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Stew does America

We got a great show for you today. Lots of stuff to get to, but I want to start by doing the COVID origin cover-up.

This is a story that's been bubbling under the surface a little bit and I guess like if you were doing something wrong and you knew there was a big investigation that might happen in the future you kind of know your lines right like I've never thankfully been on that side of things, but I imagine if I'm being FOIAed and I'm in the government,

I'm gonna like do everything I can to keep things on different apps, maybe private emails,

and everything else, because I don't want that stuff to come out. I don't want that stuff to be on the cover of the New York Times or some other actually responsible journalistic organization.

That's kind of what we're seeing here and it's really fascinating how it's falling apart.

COVID origin accountability, a blistering congressional hearing forces accountability on COVID origins.

This is from Zetap Tufecky. She is an opinion columnist over at the New York

Times and she actually has been one of the few that has covered a lot of the stuff pretty darn

well. That's been pretty rare as we know in mainstream media. We are now seeing

follow up, some fallout from this but not as much as I would like. For example,

Biden administration has suspended funding for the scientists at the center of the COVID lab leak theory.

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