Matt Gaetz was one of the few members in the entire Congress who stood up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents. Matt Gaetz is a problem in the Democratic Party. He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws, so we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him. 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, you are in the right place. This is the movement for you. You are in it for the right reason, and you are here to do something about it. In this episode, Rep. Gaetz talks about the deep state, the Deep State, and how to deal with a president who seems to be losing his grip on the White House, and why we should have a plan in place for the next moment when a president like Donald Trump doesn't seem to be on the same page as the rest of us. He also asks the question, what does the Department of Defense have in place in the event of a President who speaks against U.S. policy on other matters? And why does the President keep saying the opposite of what we're all supposed to be doing? And why should we have a contingency plan for such things? if the President is so confused about what we should be doing in the future? and why does he keep saying things like that we don't know what we need to do in order to stay on the job? And what is a plan for the future of the United States under a President with such as President Donald Trump? And what does that even mean, and what does it all mean, really mean, you ll be okay with that? The answer to all of that, you ask? Well, listen in to find out, and let me know what you think of it, and tweet me what you thought of it! in the comments section below! Tweet me and let us know your thoughts, thoughts, opinions, thoughts and reactions! and your thoughts on this episode of the podcast! on this one! ! Timestamps: Tweet Meghan or your thoughts? or any other stuff you would like to hear from the Deep state? ? , . Text Me! or send us your thoughts and shoutouts? , or anything else you think about it?
00:00:03.000Matt 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.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000If 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!
00:00:54.000You know, just this week, Andy, in the House Armed Services Committee, the Biden administration sent Dr. Celeste Wallander, who is a top official at the Department of Defense, to walk us through the force posture that America ought to consider in Europe.
00:01:08.000And just get ready for the level of discomfort she had answering basic questions about what you just described, the lack of competence in the United States president.
00:01:23.000For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.
00:01:28.000And you're going to see when you're there, sometimes you've been there, you're going to see women, young people standing in the middle of the front of a damn tank.
00:01:38.000And to clarify on chemical weapons, if chemical weapons were used in Ukraine, would that trigger a military response from NATO? It would trigger a response in kind.
00:01:52.000Dr. Wallander, we're not sending the 82nd Airborne into Ukraine, right?
00:02:10.000So why does the President keep speaking out against U.S. policy?
00:02:15.000Congressman, the President has made clear that he has not changed U.S. policy and regime change.
00:02:22.000No, no, but why does he speak against it?
00:02:26.000That he is appalled by the horrors, as I think we all are, of what Russia is wreaking in Ukraine.
00:02:35.000But how could it not confuse our allies and our fellow Americans To have the President saying the exact opposite of what you just correctly defined as U.S. policy.
00:02:46.000My understanding from allies is that they value U.S. leadership.
00:02:50.000They are confident in American commitment to the NATO alliance, in particular, the President's words that the United States will deter Russian attack against NATO and defend every inch of NATO territory.
00:03:04.000That's all fascinating, but it doesn't get to the question of speaking directly against our policies.
00:03:10.000Does the Department of Defense assess that the President is likely going forward to speak against U.S. policy on other matters?
00:03:20.000I don't believe that there is any such assessment.
00:03:24.000Maybe should, I mean, do we have a plan in place for the next moment, right?
00:03:29.000I mean, because this didn't happen once, it didn't happen twice, it happened three times on, like, highly consequential stuff, like regime change and chemical weapons and sending our service members into Ukraine.
00:03:39.000And so I sort of wonder whether or not we have to have contingency plans for a president who seems to be a little confused on those matters.
00:03:47.000And you're saying there is no such contingency plan?
00:03:50.000I'm telling you, Congressman, that the Department of Defense leadership is focused on sustaining and advancing American national security policy of this administration.
00:04:01.000Is the Department of Defense leadership frustrated by the President's statements against U.S. policy?
00:04:08.000Congressman, I think that is an inappropriate characterization of the Defense Department's commitment.
