Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 132 LIVE: McCarthy Sucker Punches Burchett – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:04:29.000 .

00:04:31.000 Matt Gaetz, the biggest firebrand inside of the House of Representatives.

00:04:49.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:04:51.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:04:56.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:05:01.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:05:05.000 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:05:08.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around.

00:05:12.000 It's that simple.

00:05:13.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.

00:05:18.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:05:19.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:05:24.000 We will save America.

00:05:27.000 It's choose your fighter time.

00:05:28.000 and send in the fire brains. 0.99

00:05:30.000 Explain to us what happened with you and Kevin McCarthy.

00:05:40.000 Well, I was doing an interview with Claudia from NPR, a lovely lady, and she was asking me a question.

00:05:48.000 And at that time, I got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys.

00:05:55.000 And I turned back and there was Kevin.

00:05:57.000 And for a minute, I was kind of, what the heck just happened?

00:06:02.000 And then I chased after him, of course. 0.94

00:06:06.000 As I've stated many times, he's a bully with $17 million in a security detail. 0.84

00:06:12.000 He's the type of guy that When you're a kid would throw a rock over the fence and run home and hide behind his mama's skirt. 0.93

00:06:18.000 And he just, you know, he, he, uh, from behind, that kind of stuff.

00:06:23.000 It, you know, that's not the way we handle things in East Tennessee.

00:06:25.000 We, we, if we have a problem with somebody, I'm gonna look him in the eye and talk to him.

00:06:29.000 Okay, so he walked down the hallway. 0.80

00:06:30.000 Hit you with his elbow.

00:06:32.000 You can go on Claudia's Twitter account. 0.94

00:06:36.000 It's pretty much her X account.

00:06:38.000 It's very accurate.

00:06:40.000 Okay, so then just explain.

00:06:41.000 So you chased him?

00:06:41.000 What do you mean you chased him?

00:06:42.000 I just ran after him. 0.84

00:06:43.000 I was like, what the heck?

00:06:44.000 Why'd you do that?

00:06:45.000 Because it was, like I said, if you've ever been hitting the kidneys, it's a little different.

00:06:50.000 You don't have to hit very hard to cause a lot of pain.

00:06:53.000 And he just, of course, as he always did, does, he just Denies it or blame somebody else or something.

00:07:05.000 It was just a little heated, but I just backed off because I saw no reason.

00:07:10.000 I wasn't gaining anything from it.

00:07:12.000 Everybody saw it, so it didn't really matter.

00:07:14.000 What he responded to?

00:07:15.000 Yeah.

00:07:16.000 He just acted like, what are you talking about?

00:07:19.000 Who are you?

00:07:20.000 That kind of thing.

00:07:22.000 I think that's symptomatic of The problems that he's had in his short tenure as Speaker.

00:07:30.000 And were you face to face when you had this interaction?

00:07:32.000 Yeah, but there's security detail, and I get it.

00:07:34.000 They were doing their job, so it wasn't exactly like he wouldn't turn around and face me.

00:07:40.000 He kept scurrying, trying to keep people between me and him.

00:07:43.000 And then, so, where did he yell?

00:07:46.000 I just let it go at that point.

00:07:48.000 It wasn't.

00:07:48.000 Were you yelling?

00:07:49.000 Yeah, I raised my voice to him.

00:07:51.000 I thought it was appropriate, and you just don't expect A guy who was at one time three steps away from the White House to hit you with a sucker punch in the hallway.

00:08:01.000 And did he raise his voice back to you?

00:08:03.000 Yeah, just that high-pitched kind of thing, I believe, and that was about it.

00:08:07.000 And did he walk into his office?

00:08:09.000 How did this happen?

00:08:09.000 No, he just kept on walking down the hall.

00:08:11.000 I don't know where his office is now.

00:08:12.000 And, you know, he had his detail and his posse, so to speak, was with him.

00:08:18.000 So did his detail try to stop you?

00:08:20.000 Do what?

00:08:21.000 Did his detail try to stop you?

00:08:22.000 The detail kind of got...

00:08:22.000 One guy got between us there towards the end, but I wasn't looking to knock him out or anything.

00:08:30.000 I just wanted to let him know I know it was him.

00:08:34.000 Were you injured?

00:08:35.000 I don't know.

00:08:36.000 Injured, man.

00:08:36.000 I mean, did it hurt?

00:08:40.000 Yeah.

00:08:40.000 As a matter of fact, it still hurts because it was a shot to the kidneys.

00:08:43.000 And it still hurts, oddly enough.

00:08:46.000 I'm probably not going to do an ethics complaint on him.

00:08:49.000 He's not worth it.

00:08:51.000 He's going to be gone here either after Christmas or next year.

00:08:54.000 And like I said, he's got the $17 million and he's already messing in everybody's races and we all know that.

00:09:02.000 Are you accusing him of assault?

00:09:03.000 Am I accusing him?

00:09:04.000 Of assault?

00:09:05.000 I don't know.

00:09:06.000 Ask a lawyer.

00:09:07.000 It's over as far as I'm concerned.

00:09:09.000 He said to our colleague Melanie Zanona that this is a tight hallway.

