7-28-26 Hour 2 - Media Ignores Fauci Diary
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108 segmentsThis episode is brought to you by Claude by Anthropic. Claude is the AI for minds that don't stop at good enough. It's the collaborator that actually understands your entire workflow and thinks with you. Whether you're debugging code at midnight or strategizing your next business move, Claude extends your thinking to tackle the problems that matter and finds connections you might have missed. For problems worth solving, get started at clod.a.ai slash Spotify. I was not a believer because he said everybody has to wear a mask. Then he said, don't wear a mask. He started off saying don't wear him. Then he said wear him. Then he said, don't wear him. And I lost a lot of respect for him during the period of time. But I inherited him. He's been there since the 1980s. I mean, he was a guy that was there that I inherited. He inherited him, President Trump speaking about Dr. Anthony Fauci. I guess he didn't want to fire him. Maybe looking back, he wishes he had, used his token line, you're fired. Um, we're going to have more on Anthony Fauci, I think, throughout the show and tomorrow, because he's heading over to Capitol Hill to answer some of the senator's questions about his, um, dear diary entries, which just seem to read like, um, almost like a comic book. It's kind of sad. But to break this down for us, I have Bradley J. joining us, politics editor at Breitbart News. Hey, Bradley. Um, how wild is some of this Anthony Fauci, uh, I guess documents that we're saying. Do you call it documents? It's a diary. I think it's been, I always think of little girls jotting little, like, you know, little love letters in their diary, not Anthony Fauci writing love letters about CNN hosts, but that seems to be what we have noticed. Alex, the more I find out about this Anthony Fauci character, the more I don't like him. There seems to be something amiss with this guy. No, I mean, it's clear the guy's a sociopath. Washington is full of two types of people, those who got shoved into too many lockers or folks who didn't get shoved into enough lockers. I don't know which one this guy is. I think he's both. I would love nothing more this morning than to shove Anthony Fowsey into a locker. I'd make him feel it. The guy clearly has some screws loose. He's looking for validation from a certain class of folks. It's very clear from these. As you said, I guess they're dowry entries. There's just something amiss here. You and I were talking a little bit before the radio show about how it seems like all of his entries, almost all of them, focus on media. There's some that are a little bit behind the scenes about...
what was going on at the White House, but it seems like everything that he was focusing on was him, his ability from in the White House to get his message out, like to the press or cameras or that sort of thing. It's just, you know, I guess a narcissistic personality issue there. But I'm going to play a clip real quick. I think it's cut 18 and have you react to it. It's Rand Paul. Now, he's pretty much been the laser. He's been laser focused on Anthony Fauci. I'm sure he's going to give him a grilling come tomorrow. And one thing he's noted is that, you know, it seems that what we've been hearing from Anthony Fauci publicly isn't what we know now from documents privately. You know, one of the biggest items that we found in there was that in January of 2020, he already was acknowledging that the virus didn't originate in the marketplace. For years, he's been telling him. If you interviewed him last week, he's probably still telling you the reason we think it came from nature is because they had these exhaust. animals and that's where SARS came from previously. But he knew. He already knew. And we've known this for a while that other people knew, but we didn't know he actually knew and was acknowledging that it didn't. The earliest people who got COVID were not associated with the marketplace. The Chinese CDC was saying this in January of 2020. He knew it. He told Dear Diary, but to the public, he commissioned this paper called Proximal Origins, and in it, they go on and on saying it's implausible that it came from the lab and were really convinced it came from these wild animals in the marketplace. But that level of dishonesty is really astounding. So privately, you know, in his, these documents, it shows that his, the whole, he's kind of bearing this lab leak issue. Do you remember publicly it was like he was almost mocking President Trump when he would talk about the lab leak? And that was, you know, of course, during the whole 2020 election leading up to that, how much that cost, that was a big deal. And the media, it was like, anyone that brought that up, you were like silenced. You were censored. I mean, people were censored on social media for that. Yeah, censored. I mean, people lost their livelihoods, all because of this cover-up from Anthony Fauci, Inc. Some guy who clearly was more obsessed. with positive media coverage and adoration than he was actually doing his dadgum job. It's absurd. And it was very clear from the get-go. I mean, they said this came from like the open-air market. Nobody bought that. It was very clear that it originated in a lab. And here's the thing. And I am no scientist. I doubt that Anthony Fouts, I mean, he's certainly not a scientist first. But the way that you, not only the way that you manufacture and produce a vaccine for a virus like this, but the way that you treat it, the entire approach, all that is.
