The Highwire with Del Bigtree - SENATOR JOHNSON GIVES NEW DETAILS ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Sen. Ron Johnson joins Del live to discuss the findings of his preliminary report regarding the attempted assassination of former President Trump and breaks down the published timeline of failure from the protection detail that his office put together in their investigation. The Senator also addressed Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

I have a very important conversation. I watched last week as Tracy Beans dove into this assassination attempt. And it's a really scary story. I happened to be traveling around. I was out in Milwaukee for some time where this was a point of conversation. I've been watching the hearings the way you have. I am blown away at the level of cover-up that's going on right before our eyes. I mean, it's like, have we not learned? Are we here again? Are we going to watch in a moment? area where there are cell phones now everywhere and act like it's a pruder film and no one should find out what actually happened? Well, I'm going to ask those hard questions right now, Senator Ron Johnson that finds himself in the middle of these hearings. I've watched how he's been fearless on this subject of vaccine injury, and I've been watching him, and I hope he's going to

be fearless on this discussion about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. This is what Senator Ron Johnson's been saying over the last couple of days. This was security failure. assume that you know any any kind of high roof top is is totally covered totally secured I mean particularly after JFK's assassination from the you know in in Dallas from was it the six floor window I mean we just assumed the secret service has all that covered we are getting information from local law enforcement and we appreciate that but unfortunately federal law enforcement agent they're just saying we'll go through your congressional liaison again

that's going to be unacceptable for my standpoint the briefings were infuriating. Director Cheedell started out and she admitted there were mistakes and gaffs. Yeah, those mistakes and gaffes result in the death of an American hero who died protecting his family, two other Americans grievously wounded, and a former president, presidential candidate, almost assassinated. The Department of Justice, Secret Service, FBI need to be completely transparent, I mean completely transparent. They haven't been so in the past. I've sent a letter yesterday demanding these agencies preserve

all of their records. I've already got a long list of questions. At the very end of the briefing, they said, well, if you have additional questions, submit them to DHS and the FBI. Well, I've submitted them. I'll be waiting for answers. I won't be holding my breath. It's my honor and just real pleasure to be joined now by Senator Ron Johnson. Senator Johnson, from, you know, a lay position out here in the world, not working at government. it feels like the political system in America is the craziest I've ever seen in my lifetime. Is that a shared sentiment amongst those working in government right now in Washington? I think most of us would agree we live in interesting times.

I would call them bizarre times. I mean, the number of major news events that just get layered one over the other, Very destabilizing, but I think the greatest instability we have in this country is the fact that we are just a horribly divided nation. And I was hoping, after the assassination attempt, we certainly heard it from President Trump and even President Biden from the Oval Office, that maybe that tragedy, and it was a tragedy, we lost an American hero, others grievously wounded, that tragedy could result in some good if it would wake Americans up to the fact that this is too great a threat to this nation. nation. As Lincoln said, quoting scripture, a house divided against itself cannot stand. We need to heal and unify this nation. Maybe this tragedy can be a catalyst for doing that. I hope so, and I

absolutely agree with you, the level of vitriol, the idea that our opponents are the end of the democracy, end of the republic, end of the world, this type of language is just, it's hit a level that has now creating an environment where I would say in many ways, I was shocked the very next day I was traveling right after the assassination attempt on President Trump and I was in the airport. I didn't hear anyone talking about it. I mean, you would think any other moment in history in this country, it would at least be the conversation for the next 24 hours.

And I just feel like in some ways we are just accepting, yeah, you know, that happens. I think we're just so overloaded, as you said, by just this change, like this whirlpool of news and everything feels like it's just turned up to the maximum 11. And our vitriol is so deep that it's almost like we accept that this is the world we live in and people can be shot at. And, you know, it's really, it's really a scary time for this country. Well, I mean, murders on big city streets are just becoming common. So even though somebody tried to see lost their life, well, that happens. Yeah. President Trump survived.

You know, he got a hole in his ear. He's going to show up the convention. Let's move on. Let's talk about something else. So, no, it's, again, these are perilous. These are troubling times. All these things that are happening, I hope they really do awaken Americans to the urgency of the moment.

We can't continue to go down this path. You found yourself, I think, in a key position here. You're a part of the investigations, the hearings that are taking place right now around this assassination attempt. But I think even more importantly, it was your state, Wisconsin, where the convention was about to happen. What were your thoughts? I mean, what happened just as far as security around what the convention was in your state? Did things have to change the moment you saw this? assassination attempt just days before the biggest event in your state, maybe ever.

