Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 126 LIVE: Elections Aren't Perfect – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

Sen. Rand Paul (R-VA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) join together to fight against the Deep State and its deep-dive tactics. Meanwhile, a judge orders a new primary election in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to be re-run because of election fraud. And Rep. Vance is fighting back against the Department of Justice and their deep state henchmen. Learn more about this and more in this special Firebrand edition of our daily firebrand news show on Firebrand Radio and the Firebrand Report on CBS Radio's "AC360" every weekday morning starting at 5am ET. Subscribe to our new bi-weekly newscast "AC 360" wherever you get your shows, and don't miss it! Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code POWER10 for 10% off your first pack! Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a five star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow Firebrand friends! Timestamps: 5:00 - What's your favorite thing you're listening to right now? 6:30 - What s your favorite conspiracy theory? 7:15 - Which conspiracy theory you're most scared of? 8:40 - What are you most worried about? 9:20 - Which deep state rat? 10:00 11:00 | What are your biggest takeaway from this episode? 12:40 | What would you like to see next? 15: What s going to happen in the next election? 16:30 | What do you're going to vote for in 2020? 17:10 | What s the worst thing you would you vote for next in the most likely to be the most? 18:30 19:40 21:00 -- What s a wild story? 22:30 -- What's the best thing you re going to do in 2020 26:40 -- Is it a good thing? 27:10 23: Is there a good day for you? 25: How do you think you re gonna vote for me? 29:00 & 27:20 30:00 // Is it better than that? 31:00 + + +3? 32:40 +3) 35:30 +4) 36:30 & 35:40) 33:40 & 36:20 +3 +3

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:04:56.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:04:59.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:05:04.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:05:09.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:05:13.000 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:05:15.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around.

00:05:20.000 It's that simple.

00:05:21.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.

00:05:25.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:05:26.000 Wow!

00:05:27.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:05:32.000 We will save America.

00:05:34.000 It's choose your fighter time.

00:05:36.000 and send in the Firebrands. 0.91

00:05:37.000 Welcome back to Firebrands.

00:05:45.000 We are broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. And it is quite a day on the Hill.

00:05:53.000 We're going to take you over to the Senate side where Senator J.D. Vance is fighting against some of the deep state rats over at the Department of Justice.

00:06:01.000 Rand Paul also.

00:06:06.000 We've got that testimony for you.

00:06:09.000 And single subject spending bills.

00:06:11.000 The thing that we've been talking about a lot on this platform and on the House floor, we march on.

00:06:17.000 Remember, it was seven months Of Kevin McCarthy's speakership before we took on the first single subject spending bill.

00:06:25.000 Now we've passed six.

00:06:27.000 We're rolling through them.

00:06:28.000 I'm going to give you a little update on this week's work.

00:06:31.000 Last night we passed the single subject appropriations bill for the legislative branch.

00:06:35.000 We've also got work to do on the Department of the Interior.

00:06:39.000 But you're going to get to see that when you actually zero in on these things, you're able to get a lot more programmatic review.

00:06:45.000 And we're able to ripen votes on key questions that I think matter to the people.

00:06:50.000 And it is driving the lobbyists crazy.

00:06:53.000 And I love it.

00:06:54.000 But if we want this appropriations process to have integrity, if we want our border to have integrity, our elections must have integrity.

00:07:04.000 And you heard time and again the mainstream media crow about how now our elections are so technically proficient.

00:07:11.000 We're so resilient.

00:07:13.000 These are the most secure elections at all time.

00:07:15.000 There can't possibly be fraud to impact the outcome of American elections.

00:07:19.000 We are better than that.

00:07:20.000 Thank you.

00:07:21.000 We got news out of Bridgeport, Connecticut, that suggests otherwise.

00:07:25.000 There, we are seeing an entirely new election having to be run because of some of the very tactics we were concerned about from the 2020 election.

00:07:35.000 We've got a News Nation report from Bridgeport, Connecticut.

00:07:39.000 Take a listen.

00:07:42.000 Stunning video put out by the Gomez campaign appeared to show a Bridgeport City employee and local Democratic Party official walking up to a dropbox in the early hours of the morning of September 5th and making multiple deposits of absentee ballots.

