On this episode of Firebrand Live, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) is joined by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (D-VA) to discuss the latest in the Ukraine, the debt ceiling, and more. Also, Joe Biden announces his intention to run for President in 2024, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard calls for impeachment of the White House Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, for his handling of the Lew Lewinsky scandal, and calls for him to be put "out to pasture." Thanks to our sponsor, Rumble, for sponsoring this episode! Subscribe to our new podcast, Battleground MTG, where you'll get access to all the latest news and notes on what's going on in Washington, D.C. and around the country. We'll be posting episodes every Monday morning, so make sure to check them out! Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family! Firebrand is a production of the Firebrand Media. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms! Thank you for supporting this podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review and/or share it on your social media accounts! if you're a fellow Firebrand devotee! or share it to a friend, we'll be sure to spread the word about this podcast around the world! and we'll get a shoutout on the next episode of our next episode on Firebrand. Thank you! - Tomahawk! Tomaholics and the next one will be out on Tuesday, Tuesday, February 20th, February 6th, 2020! Timestamps: 5/27/19/19th, 6/28/19, 7/28, 6/27, 8/8, 9/9, 7/7, 5/8th, & 7/9/8/9 6 8th, 8/9th, 9/6, 10/8 9 & 8/7/8 /9/13, The Best of All-Out, Thanks, Thank you, Thank You, Matt, Matt & the Crew Matt, Matt
00:04:48.000Matt 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.
00:04:55.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:04:58.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:05:01.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:05:04.000If 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!
00:07:54.000Yes, and it has its own web pages also, Battleground MTG. So, the big political news of today, Joe Biden, in whatever shape he's in, has announced that he is running for president in 2024. Honestly, I still don't really believe he's running.
00:08:09.000I think he's just saying he's running.
00:08:11.000I still think there's a chance this guy, they put him out to pasture before then.
00:10:58.000It shows the American people actually who the fighters are.
00:11:02.000President Trump, you know, certainly us.
00:11:07.000And it's just quite something that Biden thinks that that's the way to unite his coalition rather than putting forward any kind of agenda.
00:11:15.000I mean, what is the Biden agenda other than socialism and the Green New Deal?
00:11:18.000Well, his agenda is the destroy America agenda, the America last agenda, kill American energy, wide open borders, crime, rampant crime in our cities, transitioning kids under the age of 18 before they're able to graduate from high school, mastectomies, hysterectomies, the trans agenda.
00:11:49.000Joe Biden is running to stop extreme MAGA Republicans, so let's define what extreme MAGA Republican policies are.
00:11:56.000Secure borders, low crime, good education, good economy, strong dollar, America first energy, low foreign aid, affordable food, world peace, strong military, two genders, This is where it gets dicey.
00:12:11.000Protecting girls and girls sports, protecting our Second Amendment, rejecting globalism, making America great again, extremely great, free, wealthy, happy.
00:12:26.000So I feel like if they're going to attack us and call us extreme MAGA Republicans, we need to make sure that America knows exactly what extreme MAGA means.
00:12:57.000So they know MTG is coming for them, and that's why she has really shaken Washington.
00:13:03.000From the first press conference you gave, where I watched you torch the entire press corps, because you wouldn't let them define you, to this very moment where you are leading on a lot of the key investigations on the Oversight Committee.
00:13:15.000On Homeland Security as well, but on Oversight, you have really dug in to a lot of important questions.
00:13:42.000The reason Hunter Biden's lawyers are trying to distract and feed Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Ethics Committee is because she's putting out true information and analysis coming directly off the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:14:07.000It's not the president's son and the rest of his family that is bringing...
00:14:11.000Shame or disrespect and making all of America look bad by the contents of the laptop.
00:14:19.000But even more importantly, Matt, what we read in the Treasury Department on these financial statements that are called SARS, those are suspicious activity reports.
00:15:02.000The other thing that I thought was funny is they were saying, since she was elected in 2020, I was like, well, promises made, promises kept, everyone.
00:15:13.000I'm doing what I told my district I would do, and they're happy with it.
00:15:17.000I also enjoyed seeing your name in the letter.
00:15:20.000I get a shout-out in the letter We're good to go.
00:15:42.000Where literally the House Ethics Committee is governing mean tweets.
00:15:45.000Because if you do that, then every time someone gets their feelings hurt by a tweet, they're going to draw you in to that type of a refereeing enterprise.
00:15:55.000And lo and behold, I'm entirely right.
