Spring Awakening: Congressman Chip Roy on Legislation, Health Breakthroughs, and National Security

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What a beautiful weekend we've had here Friday through Sunday, kind of custom made, got me back in that Easter spring spirit. Mind its the allergies, I am sneezing a little bit, but out of that, it's been beautiful and I hope it is wherever you live. It looks like the country's been warming up here and there. Next week, some place is going to be in the 80s and 90s, where it's normally the 60s or 70s. It's time of the year. We're going to have a little heat wave. How about that? All right, we've got a great show for you today. We'll heat it up with some food for thought on this Sunday brunch edition of John Solomon Reports, the podcast from Justin News. I love this guy. He just speaks his mind. There is no filter. There is passion. He's now running for Texas Attorney General to replace Ken Paxton, who's likely to be the Republican Senate nominee in Texas. Congressman Chip Roy, he's got some important legislation he's pushing, particularly one targeting a Islamist group that he fears is dangerous and should be treated like a state sponsor of terrorism. He'll explain that in the first block of the show. In the second block of the show, brand new study out. It's preliminary, so it still needs more research, but the early indicators from Dr. Peter McCullough at the Wellness Company, one of our great partners here, they're very encouraging. Why? Because there are people who have been taking two very common drugs, ivermectin and memenzalol, and they are seeing improvement in things like cancer treatment and other inflammatory diseases. Dr. Peter McCullough is going to describe what's up, what it means, much more work needs to be done. This isn't final proof, but it is a signal, a pointer. 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I really liked what Victoria Coates said on Friday show about the troubles with China and how much China has been stripped down and embarrassed and exposed as the not superpower it is. It's a nuclear power. It's a major power in the world, but it's not the world superpower. America has been proving that over the last several months. And I think we'll lean into that again with Rebecca Grant. And then in the final block of the show, I always like introducing you to new candidates who are running for office to get to know them. You make up your own mind, learn from them. This guy's really interesting because he used to be a Navy Submariner. Now he's running for Congress. George Moraitis from Florida. A really interesting guy. I've had him on the show a couple of times now on TV. His first time. I'll have him on the podcast. I think you'll enjoy it. That, my friends, is the Sunday Brunch Edition here at John Solomon Reports. The podcast from Justin News. 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Tell us about that specifically, what you're doing with CARE. Yeah, John, I appreciate it. I mean, look, the level set just for one second. We've got so many issues involving the march of Islam across our country and into the state of Texas. Probably the primary reason, as you mentioned, that I'm running for Attorney General of Texas. We need someone there who's going to stand up and fight it. Could have stayed in Congress, but you're one 435th of a group. And I'm doing my best to change it with legislation. And I hope to succeed. But as Attorney General, I think I can actually deliver as an executive in Texas. And let's go back for a minute, and let's just level set about the state of things. The last substantive conversation I have with Charlie Kirk was about how he was concerned that Americans didn't fully understand how bad it is with the organizations that are trying to target our country, not just CARE, not just the Muslim Brotherhood, but literally hundreds of organizations trying to push Islam into our communities and undermine Western civilization. So I've been talking about this for two years. I gave a big speech on the floor of the House two years ago. I got to ride it and attack by CARE and others. I've held hearings as the chairman of the subcommittee of the Constitution. I introduced legislation last year to take the tax status away from CARE. I introduced legislation to vet people for their adherence to Sharia law. I joined with Keith Self, who found the Sharia Free America caucus, which now has well over 60 members and growing. But importantly, we need to get very specific about going after these organizations, CARE in particular. So yesterday I introduced the designating Hamas affiliates in America Act of 2026 to designate the Council on American Islamic Relations, CARE, as a specially designated global terrorist organization. Now, that would be very specific to be able to block assets and prohibit U.S. persons from interacting with the organization and revoking its 501C3 status. Well, CARE is not innocent, right? They facilitate terrorism while operating under the guise of a nonprofit that is subsidized by American taxpayers. This bill makes it clear we got to freeze their assets, their status should be revoked, and all Americans should be prohibited from supporting them. That's the important thing we got to do here is go on offense and that's why I'm doing it. Important stuff. And so there are myriad reasons why CARE in particular should have this designation. Their founding members, I believe, came from IAP, the Islamic Association for Palestine. They've been designated a terrorist organization