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USAID that has been the focus. 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,759 The stuff that has come out about this organization and 12 00:00:39,799 --> 00:00:42,520 the funding that it has been pushing out the door 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,920 taxpayer dollars to the tune of forty billion annually. It 14 00:00:48,119 --> 00:00:51,799 shocks the conscience the stuff that they have been funding 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,240 that we know of, that we know of, and that 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,159 they have tried to keep hidden from any kind of 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,280 oversight for years. Played the sound bite yesterday Marco Rubio 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,640 talking about how like they would try to get stuff 19 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,719 from USAID and they would just refuse. They would refuse, 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,200 so they're like, we don't have to give that to you. 21 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,239 We'll respond to you know, the I guess the president 22 00:01:19,359 --> 00:01:21,760 or something, but then the president asked for it and 23 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:24,640 they say no to them too, So like it's some 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,480 sort of an unaccountable agency that's just pushing money out 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:34,159 the door, and surprise, surprise, corrupted by bureaucrats. And you know, 26 00:01:35,079 --> 00:01:39,359 predominantly Democrats. They give like the USAID employees give like 27 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,239 ninety seven percent of their contributions to Democrats. So it 28 00:01:43,359 --> 00:01:50,120 is a predominantly Democrat leftist problem here. But there are Republicans. 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,480 I mentioned yesterday also Bill Crystal. He has gotten money 30 00:01:55,159 --> 00:01:58,359 through these grants, this elaborate network. When you look at 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,079 the way the money gets sent out and dispersed, it 32 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:06,760 looks like a money luandering operation. If you're trying to 33 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,599 mask where the money goes and where it's coming from, 34 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:15,199 who's writing what grants, and all of that, I'm not 35 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,000 sure you could devise a better way to try to 36 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:21,919 mask that than with the USAID and had drawn Donald 37 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,719 Trump not won and Elon Musk not started here and 38 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,280 not moved in on USID, we would not know this 39 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,560 right but for Trump's election, but for Elon Musk's participation 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,319 in this effort, and he's he's getting a lot of crap. 41 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,199 By the way they just the left is running with 42 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,120 a story right now that oh, USAID was investigating Musk 43 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,879 and Grant that hit one of his companies. It's behind 44 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:53,080 it Paywell so I can't see it, but one of 45 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,879 his companies, and they were investigating that. Yeah, that's not 46 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,560 a surprise. You know why, when Musk came out for Trump, 47 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,199 all of the agencies in the federal administration were weaponized 48 00:03:04,199 --> 00:03:06,680 against him to try to dig up anything they could 49 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:10,000 against him. That's how they roll. That's what Trump is 50 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:15,240 trying to dismantle. If he does nothing else, I will 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,800 be happy. I said, Look, remember what I said at 52 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,759 the very beginning, when Trump had won and I was 53 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,120 warning people. I said, He's only got a limited amount 54 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,639 of time to get stuff done. He has to hit 55 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,680 the ground running. I did not even contemplate this pace. 56 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:32,479 I thought he was going to have to get selling. 57 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,919 He was going to This week is infrastructure week, and 58 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,639 this week is you know, USAID week or whatever like. 59 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,120 This is a frenetic pace. I don't know if they 60 00:03:43,199 --> 00:03:45,199 keep it up. I don't know for how long they 61 00:03:45,199 --> 00:03:48,360 can keep it up. But it is just one thing 62 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,280 after another. You've heard the term drinking from a fire hose. 63 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:53,439 And like I keep saying it, I don't know if 64 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:55,719 I've said it this many times in a shorter period, 65 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,479 but I am impressed with what they have been doing. 66 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,360 Now Here come the legal challenges. We knew that was 67 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,120 going to happen. But that's why I said, you gotta 68 00:04:05,199 --> 00:04:09,240 do it first. You got to do it soon. This 69 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,560 stuff has to You got to get out of the gate, 70 00:04:11,599 --> 00:04:14,680 and you got to get this stuff rolling because after 71 00:04:14,759 --> 00:04:17,839 about twelve to eighteen months, you're going to get a 72 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,879 lot of You're going to get a lot of hesitancy 73 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,160 from spineless Republicans, and they're not going to be willing 74 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:29,759 to stand with you because you're you're term limited. So 75 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:35,079 this is it. Democrats are very mad at what is 76 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,399 happening with USAID. They are very very mad that their 77 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:42,279 shadow government is being dismantled. And when you need somebody 78 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:46,879 to lead the troops of anger, right, and you need 79 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,279 to direct the mob's outrage, you call on the one 80 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,519 and only, wait, Chuck Schumer. 