00:04:18.000I'm trying to Ascertain how hard this job must be to get our force posture aligned, to get our information operations that Mr. Giramendi asked about in line, when you've got a president who seems to be misaligned on these key questions.
00:04:34.000Congressman, I can only speak for myself.
00:04:35.000I think it's appropriate, and you have the right to ask the question, and so speaking for myself...
00:04:40.000I'm sorry, but you can't be the witness.
00:04:42.000If you ask a question, you've got to give her at least five seconds to say something before you then interrupt.
00:07:03.000And pushed into the arms of China now.
00:07:05.000They had a shooting war going on on the border between India and China.
00:07:09.000And Biden says, we're going to sanction you.
00:07:12.000When you start looking at the international policy perspective, there's probably been...
00:07:16.000I can't think of a more, quite frankly, incompetent leader than Joe Biden, an American leader than Joe Biden.
00:07:24.000I can think of a few other foreign leaders, but not a more incompetent American leader.
00:07:28.000And speaking of a lack of competence...
00:07:31.000We really are watching in Ukraine, Russia, unable to bring all of the elements to the fight together at once.
00:07:38.000You know, I mean, we understand that when America goes into the fight, you've got your ground assets, your air assets, your cyber assets, your information assets, that you have to coordinate their entry to the fight.
00:07:49.000And the lack of command and control, the lack of materiel support seems to maybe have led us to the belief that we could have overestimated Russia in that same Armed Services hearing.
00:08:01.000We saw Congressman Norcross, a Democrat, ask the question of General Waller, who commands American forces in Europe, have we misunderstood Russia?
00:08:14.000Have we overestimated, and outside of the Ukrainian resistance and what they're doing in the fight, have we overestimated their technical abilities, particularly with the Russian armor?
00:08:29.000We may have, Congressman, and I think once we get to the post-conflict phase, we need to go back to these very areas and make sure that we conduct a comprehensive old domain after-action review and find out where our miscalculations were in our forecast.
00:08:47.000I mean, you always get the most candid version of these generals when they're on their way out of command.
00:08:53.000So, General Waller has been in Europe, that time is set to conclude, and I think he gave a very accurate assessment.
00:09:00.000And so, what questions do we need to be asking in Congress if our own national security intelligence and analysis told us that the Afghanistan government, led by Ghani, was going to stand But that Russia was going to, in a matter of days or weeks, just totally overrun Ukraine I mean, don't we have an obligation to the people as the board of directors of this country to ensure that we have more accurate assessments of the enemy?
00:09:30.000And I'm glad you brought up Afghanistan and the bad IC intelligence community prognostications there.
00:09:38.000And it makes me, quite frankly, as I listen to that, it certainly appears that it's the case that Russia, we may have overestimated Russia.
00:09:46.000But at the same token, Russia sat there in not the wisest position with a 40 mile long caravan for like five days and Ukraine basically inflicted very little damage on that convoy.
00:10:03.000So I wonder now even, this is how twisted you can get in this.
00:10:08.000Is the intelligence good now that Russia really is not advancing and poised to actually overrun Ukraine inevitably?
00:10:21.000Well, and you and I fight in the Judiciary Committee every day to ensure that these national security authorities, these tools that we expected to use against foreign adversaries and terrorists, aren't turned inward against our own people.
00:10:35.000So, I mean, you know, here we are kind of evaluating the national security apparatus at a 10,000-foot view, and you're saying, wait a second, you're seeking new authorities and new departments and new ways to target parents at school board meetings, to politicize the Department of Justice, and yet on these highly consequential questions about Russia's capabilities, about the Afghanistan government's capabilities, we seem to be swinging and missing.
00:10:58.000I want to go from Ukraine's border to ours.
00:11:00.000And for our viewers, you need to know this.
00:11:03.000Andy Biggs has led more congressional trips to the border than anyone else in the Congress.
00:11:09.000And when there are key questions up before the Congress on matters of immigration and border security, I sit near Andy on the floor.
00:11:16.000Everyone comes around to get his perspective.
00:11:18.000And you really are on a one-man mission to evangelize this Congress about the threat that exists on our southern border.
