Episode 2617： Terror In Nashville
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In this episode, we discuss the latest school shooting that took place in Nashville, Tennessee, and the lack of action from the federal government in response to it. We also discuss the recent vote on the Parental Rights Bill and the opposition to it by Rep. Andy Biggs.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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at 10 13 this morning the police department received a call of an active shooter inside
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covenant school covenant presbyterian church the police department response was swift officers
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entered the first story of the school began clearing it they heard shots coming from the
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second level they immediately went to the gunfire when the officers got to the second level they saw
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a shooter a female who was firing the officers engaged her she was fatally shot by responding
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police officers there was a five-member team who was on the that was on the second floor at that time
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two individuals from that five-member team opened fire on the shooter we know at this point that this
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shooter is a female she appears to be in her teams although her identification has not been
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confirmed at this juncture we know that she was armed with at least two assault type rifles and a handgun
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we are efforting now to identify her she entered the school through a side entrance
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and traversed her way from the first floor to the second floor firing multiple shots in his state of
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the union the president called on congress to do something to stop the epidemic of gun violence
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tearing families apart tearing communities apart how many more children have have to be murdered
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before republicans in congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban
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welcome to the war room it's not stephen k bannon it's natalie winters i'm filling in
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uh while the general travels to east palestine ohio as you guys know uh we have sort of a town hall but
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we got war room live from east palestine starting tomorrow so i'll be hosting just the five o'clock hour
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today but don't go anywhere i know steve is pretty cool but the show we got today is also going to be
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pretty exciting we got a lot of news to cover obviously uh what you saw in that cold opening
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what we want to talk to uh michael patrick lahey about of course from the tennessee star the breaking
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really unfortunate saddening news of a school shooting that happened in nashville with at least
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five dead confirmed uh throughout the show we have our our engine room as steve likes to call it
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really keeping up to date if there's any breaking news which i'll certainly bring to you but in the
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meantime seems that we have about five dead we do have a report that the shooter even though in that
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video they said it was a teenager they later uh recanted and said that it actually was a 28 year
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old which has uh at least reportedly been identified as an individual by the name of audrey hale whose
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linkedin profile does include he him pronouns again this is all just reports but coming from pretty
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solid sources but before we get into what's going on there like i said we have michael patrick lahey
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from the tennessee star joining us uh we're going to start with uh representative andy biggs because
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i hear he's a very busy man has to get out of here in a bit but talking about schools and what's going
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on inside of classrooms there was a recent vote on the parental rights bill which you may have heard
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about i was actually just up in orlando at the house gop issues conference where all the republican
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members of conference come and convene together they talk about an agenda forward and this was
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sort of the hot topic what a lot of people were discussing about a lot of the reasons why people
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opposed it and why people supported it if i recall correctly not a single member of the democratic
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party voted for it and typically i would run the opposite direction and say any piece of legislation
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that no democrats are voting for is something i would support but i think the truth might be a little
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more nuanced than that so representative biggs if you are indeed joining us and down the line
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uh i'd love for you to just give the war room posse sort of a brief rundown on what exactly this bill
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is not just the summary that you can read of it um but why you're why you rather opposed it um
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specifically the powers of the federal government if it's constitutional or not thank you for for
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joining us yeah natalie thanks for having me first of all what this bill does is it inserts
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the federal government into local decisions and so ostensibly you say well yeah we want parents to
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be able to see their kids curriculum we want parents to be able to to uh know if there's gender affirming
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uh courses going if their kids changing their pronouns those types of things we want to know all that
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stuff but the question you have to ask yourself is do you want the federal government inserting itself
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in doing that first of all and getting back to my analysis of this i'd say is is this constitutional
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well there's no authority we have we have uh basically enumerated powers we have a list of powers
