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after dr anthony fauci who earlier in
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the pandemic urged
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schools to remain closed changed his
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position
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on the situation kentucky senator rand
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paul is now calling on fauci to
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apologize
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to every single parent and school-age
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child in america
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spring senator paul member of the health
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education labor and pensions committee
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he joins us now senator good morning to
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you so what is it exactly that you want
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to hear from dr fauci
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well i think this illustrates the danger
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of centralizing power
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and decision making in one person or in
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washington because when one person is so
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wrong
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as dr fauci has been it has grave
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effects for
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millions of school children the evidence
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has been clear for six months
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evidence from entire countries in europe
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and in asia
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that schools do not lead to a surge that
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kids are poor transmitters of this
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countrywide studies were showing this
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six months ago and he wouldn't listen
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and i tried to convince him of this and
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now he sort of flippantly says
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oh we're going to let kids go to school
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we're just going to close the bars
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well we should also look at the evidence
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on that do lockdowns
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you know prevent the spread of this
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right now we have more mandates
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and more lockdowns than we've ever had
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and yet the incidence of covid is rising
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exponentially
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it may argue that none of the things we
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are doing are working and we at least
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ought to be honest
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and assess it from an honest perspective
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not a biased one
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you you you use the words you tried to
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convince
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dr fauci back in june this is an
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exchange
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with him on the schools that again were
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shut
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at that time listen
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all of this body of evidence about
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schools around the world shows there's
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no surge
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all of the evidence shows that it's rare
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but i hear nothing of that coming from
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you
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all i hear dr falchi is we can't do this
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we can't do that
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did you get the sense then that he
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wasn't listening that
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he had some other reason why he wanted
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the schools to remain closed and what
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are you suggesting
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or can you he make the case that more
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data points were needed to come to this
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conclusion
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or months of studying and observing kids
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in the classroom
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well you know we went to a two-hour
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hearing back in june we've been through
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several of these
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and not one person brought up from the
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so-called experts
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that the mortality rate among children
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was about one in a million
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so i brought this up with dr fauci and
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immediately his defensive response was
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what about kawasaki's disease well
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kawasaki's disease is a
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rare rare complication of viral illness
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and yes it does exist and it's not to
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discount it if your child gets it
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but we shouldn't be closing schools
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because of it because we get it every
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year and it's very very rare
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but he wasn't really listening and i
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think the reason is is that with dr
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fauci
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i think his belief that we should submit
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that we're
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all members of the hive we're all
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members of the collective
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that submission is more important than
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the facts for example in the spring he
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said masks don't matter
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and don't work new england journal of
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medicine also said in an editorial that
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they're basically a talisman that they
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don't work
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outside the hospital setting but then
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they change their course over time
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but they're not really looking at data
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we have mask mandates in dozens and
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dozens of states and countries
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and every without fail every time we've
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instituted a mandate
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the actual incidence of the disease has
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risen so there's no evidence that these
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mandates are working and we're crippling
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the economy
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so maybe we ought to reassess what we're
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doing i think we should also be very
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clear here's dr
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val fauci in his own words and now
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saying the school should be open listen
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we say it not being facetiously as a
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soundbite or anything but you know
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close the bars and keep the schools open
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the default position
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should be to try as best as possible
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within reason
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to keep the children in school to get
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them back to school
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senator also to be clear on where you
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stand on this you're saying the students
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are safe in the school as long as
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they're maintaining social distance
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wearing masks and engaging in these
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safety protocols correct
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i think there are reasonable things you
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can do in school
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for the small children i wouldn't have
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them wearing masks i don't think it
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makes any difference
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and really we ought to reassess what
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we're doing on this trying to take some
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precautions is reasonable
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but there are now people saying dr fauci
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included that when we have a vaccine
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you're still going to have to wear a
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mask so people do need to push back i'm
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one of those who are immune
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and i keep pushing back 13 million
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americans have had this
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we don't need to tell them they have to
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wear a mask the thing is is immunity is
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working
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it's working as well as the vaccine
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works and when we get the vaccine
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hopefully we can all be free of these
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encumbrances senator i've got to leave
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it there but are you suggesting there
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should be some sort of
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accountability when it comes to dr fauci
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or
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others who are advising that schools be
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shut as long as they have
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now learning that children really aren't
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spreading the disease
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well it's the same people who predicted
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millions and millions of people would
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die from this they've been wrong at
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every turn
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their models only work when they
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continue to adjust them with reality
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but they never have been accurate from
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the very beginning it turns out that
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this is a
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a terrible difficult disease for the
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elderly
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and for the kids this is the truth it
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actually is less deadly than the
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seasonal flu for children
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and we should acknowledge that this is a
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disease that is different
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depending on your age group and in a
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free society everybody should get to be
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able to
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analyze the data and make their own
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decisions senator appreciate your time
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this morning i'd like to follow up with
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you on all of that soon
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thanks thank you
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