angle. >> laura: when donald trump's lawyer paid off a porn star before the 2016 election. democrats were quick to inary trump himself had the intent to falsify records. they didn't care that hush money payments aren't illegal or that the president didn't himself order invoices to be labeled as legal expenses, which i still contend is entirely reasonable by the way. but, in their small minds, trump was guilty before the jury was even impaneled. >> laura: how different their approach is demagogy anthony fauci. although he has with every charged with a crime he too had a senior adviser who found himself in major hot water recently. emails revealed he deleted records and even used back channels to help dr. fauci keep evidence secret. but when the good doctor is asked about this specifically on the efforts to evade foia requests and protect this guy named peter daszak how may remember we know he received federal grants for his work with the wuhan lab. fauci was all denials. >> i never spoke about protecting him. i may have mentioned and discussed dr. daze zac because he is grantee. >> he just made that up? you are testifying that he made up that? >> excuse me. >> you are testifying that dr. moren made that up. >> i don't know where he got that but that's not true. >> laura: democrats were outraged that dr. fauci was asked any questions at all. >> dr. fauci we owe you an apology for the way we have raked you through the mud and none of us have said to you here's where you go get your good name and your reputation back we owe you a collective thank you. you are a world-renowned scientist and american patriot your lynn to republican and democratic administrations and all americans saved countless lives and resources. we owe you a debt of gratitude. >> laura: a debt? facebook was paid the highest paid federal government for for years. when he left pension payout exceeding $414,000. that's according to analysis by open the books. now, the angle -- we have to pat ourself on the back a little bit today, because before anyone, we were focused on the fauci game. yeah, the game he was playing way back in 2020 before a pandemic was declared. fauci came on this show and he seemed to go out of his way to give the chinese the benefit of the doubt. >> why should we actually believe them when billions, if not trillions of dollars is riding on preserving the idea that all is going to be okay? >> over the last several weeks the chinese authorities have really been very explicit they were not going to any transparency coming out. >> laura: trajectory of the disease and the origin of the disease. >> in my directed interaction with chinese scientists and chinese health officials, not party politics people but medical people and scientists that can i believe what they're telling me. >> laura: ha! it gets funnier every time you hear it or more infuriating. >> laura: my senses about him and the scam demic were accurate. pushing the boundaries of manipulation and control than really saving lives. we knew from very early data from lombardi, italy, that the covid virus was simply not a threat to most people. only those with maybe two or three co-morbidities were at risk of severe complications and death. >> there are two groups of people who really do poorly with the covid-19 illness. people who have underlying serious health conditions. a bigger group, not in size but in the effect are the elderly. particularly those who live in nursing homes. they often have co-morbid illnesses. >> laura: and indeed we learned years later in this was the case and at the time we knew it was unfor the trump white house to have a live long liberal bureaucrat like fauci lead their response lock down closures were pushed. fake rules advanced that made everyone's life miserable and did irreparable damage to education. but all of this wreckage. all of it to them was collateral damage to a narcissist with a white coat a man used to having little to no oversight over his actions. this is why he thought he could get away with this to keep schools closed there may be some areas the level of vifers so high it would not be fruendt bring the children back to school. >> laura: along with the mask mandate. fauci's endorsement of social distancing was among the most antiscientific of his strong recommendations. by the way recommendation he is conveniently now trying to distance himself from. don't blame me it was the cdc's fault. >> wasn't we realized it was not speed by aerosol and droplets. go back to the cdc and say let's base this on science. let's get rid of this 6-foot rule. >> it was a cdc decision and it was clear. >> were you dialoguing with the cdc? >> cdc was part of the coronavirus response team. >> and you didn't feel an obligation to go to them and say, look, americans aren't going to trust us. we're providing them with misinformation? >> we have discussions at the white house about that we did the centers for disease control's decision and they made it. >> you didn't feel obligation lead scientist at the nih to challenge that. >> i challenged the cdc multiple times. >> publicly on this regard? >> excuse me. >> publicly you challenged them on the 6-foot distancing role? >> it is not appropriate to be publicly challenging a sister organization. >> laura: wait a second. not appropriate to challenge the cdc publicly? really had no problem chief executive officer, his ultimate boss president trump. >> i was put in a very difficult position i didn't like