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We're joined now by Senator and Dr. Rand Paul from the great state of Kentucky, where

by the way, they managed to get a 10th win in the bowl game under Coach Mark Stoops.

Nice win over Iowa. I'm sorry, Hawkeye fans. We bring in now Senator Paul.

And Senator, congratulations on your announcement that you're going to be running for another

term. I know many people in the state of Kentucky are excited about that.

Was it a tough decision for you? How much time did you spend making this choice?

You know, the hard part for me has always been deciding from my first love, well actually

my first love is my wife. But my second love would be medicine.

And between continuing to do eye surgery, I'm able to do a little bit on the side, you

know, pro bono or free eye surgery, but I can't really own or have a practice.

And so, you know, the decision to stay out of that, you know, for another six years is a

big decision that weighs on me. But I figured that I'm going to continue to try to do a

terrible surgery when I can and combine it to. I also look at it this way.

If I'm not up here, I think people will get falchia past, you know, I mean, if I'm not

up here to point out that he covered up where the origin of the virus was, I don't know

who will. Now, if I'm not up here to talk about gain of function research, the idea that

they were juicing these viruses up to make super viruses. If we win in 2022, I could well

be a chairman of a committee that's able to subpoena falchi and his records, bring him

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