Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 14: Speaker Jordan? (feat. Rep. Jim Jordan) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

Learn English with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAetz). He is a freshman Congressman from Florida who has been a thorn in the side of the establishment in Washington, D.C. and a voice for the forgotten people of his district. In this episode, he talks about the ongoing Russia investigation, the deep state, and why he believes the Deep State is out to get him. He also talks about why he thinks the FBI should have been involved in the Hillary Clinton investigation and why they should be held accountable for what they found out about it. He also discusses why he doesn t think the FBI s involvement in the Russia investigation is good or bad, and what he would do if he was in charge of the investigation. He's a firebrand in Congress and has been in office for less than a year and a half, but he's already proving to be a force to be reckoned with in the fight against establishment Washington. Listen to the full episode and tweet me if you like it! with any thoughts, opinions or thoughts on the episode. Tweet Me! or to let me know what you thought or if you have any thoughts or opinions on any of the topics covered in the episode! . Tweet me ! and let us know what your thoughts, thoughts, or opinions you'd like to have us feature in the next episode of the podcast! on the podcast. or tweet us in your feed! Timestim :) Timestamps: 4:00 - What's your favorite part of the episode? 5: What did you think of it? 6:30 - How do you think the episode was better? 7:15 - What do you like the most? 8:00 9:20 - What are you looking forward to hear from President Trump's response? 11:40 - What is your thoughts on what you would do next? 13:00 | What s your biggest takeaway from the episode of The Office? 16:30 17: What s going to be the most important part of this episode? / 16: What would you want me to do in the podcast? 18:30 | What are your thoughts? 19:15 - What s a good day? 21:15 | What do I think you're going to do? 22:40 | What's the biggest thing you're most excited about?

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.000 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.

00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.

00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running the stories to keep hurting him.

00:00:20.000 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!

00:00:29.000 You are in the right place!

00:00:30.000 This is the movement for you!

00:00:32.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.000 It's like a machine.

00:00:36.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:00:37.000 I'm a cancelled man in some corners of the internet.

00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:00:45.000 They aren't really coming for me.

00:00:47.000 They're coming for you.

00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.

00:00:53.000 I don't care if they're Republican, Independent, Democrat, Martian, American.

00:00:56.000 I don't care.

00:00:56.000 What I care about is getting the information.

00:00:59.000 Mr. Speaker, everyone knows this is a joke.

00:01:02.000 It's all pretend.

00:01:04.000 That the Comey FBI and the Obama Justice Department worked with one campaign to go after the other campaign.

00:01:10.000 That's what everything points to.

00:01:12.000 Repeal Obamacare, reform welfare, build the border security wall and fix our immigration system and control spending.

00:01:18.000 We haven't done that.

00:01:19.000 What's it going to take?

00:01:20.000 What's it going to take for the State Department to put in place the practices that are going to save American lives?

00:01:26.000 I'm asking basic questions about the investigation like, who's heading it up?

00:01:30.000 And you can't tell me that.

00:01:32.000 Tell us if I'm wrong.

00:01:33.000 But I don't think I am.

00:01:35.000 I think that's exactly what happened.

00:01:37.000 And if it did, it is as wrong as it can be.

00:01:39.000 And people who did that need to be held accountable.

00:01:42.000 We're going to keep digging to get the answers.

00:01:44.000 This is unbelievable.

00:01:45.000 And I'm here to tell you, Mr. Rosenstein, I think the public trust in this whole thing is gone.

00:01:50.000 Somebody who was interviewed by the FBI told the FBI we tipped her off.

00:01:54.000 Have you done an investigation, Ambassador Kennedy, and who might have tipped off?

00:01:56.000 I mean, here's what this gets to.

00:01:59.000 Once again, Hillary Clinton gets treated different than anybody else. 1.00

00:02:03.000 She got tipped off.

00:02:04.000 Money in politics.

00:02:06.000 Here's how it works.

00:02:08.000 Politicians give money to Planned Parenthood.

00:02:11.000 Give it back to politicians at election time who get elected.

00:02:16.000 We'll give it back to Planned Parenthood.

