CLAY: Dr. Fauci is at this point, Buck, spreading 100% lies about kids in masks. He said on CNN that it’s too risky to let kids out of masks. I want to give a shout-out, because we’ve been talking about this battle for a while. Loudoun County, northern Virginia, which has turned into one of the battlegrounds, they have gotten basically complete and total victory in Loudoun County.

And all of the anti-masking strong parts here, a lot of them are slowly starting to actually add up. But I want to play this cut for you, Buck, of Dr. Fauci that has me so fired up. I saw this just before we were gonna do the show. Fauci went on CNN, and he said it’s too risky to take masks off kids right now. Listen to this.

Despite science, Dr. Fauci claims “it is risky” to stop forcing kids to wear facemasks

“It’s understandable why people want to take masks off the kids. But, right now, given the level of activity that we have, it is risky.” pic.twitter.com/K3mLDna2UA

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 17, 2022

CLAY: It is not.

BUCK: Is he a sociopath? Is he a sociopath? I think that’s a fair question to ask. It’s absolutely not risky. It hasn’t been risky from date one. We see all the numbers. Clay, you sit here and go through getting in a bathtub, being in a car, the actual risk data for children.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: And unless you’re gonna have your child living in a literal bubble where they can’t go outside in theory, you know, protected from all germs, you just need to shut this guy out. What is wrong with him?

CLAY: If you drove your kid to school this morning — I did — your kids were under more danger of death on that drive to school than they are from covid. If you take your kids to a swimming pool at any point this spring, summer, winter — any point — they’re more likely to drown there than they are to die with covid. And the data at this point… So Fauci tries to keep saying (impression), “I am the science.” I’m not trying to do my Fauci voice; you can do it better than me, but he says, “I am the science.”

The science is clear. Masks have had no impact in schools. To their credit, one of the top directors in Charlotte, North Carolina, came out and said, “Hey, Mecklenburg County, which is where Charlotte is, had a mask mandate in place. Nobody else around them did. The rates of covid were no different in Charlotte as opposed to the surrounding communities.” Where I live here in Nashville, no difference on the rates of covid where they had mask mandates on kids in Davidson County — Nashville, Tennessee — versus Williamson County which is Franklin-Brentwood.

Six months of data, no difference in rate of infection for covid. There is no way — and we’ve had lots of scientific experts on. For people out there who say, “Well, you’re not a doctor,” we’ve had lots of doctors on what disagree with Fauci. Here’s what’s going on, Buck. He is trying to cover for the teachers unions that are still arguing that masks need to be in place.

BUCK: Absolutely.

CLAY: That’s what this is. This is a political statement. There is nothing scientific about his argument that taking masks off kids is too risky right now. This is Fauci as a direct political voice trying to give cover to the teachers unions — and, by the way, this is exactly what Rochelle Walensky and the CDC are doing too. They have to be able to look at this data. They are lying to you. The data is clear, transparent, and anybody with a functional brain can see it. Every kid in America who is still wearing a mask, it’s because adults failed and adults lied to them, and it is disgraceful and shameful.

BUCK: Otherwise, you can just look at the data coming out or the data that exists in Florida, which would show everybody.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: If anyone was really curious about this, look at the data in the state of Florida which has, what, about 21 million residents, something like that, and children have been under nonmandatory masking for the entire school year, stretching back to, what is it, end of August, Clay, kids go to school, early September.

CLAY: Yep.

BUCK: And it’s been fine. There has not been… If there was such greater risk, I guarantee you everybody listening to this right now, it would be blasted across CNN. The New York Times would be doing the “A-ha! I told you so” victory dance. We’ve run the experiment. Fauci, Walensky, and the rest were wrong. They were wrong. They’ve been wrong about everything!

CLAY: Yes. 100% wrong. And the fact that this still is allowed to continue, Buck, it… I saw this, and I wanted to grab Fauci by his little stethoscope and drag him right into our studios and say, “Sit your ass down in this chair.” I would love for somebody to be able to depose Dr. Fauci and just grill his ass. Sit him down under oath and make him respond to every single question, not this kind of shadow situation.

You know, where if you’re in a congressional hearing, somebody asks you a tough question and then they flip back to the other side, and they’re like, “Dr. Fauci is greatest doctor of all time,” right? No. I want that tin pot, lunatic, loser, lying fraud to get held accountable, and I want him grilled by intelligent people. You and I could do it, if he would sit here, and by the time he was done, his career would be over.

BUCK: Of course.

CLAY: I’m not kidding. If he came in here and spent an hour with us, his career would be over. I really do believe that.

BUCK: I think we are seeing the possibility that he is as soon as Republicans take back control —

CLAY: That’s why you have to vote. Sorry to cut you off, but I’m so fired up. You have to send a message. If you hate Fauci — and I do, and I know Buck does —

BUCK: Oh, yes!

CLAY: — you not only have to go vote yourself. You have to get as many people as you possibly can, your friends who may not otherwise be political. This is a time to send a message, a monster message against the liars and the frauds like Fauci.

BUCK: It’s a pretty straightforward pitch, for everybody out there. Vote against the Democrat Fauciite lunatics or you’re gonna be wearing masks on planes for —

CLAY: Forever.

BUCK: — at least, at least another two years, and your kids will probably be masked up if you live in a blue state next wintertime.

CLAY: They’re gonna try to bring it back if they take it away. I think your point there is really good. They’re gonna try, probably, to take it away in advance of the midterms, and then they’re gonna bring it back as soon as the midterms are over. Just know that’s why you have to send an unbelievable message.