00:07:58.000 You can see a woman, who the Gomez campaign identifies as Bridgeport City Hall employee Wanda Jeter-Petiki, walking up to the dropbox and placing multiple ballots inside.

00:08:12.000 And a few seconds later, she comes back, does it again.

00:08:16.000 The Gomez campaign posted this on social media as part of a three-minute compilation showing irregularities in the vote.

00:08:23.000 And it wasn't just her.

00:08:24.000 The Gomez campaign played in court nine different people, making 24 drops of apparently multiple ballots into absentee ballot boxes.

00:08:35.000 In his ruling, Connecticut State Superior Court Judge William Clark said he found the evidence from the Gomez campaign credible, said, quote, the number of ballots at issue when considering the corroborating evidence of the video and documentary evidence brings the reliability of the primary into serious doubt.

00:08:51.000 Judge Clark has ordered the two sides and city election officials to come together on a new date for a revote by November 17th, but there's all sorts of details there.

00:09:02.000 This is a wild story.

00:09:06.000 It is indeed a wild story.

00:09:08.000 We're back live.

00:09:09.000 That was Dan Abrams with NewsNation breaking the story.

00:09:12.000 And here's what I think we need to think about.

00:09:15.000 The remedy here.

00:09:16.000 See, we talked very frequently about the affidavits that have been filled out, the videos that have been taken, some of the geo-tracking information that Dinesh D'Souza so aptly put out in the 2000 Mules documentary.

00:09:30.000 We saw that go on.

00:09:33.000 But then in debates in Congress, you frequently hear people like Jamie Raskin and Jim McGovern say, but there was no court that ever granted you relief, that ever said you were right when you made these claims about election integrity.

00:09:47.000 And they're right.

00:09:48.000 No court did exercise jurisdiction.

00:09:49.000 And the reason this was an utter failure of Article III courts in the 2020 election is It's because they never had the evidentiary hearings because they understood that even if there were polluted ballots, once those ballots gets co-mingled with legitimate ballots, I have never seen a court in the land call for a replacement election as the remedy.

00:10:13.000 That is what is so interesting about what is going on in Connecticut to me.

00:10:16.000 They're actually saying that when an election goes awry, when you can no longer have confidence in the result, That the answer isn't just to take it and endure, but to have a revote.

00:10:29.000 It's quite something.

00:10:30.000 We're going to continue to follow it.

00:10:31.000 And it doesn't seem as though this is going to get stayed by some appellate court.

00:10:35.000 The court giving the sides, apparently, this opportunity to negotiate a re-vote.

00:10:40.000 And you wonder why there was not terrific factual development of some of the concerns we had in the 2020 election.

00:10:47.000 And let me be clear.

00:10:48.000 I do not believe every single claim made about the 2020 election was true by either side, right?

00:10:55.000 I don't think it was the most secure election in history.

00:10:57.000 And probably there were people who thought they observed fraud but were observing something different.

00:11:03.000 I'm most concerned about the unilateral changes in law and then this huge universe of unaccounted for mail-in ballots that was created as a consequence of those changes in law.

00:11:15.000 And then when you saw ballots being voted unable to be tied to an actual human being intending to cast that vote, that's when you start undermining The people's confidence in the results.

00:11:26.000 And that's not something that we want to see in any American election at any level of government.

00:11:30.000 But the Department of Justice did not do their job.

00:11:33.000 And this is what is at issue in some of these just total whack job Trump trials that are going on right now.

00:11:41.000 See, I was aware that there were circumstances where senior officials at DOJ were blocking the evidentiary development over the mail-in vote and the potential that people were harvesting ballots that weren't tied to an actual voter.

00:11:57.000 And the DOJ was doing everything they could from Washington D.C. to throw a wet blanket on those investigations.

00:12:05.000 Well, now They have rested the fate and the entire credibility of the DOJ, Merrick Garland, on these prosecutions of Trump.

00:12:19.000 And one senator has stood up to show tremendous courage to fight back against the Department of Justice, and that is my good friend from Ohio, J.D. Vance.

