WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.000 It's Soto six if if you've have a Karsene talk station. 2 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.760 A very happy Wednesday to Trian Thomas. Always with a 3 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.440 smile on my face when I get to look across 4 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:25.480 the board here and see now retired Congressman Brad Winster. 5 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.600 But he's not retired and he's still he's actually harder 6 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:28.800 at work now than he was when he was an 7 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:31.280 elected official. Brad Winster, welcome back to the Morning show, 8 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:34.039 my dear friend. It's always great having you in. Thank you, Brian. 9 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.880 Appreciate your willingness to come in so we can actually 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:38.520 engage any face to face communication. 11 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.640 Well, I've always enjoyed it. 12 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.240 You know, I'm still a patriot and still trying to 13 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:44.439 move the country in the right direction wherever I can, 14 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.439 as you are, and to have the opportunity to come 15 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.679 in here and message a little bit to your good listeners, yeah, 16 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:51.280 I appreciate. 17 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:53.039 Well, I know they enjoy hearing from you. I mean, 18 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.840 you know what it's like to be a representative. You 19 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.600 know what the sausage making process is like. And I 20 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.240 suspect back on a lot of levels in spite of 21 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.159 the direction that we're going, and I think Trump is 22 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.640 making some positive changes that we'll talk about here this 23 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.400 morning in a moment. But it would probably be a 24 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.319 much easier time to be a Republican right now than 25 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:17.200 the period of time when you were serving, right Lord Almighty? 26 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.719 Well, yes, and no, I mean you saw yesterday that 27 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.400 there's you know, a little bit of squabbling going on 28 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:27.000 within the members of the House. You know, one thing 29 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.959 I always said is never say what you'll never do, 30 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.359 because you never know what the environment's. 31 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:35.760 Going to be like and how you need to change. 32 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.560 And so sometimes people have done that, gotten elected on it, 33 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.359 and then they find themselves in a difficult position. 34 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:42.879 No new taxes for example. 35 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.840 Yeah, right, learn from that. And so it's a team sport, 36 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:50.200 and so sometimes you got to come together and bite 37 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:52.599 the bullet a little bit on something. You got a 38 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.319 president who's going to pursue an agenda that you should 39 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:59.079 be totally in favor of, and we are. But you 40 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.920 get into some the details, and what happened yesterday was interesting. 41 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.560 Of course, you had some people holding out on the 42 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:10.520 Republican side, and everybody wants things that they want, and 43 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.159 you got to keep working it. You just have to 44 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:17.879 keep working it. But let's get this ball moving down field. Right, 45 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.439 and you know, because really what happened yesterday to pass 46 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.639 that bill, it's just a first down, it's a thirty 47 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.000 yard gain, but it's as a first down, right, Right. 48 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.479 There's a lot of work that needs to be done. 49 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:31.800 The Senate wants, for example, increase them. We'll get more 50 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.840 tax cuts and maybe more cuts across the government spending, 51 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:39.800 which I embrace. And of course, as as reported widely, 52 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:43.240 there's some the moderate Republicans are saying, oh no, we 53 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.879 can't do that. My state will suffer because you're going 54 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.479 to be taking Medicaid dollars away from It's like, wait 55 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.000 a second, you know, why don't you put some attention 56 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.360 to ferreting out the fraud, wasted abuse. And I bet 57 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:55.719 you like Ohio will be able to find like ten 58 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:00.120 billion dollars in erroneous payments and that won't hurt you. 59 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.800 Then if there have to be some cuts. 60 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.560 The more you can cut down on fraud, the more 61 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.360 you can do for those that really need it and 62 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.199 that the government was designed for. 63 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.560 Yeah, and the longer the program will be available for 64 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:13.879 those who truly do need it. 65 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.400 Right, But we also have an administration compared to say 66 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.280 the Obama administration, President Obama all we got more people 67 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.000 insured than ever before, where a lot of that was medicate. 68 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.879 I can tell you as a doctor, it's one of 69 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.199 the worst programs in America as far as health, highest 70 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:33.520 mortality and morbidity over the years, and least access to care. 71 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.039 What we want to me success is fewer people needing 72 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:41.560 the safety nets, fewer people in a position to have 73 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:45.919 to rely on taxpayer dollars to survive. 74 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:47.080 I like that we have. 75 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.360 Safety nets, but let's make that a smaller group of 76 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:54.240 Americans and make it just a temporary pause in your 77 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.319 life and you get back on your feet. 78 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.520 Well, you know, if I could wave a magic wand 79 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:04.360 the way to avoid and reduce the expenditures related to 80 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.360 Medicaid or even Medicare bombacare, if we all took better 81 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.520 care of ourselves. You know, you get in front of 82 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.360 you know that we treat symptoms in medicine, we don't 83 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.079 treat the core reason for the symptoms. In many cases. 