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of areas that congress can legislate in education is not one of those and that means that something like
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the department of education probably needs to be completely eliminated which by the way we happen to
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have a couple of pieces of legislation that do that so if you really wanted to fix the education
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problem you would get the federal government completely out of it stop taking taxpayers money
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and shipping it to these uh woke schools all over the country but that isn't what happened here
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what happened here is they said we're going to put down all these things that we know are hot button
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issues and we're just going to say we're going to legitimize the federal government and its role
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in your local education and uh i just simply could not go there uh the last thing i i think you want
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the united states congress to become is a super national um basically a super national uh school
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board where you call me up and say well look you know my kid's not getting i i want to have a an
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extra conference with my kid's teacher well that's what the local and state government should be doing
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and the federal government should be getting out of it out of it and get out of the way that's why
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i think so many of my uh my not not a lot of us but just a few of my colleagues i want to don't
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want to speak for them but that's why i voted no so i'm just curious it sounds like it is is more
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the constitutional aspect right of of the bill which is why you oppose it obviously you're here to
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empower parents and frankly the whole concept of a parental bill of rights sort of seems
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super superfluous to me in the sense that parents should you know control what their kids are learning
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inside a class to begin with but just again i think what scares me about this bill which i think
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is what what you discerned too you know right now obviously republicans control control congress
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obviously joe biden's at 1600 pennsylvania avenue but what happens uh when democrats if they potentially
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take back congress right if they you know i'd argue to the deep state it's not even a democratic
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republic can issue it's really just more the establishment and their power over whether it's
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the department of education or just the federal government more broadly but do you think
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down the road that this could potentially be weaponized against us is that sort of your other
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fear too yeah so when i when i gave put out a video about this you people will see it at bigs.house.gov
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but when i i talk about if the federal government is gonna you this this body controlled by republicans
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if this were to become law which i don't think it will be but if it were to become law you would now
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have a precedent for the federal government to set local policy and just think of this what if a group
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of students say well we want to have uh we want to have our own students bill of rights or a teacher's
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bill of rights or a school administrator's bill of rights i mean what happens is now you now you no
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longer have a defense to that and say we don't do that it's bad enough we have the department of
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education but at least at least that is in a more narrowly confined lane than this what you've done
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now is you've spilled this thing out well beyond the bounds of where we sit today that's part of the
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problem and guess what you're exactly right natalie when we have a different administration in there
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and we're pretty close you got the senate controlled by dems the white house controlled by dems
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we only have a four vote majority in the in the house if that were to flip guess what you're going to
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see some even wild and crazy stuff and we won't have the defense that gee that's not in in the
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federal government's lane in fact when it gets litigated the courts are going to say yeah but
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the republicans themselves said legislative intent is to actually insert the federal government into
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the local and state uh uh realm so it's i think it exacerbates the situation and is really a hot
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potato that now is is going to be live yeah especially after covet i don't know why we would
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want to extend or expand the power of the federal government anymore but i think you get to the heart
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of the issue with this bill is that it also undercuts the local uh level school boards which i think we've
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seen unprecedented victories at so it's sort of curious timing to be trying to kind of stymie and nullify
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uh the potential efficacy that these groups could have over their districts over their schools
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uh to broaden the power of the federal government um but then again a lot of what gets done on the hill
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by the hands of establishment republicans i can't really make sense of and i have you just for a
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little bit longer but i just want to get your sense on you know obviously you come on war room a lot to
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talk about immigration but i think this sort of encapsulates maybe some frustrations that the war
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room posse is having because we were promised investigations and subpoenas and impeachments of all
