The Highwire with Del Bigtree - PSAKI TRIES TO REWRITE HISTORY

Episode Date: February 17, 2022

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For the last several weeks, as everything has been crumbling around the pro-vactors, the pro-medical institutions, the government-control bodies, all of it is crumbling down. And we've been saying, obviously, things are changing and they're changing very fast. We've been reporting it over the last several weeks, all of different changes, backing away from mandates, all of that's going on. One of the ways you know for sure that things are changing is when they start trying to rewrite history right in front of your eyes. So know this. As this thing crumbles and falls apart, someone's going to have to change the narrative and remind us all that that never actually happened. These are not the droids you're looking for. Don't fall for it. Here's what it looks like in the news. Real quick on the Johns Hopkins study on the lockdowns. It was this meta-analysis that came out of several studies. Lockdown during the first wave of COVID in spring of 2020, found that it only reduced COVID mortality by 0.2% in the U.S. and Europe.

and suggested they have little to no public health benefit, but severe consequences for the economy. And it suggests that lockdowns shouldn't be a part of a future pandemic response. Is that the shared view of the administration looking in the rearview mirror? Well, I would say – I would first, of course, point you to our health and medical experts for specifics on this specific scientific study. I would note that the President has been clear we're not pushing lockdowns. We've not been pro-lockdown. That has not been in his agenda, most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous president. What our objective has been is to conveying that we have the tools we need to keep our country

open thanks to the president's leadership and focus on fighting the virus. And that's reflected in the fact that 90 percent of schools are open. Over 210 million Americans are fully vaccinated. We have the tools to avoid lockdowns and we're not moving back and that's our intention at this point. So you guys do believe that the lockdowns were more harmful than helpful? Again, I would point you to our scientific experts on the specifics of a study, but the President's agenda, the President's approach, has not been lockdowns.

It has been using the tools we have to prevent that. All right, did you get that very clearly? Do you see what's happening here? The media is finally caught up to the high wire. It only took about two years for mainstream media to be asking the question. Now that the science is in, by the way, it's always been in if you've been watching the highway. Now if the science is in, we know that lockdowns do more harm than good.

And it is now being said by this study at Johns Hopkins that we should never use this tool again. So where are you at as the administration? Well, we never believed in lockdowns. I mean, that was never a part of our plan. That was the last administration. Now, I don't want to get partisan about this, but let's go ahead and check in with the last administration

because I think that this is one of the most important turning points. When I was watching this take place, I thought, man, what happens after this conversation? This is Donald Trump in the Rose Garden, the moment he said. Now remember, this was a man who was not wearing masks in any single meeting was being ridiculed by the news for not wearing masks, not sort of carrying his part of this lockdown protocol. So it seemed like we knew where he stood, but just in case we weren't quite sure this is what he said to us just prior to Easter in this important discussion. Take a look

at this. We're going to be opening relatively soon. Our time comes up in Monday or Tuesday, you know, the allotted two weeks, but I'd love to have it open by Easter. It's such an important day for other reasons, but I'll make it an important day for this too. I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter. I don't want the cure to be worse than the problem itself. And you can't compare this to 1918, where close to 100 million people died. That was a flu, which is a little different, but that was a flu where if you got it, you had a 50-50 chance are very close of dying. I think we're substantially under 1%

because the people that get better are not reporting. So we only know people that go to doctors and go to hospitals. And we're taking that. And we're still a little bit above 1%. When you add all of the people, the millions of people that have it that get better, we're substantially less than 1%.

And when they came to my office, don't forget, they were saying 3%, 4%, 5%. This is a very big difference. No, we have to put our country back to work. All right, so we're blaming that administration where the President of the United States came in front of America and the world, frankly, and said, look, we've got to open up. This is crazy. The cure can't be worse than the disease. We can't destroy lives and businesses.

This isn't a way to do this. And he made some very clear points that we had been making on the highway at that moment saying, look, it appears to me, based on all the signs that's coming in, that this virus has a death rate that is much below 1%. You know, very, I think he gets very seriously, or far below 1%. In fact, it ended up being, and at that time I think we're announcing, was about 0.27%. That was the death rate. I think it's even been moved down to somewhere between 0.24 and 0.26% worldwide. That was the entire death rate of this thing. So the 3 to 5, you know, 6% he was being told, as he said, was a complete lie, and he was calling them out on it.

