States TAKE ACTION against Fauci after explosive Senate hearing

[0:01] HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s words are going viral for a fiery exchange over media [0:08] coverage of the COVID pandemic. I really want to move on. But you were saying. Yes, I do. You were part of the problem. No, I wasn't part of the problem. Yeah, there was absolute press malpractice. I'm not debating this. Of course you won't. No, because I'm not debating policy. All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say trust the experts. That's what you did during COVID. Now we know [0:32] that Andy Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything, about mass, about the social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID. He was lying and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now you're rolling out the experts again to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of. And after he said that, Clay Travis did this. He posted simply, thank you, RFKG. [1:04] Thank you, RFK Jr. Exclamation point. Joe Concha likened the host's reaction to a petulant teenager who broke curfew and won't admit it by trying to drown out RFK Jr. Another user wrote, this is what we need more of, truth without mercy. And a statement to Fox, CNN said, asking tough, substantive questions to those in power is the job of every journalist. And Dana did hers incredibly well today. [1:29] We stand behind Dana, her reporting and CNN's overall coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Oh, well, that last part's good to know. [1:38] In focus, Ben Dominesh, Fox News contributor. First of all, first reaction to their statement defending her. [1:43] I mean, I don't know what they were watching because that's not what I heard at all. It's certainly not what I think America heard or saw. [1:52] And I think that when it comes to the revisionist way that CNN is trying to approach their coverage of COVID, you know, RFK, I think, you know, in this moment was channeling a lot of people who feel like, you know, when we look at the list of people who we believe ought to be held accountable, [2:07] that list doesn't end with government officials and bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci. It's a much longer list. [2:13] And it includes the people who, you know, style themselves as being the most, you know, trusted newsmakers and reporters, people who are going to report the truth and not, you know, hold anything back. [2:24] And instead, what did they do? They went along with so many different lies that we now know about. [2:29] And thanks to the, you know, release of his diaries, we know that Anthony Fauci himself knew about. [2:33] And so, look, I just, I think that this is the kind of thing where we need a whole look at this media reporting approach that was used during COVID. [2:42] And we can't just walk past it because when something like this comes along again, they're going to do the same mistakes. [2:47] They're going to probably make the same mistakes. [2:49] And they're going to lie to you and tell you that you can trust them even as they do it. [2:53] Look, the first part of what you just said in that last sentence, they're going to make mistakes. [2:57] We're human. Of course we are. We hadn't seen that since 1918 and we didn't even have antibiotics for the Spanish flu until much, much later. [3:05] 50 million people died across the world. This situation was different. [3:09] So they made some mistakes and we get that. [3:12] It's the lying part that we cannot live with as the American public or across the world because, as he said, he was the most famous in his diary. [3:19] And we only know that because that was part of what they scooped up here in Congress, [3:23] that he was the most famous person in America because of what he was doing and thereby around the world. [3:30] Yeah, I mean, I love that he was, you know, writing things as dire about, you know, [3:34] had a great podcast today with noted actor Alec Baldwin. [3:37] It's like, come on, man, what are you doing? [3:40] Look, I look at this whole scenario and I view this as, on the one hand, [3:44] mistakes at the beginning when we didn't know what was going on. [3:46] But then to stop asking any of the questions that you ought to have been asking once you started to have [3:52] all these pieces of information, these news, you know, the different reporting that came out [3:56] that showed that this was not behaving the way that people like Anthony Fauci said it was behaving, [4:01] that all those different questions should have been raised at the time. [4:05] And many people, including people on our network, were raising questions about that. [4:09] You know, from the get-go about things like the origin of this virus. [4:12] And at the time, it was places like CNN that were criticizing, even questioning that. [4:17] How dare you suggest that this could be a lab leak? [4:19] How dare you, you know, go against the science, in this case, [4:23] represented by people like Fauci? [4:25] And the truth is that we need to be able to ask those questions in order to get to the truth. [4:29] Yeah, and you can see the fire building in the ratio for journalists who are asking questions on X, [4:34] you know, formerly known as Twitter, not owned by Elon Musk, who went in there and killed, [4:38] you know, all those fake accounts and bots and all that and stopped the truth from being attacked [4:44] on this very issue. [4:45] I do want to point this out, because I said this last week, it lit up on my own X page. [4:49] January 1st, 2014 to January 19th, 2025. [4:53] That's what the presidential pardon covered for him. [4:56] Here's what it didn't cover. [4:57] It doesn't protect Fauci from prosecution for conduct outside of that covered time period. [5:02] So whatever he did, like the next day in that January, not covered. [5:07] It doesn't cover state criminal prosecutions or future crimes. [5:11] And this may have been why he took the fifth, pled the fifth 111 times. [5:16] It doesn't protect him from prosecution for perjury. [5:19] So had he lied up there, he would have been in trouble. [5:21] But you know what? [5:22] The state attorneys general now in Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida heard that state part, [5:27] and they've now announced investigations into Dr. Fauci. [5:30] Former President Joe Biden granted Fauci that pardon before he left the White House, [5:35] but it didn't protect him from this. [5:38] Here's Governor Ron DeSantis. [5:41] This is a guy that was drinking his own Kool-Aid. [5:44] He was venerated by the media. [5:46] I think he liked the fact that he had a lot of this informal power [5:49] when he was issuing these recommendations [5:52] and telling governors and mayors to do some of the draconian things [5:56] that were actually done. [5:57] It had a really negative effect on a lot of societies throughout this country. [6:02] You had businesses reeling, people's liberties curtailed, [6:06] and kids left on the sideline unable to access education. [6:10] Ben, pick it up. [6:11] I think that one of the things we should understand about this [6:15] is that this power, this pardon power was being used in ways [6:19] that it should never have been used, [6:21] sweeping so many different things under the rug [6:23] or attempting to do so. [6:25] And in this blanket fashion where, you know, [6:27] it's not even a situation where he was accused of [6:29] or convicted of a crime, [6:31] I believe that these states have every right to pursue this [6:33] and that they ought to. [6:34] They should do everything in their power [6:36] because we know so much now [6:38] that we didn't know back in the day [6:39] and we are only increasingly getting more knowledge [6:43] about how false he played this situation, [6:45] how much he profited from it. [6:47] You know, the anger that you saw in that hearing, [6:50] not just from Rand Paul, [6:51] but from, I think, particularly Senator Hawley [6:53] in highlighting the fact that he was using this fame [6:57] to make money. [6:59] Yeah, Marino, I think, you know, [7:01] he spoke a little bit more bluntly, let's say, [7:04] about the nature of this. [7:06] I am incredibly infuriated by the fact [7:09] that there has not been the kind of responsibility held [7:12] by any of these people to hold them responsible [7:15] for the decisions that they made [7:16] that have led to, in some cases, [7:19] what may turn out to be permanent damage [7:20] to America's children [7:21] because of the choices that they made at the time [7:24] with the power of government enforced, [7:26] you know, across this country [7:27] in ways that now look incredibly foolish. [7:30] And what kind of cover-up were the footprints [7:32] in the sand of his connective tissue to China [7:35] when all of this is going on, gain-of-function, all that. [7:38] That all came up, but he took the fifth. [7:40] All right, good to always have you on the program. [7:42] Thank you, Ben.