WEBVTT 00:05.170 --> 00:07.970 Have you noticed that this show doesn't have any commercials? 00:08.690 --> 00:13.230 I'm not selling you diapers or vitamins or smoothies or gasoline. 00:13.790 --> 00:18.210 That's because I don't want any corporate sponsors telling me what I can investigate 00:18.510 --> 00:19.650 or what I can say. 00:20.190 --> 00:22.610 Instead, you are our sponsors. 00:23.430 --> 00:28.090 This is a production by our non-profit, the Inform Consent Action Network. 00:28.650 --> 00:33.870 So if you want more investigations, if you want landmark needle-wins, if you 00:33.870 --> 00:40.650 want hard-hitting news, if you want the truth, go to ICanDecide.org and donate now. 00:41.870 --> 00:43.190 All right, everyone, are we ready? 00:43.830 --> 00:44.210 Yeah! 00:44.790 --> 00:45.370 Let's do this. 00:46.210 --> 00:46.590 Action. 01:00.730 --> 01:02.510 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. 01:02.670 --> 01:07.690 Wherever you are out there in the world, it's that time to step out onto the high wire. 01:08.470 --> 01:10.530 You know, there's always these conversations. 01:11.030 --> 01:14.510 We bat around phrases like misinformation, disinformation. 01:14.510 --> 01:19.930 Of course, we were censored in the middle of COVID, which in many ways just gave us a 01:19.930 --> 01:21.130 lot of free advertising. 01:21.550 --> 01:25.890 But so many of you write in, so many people talk about the fact that it's like we're living 01:25.890 --> 01:27.390 in two different worlds. 01:27.530 --> 01:32.830 Sometimes, if you just try to listen to that other media station, you're listening, 01:32.910 --> 01:35.730 thinking, how is it you're reporting on this? 01:35.910 --> 01:40.070 This is the exact opposite of what I just experienced or what's happening. 01:40.190 --> 01:43.650 Even if you go to an event, you're like, that is not what happened at this event. 01:43.650 --> 01:49.110 But perhaps more egregious than any report I've seen in a very long time was a report 01:49.110 --> 01:50.170 that came out this week. 01:50.490 --> 01:55.290 And you want to talk about being on the opposite side of good, being on the opposite side 01:55.290 --> 01:56.070 of what's right? 01:56.550 --> 01:59.970 Check out what happened at CNN with Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper. 02:00.190 --> 02:00.670 Take a look at this. 02:01.230 --> 02:04.350 Hello, to our five CNN viewers, I'm Jake Tapper, First Order Fact Checker. 02:04.570 --> 02:07.290 We begin tonight with a disturbing report out of the Yavin sector. 02:07.530 --> 02:11.210 Intelligence officials are telling us that the terrorist group known as the Rebel 02:11.210 --> 02:16.030 Alliance, a fringe coalition of religious extremists and smugglers, has launched a 02:16.030 --> 02:18.490 cowardly, unprovoked attack on the peaceful Death Star. 02:18.730 --> 02:22.930 Anonymous sources close to the Emperor tell CNN that this station was essentially a galactic 02:22.930 --> 02:26.010 housing project designed to bring affordable energy to the outer rim. 02:26.330 --> 02:30.950 Yet the radical rebel terrorists, led by the disgraced former senator and known white 02:30.950 --> 02:34.150 supremacist princess Leia Organa, falsely claim it was a weapon. 02:34.630 --> 02:37.450 We are now joined by our Chief Imperial Correspondent, Anderson Trooper. 02:37.630 --> 02:39.090 Anderson, what are you hearing from the core worlds? 02:39.090 --> 02:41.330 The mood here is one of shock and outrage. 02:41.730 --> 02:44.630 Jake, I've spoken to several anonymous sources within the Imperial Senate who 02:44.630 --> 02:48.170 confirmed that Lord Vader was actually on a diplomatic humanitarian mission when 02:48.170 --> 02:50.290 his ship was aggressively boarded by these rebels. 02:50.710 --> 02:53.110 There is a lot of disinformation spreading right now. 02:53.250 --> 02:56.710 You have conspiracy theorists claiming the Empire destroyed Alderaan. 02:56.870 --> 02:58.510 But our fact checkers have debunked this. 02:58.910 --> 03:01.670 The official report clearly states Alderaan suffered a spontaneous 03:01.670 --> 03:04.650 planetary mining accident caused by rebel negligence. 03:04.650 --> 03:09.390 To suggest the Empire fired upon it is just baseless anti-government conspiracy theory. 03:09.590 --> 03:10.510 Absolutely debased. 03:10.670 --> 03:13.010 And we're seeing reports about the ringleader of this latest attack, 03:13.370 --> 03:15.350 a radicalized white farm boy named Luke Skywalker. 03:15.790 --> 03:16.610 What do we know about him? 03:16.970 --> 03:18.330 It's a terrifying profile, Jake. 03:18.630 --> 03:22.950 Skywalker appears to have been indoctrinated by a fanatical zealot named Obi-Wan Kenobi, 03:23.370 --> 03:26.050 a member of the outlawed racist Jedi religious cult. 03:26.330 --> 03:29.470 Experts say this force religion is extremely dangerous, 03:30.030 --> 03:34.190 teaching young men to reject science in order in favor of ancient weapons and violence. 03:34.610 --> 03:38.690 Skywalker was seen associating with Han Solo a convicted felon, smuggler and tax evader 03:38.690 --> 03:40.110 who has been known to shoot first. 03:40.690 --> 03:42.350 These are not freedom fighters, Jake. 03:42.830 --> 03:44.850 They are violent deplorables who hate democracy. 03:45.310 --> 03:45.930 Truly shameful. 03:46.430 --> 03:49.010 And finally, Emperor Palpatine reassured the galaxy today 03:49.010 --> 03:51.510 that absolute power is actually very freeing 03:51.510 --> 03:55.250 and that any suggestion he's a Sith Lord is an outdated conspiracy theory pushed 03:55.250 --> 03:57.310 by people who don't even live on Coruscant. 03:57.310 --> 04:01.890 Up next, a panel of six imperial moths explains why tax increases in government overreach 04:01.890 --> 04:03.670 is a good thing and will actually help you. 04:03.870 --> 04:05.710 CNN is sponsored by CNR Fleet Systems. 04:06.090 --> 04:08.410 Do your patriotic duty and help the Empire secure the galaxy? 04:08.730 --> 04:09.270 That's all for now. 04:09.530 --> 04:13.250 You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in Imperial Approved Truth. 04:13.930 --> 04:16.910 I saw there's a TikTok by a guy named Brian Jacoby. 04:17.150 --> 04:18.230 I think that's who made it. 04:18.270 --> 04:19.170 I'm not exactly sure. 04:19.230 --> 04:23.710 But whoever you are, wherever you are out there, that was pure genius. 04:24.070 --> 04:26.490 And I wanted to share it with you just to remind you. 04:26.490 --> 04:31.650 No matter what we're all going through here or how serious a day may be 04:31.650 --> 04:35.410 or maybe a law or an initiative we're trying to change, 04:36.050 --> 04:38.010 please remember to have a sense of humor. 04:38.370 --> 04:40.630 It's what really makes us spectacular. 04:41.230 --> 04:44.470 And if you can laugh, you can still hold it all together. 04:44.470 --> 04:48.830 And I think it also inspires us to do more if we can stay happy about it. 04:48.870 --> 04:50.050 So I just wanted to share that with you. 04:50.230 --> 04:54.110 I woke up the other morning and saw that post and burst out laughing. 04:54.110 --> 04:55.030 It made my day. 04:55.290 --> 04:58.250 Actually, it's made my week and it's making my day right now. 04:58.490 --> 05:01.250 But to get to the real news and what's really going on, 05:01.270 --> 05:02.870 I actually have a great show coming up. 05:02.930 --> 05:06.910 I have the opportunity to speak to Attorney General Ken Paxton, 05:07.090 --> 05:08.030 the Attorney General of Texas. 05:08.210 --> 05:09.730 This is a bucket list moment, actually. 05:10.150 --> 05:12.850 I moved to Texas from California back in 2019. 05:13.050 --> 05:15.710 This guy has just been spectacular fighting, 05:15.870 --> 05:19.230 especially for issues that we talk a lot about medical freedom. 05:19.590 --> 05:23.130 He's actually doing an investigation into, you know, 05:23.130 --> 05:28.610 the incentivization, giving money to doctors to force people to take vaccines. 05:29.050 --> 05:33.970 It does seem like that really pushes the envelope for what we should expect 05:34.690 --> 05:37.170 as far as our freedom, especially medical freedom. 05:37.290 --> 05:38.630 Can you really force something on me 05:38.630 --> 05:41.730 just because you're being incentivized to do so? 05:41.890 --> 05:43.290 So anyway, I'm going to ask him a lot 05:43.290 --> 05:45.770 about that work that he's doing in that investigation. 05:45.950 --> 05:47.990 But first, it's time for the Jackson Report. 05:57.660 --> 05:59.360 I don't know what I'd do, Jeffrey. 05:59.360 --> 06:04.920 If I watched a video that sort of made me look to be aligned with the Death Star, 06:05.100 --> 06:08.020 but I swear that there was something about that video 06:08.620 --> 06:12.560 that really captured it away when you were trying to explain 06:12.560 --> 06:14.360 what it feels like to live in this world. 06:14.820 --> 06:16.380 That is what it feels like, right? 06:16.500 --> 06:19.600 Like the opposite story, the heroes are the enemies 06:19.600 --> 06:20.980 and the enemies are our heroes. 06:21.260 --> 06:23.500 Like, what is going on? 06:24.000 --> 06:27.540 Anyway, coming from a journalist trying to detangle those things, 06:27.540 --> 06:30.540 I found myself laughing, but then getting kind of sad 06:30.540 --> 06:34.180 because how accurate that portrayal was with any overlay of information 06:34.180 --> 06:35.860 you can put that on any window. 06:36.040 --> 06:37.020 It's so accurate. 06:37.260 --> 06:42.200 Yeah, I want to talk about really in our space here 06:42.200 --> 06:45.340 in the health journalism, in the medical space, medical choice, 06:45.740 --> 06:49.060 really the biggest story this week is a detransitioner 06:49.060 --> 06:52.080 has won a court case against a doctor and their psychiatrist 06:53.260 --> 06:55.480 for medical malpractice. 06:55.560 --> 06:56.060 Here it is. 06:56.060 --> 07:00.120 Jerry finds doctors liable for malpractice in gender surgery lawsuit. 07:00.900 --> 07:01.880 Let's look at the facts here. 07:02.100 --> 07:06.020 A jury on January 30th found a psychologist and surgeon liable 07:06.020 --> 07:09.440 for malpractice after they supported and performed breast removal surgery 07:09.440 --> 07:12.360 on a 16 year old girl who at the time identified as transgender. 07:12.620 --> 07:16.080 Fox variant now 22 and no longer identifying as transgender 07:16.080 --> 07:18.580 was awarded two million dollars in damages, 07:18.800 --> 07:21.620 1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering 07:21.620 --> 07:24.860 and another 400,000 for future medical expenses. 07:25.420 --> 07:30.120 Del, this is the natural course of medical products and procedures 07:30.120 --> 07:33.140 when they don't have liability protection like vaccines. 07:33.660 --> 07:36.360 We're seeing how courts actually handle these things. 07:37.180 --> 07:39.200 And so just to get into this court case a little bit, 07:39.640 --> 07:43.700 the person in question that just won this award suffered from depression, 07:44.060 --> 07:45.940 anxiety, was diagnosed with autism. 07:46.440 --> 07:50.560 And this is one of the reasons they won was because their doctor, 07:50.820 --> 07:54.040 their psychologist deviated from the standard of care 07:54.040 --> 07:58.260 to go through this procedure and did not give full informed consent. 07:58.640 --> 08:00.260 These are now this court case is sealed. 08:00.540 --> 08:02.980 So we're going from the reporting reporters were there. 08:03.320 --> 08:06.100 One of them, Benjamin Ryan, he's an independent journalist. 08:06.380 --> 08:09.320 He put together a spreadsheet just to show you where this is going. 08:09.420 --> 08:10.780 This is the first court case here. 08:10.800 --> 08:15.940 But by his account, 28 more other cases nationwide. 08:16.640 --> 08:17.820 This is where this is going. 08:18.100 --> 08:21.320 And we can see I want to paint this picture here 08:21.320 --> 08:26.520 because it really looks like this is the start of the end for the I want 08:26.520 --> 08:29.920 to call it the cottage industry within hospitals and gender care at 08:29.920 --> 08:32.860 university hospitals that are that are rushing these kids 08:32.860 --> 08:36.160 through without informed consent, deviating from the standard of care. 08:36.520 --> 08:39.500 And these lawsuits are probably going to start coming a lot faster 08:39.500 --> 08:40.280 if it doesn't stop. 08:40.600 --> 08:44.280 One of the big issues these lawsuits are running up against 08:44.280 --> 08:46.160 is the statute of limitations. 08:46.440 --> 08:49.580 So for medical malpractice is usually about one to three years 08:49.580 --> 08:51.700 depending on which state you bring these lawsuits in. 08:52.340 --> 08:56.480 But what states are doing now is they're extending it in special cases 08:56.480 --> 08:59.680 for gender affirming care for those type of lawsuits. 