Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - June 13, 2024


Episode 167 LIVE: Disorder at the Border – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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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

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00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:01:59.000 Matt Gaetz, the biggest firebrand inside the House of Representatives.
00:02:08.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?
00:02:11.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.
00:02:16.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00
00:02:21.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gates, for holding the line.
00:02:25.000 Matt Gates is a courageous man.
00:02:27.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gates in D.C., the country turns around.
00:02:32.000 It's that simple.
00:02:33.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.
00:02:37.000 Matt Gates.
00:02:39.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.
00:02:44.000 We will save America.
00:02:46.000 It's choose your fighter time.
00:02:48.000 Transcending the Firebrand. - Welcome back to Firebrand.
00:02:57.000 We hope you're with us.
00:02:57.000 We 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.
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00:03:28.000 So much has been going on today.
00:03:30.000 We had a big hearing regarding the conduct of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
00:03:35.000 We've been taking DEI and ESG to task and politics may be ruining dating.
00:03:41.000 But first we are going to have a deep dive into the border.
00:03:44.000 We've talked a lot about the border on this platform.
00:03:47.000 And it is amazing the journey we have been on.
00:03:51.000 Because as we are having this discussion, Joe Biden is now taking unilateral action that he says will close the border.
00:04:00.000 Executive action that he himself...
00:04:03.000 Refused to take as a candidate.
00:04:05.000 Totally disclaimed.
00:04:06.000 Said it was a terrible idea.
00:04:07.000 Then said it was impossible without this plan to let in 5,000 people every day.
00:04:12.000 But now Joe Biden is taking action saying he's going to seal the border.
00:04:15.000 Do you believe it?
00:04:16.000 I don't know.
00:04:17.000 The 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.
00:04:34.000 It was said in this debate.
00:04:35.000 Take a listen.
00:04:38.000 I would in fact make sure that there is, we immediately surge to the border.
00:04:43.000 All those people are seeking asylum.
00:04:45.000 They deserve to be heard.
00:04:46.000 That's who we are.
00:04:47.000 We're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're fleeing oppression, you should come.
00:04:52.000 We should not be locking people up.
00:04:54.000 We should be making sure we change the circumstance as we did, why they would leave in the first place.
00:05:01.000 And those who come seeking asylum, we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them Keep them safe until they can be heard.
00:05:09.000 A 15 second, if you could, if you wish to answer.
00:05:12.000 Should someone who is here without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?
00:05:20.000 That person should not be the focus of deportation.
00:05:22.000 We should fundamentally change the way we deal with them.
00:05:25.000 A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you've proposed in one form or another.
00:05:32.000 This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment so people can see.
00:05:37.000 Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
00:05:45.000 Okay.
00:05:48.000 There it is.
00:05:49.000 There's your Democratic Party, all raising their hand to give free health care to illegal immigrants. 0.99
00:05:55.000 When you see that, do you even blame the illegal immigrants for coming?
00:05:58.000 But you have to know what they ruined and what they destroyed.
00:06:02.000 They destroyed a system that was working, instituted by President Trump.
00:06:05.000 Take a listen.
00:06:08.000 How do their records on the border compare?
00:06:11.000 Well, under President Biden each year, there have been more and more border crossings.
00:06:16.000 According 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.
00:06:29.000 In 2021, there were 1.7 million.
00:06:32.000 Compare that to the four years of the Trump administration.
00:06:35.000 And it is higher.
00:06:36.000 On average, from fiscal year 2017 through 2020, when former President Trump was in office, encounters averaged around 572,000 each year.
00:06:45.000 A record 8.6 million migrants have crossed into the U.S. since President Biden took office.
00:06:50.000 The Border Patrol Union telling us Mr. Biden should not have reversed Trump border policies.
00:06:55.000 They were very effective for us as Border Patrol agents in securing the border.
00:06:58.000 In NBC News poll shows 57% of Americans say Mr. Trump can best secure the border.
00:07:04.000 Just 22% say Mr. Biden will.
00:07:09.000 We're back live.
00:07:09.000 It's funny on the live stream comments, people are suggesting that that was a very different Joe Biden.
00:07:14.000 We saw in that debate than we saw now.
00:07:17.000 It's amazing how much he's lost off his fastball.
00:07:19.000 An anti-mom gene says, I paused TimCast replay to watch this.
00:07:23.000 I was on TimCast last night.
00:07:25.000 We got into a lot, as we typically do on that program.
00:07:28.000 But when you had Trump putting downward pressure on the border...
00:07:31.000 Then you have Biden saying he's going to give freebies, free healthcare, free housing, you name it, to illegals.
00:07:36.000 Then this is what you get.
00:07:38.000 A total stampede on the border.
00:07:40.000 Take a listen.