World's different based on whether the virus originated in a lab or whether if it was manufactured by a scientist, by researcher, or if it originated in nature. So much of our response, not just in this country, but worldwide, was wrong, was based on lies, and Anthony Fauci was the tip of the spear here. How many... hundreds of thousands or more people died because Anthony Fauci sought fame more than he did scientific truth in fact. And what was, who is he covering up for? I mean, this guy was protecting the scientific bureaucracy more so than he was. people who, in this profession, you're actually supposed to be protecting. I mean, it's just reprehensible. I mean, this guy should, there's no punishment too severe for this guy. Yeah, well, he has that pardon. He's going to be riding an eye on his horse with, before the... Oh, the auto pin pardon. Yeah, that's true. We'll see if that holds up in court. I think we put it to test. One of the things I like that you guys did over at brightbart.com, you guys have a story pointing out one of his entries about having dinner with... with Jake Tapper and his wife at the house. And then, of course, you know, that was around the time, like I think days apart where people were told not to have, they can't have family gatherings. Don't do that. You know, think of the people that weren't able to see their loved ones, funerals, weddings, all of that canceled. It's just, it's unfortunate. Speaking of, though, you brought up the auto pen. So I'm going to jump to Biden. There's news out today, some of these recordings with his ghost writer. A little bit point to him understanding that some information he was sharing was classified. Others kind of show his memory issue. I'm going to go ahead and play. Let's start with cut one. And then the next thing you have here is this is classified. It's all of it. It goes with 17. Okay, so Bradley, he's acknowledging he has classified information. There's another soundbite where he mentions like this next part might be classified. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't President Trump brought in to get his mugshot over classified information? Yeah, and it's clear that President Biden is doing this not by accident. This isn't, whoops, I grabbed the wrong file, shoved the wrong file in my briefcase on the way home from work. I mean, he's very clearly suggesting that he is going to use classified materials illegally in a book. that he can profit from. Again, I mean, this is rules for thee, but not for me, the same way with Anthony Fauci, you know, instructing all Americans and giving government the fodder to force militant lockdowns on people just, you know, days before he goes to be feeded at some huge dinner hosted by Jake Tapper. Here you have Biden.
profiting or seeking to profit off of these classified materials and All of this while his own Department of Justice is preparing to go after Donald Trump for doing something similar, even though Donald Trump has the ability, as he argued, to deem these materials no longer classified. I mean, he's the commander in chief. You can do that. But, again, it's just rules for D and not for me. It seems to be a common thread when we investigate all of these Democrat dealings that are going on. Yeah, and then he also... in these clips shows a memory issue which kind of um i'm going to follow up with you and tie that to the auto pin uh let's play cut four real quick for bradley um i was i going to ask you something else uh um oh gosh i can't think what is Oh, Bradley, I don't know. I forgot what I was going to ask you. My question is, let me think about this. The autopin, okay? Like, if he can't remember, is that why we saw the auto pin so much? He's having memory issues. He's having thinking problems. Is this not fuel for any sort of Republican investigation into that auto pen usage at the White House? Well, Alex, this was in the early days of the administration. This was before the midterms. This was long before he went comatose on the debate stage. I mean, you're exactly right. If the president does not have sound mind when he is making decisions. If because of that, there are others who have usurped his authority as president, as commander of chief, I mean, this raises some very serious, not only legal questions, but this is the kind of thing that we have to determine now the answers to before this kind of thing happens again. You know, I think of what happened in Woodrow Wilson's presidency. If you'll remember, he had a stroke and was... not only bedridden, but was, I mean, he couldn't make public appearances. He basically, I almost said he turned it over. I don't know that it was willing. His wife took over his presidential duties because he was incapable of even making these kinds of decisions. So clearly this is not a one-off, but even if it was, these are serious questions whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. you should be able to put any partisan notions aside because we need legal answers to this. What if it happens again, if it's a Republican in office, if it's a Democrat? I mean, yeah, I would like to see Biden and all those who enabled this.