How did that affect you? Because I know that there was a really big show you were putting on and to think that at the center of it was a presidential candidate that is now under serious threat. Well, there were already very serious security plans in place. There was law enforcement, you know, personnel from all over the country. It was really fun to see them. They were incredibly complimentary of Milwaukee and how nice Wisconsinites were. But we already had a pretty beefy security plan, a lot of manpower present and visible. That was definitely beefed up. I think security perimeters were tightened. I think probably fewer access zones. So trying to get in and out of the convention

secured site took more time. It was kind of a hassle. Once you're inside, you felt very secure. And quite honestly, what few protesters were there, by and large were very peaceful, which I truly appreciated and I just hope and pray that the same thing holds true for the DNC convention in Chicago. Let's let the political parties have their conventions if you want to protest, protest peacefully. So that honestly was a pretty good sign. There just was there was one instance where protesters didn't let convention goers get into the zone but that lasted very for a very short period of time and pretty much it was a peaceful convention. Again it was in tight.

bipartisan. You know, the mayor of Milwaukee's Democrat, the governor's Democrat. I mean, we all wanted the same goal. We wanted to showcase Milwaukee. People were impressed with it. We wanted people leaving with a very good impression of Wisconsin and Wisconsinites, and that absolutely happened. So totally bipartisan basis, which is helpful. Wow, so it could work. You guys actually can come together and get things done. It's a great sign. Let's get into the details a little bit because, I mean, this is, for those that are watching, this story of this assassination attempt is mind-blowing. I mean, it is, you're watching these hearings, of course, now the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatles is stepped down, which I suppose is the right move. My first question is, does that change her ability to be subpoenaed for your ability to get answers from her?

That's a lot of the questions that I have is, did she step down to avoid having to answer these questions? I would personally think the opposite, that you have more predictions when you're working inside of government than when you're outside. But what would be the answer to that? Has she protected herself from having to face some of the hard question that's going on? Well, the Inspector General Office now cannot interview her. Otherwise, subpoenas, you know, congressional inquiry can continue,

but that would be the only impediment. And I think personally we've got a pretty good Inspector General in DHS, which is one of the reasons I think the Biden administration is trying to ease him out the door. But anyway, that's really the only impact on that. You know, from my standpoint, I think we need a completely independent investigation. Now, this recognizes the fact that, you know, Secret Service, FBI, Department of Justice, they have certain investigatory tools and capabilities that we don't possess. And so we're going to have to rely on them to secure the site, do the ballistic testing,

do a lot of that type of investigation work, but Congress certainly can do transcribed interviews. And that's what I've had my staff do almost immediately after the assassination. We started reaching out to law enforcement on local state and federal level. Fortunately for us, local authorities are talking to us, I think partly because I think the federal officials are trying to throw them under the bus. So they want to get the truth out as quickly as possible. But we appreciate those law enforcement officials talking to us. I would say it's also good news.

I talked to the chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigation. I'm the ranking member there, as well as the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, which is the full committee over that subcommittee. Both of those chairman are interested in a bipartisan investigation. Senator Paul is a ranking member on the full committee. I think we have the agreement within the four of us to proceed, recognizing that you need to do interviews early before. memory fades or is influenced by events. So hopefully this can be a bipartisan investigation.

I just need to make sure it is absolutely thorough. I don't want to see investigatory leads go unfollowed up in case they may lead to someplace. Some people may not want us to go. The American people are going to demand the full truth here and full accountability. And that's certainly what I'm dedicated to providing. You know, I, even in like the, in this sort of just from a director's position of having been around some of these conversations, I have to say in all honesty, that building is the first thing that I would have been looking at. It's in my light training, you look out over a space and we were told you look as far as a mile out. Can you see any high ground, a mile out that has access to the stage?

That is what I was taught. I'm not in Secret Service. I have to imagine that they're taught exactly the same thing. That is what is making this story so hard to wrap your head around that a building, you know, 150 yards, you know, away, which is clearly in this sight line, that, first of all, that no one's on it. But even if you couldn't, if you were just, you didn't have enough manpower to have someone on it, that you wouldn't have someone guarding it, watching it. And then the fact that we, you know, and you've got this brilliant timeline you've released that we can look at, but you have people shouting and pointing out and going to saying to someone up there. You have, you know, snipers that already said there's a

strange guy walking around. I mean, this story is absolutely mind-blowing. It is really hard for me to even accept that it's ineptitude right now at the level it's at, because as I'm saying, A novice that I would call myself and just looking at security issues the way I've been taught to. That roof is like prime number one space we're looking at the whole time, making sure that's covered. How is it, how can it be explained that the Secret Service just didn't have that same attitude? Well, that's the $64,000 question. And you're right, that AGR building was obvious. Yes.