00:09:13.000 He denies this interaction.

00:09:15.000 He says a tight hallway and I bumped into him.

00:09:16.000 He says that this is not an intentional thing.

00:09:19.000 There's 435 congressmen.

00:09:21.000 I was one of eight that voted against him.

00:09:23.000 That hallway was, there's plenty of room.

00:09:26.000 You can walk four side by side.

00:09:28.000 He chose to do what he did.

00:09:30.000 And, you know, it'll end right here.

00:09:32.000 I'm sure it'll just be a little...

00:09:34.000 Little asterisk on his storied career.

00:09:40.000 All right, we are live.

00:09:42.000 Welcome to Firebrand.

00:09:43.000 This is Mac Gates.

00:09:45.000 We are broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. That was Congressman Tim Burchett talking to CNN's Manu Raju about an altercation he had with Kevin McCarthy.

00:09:58.000 We're going to get into it.

00:09:59.000 This has been a wild day on Capitol Hill.

00:10:02.000 We're going to walk you through some of the strangest reports we've ever had about I don't know if there's a full moon or if Mercury is in retrograde.

00:10:14.000 Joel, isn't that what you said?

00:10:15.000 Gets everybody acting crazy?

00:10:17.000 But something is up, and we're going to go over that in addition to some of the key findings of the Homeland Security Committee's report on the costs of illegal immigration.

00:10:28.000 We've got testimony from USAID about how your money is being spent in Ukraine.

00:10:32.000 Big things also exploding in the House Oversight Committee today.

00:10:36.000 But when the former speaker is pushing people in the back that they don't like...

00:10:43.000 It's definitely top of mind with a lot of folks.

00:10:47.000 Karen on Facebook says that I'm just stirring the pot and I need to do my job.

00:10:51.000 Well, we're going to be getting to all of it, Karen.

00:10:54.000 But first, you heard Burchett there go over this altercation.

00:11:01.000 And the key fact that doesn't make this a he-said-she-said is that an NPR reporter, Claudia Grisales, Actually was interviewing Burchett during the whole deal.

00:11:14.000 She put up a tweet thread detailing her first-hand evidentiary account of this altercation between McCarthy and Burchett.

00:11:25.000 So I'm now reading from the report from Claudia Grazales of NPR.

00:11:29.000 I have never seen this on Capitol Hill.

00:11:33.000 While talking to Tim Burchett after the GOP conference meeting, former Speaker McCarthy walked by with his detail, and McCarthy shoved Burchett.

00:11:41.000 Burchett lunged toward me.

00:11:43.000 I thought it was a joke.

00:11:44.000 It was not, and a chase ensued.

00:11:46.000 Burchett's back was to McCarthy, and his detail was walking by in the hallway, then the lunge.

00:11:53.000 Burchett responded jokingly as McCarthy kept walking.

00:11:56.000 Sorry, Kevin.

00:11:57.000 Didn't mean to elbow.

00:11:58.000 Then seriously yelled, why'd you elbow me in the back, Kevin?

00:12:02.000 Hey, Kevin.

00:12:02.000 You got any guts?

00:12:04.000 Burchett then looked back at me and said, jerk, referring to McCarthy. 0.99

00:12:07.000 I asked if he had done this before. 0.99

00:12:10.000 Burchett said no.

00:12:11.000 That's when the chase ensued.

00:12:12.000 Burchett took off after McCarthy and his detail.

00:12:15.000 I chased behind with my mic.

00:12:18.000 So it goes over all of the back and forth between McCarthy and Burchett.

00:12:23.000 But that is the first-hand account of this NPR reporter.

00:12:28.000 And of course, she posted with her story the audio of that encounter just described by her, by Burchett.

00:12:37.000 Here's even more evidence.

00:12:38.000 take a listen.

00:12:38.000 Thank you.

00:12:55.000 Sorry, Kevin.

00:12:56.000 Didn't mean to elbow.

00:12:57.000 Why'd you elbow me in the back, Kevin?

00:13:00.000 Hey, Kevin!

00:13:01.000 You got any guts? 0.99

00:13:04.000 Jerk. 0.99

00:13:06.000 No. 0.93

00:13:09.000 I can't quite walk out of here.

00:13:24.000 Don't put me in the back. 0.72

00:13:25.000 You got no guts.

00:13:26.000 You did so.

00:13:27.000 The reporter said it right there.

00:13:29.000 What kind of chicken move is that? 1.00

00:13:32.000 You're pathetic, man. 1.00

00:13:33.000 You are so pathetic. 1.00

00:13:35.000 Thank you. 1.00

00:13:36.000 What a jerk. 1.00

00:13:42.000 You need security, Kevin. 1.00

00:13:44.000 Anyway.

00:13:49.000 Anyway.

00:13:52.000 We're back live, and it does beg the question, why does Kevin McCarthy have a security detail in the first place?

00:13:59.000 He's not the speaker anymore.

00:14:01.000 Mark on Facebook wants Kevin McCarthy charged with assault.

00:14:04.000 Debra on YouTube says, hopefully McCarthy has to face an ethics complaint as a result of this.

00:14:12.000 Debra, we're way ahead of you.