00:15:57.000Because the basis for jurisdiction that Hunter Biden's lawyers are claiming...
00:16:02.000Is that, well, since the Ethics Committee said that Matt Gaetz sent mean tweets, they really should say that Marjorie Taylor Greene has said mean things about Hunter Biden, things that have hurt his feelings and that are concerning to him.
00:16:31.000Because they know that the day is coming when Hunter Biden will be a seated witness before the oversight committee, and the five minutes that they are worried about most are the five minutes where Hunter Biden has to answer questions from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:16:45.000And so they are trying to use this as predicate.
00:16:48.000I don't know if it's to try to say, oh, maybe you can't participate in the Hunter Biden hearing because of this letter or some pending matter.
00:16:56.000But they're trying to use it to take you off your game.
00:17:00.000Let folks know, is the day coming this Congress when you believe Hunter Biden will be sitting before the House Oversight Committee?
00:17:43.000Well, and I think, though, you have to look at how they come after some of our best.
00:17:48.000And it's a different battleground that you face than a lot of Republicans do because they know that's going to be the searing moment and the searing questions.
00:17:58.000A lot of folks really were left believing that there would be more out of investigations like the Benghazi investigation, the investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax.
00:18:10.000And there's a lot of hope that because you guys are breaking ground, nobody's ever broken before, that it will be more successful.
00:18:18.000I think people need to know what's key about how the Oversight Committee is doing this.
00:18:23.000The Bidens always thought they could protect their own bank records, but they didn't count on the fact that you would get the bank records of the cutout fake business entities that move Chinese money into their accounts.
00:18:36.000Just let folks know the methodology you're using in the investigation to go after those middlemen and cutouts to map out the whole corrupt regime.
00:18:45.000Well, most importantly, let's tell Republicans all over the country, thank you for putting us in the majority in the House.
00:18:51.000Because that gave us the gavel and that gave us subpoena power.
00:18:55.000So because we have subpoena power and we're running this investigation, we're able to subpoena the bank records of the LLCs.
00:19:03.000Now most people, if you have an LLC, you're running an actual company.
00:19:07.000Where you're selling a product or providing a real service in exchange for payment.
00:19:13.000That's not what the Biden family has been doing, along with their partners.
00:19:17.000Now remember, they're not by themselves.
00:19:19.000This isn't a Hunter Biden enterprise that he's running.
00:19:25.000But these LLCs are like shell companies where money is wire transferred in from foreign countries like China, Ukraine, remember Burisma, other countries in Africa, all over the world.
00:19:37.000Money gets wire transferred in to these LLCs.
00:19:41.000And then there are direct payments out of the LLCs, the fake shell companies, to Biden family members.
00:19:48.000And we are not at four or five Biden family members.
00:19:57.000Think of Joe Biden at the center of this entire operation.
00:20:01.000He is surrounded by a By basically money laundering, that's what it appears to be, that has come in through these fake LLCs and they're all getting it because of influence peddling with Joe Biden's power and position, whether it's Senator, Vice President, and now President of the United States.
00:20:39.000That's what the Oversight Committee is doing.
00:20:41.000Larry on Rumble says the public needs to see accountability.
00:20:45.000Right now, a lot of this investigative work, we're doing depositions, document reviews, and bringing it to light.
00:20:51.000I think it's going to be really important, and I know you're going to be leading the way on that.
00:20:55.000This week, one of the big topics is the debt limit plan, and whether or not we are going to be able to even engage Joe Biden in a productive discussion about how to go forward here.
00:21:06.000Can anyone engage Joe Biden in a productive discussion?
00:21:09.000He doesn't seem to be too eager about it.
00:21:11.000The factors that we know, we have a four-seat majority.
00:21:15.000And so if you have a number of people who have a disagreement with something that's coming to the floor, then it requires Democrat votes to pass.
00:21:22.000On the debt limit recently, we heard our colleague Nancy Mace share her perspective against the McCarthy plan.
00:21:34.000I'm leaning against voting for it at this time because I just don't understand why we can't have a conversation about balancing the budget, cutting spending, and doing so over the next 10 years because inflation is still on the rise.
00:21:46.000You've got to cut spending and cut taxes and rein some of that in in order to grow the economy at a rate that can overtake the debt that we've taken on in this country.
00:22:09.000I have other concerns, especially on green energy.
00:22:11.000A state like South Carolina, we have a lot of solar farms and solar energy, both presidential and commercial.
00:22:17.000I want to find out and figure out what kind of adverse impact it might have on the state of South Carolina before we finally make that decision.
