According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) <a href="https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/le/leoka">Crime Data Explorer</a>, more police officers were feloniously killed in 2021 than in any year since 2011.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/us/police-officers-line-of-duty-deaths/index.html">CNN</a> reports that 2021 “marks the highest total recorded by the agency since 1995, excluding the 9/11 attacks.”
73 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in 2021, which is a “58.7 percent increase compared to the 46 officers killed in 2020, and the highest total since 2011,” according to the report.
“Of the 73 felonious deaths in 2021, 61 involved firearms, 6 involved vehicles used as weapons, and 4 involved personal weapons,” the report states.
24 of the deaths were the result of “unprovoked attacks,” which the report says is of concern “because this circumstance significantly outpaced all other felonious officer deaths in 2021 and reached the highest total in over 30 years of reporting.”
“257 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty from illnesses related to COVID-19, 17 officers died due to heart attacks, 3 officers succumbed to cancer, 1 officer died due to other natural causes, and 1 officer died from conditions associated with responding to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.”
Since the protests and riots that rocked multiple cities across the United States following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, and the subsequent calls by many Leftists to defund the police, sentiment toward law enforcement officers has vacillated. However, according to a September 2021 <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area/">Pew Research survey</a>, favor toward the police seems to be rebounding from previous lows.
When Pew asked about police funding in 2020, 12% of respondents said it should be “decreased a lot,” 14% said “decreased a little,” and only 11% said “increased a lot.” 
In 2021, however, the numbers shifted pretty dramatically. Only 6% said funding should be “decreased a lot,” 9% said “decreased a little,” and 21% said “increased a lot.”
The view of minorities regarding police funding has changed significantly as well.
“Since 2020, the views of Black Americans and Democrats have changed more than the views of White and Hispanic adults and Republicans when it comes to decreasing funding for local police,” Pew reports. “The share of Black adults who say police spending in their area should be decreased has fallen 19 percentage points since last year (from 42% to 23%), including a 13-point decline in the share who say funding should be decreased a lot (from 22% to 9%). The share of White and Hispanic adults who say funding for local police should be decreased also declined over this period, but not as much.”
Additionally, Pew notes that while 41% of Democrats, as well as those who “lean” Democrat, had in 2020 suggested a decrease in funding, just 25% do in 2021. Democrats and “lean” Democrats who wanted an increase in funding jumped from 19% to 34%.
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More Law Enforcement ‘Feloniously Killed’ In 2021 Than In Any Single Year In Over Two Decades: FBI Report

Law Enforcement

On Sunday, Tom Bossert, former Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, appeared on  ABC’s “This Week” to discuss COVID-19.
During the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-16-22-dr-vivek-murthy-rep/story?id=82284838">segment</a>, Bossert asserted that the federal government should admit that is has made “significant mistakes” in order to regain trust with the American people.
“And messaging and public trust is important in this. And the messaging has been confusing,” host Martha Raddatz said.
Bossert replied, saying that the responsibility of the federal government is “procuring these vaccines and treatments, and we&#8217;ve made some significant mistakes there, failed to make big bets.”
He added that the COVID-19 treatment drug Paxlovid should have been ordered much earlier, but was instead waited on. “And so now the messaging breaks that public trust. Admit that, and I think they&#8217;d earn some trust. Then we&#8217;d be able to move forward,” Bossert said.
The former homeland security advisor continued, noting that crisis management requires three things, which are “clear and consistent messaging, telling people what you know and don&#8217;t know, and acknowledging mistakes…”
He said that if one of those is broken, things can go sideways.
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Federal officials need to admit that they’ve made “some significant mistakes” during COVID-19 response in order to regain public trust, former Trump Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert says.
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>RADDATZ: And messaging and public trust is important in this. And the messaging has been confusing.
BOSSERT: The federal government really has two big, primary roles. The first is procuring these vaccines and treatments, and we&#8217;ve made some significant mistakes there, failed to make big bets. The doctor mentioned that we &#8212; we&#8217;ve got another Merck drug that we&#8217;ve ordered. But they ordered that one early in the test trial phase. That&#8217;s what they should have done with Paxlovid. They waited six months for second and third phase trials, and they shouldn&#8217;t have done that.
And so now the messaging breaks that public trust. Admit that, and I think they&#8217;d earn some trust. Then we&#8217;d be able to move forward.
If we change our messaging, vacillate on our, on our belief set, lose sight of our common purpose or goal, people pick up on that and they don&#8217;t trust anymore. So, in fact, I tell people that, in a crisis, which is what this is, clear and consistent messaging, telling people what you know and don&#8217;t know, and acknowledging mistakes and moving on are the three keys to maintaining trust. And if you break any one of them, you’ll have a harder time with the underlying core response plan and its execution.</blockquote>
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Former Trump Homeland Security Advisor: Government ‘Acknowledging Mistakes’ With COVID-19 Could Help Rebuild Trust