00:02:18.000 We'll give it back to politicians who get elected and the game plays on.

00:02:21.000 If you had the government working with one campaign to dress up a fake news National Enquirer garbage report, to dress it up as intelligence, take it to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on the other campaign, that should not happen in this country.

00:02:37.000 It's the most important issue in front of the country the last six weeks.

00:02:40.000 You don't know who's heading up the case, who the lead investigator is.

00:02:43.000 At this juncture, no, I did not know who did.

00:02:44.000 You get that information to us, we'd like to know.

00:02:46.000 We'd like to know how many people you've assigned to look into this situation.

00:02:50.000 No wonder Americans hate this place.

00:02:52.000 No wonder they're cynical.

00:02:54.000 We make the job of being a member of Congress way too complicated.

00:02:58.000 Let's do what the...

00:02:59.000 Let's do what we said.

00:03:01.000 We make this so hard.

00:03:02.000 Let's just do what we said we would do.

00:03:05.000 That'll be good politics.

00:03:06.000 And more importantly, that'll be good policy for the hardworking families of this great country.

00:03:11.000 Do what you said you would do.

00:03:16.000 That's the directive from the OG firebrand, Congress's most talented member, Congress's hardest working member, someone I look up to, someone who has really inspired a generation of fighters in the Congress.

00:03:29.000 My good friend, Jim Jordan, also the title of the upcoming book from my friend.

00:03:35.000 And I think it informs on a lot of important issues facing the Congress, facing the country.

00:03:40.000 And Jim, you know, the title really, I think, begs the question, what is it that we have to say we are going to do to the country to earn the trust of our constituents and to strengthen the institution of Congress?

00:03:55.000 First of all, I'm not the most talented you are, and you are a friend, and I appreciate your leadership and your willingness to fight for what you told the constituents in Florida that you would fight for when they elected you.

00:04:06.000 I always say we make this job way too complicated.

00:04:08.000 What did you tell them you were going to do when you put your name on the ballot and you went out and talked to the folks in your district and they gave you the privilege to go serve in the United States Congress, which is a privilege only about 12,000 people have ever had in the history of our great country.

00:04:19.000 What did you tell them you were going to do?

00:04:20.000 Do that.

00:04:21.000 Even if your own party's against you, no matter who's against you, go do what you said.

00:04:24.000 You have done that, and that's why you're a friend and someone I so respect.

00:04:28.000 What we told them we were going to do is the things they care about.

00:04:31.000 Make sure we defend the sanctity of human life.

00:04:34.000 Make sure we don't spend this country into the debt that we now see.

00:04:37.000 Make sure we stand up for the Constitution and stop this assault that we've seen over the last year on their First Amendment liberties.

00:04:44.000 This is the part that bothers me the most as two guys who sit on the Judiciary Committee, the committee that's supposed to protect the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and your liberties under the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Second Amendment.

00:04:54.000 That's what we've got to make sure we do.

00:04:57.000 If we get the majority, that's what we've got to focus on.

00:05:00.000 Jim, all over America right now in Republican primaries, people are working to define themselves as Jim Jordan Republicans in a lot of ways because you and Mark Meadows and many of our other colleagues started the Freedom Caucus to be a rudder for the body, to provide a sense of direction in the A town that can often be so corrupt and tumultuous.

00:05:25.000 Walk us through kind of the scenes of the book where you start the Freedom Caucus, where you decide that this has to be an organization to inspire people and to draw people in.

00:05:35.000 And it's an organization that's inspiring campaigns throughout America today.

00:05:40.000 In the introduction, I talk about the day Mark Meadows filed the motion to vacate the chair, something that hasn't been done over 90 years in this country, where it's the equivalent of filing a vote of no confidence in a parliamentary form of government.

00:05:52.000 And I will always remember this, and they can read this in the introduction, but it's A moment that has stuck with me.

00:05:58.000 Mark is in the well of the chamber.

00:06:01.000 We're sitting in the back where Freedom Caucus people typically sit.

00:06:04.000 And as Mark is getting ready to sign the document down there at the dais, he turns and looks back.

