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I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee.
I have nothing to hide, I can explain and validate everything that I've done. So, you know, it's going to be inconvenient if they actually out there essentially threatening to make my life miserable, but it's, I mean, I'm going to do what I need to do. And that is cooperate fully because we have nothing to hide at all.
“No, he has nothing to hide at all because he represents science, remember that?”
I represent science. He represents science. Oh, my goodness, what a difference a couple of years make. Good news, everybody, one more hour. One more hour, hey, I'm Brian Wilson filling in for Chris Plant.
Chris Plant is off today, he'll return his normal time. And I'm sure he'll be back by Friday by Monday, no, no doubt at all, he'll be back.
Everything's good, nothing to go on there.
If you do remember, I used to work at WMAL where this show is being carried, of course, out of the flagship station there, WMAL in Washington, work there in the mornings and work with Larry O'Connor and Brian Neiman, and a whole bunch of different people there. And then I retired and then I spent another six years after retirement. I got to pulled out of retirement and have been working in the Nashville Tennessee area,
which I dearly love. I'm coming to you today from my home studio in Watertown, Tennessee just outside of Nashville. So you heard Anthony Fauci there talking about how he has nothing to hide. And yet yesterday, when he came to testify on Capitol Hill before Rand Paul's committee, he did this one hundred and eleven times.
On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment that the Constitution. Yes, he played, he played a fifth. He looked like a mob boss up there, taken the fifth. A hundred and eleven times, according to some accounts, well more than a hundred,
it seems completely believable, seems about right.
“So I'm going to go with a hundred and eleven, that's what the Associated Press is saying.”
I think he had every opportunity to go in there and provide us with real information. I mean, we didn't gain, we didn't clean one bit of information out of his appearance yesterday. And we have real questions. Did we make the right decisions during COVID? Did we do the right thing by shutting down our schools?
Did we do the right thing by this time of the other? And was it really gain a function research that caused this that was paid for by the United States government? There are a lot of really legitimate questions.
A million Americans died as a result of what happened in COVID.
Did we do it right? Could we have done it better? Were there lessons to be learned? All of these things were the kinds of things that we should have been hearing about in this hearing. But no, what we're hearing is this.
On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment, let the Constitution. It got ridiculous. Here is Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, trying to get some information out of Anthony Fauci. I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment of the Constitution.
We'll color tie you, Aaron. On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution. Well, color is a carpet in front of you. On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth
amendment. Now, he wouldn't get to answer anything. He's going to be all fifth amendment all the time. I mean, he got ridiculous.
“Here is, but I think some of the like the Tensus Exchange is mostly one-sided.”
Was Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican from Ohio, going after Anthony Fauci, this is a very long piece of tape, but I think it really gets to suggest, how silly this whole process was yesterday. On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution.
Do you know who wrote the fifth amendment? On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment of the Constitution. So you're invoking a right that you don't know who wrote it or what it says. Is that correct?
On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution. Wow. Do you feel like you're a deep. On the advice of Council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth
amendment to the Constitution. Clearly, what you think today is that somehow you're above reproach. Somehow you feel like you don't need to be treated like a normal American.
Dr.
You're not willing to do that?
That's not a question. It's not a question. To your lawyers, not a question.
“It's a request. All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the”
people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth. You can't even look at them. Those policies were put in place because you had moronic politicians that listened to the words of a meglomaniac who was more interested in having met a Kardashian than the suffering of the American people.