00:14:14.000 We have submitted to the House Ethics Committee the information regarding these reports, this evidence, these first-hand accounts, and McCarthy has sought to weaponize the Ethics Committee.

00:14:26.000 He sought to signal to them that the thing that they ought to do to try to cover for his failings as Speaker was to attack me.

00:14:34.000 You heard in a lot of the Manu Raju, Kevin McCarthy therapy session, him reference that I'm just an ethically challenged person.

00:14:44.000 First of all, it seems as though the therapy session that McCarthy had with Manu Raju didn't take and didn't work.

00:14:54.000 There's other video you're going to see today where Kevin McCarthy is responding directly to these accounts from this reporter and from Burchett.

00:15:01.000 And when someone's lying, Their register goes up in their voice, and he is squealing like a stuck pig when answering these questions. 0.95

00:15:11.000 Kevin McCarthy is a frequent liar, but that does not mean that he's a good liar. 0.99

00:15:15.000 He's actually a bad liar. 0.98

00:15:16.000 You could tell when he's lying, and it's just absolutely laid bare before everyone to see.

00:15:23.000 And I think the Ethics Committee should take a look at that conduct because we shouldn't be in a body where we don't use our words, right?

00:15:32.000 When we came at McCarthy, it was based on the substance of an agreement we made in January and his inability to comport with that agreement.

00:15:40.000 We came right at him.

00:15:42.000 I gave a speech on the floor.

00:15:43.000 I said, this is what you have to do to avoid a motion to vacate.

00:15:47.000 And instead, we got this bizarre spasm of profanity and false bravado.

00:15:53.000 Now he's been removed.

00:15:55.000 And Kevin McCarthy went from pushing around millions of dollars in lobbyist money...

00:16:00.000 To pushing Tim Burchett in the back.

00:16:02.000 How the mighty have fallen.

00:16:05.000 There was also weirdness today in the United States Senate.

00:16:10.000 Mark Wayne Mullen, I've never really seen this guy get worked up about the fentanyl crisis, the national debt, but he got all kinds of exercised against a union witness today in the United States Senate.

00:16:25.000 Take a listen.

00:16:28.000 Pretends like he's self-made.

00:16:30.000 Sir, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company.

00:16:33.000 Myself and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard in long hours.

00:16:41.000 Pretends like he's self-made. 0.99

00:16:43.000 What a clown. 1.00

00:16:45.000 Fraud. 1.00

00:16:46.000 Always has been.

00:16:48.000 Always will be.

00:16:49.000 Quit the tough guy act and these Senate hearings.

00:16:53.000 You know where to find me.

00:16:55.000 Anyplace, anytime, cowboy.

00:16:59.000 Sir, this is a time, this is a place.

00:17:01.000 If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults.

00:17:03.000 We can finish it here.

00:17:05.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:17:05.000 Perfect.

00:17:06.000 You want to do it now?

00:17:07.000 I'd love to do it right now. 0.98

00:17:08.000 Well, stand your butt up then. 0.99

00:17:09.000 You stand your butt up. 0.99

00:17:10.000 Oh, hold it. 0.99

00:17:11.000 Oh, stop it.

00:17:12.000 Is that your solution?

00:17:13.000 No, no, sit down.

00:17:15.000 Sit down.

00:17:15.000 No, no, you're a United States senator.

00:17:18.000 Actively.

00:17:18.000 Okay.

00:17:19.000 Sit down, please.

00:17:20.000 All right.

00:17:20.000 Can I respond?

00:17:21.000 Hold it.

00:17:22.000 Hold it.

00:17:22.000 If we can't, no, I have the mic.

00:17:25.000 I'm sorry.

00:17:26.000 This is what he said.

00:17:27.000 You'll have your time.

00:17:28.000 Okay.

00:17:28.000 Can I respond?

00:17:29.000 No, you can't.

00:17:30.000 I've never quite seen anything like that in a United States Senate hearing.

00:17:36.000 Red on YouTube says the Oklahoma senator's outburst was weird.

00:17:41.000 I thought it was weird too.

00:17:42.000 I have frequently used the statements of witnesses in the past to impeach them, but I tried to use my brain and my words and logic and reason, tying that to some consequence, maybe defunding things that aren't working. 0.93

00:17:56.000 Mark Wayne Mullen beating some guy's ass who doesn't like him in a Senate committee room isn't going to help his constituents. 0.67

00:18:04.000 It's not going to ensure that we're in any better position. 0.94

00:18:06.000 You know what, Mark Wayne Mullen, if you want to fight, let's actually get into the fights that matter on our budget, on our border, where you've been kind of noticeably absent.

00:18:15.000 So with Mark Wayne Mullen, it's a lot of tough talk.

00:18:18.000 That was a real strange display.

00:18:20.000 And maybe the hero of that entire exchange was Bernie Sanders.

00:18:23.000 Who knows?

00:18:24.000 Kind of the get-off-my-lawn old-grandfather type telling him to sit down.

00:18:29.000 There were also...

00:18:31.000 Fireworks today in the House Oversight Committee hearing.

00:18:34.000 And to set the backdrop here, you know, Chairman Comer has laid out how the Biden family has really engaged in widespread corruption, international influence peddling.

