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to Pete Hague-Seth, a little bit of a reckoning. We have a congressman tonight.

We have a doctor.

We have a lawyer.

There's a joke in there somewhere, but we're not going to tell that.

We're going to go do a show, and I'm right.

Okay, so before I get to the Pete Hanks says stuff and something that's bothering me about what the GOP Senate is doing, I just wanted to address something quickly because it's something that is close to my heart.

Maybe it's something close to your heart.

It's certainly something I've talked about a lot on this show.

And that's getting a reckoning of some kind for COVID, meaning punishment, some sort of punishment for the people in power, in government and otherwise,

for the people in power who abused you, your liberties, your rights, and the name of a bad chest cold from China.

What happened to you, what happened to this country during COVID, was criminal and it was

evil. It was not okay. And we are not going to let people get away with, well, nobody knew.

I'm not really, no, no, no, no, no.

You don't get to burn down the house in order to kill a cockroach.

And then when people say, why did you do that?

Well, no one knew.

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