Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 116 LIVE: The Truth Is Out There – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

Joe Biden's plea deal with Hunter Biden blows up in court as Judge Noriega refuses to accept the plea agreement, which means the case could now be headed for trial. Also, a White House press briefing takes a turn for the worst, as Mitch McConnell makes an odd and unfortunate turn at a press briefing. And Matt Gaetz continues to be a problem in the D.C. establishment, as he stands up for his constituents against permanent Washington and takes a shot at a man who is standing up for the people of Florida and stands up to the deep state. Firebrand is a conservative podcast that focuses on the culture and politics of the Never Trump movement. Hosted by John Rocha and Matt Kuchta, Firebrand takes you behind the scenes of the Never Trump movement and takes you on a tour of what s going on in Washington, DC and around the country. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code: "WEAPONS" to receive 20% off the first month of your purchase of a new copy of Firebrand's new book, "Never Trump: The Truth Is Out There". The Truth is Out There: How to Fix America's Most Powerful Man in the Deep State" is out now, available for purchase on Amazon Prime, Vimeo, iTunes, and Podchaser! and wherever else you get your media choices are available, including Vimeo and subscribe to the Firebrand Podcasts. If you like what you listen to Firebrand, consider subscribing! Subscribe to our new episodes, share your thoughts on Apple Podcasts and other social media platforms! Thanks for listening and share the podcast! , and share it with a fellow Firebrand! Timestim? Subscribe and review us on your fellow patriots everywhere else! and spread the word to your friends about this firebrand. #Firebrand in the wild . Tweet me to let me know what you think of this episode? and tag or share it on your friends and your thoughts about it on Insta on the podcast if you re a review & more like it s a firebrand or any other podcast you re listening to this episode of the firebrand firebrand podcast? or you re reading this episode , tweet me or a fellow firebrand tweet about it is a tweet I ll be listening to it!

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:04:50.000 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.

00:04:57.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:05:00.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:05:03.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:05:06.000 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!

00:05:15.000 You are in the right place!

00:05:17.000 This is the movement for you!

00:05:19.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:05:21.000 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:05:24.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.

00:05:27.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:05:32.000 They aren't really coming for me.

00:05:34.000 They're coming for you.

00:05:36.000 I'm just in the way.

00:05:41.000 Well, here we are, John.

00:05:43.000 We now know that Judge Noriega is not going to accept the plea agreement.

00:05:49.000 And as we were talking about just a moment ago, it's got to do.

00:05:54.000 Judge Noriega does not believe that she has questions over the constitutionality of that diversion clause.

00:06:03.000 Of the immunity that Hunter Biden would receive in this deal to not prosecute on the gun charge.

00:06:10.000 She is not okay with that.

00:06:12.000 So the headline here is she has not accepted the plea deal.

00:06:18.000 That would likely indicate we could be headed for a trial.

00:06:25.000 Alright, we are live.

00:06:26.000 Welcome back to Firebrand, broadcasting out of Room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. And all the news is about the blown-up plea deal with Hunter Biden.

00:06:37.000 This is a very rare thing.

00:06:39.000 Usually when you have the government and the defense in agreement as to the scope of punishment, A court is very reluctant to engage in second-guessing that and undoing it.

00:06:51.000 Not something you see in the courthouse every day.

00:06:53.000 Usually it's only when the terms are egregious or when the scope is not properly defined or there's some confusion about the scope.

00:07:01.000 That appears to be what happens here.

00:07:04.000 Hunter Biden, of the view that this was the great inoculation, That pleading guilty to these small, insignificant tax charges would then be the antidote to future allegations that he was acting as a foreign agent,

00:07:20.000 taking bribe money, money laundering, and We're good to go.

00:07:47.000 It brought me back to the statement of Hunter Biden's lawyer at the time of the initial agreement that we all criticized.

00:07:55.000 And it says in part, this reported in Politico, Hunter believes it's important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life.

00:08:07.000 Take responsibility.

00:08:09.000 Hunter thought that was important.

00:08:10.000 Part of Hunter making his way back to the state dinner circuit and the elite scene in Washington D.C. and the influence peddling operation Is this degree of accepting responsibility, right?

00:08:23.000 He was heralded by the president, the Biden family, others in the administration for taking responsibility.