00:07:42.000 Free for all at America's southern border. 0.89
00:07:45.000 A group of migrants crossing into the U.S. were spotted wearing Biden, please let us in t-shirts.
00:07:52.000 And while the White House refuses to call what is going on a crisis, a leaked memo says border agents are being overwhelmed.
00:08:00.000 According to Axios, hundreds of unaccompanied minors are being taken into custody on a daily basis.
00:08:06.000 And Border Patrol is struggling to deal with the skyrocketing number.
00:08:13.000 So let's do this Taylor Swift style, okay?
00:08:16.000 First, there was the, you know, Trump limitation on immigration, getting the border under control era.
00:08:24.000 Then we had the Biden promise of freebies era.
00:08:30.000 Then after that, you get the border is secure era.
00:08:34.000 Remember that era?
00:08:35.000 Remember, right as Biden gets in, they peel back these Trump policies on day one.
00:08:40.000 They offer the freebies.
00:08:41.000 All those people show up with their Biden let me in shirts on, undeniably handed out by some sort of NGO that you're probably funding.
00:08:48.000 And then they say the border is secure.
00:08:51.000 Let's all relive that moment.
00:08:56.000 The bottom line is that U.S. borders are not open.
00:08:59.000 The immigration situation here in Del Rio has never been this bad.
00:09:03.000 Just yesterday alone, they apprehended more than 900 migrants in total.
00:09:08.000 The restrictions at our southwest border have not changed.
00:09:12.000 Border Patrol here completely overwhelmed, overstretched.
00:09:15.000 They can't be everywhere at once.
00:09:19.000 This was a human smuggling stash house that was busted in Alton, Texas yesterday.
00:09:24.000 More than 100 migrants being kept there by those human smugglers.
00:09:28.000 The United States continues to enforce its immigration laws.
00:09:32.000 We are prepared.
00:09:34.000 These migrants continue to show up by the hundreds pretty much every single hour. 1.00
00:09:39.000 The number of migrants under that bridge has now swelled to more than 14,000.
00:09:46.000 Individuals and families continue to be sent back.
00:09:49.000 But that's mostly single men being sent back.
00:09:52.000 A lot of the women, children, and family units will be able to stay.
00:09:55.000 They'll be processed and released into the U.S. Consistent with enforcing our laws. 0.99
00:10:00.000 Do you have a message for U.S. President Joe Biden?
00:10:03.000 Yeah, I have a message for Joe Biden.
00:10:06.000 We see what he's doing in the all of our lives.
00:10:09.000 Ghana.
00:10:10.000 You're from Ghana.
00:10:12.000 You're from Haiti.
00:10:16.000 The federal government has apparently been moving illegal immigrants all around the country in the dark.
00:10:31.000 The bottom line is that U.S. borders are not open.
00:10:40.000 The Border is Secure era actually came with some startling admissions.
00:10:43.000 I 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.
00:10:59.000 Take a listen.
00:11:02.000 You have the lowest deportation rate in the history of the department, right?
00:11:07.000 Your data that you cite is misleading.
00:11:10.000 No, it's your data.
00:11:11.000 This is actually what your own agency is reporting.
00:11:14.000 So, 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. 0.90
00:11:37.000 And then when I ask you what the plan is, you say, oh, well, resources, I got to make finite decisions.
00:11:41.000 I go back to my first question.
00:11:43.000 How many ICE agents to remove the 1.2 million?
00:11:46.000 Congressman, 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.
00:12:05.000 Now, 800,000 people have encountered your CBP agents and those folks have been released into the country.
00:12:11.000 Like, some of those people are going to commit crimes, aren't they?
00:12:15.000 Congressman, may I have a moment?
00:12:17.000 To answer your questions?
00:12:19.000 Will some of the 800,000 commit crimes, yes or no?
00:12:22.000 Undoubtedly.
00:12:23.000 Undoubtedly.
00:12:24.000 And 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.
00:12:36.000 You're willing to accept that collateral damage.
00:12:39.000 Congressman, I couldn't disagree with you more.
00:12:41.000 Let me give you, if I can, some data.
00:12:44.000 More than the data, how about this?
00:12:46.000 How did it feel to you when you went to the border and the Border Patrol agents turned their back on you?
00:12:52.000 One Border Patrol agent turned his back on me and I addressed that as the leader of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:13:01.000 So if I can return to data because I want to Make sure that you have accurate information.
00:13:06.000 Everyone 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.
00:13:14.000 See, I don't buy the theory that you don't know how to do this.
00:13:17.000 I think you're actually a highly competent dude.
00:13:19.000 But 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.
00:13:28.000 That's why your workforce turns their back on you.
00:13:30.000 And you have tools that you could use to deport these people.
00:13:33.000 You have facial recognition.
