Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 33 LIVE: Biden & America in Crisis (feat. Rep. Andy Biggs) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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?

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

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

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

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

00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!

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

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

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

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

00:00:36.000 Matt Gaetz.

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

00:00:40.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

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

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

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

00:00:54.000 You 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.

00:01:08.000 And 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.

00:01:20.000 Take a listen.

00:01:23.000 For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power. 0.99

00:01:28.000 And 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. 1.00

00:01:38.000 And 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. 0.96

00:01:52.000 Dr. Wallander, we're not sending the 82nd Airborne into Ukraine, right?

00:01:57.000 Correct.

00:01:57.000 And regime change in Russia is not the policy of the United States, is it?

00:02:01.000 Correct.

00:02:02.000 And God forbid, if the Russians used chemical weapons, we would not respond by using chemical weapons against the Russian people, right?

00:02:09.000 Correct.

00:02:10.000 So why does the President keep speaking out against U.S. policy?

00:02:15.000 Congressman, the President has made clear that he has not changed U.S. policy and regime change.

00:02:22.000 No, no, but why does he speak against it?

00:02:26.000 That he is appalled by the horrors, as I think we all are, of what Russia is wreaking in Ukraine. 0.50

00:02:35.000 But 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.

00:02:46.000 My understanding from allies is that they value U.S. leadership.

00:02:50.000 They 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.

00:03:04.000 That's all fascinating, but it doesn't get to the question of speaking directly against our policies.

00:03:10.000 Does the Department of Defense assess that the President is likely going forward to speak against U.S. policy on other matters?

00:03:19.000 Congressman, I can't speak to that.

00:03:20.000 I don't believe that there is any such assessment.

00:03:24.000 Maybe should, I mean, do we have a plan in place for the next moment, right?

00:03:29.000 I 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.

00:03:39.000 And 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.

00:03:47.000 And you're saying there is no such contingency plan?

00:03:50.000 I'm telling you, Congressman, that the Department of Defense leadership is focused on sustaining and advancing American national security policy of this administration.

00:04:01.000 Is the Department of Defense leadership frustrated by the President's statements against U.S. policy?

00:04:08.000 Congressman, I think that is an inappropriate characterization of the Defense Department's commitment.

00:04:12.000 But it's not a characterization.

00:04:13.000 It's a question.

00:04:13.000 Is the Department leadership frustrated?

00:04:16.000 I'm not characterizing.

00:04:18.000 I'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.

00:04:34.000 Congressman, I can only speak for myself.

00:04:35.000 I think it's appropriate, and you have the right to ask the question, and so speaking for myself...

00:04:40.000 I'm sorry, but you can't be the witness.

00:04:42.000 If you ask a question, you've got to give her at least five seconds to say something before you then interrupt.

00:04:48.000 Badgering the witness, Andy.

00:04:50.000 Was that badgering to you to ask the Department of Defense how they intend to deal with what is likely to occur in the future?

00:04:57.000 I mean, we've seen it on three big things, but do you think we've seen the last of Joe Biden speaking against US policy?

00:05:04.000 No, first of all, you were not badgering the witness.

00:05:06.000 I thought you were overly kind to the witness, to be honest with you.

00:05:09.000 I mean, she clearly did not want to answer an incredibly uncomfortable question like, yeah, we think our boss is losing it, okay?

00:05:17.000 I mean, that's really what you're asking in a very nice diplomatic way, and she didn't want to answer that.

00:05:23.000 But, yeah, you're going to see more.

00:05:25.000 I just wrote a piece about...

00:05:26.000 How would you like to be the cleanup team behind Joe Biden?

00:05:30.000 And then when you go out there, he says, we're walking it back.

00:05:33.000 And then he says, I'm not walking it back.

00:05:35.000 But when you talk about this...

00:05:37.000 Cleanup on Isle Biden is sort of the everyday standard.

00:05:41.000 Yeah, they got that mop bucket on wheels rolling it around. 0.99

00:05:44.000 But do we need better preparation and planning for the likelihood this is going to continue?

00:05:50.000 Because I think you see just a series of these foreign policy failures from Afghanistan to the inability to contain Vladimir Putin.

00:05:58.000 We all know that big problems are coming with China. 0.99

00:06:01.000 We focus on those issues a great deal.

00:06:03.000 And so how should our own government think about preparing for the inevitability of these Biden gaffes and walkbacks?

00:06:11.000 Well, they're gonna happen.

00:06:13.000 I think the American people now know that he's degenerating, okay?