00:08:31.000 Now you have the not guilty plea because he wasn't going to be able to use these inoculating charges as defense to the really bad stuff and I think one of the reasons why that became so important to Hunter Biden is because we've got Devin Archer coming in to give testimony in a transcribed interview Monday, July 31st.

00:08:53.000 Now, Devin Archer has delayed that testimony three times.

00:08:56.000 He's told others that he had Joe Biden on the phone when these deals were going down.

00:09:01.000 And you can tell how concerned the Bidens are about the Devin Archer testimony.

00:09:08.000 Based on this desire to really have a robust view of scope of the Hunter deal now.

00:09:14.000 And then you saw Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, totally change the answer yesterday and say, oh, well, this is a circumstance where we've always said that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were never in business together.

00:09:31.000 See, Joe Biden originally, of course, told us all that it was something very different, that he never discussed his son's overseas business dealings.

00:09:38.000 You know why Joe Biden said that?

00:09:40.000 Because he knew how dirty they were.

00:09:41.000 He knew that any proximity to that was not going to be ultimately defensible.

00:09:46.000 And now we're on the case, and that's exactly what you see happening in courtrooms and also the White House press briefing room.

00:09:55.000 There was another press briefing today that took an odd and unfortunate turn.

00:10:01.000 Senator McConnell was at the microphone, as he typically is, and seized up a bit.

00:10:07.000 If you're watching on one of our viewing platforms, you can see Senator McConnell gets a look on his face that is not one that he's Appears to be just pensive about the next matter.

00:10:20.000 Here you see Senator Barrasso going very kindly, taking him by the arm, seeing to his well-being.

00:10:26.000 But you can see right there Senator McConnell does not have his color.

00:10:30.000 He does not look well.

00:10:31.000 And that is not...

00:10:34.000 Something that we certainly want to see linger for the leader.

00:10:37.000 We hope that he is healthy and that he's able to have a swift recovery.

00:10:42.000 But definitely big news.

00:10:44.000 Always shakes Capitol Hill when you see somebody that wields that much power in this town have a moment of personal fragility.

00:10:52.000 And we all have to take account of our health.

00:10:54.000 And we certainly hope that Leader McConnell is restored to full and better health.

00:11:00.000 I want to go to our next big matter to discuss, and that is this hearing that we had in the House Judiciary Committee today with Mayorkas.

00:11:10.000 Now, you know that that's going to get spicy.

00:11:14.000 We're deeply concerned about the over 100,000 Americans who've been poisoned due to fentanyl.

00:11:19.000 But I'm not just worried about the criminals, okay?

00:11:22.000 So a lot of times when my colleagues ask questions of these victims, Cabinet-level officials.

00:11:28.000 It's just about the crimes and the criminals.

00:11:30.000 But I worry about immigration even for the non-criminals, even people who don't come here to commit crimes. 0.98

00:11:36.000 I don't know that you could just let an unlimited amount of those people in at the border without a process, without some understanding of who is coming here, what they will be doing.

00:11:45.000 And so I asked about the Mayorkas Doctrine.

00:11:49.000 Take a listen.

00:11:53.000 Two million encounters and releases under your watch.

00:11:57.000 So not including the Title 42 expulsions, not including violent criminals.

00:12:02.000 Of those two million plus that you've encountered and released, how many have you told to go home?

00:12:10.000 Congressman, individuals who are released are placed in immigration enforcement proceedings under the law where they can make their claim for relief.

00:12:18.000 If their claim for relief is is not satisfied.

00:12:22.000 They are subject to removal from the United States.

00:12:24.000 Right.

00:12:24.000 Subject to removal sounds very different than actually removed.

00:12:27.000 So, I'm not interested in the process.

00:12:28.000 I'm not interested in what people are subject to.

00:12:30.000 Two million people encountered and released.

00:12:34.000 Not the expulsions under titer 402, not the criminals.

00:12:38.000 How many of those people have you deported?

00:12:41.000 So, Congressman, a few points.

00:12:44.000 Number one...

00:12:44.000 Just how many of the people?

00:12:45.000 I just want to know how many.

00:12:47.000 Just a number.

00:12:48.000 Congressman, we are dealing With a completely broken immigration system.

00:12:52.000 I get it.

00:12:52.000 No, no, no, Mr. Secretary, I'm not going to let you burn my five minutes.

00:12:55.000 Do you know the answer?

00:12:55.000 Do you know the number of people out of that two million that you've removed that aren't criminals?