00:13:35.000 You have flights going all over the country dropping people off.
00:13:38.000 And 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.
00:13:46.000 I yield back.
00:13:49.000 Treason 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.
00:14:00.000 Now, what do we do about this?
00:14:02.000 What do we do about the fact that you got Mayorkas who's gone lawless. 0.92
00:14:05.000 You've got the border that's been flung open.
00:14:08.000 House 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.
00:14:19.000 This is the essence of the House conservative argument.
00:14:24.000 No border, no funding.
00:14:26.000 Take a listen.
00:14:29.000 Well, right now, my position is very clear.
00:14:31.000 No security, no funding.
00:14:33.000 I believe that we're seeing an increased understanding by my Republican colleagues, because guess what?
00:14:39.000 They were at home in August.
00:14:40.000 They'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.
00:14:48.000 They're seeing the reality of what's happening on the ground, and Republicans will be a total and complete failure.
00:14:55.000 A 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.
00:15:10.000 That is it.
00:15:11.000 There is no negotiation on that.
00:15:13.000 Secure the border or you shouldn't fund the Department of Homeland Security.
00:15:17.000 More and more of my colleagues are starting to understand that.
00:15:20.000 Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans are still hand-wringing around about shutdowns.
00:15:25.000 The American people are tired of all that Beltway speak.
00:15:27.000 They want their country back.
00:15:29.000 Speaker 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.
00:15:39.000 And 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.
00:15:46.000 They include Matt Goetz, Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Eli Crane, and Matt Rosendale.
00:15:51.000 They spoke to me about an hour ago telling me they are willing to shut this government down if this border isn't fixed.
00:15:56.000 Take a listen.
00:15:58.000 No more money for this bureaucracy of his government until you've brought this border under control.
00:16:05.000 Shut the border down or shut the government down.
00:16:08.000 We are all committed to that.
00:16:11.000 There'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.
00:16:24.000 That was Matt Rosendale, Andy Biggs, and Chip Roy making what was a pretty solid argument.
00:16:28.000 I joined them in that perspective and indeed in that trip.
00:16:31.000 But that's not what happened.
00:16:33.000 Instead 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.
00:16:46.000 Take a listen.
00:16:49.000 And we have a Fox 5 newsletter.
00:16:51.000 Congress rushes to pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown, at least for now.
00:16:55.000 Shirin Rajay joining us with the latest from Capitol Hill.
00:16:57.000 Shirin?
00:16:58.000 Yeah, 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.
00:17:06.000 Congress took the crucial step earlier this evening, voting to pass a short-term spending bill to President Biden.
00:17:12.000 If signed by the president, the measure will keep agencies open again.
00:17:16.000 This is just temporary until March 1st, which is now the new shutdown deadline.
00:17:20.000 About 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.
00:17:30.000 In just moments, I have to go to the House floor and I have to vote against this turd sandwich of a continuing resolution.
00:17:38.000 This thing's apparently going to March 1, March 8. No demand on border.
00:17:44.000 It's not sufficient.
00:17:45.000 It's not enough.
00:17:46.000 It's not what the House of Representatives should be doing.
00:17:51.000 So 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.
00:18:01.000 And then we got this.
00:18:03.000 We got the argument.
00:18:05.000 Remember the Lankford bill?
00:18:06.000 We talked about the Lankford bill a ton.
00:18:08.000 That 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.
00:18:18.000 Remember that?
00:18:19.000 Remember that crazy Lankford era?
00:18:21.000 Take a listen.
00:18:23.000 A 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.
00:18:33.000 President Biden on Saturday making a lofty promise to lawmakers if they can get a deal done on immigration.
00:18:39.000 If that bill were the law today, I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.
00:18:43.000 The 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.
00:18:53.000 Among the changes, it would reportedly give the White House the authority to deny asylum seekers when migrant crossings surpass a certain number.
00:19:02.000 When 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.
00:19:13.000 While 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.
00:19:27.000 We understood from the beginning we're not going to solve everything.
00:19:30.000 We're not.
00:19:32.000 We knew from the beginning it's not going to be perfect, but we also knew the status quo is untenable.
00:19:38.000 The 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.
00:19:50.000 While 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.
00:20:03.000 Governance, Senator Langford lectures us.
00:20:05.000 We need to understand governance.
00:20:07.000 As House conservatives, we knew what that governance could look like.
00:20:12.000 It didn't have to look like some compromise with Chuck Schumer.
00:20:15.000 We 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.
00:20:21.000 And no one made the argument better than Mike Johnson.
00:20:26.000 Take a listen.
00:20:30.000 And 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.
00:20:40.000 He knows that's not true.
00:20:41.000 The President has been around Washington a long time, okay?
00:20:45.000 And the President repeated his claim yesterday on the White House lawn.
