Firebrand - Matt Gaetz


Episode 1: Open Gaetz (feat. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


Summary

In this episode, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAZETTE) talks about being targeted by the Deep State, and how the deep state is trying to silence him. He also talks about his own recent scandal, and why he believes the Deep state is out to get him. Rep. Gaetz is a member of the House Intelligence Committee and is a key witness in the Russia investigation. He has been accused of lying to the FBI, lying to Congress, and lying to his own constituents about his involvement in child sex trafficking. Rep. Jordan has been charged with sexual assault and conspiracy to commit sexual assault, but he maintains that he is innocent and is fighting for the weak and not the weak! He also discusses his own scandal and how he is fighting back against a deep state conspiracy to smear him as a crook and smear President Trump as a liar and a leaker, and explains why he thinks he should go to jail for the crimes he's accused of committing them and why they should be treated as evidence of a cover-up and not a criminal cover up. What do you think of this episode? Tweet me and let us know what you think about it in the comments section below! Timestamps: 1:00 - The Deep State s campaign against Rep. Jim Jordan 4:30 - Who is the real Deep State? 5:00 6:15 - Is he a cro crook? 7:40 - Is Jim Jordan a crooper? 8:20 - Who s the real victim here? 9:15 10:00 | Who s a crooner? 11:30 | What s the worst part of this story? 13: Who s responsible for this scandal? 15:10 | What would you do? 16:40 | What is the worst thing that happened to him? 17:15 | How did he do to me? 18:30 19:40 Do you think he s going to pay for this? 21:00 // Is he the most powerful man? 22:30 // What do I m going to do about it? 25: Does he have a case? or do I have any chance of winning? ? 26:10 27:10 - What s his response to this story or 29:40 // How do I know he s a victim of a crime?


Transcript

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
00:00:29.000 You are in the right place!
00:00:30.000 This is the movement for you!
00:00:32.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.000 It's like a machine.
00:00:36.000 Matt Gaetz.
00:00:37.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:45.000 They aren't really coming for me.
00:00:47.000 They're coming for you.
00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:52.000 Welcome to Firebrand.
00:00:54.000 I'm Matt Gaetz.
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00:01:00.000 And big government steals for itself.
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00:01:13.000 If you know me, you know I don't mind taking on Republicans and Democrats.
00:01:19.000 We are no shills for conservative ink here.
00:01:22.000 And Democrats sometimes have good ideas that many Republicans are either too dogmatic or too corrupt to support.
00:01:29.000 It's true.
00:01:30.000 The America First movement demands supporters who are informed and active.
00:01:36.000 I'm here to give you details nobody else has and a strategy to use them.
00:01:41.000 I'm going to make you the smartest person in every political debate.
00:01:44.000 And we're going to use argument and information to take back power and save our country.
00:01:50.000 To win the battle, our side needs warriors, tough operatives.
00:01:54.000 Our opponents know this, and they try to pick us off one by one.
00:01:58.000 They tried with a brave congressman, Devin Nunes, when he told President Trump that our own government was spying on him.
00:02:06.000 Nunes was pursued by the Ethics Committee and his staff threatened with criminal prosecution.
00:02:12.000 The idea that the House Ethics Committee is taking up a formal investigation of whether Devin Nunes broke the rules of the House.
00:02:19.000 The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee regarding the Russia probe.
00:02:24.000 Let me just add that watching the Deputy Attorney General launch a sustained personal attack against a congressional staffer in retaliation for vigorous oversight was astonishing and disheartening.
00:02:33.000 Also having the nation's number one for these matters law enforcement officer threatened to subpoena your calls and your emails was downright chilly.
00:02:41.000 Is it possible that the Republican chairman of the House Intel Committee has been compromised by the Russians?
00:02:46.000 Is it possible that they actually have a Russian agent running the House Intel Committee?
00:02:50.000 They tried with America's best congressman, Jim Jordan, attempting unsuccessfully to link him to sexual abuse.
00:02:57.000 Jim Jordan fights for the weak.
00:02:59.000 He doesn't prey on them.
00:03:00.000 But that didn't stop the lying media.
00:03:03.000 A college wrestling referee says he complained to Ohio State University's wrestling coaches about sexual misconduct by one of the team doctors, but they did nothing about it.
00:03:14.000 One of the assistant coaches at the time was current Congressman Jim Jordan.
00:03:18.000 Accusers believe it was known by Republican Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan at the time, an assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1986 to 1994. Jordan denies knowing anything about the allegations before accusers spoke out this spring.
00:03:34.000 If there had been any reports of abuse, I would have reported it.
00:03:38.000 It was all a deep fake.
00:03:41.000 Then there's me.
00:03:42.000 March 31st, April Fool's Eve.
00:03:45.000 I stood in the Fort Walton Beach airport as my chief of staff delivered the news.
00:03:49.000 The New York Times would soon be reporting that I was being investigated for child sex trafficking.
00:03:56.000 Soon Insider would publish that I use hookup websites had I brought a 17-year-old across state lines.
00:04:03.000 Of course, these things are all totally false.
00:04:06.000 Verifiably false, actually.
00:04:08.000 Printed with malice, a court may find.
00:04:11.000 The piece from the New York Times reporter assigned to the Department of Justice left no doubt where the leak came from.
00:04:18.000 They take leaks and embroider lies onto them.
00:04:22.000 It's actually a crime to leak stuff like this, but that never stopped them when they wanted Trump's scalp, and they probably still do.
00:04:29.000 But I wasn't surprised.
00:04:31.000 This wasn't the first I was learning of false allegations of child sex trafficking.
00:04:37.000 Weeks before, a man of mystery connected to the intelligence community named Bob Kent texted my father.
00:04:45.000 He told my dad there were pictures of me with child prostitutes, and for $25 million, he could make all my problems go away, as he admits here.
00:04:57.000 Mr. Gates, text message from you.
00:04:59.000 I would like to talk with you immediately about the current federal investigation and the indictment that is about to be filed against your son.
00:05:06.000 I have a plan that can make his future legal and political problems go away.
00:05:11.000 You sent that text message?
00:05:13.000 I did, yes.