Now, there's something you may not know is that the reason we know so much about what and the Fauci was thinking in real time is that we've gotten a look at his personal diary that has been obtained by Rand Paul and has been issued out there. And it's just filled with giddy writing. Oh, today I was with Julia Roberts in a video thing and oh, in this that
the other, and I got to meet a Kardashian. And you know, I was, I'm basically idolized around the
world and around the country. People are looking at me as a hero. I mean, it was very, I mean, it's actually very, it seems very quite unhealthy when you actually hear the things that he was writing about how great I am in his personal diary. How wonderful it is to be me. His ego was tied
“up in all of this. And, and yet at the core of it, I think there's a great deal of evidence that”
suggests he knew full well what was going on at the Wuhan Institute of virology. He knew this didn't come. It's in his diary. He said, well, it looks like that the market nearby was, it was an amplifier, but not the source of the virus. He knew it and yet he kept trying to push it because he knew deep down. This did not look good for him. The obligation is that he funded gain of function research that got out of the lab and killed millions of people around the world. This is a huge
story. Do we not, have we already forgotten how bad it was back then? And the things that that were, you know, placed upon us by our government, the burdens that were placed upon us, where we were no longer free to go and travel as we see fit. We couldn't go out to eat dinner, we couldn't get our kids into class. All of them, we had to shut down work. Businesses went out of business because of this. We, we needed to learn from this experience. We needed to know what we
did wrong so that we can know how to do it better. And I mean, that's a very noble pursuit, none of which it was accomplished yesterday by this appearance. This appearance by Anthony Fauci. Here's more with Bernie Moreno. And that is you. It was about six years ago today that I decided I'm going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run through the United States Senate. Here I am sitting in front of you six years later saying who the f*** do you think you were for doing that?
It is a total disgrace what you did to this country. And if I Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you, I hope the voters the United States of America watched the clips of every one of you, doting on a guy who was more interested in being a celebrity than saving American people. I will make it my mission to make certain that every single one of those Democrats who did that will see that clip over and over and over again because there is no defense of what you did.
On the divisive council I respectfully decline the answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the constitution. I mean you can't make this stuff up. As the business owners that
lost their business, shattered their lives and they'll never recover. On the divisive council I respectfully
declined to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the constitution. We apologize to the moms who had to force their infant children two, three, four year olds to put mass on and what that did and how that traumatized those kids. We apologize to the family members of the people who died because they took your advice and not only got the first vaccine
“but the five, six other boosters that they did not need. It's no secret why you have to”
hire the biggest dirt bag attorney on the planet because of what you did. I hope you're paying him well and I hope that one way or the other somewhere sometime you answer for your crimes. Well it wasn't going to be yesterday but maybe we'll get something out of this. Senator Rand Paul,
By the way don't we owe Rand Paul a debt of gratitude?
right off the bat. He kept saying gain of function research was taking place at the Wuhan
“Lab and now that seems to be very much true even though we heard it time and time again denied”
by Anthony Fauci and people of his ilk. Oh no no no he doesn't know what he's talking about here. Apparently he knew exactly what he was talking about it. Apparently he got it very much right is the way it appears to me. Senator Rand Paul who is in charge of this hearing says there is a very real chance Anthony Fauci could be prosecuted after taking the fifth amendment in the Senate hearing. Hours after Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the fifth amendment in response to all
questions during a Senate hearing, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told CBS News,
he believes the former infectious disease official could be prosecuted for not answering questions. testimony follows years of fiery disputes between Paul and Fauci both medical doctors
“over the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the origins of the virus they caused it.”
Fauci has long defended his handling of both issues and Paul has repeatedly accused him of lying. Last weekend Paul's office released a trove of journal entries penned by Fauci. In an interview on Wednesday that was yesterday on CBS News with major Garrett. Paul argued Fauci's lack of answers could lead to federal criminal charges for contempt of Congress or obstructing a congressional proceeding. I think there's a very real chance he could be
prosecuted for that said Paul. The fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants people the right not to incriminate themselves, which generally allows them to decline to answer questions. But in this case, here's the key part. Paul argues a preemptive pardon that former president Joe Biden issued to Fauci just hours before leaving office could prevent Fauci from invoking the fifth amendment since he cannot be prosecuted for any of the issues that the lawmaker was asked
“about. See, that's what was going on here. You heard early and when we opened up this hour,”
you heard him say, I got nothing to hide. I got nothing to hide. I can tell you everything I'm happy to talk. Happy to appear before Congress. Happy to answer questions. But then he got, you got the, you know, the, the, what do you call it? The pardon from Biden. He gets the pardon from Biden and he decides, well, I'm covered for anything I might have done when I was in that position. But he knows he is not covered if he lies to Congress.
He cannot purge himself before Congress. That would not cover him. So rather than answer the questions, he simply took the cowards way out. The fifth amendment. I declined to answer that question based on my fifth amendment rights on advice of my attorney. Okay, my attorney. You know, he told me I should not say anything. And I'm not going to say nothing. Nothing at all.