Now, this isn't, I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. I'm not saying that I'm choosing sides. What I want to say is we cannot let them rewrite history. Who was really the culprits in this? Who really didn't want the truth to get out? It was our own mainstream media because this is how they handled the president of the United States giving you clear data, which is now proven to be true,

telling you I want to be open because these lockdowns are not the right approach. Remember now, two years later, we're all recognizing through studies that they were totally useless and only did harm. You had a president saying that, But what was the reaction by the media? This is what their reaction was. This president is being wildly irresponsible.

What the president is suggesting is really a formula for more uncertainty, more infections, and more harm to the economy. I'm stunned by the president saying this is the timeline. But many public health experts say that is too soon and could risk a health care catastrophe. No expert backed him up on the eastern. call. Not one piece of science, not one projection. I think that the president was trying to do, he was making an aspirational projection. If you like to hear it or not, this is a wave that is here and is escalating. So we need to stop it. Once everybody's healthy, then we can have

a much more robust economy. We don't put a price on people's life. This is inconvenient from an economic and a personal standpoint, but we just have to do it. That is our major weapon against this virus right now. He's a fan of money first, mortality second. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy at the cost of human life. Hmm, kill my grandparents or my parents so that we can get the economy. Sounds pretty good. Don't make that call for my family.

If the president does end up saying anything true, you can run it as tape. But if he keeps lying like he has been every day on stuff this and personal. important, we should, all of us should stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's going to cost lives. I think he's listening to the science. And we know when we rely on data and science, not a precedent, it seems to ignore both of those things. We have never heard a sicker, more perverse formulation than what that man said today. Sick and perverse information otherwise known as truth. Now, again, I want to be very clear. This is not, I'm not here. to say Donald Trump, you know, was the best president ever was.

None of that. That's not the point. The point is, who are we as Americans supposed to blame? Who are we supposed to be looking at? And here's what I'm showing you. And here's what I believe. Donald Trump, clearly, who was the president at that moment, did not want the mask, did not want the lockdowns, wanted everybody back.

He was living his life in front of the cameras that exact way. So when we look back to the administration, maybe what we have to admit, and maybe what the conversation needs to be here is our president has no. freaking power because clearly this was a guy that was president but no one around him moved this so who was actually in charge what does it mean to be an administration because Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx were speaking out against him there in the media saying well I think he's just it's wishful thinking where he wants to be it happens to now and it's going to go down in history as having been fact the lockdowns were

a disaster they had absolutely no effect in fact probably increased all the problems that we had so as the science proves that out we're going to have to relook at the history here. But what is the problem in America? Is it the president? Do we blame Joe Biden right now? Or do we blame that whatever that administration is, that that deep state, if you will, that is always in power. Is there no matter who's the head? Doesn't matter if your president's walking around without a mask or is in his basement, it won't come out and is wearing a mask the whole time. Either way, it seems that this system moves anyway. So let's not let them hide the fact or blind us to the fact that whatever administration means, this is an establishment. This is, and by, by

By the way, Fox was in on it, they attacked, everybody attacked. Everybody took their marching orders from somebody and said, stick with the lockdowns, destroy the lives of Americans, let's get them vaccinated. So we're not going to let him off the hook here at the highway. And by the way, Chris Cuomo, when you say there are no experts that back his Easter decision, well, you should have been watching the high wire. We had experts every single week saying exactly that. In fact, you could only find experts that agreed with the administration if they were funded

by the pharmaceutical industry or working for government. Everybody outside, it appears, and we're now being, it's becoming more and more clear. We're on the side of staying open. Don't destroy lives. Don't do something we have never done with any other virus. Even those like the Spanish flu that Donald Trump referenced there that were deadly, we did not lock down the world and destroy our economies and everything else. Folks, we cannot let them rewrite this history.

Do not forget what happened here. It is time we make sure that the truth remains the truth. So help me God.