00:12:28.000 Now, you've probably heard about Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville showing great courage to stop some of the DOD appointments So that the Department of Defense does not become an abortion travel agency in perpetuity.

00:12:43.000 So he's gotten a lot of attention from that.

00:12:45.000 I thought it was a great move.

00:12:47.000 I've supported Senator Tuberville.

00:12:49.000 But what Senator Vance has done has been the Department of Justice corollary to the Tuberville doctrine on the Department of Defense.

00:12:59.000 And he is not allowing the DOJ to continue to repopulate the swamp with more vermin.

00:13:05.000 He is blocking those appointments, and we are in support of Senator Vance's efforts.

00:13:09.000 Here's some of that work on the Senate floor.

00:13:14.000 I think it takes a special amount of gall to be from Joe Biden's political party and to complain about the fentanyl crisis that is ravaging not just Ohio but the entire country because it is Joe Biden's border policies that have invited this fentanyl into our country at record levels.

00:13:30.000 I heard a briefing from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol today that confirmed that very fact.

00:13:37.000 Second of all, the Senator said something I actually agree with, that this whole policy that I've implemented on Department of Justice nominees is unprecedented.

00:13:46.000 That we have in the past, this body, before I got here, approved a number of Department of Justice nominees through unanimous consent.

00:13:54.000 What the Senator from Illinois doesn't mention, Madam President, is that in that time when these nominations sailed through unanimous consent, the Department of Justice was not trying to throw the political rival of the President of the United States in prison.

00:14:09.000 I object to this because we are living in a banana republic where The President is using his Department of Justice to go after his chief political rival, the person he will appear on the ballot with in about a year.

00:14:22.000 If the Department of Justice will use these nominations for law instead of politics, I am happy to end this whole policy.

00:14:30.000 But so long as the Department of Justice uses its nominations and uses its personnel to go after its political opponents from the President of the United States on down, I will object.

00:14:42.000 Because of that, Madam President, I do object.

00:14:47.000 We are back live.

00:14:48.000 Senator Vance holding the Senate floor, objecting.

00:14:51.000 That's what actual accountability for the Biden administration looks like.

00:14:55.000 Not allowing them to continue to weaponize the government against we the people.

00:14:59.000 And while far too many in this town are willing to send out the mean tweets and the press releases, very few are willing to show the courage of a J.D. Vance or a Tommy Tuberville.

00:15:10.000 And we stand with them and we know they stand with us.

00:15:13.000 There is a lot of positive sentiment on the live stream for these two senators.

00:15:18.000 Kimbree on Getter says that Tuberville and Vance are doing a good job.

00:15:23.000 FreeSC on Rumble wants to know if Laura Ingram has apologized to me yet.

00:15:28.000 Laura doesn't owe me any apology.

00:15:30.000 We love Laura Ingram.

00:15:31.000 Sometimes on the internal machinations of the House, we would like a little more trust and confidence from our friends at the Fox News channel.

00:15:39.000 But no apology and certainly not one expected.

00:15:42.000 Rooster on Getter says, I need to get with Trump and talk about the VP position.

00:15:47.000 I don't know that President Trump's going to be considering folks from Florida for vice president, given the constitutional requirement that the president and vice president Have to be electors of different states.

00:16:00.000 You'll remember Dick Cheney was living in Texas and actually had to move back to Wyoming to establish residence in order to run with George W. Bush.

00:16:08.000 So not that we're following the Bush-Cheney mantra on too much of anything, but it is constitutionally reflective that that would have to be the process that one would have to go through.

00:16:18.000 It wasn't just J.D. Vance doing great work in the Senate holding the deep state accountable.

00:16:22.000 One of the things that I've been really concerned about is this censorship industrial complex.

00:16:26.000 And we learned about the depth and breadth of the FBI specifically putting pressure on social media platforms to shape public sentiment because of the Missouri v. Biden litigation.

00:16:39.000 This was really landmark stuff.

00:16:41.000 I don't know that it got enough credit.