81 00:04:55,240 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 2: And we cannot, we cannot allow Elon Musk and a 82 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,600 small group of people too secretly behind closed doors, take 83 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:11,279 away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything 84 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:11,800 we have. 85 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:13,959 Speaker 1: We are gonna fight this fight. 86 00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:15,959 Speaker 2: I am gonna stand with. 87 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: You in this fight, and we will win. We will win. 88 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 2: We will win. 89 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: We will wait wait wait wait we wan No, no. 90 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:33,519 Speaker 2: We will We won't rest, Yes, we will rest. 91 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: We won't rest. Yes, we won't rest. Far better oh yeah, 92 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:46,319 especially delivered in the croaking throat of septagenarian, because we 93 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,680 all know they don't like the rest. Oh I kid, 94 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,600 I kid, but I really, I mean. I bet he's 95 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,639 good for at least one nap a day. Look, I 96 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:56,360 look forward to being of age where I could have 97 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,519 at least one nap a day. That would be amazing. 98 00:05:59,079 --> 00:06:01,800 I don't even know what I would do with all 99 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,480 that extra energy. No, I probably wouldn't. I wouldn't have 100 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,199 extra energy. That's why I'm resting. Actually, never mind. Okay. 101 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,959 So Chuck Schumer, the face of the resistance, we mentioned 102 00:06:12,959 --> 00:06:17,319 this yesterday talking about the problems that the Democrat Party has. 103 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:20,360 They are leaderless. They don't have somebody right at the 104 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,800 head of the party to motivate and rally the troops 105 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,639 and direct their anger towards you know, various downtown areas 106 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,759 to burn, loot and pillage, and so Chuck Schumer, it 107 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:34,680 just kind of falls to him de facto leader there, 108 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,879 but there are people inside the Democrat Party that want 109 00:06:37,959 --> 00:06:42,079 him to step aside. You know, they want like they 110 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,600 want to be able to have somebody else be the face. 111 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:48,199 And so you're seeing some jockeying going on, which I 112 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:55,160 find to be comical. Please make it AOC, Please make 113 00:06:55,199 --> 00:07:01,720 it AOC. AOC. Yeah, she did Instagram video the other 114 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:05,079 day yesterday, I think, and said Elon Musk is stupid. 115 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:17,279 The dude is literally a rocket scientist. Okay, hello, Dunning Krueger. 116 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:25,120 So this is how worried the quote unquote deep state 117 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:28,319 or the administrative state, the shadow government, and I keep 118 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,920 calling it that because that is to me pretty obvious 119 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:34,839 what it is. When you have all of these people 120 00:07:34,879 --> 00:07:39,000 that move from a Democrat administration, they go into you know, 121 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,360 agency work or nonprofit work that's funded by the usai D, 122 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:47,720 then it's pretty clear like it's just you're just moving 123 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:52,920 them over. They keep drawing their their big paychecks and benefits, 124 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,360 and then as soon as they are needed again when 125 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,600 a Democrat wins back the White House, then you just 126 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,519 move them back into position, right, and they don't miss 127 00:08:00,519 --> 00:08:03,319 a beat. That's why they staff up very very quickly. 128 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,079 They never stopped doing quote the work, you know, although 129 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,639 I don't really think they do a lot of work 130 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,439 with the nonprofits. It's much like the gigs that Democrats 131 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:19,639 always seemed to land at universities, right, Bev Perdue got one, 132 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,040 remember that up at Harvard John Edwards, remember UNC Chapel 133 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,519 Hill created an entire center for Work and Poverty or 134 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,960 something like that for him, which was basically just a 135 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,080 placeholder gig where he could make taxpayer money. Or maybe 136 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,519 it was donor driven, I don't remember, but it was 137 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,440 a place for him to quote work while he actually 138 00:08:44,639 --> 00:08:47,960 was building his presidential campaign. That's what he did after 139 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,440 he first ran, and then he ran again, ended up 140 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:55,399 as the is it the VP the second time? I forget, 141 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,440 But it's a place that they parked themselves, drawing the 142 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,720 large out of the system. And then you remember what 143 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:07,000 happened when Pat McCrory tried to do that. Remember a 144 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,519 college had offered him. I think it may have been Davidson, 145 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,799 but I forget. Some college offered him a professorship of 146 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,159 some kind. You know, it's not like a full blown professorship. 