As we spoke with local law enforcement and we issued our initial findings, what I could say is just about every assumption you would make in terms of how Secret Service would handle protecting the life of a president, a former president, a candidate, any of their protectees, they didn't do those things. So the first thing, they didn't attend the 9 o'clock security briefing the day of the event. I mean, they're in charge. You think they would have to be there to finalize plans, make sure people are allocated, make sure their AGR building was fully covered. Nobody could get on the roof because it's an obvious threat. They didn't do that. They didn't show up. They were all on separate communication channels. So the county law enforcement snipers and SWAT teams, they were on a different communication channel than the county law enforcement patrol officers who were on a different channel from Secret Service. They were all filtering the. communication through the Butler County Com Center. So everything would have to be relayed, which would sort of help explain that the assassin was first notice at 510 by the sniper team inside the AGR building. They took a photograph of him at 514. The first shots were 5-611.

Yeah, like an hour out. I mean, that's a long time for people, hey, this guy's looking suspicious. Sent some patrol officers there. Check this guy out. Okay? And so again, just about everything you would assume the Secret Service would do they didn't do. And so that begs the question. Yeah. Was this allowed to happen? I mean, I understand why people would think that, which is why the American public needs to have a full and complete explanation of how this spectacular security failure could have occurred. You know, it's not going to be good enough to hold a couple of hearings, you know, get a couple of people to resolve.

design and move on. You know, and the beauty dell is this isn't in 1963 where you have one Zuprooter film. You've got hundreds of video cameras, which are recording audio. And so there's all kinds of evidence out there. People need to preserve it. They need to come forward. They need to memorialize what they remember because memories do change.

They can be influenced by events. But we need a completely independent investigation. That's what I intend to be a part of. Look, can we, I want to just bring up the timeline really quick just to read through this for people that haven't seen. I want to thank you for releasing this. I know you've said it's not complete. It's just sort of the basics of what you've learned here. But when we look at it at 9 a.m., they hold a briefing.

Let's go ahead and move to the first time that they see him at 510, the next page of this. So at 510, Crooks is first observed by one of the snipers, one of the units at the AGR building at 514. and sniper one takes a picture. We got a picture. They're looking at him. This is a guy you're looking for. They take a picture of a strange bicycle with a backpack at 532. AGR sniper one spots Crooks, looking at his phone and using a rangefinder. Next page, AGR sniper one sends a message to the sniper group about this guy. At 540, he's told to call it into command, which he does at 541, calls into command and provides a description of crooks in the rangefinder, as well as that crooks was lurking around.

I mean, the fact that, I mean, you just can't believe they're not grabbing this guy already. What is going on? I mean, this, it's like a comedy of errors. And if it wasn't so tragic, 605, sniper one later communicates that Crooks has seen moving northeast in their direction of sheets. And the crooks has a backpack at 606 to 612 AGR. Snepper 1 goes to ground floor of the building to meet local law enforcement patrol to alert them about crooks. Presence at 611. Crooks begins shooting.

and it goes on from there. You're reporting now that there were eight casings found where Crooks was found dead. Had there been discussions about the amount of shots there were? Was it just eight? I'm seeing all sorts of things online. Some people saying there's as many as 14. Talks about a shooter on a water tower. Is any of that real?

Is any of that a part of this investigation? Or from your perspective, are we really just looking at one? shooter right now. Well again, pretty interesting videos out there that kind of breaking down with audio files. The first three shots certainly sounded different than the next five that were very staccatoed, you know, closer together. Then you have the final shot probably took the sniper out. Again, this is what the FBI should be telling us. They should be telling us how many shots did the Secret Service sniper fire? Was it just one? Was it two?

What are your audio files showing? Because of that speculation out there of potentially three different guns being used, I thought it was pretty interesting once we got eyewitness testimony, the two eyewitnesses saw eight shells next to the body, well, that will certainly start answering some of those questions. I can't answer all the questions, but that's where we're trying to get this information out as quickly as possible. And we received a briefing the Senate did on Wednesday last week with the director of this FBI and Director of the Secret Service.

