worthy on more than one topic. >> before covid shut down the u.s., back in 2020 some warnings proved correct. you wrote a memo about the risk of a worst case pandemic scenario. why weren't you listened to more? >> interestingly, tony fauci is a key person that wouldn't listen to a word i had to say. i think that i had the benefit of knowing communist china of basically writing a book back in 2006 that predicted there might be a pandemic from communist china. in trump time, talks about all the people in the west wing who were really tone deaf to the crisis. you know, i can't explain why they thought that way. i do know that there was three people in the white house were taken it seriously with robert o'bryan, national security advisor, myself and yes,