09:00.120 --> 09:03.820 So we have a list of states now that have expanded that. 09:03.900 --> 09:08.840 You have Arkansas 15 years after they turn 18, Tennessee 30 years after 09:08.840 --> 09:12.540 they turn 18, Missouri, Florida also extending it. 09:12.680 --> 09:16.420 So you have this massive extension of the statute of limitations 09:16.420 --> 09:20.160 for gender affirming care lawsuits and other states most likely are going to follow. 09:20.360 --> 09:23.620 And this all started in 2023 really from the state level. 09:23.880 --> 09:29.700 When you saw whistleblower go to Missouri, the Missouri AG, and basically 09:29.700 --> 09:34.200 Missouri was one of the first states to outlaw gender affirming care for minors. 09:34.400 --> 09:35.580 And you saw the officials there. 09:35.780 --> 09:38.940 They're looking at these youth clinics since then to have been closed down. 09:39.140 --> 09:42.940 One of the people that testified and gave an affidavit to the attorney 09:42.940 --> 09:44.820 general in Missouri was Jamie Reed. 09:44.960 --> 09:49.320 Jamie Reed has been kind of just tearing through at state houses 09:49.320 --> 09:52.880 across across the United States, testifying she's a whistleblower. 09:53.060 --> 09:56.140 Here's our most recent whistleblower testimony in Nebraska. 09:56.520 --> 09:57.580 Take a listen. OK. 09:58.300 --> 10:01.180 When I started working in the center, I would be what you would refer 10:01.180 --> 10:02.260 to as a true believer. 10:02.600 --> 10:06.260 I not only believed that such a thing as a trans child existed, 10:06.560 --> 10:10.120 but I believed that the earlier we could intervene, the better 10:10.120 --> 10:11.400 in the long term outcome. 10:11.400 --> 10:15.220 This is kind of what we talk about in autism services or other services 10:15.220 --> 10:19.160 with kids if we start an intervention early, perhaps we'll make it better 10:19.160 --> 10:19.920 for their life. 10:20.360 --> 10:22.920 It wasn't necessarily that my bias changed. 10:23.720 --> 10:25.620 I'm still from the community. 10:25.860 --> 10:26.640 I'm still a lesbian. 10:26.960 --> 10:29.740 I was married to a trans identified adult at the time. 10:30.160 --> 10:33.100 What changed was the actual evidence in front of me. 10:33.320 --> 10:36.260 So what I started to see, first of all, is that these patients 10:36.260 --> 10:38.980 were not getting better, so their mental health was not improving, 10:38.980 --> 10:41.120 although that's what's promised in the intervention, 10:41.440 --> 10:42.680 that their mental health will get better. 10:43.060 --> 10:43.800 It wasn't happening. 10:44.280 --> 10:47.260 But also what we saw, which we've seen internationally, 10:47.720 --> 10:52.100 as there has been a complete, absolute social contagion element 10:52.100 --> 10:54.180 that just tore through this industry. 10:54.660 --> 10:58.520 When I started in 2018, we had four new patients per month, 10:59.000 --> 11:04.040 and they were almost all pre-pubital boys who acted very feminine. 11:04.780 --> 11:08.380 When I left, we had 60 new patients per month. 11:08.380 --> 11:13.180 And almost every single one of them was a trans identified adolescent girl 11:13.870 --> 11:16.360 who had multiple mental health comorbidities 11:16.910 --> 11:20.580 who had been sucked into trans as an identity, 11:20.880 --> 11:23.380 who had been sucked into it from social media, 11:23.520 --> 11:25.540 from their COVID lockdowns, from their school. 11:25.820 --> 11:30.360 This completely tore through this industry in an unprecedented way. 11:30.900 --> 11:32.480 The reason why we talk about this at all 11:32.480 --> 11:35.860 is because there was one of the largest social contagions 11:35.860 --> 11:38.260 to ever happen in adolescent girls 11:38.260 --> 11:40.200 ripped through this country over this. 11:40.700 --> 11:45.440 17 systematic reviews of evidence have been done globally. 11:46.160 --> 11:47.700 These are huge projects. 11:48.620 --> 11:52.240 Every single one of those 17 systematic reviews of evidence 11:52.680 --> 11:56.640 has come to the unequivocal conclusion 11:57.160 --> 12:00.940 that there is no quality evidence 12:01.260 --> 12:05.320 to support the medical transition of a child. 12:05.860 --> 12:06.380 Period. 12:06.920 --> 12:09.900 Those were reviews that the country of Finland did, 12:10.140 --> 12:13.520 that the country of Sweden did, that Norway did, that the UK did. 12:13.780 --> 12:18.180 We're not talking about one person at a hospital writing a paper. 12:18.440 --> 12:20.160 We are talking about entire nations 12:20.160 --> 12:22.560 reviewed all of the evidence you could find. 12:22.880 --> 12:26.000 And there is not a single, single 12:26.920 --> 12:30.620 paper of systematic review that supports doing this. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.720 It's so powerful, Jeffrey. 12:33.720 --> 12:35.900 And what I mean to see one case, 12:35.960 --> 12:41.580 like the first case of its kind win on behalf of this poor young lady 12:41.580 --> 12:45.620 who was, you know, manipulated into making a choice 12:45.620 --> 12:47.940 that she would not be happy about in the future. 12:48.380 --> 12:50.440 And but I wonder about all these doctors 12:50.440 --> 12:53.300 that performed these things that were going along 12:53.300 --> 12:57.000 with what seemed like, you know, the new standard of care 12:57.000 --> 12:58.100 and moving forward. 12:58.400 --> 13:00.860 They must be quaking in their boots right now, 13:00.860 --> 13:02.940 you know, thinking about, you know, 13:03.540 --> 13:05.640 how many of my patients could turn on me 13:05.640 --> 13:07.820 and could come back on me, you know, 13:07.900 --> 13:10.000 I was just doing what I thought was right. 13:10.160 --> 13:13.880 And for those doctors, I just want to say you deserve it. 13:14.240 --> 13:17.700 Frankly, this goes so far beyond common sense. 13:18.020 --> 13:20.280 I mean, the idea that you were going to rob 13:20.280 --> 13:23.680 someone of their puberty, that you were going to make this 13:23.680 --> 13:26.880 you're going to make, I mean, such a permanent decision 13:27.420 --> 13:29.720 for a child when we don't give them any, 13:29.720 --> 13:32.100 we don't allow them any other permanent decisions 13:32.100 --> 13:34.420 for their life. What rush was there? 13:34.540 --> 13:37.080 Why couldn't they wait until after 18 13:37.080 --> 13:38.800 and manipulating parents and do it? 13:38.960 --> 13:43.100 All of it, you know, whether or not you were manipulated 13:43.100 --> 13:45.040 or there was too many people around you, 13:45.200 --> 13:47.360 we are supposed to be able to trust 13:47.900 --> 13:49.720 that you were working on instinct 13:49.720 --> 13:52.440 and really looking at the science there was none here. 13:52.860 --> 13:55.360 So for every doctor that ends up losing their license 13:55.360 --> 13:59.240 over this, good riddance in all honesty, good riddance. 14:00.280 --> 14:02.540 Absolutely. And the doctors and the surgeons, 14:02.880 --> 14:04.800 they were the engine that led this. 14:04.980 --> 14:07.120 As Jamie Reed said, this social contagion, 14:07.120 --> 14:09.780 they were the ones that drove this for minor children 14:09.780 --> 14:11.720 that were just rushed through this process. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.100 So the dominoes are really stacking up here. 14:14.420 --> 14:16.080 You have lawsuits beginning to build 14:16.080 --> 14:17.820 statute of limitations stretching 14:17.820 --> 14:20.840 so more people can be included in these lawsuits. 14:20.900 --> 14:24.120 You have at the state level, you have whistleblowers coming out. 14:24.140 --> 14:26.720 But now the federal level is pushing their thumb on this. 14:26.720 --> 14:29.780 So right before Christmas, you had HHS come out 14:29.780 --> 14:31.540 and they put together their review. 14:31.660 --> 14:34.060 This is over 400 pages, highly cited. 14:34.460 --> 14:36.120 And this is their treatment for pediatric 14:36.120 --> 14:39.080 gender dysphoria review of evidence and best practice. 14:39.240 --> 14:40.600 And I want to go over the conclusion here and read this 14:40.600 --> 14:41.500 because this is very important. 14:41.760 --> 14:43.580 So the central theme of this review 14:43.580 --> 14:45.940 is that many U.S. medical professionals and associations 14:45.940 --> 14:48.640 have fallen short of their duty to prioritize 14:48.640 --> 14:50.420 the health interests of young patients. 14:50.560 --> 14:52.860 First, there was a rapid expansion and implementation 14:52.860 --> 14:55.400 of a clinical protocol that lacks sufficient scientific 14:55.400 --> 14:56.720 and ethical justification. 14:57.240 --> 14:58.960 Second, when confronted with compelling evidence 14:58.960 --> 15:01.220 that this protocol did not deliver the health benefits 15:01.220 --> 15:03.760 it promised and that other countries were changing 15:03.760 --> 15:05.160 their policies appropriately. 15:05.500 --> 15:07.580 U.S. medical professionals and associations 15:08.160 --> 15:11.120 failed to reconsider the gender affirming approach. 15:11.420 --> 15:12.720 Third, conflicting evidence, 15:13.020 --> 15:14.880 evidence that challenged the fundamental assumptions 15:14.880 --> 15:17.220 of the protocol and the professional standing 15:17.220 --> 15:19.900 of its advocates was mischaracterized 15:19.900 --> 15:21.120 or insufficiently acknowledged. 15:21.520 --> 15:23.720 Finally, dissenting perspectives were marginalized 15:23.720 --> 15:26.100 and those who voiced them were disparaged. 15:26.400 --> 15:27.500 Just like the pandemic. 15:27.920 --> 15:29.880 And right after that document came out, 15:30.460 --> 15:33.100 we had Secretary of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 15:33.580 --> 15:34.540 Say this. Take a look. 15:35.020 --> 15:36.860 This morning I signed a declaration. 15:37.500 --> 15:39.860 Sex rejecting procedures are neither safe 15:39.860 --> 15:43.180 nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria. 15:50.430 --> 15:52.470 These procedures fail to meet 15:52.470 --> 15:54.670 professionally recognized standards of care. 15:55.550 --> 15:57.330 Medical professionals or entities 15:57.330 --> 15:59.510 providing sex rejecting procedures 15:59.510 --> 16:01.650 to children are out of compliance 16:01.650 --> 16:03.650 with these standards of healthcare. 16:04.650 --> 16:06.810 This declaration is a clear directive 16:06.810 --> 16:09.110 to providers to follow the science 16:09.700 --> 16:11.690 and the overwhelming body of evidence 16:11.690 --> 16:15.190 that these procedures hurt not help children. 16:16.270 --> 16:19.470 Additionally, CMS is proposing two new rules. 16:20.370 --> 16:22.410 The first rule are hospitals 16:22.410 --> 16:24.690 that participate in Medicare and Medicaid, 16:25.370 --> 16:27.450 which is almost every hospital 16:27.450 --> 16:31.250 from performing these dangerous and harmful procedures. 16:32.070 --> 16:34.690 The second rule prohibits the federal Medicaid dollars 16:34.690 --> 16:37.750 from funding the sex rejecting procedures on minors. 16:38.170 --> 16:40.770 Furthermore, HHS is also moving to reverse 16:40.770 --> 16:43.610 the Biden, the Biden administration's attempt 16:44.450 --> 16:46.130 to include gender dysphoria 16:46.130 --> 16:48.150 within the definition of disability. 16:49.250 --> 16:52.950 Just in this one space alone, imagine where we'd be had, 16:53.050 --> 16:55.450 you know, the election gone a different direction. 16:55.450 --> 17:01.350 I mean, thank God we've got this reasonable man in HHS 17:01.350 --> 17:05.610 and someone that's, you know, allowing science to be done, 17:05.890 --> 17:07.690 not afraid to question the science 17:07.690 --> 17:12.050 and doesn't care who, you know, the interested parties are. 17:12.510 --> 17:13.770 We're going to get to the bottom of it. 17:13.930 --> 17:16.190 So thank God. I mean, it's really amazing. 17:17.070 --> 17:18.510 And we're talking about children here, 17:18.530 --> 17:20.690 and it's not hard to predict at this point 17:20.690 --> 17:22.790 what direction things are going to start moving. 17:23.130 --> 17:24.370 So you saw a headline here 17:24.370 --> 17:26.050 just a couple of days ago out of Utah. 17:26.510 --> 17:28.430 University of Utah suddenly ends, 17:28.550 --> 17:31.370 suddenly ends all remaining health care for transgender youth 17:31.370 --> 17:33.050 pointing to expected bans. 17:33.190 --> 17:35.810 So they're anticipating a full scale state and federal ban. 17:36.390 --> 17:37.990 They're out of the business at this point. 17:38.110 --> 17:38.490 They're done. 17:38.730 --> 17:40.650 And you're probably going to see a lot of other headlines 17:40.650 --> 17:42.150 suddenly changing course. 17:42.830 --> 17:43.810 What's interesting here, 17:43.810 --> 17:45.510 because there's another side of this conversation, 17:45.630 --> 17:46.890 there's still people fighting here. 17:47.070 --> 17:50.130 And it's interesting because anytime we find a conversation 17:50.130 --> 17:53.130 where there's some ambiguity or some lack of science, 17:53.130 --> 17:55.490 you find the American Academy of Pediatrics 17:55.490 --> 17:56.510 on the other end of that. 17:56.650 --> 17:58.150 And they're no different on this one. 17:58.410 --> 18:00.610 Remember, the American Academy of Pediatrics 18:01.550 --> 18:03.530 argued the opposite of this point 18:03.530 --> 18:04.530 that's happening right now. 18:04.730 --> 18:05.970 This is their policy paper. 