public. Now of course he's exaggerating a little bit, but he's acting as though Republicans think critical race theory is the biggest threat to our republic. Is that crazy? Is it crazy for somebody to think that critical race theory is in fact the biggest risk to the republic? Because I think you can make that argument. You could definitely make that argument.

It goes like this. The most important thing that holds the country together, if you're not a dictatorship, the most important thing that holds the country together is the culture. The set of beliefs that everybody shares. If you get that set of beliefs wrong that everybody shares about who you are and what your country is about, then the whole thing falls apart.

Critical race theory attacks the central premise of America that we're a melting pot and that we shouldn't be obsessing over people's race and anything else. So I would say that the DNA of America, which is we don't obsessively focus on race, we try to ignore it while still also doing everything that the legal system and good people can do to eliminate bias and bigotry and prejudice and all that. So yeah, you work hard to eliminate it, but you don't say this is who you are. You don't change your identity to a bunch of who hate each other. Keep the melting pot.

So I would say that to Obama, I don't think you understand what holds the country together. It's a shared set of beliefs. That's it. You get rid of the shared set of beliefs and there's nothing that would hold the country together at all. You know the Constitution won't do it. The laws won't do it. The military won't do it. The political system won't do it. You got to start with that or nothing works.

So he is looking to erase the DNA of the country. And I've got to think that is the biggest risk to the country. And it's hard to imagine he doesn't see that.

Rasmussen reports that only 42 percent of moderates think Fauci was telling the truth about the gain of function funding in Wuhan. Now I tell you only what the moderates think because I don't have to tell you what the left thinks or the right thinks. Would you be surprised to know that the people who identify as the left largely believe that Fauci is telling the truth? Would you be surprised to know that people who identify with the right largely believe that he's lying?

So I just look at the moderates. And if you lose the moderates, well you lost the argument. And the moderates, only 42 percent believe him. So even the moderates have left at this point.

Now my view on Dr. Fauci is a little bit more nuanced, which is there may in fact have been some cover your ass activity going on here. But that doesn't mean that they're guilty of something wrong. You could cover your ass even if you didn't do anything wrong. And you could rightly be blamed for covering your ass. And there are two reasons to cover your ass. One is that you're guilty and you don't want people to find out. And the other is that you're not guilty and you don't want to be unreasonably blamed for something. So you cover your ass.

So how was Fauci trying to cover his ass by the way he talked about the gain of function to try to downplay it and make it look like no, not directly, and it was only a little bit of money and it wasn't that kind of gain of function. Yeah, he did all that. But that doesn't mean he's guilty of a crime. Because whether you're guilty or not guilty, you're going to kind of cover your ass. We'd expect it in both situations.

So I think that there probably is something technically true about funding that ended up in the wrong place. But I don't know that that being technically true makes Fauci a bad person or a liar nec