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Mike Huckabee: January 22, 2025 | Huckabee Today
In many circles, former Governor Mike Huckabee is known for his down home, common sense. While fighting grows in the Washington sandbox, Huckabee has created his own lane, diagnosing problems and creating a wealth of solutions for success.
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Huckabee Today | Mike Huckabee: January 22, 2025 | Huckabee Today | January 22, 2025
  • Welcome back and good evening.
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  • This is huckabee today, where every weekday night,
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  • We try to bring you some fresh viewpoints that you may not find
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  • If you make some inferior channel choice.
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  • Hello, i'm mike huckabee, lagging just a little bit,
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  • But i'm glad you've joined us.
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  • As you know, we've put the worst of covid behind
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  • Us, but the effects and the fear continue to linger.
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  • Have we learned any lessons?
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  • And could another virus cripple our country?
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  • Are there some safeguards now in place that weren't before?
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  • Those questions received some intense scrutiny
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  • By a group of medical professionals
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  • Known as epidemiologist.
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  • It's a big word for a big job.
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  • They study the structure of threats to public health
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  • And how to combat them.
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  • Well, one of our country's top epidemiologist
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  • Is with us tonight.
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  • He was a guiding hand during the covid outbreak.
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  • Appointed by then president
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  • And soon to be president once again, donald trump.
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  • He was director of the centers for disease control
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  • And prevention.
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  • You remember him as doctor robert redfield.
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  • You may recognize him from all those briefings.
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  • When we got the terrible understanding of
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  • Just how rampant covid was.
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  • Doctor robert redfield, i want to say
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  • Thanks for joining us with my voice sounding like it is.
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  • Chances are, maybe the reason i wanted you on
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  • Is because i would say, is there a doctor in the house?
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  • And i'm glad there is one.
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  • Welcome to the show. well, thank you, governor.
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  • Thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be with you.
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  • Let's hope this
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  • Conversation is going to be a little more comfortable
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  • Than some of those high pressure press briefings
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  • That you had to endure in the early days of covid.
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  • It was an unusual time in america.
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  • We did things i never thought would happen.
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  • We basically shut down the country in retrospect.
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  • Was that the right course?
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  • Is that what we should have done?
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  • No, governor, i think.
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  • There really was, a lot of government overreach.
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  • I think your state actually showed
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  • A much more measured response compared to many other states.
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  • I was more in the mike pence camp
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  • Where i felt that we should, like, take a knee
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  • And maybe for, you know, 10 to 15 days
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  • And reevaluate certain activities and then determine
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  • How we should modify them so we could continue to do them
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  • In a safe and responsive way.
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  • But i was not an advocate of shutdowns.
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  • One of the greatest, mistakes that was made by many.
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  • And again, your state was exceptional in this regard.
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  • Was closing schools.
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  • We never should have closed schools that i tried teach
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  • As cdc director, that i thought the, the public health
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  • Harm to kids k through 12 by closing schools was substantial.
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  • They were much more,
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  • To their public health
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  • Advantage to stay in school and was paying that price.
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  • You know, as you know, today
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  • In many of the states where these kids
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  • Have really been knocked off their learning curve.
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  • So at the same with our economy, i think it was a huge mistake.
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  • The other major mistake that was made
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  • That was carried on in the biden
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  • Administration was mandating vaccine.
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  • These vaccines should have never been mandated.
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  • People should have
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  • Never lost their livelihood because they chose not
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  • To get this vaccine.
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  • So there was a lot of government overreach.
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  • So when you asked me
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  • About lessons learned,
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  • I think one of the most
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  • Important lessons there was to really avoid,
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  • Government overreach.
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  • And i think it was extremely unfortunate.
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  • The way what was meant to be,
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  • 10 to 15 day pause turned into a,
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  • You know, you know, a year or more of,
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  • Shutting down activities, which was not
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  • In the public health interest in this country.
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  • Doctor redfield, to your
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  • Point, both then and now,
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  • Was dramatically different from that of doctor anthony fauci,
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  • Who seemed to be a big proponent of the complete shutdown.
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  • Mandated vaccines mandated mask.
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  • I remember him at first saying, oh, no, we shouldn't wear mask.
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  • Only professionals know how to wear a mask.
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  • Wearing a mask is very dangerous.
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  • Few weeks later.
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  • No, we got to wear a mask.
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  • And a few months after that,
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  • You ought to wear 2 or 3 different mask.
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  • And it got to wear.
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  • And i think this is one of the real,
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  • Most damaging things about what happened in covid.