00:18:45.000 And the common refrain from Democrats defending Joe Biden is that, well, they might have been involved in that influence peddling, but Joe never got the benefit.

00:18:56.000 Well, now we've got the bank records and the actual check to Joe Biden where the gains were ill-gotten and then sent from a different family member to Joe Biden.

00:19:07.000 Jared Moskowitz is a Democrat from Florida.

00:19:10.000 He then found out that the Comer family has an inter-family loan as well.

00:19:16.000 And Moskowitz is making the claim against Chairman Comer that there's some sort of hypocrisy.

00:19:22.000 But that is absurd when you consider the fact that in the Comer family, there is no allegation that the gain is ill-gotten.

00:19:29.000 That is why it is relevant and important as to Joe Biden, but it's just family as it relates to people who aren't engaged in the foreign corrupt influence peddling.

00:19:39.000 I think that could have been easily explained, but instead we got this.

00:19:45.000 Take a listen.

00:19:48.000 But you and Goldman, who is Mr. Trust Fund, continue to try to...

00:19:54.000 Reclaiming my time.

00:19:55.000 No, I'm not going to give you your time back.

00:19:57.000 We can stop the clock.

00:19:59.000 You all continue to...

00:20:00.000 You look like a smurf here, just going around and all this stuff. 0.64

00:20:04.000 Now listen...

00:20:04.000 Mr. Chairman, you have...

00:20:05.000 No, no, hold on.

00:20:07.000 If we're not on time...

00:20:08.000 You continue to spew disinformation.

00:20:09.000 You have gone on TV and said the president did something illegal.

00:20:13.000 You're doing stuff with your brother.

00:20:15.000 The American people have the same questions.

00:20:17.000 Why should they believe you?

00:20:22.000 There's a different rule for the president.

00:20:23.000 There's a different rule for you.

00:20:24.000 Why should they believe what you're saying, Mr. Chairman?

00:20:27.000 Why?

00:20:27.000 You go on Fox News and say loans and deals are way to evade taxes.

00:20:32.000 We don't know if that's what you're doing or not.

00:20:34.000 We don't know.

00:20:35.000 We have no idea.

00:20:36.000 We're supposed to take your word for it. 0.62

00:20:37.000 But when the president says something— Well, you've already been proven a liar, Mr. Moskowitz.

00:20:41.000 What's that? 0.98

00:20:42.000 You've already been proven a liar. 0.66

00:20:43.000 Who's proven me a liar? 0.97

00:20:44.000 You?

00:20:45.000 Yes.

00:20:45.000 Your word means nothing, Mr. Chairman.

00:20:47.000 Well, come on.

00:20:47.000 Go to my hometown.

00:20:48.000 There's a camera crew there today, an opposition research crew there today.

00:20:53.000 Mr. Chairman, this seems to have gotten under your skin.

00:20:57.000 I'll pay for your ticket.

00:20:58.000 I think the American people have lots of questions, Mr. Chairman, and perhaps you should sit maybe for a deposition.

00:21:02.000 I would be happy.

00:21:07.000 That was spicy.

00:21:08.000 A lot of you on the live stream right now are asking questions about impeachment.

00:21:12.000 You're angry that the impeachment of Mayorkas was tabled when eight Republicans joined with Democrats to table it.

00:21:19.000 I, too, share your frustration about that.

00:21:21.000 We've talked a lot about how Mayorkas deserves impeachment. 0.95

00:21:25.000 Matter of fact, we've got a big report in moments we're going to go over from the Homeland Security Committee.

00:21:30.000 But when Marjorie Taylor Greene brings these votes to the floor, whether it's impeaching Mayorkas, Ray, Garland, Biden, Harris, here's what she's showing you.

00:21:42.000 And you're not going to like hearing this, but it's the truth.

00:21:45.000 We don't have the votes to impeach anyone right now.

00:21:49.000 We've got a lot of Republicans who do not believe that the impeachment tool should be used against these folks.

00:21:56.000 And I'm left wondering, what accountability tool are you waiting for?

00:22:01.000 We allow a lot of these folks to evade subpoenas.

00:22:05.000 We haven't brought contempt to the floor when we've been jerked around.

00:22:10.000 We always allow them to show up at the last second.

00:22:13.000 No real accountability, no real punishment.

00:22:16.000 And then on the budget, you're going to see Democrats and Republicans today voting together to just continue the budgetary priorities of Joe Biden and the policies of Nancy Pelosi.

00:22:27.000 Are you punishing them there?

00:22:29.000 And now, impeachment off the table.

00:22:32.000 So for all of the discussion about how much these folks deserve impeachment, and many of them do, it's not going to happen with this team of House Republicans.

00:22:42.000 It's just not.

00:22:44.000 That is a fact.

00:22:45.000 There are facts that have been suppressed on another matter I want to discuss, and that is the vaccine.

00:22:51.000 So yesterday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene really stepped forward with great leadership and led a committee hearing on vaccine injuries.

00:23:00.000 And I worry about even sharing with you the things that are actually going on in Congress about this subject because you never know, on the platforms where you are consuming this podcast, the censorship has gotten so bad we're even pointing out what medical professionals and congressional witnesses are saying.

