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Jody Hice and guests investigate the 5th Amendment of the Constitution, how Dr. Fauci used it inappropriately and mishandled the COVID-19 origins and symptoms, review where things stand with the continuing resolution on Capitol Hill, growing concerns by state attorneys general over intoxicating hemp, and the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
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Jody Hice and guests investigate the 5th Amendment of the Constitution, how Dr. Fauci used it inappropriately and mishandled the COVID-19 origins and symptoms, review where things stand with the continuing resolution on Capitol Hill, growing concerns by state attorneys general over intoxicating hemp, and the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. ...more Show the full description Show less Jody Hice and guests investigate the 5th Amendment of the Constitution, how Dr. Fauci used it inappropriately and mishandled the COVID-19 origins and symptoms, review where things stand with the continuing resolution on Capitol Hill, growing concerns by state attorneys general over intoxicating hemp, and the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
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In this video 0:00 Fauci's Contempt and Revealing Diaries7:00 Exposing Science vs. Politics in COVID Response15:00 Battling Intoxicating Hemp Loopholes27:00 Muslim Brotherhood's Covert U.S. Threat41:40 Legal Analysis: Pardons, Fifth, and Contempt
Fauci's Contempt and Revealing Diaries 0:01 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and0:12 newsmakers, all from biblical worldview, sitting in for Tony as today's host, Jody Heiss.0:19 That is what we are voting on today. Not his opinions, not his policies, not anything he said from a podium 6 years ago. We are voting on whether a witness who has0:31 received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence.0:41 That was senate homeland security and government affairs chairman Rand Paul earlier today before his committee voted to pass his resolution to hold doctor Anthony Fauci in0:53 contempt of congress. Welcome to this Thursday, August 6th edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host today, Jody Heise. Thrilled to be able to fill the shoes today of Tony1:05 Perkins. Thank you so much for joining us. Glad to be with you for this next hour as we look at the top news from a biblical perspective. Coming up today, we'll discuss today's contempt of congress1:17 vote against doctor Anthony Fauci. We'll look at it from a legal perspective with Cully Stimson from the Heritage Foundation. We'll also dive into the Fauci diaries that senator Rand
1:29 Paul released ahead of last week's committee hearing. Epidemiologist and clinical trial is doctor Andrew Bostom will join us for that discussion. And there's a growing push
1:41 against intoxicating hemp products that are trying to make their way into the marketplace through various loopholes in federal law. We'll discuss this with Arkansas attorney general
1:53 Tim Griffin who led a bipartisan letter with some 34 other attorneys generals on that issue. Plus, there was a senate judiciary subcommittee
2:05 hearing yesterday on the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America. They have allegedly been providing indoctrination, financing, and political protection for Jihadist
2:16 terror. We'll discuss this with 1 of those who testified yesterday as a witness, Kyle Shidler from the Center for Security Policy. All that and much more is coming your
2:28 way the next hour right here on this edition of Washington Watch. We'll begin today with the contempt
2:40 resolution against doctor Anthony Fauci. Joining us now to fill us in is Washington Watch reporter Mary Stackhouse. Mary, can you tell us what happened today? Big story.
2:52 Sure, Jody. Republicans in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under chairman Rand Paul voted today to pass Paul's resolution to hold doctor Anthony Fauci in contempt of congress for refusing
3:04 to answer questions under subpoena. Now this comes after doctor Fauci appeared before the committee last week pursuant to a subpoena issued by chairman Paul during the July 29th hearing. Doctor Fauci
3:15 invoked the 5th Amendment 111 times. That includes invoking it on simple questions like what color his tie was or what day of the week it was. Committee member Josh Hawley pointed out today that he had
3:27 asked those questions to test the good faith nature of doctor Fauci's invocation of the 5th Amendment. Here's what senator Hawley had to say.
3:34 I think it's pretty clear given doctor Fauci's 111 invocations of the 5th Amendment, including the questions that he had could have no fear of prosecution on. He's not gonna get prosecuted for the color of his tie.
3:47 Shows that he had no interest and no intention of answering any of our questions, and that is an abuse of the that there's no privilege for any of that.
3:54 The resolution to hold doctor Fauci in contempt of congress passed committee with a vote of 8 to 5 down party lines. Chairman Paul has said that he intends to send the referral directly to the justice department rather
4:06 than to the full senate 1st. This would leave it up to the US attorney in Washington to decide whether to investigate or potentially attempt to prosecute doctor Fauci for contempt. Jody?