Here's what Rand Paul says. I don't think this issue has ever been truly and fully adjudicated.
There aren't that many people with pardon who have come before a congressional committee and refused to testify. A court ultimately would have to determine does the fifth amendment apply to someone who already has a pardon that will often cite it here as the content to Congress proceedings makes it a crime for witnesses to willfully refuse to answer questions when called to testify before Congress. Another bar is obstructing an investigation
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time talking about the midterm elections. It's been some time talking about Anthony Fauci yesterday.
And, you know, just live this situation in general. That's going on right now. We have a minute of the phone lines. Let's go to the phone line right now. They're open. It dribble 86309625. That's 8886309625 start with Rob and Ohio. Rob, you're on the Chris Plant Show. Brian Wilson filling in once on your mind, Rob. How are you doing? Doing well. I am an old quaint for years from back in the Toledo day. We still meet up at the Rosen Castle.
No, you know what? I'm going to stop you there because it's not the same Brian Wilson. No, no. It's very interesting. You know, I work for Cumulus radio and have worked in, you know, Kimulus is a WMAO's a cumulus station. WTM, where I most often heard in the Tenton,
Nashville, Tennessee area, is a cumulus station. When I first came to work at Cumulus,
we had real problems because they were like six guys within the company. We're all named Brian Wilson. You sound just like Brian. I knew that worked at Toledo, Ohio station.
“I think that guy worked in Baltimore for a while as well. And so yeah, I know of who you”
need to speak, but I'm not him. That is really interesting. I apologize. No, it's all right. I had a guy when I came to Nashville one time when I was working at WMAO to attend an event and they let me give the studios out of Nashville, so I could be on back in Washington. And the program director of the radio station at that time here in Nashville was named Brian Wilson. And I said to him, I said, hey, you know, how do you get through that, you know,
that thing that happens that awkward things? Because my name's Brian Wilson. You know, there's a very famous Brian Wilson Beachboy who was, you know, the writer of all those great songs. And I said, what do you say to people when they, they say, hey, I loved your music with the Beachboy's because I hear that all the time, how do you get through it? He said, oh, I have a great answer for that. I said, well, one of you say, so I look at him in the, I'd say, oh, you know,
Brian Wilson is by on air name. And that leads to the inevitable question. Well, what's your
“real name? He said, my real name is Eric Clapton. And so, so that's how he dealt with it. And so,”
I used to just say, I'm, I'm not that Brian Wilson, but I get around and that is usually to get a laugh. But, you know, everybody thinks they're, they're, they're first person ever saying
anything about that. So it's, they always say, that I have a quick and ready answer for it.
They sort of get the hint real quick that I've heard that one before, as they say. But now that we're really no kidding, six different people. And we all got each other's emails. They could never get the emails straightened out. So that was, that was the thing that I had to deal with when I first came there. I mean, what are the chances that you have a company with six people who have identical same names? And in fact, some of them had the same middle
initial. How weird is that, huh? Well, you're listening to the Chris Plant here. We got another half hour to go. Thank you so much for listening. And we'll have more coming up in just a moment. Why don't we talk about it? We'll talk about situation in Iran and, and Fatarman. What's up with John Fatarman? It's all straight ahead right here on the Chris Plant show, Brian Wilson filling in for Chris Plant. It's 35 minutes now, past the hour of the hour wherever you are.
Because we're all over the country. 34 minutes, past the hours, what it is on the Chris Plant show. I'm Brian Wilson filling in for Chris Plant. Back to the phone blinds. A lot of people want to
“talk about Anthony Fauci. And I think Kim and Indiana has a question that's a pretty good”
question. Kim, you're on with the Chris Plant show. I'm Brian Wilson. What's on your mind? Hi, Brian. Well, since Fauci has this part in and some states are thankfully like Florida starting in investigation. Can't individuals who are lost their businesses go after him personally or damage him? Well, I'm going to be sued. Yeah, I'm not a lawyer. I just play one on the radio occasionally.