for the last 10 or 12 years by the by UAE, by the United Arab Emirates, and states like yours and Florida have designated them a terrorist group. Why is it taking so long? Well, importantly, I want to give a great deal of credit to President Trump and his administration what they're trying to do in targeting these organizations. Governor Abbott, as you noted, in Texas, has declared CARE a terrorist organization. And I think it's really important what you just said about UAE. We have people that we engage with throughout the world, in the Middle East in particular, who are Muslim, who look at what's happening in London, in Paris, and increasingly in the United States. And they're saying, look, those organizations, those entities are radicalized and we don't associate with them. And I think that should tell you something. And I think that that would you look at at Paris in London, you're seeing a glimpse into what we're going to have in America. You look at Dearborn, Michigan, you look at Mamdani in New York, you look at, you know, the prayer rugs that they had sitting out next to the 9-11 Memorial. And our country has allowed 5 million people to be imported into the United States through a variety of means since 9-11 from majority Muslim countries. Now, that should be alarming. And it is alarming when you consider what we're now dealing with here at home, the crime that we're seeing, but also the Sharia law that we're seeing pop up in places like Epic City and Plano, in areas where we had two entities trying to operate Sharia courts in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, which Governor Abbott wisely and properly took action to stop. And things like our, you know, subsidies that we have in place now in Texas for school choice that were going to these Islamic schools to push this agenda that the governor again, wisely said, hey, we shouldn't do that and we're now fighting it out in court. As Attorney General, I will fight that. That's what we're dealing with at that level. And the reason to answer your question that we're still behind on it is that several fold. One, we're allowing this to hide behind the First Amendment, when in fact, this is a political ideology. If they're trying to advance, as they said in their Muslim Brotherhood memo from 1991, which we have copies of, a jihad against the West to undermine Western civilization. This isn't about impinging on someone's ability to pray at home or carry out their faith, but it is saying that when you've got a political ideology that the imams and their leadership are openly saying they want to undermine our Christian nation and our Judeo-Christian values in the West, we should stop it. You cannot win a war that you do not acknowledge exists. Yeah, it's so important that we get that message out to I think the American people understand it. It's the elitists that have blocked it from becoming a reality. I want to pivot to something else that you work on. You have been such an important voice on the border, the open border during the Biden years. You were leading that charge. We've tightened up the border a lot, but there is some interesting legislation, maybe interesting is not the right word, where even some Republicans have signed on to to give amnesty. I know you have a very different feeling about that idea, but to walk us through it, is there any chance that amnesty bill is going to get through on a vote? No. And if it does, with some effort by some of our members to go saddle up with Democrats, and it's going to be devastating for this year, I support the Republican leadership's efforts to push this aside. It does not reflect the position of the Republican conference. The vast majority of the Republican conference thinks this is a bad idea. Laura Ingraham took on one of my colleagues directly two nights ago, and God bless her. She's a stalwart on this issue, and she should. And look, rewind the clock three years ago. I put together a border plan, the Texas border plan, along with my Texas colleagues. I recruited them, got them on board, and it became the centerpiece for what we ended up passing as HR2 in our negotiations and agreement with then Speaker McCarthy. We passed it, and it was the first time in decades that we have passed a serious border security bill that didn't have amnesty or future flow policies in it on immigration. Why does that matter? It put a stake in the ground of what actual border security looks like. We then pushed aside all of these calls for amnesty. We need to repass that bill. We need to put that on the floor and force a vote on it, because that's what the American people want to do. If we do not codify the things that President Trump is doing right now to secure our border, and as I asked, the then Secretary of Homeland Security three weeks ago, when she was in front of our committee, what will happen if we have another Biden-Maiorcus? It'll all start again. They will abuse amnesty. They will abuse parole. They will abuse catch and release. They will allow people to come in no matter what fence and wall you have in place. They will invite them in, release them into our country, and then you will have more dead Americans because we're doing that. And that is again why I'm running for Attorney General, so that I can lead, declare invasion, and fight any future Democrat that wants to stand in our way. You've got to have fighters right now who will be willing to do this. We've got to fund ICE. We've got to fund Border Patrol. We shouldn't let Democrats hijack our funding bills. We need