4:17 It certainly is going to be extremely interesting to see how this continues to unfold. Mary, staying in the senate, what's the latest on the efforts to try to keep the government funded beyond the midterm
4:29 elections coming up?
4:30 Jody, the measure to extend government funding through December 11th is 1 of a number of items that senate majority leader John Thune wants to get done before senators leave for their 5 week recess. Thune has said that
4:42 passing the measure was his top priority going into the August recess. However, there's been very little progress on fast tracking the continuing resolution. A group of Republican senators led by senator Ted Budd of
4:53 North Carolina wants to strip a provision from the CR that delays the implementation of a ban on some hemp products, which are said to cause intoxication like marijuana. Here's what senator Budd said yesterday
5:05 on the senate floor.
5:06 This is a public health health crisis that deserves this senate's immediate attention. Our children should never be the testing ground for an industry willing to exploit a loophole in
5:18 federal law for profit. We need to strip this amendment from the continuing resolution to regulate these harmful substances for exactly what they are, not what the
5:29 industry wants to call them.
5:35 According to reports, president Trump personally called senator Budd yesterday to urge him to back off of his opposition to the hemp delay provision, but senator Budd made it clear that he will not back down and he will
5:46 not waiver. Meanwhile, leader Thune has indicated that he intends to keep the senate in town until the bulk of the chamber's to do list is completed. A spokesperson for Thune warned that the senate may be forced to stay
5:57 in session well into next week, delaying the planned August recess. Jody?
6:04 Alright. We'll be keeping a close eye on that 1 as well. Thank you, Mary. Before I let you go, can you give us a quick update on the situation with Iran and where we stand on the negotiations?
6:14 Sure, Jody. According to reports, Iran and Oman are nearing a new arrangement for managing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran is insisting that the framework represents a new security model for the waterway
6:26 rather than a full reopening. Iran has also said that reopening the strait would hinge on the US lifting its blockade of Iranian ports. But US Central Command has said that it is continuing to enforce the
6:37 US blockade against Iran, which has been back in place since July 14th as part of US efforts to pressure Iran into negotiations. In a post on X, CENTCOM said that US Marines redirected 49
6:49 commercial vessels. They disabled 2 and they boarded 2 other vessels as of today. Jody?
6:56 Alright, Mary. Thank you so much as always for these updates. We appreciate it. And I wanna turn now back to our discussion about doctor Fauci being voted in contempt of congress. What led to
Exposing Science vs. Politics in COVID Response
7:08 this? Well, joining us to discuss this now is doctor Andrew Bostom. He's an academic clinical trialist and epidemiologist as well as research physician at the Brown
7:19 University Center for Primary Care and Prevention of, Kent Memorial Hospital in Rhode Island. Doctor Balsam, welcome back to Washington Watch. Appreciate you joining
7:31 us. Let's start with, I
7:33 just wanted to add that I'm retired now.
7:37 Well, good for you. That, that makes it even more important for you to, join us today. Thank you. You could have been doing a lot of other things. Let's, look at this, doctor Fauci, both of your
7:48 epidemiologists, but you disagree with him on, several things. Can you walk us through some of that?
7:55 I you know, it's almost where remember the old, actually, probably it still exists. Spy versus spy in in Mad Magazine, that that it's fallacy versus fallacy. It's the private
8:07 versus the public the more I see the private I have to say, and I wish that person had emerged in public, my my disagreement still
8:19 largely largely disappear when when you over over COVID. I mean, the things that he was saying in private, particularly, about about masking, about the overall infection fatality
8:31 rate, for COVID, which really defined whether it was going to be, you know, a pandemic that we should be up in arms
8:43 about, or something more akin to a flu or a severe flu. He had a very different, understanding in private.
8:54 And this just it makes the situation, I think, all that more nefarious, quite honestly. So, in other words, Fauci was very, dubious about the benefit of of masking,
9:07 in in private. I I remember seeing, an email that he got from a a pooled analysis that I I had been familiar with. He actually got it before it was published. He got it when it was
9:19 in print. And it was basically a review of the flu era, and it and it was a whole host of studies, all randomized trials, which showed that masking was ineffective for flu. And and since you know? And and and he agreed.