Both of those directors said, we're trying to provide these briefings so that these conspiracies theories don't, you know, aren't hatched and they don't start spreading. Well, they're gonna spread because you're not giving us information. Director Cheedel, she was asked, how many shells? I'm referring to the FBI investigation. Why? I mean, if you know it's eight, say eight.

There's nothing going to harm investigation by saying, you know, there are eight shells up there. I mean, it's just, that is what the bureaucrats do. That's what the deep state does. They hide behind the age-old excuse of, well, there's an active investigation. I love to give the information, but active investigation, and what I found really infuriating, is when she started saying it's only been nine days. When I heard that, I'm thinking, it's been nine days.

How can you not have this information? How can you not have released this? Why aren't you providing daily briefings, updates with what you know? You don't have to have the whole puzzle filled in right now. You want to have enough information so that conspiracy theories don't run wild, so you give the American public some confidence. You're going to be honest and transparent. We've gotten none of that. And it's a real shame.

You know, you're in government right now. You know, this is the type of story we're used to, as you pointed out, you know, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, of Robert Kennedy. These files always seem to be buried. Can you guarantee to the public right now that we are not going to live through another one of the, these events where suddenly this thing will just get packaged up, sent to a vault somewhere. I mean, do you feel like we're going to get the truth here as the American public? Because, you know, we're sitting in a time where we keep asking every president, will you release the file so we know what actually happened in the JFK assassination and they don't?

Are there, like, do you get a sense? I mean, I'm sure now you're in government, it's got to be weird being there. We always forget that, you know, at least guys like yourself that aren't like career politicians, that you find yourself in this position where these decisions are made. Are there people around here you think that would like to see this all buttoned up and hidden from the public or is everyone bipartisan involved in wanting transparency right now? Can we expect transparency? Well, right now everybody's saying that.

I mean, I will tell you I am absolutely dedicated doing everything I can to uncover and expose the full truth. So we know what happened here. I can't say that's true. The agencies. I don't trust the FBI. I don't trust Department of Justice. I don't trust the Secret Service. They've given me all kinds of reasons not to trust them.

I have firsthand knowledge not to trust them. So, I mean, we know that, you know, the Warren Commission was by and large set up to cover up what happened. And I would think, I would hope that President Trump, who said that Mike Pompeo talked him out of releasing all the documents that were supposed to be released on the Kennedy assassination,

I would hope the first day in office he released the truth to the American public in terms of what happened. Because I think that will probably also open up people's eyes and help us ask some questions that people don't necessarily want to have asked. Again, you can't explain this. This is such an amateurish attempt to protect a presidential candidate. It just, it bothers the mind. It's like it almost, you almost feel like something happened.

here on purpose. Can't say that for sure, but I can certainly understand why people would think that, which, again, just underscores the need to be fully transparent, fully honest, and provide a full accounting so people can make sense of this. I don't think people can be that incompetent, quite honestly. Are you have colleagues that are going as far as saying that privately, just saying, it looks like an inside job to me, or is everyone, are you all so well-trained at avoiding the big question. I mean, is that murmur even, is it, I mean, because outside, out here in the world, we're all going, come on. There's just too many questions. It seems harder to explain it as being accidental at least than it's like the Occam's razor. The simplest answer is usually the

one that's true. What is the murmuring, you know, inside of, you know, official, like government officials right now? Well, right now I think we're having such a hard time getting the agencies to be transparent with information they have. So right now it's all about, well, how do we, how do we, you know, coax this information? How do we extract this out of the agency? So we're focused on that. Again, the facts will lead us to our conclusions. So, you know, listen, we shouldn't be speculating. We really shouldn't be. No. But I completely understand why others are, which is why it's so important for the information of the truth to get out there. This has to be explained. And right now, it's inexplicable. I mean, you literally can't, I can't explain it. This makes no sense for me whatsoever.

I know you've got to run. I do want to get into one of the topic because you've been having some of the most important hearings of all times for the work that I do, which is on transparency around vaccines, especially the COVID vaccine, the COVID lockdowns. We've spoken many times. You are really making headway. I just want to play this clip of Robert Redfield on the stand, former head. head of the CDC. Let's take a look at this. I think, Senator, what you're getting at, which I'm 100% agreeing with you, is I think there was not appropriate transparency from the beginning about the potential side effects of these vaccines. And I do think there was inappropriate decisions by some to try to under-report any side effects because they argued that would make the public less likely to get vaccinated. I do think one of the great The greatest mistakes that was made, of course, was mandating these vaccines.