00:11:25.000For people who aren't as dialed in on this, first just walk us through, during the Biden presidency, how many people have come into our country illegally And what are you seeing going forward?
00:11:35.000The estimates anywhere from two and a half to three million people have come in illegally.
00:11:51.000But the reality is, for folks at home, you need to understand, we have ports of entry.
00:11:55.000That's where you would go if you were legally, if you were interested in actually claiming asylum, you'd go there and you'd say, I'm claiming asylum.
00:12:01.000We have customs officers, everything else.
00:12:04.000Everything else is between ports, and there are miles and miles of open stuff, you know, open borders.
00:12:11.000Some fencing here, some fencing there, a Rio Grande River.
00:12:15.000But this administration basically has said, we're going to allow everybody to come in and we'll determine at that point whether we're going to send you back or not.
00:12:25.000But if we decide to keep you even for a few hours, they're going to transport you somewhere in the country.
00:12:30.000What you identified there that's so true is that this is on purpose.
00:12:34.000This is not that we don't know how to solve the problem.
00:12:38.000There are purposeful steps that have been taken.
00:12:40.000By Secretary Mayorkas, who you have introduced articles of impeachment against.
00:12:45.000And regarding Joe Biden, I guess border czar Kamala Harris hasn't figured it out quite either.
00:12:50.000But when you lead these trips to the border, we get the raw, unvarnished truth from the people who America relies upon to provide our nation security and protection.
00:13:17.000Or given the likelihood of this change in authorities on April 1, are you telling me that we're at the front end of the wave with those numbers?
00:13:32.000That the policies that we had in 2019 and 2020 when it comes down to the Remain in Mexico, the Migrant Protection Protocol, the third-party asylum, all those things that were done that minimized the reward opportunity for the migrants, when those were put in place, that made a huge impact.
00:13:53.000When those were taken away, here they come.
00:13:57.000So the only thing we have now is either a physical barrier where it exists, CDC expulsion authorization under Title 42 or space in ERO's capacity, which is very limited, right?
00:14:11.000So without any of those, it ain't gonna happen.
00:14:26.000So what's going to happen is Title 42 goes away.
00:14:29.000For people who don't know what that is, that is the ability to turn people away based on a health reason.
00:14:37.000And in this instance, it's COVID. And I remember when you were fighting hard for this because you thought, well, hell, if we're going to have to deal with lockdowns as a result of COVID, can the border be the first thing we lock down?
00:16:29.000They have people like AOC and the squad calling them racist and evil, but these are patriots.
00:16:35.000And I want you to hear from one of them and react.
00:16:40.000You know, it's different when we're catching 100,000 pounds of marijuana and 50,000 pounds of kilo of coke and we're putting people in jail.
00:17:21.000And then when the job becomes immigration, You're sitting there behind a computer and you're processing, you're processing, you're processing, and then you see the different kind of demographic.
00:17:31.000Also, you know, you have women in high heels from, you know, well-off countries and they're coming in.
00:19:07.000I mean, and the reality is you've got caravans that are already forming as far away as Panama and And Columbia, and they're getting ready to come on up.
00:19:17.000And it's going to be a steady stream of people, and this administration is doing nothing to prepare for it.
00:19:25.000I do think the Republican conference is waking up.
00:19:28.000You know, I mean, Congressman Biggs and I sit in a particular place on the floor with a lot more of the conservative thinking, Freedom Caucus-minded folks, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene, those are the folks that are kind of in our vicinity.
00:19:41.000And yesterday, our good friend, who might not see the world precisely as we do, he aligns more with some of the more centrist caucuses, Congressman Jeff Van Drew, great guy, terrific public servant, he comes over and sits with us and says, I asked him, I said, Jeff, you know, when we take over, what's the most important fight we gotta win on behalf of our people?
00:20:05.000And what does it tell you that a former Democrat, more moderate-leaning Republican, From New Jersey, no less, understands this is the most important fight, and we did not prompt him on that.