And, you know, I think actually, I think Jerry online to eight may have a pretty good idea. Yeah, I think there are things you can do. And many callers have had pointed out that one of the reasons why Anthony Fauci was perhaps not not too forthcoming is because he might face a civil lawsuit. It's the point that Jerry wanted to make a little Jerry around with Brian on the Chris Plant show.
No, no, I think so. Yeah, my comment is that Fauci has said that all has slandered him.
Of course, he won't start a suit there or anything like that because that wou...
So, why doesn't Iran ran Paul start a suit in Kentucky, civil suit against Fauci there and
accused him of slander that would lead to discovery and that would be really exciting to watch.
“Yeah, that would be an interesting thing. You know, look, I mean, I think it is possible that”
there could be a civil suit here brought. And that's probably why he didn't want to talk to forthcoming, but he didn't answer anything. And you know what? I think that if he truly is a public servant, I mean, he's made millions in that job as being in charge of infectious diseases. He said a hell of a career and he's made a lot of money over the grid, but he has a real obligation
to help us get this right the next time. I mean, I hope that's never an next time, but that
there probably will be an next time. I would like to think that we learn from our mistakes. There's a lot of real valid reasons that we should have a very, very serious after action report on what happened with COVID because I don't think we did particularly well. I don't think we made the right decisions as a country. And so, it is important to go back and look at it. Again, a lot of people want to point the finger of blame. And, you know, a million people died.
“And, you know, that's all, I mean, what can we do to make sure we don't make those mistakes again?”
He has an obligation, a moral obligation, if nothing else, to come forward and say I was there at a very interesting time. And yes, you know, this is this is a fact. And this is fact. And this is, let's get to the bottom about this whole thing at the Wuhan Institute of Biology. What really happened there? Was there gain of function? Where did the money come from? Did you authorize it?
I know these are incredible things that you don't want to announce. And you don't want to admit,
especially after you've funneled this time. But I gotta tell you, as I look at the history and the course of this thing, there was a time when nobody believed Rand Paul was right. And now there's a fair number of people who've looked at what Rand Paul has been saying and have come to the conclusion that he had it right all along. Maybe we ought to take a moment, take a deep breath and figure out what we did right and what we did wrong and what we can do better. I certainly hope that
as we go forward, that we have a better response. Should this ever raise its ugly head again. And you know, it's entirely possible that it will. You know, I've been looking around just noticing that, I know that this radio station carries on this program goes on in the Washington DC area, it goes into the Chicago area and other places around the country. Apparently we have listeners in Virginia and Arkansas and all over the country. And I'm finding a continual thread
around the country as I look at stories from outside of the National Area, outside of the Washington DC area. There's a lot of people who are very interested in these dead gum data centers that have become such a big deal. I mean, here's a story that I got from from one of the websites in DC Montgomery County Council approves 18 month moratorium on data centers. You know, I'm a devotee 11 member Montgomery County Council approved an 18 month moratorium on the development
of data centers in the county. The move comes after Montgomery County Executive Mark Elrich instituted in the six month moratorium in an executive order in June. We've got that going on
“right here in Nashville, Tennessee at the moment. In fact, I think there's a lot of these stories”
all around the country of people who are against these data centers because they say, you know, they're just not good neighbors. Here they wanted to build one next to a zoo and they got 500,000 people to sign a petition against it. So I mean, this is happening everywhere. I want to hand you look at it and you say, well, I understand the importance of winning the AI battles. We got to have better AI than the Chinese doing better AI than the Russians do. It is a national security
thing that we have the best AI and that we stay ahead. It's a race just like the military, arms race. We got to have the best AI. But to do that, we need the data centers and nobody seems to want to have a data center in their own backyard. Here's a new name to add to the list of people who are against these so-called data centers. Texas Country Music Legend Willie Nelson has taken
To social media to voice his distaste for an AI data center being built near ...
called on the community and Abbott Abbott Texas to fight a new data center plan there. Here's what Willie had to say. Now our community, like many others, needs to fight against data centers invading our land. The last thing we need is a loud, water-thieving, light polluting data center anywhere near our town or any others for that matter. The Hill County where Abbott is located became the first county in Texas to place a moratorium on data center construction in May
before a lawsuit from the developers caused county commissioners to rescind the moratorium.
