9/11 Families Demand NYC Mayor Stay Away From Memorial

**SPEAKER_1** (0:10)
Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.

**Todd Starnes** (0:28)
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen of the Todd Starnes Radio Show, listening audience, it's going to be a very short program today. On the advice of my council, I will be pleading the Fifth Amendment. So we will not be, we won't be doing any more show today. Jeezaloo.
This is insane. So Dr. Anthony Fauci up on Capitol Hill, and he's pleading the Fifth Amendment to every single question, every single question that the Republicans are throwing at this guy. And he's not going to be answering any questions. Now, here's the problem. He can't do that under the law because he's been pardoned and he accepted that pardon. So therefore he has no rights. He has no right to plead the fifth. So we're going to play some audio from all of this. I'm curious if you've been watching any of the drum. It's a high political theater. I mean, honestly, Anthony Fauci belongs on death row for what he did to this nation. And in all seriousness, I know occasionally I like to, well, dip my big toe in the pool of hyperbole. But on this particular issue, I believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. I believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci has actually committed crimes against humanity and therefore should suffer the ultimate price for that. I believe that this man and look what I found fascinating about the man's diaries, which, I mean, I mean, the stuff was really creepy. No doubt about that. Super creepy.
But what I, what I, what I was really disturbed by is the guy's not concerned about anybody who died. Nobody who, I mean, the people that were suffering, the families that were torn apart, they weren't allowed to to be with their loved ones, the people that were killed by Andrew Cuomo. And if you've been following Janice Dean over these years, you know exactly what Cuomo did, sending thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers to their untimely deaths. I mean, this was a monstrous time in American history. Do you still remember? Do you remember what we all had to go through? Do you remember the mask police, the face diapers, the fact that your kid was not able to graduate high school, that they had to stay home, that you weren't even allowed to have a gathering in your backyard? In some communities, they put up drones, and the police went after people for having backyard barbecues. Our churches were shut down.
In California, storm troopers walked into church houses and literally shut them down. Pastors were fined, threatened with jail. In Mississippi, they had a gathering. People actually drove to the church. They set up sort of like a drive-through theater, a movie theater right there in their drive-in, right there in the parking lot, and the police showed up, and every single car that was parked in that parking lot, they received a citation, a ticket. They shut down our churches. They shut down our small businesses. They told us that you were safer shopping with 5,000 people inside a Walmart or a big box store like a Costco or something, but it was not safe to go into your local mom-and-pop store.
They literally waged war on this nation. I said at the time that my greatest concern was not the China virus pandemic, but my greatest concern about the China virus pandemic was the fact that we were so willing as a people to give up our civil liberties. The government came in and said, You're gonna have to give up your rights, otherwise you're not gonna be safe. And we said, we wanna be safe. Here are, just take whatever you need to. You need to shut down our businesses, shut it down. Shut down the schools, shut it down. Shut down our church houses, shut down the church houses.
It really told me a lot about the American people.
It told me a lot about who we are and about how spineless so many of our fellow countrymen are. It's really shocking to me when you look back at that time. But it also affirmed to me that we have a lot of patriots out there, people that were willing to stand up, people that were willing to push back. I remember in the early days of the China virus pandemic, I was still living in New York City in Brooklyn. I guess it was about, what was it? I was on the 30th floor of the high rise there in downtown, and I had my apartment overlooked. In part, it overlooked the Brooklyn hospital. And of course, I was getting calls at the time. This is in 2019, in the early days of the pandemic. We were getting calls from family members in other parts of the country saying, Todd, is everything okay? They're telling us on the news that New York City is a dystopian city now, that hospitals, that their bodies all over the place. And I mean, it's just the way it was being portrayed in the media was just shocking, so much so that family members were reaching out to me asking if I was okay. And I decided, you know what? I'm going to go take my video camera. I'm going to take my cell phone. And I decided to go down to the local hospital. And I walked out to the hospital, and many of you will remember this, because I think the video I shot got 500 million views. In all seriousness, 500 million. I became the subject of great scorn in the national media. NBC News sent reporters after me because of what I did. You say, Tom, what did you do? Well, I took my cell phone, and I walked over to the front of the hospital, which is where the emergency room was, and I just started filming. And I said, hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Todd Starnes, and this is my neighborhood. I gave the date and the time, and I said, this is my neighborhood hospital. And contrary to what you were hearing on the national news, this is what's happening. And at the time, they were saying people were lined up for miles to get it. There was nobody there. Nobody was there.