00:06:11.000 And he's actually just thinking.

00:06:12.000 He wasn't trying to look at anyone.

00:06:13.000 He's just thinking.

00:06:14.000 It was because it was a major moment.

00:06:15.000 It was a huge moment, frankly, in American history, I think.

00:06:19.000 And he turns back.

00:06:20.000 He's looking up.

00:06:21.000 And then his gaze sort of came down.

00:06:23.000 And he...

00:06:24.000 We lock eyes.

00:06:25.000 And that's when I thought, he's doing it.

00:06:27.000 We've been talking about it.

00:06:28.000 We didn't know he was gonna do it that day.

00:06:29.000 And I thought, he's doing it.

00:06:31.000 And there was this smile on his face.

00:06:32.000 And it wasn't a smile that said, we're gonna get John Boehner.

00:06:37.000 It was just a smile that said, here we go.

00:06:39.000 We're gonna do something that hasn't been done in almost a century.

00:06:43.000 And with signing that document, filing that motion, within a few months, something that has never happened in American history, the Speaker of the House steps down midterm with no health concern and no scandal.

00:06:56.000 He stepped down because he didn't have the votes to stay in power.

00:06:59.000 Because he wasn't doing what the people elected us to do.

00:07:02.000 And we start with that and we talk about that a lot through the book.

00:07:05.000 We talk a lot about Matt Gaetz, particularly one of my favorite things in my time in Congress was when you and Steve Scalise and a bunch of our colleagues stormed the bunker in the basement.

00:07:16.000 And frankly, and I know your viewers know this, but that would not have happened but for your leadership.

00:07:22.000 And you joined those of us in there who were doing the depositions.

00:07:25.000 And I remember Adam Schiff.

00:07:27.000 He got all fired up, stormed out, if you remember.

00:07:29.000 And he wanted to talk to me, so I had to go down to his office.

00:07:32.000 And he basically told me, you've got to kick him out.

00:07:34.000 And I'm like, I'm not kicking them out.

00:07:35.000 You're the chairman.

00:07:36.000 And oh, by the way, I'm kind of glad they're here.

00:07:37.000 And they want to be here because they're standing up.

00:07:39.000 Oh, I remember what you said to me, which is now that you're here, you better not leave.

00:07:43.000 That was your direction to me at the time.

00:07:45.000 But that was a turning moment and a moment.

00:07:47.000 We jailbroke the truth.

00:07:48.000 Yes, yes.

00:07:49.000 Where with your leadership, our conference came together.

00:07:52.000 And remember at the time, The conventional wisdom was that the Democrats were all going to vote to impeach President Trump, the best president we've had.

00:08:01.000 They were all going to vote to impeach him just 13 months before an election and they thought a bunch of Republicans were going to jump on their side.

00:08:07.000 And what happened because of what you did and so many people come together and the good staff we had and all the fighting we did, what happened is no, every Republican voted not to impeach President Trump and Democrats came our way and one of them even switched parties.

00:08:21.000 I don't know that all that happens.

00:08:22.000 I really don't believe it does if you don't take the action you did.

00:08:26.000 And the country is better off because of what you did and a number of other of our colleges stood strong.

00:08:32.000 Well, those were times when a lot of people in our party believed that we ought to just fold our hands and hope that Donald Trump hadn't done anything illegal or criminal.

00:08:41.000 And they were unwilling to challenge the basis for these investigations, whether it was the Ukraine sequel or the Russia hoax at the outset.

00:08:50.000 And, you know, you talk about your role in history, dislodging John Boehner and really setting the right on a new course and a better course.

00:08:58.000 But it hasn't been a course without some rough seas.

00:09:02.000 The Paul Ryan speakership.

00:09:03.000 I mean, we went from Boehner to Paul Ryan.

00:09:06.000 The title of your book is Do What You Said You Would Do.

00:09:10.000 And what we said to our voters in election after election was that if they trusted us, we would repeal Obamacare.

00:09:17.000 And then Paul Ryan took like $14 million from HMOs in the weeks leading up to dropping legislation that they told us repealed Obamacare, but they didn't repeal Obamacare.