This according to a report on live now Fox Willie says the strength of rural America has never
come from big industrial real footprints. It comes from generations of people, open spaces, local businesses, and connections to the land. It is true. It is objectively true that if you want to run one of these data centers, you need a lot of electricity. It is also true that most of the new data centers are being put in with their own generating plants, gas, turbine engines, etc. So that they can carry. But there's the other thing about these data centers. They require a
great deal of water to cool the data centers because they run really, really hot. So you need electricity and electricity that you're burning creates heat and when you create that heat, you've got to dissipate that heat and that takes water. So which water and electricity,
two things that we don't always have in abundance of. So the thing that I'm concerned about
“is do we need them? Yeah, I think we got to have them. I think we need them and we need to be”
on the cutting edge of AI. Good, better ugly. It's better for us to be on the cutting edge. And to be ahead of our counterparts on the world stage, China and Russia preeminently. I think we need to be ahead of them. We're going to have to have the data centers to do that. So we're going to have to find some place where these things can be built. Elon Musk has an idea. He says, let's build him in outer space and let them be cooled by the dark, coldness of space.
Not a bad idea. I don't know if that works or not, but there's one idea. Some say we should go to Antarctica and put them there. That's a way to cool them. And then you
have all that cold sea water there that you can chill them with. And the problem is of course,
what kind of electricity do you have on the cutting of Antarctica? But I mean, these are the
“kinds of ideas that are being discussed. Do we need them? Yes. How are we going to have them?”
I'll be honest with you. I don't really want one in my backyard. So let me said they're going to build one just down the road from you there. I probably would not be real thrilled about it. This is one of those things that we're going to have to. But I mean, they do take electricity and they do take a tremendous amount of water. I've read it, but I think it's like to do like, you know, some little silly thing that you do on AI make me a cartoon of this or a caricature of that.
You know, we've all done that. I've read somewhere that that takes like a leader of water to do. So yeah, where's the water going to come from? And I guess where I really come down on it is, if we have a situation where water comes in short supply, we have a drought. We have a drought going on in many parts of this country right now. So we have a drought. And so they who gets the water?
“Do the people get the water or do the data centers get the water?”
If we have a situation where we have to run air conditioners, because it's 110 degrees outside, and they're saying, well, we may have some rolling brownouts. Well, who gets the electricity? Do the data centers get the electricity? Or do the people get the electricity? These are the kinds of questions that I think are very interesting, but it is, I mean, I'm telling you, everywhere you go, this is becoming the big thing, you know, nobody wants them in their backyard.
I mean, I'm hearing Nashville. I'm not real sure it makes a lot of sense to build one of these things right next to a zoo. Maybe there's another place we can put it. But I guarantee you, you say, okay, we're going to put it over here. We're not going to build it there. We're going to build it over here. And then those people say, well, I don't want that thing built here. It's near a school. It's near this. It's near that. Now, so, you know, how are we going to
resolve that issue? I think is one of the big things, but I mean, I think virtually, I could go to any major market in this country and find a story like this one I found in
Montgomery County, Maryland.
