thank you all for joining us today you
know there has been a lot
said about big tech censorship
of what transpired around the origins of
the covet 19 virus and where this
came from how it moved to a pandemic
and then there's also questions about
what the american people were told
and the timeliness or lack thereof
of what they were being told we know
that
facebook recently reversed their
decision
on taking down any kind of information
that said it came from the lab in wuhan
that
beijing should be held to account
youtube
had previously announced that it would
censor any content that contradicted
the beijing run and china-funded world
health organization youtube
even took down a video
from some medical doctors
who were questioning the value
of these lock downs and we're
questioning
what it does to the population and
especially what it does to our children
twitter they locked down
the account of a virologist a chinese
virologist
who was saying this is what they're
doing gain a function research
this is what they're doing in the wuhan
institute of virology
holding the chinese communist party to
account
i i will tell you this big tech has
really stepped over they have stepped
over the line
on this one we all have suggestions
of how we as a senate should move
forward and
things that we should do to make certain
this never happens to the american
people
senator braun thank you now tell you
where we need to start
you had a unique thing happen i think of
just last week
where by unanimous consent that hardly
ever happens on a critical issue unless
you're maybe renaming a post office or
something
we got it through the senate to ask our
own intelligence agencies
to release the information that we house
and for as much havoc as this is created
not only for our own country across the
world
why we wouldn't start there with
president biden
spoke to secretary blinken asked him he
said
had no good reason why you would not
release that information we need to
start there to get to the bottom
of it and when you talk about big tech
being mom
on the subject basically when you've got
every u s senator
that wants to at least start there we
need to have accountability
and i think it's for them to step up and
lead the charge they are the place
that people look to listen to where are
they at
and we need to start there let's hold
our own intelligence agencies
accountable
release that information declassify it
senator marshall okay well senator
blackburn thank you so much for giving
us
a chance to sit here and talk about the
the wuhan lab leak
uh and the cover-up thereof you know
what we affectionately refer to it as
bat gate you know it occurred to me as i
was sitting there reading dr
fauci's emails recently that everything
i learned in 10th grade science
everything i learned as a doctor about
the scientific method about
hypothesis and and developing theories
that we just threw that all out the door
you know i was shocked as i went back
and reviewed some of the letters that
were written but really what what
rose my suspicion was somewhere back in
january of 2020
and the chinese were saying that there
was no person-to-person transmission the
wto agreed and the cdc didn't stand up
to him
and that led for me to have a phone call
with the cdc
and all the national journalists were
reporting that the united states
scientists were investigating this new
novel virus
and when i talked to the cdc they said
well we've got scientists in
in beijing but they're thousands of
miles from muon so we really don't have
anything to tell you
and then the next thing i see is this a
letter signed by a group of scientists
who have ignored even the possibility
that this virus could have risen from
the laboratory
they they totally ignored it uh they
threw out this the scientific hypothesis
that this was even feasible
and our and didn't come to find out most
of those scientists if not
all of them were receiving some type of
funding then and in the future from the
nih
and our cdc sat there and nodded their
head in agreement
and then national journalists big tech
companies
that they work together to suppress this
story they work together
to to censor those of us who thought
that there that this virus
may have originated there and not only
did they suppress they actually shamed
people who thought that this
might have came from a laboratory and
then finally we see in dr
fauci's a collusion working with dr
fauci big tech working together
to suppress this story you know here we
are we're 17 months later we still don't
know
anything much more about this virus
you know i think that we have to hold
the ccp
uh accountable and if if the united
states is in any way accountable if they
helped fund
laboratories that led to the development
of this virus
then we need to be held accountable as
well and we need a deep dive into what
viral gain of research rules
uh look like going forward as well
you know we're never going to get to the
bond with this unless we stop this
cover-up of the wuhan lab leak
until we stop bat gate thanks marsha
senator johnson go ahead well
johnson okay
i want to point out that the evidence
about a potential
lab league theory has been hiding in
plain sight for months
you know the fact that our federal
agencies under the direction of
anthony fauci funded this type of
research for years
has been laying out their hidden in
plain sight for months
shame on the media shame the social
media for not
paying attention to it for completely
ignoring it
the the result of this 18 month gap
of fully exploring the the true origin
of the
covert virus probably means we'll never
get to the bottom of it china's had 18
months to destroy this evidence
but make no doubt about it china is
guilty
they are culpable they knew they had
a coronavirus they knew they had a
deadly pandemic type virus in wuhan
they didn't allow flights out of wuhan
to the rest of china
but they left let that virus infect the
entire world
so we already know china's guilty we
already know they had to be held account
to account i think we also need to
hold the news meeting the social media
accountable as well
this isn't the only area suppression i i
could
list a long list
of false narratives false stories
that the drive-by media promotes and
then never
really adequately retracts
but when it comes to covid i have