They should have never been mandated. It should have been open to personal choice. They don't prevent infection. They do have side effects. I'm going to clinic this afternoon. But again, I appreciate your admitting side effects, but you have to admit the people of the agencies, the marks, the Dr. Marks, the Dr. Woodcock. They're still by and large denying this, right?

They're saying, well, they're mild, they're rare and they're mild. They're not rare and they're severe to death. The FDA should release all of the safety data. they have. I was very disappointed to hear that they were planning to hold on to that till 2026. That really creates a sense of total lack of trust in our public health agencies towards vaccination. It's counterproductive. So, Mr. Chairman, I'm not getting cooperation out of the chairman of the firm's subcommittee to issue subcommittee to get this information, this information. You have not yet issued a subpoenaed to get the final 50 pages unredacted. I would suggest we do that.

Again, as important as the cover-up of the origin story is there's a lot more that's being covered up. The public has a right to know. We pay for these agencies. We pay their salaries. We fund these studies. And they're not giving them to us. So, I mean, this exchange, you know, that just took place, Robert Redfield is admitting things. The fact that he knew that vaccine injuries were going to happen, that there's a cover-up because they're trying to get the vaccine out.

They wanted confidence. I mean, these are shocking. If we didn't live in a time where there was assassination attempts, this seems like some of the most shocking evidence ever to come about. What is the response from your colleagues? Again, I keep asking this. You've been all alone. Are you starting to have some of your colleagues say, my God, did he just say what I heard him say? Are we waking up here to the fact that a product looked like it wasn't properly tested?

the head of the CDC knew it. He knew we were covering up, you know, getting it out there. I mean, what's happening? There was absolutely no reaction on the part of my colleagues. You know, the chairman of the committee, Gary Peters, he's the one that really ticked off Pierre Corey by calling him a political animal, basically, for Pierre Corey's testimony, Ivermectin. Yeah.

And so, no, I mean, I got no reaction. Unfortunately, I'm not on committees where Dr. Redfield or Dr. Fauci would normally appear. Redfield came here because we were talking about gain of function research and how dangerous that is. I took that opportunity. By the way, that was a good hearing. We need to figure out the cover up there. We still, by the way, having subpoenaed the last 50 pages of redacted emails out of Anthony Fauci. The chairman won't subpoena that. If I were chair, that would already be subpoenaed. So I've written over 60 oversight letters. If I become, if we get the majority, I'll become chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigation,

actually have stronger subpoena power than I did as chairman of the full committee. So I would fully intend to use that and start uncovering this. But no, Short answer to your question, nobody, absolutely, nobody came up to me after my questioning. I thought it was kind of a blockbuster admission. And I credit Dr. Redfield for being honest. But even that is pretty much a limited hangout, right? We hear Dr. Birx now saying, well, yeah, you know, vaccine injuries are real. We've seen a couple of thousands.

No, Dr. Burks, we've seen millions. Right. There's over 37,000 deaths associated with the COVID vaccine. 24% occurring on day zero one or two. Come on, wake up. But listen, I appreciate Redsfield's honesty, hope and pray that we're in the majority and that I get the gavel, permissump can be investigation. I should, and that will be one of my primary focuses. Now, obviously, we're going to have to certainly spend resources on getting the bottom of this assassination attempt as well.

I mean, it's a target-rich environment here. I keep saying, I'm like a mosquito in a nudist colony. There's a lot to investigate. Do you? It's a great line. Do you have any sense? I want to express a concern of mine. Donald Trump talks about vaccines more than any other president. He's shown some sense of, you know, even, you know, prior to running the last time when he won,

that he thought vaccine injury was real. It could happen. Has he ever reached out to you on any of the testimony you're doing? Have you had any sense from him just like, great job, Senator Johnson, or we're going to continue these hearings, you know, if I can get back in office, Do you have any sense of where he is at? Is he watching your hearings? I've spoken to him a couple times on this subject. Again, he's pretty proud of Operation Warp Speed.

I think he's pretty proud of the vaccine. But I've also heard him talk about his concern about vaccine injuries and children. You know, he had somebody worked for him whose child was obviously vaccine injured, which is why I think he was going to have Bobby Kennedy, you know, establish that commission for some reason he was talked out of it. Yeah. I was very pleased to see what, you revealed. What was the gentleman's name again?

