How Fauci Lost America’s Trust: Dr. Hemmati Explains | The Brief with Shabbos Kestenbaum

•Fauci's own journal proved he recommended closing the schools. Then he said under oath that he didn't. A doctor who questioned him from day one breaks it all down.

In this episode of The Brief, host Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Dr. Houman Hemmati — ophthalmologist, biotech entrepreneur, frequent Fox News medical contributor, and one of the earliest public voices questioning COVID lockdown policy — for a comprehensive, evidence-based reckoning with everything that went wrong.

Dr. Hemmati breaks down why the concept of "America's doctor" was itself the original sin — the idea that one person could be omniscient, infallible, and immune from questioning. He explains his own background in gain-of-function research (conducted as a teenager at UCLA), why the lab leak theory was always the most scientifically logical explanation, and what Occam's razor tells us about where COVID came from.

They also cover:

• Fauci's own journal entry in which he wrote that NYC Mayor de Blasio would "base his decision on my recommendation" to close schools — directly contradicting his congressional testimony

• The "14 days to flatten the curve" lie: Dr. Hemmati says they knew from day one it was never going to be 14 days and they had no plan

• The devastating consequences of school closures on low-income, black, and brown kids: hundreds of thousands who dropped out of LA

• Unified and never returned, collapsed test scores, skyrocketing obesity and diabetes rates, and a generation of young children who never learned to read social cues because every adult face they saw was covered by a mask

• Why masking was "largely theater" — the virus particle vs. mask pore size analogy that settles the debate in under 30 seconds

• Why children should never have been mandated to receive the COVID vaccine and the informed consent argument that applies to every medical treatment

• California's AB 2098: the unconstitutional law that threatened to revoke medical licenses for any doctor who contradicted government orthodoxy and why it's gone

• Will we ever know the truth about COVID’s origins? Dr. Hemmati says yes and explains why someone with that knowledge will eventually come forward

• Should Americans trust the NIH, CDC, and FDA? His answer and the one thing that will rebuild that trust.

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