00:23:18.000 Even citing senators can somehow get you tagged or labeled or ticketed, shadow banned, censored.

00:23:26.000 But you need to know what is happening.

00:23:28.000 I think Dr. Robert Malone has done some of the most extensive research on vaccine injuries.

00:23:35.000 He's seen how widespread they are.

00:23:38.000 This was the evidence he presented to Congress yesterday.

00:23:40.000 Take a listen.

00:23:43.000 And I think the Operation Warp Speed, the idea that, look, we need to move with a sense of urgency, maybe not at the pace that government is historically not very effective at, you know, seemed appealing up front, but now with the benefit of hindsight, could we assess that Warp Speed was successful or not?

00:24:03.000 In my opinion, what we've learned, remember it's now four years.

00:24:09.000 In my opinion, what we've learned is that the collective wisdom of decades of regulatory science as it relates to vaccines and other medical products was appropriate.

00:24:21.000 There is a reason why these products typically require up to a decade to be proven to be safe and effective.

00:24:30.000 And it was not prudent and not in the interests of protecting the citizens of the United States or the world to bypass those time-tested processes that have basically been agreed upon through various forms of informal international treaties in order to My words are jam a product through a process in order to get it out to

00:25:00.000 respond to a false threat.

00:25:03.000 Remember the underlying thesis here is that we had 3.4% case fatality rate.

00:25:10.000 This was told to us again and again and again, and it was a lie.

00:25:16.000 So let's stay on that question of the fatality rate and how many of our fellow Americans were the victims of a process that Dr. Malone just described there as jammed through.

00:25:29.000 I think some of the most searing data in this committee hearing on vaccine injuries came from Senator Ron Johnson, who joined us with this presentation.

00:25:39.000 Take a listen.

00:25:42.000 This is CDC and FDA's own numbers, and yet, you know, through all the social media censorship directed by, unconstitutionally directed by the Biden administration, people just don't want to see this.

00:25:58.000 These are the true numbers.

00:26:00.000 The first five drugs that are listed here, this is over 28 years of reporting on the VAIR system and the FAIR system, the FDA adverse event reporting system.

00:26:12.000 You can see ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine are pretty safe drugs, as is dexamethasone.

00:26:19.000 The two drugs below, this is since the COVID pandemic, remdesivir and the COVID vaccines.

00:26:27.000 Now, I don't know how anybody can take a look at our response to COVID and not claim it was anything but a miserable failure.

00:26:35.000 We're 4% of the world's population.

00:26:36.000 We experienced supposedly 16% of the deaths.

00:26:40.000 The VAERS system on the COVID vaccines alone, 1.6 million adverse events.

00:26:49.000 We also had practicing physicians there, and one area that Congresswoman Greene focused in on was obstetrics. 0.94

00:26:56.000 When doctors are dealing with pregnant women, the creation of life, certainly injections, vaccines, particularly with this type of therapy, should draw the strictest of scrutiny. 1.00

00:27:09.000 And we had an OBGYN Dr. Biss before us with very concerning results that she analyzed from her practice and beyond.

00:27:17.000 Take a listen to Dr. Biss.

00:27:21.000 My average miscarriage rate in 2020 month to month was four percent.

00:27:26.000 That was normal.

00:27:28.000 I had done a video where I wrongly said that my miscarriage rate had increased by 50% because I was put on the spot and I didn't have my data in front of me.

00:27:37.000 I was wrong.

00:27:39.000 My miscarriage rate from year to year went up 100%.

00:27:42.000 In 2021, the average miscarriage rate month to month was 7% to 8%.

00:27:48.000 We peaked in November of that year for some reason.

00:27:51.000 That's actually when a non-clinical staff member came up to me and said, Dr. Biss, do you realize we've had eight miscarriages this month?

00:27:58.000 Which in a practice that delivers 20 to 25 patients, that's a huge number.

00:28:04.000 In 2022, the average month-to-month rate was 15%.

00:28:08.000 Now that was up till November.

00:28:10.000 I will tell you in December, I've never seen this before.

00:28:13.000 We had 41 newly registered patients 13 of them lost their babies, so that's 25% right there.

00:28:20.000 And then in January and February of 2023, it still remained high.

00:28:25.000 Didn't normalize until June of this year, then went up a little bit and came down in September.

00:28:31.000 So we're still seeing effects.

00:28:34.000 You asked how many patients had the vaccine and then lost their babies.

00:28:39.000 That's hard to determine.

00:28:41.000 I mean, I can tell you 60% of my patients got vaccinated.

00:28:45.000 But the problem is, if they're brand new to the practice, I haven't seen them yet because I'm the only person in my practice that asks every patient, have you gotten a vaccine?

00:28:55.000 How many?

00:28:56.000 Which brand?

00:28:57.000 When?

00:28:57.000 Have you had COVID? How many times?

00:29:00.000 Because whether we like it or not, that's part of your medical history now.

00:29:04.000 I'm the only one that asks those questions.

00:29:09.000 We're back live.

00:29:10.000 Thank you, Dr. Biss, for asking those key questions so that we can start to correlate this data.