to get that through immediately. I'm tired of excuses. I don't want to hear Republicans think, oh, it's complicated. It's tough. It's like it's D-Day, and you get up to the cliffs, and you go, oh, man, those cliffs are tough to scale. I guess we'll turn around. No, let's fund Border Patrol and ICE. Let's do our job. Yeah, that's a big part of the equation. Another big part of the equation is being decided by the Supreme Court, this birth tourism issue. And there are some reputable estimates out there that say that 100,000 Chinese babies were born here as a result of birth tourism. These are babies that, you know, I mean, this has happened for the last 12 or 13 years. So 100,000 years, that's over a million. They can vote in 18 years. They can even become president. If the Supreme Court goes the other way on this, is there something that Congress can do to make sure that this is not something that destroys this country in 10 or 20 years? Well, it's a great question. It's something I've been talking about for years. There's another issue, by the way, Plylar Vido, which I've been talking about, about how the Supreme Court in 1982 demanded that we fund the illegal alien children's education, that we should also be talking about and I held a hearing on as the chairman of the subcommittee to constitution. I held a hearing on birthright citizenship, of which I had Chuck Cooper, one of the best legal minds in the nation, testifying on it. And I joined forces with him to file an amicus brief, making very clear that subject to the jurisdiction thereof means precisely what it meant. It did not, it was meant to deal with the issue of slavery. It did not mean to say that 20 million Chinese communist women can come here pregnant tomorrow and create 20 million American citizens. It's the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard of and it should be fought vigorously. Whatever the court does, I can promise you, as attorney general, I'm not going to allow that to occur in Texas. We're going to fight it. We're going to change it. And I'm very proud that one of the letters that I led along with my colleague, Tom Tiffany, running for governor of Wisconsin, a great friend of mine, we wrote a letter saying that this birther tourism issue is a major concern. It's being exploited by Chinese communists and our enemies. And that letter was cited in the oral arguments in the Supreme Court. Our amicus brief was one of the core arguments and one of the most well regarded amicus briefs filed. And I filed that along with Eric Schmidt because we're the chairman of the Constitution subcommittees. All of this to say we need to win. I did not love the questions I heard from the chief justice for Amy Coney Barrett, but I'm still hopeful that they will follow common sense and recognize that the 14th amendment clearly meant what meant with regard to slavery. But whatever they decide, like I said, as attorney general, I'll fight it. In Congress, we should act. We should pass due statutes. And at the end of the day, the Senate has got to stop hiding behind 60 votes to not lead. There are many ways to deal with it. We can talk about that separately if you want, whether it's to save America Act or other issues. But I'm tired of the Senate giving me excuses. We need to save this country right now while I have a president who's willing to fight. Yeah, that moment is with us right this moment before we go. Mike Lee just announced another vote effort next week in the Senate on the Save America Act. You think you can wear that with Democrats? Well, at the end of the day, we've got two issues with the DHS funding mechanism and the Save America Act. Look, if I were in charge, I would do the following. I would say from this point forward, what we're going to say is the 60 vote threshold is gone when you have a government shutdown and you have a continual resolution on the floor of the house to keep funding at current levels. I would say you can do that by 51 votes. I would just change that rule and say, let's move on. Then you've got effectively a government shutdown prevention bill that will empower the majority to fund government at current spending levels. And you know what? That's a good default position. If you hold spending flat, that helps on the debt. On the Save America Act, I think Mike Lee is right. We need a talking filibuster. What that means is you have to do your actual job, show up just like Mr. Smith did when he went to Washington. You go to the floor, you have to debate, you have to argue, and if you're not going to do that, then you're not going to get 60 votes. We can pass it at 51. We should tire them out. We should force them to use up their time and we should get the job done. That's what I would do if I were the majority leader, but I'm not. So we'll see what the Senate does. Hey folks, I call him the man who got COVID right, Dr. Peter McCullough from the Wellness Company, one of our partners, one of the great new fresh thinkers in a public health establishment that needs a little bit of fresh thinking. Dr. McCullough is up next after these messages. Welcome back, everybody. Here's a question asked by our next guest tonight. Why has the medical establishment ignored the potential of ivermectin and membendazole in cancer treatments, given that 84% of participants in a recent study reported positive results. Joining us to discuss this and more is world-renowned doctor and chief scientific officer at the Wellness Company, Dr. Peter McCullough. Dr., welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you. I