18:06.070 --> 18:07.850 They were trying to change nationwide policy. 18:07.950 --> 18:09.850 They did a pretty good job of it for a couple of years. 18:10.430 --> 18:13.410 This was in 2023, prohibition of gender affirming care 18:13.410 --> 18:15.430 as a form of child maltreatment. 18:15.510 --> 18:16.770 They wanted to reframe the discussion. 18:17.210 --> 18:19.490 There are two main points in reframing the discussion. 18:19.630 --> 18:21.130 First, they wanted to refute the idea 18:21.130 --> 18:23.150 that gender affirming care is child mistreatment. 18:23.670 --> 18:25.550 And secondly, and most importantly, 18:25.670 --> 18:28.230 they wanted to demonstrate how withholding gender affirming care 18:28.230 --> 18:29.870 is harmful to children and amounts to state, 18:30.130 --> 18:32.490 sanction, medical neglect, and emotional abuse. 18:33.210 --> 18:35.090 If they had their way, the lawsuits would be going 18:35.090 --> 18:36.110 a lot different right now. 18:36.210 --> 18:37.430 They'd actually be going against doctors 18:37.430 --> 18:38.490 that didn't do it fast enough. 18:39.310 --> 18:44.250 And so the remaining states that are still allowing this, 18:45.070 --> 18:46.170 they're pushing back. 18:46.450 --> 18:48.810 In fact, here's California, Attorney General, 18:48.810 --> 18:51.030 Sue's Rady Children's Hospital 18:51.030 --> 18:53.150 for Caretailing Gender Affirming Care. 18:53.650 --> 18:55.410 And then the next one here in New York, 18:55.530 --> 18:57.190 this is all kind of in the same basket, 18:57.410 --> 18:58.170 New York and other states, 18:58.510 --> 18:59.890 Sue Fez to protect 300 billion 18:59.890 --> 19:01.490 threatened by gender policy rules. 19:01.890 --> 19:04.010 So 300 billion dollars states 19:04.010 --> 19:05.890 collectively receiving government funding 19:05.890 --> 19:08.810 to basically, it's a contingent now, 19:09.010 --> 19:11.570 upon these new rules that Kennedy is putting in. 19:11.710 --> 19:13.370 So they're gonna lose that funding. 19:13.610 --> 19:15.590 So they have gone to the courts 19:15.590 --> 19:18.470 to sue the Trump administration to try to keep that funding. 19:18.470 --> 19:20.690 And these are now a minority of states. 19:20.830 --> 19:21.970 So we look at this map here 19:21.970 --> 19:25.690 and you can see the states that are shaded 19:25.690 --> 19:28.290 have laws against gender affirming care 19:28.290 --> 19:29.570 and transitioning of minors. 19:29.870 --> 19:33.370 The ones that don't are also part of this lawsuit. 19:33.610 --> 19:35.890 So Oregon, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, 19:36.070 --> 19:37.770 Michigan, Nevada, Minnesota, 19:38.190 --> 19:39.110 you have New York, obviously, 19:39.390 --> 19:40.690 Vermont, Washington, Rhode Island. 19:41.130 --> 19:42.630 They're all part of this lawsuit. 19:43.070 --> 19:45.170 I'm assuming they're all in most of the same states 19:45.170 --> 19:47.230 that are deciding to go along with the AAP 19:47.230 --> 19:49.170 on double-vaccinating the children 19:49.170 --> 19:51.310 over the new vaccine program that's available 19:51.310 --> 19:52.370 to the rest of the country 19:52.370 --> 19:55.590 through the change made by Robert Kennedy Jr. 19:55.770 --> 19:58.370 I mean, it's like the stupid states, 19:58.770 --> 20:00.470 maybe that's what we call them from here on out, 20:00.490 --> 20:03.450 the stupid states are now requiring that you 20:04.070 --> 20:05.630 cut the genitals off of your children 20:05.630 --> 20:06.970 and double-vaccinate them, 20:07.290 --> 20:10.650 even though that is not even acceptable in Denmark 20:10.650 --> 20:13.030 or Germany or the other countries that we're now following. 20:14.030 --> 20:15.630 Yeah, most of them are. 20:15.630 --> 20:17.450 And I hate to use the word anti-science 20:17.450 --> 20:18.950 because it was leveraged so hard 20:18.950 --> 20:20.110 against people like you and I 20:20.110 --> 20:21.890 when we were referring facts during the pandemic, 20:21.890 --> 20:24.910 but it really seems like it's the anti-science 20:24.910 --> 20:27.170 dark ages of medicine group. 20:27.650 --> 20:29.050 And you can see here in the headlines, 20:29.190 --> 20:30.170 just like Jamie Reed said, 20:30.270 --> 20:32.570 this social contagion swept across America 20:32.910 --> 20:34.310 and it's starting to slow down now. 20:34.430 --> 20:36.390 Here's a headline from just a handful of months ago. 20:37.070 --> 20:38.590 We have a number of young adults 20:38.590 --> 20:40.330 identifying as transgender plunges 20:40.330 --> 20:42.330 by nearly half in two years. 20:42.750 --> 20:45.050 So it almost seems like the wave has crested 20:45.050 --> 20:47.330 and we're seeing a different conversation here. 20:47.790 --> 20:50.130 And isn't it funny, it's tied to these hospitals 20:50.130 --> 20:52.830 and these surgeons that are fearing for their licenses 20:52.830 --> 20:54.650 and fearing for lawsuits against them. 20:54.970 --> 20:57.930 That seems to be slowing the social contagion down. 20:58.150 --> 21:00.250 Well, that and taking the groomers outside 21:00.250 --> 21:04.310 of the public schools, like removing that attack 21:04.310 --> 21:05.670 on your children's psyche 21:05.670 --> 21:08.330 as you were making kindergarteners question 21:09.090 --> 21:10.250 their own genders. 21:10.510 --> 21:13.570 I mean, boy, we're coming out of some real insanity. 21:14.150 --> 21:15.350 It's brought at the first year. 21:15.670 --> 21:17.510 And you can see, look how quickly it changes, right? 21:17.890 --> 21:19.390 It was totally socialized 21:19.390 --> 21:22.330 as was so well stated in that testimony. 21:23.550 --> 21:25.330 Yeah, and as you're talking about change, 21:25.750 --> 21:27.630 changes in the air were upon an anniversary 21:27.630 --> 21:31.870 just came and went 20 years of an inconvenient lie. 21:32.130 --> 21:33.570 I guess you want to talk about it 21:33.570 --> 21:36.190 when it comes to Al Gore's inconvenient truth. 21:36.290 --> 21:38.130 His documentary won an Oscar for it. 21:38.270 --> 21:39.490 It was all over the place. 21:39.630 --> 21:42.610 And at this point, we look back on it now 21:42.610 --> 21:44.130 and here are the headlines. 21:44.430 --> 21:46.910 Two decades of inconvenient inaccuracies 21:47.810 --> 21:50.070 and why are we always beating this drum here? 21:50.290 --> 21:52.090 Because this painted, it's about narratives. 21:53.030 --> 21:54.050 I mean, we lived through COVID, 21:54.270 --> 21:56.890 we saw how narratives allowed lockdowns, forced vaccination. 21:57.310 --> 21:58.790 I mean, all of it, I don't have to go through it. 21:59.110 --> 22:01.850 The narrative of climate change really Al Gore 22:01.850 --> 22:03.090 was the jet fuel. 22:03.510 --> 22:05.330 The inconvenient truth was the jet fuel 22:05.330 --> 22:07.690 that drove this home into the minds of children 22:08.190 --> 22:09.510 and into the minds, I mean, 22:09.530 --> 22:11.550 he's a documentary filmmaker, he made this documentary. 22:11.550 --> 22:13.530 And so a lot of people didn't know, 22:13.650 --> 22:17.090 but he was sued by the high court in the UK and lost 22:17.090 --> 22:19.410 because there were so many inaccuracies. 22:19.650 --> 22:21.230 In 2009, here's the headline here, 22:21.530 --> 22:23.610 an inconvenient verdict for Al Gore. 22:24.070 --> 22:25.970 So he lost there because in the UK, 22:26.090 --> 22:28.630 you can't put this forward, especially the school children, 22:28.730 --> 22:30.870 and be biased and basically lie to them. 22:31.350 --> 22:33.490 So of course, schools, this is the headline, 22:33.670 --> 22:36.530 must warn of Gore climate film bias. 22:37.010 --> 22:39.470 So they had to, when they played these films in school, 22:39.470 --> 22:40.270 if you were in the UK, 22:40.810 --> 22:43.690 you had to get a list of all of the bias inaccuracies 22:43.690 --> 22:45.650 of this film because this court ruling, 22:45.890 --> 22:46.850 here's a list of them. 22:47.130 --> 22:48.590 I mean, there's over 10 of them, 22:48.610 --> 22:49.490 but we can go through a couple. 22:49.630 --> 22:51.870 The first one, the film claims that melting snow 22:51.870 --> 22:55.230 on Mount Kilimanjaro, evidence global warming, 22:55.450 --> 22:57.330 government's expert was forced to concede 22:57.330 --> 22:58.510 that that is not correct. 22:58.770 --> 23:00.610 Number five, the film claims that the studies show 23:00.610 --> 23:02.230 that polar bears had drowned 23:02.230 --> 23:04.150 due to disappearing Arctic ice had turned out 23:04.150 --> 23:05.990 that Mr. Gore had misread the study. 23:06.090 --> 23:07.490 In fact, four polar bears drowned. 23:07.490 --> 23:10.490 And this was because of a particularly violent storm. 23:10.970 --> 23:12.550 You go to the bottom, the film suggests 23:12.550 --> 23:14.730 that the Antarctic ice covering, melting, 23:14.970 --> 23:17.250 the evidence was that it is fact increasing. 23:17.750 --> 23:20.170 So you go through, the kids now have to sit down 23:20.170 --> 23:21.450 and basically get fact checked 23:21.450 --> 23:23.210 because of a court order, 23:23.250 --> 23:25.490 because this guy can't do a proper documentary. 23:26.270 --> 23:28.710 I mean, it takes five seconds to fact check this stuff. 23:28.950 --> 23:30.530 But let's keep going on these fact checks, 23:30.630 --> 23:32.150 because this is another narrative 23:32.150 --> 23:34.790 that it's really starting to turn fast. 23:35.190 --> 23:39.090 Well, again, I'm gonna do the same caveat I do every time, 23:39.250 --> 23:41.830 Jeffrey, I want clean air, I want clean water, 23:41.930 --> 23:44.710 I want to clean food supply, all of those things. 23:44.890 --> 23:46.830 I consider myself environmentalist, 23:46.870 --> 23:50.590 but I do not agree when these things start being used 23:50.590 --> 23:53.910 as trigger points for authoritarian control, 23:54.050 --> 23:56.870 which is what this is with all the carbon credit stores, 23:57.130 --> 23:59.130 the WEF and the WHO. 23:59.490 --> 24:00.770 So when we're reporting on this, 24:00.850 --> 24:02.630 I wanna make it clear to everyone out there, 24:03.390 --> 24:05.370 let's try to clean up our environment, 24:05.650 --> 24:06.950 it's good for all of us, 24:07.110 --> 24:09.190 but we should do it in ways that make sense. 24:09.290 --> 24:11.850 And certainly not by destroying our economies 24:11.850 --> 24:14.610 and our ability to walk amongst each other or have jobs. 24:15.770 --> 24:18.130 Right, and I think we can all agree conservation 24:18.130 --> 24:21.470 is a big thing, especially stopping environmental toxins, 24:21.470 --> 24:24.690 which we know are leading to this chronic disease epidemic. 24:24.890 --> 24:26.490 This is a main contributor to this. 24:26.910 --> 24:29.810 And so I wanna go into the conversation about polar bears 24:29.810 --> 24:31.630 because a new study just came out, 24:31.630 --> 24:33.730 they're looking at this polar bear conversation. 24:33.930 --> 24:35.770 And for all the people that were sad and crying 24:35.770 --> 24:37.570 that the polar bears were drowning and dying 24:37.570 --> 24:40.010 and were losing them in this earth, 24:40.090 --> 24:40.850 where they could become extinct, 24:41.330 --> 24:42.950 here's the headline, polar bears getting fatter 24:42.950 --> 24:44.170 and healthier amid ice loss. 24:44.530 --> 24:47.070 Researchers weighed and measured 770 adults 24:47.070 --> 24:50.530 in Svalbard between 1992 and 2019 24:51.110 --> 24:53.570 and found that bears had become significantly fatter, 24:53.650 --> 24:54.270 which means healthier. 24:54.670 --> 24:57.050 They think that Svalbard bears have adapted 24:57.050 --> 24:59.850 to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey, 24:59.850 --> 25:01.690 including reindeer and walruses. 25:02.410 --> 25:03.170 So there you go. 25:03.390 --> 25:06.610 Now, over the past couple of weeks here in the United States, 25:06.610 --> 25:09.050 we've received a huge Arctic blast. 25:09.270 --> 25:10.930 Some say it's the biggest one in 40 years 25:10.930 --> 25:13.990 and the conversation about an ice age has come about. 25:14.070 --> 25:15.210 It's come back around full circle. 25:15.650 --> 25:16.690 You see headlines like this, 25:16.770 --> 25:18.030 this was just over a month ago, 25:18.090 --> 25:19.710 right before it happened, global warming could trigger 25:19.710 --> 25:22.470 the next ice age, it's a silent science daily. 25:22.890 --> 25:25.710 But we have a conversation from a professor, 25:25.990 --> 25:27.390 his name is Andreas Born. 25:27.990 --> 25:31.490 He was basically asked about this in an article, 25:32.090 --> 25:33.930 when will the next ice age come? 25:34.330 --> 25:35.890 And he's at the University of Bergen Department 25:35.890 --> 25:38.230 of Earth Science and he studies past climates. 