Joe Biden says he s going to close the border with Mexico. Rep. Matt Gaetz says that s not what he would do if he was running for president in 2016. And a new poll shows that 57% of Americans back Mr. Trump s policies on the border say Mr. Biden s border policies were not as effective as they were when he was in office in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Joe Biden s immigration policies have been a disaster for the border and calls for the government to do more to protect and secure the border. And Rep. Joe Crowley says that the Democratic Party should focus on providing health care to illegal immigrants, not on deporting illegal immigrants who are here without documents. And Sen. Cory Booker says that President Trump s border patrol has been more effective than the Border Patrol in securing the border since President Obama s administration in the mid-2000s, when a record 8.6 million migrants crossed into the U.S. each year. In contrast, under President Obama, there were 2.46 million border patrol encounters in the Southwest in fiscal year 2021 (comparing that to the 4.34 million encountered by Border Patrol agents in the previous five years of the Obama administration, from fiscal year 2017 through fiscal year 2018). And it is higher than the 4 years of President Trump's average of 1.7 million encounters in FY 2017 through FY 2018 (1.7 years of FY 2018 through FY 2019). What's the difference between President Obama and President Trump? and President Biden's border patrol agents in FY 2019? What does that say about the border patrol numbers under President Trump compared to President Obama's administration? and what does it say about border patrol under President Biden s record-keeping under President Joe Biden's tenure? in terms of border patrol and border patrol? How do they compare to President Trump and Mr. Obama's record-breaking border patrol figures? And how does that compare to the President's record under President Donald Trump's tenure in office? We'll find out in this episode of Firebrand. Firebrand by Rep. Gates and Rep. Gaetz, the biggest firebrand in the House of Representatives? by Firebranding the firebrand . by the Firebrand . on Firebrand, by The Gates Network, the podcast by . . . by The Firebrand Podcast
00:02:57.000We also hope you're tuning into the Gates Network, which we have available on Rumble and on YouTube and on X with a 24-7 live stream of the biggest moments in the United States Congress.
00:03:09.000Some of our podcast episodes, speeches, debates, the Gates Network.
00:03:14.000If you're on Rumble, you want to have your subscription to the Rep.
00:03:18.000Matt Gates channel with notifications turned on.
00:03:20.000And of course, Give us a follow and set your notifications for at RepMattGates on X where we've got a lot of viewers for that platform.
00:04:17.000The Joe Biden I remember who blew The total doors off the border was the guy in the Democratic presidential primary debates when he was running for this position in 2016. This was the defining moment for Joe Biden's border policies.
00:06:08.000How do their records on the border compare?
00:06:11.000Well, under President Biden each year, there have been more and more border crossings.
00:06:16.000According to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, there are around 2.46 million encounters by Border Patrol agents in the Southwest in fiscal year 2023. In 2022, there were 2.34 million encounters.
00:10:16.000The federal government has apparently been moving illegal immigrants all around the country in the dark.
00:10:31.000The bottom line is that U.S. borders are not open.
00:10:40.000The Border is Secure era actually came with some startling admissions.
00:10:43.000I had the opportunity to question Alejandro Mayorkas in this time, and what I wanted him to focus on is the fact that as people were coming into our country committing crimes, the people who were the victims of those crimes were the collateral damage of these bad policy choices.
00:11:11.000This is actually what your own agency is reporting.
00:11:14.000So, do you think that it just might be the case that one reason that we will encounter the highest number of illegal immigrations in our nation's history, This month and next month because everybody knows that even if they come here, even if they go through the removal procedures, even if a judge issues a final order, you still think there might be more due process and you have no plan to remove them.
00:11:37.000And then when I ask you what the plan is, you say, oh, well, resources, I got to make finite decisions.
00:11:43.000How many ICE agents to remove the 1.2 million?
00:11:46.000Congressman, I'd be pleased to provide you with a resourcing And I think it's telling that you got plans for pronouns and you got plans for misinformation, but when it comes to the plan to remove the people that have had due process, you don't have one at all.
