In this episode of America First, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) takes aim at the deep state and its efforts to delegitimize his political career. And Apple CEO Tim Cook defends the Apple App Store and the privacy protections it provides to its users. Plus, a look at the dangers of big tech companies and why they need to be regulated as common carriers and why you should be mad at them if they don t allow you to download an app from Apple s App Store without permission. And a look into why big tech hates America and why it s time for Congress to do something about it. Subscribe to America First to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news and take a closer look at what s going on in our America First world. Subscribe to our new show on Apple Podcasts and leave us your thoughts and reactions in the comments section below. Use the hashtag on social media to join the conversation and let us know what you think! Thank you for listening and share the podcast with your fellow patriots everywhere! Timestamps: 5:00 - The deep state is trying to destroy my political career 6:30 - Big Tech Hates America 7:20 - Why Apple should be regulated 8:15 - Apple is a common carrier 9:40 - Apple s position on privacy 11:00- What are your thoughts on Big Tech? 13:00 | Big Tech s role in the digital world 15: What s the role of Big Tech in the 21st century 16:00s 17:00 18:40 19: What is the real threat to America? 21: What are you going to get from Big Tech 22:30 What s going to happen next? 23:30 | What s Apple s role? 26:00 // Is Apple s place in this podcast? 27:00 What s your opinion on the future of the digital space? 29:00 Is Apple's role in this episode? 30:00 Are you ready for Apple s app? 31:00 Does Apple s future? 32: What does Apple s a native app in the App Store? 35:00 Can Apple really have a place in the app store? 33:00 Do you agree with me? 36:00 Should I give in to this?
00:00:03.000Matt 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.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
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00:01:08.000Now, this week's episode is going to attack the politics and policy and ethic of fashion, of all things, from my America First perspective.
00:01:18.000You'll be surprised at the Dems I dunk on and praise in that segment.
00:01:24.000But the main focus of the show is the Woketopia.
00:01:27.000They have crazy rules and dangerous plans.
00:01:31.000The hall monitors of the Woketopia are in Silicon Valley, of course.
00:01:36.000And Senator Elizabeth Warren has a point on the dangers of big tech.
00:01:41.000We need to break up these big tech companies.
00:01:46.000You want to buy or sell goods on that platform, you pretty much have to go to Amazon.
00:01:52.000And Amazon makes money doing that, but they also rake off all of the information that goes on in those transactions.
00:02:00.000So Amazon then decides, huh, let's see what else is happening here.
00:02:05.000Andy is running a pet food business and you had the idea and you had to do the proof of concept and you had to finance it and get out there and start it.
00:02:17.000Amazon looks at that and says, we can see from Andy's numbers It's turned out real good.
00:02:23.000So we'll just move Andy, the original guy, back to page 7 and just scoop up all the business.
00:03:20.000It's a chapter title in my book, Firebrand, and it's true.
00:03:24.000Just listen to what our bipartisan investigation uncovered regarding how Apple serves as an anti-competitive gatekeeper for those who want to innovate and enter the marketplace.
00:03:35.000The App Store is a feature of the iPhone, much like the camera is and the chip is.
00:03:42.000My point is, and I'm sorry to interrupt, but I want to get to the point.
00:03:47.000Point is that Apple is the sole decision maker as to whether an app is made available to app users through the Apple Store.
00:04:00.000In 2010, Apple introduced an online bookstore called the iBookstore, where it offered eBooks.
00:04:07.000And the only major publisher that didn't agree to join iBookstore was Random House.
00:04:13.000Random House wanted to offer its own eBooks, Amidst continued negotiations between Apple and Random House, Senior VP Eddie Q said, and I'm quoting him, I'm quoting him when he said it prevented an app from Random House from going live in the App Store.
00:04:37.000Q himself cited this app rejection as a factor in finally getting Random House to give in and join iBook Store.
00:05:29.000That abscess supposedly did the same thing.
00:05:33.000Why do you, why would you keep the one owned by a powerful government?
00:05:41.000I'd like to look into this and get back with your office.
00:05:44.000It sounds like you applied different rules to the same apps.
00:05:49.000Apple has sole control over who they allow to market their apps in their app store, enabling them to eliminate opportunity for anti-competitive reasons or really for no reason at all.