25:38.290 --> 25:38.810 And he says this, 25:38.850 --> 25:40.750 next ice age will probably not begin 25:40.750 --> 25:43.630 for another 50,000 years, says Born. 25:44.010 --> 25:45.990 Researchers have arrived at slightly different estimates. 25:46.470 --> 25:48.130 If we disregard human influence, 25:48.290 --> 25:50.170 the current interglacial period is estimated 25:50.170 --> 25:52.990 to last between 10,000 and 50,000 more years. 25:53.170 --> 25:55.750 We are therefore living in an interglacial period 25:55.750 --> 25:57.530 that is unusually long. 25:57.670 --> 25:59.010 That's basically the warm phase 25:59.010 --> 26:02.010 between the ice ages. 26:02.210 --> 26:04.730 So we're in this warm phase sandwiched 26:04.730 --> 26:05.770 between these two ice ages. 26:06.230 --> 26:08.950 But this ice age he's saying is it's very long, 26:09.850 --> 26:11.590 10s of thousands of years long. 26:11.950 --> 26:13.610 So he goes on to even talk about more 26:13.610 --> 26:15.970 of what the earth's doing in this elliptical orbit. 26:16.110 --> 26:17.830 He says the reason the interglacial period 26:17.830 --> 26:20.810 is especially long is because of natural fluctuations 26:20.810 --> 26:24.750 in something called the Maklanovich Cycles, says Born. 26:25.110 --> 26:26.970 These are changes in the earth's orbit 26:26.970 --> 26:28.450 from circular to elliptical, 26:28.670 --> 26:30.990 as well as changes in the earth's tilt and wobble, 26:31.070 --> 26:32.310 which affects solar radiation. 26:32.510 --> 26:35.350 These cycles have periods of 100,000, 41,000, 26:35.390 --> 26:37.390 17,000, 21,000 years. 26:37.690 --> 26:39.530 They control the timing of the ice ages 26:39.530 --> 26:40.730 and interglacial periods 26:40.730 --> 26:43.590 along with feedback mechanisms in the climate system. 26:44.110 --> 26:46.110 So that's a pretty big... 26:46.110 --> 26:49.790 Well, man, just gigantic enormous elements 26:49.790 --> 26:53.150 that human beings have no control over, right? 26:53.150 --> 26:55.030 The change in how our orbit is working, 26:55.210 --> 26:57.330 the wobbling of the earth's sun. 26:57.430 --> 27:00.790 I mean, these are things when we get so egocentric 27:00.790 --> 27:03.710 that human beings are these just giant power sources 27:04.330 --> 27:07.370 really enough to overcome changes in our orbit, 27:07.570 --> 27:12.390 in our wobbling, in our distance to the sun and its power. 27:12.690 --> 27:14.890 I mean, it puts it all into a little bit of perspective 27:14.890 --> 27:15.910 in those numbers, right? 27:16.290 --> 27:19.050 Hundreds of thousands of years, tens of thousands of years. 27:22.670 --> 27:24.990 It's humbling in all the right ways. 27:25.770 --> 27:28.990 Yeah, and we're talking about galactic prime movers here. 27:29.170 --> 27:30.410 And so what about people? 27:30.750 --> 27:31.710 Well, he goes on to say this. 27:31.930 --> 27:34.990 He says, an important factor for when the next ice age 27:34.990 --> 27:36.970 will come is greenhouse gas emissions. 27:37.210 --> 27:39.270 The CO2 content in the atmosphere has increased 27:39.270 --> 27:40.790 and the planet has become warmer. 27:41.210 --> 27:44.170 He says, these estimates that with the emissions 27:44.170 --> 27:48.030 we have already had, the next ice age will be delayed 27:48.390 --> 27:50.690 by at least 120,000 years from today, 27:50.770 --> 27:53.730 perhaps as much as 200,000 years, he says. 27:54.290 --> 27:55.550 So depending on your perspective, 27:55.850 --> 27:58.770 he's saying global warming in this case is actually good 27:58.770 --> 28:02.110 when it comes to saving off an ice age 28:02.110 --> 28:03.910 that's gonna bury us under thousands of feet of ice. 28:04.050 --> 28:07.030 It's time for, I think, a message in a bottle 28:07.030 --> 28:11.030 to our kin out there 200,000 years from now. 28:11.150 --> 28:11.490 You're welcome. 28:13.070 --> 28:14.270 We did our best. 28:15.850 --> 28:18.210 So, well, when it comes to this climate conversation 28:18.210 --> 28:21.930 because it's existential, it's eaten every topic we know. 28:22.410 --> 28:24.790 Also, pandemics, they're not sacred here. 28:25.150 --> 28:27.030 And so we have the Lancet, remember Lancet, 28:27.490 --> 28:29.470 the journal Nature, these are the people 28:29.470 --> 28:32.290 that said natural immunity wasn't a big deal during COVID. 28:32.450 --> 28:33.730 These people that said natural origins 28:33.730 --> 28:36.550 is where this pandemic came from, from bats. 28:37.030 --> 28:38.930 Well, they also say climate change and pandemics, 28:39.030 --> 28:39.670 a call for action. 28:40.030 --> 28:41.930 So they're saying climate change is gonna exacerbate 28:41.930 --> 28:43.610 and make so many more pandemics 28:43.610 --> 28:45.030 just like we saw with COVID. 28:45.770 --> 28:48.550 And so that conversation now is interesting 28:48.550 --> 28:51.130 because as everyone is taught to look at the horizon 28:51.130 --> 28:53.710 for climate change caused pandemics, 28:53.850 --> 28:56.670 there's actually researchers from private companies 28:57.050 --> 28:59.110 that are doing way more dangerous work 28:59.110 --> 29:00.770 than what's happening with the climate right now 29:00.770 --> 29:01.670 when it comes to pandemics. 29:01.770 --> 29:02.490 Take a look at this headline, 29:02.630 --> 29:03.630 this is out of the Daily Mail. 29:04.090 --> 29:07.210 It says, lab-grown life takes a major step forward 29:07.210 --> 29:10.350 as scientists use AI to create virus never before seen. 29:10.350 --> 29:12.750 They talked to one of the researchers 29:12.750 --> 29:14.630 at this private company doing this, 29:14.710 --> 29:16.290 Dr. Wolfson told the Daily Mail 29:16.290 --> 29:19.270 for at least four billion years all life on earth 29:19.270 --> 29:21.630 has evolved by the trial and error process 29:21.630 --> 29:24.270 of Darwinian evolution by natural selection, 29:24.450 --> 29:26.430 which lacks any foresight or intention. 29:27.030 --> 29:27.750 He then goes on to say, 29:27.790 --> 29:29.730 natural evolution now has a co-author 29:30.110 --> 29:32.110 and it's people, it's humans, 29:32.290 --> 29:34.370 they're jumping into this space 29:34.370 --> 29:36.370 with artificial intelligence. 29:36.810 --> 29:40.110 So let's replace the lack of natural intention 29:40.110 --> 29:43.050 and foresight with something we have no foresight on 29:43.050 --> 29:45.290 and it's not natural at all, AI. 29:45.690 --> 29:46.530 Let's just put, I mean, honestly, 29:46.790 --> 29:49.530 Jeffrey, that might be the most terrifying headline I've seen. 29:49.670 --> 29:52.510 Let's just put AI and nature together. 29:52.790 --> 29:55.070 Let's just let the chips fall where they may 29:55.070 --> 29:56.150 what could possibly go wrong. 29:56.930 --> 29:59.190 You're right, I hate to, I mean, all of this. 29:59.290 --> 30:01.450 It's assuming that there's no creator. 30:01.770 --> 30:03.270 Okay, that's fine, but it's also assuming 30:03.270 --> 30:07.110 that trial and error process that nature has, 30:07.230 --> 30:08.870 there's no kind of wisdom in that 30:08.870 --> 30:12.910 that keeps superbugs from just being made every week. 30:13.350 --> 30:14.830 There's a lot of questions here 30:14.830 --> 30:17.910 and again, you have states, you have countries, 30:18.190 --> 30:19.690 they're falling way behind 30:19.690 --> 30:21.630 on trying to regulate these things 30:21.630 --> 30:24.130 and it's not just states and countries that are doing this. 30:24.130 --> 30:25.010 These are private organizations. 30:25.750 --> 30:27.370 These are the organizations that are willing 30:27.370 --> 30:29.710 to sit down with the Daily Mail and have a conversation. 30:30.170 --> 30:32.230 What about the Wuhan labs out there 30:32.230 --> 30:35.990 that are outside the purview of our journalists 30:35.990 --> 30:37.070 and of our governments? 30:37.330 --> 30:38.930 What are they doing with artificial intelligence 30:38.930 --> 30:40.270 when it comes to virus creation? 30:40.590 --> 30:42.090 These are huge, huge questions. 30:42.370 --> 30:45.190 This is first 22nd century stuff here, 30:45.270 --> 30:46.230 but it needs to be answered now. 30:46.650 --> 30:47.210 Yeah, immediately. 30:47.730 --> 30:48.810 I mean, this is really terrifying. 30:48.990 --> 30:51.070 Imagine just putting AI in a lab and saying, 30:51.270 --> 30:53.510 grow whatever virus you can, any bacteria you can, 30:53.610 --> 30:56.210 and by the way, see if you like humanity at all 30:56.210 --> 30:58.650 and don't let that affect any of the work that you're doing, 30:58.890 --> 31:00.230 at least not without telling us first. 31:02.030 --> 31:04.570 Amazing reporting, Jeffrey, as always. 31:06.090 --> 31:07.810 I'm glad we started out with some humor 31:07.810 --> 31:09.710 because some of this stuff is not so funny 31:10.270 --> 31:11.250 when you look at it, 31:11.270 --> 31:13.190 but obviously we have our work to do. 31:13.270 --> 31:14.490 We've got to stay vigilant. 31:15.210 --> 31:17.790 It's sort of what I'm gonna be talking about 31:17.790 --> 31:19.090 with my guests coming up here, 31:19.290 --> 31:21.710 but Jeffrey, I'm gonna be traveling all over Europe 31:21.710 --> 31:23.390 coming up and talking about that at the end of the show. 31:23.510 --> 31:24.750 You're gonna be sitting in the seat 31:24.750 --> 31:26.530 and running the show next week. 31:27.170 --> 31:29.190 So next week's The Highwire are hosted by you, 31:29.190 --> 31:29.790 Jeffrey Jackson. 31:29.910 --> 31:30.890 I love it when you do that. 31:30.990 --> 31:31.890 I know the audience does. 31:32.010 --> 31:33.070 We get all sorts of great reviews. 31:33.390 --> 31:35.250 So take care of this seat, would ya? 31:36.130 --> 31:37.410 All right, we'll do. 31:38.030 --> 31:38.750 All right, all right. 31:38.830 --> 31:39.350 Thanks so much. 31:39.670 --> 31:40.790 I'll see you in a couple of weeks. 31:41.150 --> 31:41.330 Great. 31:41.710 --> 31:42.390 All right, safe travels. 31:42.990 --> 31:46.270 All right, well, look, we keep talking about 31:46.270 --> 31:47.890 where else are you getting this information? 31:48.390 --> 31:49.990 I mean, when I look at social media, 31:50.130 --> 31:51.910 sure there's people that are covering these things, 31:51.970 --> 31:54.050 but you never really get the details, right? 31:54.130 --> 31:55.450 You see the headline go by, 31:55.810 --> 31:57.530 you hear that there was a lawsuit one, 31:57.530 --> 31:59.330 but you don't really understand what it's about. 31:59.730 --> 32:01.670 You don't really get that all these states 32:01.670 --> 32:05.210 are extending, you know, the amount of time 32:05.210 --> 32:06.390 that you can file a lawsuit. 32:06.710 --> 32:09.470 All this, Jeffrey Jackson and this amazing team 32:09.470 --> 32:11.330 of scientists we have around the world 32:11.330 --> 32:13.930 are looking through everything that's happening 32:13.930 --> 32:15.110 in your world and deciding 32:15.110 --> 32:17.530 what are the most shale and important points 32:17.530 --> 32:19.170 that you should know about 32:19.170 --> 32:21.470 and then get into the details around it. 32:21.530 --> 32:24.210 There's no one else doing a show like this 32:24.210 --> 32:26.110 and there's no one that then takes that information 32:26.110 --> 32:27.670 and decides, hey, wait a minute, 32:28.070 --> 32:29.930 we might actually be able to involve ourselves. 32:30.050 --> 32:31.810 We might actually be able to bring a lawsuit 32:32.250 --> 32:33.850 to stop this craziness. 32:34.490 --> 32:36.830 This is an experiment that's going on here 32:36.830 --> 32:39.310 and it's done very well because of those of you 32:39.750 --> 32:41.250 that are sponsoring this work, 32:41.430 --> 32:43.770 but we are, as you can tell, 32:44.290 --> 32:47.890 you can see we are this divide that's being fueled 32:48.430 --> 32:51.110 by the liars of mainstream media. 32:51.270 --> 32:53.330 You saw what they said about the Death Star. 32:53.650 --> 32:54.770 It's not a nice place 32:54.770 --> 32:56.770 despite what they want to tell you, 32:56.910 --> 32:58.950 but that's really what we're up against. 32:59.090 --> 33:01.790 You're up against a system of propaganda 33:01.790 --> 33:05.130 that is so pervasive and so effective. 33:05.330 --> 33:07.250 How many of you are thinking like, 33:07.290 --> 33:08.850 what happened to my loved ones? 33:08.970 --> 33:11.390 How are they not asking any questions? 33:11.590 --> 33:12.810 How are they sticking to space 33:12.810 --> 33:15.110 where you're not allowed to ask questions? 33:15.670 --> 33:18.490 Some of us felt like we were in those conversations 33:18.490 --> 33:21.050 and started waking up, COVID woke us up. 33:21.570 --> 33:23.110 Well, we have a lot of work to do 33:23.110 --> 33:24.790 because you can see the pushback now. 33:24.930 --> 33:26.810 You can see the states that are gonna try 33:26.810 --> 33:29.130 to keep gender-affirming care going 33:29.130 --> 33:31.470 or going to keep a full vaccine program 33:31.470 --> 33:33.650 and they're gonna try and take away 33:34.430 --> 33:36.290 religious exemptions that exist. 33:36.870 --> 33:38.810 There's a lot of work to do here 33:38.810 --> 33:40.970 and we don't just sit on our heels 33:40.970 --> 33:44.270 and report on it and say, see, here's the problem. 