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"Newly sworn in Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to hold a news conference and we are waiting to hear if he sheds any light on whether he will prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci. It comes after a Senate panel referred Fauci to the Justice Department after he pled the fifth more than 100 times in a..."
[0:00] Newly sworn in Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to hold a news conference
[0:04] and we are waiting to hear if he sheds any light on whether he will prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci.
[0:10] It comes after a Senate panel referred Fauci to the Justice Department
[0:14] after he pled the fifth more than 100 times in a hearing rather than answering lawmakers' questions.
[0:21] Since that time, Senator Ron Johnson revealed bombshell texts from the doctor's pandemic era phone
[0:27] in which Fauci privately expressed concerns that the COVID vaccine could be linked to miscarriages.
[0:33] Senator Johnson says lawmakers are working to release more texts. Watch.
[0:38] We have to first connect phone numbers to people. We need to protect people's personal information.
[0:44] We'll go at this as we did. We kind of targeted key moments. He'll concentrate on gain of function.
[0:49] I'm going to concentrate on what they knew about potential adverse events,
[0:53] the safety signals they should have been warning the public about.
[0:55] But again, we'll try and get this out as quickly as possible,
[0:58] being very careful not to release personal information.
[1:01] And Johnson, meanwhile, said efforts to reveal pandemic era corruption
[1:04] were being obstructed by staff at the Health and Human Services Department.
[1:12] Most of the people serving in these agencies have been there a long time.
[1:15] They were involved in the cover-up.
[1:17] They were supposed to be surveilling for vaccine injuries, and they worked.
[1:22] I mean, it's pretty obvious to me in these interviews that they were not doing their job.
[1:28] Not even close.
[1:28] Bobby Kennedy has people in those agencies sabotaging his efforts at radical transparency.
[1:33] So this is like pulling teeth.
[1:36] All right. So much to unpack here.
[1:37] You had that interview, Kayleigh. Tell us more.
[1:39] Yeah, Senator Ron Johnson, of course, lit the world on fire, really,
[1:42] when he just released one text of 34,000.
[1:46] And that one text you just played about pregnancy and the risk of miscarriage
[1:49] and Fauci's personal thoughts with the CDC director at the time under Biden,
[1:53] with the Surgeon General.
[1:54] That was one text.
[1:56] They're approaching this so methodically.
[1:57] So they've made the search, the phone searchable.
[2:00] And they've determined there's 34,000 texts, 522 voicemails.
[2:04] Curiously, only three contacts.
[2:06] I don't know.
[2:06] I have, like, hundreds of contacts in my phone.
[2:08] But he wonders why there are only three names and why the rest are just phone numbers,
[2:12] making his job really impossible to figure out who each of these phone numbers is.
[2:16] He's divided the work.
[2:18] And Rand Paul is looking at gain-of-function and the origins of COVID.
[2:22] And he, Ron Johnson, is looking at adverse events.
[2:25] And what was Fauci saying in text versus what he was saying in public?
[2:28] So they're approaching it methodically.
[2:29] They don't have a big investigative team.
[2:31] But he wants the American public to get these texts as quickly as possible.
[2:34] I think we all deserve that information.
[2:36] And the reason he released just one, he said that is pertinent health information.
[2:40] If there are pregnant women out there thinking about the COVID vaccine,
[2:42] they deserve to know that Anthony Fauci had expressed qualms privately,
[2:46] different than what was expressed publicly.
[2:48] And last point I'll say, he made this point, but he has studied adverse events.
[2:52] I've talked to him for a long time.
[2:53] He never once heard about this risk of miscarriage.
[2:56] And this was expressed by Fauci way back in 2021.
[2:59] So for someone who's studied this to never have heard of this,
[3:02] to find out five years later, it's really infuriating for the American people.
[3:05] Indeed.
[3:05] And the impact of one at a time, Harris, is quite important.
[3:08] I think it helps to not dilute, not be over.
[3:11] We're not drinking from a fire hose.
[3:12] So the methodical approach, the strategy behind it,
[3:15] I'm so grateful for it, even if it takes a little bit longer to get the 34,000 out.
[3:20] Well, and when you handle it that way, you don't extrapolate drama, which is what you don't want.
[3:25] You want to be able to look at what's most important and inform the American people.
[3:29] Don't overload them purposefully.
[3:31] And that becomes the story, the drama.
[3:33] I'll tell you what really is disturbing.
[3:36] When Senator Johnson said it, and Representative Chip Roy out of Texas told me last hour, too,
[3:41] if someone from the inside, if people from the inside, a deeper set of people inside the HHS,
[3:48] are covering for Fauci, that would mean, as Johnson said,
[3:52] they are working against the current HHS secretary, RFK Jr.
[3:55] And there are constantly things that are going on that the public needs to know about.
[4:00] That's problematic.
[4:01] There are people who are working against the secretary, thereby working against us as American citizens.