147 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,279 It's like you come in and you do like one 148 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,679 or two sessions. I don't even remember the terms of 149 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,360 the deal. 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Oh no, that's elive, no, no, no care. 191 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 3: Established it is Stephen idea in nineteen sixty one, which 192 00:11:56,399 --> 00:11:58,480 you know this this was a product of the Cold War. 193 00:11:58,679 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 1: USAID. 194 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,039 Speaker 3: What was its mission and why is that mission still 195 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,720 vital now the Cold War's over? Why do we still 196 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:06,080 need it? 197 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,159 Speaker 4: Well, the Cold War, of course, Kennedy was thinking about 198 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,480 the battle for hearts and minds and what would win 199 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:14,639 America the affections of global publics. So this is an 200 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,360 investment in our stability, in our security, in our alliances. 201 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,399 And that is what USA IT has done since Kennedy 202 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,039 created it. Helped eradicate smallpox, on the verge of eradicating 203 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,240 polio again and again. USA it is on the front 204 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,759 lines of some of the hardest challenges that our country 205 00:12:32,759 --> 00:12:35,000 faces and that some of the most vulnerable people in 206 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:35,600 the world face. 207 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: So right, like the Dei musical in Ireland, for example, 208 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,600 it's like wiping out polio people. It's a premier example. 209 00:12:44,039 --> 00:12:46,399 Listen to the CEO's bark and clap. 210 00:12:46,639 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 3: It's like a prime example of people call soft power 211 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:53,360 in the world, influencing the rest of the world through 212 00:12:53,399 --> 00:12:56,279 the way we help them. 213 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,799 Speaker 1: Right like sex changes in Guatemala. 214 00:12:57,919 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 3: Is that what's actually going on at the agency right now. 215 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:02,879 It's kind of confusing what the status is. 216 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:08,279 Speaker 4: It's confusing in some respects, but the core fact is 217 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,759 programs that were running that people were depending on, in 218 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:15,200 some cases for life saving medicine, like medicine if you 219 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,879 have HIV that keeps you alive quite literally. Or if 220 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:22,600 you're in Sudan and you have a child who's wasting away. 221 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:25,279 Speaker 1: Because of an alnutrition, here's the mod miracle. 222 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 4: Paste, a peanut paste that USA provides brings that kid 223 00:13:28,759 --> 00:13:31,320 back from the brink of death. All of those programs 224 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,440 are shuttered, and immediately they were shuttered from the minute 225 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,759 the executive order went out and it didn't say, hey, 226 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,919 let's review programs going forward. They said stop everything you 227 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,320 are doing globally right now, stop it, no matter the 228 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:47,960 human consequences. 229 00:13:47,399 --> 00:13:49,519 Speaker 3: Regardless if you were in the middle of distributing food. 230 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 4: We have stories of kids who are going in for 231 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,480 their TV medicine and the first three kids in a long, 232 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:58,519 long line waiting out in the hot sun got the 233 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:00,960 TV medicine. Everybody else told to go home. 234 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:05,639 Speaker 3: So let's say Trump, you know, gets what he wants 235 00:14:06,159 --> 00:14:10,840 and the US stops providing forty billion dollars in aid 236 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:11,840 around the world. 237 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: Yes please, let's yeah. Sorry, you have to spend millions 238 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,120 on EcoHealth Alliance and the research on bats and coronaviruses 239 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:28,039 in Wuhan at the WIV at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 240 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,080 You have to do that, or else the starving kid 241 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,679 doesn't get the miracle paced right. See how that works. 