Yeah, Stanley Plotkin. Stanley Plotkin has just come clean on the fact that they're. Here's my concern on that, is that, yeah, they're looking for funding. So again, another limited hangout, not necessarily to get to the truth, but to get more funding so they can conduct studies. They're going to be corrupt and going to prove that vaccines are safe and effective. So that we cannot let happen. So don't be fooled by this limited hangout.

And I know you're not fooled. But again, the truth is coming out. They simply can't deny it anymore. I think more people's minds are open to this. And I think President Trump's mind will definitely be open to these vaccine injuries, particularly on the childhood schedule. One of my concerns is, you know, clearly you're doing these hearings with Joe Biden as president because there seems to be Republican pushback.

There's some partisanship around this, though. shouldn't be. My concern is a little bit that if Donald Trump was elected president, that he might shut down these hearings and investigations in the COVID lockdown, because as you said, he loved warp speed. His name's attached his vaccines, kind of got the big Trump gold letters on the side of it. I'd be worried that, you know, knowing his need to sort of be right, people call him an egomaniac, whatever, but that, you know, even if he goes on to do things, you know, limited hangouts, as you point out, maybe looking at vaccine investigations in the future, I'm concerned he might try to shut these hearings down because he just doesn't look good.

This lockdown, the pandemic, how it's handled by both President Trump and Joe Biden, they both handled this poorly, shut down businesses. He rushed the vaccine out. You know, if I guess my question to you is, is if you're a Republican leader, you finally get a president and they said, Ron, I need you to sort of look the other way on these investigations. Is there a risk that these investigations we shut down? Because they're really important for the work that we're doing.

Could it turn on a partisan dime to sort of just say, we don't want to make the president look bad any longer? With me, there's zero percent chance risk of that happening. Zero. Okay. There is no way I'm going to be deterred. It's the main reason I ran for reelection in 2022.

I could be living a good life right now. Yeah. I ran because I couldn't turn my back on this country. but also the vaccine injured needed an advocate because there were no advocates. So now I've been laying all the foundational groundwork to do these investigatory oversight hearings. We will do those. Okay, and also from a standpoint of President Trump, he's not going to be up for re-election. I mean, he has a new lease on life.

There's no way that could happen to any of us and not have it literally change our life. So he's been granted a new lease on life. Hopefully he will be on a mission to expose truth, to heal and unify this nation, to start addressing these enormous challenges that face our nation. But no, there will be no way that I'll be deterred. This is why I ran again. This is going to be my mission in life. We need to get to the truth. And not just on the COVID vaccines.

I want to take it upon myself to make sure that the childhood vaccine schedule is explored, that we expose the fact that these things have never been tested against the true placebo. I mean, the massive amount of vaccine. I mean, people are asking questions. Yeah. The American public is starting to open up their eyes, and that's what COVID did. It was so mismanaged. We were lied to, obviously lied to by so many people in government that a lot of, a lot of,

I don't know what percentage, but a pretty good significant share of the American public, does not trust these federal health agencies, does not believe what they've told during COVID, and so they're starting to question all the other lies as well. So I think we have a real opportunity here to expose this and hopefully correct course. Well, that makes me feel really good. I won't say that I trust Donald Trump or anyone else, whoever is president of the United States. I think these are some of the most important hearings going on. As you point out, this childhood schedule has been a part of a lot of lives for many decades now.

The government's behind it. It's time for transparency. It's time for us to unite in Biden. bipartisan missions to start finding ways to come to answers together. You know, I've said it before. When you look at a photo, have you played sports at all? If there's a team across the field, it's all yelling and screaming at each other. That team loses 100% of the time.

We're going to lose in the world if we keep yelling at each other. It's time to bring back the vitriol, bring it down, start having communications, find out where we can agree and work from there. I'm just so happy that you're in there. It's just an honor to know you're truly a hero in this. time. I know what a sacrifice it is. You know, you could be retired. You could be out boating on the lakes up there in beautiful Wisconsin. Instead, you're doing the work for the people. So keep it up. That's a great encouragement. Thank you so much for all you're doing, Senator Johnson. Del, you're doing the

same thing, and I don't know how anybody could not watch Vaxed your documentary and not look into this, not take this seriously. I mean, that is a hard documentary to watch. It literally took me three cracks at the apple to get all the way through it. That's the kind of information, the truth that people have to see. And once they see it, once your eyes are open, you can't close them. So again, I've actually got a fair amount of hope that we can open this up and we can change course. Fantastic. We're supporting you all the way. Take care. And thank you for taking the time today. Share all of your thoughts.

Thank you.