illegal activity, I'd like to see them held accountable. But I think just for the health of our nation going forward, we need to really drill down into this. It's very, very serious, Alex. And then Bradley, I have about two minutes left. I'm going to play a one minute clip. It's going to be, I want to touch on Michigan. They just had the Democratic primary debate, one of them. We know we have a socialist candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, versus a, quote, moderate Democrat and Haley Stevens. So let's go to cut 50. if we can. Just earlier this week we heard that there was some kind of a Zoom call in which you had referenced an opponent as ogre on a pike. And so many people took offense to that. And it really pointed to the bigger question about the tone and tenor that you've been accused of having in this campaign. Do you regret any of the comments that you've made? And do you think that this race could take a more productive and a more substantive tone if we kept those personal slams out? Look, I took to Twitter last week and said that the tone in which people talk about. about my opponent is unkind. And I asked anybody who supported me to not talk about her that way. In fact, when she got booed on the stage at the Michigan Democratic Party convention, I called her personally and said that that was unkind. My supporters had nothing to do with it. But I don't think that that's the way we want to do politics. I was referring to a guy named John Fetterman, who's a senator from Pennsylvania, who has done terrible things, got elected on a set of values and is now completely throwing those values in the mud. And I think John Fetterman was out with a response just recently. He was able to get elected in a very purple state. John Fetterman seems to be the moderate, the answer to what Democrats would want to do with another purple state of Michigan. What do you make of this, Bradley? What should we be watching for with, you know, unfortunately what's going on there? I was happy to see President Trump, though, calling all this communism out when he visited Michigan yesterday. Yeah, it's, I think, just absolutely reprehensible to make any kind of comparison between Haley Stevens and Princess Fiona. Just terrible. There's no comparison there, not at all. Look, I mean, this is politics, rhetoric gets heated.
It's what moves the needle, unfortunately, but they're very, very serious policies being talked about in that race, and it's something that we at Breitbart, and I know that you and others are going to continue to amplify because this involves the future of our nation. It's incredibly important. Yeah, thank you so much, Bradley Jay, I'm political editor over at Breitbart News. I'm Alex Sawyer, editor-at-large at The Washington Times, in for my mentor and good friend Chris Plant. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Call me Senator Shrek, whatever. But this guy is really the Pontiac Graham Platner. And now he's really running to be the head of our emerging pro-Hamas wing here in the party. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau. A gift from Italy to your home. San Pellegrino Chau is a flavored sparkling water made with real fruit juice, finished with a pinch of Sicilian salt for a perfectly balanced taste. So which flavor will you choose? Peach, lime, blood orange, cherry, or maybe the all-new limoncello. Crafted in Italy with zero grams of added sugar, San Pellegrino Chow. Buy it now.
Good morning. I'm Alex Sawyer, Washington Times editor-at-large, in for Chris Plant, who is on vacation, hopefully soaking up some sun. I've had a fun time sitting in his chair. It's been an honor. I want to bring in Chuck Flint. He is going to talk a little bit about data centers for us, which is a major topic here in D.C. He's served as a former Senate and House Chief of Staff and a former prosecutor. So he has a legal background, which, of course, I like being a legal affairs reporter and all. Hey, Chuck, thanks for taking a few minutes to chat with me. Hey, Alex, it's great to be with you. Thanks so much. Of course. One of the things I wanted to hit on with you was New York, it looks like, became the first state to impose a data center moratorium. Everywhere I go in Washington, D.C., everyone's talking about AI data centers. It seems like lawmakers are very much pushing them. There's some people that are skeptical, although there's a lot of benefits from the AI race against China, all of that. Tell me what's going on here with New York and what impact that will have. Well, New York's moratorium is the first in the country, and it applies to hyper-scale projects. And to your point, there's been a lot of criticism about data centers being built. There's actually polling that shows 70% of Americans are opposed to data centers. But the point that our organization has been making the coalition for affordability and prosperity is that there's also a lot of foreign influence. that's going on in the data center debate. So for instance, China is actually subsidizing their buildout within their country while funding opposition to ours. And we know that. We wrote a letter to the intelligence committees. Their state-run media outlets, CGTN, China Daily and Global Times have all run negative pieces, Neville Roy Singham. who's been profiled by Fox News and the New York Times is a Chinese tech tycoon, and his nonprofit network has been pumping money into data center groups that have been pushing moratoriums. So these moratoriums, does it become a national security concern? Well, it does because we don't want to fall behind in the AI race. And that's exactly what China wants. Whoever is able to build these data centers, the quickest, is going to have military and economic advantages that can well dictate global power in the next century. And I'll also add this. We're not saying...