00:12:05.000Now, 800,000 people have encountered your CBP agents and those folks have been released into the country.
00:12:11.000Like, some of those people are going to commit crimes, aren't they?
00:12:24.000And so the Americans who are the victims of the crimes for the people that you release in the country are collateral damage that you are willing to accept in order to have our border function as a turnstile.
00:12:36.000You're willing to accept that collateral damage.
00:12:39.000Congressman, I couldn't disagree with you more.
00:12:46.000How did it feel to you when you went to the border and the Border Patrol agents turned their back on you?
00:12:52.000One Border Patrol agent turned his back on me and I addressed that as the leader of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:13:01.000So if I can return to data because I want to Make sure that you have accurate information.
00:13:06.000Everyone knows that you have more people coming in than ever, and you're removing fewer people than ever, and it's because you have no plan and because it's on purpose.
00:13:14.000See, I don't buy the theory that you don't know how to do this.
00:13:17.000I think you're actually a highly competent dude.
00:13:19.000But the reality is, your plan is to bring these people in and to send the message to the smugglers and the criminals that they will never have to leave.
00:13:28.000That's why your workforce turns their back on you.
00:13:30.000And you have tools that you could use to deport these people.
00:13:35.000You have flights going all over the country dropping people off.
00:13:38.000And I think we ought to use the best tools in the country to find these folks, round them up like they were at the Capitol on January 6th, and deport every last one of them.
00:13:49.000Treason is the word we're seeing on the live stream and a lot of frustration over the limited removals of people who have gone through the entire process and he wouldn't do it.
00:14:02.000What do we do about the fact that you got Mayorkas who's gone lawless.
00:14:05.000You've got the border that's been flung open.
00:14:08.000House conservatives repeatedly call for fixes on the border, demands on the border, closure of the border, before we fund every other woke and weaponized element of this government.
00:14:19.000This is the essence of the House conservative argument.
00:14:40.000They're getting their butts kicked up and down by their constituents from New York to Texas, all the way out to, you know, throughout the entire country.
00:14:48.000They're seeing the reality of what's happening on the ground, and Republicans will be a total and complete failure.
00:14:55.000A failure if we do not hold the line and demand that President Biden come to the table, sit down with us, and pass legislation that will no longer fund a Department of Homeland Security at war with the American people.
00:15:29.000Speaker Mike Johnson today led a delegation of some 60 GOP House members to Eagle Pass, Texas, where the crisis again is at a breaking point.
00:15:39.000And there are five Republican House members who are kind of branching off and doing their own thing here in Eagle Pass today, away from the Speaker's event.
00:15:46.000They include Matt Goetz, Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Eli Crane, and Matt Rosendale.
00:15:51.000They spoke to me about an hour ago telling me they are willing to shut this government down if this border isn't fixed.
00:16:11.000There's a national security issue that is taking place here on the southern border, and that's what it's going to take to hold this administration accountable.
00:16:24.000That was Matt Rosendale, Andy Biggs, and Chip Roy making what was a pretty solid argument.
00:16:28.000I joined them in that perspective and indeed in that trip.
00:16:33.000Instead of getting demands on the border, instead of stopping the flow, instead of making Joe Biden reverse course on the demolition of the Trump policies that were working, we got this.
00:16:58.000Yeah, Jim, Angie, the winter weather expected in D.C. tomorrow likely added to the pressure to hold a vote today ahead of Friday's deadline.
00:17:06.000Congress took the crucial step earlier this evening, voting to pass a short-term spending bill to President Biden.
00:17:12.000If signed by the president, the measure will keep agencies open again.
00:17:16.000This is just temporary until March 1st, which is now the new shutdown deadline.
00:17:20.000About half of House Republicans join Democrats today in passing this stopgap measure, but some on the far right are still skeptical of using the temporary measure again for the third time.
00:17:30.000In just moments, I have to go to the House floor and I have to vote against this turd sandwich of a continuing resolution.
