CLAY: I want to play this because I saw it yesterday, and it’s just emblematic of how Fauci is the most destructive bureaucrat in the history of America and how he doesn’t understand also basic governance, which is a bad combination. So he was asked yesterday… Ironically enough, they released the interview of Dr. Fauci on CNN+, on the day that CNN+ was announced to be canceled, which is amazing.
He was asked about the decision of the judge in Florida to lift the federal transportation mask mandate. I want to listen to this. Fauci basically says the CDC should not be subject to the authority of the courts.
CLAY: Does he really think, Buck, that the mask mandate on airplanes is going to impact in any way the overall covid rate? So that’s just a health dispute with what he’s saying. But the bigger issue here is, federal agencies — and every part of our government — is subject to review by the courts.
BUCK: Yes.
CLAY: How does he not understand this?
BUCK: Because he’s gotten away with this for almost two years, right, other than the vaccine mandate slapping him down. The CDC, just by way of quick review for everybody, the CDC thought that it had the universal, across the whole country right to tell landowners that they couldn’t kick renters out who didn’t pay. Remember this?
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Oh, it was, there’s a CDC moratorium on eviction. And it was like, no, no, no, turns out the CDC is not, you know, the pandemic god king of the country. Like this was completely insane. They were wrong on the vaccine mandate for large businesses, as we know. That also got struck down. And, Clay, this is the mentality though, is that the CDC, because of all the prostrating of the Democrat media and really allying with the Democrat media to push Fauciism and all of its facets.
What we have is a special unelected branch of government, and Fauci sees it as such. I mean, also we can do the whole — might be a little petty, but it’s kind of fun too — “Oh, you’re not a doctor,” whenever we would criticize Fauci. Yeah? Is Fauci a legal scholar?
CLAY: A constitutional scholar? Yeah.
BUCK: Let me step back even from that. Could Fauci tell you the first damn thing about the Constitution as it pertains to any of this? I think the answer is no.
CLAY: Of course. And, by the way, that doesn’t mean that he can’t have an opinion on a court ruling. Right? This is why it’s been so frustrating to me in many different respects. I’m a lawyer, right? There are lawyers you can find to argue any side of any case under the sun. But when the Supreme Court comes out with a decision, I don’t say, “You aren’t entitled to have an opinion on this decision because you aren’t also a lawyer.”
No. Of course. Every single American has a right to have an opinion on any single issue under the sun regardless of whether they are particularly -given a title, lawyer, that would allow you to argue in front of the Supreme Court. Everybody can still have that opinion, and so, this idea of Fauci that somehow the CDC should be above review by the courts because the judge is not a doctor?
Does he not understand the legal system at all? Judges — and, by the way, juries — rule on everything without having entirely skilled backgrounds of those substances, right? The jury decides every issue of criminal guilt or innocence, by and large — 12 random people. They haven’t gone to law school. I don’t know what “beyond a reasonable doubt” knows for sure but we trust them to be able to do it just like we trust our judiciary to fairly apply the law under our Constitution.
BUCK: You do get the sense as well that Fauci didn’t even take the time to realize the judge is weighing in on legal, procedural and constitutional grounds.
CLAY: That’s right.
BUCK: The judge is not saying, “Oh, well, I think that only N95 masks will work on planes, therefore…” Right? This is not… The judge actually isn’t making a health determination but is making a legal and federal government process determination. But Fauci has gotten away with being the voice of this unaccountable bureaucracy that has just been trampling rights. These are the “you can’t go to church” people, folks. That’s what this is.
CLAY: Buck, the Biden administration and Joe Biden himself have said, “We don’t think this is constitutional, but we’re doing it anyway,” which I’ve never heard any president ever say before.
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