33:44.710 --> 33:46.370 We actually do something about it 33:46.370 --> 33:49.750 and if you can tell, I said last week, 33:49.930 --> 33:51.190 it's like that Newton law of physics, 33:51.190 --> 33:53.830 every action has an equal and opposite reaction. 33:54.190 --> 33:57.610 So much success right now is being met by the opposition. 33:57.830 --> 34:00.090 They realize the line has been drawn in the sand. 34:00.270 --> 34:03.370 Do you wanna push over that line and take the land 34:03.370 --> 34:06.370 and take the opportunity and win this once and for all? 34:06.670 --> 34:09.150 Well, if you do, then we need you this year. 34:09.230 --> 34:10.530 We need you supporting the work 34:10.530 --> 34:13.090 that we're doing over 90 law students going right now. 34:13.430 --> 34:15.170 All you have to do to be a supporter 34:15.170 --> 34:17.310 since GlaxoSmithKline, obviously, 34:17.450 --> 34:18.530 isn't helping us out at all, 34:18.530 --> 34:19.750 go to the top 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every time you see us get it right, 36:04.230 --> 36:06.250 you can say, I actually had something to do with that. 36:06.430 --> 36:07.950 So I wanna thank all of you 36:07.950 --> 36:09.990 that make the high wire possible. 36:09.990 --> 36:14.530 We have overcome the dark forces of Pfizer, of Moderna 36:14.530 --> 36:16.550 that tried to own our government. 36:16.710 --> 36:18.050 Look who's in government now. 36:18.750 --> 36:20.510 Those of you that have been supporting us 36:20.510 --> 36:23.950 have made these great moments in history possible. 36:24.530 --> 36:26.270 I want you to be able to say to your grandkids 36:26.270 --> 36:27.870 and have them tell stories about you 36:27.870 --> 36:30.150 to their grandkids and their great grandkids 36:30.150 --> 36:32.130 about a great generation of people 36:32.130 --> 36:35.310 that really did save freedom for America again. 36:35.670 --> 36:39.250 Speaking of saving freedom, attorney generals, 36:39.250 --> 36:42.730 I mean, I really, the rule of law in America 36:42.730 --> 36:47.090 and the ability to have these attorneys general, 36:47.310 --> 36:49.570 the general over all the attorneys of the state 36:49.570 --> 36:51.210 is what a concept, right? 36:51.310 --> 36:53.990 Like the biggest badass attorney in the state, 36:54.110 --> 36:56.150 well, we have one here in Texas 36:56.550 --> 36:59.470 and he's actually investigating the incentives 37:00.090 --> 37:03.910 that are going to doctors to force vaccine, 37:04.030 --> 37:05.050 especially a state like this. 37:05.190 --> 37:06.510 You have a right to opt out 37:06.510 --> 37:08.930 but what if your doctor isn't allowing you that right? 37:08.930 --> 37:10.050 What right do they have? 37:10.250 --> 37:12.630 And if they're doing it just to make more money, 37:13.030 --> 37:14.150 does that seem ethical? 37:14.890 --> 37:18.990 Well, it doesn't to attorney general Ken Paxton here in Texas. 37:19.510 --> 37:20.090 Take a look at this. 37:20.710 --> 37:22.770 Texas attorney general Ken Paxton 37:22.770 --> 37:25.090 is launching a statewide investigation 37:25.090 --> 37:27.230 into alleged financial incentives 37:27.810 --> 37:30.670 linked to childhood vaccine recommendations. 37:31.150 --> 37:33.690 A new investigation targeting what he calls 37:33.690 --> 37:36.270 a multi-level multi-industry scheme 37:36.270 --> 37:38.110 by big pharma and big insurance 37:38.110 --> 37:39.950 to financially pressure doctors 37:39.950 --> 37:41.770 into pushing childhood vaccines. 37:42.110 --> 37:45.130 Paxton's office issued more than 20 civil investigative 37:45.130 --> 37:47.030 demands to large providers, 37:47.030 --> 37:49.310 including United Health Care and Pfizer. 37:49.650 --> 37:51.050 According to Paxton's office, 37:51.450 --> 37:53.570 the current framework has Texas kids 37:53.570 --> 37:57.690 receiving more than 70 shots from birth to age 18 37:57.690 --> 38:01.270 as a condition to continue receiving medical care 38:01.270 --> 38:03.530 from many pediatric practices. 38:04.110 --> 38:06.030 His office also alleges that some families 38:06.030 --> 38:07.670 are being expelled from clinics 38:07.670 --> 38:10.690 or even denied treatment based on vaccination status 38:10.690 --> 38:12.630 while doctors pay and even employment 38:12.630 --> 38:15.190 may depend on how many vaccines they administer. 38:15.490 --> 38:17.810 The AG says this is all to protect Texas children 38:17.810 --> 38:21.010 and bring transparency to the medical care system. 38:21.710 --> 38:23.450 Here's the actual announcement came out 38:23.450 --> 38:25.930 from attorney general Ken Paxton's office. 38:26.130 --> 38:27.350 Attorney general Ken Paxton launches 38:27.350 --> 38:28.790 a wide sweeping investigation 38:28.790 --> 38:31.030 into unlawful financial incentives 38:31.030 --> 38:33.370 related to childhood vaccine recommendations. 38:34.010 --> 38:35.210 Just a couple of excerpts. 38:35.210 --> 38:38.170 Attorney general Ken Paxton opened a landmark investigation 38:38.570 --> 38:41.350 into the multi-level multi-industry scheme 38:41.350 --> 38:43.790 that has illegally incentivized medical providers 38:43.790 --> 38:45.430 to recommend childhood vaccines 38:45.430 --> 38:47.570 that are not proven to be safe or necessary. 38:48.130 --> 38:49.450 The wide sweeping investigation 38:49.450 --> 38:51.830 will analyze an incentivization framework 38:51.830 --> 38:54.210 that has historically forced Texas kids 38:54.210 --> 38:56.790 to receive over 70 shots from birth to age 18 38:56.790 --> 38:59.430 in order to continue receiving medical care. 38:59.730 --> 39:00.570 He goes on to say, 39:00.610 --> 39:02.110 I will ensure that big pharma 39:02.110 --> 39:04.450 and big insurance don't bribe medical providers 39:04.450 --> 39:06.910 to pressure parents to jab their kids with vaccines 39:06.910 --> 39:08.890 they feel aren't safe or necessary, 39:09.450 --> 39:11.530 said attorney general Paxton. 39:11.810 --> 39:14.330 I will not tolerate a carrot and stick approach 39:14.330 --> 39:15.230 to health care recommendations. 39:15.850 --> 39:18.290 Any provider or entity whose medical guidance 39:18.290 --> 39:20.010 is fueled by financial incentives 39:20.010 --> 39:22.310 from an insurance company, big pharma, 39:22.510 --> 39:25.250 or otherwise will be exposed. 39:26.090 --> 39:27.610 I'll bet you're all dreaming 39:27.610 --> 39:28.990 that this was your attorney general. 39:29.110 --> 39:30.590 It happens to be my attorney general 39:30.590 --> 39:31.870 here in the state of Texas. 39:31.870 --> 39:35.010 It is my honor and pleasure to be joined by him now. 39:35.450 --> 39:36.690 Attorney general Ken Paxton, 39:36.790 --> 39:37.870 thank you for taking the time today. 39:38.510 --> 39:39.690 Yeah, thanks for having me out. 39:39.730 --> 39:40.450 I really appreciate it. 39:41.130 --> 39:44.190 So, you know, what is this about? 39:44.350 --> 39:45.390 Are you anti-vaccine? 39:45.470 --> 39:46.470 I'm sure that's what they say. 39:46.570 --> 39:48.650 This is an anti-vaccine attack. 39:49.370 --> 39:51.810 What really is motivating this investigation? 39:52.750 --> 39:54.050 No, I had vaccines. 39:55.010 --> 39:56.510 My children had some vaccines. 39:56.850 --> 39:58.090 This is about choice. 39:59.010 --> 40:01.190 One of the things that we all get to see during COVID 40:01.190 --> 40:03.130 is this idea that we don't have a choice. 40:03.350 --> 40:04.770 The government's going to make us lose our job 40:04.770 --> 40:05.310 or our business. 40:05.790 --> 40:07.310 It's going to remove our job. 40:07.430 --> 40:08.230 There's social pressure. 40:08.890 --> 40:11.490 This should ultimately be a decision by an individual 40:11.490 --> 40:13.630 or a parent for those children 40:13.630 --> 40:14.850 to make the best decision 40:15.270 --> 40:17.370 that they believe is right for their children or for them. 40:17.650 --> 40:19.590 Not some government entity that doesn't have 40:19.590 --> 40:20.910 the right incentives or some business 40:20.910 --> 40:23.470 deciding what's going into your body 40:23.470 --> 40:24.870 that can permanently affect you. 40:25.090 --> 40:26.370 So that's what this is about. 40:26.510 --> 40:28.250 This is about individual choice. 40:28.810 --> 40:30.130 I don't care if people get vaccines. 40:30.510 --> 40:33.250 If they should, they should, but it should be up to them. 40:33.550 --> 40:35.110 I completely agree. 40:35.350 --> 40:37.250 It's the heart of what our non-profits 40:37.250 --> 40:39.310 call the informed consent action network, 40:39.330 --> 40:42.850 meaning informed consent is the rule, 40:43.090 --> 40:45.470 it should be the rule of law all across a free country 40:45.470 --> 40:46.870 like the United States of America. 40:47.250 --> 40:50.750 What inspires you to get involved 40:50.750 --> 40:51.570 in something like this? 40:51.650 --> 40:53.970 Is it that parents come out directly to you? 40:54.110 --> 40:55.050 Do you hear stories? 40:55.190 --> 40:56.810 Obviously, I've been reporting a lot. 40:57.470 --> 41:00.510 Pediatricians saying, I get incentivized by insurance 41:00.510 --> 41:04.830 and we're being told AAP, others tell pediatricians, 41:04.970 --> 41:07.270 kick people out of your office 41:07.270 --> 41:09.370 if they won't get all the vaccines. 41:09.610 --> 41:11.050 Are you hearing similar stories 41:11.050 --> 41:12.390 and where are those stories coming from? 41:12.670 --> 41:13.990 Yeah, I have a lot of stories. 41:14.110 --> 41:15.550 One is I have children, I have four children, 41:15.630 --> 41:16.970 my own have six grandchildren. 41:17.650 --> 41:19.010 And I also hear these stories 41:19.010 --> 41:20.830 and that's why we're investigating 41:20.830 --> 41:22.010 these 20 different companies 41:22.010 --> 41:24.990 because the decisions shouldn't be forced on us 41:24.990 --> 41:25.950 for profit motives. 41:26.470 --> 41:30.230 We ought to be given all the information and a choice 41:30.230 --> 41:32.770 and not be forced by getting kicked out of plans 41:32.770 --> 41:35.730 or have something else negative happen to you 41:35.730 --> 41:36.430 or your kids. 41:36.750 --> 41:38.710 This ought to be about individuals again, 41:38.790 --> 41:40.630 making their own choices in the best interest. 41:40.890 --> 41:43.550 And they're also, I mean, we have all the right incentives 41:43.550 --> 41:45.310 to make the best decision for ourselves. 41:45.730 --> 41:47.450 These companies don't have that incentive. 41:47.550 --> 41:49.130 They have one incentive, which is to make money. 41:49.530 --> 41:49.750 Right. 41:50.730 --> 41:53.050 You know, I had a chance to meet with you 41:53.050 --> 41:53.870 in the middle of COVID. 41:53.870 --> 41:55.370 We brought in some of our information 41:55.370 --> 41:56.550 on the COVID vaccine. 41:56.670 --> 41:57.690 It was a great meeting. 41:57.870 --> 42:00.010 One of the things that I found interesting 42:00.010 --> 42:02.910 was sort of the attorney general's position 42:03.370 --> 42:06.090 and whether you have, I don't know if the term is standing, 42:06.470 --> 42:08.170 but could you actually bring a case? 42:08.410 --> 42:09.630 Like what is the, you know, 42:09.750 --> 42:11.350 there's only certain parameters 42:11.350 --> 42:13.370 with which an attorney general can work. 42:13.770 --> 42:16.590 Can you explain some of the difficulty of your position? 42:16.750 --> 42:19.170 You can't just bring any willy nilly lawsuit 42:19.170 --> 42:21.170 you want on behalf of Texas. 42:21.350 --> 42:23.330 What are the elements that have to be in place 42:23.750 --> 42:25.050 for it to be of the interest 42:25.050 --> 42:27.630 that sits within your scope of reach? 42:28.330 --> 42:30.170 Well, this is a really challenging area 42:30.170 --> 42:32.270 because the federal preemption for vaccines. 42:32.650 --> 42:35.910 So if, as long as it gets called a vaccine, supposedly, 42:36.830 --> 42:38.350 you know, there's no liability. 42:38.550 --> 42:40.890 So you can produce any kind of vaccine 42:40.890 --> 42:43.790 with any kind of result, good, bad, you know, 42:44.090 --> 42:46.430 destructive, and you're protected by federal law. 42:46.650 --> 42:48.610 Well, I don't buy that for state law. 42:48.730 --> 42:50.090 We have our own state laws 42:50.550 --> 42:54.810 that should stop any business from lying to consumers. 42:55.550 --> 42:57.470 And then when consumers rely on those lies, 42:57.890 --> 42:59.670 they end up hurting themselves and their damages. 43:00.010 --> 43:04.730 So in our case, we thought Pfizer lied to my constituents 43:05.170 --> 43:07.810 that the vaccine was not 95% effective. 43:07.830 --> 43:09.590 We believe it's less than 1% effective. 43:09.650 --> 43:11.850 So we sued them and there was an argument, 43:12.010 --> 43:12.910 and we're still fighting this, 43:13.050 --> 43:14.230 that we don't have standing 43:14.230 --> 43:16.270 because we were preempted by the federal law 43:16.270 --> 43:16.910 over vaccines. 