Has a lot of mandate? There are companies still enforcing that lets bring in Dr Oz. The host of the Dr Oz show a cardiologist and hes, not a new hot, now, a political candidate to be the Republican running in Pennsylvania for the? U DOT S Senate, Dr Oz, good morning to you Ainsley good morning, good morning, Steve. Let me just explain why I moved from just a few blocks from where you are making my show with great joy into the political ring. I actually feel were in a great crisis and, like you have been watching this and Covid broke the country in some ways, and I feel our values are under attack. So ive asked the voters of Pennsylvania to consider me for their senator for the United States and im going to serve America in this time of need the best of my ability. We need better solutions. Theyre out there. We got to stop shaming and silencing and bullying and canceling people with ideas that are different than ours, especially when theyre good ideas. We saw that play out plenty in covid and I gotta say medicine when you cant say what you see people die,

so we got to be able to just do at least that Dr Brian, who was just articulating with our management of Covid, lets, get clear about what were actually experiencing. So we dont wander down a path of making the same mistakes. We made the first time around Ainsley, Dr Oz were all ready to move on with our lives, and people in New York are worried. These schools will make our kids get vaccinated. Some of them dont want their kids to have the shot yet, especially those whose kids have already had covid. You have all these people that are losing their jobs. We see whats happening with inflation. Is it safe for us to move on with our lives? Are you worried about this variant? Whats your advice, im not worried about the variant. There are lots of mutations on the variant. Thirty two are on the spike protein, so I understand why we need to watch it carefully, but we have no evidence that its more of a problem than delta variant and we have no evidence that its resistant to vaccines and we dont have any evidence that its more dangerous to us. So what other criteria by which we would, for example, declare a state of emergency in New York

and what are the criteria to lift that state of emergency? We went through this remember two weeks to bend the curve. I was with you that metastasizes this overarching authoritarian ism that started to destroy our culture, our beliefs, our values and then you start to train people to be dos Docil Ex just follow the rules and orders, even though people making the rules dont know what to do so, they just make rules. It doesnt work weve been down this path. Steve to that point. Yesterday, in your rollout video, you released something on social media. You said, Covid has shown us. Our system is broken. Washington got it wrong. They took away our freedom. That, ultimately, is what you want to try to fix. How do you fix that? Well, one is transparencies, but, most importantly, weve got to empower Americans. If you take charge of your own health, you reduce the complications of Covid 19 thats, something you can do. I spent my whole career empowering people, my patients, my viewers on the show ill, do it for the citizens of Pennsylvania

and the whole country and ive taken on big pharma. So the only data you see is not just big Pharma Data ive taken on big tech, same story: they control the narrative. So they tell you the stories youre supposed to believe fights. Ive had with chemical companies. Ive got the scars to prove it. We talked about some of these battles, ill keep waging them. I can not be bought. You have people talking about this stuff, honestly its uncomfortable but its. What has to happen in America, Brian, Dr Oz, a couple things number one you realize if you question Dr Fauci, you question science. So how dare you question anything? I want you to apologize to science. Number two is, I believe- and I could be wrong on this- that you were totally befuddled by the reaction to Hydroxychloroquine. You were just asking questions and the blowback the magnitude of it was shocking to you as somebody who came up in the medical profession and does that still everyday youre asking the same questions,

but now youre askings medical questions in a political environment, and you were just almost taken aback to the point where you knocked back a little. You had to recalibrate your remarks. Is that correct? When you mix politics and medicine, you get politics, what we witnessed not just with Hydroxychloroquine, but many other solutions that have been offered subsequently. Is that theres, a single perspective thats allowed to get vaccinated? Listen, I think one of the greatest accomplishments of America that we gave the world the Mrna Vaccines through President trumps operation, warp, speed, im so happy that we were able to do that and I got vaccinated and I believe in vaccine I dont believe in mandates, and I also dont believe its the only path to success. From day one weve argued doctors, dont send patients home with just a prescription or a piece of paper with a diagnosis. We send you home with a game plan about how to cure yourself and make yourself better to

empower you and covid. We said you know, go home if your lips turn blue call us, but you need to get hospitalized thats, not good enough, and when you have doctors around the world offering the best solutions possible during war, we should at least listen to them. To this day, we have not done adequate quality clinical trials to test these products. We had a pill approved yesterday by the FDA, and this pill from Merck was available before the pandemic started. It was here for more than two years we just yesterday had the FDA panel say you know it saves lives. We should approve it. Finally, doctors for the first time have a pill to give patients who have a diagnosis of covid. We should have done much much better than this, but we couldnt ask the questions Brian, because its too political Steve. So you know when it comes to the Senate race in Pennsylvania, you obviously have enormous name recognition, because youve been on television for a very long time, Oprah Winfrey introduced us to you back in the day. Have you talked to Oprah?

Have you heard from Oprah about running for Senate? Of course I spoke with Oprah shes, my partner on the show shes been a huge mentor. Favorite woman. I know I told her that my interests were in politics. She listened and thought about it. She said: do what your heart says to do. I wanted to run this race to address the major issues we face in America and the prognosis is good. I feel more upbeat about America today than I have in a long time, because ive seen the solutions out there, theyre fantastic but theyre, being suffocated so im running to make sure those great ideas see the light of day thats what the weve always done. As a country and Heres the pledge ill be your public servant. We can reinvigorate America with these good ideas. If we listen to each other and its important, we gotta start seeing divine spark in each other again were not the enemy of each other Ainsley. Are you ready for this race? You are loved by everyone in America and youve decided to run as a republican tell us about the thought

process. What your conversations were like with your family and to leave such a big job, making a lot of money to go into politics. Well, Ainsley. Thanks for bringing the family issue up, it was the most important part of the decision, because you do take your whole family down the path. So my youngest son, Oliver, whose been on the show just started medical school at Columbia, so I figured when the youngest one was sort of out of the process. I could go out and do what I wanted to do for a while, which is to serve our nation. Lisa is a strong woman, and best thing I ever did was meet her here in Philadelphia and marry her thirty six years ago. So I feel blessed to have her by my side and one thing she does set me straight in my house. The prosecution never rests laughter Brian Interesting, Dr Oz. We look forward to talking to you its going to be a whirl wind, look forward to get ready for the knives laughter im looking forward to it. God bless you all Steve in his business. They are scalpals.

Thank you very much. Ainsley God bless you good luck. I dont like to say good luck. I said that yesterday and today I dont believe in luck. I believe blessings. God bless.