00:17:38.000This thing's apparently going to March 1, March 8. No demand on border.
00:17:46.000It's not what the House of Representatives should be doing.
00:17:51.000So he surrendered the leverage and the advantage that we had at that time by unlocking all of Joe Biden's spending ambitions in the absence of that downward pressure on the border.
00:18:06.000We talked about the Lankford bill a ton.
00:18:08.000That was the bill that said, well, we're going to do the executive actions to shut down the border, but only after 5,000 people come in each day.
00:18:23.000A bipartisan bill would be good for America to help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here.
00:18:33.000President Biden on Saturday making a lofty promise to lawmakers if they can get a deal done on immigration.
00:18:39.000If that bill were the law today, I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.
00:18:43.000The White House has been working with a bipartisan group of senators for weeks to reach an agreement on the first major overhaul of the country's immigration system since the 1990s.
00:18:53.000Among the changes, it would reportedly give the White House the authority to deny asylum seekers when migrant crossings surpass a certain number.
00:19:02.000When we can no longer detain and deport, when we can't process the people and actually make a decision right there at the border, then we'll actually turn those folks back around to Mexico and say, we can no longer do this.
00:19:13.000While I have people from around the country and back home that say, do a Republican-only bill, just get all of our priorities and none of them, none of theirs, I smile at them and say, welcome to governance.
00:19:27.000We understood from the beginning we're not going to solve everything.
00:19:32.000We knew from the beginning it's not going to be perfect, but we also knew the status quo is untenable.
00:19:38.000The National Border Patrol Council gave this statement, the Border Patrol Act of 2024 will give the United States Border Patrol agents authorities codified in law that we have not had in the past.
00:19:50.000While not perfect, and I'll agree with him on that, the Border Patrol Act of 2024 is a step in the right direction and it is far better than the current status quo.
00:20:03.000Governance, Senator Langford lectures us.
00:20:07.000As House conservatives, we knew what that governance could look like.
00:20:12.000It didn't have to look like some compromise with Chuck Schumer.
00:20:15.000We just had to put pressure on Biden to not do the things he did by executive order when he first came in that he promised on his campaign.
00:20:21.000And no one made the argument better than Mike Johnson.
00:20:30.000And it's important to point out, and I want to make this very clear, the President's statement on Friday, he falsely claimed, it was a false claim, that he needs Congress to pass a new law to allow him to close the southern border.
00:21:12.000I read the president of the United States, the law, the black letter law, on the phone about two and a half weeks ago.
00:21:17.000I said, Mr. President, It says very clearly, you have all the tools and the executive authority necessary to reverse the catastrophe that you have created.
00:21:27.000He has those tools right now and he has since day one.
00:21:30.000The Immigration and Nationality Act, for example, coupled with recent Supreme Court president, give the president, quote, ample authority to suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens or impose any restrictions he may deem appropriate.
00:21:48.000That's the broadest authority that Congress probably has ever given a president.
00:21:52.000And it's been there for a long, long time.
00:21:54.000In fact, the very provision that I just read you was used by the Obama administration more than 19 times.
00:22:01.000It's been used, I think, 69 times by presidents since 1980, but not by President Biden.
00:23:50.000Yeah, unfortunately he would step out and be able to see that right away before obviously he had had a chance to be able to read it as well and to be able to go through it.
00:23:56.000The key aspect of this again is, are we as Republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border's bad and then intentionally leave it open?
00:24:04.000After the worst month in American history in December, now we've got to actually determine are we going to just complain about things or are we going to actually address and to change as many things as we can?
00:24:16.000No one is saying we shouldn't change everything we could change.
00:24:19.000The issue is who ought to do the changing and what is the appropriate remedy given the harm that was done.
00:24:25.000And as we've showcased in this episode, the original sin of the Biden administration was repealing the Trump policies with their executive order.
00:24:37.000I'm going to give free stuff era, after the border is open era, after it has to be a bill era, after there can't be executive action.