9:30 Well, you know, since there's about the same particle size as COVID, it's probably not going to work for COVID. And and he understood that in private. And also, he did he did speculate that the,
9:42 infection fatality rate for for for COVID might be more along the lines. He didn't think it was going to be like seasonal flu, but it could be more along the lines of, of a pandemic
9:54 flu, something like the 19 50 seven-fifty 8 flu epidemic. And that infection fatality rate was about 0.25 or so, you know, not the 1 percent, 2 percent, 3 percent, 5
10:05 percent, that that that was being that the fear mongering was about.
10:11 So it is interesting some of that when you go back and forth with his diary and his public comments like what you're talking about. Some of the things in his diary were were some of the very things that you brought up on
10:22 this program back during the the pandemic. And so I'd like to get play a clip for you and get your reaction to this. Play clip number 6 for me, please.
10:33 I think 1 of the revelation of those diaries, I think probably the the most significant 1 that's being overlooked was early on in the pandemic. He wrote in his diaries, he thought COVID would be maybe twice a bad flu
10:44 season. Now I'm not downplaying a bad flu season. We we have them oftentimes. They overwhelm hospitals. Something to take seriously. But a pandemic is gonna be
10:56 twice that. Is that is that really worth destroying people's lives, shutting down businesses, destroying economy?
11:04 That's exactly what you were just saying. I mean, when you when you were talking about that, I was like, this is precisely what came up yesterday. What other things were in his diary verse that were in contrast to
11:16 what he was saying publicly?
11:19 I think I think the issue, the whole issue of masking was was, dealt with in in his diary. And I think he actually had some skepticism about the ability of the
11:31 vaccine to prevent, transmission, if I recall. But these were these were, antithetical, to to to what or the opposite of what he was saying in in in
11:43 public. He was very adamant about the need for masking and multiple masks on occasion, and and he was absolutely sure that that the that the virus was gonna prevent
11:55 transmission. Those are Do you think it's yeah.
11:59 Do you think it's fair to say that he veered away from the science and ended up being influenced by politics?
12:06 I I there's no other way to interpret it. You know, and we and we have we have a big problem because, you know, Fauci, if I recall, he he did a a very
12:19 way back at the beginning of his career, did a landmark randomized controlled trial, which led to a standard treatment for a serious rheumatologic condition called Wegener's granulomatosis. And
12:30 he understood the importance of of true randomized trials with with hard outcomes. And and and we we never had that with with vaccines, including the COVID vaccine
12:42 despite the the the the trillion dollar effort to to deal with with COVID. It would have been a perfect time to do a hard clinical trial with real outcomes, Jody. Something like hospitalizations
12:54 for pneumonia, not just, you know, transient infection rates where you arbitrarily, you know, cut out the early observation period. I mean, this is this is he he knew better than that. And
13:06 he and there were other people in the vaccine field that have been pushing for this for a long time. Now most noticeably, you know, r RFK Jr. But but real vaccine clinical trials and epidemiologists were saying, look. We
13:18 we can't conduct trials this way. It's not enough to show a transient reduction in infections. And, again, you know, have this arbitrary notion that you you just don't look at the early infections that are actually the
13:28 early infections are very important. But but, anyway, he he he has to know all this, Jody. And and and yet, he he pushed the the the the limited trials that we had far beyond what
13:40 they actually showed.
13:42 Alright. Thank you so much for joining us, doctor Bostom, retired epidemiologist. Incredible discussion and story. Thank you for joining us. Alright. Coming up, we've got much more Washington watch to
13:54 discuss and a lot of big topics, so stay with us. We'll be back on the other side of this break.
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17:02 Thank you for joining us today on Washington Watch. Welcome back. I'm Jody Heise, your host for today. Thanks so much for tuning in. Just a quick reminder, our Prevost Stand Summit is
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17:38 35 state attorneys general. They are urging the federal lawmakers to reject efforts to delay scheduled regulations, excuse me, on psychoactive hemp products.
17:51 They are warning that any legislative delay keeps these unregulated. These are mind altering substances. They would remain on store shelves, putting children
18:03 at risk among other people. Now as you wanna know, hemp is a close cousin to marijuana plant, and THC is in there. The THC is a mind altering
18:15 chemical found in cannabis. And because of this, hemp is mostly escaped, for some reason, federal regulations that govern marijuana. Well, Arkansas's attorney general, Tim
18:27 Griffin, is leading this bipartisan effort to demand that congress enforce schedule, federal regulations on him. And he joins us
18:38 now to discuss his attorney general Griffin. Welcome back to Washington Watch. Glad to have you with us. And let's just begin with, this effort that you're leading the way on. What do you
18:50 hope to accomplish?
