Senator Rand Paul - Ophthalmology, Economic Liberty, Taxation, & Immigration (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_932)

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm delighted to report that I have joined as a scholar, the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.
0:10.8	The center offers educational opportunities, speakers, internship, and reading groups for the University of Mississippi community.
0:18.9	It is named in honor of the United States founding document
0:23.2	which constitutes the nation as a political community
0:27.0	and expresses fundamental principles of American freedom,
0:31.4	including in the recognition of the importance of Judeo-Christian values
0:35.5	in shaping American exceptionalism.
0:39.3	Dedicated to the academic and open-minded exploration of these principles, the Center exists
0:45.3	to encourage exploration into the many facets of freedom. It will sponsor a speaker series
0:51.3	and an interdisciplinary faculty research team. If you'd like to learn more
0:56.3	about the center, please visit Olmiss. That's O-L-E-M-I-S-S dot EDU slash independence slash.
1:05.6	Hi, everybody. A couple of weeks ago, I had the former Prime Minister of Britain. Well, that was a first. Today I've got the first
1:12.5	sitting US Senator, Senator Rand Paul. How are you doing, sir? Very good. Yeah, we heard it was the
1:18.4	podcast to be on. So, you know, everybody wants to be on it, you know. So there you go.
1:24.3	I want to, for the three people who may not know who you are, let me just read a very short
1:29.8	intro.
1:30.8	You're an ophthalmologist by training.
1:32.5	By the way, in my forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, you'll appreciate that I have a small
1:37.4	section on Sir Harold Ridley, which you'd appreciate because at one point I'm talking about this idea of
1:45.4	the silliness of settled science. And of course, he faced a lot of pushback when he was
1:51.8	trying to implement his ideas. You're a Kentucky senator since 2011. You're the chair of the
1:57.8	Senate Homeland Security Committee. Your books include government
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