Dec. 19 — Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gov. Jared Polis
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🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This Sunday, the new COVID surge. |
| 0:04.0 | I think we're looking at a potential wave of cases that's so large that we still, you know, overwhelm our hospitals. |
| 0:11.0 | The Omicron variant exploding across the globe. |
| 0:14.1 | What we're seeing in some of these other countries is doubling times of about every two days or so. |
| 0:19.3 | And across the United States. |
| 0:21.3 | As we know, there will be plenty of breakthrough infections, that's for sure. |
| 0:25.3 | Cases rising sharply, were the spike in deaths likely to follow. |
| 0:29.5 | We're tired. |
| 0:30.7 | The hospitals are stretched. |
| 0:32.8 | Resilience is low. |
| 0:34.4 | Please get vaccinated. |
| 0:36.8 | My guest this morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the governor of Colorado, |
| 0:40.8 | Democrat Jared Polis. Plus, the House votes to charge Mark Meadows with criminal contempt. |
| 0:46.2 | We won't let the facts be buried by our cover of. The former Trump Chief of Staff refusing to comply |
| 0:52.6 | with the January 6th Committee. The executive privilege that Donald Trump has claimed is his to waive. |
| 0:58.0 | It's not mine to wave. |
| 0:59.3 | This as January 6 texts from the former president's allies come to light. |
| 1:04.4 | One of the president's sons texted Mr. Meadows, quote, |
| 1:09.1 | he's got to condemn this |
| 1:10.8 | ASAP. He is destroying his legacy, Laura Ingram wrote. |
| 1:16.7 | And buildback, when? If President Biden couldn't get build back better |
| 1:20.7 | or voting rights done this year, there's nothing domestically more important than |
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