00:29:15.000 When you hear these high rates of miscarriages, when you hear about the devastating health consequences that Senator Johnson discussed, your heart goes out and you wonder, well, what can we even start to do to remediate This great harm that people may have suffered and may be able to prove in a court of law.

00:29:33.000 There was even an attorney who joined us.

00:29:35.000 And what frustrates me is that too much of what the Congress has been doing from a policy standpoint has been to shield big pharma from liability when they cause harm.

00:29:47.000 And I think there is corruption at the core of that.

00:29:49.000 It was the substance of my contribution to this hearing.

00:29:52.000 Take a listen.

00:29:55.000 Dr. Malone, one of my grave concerns is that all of the vaccine injured may not know that they are in the class of the vaccine injured because people get blood clots and pulmonary embolisms probably because of the vaccine, but also probably for other reasons as well.

00:30:14.000 And Dr. Biss, when we look at These tragic consequences of pregnancy, they can at times occur in the absence of a vaccine.

00:30:23.000 So what advice would you give us as policymakers to try to really disaggregate the symptoms of vaccine injury and those consequences from those that may have occurred otherwise?

00:30:40.000 Thank you, Mr. Gates, for your informed question.

00:30:45.000 You are correct in saying that it is an enormous challenge.

00:30:49.000 Just as the virus disease itself largely overlaps with what's called the common cold now, in terms of symptoms, and it's very difficult to distinguish.

00:31:00.000 Likewise, these clusters of symptoms are very difficult to distinguish from background noise in some cases.

00:31:10.000 That's the job of the CDC, by the way, is to provide that type of analysis objectively in a nonpartisan fashion.

00:31:20.000 And as even the New York Times has acknowledged, the CDC has become a partisan political operation.

00:31:27.000 So we are left in the absence of reliable data by a federal agency tasked to provide that data to allow the Discernment of your question.

00:31:39.000 And the way that this would normally be done is to look for clusters of symptoms that correlate with a known disease or toxicity and then identify patients who have those clusters.

00:31:51.000 Practicing physicians currently Even those that aren't subject to the many professional and financial disincentives to be open and transparent about these things that you're mentioning,

00:32:07.000 I'm choosing my words, are subjected to an enormous amount of not only propaganda or psyops, as has the entire public been subjected to it, But also enormous numbers of disincentives to disclose adverse events and disclose what might appear to be vaccine related problems.

00:32:31.000 I hate to interrupt you, but that should be illegal.

00:32:33.000 It should be illegal if someone is engaged in the practice of medicine Or in the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry for people to try to disincentivize access to the information.

00:32:45.000 And it's easy for us to blame the CDC, but frankly, they in a way work for us because we're the ones that authorize the funds for the things that they do and don't do.

00:32:55.000 And so I think that one of the things we've got to work on probably is legislation that directs them to those clusters and that then disallows the corrupt We're back live.

00:33:11.000 That shows how high the hill is to climb indeed and we will stay on that work.

00:33:16.000 Again, thank you to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for setting up that field hearing to get us that evidence and begin what is going to be a long road ahead for a lot of people.

00:33:25.000 We also have news regarding the continuing resolution that the House is going to be voting on very soon to have a stopgap funding measure Yesterday's episode went into the detail of what that includes and doesn't include and really detailed out my critique of that continuing resolution and on the heels of it we have a statement that we want to share with you released today from the House Freedom Caucus titled No More Rolling Over Today to Fight Tomorrow.

00:33:53.000 Today the House Freedom Caucus released the following official position.

00:33:56.000 The House Freedom Caucus opposes the Republicans must stop negotiating against ourselves over fears of what the Senate may do with the promise to roll over today and we'll fight tomorrow.

00:34:18.000 While we remain committed to working with Speaker Johnson, we need bold change.

00:34:23.000 That from the House Freedom Caucus today.

00:34:25.000 I am in full agreement with that statement.

00:34:29.000 I endorse it completely, even though I'm not a member of the House Freedom Caucus.

00:34:33.000 I often align on these big fights about the budget.

00:34:37.000 And I'm glad the House Freedom Caucus is in the fight.

00:34:39.000 We need more House Republicans in that battle. 0.99

00:34:43.000 I had a good conversation today with Budget Chairman Jody Arrington, and he really wants to move a balanced budget to the floor that not only addresses some of the discretionary spending, but a lot of the entitlement spending.

00:34:56.000 And we have to have honest discussions about where we are going from a fiscal standpoint because if we don't, then you live in a time where you earn what you earn.

00:35:09.000 You have earned what you earn.

00:35:10.000 You have what you have.

00:35:11.000 But each and every day, your government is printing billions more dollars and diluting your life and your money and your savings And the government does that without even the hint of itemized review on the programs that are sucking up so much of this money.

00:35:34.000 So we've got to get on that.

00:35:36.000 One of the things that really is reflective of the waste of federal spending, USAID. USAID is an entity that takes your money and functions as a global venture capital fund overlaid with a hell of a lot of wokeness.

00:35:54.000 And now you've got testimony from a top Biden official at USAID saying that we need to print more money and dilute your dollar so that we save the Ukrainians from inflation.

