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Tucker back to you in New York
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dr. marks Eagle forest in Omaha tonight
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thanks so much for that
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well the time like this it would be nice
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to have an effective world health
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organization one led by serious capable
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professionals that might be invaluable
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for beating coronavirus released
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containing it but we don’t have that
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instead the wh o is a corrupt mess from
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top to bottom the current
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director-general the World Health
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Organization is a man called Ted rose ad
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Hannam graces he was previously the
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Health Minister of Ethiopia now
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politically Tetris was a member of the
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Thai great People’s Liberation Front
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that’s a Marxist Leninist Ethiopian
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political party is part of the coalition
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ruling Ethiopia as a repressive
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authoritarian state after taking control
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of the World Health Organization Ted
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rose promptly tried to appoint Robert
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Mugabe the murderous dictator of
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Zimbabwe is an international goodwill
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ambassador for public health if you can
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believe that
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Ted Rose delivered a speech praising
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Zimbabwe as quote a country that places
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universal health coverage and health
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promotion at the center of its policies
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to provide health care to all and quote
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now that’s lunatic but bad politics
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aside Ted Rose has endangered human
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lives which is a weird resume point for
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a man running a World Health
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Organization as health minister in
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Ethiopia on three separate occasions
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Ted Rose covered up cholera outbreaks in
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the south of the country to downplay the
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outbreaks of protect Ethiopia’s
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reputation
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Ted Rose each time insisted that they
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were simply rashes of quote acute watery
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diarrhea according to media reports
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Ethiopian officials pressure to aid
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agencies to cover up the truth about
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what was happening and hide the number
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of people affected as soon as the
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disease spread to neighboring countries
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it was obvious that it was cholera and
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identified as such if tenders had told
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the truth at the time which he did not
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lives could have been saved this is the
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man running the World Health
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Organization at the beginnings of a
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global epidemic when the corona virus
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first broke out in China trying to
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refuse to admit international health
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experts into their country to assess it
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to this day it seems likely that China
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is lying about the number of infections
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and the number of deaths yet despite
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this Ted Rose has publicly praised the
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Communist Chinese party for quote
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transparency the whole thing is our well
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Yin and by the way your tax dollars are
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paying for it the u.s. gives hundreds of
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dollars a year to the w-h-o it amounts
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to a huge percentage of their budget so
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how do they spend the money well every
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year about 200 million of the World
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Health Organization budget goes to
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travel for its bureaucrats and staff
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they often fly business class sometimes
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using fraudulent pretext to do so when
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it’s otherwise forbidden other aid
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agencies respectable ones like Doctors
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Without Borders or own CDC ban officials
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from doing that because it’s wasteful
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this is the organization the world is
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looking to for guidance as it battles a
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pandemic that could kill millions of
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people
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Jeff’s tyre is a senior fellow at the
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taxpayer protection Alliance he’s
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covered corruption at whu-oh for years
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he joins us that Jeff thanks so much for
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coming on good to be here so how did
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this man who seems not just unqualified
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but seems to have the kind of background
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that would make him exactly the wrong
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person to run the World Health
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Organization how did he get this job
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well that’s right even though US
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taxpayers cover about almost half the
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bill for the w-h-o a two billion dollars
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a year
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w-h-o budget we have very little say
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over what they do and they have
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elections different countries have voted
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to support Mugabe there’s been a
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corruption at the w-h-o before Mugabe
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but people like myself were sounding the
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alarm bells to have a Marxist and this
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guy with part was a number three
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official in a Marxist regime of Ethiopia
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and as you pointed out he went on to a
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point Robert Mugabe of all people to be
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a good well ambassador this is a culture
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of corruption at the w-h-o that goes
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beyond Ted Rose it goes beyond the prior
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Director General it’s part of the
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culture this was not he pointed out the
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200 million dollars a year they spend on
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first class air travel and hotels that’s
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more than they spend on AIDS
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tuberculosis and other diseases combined
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and there’s no oversight there was a
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there was a criticism of that five years
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ago The Associated Press did a report
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just in 2017 and found that it was
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happening again and Ron and dr. Ted Rose
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his primary goal is socialized health
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care all over the world that’s his goal
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we need to have faith in our public
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health institutions but right now the
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world health organization needs
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oversight it has shown us time and again
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it’s not go
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to reform itself and we US taxpayers who
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are funding this corruption need to do a
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better job of putting in some oversight
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I mean it that’s a shocking story but it
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goes from Annoying kind of head shaking
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to really apparel to our country in the
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middle of a rising epidemic so a guy who
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denied the existence you try to cover up
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the existence of an epidemic is
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coordinating the world’s response to
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this epidemic a threatening one does
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this have implications it does it does
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well as he pointed out he’s been
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praising China dr. Ted Rose has been
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praising China for transparency that’s
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like Lance Armstrong crediting the
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houston astros for having good
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sportsmanship it’s totally absurd no I I
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have called for the u.s. to cut back
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funding for the w-h-o and the president
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has put that in his budget and now
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people like met the melmans School of
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Public Health professor
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Chelsea Clinton are saying that this
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potential outbreak is Trump’s fault
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right
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we need oversight of the WHI we we need
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to reform it but we need to do so we
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need to give it money with strings
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attached because it’s times like this
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that we need to have an institution that
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the public can trust and the w-h-o
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doesn’t deserve it and they haven’t
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earned it and we shouldn’t be funding it
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at the same levels so we’re almost out
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of time Jeff but did you just say
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Chelsea Clinton is a public health
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professor at the Melbourne School of
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Public Health at Columbia University she
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had a piece on cnn.com just yesterday
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blaming this administration for not
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being prepared the problem is is that
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she works at a hedge fund or was a
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documentary filmmaker I didn’t know she
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even had a job how she went up as a
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public health
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I mean how low are the standards well it
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if the Columbia School of Public Health
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here in Manhattan so it’s pretty
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troubling and yes she got her police
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piece placed on on cnn.com so at least
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she has an outlet but the w-h-o doesn’t
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want to hear from its critics no
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obviously not but higher education this
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country is a joke and unfortunately that
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can have really bad consequence I hope
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we’re not going to see them now Jeff
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great to see you thank you it’s a
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