00:20:47.000 He said, quote, I've done all I can do.
00:20:50.000 Just give me the power I've asked for.
00:20:52.000 That's all I can do.
00:20:54.000 Just give me the power.
00:20:55.000 I've asked for the very day I got it off.
00:20:58.000 Give me the border patrol.
00:21:00.000 Give me the people, give me the people, the judges.
00:21:02.000 Give me the people who can stop this and make it work less.
00:21:05.000 Let's set the record straight.
00:21:07.000 What he said is demonstrably false.
00:21:10.000 I've explained to him specifically.
00:21:12.000 I read the president of the United States, the law, the black letter law, on the phone about two and a half weeks ago.
00:21:17.000 I 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.
00:21:27.000 He has those tools right now and he has since day one.
00:21:30.000 The 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.
00:21:48.000 That's the broadest authority that Congress probably has ever given a president.
00:21:52.000 And it's been there for a long, long time.
00:21:54.000 In fact, the very provision that I just read you was used by the Obama administration more than 19 times.
00:22:01.000 It's been used, I think, 69 times by presidents since 1980, but not by President Biden.
00:22:07.000 He pretends it's not there.
00:22:09.000 Any attempt by this president to pretend that he's a bystander bereft of any ability to secure the border is patently absurd.
00:22:16.000 And we're going to continue to remind the American people of that.
00:22:21.000 So it's absurd for the president not to take those 64 actions that Mike Johnson talked about.
00:22:27.000 But that's when Joe Biden rejects the use of executive authority, says, no, no, no, no, it cannot be by my hand.
00:22:33.000 This can only happen through a bill.
00:22:36.000 He said so in the State of the Union.
00:22:37.000 Here are the receipts.
00:22:40.000 My team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators.
00:22:45.000 The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen.
00:22:52.000 Oh, you don't think so?
00:22:55.000 Oh, you don't like that bill, huh?
00:22:58.000 That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill? 0.96
00:23:02.000 I'll be darned. 0.94
00:23:03.000 That's amazing. 0.95
00:23:04.000 The long-awaited border security bill is done.
00:23:07.000 Already facing backlash in some sectors, as the text claims there is no amnesty for anyone already here.
00:23:13.000 These are just some of the highlights.
00:23:15.000 50,000 new visas per year for five years.
00:23:18.000 $650 million led over from the Trump years to build the wall.
00:23:21.000 They'll start finishing, get about 50 miles.
00:23:24.000 Increase ICE funds and detention capacity to 50,000.
00:23:27.000 Shut down authority.
00:23:29.000 After an average of 5,000 encounters a day.
00:23:32.000 Here's what Speaker Johnson said.
00:23:34.000 I have seen enough.
00:23:35.000 This bill is even worse than we expected.
00:23:37.000 It won't come close to any of the border catastrophe the president has created.
00:23:40.000 As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed, under this legislation, the border never closes.
00:23:44.000 If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.
00:23:48.000 Your thoughts?
00:23:50.000 Yeah, 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.
00:23:56.000 The 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?
00:24:04.000 After 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?
00:24:16.000 No one is saying we shouldn't change everything we could change.
00:24:19.000 The issue is who ought to do the changing and what is the appropriate remedy given the harm that was done.
00:24:25.000 And as we've showcased in this episode, the original sin of the Biden administration was repealing the Trump policies with their executive order.
00:24:33.000 And yet, after all this, after the...
00:24:37.000 I'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.
00:24:47.000 Lo 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.
00:25:00.000 Take a listen.
00:25:03.000 So 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.
00:25:13.000 Frankly, 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.
00:25:28.000 But Republicans have left me with no choice.
00:25:31.000 Today, I'm announcing actions to bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum. 0.84
00:25:39.000 Migrants will be restricted from receiving asylum at our southern border unless they seek it after entering through an established lawful process.
00:25:48.000 And 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.
00:25:56.000 Still available.
00:25:58.000 But 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.
00:26:09.000 This action will help us gain control of our border, restore order to the process.
00:26:15.000 This 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.
00:26:26.000 Man, I did not plan for this to be a feature of this episode.
00:26:30.000 But 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.
00:26:36.000 It doesn't even look like the same guy.
00:26:39.000 And of course, even though he's taking this action, here's why it won't work.
00:26:43.000 They're still giving health care to illegals.
00:26:46.000 They're still setting up sanctuary cities where in jurisdictions like New York...
00:26:51.000 A huge percentage of the overall hotel rooms are for the illegal aliens.
00:26:55.000 You'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. 1.00
00:27:06.000 Linnie Bell in Washington State, Spokane County.
00:27:10.000 She's mad that Her only ballot option is a mail-in ballot. 1.00
00:27:14.000 Says it's not right.