43:17.650 --> 43:18.810 We are making the argument, 43:18.810 --> 43:20.770 yeah, that law may apply to federal lawsuits, 43:20.890 --> 43:22.430 but it should not preempt states 43:22.430 --> 43:24.230 from protecting their citizens 43:24.230 --> 43:26.430 from deceptive trade practices, 43:26.610 --> 43:28.830 which I believe some of these manufacturers 43:28.830 --> 43:30.650 and insurance companies are promoting. 43:31.370 --> 43:34.710 So your position is, no matter what the federal law says, 43:34.930 --> 43:36.990 is the federal government is not allowed 43:36.990 --> 43:38.670 to poison Texas citizens. 43:38.910 --> 43:40.950 Is that essentially, you know, 43:41.010 --> 43:42.530 to put you in harm's way simply 43:42.530 --> 43:46.610 because they have some overarching perspective of the law? 43:47.410 --> 43:49.930 Yeah, you can't, you still can't, 43:49.970 --> 43:52.970 yeah, they can be protected federally from any lawsuit, 43:52.990 --> 43:54.510 but we have state courts to protect 43:54.510 --> 43:56.590 and we have state laws that are different. 43:56.850 --> 43:57.570 I mean, the federal government, 43:57.690 --> 43:58.690 the state government are different. 43:59.250 --> 44:01.530 States were created and they formed the federal government. 44:01.710 --> 44:02.710 We retained the powers 44:02.710 --> 44:05.010 that we didn't explicitly give the federal government. 44:05.110 --> 44:05.830 And this is one of them. 44:05.890 --> 44:07.430 If you come and lie to our consumers 44:07.430 --> 44:08.970 about the benefits of something 44:08.970 --> 44:11.150 that is actually not beneficial and maybe harmful, 44:11.350 --> 44:12.690 then you should be held liable. 44:12.830 --> 44:14.190 That's the only way we're gonna be able 44:14.190 --> 44:15.510 to protect our citizens. 44:15.510 --> 44:17.610 Otherwise, they can get away with, 44:17.710 --> 44:19.190 literally get away with murder, 44:19.470 --> 44:21.630 killing our kids and harming our kids, 44:21.770 --> 44:22.990 and there's nothing that can be done. 44:23.070 --> 44:24.070 That doesn't seem right. 44:24.290 --> 44:25.570 And I don't think it's the law. 44:26.330 --> 44:27.490 I agree with you. 44:27.770 --> 44:30.010 It's gonna be really fascinating to watch you go through this. 44:30.070 --> 44:32.710 And there's a lot of attorney generals across the country 44:32.710 --> 44:35.050 that seem to be speaking up now. 44:35.230 --> 44:37.710 COVID really seemed to awaken the beast, 44:37.810 --> 44:40.090 at least on the conservative side of politics. 44:40.350 --> 44:41.850 I never really thought of an attorney general 44:41.850 --> 44:44.870 as being politically oriented, necessarily. 44:46.430 --> 44:48.830 But where did, for you personally, 44:49.550 --> 44:52.910 was COVID the first time you started bringing cases on, 44:53.270 --> 44:55.930 or thinking about vaccines in a different way? 44:56.010 --> 44:59.190 Did that affect you in how you saw that roll out, 44:59.250 --> 45:01.090 or is this something that's always been on your radar? 45:01.750 --> 45:03.770 No, I mean, I always wondered about it, 45:03.830 --> 45:06.290 because it seems like there was an increasing number 45:06.290 --> 45:07.610 of vaccines that were required. 45:08.250 --> 45:11.150 And I've always wondered about their effectiveness 45:11.630 --> 45:13.070 and it seemed like it was hard to know 45:13.070 --> 45:14.150 what the right thing to do was. 45:14.150 --> 45:16.030 So I always struggled with this as a parent, 45:16.330 --> 45:18.550 and so we made individual decisions about that. 45:18.890 --> 45:22.010 But I think it was COVID that really 45:22.650 --> 45:23.690 sort of heightened my interest, 45:23.710 --> 45:25.810 because it made no sense to me 45:25.810 --> 45:27.690 that we were being threatened. 45:28.350 --> 45:30.650 I mean, why should you care if I get the vaccine? 45:30.770 --> 45:33.010 If you're protected, if the vaccine is so effective, 45:33.450 --> 45:35.630 to protect you, why should you care if I get it? 45:35.670 --> 45:37.770 And that really created suspicion on my part. 45:38.810 --> 45:41.150 When, what is the relationship between 45:41.150 --> 45:43.270 an attorney general and the governor? 45:43.550 --> 45:45.550 Do you have to, do you work on your own, 45:45.590 --> 45:48.250 or does everything sort of get run up the ladder? 45:48.450 --> 45:50.330 Are you cool with me bringing this case? 45:50.690 --> 45:53.370 What is, is that, are there rules to that 45:53.370 --> 45:54.330 and how you have to work? 45:55.150 --> 45:56.130 It depends on the state. 45:56.250 --> 45:57.870 There are a few states, I think six or seven, 45:57.950 --> 46:00.250 that the governor appoints the attorney general. 46:00.390 --> 46:02.130 So the attorney general answers to the governor 46:02.130 --> 46:02.770 is not independent. 46:03.030 --> 46:05.030 In Texas, I'm elected by the voters. 46:05.690 --> 46:07.130 I certainly work with the governor. 46:07.130 --> 46:08.630 I work with a lot of statewide officials 46:08.630 --> 46:10.330 and it's important to me what they think. 46:10.630 --> 46:13.090 But in the end, I answer to the voters first 46:13.530 --> 46:15.670 and to other people's second. 46:15.890 --> 46:17.410 And so I obviously have clients 46:17.410 --> 46:18.850 that I have to, I have to listen to. 46:19.210 --> 46:21.330 But a lot of these cases are Texas cases 46:21.330 --> 46:23.010 and I'm the lawyer and I'm the client. 46:23.230 --> 46:26.050 And so that involves me listening to the voters 46:26.050 --> 46:27.510 and paying attention to what they want, 46:27.970 --> 46:29.170 first and foremost. 46:30.130 --> 46:31.890 Do you also have a case on something 46:31.890 --> 46:33.590 we've talked a lot about on this show 46:33.590 --> 46:34.830 which I think is super important. 46:34.830 --> 46:38.450 These hospitals that won't, for instance, 46:38.670 --> 46:42.250 give an organ donation or go through the organ donor process 46:42.250 --> 46:43.530 and let someone get the vaccine. 46:43.670 --> 46:44.590 Here's the headline on that. 46:44.730 --> 46:46.730 Attorney General Ken Paxson warns 46:46.730 --> 46:47.830 Houston Methodist Hospital 46:47.830 --> 46:49.970 over alleged COVID-19 vaccine mandates 46:50.510 --> 46:52.430 for organ transplant patients. 46:52.590 --> 46:54.690 Tell me a little bit about how you got into this case 46:54.690 --> 46:57.130 and where that's at here in the state of Texas. 46:57.950 --> 47:00.810 Yeah, so we are still looking at that. 47:00.990 --> 47:02.270 We're still looking at other hospitals. 47:02.270 --> 47:04.430 We were, again, I was informed by, 47:04.890 --> 47:07.350 just commonly get informed by constituents 47:07.350 --> 47:09.850 that just are experiencing some problem like this. 47:09.910 --> 47:11.630 And so we're trying to understand, 47:11.730 --> 47:13.070 are they really preventing people 47:13.070 --> 47:14.590 from having life-saving treatment 47:14.590 --> 47:17.450 because they won't get a vaccine that's unproven 47:17.450 --> 47:19.110 and potentially risky. 47:19.630 --> 47:21.170 So that's what we're trying to find out 47:21.170 --> 47:23.910 because we think that is unconscionable and wrong. 47:24.330 --> 47:26.210 And if we discovered that that is true, 47:26.330 --> 47:27.770 we are gonna do our best to stop it. 47:29.210 --> 47:32.030 There's another topic we've covered earlier in the show 47:32.030 --> 47:34.490 which is the idea of transgender care. 47:34.770 --> 47:36.690 Robert Kennedy Jr. and President Trump, 47:37.310 --> 47:39.950 HHS has really come out now and discussed 47:39.950 --> 47:42.510 that they are no longer supporting any use 47:42.510 --> 47:47.490 of sex reassignment or gender transitioning care for minors. 47:47.690 --> 47:49.950 I think everyone would say, as an adult, 47:50.070 --> 47:52.410 this is a free country, but when it comes to children, 47:53.410 --> 47:56.110 you've gotten involved and weighed in on that. 47:56.230 --> 47:56.970 Here's that headline. 47:57.170 --> 47:58.590 Attorney General Ken Paxson sues 47:58.590 --> 48:01.410 Dr. for illegally providing harmful gender transition 48:01.410 --> 48:05.590 treatments to nearly two dozen Texas children. 48:07.750 --> 48:10.070 I'm curious because this seems to dance 48:10.070 --> 48:11.550 a bit of a fine line, Ken. 48:11.670 --> 48:14.970 I know that you are a huge advocate for parental rights. 48:15.430 --> 48:17.990 Our right to choose is a huge part of this. 48:18.250 --> 48:20.590 This seems to turn that on its head a little bit. 48:20.710 --> 48:24.290 If a parent wants to go in and get gender affirming care 48:24.290 --> 48:25.610 in the state of Texas, 48:25.850 --> 48:28.130 there's laws of impasse that's not allowed. 48:28.130 --> 48:29.470 How do you look at that? 48:29.530 --> 48:32.610 How do you navigate that sort of fine line? 48:33.730 --> 48:35.630 Well, first of all, I applaud the president, 48:36.070 --> 48:38.330 Robert Kennedy, for doing this. 48:38.690 --> 48:41.270 We'd see the Biden administration several times 48:41.270 --> 48:43.570 over issues like this where they were trying to force this 48:44.090 --> 48:46.930 down the state of Texas throat and other states as well. 48:47.070 --> 48:48.390 So we've been involved in this fight. 48:48.930 --> 48:52.090 So the difficulty with this and why I think it's different 48:52.090 --> 48:54.190 is when you transition a child, 48:54.730 --> 48:56.750 first of all, they're not mentally able 48:56.750 --> 48:57.770 to make the right decisions 48:57.770 --> 48:59.370 because their brains are not fully developed. 49:00.170 --> 49:02.470 And to do something this permanent, 49:02.610 --> 49:04.270 we don't let minors do certain things. 49:04.350 --> 49:05.350 We don't let them sign contracts. 49:06.070 --> 49:09.570 We don't let them go into the military. 49:09.710 --> 49:10.970 We don't let them do a lot of different things 49:10.970 --> 49:14.130 until they're of age, which we consider 18 in most states. 49:14.590 --> 49:15.590 And there's a reason. 49:15.730 --> 49:18.130 They're not fully able to make good decisions 49:18.130 --> 49:19.290 because their brains aren't fully developed. 49:19.430 --> 49:20.270 And these are decisions. 49:20.930 --> 49:22.550 Once you've made these alterations, 49:22.650 --> 49:24.270 whether it's chemically or through some type 49:24.270 --> 49:25.610 of physical surgery, 49:26.710 --> 49:28.430 you've effected somebody's life forever 49:28.430 --> 49:29.530 and there's no going back. 49:30.110 --> 49:32.470 It seems like this is one of those things 49:32.470 --> 49:34.490 where a parent should not be allowed to do this 49:34.490 --> 49:38.190 until the child can make his own decision 49:38.190 --> 49:40.790 when he's more developed mentally. 49:41.830 --> 49:43.370 Do you feel like, I mean, 49:43.790 --> 49:48.230 as being attorney general in the middle of COVID, 49:48.450 --> 49:50.590 I mean, in this, we live in what seems 49:50.590 --> 49:53.030 like one of the most outrageous times, 49:53.030 --> 49:56.370 certainly in my experience of being alive in this country 49:56.370 --> 49:58.470 where you had gender-affirming care, 49:58.670 --> 50:00.670 you have men and women's sports, 50:00.990 --> 50:04.870 you have forced vaccination of children, 50:05.150 --> 50:08.830 but it all seems to have pharma in the background of it 50:08.830 --> 50:09.650 in some way. 50:09.810 --> 50:13.050 We have issues of SSRIs and school shootings 50:13.050 --> 50:14.070 and all of this. 50:14.470 --> 50:18.350 What has it been like to be an attorney general 50:18.350 --> 50:19.670 in the middle of that? 50:19.850 --> 50:22.110 And do you feel like you are fighting 50:22.110 --> 50:25.210 or somehow involved with a battle against pharma 50:25.210 --> 50:28.230 more than you imagined you would when you started this job? 50:29.330 --> 50:31.630 Oh, absolutely, because I'm very pro-business. 50:32.230 --> 50:34.450 I have no problem with profit motive 50:34.450 --> 50:38.190 as long as it isn't deceptive and harmful to people. 50:38.950 --> 50:40.910 In this case, I mean, it's shocking to me 50:40.910 --> 50:44.110 that COVID, the way it was managed was so just insane 50:44.110 --> 50:48.990 and so sort of controlling and maybe almost totalitarian 50:48.990 --> 50:51.270 from both a federal level, a state level 50:51.270 --> 50:54.710 and a local level, and I'm not just talking about Texas, 50:54.870 --> 50:55.830 I'm talking about the whole country, 50:56.970 --> 50:58.570 decisions were being made by government 50:58.570 --> 51:00.350 that were affecting our everyday lives 51:00.350 --> 51:01.430 in all kinds of ways. 51:01.750 --> 51:03.190 And there were all these unanswered questions 51:03.190 --> 51:05.050 that I had to deal with that had never been, 51:05.150 --> 51:05.870 there's no precedent. 51:05.870 --> 51:08.830 So we were having to adjust every single day 51:08.830 --> 51:10.890 to try to figure out how to protect people 51:10.890 --> 51:12.790 from mostly the government 51:12.790 --> 51:14.610 who is supposed to protect us. 51:14.990 --> 51:16.890 And now in many of these decisions, 51:16.910 --> 51:18.350 whether it's COVID or transitioning 51:18.350 --> 51:20.350 or other issues like that, 51:20.350 --> 51:23.130 it feels like the government is doing harm to us 51:23.550 --> 51:25.810 and I'm in a position of kind of being in between 51:25.810 --> 51:27.490 trying to protect people from the government. 