All right, gov, I'm skipping the intro today and we're going to max out the time here.

This morning President Trump was on Hugh, Hugh its radio show and Hugh asked him about firing

Fauci and Trump's exact quote was, you're not allowed to fire him.

I suspect you probably have a different take on what you can do with these civil servants

like Fauci.

Sure, well first of all it's important to point out for a long time that was not his

excuse.

His excuse had been that if you fired Fauci, both the Democrats and the media would

have pitched a fit, which of course is 100% true, but that's the price of leadership.

You got to stand up and do what's right.

Clearly he could have been fired from the White House task force.

There was no obligation to run him out at press conference after press conference, have

him doing media interviews.

You know during the height of kind of the COVID stuff in 2020, Fauci would do local hits

and Florida media attacking me for having schools open and some of these other stuff.

So there was no obligation to do that.

I think you could have also fired him from NIH because he had basically committed misconduct

with the gain of function.

You also had him saying that it was naturally occurring when they knew was a lab leak.

All that stuff has come out now.

So I think yes, you're fired.

I mean, here's the thing Dave, if it's the right thing to do, you do it.

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