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  • It wasn't just that
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  • The disease was very harmful and took people.
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  • Friends of mine died from it.
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  • So i know it's real.
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  • But i think one of the bigger things that happened
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  • Was that so many of us lost
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  • Faith in the public health community,
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  • And we need faith in the public health community,
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  • Just like we need faith in the justice system.
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  • So how did doctor fauci become?
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  • I guess such a,
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  • Almost unchallenged oracle for, the
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  • The procedures, the practices and what we did.
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  • Yeah, it's very unfortunate.
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  • I remember the first white house briefing.
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  • President trump talked and then, vice
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  • President pence talked and then ambassador.
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  • So it works for me for many years, talked
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  • And then i talked and anthony fauci talked
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  • And anthony fauci got up after me.
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  • He said, i first want to tell the american public
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  • That i'm the most important.
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  • I'm the leading public health voice in this nation.
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  • And i kind of went to him afterwards.
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  • Is that when you run a laboratory
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  • And the centers for disease,
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  • Director?
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  • I mean, you know,
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  • My role is to be the voice for this public health response.
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  • Tony definitely assumed it.
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  • And unfortunately, secretary azar,
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  • That didn't, change that assumption.
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  • And he rapidly, basically was on the media six
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  • In the morning to 12 midnight at night
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  • Trying to become the voice of the epidemic.
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  • And as you noted, unfortunately, he made a lot of mistakes.
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  • I hope someday he'll be honest and admit them,
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  • Because he was a strong advocate and he was having a meeting
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  • With the president,
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  • Along with ambassador burke and vice president pence
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  • And chief of staff, where they had the meeting
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  • Where they decided to do the shutdown.
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  • I was it wasn't in that meeting.
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  • I was not an advocate.
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  • Either was really for the purpose
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  • Either was, vice president pence.
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  • He really wanted to have a what he called.
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  • You know, he used the sports analogy. let's.
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  • I'll take a knee or,
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  • You know, or a week or two,
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  • And then let's get back to business.
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  • So. but, he definitely assumed that role.
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  • And, you know, having been head of the a
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  • And controlling most of the money
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  • That was invested in biomedical research for,
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  • Three and a half decades.
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  • His voice, the media just, you know,
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  • Took his voice, his bible, and a lot of mistakes were made.
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  • You know, i think a lot of public harm was done.
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  • And you said the most.
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  • And i noticed your show called trusted.
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  • Trusted.
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  • It's one of the most important challenges we have right now.
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  • There's public health agencies like cdc have lost public trust.
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  • And in public health, if you lose public trust,
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  • You can't impact public health.
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  • And rebuilding
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  • That public trust is going to be a real challenge,
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  • For the new public
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  • Administration to really go about trying to rebuild it.
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  • When i used to speak the cdc director,
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  • The people
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  • There would always remind me,
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  • Be very careful about making a mistake
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  • In what i said,
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  • Because it took us decades to get the public to trust us.
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  • And it could be a day and you could lose it. and
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  • I do agree that unfortunately, we've lost a lot of public.
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  • Well, it has been a shame.
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  • And, i hope it can can be regained.
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  • Doctor, rather makary johns hopkins
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  • Made a comment to me in an interview
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  • That i was conducting with him
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  • That that sort of just was a light bulb moment.
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  • And in discussing the shutdown, he made the observation.
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  • He said, it's the first time in all of human history
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  • When in a pandemic, we isolated the people who were well
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  • And healthy rather than isolate the people who were sick.
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  • And i thought, my gosh, that's really
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  • Maybe the most important thing i've heard.
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  • But that's what we did.
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  • And i guess it's one of those things
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  • That i'll never understand.
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  • We isolated everybody.
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  • And looking back, that may not have been the best idea.
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  • No, it was a mistake.
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  • I have a lot of respect for marty mccarey.
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  • Glad to see him going into fda.
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  • I think you'll do a great job.
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  • When i was the cdc director, in january, february, a
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  • In the very beginning, we had 14 cases.
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  • But through the second week
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  • Of february, of covid in the united states,
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  • And of those 14 cases, i had 800 contacts, which we evaluated.
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  • And of those 800 contacts, i only diagnosed covid in two.
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  • Now, the head of cdc, china, giorgio, had told me
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  • On the eve of new year's day when we were talking
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  • When the epidemic first started, told me that he was confident
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  • That that this virus was not human to human.
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  • And he was also confident
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  • That it didn't cause asymptomatic illness.