00:24:47.000Lo and behold, we get Joe Biden doing the thing he said could not be done, taking executive action on the border and still, without a hint of shame or irony, blaming Republicans.
00:25:03.000So today, I'm moving past Republican obstruction and using the executive authorities available to me as president to do what I can on my own to address the border.
00:25:13.000Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation because that's the only way to actually get the kind of system we have now that's broken, fixed, to hire more Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, more judges.
00:25:28.000But Republicans have left me with no choice.
00:25:31.000Today, I'm announcing actions to bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum.
00:25:39.000Migrants will be restricted from receiving asylum at our southern border unless they seek it after entering through an established lawful process.
00:25:48.000And those who seek to come to the United States legally, for example, by making an appointment and coming to a port of entry, asylum will still be available to them.
00:25:58.000But if an individual chooses not to use our legal pathways, if they choose to come without permission and against the law, they'll be restricted from receiving asylum and staying in the United States.
00:26:09.000This action will help us gain control of our border, restore order to the process.
00:26:15.000This ban will remain in place until the number of people trying to enter illegally is reduced to a level that our system can effectively manage.
00:26:26.000Man, I did not plan for this to be a feature of this episode.
00:26:30.000But if you just watch the clips of Biden in the debates, and then you watch these current clips, the guy looks like he's aged 100 years.
00:26:36.000It doesn't even look like the same guy.
00:26:39.000And of course, even though he's taking this action, here's why it won't work.
00:26:43.000They're still giving health care to illegals.
00:26:46.000They're still setting up sanctuary cities where in jurisdictions like New York...
00:26:51.000A huge percentage of the overall hotel rooms are for the illegal aliens.
00:26:55.000You're paying higher prices when you go visit the Big Apple because there's less inventory for Americans because you're paying out of your pocket for illegals to get those benefits.
00:27:06.000Linnie Bell in Washington State, Spokane County.
00:27:10.000She's mad that Her only ballot option is a mail-in ballot.
00:27:28.000We got to go over the vestiges of these Biden choices that are going to impair this executive action.
00:27:34.000The first, of course, is the free health care that was promised in the debates.
00:27:37.000Let's get an update on where that stands.
00:27:41.000This morning, President Joe Biden is extending Affordable Care Act coverage to include recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. In a new federal regulation, the administration is modifying the definition of lawfully present so DACA residents can get access to certain health care coverage.
00:28:01.000DACA allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work legally in the country.
00:28:08.000Health and Human Services estimate that 100,000 uninsured DACA recipients will likely take advantage of this new rule.
00:28:18.000When people in the third world see that illegal aliens are getting free benefits and free health care, they will come here.
00:28:26.000And I don't even particularly blame them.
00:28:50.000These migrants, whose journey brought them to the United States, now making their way through the American justice system in handcuffs.
00:28:57.000So in recent months, a wave of migrant crime has washed over our city.
00:29:02.000In this alleged crime spree, the NYPD says 13 men and a woman were behind a lucrative robbery ring that was being driven by moped thefts, then used for violent muggings across the city in recent months, just like this woman who was dragged in Brooklyn.
00:29:18.000Since the arrival back in April of 2023 of migrants, this type of crime, this pattern, we're seeing a significant increase in.
00:29:26.000The NYPD has also seen increases in retail and subway thefts, pickpockets, and even human trafficking.
00:29:32.000So cops are increasing foot patrols around migrant shelters and going after the ringleaders and seizing scooters, some 20,000.
00:29:40.000This was a scene last Thursday at around 11 a.m.
00:29:44.000According to the NYPD, they responded to a 911 call about a man causing a disturbance at the migrant shelter on Randalls Island.
00:29:51.000Police say they saw the migrants getting in a verbal dispute with security, so they removed him from the shelter.
00:29:57.000But not before the other migrants in the shelter started throwing things at the officers.
00:30:02.000Mayor Eric Adams says around 3,000 people live at that shelter.
00:30:06.000It's also not the first time police have had to respond to a situation there.
00:30:10.000Adams on Tuesday also responded to questions about the incident that occurred at Times Square.