18:52 Sure. Let me give a little context here. So over, almost a year ago, a number of us, attorneys general, pushed the federal
19:04 government, particularly congress, to pass some rules, some regulations on what I like to call gas station weed,
19:17 gas station weed candy. This is the stuff that you often see around the checkout. It's generally it generally was not regulated
19:30 by the federal government and until we got legislation passed a year ago. And that was a really critical moment because this is stuff coming
19:41 from who knows where containing who knows what. It's made to look attractive like gummy bears or what have you. You don't know if it's from China. You don't know how much drug is in it. You have
19:53 no idea what's in it. And this stuff was being sold over the counter in states across the country even though what traditional marijuana
20:06 could not be. And
20:09 so
20:15 Alright. I believe we've lost him momentarily. We'll be we will certainly try to to, get the attorney general Ken Griffin, Tim Griffin back. It it's it's fascinating what he was
20:27 talking about there, and I I I believe we have him back. Attorney general, welcome welcome back. Sorry we lost you.
20:35 Sorry about that.
20:36 Yeah. No no problem. Listen, it's remarkable that passed.
20:41 Yes. So we got it passed. That's about that fight was a year ago. The problem now the problem now is
20:53 we have this law in place, but a rider has been proposed. A provision has been proposed to are you still
21:04 there?
21:06 Yes. Uh-huh. Keep going.
21:07 Okay. A provision has been proposed to go with the CR that would postpone the effective date of the successful legislation that we got passed last
21:19 year. Now why would you wanna do that? Well, the industry wants to do it. The hemp industry wants to do it. Not because they wanna delay for a month. They wanna do it because they want an
21:31 opportunity to reverse course and to get this law changed. And here's the bottom line. Kids suffer. Families suffer. Our health
21:42 suffers. If if we reverse course on this, getting this done a year ago was the right thing to do. We needed it. And, it ought to stay exactly as it is.
21:54 Absolutely. So you brought it up. Go ahead if you by the way, it's remarkable how you've been able to develop such a coalition, both red and blue states. I commend you for that. But you just brought this up. Speak
22:06 to how children are being impacted by this industry.
22:12 Well, here's the thing. A lot of these packages are sitting around homes, and these kids find them, and they look like
22:23 gummy bears. They look like Starburst. They look like other candies or Doritos or what have you in very attractive bags. And a lot
22:35 of kids and infants, end up going to the emergency room or a poison control center. I know we're having some technical difficulty here with the with
22:47 the video, but I'm trying to get it, worked out. But but in any
22:51 case, man We can hear you.
22:53 This this has sent a lot of young kids, children, babies, toddlers to the emergency room, and we even check with our poison control center in Arkansas on this. This is
23:05 something that has been a problem. And, so the bottom line is we've got a a very solid common sense law on the books now,
23:17 and, we are fighting to make sure that it stays there. And there are a lot of great senators leading on this, like Tom Cotton of my state, who's who's, helping us make
23:29 a point that this is dangerous.
23:33 Yes. And, there are senators, Tom, Ted Budd. In fact, he's introduced an amendment to prevent federal funding bills from being used to delay, all of this. And, Family Resource Council
23:45 is urging senators to support that. In fact, we're, going to be scoring this. Do you see senators, opting to maintain the original timeline from federal regulations on hemp? We've got
23:57 about less than a minute. But how do you see this going?
24:00 I think it's a moving target. Everything that I see is that the 1st of all, this was dropped very quickly. And so I think as people
24:12 learn about this, there's
24:15 more and more
24:16 mobilization and more and more senators are opposing this. So I I feel good about our chances. Even if there's a delay on our implementation of the law from a year
24:27 ago, we have to absolutely stop any further changes to the law.
24:33 Thank you so much for joining us. Tom Griffin, attorney general, state of Arkansas. Appreciate your leadership on this. Alright. Coming up after the break, we're gonna be shifting gears
24:45 and examining a growing debate over the influence of the, Muslim brotherhood right here in the United States. And it may surprise you just what's happening. Stay with us. We'll
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