COVID-19

During a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/01/13/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-january-13-2022/">briefing</a> on Thursday, CBS News’ Weijia Jiang asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about the video from Iran showing a mock drone assassination of former President Donald Trump.
After bringing up the video, Jiang asked: “Is the intelligence community assessing this threat and working with former President Trump to offer protection of any kind?”
Psaki responded, saying that she wouldn’t “speak to the work of our intelligence community.” However, she added that this kind of “offensive rhetoric and behavior” from Iran’s leader has been seen before.
Jiang pressed again, but Psaki said she didn’t have “more details.”
The reporter did later receive a <a href="https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1481793147986395139?s=21">response</a> from the White House, which condemned the video, noted that intelligence matters aren’t discussed publicly, and added: “The United States will protect and defend its citizens. This includes those serving the United States now and those who formerly served.”
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revenge-is-definite-iran-releases-video-depicting-assassination-of-trump-at-mar-a-lago">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, the video, which was released Wednesday on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website, depicts a drone strike on former President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
According to The Times of Israel: “The animated video was part of a contest to mark the January 3, 2020, killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, who was slain in an American drone strike in Baghdad.”
The video depicts an agent setting up the strike via a remote ground vehicle and surveillance as Trump plays a round of golf. Just prior to the strike, which isn’t shown, a text message is sent to the former president, reading: “Soleimani’s murderer and the one who gave the order will pay the price.”
The propaganda follows a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revenge-is-definite-iran-releases-video-depicting-assassination-of-trump-at-mar-a-lago">threat</a> made by Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force (IRGC) Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani, who said: “We will prepare ground for the hard revenge against the US from within their homes, as we do not need to be present as supervisors everywhere, wherever is necessary we take revenge against Americans by the help of people on their side and within their own homes without our presence.”
TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>JIANG: I have a question about a video that Iran’s Supreme Leader posted on his website that appears to show a robot conducting a drone strike, killing the former president at his Mar-a-Lago golf club. Is the intelligence community assessing this threat and working with former President Trump to offer protection of any kind?
PSAKI: I’m not going to speak to the work of our intelligence community. Obviously, the kind of rhetoric or video from the Supreme Leader is something that we’ve seen — you know, offensive rhetoric and behavior in the past. But I’m not going to speak to more specifics of internal discussions.
JIANG: But are you aware of the video?
PSAKI: I don’t have any more details on it.</blockquote>
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Reporter Asks Psaki If Intel Community Working To Protect Trump After Assassination Video