242 00:14:36,559 --> 00:14:42,000 This is the same ploy that GOVC does when they 243 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,480 are trying to extract more money for themselves from you. 244 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:49,159 They do this all the time. And the perfect example 245 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,399 of it at the local level is the shuddering of 246 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,360 firehouses right or police stations. Oh well, you know, we 247 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,039 can't do that thing that everybody expects us to do. 248 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,399 The thing the actual service that people want government to do, 249 00:15:05,159 --> 00:15:08,200 won't be done unless you give us millions and millions 250 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,080 of dollars for all this other garbage that we want 251 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,279 to do but you don't want to do. And so 252 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:18,279 it's a hostage situation. They are holding hostage the good 253 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:23,039 stuff so we don't ask questions about all the bad stuff. 254 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,720 It's the same old playbook. 255 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 5: All right. 256 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,799 Speaker 1: I hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell 257 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:33,360 me if something like this happened at your house. 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I have a message from Russ. 277 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:39,279 Russ says the great thing about going after USAID first 278 00:16:40,039 --> 00:16:43,279 is that the waste, fraud and abuse is easily understood. 279 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,639 The left is forced to scream that these are critical programs. 280 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,960 They also say that it's such a small fraction of 281 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,759 government spending. But I think everybody who hears the list 282 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:55,480 of spending see stupid programs that are close to their 283 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:58,519 tax liability or total income, and wonder why the heck 284 00:16:58,559 --> 00:17:01,240 do they need my money if this is the kind 285 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:06,039 of crap they spend it. On to that point here, 286 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:09,480 Dennis writes in and says nothing is more entertaining to 287 00:17:09,519 --> 00:17:12,839 me than watching the liberal Democrats gathering today to scream 288 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,000 like stuck pigs when they get caught with their hands 289 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:17,640 in the cookie jar. I like them best when they 290 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,400 use the bullhorns rather than microphones. Elon didn't waste any 291 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,519 time finding wasting corruption. And this is just the first month. Yeah. 292 00:17:25,519 --> 00:17:28,480 Did you notice also in that Chuck Schumer quote when 293 00:17:28,519 --> 00:17:31,240 he was screaming at the microphone that they're gonna take 294 00:17:31,279 --> 00:17:35,160 away odd dollars. We're not gonna let them take away 295 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:40,559 everything we have, like whoa, whoa, dude, Probably not a 296 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:43,359 great idea to use that kind of framing here, taking 297 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,359 away our dollars, taking away everything we have, like you're 298 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,559 kind of getting close to owning it, you know, all right? 299 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:58,519 So I mentioned Samantha Power. She appeared before a Senate 300 00:17:58,519 --> 00:18:03,279 committee in April of twelve, twenty three, Okay, and Rand Paul. 301 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,599 Senator Rand Paul raised these very questions of secrecy and 302 00:18:08,759 --> 00:18:12,680 inappropriate funding at that time. Power was in charge of 303 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:14,599 USAID at the time. 304 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,559 Speaker 6: Now, the question is did you fund coronavirus research in Wuhan, China? 305 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 4: Before my time? There was the PREDICT program with which 306 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,160 you're familiar, which ended in China in twenty nineteen. 307 00:18:25,319 --> 00:18:27,519 Speaker 6: This is a two hundred million dollar program, and the 308 00:18:27,599 --> 00:18:30,200 GAO has also identified that some of these grants went 309 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,960 directly to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where there is 310 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,359 a suspicion that the lab league began that began the pandemic. 311 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:44,039 Has USAID awarded funds to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences. 312 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,599 Speaker 4: In China, not to my knowledge, but I have to get. 313 00:18:47,599 --> 00:18:50,279 Speaker 6: I think the answer is once again yes. JO has 314 00:18:50,319 --> 00:18:52,839 found that there have been sub awards of NIH money 315 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:55,920 as probably as well as USAID money that went to 316 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,960 the Academy of not just medical research, military medical rep 317 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,720 research in China. Now part of the unknowns here is 318 00:19:03,799 --> 00:19:06,200 we can't get the records to look at this. So 319 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,480 I've been asking for months and months for records. In 320 00:19:09,519 --> 00:19:12,960 September of last year, I wrote Mispowers the USAID a 321 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:16,839 request asking for records from the PREDICT program. These are 322 00:19:16,839 --> 00:19:20,440 not classified, these are simply records of scientific research, and 323 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,079 we want to read the grants to find out what 324 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,799 they were doing and whether the research was dangerous or not. 325 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,759 The response I got from your agency was USAID will 326 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:34,000 not be providing any documents at this time. They're just 327 00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:36,759 unwilling to give documents on scientific grant reposal. 