51:28.530 --> 51:31.090 When you look forward at the future of Texas, 51:31.250 --> 51:33.930 when you look at the future of the United States of America 51:33.930 --> 51:35.670 that's being challenged by these issues, 51:36.250 --> 51:37.850 do you look beyond our borders? 51:38.070 --> 51:39.410 I mean, you're just inside a state. 51:39.530 --> 51:42.690 Are you looking at the World Economic Forum, the WHO? 51:43.490 --> 51:45.810 Are you aware of this sort of more global push 51:45.810 --> 51:46.950 for a lot of these things 51:46.950 --> 51:48.410 that seem to be affecting our government, 51:48.410 --> 51:50.190 especially under the previous administration? 51:50.670 --> 51:51.870 Is that in your mindset 51:52.350 --> 51:55.730 as you look at how you govern or work 51:55.730 --> 51:56.990 through laws here in Texas? 51:58.050 --> 51:58.670 Oh, absolutely. 51:58.870 --> 52:00.710 I'm looking at the origin of some of this stuff 52:00.710 --> 52:02.410 and it is kind of a globalist mentality 52:02.410 --> 52:05.930 that doesn't seek to benefit the people of this country. 52:06.630 --> 52:09.370 It's a more of a collectivist type thing 52:09.370 --> 52:14.050 where we don't want you in America to be prospering 52:14.050 --> 52:15.430 when nobody else is prospering 52:15.430 --> 52:17.870 or when other people are not prospering is not enough, 52:17.870 --> 52:19.290 we're gonna make this all fair, 52:19.510 --> 52:20.350 we're gonna take from you 52:20.350 --> 52:21.830 because it's not fair that you have more. 52:22.210 --> 52:23.390 Well, I don't buy into that mentality. 52:23.710 --> 52:25.730 We have our own country, we have our own laws, 52:25.810 --> 52:26.530 we have our own freedoms 52:26.530 --> 52:28.550 and we need to protect our constitution. 52:28.790 --> 52:32.690 I don't care about the globalist mentality of control. 52:32.930 --> 52:34.170 What I care about is the constitution, 52:34.510 --> 52:36.430 the freedom that has been granted to us 52:37.610 --> 52:39.710 by that document, which really is from God, 52:39.810 --> 52:40.590 not from the government, 52:41.050 --> 52:43.450 is really important for this country 52:43.450 --> 52:45.130 because it's such a great experiment 52:45.130 --> 52:46.390 that has worked so well. 52:46.810 --> 52:48.170 And even if you hate the country, 52:48.510 --> 52:49.670 it's hard to dispute the results, 52:49.750 --> 52:50.810 which are really remarkable 52:51.390 --> 52:53.470 and it has created the greatest free country 52:53.470 --> 52:54.550 in the history of the world 52:54.550 --> 52:56.070 that provides more opportunity 52:56.070 --> 52:57.890 than any place in the history of the world. 52:58.270 --> 52:59.470 Do you think as citizens, 52:59.650 --> 53:01.770 we should be concerned right now 53:01.770 --> 53:03.350 that we could lose that freedom? 53:03.750 --> 53:07.130 I mean, I tend to talk a lot about it on my show. 53:07.290 --> 53:08.750 Do you think we're just overreacting 53:09.710 --> 53:11.350 that for those of us that are like, 53:11.450 --> 53:13.690 it really felt like we were about to lose free speech. 53:13.730 --> 53:15.010 We did in the middle of COVID. 53:15.010 --> 53:18.090 Where do you think we are at in America? 53:18.390 --> 53:20.250 Is our constitution sound enough 53:20.250 --> 53:22.990 to just hold off that sort of global push 53:22.990 --> 53:25.950 or do citizens need to get more involved right now? 53:26.050 --> 53:29.430 What is your sort of statement to people in this country 53:29.430 --> 53:31.050 and especially in states like Texas 53:31.050 --> 53:32.790 that are really standing, 53:32.950 --> 53:34.370 have always stood for sovereignty 53:34.370 --> 53:38.390 and let your, live and let live, if you will. 53:39.330 --> 53:41.930 Well, I don't remember who the quote was from, 53:42.030 --> 53:44.270 but the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. 53:44.270 --> 53:46.070 And I think that's true today, 53:46.110 --> 53:48.330 just as it was 100 years ago or 200 years ago. 53:48.830 --> 53:49.990 If we don't watch out, 53:50.290 --> 53:52.310 they will, there are people that want to control us. 53:52.350 --> 53:53.230 They want to control the wealth. 53:53.370 --> 53:55.330 They want to control your life, your healthcare. 53:56.150 --> 53:58.730 They're just people, look at China, Xi Jinping. 53:58.930 --> 53:59.950 He wants to control everything. 54:00.210 --> 54:02.970 He thinks that he is deserving of this power. 54:03.190 --> 54:04.370 And that's not uncommon. 54:04.630 --> 54:06.910 People that are in power tend to view themselves 54:06.910 --> 54:08.070 as deserving that power. 54:08.370 --> 54:11.210 And the rest of us are just not as worthy. 54:11.390 --> 54:13.470 And so that's not the view of our country. 54:13.470 --> 54:16.190 It's a bottom-up approach where everyone's worthy, 54:16.310 --> 54:18.630 everyone has a vote, but you better pay attention. 54:18.890 --> 54:22.410 Most power has to be taken away by force, 54:23.030 --> 54:25.130 whether it's with a rock back in the old days, 54:25.390 --> 54:29.370 a bow and arrow, or a bazooka or a tank, 54:29.450 --> 54:32.130 but with our country, you don't have to do that. 54:32.230 --> 54:33.790 You just go vote, you stay involved, 54:33.950 --> 54:36.630 you stay engaged, you stay educated, 54:36.910 --> 54:39.210 and you get to control the power by voting 54:39.210 --> 54:41.670 and by being educated about what the truth is. 54:41.670 --> 54:43.250 But you have to work at that. 54:43.330 --> 54:45.290 And the great thing is it's nothing like 54:45.290 --> 54:47.470 what every other country in the world 54:47.470 --> 54:49.350 used to have to go through from the beginning of time, 54:49.410 --> 54:51.630 which is you had to go to war to take people out. 54:51.710 --> 54:52.590 We don't have to do that. 54:52.770 --> 54:55.010 And so there is a responsibility behind that, 54:55.050 --> 54:56.370 and people need to pay attention, 54:56.430 --> 54:59.850 or we will be back to that same type of force mentality, 54:59.890 --> 55:01.510 which is what you have in countries like China 55:01.510 --> 55:02.250 and Russia and others. 55:02.870 --> 55:06.590 You seem to still have faith in our voting system, 55:06.590 --> 55:07.990 in our political system. 55:08.070 --> 55:09.430 A lot of people have given up, 55:09.430 --> 55:11.470 they're like, oh, it's rigged, everything's rigged. 55:11.750 --> 55:13.430 What do you say to those people? 55:14.830 --> 55:16.750 I say they're partly right. 55:16.870 --> 55:18.230 I think it is rigged in many states. 55:18.510 --> 55:20.690 I think, you know, I have fought voter fraud 55:20.690 --> 55:23.210 in this state regularly, and it does happen. 55:23.710 --> 55:25.770 Other states that don't have any real protections, 55:26.130 --> 55:27.050 there's no photo ID. 55:27.290 --> 55:28.950 They have mail-in ballot fraud every day, 55:29.250 --> 55:29.930 and they cheat. 55:30.190 --> 55:31.450 And I think that's something that's, you know, 55:31.490 --> 55:32.290 I'm running for U.S. Senate. 55:32.410 --> 55:34.430 One of the things I care about very greatly 55:34.990 --> 55:36.890 is requiring that we have photo ID 55:36.890 --> 55:38.530 and that we have protections on mail-in ballots 55:38.530 --> 55:39.430 so that people can't cheat. 55:39.570 --> 55:41.130 Because if you can cheat in California, 55:41.350 --> 55:43.490 you're affecting my elections, you're affecting my freedom, 55:43.950 --> 55:45.630 you shouldn't be able to cheat in any state, 55:45.770 --> 55:46.870 at least at the federal level. 55:47.350 --> 55:49.850 And so it's very important that we protect those elections 55:49.850 --> 55:53.810 because nothing else matters if our vote doesn't matter 55:53.810 --> 55:55.650 because they're cheating in these states 55:56.050 --> 55:57.250 or they're cheating in my state, 55:57.730 --> 56:00.890 we are in trouble because we don't actually control 56:01.510 --> 56:02.330 any of these issues. 56:04.170 --> 56:05.850 Lastly, you said you have children, 56:06.030 --> 56:06.890 you've got grandchildren. 56:06.890 --> 56:08.830 Children, congratulations on that. 56:09.330 --> 56:11.130 For your beautiful, healthy family. 56:11.970 --> 56:13.510 When you think about them, 56:13.690 --> 56:15.370 are you hopeful for the future? 56:15.990 --> 56:18.010 Look, I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't hopeful. 56:18.290 --> 56:21.250 I still believe that we are the greatest country 56:21.250 --> 56:23.650 that has ever been created, 56:23.930 --> 56:25.130 and we have a responsibility. 56:25.390 --> 56:27.810 Yeah, there's a salt from outside and inside, 56:28.030 --> 56:29.870 from global leaders all over the world 56:29.870 --> 56:33.230 want to take us down and they want to control us. 56:33.550 --> 56:34.850 And there are people inside this country 56:34.850 --> 56:35.610 that don't believe in that. 56:35.610 --> 56:37.190 They think that they're elitists 56:37.190 --> 56:38.650 and they think they can better tell us. 56:39.010 --> 56:41.750 It's like this whole mandate on vaccines. 56:42.510 --> 56:44.630 Those are elitists that think that they can tell us 56:45.190 --> 56:47.370 when the reality is it has been assumed 56:47.370 --> 56:48.410 from the beginning of this country 56:48.410 --> 56:52.010 that it's the individual that has that responsibility 56:52.010 --> 56:55.570 and that they have their best interests in mind 56:55.570 --> 56:57.890 rather than some government leader 56:57.890 --> 56:59.690 telling me what I need to do. 57:00.250 --> 57:02.070 And I understand we have to have laws and all of that 57:02.070 --> 57:03.450 and I believe in the rule of law, 57:03.450 --> 57:06.690 but in the end it should be based on voting, 57:07.130 --> 57:11.170 not a few members of an oligarchy in Washington, DC 57:11.170 --> 57:14.010 or in a foreign country like Brussels 57:14.010 --> 57:15.030 that tell us what to do. 57:15.930 --> 57:17.650 You know, I know I said it was my last question, 57:17.690 --> 57:20.930 but you triggered something when you said that it be legal 57:21.550 --> 57:24.790 as an attorney general in a state like Texas, 57:25.070 --> 57:27.130 should we ever have an experience 57:27.130 --> 57:31.830 like we had during COVID, being forced to wear masks, 57:31.830 --> 57:33.830 being forced to lock down, 57:34.570 --> 57:36.730 turning our neighbors in these things. 57:37.250 --> 57:39.570 What do you recommend to a citizen? 57:40.150 --> 57:41.950 We know some of our founding fathers said 57:41.950 --> 57:45.830 you should reject laws that go against your rights. 57:46.290 --> 57:47.790 How do we determine that? 57:47.990 --> 57:50.790 How do we know when there's a moment 57:50.790 --> 57:52.610 where we just say, oh hell no, 57:52.850 --> 57:54.650 I do not believe that is a just law. 57:55.090 --> 57:56.710 What is our position as citizens 57:56.710 --> 57:59.350 in complicated situations like that? 57:59.350 --> 58:01.630 Is there a way to inspire 58:01.630 --> 58:04.350 how you should think about your place in those moments? 58:05.170 --> 58:06.690 Yeah, you know what I've always done 58:06.690 --> 58:08.350 is I go back to the Constitution first. 58:08.490 --> 58:09.910 It's such a genius document. 58:10.570 --> 58:11.930 And these fundamental rights, 58:12.250 --> 58:14.730 what I love about the Declaration of Independence 58:14.730 --> 58:17.070 is that it sets out the standard 58:17.070 --> 58:19.230 which is these are inalienable rights 58:19.230 --> 58:21.010 given to us not by any government leader. 58:21.290 --> 58:23.470 They don't control us in this country. 58:23.550 --> 58:25.550 It's one of the, there's no other document like that. 58:25.950 --> 58:28.610 And if our government oversteps its balance 58:28.610 --> 58:29.890 according to the Declaration of Independence, 58:30.070 --> 58:31.430 we have a right to overthrow that government. 58:31.830 --> 58:33.950 The government needs to answer to us. 58:34.030 --> 58:36.370 And so whenever you start thinking 58:36.370 --> 58:38.750 about the government telling you what to do, 58:39.290 --> 58:42.290 you need to balance it between what the Constitution 58:42.290 --> 58:45.390 allows them to do versus what they're actually doing. 58:45.390 --> 58:47.590 And if they are overstepping their constitutional role 58:47.590 --> 58:49.270 and they're exerting too much power 58:49.270 --> 58:52.190 at the executive branch or in Congress or a judiciary, 58:52.430 --> 58:53.610 then we need to change that. 58:53.730 --> 58:56.710 We need to fight back or we will lose our freedoms. 58:56.710 --> 58:58.210 We will be controlled by other people 58:58.210 --> 59:00.490 and we will lose the ability to make our own decisions. 