don't know anything that is even 80% effective in treating cancer, much less things like chemotherapy and radiation, which destroy the body almost as much as the cancer does. Why on earth is this not getting more publicity? You know, we have, I think, critical information here at the Wellness Company. We did the right thing. We have a combination ivermectin and benazole product used on label for neglected parasitic infections, but patients can elect to use it off-label if they inform their hematologist, oncologist, and they complete, you know, forms. And so we actually have these patient-reported outcomes, which are encouraging. And of course, they're preliminary, but, you know, this is exactly the type of thing that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH and the National Cancer Institute should be pursuing. So let me give you the information. It's about 200 patients. We followed them each for over six months. The most common cancer was prostate in man, breast cancer in women, and then lung cancer and much less frequently other forms of cancer. 30% the cancer was widely metastatic and actively going in the wrong direction. And when they went on ivermectin, ben-benazole, 84% had this net clinical benefit. But let me break it down. 48.4% there was regression of the cancer as reported by the patient from their doctors based on their scans done every three months. 36.1% stayed the same and then 15.6% worsened, which certainly can do in cancer. Now, patients get chemotherapy, radiation, surgery. This is on top of that very preliminary patient-reported outcomes, but boy, are they encouraging. Yeah, that's a stunning data. There is a bias in the current big pharma world, and that is, let's go find the big next most expensive drug. And it often comes at the expensive looking at time-tested, trued medicines that have worked in the past that just be either cheaper to make, so they're not as much a financial incentive. How do we begin to adjust that paradigm so that we don't ignore things that might be the perfect solution to a current crisis? That's a great question. We need incentives for cancer centers, John. This is very important. Right now, the cancer centers are encouraged through what's called book and bill. That means they actually can bill for administering chemotherapy and they get a cut of the revenue. So cancer centers make more money when they give expensive cancer drugs. They shouldn't be incented to actually use broad-based regimens, including generic medications. In this case, that may be quite useful. Yeah. Dr. McCullough, I know a lot of people donate to cancer research. If we already have something that could possibly be so efficacious, where's that money going? Yeah. That's a very good point. A lot of these cancer research societies, the money gets sucked up into big pharmaceutical protocols. I know people are wanting to do the right thing. Listen, cancer is very well funded in the United States through the National Cancer Institute and through the drug companies. They cooperate in what's called cancer cooperatives. What we've done at the wellness company is in a sense be a disruptive force and allowed patients to make their choice and we tracked what happened and it was very, very favorable. What a novel idea, putting the patient back in control of their health. We almost forgot that used to exist before COVID. Before we let you go, I had a long interview today with Senator Ron Johnson. He continues to find really significant evidence that strong signals of safety concerns with the COVID vaccine were swept under the rug for two or three years. All right, we started with the heart inflammation for young people. Now it's a skeptic stroke for older people. He says there may be another round of disclosures coming soon. How did we get to a point where doctors thought and the medical staffers thought it's okay to hide something that might be a signal of danger to patients? They were led by the public health agencies and what he's talking about is a report on stroke where our public health agencies actually change the verbiage in the report to make it less serious, make it less concerning in the description of these vaccine induced strokes. So we have to take a very careful look at our public health agencies. They should be putting patient safety first and not trying to push the pharmaceuticals and the vaccines and other products. And so things got backwards and boy, Johnson is an American hero in putting Americans first in terms of their drug and vaccine safety. It really has been a clarion voice on Capitol Hill about this. One more question before we let you go. I know you said that this study, these are preliminary findings and there are some other official things that have to happen. But once that happens, is there any chance in the world that the establishment medical community is going to embrace it? Will they be forced to because of their patients? Well, you know, things are moving along. There are a few cancer trials individually of ivermectin and benazal. What needs to happen now is large scale clinical trials, largely in solid organ tumors of the combination. And I think at higher doses, you know, the most common dose was one capsule a day. That's 25 to 50. But in fact, some use actually use two or even three or four. I think we need to move to higher doses and do a large prospective double blind randomized placebo control trials. We understand the safety profile here. So, I think now it's a full steam ahead in terms of large scale trials. Hey, folks, every