00:05:15.000 Why did you put it that way, that there was an indictment about to be filed against his son?
00:05:20.000 And why did you tee up the legal problems?
00:05:27.000 Matt Gaetz was in need of, or if the allegations are true, he's in need of some goodwill from the government.
00:05:32.000 I'm in need of a sponsor to fund the rescue project.
00:05:37.000 He needed money.
00:05:39.000 Tens of millions.
00:05:40.000 And he was pitching hard to my dad that I needed help.
00:05:43.000 The type of help only he could provide.
00:05:46.000 Some of you might call it an offer you can't refuse.
00:05:51.000 Who is Bob Kent?
00:05:53.000 Where's he even getting this stuff?
00:05:54.000 And who is he working with to shake down my dad on a pile of lies?
00:05:59.000 This man, David McGee, is a former DOJ official.
00:06:04.000 That's interesting.
00:06:06.000 And this man, Stephen Alford, is a con man who's actually been convicted of felonies and served time in federal penitentiary.
00:06:14.000 An intel officer, Kent, a felon, Alford, and a former DOJ official, McGee, team up to shake down a congressman and my family.
00:06:26.000 But it's all on the up and up, according to the intel guy, because the DOJ guy vouched for the felon.
00:06:33.000 That one of the guys who you were working with on this and approaching the gates has a criminal record for being a fraudster.
00:06:42.000 Why would you be associating with somebody like that?
00:06:46.000 So I was contacted by David McGee in October, and he asked me to meet with somebody, with Stephen Alford, because Alford wanted to help with Levinson and believe that he can get him out.
00:07:01.000 Now, after the rescue attempt fell apart in July, I had no contact with Dave after that.
00:07:06.000 I said, sorry, it didn't work out.
00:07:08.000 We went forward.
00:07:09.000 He wished me, you know, best of luck in my future endeavors.
00:07:11.000 And then when he contacted me in October, he asked me, is it possible to rescue?
00:07:16.000 Is Levinson still alive and is it possible to rescue him?
00:07:19.000 So I went back to the network and I asked a question.
00:07:22.000 And they said, yes, we think he may be alive, but can't do it the way he did it last time.
00:07:26.000 You have to go from the top down this time.
00:07:29.000 So, and when Dave vouched for Steven, that was good enough for me.
00:07:33.000 I must say, it's quite the con.
00:07:35.000 Step one, find people willing to make false self-serving allegations.
00:07:39.000 That's exactly what former DOJ official Bruce Ohr did with Christopher Steele and the Steele dossier.
00:07:47.000 Step two, use the leverage of an investigation to get someone to do what you want them to do.
00:07:55.000 Amazingly, the Christopher Steele archetype character in my story, Bob Kent, admits that they have actually run the same grift on other people.
00:08:04.000 As I said, Mr. Gates was in need of some goodwill, and we've worked with multiple people over the years, and all of them have been in similar situations.
00:08:14.000 I mean, a lot of them have been, you know, facing indictments or all looking for goodwill for the U.S. government.
00:08:20.000 Go to people facing trouble and demand millions from them to rescue a man named Bob Levinson in Iran.
00:08:27.000 Where have I heard this before?
00:08:29.000 Bob Levinson, 30-year veteran of the CIA, held now for 11 years in Iran.
00:08:35.000 We learn more details tonight about the efforts of a Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, now on the U.S. sanctions list, to secure his release on two different occasions, spending $25 million.
00:08:47.000 It's like, you know, why are they smearing this particular person?
00:08:51.000 I mean, he's somebody who spent $25 million trying to get that patriot Bob Levinson out of Iran.
00:08:56.000 Yeah, there's a black hat, white hat, black hat syndrome with him.
00:08:58.000 He's a bad guy for a while, probably treated that way.
00:09:01.000 Then he's a great guy, let him in the country, no problem.
00:09:03.000 And then with the same evidence that's been there all this time, now he's suddenly a bad guy again.
00:09:06.000 Trying to help Bob Levinson get out of Iran, a 30-year veteran of the CIA who we left there, he tried to get him out two times, spent $25 million, as you said, had a jet waiting on the tarmac, pulled back by the State Department for some weird reason.
00:09:22.000 $25 million.
00:09:24.000 Bob Levinson.
00:09:25.000 What are the odds that Robert Mueller would make the exact same pitch to get the exact same dollar amount to recover the exact American spy that Bob Kent went to my dad with?
00:09:39.000 Christopher Steele built a dossier of lies about Trump.
00:09:43.000 Kent built a dossier of lies about me.
00:09:45.000 In both cases, the lies are used to create leverage.
00:09:49.000 You can see the sheepish look of a busted man all over the face of Bob Kent.
00:09:55.000 What was your point in telling Gates' father about what you had heard about the trouble that his son was in?
00:10:02.000 You could have just went to him and said, help Bob Levinson.
00:10:05.000 If we find him, it'll be good for your son.
00:10:08.000 You could have left it at that.
00:10:09.000 You didn't.
00:10:09.000 How come, Mr. Kent?
00:10:12.000 I wanted to meet with Matt Gaetz.
00:10:14.000 I believe that he had the ability to raise the money quickly.
00:10:18.000 And yes, I did put that in there as a teaser.
00:10:21.000 Deripaska took the teaser.
00:10:23.000 Deripaska pays the money to Mueller.
00:10:26.000 Then the deep state accuses him anyway of collusion in the Russia hoax.
00:10:30.000 And they never save Levinson.
00:10:31.000 So somebody got $25 million and didn't even do the mission.
00:10:36.000 Was it even a real mission with Mueller then?
00:10:38.000 Or Kent now?
00:10:40.000 Or is the legend of Levinson now just a way to use the FBI To shake down political opponents.
00:10:49.000 It has been nearly four months since anonymous lies were spread everywhere about me.
00:10:56.000 Now they're falling like a house of cards.
00:10:58.000 Insider.com ran this story, making the specific allegation that I met a woman on a website called Seeking Arrangements and paid for sex.
00:11:08.000 Rolling Stone also directly linked me to the Seeking Arrangements website to smear and embarrass me.
00:11:16.000 The problem for these two publications and many others is that I've never met anyone on Seeking Arrangements or any other dating website.