00:30:15.000According to police, they asked a group of migrants acting disorderly to disperse.
00:30:19.000And when one man refused, they attempted to place him under arrest, which is when a group of around a dozen migrants ganged up on the officers, kicking them repeatedly.
00:30:29.000Under no circumstance should we ever give the belief to anyone, migrant or non-migrant, that you have the authorization to try to grab a police officer's gun, to kick an officer, to fight an officer.
00:30:44.000Now to a significant increase in people experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
00:30:48.000According to the city, a one-night snapshot shows the number of unhoused people has tripled year over year.
00:30:54.000The city's annual count explains how migrants have played a big role in that growing number.
00:30:59.000A snapshot of homelessness in Chicago released by the city shows nearly 19,000 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January, roughly three times the number reported in that same analysis in 2023, due in large part to the influx of migrants.
00:31:17.000Meanwhile, hotels in Santa Monica and Los Angeles are being accused of hiring migrants to replace striking workers.
00:31:23.000The LA County District Attorney's Office and the Hotel Workers Union now saying some of the hotels are exploiting the desperation of the migrants by giving them these jobs without paying them fair wages.
00:31:34.000The group making the accusations say some of the migrants even hired were on the buses sent to LA from Texas.
00:31:58.000Chip Roy is in a lot of ways the intellectual leader of House conservatives on a lot of these major policy questions that we have to address and he's a good partner of mine.
00:32:15.000I certainly agree with you as to Russ Fulcher.
00:32:17.000He's a great guy, certainly not a rhino.
00:32:19.000Idaho is one of the few states I have never been to.
00:32:21.000But I hear it is becoming a refugee camp for Californians who want to get to a state where you can own a gun and not have to pay everything that you own in taxes while people defecate on your streets and make quality of life miserable.
00:32:34.000One thing that makes quality of life miserable is the work of a lot of the woke corporatists in boardrooms, and they are doing so in a way that puts ESG and DEI at the forefront of the otherwise free economy that we would like to be able to enjoy in the United States.
00:32:50.000But when massive woke power centers start driving decisions in corporate boards, then you see more ESG, higher prices, more DEI, more racism.
00:32:59.000No one was better at laying this out, laying out how.
00:33:04.000The ESG cartel is working to drive up your prices.
00:33:07.000Then House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan in a hearing this week.
00:33:49.000Never mind that the cost of food is going to go up, the cost of fuel is going to go up, there's going to be less airline flights, there's going to be less cars.
00:34:12.000Ceres, CalPERS, and Arjuna, our witnesses today, formed this group called Climate Action 100. I'm sure the chairman talked about it already.
00:34:19.000They describe themselves as the global navy in a war to decarbonize companies.
00:34:25.000700 member investors Sixty-eight trillion dollars in assets.
00:34:31.000Those member investors are required to sign this statement and agree, as Mr. Massey just pointed out, the chairman just pointed out.
00:34:37.000They push companies that they invest in to disclose and reduce emissions, in some cases reduce the output of their product.
00:34:46.000And what do we know about these groups?
00:34:49.000Here's what Siri said, just a quote from them.
00:34:52.000Siri's objective is to, quote, make access to finance dependent on the transition to net zero by fundamentally rewriting the rules of capital formation.
00:35:03.000Arjuna said this, U.S. is facing a second civil war led by a pro-Christian agenda.
00:35:13.000This war will be fought by the investors who have a voice in how corporate America responds to this pro-Christian.
00:36:03.000They want to make it, think about this, more expensive to drive, more expensive to fly.
00:36:07.000When you're waiting around the train station for the high-speed rail, you can order a hamburger while you're waiting, unless you've already had one that week.
00:37:14.000I could not let Jim Jordan have all the fun.
00:37:17.000I wanted to get my licks in with these folks, particularly when it comes to their pushing of DEI. And if you can hang with me through this five-minute clip, the real delicious morsel is at the end because you're going to learn that the person I'm asking questions to is not just a DEI purveyor, he is also a victim.