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  • They were looking at it more like sa
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  • Rather than like what it is covid 19.
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  • So when i said that only two out of three contacts
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  • Were were at covid, we two at cdc
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  • Concluded that this wasn't a very infectious virus.
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  • And yet there was a problem because we saw in china now
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  • There was hundreds of thousands of people rapidly infected and,
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  • But the problem was how we evaluated those patients.
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  • And then that day, the way we evaluated is
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  • We asked people if they were sick
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  • And if they said they weren't sick, we let them go by,
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  • We didn't test them for the virus.
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  • If we had tested people for the virus, which we learned
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  • To several weeks later when the diamond princess
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  • Happened in the japanese government
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  • Was very cooperative and invited cdc in to help.
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  • We rapidly learned that over half the people on that ship
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  • That were infected had no symptoms.
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  • And we had lots of people.
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  • So we learned right away
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  • Our public health response was backwards,
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  • And you hit it right on the head.
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  • The public health response should have been diagnosed.
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  • The infected individuals by expanded testing
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  • And isolate them.
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  • Instead, they took this idea.
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  • As you pointed out, and marty
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  • Pointed out, well, let's just isolate the uninfected.
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  • It's a nonfunctional public health approach to that's
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  • An enormous cost to our country, a big mistake.
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  • And, hopefully, we've learned a little,
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  • And we won't make the same mistake again.
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  • I don't know if we'll have time to talk about it
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  • In one of the two segments we're doing,
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  • But i'm really concerned about the next pandemic,
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  • Which, you know, and i hope we've learned
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  • From a lot of the mistakes of the last pandemic. now.
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  • I certainly do, too.
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  • But we got a lot more to talk about.
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  • Doctor robert redfield is going to stay with us.
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  • So after this brief timeout, we'll be right back.
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  • And we're back with doctor robert redfield, epidemiologist,
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  • First class, former director
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  • Of the centers for disease control and prevention.
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  • Doctor redfield, in the next trump administration,
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  • There's going to be a very different approach
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  • Going on throughout public health.
  • 00:11:51.014 --> 00:11:53.249
  • The president has named rfk jr
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  • As, health and human services, chief.
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  • And, that's got a lot of people very nervous.
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  • He has said some things about vaccines,
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  • Not quite as radical as it's he's accused of saying,
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  • But certainly is much more the skeptic.
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  • Evaluate what you think he will do.
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  • That might be good.
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  • And what do you think he might do that would cause
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  • Even the average person a little bit of concern.
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  • You know, governor, i think it's a great choice.
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  • I'm a big advocate of bobby kennedy as secretary of health,
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  • And i know a lot of my colleagues are surprised
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  • Because i'm probably one of the most pro-vaccine.
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  • Infectious disease public health physicians in the country,
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  • If not the world.
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  • Bobby kennedy is not anti-vaccine.
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  • What bobby kennedy wanted honesty
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  • And transparency in vaccines about safety and efficacy.
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  • And i think he'll bring that into the game.
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  • And we need that.
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  • Whether it's the covid vaccines or other vaccines
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  • And the mere fact that you ask a question,
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  • I want to see the data
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  • To make sure this is safe and efficacious.
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  • Does not make make you anti-vax, which unfortunately is
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  • What the media's done. and it's really wrong.
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  • And they fully misrepresented him.
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  • And, you know, i hope the fact that i support him
  • 00:13:10.026 --> 00:13:13.196
  • At least gives some people pause about buying
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  • What the media said.
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  • I can't read an article about kennedy with.
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  • It gets to the second paragraph
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  • That doesn't say he's an anti-vaccine individual.
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  • He's not.
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  • And i think he wants honesty, transparency of vaccines,
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  • And i'm sure he'll bring that to bear.
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  • And coupled with my friend marty mccarthy at the fda.
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  • I think, you know, it's going to be good.
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  • What kennedy is really going to
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  • Do is we have a disease system in america.
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  • I've been part of it for almost 50 years.
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  • We treat disease.
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  • We don't have a health.
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  • You know, when kennedy was president,
  • 00:13:52.735 --> 00:13:55.705
  • We had about a 3% rate of obesity.
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  • Today, we have over 50% rate.
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  • When i was cdc director, if president trump used that.
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  • Yeah, jump on me and ask me what so many people would die.
  • 00:14:05.915 --> 00:14:08.918
  • And when we had 1.2 million people die of covid,
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  • And you had places like taiwan and had less than 5000,
  • 00:14:11.888 --> 00:14:16.025
  • And i had to tell the president, the reason that we're dying
  • 00:14:16.025 --> 00:14:19.028
  • So much is that we're an unhealthy nation.
