i let the governors run their states. we had some governors that did a fantastic job, south carolina, tennessee, south dakota. we had governors that did a fantastic job and i let them do it if they wanted to keep their state open i say keep it open. if they wanted to close i said close it. numerous republican governors kept the states open. frankly the numbers were better than if you closed. it s an amazing thing you think if you close and seal it. they were stealing it people weren t leaving their apartments and catching covid, you don t explain that one. the democrats had a lousy run. if you look at what happened. but we did a fantastic job, the ventilators, the equipment i got, as an example i got a great hospital boat i brought into new
states. we had some governors that did a fantastic job, south carolina, tennessee, south dakota. we had governors that did a fantastic job and i let them do it if they wanted to keep their state open i say keep it open. if they wanted to close i said close it. numerous republican governors kept the states open. frankly the numbers were better than if you closed. it s an amazing thing you think if you close and seal it. they were stealing it people weren t leaving their apartments and catching covid, you don t explain that one. the democrats had a lousy run. if you look at what happened. but we did a fantastic job, the ventilators, the equipment i got, as an example i got a great hospital boat i brought into new
itself working during covid because without that, many people would have died because they d have been queuing up injob centres catching covid. so, it was very flexible. over a million people were taken on in about three weeks in covid. you couldn t have done that with the old legacy systems. so, obviously keeping going and changing it is absolutely key. but when it comes to inflation, again, i saw america s put up their interest rates. they re worried this last bout of increased inflation, unpredicted in a way you can argue should have been because this dates back to the period when you actually started planting the crops when the cost of energy was really high. this is about two months after the war in ukraine starts. you know, when they ve harvested, now they re looking to repla nt. it s that point where energy is high, fertiliser costs are through the roof. i know because i have some family that have a farm. all of those have taken this period to come through to the harvest price a
in the way that it was intended to? because the whole point about universal credit is it s mega flexible, you can take it up, take it down, it adds to people s incomes as their circumstances change, you know, uc is performing and that s why we persuaded and i m pleased with the chance of the budget to do what i wanted to do, which is to add the other bit to uc, which is universal support universal credit, universal support. that s because for the first time, universal credit identifies whole household income. it means now we know who are really coping and not coping. so what we can put alongside that is ways of getting those families that don t cope into remedial help, sorting them out, whether it s debt, drugs, whatever, and then getting them back into the work process. so uc is flexible in that regard. how the government sets the table is important because if you drop it down, which is what they ve now done, it means more people keep more of their income on the way through the the
this is a real problem and winning the final argument is that most of the documents are classified. sean: didn t we have right after 9/11 didn t kristi todd whitman at the epa tell rescue workers that the air quality is fine? that s what i recall at the time. on the issue of covid, haven t they been wrong on pretty much everything? we now know that they were wrong on masks. we now know that when they told us, if you got the vaccine that you d never get covid. that turned out to be a lie. if you got a booster that s going to help you, that didn t help many people. we even had studies showing if you got a booster you might increase your chances of catching covid. now we have all of the other evidence that s out there. we had the early exchange in january of 2020 with high ranking nih officials and fauci, 900 pages from the tints sent,