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Marco Rubio on the growing demand for a probe of COVID-19 origins

2021-05-26 | 🔗
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.