00:22:24.000And there are other concerns, and we're just still wading through it.
00:22:26.000And the devil's always in the details.
00:22:28.000Given you're not a yes yet, and McCarthy was saying yesterday he feels confident he has the votes.
00:22:33.000Obviously, you know it's a razor-thin margin.
00:22:36.000What have you heard from other Republicans?
00:22:38.000I haven't been whipping the vote, so I don't know where others are.
00:22:41.000I know that there are several that are going to be a yes that might be a surprise to some people, and there will be some surprise noes as well.
00:22:50.000We'll see how it ends up in the next few days.
00:22:54.000So I think when it comes to general concerns about spending, we would share some of those concerns.
00:22:59.000We want to create the maximum amount of downward pressure on spending.
00:23:02.000Nancy May says she's not ready to support this plan yet.
00:23:38.000We've been handed a problem that we never wanted to have to deal with and none of us agree with.
00:23:43.000None of us want to raise the debt ceiling.
00:23:45.000I also believe the real fight is going to be in the budget and appropriations.
00:23:50.000And I held my voting card up to our leadership just last week.
00:23:54.000And I said, I'm going to fight like hell with my voting card on this budget and appropriations because that's where the real problems are.
00:24:02.000And I won't vote a penny to the Ukraine war.
00:24:05.000And I said, as a matter of fact, if any of you are starting to fund that stuff, it's in the NDAA. In the budget, anywhere we're seeing it, I will be working as hard as possible in whipping other members to vote against it.
00:24:16.000That means that I'll be including the public and pulling in the American people to help battle this fight because I think it's so critical.
00:24:23.000You and I have done this from the beginning, as well as Thomas Massey and a few others.
00:24:28.000We have said no to the war in Ukraine because we're America first and we know the real consequences of the Ukraine war.
00:24:38.000But you sold them to put that in this debt limit deal.
00:24:41.000I was on the teleconference when a lot of our colleagues were talking about what ought to be in this offer, and you said unequivocally that a serious country would not approach its debt limit while funding the government of another country.
00:25:20.000It's how we make America energy independent again, how we lower gas and diesel prices, how we protect natural gas from the Democrats trying to destroy it, so many other good things.
00:25:31.000Okay, the next one is reeling in all the COVID cash that's sitting out there that we voted against.
00:25:38.000Again, our voting records are so good, everybody.
00:25:41.000So we voted against all that cash, COVID cash out there.
00:26:14.000I'm with you that a country just cannot continue to spend this way without downward pressure on spending, and I know we're working hard to get there.
00:26:23.000I also wanted, but before I move on, I do think your points about separating Ukraine funding from the NDAA need to be noted.
00:26:59.000Funding our own U.S. military, but including funding for defending another country's borders, well, they're not doing anything for our borders.
00:27:08.000The Biden administration, the Pentagon, everybody running the military, they ignore the American border.
00:27:14.000I think our military should be stacked at the southern border and the northern border.
00:27:18.000I think we should be defending our country.
00:27:20.000I think we should be fighting the cartels and not the Russians.
00:27:23.000Yeah, I am far more concerned about the deaths caused to Americans from cartels than the deaths that would be caused to Americans from broken Russian tanks.
00:27:31.000But we're also worried about the risk of nuclear war, and this administration might stumble us into a nuclear war without even knowing.
00:27:39.000Two dangers with this war against Russia.
00:27:59.000We said this is going to push Russia into the arms of China.
00:28:02.000Russia can't fund their war unless they're selling their oil and gas.
00:28:05.000It happened exactly the way I said it would and the way we warned.
00:28:09.000So Russia is selling their oil and gas to China, to all these countries all over the world, and now BRICS, this association of countries, what is it, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the Saudis?
00:28:55.000And these women that are voting for their women's health care and these people voting for their student debt loans and these people voting because they think they're saving the planet with the Green New Deal and garbage like that and putting wind farms off the coast of Florida.
00:29:09.000People that vote like that are going to suffer so greatly because the dollar will fall and it doesn't discriminate when it falls.
00:30:53.000But do you worry about what it says about the direction of corporatized media and the ability to Of populous voices like ours to be able to break through?
00:31:02.000Yeah, and I don't know how you feel about Fox News, but I'll go in on what I think.
00:31:07.000What they've done is they cave to the woke mob.
00:31:10.000They absolutely cave to the woke mob because all these lawsuits, they have the Dominion lawsuit, they have all these other lawsuits coming in.