personal experience
with censorship and suppression that i
believe has cost
tens of thousands of americans their
lives
the nih guidelines as it relates to
treatment of covid remains
a compassionless guideline just
to basically do nothing go home isolate
yourself
be afraid and if you just happen to get
sick enough where you have to check
yourself in the hospital
check yourself in the hospital maybe we
can save your life
i held two hearings on early treatment
dr peter mcculloch laid out the four
pillars of pandemic response the first
one is try and stop the spread well
china is guilty
not doing that the second pillar is
early treatment
basically how we apply medicine to every
other condition early detection
early treatment then in hospital
treatment and finally vaccine
why did our health agencies why did
anthony fauci why did the mainstream
media suppress
and censor doctors had the courage and
compassion to treat
patients early with cheap generic
repurposed drugs why did that happen
there is growing evidence it's not being
reported on by the media
mexico is having great success with
ivermectin certain
provinces in india are having great
success cyber mechanic where's reporting
on that
we've seen studies where fifty to
eighty-five percent of lives could have
been saved it
prevents that much death apply that
percentage to the six hundred thousand
americans that lost their lives
which is why i believe the news media
will never admit their complicity and
why they will never admit they were
wrong here
but it's not too late lives can be saved
we're still going to need early
treatment no matter how effective the
vaccine is no matter how effective
immunity from having been infected is
other people will get infected other
people are going to need early treatment
so i am begging
by employing the media pay attention to
people like dr
corey dr peter mcculloch the other
doctors have the courage
and compassion to treat patients it's
not too late we need to start
and really robustly explore early
treatment now
and finally senator wicker who joins me
in holding big tech accountable and
dealing with
thank you senator blackburn and others
the the last quarter of a century has
seen enormous growth
in the internet and uh much of it's been
positive
as we all know but the result
of uh this quarter century has been that
it has allowed a handful
of internet big tech
platforms to grow enormously large
enormously rich and enormously
powerful to the point where
they decide what is the news they decide
what information the public is going to
get what information is going to be
blocked
and uh and it's not just the wuhan virus
which is an outrage as as my colleagues
have just
described we we could cite chapter and
verse
uh time and time and time again about
these big
platforms deciding what we will hear and
what we can't hear
so let me just let me just help out by
saying
senator johnson is right and i will cite
a few examples
google threatened to cut off several
conservative websites
including the federalists how do they
have the power to do that
how can they justify doing that
companies
restrict or terminate conservative users
accounts
and content on social media facebook
announces suspending
the account of a former president of the
united states
that is too much power for them to
decide
who can and who cannot make news and be
quoted twitter removed twitter moved to
censor
any coronavirus coverage that they
thought
in their judgment might cause widespread
panic how does a multi-rich
powerful internet platform get to make
that decision
and i could go on and on and on that's
why i've joined
with senators like senator blackburn in
in trying to correct the two third the
section
230 gaps but also why i'm
introducing legislation
to to make it clear
that these large internet tech platforms
cannot discriminate
based on their own opinions and based on
what they think
the public should and should not be
allowed to hear
this is a serious grave threat
to freedom and the open exchange of
ideas under our constitution
and i'm glad to stand with these members
on this task
thank you all as you can see it this is
something that
is going to span several committees here
in the u.s
senate it is our job to get to the
bottom
of what happened and then to bring
forward remedies
like senator wicker has just laid out
got a question
thank you so the eu and g7 has called
for an investigation into
whether or not this was a full public
lead i'm wondering do you think an
international approach is the best way
to investigate this going forward
i think the standing committees of the
u.s senate should take the lead
we are pleased that our allies are also
joining us
and saying this needs to be investigated
it is obvious
that something was not right it is of
concern that the who
decided that they were going to let the
communist chinese
tell them when and how they could
approach this lab
and that we had to wait for months and
then also
i saw your release yesterday about
firing dr fauci
can you just talk a little bit about
that sure i think that
it is appropriate that dr fauci step
aside
from his responsibilities at the niaid
and that he make himself available to
congress
to find out exactly how was he in
cahoots
with mark zuckerberg and big tech what
transpired there
did the american people hear some truth
but not the whole truth and nothing but
the truth why was there not
timeliness of acknowledgement of
concerns
around the lab why was there not more of
a concern
around wuhan saying you cannot go
anywhere else in china or the chinese
communist party saying
you can go nowhere else in china if
you're from ube province or you're from
wuhan
but you can travel the globe everywhere
but china
these are things that now look we've got
three and a half million people that
have lost their life
three and a half million people we have
hundreds of thousands of american
families who have experienced loss of
life
in their families to loved ones to
friends
we have loss of livelihood
for hundreds of millions we have
children precious children
that have just experienced
loss of learning for a year loss of
socialization
that are showing emotional problems and
dr
fauci is funded by the u.s
taxpayer and the taxpayer is saying
what did you do with our dollar
thank you all so much