Iran

Jen Psaki

On Friday, journalist Ted Koppel appeared on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live.” During his segment, Koppel and host Dan Abrams covered several topics before discussing the bias in legacy media, especially as it relates to former President Trump.
Abrams first read a 2019 quote from Koppel:
<blockquote>I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about The New York Times these days, when you talk about The Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about The New York Times of 50 years ago. We’re not talking about The Washington Post of 50 years ago. We’re talking about organizations that, I believe, have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States.</blockquote>
Abrams then asked Koppel if he still felt the same way.
After praising legacy outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post for “brilliant journalism,” Koppel noted that “opinion belongs on the opinion page; that’s why they call it the op-ed section.”
“I don’t like seeing opinion being expressed on the front page of a great newspaper,” Koppel said, later adding that it “bothers me when I see them losing some of the criteria that always used to keep a wall between opinion and news coverage.”
Abrams pushed back, saying that some journalists claim that Trump is different, and therefore must be “covered differently by the media.”
“I think if you start drawing those distinctions, it&#8217;s very difficult to know where you stop drawing the distinction. Do you feel that way about anybody else in politics?” Koppel replied before reiterating that the place for opinion is the op-ed page.
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>ABRAMS: Do you still feel that way, and if so, how has that, do you think, impacted media coverage of Donald Trump over the past few years?
KOPPEL: Well, let me be absolutely clear: I think The New York Times and The Washington Post do some absolutely brilliant journalism. But I think opinion belongs on the opinion page; that’s why they call it the op-ed section. And that&#8217;s where the opinion pieces are, the columns; that’s where the editorials are, and that&#8217;s where it belongs. I don’t like seeing opinion being expressed on the front page of a great newspaper. Having said that, let me say again, I think the Times, the Post, The Wall Street Journal are doing some of the best journalism that I have seen over the past 50 years. I just wish they wouldn&#8217;t slip into that category. And when you start — you know, Lyndon Johnson used to say, when we get down in the mud with a hog, the hog loves it, and you both get dirty. So, it bothers me when I see them losing some of the criteria that always used to keep a wall between opinion and news coverage.
ABRAMS: And as you know, the response to that from some would be that Donald Trump is different, that he has to be covered differently by the media than others. What do you make of that?
KOPPEL: Well, I think if you start drawing those distinctions, it&#8217;s very difficult to know where you stop drawing the distinction. Do you feel that way about anybody else in politics? Is, you know, are we going to start picking up our morning newspaper to see who’s in and who’s out in terms of the news coverage? Again, there is a place for that, in the op-ed section. I don&#8217;t like it on the front page.</blockquote>
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Ted Koppel Slams Media Bias: ‘If You Start Drawing Those Distinctions,’ Hard To ‘Know Where You Stop’

Legacy Media

Ted Koppel

On Friday, during a briefing with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell, a reporter appeared to ask Criswell about an announcement President Biden made regarding free “high-quality” masks for Americans.
“So, what’s the point of now sending N95 or KN95 masks out to Americans if a lot of those masks are just single, daily use, like somebody wears it once — then what?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/01/14/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-fema-administrator-deanne-criswell-january-14-2022/">asked</a>.
Criswell didn’t answer Doocy’s question directly:
<blockquote>Masks save lives — I think is the important thing here. And we want to make sure that everybody has the tools and resources that they need in order to protect themselves and their families.</blockquote>
Psaki immediately moved on to the next reporter.
During <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/13/remarks-by-president-biden-at-virtual-meeting-on-military-deployments-supporting-hospitals-for-the-covid-19-response/">remarks</a> at the White House on Thursday, President Biden said that it was our “patriotic duty” to wear masks, then he spoke about his alleged free mask distribution plan:
<blockquote>Please wear a mask. If you’re in a — you know, I think it is part of your patriotic duty. It’s not that comfortable. It’s a pain in the neck.
[…]
We have also helped make sure that high-quality masks are widely available, in ample supply, at affordable prices, sold online and in stores. But I know that for some Americans, a mask is not always affordable or convenient to get. So, next week we’ll announce how we are making high-quality masks available to American people — the American people for free.</blockquote>
The president didn’t elaborate on the plan.
Biden isn’t the only Democrat <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-congress-must-demand-the-mass-production-and-distribution-of-n95-masks">pushing</a> for free N95 or KN95 masks. On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) <a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-reintroduces-legislation-to-give-every-american-lifesaving-n95-masks/">reintroduced</a> his “Masks for All Act,” which is co-sponsored by multiple Democratic senators, including Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ).
Sanders said of the proposed legislation:
<blockquote>Congress must demand the mass production and distribution of N95 masks, one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of the Covid virus. It is an absolute scandal that in the richest country in the history of the world, high-quality masks are not more readily available to frontline workers, health care workers, and all Americans. We are proposing that we do what our public health experts and scientists say we must do: provide all of our people with high-quality, N95 masks without cost, which could prevent death and suffering and save huge amounts of health care dollars.</blockquote>
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html">updated</a> their mask guidance, providing information about higher-quality masks, including N95 and KN95 masks.
“Loosely woven cloth products provide the least protection, layered finely woven products offer more protection, well-fitting disposable surgical masks and KN95s offer even more protection, and well-fitting NIOSH-approved respirators (including N95s) offer the highest level of protection,” the CDC website states.
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Reporter Questions FEMA Admin On ‘Free’ Mask Announcement: ‘A Lot Of Those Masks Are Just Single, Daily Use’