328 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:37,519 Speaker 1: We're paying for it. 329 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:39,799 Speaker 6: They're asking for seven hundred and forty five million dollars 330 00:19:40,039 --> 00:19:42,759 more in money, and we get no response. So two 331 00:19:42,839 --> 00:19:47,039 weeks ago the ranking Member Rish, myself and twenty five 332 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:51,440 other Republican centers, unfortunately no Democrats signed a letter. Once again, 333 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,839 it's still no response. We're not asking for classified information, 334 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,200 we're not asking for anything unusual. Twenty million people dita 335 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,279 where ond the world? Just supposed to be an agency 336 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:03,519 that cares about the death of people around the world. 337 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:07,400 We you know, talk about starvation and famine and twenty 338 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,880 million people died from a virus. And you won't give 339 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,160 us the basic information about what grants you're funding around 340 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,480 the world and who you're funding. Should we be funding 341 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:20,119 the Academy of Military Medical Research in China? They're now 342 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,720 off limits, but did we fund them? And who was 343 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:26,599 making the decision? You know, who ran the PREDICT program? 344 00:20:27,079 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: You see Davis. 345 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,079 Speaker 6: Have you had any conversations with UC Davis about research 346 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,079 in China and whether it was advisable? 347 00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 4: So again, to set the records straight. First of all, 348 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:43,799 the PREDICT program ended in twenty nineteen. We have people, and. 349 00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 6: Yet it goes on in other forums and other names. 350 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 4: That's USA program. 351 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 6: You have a program called Emergency Pandemic Threats Program. 352 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: Still don't you. 353 00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,319 Speaker 4: If I could just just finish in response to the 354 00:20:56,319 --> 00:21:00,440 first set of allegations, we have provided hundreds and hundreds 355 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,480 of pages of documents related to the PREDICT program for 356 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:05,519 the very reason that you say, because we are not 357 00:21:05,599 --> 00:21:08,880 to us, we are again as I know, you had 358 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,680 an exchange with Secretary Blinkn as well, consistent with long 359 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,839 standing practice not going to give them in to us, 360 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,480 responsive to the committees of. 361 00:21:17,519 --> 00:21:21,519 Speaker 6: Jurisdiction, not going to You've been consistent and not giving 362 00:21:21,559 --> 00:21:22,960 us information. 363 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 4: That what we've We've hundreds of pages in response to secure 364 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,720 ranking to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, 365 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,039 for example, we've had We've. 366 00:21:32,839 --> 00:21:35,079 Speaker 1: Been requested, and gotten none of it. I'm on that 367 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:36,000 committee as well. 368 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 6: The thing is is what we get from you and 369 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,000 from the State Department at large, is that if Senator 370 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:45,160 Menendez signs it, you'll give it documents. Until then, you'll 371 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,440 give us nothing, and. 372 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,599 Speaker 1: We have gotten nothing zero. 373 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 6: You said will not be providing any documents. I now, 374 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,559 if twenty five senators have sent you a letter and 375 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,720 you aren't responding, we don't. We want we want to 376 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,000 see the scientific grants. We give you the money, the 377 00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:01,000 tax players give you the money. We deserve to know 378 00:22:01,039 --> 00:22:03,920 where the money went, whether it happened. Look, you're right, 379 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,079 it ended in twenty nineteen. When did the virus come about? 380 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,160 In about twenty nineteen. Some of the research proposals that 381 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,839 came about in twenty eighteen were Wuhan Institute of Virology 382 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,440 asking for money to create a virus with a furrein 383 00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:21,839 cleavage site in a coronavirus, a stars like virus with 384 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,200 a furrein cleavage site. That's exactly what COVID turned out 385 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,240 to be. They wanted money to create such a virus. 386 00:22:28,559 --> 00:22:30,880 So we want to know are there other research proposals 387 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,000 that you either granted or denied that were on the 388 00:22:34,039 --> 00:22:37,640 same veins of creating viruses that could have become COVID nineteen. 389 00:22:38,279 --> 00:22:40,400 We can't tell because you won't give us information. 