Tom Cotton calls out Biden's travel ban hypocrisy on omicron variant

let's bring in texas excuse me arkansas uh senator tom cotton uh who oxford uh sometimes travels to texas uh senator great to see you you were the first one to call for a travel ban to china before anyone really knew what this virus was because china was not being transparent they still aren't now south africa picks up the phone calls 1 800 world and says i have a a variant here you guys should pay attention to we immediately have a travel ban on them why do you think it's a bad idea well what president biden did over the weekend is a typical half measure that reflects the incompetence of this administration if you want to implement a travel ban it needs to go into effect immediately that's what most european nations did that implemented that travel ban if you don't want to implement a travel ban because you think the virus is already here or that it's counterproductive then you shouldn't do so but this is yet another incompetent half measure as you said brian last january when the democrats were wasting the american people's time with the impeachment trial of president trump i was trying to sound the alarm about this virus i was calling for president trump to stop travel immediately from china to the united states after about a week president trump did so and i remember then that joe biden and kamala harris denounced it as xenophobic and racist just like they called subsequent travel bans on other countries racist as well the hypocrisy here is amazing but it's very typical of what you get from this incompetent administration you know and and to your point uh if you're going to do a travel ban do it quickly uh dr fauci on wednesday when the travel bans went into effect around the world in a number of countries he said yeah that's something we're going to think about it wasn't for five days until they we the united states actually did it although now the who's saying don't uh impose travel bans just because but ultimately you can blame tony fauci for this because if you're gonna do it do it fast yeah steve that the lesson of this pandemic which as i said last january at the beginning of this pandemic is that you need to move early and you need to move fast if you want to implement these measures that if you wait until every bit of evidence is in you will have waited too long as benjamin franklin said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure now is it possible that this new variant is already in the united states yes it is possible it's in other places like portugal the united kingdom however there's a difference between having a few people exposed to it and having plane loads of people landing from wuhan as the democrats would have had early last year but this is just again another example of the astonishing hypocrisy of the democrats regarding this virus dr fauci is saying go get your booster shot the people who have gotten this virus they're reporting sore muscles they're tired for a day or two a slight cough did not lose taste or smell so that's good news let's talk about dr fauci because ted uh ted cruz and rand paul have been very critical of him they want him prosecuted because he they say he lied to congress dr fauci says you criticize me you're criticizing science he said that again over the weekend listen to this anybody who's looking at this carefully realizes that there's a distinct anti-science flavor to this so if they get up and criticize science nobody's going to know what they're talking about but if they get up and really aim their bullets at tony fauci well people could recognize there's a person there so it's easy to criticize but they're really criticizing science because i represent science that's dangerous senator cruz told the attorney general you should be prosecuted yeah i'd have to laugh at that i should be prosecuted what happened on january 6 senator what's your reaction to that bringing up january 6 and then laughing at being prosecuted after they say he lied to congress which is illegal well so so first off no bureaucrat like tony fauci should be engaged in a partisan battle back and forth with an elected member of the united states senate ted cruz like 99 other senators represent the people who elected him that bureaucrat like tony fauci works for those people second tony fountain lied to congress and he should be investigated he repeatedly said that his agency did not fund dangerous and risky gain of function research in those woohen labs which almost certainly was the origin of this virus he said it repeatedly to congress his agency just admitted a few weeks ago that yes they did in fact fund gain of function research so there's a lie there it's either tony fauchy lying to congress or his agency after months of stonewalling writing a letter to congress and admitting it i suspect it's tony fauci lying on the spot in his testimony to congress he put the american people at risk by funding this dangerous research which was happening under the obama administration which he thought he knew better than the people's elected representatives it's just another example of how these bureaucrats think that they are the science that they represent the epitome of knowledge and those grubby politicians like the president of the united states and united states senators and representatives have no business telling them what to do that's not the way our democracy functions and senator think about this the ego involved when someone says i represent science science is a moving target it takes in constant data they're constantly changing if you challenge his hypothesis i'm challenging science no what if with another scientist is another scientist allowed to travel uh challenge