  • 00:14:19.028 --> 00:14:22.532
  • We have over 40, 50, 60% of our death practicing.
  • 00:14:22.532 --> 00:14:26.536
  • So kennedy is going to attack that.
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  • One of the things he's going to do
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  • Quickly is recognize that our obesity epidemic, which is here,
  • 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:34.377
  • Even when you look at kids
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  • That are in high school or below,
  • 00:14:36.479 --> 00:14:38.114
  • You're looking at obesity rates over 30%.
  • 00:14:38.114 --> 00:14:41.184
  • So you probably see in your own state where you see
  • 00:14:41.184 --> 00:14:43.753
  • This high obesity. we've got to change that.
  • 00:14:43.753 --> 00:14:46.255
  • Well, it's not that we eat more,
  • 00:14:46.255 --> 00:14:48.424
  • And it's
  • 00:14:48.691 --> 00:14:49.525
  • Not that we really exercise less.
  • 00:14:49.525 --> 00:14:51.995
  • It's really what we eat.
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  • And i think he's really on
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  • To something with the idea of highly processed foods.
  • 00:14:55.064 --> 00:14:58.368
  • And, you know, these things, if you do studies
  • 00:14:58.368 --> 00:15:01.004
  • And they've been done
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  • Where you compare a diet, we have a highly processed diet
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  • And then unprocessed, same food, same calorie processed.
  • 00:15:04.874 --> 00:15:08.578
  • I had gained weight. unprocessed nut.
  • 00:15:08.578 --> 00:15:11.214
  • You probably saw today
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  • The fda today actually just actually removed
  • 00:15:12.181 --> 00:15:15.284
  • The approval for red dye number three.
  • 00:15:16.119 --> 00:15:18.688
  • This is something kennedy.
  • 00:15:18.688 --> 00:15:19.956
  • But after getting these dyes out of food and,
  • 00:15:19.956 --> 00:15:23.426
  • So i think kennedy's been that really make headway on
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  • How do we make america healthier.
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  • And i'm a big part of that advocacy
  • 00:15:29.932 --> 00:15:33.136
  • And part of that first is going to be looking at,
  • 00:15:33.136 --> 00:15:36.172
  • Getting big egg,
  • 00:15:36.572 --> 00:15:38.908
  • To come and help us.
  • 00:15:38.908 --> 00:15:40.643
  • When i was cdc director, i tried to engage them
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  • To help me with sugar, cereals and sugar, sugar foods.
  • 00:15:43.346 --> 00:15:46.783
  • I didn't i didn't win the debate.
  • 00:15:46.783 --> 00:15:48.251
  • I didn't have the power. i didn't have enough influence.
  • 00:15:48.251 --> 00:15:50.720
  • I think kennedy can hopefully get big people on board
  • 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.590
  • That we need to try to make sure we're
  • 00:15:54.590 --> 00:15:57.193
  • Having our children, eat healthy food.
  • 00:15:57.193 --> 00:16:00.463
  • That food.
  • 00:16:00.463 --> 00:16:02.298
  • And then i hope we have a very aggressive program
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  • In the medical community, which i am part
  • 00:16:04.567 --> 00:16:06.302
  • Of, of going after chronic disease
  • 00:16:06.302 --> 00:16:09.405
  • And, and putting value on effective management
  • 00:16:09.405 --> 00:16:12.375
  • Of chronic disease rather than making me get compensated.
  • 00:16:12.375 --> 00:16:16.312
  • We taking care of acute disease.
  • 00:16:16.312 --> 00:16:19.182
  • If you have in a stick. wait, wait.
  • 00:16:19.182 --> 00:16:20.516
  • No, let me get compensated for keeping you healthy,
  • 00:16:20.516 --> 00:16:24.087
  • Not taking you sick.
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  • I'm a big advocate.
  • 00:16:25.521 --> 00:16:26.956
  • I think kennedy is going to get confirmed.
  • 00:16:26.956 --> 00:16:29.158
  • He's obviously got his detractors.
  • 00:16:29.158 --> 00:16:31.260
  • People are nervous about him because he is going to be,
  • 00:16:31.260 --> 00:16:36.232
  • He's going to he's going to be, transformative.
  • 00:16:36.232 --> 00:16:39.635
  • I think about
  • 00:16:39.635 --> 00:16:40.770
  • And i think it could be our most important appointments.