00:09:30.000 And so talk about being in that position and the pressure that the Freedom Caucus was under to inform the entire movement and the entire body that to do what we said we had to do, we couldn't turn the product over to the lobby corps.

00:09:44.000 Yeah, no, great point.

00:09:46.000 It was a tough time.

00:09:48.000 And the legislative strategy we embarked on was maybe the dumbest in history, because if you remember, Paul Ryan talked about three buckets, like we were going to do something now, something later, then have the Dr. Price, who was head of HHS, Health and Human Services, do something on his own, which sort of begged the question, well, if he can do it on his own, why doesn't he do it now?

00:10:07.000 Why does he have to wait until we pass? 0.93

00:10:08.000 It was just a crazy legislative strategy.

00:10:11.000 We should have just passed what we had passed before.

00:10:14.000 The Congress before President Trump got here and had it on his desk?

00:10:18.000 Because President Trump would have signed that on January 20, 2017. So your concept is put the same bill on Trump's desk that we had put on Obama's desk.

00:10:25.000 But is there a greater example during your time in Congress of people not doing what they said they would do than the Republicans who were willing to vote for an Obamacare repeal when they knew Obama would veto it, but then who weren't willing to vote for the same bill in the whip checks when it was President That's a great point, and you're exactly right.

00:10:44.000 But guess what?

00:10:45.000 Guess who was willing to do what he said he would do when he got here?

00:10:48.000 President Trump.

00:10:49.000 You remember when we first got here, we'd go to the White House, and in the West Wing, they'd have on the board that big whiteboard, and they wrote down every single promise they made to the American people.

00:10:58.000 And then when they did it, they checked it off.

00:11:00.000 That's the kind of leadership we had under President Trump.

00:11:03.000 And we go back to when they started the lies about President Trump.

00:11:08.000 Here's the other thing I remember.

00:11:09.000 There were only four or five of us.

00:11:11.000 There were only four or five of us who said, wait a minute, something doesn't smell right here.

00:11:15.000 One of them's the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.

00:11:17.000 Exactly right.

00:11:18.000 And the leadership of Devin, you, Mark Meadows, and Ron DeSantis, that's all there was.

00:11:25.000 And there were a few people in the press, Molly Hemingway and some of the other great people who wrote some things.

00:11:29.000 And we started reading this.

00:11:30.000 We said, something doesn't make sense here.

00:11:32.000 We were close enough to the Trump campaign to know that it was impossible for that group to collude with Russia because we were a traveling carnival.

00:11:40.000 We were just so happy to be on to the next city to bring positivity and an America first spirit.

00:11:46.000 Never violence, never destruction, always love of country, reverence for our military and our law enforcement colluding with Russia.

00:11:53.000 We could barely collude with the next venue location.

00:11:55.000 You know, and so we knew that it was such a joke at the outset.

00:11:59.000 And it was an effort to destabilize the presidency because they couldn't deal with the results.

00:12:04.000 So, you know, in this next kind of period for Congress, you know, what is that thing that you think particularly the Judiciary Committee can have a role in delivering on it?

00:12:14.000 No secret, you're the Republican lead on the Judiciary Committee.

00:12:17.000 If we take the majority, you will likely be the first chair of that committee to not be a member of the bar in the history of the committee.

00:12:26.000 So walk us through the Jim Jordan vision.

00:12:29.000 For kind of the opening weeks.

00:12:30.000 No, that committee has a, I always say, a storied history.

00:12:35.000 You think about Henry Hyde.

00:12:37.000 You think about some of the people who've led that committee.

00:12:40.000 A storied history of defending the Bill of Rights, the American people's fundamental liberties and freedoms.

00:12:47.000 And right now what we have is a committee that's doing just the opposite.

00:12:51.000 So what we're going to have to do is, one, we're going to have to do the investigations that need done.

00:12:56.000 I mean, this idea that the IRS released thousands of people's tax returns, now that'll probably be, you know, led over in the ways it means we have an investigation.

00:13:05.000 We definitely need that.

00:13:06.000 We need to look into the IRS situation.