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these high profile people who believe me deserve to have all of that happen to them and then some
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right but instead we're pushing kind of i would say shoddily thought through bills about how to
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basically take power away from moms and dads over their kids education but masquerading it and packaging
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it uh as somehow giving them more power with it with a fancy name so just more more broadly you know
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where are we going with these investigations you know we're wasting time with these parental bill of
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rights and other bills that don't really seem to be solving the fundamental issues they sort of
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seem like a shiny object a shiny toy um but how do we actually make meaningful change whether it's at
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the school boards of the border immigration hunter biden you name it you know where where do you stand
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on these investigations going on right now and like i said just a few minutes yeah so we we've been
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doing some investigation work i was just at a deposition today it's it's been going slowly because
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this administration has really really put the speed stick down on cooperating with us and so
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we're going to have to start lift leveling up our game just another notch to start um break subpoenaing
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people and sending them to court and try to enforce it part of our problem is that the normal course for
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contempt uh is to go through the department of justice which as you know natalie they're not going
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to help us hold anybody in contempt and hold their feet to the fire and i think that's why this
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administration has been been so uh reluctant to help us so but we're working on that end of it
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uh but i would just say one little thing is that that's driving me crazy is we have eight uh border
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security bills that are ready to go through a committee and um it's being that's been held up here
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now for over a month and i'm hoping that we can get that untracked and get those going as well so
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there's a lot of work to do like you and like the war room posse i am also very frustrated at our
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efforts to uh hold this administration accountable and then also to secure our border i don't think
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we can go through another two years without doing either one of those it's going to uh perhaps make
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it irredeemably difficult to change the trajectory of this nation if we don't get moving pretty quickly
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it's kind of the fundamental question i think of the biden regime are they just incompetent or is
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all of this actually calculated and i think these investigations if we get the answers we need will
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evidence the latter albeit a hard pill to swallow uh representative biggs thank you so much for
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joining us how can people stay up to date with you and what you're doing in terms of the investigations
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in the border thanks for having me natalie you can go to my official site biggs.house.gov i have
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everything from a documentary about the border to uh comments about that bill last week then you can
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also follow me at at rep andy biggs ac on truth or twitter thank you so much for joining us uh we got
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a couple minutes before the break so just to kind of give you a game plan of the show we're going to
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bring in michael patrick leahy after the break to talk about what's going on in nashville the
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breaking news like i said the latest reports that we have are that the shooter has been identified as
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a 28 year old individual by the name of audrey hale who allegedly went to the school attended it
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which was a k-6 school but does look to have he him pronouns in their linkedin or rather in his
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linkedin profile and then of course we have representative matt gates joining us too to talk
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about immigration if you guys watched the pretty epic trump rally i believe it was just yesterday
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time flies um or maybe saturday uh he spoke there talking about how unfortunately we still have
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the problem the just establishment republicans who believe it or not are still supporting amnesty
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um specifically tony gonzalez i think is someone that matt gates wants to talk about um really singling out
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how there's been votes on these bills that are really going to work on securing and closing the
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border uh really doing it not just in terms of fences and structures but really just making so
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that you know mayorkas and the dhs and really biden's radical radical radical policies with
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border agents uh that they aren't allowed to continue an invasion of this country but unfortunately
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republicans are not voting on the bill and they have issues because they don't think that it's
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providing enough leeway for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants or as we like to call them
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illegal aliens stick around we got a 90 second break uh matt gates will be joining us michael patrick
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he dared to take a stand for election integrity uh getting back into what we opened the show with the
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clip of like i said the really heartbreaking news that by now i guess the total death count is seven
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people including the shooter um from what happened earlier today in nashville we have michael
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patrick lahey from the tennessee star which does really fantastic reporting i actually uh one of