publicly contradict the president of the united states. i felt it was my responsibility to preserve my own personal integrity and my major responsibility to the american public to tell them the truth. >> laura: it just gets better and better. now, the truth is we gave too much power to a power hungry bureaucrat with a fancy title and almost entirely abandoned true scientific principles, the constitution and common sense. now, beyond the social distancing farce, the truth that that guy abandoned were down played cloth masks don't work, viruses attenuate. natural immunity is real. mandating experimentation shots that don't prevent transmission is oncology shable. children need to be in school. china can't be trusted. you can't leave the liquor stores open and close the churches, tony. finally we have a first amendment. ever heard of it? but even today, you sense that fauci wishes there was more, not less censorship. >> there is so much misand disinformation around that we have got to do a better job of reaching out and trying to get the correct information. but that's difficult when you have a very energetic group of people continually spreading misand disinformation. >> laura: inconvenient first amendment. after all that we have learned about the virus, the true legality, the alternative and expensive treatment. the harm done to kids. one would think that tony fauci would show a little bit of humility if had his growers he would industrial a lockdown. >> one of the things a response with the degree of divisiveness that we had in the country about a lack of a coherent response where we were having people for reasons that had nothing to do with public health or science refusing to adhere to public health interveterans measures. >> laura: they didn't listen to tony they wanted to actually survive. best comment on the fauci reemergence was clifton duncan on x. your business went under while fauci went to basic games. your mother died afelony a nursing home while fauci did photo shoots. your child hanged themselves from despair while fauci hobnobbed with celebs. people got divorced. people severed lifelong friendships. people lost decades' long careers. people were trapped with abusers. people overdosed and killed themselves. people lost out on proms and graduations. people lost loved ones that could have been saved people are injured by a shot they didn't want all because we decided to trust the science that, of course, being anthony fauci, according to anthony fauci. >> laura: we can never and i mean never let happen to this country again what happened under him. we will be paying for the fauci effect for a generation, perhaps more. his impurrousness on the hill today is simply further evidence that he was the wrong man at the wrong time to help formulate a common sense plan to deal with the wuhan flu and that's the angle. ♪ joining me now is brad wenstrup subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. i object turnerrest and. let's start with you. what do you think the most important fact that you have uncovered in all of your investigations? >> i think that the numerous facts that we have uncovered have led to the very notion that dr. fauci as director of the ninid take into what happened when it comes to the grant process, nefarious behavior within his agency. the lack of control that exists within his agency it's us everything. more so i would say the messaging was absolutely horrible and so was bedside manner through this entire process we have seen some incidents of things that he said that make no sense and you look at us as a nation having a mandate for the vaccine when we have people coming across the border that are unvaccinated, untested, and then dispersed around the country. that's not science and by the way, we were funding gain of function research in china. >> laura: that's the most important fact. i asked you what the most important fact not to be a brat. what is the most important fact we learned, dr. mccullough, the number one fact we learned about anthony fauci? >> yeah, we learned that he was overseeing and coordinating a u.s.-chinese conspiracy peter does some, dr. shrinkly in published in 2015, 2016, the creation of a sars like wuhan institute of virology that was poised for deceiving america. >> laura: congressman i would tend to agree with dr. mccullough just said there 9 united states of america perhaps a fairly strong argument indirectly funding the research that ended up causing this lab leak do you think the truth is headed to that, the secretary of defense headed to that, congressman? >> i think. so i'm a little taken back by the comment that was just made. because our work has been very thorough. and we have been building the pyramid leading up to dr. fauci. and we have been looking at what was going on in wuhan, china. i'm on the intelligence committee. i started looking at this from the get-go in february of 2020 as the physician on the intelligence committee. i will tell you if you start looking into this i found out there was a virus a could i maker created by in north carolina and xi in china. the efforts what's going on there dr. fauci said it came from nature. but, behind the scenes, behind the scenes, he and the people that wrote proximal origins saying this looks engineered and could have come from the lab. we have been pointing in that direction on every occasion but, guess what? we are probably never going to get the definitive answer unless someone