84 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:22.399 You know, oh, here's a pill for that. You got 85 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:26.360 high cholesterol, Here, take this pill. You got pain, you know, 86 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.920 here take this pill or something along those lines, and 87 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.519 they don't get to the root cause. Preventative medicine I 88 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:33.040 think it's. 89 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.560 The Congressional Budget Office, and this is something that we 90 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:38.959 faced and as a Doctor's Caucus, we brought CBO in 91 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:46.319 and discuss the savings that come with prevention, preventative medicine, 92 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:51.199 being ahead of the curve, incentivizing prevention. 93 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:52.240 I'll give you example. 94 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:55.879 I was talking to the one of the representatives from 95 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.959 Humana on the hill, good guy, able to have a conversation, 96 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.079 and I said, you know, what makes sense to me 97 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.279 that if you have in humanity five thousand employees that 98 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.759 you just signed up for a health plan and three 99 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.160 hundred of them are insulin dependent diabetics, I'll tell you 100 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.040 what you should do. You should have them able to 101 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:18.519 come in and see their doctor, oh, three times a 102 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.319 year with no Copey one, they'll go. If there's no Copey, 103 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:27.639 they will go. Secondly, then that increases the decreases the 104 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:31.160 chances of being hospitalized because you're going to be on 105 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.319 top of your health. You're going to be ahead of 106 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.519 the game. That's what you we should be. After the 107 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.079 Doctor's Caucus, we said healthiest nation on the planet. And 108 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.600 this is before make America healthy again. This is what 109 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.839 we were thriving for. And we're talking about obviously changes 110 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.240 in programs like SNAP, but also kids understanding in school 111 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:53.800 what health is about, what a vegetable is, what are 112 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.399 healthy foods? Are we really teaching that and getting that 113 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.839 ingrained in our schools? How about the President's Physical Fitness Program? 114 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.439 So starting with young age, but making this the mantra 115 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.839 across the United States that we're out to make you healthy. 116 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.399 So you you go to AHHS, and this is where 117 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:13.879 I think Kennedy can do great things. You know, you 118 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.439 look at HHS and you look at all these employees 119 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.759 and you're like, we don't need you. You're not doing 120 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.160 anything here today. That's making us a healthier nation, right right, 121 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.399 And that's that's where we should be headed. We need 122 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.480 to look at that. And I don't think you know, 123 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.120 there shouldn't be if I was a government employee and say, 124 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.600 you know, I'm quite capable. I know I can make 125 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.720 it on the civilian side, can you? 126 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:37.480 Yeah? 127 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:39.040 And you and I are talking off air, I mean 128 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.399 all the whaling and gnashing your teeth about oh my god, 129 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.199 these people have mortgages and families and they need to 130 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.000 feed them. So as it's like I've never had a 131 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.399 job that had guaranteed employment. Ever, you know, I saw 132 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.000 the other day Starbucks laid off one thousand or fifteen 133 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:56.279 hundred of their management folks or downside right sizing. In fact, 134 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.279 the reason for the cuts was to improve the function 135 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.360 of the business, to make it a better, more well 136 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.720 oiled machine, to get them more profitable all things. And 137 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.160 for example, shareholders want the share prices went up when 138 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.000 they got rid of those people. No one was out 139 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.759 protesting in the streets. No one's out protesting when all 140 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.279 the Eastern Kentucky coal migers lost their jobs because of 141 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.959 green policies, and no one cried for the XL pipeline 142 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.560 workers when Biden canceled that. But if it's a government employee, 143 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:25.079 well we all we obviously we all need to wal 144 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.079 and and wear our hearts on our sleeves. It just 145 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:28.240 doesn't make any sense to me. 146 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.920 Well, government agencies should not be the w p A 147 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.199 right from the depression, right, Well here, we'll just create 148 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.959 jobs for you. But actually, the people in the w 149 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:42.839 p A, I believe they built the wall on Columbia Parkway. 150 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.600 Yeah, impress a few. My grandfather, my mom's dad, and 151 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:49.199 you know, I love him. He was a great guy. 152 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:51.720 He and it was. 153 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.680 It was poverty central back then. I mean we're talking 154 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:59.800 about Great Depression poverty. I mean he told me stories about, 155 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.600 you know, the hunger and the searching for the jobs. 156 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.079 When he was a teenager, he was on a w 157 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:08.759 P A project and I don't know what he was 158 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.399 responsible for. I don't I've got a picture of him 159 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.639 with the entire crew that he was on. It's a 160 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.040 huge picture and it's all yellow, and it's cracking, and 161 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.439 want to have it, you know, sort of remounted and 162 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:22.399 and and and fixed. 163 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:23.920 But that aside. 