  • 00:16:40.770 --> 00:16:43.873
  • And i think the american people know that when you look at the,
  • 00:16:43.873 --> 00:16:46.909
  • Cabinet member,
  • 00:16:46.909 --> 00:16:48.010
  • The american people are the most favorable of both.
  • 00:16:48.010 --> 00:16:51.013
  • If you look at the poll, they say kennedy,
  • 00:16:51.013 --> 00:16:54.584
  • Because i think the average housewife
  • 00:16:54.584 --> 00:16:56.085
  • Above the average suburban
  • 00:16:56.085 --> 00:16:57.720
  • Mother knows that these kids are not.
  • 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:01.023
  • And those again, kennedy has the courage to take
  • 00:17:01.023 --> 00:17:04.594
  • The windmills to make it that.
  • 00:17:04.594 --> 00:17:06.062
  • So i think it's a great choice.
  • 00:17:06.062 --> 00:17:08.664
  • And i'm going to do everything i can to help.
  • 00:17:08.664 --> 00:17:13.202
  • I think that's, such a great testament of him.
  • 00:17:14.103 --> 00:17:17.173
  • I have talked with him, and i.
  • 00:17:17.173 --> 00:17:19.509
  • My experience was exactly yours.
  • 00:17:19.509 --> 00:17:21.644
  • He's a very thoughtful guy.
  • 00:17:21.644 --> 00:17:22.979
  • Document what he says.
  • 00:17:22.979 --> 00:17:24.580
  • He's not crazy.
  • 00:17:24.580 --> 00:17:26.582
  • I think he's going to
  • 00:17:26.582 --> 00:17:27.517
  • Be disruptive in the right kind of way.
  • 00:17:27.517 --> 00:17:30.119
  • Doctor redfield is a pleasure
  • 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:31.654
  • Getting to visit with you today, and i appreciate your coming.
  • 00:17:31.654 --> 00:17:35.191
  • A remarkable disease, detective.
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  • We will call you.
  • 00:17:37.527 --> 00:17:38.961
  • And, i just want to
  • 00:17:38.961 --> 00:17:40.363
  • Thank you for your career and what you've done.
  • 00:17:40.363 --> 00:17:43.332
  • It's been an honor to have you on today.
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  • We're going to be taking a look at some of your emails
  • 00:17:45.968 --> 00:17:48.304
  • When we come back, so stay right with us.
  • 00:17:48.304 --> 00:17:51.140
  • We'll be back in a moment.
  • 00:17:51.140 --> 00:18:02.011
  • And welcome back.
  • 00:18:02.011 --> 00:18:02.386
  • We love getting your thoughts
  • 00:18:02.386 --> 00:18:03.654
  • When we get those from your emails.
  • 00:18:03.654 --> 00:18:05.589
  • And here's what you've been saying to us.
  • 00:18:05.589 --> 00:18:07.658
  • Barbara says,
  • 00:18:07.658 --> 00:18:08.592
  • My son is one of the firefighters
  • 00:18:08.592 --> 00:18:10.394
  • Fighting the fires in california.
  • 00:18:10.394 --> 00:18:12.930
  • They're trying their best to get these fires out without water,
  • 00:18:12.930 --> 00:18:16.400
  • And it is a terrible situation for them
  • 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:19.369
  • And the people who lost their homes.
  • 00:18:19.369 --> 00:18:21.605
  • Keep them in your prayers
  • 00:18:21.605 --> 00:18:23.207
  • That angels will encamp
  • 00:18:23.207 --> 00:18:24.675
  • Around them and keep them safe, and help the deviated people
  • 00:18:24.675 --> 00:18:28.245
  • Who have lost so much.
  • 00:18:28.712 --> 00:18:31.048
  • Indeed, barbara, and god bless your son, the firefighter.
  • 00:18:31.048 --> 00:18:35.052
  • My father was a lifelong
  • 00:18:35.052 --> 00:18:37.821
  • Firefighter, so my heart goes out to them.
  • 00:18:37.821 --> 00:18:41.191
  • We get this from candace.
  • 00:18:41.191 --> 00:18:42.359
  • She says mike mcgrath was a nugget for me to watch.
  • 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.362
  • I've been keeping tabs on his subject and i see potential
  • 00:18:45.362 --> 00:18:48.632
  • In the bluebonnet curriculum that's in texas.
  • 00:18:48.632 --> 00:18:51.702
  • What if they out of the morals, value curriculum?