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your your news reporters i met not too long ago and was telling me about the operation you guys run
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there you guys really really really provide great great news uh for people who not just live in
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tennessee but really the world writ large so thank you so much for joining me um but if you could just
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kind of give us you know obviously the tennessee star you're in tennessee just give us sort of
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an idea of what's happening there we played that mainstream media report but the war room posse isn't
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always too keen on what the mainstream media says so what's what's the deal here what's going on
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exactly you can see the story at tennessee star dot com tennessee star dot com uh the shootings took
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place at 10 13 a.m this morning at covenant presbyterian school that's a k-6 uh uh christian school
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uh about a mile and a half from our studios here it's in green hills which is sort of an affluent
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neighborhood shopping area uh in nashville at 10 13 a.m police have confirmed a 28 year old woman
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uh entered the school from a side door that apparently was open had two assault uh rifles
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and a gun and began shooting uh 14 minutes later uh the police were there and shot the shooter dead
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there are uh six uh dead uh other than the shooter seven total uh three children age nine and then three
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adults on staff age 60 61 and 60 um the very sad news about that is that one of the adults katherine
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kentz age uh 60 was the headmaster of the school so uh there are reports out there as you've mentioned
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that name of the individual the 28 year old woman uh other outlets including one here have provided
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that name uh but we have we just spoke with the police and they didn't confirm that name as soon as
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we have it we'll record it there also are some reports unconfirmed that the 28 year old shooter
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a woman was previously a student at covenant president it's a k-6 school so this would have
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been some time ago a sixth grader graduating would be 12 years uh of age and the school was founded i
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think in in the early early 2000s thank you so much for that kind of breakdown i i know if you were
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on the call or on the show rather in the opening you saw we also played the white house's response i'm
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sure people have also seen joe biden dancing around the stage talking about the flavors of ice cream
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that he came down to sort of say rather rudely and disrespectful to those parents um honestly i was
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going to play it but it's so offensive i don't know if the warren posse could muster up the strength to
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to see through it but i mean you know it's an interesting case because not only is it a female
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shooter right but it's a k-12 school it wasn't a student of the school but you already have the white
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house sort of playing out their premeditated answer that they seem to have to basically any
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sort of mass shooting event right we need to focus on gun control the problem is the guns right they've
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sort of identified what the variable what the issue is you know what obviously it's too early to
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speculate anything but do you think that the white house's i would say rather rash approach to blaming
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it all on gun control and the x ease of accessibility to firearms is sort of premature
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uh... and in justin in in general why do you think the white house is rushing so quickly to make this an
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issue about gun control we're really not focused on the white house what the white house is saying
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we're focused on finding out what the facts were in this instance and i think one key element is
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to look at the issue of safety in this k-6 school uh... in a very nice part of town that
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should have easily been protected there's a report that they had an active uh... shooter training there
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a week ago i think a lot of people are going to wonder well what was that active shooter training there are
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rumors all over the place here in nashville about whether or not certain people were targeted
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uh... some details about the shooter we don't have any of that uh... right now uh... and we do expect though that
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there will be more details that we'll be reporting at tennessee star jesse star dot com
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throughout the rest of the day uh... and we're going to go to the original sources
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in particular we've been talking to the metro police department and i have to say
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at 10 13 a.m they were there inside this building which is a very you know very nice very large
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building uh... and had killed uh... uh... the shooter the 28 year old woman who was a shooter
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by 10 27 that's 14 minutes that was very strong response uh... there's nothing really
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good to come out of this other than to say uh... seven people dead if the police hadn't responded so
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quickly and effectively could well have been more
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yes it's it's amazing that response you compare and contrast that with what we saw
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in texas it's nice to know that our first responders are
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are there to do their jobs and keep us safe if you could just let everyone know