00:12:59.000 I do know that we have removed more aggravated felons.

00:13:03.000 Right, I'm not asking about them.

00:13:05.000 I've caveated that away.

00:13:06.000 Because here's what I'm sort of getting and what your non-responsiveness is demonstrating.

00:13:11.000 The Mayorkas doctrine is this. 0.83

00:13:14.000 If you show up at the border and get released into the country, if you don't commit a specific aggravated felony, which, by the way, doesn't include a lot of assault and battery, doesn't include a lot of bad domestic violence, but if you're not one of the people who commit those crimes, you get to stay forever.

00:13:32.000 Is that a fair characterization of your doctrine?

00:13:34.000 No, that is false.

00:13:35.000 Then tell me how many you're sending home.

00:13:36.000 No, that is false.

00:13:37.000 Okay, but you don't know the number of how many you've sent home.

00:13:40.000 Here's another number.

00:13:42.000 1.2 million people today have been through your entire process, right?

00:13:48.000 They've been through what you call a removal proceeding is just an amnesty dance.

00:13:53.000 Because after the 1.2 million people get an order from the judge saying that they don't have a basis to be here, you still don't remove them.

00:14:01.000 What's your plan to remove those people?

00:14:02.000 Congressman, that is false.

00:14:04.000 Okay, how many of them then?

00:14:06.000 Just give me the number.

00:14:07.000 Congressman, in this country, In this country, there are between 11 and 12 million...

00:14:15.000 Right, but I'm asking about a subset that you won't send home.

00:14:19.000 And the reason you're smirking about it, and the reason you won't answer my question, is because everybody gets the joke.

00:14:24.000 And the sad thing is, it's not just us here, it's the cartels who get the joke too.

00:14:27.000 And so now, what you've done to execute this Mayorkas doctrine, where so long as you don't commit a crime, you get to stay here and burden our hospitals, burden our schools, burden our social services, burden our jails, You've sent the message to the cartels and then you've taken this app and you've digitized illegal immigration and you've scaled it to the moon. 0.96

00:14:47.000 Like this app that you've got everybody downloading is like the Disney fast pass into the country, never to be subject to actual removal, just removal proceedings as you call them.

00:14:56.000 That app doesn't do any search of their criminal history in their home country, does it?

00:15:00.000 Congressman, I disagree with everything you have said.

00:15:03.000 Well, I'm sure, but just to answer the question, does the app that you are out there promoting do any search of people's criminal history in their home country?

00:15:10.000 Congressman, Customs and Border Protection screens and vets individuals whom they encounter.

00:15:15.000 Your app, it either has the functionality to test their criminal history in their home country, or it doesn't.

00:15:21.000 By the way, if it did, you'd have already told me.

00:15:23.000 It doesn't.

00:15:24.000 And then the other epic failure of this that's empowered the cartels Is that in these processing centers you've set up in other countries to just wave them all in at a rapid pace, you've had to shut them down in Nuevo Laredo because the cartels were standing outside extorting people.

00:15:40.000 Isn't that right?

00:15:40.000 Congressman, that is false.

00:15:42.000 Oh, really?

00:15:43.000 So why did you shut down that facility in Nuevo Laredo?

00:15:45.000 Congressman, the point of safe, orderly, and lawful pathways It's to reduce the number of encounters at our southwest border.

00:15:52.000 But wait a second.

00:15:53.000 You've just shifted those encounters.

00:15:56.000 Because right now, for the first time in modern history, more people are showing up at the ports of entry than running through some bush in Yuma, Arizona.

00:16:05.000 And the reason they're showing up at the ports of entry is because you've got the turnstile open, where so long as they've gone and downloaded this app, you just let them in.

00:16:13.000 I've got one final question for you, and it's an important one.

00:16:15.000 Is Mexico an ally in this fight against illegal immigration?

00:16:19.000 Yes, it is.

00:16:20.000 So, I mean, it's hilarious and somewhat troubling that you say that because, like, I'm looking at the El Chapo trial where President Nieto took a $100 million bribe from the Sinaloa cartel.

00:16:31.000 Do you think that the subsequent presidents following Nieto weren't offered a bribe by the cartel or didn't take the bribe?

00:16:38.000 Congressman, I disagree with everything you have said.

00:16:41.000 Right, but you can disagree all you want, but what you won't provide is any number.

00:16:46.000 And when you sit there and just kind of ostensibly disagree without any facts, it shows people what the real gig is.