390 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 4: Again, we are consistent with long standing practice. We are 391 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,119 providing extensive documentation. We have a whole that's just that. 392 00:22:51,799 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 6: Is not it is that is not true. Everything we 393 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:57,319 have asked we have not gotten. I have not seen 394 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,640 one document on the predict program. 395 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 4: I understand that, again, consistent with common practice. 396 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: You're not going to give it. I don't know. 397 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,079 Speaker 4: We're providing all of the kinds of documentation that you. 398 00:23:09,799 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 1: Are not dishonest. You're being dishonest. 399 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,599 Speaker 6: We haven't gotten one scrap of paper from you, not one. 400 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 4: Committees of jurisdiction. We are providing all of the paperwork. 401 00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:22,279 You are not in quested by the other committee. 402 00:23:22,279 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 6: I'm the ranking member on the other committee, and I 403 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,440 haven't seen a scrap of paper from that committee either. 404 00:23:26,599 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 4: Well, that is here's what the America. 405 00:23:29,839 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: The America. 406 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,319 Speaker 4: Actually, I can't tell you what American. 407 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 6: People think this that because you won't respond, because you 408 00:23:35,799 --> 00:23:39,119 respond with a non response, that you have something to hide. 409 00:23:39,279 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if you have anything to hide or not. 410 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:41,799 I want to. 411 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:44,799 Speaker 6: See every grant proposal that had to do with coronaviruses 412 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,920 that went to China from the US government, from all 413 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,519 facets of the US government, and every bit of the 414 00:23:50,519 --> 00:23:54,160 Biden administration is stonewalling us and will not give us 415 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,960 the information. It makes us think and makes us suspicious 416 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,519 that you're hiding something and it wasn't he you, this 417 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,079 was the previous administration. We go back two or three administrations. 418 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,440 We just want to see the information. 419 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,079 Speaker 1: And yet you sit there and you say we will do. 420 00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 6: Something, we are doing something, which is absolutely the. 421 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: Opposite the truth. You are not being honest. Gosh, if 422 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,960 only there was a sign that USAID wasn't disclosing all 423 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,200 of its expenditures. 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Ininez Stepman from the Claremont Institute 445 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:34,480 says this is nothing short of simply defunding the professional left. 446 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:40,359 The leftist institutional infrastructure has relied for decades on basically 447 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,640 being paid by the taxpayer. It's like if a thousand 448 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,640 Heritage foundations were being funded by the government. And that's 449 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:53,079 just the way it was until now, and that's not 450 00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:59,920 being included in the reporting. Everything is framed through Donald 451 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:06,160 Trump Elon Musk. He's a billionaire boogdi boogodee. And USAID 452 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:10,680 is a humanitarian agency and all they do is save lives. 453 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,559 That's all they do. And that's not all they do, 454 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:21,039 all right, As this is Jorge Bonia at NewsBusters dot org. 455 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,000 He says, the reports do not air all of the 456 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:30,200 other stuff that USAID notoriously funds, from transgender opera in 457 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,039 Colombia to gain a function bat coronavirus research at the 458 00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:39,160 Wuhan Virology Institute, to soros DA candidates in the US. 459 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:44,920 They never mentioned those things. Here's an ABC report. This 460 00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:48,839 is comical. I'll tell you why. In a second ABC 461 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,880 report by Jonathan Carl who just happens to get a 462 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,000 hold of an employee at us AID. 463 00:26:57,759 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 7: But Elon Musk's influences sweep throughout the administration. It was 464 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:04,400 late last week that the Doge team showed up at 465 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:10,480 USAID offices in Washington and demanded access. USAID employee Christina 466 00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:12,240 Dry described the scene. 467 00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 5: Doge was in the building. We started, We took down 468 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,119 our pride flags, we took down I took out any 469 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:19,720 books I thought would be incriminating. 470 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: No one was talking. 