00:36:14.000 Take a listen.

00:36:16.000 At this time, there is no funding left for direct budget support.

00:36:22.000 Without further appropriations, the government of Ukraine would need to use emergency measures such as printing money or not paying critical salaries, which could lead to hyperinflation and severely damage the war effort.

00:36:34.000 USAID has also exhausted all of its supplemental humanitarian assistance funds.

00:36:38.000 Additional funding is critical in the face of what remains an enormous need.

00:36:43.000 If Congress does not approve supplemental funding, our partner organizations in Ukraine would have to either reduce the number of people getting this humanitarian assistance by up to 75% or suspend our humanitarian programs entirely.

00:37:00.000 This was such an insane statement.

00:37:03.000 I had to go and read the testimony of this USAID official.

00:37:08.000 They want you to print more money and suffer more inflation so that the Ukrainians don't have to print more money and suffer more inflation. 0.95

00:37:17.000 And we're borrowing money that we don't print from China.

00:37:22.000 Remember the neoconservative geopolitics group smart think around the theory that we've got to get bogged down in Ukraine so that we look rough and tough to China?

00:37:33.000 I subscribe to the theory that us being bogged down in Ukraine makes us look weaker to China.

00:37:38.000 It makes us look distracted.

00:37:40.000 And when we're harming our own economy through inflation...

00:37:45.000 Or harming our own national security by going deeper in debt to China to fund the Ukraine apparatus.

00:37:52.000 It is so insulting to have the American taxpayer confronted with testimony like this.

00:38:00.000 We've also recently been confronted with a key report from the House Committee on Homeland Security.

00:38:06.000 It's a bombshell that breaks down how the American taxpayer is on the hook for up to $451 billion needed to care for illegal immigrants now making their home inside of our borders because of Joe Biden's broken border policy.

00:38:23.000 The report's infuriating line after line of wasteful spending billion dollars here billion dollars there all to babysit illegals who never should have been let into our country. 0.78

00:38:32.000 The report was compiled from federal and state records media reports and other information.

00:38:38.000 It sheds light on the taxpayer burden.

00:38:41.000 16.8 to 29 million illegal immigrants currently residing inside the United States creating that burden.

00:38:49.000 And the costs come from health care, housing, education, other welfare programs across numerous jurisdictions.

00:38:56.000 All of these millions of illegal aliens that now live amongst you are living higher and higher on the hog. 1.00

00:39:05.000 600,000 have entered during fiscal year 2023 alone.

00:39:08.000 That does not include the 900,000 who entered legally and applied for asylum.

00:39:13.000 I guess we call that legally with quotes.

00:39:17.000 Because they came here to abuse our asylum system. 1.00

00:39:19.000 And they're just set free in the interior.

00:39:22.000 The system is rigged.

00:39:23.000 It exists to facilitate invasion.

00:39:25.000 And that is exactly what we are now enduring.

00:39:29.000 So the Biden administration and Secretary Mayorkas sit on open borders.

00:39:34.000 And then we get stuck with the costs.

00:39:36.000 The federal government, state governments, local governments...

00:39:41.000 No one's getting off here without paying part of the tab.

00:39:44.000 In New York City alone, Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has stated that the cost of illegal aliens could hit $12 billion in the next three years.

00:39:52.000 And that's just with the current flow.

00:39:54.000 There's no sign that it's slowing.

00:39:55.000 It could be getting worse.

00:39:57.000 And they're giving services to these illegals for everything under the sun, including laundry services for illegals. 0.85

00:40:05.000 If you're a New York City taxpayer, you keep working, you keep paying your taxes so that the illegal aliens can get their laundry paid for. 1.00

00:40:13.000 Of course, hospital and emergency room visits rank among the highest costs that these illegal aliens generate. 1.00

00:40:20.000 I learned that firsthand when I was in Yuma, Arizona.

00:40:24.000 We heard that oftentimes these illegal aliens require three times the amount of resources to discharge them safely. 0.95

00:40:32.000 Every bed they take is a bed that an American can't. 1.00

00:40:35.000 And we're having to drive farther and further to get our health care while a lot of these places are jammed up, overcrowded, and overrun.

00:40:42.000 And then not only do you not get the service, you get the higher costs.

00:40:47.000 Imagine what a grift that is.

00:40:49.000 So they open up the border, bring these people in, you bear these high costs, and then you don't even get access to the services that you're paying for. 0.69

00:40:57.000 At rates of multiples, the report shows that the cost of education for around 3.8 million illegal immigrants that aren't proficient in English totaled over $59 billion.

00:41:10.000 In the era of the Democrats' commitment to defunding our police, the stress of illegal immigration is costing $19 billion to our law enforcement budgets and our police budgets.

00:41:21.000 Given the state of violent crime in our country and the dangerous reality on our streets, I mean, the Secret Service was involved in a shooting over a carjacking within the last 48 hours in our nation's capital. 0.98

00:41:32.000 I wouldn't say that our police have the time and money and resources to spare for this kind of crap.