00:06:01.000But it's not the quality of apps that they seek to ensure.
00:06:20.000We were concerned, Congresswoman, about the privacy and security of kids.
00:06:25.000The technology that was being used at that time was called MDM, and it had the ability to sort of take over the kids' screen and a third party could see it.
00:06:38.000And so we were worried about their safety.
00:06:40.000The same technologies that were unacceptable for outside competition were just as swiftly snatched up by Apple and rebranded as their own as soon as they were taken off the Apple Store.
00:06:52.000Sure is a win for companies like Apple.
00:06:54.000No longer do they need to come up with ideas of their own.
00:06:57.000They just have to wait for the competition to plant the newest seed in the ever-growing apple tree so that they can pluck and harvest.
00:07:06.000When you see evidence of this anti-competitive behavior, you have to wonder, why isn't the Department of Justice taking stronger action against Apple or really anyone else cheating the economy to kill innovation and competition?
00:07:21.000The truth is that at the Department of Justice, the intensity of antitrust litigation is all about the jobs these DOJ officials want when they leave government service.
00:07:35.000DOJ doesn't want to do nothing about big tech.
00:07:37.000After all, if you want to sell the antidote, first you have to sell the virus.
00:07:42.000But they don't want to do anything to actually hurt big tech in any real way.
00:07:47.000Those are their future employers, after all.
00:07:49.000There is a revolving door between the DOJ and big tech, as I laid bare here during debate in the House Judiciary Committee.
00:07:59.000There is a final piece of evidence here, Mr. Chairman, and I did not expect to obtain this when we had our transcribed interview of the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Berman.
00:08:10.000But in the inquiry of Mr. Berman, the majority asked a number of questions about why Attorney General Barr was asking him to leave the Southern District of New York.
00:08:20.000And take over as head of the Civil Division.
00:08:22.000And Mr. Berman explicitly says that the reason that the Attorney General is trying to coax him into the acceptance of that assignment is that it would be, and I'm quoting direct from the transcript here, a good resume builder.
00:08:34.000Mr. Berman testifies, he said that I should want to create a book of business once I return to the private sector Which that role would help to achieve.
00:08:42.000How improper for Attorney General Barr to be attempting to lure the US Attorney from the Southern District of New York to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice for the explicit purpose of building a business and then engaging in the revolving door back to the private sector to be able to leverage those contacts.
00:09:00.000I was struck by To be honest, it's going to be very difficult for Congress to pass these breakup big tech bills.
00:09:14.000They eked out of committee with Republicans and Democrats on both sides.
00:09:19.000It's complex and messy to say the least.
00:09:22.000And as you can see from the Barr-Berman fiasco, the DOJ is in on the big tech employment grift.
00:09:30.000So outgunned, outfunded, small companies are having to go at it alone in the courtroom.
00:09:37.000They're suing for their lives, for injunctions, to just open slivers of the marketplace for competition.
00:10:17.000Epic Games just got a federal judge to say that Apple must allow game developers to push purchasers to payment processors outside the Apple system.
00:10:29.000In the days following the ruling, Apple lost $85 billion in valuation because now the marketplace has more choice.
00:10:37.000Choice empowers consumers and it drives innovation and I'm for it.
00:10:42.000It isn't just Apple who tries to scrub out its competition.
00:10:46.000We have large conglomerates like Facebook who are more than willing to throw their elbows in the face of any competitor that comes their way.
00:10:55.000You can see me here questioning Facebook's very own Mark Zuckerberg defending the acquisition of anyone that might pose a threat to their market dominance.
00:11:05.000Mr. Zuckerberg, what is a digital land grab?
00:11:12.000Congressman, I'm not sure what you're referring to.
00:11:14.000Well, in the emails that your company produced to the committee, there's one from David Wehner in 2014, where he's describing under the mergers and acquisitions advice within the company that you need to engage in a land grab.
00:11:31.000And he says, I hate the word land grab, but I think that's the best convincing argument, and we should own that.
00:11:37.000And it goes on to describe a strategy wherein Facebook would spend 5 to 10 percent of its market cap each year to shore up its market position.
00:11:48.000Yes, Congressman, thanks for the opportunity to address this and, frankly, to correct the record, because I believe that what he was referring to was a question that was incoming from investors about whether we would continue to acquire different companies.