00:16:52.000 The Mexican government is captive to the cartels.

00:16:56.000 They are doing the bidding of the cartels, and based on your response today, so are you.

00:17:03.000 We are back live.

00:17:04.000 Gotta give it to Mayorkas. 1.00

00:17:05.000 He is disciplined in his non-answers.

00:17:08.000 But you know that if they had been actually deporting people subject to removal, he'd know that number.

00:17:14.000 And the reason he doesn't know it is because it's not a priority.

00:17:17.000 And the reason that they don't have any sort of process to remove the non-criminals is because they want those people to stay.

00:17:24.000 And they don't care how they get here, and they don't care what the permission structure is.

00:17:27.000 So know that.

00:17:28.000 Know that the doctrine of the Biden-Mayorkas era Is if somebody shows up, they get into our country, they get released, and if they don't commit a crime, they never have to leave.

00:17:41.000 That is why it is so important to have physical barriers at our border.

00:17:44.000 We will stay on this, and I'm going to come back later in the program to give you an update on a specific lie in all of that that Mayorkas told That is just so blatant, it bears rubbing his nose in it a little bit.

00:17:59.000 That'll be later.

00:17:59.000 But first, I've got to get to the hearing that we had on Capitol Hill today, the most serious review of testimony and evidence regarding these unidentified aerial phenomenon, UAPs, UFOs.

00:18:12.000 I had an opportunity to question witnesses who were test pilots, who were involved in the review of national security information in this space.

00:18:20.000 I was a guest of the House Oversight Committee.

00:18:23.000 Let's go ahead and play that clip.

00:18:26.000 Several months ago my office received a protected disclosure from Eglin Air Force Base indicating that there was a UAP incident that required my attention.

00:18:36.000 I sought a briefing regarding that episode and brought with me Congressman Burchett and Congresswoman Luna We asked to see any of the evidence that had been taken by flight crew in this endeavor and to observe any radar signature as well as to meet with the flight crew.

00:18:53.000 We were not afforded access to all of the flight crew.

00:18:58.000 And initially, we were not afforded access to images and to radar.

00:19:04.000 Thereafter, we had a bit of a discussion about how authorities flow in the United States of America, and we did see the image.

00:19:13.000 And we did meet with one member of the flight crew who took the image.

00:19:17.000 The image was of something that I am not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.

00:19:27.000 And I'm somewhat informed on the matter, having served on the Armed Services Committee for seven years, having served on the committee that oversees DARPA and advanced technologies for several years.

00:19:39.000 When we spoke with the flight crew, and when he showed us the photo that he'd taken, I asked why the video wasn't engaged, why we didn't have a FLIR system that worked.

00:19:48.000 Here's what he said.

00:19:50.000 They were out on a test mission that day over the Gulf of Mexico, and when you're on a test mission, you're supposed to have clear airspace.

00:19:57.000 Not supposed to be anything that shows up.

00:19:59.000 And they saw a sequence of four craft in a clear diamond formation for which there is A radar sequence that I and I alone have observed in the United States Congress.

00:20:14.000 One of the pilots goes to check out that diamond formation and sees a large floating, what I can only describe as an orb, again, like I said, not of any human capability that I'm aware of.

00:20:27.000 And when he approached, he said that his radar went down, he said that his FLIR system malfunctioned, and that he had to manually take this image from one of the lenses, and it was not automated in collection, as you would typically see in a test mission.

00:20:46.000 So I guess I'll start with Commander Fravor.

00:20:51.000 How should we think about the fact that this craft that was approached by our pilot had the capability of disarming a number of the sensor and collection systems on that craft?

00:21:05.000 Well, I think this goes to that national security side, and you can go back through history of things showing up at certain areas and disabling our capabilities, which is disheartening.

00:21:14.000 And for us, I mean, like I said, it completely disabled the radar on the aircraft when it tried to do it, and the only way we could see it is passively, which is how he got that image.

00:21:22.000 So I think that's a concern on what are these doing, not only how do they operate, but their capabilities inside to do things like this.

00:21:29.000 And how should we think about four craft moving in a very clear formation, equidistant from one another, in a diamond?

00:21:41.000 In all of the phenomenon, perhaps, Mr. Grave, that you've analyzed, have we ever seen multiple craft in a single formation?

00:21:49.000 I have one particular case and that was during the gimbal incident.