00:11:24.000 There's nothing wrong with meeting people online.
00:11:26.000 Just not my thing.
00:11:27.000 I've always been more of an IRL kind of guy.
00:11:30.000 I expected to have to slug this fact out in the media.
00:11:34.000 They'd say I was on Seeking Arrangements.
00:11:36.000 I'd say I wasn't.
00:11:37.000 Everyone would live in their own cocoon.
00:11:40.000 But amazingly, and by the grace of God, which I undoubtedly need regularly, Seeking Arrangements has put out a statement directly refuting the false reporting.
00:11:51.000 I've never had an account on Seeking Arrangements, and now the whole world knows it definitively.
00:11:58.000 In separate litigation that doesn't involve me, Tiger Woods' ex-mistress is suing Seeking Arrangements.
00:12:04.000 She's alleging they didn't pay her because they were dealing with bad Matt Gaetz press.
00:12:09.000 So to defend against that charge, Seeking Arrangements pointed out the obvious fact.
00:12:15.000 That they have no connection to me, and I have no connection to them.
00:12:20.000 Rolling Stone and Insider.com have yet to retract their stories.
00:12:25.000 We demand again that they do so.
00:12:28.000 Litigation is forthcoming.
00:12:30.000 People make false accusations and tell crazy stories all the time, especially about famous people.
00:12:36.000 Yet not one woman has accused me of misconduct of any kind.
00:12:42.000 Not one.
00:12:43.000 Joe Biden has more on-record accusers than I do.
00:12:47.000 Remember Tara Reade?
00:12:48.000 She has a graphic-specific story of Senator Biden pinning her against a wall, sticking his hand in her underpants, and digitally penetrating her.
00:12:56.000 Where's the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit to believe her?
00:13:00.000 There is another element of pattern recognition regarding the FBI when they zero in on a political target.
00:13:08.000 When the FBI wanted to spy on Trump, absent an evidentiary predicate, they leaked information to Yahoo News, which they themselves referenced in a justification for their ongoing investigation.
00:13:20.000 Though I was far heavier at the time, I pointed it out in this interview.
00:13:25.000 Well, Harris, we now know the facts of what happened.
00:13:27.000 The Democratic Party hired the Perkins Law Firm.
00:13:30.000 The Perkins Law Firm hired Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele to go and dig up the dossier.
00:13:36.000 And then they hired Nellie Orr, the wife of Bruce Orr, to get the fake dossier from a political environment into the bloodstream of the intelligence community and to convert it into an intelligence document.
00:13:48.000 And what's most outrageous to me is that this fake dossier was so unreliable that the way that it was validated to the FISA court was a Yahoo News article written by Michael Isikoff planted by Christopher Steele.
00:14:01.000 So Christopher Steele wrote the fake dossier.
00:14:03.000 And then he went and planted fake news stories to validate the dossier.
00:14:07.000 The FBI was going to pay Christopher Steele.
00:14:09.000 They had authorized payment.
00:14:11.000 But then when they found out he was talking to the media and that he was unreliable, they canceled payment to him.
00:14:16.000 But even after canceling payment to Christopher Steele, the FBI and the Department of Justice reauthorized the FISA warrant to spy on American citizens based on a political document that had its origins at the Democratic National Committee.
00:14:30.000 Step one.
00:14:31.000 Leak information to the media that isn't true.
00:14:33.000 Step two, use the media as a basis to keep smearing political opponents.
00:14:39.000 This is Captain Nathan Nelson.
00:14:41.000 He served as my director of military affairs until he was offered his dream job, to run a non-profit in support of our military families.
00:14:48.000 But the FBI heard the rumor that he left because I was cavorting with prostitutes?
00:14:53.000 That is a total lie, as you will see here.
00:14:56.000 Last Wednesday afternoon, two members of the FBI came to my house unannounced to question me about allegations surrounding Congressman Gates.
00:15:08.000 They told me that members of the media reached out to them asserting that I had previous knowledge of Congressman Gates' involvement in illegal activities.
00:15:20.000 They asserted that because of that knowledge, I resigned my position as the Director of Military Affairs.
00:15:28.000 I'm here this morning to state that nothing could be further from the truth.
00:15:33.000 Neither I nor any other member of Congressman Gates staff had any knowledge of illegal activities.
00:15:39.000 I've known the Congressman for over six years when he was a state rep in the Florida House.
00:15:45.000 I worked with him for four years as his Director of Military Affairs.
00:15:50.000 Everybody here in northwest Florida in the defense community knows that I had a planned departure.
00:15:56.000 I left to continue supporting the military mission in a private capacity, helping to align the Department of Defense, defense industry, and academia for workforce development here in the Panhandle.
00:16:12.000 This baseless claim against me leaves me further convinced that the allegations against Congressman Gates are likewise fabricated and merely an attempt to discredit a very vocal conservative.
00:16:26.000 So now the FBI is running down false rumors from the America Last Media?
00:16:30.000 All this while there is real work to do.
00:16:34.000 Co-extortioners David McGee and Stephen Alford are recorded on tapes currently possessed by the FBI and DOJ. They have Kent's messages too.
00:16:44.000 My father made these tapes at the FBI's requests.
00:16:47.000 These tapes prove a lot.
00:16:48.000 Many prove that powerful people are mentioned in the effort to ruin me.
00:16:54.000 They should be released immediately.
00:16:56.000 I've called for this consistently.
00:16:58.000 Now there is one tape we've seen, and it relates to the true enemy of the people, CNN, and how they report on me.
00:17:07.000 Inspiring journalists at Project Veritas obtain secret recordings of a CNN director admitting that the reason CNN keeps running stories to propagandize my life is because I'm a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:17:23.000 If the agenda, say, is to, like, get...
00:17:26.000 Like Matt Gaetz right now, he's a Republican.
00:17:30.000 He's a problem for the Democratic Party because he's so conservative.
00:17:34.000 And he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws.
00:17:38.000 So it's, it would be great for them to get them out.
00:17:44.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:17:47.000 I guess I'd rather be targeted for being effective than to be the weak, controlled opposition embodied by too many Republicans in Congress.