00:27:16.000 You move to Washington.
00:27:17.000 Florida's ready when you are.
00:27:18.000 It's always been that way in the Pacific Northwest.
00:27:21.000 A little strange to me.
00:27:22.000 Like what?
00:27:22.000 Is it the rain?
00:27:23.000 You guys can't go out and vote in person?
00:27:25.000 I'm with you.
00:27:27.000 All right.
00:27:28.000 We got to go over the vestiges of these Biden choices that are going to impair this executive action.
00:27:34.000 The first, of course, is the free health care that was promised in the debates.
00:27:37.000 Let's get an update on where that stands.
00:27:41.000 This 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.
00:28:01.000 DACA allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work legally in the country.
00:28:08.000 Health and Human Services estimate that 100,000 uninsured DACA recipients will likely take advantage of this new rule.
00:28:18.000 When people in the third world see that illegal aliens are getting free benefits and free health care, they will come here. 1.00
00:28:26.000 And I don't even particularly blame them.
00:28:28.000 I blame us.
00:28:30.000 I blame the pull factors that we create.
00:28:34.000 Sometimes we create the push factors, but we definitely create the pull with policies like that.
00:28:38.000 And what's the consequence?
00:28:40.000 The once great cities of America being overrun.
00:28:44.000 No sanctuary from my standpoint.
00:28:46.000 More like a hellhole.
00:28:47.000 Watch and listen.
00:28:50.000 These migrants, whose journey brought them to the United States, now making their way through the American justice system in handcuffs.
00:28:57.000 So in recent months, a wave of migrant crime has washed over our city. 1.00
00:29:02.000 In 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.
00:29:18.000 Since the arrival back in April of 2023 of migrants, this type of crime, this pattern, we're seeing a significant increase in. 1.00
00:29:26.000 The NYPD has also seen increases in retail and subway thefts, pickpockets, and even human trafficking.
00:29:32.000 So cops are increasing foot patrols around migrant shelters and going after the ringleaders and seizing scooters, some 20,000.
00:29:40.000 This was a scene last Thursday at around 11 a.m.
00:29:44.000 According to the NYPD, they responded to a 911 call about a man causing a disturbance at the migrant shelter on Randalls Island.
00:29:51.000 Police say they saw the migrants getting in a verbal dispute with security, so they removed him from the shelter.
00:29:57.000 But not before the other migrants in the shelter started throwing things at the officers.
00:30:02.000 Mayor Eric Adams says around 3,000 people live at that shelter.
00:30:06.000 It's also not the first time police have had to respond to a situation there.
00:30:10.000 Adams on Tuesday also responded to questions about the incident that occurred at Times Square.
00:30:15.000 According to police, they asked a group of migrants acting disorderly to disperse.
00:30:19.000 And 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.
00:30:29.000 Under 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.
00:30:44.000 Now to a significant increase in people experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
00:30:48.000 According to the city, a one-night snapshot shows the number of unhoused people has tripled year over year.
00:30:54.000 The city's annual count explains how migrants have played a big role in that growing number.
00:30:59.000 A 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.
00:31:17.000 Meanwhile, hotels in Santa Monica and Los Angeles are being accused of hiring migrants to replace striking workers.
00:31:23.000 The 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.
00:31:34.000 The group making the accusations say some of the migrants even hired were on the buses sent to LA from Texas.
00:31:44.000 We are back live.
00:31:44.000 The obvious answer to these questions is a return to the Trump policies.
00:31:47.000 It could be done immediately and I think it just may be in January of 2025. A lot of hot takes on the live stream.
00:31:55.000 Ditka on Getter says Chip Roy sucks. 0.99
00:31:57.000 I totally disagree with that. 0.94
00:31:58.000 Chip 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.
00:32:06.000 And we had another comment.
00:32:08.000 Donald, I wish we had Matt in Idaho instead of the rhinos we send back. 1.00
00:32:13.000 Except Russ Fulcher will keep him.
00:32:15.000 I certainly agree with you as to Russ Fulcher.
00:32:17.000 He's a great guy, certainly not a rhino.
00:32:19.000 Idaho is one of the few states I have never been to.
00:32:21.000 But 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. 1.00
00:32:34.000 One 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.
00:32:50.000 But when massive woke power centers start driving decisions in corporate boards, then you see more ESG, higher prices, more DEI, more racism.
00:32:59.000 No one was better at laying this out, laying out how.
00:33:04.000 The ESG cartel is working to drive up your prices.
00:33:07.000 Then House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan in a hearing this week.
00:33:11.000 Take a listen.
00:33:14.000 I now recognize the chairman of the full committee, Mr. Jordan, for his opening.
00:33:17.000 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:33:18.000 Thank you, witnesses, for being here.