00:12:06.000I don't think that that wasn't referring to an internal strategy.
00:12:10.000It was referring to an external question that we were facing about how investors should expect us to act going forward.
00:12:19.000And I think he was discussing the fact that as mobile phones were growing in popularity, there were a lot of new ways that people could connect and communicate that were part of this overall broader space and market around humanity.
00:12:38.000It seems to be both internal and external because then in an email from you in 2012 we see a similar sentiment expressed.
00:12:47.000You write, we can likely always just buy any competitive startups.
00:12:52.000So is your desire to limit competition by purchasing your competitors consistent with The message to your investors that the way you'll run your company is through digital land grabs.
00:13:08.000Congressman, I'm not sure I agree with the characterization of how we communicated with investors.
00:13:13.000But I think the broader point is that there were a lot of new ways that people can connect that were created by smartphones.
00:13:23.000This is about your merger and acquisition strategy.
00:13:25.000You went on to say one thing about startups is you can often acquire them.
00:13:28.000So, I mean, I'm not interested in how people connect.
00:13:30.000I'm interested in how you acquire businesses to limit competition.
00:13:34.000The gentleman at the time has expired, but the witness may answer the question.
00:13:39.000Congressman, in order to serve people better and help people connect in all the ways they would want, we innovated and built a lot of new use cases internally, and we acquired others.
00:13:49.000And that, I think, has been a very successful strategy at serving people well.
00:13:56.000And a lot of the companies that we've been able to acquire have gone on to reach and help connect many more people than they would have been able to on their own.
00:14:07.000I would say I yield back, Mr. Chairman.
00:14:09.000Not only are big tech companies willing to spend their money to remove those who seek to compete against them, they are willing to lose money to do so.
00:14:19.000We saw one of your profit and loss statements and it appears that in one month alone, Amazon was willing to bleed over $200 million in diaper profit losses.
00:14:32.000Mr. Bezos, how much money was Amazon ultimately willing to lose on this campaign to undermine diapers.com?
00:14:57.000American innovators should not be shut out of a marketplace just because there's a bigger company willing to snuff them out for the monopoly with anti-competitive practices.
00:15:07.000This is why I support the antitrust legislation that is currently being put forth in Congress.
00:15:13.000Specifically, bills like the American Innovation and Choice Online Act would prevent companies like Apple and Amazon from giving preference to their own products and stifling those who would compete for the digital space.
00:15:27.000It is bills like this that will put American innovators first, allowing them the opportunity to prosper and grow American technology.
00:15:36.000I urge others to support these bills, as does our friend Tucker Carlson.
00:15:41.000Well, the House Judiciary Committee just passed six bipartisan antitrust bills today that could finally in the end lead to breaking up the big tech companies and saving the nation.
00:15:51.000One bill, it's called the American Choice Innovation Online Act, prohibits big tech companies from giving preference to their own products on their platforms.
00:15:59.000That's a typical piece of antitrust legislation.
00:16:01.000It also prevents them from discriminating against their competitors.
00:16:05.000Another bill is called Ending Platform Monopolies Act, and that bill could force tech companies to break up in the end and sell their assets.
00:16:14.000That bill passed by a single vote, in part thanks to two Republicans, Matt Gaetz and Ken Buck.
00:16:21.000Republicans have talked about big tech censorship for years.
00:17:26.000But this may be the best chance to pass antitrust legislation that will curb the power of big tech that is strangling our democracy.
00:17:33.000And so, of course, we're rooting for Congress to do just that.
00:17:36.000Back in June, the House Judiciary Committee undertook the task of considering this legislation.
00:17:40.000The Ending Platform Monopolies Act was reported out of committee by a vote of 21 to 20. I'm proud to have been the 21st vote in favor of it.
00:17:52.000But Nancy Pelosi hasn't signaled that these bills are coming to the floor for a full vote.
00:18:00.000During the 2020 election cycle, Google's parent company, Alphabet, contributed 80% of its $21 million to Democrats.
00:18:11.000In the same time, Microsoft, through their employees, contributed 75% of its $17 million in donations to Democrats.
