on, on this issue and everything else, I want to encourage everyone here, take out your cell phone.
00:16:38.880Who told millions of Americans lies willingly, knowingly, glibly, supremely arrogantly.
00:16:46.660Should there be an accountability in any sane system, he would be prosecuted for lying
00:16:51.740under oath, and he would go to jail for lying under oath to Congress.
00:16:56.880Now, unfortunately, I can quantify with mathematical precision the likelihood that the Biden Department of Justice will prosecute him, and the odds are 0.000%.
00:17:20.660Number one, we have a majority in the House, and I am confident in the House that we're going to use that majority and use it to hold Dr.
00:17:29.560Fauci and the others who lied accountable.
00:17:31.860And we need to have hearings on the origins of COVID.
00:17:34.740We need to have hearings to follow the money.
00:17:37.160We need to have hearings examining and laying out the facts about how Fauci misled the American people and the corruption that drove that.
00:17:45.700You mentioned, Garland, a second ago, there were some fireworks yesterday on Capitol Hill, and I want to play a clip of you talking with the AG, and I'm going to call for clip five, because this was about two systems of justice in this country.
00:18:03.540I think it's very clear there are two systems of justice.
00:18:54.040How do you decide which statutes you enforce and which ones you don't?
00:18:57.560The Marshals on scene make that determination in light of the priority of...
00:19:02.860The Marshals do not make a determination over whether to prosecute you.
00:19:06.260The Attorney General make a determination and you spent 20 years as a judge and you're perfectly content with justices being afraid for their children's lives.
00:20:40.100So, you look at that moment, and I think it was all-encompassing of what the American, I think, especially conservatives like they're up against, which is there's two systems of justice here.
00:20:50.700If you're a conservative, we'll come after you with a full strength of law.
00:20:56.620You know the story of a man, and you can pick it up from here and remind people of how they treat conservatives compared to when you're intimidating judges of the Supreme Court over issues like Roe v. Wade where they're trying to flip votes.
00:21:09.580So, look, Merrick Garland, I believe, is the most partisan and politicized attorney general our nation has ever seen.
00:21:17.120And what is happening at the Department of Justice is heartbreaking because it has turned into the political weapon for the Democrats to attack their enemies and protect their friends.
00:22:02.620So, for example, what we were talking about, as you guys know, when the Dobbs opinion was released, when it was leaked.
00:22:09.300Hundreds of left-wing protesters, radical left-wing protesters went to the homes of six Supreme Court justices and engaged in angry, violent protests.
00:22:22.620And by the way, left-wing groups were not only giving out the home addresses of justices.
00:22:27.760They were giving where the justices worshipped, what churches they went to.
00:22:31.020They were giving where their kids went to school.
00:22:33.060And angry protesters at your home, when your kids are sleeping in their bedroom, is inherently threatening.
00:22:40.040There is a statute, 18 U.S.C. 1571, that makes it a crime, a federal crime, to protest at the home of a judge in an effort to influence the outcome of a case.
00:24:03.860And what is shocking for someone who spent 24 years as a judge is that he's perfectly willing to be complicit with a left-wing violent mob threatening the lives and families of the justices because he supports their political agenda.
00:24:21.240Yeah, let's take stock for just a second of who Merrick Garland has gone after and who he's refused to go after.
00:24:27.620He's gone after a pro-life father of seven at his home, arrested him like a hardened criminal.
00:24:34.660He's gone after parents peacefully protesting at their children's school board meetings.
00:24:39.580He's had the FBI investigate traditional Catholics as being domestic terrorists, and he won't use the Department of Justice to go after people who are harassing the children of Supreme Court justices.
00:25:12.720How concerned are the American people about these type of issues when you were talking to them that, hey, this government that I'm supposed to trust is supposed to protect me.
00:25:31.940Look, one of the things Ted said when he was out on the campaign trail campaigning with me to this blue-collar conservatism point that I stole, Ted.
00:25:40.940But I gave you credit, though, so it's borrowing.
00:25:44.860He would talk about how if you look at who's voting Republicans.
00:25:48.720I mean, we're the party of soldiers and sailors, of nurses, of construction workers, of people who go to work, pay their taxes, raise their children, and just want to live in safe communities.
00:25:59.640That is our base right now, and I love that, right?
00:26:02.820We should be proud of that base, and we should be working hard to serve that base.
00:26:07.140And, you know, I've got to say, a lot of our elites, a lot of the leaders, I think, of the establishment of the Republican Party, they're ashamed of our new base.
00:26:14.340I know Ted and I aren't, and that's something that's very, very good that's happening in our party.
00:26:18.980But, look, if you think about those people, middle-class people who go to work, they do their thing, they try to just live a good life in the country that their parents and grandparents built, they know that when the Department of Justice acts unfairly, they're the very kind of people who suffer.
00:26:36.000They know that the very thing that makes this country special is that whether you're powerful or not, whether you're rich or poor, we all have equal justice under law, or at least we did until Joe Biden's gang of thugs moved into the White House.
00:26:49.940And let me say something on that, which is, you know, J.D. is a brand-new senator, and he's one of the people I am incredibly excited that is now a member of the U.S. Senate, because, thank you, as J.D. mentioned, I campaigned with him all over the state of Ohio.
00:27:26.020But, you know, J.D.'s personal story is a story that describes who the Republican Party is.
00:27:33.100I mean, J.D. grew up in Appalachia, grew up in working-class environments, in rough working-class environments, was a Marine who went to Yale Law School.
00:28:40.100I want to make sure Ted has plenty of time to go on.
00:28:42.260But look, what J.D. did so powerfully, because I am going to go on, is described the pathologies that have been just hammering working men and women in this country,
00:28:55.700or not even working men and women, people who are not working.
00:28:58.680And whether the opioid crisis and addiction, the destruction of manufacturing jobs, the loss of fathers at home raising kids,
00:29:15.520and it is a powerful explanation of the damage that's been done, and it's a really clarion call.
00:29:22.400I've got to tell you, you know, this is no longer the party of the country clubs, and there are some of our colleagues in the Republican conference who are really confused who this guy is,
00:29:36.080and that's why I'm so excited that he's come.
00:29:39.760Give us your thoughts on, all right, you've been in the Senate two months.