Face Masks

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Latham Saddler

INTERVIEW: GA Senate Candidate Latham Saddler Talks Big Tech Censorship, Communist China, And Much More

2022 Election

Georgia

On Sunday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger appeared on CBS’ “Face The Nation” with host Margaret Brennan.
During a segment on voting legislation, Raffensperger and Brennan sparred over voter ID requirements, as well as citizen voting.
“I think that we should have a constitutional amendment, a U.S. constitution amendment that only American citizens vote in our elections. I think we should have also photo ID,” Raffensperger said.
Brennan jumped in, saying that “only U.S. citizens do currently vote in elections,” to which Raffensperger replied: “But we don&#8217;t have a constitutional amendment.”
The Georgia Secretary of State continued, noting that “cities are trying to push non-citizen voting,” and that majorities of Americans support both citizenship requirements and voter ID.
Brennan claimed the latest voting laws being pushed by Democrats “promote a national standard for states that have an ID requirement for in-person voting. You could use a bank statement or utility bill.”
“It does not have photo ID, and photo ID is the most secure way of using — making sure that you can identify who the voter is, and I think that&#8217;s very important,” Raffensperger said. “And then they also want same-day registration, and that&#8217;s just, you know, very difficult for any election official to manage. And I think that undermines trust in elections.”
According to a <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_062121/">June poll</a> by Monmouth University, a strong majority of Americans believe that ID should be required to vote.
“In general, do you support or oppose requiring voters to show a photo I.D. in order to vote?” the poll asked. 80% of respondents supported voter ID, while just 18% opposed it.
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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>RAFFENSPERGER: I think that we should have a constitutional amendment, a U.S. constitution amendment that only American citizens vote in our elections. I think we should have also photo ID. We now have photo ID for all forms of voting in Georgia&#8211;
BRENNAN: Only U.S. citizens do currently vote in elections, but go on.
RAFFENSPERGER: But we don&#8217;t have a constitutional amendment. Now you see cities are trying to push non-citizen voting, and I believe that only American citizens should be voting in our elections, that’s supported by a wide variety — a wide majority of all Americans, just like photo ID is supported by all demographic groups and a majority of both political parties. And that&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve been using in Minnesota for over 11 years for their absentee balloting. So that&#8217;s another, you know, solid, common sense federal reform measure if they really want to get serious about election reform.
BRENNAN: I assume there you&#8217;re referring to the president and the vice president, who will be traveling to your state in the coming days. They are doing so to campaign for two laws: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
RAFFENSPERGER: Right, and–
BRENNAN: The Freedom to Vote Act actually does promote a national standard for states that have an ID requirement for in-person voting. You could use a bank statement or utility bill. I wonder, why do you think Republicans–
RAFFENSPERGER: It does not have — it does not have photo ID, and photo ID is the most secure way of using — making sure that you can identify who the voter is, and I think that&#8217;s very important. And then they also want same day registration, and that&#8217;s just, you know, very difficult for any election official to manage. And I think that undermines trust in elections. And right now, we need to restore trust wherever we can.</blockquote>
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WATCH: GA Secretary Of State Spars With CBS Host Over Voter ID