00:39:42.000It's entitled Emerging Diverse Manager Data Report.
00:39:45.000And I'm citing from the sixth page of report where it says, since inception, current diverse managers generally underperformed non-diverse managers in the asset class in the policy benchmark.
00:40:11.000I'm not able to show it to you now, but you don't have any basis to disagree with the agency you've been a part of leading, saying that the diverse, the DEI hires aren't doing as well as the non-DEI hires.
00:40:25.000As I say, when we think about diversity, we think about diverse perspectives being brought to bear on investment decisions.
00:40:30.000Right, but okay, so those are two different things, Mr. Biammanou, because on one hand, there's provide returns for my investors.
00:40:36.000And what your own data says is that your DEI hires underperform there.
00:40:41.000And then on the other hand, you say, well, these diverse perspectives are really important.
00:40:44.000But I worry about the market manipulation and the bullying, because as I review what CalPERS has put out under its own investment guidelines, you brag about the fact that you voted against 768 directors at the companies you invest in, Most recently, and then in the prior year, you'd only voted against 133 directors.
00:41:05.000So is CalPERS voting against people as directors for companies based on their skin color?
00:41:12.000We take up every vote independently based on the merits of the vote itself.
00:41:16.000Right, but do you ever consider, like, someone's skin color?
00:42:10.000Your own data says that your DEI hires aren't performing as well, and you were there for 20 years, and you applied twice for the chief investment position, and you were passed over for that position twice, and you said you weren't going to apply for it the third time because you'd been passed over twice, and I guess they've hired an immigrant to do that job instead.
00:42:29.000Do you think that maybe you were passed over for some of these DEI reasons?
00:42:35.000Cowper's hiring decisions is their own hiring decisions, and I'm not really a part of that candidly.
00:42:40.000Clearly you aren't, and I think we all know why.
00:42:46.000There is a part of me that felt pity for this person I was asking questions to, but these corrupt and racist systems only exist because there are people like that that are willing to advance it and demand it.
00:42:57.000The great irony is he may have been a victim of that very system and his own desires for career advancement.
00:43:05.000I want to get to a moment that we had in the House Judiciary Committee today regarding the testimony of Alvin Bragg that we would like to have before our body regarding coordination that his office had with any federal entities in the lawfare prosecution-persecution of President Trump.
00:43:22.000Now, D.A. Bragg was the subject, Today's Judiciary Committee hearing, but he wasn't there and I'm getting frustrated because I worry that Time is running out on our ability to hold these people accountable and We seem to be very eager to send strongly worded letters and demands and invitations I think we should be sending subpoenas and then enforcing those subpoenas with
00:43:52.000great rigor and I Presented that opportunity today in the House Judiciary Committee and would love to show it to you.
00:44:02.000We are here at the hearing on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the essential ingredient we seem to be missing is the Manhattan District Attorney, which I guess Mr. Roy would be a lot like going to the Salt Lick BBQ and not getting the moist brisket.
00:44:21.000To Mr. Jordan's credit, great credit, he sent a letter to Mr. Bragg on May 31st inviting him to come participate, and we got sort of a nasty gram back from Mr. Bragg on June 7th.
00:44:33.000Mr. Chairman, I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record the June 7th response from A.G. Bragg.
00:44:53.000The letter continues, that cooperation includes making the district attorney available to provide testimony on behalf of the office at an agreed upon date.
00:45:03.000It goes on to say that they're evaluating the propriety of allowing an assistant district attorney to testify publicly about the matter.
00:45:12.000Now, that assistant district attorney is the one who downstream from DOJ, right?
00:45:16.000So you think they're going to provide Mr. Colangelo here I would not expect Mr. Colangelo to show up.
00:45:23.000And do you base that opinion on the lawsuit that Alvin Bragg filed against Jim Jordan in his official capacity in the Committee on the Judiciary?
00:45:35.000I mean, look, you have a legitimate legislative purpose to be inquiring as to what you're doing, so they have no leg to stand on.