00:33:19.000 It's good to see our former colleague, the Attorney General, Attorney General Ellison.
00:33:22.000 If you conspire to reduce the output of a good, it's called restraint of trade.
00:33:25.000 And when you form a cartel to limit supply, it's restraint of trade.
00:33:30.000 And more importantly, it's illegal.
00:33:33.000 And it's illegal because it drives up the cost to consumers, to Americans, to the people we represent.
00:33:40.000 And it sure looks like that's exactly what these three organizations are engaged in.
00:33:45.000 Now, they'll say it's for a good cause.
00:33:47.000 We're going to save the planet.
00:33:49.000 Never 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.
00:33:54.000 Never mind all that.
00:33:56.000 We're saving the world.
00:33:57.000 The courts have been clear.
00:33:59.000 Very clear.
00:34:00.000 So, quote, social justifications proffered for restraint of trade do not make it any less unlawful.
00:34:09.000 How does this conspiracy work?
00:34:12.000 Ceres, CalPERS, and Arjuna, our witnesses today, formed this group called Climate Action 100. I'm sure the chairman talked about it already.
00:34:19.000 They describe themselves as the global navy in a war to decarbonize companies.
00:34:25.000 700 member investors Sixty-eight trillion dollars in assets.
00:34:31.000 Those member investors are required to sign this statement and agree, as Mr. Massey just pointed out, the chairman just pointed out.
00:34:37.000 They push companies that they invest in to disclose and reduce emissions, in some cases reduce the output of their product.
00:34:46.000 And what do we know about these groups?
00:34:49.000 Here's what Siri said, just a quote from them.
00:34:52.000 Siri's objective is to, quote, make access to finance dependent on the transition to net zero by fundamentally rewriting the rules of capital formation.
00:35:03.000 Arjuna said this, U.S. is facing a second civil war led by a pro-Christian agenda.
00:35:13.000 This war will be fought by the investors who have a voice in how corporate America responds to this pro-Christian.
00:35:19.000 Wow.
00:35:20.000 What does this global war, this civil war, mean to consumers, to the American people?
00:35:26.000 If these guys get their way, what does it mean?
00:35:28.000 Even though the demand for energy is on the way up, more energy demand around the world, they say fossil fuels should stay in the ground.
00:35:35.000 They want to, literally, this is in their, they want to end the internal combustion engine in 10 years.
00:35:41.000 They want to reduce air travel by 12 percent.
00:35:45.000 They even want to restrict the amount of beef we consume.
00:35:48.000 One and a half hamburgers a week.
00:35:51.000 Chairman Massey eats that every meal from his grass-fed beef on his farm in Northern Kentucky.
00:35:58.000 But oh, no, no.
00:35:59.000 One and a half is all you're allowed a week, Thomas.
00:36:01.000 Forget Mr. Massey, Mr. Chairman.
00:36:03.000 They want to make it, think about this, more expensive to drive, more expensive to fly.
00:36:07.000 When 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.
00:36:16.000 Less coal, less cars, less cows.
00:36:20.000 They even said cows are the new coal.
00:36:23.000 This is, I mean, this is crazy.
00:36:25.000 Oh, and by the way, the Democrats agree with all this.
00:36:27.000 I want to play a quick clip from last Congress.
00:36:30.000 One of our colleagues, when we had Chevron BP, we had the oil and gas companies in front of us.
00:36:34.000 Here's what, here's, watch this, this questioning from Mr. Kahn and one of our colleagues.
00:36:39.000 Are you embarrassed as an American company that your production is going up while the European counterparts are going down?
00:36:46.000 Congressman, as we have already heard...
00:36:48.000 That's enough.
00:36:49.000 I mean, we got the point.
00:36:51.000 He's actually wanting oil companies to produce less oil.
00:36:56.000 I thought when you're in business to do something, you kind of want to make more of the product, sell more of the product.
00:37:00.000 I mean, that's what we're up against right here.
00:37:03.000 That's why this hearing is so important.
00:37:04.000 Mr. Chairman, I thank you for putting this together.
00:37:07.000 It's important that we stop where climate action wants to take the country.
00:37:11.000 I yield back.
00:37:14.000 I could not let Jim Jordan have all the fun.
00:37:17.000 I 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.
00:37:35.000 Take a listen.
00:37:38.000 Mr. Bienvenu, how much do you invest each year on behalf of how many of your members?
00:37:46.000 We manage a $500 billion portfolio on behalf of our 2.2 million members and beneficiaries.
00:37:51.000 And you've highlighted your principal responsibility is return for those beneficiaries, right?
00:37:56.000 Correct.
00:37:57.000 Everything that we do every day is about generating returns to pay benefits over generations.
00:38:00.000 You've worked there 20 years.