00:18:20.000Furthermore, Amazon contributed roughly 86% of its $8.9 million in individual donations to Democrat candidates.
00:18:28.000Facebook, 80% of its 6 million to Democrats.
00:18:33.000Apple donated 5.7 million, of which nearly 80% went to Democrats.
00:18:39.000Now, there are other packs and vehicles that these big tech companies move many more millions of dollars through, but this just gives you a sense of the ratios and where their minds and hearts truly are.
00:18:53.000Sometimes, the best government money can buy is a government that you know won't litigate against you from the DOJ or legislate against you from the DCCC. I recently went on a fact-finding mission to Portland, Oregon.
00:20:14.000And if you ask a Portlander why their storefronts are boarded up like Florida anticipating a hurricane, they tell you it's for a good cause.
00:20:22.000BLM and the oppression and senseless shooting of black Americans by police.
00:20:28.000When walking the streets of Portland, I can tell you it's not the police you're afraid of.
00:20:33.000It's the zombies who just got done chasing the dragon.
00:20:37.000By the way, I guess somebody ought to tell the 15,000 Haitians camped at the southern border in Del Rio, Texas to turn around and go home, least they be subjected to our evil, irredeemable country and its systemic racism.
00:20:51.000Having said this, we did meet some pretty great folks in Portland, especially in law enforcement.
00:20:56.000But at times, I had to remember that this wasn't a foreign trip to Haiti or Syria.
00:21:02.000Every day, people in America's cities are living in filth and squalor, often because the utopian-sounding policies pushed by the left result in chaos and failure.
00:21:16.000I wonder if they named this place Outrage before or after the riots.
00:21:20.000It would seem that there would be reasonable basis for both.
00:21:24.000I came across a comic book store that undoubtedly serves as some sort of underworld meeting place in the dark hours.
00:21:30.000Nothing like friendly ladies from the Women and Women First bookstore.
00:22:32.000Now, the left would be wise to support these principles without selective abandon.
00:22:37.000After all, they tried to cancel Josh Hawley's book because they didn't like his viewpoint.
00:22:43.000California venues canceled political assemblies of support for Marjorie Taylor Greene and me because they're triggered by America First content.
00:22:53.000I covered in an earlier episode that the Democrat governor of New Jersey has me under criminal investigation for giving a political speech.
00:23:01.000Hundreds of our fellow Americans have been targeted by the FBI for participation in nonviolent activities on January 6th.
00:23:10.000But if this 198 Methods for Nonviolent Action is a playbook, it's various parts incoherent, contradictory, weird, downright grisly, and yes, violent, meaning perfectly Portland.
00:23:25.000Let's detail the plan the left has devised in their Portland paradise for the rest of us to resolve conflicts for society.
00:23:33.000Mock awards, 14. Mock elections, 17. And even mock funerals, 43. It sounds quirky to start.
00:23:42.000Until you get to protest disrobings at 22, please know, can you imagine a society where when we get mad at each other, one advantage we have to get our way is to be so physically disgusting that the thought of us taking our clothes off would force the other side to relent?
00:24:01.000If the left is serious about number 22, Republicans maybe have to nominate like Chris Christie just for deterrence.
00:24:09.000Actually, of those two options, seeing him as the nominee would be worse.
00:24:17.000Self-exposure to the elements at 158 seems intense.
00:24:21.000You've got to be all in for that, to say the least.
00:24:24.000At a MAGA rally, the only thing you have to do to expose yourself to the elements might be enduring a little bit of rain.
00:24:31.000Rude gestures at 30 or taunting at 32 seem an unlikely way to make America great or kind again.
00:24:40.000Meanness won't be the way to achieve number 33, fraternization.
00:24:45.000Is this encouraging sleeping with the enemy?
00:25:21.000They support embargoes 92-96 and severing diplomatic relations 154. But not with communist countries like Cuba.
00:25:30.000Black Lives Matter opposes that blacklisting.
00:25:35.000The fact that 11.3 million predominantly non-white people are being truly oppressed 90 miles from the United States is less significant to the woketopia than supporting a communist ideology.
00:25:48.000For the tyrannical left, politics runs deeper than blood or color.
00:25:56.000Excommunication is method 58. They welcome people pooping on their streets.