another scientist on different theories his theory if you challenge it you don't like science and i personally feel that and if you don't agree it's fine but for now on these scientists have to be with an economist and a psychologist because when they make these absolute decrees the ripple effect it does to people their jobs their livelihoods the economics of a nation those seven nations in africa aren't the richest nations in the world they really have to wonder if they should have been transparent if you're going to ban people from coming from their countries in two days from when they appeared transparent which we asked china to do when they weren't yeah that i mean his preening self-regard is just incredible and even if you agree with his uh scientific interpretation the idea that tony fauci remains a credible and impartial partial messenger for the biden administration to speak to the country is preposterous but brian you get to a deeper important point about these bureaucrats is a so-called expert like tony fauci becomes an expert by spending his entire life studying a very narrow slice of knowledge in his case infectious diseases he knows nothing about the economy he knows nothing about psychology he knows nothing about the way most americans have to live and struggle to make ends meet in this economy that's why you don't let an expert make decisions like this for the american people we have elected representatives who take into account the expert advice from all the people who study these problems and then try to balance all those competing interests um senator today is cyber monday millions of americans are going to shop online i'm sure as soon as you're done with this interview you're going to get out your phone and do some uh christmas shopping i think he's got you in the grab bag that's great 20 limit like last year um but senator you know the reason the president this afternoon is going to talk about the supply chain is now as people are shopping they're worried they're not going to get their christmas gifts and now there's news out of california that apparently uh pharmacies are having trouble getting medical devices and it's it's hard for them to not only get medicine but things like walkers and canes and wheelchairs and crutches and syringes and needles and things like that i was in new jersey at my pharmacy trying to pick up a prescription on saturday and there was a sign that said the pharmacy was closed and i asked the manager i said what's the deal he said we'll try to be open tomorrow if we can find a pharmacist who wants to work well we'll see first off when i get off set here the first thing i'm going to do is go buy brian kilmeed's new book for everyone in my family could help contribute to our growing economy thank you very much christmas gift you can get for these christmas gifts you can get for anyone i just want to i just want to point out though that that this record inflation and these supply chain chain shortages and labor shortages that we've experienced this year didn't happen during the early days of this pandemic this pandemic has been with us now for two years the the record inflation and the supply chain shortages have only happened under the biden administration and the result of the biden administration's policies look i hope santa brings every child in america exactly what he or she wants but when you're talking about things like prescription drugs and pharmaceutical supplies and medical supplies inspiration kids christmas gifts it's a matter of life and death and that's just another reminder that over the last 40 years we have spent way too much of our manufacturing capacity to china we need to bring it back to the united states so that we have the ability to make the goods that our people depend on we're talking about basic ingredients for drugs that are life-saving can i just say that's leadership that that would be a leadership moment for him not to react to supply chain problems he's going to call press conference today at 3 45 to talk about supply chain leadership is that bringing our chip makers home well over the course of the next three years manufacturer's going to come this is how we're going to do it not just rhetoric the plan going forward that's what the american people want a plan going forward not reacting to poll numbers yeah brian that's exactly right a lot of these things can be solved relatively easily with presidential leadership whether it's cutting edge technology like advanced semiconductors or old-fashioned goods that are still essential to our lives like ibuprofen and acetaminophen things that we don't produce in this country anymore if you said i've got four years here's my plan to bring some of that manufacturing ability back to united states this is what my administration is going to do we're going to make it easy for companies to open new factories and hire new workers here then we'd be able to deliver on that vital interest for the american people just remember two years ago we couldn't get the good masks because they were all made in china along with the fabric to make them and gas prices are going through the roof good thing santa doesn't need gasoline for his sleigh right just right here reindeer food that's right yeah if you watch elf isn't it by good uh good motivation uh happy thoughts couldn't that fuel the sleigh in elf do you remember we did just watch it that's right remember crashed in central park because people were not giving up by the christmas actual fact based movie oh i didn't know so i didn't know the difference hey senator thank you very much thank you all thanks senator

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Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 29 2021