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how we can stay up to date not just with you but of course the tennessee star is
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reporting on this breaking story where they should go
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badly yes uh... go to tennessee star dot com tennessee star dot com also
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you can go to uh... my twitter getter uh... and truth social uh... accounts michael p
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lahey and we'll be posting all sorts of uh... the stories uh... as they develop in this
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terrible shooting seven dead in nashville this morning
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you know it's interesting the the the biden white house seems to have their go
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to answer anytime there's some incident involving guns it's always we need more
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gun control they ignore basically every fact of the case right doesn't matter
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their endgame but there's another talking point that always seems to be the
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when it comes to any issue whether it's cultural economic
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uh... really border security you name it and what is it
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immigration and it's not just the democrats it's the establishment
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we're gonna have matt gates from florida join us
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in a little bit i want to play a quick clip of him
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talking at the recent trump rally but we're really going to dig down for the
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remainder of the show with representative gates
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both illegal and legal because i think the latter is often overlooked but
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if denver could play the clip i think you have it of uh... representative gates
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speaking let's roll that we'll have him join us cut to a quick break and then
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troubling news of unacceptable republican betrayal on this point
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house republicans have been in the majority for three months
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we passed two bills regarding the borders of indian tribes and yet not a single bill
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we were scheduled to pass great reforms out of the house judiciary committee to enforce
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i received news that the bills would be pulled from consideration
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well one of those pro amnesty republicans is even from texas
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tony gonzalez doesn't think we should vote on bills
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unless we have an asylum hole big enough to drive the caravans through
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that texas stands for a secure border and internal enforcement of our immigration laws
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gates may be pretty good at coming up with nicknames but i have to say no offense i think
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uh... but joining me down the line i think we have matt gates up
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um... if you could just start we only have a few minutes but i'm gonna hold you over
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just sort of briefly contextualize the bills you're talking about in the borders this this big issue but really get down to the nuts and bolts
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which bills which resolutions are you talking about that have been tabled why who just sort of the basics
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yeah we had legislation scheduled for a vote this week to deal with e-verify
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enacting a detain or turn away strategy at the border so asylum seekers are not just released into our account country
00:26:48.980
uh... reinstituting the remain in mexico uh... the flora settlement fix parole reform uh... asylum reform as well
00:26:57.460
had we done those things there would have been a little room for the biden administration to escape when dealing with the border crisis
00:27:03.460
instead we remain stagnant without legislation prepared for the floor and deeply concerned
00:27:11.940
that the republican border strategy looks more like taking a bunch of trips to the border
00:27:17.940
then moving legislation to the floor for an up or down vote and it may be the case right now
00:27:23.460
natalie that there's not an immigration bill or border security bill that can get the support of 218 republicans
00:27:29.940
but if we were willing to take 15 votes for the speaker of the house
00:27:34.420
we should be willing to go through an iterative process and get bills on the floor and see what will pass
00:27:41.060
yeah we don't just want photo ops we want investigations and impeachments and accountability
00:27:47.300
hang through we got about i think a ninety second break uh... then we'll be back i want to get into that is this immigration debacle is it
00:27:57.060
i think it's the former but matt gates is going to help us really understand why how and more importantly
00:28:02.420
what to do about it hang in there we'll be right back from break you got me and representative matt gates
00:28:08.580
uh... just after the break talking about immigration and what to do about it because the biden regime seems to
00:28:15.140
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bipartisan effort to to deal with this issue at the border republicans still haven't put forward
00:29:27.060
their proposal with the budget what is it you're asking for i'm asking for a border package that
00:29:32.420
focuses on securing the border and an immigration package that focuses on legal immigration both the
00:29:38.180
republican party and the democratic party often get it wrong when they focus on illegal immigration and
00:29:42.900
i'm going to do everything in my power whether it's to buck my own party or buck the up the other
00:29:47.060
party to be able to say we have to have real tangible solutions hr 29 is a prime example this
00:29:52.660
border safety and security act it does anything but secure the border so guess what that bill in
00:29:57.940
particular it's dead there's no way it's going to get on the floor i'm going to do everything in
00:30:01.380
my power to prevent that because in my district people are dying and we need real solutions not
00:30:06.180
political rhetoric just enraging these establishment republicans are up to their same old dirty tricks
00:30:14.340
before we get back to really getting into who and why and what exactly is going on with representative
00:30:19.860
gates i got to make sure you guys go to birch gold i think it's birchgold.com slash war room i could be
00:30:26.260
wrong um and make sure you download volume three of the end of the dollar empire i will say i think you