00:26:01.000I observed a man pick up an abandoned half sandwich and then pee into a mailbox.
00:26:52.000It's not just that the woketopians would excommunicate you.
00:26:55.000I think they'll excommunicate themselves if you give them time.
00:27:00.00060, 61, 64, and 65 call for ending sports and social gatherings, withdrawing from social affairs and institution, refusal to leave home, and total personal non-cooperation.
00:27:14.000Was the Woke playbook co-authored by Ted Kaczynski or something?
00:27:18.000Sounds like the pandemic lockdowns are a catalyst for this paradise.
00:28:48.000Social disobedience, 63. Non-obedience, 134. Disobedience of laws, 141. Blocking lines of command, 143. Obstruction, 144. Ignoring court orders, 146. You see, they are playing for keeps.
00:30:36.000This could just be confusing to people.
00:30:39.000Now the list rounds out with the express objective, overload administrative systems, seeking imprisonment, and number 198, setting up a parallel government.
00:30:52.000They want to take what we have, ignore it, overload it, attack it, destroy it, and replace it.
00:31:01.000They want to build a parallel society under these crazy rules.
00:31:06.000God help us, it may look something like Portland.
00:31:09.000The truth is, as barking mad as all of this is, we shouldn't take it lightly.
00:31:15.000If all we do is mock them and go back to work, we'll end up living under these rules.
00:31:20.000The political left is gaining ground in America today.
00:31:24.000So calling out their lunacy and hypocrisy is not enough.
00:31:27.000The left makes gains and establishment Republicans just complain about it on far too many days.
00:31:53.000And if you want to see how they would operate if they had supreme unchecked power to take over and control our country, look no further than the microstates they control now.
00:32:03.000From Portland to California to Chicago, Baltimore, DC, New York City.
00:32:09.000This isn't the country I want for our great people, but great Americans live in those places under this terrible rule.
00:32:16.000If we're going to stop this dystopic future in its tracks, we are going to have to get real tough, real fast.
00:32:23.000The future is up for grabs, and we have no choice but to win it.
00:32:28.000For there is no distant land to run to, no place to go, should we fail in saving America.
00:32:51.000Who could forget George H.W. Bush's socks?
00:32:55.000We make fast calls on people's fashion all the time, whether we realize it or not.
00:32:59.000In an article published in the March 2020 issue of Nature Human Behavior, authors O, Shafir, and Todorov of New York University and Princeton conclude that a clothing's quality defines how others perceive competence.
00:33:15.000After all, for many, why do good when you can look good?
00:33:20.000Image as a metric of competence is a rising trend.
00:33:23.000The generation that did it all for the gram is very visual.
00:33:27.000They didn't sit up at night talking on the landline for hours like Gen X or on AIM Instant Messenger with four friends at once chatting like me and all the fellow zennials out there.
00:33:39.000Conservative media went nuts when AOC wore a Tax the Rich dress to the Met Gala.
00:34:48.000Van Drew was elected a Democrat, switched to become a Republican, and won re-election anyway.
00:34:53.000That is a boss Nucky Thompson move if there ever was one, and the wardrobe is there to drive home the point.
00:35:01.000But if there is a political figure I want to commend for using fashion to make a point that should be front of mind to American consumers...
00:35:11.000Jill Biden is the first First Lady to have the courage and resolve and power to outfit repeat.
00:35:21.000While she changed up her mask and accessories to freshen the look, Jill Biden wore this classy and stylish Narcisco Rodriguez piece to the Tokyo Olympics.
00:35:32.000And in Florida with well-known American tyrant Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:35:37.000This wasn't the first lady economizing choices to accommodate a carry-on.
00:36:12.000And I know that some of you must be wearing things once and throwing them away because I have worn this Dewey Destin's tank top over 700 times.
00:36:21.000We haven't made the clothes we actually wear in our country for a long time.
00:36:26.000The price is lower, the quality lower, and when we're done wearing trendy, cheap, crappy stuff, We pollute the third world with it while patting ourselves on the back for donating to charity and destroying domestic industry.
00:36:43.000America is the largest importer of garments in the world.
00:36:46.000Nearly 40% of apparel products that are sold here are imported from China.
00:36:55.000This is the research that startled me most.