00:16:43.000 Eric Schmidt, who's now a senator from Missouri, doing a great job, he was the attorney general at the time, and he actually got senior FBI folks in the witness chair, and they admitted that they were engaging in trying to shape how information would be boosted or taken down, promoted, diminished.

00:17:05.000 And when the court...

00:17:07.000 made their injunction ruling in Missouri v Biden.

00:17:09.000 They said that the FBI couldn't do this anymore.

00:17:12.000 So we got a great opportunity to see the follow-up questions from that fact pattern and procedural posture when Kentucky's Rand Paul had FBI Director Christopher Wray in the witness chair.

00:17:24.000 Here's what happened.

00:17:27.000 Is the FBI still meeting with social media companies?

00:17:32.000 We're having some interaction with social media companies, but all of those interactions have changed fundamentally in the wake of the court's rulings.

00:17:42.000 That's sort of an acknowledgement that perhaps you weren't just talking about national security, child pornography, and human trafficking, right?

00:17:49.000 You had other areas of discussion that did involve constitutionally protected speech.

00:17:53.000 No, no, that's not an acknowledgement of that.

00:17:55.000 How did you change your behavior?

00:17:57.000 Out of an abundance of caution in order to make sure that we don't run afoul of any court ruling.

00:18:03.000 I would say, by the way, of course, that the injunction has been stayed by the Supreme Court.

00:18:09.000 Did anybody from the FBI ever discuss constitutionally protected speech with social media organizations?

00:18:15.000 Not to my understanding.

00:18:16.000 Vaccine efficacy never discussed any post concerning vaccine efficacy.

00:18:21.000 Well, certainly not, because to my understanding, as you know, the FBI was the first and for a long time the only agency in the intelligence community to assess that the COVID origin was most likely from a lab leak.

00:18:37.000 I commend you for that.

00:18:40.000 The Twitter files and other indications, as well as the Missouri v.

00:18:44.000 Biden, list many cases of both DHS and FBI discussing constitutionally protected speech, vaccine efficacy, mask efficacy, people who said, my brother got the vaccine and died yesterday.

00:18:58.000 And the brother actually did die, but proof of cause and effect is one thing.

00:19:02.000 But taking down posts like that was part of the discussion in these meetings.

00:19:07.000 Not by the FBI. We would not have been engaging with social media companies about vaccine efficacy, to my knowledge, certainly.

00:19:14.000 Director Wray, in 2017, the Department of Justice issued subpoenas to members of the House Intelligence Committee, congressional staffers, as well as Senate Judiciary Committee staffers, to turn over private information.

00:19:31.000 Were you involved with that investigation, aware of it at the time?

00:19:35.000 I'm not familiar with that specific investigation.

00:19:38.000 This had to do with the leaks, I believe.

00:19:40.000 We have never been told completely.

00:19:42.000 But the leaks concerning the crossfire hurricane and the leaks concerning the conversation between Flynn and Kislyak that was wiretapped, that was classified, that somehow got out.

00:19:54.000 But you're not aware of anybody from Congress being investigated?

00:19:58.000 Well, as I sit here right now, that's not something that's ringing a bell for me.

00:20:03.000 Do you see a problem with the Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to congressional staffers who are providing oversight to the very organization that's issuing the subpoenas?

00:20:12.000 Well certainly anytime there's an investigative activity that touches upon a separate branch of government, namely the legislative branch, it has to be done extraordinarily carefully and there are all kinds of policies that the department has in place to make sure that that's done appropriately.

00:20:30.000 Director A, did the FBI pay Twitter money to moderate content moderation?

00:20:37.000 I'm not aware of us paying money to moderate content there or anywhere else.

00:20:41.000 What was the three million dollars for that the FBI gave that's been revealed in Twitter files, which has been characterized by those writing the Twitter files as payment for content moderation?

00:20:51.000 Basically, they said Twitter, you know, you guys were meet with them all the time.

00:20:55.000 You had them taken down so many posts.

00:20:56.000 They said, well, gosh, it's a lot of work.

00:20:58.000 Why don't you pay us?

00:20:59.000 And so you did.

00:20:59.000 You paid them three million dollars.

00:21:01.000 Are you aware of the payment?