that there are not legitimate concerns about data centers and how they're being built, but we can't base that off of foreign influence. Americans deserve to have a debate that is free from that. And so that's really what we're driving at. But the answer to all of this is to not stop building. And Kathy Hochul's fix is more of a political one than a practical one. Yeah. I also, I have like a one minute left with you this really quick segment. I wanted to ask you, since you have experience on Capitol Hill, what do you think about Todd Blanche? His confirmation vote with the Senate Judiciary Committee is Thursday. Are numbers looking good there? Do you think he'll get confirmed? Well, it's going to come down to what Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn want to do, right? I think Thom Tillis, from what I can tell, he's a little more inclined to vote for him at this point. John Cornyn, you know, he's kind of like a man with nothing to lose. Trump opposed him in his primary and he's got an issue with the weaponization fund. He wants to see in writing that the weaponization fund is gone. Yeah, we'll see if that plays out. Chuck Flint, I appreciate your time. This is Alex Sawyer, Washington Times Editor at Large. We'll be right back after the break. When it's time to scale your business, it's time for Shopify. Get everything you need to grow the way you want. Like, all the way. Stack more sales with the best converting checkout on the planet. Track your cha-chings from every channel, right in one spot, and turn real-time reporting into big-time opportunities. Take your business to a whole new level. Switch to Shopify. Start your free trial today.
Good morning, Alex Sawyer, editor at large for the Washington Times here in Chris Plant's chair while he is on vacation. You know, lots to talk about in the news today. I'm looking forward to picking the brain of the president of the Media Research Center, David Bozell. He's going to be joining me. in just a minute to talk about some of the coverage of Anthony Fauci, which, you know, seems to be one of the hot topics going viral, as well as some of our socialist candidates and how they're being treated in the media. Let's get Mr. Bozell. Are you on the line with me? I am on the line, Alex. How are you? Thank you. I'm good. I appreciate you. You guys do such good work over at the Media Research Center. When I was writing my book, Lawless Lawfare, I relied on so much you guys, the data y'all put together. For example, one of my favorite things that I wrote about was the Georgia litigation involving President Trump. Fani Willis, if you recall, the district attorney down in Fulton County, she was running for re-election at the time. And you guys noted, like, the legacy media didn't even point out that she was a Democrat running for re-election, you know, and bringing these charges against the sitting Republican president and former president. It was just, you know, of course, one of the best examples of hypocrisy and the media. But speaking of... Well, compare that, compare that to every time they mention Rand Paul in this diary from Anthony Fauci. Yes. Always, always, Republican Senator Rampal. Well, and one of the things, if you remember, too, during the whole Anthony Fauci taking the mic every day in 2020 was the bearing and basically blacklisting of anyone that wanted to bring up any sort of lab leak theory. And the media just wrote along with that. And even when after President Trump, and that was during an election campaign. just making it sound like you were wearing a tinfoil hat if that was something you thought was plausible. Just, you know, we're going full circle here, unfortunately having to revisit that pandemic year and era. But I wanted to play actually a cut for you. It's cut 22. It doesn't look like some of this mainstream media is even wanting to talk about Anthony Fauci anymore. I think we need to have transparency around what's going on. I think one situation that, frankly, where we saw the government was certainly obfuscating, didn't have any transparency, was Anthony Fauci who were getting his diaries today, where he was purposely obfuscating about Anthony Fauci. That's actually something where we know he was purposely obfuscated. We're sitting here talking about Americans who were killed in theater as a result of a war. We are not going to pivot. to Anthony Fauci's diaries.