00:36:58.000Discarded textile products are the second largest industrial polluter on planet Earth, behind only oil, according to Forbes.
00:37:08.000Aside from the buy once, wear once, throw away culture of detached consumerism, many people have falsely woven this lifestyle into a charitable cause.
00:37:18.000You can indulge your vanity while virtue signaling.
00:37:23.000Cheap goods make cheap men, and cheap fashion cheapens us.
00:37:28.000And our crap tends to end up in Africa, not to clothe the naked, but to clog the rivers, smother the beaches, and billow over the landfills.
00:37:39.000If you donate your clothes to people in need, they aren't going to build a statue to you unless it is made out of unwanted, discarded clothes.
00:37:48.000Over 15 million articles of clothing arrive in Ghana every week, probably about half of it bought at H&M. This is an indictment of globalism and its dysfunctionality.
00:37:59.000This crap comes from China and ends up in Africa.
00:38:03.000We wear it, I guess, once or twice in between.
00:38:07.000Child labor and slave labor in China, that is the manufacturing force behind the poorly made Chinese garments that last two or three washes before disintegrating against your office chair.
00:38:20.000China makes more than seven times as many textiles as the second largest producer, which is India.
00:38:26.000Is there something wrong with a society that destroys our businesses in the name of tolerance, but won't tolerate an outfit repeat?
00:38:36.000America at her golden age had people wearing their Sunday best every Sunday.
00:38:40.000People had two pair of shoes, one for the work week and one for church.
00:38:44.000Now people are keen on hoarding shoes, clothes, accessories.
00:38:50.000America once manufactured well-made, lasting fabrics and garments that can still be found as relics in respectable vintage establishments across the country.
00:39:00.000So let's bring classic back, not just as a look, but as a way to think about how we appoint ourselves.
00:39:09.000I know it's the 21st century and Instagram's outfit of the day hashtag obsession is all the rage.
00:39:16.000But fast fashion is ruining our planet with rampant pollution.
00:39:21.000Are cheap, crappy, trendy clothes a good trade for soulless mercantilism?
00:39:27.000I know it's hard to resist buying that skimpy summer dress for $7.99 that you'll wear once before realizing it makes you look like a rectangle.
00:39:41.000We know clothes make the man, but do they make Earth worse?
00:39:46.000There's a lot we can disagree on as Americans, but we should all agree as a nation we are better than the sale rack at Express.
00:39:55.000Instead, invest in timeless pieces, knowing that you'll feel powerful in them.
00:40:00.000And you also can hold on to those pieces, taking care of them and respecting our planet in doing so.
00:40:07.000By resisting the urge to fast fashion, you're not only helping save the planet from endless trash, you're also contributing to a world where laborers aren't exploited for profit.
00:40:18.000The evils of fast fashion are greatly on display in globalism's ugly underbelly.
00:40:26.000Not all of us can be like elite AOC who wore a dress once and then never likely will wear it again.
00:40:32.000You know, everyone talks about how courageous it was for her to wear that dress initially, and maybe it was.
00:40:37.000Again, like I said, I'm not dunking on the move, but she should wear it again.
00:40:42.000Shows she's not in for the fast fashion trend.
00:40:45.000Now most of us don't even have gala events to attend, much less opportunities to design our own outfits, but we all can do our part in helping preserve the planet.
00:40:55.000And the people in Africa who have to deal with our crap, and the people in Asia who are underpaid and enslaved, they'll thank you.
00:41:03.000Even if they can't thank you directly, it'll certainly be a better life for them.
00:41:08.000And hopefully one day, America First will prevail on trade, on globalism, in our hearts and in our lives.
00:41:16.000And we will go back to making great American garments again.
00:41:21.000Now, disclaimer, I've bought inexpensive clothing made from faraway lands for seemingly trendy looks with very negative results.
00:41:46.000The research for this episode has inspired me to be better.
00:41:51.000Legislatively, we could look at alternatives to the international free trade system that doesn't seem to be free at all or fair.
00:41:59.000For example, we've made progress in the National Defense Authorization Act that's being considered and hopefully will be sent to President Biden.
00:42:07.000Namely, the Berry and Kissel amendments require certain goods to be purchased right here from American entities manufacturing them.
00:42:17.000And we agree with those Buy American provisions.