471 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 5: We heard they started taking transcripts automatically of all of 472 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,799 our Google beats. They'd unplugged the news in the little 473 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,599 kitchen galleys. It didn't feel good. And then Saturday all 474 00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:37,200 the websites went down, and then I lost complete access 475 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:37,799 to my computer. 476 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:41,279 Speaker 1: All right, So a couple things of note here. First, 477 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,119 she says, we found out Doge was in the building, 478 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,759 and so what did they immediately scrambled to do take 479 00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:53,440 down all the Pride flags that are hanging up in 480 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,839 their offices. Gee, I wonder if that has any impact 481 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,440 on why they keep giving all these grants to LGBT 482 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,119 issues all around the globe. There may be a connection 483 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,960 there people. I'm not so sure though. But so they 484 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,960 scramble to start taking down our pride flags. And then 485 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,960 she says she took out of her office any books 486 00:28:14,039 --> 00:28:21,079 I felt would be incriminating. Why would books be incriminating? 487 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,400 What are those books? What books do you have on 488 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,960 your office shelf? There? That might raise some suspicions like 489 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,400 how to launder money through NGOs for dummies or something 490 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,039 like what kind of books do you have? But here's 491 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,559 the big thing. Do you know who Christina Dry is? 492 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,960 Why would you? Nobody knows who she is. ABC didn't 493 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,240 tell us and maybe they didn't know either. But if 494 00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:50,960 you track down who she is, she's the speech writer 495 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:57,039 for Samantha Power. She's she's the one who would write 496 00:28:57,079 --> 00:29:00,279 the speeches for the woman that you just heard with 497 00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:06,559 Senator rand Paul, the head of USAID. So the speech 498 00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:10,680 writer has incriminating books and pride flags all over the office. 499 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:17,640 That's the speech writer for Samantha Power. Okay. Over at CNN, 500 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,000 Republicans they're gonna tell us, They're going to tell it 501 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,279 to a street. They're going to give us all the 502 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:28,039 background we need to know about USAID. Okay, And they 503 00:29:28,079 --> 00:29:32,160 say Republicans typically push to give the State Department, which 504 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:39,559 provides overall foreign policy guidance to USAID. So State gives guidance, 505 00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:43,599 but USAID pushes the money out the door to all 506 00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:46,839 of the NGOs and the United Nations and all other 507 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,759 types of operations. Just like the breadth and scope of 508 00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:56,960 what they fund, it knows no bounds. It's everything they're funding. 509 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,920 They got a little bit of money going everywhere, but 510 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:10,240 it's all driven by one political philosophy. So Republicans typically 511 00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,039 push to give the State Department more control of its 512 00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:20,039 policy and funding. Democrats typically promote USAID autonomy and authority. 513 00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:23,400 In other words, they don't even want state to be 514 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,960 in control. They don't want the State Department to hold 515 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,440 USAID accountable for any of their spending. That is a 516 00:30:31,519 --> 00:30:36,920 recipe for graft. Remember hearing about the teapot dome scandal. 517 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:42,240 This thing, this scandal will dwarf that. CNN goes on 518 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:46,319 to say funding for UN agencies, including peacekeeping, human rights, 519 00:30:46,359 --> 00:30:51,319 and refugee agencies, have been traditional targets for Republican administrations 520 00:30:51,359 --> 00:30:54,680 to cut. The first Trump administration moved to reduce foreign 521 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,559 aid spending, suspending payments to various UN agencies, including the 522 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:03,319 UN Population Fund and funding to the Palestinian Authority. So 523 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,119 here's the question, and you know me, I am a 524 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,519 why guy. My question is why do Republicans do that? 525 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:12,599 It's because there is a level of unaccountability when you 526 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,279 start pushing these grants out and then you do what 527 00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:19,720 it's called sub awards. USAID gets the chunk of money, 528 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,880 then they issue the grants, and then those recipients issue 529 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,720 other grants, and you have no idea where the money 530 00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:31,000 is going, and when you ask, you get stonewalled. And 531 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,119 that's the problem. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 532 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,240 Thank you so much for listening. 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