watch. i ask myself, why would the senator want to do this? so go to rand paul s website and you see fire dr. fauci with a little box that says, contribute here. you can do $5, $10, $20, $100, so you re making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain. laura: senator, your reaction to that? he s had a documentary made about him, a book deal, been on magazine covers. didn t he win an emmy also. but no, we want people to go to randpaul.com. it s a political thing. we think he should be put up on charges but he won t until there is an intervening election so elections do make a difference. i think he s a menace. i think he s lied to the american public. i think he funded the lab in wuhan that in all likelihood this virus came from.
candidates on the left. here s the problem. how do we get the president, the republicans basically the same as we saw today, and the democrats on the same page of what to do on this? even simple rules like if you re running a campaign and somebody from a foreign state actor you immediately report it to the fbi. look, even that may be too difficult to imagine being accomplished before the 2020 election. i mean, i m not a political operative, but i sense that politically what is feasible is that it s going to require an intervening election and a mandate in order to accomplish that so that, you know, if president trump is reelected, i think he s got the ability at that point, you know, once we sort of move past what happened in the first term where he s basically been under investigation the entire time, or alternatively if a democrat is elected, the white house does a mandate. a different point of view, and going along with what chris was saying it might be helpful
democrats on the same page of what to do on this? even simple rules like if you re running a campaign and somebody from a foreign state actor you immediately report it to the fbi. look, even that may be too difficult to imagine being accomplished before the 2020 election. i mean, i m not a political operative, but i sense that politically what is feasible is that it s going to require an intervening election and a mandate in order to accomplish that so that, you know, if president trump is reelected, i think he s got the ability at that point, you know, once we sort of move past what happened in the first term where he s basically been under investigation the entire time, or alternatively if a democrat is elected, the white house does a mandate. a different point of view, and going along with what chris was saying it might be helpful
his re-election in 2012. the president s not running for re-election and there s an intervening election, a congressional election in 2014. the public opinion polls are clear about who s winning the battle right now. show that first one about people i supporting the shutdown, how many people support the shutdown. dee dee myers yesterday gave a fantastic litany about why did the republicans do this? they lost one presidential race, they lost another presidential race. they lost senate races. all the polls are against them. here is and by the way. hard call. let s keep that up for a second. this is not i said this from the very beginning as the wall street journal and the litany of conservatives i ve been talking about that agree with me. we ve been saying this for several weeks. this many isn t about ideology. none of us, none of us conservatives like obama care. okay, we re with you. we re with you. i also i don t, you know,
something just didn t seem to be right. what we didn t know what was really wrong and we could never have suspected an organized and pervasive denying of hundreds of applications not by a reject stamped and set back, but by deliberate inaction. so our suspicions were just that. only in the last few weeks have we begun to realize that this was at least within the irs, vast. because every single person who looked at one of these applications could have and should have been a whistleblower, could have and should have realized there was something wrong. during this period of time of more than a year, we had an intervening election. many people want to talk about this relative to the election. i will not do that here today. this is more important than any