00:30:32.340
guys know by now that i went to the university of chicago which is at least allegedly purportedly
00:30:38.980
used to have a very good economics department now i'm not so sure what exactly they're up to except
00:30:44.660
kicking me out of their sorority real war room listeners will know that story um but i did take
00:30:50.260
an economics class there and i will say i had to have read a lot of this these birch gold resources that
00:30:56.100
steve have done and they're absolutely wonderful and i have learned more from them than i ever did in
00:31:00.740
a class at the university of chicago in their school of economics so i highly highly highly
00:31:05.300
recommend make sure you head over to birch gold to check that out like i said volume three of the
00:31:10.820
end of the dollar empire but speaking of the end of empires i also think this crisis of illegal
00:31:17.860
immigration could potentially lead to the end of the united states not that we're an empire but
00:31:23.540
definitely i think poses an existential threat not just illegal immigration but legal immigration
00:31:29.460
too so we i think have still have representative gates down the line with us talking about
00:31:34.500
what he's doing to fight for you guys and protect not just really the national security of this
00:31:39.300
country but defend your wages against continued uh really suppression uh by the global elites of the
00:31:45.620
world who seem to point to unfettered illegal immigration is the answer to basically every single
00:31:50.260
problem um so matt can you just sort of explain because like i said i think the border issue it's so
00:31:56.100
big right it's so massive it's so hard to wrap your head around you know who exactly the key players
00:32:01.540
are in all of this right it seems like tony gonzalez is a name that the war room posse needs to get
00:32:06.500
familiar with um but what really is is going on on the hill in terms of legislation what you think the
00:32:11.780
path forward is and please don't be shy about giving names of members that the war room posse needs to
00:32:17.380
make calls to because i've heard they're pretty darn good at that well you heard right there tony gonzalez say
00:32:23.220
that the legislation we are fighting for to either detain or turn away at the border is dead on
00:32:28.980
arrival because he says so so he's likely influenced some other pro-amnesty republicans on our side we
00:32:35.860
have border hawks like chip roy and dan bishop and jim jordan we've got andy biggs and tom mcclintock leading
00:32:43.700
some of our substantive border committees and we are working to reduce crime we are working to secure the
00:32:50.020
border and the crux of the disagreement centers around asylum reform and what the pro-amnesty
00:32:57.060
republicans want is an asylum hole big enough to run all of the caravans through and we believe that
00:33:04.180
that asylum determination ought to be made quickly in order it ought to be made such that every person
00:33:11.060
who is escaping for a better life doesn't get to make our life worse as a consequence and that's what
00:33:17.860
we're seeing now um so that is a big part of the fight but another big part of the fight are the
00:33:23.460
moneyed interests in big business you pose the question whether or not the fact that we don't
00:33:29.140
have a border bill an immigration bill on the floor right now to reform these things is incompetence or is
00:33:36.420
it a feature of the system and i would argue that there are a lot of people in this town who control
00:33:43.300
a lot of republicans who would love to depress wages who would love to keep the border open and they
00:33:50.500
love the posture of the republican conference to be well we're disagreeing a lot you know we can't
00:33:55.940
get matt gates and andy biggs on the same side as tony gonzalez so we're just not going to do anything
00:34:01.300
going to continue to allow thousands of people to flow across our border on a weekly basis millions
00:34:07.220
during this presidency and that's why we need to have these votes so the american people can see
00:34:12.580
who is on what side and i don't mind if the consequence is that we have to maybe put the
00:34:18.580
bill up more than once there seems to be this theory in washington the republican leadership and
00:34:23.140
the democrat leadership have it that if you put a bill up and it doesn't have the votes that that's
00:34:27.300
some great calamity that that's catastrophic i actually think that's how you can move the ball forward
00:34:32.740
that's how you can build pressure on those who say one thing on their campaigns when just about
00:34:37.860
every republican was talking about a border the border issue they say one thing when they go to
00:34:42.340
the border and they talk about how horrified they are but then when it actually comes to advancing the
00:34:48.100
solutions to solve the problem so many of them uh retreat to the comfort of the complexity of the
00:34:55.220
issue and it's actually not that complex if we do the physical barriers if we utilize the best
00:35:01.060
made in america technology and then if we turn people away or detain them you will have a sufficient
00:35:07.540
downward pressure on the crisis and the cartels will get the joke so that's my frustration right now
00:35:16.260
it is entirely appropriate for the war room posse to reach out to members of congress in both parties
00:35:23.060
and say they expect to see action they expect to see votes and right now we are i think taking votes
00:35:29.380
on very frivolous issues like the parents bill of rights which by the way could definitely be better
00:35:34.660
solved at the state and local level than by the united states congress becoming america's school
00:35:39.540
board but yet somehow we put that bill up and we're lagging on our border work that's what we've got to fix
00:35:46.980
yeah these border trips i think are just defensive i see so many it seems like every day there's a
00:35:51.940
different member of congress going down to the border to do a photo op but it's like they're social media
00:35:57.060
influencers and meanwhile nothing's changing they're taking selfies as as you said the holes in the
00:36:02.740
border wall are big enough behind them for the caravans to be getting rammed through i think it's
00:36:06.660
an affront to the american people in the war room posse the peoples whose wages and livelihoods and
00:36:12.100
frankly lives are at risk and at danger uh because of these haphazard policies but you bring up you know
00:36:19.140
this idea that there's just no action and frankly the action that we're seeing is on issues and bills like the
00:36:25.540
you know parental bill of rights that aren't really where we should be wasting our time and energy
00:36:30.660
especially when we just had massive victories at the local school board level so of course the other
00:36:35.540
issue that steve always loves to talk about the debt ceiling so just where are we on that you know in
00:36:41.780
in terms of the vote in terms of kicking the can down the road has there been any movement since
00:36:46.180
you've last been on here to talk about it what does the war room posse need to know well the good news
00:36:51.300
is that this week congressman andy biggs is going to be proposing a series of cuts that would actually
00:36:57.620
result in us not having to raise the debt limit if we did the clawbacks of covid money if we cut a lot
00:37:04.500