00:17:57.000 Sadly, but not surprisingly, following this favorable reporting to me, Twitter removed Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe from their platform permanently.
00:18:05.000 So CNN was lying about me, they got busted doing so to promote their leftist politics, and their lies stay on air while the truth is censored, deplatformed, and buried.
00:18:18.000 And when CNN's flagship program, Cuomo Primetime, invited Bob Kent on air, the guy looked guilty as hell.
00:18:25.000 CNN and Big Tech don't get to redefine truth regarding my life or yours.
00:18:30.000 And that is why we will always keep fighting back.
00:18:34.000 One more thing about Kent and McGee, the guys purportedly holding this inside information as they attempted to extort my family.
00:18:42.000 They were reportedly paid by the US State Department $75,000 and big media buried it.
00:18:50.000 Pretty swampy, huh?
00:18:52.000 But don't forget, the FBI paid Christopher Steele too.
00:18:56.000 Then they discredit him as a liar.
00:18:58.000 But then they built the Russia hoax on the backs of his dossier of lies.
00:19:02.000 So you see these things can morph quite a bit.
00:19:05.000 There is much more to this story, and I look forward to sharing it with you.
00:19:09.000 But we will not allow the lies and smears to distract us.
00:19:13.000 America didn't create herself.
00:19:15.000 Patriots carved her out of the wilderness with blood and determination.
00:19:19.000 She won't stay magnificent on autopilot.
00:19:22.000 We must all endeavor to save her now.
00:19:26.000 I appreciate the platform Fox News gave me for years.
00:19:30.000 It allowed me to get key information to the country.
00:19:33.000 I have many friends still at Fox News, and I enjoy our discussions, whether they're on air or off air.
00:19:40.000 That said, Fox News isn't what it used to be.
00:19:43.000 And it probably has something to do with their corporate board member, Paul Ryan.
00:19:49.000 One of my favorite shows on the Fox platform was Lou Dobbs Tonight.
00:19:53.000 Sweet Lou.
00:19:55.000 Lou's like America's angry uncle.
00:19:57.000 Politically incorrect, sometimes red in the face, and usually right about stuff.
00:20:01.000 So enjoy some amazing Lou Dobbs highlights.
00:20:05.000 I've made no secret of my contempt for the politics of Speaker Ryan and his like-minded band of rhinos in the House and the Senate.
00:20:14.000 If Ryan and his rhinos have broken the president's promise to build the wall, if Ryan and his rhinos have their way on open borders and continued chain migration at any level, any form of lottery visas, And further deceives both the president and his voters.
00:20:34.000 Ryan will have betrayed the president and the party and most certainly will have destroyed the Republican chance of holding their majority.
00:20:44.000 Who is the real nut job there?
00:20:47.000 I can't recall another speaker in modern history working against a president of their own party Like Speaker Ryan has done.
00:20:56.000 This man betrayed this president in every way.
00:21:01.000 He lied.
00:21:02.000 He cheated the president out of what should have been easy victories, victories in support of his pledges to the American people.
00:21:10.000 And that one man refused to issue subpoenas, refused to back up the president.
00:21:16.000 His ignorance will live in infamy forever.
00:21:19.000 He has an assured place in the darkest pages of our history.
00:21:23.000 And took his party over the cliff.
00:21:25.000 Lost 40 seats, gigantic amount.
00:21:28.000 He's a fraud in every way.
00:21:30.000 Now that Paul Ryan has concentrated power at Fox News, Lou Dobbs is no longer on air.
00:21:35.000 He can't guide the populist right away from the invade everywhere, invite everyone version of republicanism that sells out to K Street and abandons Main Street.
00:21:46.000 Paul Ryan never used his considerable power as speaker for Trump's wall or other key immigration reforms.
00:21:54.000 But he was able to use his power at Fox News to cancel the great Lou Dobbs.
00:22:00.000 What a shame.
00:22:03.000 Well, you can't have a show called Firebrand without the great Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:22:08.000 This congresswoman has taken America by storm.
00:22:11.000 I hope you enjoy the conversation we were able to have recently.
00:22:15.000 I am here with the unstoppable Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:22:19.000 Marjorie, as we travel the country, one of your mantras is people over politics.
00:22:24.000 And I see people react to that in such a strong way.
00:22:27.000 What does that mean to you?
00:22:29.000 Well, this is what our country was founded on, right?
00:22:32.000 It's for the people.
00:22:33.000 But yet, this is what our government has completely, conveniently forgotten.
00:22:38.000 Washington, D.C., as you know, Matt, because you've been here longer than me, only focuses on itself.
00:22:43.000 It works for itself and no one else.
00:22:46.000 It's like its own economy.
00:22:47.000 It just works to feed each other.
00:22:50.000 And that's why they raise money.
00:22:52.000 And so they're not for the people at all.
00:22:54.000 We see it every single day.
00:22:56.000 And so that's what I said all over the campaign trail and I continue to say it.
00:23:00.000 People over politicians.
00:23:02.000 And that's what America First is to me, is serving the people and not the swamp.
00:23:06.000 And isn't it crazy that there are just these issues that are thought of one way inside of the Beltway of Washington?
00:23:12.000 And the exact opposite all over the country.
00:23:16.000 I mean, you think about term limits.
00:23:17.000 You think about these wars that go on forever.
00:23:19.000 You think about the immigration that is totally unchecked at our border.
00:23:22.000 It baffles me that the ecosystem that you described Can create an alternative truth inside of Washington where it's going to be great for all of us when America's at war forever or when we drive down the wages of our people or when we allow these bureaucrats to have excessive control over people's lives all over America.
00:23:43.000 I mean, you were one of the first voices on Fauci to really call out a power grab.
00:23:50.000 And I remember Feeling that way, being out on the ledge with Robert Mueller.
00:23:55.000 You know, when Mueller was first appointed, I was one of the first people to say, wait a second, what is going on here?
00:24:00.000 Why are we deviating from a normal review of what is before us just to go after Trump?
00:24:06.000 But the problem with Fauci was he went after the American way of life.
00:24:09.000 How did you have such clairvoyance on that?
00:24:12.000 How did you know before most Republicans that this was a person in search of power, not delivering helpful health news to the American people?