time the world's aflame, we'd like to turn to her at the Lexington Institute, Rebecca Grant, a fantastic security voice up next after the commercial break. Welcome back, America. We're all going to be watching what goes on is Zamobot in the next 24 to 48 hours, JD Vance leading that delegation. History will be made. Whichever decisions come out of this bargaining table, there is going to be a resolution to this conflict pretty soon. Helping us understand what's at stake, what's possible, and what the United States next moves could be is one of the nation's true security experts. He's a vice president at the Lexington Institute and one of the great national security analysts there. Great friend of our show, Rebecca Grant. Rebecca, great to have you back on the show. Super to talk with you again. All right. I want to talk a little bit about what is at stake in these talks. Is it possible for the United States to make a deal with Iran that we would trust, that we would verify, and what might that deal look like? Well, I have great confidence that that negotiating team of Kushner, Whitcov, and Vance, that's a lot of brain power. And if they say it's a deal they trust, I think that's as good as we can get. Now, of course, trust but verify they're going to be extreme procedures to follow on whether it's with the straight-up or moves, whether it concerns what President Trump likes to call the nuclear dust. And then all the other issues as well. I mean, we don't want them doing the state sponsor of terrorism. There are going to be a lot of conditions. And remember, there's a huge prize if the Iranian government behaves, and that is sanctions relief. So President Trump goes in with all the cards, military, economic, all the cards into this negotiation. That's a great point. They go in with all the cards, but Iran is notoriously a wild card. What, what curveballs should they be prepared for? Oh, you're so right. They are a wild card. And we've seen them already. This team that's shown up, Arrachi, Galabayah, these are some slippery devils, clever and already complaining about the situation in Lebanon. You know, expect this is going to be just the haggled deal of the century. And we've seen this from Iran before, for years and years and years. It's remarkable, really, that these talks are even convening in Islamabad. And I think it's great that the Pakistanis and their military have helped to put this together. But Iran, there will be propaganda, there will be everything that it will really test and try the patience of our team. But again, we really do have the upper hand and military options ready to go while they're large or small if there are hiccups in these talks. Yeah. And I have a funny feeling the president has a short sand clock. And if he doesn't get what he wants in the first round, the pressure ratchets up. There are two pressure ways. One is they could go back to the Stone Ages, I guess, with a military tact that's so devastating. One that I think proved very effective in Venezuela, and could be a short term stranglehold is we could out blockade the straight of our moves and shut everything off, which means Iran could get nothing out. China could not get anything out, and nothing could get into Iran. That would collapse our economy even quicker. Is that something we should be looking for in the next phase? What an interesting idea. And you hear President Trump and General Kaine talk about air dominance. But let me tell you, we also have maritime dominance. And with the assets there are US Navy assets, the US Marine Corps and the Triple A, the Abraham Lincoln, a lot of destroyers, a lot of other craft. It would be very easy for the US Navy to exert complete control over what does and does not go up and down the straight. Now, I've heard about 10 ships have moved in the last 24 hours. One of them was a reflag Russian tanker. And we know that cargoes have gone out to China to India. We've seen some inbound traffic. But if Iran gets intransigent, then absolutely the US Navy can set up with great overwater surveillance from the P8s, E2Ds, and of course land based air power. They can watch everything that goes in and out of that straight. And you'll have to ask the US Navy if you want to move past Lyric Island or past that narrow part by Oman. Rebecca, I heard in the last 24 hours or so UK Prime Minister Kirstarmer using the term we a lot. This is coming from a country that has made practically no contributions. In fact, they blocked us from using our own base there. Do you anticipate that as this situation hopefully turns more positive that a lot of the NATO members who initially said we're not helping, they will immediately rush and say, okay, we're here to help. We're here to help. Just try to try to get credit. It could be. And Kirstarmer has handled this poorly from the start, especially given that he actually does have two RAF fighter squadrons down there working in Jordanian airspace F-35s and typhoons in the RAF regiment, which are key air defenders. And yet he's bobbled everything to do with overflight and with standing firm with the US. So I hope him using the word we and the powerful words from NATO Secretary General Routh to yesterday are getting this alliance back together. Remember the UK and others helped over in the Red Sea in Operation Prosperity Guardian, helping to protect shipping traffic against the Hooties. It would be super easy for those same countries, Britain, France, South Korea, Japan, many others to help with keeping calm and suppressing the last of