Yeah, we're not going to pivot. I mean, is this what you're seeing across the different legacy media? I recognize that barking anywhere. And that has to be Abby Phillips Show. If there's barking and there's cackling, it's definitely Abby Phillips Show. No, it's, I woke up this morning and I was starting to wonder, what is the worst media blackout of the year? I thought it was going to be Nick Shirley's exposés on fraud. Minnesota, Ohio, etc. It is a faulty thing. Might take the cake now. There has been one mention of this thing on CBS evening news briefly, about 20 seconds worth. Telemundo, of all things, had a little bit of a brief mention of it. But in terms of the morning shows yesterday, the morning shows this morning. most of the evening shows shows on broadcast most of cable is certainly CNN and MSNBC you basically saw you heard Abby declare they were not going to talk about it it has been a total blackout of this guy I mean the most quick the most consequential I mean, I hesitate to call him public servant, bureaucrat. The most consequential bureaucrat in this country's history, making some of the most consequential decisions, or at least at a minimum, recommendations in this country's history. And then his diary reveals that it was all BS. and he didn't really believe what he was recommending. That that's not a story? That's not major national news? This is why as a country, Alex, like, we're watching two different movies at the same time. I mean, I say it all the time. When Obama used to make a speech, okay? One network didn't like it, and the other network thought it gave him a thrill up their leg, okay? But at least we were watching the same speech. Now we're in a situation when you talk about Nick Shirley and Anthony Fauci Diaries, potential success in Iran or some of the decent things that the good things that President Trump is doing. Pick any issue. One side of the ecosystem is going to cover it and the other side is going to ignore it. And this is, you know, having grown up in Washington since I was two years old. This man is, he's a quintessential Washingtonian bureaucrat. In that, he believes that he is untouchable, irreplaceable, and that he, and only he, can and should be making public policy determinations. Which is why, if you remember, Alex, the clip of him and Mayor Bowser. back in front of the front porch years ago in which he said, Republicans don't like to be told what to do. We have to break that. Just replace the word do and replace the word do with the word think. And that's what the media is all about, right? The media believes that they, and only they.
should be telling the American public what to think that we have to break the American public. That's why they get along so much. Yeah, it's pretty wild. That's why they're having dinners. Pay Tapper and Anthony Fauci having dinners and Dana Bash and Anthony Fauci texting back and forth and how they don't mind that Anthony Fauci's supplying a network with questions to take down a member of the administration. It's all because of this elitist attitude that they and only they should be making these public policy determinations. One of the other things that, you know, just working in the media, you noticed a lot, they love to pay, the legacy media, loves to pay attention to. infighting in the Trump White House. It seems to be that was like always, you know, front page or top line coverage. And in these Anthony Fauci diaries that we're getting that I've just taken over the internet and social media, there was one part where he was talking about Alyssa Farah was an ally to him. basically telling him how he's being, I guess, at the time, I think it was sidelined within the White House. I'm trying to keep him away from the cameras, I guess, because he liked to be in front of the camera more than he likes to be behind the desk or doing his job, getting more information, which maybe that was a good thing. I have no idea. Either way, it was bad. But. Why, you know, why the view? Isn't she a member of the view? Shouldn't they want to hop on that? The infighting in the White House and point that out? That seems to be that falling on deaf ears when it was all they could, you know, soak up in the first go-around. Yeah, there, I don't believe, unless, unless tomorrow's hearing with, was led by Senator Paul. goes sideways for Anthony Fauci in that he incriminates himself post-pardon essentially because he won't necessarily enjoy pardon privileges. But unless it goes sideways, the blackout will continue and they will continue to just be chummy with him. Because, I mean, there's nothing a member of the elitist Washington media loves more. than a top paid bureaucrat. And he was the top paid bureaucrat in town. And so they sort of walk in lockstep with one another. So they're going to protect him and protect him the way they do that is just not talk about it, as if it just never happened, as if he was just never wrong, as if he wasn't obsessed with himself. And so that's how I think this story is going to continue to unfold unless.