our own backyard, Nashville, Tennessee. It's happening everywhere. Everybody's trying to get rid of
the things and then the question is, well, if we don't build the data centers, are we at a
“strategic disadvantage? I think that's true. Love it or hate it. We're going to need this AI to be as”
good as it can be. And we definitely don't want our competitors to have AI that is superior to ours. So, I don't know how you resolve it. But don't, don't get in Willie Nelson's way, because, you know, he said in one of these water-thieving data centers in our particular area. And he's probably going to be successful. I think there's a lot of people who support him in this and it got a lot of people who say, I don't want it in my backyard. But what happens if everybody says, we can't have it in
our backyard, right? That's not going to work out. Before I go, I want to spend a few moments talking
about the situation and Iran, as you know, it's heated up again and that has caused gas prices to jump again or prices to go back up. They're very volatile right now. And as I look at this thing, people are saying, Brian, what is your sense about the war with Iran? You know, I know that in many quarters right now, it's not popular. A lot of people are saying, why are we doing this? It's so expensive. Why are we spending this money? And I would answer to that, how expensive do you think it
would be if Iran lobbed a nuclear weapon at Israel? How expensive do you think it would be if the capitals of Europe could come into attack? And now we know that they can. The Iranians showed off a little missile they had. They can fly 4,000 kilometers. You marry that with the nuclear weapon that they were trying to build and they could have held Europe at bay. And they would have I think gone a step further and done everything they could to have an intercontinental ballistic
missile that could have delivered it right to the doorstep of America. And there we go. So I think that would have been very expensive. So I think we had to do something. And it really has come down to, you know, how are we going to get out of it now? What's going to happen? You know, how do we end this thing? On one hand of the Iranians know that if they stretch this out, it hurts Trump and they want to hurt Trump. They want to hurt Trump bad. And they think that the way they can
“do that is by stretching this out and dragging their feet. And so that's what they're trying to do”
because they feel like Trump wants to get out of there before the midterm elections. And he probably does an a perfect world. But if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, he's made a decision that for him and the long-term interests of securing peace in that part of the world is of greater important right now than perhaps the midterm elections. Especially when, you know, looking back at what we were talking about earlier, it doesn't look as if the Republicans are going to be doing
all that badly. They may actually be able to survive this thing. Still, he in a perfect world, Trump would like to be out of this thing and the Iranians know that. So they're dragging their feet. When is it going to get resolved? I don't know. It has, as you said, it has sort of increased and heated up in the last few days. So it'll be interesting to see whether or not that gets resolved or whether we're in this for a while. And I think it was Newt Gingworth you said,
show me the price of gasoline on Labor Day. And I'll tell you how the electric's going to go.
“That's a very important thing. I think this, and I got to go. Thank you so much for letting me”
be here and be a part of the program. Right filling in here on the Chris Plant Show. Brian also Wilson in for Chris Plant on this beautiful Thursday, July 3rd. That's called a 55-minute-spass in the hour. Brian Wilson in for Chris Plant. Last waiting moments of the Chris Plant Show. So glad that I could be here today. Thank you for having me. I'm going to step in here, Chris. I'm Phil M's great. Hope we can do it again. Hope we can catch up at another time.
Very quickly, I'm going to run through some things while we got a minute or two left in the program that are happening in the swamp. First of all, the fed decided they're going to keep
interest rates about where they are. Somewhere between 3.5 and 3.75 percent, there were three
descending votes in favor of an increase in the fed's rate. That is not going to happen for now. This is the first time that they've taken a look at Mr. Wash and his, and see what it was going
To do with regard to interest rates.
the fed has always said that the inflation target is 2 percent and not a little over 2 percent. I think
inflation right now is like 3.5. I want to say somewhere in that neighborhood. So they want to get it down to 2 percent and so they're not going to raise the rates. As yet, maybe we'll get one more here before the election but doesn't seem likely. The markets did not like that news yesterday, but they have rebounded somewhat now. Markets, the Dow Jones industrial up 341 points on the news
today. Oil, by the way, with what's going on in the, in the mid-East oil is down a bit, it's falling
despite the fact that they're escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, West Texas air and media crude selling for $83 a barrel, Brent crude selling for $89,
“you know, at one point I think Brent crude was well over $100 a barrel, so not the worse that we have”
same but still enough to keep gas prices up higher than probably the president like to see them
as we head into a midterm election. The Senate voted yesterday to confirm Jay Clayton as the
director of national intelligence. The DNI sits at the very top of the food chain for all intelligence, all intelligence agencies report to the DNI and this person is supposed to be sort of posted 9/11 this person was put in there to be sort of somebody who would look at all of the intelligence to make sure that intelligence agencies were sharing with one another because it was during 9/11 we determined that perhaps by not sharing intelligence, we put ourselves at risk and so the DNI,
“very important position, it will be Jay Carson, US attorney for the Southern District of New York,”
will become the next DNI, Senate voted to confirm him 51/47 along a party line vote. They are working also to renew at this time the FISA Act, I don't know whether that's going to get through or not. Meanwhile, there's a real question about what's going to happen with the Todd Blanch, she has been nominated by President Trump to be the next attorney general, not a clear whether that's going to happen or now or not, that to vote is on hold. Well, that completes it for me.
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