00:38:01.000 You've been the principal deputy since 2020, right?
00:38:05.000 I was named the deputy chief investment officer in April of 2020. Okay, great.
00:38:11.000 And so I think there's some parallels between what's going on with ESG and DEI. You don't deny that CalPERS has a DEI agenda, right?
00:38:22.000 CalPERS is all about generating returns to pay benefits, and every topic that we approach is through that lens.
00:38:28.000 Well, does DEI improve the returns to your investors?
00:38:34.000 I think part of good governance of a company is having diverse perspectives brought to bear as they manage that company.
00:38:40.000 And I feel strongly about that for the investment team that I lead also.
00:38:43.000 We want diverse perspectives.
00:38:44.000 And what is the evidence that you rely on for the belief that the DEI agenda will produce better returns?
00:38:52.000 Is there any study, report, analysis?
00:38:56.000 You know, as an investor, I read research reports constantly.
00:38:59.000 I probably read five, six, eight of them a day.
00:39:01.000 So over the course of my career, that's probably been thousands.
00:39:05.000 I know.
00:39:05.000 I'm just wondering if there's one that kind of sticks in your mind.
00:39:08.000 You can say, Congressman, I'm here to do good by these 2.2 million beneficiaries.
00:39:12.000 And my embrace of DEI, this is what I can point to as the evidence that that's helping them.
00:39:20.000 Every data-based study can tell lots of different things, and every data works that way.
00:39:26.000 That's the way investing works.
00:39:27.000 And remember that when we're focused on investing, we're focused on how we...
00:39:30.000 Mr. Bambi, you can either cite a study or you can't.
00:39:33.000 You can't, right?
00:39:35.000 In the thousands of studies that I... Just name one?
00:39:37.000 Okay.
00:39:37.000 Well, here's what.
00:39:38.000 I found a study that actually CalPERS did.
00:39:41.000 You guys did this study.
00:39:42.000 It's entitled Emerging Diverse Manager Data Report.
00:39:45.000 And 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.
00:39:59.000 Are you familiar with this report?
00:40:02.000 Can I see a copy of that study, please?
00:40:04.000 Well, Mr. Chairman, I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record.
00:40:07.000 The Emerging Diverse Manager Report Published by CalPERS.
00:40:11.000 Without objection.
00:40:11.000 I'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.
00:40:25.000 As I say, when we think about diversity, we think about diverse perspectives being brought to bear on investment decisions.
00:40:30.000 Right, but okay, so those are two different things, Mr. Biammanou, because on one hand, there's provide returns for my investors.
00:40:36.000 And what your own data says is that your DEI hires underperform there.
00:40:41.000 And then on the other hand, you say, well, these diverse perspectives are really important.
00:40:44.000 But 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.
00:41:05.000 So is CalPERS voting against people as directors for companies based on their skin color?
00:41:12.000 We take up every vote independently based on the merits of the vote itself.
00:41:16.000 Right, but do you ever consider, like, someone's skin color?
00:41:20.000 Because it's pretty immutable.
00:41:21.000 People don't choose to be white or black or Asian.
00:41:24.000 They just are.
00:41:26.000 We choose based on what will make the best oversight board for that company.
00:41:29.000 Can you deny, under oath, that CalPERS is voting against directors based on the color of their skin?
00:41:37.000 I can tell you we make every vote based on what will make that the best board for oversight of that company.
00:41:43.000 Right, but the best board is actually not doing so well.
00:41:46.000 So, Mr. Chairman, let's look at the scorecard.
00:41:48.000 In the state of Florida, where we aren't pushing ESG and DEI, the Florida retirement system is netting a 7.5% notch for the fiscal year.
00:41:58.000 May I enter that under the record?
00:41:59.000 Without objection.
00:42:00.000 And CalPERS reports only 5.8% for 2022 to 2023. Can I enter that under the record as well?
00:42:06.000 Without objection.
00:42:07.000 So you're not performing as well.
00:42:10.000 Your 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. 0.98
00:42:29.000 Do you think that maybe you were passed over for some of these DEI reasons?
00:42:35.000 Cowper's hiring decisions is their own hiring decisions, and I'm not really a part of that candidly.
00:42:40.000 Clearly you aren't, and I think we all know why.
00:42:43.000 I yield back.
00:42:46.000 There 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.
00:42:57.000 The great irony is he may have been a victim of that very system and his own desires for career advancement.
00:43:05.000 I 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.
00:43:22.000 Now, 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
00:43:52.000 great rigor and I Presented that opportunity today in the House Judiciary Committee and would love to show it to you.
00:43:59.000 Take a listen.
00:44:02.000 We 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.
00:44:21.000 To 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.
00:44:33.000 Mr. Chairman, I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record the June 7th response from A.G. Bragg.