00:06:20.000 He's mentally What does Putin think? 0.79

00:06:35.000 I think the fact that Afghanistan went so bad and that Biden appears to be so incompetent and weak emboldened Putin.

00:06:44.000 I think the same thing with Xi Jinping.

00:06:47.000 These things we knew were potential, but they were at bay under a very strong leader in President Trump.

00:06:54.000 But under a weak leader, you've got Kim Jong-un, who's firing ICBMs over Japan on a regular basis now.

00:07:00.000 You've got India being forced... 0.97

00:07:03.000 And pushed into the arms of China now. 0.95

00:07:05.000 They had a shooting war going on on the border between India and China.

00:07:09.000 And Biden says, we're going to sanction you.

00:07:12.000 When you start looking at the international policy perspective, there's probably been...

00:07:16.000 I can't think of a more, quite frankly, incompetent leader than Joe Biden, an American leader than Joe Biden.

00:07:24.000 I can think of a few other foreign leaders, but not a more incompetent American leader. 0.53

00:07:28.000 And speaking of a lack of competence...

00:07:31.000 We really are watching in Ukraine, Russia, unable to bring all of the elements to the fight together at once.

00:07:38.000 You 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.

00:07:49.000 And 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.

00:08:01.000 We saw Congressman Norcross, a Democrat, ask the question of General Waller, who commands American forces in Europe, have we misunderstood Russia?

00:08:11.000 Take a listen.

00:08:14.000 Have 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?

00:08:29.000 We 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.

00:08:47.000 I mean, you always get the most candid version of these generals when they're on their way out of command.

00:08:53.000 So, General Waller has been in Europe, that time is set to conclude, and I think he gave a very accurate assessment.

00:09:00.000 And 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?

00:09:29.000 Yeah, I think we do.

00:09:30.000 And I'm glad you brought up Afghanistan and the bad IC intelligence community prognostications there.

00:09:38.000 And 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.

00:09:46.000 But 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.

00:10:03.000 So I wonder now even, this is how twisted you can get in this.

00:10:08.000 Is the intelligence good now that Russia really is not advancing and poised to actually overrun Ukraine inevitably?

00:10:17.000 Or what?

00:10:18.000 I mean, you see what I'm saying?

00:10:20.000 How do you trust them?

00:10:21.000 Well, 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.

00:10:35.000 So, 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.

00:10:58.000 I want to go from Ukraine's border to ours. 1.00

00:11:00.000 And for our viewers, you need to know this.

00:11:03.000 Andy Biggs has led more congressional trips to the border than anyone else in the Congress.

00:11:09.000 And when there are key questions up before the Congress on matters of immigration and border security, I sit near Andy on the floor.

00:11:16.000 Everyone comes around to get his perspective.

00:11:18.000 And you really are on a one-man mission to evangelize this Congress about the threat that exists on our southern border.

00:11:25.000 For 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?

00:11:35.000 The estimates anywhere from two and a half to three million people have come in illegally.

00:11:40.000 Already?

00:11:41.000 Already.

00:11:42.000 They're here.

00:11:42.000 That's in 14 months.

00:11:44.000 We believe that it's a 1.2 million people actually remain here.

00:11:49.000 It could be as high as 1.8 million.

00:11:51.000 But the reality is, for folks at home, you need to understand, we have ports of entry.

00:11:55.000 That'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.

00:12:01.000 We have customs officers, everything else.

00:12:04.000 Everything else is between ports, and there are miles and miles of open stuff, you know, open borders.

00:12:11.000 Some fencing here, some fencing there, a Rio Grande River.

00:12:15.000 But 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.

00:12:25.000 But if we decide to keep you even for a few hours, they're going to transport you somewhere in the country.

00:12:30.000 What you identified there that's so true is that this is on purpose.

00:12:34.000 This is not that we don't know how to solve the problem.

00:12:38.000 There are purposeful steps that have been taken.

00:12:40.000 By Secretary Mayorkas, who you have introduced articles of impeachment against.

00:12:45.000 And regarding Joe Biden, I guess border czar Kamala Harris hasn't figured it out quite either.

00:12:50.000 But 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.

00:13:03.000 This is from Code L Biggs.

00:13:06.000 We have a border chief telling us about how the Biden policies compare to the Trump policies.

00:13:13.000 Take a listen.

00:13:16.000 Are we on a positive trajectory?

00:13:17.000 Or 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?

00:13:25.000 I think we're...

00:13:26.000 So there is no doubt.

00:13:30.000 I'm speaking a matter of fact here.

00:13:32.000 That 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.

00:13:53.000 When those were taken away, here they come.

00:13:57.000 So 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?