164 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.959 He became a lifelong Democrat because FDR gave a job 165 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.040 of the WPA at a time when his family was starving. 166 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.320 You know that that's was that it bought him or 167 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:36.519 that program bought a Democrat lifetime loyalty. 168 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:40.759 But he was working. He wasn't actually working exactly. 169 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:44.200 You know. I love the movie Cinderella Man, true story 170 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.240 about James Bradeck, a boxer who has to give up 171 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.720 his kids and go on on welfare and he's banned 172 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.120 from boxing. He gets the chance to come back in 173 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.200 he ends up becoming heavyweight champ of the world. But 174 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:59.879 the money he got while on welfare, he returned and 175 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.279 he said, well, I figure, if I'm fortunate to live 176 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.080 in a country that helps me when I'm down, I 177 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:06.759 had to pay it back when I'm up. And I've 178 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:09.360 had a string of good luck lately. Isn't that wonderful? 179 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:09.759 Yeah? 180 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.879 I wish every had had a student loan had that attitude. Right, 181 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.639 all right, I'm sorry I had to get down that road. 182 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:19.879 The opportunity presented itself. It's seven point fifteen. Will continue 183 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:24.279 with former Congressman brad Winstrop, who is still working for 184 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.360 the American people. It's not getting paid for it, but 185 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.840 he's got a role in the administration. We're gonna learn 186 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.320 all about that in the next segment, among other things. 187 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:36.720 But first, Affordable Imaging Services Echo card got your echo cardiogram. 188 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:39.000 At Affordable Imaging Services, you don't have to pay thirty 189 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.080 five hundred dollars or more at the hospital. It's just 190 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.399 hospital imaging departments are just massive cash cows. 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I understand you 239 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:10.360 are on the Intelligence Advisory Board now correct. 240 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.080 I'm honored the President Trump selected me with a group 241 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:17.720 of about I think it's ten to twelve people. It's 242 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:19.759 going to be led by Devin Newnez, who of course 243 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.559 was the Intelligence Chair when I first got on the 244 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.080 Intelligence Committee, and I was fortunate to serve ten years 245 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.799 there and some Actually one of the staffers, Scott glib 246 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.159 is also on the committee. 247 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:32.720 He was a staffer on Intel. 248 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.720 And you know, as I look at this, it's really 249 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.240 an amazing thing. The President's directive is to advise the 250 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:44.639 President on our on the national security challenges that we face, 251 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:50.000 advance his agenda, which within the Intelligence Committee, which is 252 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.960 to be an agencies that have integrity, that can be trusted. 253 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:57.960 And it's really kind of fun for me because as 254 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.240 I look, Cash Pttel was one of our staffers on 255 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.759 the Intelligence Committee. Now he's head of the FBI. While yeah, 256 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.799 Mike Waltz one of my dear friends in Congress was 257 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.799 on the Intelligence Committee with me. Now NSA Director John Radcliffe, 258 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.399 charge of the CIA, it was on Intelligence Committee with me. 259 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.519 So I feel very fortunate to be in this position 260 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.279 because they're really basically there's things. You know, government never ends, 261 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.759 but there are things that I was working on in 262 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.720 the intelligence realm that need completion. And now I feel 263 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:32.200 with this administration and with the opportunity with this board, 264 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.399 there'll be a lot of things that we can finish 265 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.000 investigations for example. 266 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.440 Okay, and having that, I guess you have the highest 267 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.279 level security clearance that I mean that I mean you 268 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.639 obviously have security clearance to be on these committees. You 269 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.519 did when you were on the committee when you were 270 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.759 an elected official, so you maintain that security clearance. 271 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:51.320 Well, I'm going through that process. I have to start 272 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.480 all over again, do you really? Yeah, But it's really interesting. 273 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.480 I started to fill out the forms that you have 274 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:59.399 to fill out and get it electronically, and they had 275 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.519 almost every everything in there from not from my congressional 276 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:06.399 clearance because there you just get it, but from my military. 277 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.279 So all you know, because they're asking down to your 278 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.799 childhood and whose lifelong friend and things like that that 279 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:15.960 they can reach out to. So it's like, oh, this 280 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:19.200 is great, half of it's already filled out already. Yeah, 281 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.879 so but yet you have to go through that process again. 282 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.120 So we'll see how much time it takes. 283 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.600 I think it'll get me to DC a couple times 284 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:29.759 a month maybe, or a couple of days a month. 285 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.200 They're putting together a staff and working on it. But 286 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.159 I think it's a it's a really great opportunity and 287 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:39.159 I'm and I'm honored to have that and I. 288 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.399 Really feel like continued chance to serve the country. Well, 289 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:45.720 it's great, and I'm glad you're doing that. But I 290 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.879 guess you know, moving back and the period of time 291 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:53.440 you're on the Intelligence Committee, there's a lot of things 292 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.039 that you know about that you can't talk out loud 293 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:01.039 about right, correct, that you probably wish you could tell 294 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:06.360 say out loud correct. Stuff that would would turn your 295 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:07.519 hair white kind of stuff. 