00:13:09.000 We need to look into what's happening with this Justice Department going after parents, this issue that we're focused on right now, and school board meetings, what they're doing, the political nature of our Justice Department right now.

00:13:19.000 We need to look into all that.

00:13:20.000 We need to go after big tech, censorship.

00:13:23.000 I mean, this thing...

00:13:25.000 What's happening to speech?

00:13:26.000 I always say, the five liberties we have under the First Amendment, your right to practice your faith, the right to assemble, right to petition your government, freedom of press, freedom of speech.

00:13:33.000 Speech is the most important.

00:13:35.000 Because if you can't speak, If you can't speak, you can't really fully practice your faith.

00:13:40.000 So speech is the most important.

00:13:41.000 What big tech in collusion with big government is doing in this cancel culture world we live in is so wrong.

00:13:48.000 Barry Weiss called it the digital thunderdome.

00:13:50.000 You take on the woke mob, they will put you in the thunderdome.

00:13:54.000 Ask Drew Brees, who said we should stand for the national anthem.

00:14:00.000 Now, Drew Brees is as apple pie as you can get.

00:14:03.000 He is a great American, wonderful Christian family guy, and he had to back down from the mob.

00:14:09.000 This is frightening, but I said this last week.

00:14:12.000 I actually think Americans are going to push back in a big way, and I think the main reason is what happened with Merrick Garland.

00:14:19.000 He goes after moms and dads.

00:14:21.000 Like, wait a minute.

00:14:22.000 This is the last straw.

00:14:24.000 So that's what the Judiciary Committee has to focus on.

00:14:27.000 Those fundamental rights we have under the First Amendment, making sure we defend them.

00:14:31.000 You write in the book, do what you said you would do, which, by the way, I'm going to get for my parents for Christmas.

00:14:40.000 That is going to be something they will truly enjoy.

00:14:43.000 You write that we need to break up big tech.

00:14:45.000 How would you do it?

00:14:46.000 Yeah, I think you've got to get the case.

00:14:47.000 One of the things we're talking about is speeding up the process so you get it to the Supreme Court.

00:14:51.000 Justice Thomas seems to want to deal with this.

00:14:53.000 He's indicated, I think, that a lot.

00:14:54.000 So you get rid of the liability protection in Section 230, and you create an expedited path to get that to the Supreme Court so it can happen.

00:15:03.000 And it does take 100 years for this to break them up because we ain't got that amount of time.

00:15:07.000 What you describe is not dissimilar to the way that we went after tobacco companies at the state level in a lot of ways.

00:15:14.000 Strip these entities of their defenses and declare open season on them and stick the trial lawyers on them.

00:15:19.000 But then the remedy does not emanate from the legislative branch of government.

00:15:24.000 It emanates out of the judicial branch in your vision.

00:15:26.000 It does, because I'm nervous.

00:15:28.000 And I know we've debated this.

00:15:30.000 I'm nervous about giving more power to the bureaucracy, particularly the bureaucracy controlled by the Biden administration.

00:15:37.000 And I guess exhibit number one would be, look at the Justice Department controlled by the Biden administration, what we've seen there.

00:15:43.000 So that makes me nervous, because I actually think...

00:15:46.000 Big tech and big government collude to further stick it to conservatives.

00:15:50.000 So let's make sure we get after big tech, but let's do it in a way that doesn't combine the all-powerful big government with the all-powerful big tech.

00:15:59.000 Both those entities want to censor Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan.

00:16:03.000 I still remember the...

00:16:04.000 I still remember the day that you called me up because you're much better at all this tech stuff than me and how to handle it and the tweet and the post and everything.

00:16:12.000 You called me up just a few summers ago and you said, Jim, Twitter is shadow banning us.

00:16:18.000 And I think you related that I said something like, well, that sounds terrible, Matt, but what's shadow banning?

00:16:24.000 And then you explained it to me, and we figured out, and you were 100% right.

00:16:28.000 They were doing that, and it was interesting.

00:16:30.000 It was Gates, Meadows, Nunes, Jordan.

00:16:34.000 Interesting four.