00:21:03.000 I'm not aware of that specific payment, but I can tell you that when it comes to payments, going back well over four decades, when we are required by federal law, when a company, like in this instance a provider, goes through expenses to produce information, we're required to reimburse them for those expenses.

00:21:23.000 And so I think that a lot of the questions about payments revolve around exactly that.

00:21:28.000 And you will repeat under oath that there was never any discussion of the FBI to take down constitutionally protected speech.

00:21:36.000 You think it's all national security, child pornography, sex trafficking, no discussion of constitutionally protected speech because this is all going to come out and a lot of it's come out already in depositions, but you're saying there was never any discussion by any of your agents in any of these meetings of constitutionally protected speech being taken down?

00:21:55.000 To my knowledge, Our agents conducted themselves in compliance with the law throughout.

00:22:02.000 Same question to Secretary Mayorkas.

00:22:05.000 You're not aware of your agents ever discussing any constitutionally protected speech with any of the social media companies?

00:22:12.000 The same answer as Director Wray provided to you, Ranking Member Paul.

00:22:20.000 Oh, Christopher Wray is so slick, but the way Dr. Rand Paul questions is downright clinical, surgical at times.

00:22:28.000 You saw right there at the beginning of that clip that Ray had to change the conduct of the FBI in interacting with these social media companies because of this court order that resulted from the oversight work and the investigations and the depositions from the Missouri Attorney General's office.

00:22:46.000 So it shows the progress.

00:22:47.000 It shows that really to attack this thing, you've got to have multiple layers.

00:22:51.000 You've got to take control of the executive branch through elections and ensure that you've got good people, certainly better people than Christopher Wray.

00:22:59.000 You've got to use the power of the purse in the Congress to starve some of those entities of the resources that they use in order to censor digital speech.

00:23:09.000 And then you have to use these oversight tools, the depots, the hearings, sometimes even litigation, To try to put the handcuffs on those who would do us harm and who would think that their view of truth ought to dominate over the marketplace of ideas that's always made our nation great.

00:23:28.000 So to be able to do that, you must have these single subject spending bills with the opportunity for amendment, Cutting programs, limiting authorities.

00:23:38.000 And just last night, the House of Representatives passed the Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill.

00:23:44.000 Now, this isn't the most sizzling of single-subject bills, but if you're going to do these things one at a time, I think it's really important for the Congress to show all of you that it's working.

00:23:54.000 That we're actually doing the work that was contemplated in the 1974 Budget Act that we haven't done since the late 90s.

00:24:02.000 So the bill that we passed on funding the legislative branch is $51.8 million less than the fiscal year 2024 request.

00:24:11.000 And what I like about the bill is that it would restrict funds from being used to incentivize or award contractors who have been chronically behind and haven't met the capabilities that we need to be able to serve you.

00:24:25.000 Another thing I really like about this bill, it prevents the purchasing of telecom equipment from China and other adversaries.

00:24:33.000 We know that one way the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in unrestricted asymmetric warfare against the United States is to own our manner of communication. 0.92

00:24:44.000 The ones they don't own, then they're going to engage in malign actions toward.

00:24:48.000 And so decoupling ourselves from China certainly involves our work in the Congress too.

00:24:54.000 Very glad there's a specific focus on that.

00:24:57.000 Also this week, we're taking up our single subject appropriations bill on the Department of the Interior.

00:25:02.000 So I want to give you the information that House Republicans have developed regarding This bill with the Department of the Interior, Environment, and related agencies that deal with those issues.

00:25:15.000 So the argument is that the bill will help cut the bureaucracy, cut the spending, expand access to a lot of our critical minerals that we have here in the United States, but somehow we limit ourselves from being able to get to those things that we need to run the economy of tomorrow.

00:25:30.000 And we also defund a lot of the regulations of the EPA. I'm going to go through some of those.

00:25:35.000 This legislation rescinds $7.8 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and $1.4 billion from the Environmental and Climate Justice Fund that was provided in the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:25:50.000 Remember, it wasn't about making the environment cleaner for all of us.

00:25:55.000 It was about making sure that we use the power of federal government for more equity in outcomes with the environment.