00:24:21.000 The exact same way you knew Robert Mueller was after Trump because it was a political war.
00:24:27.000 Just because I'm one of the people.
00:24:29.000 I'm no different.
00:24:30.000 I've never been elected.
00:24:31.000 I've never held office.
00:24:32.000 I know what Main Street USA says because that's exactly what I say and that's how I feel.
00:24:37.000 And it was very obvious to me that when you are hearing people in China trying to say, People that worked in these labs, that this virus escaped a lab.
00:24:49.000 And then we're finding out about the gain-of-function research and that Dr. Fauci funded it through grants, through a third party, that this money actually went to the Wuhan lab.
00:24:59.000 And then if you just...
00:25:00.000 It's easy, everyone.
00:25:02.000 All you have to do is watch videos of Dr. Fauci and his own words going back years and years and years.
00:25:09.000 This is his dream come true.
00:25:11.000 This is everything that he's watched through a microscope in a Petri dish inside of a lab.
00:25:16.000 And now he's getting to see it in real time.
00:25:19.000 It's his own Dr. Frankenstein experiment, but yet it's happening actually right in front of him.
00:25:25.000 And he's like the orchestra master sitting center stage orchestrating everything.
00:25:30.000 And our government is giving him the power to control our country and people's lives and people's deaths.
00:25:37.000 Because he funded the gain of function, which created that virus from a virus between animals and turned it into a virus that's transmitted between people.
00:25:47.000 And that's so evil.
00:25:49.000 The only term for it can be a bioweapon.
00:25:52.000 And it's using common sense.
00:25:54.000 It's looking at the truth and not through the lens of politics is how it's easy to come to that conclusion because those are the facts.
00:26:01.000 It's hard to think of medical power through the lens of political power, right?
00:26:07.000 But these things are now interwoven.
00:26:08.000 When I saw all of these connections between Dr. Fauci and the US government and this research in China that erupted the virus onto the world, It really got me thinking about all of the dangerous connections that our government seems to have with China, whether it is their production of the medical equipment that we need, whether it is the US business investment in China for AI centers or other collaborations.
00:26:38.000 How should our government think about its role in disentangling our country from the Chinese Communist Party?
00:26:45.000 Well, the problem is I think we're entangled.
00:26:47.000 I truly do.
00:26:49.000 No doubt.
00:26:49.000 China is the greatest threat to America.
00:26:52.000 China is the greatest threat to the entire world.
00:26:54.000 But I think that we're already...
00:26:56.000 Mike Pompeo told us.
00:26:58.000 He told us that China is embedded on every single level in our country.
00:27:04.000 They're on our school boards.
00:27:05.000 They're in the PTA. They're in our colleges, universities.
00:27:08.000 Their businesses are functioning within our government, all over the country, in my district.
00:27:16.000 I mean, they're all over America.
00:27:18.000 They're buying land.
00:27:19.000 They're buying farms.
00:27:21.000 So is the policy antidote to that, renationalizing business, limiting Chinese investment, a border adjustment tax from China?
00:27:30.000 I mean, those are the policy concepts that I wouldn't have normally thought of without really appreciating the depth of the problem and how interwoven they are.
00:27:39.000 Right.
00:27:40.000 So one thing I really appreciate about you is you really grabbed a hold of the America First policies early.
00:27:48.000 You literally were one of the first.
00:27:51.000 You're standing right there beside President Trump.
00:27:53.000 Yes, going yes, America first on every single level.
00:27:56.000 I totally agree with you on that.
00:27:59.000 And I think that's what the American people want.
00:28:01.000 That's the only thing that's going to save us.
00:28:02.000 But we have to take that same approach with China.
00:28:05.000 And I always take people at their word.
00:28:07.000 And when I hear President Xi saying next to President Biden, while President Biden is saying that he's going to reduce carbon emissions down to net zero and he wants to cut them in half by 2030, and then he wants net zero by 2050. But President Xi is beside him and he's saying,
00:28:24.000 oh, well, we're going to ramp up carbon emissions to 2035 and maybe later, and then we'll try to bring carbon emissions down to zero by 2060, 10 years after Biden wants the U.S. I listen to them and I go, that man is going to increase carbon emissions to increase his economy.
00:28:43.000 To overtake the United States by 2035 or even sooner.
00:28:48.000 Our leaders are idiots.
00:28:49.000 They're fools.
00:28:50.000 I mean, if they believe that we're going to unilaterally disarm the American economy and that that's going to result in a better environment, that's utter nonsense.
00:29:00.000 Right.
00:29:00.000 And I think that one of the challenges we have is that the America First agenda that we embrace is often a lobbyist last agenda.
00:29:08.000 Because the lobbyists, they do well in this town when they can use political money to leverage people to vote for things that are not in the best interest of their constituents.
00:29:19.000 Now you and I are the only members of the Republican Conference who do not take corporate PAC money.
00:29:26.000 They never invite me to those cocktail parties.
00:29:28.000 Well, you know, I canceled them before they could cancel me.
00:29:31.000 I'm not interested either.
00:29:32.000 Well, right.
00:29:33.000 But as a policy matter, that has liberated us from the things that really do constrain our colleagues.
00:29:41.000 And, you know, maybe just like bring people into a Republican conference.
00:29:46.000 This is where we all get together.
00:29:48.000 Folks in our districts might think that's about strategy or tactics or about a particular policy matter that we were interested in, but what does it focus on in your experience?
00:29:59.000 Oh, our conference?
00:30:00.000 Yeah.
00:30:01.000 Well, it's been really interesting to me.
00:30:03.000 You see, I'm used to running a business where every single morning our staff gets together and we meet in a boardroom and we go over all the construction projects that we have and we talk about problems that we need to solve and we address issues and we talk about customers, what they need and how to meet their needs and how to do a good job and how to make a profit, not a loss.
00:30:23.000 And so that's what we do as a business.
00:30:26.000 But yet when I joined the Republican Conference and became an elected member of I could not believe what happens in the conference because it's all about altar calls and fundraising.
00:30:37.000 What's an altar call?