Brad Raffensperger

Voter ID

On Sunday, former FDA Commissioner and current Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb appeared on CBS’ “Face The Nation” with host Margaret Brennan to discuss the latest developments pertaining to COVID-19.
During the segment, Brennan asked Gottlieb if he stands by his prediction that Omicron will begin to burn out in some major metropolitan areas by February.
“You said we&#8217;ll be past the Omicron wave by February. Do you stand by that trajectory?” Brennan asked.
Gottlieb replied by noting that despite predictions that Delta would have been the final “major wave of infection,” Omicron arrived and surprised many.
“But if you look what&#8217;s happening across the East Coast right now in New York City, Washington, D.C., Maryland, probably Florida as well have already peaked, maybe Delaware and Rhode Island,” Gottlieb stated. “You&#8217;re going to start to see that in the statistics this week. You&#8217;re going to start to see those curves, those epidemic curves bend down. You are already seeing that in New York City and Washington, D.C.”
He continued, however, saying that the Midwest is looking at rising cases, “where they aren&#8217;t in the thick of their Omicron wave yet.”
“On the good side, hospitalizations are down relative to cases, but cases are up substantially, so it&#8217;s pressing hospitals,” Gottlieb added, later noting that the “length of stay is down substantially … from four days to 1.6 days in the survey by Kaiser,” which is “allowing hospitals to turn over beds.”
However, the “sheer velocity of the spread right now and the number of hospitalizations is pressing them,” he added.
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>BRENNAN: You said we&#8217;ll be past the Omicron wave by February. Do you stand by that trajectory? And do we get to breathe a sigh of relief at that point?
GOTTLIEB: Hopefully, we do. I mean, many people, including myself, have predicted that Delta would be the last major wave of infection. Then Omicron and came along, which was &#8212; represented sort of divergent evolution, I think surprised us that the virus was able to mutate so heavily and evade the immunity that we have acquired.
But if you look what&#8217;s happening across the East Coast right now in New York City, Washington, D.C., Maryland, probably Florida as well have already peaked, maybe Delaware and Rhode Island. You&#8217;re going to start to see that in the statistics this week. You&#8217;re going to start to see those curves, those epidemic curves bend down.
You are already seeing that in New York City and Washington, D.C. The risk right now is to the Midwest, where you have rising infection, where they aren&#8217;t in the thick of their Omicron wave yet. And you have states that had high hospitalization rates going into this. They had a lot of Delta infection. They had been coming out of their Delta wave, so their hospital census was already high.
And now they&#8217;re seeing Omicron infections pick up. On the good side, hospitalizations are down relative to cases, but cases are up substantially, so it&#8217;s pressing hospitals. Many of the hospitals on the East Coast are going to reach or surpass their previous hospitalization totals.
New York City is probably the city that&#8217;s best equipped to handle it. They&#8217;re about at 55% of the hospitalizations that they saw during that devastating first wave. But in other states, they&#8217;re more pressed. They&#8217;re close to 100% of the hospitalizations they saw in previous waves.
Finally, on the good side, length of stay is down substantially, so length of stay has gone from four days to 1.6 days in the survey by Kaiser, for example. So that&#8217;s allowing hospitals to turn over beds. But the sheer velocity of the spread right now and the number of hospitalizations is pressing them.</blockquote>
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Gottlieb On Omicron: ‘Epidemic Curves’ To Begin Going Down In Certain East Coast States

