The Daily Signal - Fauci Adviser’s Explosive Emails Revealed, Fani Willis Wins Her Primary, More Disturbing Videos From Oct. 7 Released | May 22

Starting point is 00:00:02 I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, May 22nd. Here are today's headlines. A top advisor at the National Institutes of Health allegedly deleted records in 2021 uncovering the origins of COVID-19. That's according to a report that was released by the House Select Committee on the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Post broke the news. The advisor apparently also used a secret back channel to help Dr. Anthony, Fauci evade transparency. He also created this back channel with a federal grantee that funded gain of function research

Starting point is 00:00:51 in Wuhan, China, according to the report. According to the records obtained by the New York Post, the National Institutes of Health Senior Advisor, Dr. Davis Morins, improperly conducted official government business on his private email account, and he asked for help from the National Institutes of Health Freedom of Information Act office to evade records requests. Morin's worked for Fauci from 1998 to 2022. According to the report, he wrote in an email on February 24th, 2021, that I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foiled, but before the search starts. Plus, I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.

Starting point is 00:01:36 Morins wrote in a later email, but he didn't want anything sent to him, that wasn't through Gmail. He also said not to worry about future information requests. He said, there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail or handed to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.

Starting point is 00:02:02 Morins wrote in an email dated June 16, 2020, We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns. And if we did, we wouldn't put them in emails. And if we found them, we delete them. The National Institutes of Health has so far not commented on this report. Stay tuned. We have the results from some big local races across the U.S. today. Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis won her Democratic primary on Tuesday amid scandal. Willis is the Georgia prosecutor who brought racketeering charges against former president Donald Trump and his political allies. Meanwhile, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee presiding over the Fulton County case against Trump also won his race.

Starting point is 00:02:51 His victory comes just two months after his ruling allowed Willis to continue with the case, despite the fact that she was in an undisclosed relationship with the lawyer that she had hired to prosecute Trump. These local races gain national attention not only because of the Trump case, but because of personal and professional scandal, specifically surrounding Willis, over the revelations of her affair with Nathan Wade. Wade is the man that she hired as a special prosecutor to go after Trump for trying to allegedly overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The judge then made what was considered a mixed ruling in March that the Trump case could go forward only. if Willis or Wade recused themselves. So, Wade did leave the case. On Tuesday, Willis defeated Christian Wise Smith, a former county prosecutor who previously unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Georgia Attorney General back in 2022. He also previously lost to Willis in the

Starting point is 00:03:53 Fulton County Democrat primary for district attorney in 2020. In the upcoming November general elections, Willis now faces Courtney Kramer, a lawyer who didn't have a challenger in the Republican primary for district attorney in the heavily Democrat jurisdiction made up primarily of Atlanta. Willis was first elected in 2020. We'll, of course, be watching those races play out in November. A recently released study shows that so-called gender reassignment surgeries increase the risk of suicide. This comes from a report from S.A. McCarthy at the Washington Stand. The study published by the National Library of Medicine in April is titled, Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender Affirmation Surgery.

Starting point is 00:04:43 The study evaluated patient data from nearly 60 U.S. healthcare organizations. That means it tracked millions of patients. Over 1,500 patients were described as adults, between the ages of 18 and 60 who had gender-affirming surgery and an emergency visit. Another group of patients was a controlled group of adults with emergency visits but no gender-affirming surgery. There was also a group of adults with emergency visits, tubal ligation or vasectomy, but no gender-affirming surgery. The study looked at 20 years of data from 2003 to 23 and concluded that individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12-fold higher suicide

Starting point is 00:05:32 attempt risk than those who did not. So those who had gone ahead with the gender transition surgery were five times more likely to commit suicide. These findings are consistent with other recent studies on gender surgeries. Disturbing body camera footage was released by the hostages and missing families forum on Wednesday that shows Hamas terrorists on October 7th threatening female Israeli soldiers with rape and violence. The female Israeli soldiers were operating at a military base outside the Gaza Strip and in the video are handcuffed and forced against the wall. In the video, Hamas terrorists threatened the women with sexual assault. One of the terrorists says, here are the girls who can get pregnant. And another one of the men

Starting point is 00:06:23 calls them dogs and tells them to pose for the camera. The women are covered in blood and show signs of physical distress. At the end of the video, the women are shown being forced into a vehicle and are then driven away. The video was shortened and it was edited and the families of the victims were notified before it was released. The hostages and missing families forums said the video is a damning testament to the nation's failure to bring home the hostages who have been forsaken for 229 days. Following the announcement of prison sentences for pro-life activists last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Monday against seven pro-life activists and two

Starting point is 00:07:07 pro-life organizations. The Daily Signal's Mary Margaret Ollahan has been covering this story, and Ollahan reports that the DOJ's lawsuit alleges that the pro-life organizations, citizens for a pro-life society and Red Rose Rescue, as well as seven activists, activists, including Lauren Handy, violated the freedom of access to clinic entrances act when they sought to stop abortions from taking place at an Ohio abortion clinic. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark is the head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. She said in a statement, obstructing people from accessing reproductive health care and physically obstructing providers from offering it are unlawful.

Starting point is 00:07:49 Handy is one of the activists mentioned in the release. She was sentenced to 57 months in prison for trying to stop abortions at a Washington, D.C. abortion clinic. Clark similarly issued a statement last week celebrating news that Handy and six other pro-life activists would spend more time in prison for attempting to stop abortions from taking place. The FACE Act is a 1994 law that was intended to protect both abortion clinics. and pregnancy resource centers, but has been heavily enforced by President Joe Biden's DOJ against pro-lifers since the June 2022 overturning of Roeby Wade. With that, we're going to leave it there for today's podcast. Thanks so much for being with us on the Daily Signal's top news. If you have not had the chance, make sure that you check

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The Daily Signal - Fauci Adviser’s Explosive Emails Revealed, Fani Willis Wins Her Primary, More Disturbing Videos From Oct. 7 Released | May 22

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