You know, unless he starts throwing them under the bus or incriminates himself in some really egregious way that he wouldn't enjoy pardon protection, I would expect the media blackout of the Founcy Diaries to continue. Yeah, I think I had Jonathan Fahey on earlier and he said the only really way around this preemptive pardon might be if he were to perjure himself in conflict of since he'll be under oath of something he said previously under oath. But, you know, I think that would even be tested. I think he would try to ride in on court with that preemptive pardon. And the Supreme Court has held, I think it was like, I forget I have it written down somewhere. The case previously like 100 years ago or so. There was a pardon case that came before the court. And they said how it was basically an absolute, the pardon power was absolute and broad. So, you know, that kind of gives me doubt that. they would go so far as, I think it was 1866. That was the year to, you know, do anything with Anthony Fauci. But I do want to go on to another topic that just is never going away because the midterms in what we're seeing the Democratic Party turn into. And that's the party of socialism, it appears. President Trump was in Michigan, a battleground state. And... with one of these socialist candidates, Abdul El-Sayed, running in the Democratic Senate primary. He was giving a speech out there, President Trump was, and he referenced socialism. I want to play cut six for you to react to. But communism is the greatest threat to our country in history, including even World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or 9-11. I mean, this is a serious threat. Because they're going to give promise all sorts of things. In one year, the country will be absolutely bankrupt. You'll live in squalor. You'll live in fear. You won't have police. You won't have firemen. You won't have anybody. You're going to be, it's a disaster. Our excellent producer here pointed out to me that Mediite had a story on this saying it was crazy to compare communism to World War I, World War II. You know, what's your take? Give me your media critique on this. Shouldn't we be hearing about the dangers of socialism more than we are? Well, Abdul El-Sayed proved President Trump correct just last night in the debate, in the Michigan senatorial debate in which he said that, and I don't know if this is accurate, but let's just go with it. He claimed that there's $700 billion in medical debt that the country carries with it, $700 billion in medical debt. And he promised, if you elect me, I'm just going to wipe that off the books. Yeah, I remember hearing that clip. Right, right. So, so. You know, when President Trump says, they'll promise all sorts of things. As if, you know, he's running for like a sixth grade student council election promising McDonald's for lunch every day. Yes. And abolishing ICE, Medicare for all. It seems like the Bernie Sanders wish list. It's juvenile. Some of these, I mean, you can't even call them policy prescriptions. It's just juvenile promises.
You can't just snap your fingers and wipe away billions of dollars worth of debt. Okay, so what do you do with that as a member of the media? You've got to cover that critically, right? How are you going to pull that off, sir? What are you going to get to $700 billion? How are you going to walk us through the economics of that? Sounds like a great idea if it's free for me. Hallelujah. But how are you going to pull that off? You never ask that how. Go ahead. Yeah, that's true. Or the numbers. Exactly. Back up your numbers. Back up your math. Your math doesn't seem to me mapping. Yeah. How does this work? And so, you know, these are basic journalism principles and tactics and things that you're taught in J-school. You've got to press people in power or people who want power to show their work. And they don't do that of Democrats. And they're certainly not doing that with this socialist crap. Right? I mean, they're just. They aren't. If they had a Zohran Mamdani, you know, wouldn't have enjoyed the glide path that he did. Well, speaking of, you know, that was one of the things. You talk about the economics of it. And journalists, they aren't, you know, I went to J school. We are not really taught numbers. But you do know to go to an economist and pose these questions and get answers. And one of the things that isn't happening aside from the whole. promised from Abdul El-Sayed about medical debt and Medicare for All and trying to crunch that, how that would play out, is you reference Zohran Mamdani and his government-run grocery stores. That was a topic I kind of started in the show. Previously, he did a press conference yesterday on that. And there's very little critique of how much that would actually cost. I think one operating alone would be like a $4 million city subsidy. You know, you don't hear media really doing anything with that. Let's play real quick, cut 11. Here's how it will work. Once a month, our five city run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices. No exceptions, no gimmicks. The savings will last for the entire month. All right. I have a little under a minute. You know, what, why, how does the media, exactly, how does the media stay silent on something like this, especially since we had a daily wire reporter Breka stole who, you know, of course, is covering this for this. The conservative outlets are paying attention to this, but our legacy media, no. I have about 30 seconds. Tell me why, you know, how are they not even referencing history where this has been tried and failed? Well, I mean, look, I could fake the audience to say they want Zohran Mamdani to succeed. But the real reason is they just want Republicans to fail. And they don't, so they're just not going to question the Democrat or the socialist and anything they want to accomplish. And even if when Zohran Mamdani does fail with this, they just won't cover the failure.