speaks up in china and if they do they probably won't survive very long. >> laura: fauci denied a lot of things at least he admitted one, watch. >> mask mandates for children under 5, scientific evidence supporting that? >> there was no study that did masks on kids -- you couldn't do the study. had you to respond to an epidemic that was killing 4 to 5,000 americans. >> laura: dr. mccullough, you and i talked about the mask, i think, in march of 2020, they had already done the influenza study on the cdc's own website that showed that cloth masks didn't work congressman wenstrup supported all of. this masks never worked. should have never been primary interveterans. focus should have been on early treatment to prevent hospitalizations and deaths. it was a giant distraction focusing on contagion control. laura, everyone in the country got covid-19. the whole purpose of a mask would be to avoid getting it. we all got it. we have been focusing on early treatment. >> laura: chairman, very quickly, are you concerned that if joe biden were reelected, heaven forbid, and we had another, you know, dangerous outbreak of some type of disease. that we would be back at square one here with this mentality that we saw at the nih? 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happening in new york millions and millions of times. joining me now florida senator marco rubio so demands, drugs, destruction. even death, senator. that's what these biden border crossers are bringing into the country. >> well, it's an example of why it's never a good idea to allow 9 million to 10 million people to come into your country illegally. let's say 95% of the people are not here to commit crimes or whatever. that's still 5% of 9 million is a lot of people. it's important to understand venezuelans have been here. they have been telling me for a year and a half that this criminal element is coming over and i had no way to quantify and now we see it. now we are absolutely right. the truth of the matter is these people are criminals in venezuela. they're criminals here now. the idea that they're being vetted at the border is a joke. venezuelan authorities are not providing us documents. some part a gang terrorizing chili, peru. i want to add one more piece. a lot of the people coming from central asia. places we have no background information whatsoever. a place we know isis is running and isis linked groups have been running a trafficking group. they are in the bills of moving migrants into the u.s. why would we not think that they would use that exact same business of moving migrants to move terrorists? so i think we have to assume, as well. and i think it's built on a lot of common sense that in addition to criminals, there are people in this country who have links to terrorism and have the intent of committing terrorist acts at some point in the future. it's an incredibly dangerous situation that biden and kamala harris and this administration has allowed to happen over the last three and a half years. >> laura: they are floating an executive order, senator. perhaps you didn't see this, that will supposedly, after saying he didn't have any power to do so, supposedly crack down on the asylum scam. so, will voters look at that and say yeah, better late than never? good on them. >> i don't think so. because they spent three years telling us there wasn't a border crisis. i mean, they repeatedly denied there was even a border crisis to begin with then they claim they don't have the power. they have the power to reverse all of the executive decisions almost 100 executive decisions that joe biden took when he took office in the first month close to 100, almost all reversing trump policies. he campaigned on a message that he was going to be more welcome welcoming and as a result more people came. this is entirely incentive based. if people think it will be easier to get here and easier to stay they will come. if they don't, they won't. joe biden was elected on the promise of making it easier to come illegally and easier to stay if you do. the result is we have seen close to 10 million people now cross the border of the united states illegally in just three years. in just three and a half years. >> laura: senator a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being the most important. how important is it for republicans to win control of the senate just on this issue alone? >> it's extraordinarily important. because, number one, all of those nominations that go through the senate, i mean. so senate, mayorkas and others are complicit in this act. that's number one. i think number two, it gives us the leverage over the administration. it would be great to have both the house and the senate. right now we don't have the senate and it limits our ability to do things. we can't even call hearings to investigate this because obviously democrat chairs are not. >> laura: kind of obvious. it's stop all funding of the administration until we get control of our country. i mean, we got to stop funding their pet projects. >> i think it would be great to subpoena some of the internal communications and have those produce sod we can actually see how they there was collusion involved in making this happen. they knew what they were doing. this is by design. >> laura: they they have millions of new democrat voters. senator, great to see you. thank you so much. where did jill biden spend her birthday? 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