Did Covid-19 Come From a Lab?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes back Andrew Kimbrell, founder of the Center for Food Safety, to discuss the dangers of genetically engineered viruses and the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab. And Dr. Michael Carome, director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen, tells us about Public Citizen's effort to get President Trump and Vice President Pence to step down and put health experts in charge of the pandemic response.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, long with my co-host David Feldman. Hello, David. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, everybody. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:24.0 | Ralph, you wanted to open the show. |
| 0:26.0 | You had got a few things to say. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, Boeing has lost more than 800 orders by Airlines for the 73737 max so far this year. Still moving ahead to try to by September |
| 0:39.3 | give it the okay to fly. There are more defects being documented in the 737 max that haven't been |
| 0:46.9 | investigated by congressional committees yet or openly by the FAA. |
| 0:53.0 | So I just wanted to bring all this up to date. |
| 0:56.0 | There will be more cancellations and let's predict, |
| 0:59.0 | and Boeing is discounting the price to try to hold its existing orders. |
| 1:06.2 | The second news was a sad one. |
| 1:08.6 | Edward Kleinbar, a corporate tax lawyer who worked for corporate tax firms for years and then turned against what they were doing, |
| 1:20.0 | getting loopholes from multinational corporations like Apple and Google and international banks and so forth. |
| 1:28.0 | He went to teach at the law school at the University of Southern California. And the New York Times in the write-up after he lost |
| 1:36.7 | his struggle with cancer said of him, he was a regular contributor to the New York Times op-ed page. |
| 1:44.0 | He said, most tax policy discussions were backward. |
| 1:48.0 | Policymakers should identify their spending priorities |
| 1:52.0 | ideally to invest in the country's citizens and then discuss the proper |
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