00:14:11.000 So without any of those, it ain't gonna happen.

00:14:15.000 It's only gonna get worse, right?

00:14:18.000 Only gonna get worse, Andy Biggs.

00:14:21.000 Tomorrow's April 1. What's gonna happen?

00:14:24.000 Well, it's already started to happen.

00:14:26.000 So what's going to happen is Title 42 goes away.

00:14:29.000 For people who don't know what that is, that is the ability to turn people away based on a health reason.

00:14:37.000 And 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?

00:14:49.000 Exactly right.

00:14:49.000 And so CDC finally, under Trump, came out and said, you know, Title 42 enacted.

00:14:55.000 We've got a COVID situation.

00:14:56.000 So they started turning people away.

00:14:58.000 I'll give you an example.

00:14:59.000 And sending them back, right?

00:15:01.000 Yeah, sending them back.

00:15:02.000 Sending them back home to...

00:15:03.000 And we just basically said no.

00:15:05.000 Novel concept.

00:15:05.000 Yeah, novel concept.

00:15:06.000 So the first two weeks in March, 100,000 people were apprehended at the border.

00:15:13.000 Two weeks.

00:15:13.000 100,000 people.

00:15:15.000 Of those 100,000 people, we turned away about 49,000 of them under Title 42. We just sent them away.

00:15:25.000 We brought in about 50,000, a little over 50,000 under Title 8, which is, we won't get into that.

00:15:32.000 And those people are now distributed throughout the country.

00:15:34.000 What's going to happen when Title 42 goes away in that same two-week period?

00:15:39.000 Everybody'd be coming in.

00:15:41.000 They'd be allowed to come in, and they'd be transported throughout the country.

00:15:44.000 That is what we call a pull factor, an incentive for people to come.

00:15:47.000 The cartels know it.

00:15:49.000 They advertise that.

00:15:50.000 NGOs advertise that.

00:15:51.000 So they've been preparing.

00:15:52.000 Oh, yes.

00:15:52.000 The smugglers and the cartels have been preparing for tomorrow.

00:15:56.000 Yeah.

00:15:58.000 How many people are going to come across this border illegally in the month of April?

00:16:01.000 Well, at least you want everybody known and unknown?

00:16:05.000 Yeah.

00:16:05.000 Oh, about 350,000 to 400,000 people.

00:16:09.000 It is demoralizing to hear that because it means we have no border.

00:16:14.000 And that's you and I discussing it from the comfort of my Washington office.

00:16:19.000 The morale of the heroes who are out there wanting to work for CBP is degrading.

00:16:27.000 In very dangerous ways.

00:16:29.000 They have people like AOC and the squad calling them racist and evil, but these are patriots.

00:16:35.000 And I want you to hear from one of them and react.

00:16:40.000 You 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.

00:16:49.000 That's a whole different busy.

00:16:51.000 That's a fun busy.

00:16:52.000 That's calling your wife and I work at a double shift busy. 0.61

00:16:55.000 Not, I'm doing my eight and I'm getting out of here busy.

00:16:58.000 So, by all means, you were going to say something.

00:17:00.000 And just to piggyback on you, it's exactly correct.

00:17:03.000 Like, for example, me, I'm a veteran, right?

00:17:06.000 You have that mindset of protect and serve, right?

00:17:10.000 So you get out of here and you're full of pride.

00:17:13.000 As an instructor at the academy, you say, hey, this is why you're here, guys.

00:17:19.000 We're border security, right?

00:17:21.000 And 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.

00:17:31.000 Also, you know, you have women in high heels from, you know, well-off countries and they're coming in. 0.99

00:17:37.000 You just became that guy.

00:17:41.000 So your whole mindset switches.

00:17:43.000 And I feel the frustration of our agents that come with that same mindset.

00:17:47.000 And they go to the academy and they're built.

00:17:49.000 That mindset is built and our sense of pride as agents.

00:17:53.000 And then they come here and they see what reality has become.

00:17:57.000 Your reaction to an Arizonan feeling that way about their job?

00:18:02.000 Well, he's very typical.

00:18:04.000 The morale is in the tank.

00:18:06.000 People are busting their buns.

00:18:08.000 They get no support.

00:18:09.000 They tell me, they say, Andy, we get no support.

00:18:12.000 We don't need more money, no more salary.

00:18:15.000 We don't need more guns, vests.

00:18:17.000 What we need is policy. 0.87

00:18:19.000 Change the frickin' policy.

00:18:21.000 And the policies that are really harming are...

00:18:25.000 Border security.

00:18:26.000 That executive order Joe Biden signed on day one.