of these unconstitutional agencies like the department of education like the atf if we substantially
00:37:10.580
decreased our foreign aid if we imposed work requirements on some of these entitlement programs
00:37:18.340
these social service programs uh where people were able-bodied and childless and could work and
00:37:24.980
otherwise choose not to then we could realize sufficient savings to not be up against it on
00:37:29.940
the debt limit so i'm going to be supporting the bigs plan that he's going to be laying out i'm also
00:37:35.060
very encouraged by the plan released by the freedom caucus so i think we've got some ideas out there
00:37:41.140
i don't know if they're going to get 218 votes though because i also have some republicans in our
00:37:46.500
conference who if there's any cut to you know almost anything they they get a little squeamish so
00:37:53.780
we're working to get the fiscal hawks aligned with some of our members in biden plus 10 districts
00:38:00.500
and we're going to work to to advance that strategy but i think that people should really be on the
00:38:05.220
lookout for the bigs budget and the deep cuts that if accomplished would result in no need for a raise in
00:38:12.340
the debt limit it's funny matt i i think if i remember correctly you were on your your high
00:38:17.300
school debate team so was i and i feel like people like me and you look to bodies like congress i can
00:38:23.380
see you smiling i know you love your your years as a debater uh but look to congress look to the house
00:38:28.900
floor is a place where these bills should be debated and it shouldn't just be where you have a vote right
00:38:34.020
when you were doing your your wonderful wonderful i would say epic battle crusade against kevin
00:38:39.300
mccarthy that was you know those c-span ratings are probably the highest they had ever been right
00:38:43.300
the american people want to see that so i'm just curious right you're you're talking about these
00:38:48.980
issues and people are introducing packages is the reason that there's not debate on this is it is it
00:38:55.140
because it's all a facade and at the end of the day it's just the moneyed interest right it's like
00:38:59.700
the immigration issue for example they don't actually want to debate on this because they know that
00:39:04.740
they couldn't actually defend their policy positions because they're totally disaligned with
00:39:09.940
the interests of the american people their america lasts to their core uh but it just it seems so from
00:39:16.020
an outside perspective it just seems like congress isn't debating and it seems like that's at least
00:39:21.380
maybe it's my naive perception but that's what they're supposed to be doing so a when is that gonna
00:39:26.740
happen and and b just on the investigations because anytime i have a member of congress on i always like
00:39:32.420
to just ask them because i think the warrim posse is rightfully upset that we haven't really been
00:39:37.780
seeing the results that we've wanted but going forward when are we going to be able to really hold to
00:39:42.980
account these pro-amnesty rhino sellouts but more importantly the people which i would argue are probably
00:39:48.980
part of the same group uh who are really impeding these investigations just what's the latest on true
00:39:54.500
accountability uh as to the lack of debate on the border the lack of debate itself is illuminating and
00:40:01.620
that's why i'm here working to engage the american people to push congress to actually advance
00:40:06.980
border security legislation and the reforms to stop the flow of these people from coming into the
00:40:11.380
country that was supposed to be happening this week and the fact that it isn't is a failure of our
00:40:16.580
system as for the investigations i am pleased at some of the transcribed interviews that we've been
00:40:22.740
able to conduct and the whistleblowers who have come forward the challenge is when we're
00:40:27.620
conducting our investigation we have democrats who are actually trying to obstruct and impede the
00:40:32.420
investigation who are a part of it remember during the january 6 investigation it was democrats adam
00:40:38.420
kinzinger and liz cheney all wearing the same jersey here we've had democrats try to smear and
00:40:44.820
discourage whistleblowers patriotic americans who've told us bad things that the fbi is doing but the the
00:40:51.140
overall concern i have is with political capture over this government and then the consequence of
00:40:59.060
that political capture is that the agencies reward their friends and hurt their enemies and we'd actually
00:41:05.300
like to think that the department of justice and the fbi are above that but at times they're some of
00:41:10.500
the worst offenders so right now our investigation focuses on the censorship industrial complex and with
00:41:16.660
the work that the fbi department of justice cdc white house were doing to try to control the very
00:41:23.460
nature of truth itself something you know quite well on the war room because you face those headwinds
00:41:29.860
and the theory is you have to break through that so there is a sufficient delivery system for what
00:41:34.740
we have to share with the people about the biden family and their corruption i think it's very telling
00:41:39.060
and uh very indicative of progress that now we can show the exact pass-throughs that managed chinese
00:41:46.900
communist party money into the bank accounts of every grifter in the biden family we can now connect
00:41:53.220
the dots on there are there are a lot of them money coming straight from the people's liberation army
00:42:00.420
matt where can people stay up to date not just with your wonderful podcasts but all the epic work that
00:42:06.100
you're doing to really hold these establishment republicans to account uh my podcast is firebrand
00:42:13.380
it's everywhere on the internet but most folks like watching through rumble and i am at matt gates g-a-e-t-z
00:42:20.580
and at rep matt gates just about everywhere on the internet thank you so much for joining us
00:42:26.580
uh we're coming up against a break we got ben burquam on the other side but on the topic of the
00:42:31.060
censorship industrial complex which is a very good term for it because it is an institution in and of
00:42:36.100
itself i'm working on a story right now about how the federal government specifically the national
00:42:40.980
science foundation is not just using your tax dollars to fund the fact checkers and create more
00:42:47.380
fact checkers but actually to create a merger a fusion between artificial intelligence and fact checkers
00:42:54.180
so someone pretending to be you can basically reply in your comment section um and give the
00:43:00.500
establishment sanctioned narrative on any issue whether it's the shooting that just happened climate change
00:43:06.900
you name it um it's it's certainly interesting and i think almost as much of a waste of taxpayer
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that in its entirety uh the truest really of all the privileges of my life of working with steve now
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we got ben burquam joining us i think he should be down the line uh he's in east palestine ohio i
00:45:47.300
remember i remarked the last time i was hosting this show that if only the crisis the chaos that happened
00:45:53.220
in east palestine had happened in ukraine could you imagine the response that we would have seen
00:45:58.420