  • 00:18:51.702 --> 00:18:54.304
  • It'll be developing their moral compass
  • 00:18:54.304 --> 00:18:56.440
  • Before they get into junior high.
  • 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:58.642
  • Not a bad idea.
  • 00:18:58.642 --> 00:19:00.177
  • When i was governor,
  • 00:19:00.177 --> 00:19:01.378
  • We pushed in a simple thing called character education.
  • 00:19:01.378 --> 00:19:05.415
  • When trying to vote, put forth a particular religious view.
  • 00:19:05.415 --> 00:19:10.654
  • Just an idea, that character.
  • 00:19:10.654 --> 00:19:12.689
  • The idea of being honest and,
  • 00:19:12.689 --> 00:19:15.592
  • Not stealing simple things.
  • 00:19:15.592 --> 00:19:17.961
  • And we believe it mattered.
  • 00:19:17.961 --> 00:19:19.563
  • This comes to us from sandy.
  • 00:19:19.563 --> 00:19:21.331
  • Blessings to you on your new assignment,
  • 00:19:21.331 --> 00:19:23.233
  • And we pray for your safety and success.
  • 00:19:23.233 --> 00:19:25.802
  • Thanks for the great shows
  • 00:19:25.802 --> 00:19:27.504
  • And we're going to miss you on tv very much.
  • 00:19:27.504 --> 00:19:30.274
  • I do hope you'll return again to tv
  • 00:19:30.274 --> 00:19:31.908
  • When your assignment is completed, but who knows if j.d.
  • 00:19:31.908 --> 00:19:35.279
  • Vance is elected in 2028, you may be asked to continue
  • 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:39.016
  • As ambassador.
  • 00:19:39.016 --> 00:19:40.417
  • And then again, donald trump may not even keep me for a month
  • 00:19:40.417 --> 00:19:44.187
  • Or so and say, we're done with you,
  • 00:19:44.187 --> 00:19:46.623
  • But i certainly hope not.
  • 00:19:46.623 --> 00:19:48.325
  • I'm excited about the opportunity to serve,
  • 00:19:48.325 --> 00:19:50.994
  • And i tell people i serve god first.
  • 00:19:50.994 --> 00:19:53.463
  • My country,
  • 00:19:53.463 --> 00:19:54.598
  • The president and every citizen of the united states.
  • 00:19:54.598 --> 00:19:57.834
  • And it will be a profound honor for me to do it.
  • 00:19:57.834 --> 00:20:02.539
  • Well, coming up, i got some final thoughts
  • 00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:04.441
  • To share with you. so don't go anywhere. we'll be right back.
  • 00:20:04.441 --> 00:20:17.016
  • My conversation with
  • 00:20:17.322 --> 00:20:18.556
  • Doctor redfield got me thinking about health and well-being.
  • 00:20:18.556 --> 00:20:21.559
  • There are literally thousands, thousands of medical researchers
  • 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.396
  • All over the globe
  • 00:20:25.396 --> 00:20:26.631
  • Focused on infirmities, diseases, and mental health.
  • 00:20:26.631 --> 00:20:30.034
  • As a nation, we particularly value good health.
  • 00:20:30.034 --> 00:20:34.038
  • And we should, because health is god given.
  • 00:20:34.038 --> 00:20:37.475
  • But as paul wrote to the corinthians,
  • 00:20:38.309 --> 00:20:40.311
  • Do you not know that your bodies
  • 00:20:40.311 --> 00:20:41.846
  • Are temples of the holy spirit?
  • 00:20:41.846 --> 00:20:43.781
  • Who is in you, whom you have received from god?
  • 00:20:43.781 --> 00:20:46.951
  • You are not your own.
  • 00:20:47.452 --> 00:20:49.253
  • You were bought at a price.
  • 00:20:49.253 --> 00:20:51.356
  • Therefore, honor god with your bodies.
  • 00:20:51.356 --> 00:20:55.493
  • It's good advice.
  • 00:20:55.493 --> 00:20:56.928
  • In fact, it especially for all of those new
  • 00:20:56.928 --> 00:20:59.630
  • Year's resolutions that we tend to have.
  • 00:20:59.630 --> 00:21:03.301
  • Well, i'm mike huckabee, and we are on the air
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  • From little rock, arkansas every weekday evening.
  • 00:21:05.169 --> 00:21:08.172
  • Well, at least through the end of this month.
  • 00:21:08.172 --> 00:21:11.442
  • Thank you so much for watching.
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  • Stay right here on tbn.
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  • Alan jackson is next until we see you again.
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  • Good night and god bless.
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