During the News Nation Republican debate on December 7, 2023, Vivek Ramaswamy made a commitment to revoke the legislation from the Reagan era that grants immunity to the vaccine industry in cases of injury caused by vaccines. He emphasized the importance of holding those responsible accountable for the harm caused to individuals.
He added, “I think one of the top lessons we learned from that COVID pandemic is that free speach in this country is most important in those alleged times of emergency. If we had been allowed to openly debate the merits of those vaccines they would have been never mandated in the way that they were.”
Ramaswamy’s remarks included additional points, but only those who watched the full recording of his interview on News Nation’s YouTube channel, starting from the 1:30:06 mark, had the oportunity to hear them in their entirety. This was because host Megyn Kelly asked him about Operation Warp Speed at that specific point in the interview.
At that point, in the live version, the debate screen and soudn are blacked out for eight minutes with, first, a dead screen and then five straight minutes of commercials, before returning to the final question of the debate.
The internet went abuzz after the blackout, generating discussions on social media platforms like Twitter and online publications such as Newsweek. In its headline about the absence of footage, Newsweek mentioned the incident as fueling Republican “conspiracy theories.”
Rumble, which aired the debate for News Nation, denied blacking out the comments, saying a third party actually did it. “The stream on our end did not go down at all, but the feed comming in (the source feed from a 3rd party) failed for a few minutes when sending to us,” Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote. “This is a different source that the TV channels got and we are unsure why the source to Rumble went dark for a few minutes.”
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