00:41:38.000 Biden and the Democrats and even some weak Republicans, they wake up every morning, they see the dangerous reality in our city streets and they choose not to put a stop to it. 0.98

00:41:49.000 Instead, they choose to enable this illegal immigration and it stresses our police departments and it terrorizes our citizens. 0.91

00:41:56.000 As I said earlier, this report is very frustrating.

00:41:59.000 Every American should read it and be similarly concerned.

00:42:04.000 We have got to put a stop to it.

00:42:05.000 We have to close the loopholes and allow the Department of Homeland Security to do its job, activate ICE, and do the deportations that are necessary.

00:42:16.000 This is an invasion.

00:42:17.000 There is no greater civilization-altering issue facing our country than this.

00:42:23.000 We cannot afford another year of open borders, An illegal occupation of America subsidized by the American people. 0.78

00:42:31.000 We have to take a stand against it, and certainly this report gives us every basis from an evidentiary and data standpoint to do so.

00:42:40.000 It is a necessity.

00:42:41.000 We also want to cover a story from the state of New York where state government is engaging in activity that is not a necessity and indeed quite dangerous.

00:42:51.000 Listen to New York Governor Kathy Hochul talk about the new surveillance state they're creating in the Granite State.

00:42:57.000 I'm sorry, in the Empire State.

00:42:59.000 Take a listen.

00:43:02.000 Also, we're very focused on the data we're collecting from surveillance efforts.

00:43:06.000 What's being said on social media platforms and We have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people when we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms.

00:43:24.000 Our media analysis, our social media analysis unit, has ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence, direct threats to others.

00:43:36.000 And all this is in response to our desire Our strong commitment to ensure that not only do New Yorkers be safe, but they also feel safe.

00:43:50.000 Okay, so there is a troubling continuum here.

00:43:53.000 First, our national security apparatus, CIA, NSA, they developed all of these surveillance tools and they sought all of these authorities to be able to gather signals intelligence, process it, analyze it, categorize conduct in various ways.

00:44:08.000 And they told us That they needed these capabilities, technologies, and authorities to direct that activity overseas to some terrorist in some Central Asian cave that might be planning an attack on the United States.

00:44:21.000 And so Congress came together, passes the Patriot Act.

00:44:23.000 They go off and do that.

00:44:25.000 But then...

00:44:27.000 They bring a lot of those capabilities home.

00:44:30.000 And we woke up one day and a larger and larger portion of our federal government was trying to convince us that the MAGA grandmother next door was a terrorist or the parent at the school board meeting or the traditional Catholic in worship.

00:44:44.000 So then you saw the federal government Whether it was in response to January 6, really abuse those authorities and reorient those anti-terrorism teams in a concerning way.

00:44:59.000 What you just heard from New York Governor Kathy Hochul is the really troubling next iteration of that, where left-wing states are going to try to hire those folks out of NSA or CIA or FBI and get them involved in state-level surveillance and analysis of people's speech and their political views and their associations.

00:45:23.000 We have to fight against this.

00:45:24.000 And it's not enough to just fight against it at the federal level.

00:45:27.000 We need people in state government standing up against what you just heard from Kathy Hochul.

00:45:33.000 Standing up for the privacy rights of our citizens.

00:45:37.000 Now, there are some times when those privacy rights of our citizens end up being twisted and turned and cavorted in ways we never would have imagined and in ways that actually are harmful to the most fundamental institution in American life, and that is the family.

00:45:55.000 I've introduced legislation called the Parents' Right to Know Act because under a federal law that had been misinterpreted called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, We were getting more and more school districts telling parents that the parents didn't have a right to know about the counseling services being accessed by students.

00:46:19.000 I'm sorry, if you send your kid off to public school, you have a right to know what is going on there.

00:46:25.000 You have a right to know what their grades are, what classes they're taking, what their behavior looks like, what extracurriculars they're involved in, what field trips they go on.

00:46:34.000 And so sure as hell you have a right to know if some school counselor is engaging in a particular type of effort.

00:46:44.000 This came to my attention through a story I heard from a young student who attended one of my recent events in Northwest Florida.

00:46:53.000 She was in about the sixth grade.

00:46:54.000 She came to me and said, look, I'm not a girly girl.

00:46:57.000 I don't have the long hair.

00:46:59.000 I don't dress the same as the other girls, but I'm tired of every counselor at school and every teacher trying to corner me and tell me I'm gay.

00:47:07.000 I'm in the sixth grade.

00:47:08.000 I'm not gay.

00:47:09.000 I'm just focused on being a student.

00:47:11.000 And there is a coercive effect to what we have seen, what I have heard directly from my constituents from elements of public education.

00:47:20.000 And that should not happen.

00:47:21.000 And you know what?

00:47:22.000 The best defense with some counselor or teacher trying to say weird things or do things with your kids is to know what they're saying and doing.

00:47:32.000 And so my legislation would clarify that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act does not in any way impair the right of a parent to know the counseling that their student is getting.

00:47:44.000 And particularly in times like this, where more and more people that are in public education and in counseling are veering bizarrely left, I think that this type of clarification to federal law so it is not overused And weaponized against parents is absolutely necessary.

00:48:04.000 Thanks to everyone for joining us today.

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Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - November 14, 2023

Episode 132 LIVE: McCarthy Sucker Punches Burchett – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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