[4:07] I mean, I want to see them dig into that.
[4:09] Like, what does that look like?
[4:11] And Chip Roy, Representative last hour, was right.
[4:14] What about Deborah Birx?
[4:15] What about some of these other people who were around the administration at the time when Fauci was not truthful
[4:21] and transparent and honest with the American people about some pretty damning things,
[4:26] things that were really important?
[4:27] Perfect segue that I wanted to get to with you, Lisa, which is the bubble around him.
[4:31] Because while the contacts are only three, there were many people.
[4:33] He texted these adverse events, illustrative texts and more to people.
[4:40] So who knew?
[4:41] It's not like, other than the diary, it's not like the texts are just going to himself.
[4:45] You talk about the obstructionist behavior, that's felonious.
[4:47] So, indeed, there are multiple people around his pigpen cloud that certainly deserve and hopefully will see accountability.
[4:55] Well, and I've got to give credit to Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson.
[4:59] Rand Paul has been dogged in trying to get to the truth of the origins of COVID.
[5:02] And then Senator Ron Johnson has been dogged in trying to get to the truth about vaccine injuries
[5:06] and given a lot of those vaccine-injured individuals a voice in hearings when no one else would hear them.
[5:13] I will say from the beginning, it was always reckless to tell everyone that they needed to go out
[5:17] and get the COVID vaccine because everyone's risk profile was so different.
[5:21] I remember writing why I wasn't going to get it back in November 2021.
[5:25] I was 36 at the time.
[5:27] I had a 99.97% chance of survival.
[5:30] It's even better today as the virus has spread through Omicron and sort of reduced the deadliness of it.
[5:37] But even at the time, you looked at someone like Joe Biden who was 78 and I was 36 at the time,
[5:42] there was more than a thousand-fold difference in mortality between the two of us.
[5:46] So something that Joe Biden might have needed at his age is not something that I needed at my age.
[5:51] And then when we realized as early as July 2021, the vaccine wasn't stopping the spread.
[5:57] There was a cluster outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts in July 3rd, 2021, 75% of the cases were vaccinated individuals.
[6:06] Joe Biden knew that.
[6:07] The White House knew it.
[6:08] Yet Joe Biden took the stage at CNN and told everyone you weren't going to get COVID if you got vaccinated.
[6:13] That's why Americans are so frustrated right now because what we were told publicly is not the concerns that they had privately.
[6:19] And the miscarriage is just a whole heartbreaking other arena.
[6:23] Your thoughts?
[6:24] Two points about Rand Paul and the COVID origins.
[6:27] I was saying back at the beginning, as many were, what about the lab?
[6:30] I wasn't the only one.
[6:31] Certainly Tom Cotton started this.
[6:33] And it was ridiculed as a conspiracy theory when it turns out that Fauci and others were deeply concerned about COVID origins coming from that lab.
[6:42] Why shouldn't they be?
[6:43] That coronavirus were being studied in that lab.
[6:45] They were being studied in that lab in coordination with North Carolina.
[6:49] All of that, our intelligence agencies brought out, but Tony knew about that.
[6:53] It's a flavor of let's tell the American public only what I think they should know.
[6:58] When it comes to the vaccine, it was an emergency use authorization.
[7:02] This is your excellent interview with Ron Johnson.
[7:04] It was an emergency use authorization.
[7:07] We were learning about it as it went.
[7:09] I happen to still think it's a good vaccine and has a lot of use.
[7:12] To Lisa's point, it may not be for everyone.
[7:14] About pregnancy, here's what's disturbing.
[7:16] In 2021, there was a big study coming out that questioned the issue of miscarriage.
[7:21] And Tony knew about it.
[7:22] And Tony's a vaccinologist.
[7:24] That's his lane.
[7:25] So, of course, he has to tell the American public about it so women can make informed decisions.
[7:30] I have to add, recent studies since then make it look like it's totally safe during pregnancy.
[7:35] But at the time, that came up and it should have been disclosed.
[7:39] And Tony, you mean Dr. Fauci.
[7:40] I don't even know it.
[7:41] You mean Dr. Fauci.
[7:42] Has the vaccine changed in a way that's made it more safe for particularly pregnant women if that was ever in doubt?
[7:49] I think the studies that were done were better after the fact.
[7:54] But this study raised the question and it needed a deeper investigation.
[7:58] And we got it.
[7:59] I think it's safe during pregnancy.
[8:00] COVID itself is dangerous during pregnancy.
[8:03] But, yeah, it's an individual decision.
[8:04] You have to make this in coordination with your obstetrician.
[8:07] But there's also the frustration with the lack of public disclosure, as you pointed out so eloquently.
[8:13] But it was also mandated.
[8:15] Joe Biden tried to mandate that into the arms of Americans.
[8:18] So people had to choose, you know, am I going to have to decide between feeding my family
[8:22] or injecting something in my body that I'm unsure about and I don't know if I want to get.
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