good senator, rand paul was saying, he was more right thank wrong. when you put this into context, jason, this is worse than it appears from the inspector general s report. you ve got to remember, 2014, the obama administration puts a mother torium on federal funding of gain moratorium funding on gain of function research. what did he do, he funded a chinese biological research lab to do this research. you would think there would be oversight but remember the state department in 2018 did a survey of that you would the institute was not adhering to basic safety protocols. j . jason: when you have somebody to get so comfortable, they aren t used to the oversight, lord fauci, we re not going to
i ll going to hold their feet to the fire. meanwhile, she s playing footsies with them suggesting here s the questions, are you okay with them? i have never heard of that. have you? i have not, jayson, and you were the chairman of the house oversight committee. i was one with of the staff leaders on the senate judiciary committee for then chairman chuck grassley. i helped grassley with 30 senate hearings on the judiciary committee, and that was during the trump years. we didn t even do this during the trump years. this is supposed to be an oversight hearing and they are supposed to have aggressive oversight, not this coordination with this independent agency, the sec, that they are given questions to the chairman and asking if it was okay if senator warren asked these questions. is it a surprise to anyone that elizabeth warren is pretending to be someone who she s not? jason: right. look, we preached out to senator warren, gave her hours and hours and hours to review this and get b
higher risk. take precautions to protect yourself but for the rest of us it s what we call endemic. we have the tools to treat this disease. we have the antivirals, the paxlovid. we have remdesivir. in milwaukee, 4,000 covid deaths supposedly but only half of them were truly deaths by covid. the rest of them were overcounted, and this is really a serious problem. we need accurate data reporting in order to have the implementation of good policy and protocol. jason: that s the concern here. this week at the white house briefing, the press secretary, look at what she said about covid. covid isn t over. we ve been very clear about that. hundreds of americans are dying every day and cases are increasing today. that s why we take common sense measures like covid testing
hilarious that democrats like don are always obsessed with the 1950s and the jim crow era. it s like that s you guys. that s your fault. they can t let it go, but you guys did that, and second of all, the idea that we wouldn t want to vet what s in the classroom exactly. the exact argument that he s making that we shouldn t be looking at the books that are in the classroom. it s not a book banning law. it s a law that says we need to vet every book in the classroom. to my mind don has to explain why we don t need to vet every single book in a child s classroom. jason: you re exactly right. let s move on to number two and go to msnbc, and how they reacted to donald trump being reinstated to facebook. have a look. as though you can satisfy that part of the country or the electorate, i think that s a fool s error as well but john has made a good point which is that you don t want to whether you re a company or an institution, you don t want to
very sad that governor huckabee just let all of america know that he doesn t really love his family if he s not going to get his fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh booster. jason: some people will help them to get it, but talk to a doctor, don t listen to joe scarborough for your medical advice for goodness sake. here s what finally happened when joey bayhar claim she had a fact check on the issue of guns and mental illness. have a look. i have a fact check. [laughter] what was the incredible source? it s from brian actually. oh. spread it out. i can t find it. somebody say what it is. i don t have it. we ll come back to it. we ll be right back. very quickly, do you have that fact checked that joy is looking for? i do not and i think it was