59:00.690 --> 59:02.070 And that's not the place I want to live. 59:03.090 --> 59:06.130 Well, Ken, you are making Texas a great place to live. 59:06.270 --> 59:07.850 You are a critical part of it. 59:07.950 --> 59:10.490 I am so thankful for the work that you do here. 59:10.610 --> 59:12.830 It's one of the reasons I left California 59:12.830 --> 59:13.910 and moved to Texas. 59:15.190 --> 59:18.050 Godspeed to your continued efforts and your journey. 59:18.150 --> 59:21.130 Thank you for watching out for the children of this state. 59:21.410 --> 59:22.970 And really thank you for representing 59:22.970 --> 59:24.650 being a beacon of light and hope, 59:24.650 --> 59:27.230 for sovereignty, for the right to choose, 59:27.450 --> 59:28.730 for the right to free speech. 59:28.830 --> 59:32.890 You truly are a spectacular light in this country, 59:32.970 --> 59:35.370 which I agree with you is the greatest country 59:35.370 --> 59:35.750 in the world. 59:35.890 --> 59:37.490 So I want to thank you for taking the time today 59:37.490 --> 59:39.150 to share your thoughts on these 59:39.630 --> 59:41.010 really important subjects right now. 59:41.450 --> 59:42.550 Well, thank you for having me on 59:42.550 --> 59:44.030 and thank you for enlightening people 59:44.030 --> 59:46.810 because this is the type of information that's crucial 59:47.410 --> 59:49.010 to making the right kinds of decisions 59:49.010 --> 59:51.050 for our families and for our future. 59:52.010 --> 59:52.450 Absolutely. 59:52.930 --> 59:53.250 Take care. 59:53.250 --> 59:54.990 I look forward to having you on the show in the future. 59:55.790 --> 59:56.410 Thank you. 59:56.710 --> 59:57.270 All right, thank you. 59:58.730 --> 01:00:01.790 All right, well, I mean, it just feels, 01:00:02.150 --> 01:00:03.770 it just seems so reasonable, right? 01:00:03.910 --> 01:00:04.830 But it's only reasonable 01:00:04.830 --> 01:00:06.270 because we grew up in America. 01:00:06.570 --> 01:00:07.930 Those are the thoughts of America 01:00:07.930 --> 01:00:09.830 that our government doesn't control us. 01:00:09.910 --> 01:00:11.010 It doesn't own us. 01:00:11.350 --> 01:00:13.170 We are given our rights by God 01:00:13.170 --> 01:00:15.790 and we are really dancing on a fine line 01:00:15.790 --> 01:00:17.610 when you watch mainstream news 01:00:17.990 --> 01:00:19.970 and you see how they're telling this story 01:00:19.970 --> 01:00:23.310 as though our rights are being given to us 01:00:23.310 --> 01:00:23.930 by the government. 01:00:24.130 --> 01:00:26.850 This is something we really need to check in with. 01:00:27.250 --> 01:00:30.250 And if you feel like things are happening to you, 01:00:30.370 --> 01:00:31.850 that the government's doing to you, 01:00:31.890 --> 01:00:35.690 forcing you to do outside of that inalienable right, 01:00:35.830 --> 01:00:37.770 then I think that's a moment to speak up. 01:00:38.190 --> 01:00:40.810 One of the ways that you can speak up 01:00:40.810 --> 01:00:42.310 is to sort of leave your place 01:00:42.310 --> 01:00:44.490 to make your statement in an indelible way. 01:00:44.930 --> 01:00:47.910 And that is one of the ways that we're raising funds. 01:00:47.910 --> 01:00:51.170 There's only two weeks left to our terrorist project. 01:00:51.410 --> 01:00:53.910 You can write something literally in stone 01:00:53.910 --> 01:00:56.310 that will stand the test of time. 01:00:56.410 --> 01:00:59.030 And we have people visiting every single week this campus 01:00:59.390 --> 01:01:00.630 that come and watch the show 01:01:00.630 --> 01:01:02.830 and to watch them just stroll the walkway 01:01:02.830 --> 01:01:04.970 and ultimately they'll be sitting on the terrace 01:01:04.970 --> 01:01:08.110 maybe reading your words or your affirmation 01:01:08.110 --> 01:01:10.630 about this world, the world that we live in 01:01:10.630 --> 01:01:12.210 or something you wanna see for the future 01:01:12.210 --> 01:01:14.650 or maybe since Valentine's is coming up 01:01:14.650 --> 01:01:16.830 just a statement to your loved one. 01:01:16.830 --> 01:01:19.530 Whatever it is, I hope you'll take part in this. 01:01:19.670 --> 01:01:20.670 Don't miss this opportunity. 01:01:20.910 --> 01:01:25.330 So many of you reached out after we did our walkway 01:01:25.330 --> 01:01:26.690 and now we have the terrorists. 01:01:27.030 --> 01:01:28.590 It's only two weeks left. 01:01:29.070 --> 01:01:31.250 Take this opportunity to get a brick. 01:01:31.470 --> 01:01:32.890 This is my favorite brick of the week. 01:01:33.250 --> 01:01:34.990 Well, my favorite brick of the week 01:01:34.990 --> 01:01:38.070 and it's so perfect since I got to talk to Ken Paxton 01:01:38.070 --> 01:01:41.290 today, but it's keep taxes free. 01:01:41.870 --> 01:01:43.310 Keep America free. 01:01:43.730 --> 01:01:45.670 How we ever going to make America healthy 01:01:45.670 --> 01:01:47.330 again if we're not free to do it. 01:01:47.570 --> 01:01:48.890 So remember, get involved. 01:01:49.150 --> 01:01:50.270 Get involved in politics. 01:01:50.570 --> 01:01:51.470 Run for office. 01:01:51.590 --> 01:01:52.990 Make a difference in this world. 01:01:53.350 --> 01:01:54.410 That's what that means to me. 01:01:54.590 --> 01:01:56.930 Do what you can because being vigilant 01:01:56.930 --> 01:01:58.550 is the only way we stay free. 01:01:58.830 --> 01:01:59.350 All right. 01:02:02.630 --> 01:02:04.510 Well, I hope you'll take the opportunity. 01:02:04.690 --> 01:02:05.970 Only two weeks left as we said. 01:02:06.270 --> 01:02:08.390 Valentine's Day is the last day to get a brick. 01:02:08.590 --> 01:02:10.050 Please do that now. 01:02:10.290 --> 01:02:13.070 I don't wanna get your calls after I've been saying it. 01:02:13.690 --> 01:02:15.090 That time is gonna disappear 01:02:15.090 --> 01:02:17.050 and I'm always like, when you think of it, 01:02:17.170 --> 01:02:17.750 do it right then. 01:02:17.870 --> 01:02:19.050 So pick up your phone right now 01:02:19.050 --> 01:02:21.690 and go ahead and order yourself a brick right away. 01:02:22.210 --> 01:02:25.490 Another thing you can do is if you wanna sort of give 01:02:25.490 --> 01:02:28.470 but also get something back is go to our merch store. 01:02:28.550 --> 01:02:29.890 It's always got great new merch 01:02:29.890 --> 01:02:31.190 and I wanna point out the fact 01:02:31.190 --> 01:02:35.230 that we have a big football game going on this weekend. 01:02:35.790 --> 01:02:37.790 Those are the types of events you could go to 01:02:37.790 --> 01:02:39.730 or even if you're sitting on the couch with your friends. 01:02:39.850 --> 01:02:41.510 You know what team they're going for, 01:02:41.690 --> 01:02:44.450 but isn't the best team to be rooting for team humanity? 01:02:44.450 --> 01:02:46.470 Think about it at all your sports events. 01:02:46.750 --> 01:02:49.030 This is new from our shop. 01:02:50.190 --> 01:02:51.770 The big game is coming up 01:02:51.770 --> 01:02:53.350 and everyone's repping a team, 01:02:53.510 --> 01:02:55.850 but the question is, who are you playing for? 01:02:56.310 --> 01:02:57.730 When you are a high wire merch, 01:02:57.850 --> 01:02:59.730 you're not just wearing a shirt or a hat, 01:03:00.050 --> 01:03:01.990 you're telling the world where you stand. 01:03:02.490 --> 01:03:03.470 You're backing truth, 01:03:03.690 --> 01:03:05.790 you're supporting the work we do it, I can. 01:03:06.210 --> 01:03:08.490 And most importantly, you're on the winning team. 01:03:09.010 --> 01:03:09.810 Team High Wire. 01:03:10.330 --> 01:03:12.270 No gimmicks, no corporate sponsors, 01:03:12.270 --> 01:03:15.470 just courage, integrity, and a whole lot of heart. 01:03:15.710 --> 01:03:17.530 This is how we High Wire. 01:03:18.150 --> 01:03:20.010 So suit up, stand proud, 01:03:20.250 --> 01:03:23.030 let the world know exactly who side you're on. 01:03:23.430 --> 01:03:25.530 Go to thehighwire.shop now. 01:03:30.130 --> 01:03:33.910 All right, look, I am just about to head out 01:03:33.910 --> 01:03:35.910 to Europe imminent. 01:03:36.330 --> 01:03:37.690 My trip is imminent here. 01:03:37.750 --> 01:03:39.690 In fact, in just two days on Saturday, 01:03:40.230 --> 01:03:44.110 we're gonna be screening an inconvenient study in Guernsey. 01:03:44.230 --> 01:03:45.570 That's an island off of England. 01:03:45.710 --> 01:03:47.030 If you're anywhere near there, please, 01:03:47.550 --> 01:03:49.290 I hope you'll come out and check it out. 01:03:49.370 --> 01:03:51.030 I'm coming out there for all of you 01:03:51.030 --> 01:03:53.490 that are finding yourself in the middle of this issue. 01:03:53.590 --> 01:03:56.250 We're gonna talk about what it's like to be in the UK 01:03:56.850 --> 01:03:57.950 and in Europe around this. 01:03:58.050 --> 01:03:58.930 And then on the eighth, 01:03:59.190 --> 01:04:01.390 also in Guernsey there's gonna be speeches and panels, 01:04:01.610 --> 01:04:04.230 some really great world-renowned scientists and doctors 01:04:04.790 --> 01:04:06.950 that share this space are gonna be sitting with me there. 01:04:07.070 --> 01:04:08.850 And then on February 9th and 10th, 01:04:08.850 --> 01:04:10.250 I'm heading off to Amsterdam. 01:04:10.750 --> 01:04:13.670 It's a two-day event where global experts discuss key issues 01:04:13.670 --> 01:04:15.110 in science, medicine, public health. 01:04:15.650 --> 01:04:18.770 All those QR codes, you can click on those right now. 01:04:18.890 --> 01:04:21.910 If you wanna get tickets or find out what's going on there. 01:04:22.090 --> 01:04:25.490 Truth is, I could be traveling like crazy right now. 01:04:25.690 --> 01:04:28.650 Australia, there's some people out there to want me. 01:04:28.810 --> 01:04:30.670 Iceland, I hope I can squeeze that in. 01:04:30.750 --> 01:04:33.230 And Spain, Italy, and I might even have the opportunity 01:04:33.670 --> 01:04:36.510 to speak in front of the European Union soon in Brussels. 01:04:36.830 --> 01:04:38.370 I'm looking forward to all of that. 01:04:38.370 --> 01:04:40.130 The world is changing, folks. 01:04:41.410 --> 01:04:43.690 We are living in a different world now. 01:04:43.870 --> 01:04:46.450 All of the momentum is on our side, 01:04:46.670 --> 01:04:49.090 but that means all of the dark forces 01:04:49.090 --> 01:04:53.210 that had controlled us up until our awakening during COVID, 01:04:53.810 --> 01:04:54.970 they have all the money still. 01:04:55.170 --> 01:04:56.930 They raised a lot of money during COVID 01:04:56.930 --> 01:04:59.130 while they locked us in our homes. 01:04:59.550 --> 01:05:00.850 We need to take that money back. 01:05:01.010 --> 01:05:01.870 We need to take this back. 01:05:01.970 --> 01:05:02.990 And we gotta make sure we win. 01:05:03.350 --> 01:05:06.530 They're trying to figure out how to get back in control, 01:05:06.530 --> 01:05:07.330 guaranteed. 01:05:07.750 --> 01:05:09.530 And we're watching it around the world. 01:05:09.690 --> 01:05:11.150 We're watching the globe slip. 01:05:11.310 --> 01:05:13.410 You're watching things like Los Angeles 01:05:13.410 --> 01:05:15.170 deciding to align with WHO. 01:05:15.870 --> 01:05:17.330 You know, the United States of America 01:05:17.330 --> 01:05:19.610 might not be funding you, but we will. 01:05:19.990 --> 01:05:21.770 You're watching these states push back. 01:05:22.070 --> 01:05:24.830 We finally are getting a lighter vaccine schedule. 01:05:24.970 --> 01:05:26.690 Maybe some lives will be saved by that. 01:05:26.750 --> 01:05:27.390 It's not perfect. 01:05:27.530 --> 01:05:29.970 I don't like personally any of the vaccines for my kids, 01:05:30.070 --> 01:05:31.810 but imagine dropping that schedule 01:05:31.810 --> 01:05:33.810 and half getting rid of that vaccine 01:05:33.810 --> 01:05:34.890 on the first day of life. 01:05:35.230 --> 01:05:40.090 Give that beautiful baby a chance to breathe for God's sakes, 01:05:40.190 --> 01:05:41.950 but they're not gonna allow it in certain states. 01:05:42.490 --> 01:05:44.270 We have our work to do right now. 01:05:44.350 --> 01:05:46.810 And so I hope you will double down with us 01:05:46.810 --> 01:05:49.250 and recognize this fight isn't over. 01:05:49.370 --> 01:05:51.550 In fact, it's just where we want it. 01:05:51.590 --> 01:05:54.730 But now, you know, just like any boxing match 01:05:54.730 --> 01:05:57.570 or MMA fighter, frankly, any sporting match, 01:05:57.650 --> 01:05:59.210 you ever just let down your guard and think, 01:05:59.310 --> 01:06:00.890 oh, we're far enough ahead now, 01:06:01.350 --> 01:06:02.650 that never turns out well. 01:06:02.650 --> 01:06:04.890 Well, we're not gonna take our eye off the prize, 01:06:05.010 --> 01:06:07.470 and I hope you won't take our eye off us. 01:06:07.550 --> 01:06:09.390 Let everyone you know you're watching the High Wire 01:06:09.390 --> 01:06:11.610 and let them be a part of this great experience. 01:06:12.190 --> 01:06:13.810 Go out there, celebrate. 01:06:14.370 --> 01:06:16.170 Show everybody you work for Team High Wire. 01:06:16.450 --> 01:06:18.610 And I'll see you next week. 01:06:18.730 --> 01:06:19.970 Well, Jeffrey's gonna see you next week. 01:06:20.070 --> 01:06:21.990 I'll see you in two weeks on the High Wire. 01:06:22.090 --> 01:06:23.450 For everyone else, I'll see you in Europe. 01:06:23.830 --> 01:06:24.410 I'm on my way.