00:16:35.000 And Jack Dorsey, actually, remember he put out the statement and said, oh, no, no, it wasn't intentional.

00:16:40.000 It was just a glitch in their algorithm.

00:16:42.000 And I'm like, glitch in their algorithm?

00:16:44.000 What did they put in the algorithm?

00:16:45.000 The names Gates, Meadows, Nunes, Jordan.

00:16:48.000 So this is why we've got to get a remedy to this.

00:16:51.000 I think that a judiciary committee that is laser focused on vindicating the liberty interests of our fellow Americans, where we have seen them so abridged by tyrants at every level of government, would really rally people and expand our movement to the very types of people we see rising up and becoming hyperpolitical in places like Loudoun County, Virginia.

00:17:13.000 Yeah.

00:17:13.000 And so, you know, I do think that that's a way to expand the movement.

00:17:16.000 I would go further with legislative power.

00:17:19.000 I think that, you know, we can go beyond using legislative power to strip immunities.

00:17:24.000 We could use it to literally reshape these companies.

00:17:26.000 But I think the ultimate result is one that would democratize access to the digital world for people, regardless of their politics.

00:17:35.000 I mean, access to the digital world is central to the American experience.

00:17:39.000 And the terms of service on Twitter can't be more important than the rights that undergird the Constitution of our country, for sure.

00:17:48.000 So some of our colleagues, Jim, have impeachment fever.

00:17:52.000 And I want to talk to you about this because you and I have spent a great deal of our time in Congress and we've deployed a great deal of our credibility to defend the presidency and the institution of the presidency against frivolous and politically motivated impeachments.

00:18:11.000 And while I do think Joe Biden is worthy of impeachment, and particularly where they seem to be failing on purpose on the border, I worry about impeachment by reflex.

00:18:21.000 And I worry that if everything is a basis for impeachment, not just purposeful wrongdoing, Then any time you have a president and a Congress that are in different parties, part of the ceremonial exchange of power will be an impeachment.

00:18:37.000 I don't want the country to look that way.

00:18:40.000 Do you also worry about impeachment by reflex?

00:18:42.000 I do, and I have not called for that.

00:18:45.000 There may be a time when it needs to happen.

00:18:47.000 I think that's where you are.

00:18:48.000 I've actually called for Joe Biden to resign.

00:18:50.000 I mean, you watch that.

00:18:52.000 I go back to that press event after the The debacle that was the Afghanistan exit.

00:18:56.000 And I said, this guy's just not capable of doing the job.

00:19:00.000 But yeah, we do have to be careful of that because you don't want it just to flip back and forth.

00:19:04.000 And that is a...

00:19:06.000 And to be frivolous.

00:19:06.000 Yeah.

00:19:07.000 And certainly what the Democrats have made it and what they did to President Trump.

00:19:10.000 I mean, they tried to kick him out of office before he got there.

00:19:12.000 That's when they started the Trump-Russia investigation.

00:19:14.000 They tried to kick him out while he was there.

00:19:15.000 And then once he'd left, they tried to kick him out even though he'd already left.

00:19:19.000 And he had the greatest presidency, I think, certainly in our lifetimes, but maybe in the history of this great country.

00:19:25.000 And yet the Democrats were so obsessed because this guy came here and turned this town around, took on the bureaucracy, took on all the Democrats, took on all the mainstream press, and he had to take on some of the Republicans too.

00:19:37.000 Which was amazing.

00:19:38.000 And yet, in spite of all that, did all he did.

00:19:41.000 But it was so invigorating.

00:19:41.000 It sure was.

00:19:42.000 It sure was.

00:19:42.000 Because when we had good ideas, we could get them right to the forefront of power in our government when everything in Washington is driven to try to constrain innovation and creative thinking and actually valuing the people who sent us who, you know, we owe, I think, a tribute of fidelity.

00:19:59.000 And Trump just gave us that platform.

00:20:02.000 He sure did.

00:20:02.000 It's certainly, you know, a time that I know will enjoy.

00:20:05.000 Is one reason people need to read Do what you said you would do because you're going to be Speaker of the House one day, Jim?