00:21:53.000 The recording on the AT FLIR system shows a single object that rotates.

00:21:58.000 You hear the pilots refer to a fleet of objects that is not visible on the FLIR system and that was something that I witnessed during the debrief as part of the radar data on the situational awareness page.

00:22:08.000 I would like to add, however, Congressman, there's a small bit of anger, I would say.

00:22:15.000 I would feel that those pilots are still facing that difficulty in reporting this topic and they don't have the tools to be able to mitigate this issue.

00:22:21.000 It just goes to show how serious this is and why this is such an important issue for our pilots and for our nation.

00:22:27.000 It was stated explicitly to me by these test pilots that if you have a U of AP experience the best thing you can do for your career is forget it and not tell anyone because any type of reporting either above the surface or below the surface Does have a perceived consequence to these people, and that is a culture we must change if we want to get to the truth.

00:22:50.000 Mr. Chairman, I would observe that perhaps as we move forward from this hearing, there are some obvious next steps.

00:22:58.000 Every person watching this knows that we need to meet with Mr. Grush in a secure compartmentalized facility so that we can get Folsom answers that do not put him in jeopardy and that give us the information we need.

00:23:11.000 Second, I would suggest that the radar images that were collected of this formation of craft out of Eglin Air Force Base and specifically the actual image taken by the actual flight crew that we can actually validate be provided to the committee, subpoenaed if necessary, So that we're able to track how to get this type of reporting and analysis done in a more fulsome way.

00:23:36.000 That would be my recommendation, humbly, as a guest here of the Fine Oversight Committee.

00:23:40.000 I yield back.

00:23:43.000 We are back live now.

00:23:45.000 Those witnesses came forward at great risk to themselves.

00:23:48.000 They talked about some of the retaliation that they have experienced and the challenges that others experience as they bring forward their experiences with UAP's Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who we've had on the program to discuss these issues, asked questions about that particular subject area.

00:24:06.000 Take a listen.

00:24:09.000 Have you faced any retaliation or Any of your testimony or anything along these lines?

00:24:16.000 Yeah, I have to be careful what I say in detail because there is an open whistleblower reprisal investigation on my behalf, and I don't want to compromise that investigation by providing anything that may help provide somebody information.

00:24:31.000 But it was very brutal and very unfortunate, some of the tactics they used to hurt me both professionally and personally, to be quite frank.

00:24:42.000 That's very unfortunate.

00:24:43.000 As they say, when you're over the target, that's when they do the most firing at you.

00:24:47.000 Do you have any personal knowledge of people who have been harmed or injured in efforts to cover up or conceal these extraterrestrial technology?

00:24:54.000 Yes.

00:24:57.000 Personally.

00:24:59.000 Have anyone been murdered that you know of or have heard of, I guess?

00:25:04.000 I have to be careful asking that question.

00:25:06.000 I directed people with that knowledge to the appropriate authorities.

00:25:09.000 Maybe if we could...

00:25:11.000 Get in a confidential area, a SCIF, we could talk about that, but unfortunately, we were denied access to the SCIF, and that's very unfortunate in this scenario.

00:25:27.000 That was Congressman Tim Burchett questioning Mr. Grush, who actually worked in the national security apparatus as a senior official where a lot of the information from these UAPs was filtering up to him.

00:25:39.000 So he was the guy seeing a lot of this stuff in his role.

00:25:43.000 With the national security apparatus, now testifying before Congress, bringing information forward, hopefully on a rolling basis, so that we can continue to analyze the risk that UAPs pose. 0.79

00:25:56.000 One feature of that risk is the extent to which you find any biological remains.

00:26:01.000 And there were questions from South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace about remains.

00:26:07.000 Were they found?

00:26:08.000 Were they human?

00:26:09.000 Take a listen.

00:26:12.000 If you believe we have crashed craft, stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?

00:26:19.000 As I've stated publicly already in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries, yeah.

00:26:28.000 Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?

00:26:31.000 Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program.

00:26:37.000 And was this documentary evidence, this video, photos, eyewitness?

00:26:42.000 Like, how would that be determined?

00:26:45.000 The specific documentation I would have to talk to you in a skiff about.

00:26:52.000 Kudos to Congresswoman Mace.

00:26:54.000 That certainly was an earth-shattering admission to get from the witness that our government has access to non-human biologics discovered as part of the review of these crafts.

