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This is the best of with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.

We are joined now by David Zweig, investigative journalist and author.

He's got a brand new book.

I think you guys are going to love it.

I've already started to check it out.

We've got it at the home.

Buck is holding it up right now. An abundance of caution American schools, the virus, and a story

of bad decisions. David, thanks for joining us in our New York City studio. I know we've had you on before,

and I think it's fair to say that a lot of your reporting was not necessarily well received by people on the left and that you are not some far right wing conspiracy theorist.

You just did something wild.

You looked at the data and you were willing to write about what the data showed.

And you were, as Buck and I have both been, profoundly angered and still angry over the failures of American public policy as it pertains to COVID.

What pushed you to write this book and what do you hope that people take from it?

That's a very good assessment.

Yeah. In the beginning, very early on, it seemed reasonable to me.

I wasn't knowledgeable about what was happening.

I live right outside New York City.

Okay, the schools are closed.

Everything shut down.

But very quickly after that, I watched my kids just wilting away in the kind of the gray light

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