00:26:02.000 It's crazy.

00:26:04.000 But the bill that we'll be voting on today, I think this evening, will additionally rein in the EPA by repealing the Biden administration's WOTUS rule.

00:26:14.000 This is the waters of the United States regulation.

00:26:17.000 This is the regulation that can have some...

00:26:20.000 Just cattle pond all of a sudden under the jurisdiction of a gajillion federal regulators and the bill also defunds this social cost of carbon cost-benefit analysis that the government was running to really constrain access to the carbon that has allowed the American people to live at a higher quality of life than anyone in the world in no small part because of the cheap energy that we're able to get.

00:26:49.000 The legislation also deals with some Republican priorities for eco-grief.

00:26:55.000 Eco-grief.

00:26:56.000 I didn't know what eco-grief was, but I've learned that at the Department of the Interior, they are paying $4,000 for every virtual session of eco-grief.

00:27:11.000 Amazing.

00:27:11.000 The Wuhan Institute of Virology used to be funded out of some of these pots of money.

00:27:15.000 It won't be in the future.

00:27:17.000 And a lot of the Biden executive orders regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion are also thrown under the bus in some of the authorizing work that we've done to set up this appropriations bill.

00:27:28.000 The bill is a 39% reduction From the enacted fiscal year 2023 level.

00:27:37.000 So this is a funding cut.

00:27:39.000 And we've got to see that with a lot of these single subject spending bills.

00:27:43.000 So we've got still some more to do on that bill to get it into better shape.

00:27:48.000 There are other things that are funded in the bill that I don't particularly like.

00:27:52.000 And, you know, that happens with these single-subject bills.

00:27:55.000 There's going to be stuff that you like, stuff that you don't.

00:27:57.000 I mean, I don't think we should be funding the Kennedy Center or the National Endowment for the Arts or NPR. A lot of these things that kind of get wrapped up within interior and the environment.

00:28:11.000 And a lot of times it's wasting money, your money, and then devaluing the money that we have.

00:28:17.000 I want to give an update regarding what's going on on the border as well.

00:28:23.000 Actually, no.

00:28:24.000 Let's go first to our global story.

00:28:27.000 I think we've got a headline on this.

00:28:28.000 Pentagon sending another 300 troops to the Middle East.

00:28:33.000 And this is going to be, I think, focused on some of the explosive ordnance disposal.

00:28:39.000 Work that gets done when you've got some of this extensive mining activity and the roadside bombs that the Palestinians have been using against Israelis. 0.79

00:28:47.000 We saw a lot of that in Iraq as well.

00:28:49.000 And also communications and support enablers.

00:28:53.000 The notice from the Pentagon is reported in the Hill says that there will not be troops going to Israel.

00:29:00.000 They will be at other regional installations helping to reset that regional deterrence.

00:29:05.000 So that's the update.

00:29:06.000 More troops headed to the Middle East.

00:29:09.000 But I want to bring us back to our border because we've gotten some information that it is orders of magnitude worse than we ever expected when Joe Biden became president.

00:29:21.000 Since Joe Biden took office, there have been over 6.2 million illegal crossings of our southern border.

00:29:27.000 There have been 7.5 million enforcement encounters nationwide.

00:29:32.000 In September, there were 269,735 illegal immigrants encountered at the southern border.

00:29:39.000 This was an over 300% increase from September of 2020. September was the 31st straight month where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under President Trump.

00:29:55.000 Customs and Border Patrol has seized 27,023 pounds of fentanyl in fiscal year 2023. This is a 464% increase from fiscal year 2020. There were more fentanyl seizures in fiscal year 2023 than in 2021 and 2022 combined.

00:30:15.000 169. Remember that number.

00:30:18.000 That's the number of people on the terrorist watch list who were stopped trying to cross the southern border in fiscal year 2023. It's an all-time record.

00:30:27.000 It is more than all of the combined terror watchlist encounters from 2017 through 2022.

00:30:35.000 There have been more than 267 individuals whose name have appeared on the watchlist who we have seen just since Joe Biden became president.

00:30:45.000 In October, federal officials warned that members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah could be crossing through the southern border.