00:18:29.000 I mean, you know, your team drove me by.

00:18:32.000 Millions of dollars of wall that is just laid up in the sand in Arizona that could be stood up to provide protection.

00:18:40.000 And I mean, the morale wasn't this way under President Trump.

00:18:43.000 They knew Trump had their back.

00:18:45.000 And, you know, it's really something.

00:18:47.000 I think it's going to be a very ugly month.

00:18:48.000 I mean, is this going to be one of the worst months we've faced with the cartels and smugglers preparing for it?

00:18:53.000 Yeah, but you're just at the start of the busy season, so it's going to get worse every month, every month thereafter.

00:19:01.000 So the Biden administration is trying to put a gloss on this.

00:19:06.000 It's going to get worse, Matt.

00:19:07.000 I 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.

00:19:17.000 And it's going to be a steady stream of people, and this administration is doing nothing to prepare for it.

00:19:25.000 I do think the Republican conference is waking up.

00:19:28.000 You 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.

00:19:41.000 And 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?

00:20:03.000 And he said, the border.

00:20:05.000 And 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.

00:20:16.000 Yeah, I mean, the reality, Matt, is I'm reading stories even that moderate Democrats are complaining to Biden.

00:20:23.000 You'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.

00:20:37.000 We 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.

00:20:44.000 There has been a very focused, well-resourced, planned out campaign to destroy Justice Thomas.

00:20:52.000 One of the very best public servants we have, probably the best member of the Supreme Court we have in this country.

00:20:59.000 Take a listen to how the mainstream media is trying to set up Clarence Thomas' recusal, maybe even resignation.

00:21:07.000 I'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.

00:21:18.000 It's not against the law to believe in conspiratorial things.

00:21:22.000 But 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.

00:21:34.000 Is that a precedent Justice Thomas should follow and recuse himself on January 6th cases?

00:21:39.000 The fact that a spouse of a Supreme Court justice was part of that QAnon effort is really disturbing.

00:21:46.000 I 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.

00:22:04.000 Senator Klobuchar made a pretty powerful case, it seems, for Thomas to recuse himself.

00:22:08.000 Do you agree with that?

00:22:09.000 You 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.

00:22:24.000 I would hope that they would put out a statement.

00:22:26.000 A statement saying what?

00:22:28.000 A statement to the fact that the judge, Justice Thomas, would recuse himself on any cases involving the January 6th.

00:22:39.000 But that's not the court to say, that's Thomas to say, right?

00:22:42.000 Yes it is, but I still believe that there needs to be a statement.

00:22:46.000 Look, I think she was unhinged.

00:22:48.000 I know she's a conservative activist. 0.63

00:22:50.000 I'm an activist.

00:22:51.000 Yeah, it seemed a little wrong.

00:22:52.000 Boy, that went really over the top.

00:22:54.000 Andy, this is not just a smear attempt. this is not just a smear attempt.

00:23:12.000 This is a smear attempt with a very specific and focused goal to get Clarence Thomas off the court.

00:23:20.000 Your reaction?

00:23:21.000 Well, they want to basically impeach him is the ultimate thing because they want him off the court and you're exactly right.

00:23:28.000 Why do they want him off the court?

00:23:30.000 I came to the conclusion many years ago that there's nothing more important to the left in America than abortion and protecting Roe v.

00:23:39.000 Wade.

00:23:40.000 And they're scared to death that Clarence Thomas, if he stays, that there's a potential that Roe... 0.60

00:23:44.000 You think this is about Roe.

00:23:45.000 You don't think this is about January 6th.

00:23:47.000 No, not at all.

00:23:47.000 You think this is really about abortion.

00:23:49.000 Absolutely right.

00:23:50.000 Wow, that's a hot take.

00:23:52.000 It is a hot take, but I think that's where it is.

00:23:54.000 Look, they don't care about the January 6th thing.

00:23:58.000 January 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.

00:24:08.000 Exactly right.

00:24:10.000 I mean, look, think about January 6th.

00:24:12.000 You've got an illegitimate committee in Congress.

00:24:15.000 They have no real authority.

00:24:17.000 The Supreme Court is not probably going to ever weigh into that political issue.

00:24:22.000 They're using it as a distraction so they can bring him in and say, oh, see here, you know, we want to get rid of you.

00:24:29.000 So he's not there on Roe v.

00:24:32.000 Wade issues.

00:24:33.000 That's what I believe.

00:24:34.000 That would be deeply sinister, but it shows the depths that the left is willing to go to with a total assist from the mainstream media.

00:24:42.000 You saw Chuck Todd, Donna Brazile.