in the taxpayer funds and probably the bailout that would have happened there but i think the to go
00:46:03.220
with the riff of this show imagine if the train derailment and the intentional spill of those
00:46:08.580
chemicals that happened near the southern border impacting illegal aliens i'm sure joe biden would
00:46:14.340
have done the first thing he would have done and flowed down there and given a whole speech but
00:46:17.700
because it happened in the flyover state of ohio the place where it doesn't matter jenna joe biden's
00:46:24.580
friends live there right none of the elite donor class they don't live there it doesn't matter
00:46:28.580
they're trump voters that we don't care right they're not going to do anything but that's not
00:46:33.860
necessarily true because we have real america's voice we have people like you who've been down
00:46:38.020
there covering this story from the inside out but i think you also have an interesting juxtaposition
00:46:42.900
because you also cover the border too so just really i think hammer it home for people the lack
00:46:49.140
of resources that have been really directed to this area that has been really hardly hit meanwhile
00:46:54.820
you have illegal aliens getting you know everything in their mother for free subsidized by taxpayer dollars
00:47:02.260
well it is it's absolutely disgusting as as matt gates just said congressman gates uh this is
00:47:07.940
a reflection of the pathetic inept rhino republicans unfortunately that still exist
00:47:13.460
in congress and that we we have to rid ourselves of them uh we've gotten rid of many we got rid of
00:47:18.500
liz cheney uh kinzinger and a few others but there are still those in congress who need to go and and
00:47:24.580
really to matt's point this is why it's so critical that these votes kevin mccarthy needs to have pressure
00:47:29.620
put on him to force these votes to the floor so that the american people can see just who these pathetic
00:47:35.620
inept limp noodle republicans really are uh so that we can get them out of there and this all this
00:47:40.420
does not voting on these issues is protect them and they can say well i didn't you know i didn't vote
00:47:45.460
no because there was never a vote they have to they have to vote on this uh and the only person now
00:47:50.900
joe biden's not going to do it chuck schumer's not going to do it kevin mccarthy is the only person
00:47:55.140
in congress that has the power to at least show who's on our side and who's not and and here in east
00:48:01.060
palestine we're actually at the restaurant we're outside the original roadhouse this is where we're
00:48:04.500
going to be tomorrow uh steve bannon as you mentioned uh he's natalie he's uh it's such an
00:48:09.620
honor to work with him he is one of the smartest guys i know and we're going to be down here for
00:48:14.100
the people and this is you know it's sad it's tragic that we have to be here but i want to show you
00:48:18.900
just how close this is this all starts just to give the audience a little perspective i'm going to
00:48:23.460
have ben kind of jog with me because it's a little ways around the corner here but uh this just shows you
00:48:29.300
how how uh what a direct impact this this derailment had on the community right here behind the restaurant
00:48:38.500
we've got the creek where the contaminated water flows uh it comes right out from where the the
00:48:44.820
tracks laid we just heard a railroad a train go by us and you've got the creek where this this
00:48:50.500
material is flowing down and just off if we come down a little bit further ben just down behind me
00:48:54.980
here you can actually see all of these machines these generators these are the pumps that are
00:48:59.620
aerating the water to basically protect the fish is what we're being told uh they're aerating it to try
00:49:06.580
to get the chemicals out of the water put it back in the air which seems ridiculous uh because all
00:49:11.380
that's doing is putting it back for the people to be breathing but the biggest issue that i've seen
00:49:16.340
is the fact that the what they're not doing is dredging these these creeks and these waterways and
00:49:22.900
and from my experience in being here the only way to get this stuff out that rainbow material
00:49:27.780
the chemicals that came out of that train is to actually remove the silt and the the sediment from
00:49:33.060
there it's all down in the sediment you stir up even right now you go down there through a rock in it
00:49:37.380
the rainbow comes back up and this is almost two months again this happened february 3rd for people that
00:49:43.620
have been following it almost two months ago joe biden still has not been here so he has not only
00:49:48.740
abandoned us on the southern border he's abandoned the people of east palestine but that's why real
00:49:53.060
america's voice is here is to to show the reality of this and and to give the forgotten man whether
00:49:57.780
that be on the border or here in east palestine a voice wow that's just just amazing reporting thank
00:50:04.180
you for showing us that now i only got like a minute so give me your socials but before you do
00:50:08.820
that i'm just curious you've been in east palestine for a while now how many people are back home do you
00:50:14.020
you get a sense how many people are no longer there you know do people feel safe to live there
00:50:18.260
like i said we only got about a minute and please give your your socials and where people can get in
00:50:22.100
contact with you at the end um but has life returned to normal is that even in the question
00:50:28.820
yeah well well sadly most of the people here work for a living i mean uh not sadly but that's the
00:50:34.180
reality of it and most people can't just up and leave the uh the norfolk southern was only providing
00:50:40.420
reimbursement for people that were affected in the one mile radius of the disaster zone
00:50:44.660
and they've quit doing that for most people and so almost everyone is forced back to to move back
00:50:49.300
home but the concern is still there the first person we ran into in youngstown ohio which is
00:50:53.860
30 minutes from east palestine is a woman who has not returned to her home because every time she
00:50:57.940
comes back she gets sick so the the the reality is nobody knows how long these effects are going to
00:51:03.300
take uh nobody knows the ultimately the long-term effects but that's why you know it's it's critical that
00:51:08.740
we expose this and force the federal government to do their job and where can people find you real
00:51:13.940
quick awesome it's funny i'm sure northfolk southern thinks they have social media awesome
00:51:20.260
thinks that they have a pretty high diversity equity inclusion and esg score right but where
00:51:26.260
are they when the american people need them esg doesn't mean much when you're ruining people's
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have steve and the whole team down there to really show you what's going on get a town hall opportunity
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shooter is audrey hail previously aiden who happens to be transgender now i'll set the clock for how
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the federal government which i think we learned from today's show thank you so much i'm natalie winters
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10 a.m tomorrow east palestine ohio steve the whole team thank you for hanging with me have a good one
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