00:30:56.000 Cartels are making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States.

00:31:01.000 And Joe Biden's far left open border policies are to blame for this historic crisis.

00:31:08.000 It's not like we don't know how to fix this.

00:31:09.000 It's the Trump policies.

00:31:11.000 They worked.

00:31:12.000 But during Joe Biden's first 100 days in office, He took 94 executive actions on immigration.

00:31:19.000 And the whole sum of this included halting the border wall, changing the asylum policies, totally destroying the relationships we'd made to keep people in their home country or in the first safe country that they come to.

00:31:34.000 In August 2022, Biden and his administration decided to make the border crisis worse by formally ending a lot of the Trump policies, namely remain in Mexico.

00:31:44.000 The Biden administration announced on May 10, 2023, that it will allow for the release of some migrants into the United States with absolutely no way to track them.

00:31:54.000 And Biden's Department of Homeland Security has now admitted that 40% of the catch-and-release migrants They've just disappeared.

00:32:05.000 They're not even being tracked anymore.

00:32:06.000 40% of them.

00:32:07.000 And we're talking about millions of people?

00:32:10.000 They're not showing up for any court date.

00:32:12.000 They're not ever going home.

00:32:13.000 You'll be paying for them forever. 0.92

00:32:15.000 Despite this historic crisis, Joe Biden has only visited the southern border once, and it was widely panned as a pathetic photo op.

00:32:23.000 So make no mistake, House Republicans know that border security is national security.

00:32:28.000 That's why we passed H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.

00:32:32.000 It is the strongest border security package in American history.

00:32:36.000 But that act is not law because the Senate won't act on it.

00:32:42.000 Do you agree with these things?

00:32:43.000 Here are the things that are in H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.

00:32:47.000 First, force the Biden administration to restart construction of the border wall.

00:32:51.000 Deploy technology to the southern and northern borders.

00:32:55.000 Increase the number of Border Patrol agents and provide adequate pay.

00:32:58.000 Require transparency regarding the illegal crossings from the DHS that has been lying to us.

00:33:04.000 Strengthen current law to protect unaccompanied children from human trafficking and catch and release.

00:33:09.000 End the abuse of Executive Immigration Authority and the abuses of the Asylum Authority Strengthen and streamline the process for adjudications so that people that aren't here can get removed.

00:33:21.000 And then we actually have to stand with ICE when those removals become necessary.

00:33:26.000 Because right now when there are criminals that are apprehended and a lot of our local police and sheriffs, there's an ICE detainer put on them.

00:33:33.000 ICE never shows up.

00:33:35.000 And a lot of times they're released right back onto our streets.

00:33:40.000 Final note, I know that it's been the Halloween weekend, and of course, in Northwest Florida, we have the friendliest trick-or-treaters.

00:33:49.000 For those who are on our audio platforms, you're not able to see this, but you're watching a bear in Navarre, Florida, right in the heart of my district.

00:33:56.000 And what I love about the bear trick-or-treating is that it only took one piece of candy.

00:34:01.000 You know there's always that family that leaves the bowl out, and the first trick-or-treater that comes, they just dump the whole bowl in their bag.

00:34:08.000 Well, this black bear...

00:34:11.000 So polite.

00:34:12.000 So Northwest Florida polite.

00:34:14.000 Thank you all so much for joining us on Firebrand.

00:34:16.000 I'm going to have a lot of updates coming regarding how all of this Israel-Ukraine border stuff is being evaluated.

00:34:23.000 My strong position is that that has to be evaluated independently.

00:34:27.000 I don't think we should send one more nickel to Ukraine I think our border should be sealed up like the strongest Ziploc you've ever had before. 0.91

00:34:35.000 We're even debating sending more money to Ukraine, but we've got a lot of people in both parties that aren't willing to put the needs of our citizens and our border first here.

00:34:44.000 We're going to continue to have those debates.

00:34:46.000 We're going to show you the consequences.

00:34:48.000 Make sure you're subscribed.

00:34:50.000 Like the podcast.

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Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - November 02, 2023

Episode 126 LIVE: Elections Aren't Perfect – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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