00:44:38.000 Objection.
00:44:39.000 I'm sorry, D.A. Bragg.
00:44:40.000 And in this letter, I'm going to quote from it, Ms. Foley.
00:44:45.000 Bragg says, this office is committed to voluntary cooperation.
00:44:49.000 Do you believe that?
00:44:52.000 No.
00:44:53.000 The letter continues, that cooperation includes making the district attorney available to provide testimony on behalf of the office at an agreed upon date.
00:45:00.000 Do you believe that?
00:45:02.000 I'll believe it when I see it.
00:45:03.000 It goes on to say that they're evaluating the propriety of allowing an assistant district attorney to testify publicly about the matter.
00:45:12.000 Now, that assistant district attorney is the one who downstream from DOJ, right?
00:45:16.000 So you think they're going to provide Mr. Colangelo here I would not expect Mr. Colangelo to show up.
00:45:23.000 And 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?
00:45:33.000 I saw some of that, yeah.
00:45:35.000 I 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.
00:45:42.000 But they're not going to come because we ask.
00:45:45.000 And they're not going to come because they say so.
00:45:48.000 And we learned that by observing our dear friends at the oversight committee.
00:45:52.000 Because this will surprise a lot of Americans.
00:45:55.000 After hearing the enthusiasm around oversight of the Biden crime family, we never sent a subpoena to Hunter Biden to give live testimony before Congress.
00:46:09.000 Let that sink in.
00:46:11.000 The Republican House majority has never subpoenaed Hunter Biden for live testimony in public.
00:46:18.000 We've never done it.
00:46:20.000 And 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.
00:46:35.000 And then we'll start the process again on letters and subpoenas and accommodation.
00:46:39.000 And I've just grown I'm tired of it.
00:46:42.000 And I think you're right, Ms. Foley, that this is all professional wrestling.
00:46:47.000 There's no real effort to bring these people to bear.
00:46:53.000 Will the gentleman yield for a question?
00:46:54.000 No.
00:46:55.000 One second.
00:46:56.000 I got a motion.
00:46:56.000 Mr. 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.
00:47:11.000 Mr. Chairman.
00:47:13.000 Mr. Bragg and Mr. Colangelo have agreed to come on the 12th.
00:47:17.000 If they don't show up on the 12th, they will be subpoenaed.
00:47:20.000 So I would ask the gentleman if he could withdraw the motion.
00:47:25.000 They're coming.
00:47:26.000 We worked hard over the weekend to make sure they're coming.
00:47:30.000 And if they change their mind, they will get a subpoena from the committee Requiring them, compelling them to be here.
00:47:36.000 And 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.
00:47:47.000 But Mr. Chairman, time, time then becomes determinative.
00:47:49.000 The problem is if we're going to bring these people in, let's go, I've made a motion to subpoena these people now.
00:47:55.000 Pursuant to the rules and I want to vote on my motion or I want someone to move to table it.
00:48:00.000 You made the motion to subpoena them for the 12th?
00:48:03.000 I moved under Committee Rule 4, Clause 2M of House Rule 11 to require the attendance.
00:48:10.000 I moved to table the...
00:48:12.000 I second that.
00:48:13.000 The committee will come to order.
00:48:14.000 The gentleman from Florida has two minutes remaining on his five minutes of questions.
00:48:17.000 Mr. 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.
00:48:34.000 SLB 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. 0.89
00:48:47.000 I 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.
00:49:05.000 Because I worry you could have people not show up.
00:49:08.000 Our own witness said she didn't think they'd show.
00:49:11.000 Or if they show up to not answer the questions.
00:49:13.000 And 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.
00:49:29.000 Enforcement of subpoenas creates an ethic That I think is very helpful in resisting the corruption of this town.
00:49:38.000 And I give Chairman Jordan deference.
00:49:41.000 He's been doing this longer and better than I have.
00:49:44.000 And he believes that they will show up the day after sentencing and answer our questions.
00:49:49.000 And I certainly hope That Chairman Jordan is correct about that.
00:49:52.000 Because 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.
00:50:02.000 Just like we've never sent a subpoena for live testimony for Hunter Biden in public.
00:50:08.000 And I don't know why.
00:50:09.000 And it is so bizarre to me.
00:50:13.000 Politics may be ruining dating. 0.75
00:50:15.000 MSNBC did a recent segment that caught our attention.
00:50:18.000 Are you on one of those dates where if you say the wrong thing about MAGA or Black Lives Matter, you might not get that second date?
00:50:26.000 Maybe not for a while.
00:50:28.000 Take a listen.
00:50:31.000 Politics, though, did come up in a few conversations.
00:50:34.000 A 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.
00:51:00.000 She 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.
00:51:09.000 Something 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.
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