00:24:44.000 They were lined up, ready to kind of set up Ocasio-Cortez and the left to make this impeachment push.

00:24:50.000 If that impeachment comes, it'll be in the House Judiciary Committee.

00:24:53.000 You could bet Andy Biggs and I will be there to defend Justice Thomas.

00:24:56.000 Absolutely, 100%.

00:24:57.000 Joe Biden released his budget.

00:24:59.000 This is something that I think shows the values, priorities, goals, and objectives of his administration.

00:25:05.000 Some key points that stood out to me.

00:25:07.000 Raising the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28%, driving American dollars offshore.

00:25:14.000 Of course, President Trump inherited the largest corporate tax rate in the world at 35%.

00:25:19.000 We also see gun control in the Biden budget.

00:25:22.000 $1.7 billion for ATF to continue their tracking and tracing.

00:25:27.000 Of the gun sales that occur in our country that are not the business of the federal government.

00:25:33.000 And then you and I are very America first when it comes to foreign policy.

00:25:36.000 We stand frequently against the corrosive effects of globalism.

00:25:40.000 $2.6 billion in the Biden budget for global gender equity.

00:25:45.000 $200 million for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund.

00:25:49.000 $1.8 billion for USAID. Andy Biggs, your reaction to the Biden budget.

00:25:54.000 Well, a Biden budget is a total fiscal non-starter.

00:25:58.000 It's malpractice all the way through.

00:26:01.000 And 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.

00:26:17.000 And if they were a single funding unit of this budget, they would be the fifth largest funding portion of this budget.

00:26:26.000 Explain to people how fraud is actually number five in terms of what the American budget funds under the Biden plan.

00:26:34.000 Yeah, 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.

00:26:46.000 Wow.

00:26:47.000 And that's where it is.

00:26:48.000 Right after debt service?

00:26:49.000 Yeah, basically, yeah.

00:26:50.000 Unbelievable.

00:26:51.000 How much money in the budget should go to USAID? Zero.

00:26:56.000 How 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.

00:27:04.000 Yeah, well, they probably fully fund WHO and all these other multilateral institutions.

00:27:09.000 World Bank?

00:27:09.000 Yeah.

00:27:10.000 $1.4 billion for the World Bank?

00:27:11.000 You think that's building anything in your neighborhood?

00:27:14.000 It ain't touching.

00:27:15.000 It ain't helping America.

00:27:16.000 Let's put it that way.

00:27:17.000 None of those multilaterals give a rip about America except for they want our money. 0.90

00:27:20.000 When we get the majority back, will we write a budget that balances?

00:27:24.000 Heavens no.

00:27:25.000 Now, you and I are going to want to.

00:27:28.000 But you have such low confidence in Republicans and the majority that you do not believe that they will present a balanced budget.

00:27:33.000 No.

00:27:34.000 They'll say we're going to balance it in 8, 10, 12 years and this is how we're going to get there, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:27:41.000 Aspirational balance.

00:27:42.000 Aspirational balance.

00:27:43.000 But they never want to make the hard decisions.

00:27:46.000 And that's what it takes.

00:27:47.000 I remember when Paul Ryan told us that the budget wasn't real.

00:27:51.000 Yeah, I do too.

00:27:52.000 And so we should just be willing to vote for an unbalanced budget.

00:27:55.000 And we asked the question of Paul Ryan, the former budget chair, well, if the budget isn't real, could it at least balance?

00:28:02.000 Exactly right.

00:28:02.000 We couldn't even get the not real budget to balance.

00:28:06.000 Yeah, 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.

00:28:17.000 But 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.

00:28:28.000 I am so sick and tired of that excuse.

00:28:31.000 Well, the Senate's not going to do it.

00:28:32.000 How about we and members of the House do our job and then put the pressure on those guys?

00:28:38.000 Members of the House, do your job.

00:28:40.000 Andy Biggs told you how to do it.

00:28:42.000 Secure the border.

00:28:42.000 Balance the budget.

00:28:44.000 Protect folks like Clarence Thomas who are advancing the interests of American liberty.

00:28:48.000 And 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.

00:28:56.000 Andy, thanks for being here for this historic moment.

00:28:58.000 I want to thank our congressional staff, particularly our communications team led by Joel Valdez, for putting together the show.

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00:29:13.000 We'll be back tomorrow with a live deep dive into the Hunter Biden laptop, the chain of custody, how it was introduced to the Judiciary Committee.

00:29:21.000 You won't want to miss it.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - March 31, 2022

Episode 33 LIVE: Biden & America in Crisis (feat. Rep. Andy Biggs) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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