00:30:38.000 Well, that's calling everybody down to please come on down and donate your money to the NRCC. And that's what we saw in our meeting just You know, here it's practically every time we're here and everybody's name and how much money they've donated to the NRCC is all on a list and it's public and then they hand us a piece of paper on the table that says these are our top 20. Well,
00:31:11.000 and then I look at that list and I go, ooh, there's about 10 of those folks on this top 20 list that either voted to impeach...
00:31:19.000 My favorite president, your favorite president, President Trump, or they voted to kick me off committees.
00:31:25.000 And then there's one certain guy.
00:31:28.000 And then they come asking for your money.
00:31:28.000 Yeah, and then they want me to donate to make sure those folks get re-elected.
00:31:32.000 But they don't want you to donate directly to them.
00:31:34.000 They want you to donate to the party bosses so that then that money is recycled back to people who then act in contravention to the interests of the people who donated you the money in the first place.
00:31:44.000 100%.
00:31:44.000 And then that money, what everyone needs to understand, will help those candidates or these congressmen and women to get reelected.
00:31:53.000 And that money will work against, like an America First candidate, to replace them.
00:32:00.000 It's a total grift.
00:32:01.000 And I am concerned that the influence that special interests have on our politicians is impacting the vaccine debate that we're having in this country.
00:32:12.000 Oh, a thousand percent.
00:32:14.000 Big Pharma controls Washington.
00:32:16.000 They control major media.
00:32:18.000 I mean, look, if you are watching corporate media, take a moment to observe how many of the commercials are going to Big Pharma.
00:32:26.000 And that impacts the news coverage.
00:32:28.000 It just does.
00:32:30.000 And you know what?
00:32:30.000 The American people know that.
00:32:31.000 Yep.
00:32:32.000 The American people know that it impacts how politicians treat big pharma.
00:32:36.000 Yep.
00:32:36.000 And so I guess, you know, how do you think about these vaccines?
00:32:41.000 You know, and I'm not a person who criticizes those who choose to take the vaccine.
00:32:46.000 If it's a right, you know, there are people like my own parents who, for them, they're a little older, they've got other complicated Medical conditions and it was the smart decision for them and for people in that circumstance where it makes sense.
00:32:59.000 I hope that they avail themselves to the best that modern technology has to offer.
00:33:04.000 But then I also meet with 20-something-year-old service members.
00:33:10.000 In the Army with, you know, 4% body fat.
00:33:14.000 They speak six languages.
00:33:15.000 You know, they are very concerned.
00:33:18.000 A lot of them are.
00:33:19.000 And they want to know who will fight for them.
00:33:22.000 Right.
00:33:22.000 Will enough of us in Congress actually tell truth to power and stand with our constituents?
00:33:29.000 Or do you believe that our people will be steamrolled?
00:33:32.000 Well, we're about to see that starting right now.
00:33:35.000 now because with these mask mandates being brought back to Washington, D.C. so that they can put their control clamp back down on the nation, just when our economy is starting to recover and just when we are needing, you know, children are going back to school, they're putting masks back in place.
00:33:51.000 We're going to find out which Republicans will stand up to it.
00:33:53.000 And so here's my issue.
00:33:55.000 I very much agree with you.
00:33:56.000 If people want to get the vaccine, absolutely, they should be able to get it.
00:34:00.000 Yeah, with no stigmatization.
00:34:02.000 No.
00:34:02.000 And no judgment.
00:34:03.000 Yeah.
00:34:03.000 But it should go back the other way.
00:34:06.000 Totally.
00:34:06.000 If someone says, you know, I'm healthy.
00:34:08.000 I'm not obese.
00:34:09.000 Obesity is one of the highest risk factors for hospitalization and death with COVID-19.
00:34:14.000 It's proven.
00:34:15.000 That's science.
00:34:16.000 Those are the facts.
00:34:17.000 That's in the data.
00:34:18.000 And so, like you said, military members, college athletes, pro athletes, most of our healthy kids, K through 12, and the working adult population are healthy enough to make up their mind, hey, you know what, I'm going to trust my immune system with this.
00:34:35.000 There's about a 1% chance that The death right there with COVID-19.
00:34:40.000 I'm going to choose on my own.
00:34:41.000 I'm good.
00:34:42.000 No thanks.
00:34:43.000 I don't need this non-FDA approved vaccine.
00:34:46.000 But here's also the issue.
00:34:48.000 We have to make sure as leaders that these people aren't segregated in their workplace or in school.
00:34:54.000 That they're not punished.
00:34:55.000 They're not discriminated against like we were being fined for masks on the House floor by Nancy Pelosi.
00:35:01.000 And we have to stand up to it.
00:35:03.000 And we have to do that here, which we're doing that.
00:35:06.000 We have to do that here so that people can do it at home.
00:35:08.000 And we have to loudly support them.
00:35:11.000 But we'll find out.
00:35:12.000 We'll find out.
00:35:13.000 My observation is that the elites in our country...
00:35:15.000 Who are in media, who are the pundits and the columnists, they are gaslighting the private sector.
00:35:21.000 What they're saying is, well, it's totally acceptable and appropriate for big business to treat people differently based on their vaccine status.
00:35:30.000 I believe that the front line of this fight will actually be with large corporations that decide to develop their own vaccine passport to use commercial air travel, to use other things that Have become common in American life.
00:35:48.000 These businesses relied on the strength of the US dollar built by our people.
00:35:54.000 They relied on the American taxpayer for their PPP loans, for their Fed policy to print money for them to stay open.
00:36:01.000 I mean, Boeing's been bailed out so many times.
00:36:03.000 I don't know why we don't just nationalize Boeing at this point.
00:36:06.000 And now these big businesses are on the front lines of an attack on people who choose to make a different medical choice.
00:36:14.000 Right.
00:36:14.000 And they win because they keep getting paid because the government is saying, you have to take this vaccine.
00:36:20.000 So guess what?
00:36:21.000 They get to keep selling their vaccines and they get to keep making money.
00:36:24.000 I mean, what a contract to win, right?
00:36:26.000 The COVID vaccine contract.
00:36:27.000 Think about this, though.
00:36:29.000 All throughout history, every time we've seen a country follow into Marxism and as that changes, This is what happens, and it's happening right now in America.