Omicron Variant

Scott Gottlieb

During a special runoff election in 2021, radical Democrat Raphael Warnock won a Senate seat in the state of Georgia.
Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed after former Senator Johnny Isakson resigned with three years left in his term. Because of this turnover, Warnock will face another Republican opponent in November 2022.
One possible Republican challenger to Warnock is former Navy SEAL Latham Saddler, who announced his candidacy in April.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Saddler, and ask him why he believes he’s the best candidate to take on Democrat Raphael Warnock in the 2022 election.
“I’m the candidate that checks the two boxes that actually matter. I&#8217;m the only candidate that can actually beat Raphael Warnock in a general election in Georgia,” Saddler said. “And I&#8217;m the only candidate that has the experience to get up to Washington and actually serve effectively as Georgia’s next United States Senator.”
Saddler explained his reasoning, noting that as Director of Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council under former President Trump, he has experience “running our country&#8217;s black ops portfolio and putting our adversaries on their heels.”
“Georgia deserves to have a United States Senator that actually has the experience at the national level advancing [America First] policies,” Saddler added.
As for running against former football star Herschel Walker, who has been endorsed by Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Saddler said that this is no time for celebrity leadership.
“These are very serious times for our country that require serious leadership,” he stated.
<blockquote>Herschel&#8217;s doing the Biden basement strategy. He doesn&#8217;t show up to debates; he doesn&#8217;t take questions whenever he rarely gets out on the trail; and he just moved over here after almost 30 years of living in Texas to be handed the United States Senate seat from Georgia — that&#8217;s not going to happen. And the people in Georgia that I come across, when they see that, that&#8217;s not what they want. They want an authentic, next generation, America First leader for this seat, and I&#8217;m the only candidate in this race that has that background.</blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>Q: Can you talk about specifically why Warnock is as dangerous as many people say he is, and what makes you the best candidate to take him on as opposed to the other several candidates who are already in the race?
SADDLER: Yeah. I mean, I really appreciate this question. For starers, with Warnock, I mean, look, his voting record matches identically with Schumer and Pelosi. I mean, they made a case, Biden and Warnock, made this case to the people of Georgia that they were going to moderate and be this stabilizing force, and they&#8217;ve done a dead-heat sprint to the far-Left, and we&#8217;re feeling the effects of it right now. And that&#8217;s not what Georgians signed up for.
And again, you look at — people are hurting right now. I mean, they&#8217;re worried about their individual freedoms; they’re worried about even expressing free speech. I have moderates now that tell me, not just conservatives, Latham, I&#8217;m scared to express my real views in this country because I&#8217;m worried the woke mob&#8217;s going to come after me and dox me. I didn&#8217;t even know what doxing was till earlier this year. This is not America.
The woke America, that might be Warnock’s vision for America, but that&#8217;s not my vision for America, and that&#8217;s not Georgians’ vision for America, and he&#8217;s duped Georgians, and he&#8217;s going to be held accountable next year in this election. I can&#8217;t wait to get on the debate stage to do just that.
Why am I the guy to beat him? Why am I the best candidate in this race? A number of reasons. I’m the candidate that checks the two boxes that actually matter. I&#8217;m the only candidate that can actually beat Raphael Warnock in a general election in Georgia. And I&#8217;m the only candidate that has the experience to get up to Washington and actually serve effectively as Georgia’s next United States Senator. And why is that? I mean, most people don&#8217;t tout Washington experience, but I was up there in the Trump administration the first two and a half years. The first 18 months of it, I was running our country&#8217;s black ops portfolio and putting our adversaries on their heels where they belong. And Georgia has always had a national security expert in the Senate, all the way back to Sam Nunn and Richard B. Russell and others. And we&#8217;re missing that now. But then I became a White House fellow, and worked on domestic policy issues, and I worked on workforce development, and I was part of the team that got the First Step Act passed.
So I, at the national level, experienced Washington fighting for the right agenda, the America First policy agenda, and Georgia deserves to have that agenda back in Washington, and Georgia deserves to have a United States Senator that actually has the experience at the national level advancing those policies. And I&#8217;ll tell you, I send that message all across this state, and everybody&#8217;s getting in the boat.
I&#8217;m up against my childhood football hero, Herschel Walker. I love Herschel, he&#8217;s a fantastic football player, but this is not college athletics. These are very serious times for our country that require serious leadership. Celebrities are not going to bail us out. We’ve got to do the work ourselves, and it&#8217;s going to require real leadership, and I&#8217;m doing the work. I&#8217;m out-hustling everybody else in this race.
Herschel&#8217;s doing the Biden basement strategy. He doesn&#8217;t show up to debates; he doesn&#8217;t take questions whenever he rarely gets out on the trail; and he just moved over here after almost 30 years of living in Texas to be handed the United States Senate seat from Georgia — that&#8217;s not going to happen. And the people in Georgia that I come across, when they see that, that&#8217;s not what they want. They want an authentic, next generation, America First leader for this seat, and I&#8217;m the only candidate in this race that has that background.</blockquote>
For more about Latham Saddler, you can visit his website <a href="https://lathamsaddler.com/">here</a>, or follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/LathamSaddler?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a>.
My full interview with Saddler will be posted on Sunday.
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GA Senate Candidate Latham Saddler: We Need ‘Real Leadership,’ Not ‘Celebrities’