that Iranian threat up through the Strait of Hormuz as well. I hope they do show up. Hey folks, what more good one to go? George Marais is Congress candidate from Florida, former submarine officer in the Navy. Really fun guy. We're going to break down China. We're going to break down Iran. We're going to break down Russia, Ukraine, George Marais is to wrap up our Sunday brunch edition right after these messages. Welcome back everybody. Just a few minutes left before we wrap up the show and I can't think of a better way to do it than a man who wants to be in Congress next year, but previously served as a submarine officer in our amazing US Navy joining me right now from the great state of Florida, George Marais. George, great to have you on the show. Thank you, John. I appreciate the opportunity to be on here as well. If you told me two years ago, we'd be having a conversation, maybe Cuba's going to fall. Iran's going to surrender. Venezuela under new leadership. They would have told us to go get checked out for memory loss or something. This is kind of an amazing moment and what's happening. A peace to strength moment that really seems to be changing the arc of America and the world. Give us your assessment. I know there's a lot of caution. We got to be careful with Iran. Cuba's not done yet, but a lot of movement, right? No, you're right, John. I mean, first of all, it's great news to see that there's a ceasefire on the table now. You know, no one wants to see that the nation of Iran, the Persians annihilated. What we want to see is them give up the nuclear weapon that they've been trying to achieve along with the ballistic missile capability. And I applaud President Trump for leading in a tough situation here. I will say that I'm cautiously optimistic about the news. You know, I was a submarine officer. I served in the Kosovo campaign back in the late 1990s. It was a similar campaign. We had to bomb our way into getting peace, and that's basically what's happened here. Yeah. What's really interesting, and I've seen you talk about this, and I love the candidacy that you have in Florida right now for Congress. President Trump has taken all the things that we thought were unachievable, intransitant, work-and-ever change. The establishment of Washington said, nothing we could do about Cuba, nothing we could do about Iran. And he's flipped that script on its head. Give us a little bit, because it's close to your home state. What's been going on in Cuba, and what the potential is for some really strong outcome there in the next few months. Well, I agree with you, John. I mean, President Trump is, he really takes a fresh approach to a lot of things, and this is no exception. I think both on Iran and Cuba and Venezuela, for that matter, he showed extraordinary leadership and kind of breaking a lot of eggs that we thought couldn't be broken in a way of taking a fresh approach to some long-term. Iran's been a global exporter of terrorism, trying to acquire a nuclear weapon. And then finally, President Trump kind of puts his foot down, says, we're not going to have this. We're going to stop you, even if it means exerting our military force to do it. With Cuba, I agree. This is a generational moment. Again, it's been decades of the Cuban people living under oppression, really with almost little or to no prospect of freedom, particularly under the Biden approach or the Obama approach, just kind of giving more and more money to the really the people who are doing the oppressing. And now, President Trump has cut that off and is now basically threatening to topple the regime, which we should. It's long overdue. Yeah. Yeah. And it does seem it's having consequences by the hour. You served in our great military. You served aboard a sub. When you watch this weekend, the president pulled out every possible stop to rescue an airman down in enemy territory for two days. The rescue is something ripped out of a Hollywood movie, but it was very real to every man and woman who serves with that uniform. What message to the president? Pete Hegseth, Mark Rubin and others deliver this weekend. I think the message is what we've always said as a U.S. military. We're not going to leave anyone behind. Absolutely not. And we're asking these men and women to put their lives on the line. And if someone gets shot down over enemy territory, we're not going to stop at anything to get them back alive or dead, frankly, for that matter. And thank God he was alive. He was able to survive as quite testimony to his training, to be able to survive for 48 hours in enemy territory. And then of course, you know, to again, to the leadership of the military, the brave men, you know, that went down to get him, the helicopter pilots, the airplane pilots. It was a full-court press to get him back. And yeah, the message is, you know, we care about the men and women that serve this nation. All right, folks. That wraps up our Sunday edition, the brunch edition, as I like to call it, here at Just The News. And John Solomon reports, a big thank you to Congressman Chip Roy. That was a really fun interview. Dr. Pete McCullough, got you thinking, right? Iver Mectin and Benzabal, be thinking about it, be thinking about it. Rebecca Grant, always a great voice, like Victoria Coates. We get some many good security experts. We get to bring on the show. She always gets us thinking and gets us thinking about things we're not been thinking about. And then George Moraitis, yep, he's a good one as well. 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