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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

The Olympics & China’s Human Rights Abuses ft. Rep. Michael Waltz

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This week, Martha is joined by Representative Michael Waltz (R-FL) to discuss the United States’ diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.   Rep. Waltz details China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur population, as well as his take on why the International Olympic Committee refused to move the location of the Olympics, despite having done so in the past.   Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMaccallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.9

Former Green Beret commander and Republican Congressman Michael Waltz was the first

0:54.7

to call for a boycott. We wanted the United States to stay home, not compete in these Olympics.

1:00.2

And he did that in February. So now that the Olympics are almost here, and the concerns have

1:05.5

increased, not decreased since that period, he joins me now with this part of the untold story.

1:11.8

Congressman,

1:15.9

great to have you here. It's always good to talk to you. Thanks for joining me. Yeah, thanks, Martha.

1:21.9

Happy to. So what I find interesting is that as we are on the cusp of these games, and we have a diplomatic boycott and other countries have done the same thing. So that means essentially that,

1:26.8

you know, the high-ranking officials that you would generally see

1:29.2

from a number of countries, including the United States,

1:31.3

won't be there to cheer on their teams at these games.

1:34.5

How effective, what do you think that China,

1:37.1

what would their response to that be?

1:39.3

Does that matter to them?

1:40.6

Well, just in your run-up, I just want to state that, you know, prior to me calling for a boycott

1:47.6

and calling for a full boycott, you know, we asked the IOC, the International Olympic Committee

1:54.1

on multiple occasions, given that two administrations now have labeled what's going on in China

2:00.7

as a full-blown genocide.

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