00:36:38.000 The small businesses get crushed, and it's the big corporations that get rewarded by the government, and they meld together.
00:36:47.000 Totally.
00:36:47.000 And we have seen that.
00:36:48.000 Big tech has already done it.
00:36:49.000 We're seeing it with big pharma.
00:36:51.000 We're seeing it with contractors, people that win big government contracts.
00:36:55.000 These large corporations are- The military industrial complex.
00:36:58.000 Military industrial complex is a major issue.
00:37:00.000 So I have a term for that.
00:37:02.000 I call it corporate communism.
00:37:04.000 Corporate communism destroys small businesses in America.
00:37:08.000 And I have a very good example from my district.
00:37:10.000 They destroy the small businesses and the corporations gain all the control and they can't be defeated.
00:37:16.000 And they do the bidding of the government like they're doing.
00:37:19.000 Biden's saying, oh, the government's not going to mandate vaccines, but the big corporations are doing it.
00:37:25.000 Corporate communism, they're putting the policy in place through their businesses, on their employees and on their customers.
00:37:31.000 Like we've seen with the airlines.
00:37:33.000 And these are many of the big corporations that were shoveling cash at the BLM movement during the George Floyd riots.
00:37:39.000 And so I've lost confidence that they're really acting in our country's best interest.
00:37:44.000 I'm not against America having successful businesses.
00:37:47.000 We want that to happen all over our country.
00:37:48.000 But I also remember a time when the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, they weren't just industry tycoons.
00:37:56.000 They were also statesmen.
00:37:57.000 It was always about our country.
00:37:59.000 And I really fear that with some of these globalist entities, America is less important to them than the next round of stock dividends.
00:38:07.000 And that's not America first, you know, and the neo-libertarians might be a little sensitized to that commentary, but it's just true.
00:38:16.000 And I think we're at a different point in our country where enough is enough with just shoveling the responsibilities and proclivities of government onto business and then having business go execute it on behalf of government, but with that melded corporate communism.
00:38:31.000 Number one threat to our Liberty really is big government, but the number two threat is probably big business.
00:38:37.000 And speaking of liberty, there are January 6 detainees right now that we've asked questions about.
00:38:44.000 I don't think you and I have prejudged any particular case or any particular circumstance, but it is our job, through Article 1, to have oversight over the executive branch.
00:38:55.000 And when we've asked questions about access to counsel, access to exculpatory evidence, We haven't gotten any answers.
00:39:03.000 Nope.
00:39:03.000 And so we went to DOJ. We were hoping that with five members of Congress, the Attorney General or someone might have a moment for us, but share your perspective on just trying to get in the building.
00:39:16.000 I'm shocked, and I want to tell you why I'm shocked.
00:39:19.000 We were left out on the sidewalk.
00:39:22.000 They wouldn't even let us pass the bike racks towards the front door.
00:39:27.000 They would not let us in the lobby.
00:39:30.000 We are five members of Congress.
00:39:32.000 Several of us have positioned you on judiciary, Louie Gohmert on judiciary, and Paul Gosar on oversight.
00:39:42.000 On oversight.
00:39:42.000 Which both of those committees have oversight of the Department of Justice.
00:39:46.000 They would not even let us in the front door while they told us that they would wait and see if someone could speak with us even though we had let them know we were coming well in advance and have been asking questions and sending letters for months now.
00:40:00.000 We got left out cold on the concrete.
00:40:03.000 While the radical left, when we watch them, while we're standing there, we're watching them coming down the sidewalk this way, coming down the sidewalk this way, climbing out, coming out of the crevices, you know, coming to attack us.
00:40:16.000 A band came, a mariachi band.
00:40:17.000 A mariachi, yeah, and that takes money, by the way.
00:40:20.000 I mean, they don't, the band members don't just say, hey, let's go down and play down on the street corner and try to silence.
00:40:25.000 Any mariachi band I've ever gotten has cost money.
00:40:26.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:40:28.000 And so, you know, what I witnessed when we went to the Department of Justice to me was I thought, wow, we could be like the Republican members at the baseball game that were shot at by a communist that followed and loved Bernie Sanders.
00:40:43.000 And no one would have cared.
00:40:45.000 We were standing out there just saying, hey, we just want to ask questions, the same questions we've been asking.
00:40:51.000 No one's even talking to us.
00:40:53.000 You know what I think it is, Marjorie?
00:40:55.000 The left has redefined words as violence, right?
00:40:59.000 Like, oh, you know, when you say there are two genders, that's not your perspective on biology.
00:41:05.000 That is a violent act.
00:41:07.000 Those are violent words.
00:41:08.000 And so when the left is able to categorize our nonviolent speech to try to animate political activity in a free country as violence, what they're really doing is justifying actual violence against us or against the MAGA movement.
00:41:25.000 Or really to facilitate the pursuit of any of those who would have an America First perspective through the lens of national security concerns.
00:41:35.000 There are people who are incarcerated now who I believe are only facing misdemeanors or less in terms of charges.
00:41:44.000 That's right.
00:41:44.000 And the reason those folks haven't been let out, in my opinion, is that the national security state has to justify that this is an ongoing national security threat so that they can access these exquisite authorities and then turn those authorities of surveillance and disruption against a legitimate political is that the national security state has to justify that this is an ongoing national security threat so that they can access these exquisite
00:42:07.000 And I think that's how we have to talk about these things and I think that we're going to stay in the fight on behalf of just basic due process.
00:42:17.000 Absolutely.
00:42:17.000 Basic due process.
00:42:18.000 Yeah, we weren't there saying, free them.
00:42:21.000 We're there asking questions about them.
00:42:23.000 And we're also wanting to know, why isn't Antifa and BLM being looked at like domestic terrorists?
00:42:29.000 What does extremism mean?
00:42:31.000 Who falls in the extremist category?
00:42:33.000 I don't want to live in a world where extremism is just the way we talk about our political opponents.
00:42:38.000 Exactly.
00:42:39.000 You know, I mean, that is a way to fuse, like, the criminal process with what ought to be a legitimate political process.
00:42:45.000 And speaking of legitimate political speech, you and I have been subject to really some repressive activity from government entities where when we, you know, we've had rallies around the country.