00:20:16.000Yeah, I mean, the reality, Matt, is I'm reading stories even that moderate Democrats are complaining to Biden.
00:20:23.000You've got Arizona senators who are not necessarily moderate who are asking Biden, please do something, and they're asking him, don't remove Title 42. Keep 42 in place, because otherwise it's hopeless.
00:20:37.000We need to keep Title 42 in place, and there's someone else we need to keep in place, and that is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
00:20:44.000There has been a very focused, well-resourced, planned out campaign to destroy Justice Thomas.
00:20:52.000One of the very best public servants we have, probably the best member of the Supreme Court we have in this country.
00:20:59.000Take a listen to how the mainstream media is trying to set up Clarence Thomas' recusal, maybe even resignation.
00:21:07.000I'm curious if you believe Justice Thomas, these text messages that have come out from Jenny Thomas to the former White House Chief of Staff, saying some bizarre conspiratorial things.
00:21:18.000It's not against the law to believe in conspiratorial things.
00:21:22.000But I'm curious, given the precedent that Loretta Lynch, as Attorney General, when she recused herself after a tarmac meeting with former President Clinton, The Justice Department was looking into something involving Hillary Clinton.
00:21:34.000Is that a precedent Justice Thomas should follow and recuse himself on January 6th cases?
00:21:39.000The fact that a spouse of a Supreme Court justice was part of that QAnon effort is really disturbing.
00:21:46.000I think Justice Thomas has to recuse himself from anything related to the Trump administration, anything related to the January 6th Commission, or anything related to our effort to hold individuals accountable for their participation in this attack on our democracy at the bare minimum.
00:22:04.000Senator Klobuchar made a pretty powerful case, it seems, for Thomas to recuse himself.
00:22:09.000You know, when Judge Roberts, Justice Roberts, concluded that a press report of the exchange between Mr. Gorsuch and Ms. Sotomayor was in error, the Supreme Court put out A statement.
00:22:24.000I would hope that they would put out a statement.
00:23:52.000It is a hot take, but I think that's where it is.
00:23:54.000Look, they don't care about the January 6th thing.
00:23:58.000January 6th, you're arguing is a veneer, that it is the tool that they are using to try to block changes that they ultimately think are coming from a court that is likely to overturn Roe.
00:26:01.000And I can't let this go without just mentioning, because you mentioned what I consider to be some of the most horrific parts of it, but the waste and fraud And the improper payments will continue to go out.
00:26:17.000And if they were a single funding unit of this budget, they would be the fifth largest funding portion of this budget.
00:26:26.000Explain to people how fraud is actually number five in terms of what the American budget funds under the Biden plan.
00:26:34.000Yeah, so you're gonna fund things like Medicare, Medicaid, you're gonna fund the Defense Department, you're gonna fund, then you start getting to things like hard debt, and then you get into fraud and waste.
00:26:51.000How much money in the budget should go to USAID? Zero.
00:26:56.000How much money should go to the UN? Oh, no, we should not be a member of the UN. Oh, you know, the Biden budget fully funds the UN commitment.
00:27:04.000Yeah, well, they probably fully fund WHO and all these other multilateral institutions.
00:28:02.000We couldn't even get the not real budget to balance.
00:28:06.000Yeah, and well, I don't want to get the roots of this thing, but I mean, when you and I were there, and he said that I could not believe what I was hearing.
00:28:17.000But the idea was because we needed to do it with all these crazy procedures and processes to do another bad bill that they wanted to do because they said the Senate won't do it.
00:28:28.000I am so sick and tired of that excuse.
00:28:31.000Well, the Senate's not going to do it.
00:28:32.000How about we and members of the House do our job and then put the pressure on those guys?
00:28:44.000Protect folks like Clarence Thomas who are advancing the interests of American liberty.
00:28:48.000And let's make sure that in Ukraine we don't have a president who is falling and stumbling all over himself, all over the world.
00:28:56.000Andy, thanks for being here for this historic moment.
00:28:58.000I want to thank our congressional staff, particularly our communications team led by Joel Valdez, for putting together the show.
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