Raphael Warnock

During a special runoff election in 2021, radical Democrat Raphael Warnock won a Senate seat in the state of Georgia.
Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed after former Senator Johnny Isakson resigned with three years left in his term. Because of this turnover, Warnock will face another Republican opponent in November 2022.
One possible Republican challenger to Warnock is former Navy SEAL Latham Saddler, who announced his candidacy in April.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Saddler, who noted that we need our best and brightest in Washington, D.C. — and added that he hopes his candidacy will serve as a “call to service for any patriot that&#8217;s ever thought about serving their country in public office.”
“This United States Senate race in Georgia is the number one race next year for the Democrats to preserve this seat where we just lost it last year, and for we as Republicans to flip this seat,” Saddler stated before noting that Warnock is raising a lot of money to retain his position.
Saddler continued, saying that “we need Country-First, America First leaders in Washington who are going to put our country back on the right track.”
He concluded with a message for anyone who might be interested in serving in public office:
<blockquote>The mission of my campaign — it&#8217;s not just to win this U.S. Senate seat, it&#8217;s to bust open the gates for other America First patriots to step into this arena of politics and serve their country in public office, particularly in offices in Washington, D.C, because the fact that we don&#8217;t have our best and brightest up there is killing us, it’s killing our country.
And there are plenty of fantastic leaders in this country that are not serving in an office — and it&#8217;s for good reason. I mean, it&#8217;s the political arena, and it&#8217;s nasty, but we don&#8217;t have the luxury anymore. We don&#8217;t have the margin anymore of sending subpar leaders to make the critical decisions for our country.</blockquote>
“So, it&#8217;s my goal with my campaign that when we win this seat back from Rafael Warnock, my victory speech is going to be a call to service for any patriot that&#8217;s ever thought about serving their country in public office, take a look at what we&#8217;ve just accomplished,” Saddler said. “You don&#8217;t have to kiss rings; you don&#8217;t have to sell your soul; you don&#8217;t have to sell out to be a leader. One person cannot fix this country. We need a mass influx of fantastic leaders, and it’s the mission on my campaign to chart that pathway so that we can get a lot more strong leaders in Washington, and we all get up there and right this ship.”
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My full interview with Saddler will be posted on Sunday.
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GA Senate Candidate Latham Saddler: ‘One Person Cannot Fix This Country. We Need A Mass Influx Of Fantastic Leaders’