00:45:42.000But they're not going to come because we ask.
00:45:45.000And they're not going to come because they say so.
00:45:48.000And we learned that by observing our dear friends at the oversight committee.
00:45:52.000Because this will surprise a lot of Americans.
00:45:55.000After hearing the enthusiasm around oversight of the Biden crime family, we never sent a subpoena to Hunter Biden to give live testimony before Congress.
00:46:20.000And I worry that, you know, we're going about the same kind of process here, and we may end up there in July right after sentencing with an empty Alvin Bragg nameplate and an empty Matthew Colangelo nameplate.
00:46:35.000And then we'll start the process again on letters and subpoenas and accommodation.
00:46:56.000Mr. Chairman, I move under Committee Rule 4 and Clause 2M of House Rule 11 to require the attendance and testimony of Alvin Bragg and Matthew Colangelo On July 12th to discuss their involvement in the Trump prosecution, including their office's coordination with the Department of Justice.
00:47:26.000We worked hard over the weekend to make sure they're coming.
00:47:30.000And if they change their mind, they will get a subpoena from the committee Requiring them, compelling them to be here.
00:47:36.000And then if they choose to go to court on that, I think we'll beat them in court like we did the first time when we got Mr. Pomerantz to come testify in front of the, uh, to come be deposed in front of the committee.
00:47:47.000But Mr. Chairman, time, time then becomes determinative.
00:47:49.000The problem is if we're going to bring these people in, let's go, I've made a motion to subpoena these people now.
00:47:55.000Pursuant to the rules and I want to vote on my motion or I want someone to move to table it.
00:48:00.000You made the motion to subpoena them for the 12th?
00:48:03.000I moved under Committee Rule 4, Clause 2M of House Rule 11 to require the attendance.
00:48:14.000The gentleman from Florida has two minutes remaining on his five minutes of questions.
00:48:17.000Mr. Chairman, I will withdraw my motion based on the representations not only that you've made but that the ranking member has made in our colloquy previously that Mr. Bragg and Mr. Colangelo will be here and willing to answer our questions.
00:48:34.000SLB on Rumble says, tired of the corrupt Dems getting away with murder, and we'll vote for food, replied, their Republican friends are even worse.
00:48:47.000I am used to civil law practice where even when someone agrees to come in and offer testimony, you issue a subpoena to undergird that so that you have a basis to actually compel responses rather than just their physical attendance.
00:49:05.000Because I worry you could have people not show up.
00:49:08.000Our own witness said she didn't think they'd show.
00:49:11.000Or if they show up to not answer the questions.
00:49:13.000And if you don't have a subpoena, then there's no mechanism to enforce for the information we need for our legitimate legislative work and for our oversight work.
00:49:29.000Enforcement of subpoenas creates an ethic That I think is very helpful in resisting the corruption of this town.
00:49:41.000He's been doing this longer and better than I have.
00:49:44.000And he believes that they will show up the day after sentencing and answer our questions.
00:49:49.000And I certainly hope That Chairman Jordan is correct about that.
00:49:52.000Because if he's not, and then we've got to go back through this entire process, we will have lost valuable time, and they will have gotten away with it because we did not send a subpoena.
00:50:02.000Just like we've never sent a subpoena for live testimony for Hunter Biden in public.
00:50:31.000Politics, though, did come up in a few conversations.
00:50:34.000A few of the women we spoke to felt that they were really turned off by a few dates where the men, in one instance, somebody denigrated the Black Lives Matter movement, and the woman pushed back on that, and the man didn't receive it well, and that made her swear off going on dates with men for about eight months.
00:51:00.000She goes on a date, and because the guy didn't sign up for the Black Lives Matter movement agenda she was pushing, she didn't date anyone else for eight months.
00:51:09.000Something tells me in this case there might have been another condition that resulted in not getting a date for another eight months, but either way, we all feel sorry for her cats.
00:51:20.000Thanks, everyone, for watching Firebrand.