00:42:57.000 Not a bit of harm.
00:42:58.000 No one's gotten hurt.
00:43:00.000 No.
00:43:00.000 No violence.
00:43:00.000 It's a party.
00:43:01.000 Yeah.
00:43:01.000 People come and it's a very joyful experience.
00:43:04.000 There's music.
00:43:04.000 There's dancing.
00:43:05.000 We give some speeches.
00:43:06.000 We take photos and selfies and give a lot of hugs.
00:43:09.000 Right.
00:43:10.000 And yet when we went to California, because there are a lot of great people in California who are subject to a really bad government, a lot of bad governments actually over there.
00:43:20.000 And we went to share joy.
00:43:22.000 And I never believed I would have seen this.
00:43:25.000 City governments using their power to try to punish anyone that would even house us.
00:43:32.000 That's right.
00:43:32.000 So finally, we had to say...
00:43:34.000 Punish a business for making money by renting out their facility to us.
00:43:38.000 They shut them down.
00:43:39.000 I mean, and for me, it got to the point where if the cities kept shutting us down, we just had to go to City Hall.
00:43:47.000 And what we found there were a number of hundreds, actually, of really fired up Americans.
00:43:52.000 And then you actually threw a beach party.
00:43:56.000 Could you just share with folks how you came to the creativity of, well, if there's a place we want to get together with some friends, take some photos, give some hugs, how did you come to the proposition that it would be the beach?
00:44:08.000 We had to go to the beach because during the shutdowns in California, I was always just blown away that churches were closed.
00:44:16.000 But I would see every Sunday videos just all over of Christians going to the beach.
00:44:23.000 And they would worship and celebrate and be together at the beach because it was the only place they couldn't be canceled.
00:44:30.000 And so when the radical left just descended on us with everything they had.
00:44:36.000 Threats of violence?
00:44:37.000 Threats of violence all over the country, threatening the cities, threatening the businesses, just to silence us.
00:44:45.000 We went to the city hall, which was a great idea.
00:44:48.000 Oh my gosh, Matt, that was the best idea in that quote that was behind us.
00:44:51.000 Yes, a Ben Franklin quote about the value of free speech in a just society.
00:44:57.000 And then our wonderful America First patriots, they only had, like, what, two or three hours at notice of, come to Riverside City Hall.
00:45:04.000 We're going to use our free speech.
00:45:06.000 Come and hear America First.
00:45:07.000 And we had hundreds show up.
00:45:09.000 I mean, like that.
00:45:10.000 And the left still came.
00:45:11.000 They were so hateful, screaming and cussing and saying all their...
00:45:15.000 Nastiness over there yelling at us, but then we went to the beach after that and just had that great time with some of our most wonderful supporters because they can't cancel us there.
00:45:26.000 And it is just so important for me, for my own mental health, to get out of Washington and to get out into the country and to be with the people that we fight so hard for.
00:45:37.000 Yes.
00:45:37.000 And I think that that is something I look forward to, definitely with you, is to, whatever the forum, whatever the venue, whatever the place, to continue to show people that we are fighting for them.
00:45:48.000 Absolutely.
00:45:49.000 This is a question I've thought a lot about.
00:45:52.000 You have redefined the role of a member of Congress because I'm unaware of any other circumstance where literally upon your swearing in, I mean, I don't know that the ink was dry on your election certificate before the Democrats removed you from the Education and Labor Committee.
00:46:09.000 If they came back to you now and said, Congresswoman Greene, we've had enough.
00:46:14.000 You've overseen the entire workflow on the floor of the House of Representatives.
00:46:19.000 You've showed up at committees you aren't on and been able to make your case more than actual committee members.
00:46:25.000 You're like the air traffic controller of the America First movement.
00:46:29.000 With this perspective.
00:46:31.000 And what we'd really like to do is put you back on the Education and Labor Committee.
00:46:35.000 Because then you'll be in six-hour sessions on the latest developments on instructional materials for seventh graders.
00:46:42.000 Or CRT. It would be very different if you were on that committee than how you spend your day today animating a movement and really becoming one of the leaders of it.
00:47:03.000 Far more effective on the outside.
00:47:05.000 We're far more effective going out all over the country and encouraging moms and dads to fight their school boards.
00:47:12.000 These passionate mothers that care about their children so much are going to fight CRT out of the schools to run for school board positions.
00:47:19.000 Won't they be our future Congress members?
00:47:22.000 Yes, absolutely.
00:47:23.000 And we can't wait for them to join us.
00:47:25.000 I mean, we're far more effective on the outside instead of sitting there on Zoom committee meetings where Democrats don't wear pants.
00:47:33.000 You know, going out and encouraging everyone to not lose faith, don't lose hope.
00:47:37.000 You know, we have this.
00:47:39.000 This is our country.
00:47:40.000 We just have to take it back, and it's easy to take back.
00:47:43.000 Because here's what I figured out, and I figured it out really quickly.
00:47:47.000 Washington D.C. is like one of those snow globes but the glass is so thin.
00:47:53.000 And I say that because they all just serve each other.
00:47:56.000 And the American people have all the power.
00:48:00.000 You want to know why?
00:48:00.000 They have the money, the donations.
00:48:03.000 They have the votes.
00:48:05.000 And they have the freedom right now.
00:48:08.000 And so this is why we have to keep going and doing our rallies and getting that message across is they can't cancel us because we refuse to be canceled.
00:48:17.000 And so right now, while Democrats and Nancy Pelosi and them are just running this place however they want, I would never waste one second on a useless committee.
00:48:27.000 Well, I have said publicly that if I were in charge of the House of Representatives, I'd have you run in the budget committee because you have a very project management style of approach that would be really good throughout the enterprise of government.
00:48:40.000 Well, Marjorie, this has been a great conversation.
00:48:42.000 You are a great firebrand and inspiration not only to me, but to many of my constituents.
00:48:47.000 And I think President Trump says it best.
00:48:50.000 Best is yet to come.
00:48:51.000 Absolutely.
00:48:51.000 Thank you, Matt.
00:48:52.000 Thanks for watching Firebrand.
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