00:27:06.000 Now again, this is the statement of a witness, a witness who was in a high position, who would have seen a lot of the information filtered, but now delving into the specific special access programs and other We're going to need to do that work, certainly as a consequence of that admission.

00:27:29.000 There was another line of questioning that showed how bipartisan this hearing was.

00:27:32.000 Congressman Jared Moskowitz of the state of Florida had questions about the recovery of craft specifically.

00:27:39.000 Take a listen.

00:27:42.000 Gentlemen, let's talk about the laws of physics for a second.

00:27:47.000 Mr. Graves and Commander Favor, I heard you talk about speed.

00:27:51.000 When those objects broke the sound barrier, did they make a sonic boom?

00:27:58.000 I was in a jet.

00:27:59.000 You can't hear anything.

00:28:00.000 It's kind of loud in there.

00:28:02.000 Yeah, you're not able to actually personally tell within the vehicle.

00:28:05.000 I will say the objects that we were seeing, they were spherical, and they were observed up the Mach 2, which is a very non-aerodynamic shape.

00:28:13.000 What about G-forces?

00:28:14.000 Let's talk about G-forces of those vehicles.

00:28:16.000 Could a human survive those G-forces with known technology today?

00:28:20.000 No.

00:28:21.000 No, not for the acceleration rates that we observed.

00:28:23.000 Okay.

00:28:24.000 What about what they look like?

00:28:26.000 How close did you get?

00:28:27.000 Did you see a seam or a rivet or a section?

00:28:31.000 And what I mean is, obviously, the jets you're flying have all those things.

00:28:34.000 Did these objects have those?

00:28:37.000 I didn't have the detail to be able to tell that.

00:28:40.000 So we got within a half mile of the Tic Tac, which people say that's pretty far, but in airplanes that's actually relatively close.

00:28:46.000 No, it was perfectly white, smooth, no windows, although when we did take the original FLIR video that is out there, when you put it on a big screen, it actually had two little objects that came out of the bottom of it.

00:28:58.000 But other than that, no windows, no seams, no nothing.

00:29:04.000 We are back live.

00:29:05.000 This effort is bipartisan.

00:29:06.000 We are going to be thorough, and there is a lot more coming on the UAP phenomenon and what the Congress can do to get the truth before the American people.

00:29:15.000 I'm glad it was bipartisan.

00:29:16.000 I'm particularly proud of Congressman Tim Burchett for raising the issue.

00:29:20.000 And if you watched the episode we had with Congressman Burchett on Firebrand, you got a pre-briefing on these issues that were addressed.

00:29:28.000 I said we would get back to one of these lies from Mayorkas. 1.00

00:29:31.000 And it just irks me when these witnesses say things that are verifiably untrue.

00:29:37.000 So we're going to end this.

00:29:39.000 We're going to close the show with it.

00:29:41.000 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:29:42.000 Make sure you're subscribed and enjoy this specific lie contradicted Alejandro Mayorkas.

00:29:51.000 And then the other epic failure of this that's empowered the cartels is that in these processing centers you've set up in other countries to just wave them all in at a rapid pace, you've had to shut them down in Nuevo Laredo because the cartels were standing outside extorting people.

00:30:07.000 Isn't that right?

00:30:07.000 Congressman, that is false.

00:30:09.000 Asylum seekers crossing from a dangerous Mexican border city say corrupt officials are extorting them for money.

00:30:16.000 Now the U.S. has stopped taking asylum appointments at the port of entry in Laredo, Texas.

00:30:21.000 Customs and Border Protection is citing a security situation for the change at Laredo, without going into further detail.

00:30:30.000 But it comes as some migrants waiting in Mexico are claiming that Mexican authorities are forcing them to pay bribes.

00:30:37.000 In order to keep their CBP appointments.

00:30:41.000 From Reuters, U.S. suspends asylum appointments in Texas border city after extortion reports.

00:30:46.000 From U.S. News& World Report, U.S. halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings.

00:30:52.000 And the Associated Press, U.S. halts appointments using migrant phone app at Texas border crossing seems to be in direct contradiction to the secretary's testimony as he can have his consent to enter it.

00:31:01.000 I got one final question for you, and it's an important one.

00:31:03.000 Is Mexico an ally in this fight against illegal immigration?

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - July 26, 2023

Episode 116 LIVE: The Truth Is Out There – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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