296 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:07.679 You know. 297 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:10.600 It's like presidents always going into office and they always 298 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:12.519 after four years, they always come out they look like 299 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.399 they've aged a decade and their hair has already turned white. 300 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.120 I mean, that's that's the kind of scary stuff that's 301 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.080 out in the world that most Americans don't even know about. 302 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.279 Yeah, I mean it's true. We want. 303 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.600 What we want, though, is Americans to say I believe 304 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.720 that that agency is acting on my best, you know, 305 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.039 my benefit. They're there to serve me, to keep the 306 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.480 country safe, uh, to inform the president things like that. 307 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:40.679 Well, isn't that what the NSA was supposed to be doing? 308 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.360 And then we find out they're in chat rooms all 309 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.240 day talking about their perversions through the DEI program. 310 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.519 Well, those are problems because the agencies, you know, they 311 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:53.840 always start sounding with, you know, great intent. But you know, 312 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.720 our country started it with just three agencies, State, Treasury, 313 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:58.679 and War. And I think everyone can make a case 314 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.039 for those agencies. But now we have eighteen agencies and 315 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.799 they're all over the place, and within the intelligence community 316 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.559 there's many you know, you mentioned that though, if you 317 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.679 look at what we did in the last two years 318 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.399 where I was able to chair the Pandemic Committee, had 319 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.279 great staff and great members of Congress working on it. 320 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.039 That is an unclassified report, five hundred and twenty pages 321 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:24.919 of unclassified material within seventeen pages of recommendations. But I 322 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:29.720 started investigating COVID the day it began starting to look 323 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:31.960 for how do we treat this thing? And then you 324 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.120 get into well, where the heck did it come from 325 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.879 and how and so those are things that been working 326 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.159 on for a long time, and there's more on the 327 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:45.639 classified side. But I was pleased to see CIA come 328 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:49.720 out during the transition between the administration saying well, we 329 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:51.639 really think it came from the LAB. And I think 330 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:55.600 Director Burns who you know, other side of the aisle, 331 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:57.200 but I'd gotten to know him, That's who I have 332 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.279 to work with, right And I think that he was 333 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.480 continuing to investigate and that there were things out there, 334 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:07.039 some things he showed me that could lean towards more 335 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:09.720 towards lab leak, and I think he wanted to make 336 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.799 sure that it was known that the CIA was still 337 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.759 continuing to investigate this and share that with John Ratcliffe 338 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:19.119 as he was as he was coming in. And that's 339 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:21.160 when they came out and said we believe it came 340 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:21.920 from a lab leak. 341 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.400 You know, I probably if I pulled my listening audience, 342 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.240 I couldn't come up with a single one who thinks 343 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.079 it didn't come from Alas. 344 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:31.079 Oh exactly. 345 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:35.200 I mean, Brian, the forensics are so in your face 346 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:39.119 and there are virtually none to say it came from nature, 347 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:43.279 except that the fact that some viruses do come from nature. 348 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.640 Most viruses do come from nature. 349 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.680 Yeah, but they don't have the modifications that are shown 350 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:54.240 on the COVID nineteenis. 351 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.920 For example, you know COVID nineteen has a fear in 352 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.119 cleavage site. That is the type of research we were 353 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.640 doing in Wuhan, China and pain for it was inserting 354 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:07.200 fere incleavad sites on coronaviruses right right, and that type 355 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.359 of coronavirus had never had a fear in cleavad site 356 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.720 in nature. The fere and cleavad site is what makes 357 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.079 it more infectious to humans. 358 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.400 Jeez, Louise, why why why do we gauge in that 359 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:20.359 kind of research? Seven twenty six right now for the 360 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.000 five K Steve Talk Station. We will continue with brad 361 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.799 Winstrip after this break. And I am so honored to speaking. 362 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.319 Wehalf about Herbert Motors. 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The Wuhan Institute Virology pretty much ninety nine 393 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:56.319 point nine nine percent sure the boat, the the virus 394 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:00.400 was created there unleashed on the world, whether intentionally or acts. Iidentally, 395 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.039 We'll let people speculate on that all day long. But 396 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:07.720 then comes the vaccine, and then come the edicts and 397 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:10.079 mandates related to the vaccine. I understand that people with 398 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.519 co morbid conditions, you know, who is dropping and being 399 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.960 being killed by COVID because of their health state. And 400 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.079 that's what the vaccine was designed to help right out 401 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.279