Florida Sen. Marco Rubio argues name-calling by some health officials towards the American people during the pandemic has resulted in a deterioration of public confidence.
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Now, with a new look,
we should continue with the.
We should continue with the
investigation and go to the
next phase of the investigation
that the W h o has done.
Phase ii of the Covid origin
study must be launched with
terms of reference that are
transparent, science based and
give international experts the
independence to fully assess
the source of the virus and the
early days of the outbreak.
We need to get to the bottom
of this and we need a completely
transparent process from China.
We need the w h o to assist
in that matter.
Brian is that, indeed, possible
lets bring in Florida, GOP
Senator Marco Rubio member of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Senator you see how this is
going
now. Suddenly, this is becoming
appropriate to talk about it,
but the Biden administration
says were going to leave it to
the world bodies and other
investigators to do it.
What could be your role?
Well a couple things.
First of all, it has always been
true that it has been just as
likely that this was the
result of someone who was
infected during an experiment at
the Wuhan LAB than it was that
it came from an animal to a
human at some food market.
Both have always been equally
likely, and I would argue that
theres actually some evidence
that it was likelier that it was
a lab accident, given everything
we know about the Wuhan LAB and
knew for over a year and a half.
The second thing that we need to
know about this is: there are
people who have had Facebook
posts removed and tweets deleted
and criticized and smeared by
the press for making that
argument going back a year ago.
The third thing I would say is
that the World Health
Organization is not capable of
undertaking this investigation,
because, frankly, the Chinese
wont allow it,
I think, its quite possible. Let
me tell you that the chinese
government, the Communist Party
itself, doesnt, exactly know what
happened, because they dont have
a system where, if you won the
Wuhan lab- and you somehow
had an accident- and this caused
a problem youre going to self
report- it
people like that get fired,
they disappear, but they
certainly think or at least
believe it was likely that it
was the case and if they do,
then they dont want anyone to
know about it.
They will try to cover it up,
theres, no way that the Chinese
Communist Party is going to
turnover any of the information
that be needed in order to have
a serious investigation and the
more that they do that, the
more I think youve got to
start concluding that in fact
they had some role to play in
how this happened.
We already know they covered it
up and now I think theres
increasing evidence that whose
patient zero,
no one has ever been able to say
this is the person that got
infected by an animal and move
forward. From that
that alone, I think, is pretty
indicative that they themselves
consider the lab theory to be
the likeliest one. At this point
and theres no way they are ever
going to turn over information.
That proves that
it be too humiliating for them
its, not the culture they have
politically and frankly, not the
reputation they want to have
have around the world.
Ainsley MIKE Pompeo said when
he was secretary of state. They
were investigating this trying
to find out what the origins
were and Joe Biden is elected
and shuts down the investigation.
Why the bait and switch now?
Why is he now interested in
finding the origin?
Well, because I think now
the evidence is beginning to
mount that this is likely the
case.
I encourage people to go back
about a month and a half at an
open ins hearing, and I asked
the director of the national
intelligence. Is it not true that
both are equally probable and we
really dont know which one of
the two it is and she answered?
Yes, they are both equally
likely and we dont know which
one it is that was a month ago.
But the truth is here is the
problem.
Some of the people involved in
public health in this country
spoke with such a level of
certainty about this a year and
a half ago and not just spoke
with certainty, but basically
called anyone who disagreed a
conspiracy theory, a crazy
person and what that does, along
with other things that happened
from public health officials in
the last year is it undermines
the publics, confidence in our
public health officials and in
our public health system, and so
what this does in the future
were going to have other
pandemics and other serious
public health crisis.
People are going to be less
likely to listen to them because
they are going to remember how
many times they were either lied
to or it was kept from them
because they think the american
people are little children who
cannot be told the truth
Steve well, and there is
six hundred thousand dead Americans and
there are a lot of people and
their families who would like
to feel the administration is
trying to get to the bottom of
it. But we havent really seen
the president pushing the
chinese president, but
thats just frustrating.
Meanwhile, lets talk a little
bit about your home state of
Florida
University of Central Florida.
Students can now receive a
graduate certificate from the
College of community
innovation and education in
social justice in public
service.
What do you think about that?
Well, first, you have to
understand what were saying: we
call it wokeness social justice,
whatever it maybe
look, its a theory that says the
following:
the world is divided up between
oppressor S and the oppressed
and thats the story of America
in their mind,
oppressor S and the oppressed.
Okay,
the system, our system of
economics, our government, our
laws, our educational system,
everything is traditional.
Marriage religion is all
designed to benefit the oppress
or at the expense
of the oppressed.
All the oppressor s are bad,
even doesnt matter what you are
individually. All of them are
bad and all of the oppressed
are good.
It doesnt matter what they do
individually, and so the answer
is that whole system has to be
torn down, including capitalism
and replaced with something else
thats what they call social
justice
thats the brand and thats the
name they created for it. But
what it really is is its NEO Ma
rxish. It is another way
to tear apart capitalism and the
American way
Steve. So are you, okay with that
school in your state? Doing that?
No, I dont think we should
be teaching that
here is what I think we should
be teaching people at
universities.
I think we should be teaching
them engineering. We should be
teaching them biology. We should
be teaching them: science,
engineering, math, other
technological fields and
teaching people the skills they
need to find a good paying job
and contribute to their
community, their families and
their country in the 21st
century.
Thats. Why we have universities
thats, why we have college
degrees
not to train a generation of
cultural marxist activists, but
to train people, so they can go
out and find jobs that are good
for them, good for their
families and good for the
country
thats. Why we do this and why
we should be subsidizing?
Why the american taxpayer why
the Florida taxpayers should be
subsidizing, teaching our young
students, how to hate America,
how to hate everything about our
history, how to divide and hate
one another and how our
identity is not american, but
the color of our skin. Why we
should be spending taxpayer
money to teach these things that
are destructive, not to mention
untrue is beyond me.
I dont understand why thats
happening and I hope its
corrected
look and I think youll see
this emerge in more places,
because the faculty and a lot of
these universities frankly, are
filled with just crazy people
who now you cant, even fire them
unless they murder three people
Brian right.
Instead of teaching kids, how to
build roads and bridges, well,
teach them how to block them
with protests and signs.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-09.