So it will be as if it doesn't happen. There really is no good answer as to the why other than they just, they're both of this elitist stream of consciousness where they themselves believe that they should tell the country how to think. And Zohran Mamdani should be allowed to tell his city what to do. Yeah. Because they just have this, this, they just think most. Americans, certainly Republicans, are this great unwashed not to be paid attention to and not to be defended in any sort of way. So that's really... I mean, if I had to play amateur psychologist, I think that's it. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said elitism is the problem. I mean, it's pervasive in the press and throughout the Democratic Party and especially with these quote-unquote working class candidates that are all PhDs and Kay Ivey League grads. So no, you know, hypocrisy short there. This is Alex Sawyer, editor at large at Washington Times sitting in for Chris Plant. Stay tuned. We'll be right back after this quick break. I actually think that we could eliminate all the medical debt in this country. $225 billion, just so you understand what that is. That is the amount of the GDP of more than half of U.S. states in this country. Honey, did you invite the minions over? Well, you know how we talked about getting Wi-Fi from Xfinity? Yeah. I ordered it this morning. It was online in minutes. Then they showed up. So they just came over to use the Wi-Fi? For what?
Better not to know. Get online in minutes with same-day Wi-Fi from Xfinity. Plus lock in your price for five years and see minions and monsters only in theaters. Exfinity. Imagine that. Restrictions apply not available in all areas. Learn more at Xfinity.com slash same-day Wi-Fi. Good morning, Alex Sawyer, editor-at-large at the Washington Times, in from my mentor and good friend, Chris Plant, who is on vacation still, hoping that he is soaking up some sun and some fun. But we are taking all kinds of questions and calls on this whole Anthony Fauci situation. I'm asking people what's going to happen. I had a Jonathan Fahey on earlier, legal. expert about the blanket pardon Anthony Fauci got if there's any way around it with his testimony coming up tomorrow on Capitol Hill. But I believe we have a caller who might have some commentary on the whole COVID issue and what Anthony Fauci is facing. Let's take Allen in Chicago. Good morning. Good morning, Alan. Hey, I missed you last night. You were not on TV. I know. I'll be there tonight. We will, I'm returning the rest of the week. COVID, you know, Anthony Fauci is a villain. There were a lot of villains. Birx was a villain. There were quite a number. The biggest villain was the American people. I talked to John Howell, who was the personality here in Chicago on Douglas Radio, 200 times over a year and a half. I did research. The Center for Disease Statistics of the FDA. gave weekly data about who was dying. We learned early on that 93% of those who died were 55 and older and had four comorbidities or more. The Feinberg School here in Chicago of Northwestern University went into nine zip codes in the city of Chicago and found that the infection rate was seven times higher than the official number. It was 20%, not 3%. There were interviews with the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. There were interviews with Peter McCullough. There were interviews with Harvey Rich. There were interviews with experts all over the place. You just had to look for them. Yeah. You know, it's like people now listening to the argument about affordability. Hey, 80% of the inflation was under the Biden administration. Okay, so folks, you know, get a paper, go on the Internet, read, learn something. You know, I always refer to to... Oh, God, I kind of give his name, the author of the 1840s who wrote Democracy in America. Yeah, we're coming. We have to inform ourselves. We do. We need to inform ourselves. We're coming up on a hard break. So I really appreciate Alan in Chicago. But yes, affordability also a key word. Thankfully, we need to hold Anthony Fauci accountable for the affordability issue that he caused during COVID when everybody had to shut down.
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