On Sunday, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Ashish Jha appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with anchor Mike Emanuel to discuss issues relating to COVID-19.
During the segment, Emanuel noted that hundreds of schools are closing again as cases of coronavirus rise. He asked Jha if the United States is “headed for full-scale remote learning,” and which side of the debate is correct.
Jha replied, saying that the situation “is really unfortunate.”
“…here we are almost two years into the pandemic. We know how to keep schools open. We know how to keep them safe,” Jha said. “This really shouldn&#8217;t even be on the table, and I&#8217;m disappointed to see this is happening.”
Jha continued, stating that being in school is best for kids, both in terms of education and mental health. “And I think we can keep schools open, and we should absolutely keep schools open.”
“What about the other health concerns of shutting down schools in terms of school-age children such as mental, emotional, physical and social health?” Emanuel asked.
“Absolutely. This is why I, and I think many of us, have said schools should be absolutely the last place to close and the first place to open,” Jha said, conceding that staffing shortages could lead to some school closures.
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According to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex">data</a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as of December 22, 668 people aged 0-17 have died with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. That accounts for approximately 0.08% of all deaths in the United States attributed to the illness.
Bloomberg’s COVID-19 vaccine tracker <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/">reports</a> that as of Sunday, 61.7% of Americans are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, with 19.4% having gotten a booster shot. The United States falls below numerous countries in terms of vaccination rates, including the U.K., Sweden, Japan, France, and Chile.
There have been more than 52 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the John’s Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering <a href="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">dashboard</a>, and 816,554 deaths.
TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>EMANUEL: The CDC is promoting its strategy, Test-to-Stay. Still more than 800 schools across the U.S. unexpectedly closed this week, according to Burbio, with more than 500 schools closed in the first week of January.
Dr. Jha, are we headed for full-scale remote learning? And as a public health matter, who is right in this debate, close versus stay open?
JHA: Yeah, this is really unfortunate, Mike. You know, here we are almost two years into the pandemic. We know how to keep schools open. We know how to keep them safe. This really shouldn&#8217;t even be on the table, and I&#8217;m disappointed to see this is happening.
We know that for kids, being in school is the right thing for them, for their mental health, for their education, and we have all sorts of tools to keep schools open. So, I don&#8217;t really understand why school districts are doing this. And I think we can keep schools open, and we should absolutely keep schools open.
EMANUEL: What about the other health concerns of shutting down schools in terms of school-age children such as mental, emotional, physical and social health?
JHA: Absolutely. This is why I, and I think many of us, have said schools should be absolutely the last place to close and the first place to open. There could be times when you have such severe staffing shortages that it may be hard to keep schools going. That really should be the only context I think at this point. Otherwise, schools should absolutely be open for the reasons you outline.</blockquote>
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Public Health Expert Slams School Closures: ‘We Know How To Keep Schools Open’ And ‘Safe’

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On Sunday, Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on ABC’s “This Week” to discuss the latest developments regarding COVID-19.
During the segment, host Jonathan Karl asked Fauci about vaccination for air travel. Following his answer to that, Fauci turned to masking on airplanes, which is still federally mandated.
“But with regard to the spread of virus in the country, I mean, I think if you look at wearing a mask and the filtration on planes, things are reasonably safe,” Fauci said. “We want to make sure people keep their masks on. I think the idea of taking masks off, in my mind, is really not something we should even be considering…”
Karl replied, noting the recent remarks by airline CEOs that cabin air is some of the cleanest among indoor spaces.
“And of course, the airline CEOs were suggesting that, you know, that we may not &#8212; may no longer need a mask. I hear you loud and clearly, you disagree with that on an &#8212; on the airplane,” Karl said.
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During a recent Senate hearing, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-airline-ceos-push-back-on-plane-mask-mandates-case-is-very-strong-that-masks-dont-add-much">reported</a>, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly spoke about the air quality on airplanes.
“I think the case is very strong that masks don’t add much, if anything, in the air cabin environment,” Kelly said. “It is very safe and very high quality compared to any other indoor setting.”
Parker echoed Kelly, and added that planes “all have the same HEPA filters and air flow.”
Of course, as CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/business/airline-ceos-question-masks-on-plane-rule/index.html">wrote</a>: “Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, testified at the hearing that not all aircraft are equipped with the same quality of air filters. For example, some older planes do not have HEPA filters, she said.”
Additionally, a spokesperson for American Airlines later <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/586072-airline-executive-says-masks-dont-add-much-on-flights">walked back</a> Parker’s comments: “As noted in Doug’s testimony, we support the federal mask mandate, and masks are an important part of our commitment to keeping our customers and team members healthy and safe.”
The federal transportation mask mandate has been <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/02/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-protect-americans-against-the-delta-and-omicron-variants-as-we-battle-covid-19-this-winter/">extended</a> multiple times, and is now set to expire on March 18, 2022, unless another extension is granted.
TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>FAUCI: But with regard to the spread of virus in the country, I mean, I think if you look at wearing a mask and the filtration on planes, things are reasonably safe.
We want to make sure people keep their masks on. I think the idea of taking masks off, in my mind, is really not something we should even be considering … but that&#8217;s what we meant by it depends on what the goal of getting people vaccinated before they get on a domestic flight.
KARL: Yes. And of course, the airline CEOs were suggesting that, you know, that we may not &#8212; may no longer need a mask. I hear you loud and clearly, you disagree with that on an &#8212; on the airplane.</blockquote>
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