00:20:11.000 No, I'm not.

00:20:12.000 I want to be Chair of the Judiciary Committee.

00:20:14.000 I want Matt Gaetz Chair in one of the subcommittees, whichever one he wants.

00:20:18.000 I want to fight for the things I think the American people sent us here to fight for.

00:20:23.000 And first and foremost is their rights.

00:20:26.000 I mean, what's happened to Americans?

00:20:28.000 But you used to want to be Speaker.

00:20:28.000 I mean, I remember in Florida with you and Ron DeSantis going from small town to small town in my district.

00:20:34.000 That was a fun trip.

00:20:38.000 I was very proud to be the first member of Congress to endorse Jim Jordan.

00:20:44.000 Thank you for sending Matt Gaetz to Congress.

00:20:47.000 He's truly a great American who is fighting for the things that matter in our country, that made our country great in the first place.

00:20:53.000 Jim, you'll learn about my district.

00:20:54.000 These are fighting folks.

00:20:55.000 These are warriors.

00:20:56.000 These are people who've served in our military, who've been members of military families, and they did not send me to Washington to play defense.

00:21:02.000 I believe I represent the best district.

00:21:05.000 You didn't have a speaker campaign with a great deal of corporate infrastructure, but people showed up with homemade signs.

00:21:13.000 And I'm going to put them on the screen.

00:21:14.000 They brought their homemade signs that said Speaker Jordan.

00:21:17.000 And I've never seen people react to a leadership race in our country the way they did that.

00:21:23.000 What was the day you realized you didn't want to be speaker?

00:21:26.000 I never really did want to be speaker.

00:21:28.000 You just sort of had to run at that time.

00:21:31.000 But I still remember that was such a fun trip.

00:21:33.000 You had to run it that time.

00:21:34.000 Yeah, I don't want to run it.

00:21:36.000 I didn't want to do it.

00:21:38.000 But anyway, we started on the western end of your district, traveled east.

00:21:42.000 I think we made three stops in one day, had the Harley guys, the big Trump bikers team leading the charge.

00:21:49.000 We had you emceeing every stop.

00:21:52.000 And, of course, Ron running for government.

00:21:54.000 It was one of the most fun campaign kind of things I've ever done.

00:21:58.000 And then we got to hang out in your fine town.

00:22:00.000 And now we get to be a part of the Ron DeSantis fan club as he takes these values that we fight for, you know, often tilting against windmills in Washington.

00:22:09.000 And he goes and puts them to work for people.

00:22:12.000 A lot of the liberty agenda that a chairman, Jim Jordan, would pursue in the Judiciary Committee, we are seeing play out in the great state of Florida every day.

00:22:20.000 I liked when he said, my job is not to protect business.

00:22:24.000 My job is to protect the citizens of my state, their liberty.

00:22:29.000 And I thought, that's Jefferson.

00:22:32.000 That's Adams.

00:22:33.000 That's Madison. 0.86

00:22:34.000 That is what it's supposed to be when he said that.

00:22:38.000 Kind of sounds like what we said we would do, right?

00:22:40.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:22:40.000 Exactly.

00:22:41.000 And that's why the country loves him so much, too.

00:22:44.000 And we do as well.

00:22:45.000 Do what you said you would do.

00:22:47.000 It's the upcoming book by Congressman Jim Jordan.

00:22:49.000 And if you read it, you'll be able to see the future because you will be able to see the agenda that we are going to fight for in the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of our fellow Americans.

00:22:58.000 Thanks for joining me on Firebrand.

00:23:00.000 Thanks for being the OG Firebrand.

00:23:02.000 Thanks for inspiring a generation to try to serve in Congress in a way that is worthy of, I think, the great platform you and Mark Meadows have created.

00:23:11.000 I forgot to say one thing.

00:23:12.000 My two boys love Matt Gaetz's speeches.

00:23:14.000 They love all the stuff you do.

00:23:16.000 So thank you again for having me.

00:23:18.000 All right, man.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - November 04, 2021

Episode 14: Speaker Jordan? (feat. Rep. Jim Jordan) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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