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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.
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00:01:33.000So you saw in the open, Senator Schumer said the quiet part out loud.
00:01:37.000When the intelligence community wants to get you, they get you six ways from Sunday.
00:01:43.000We're all supposed to be compliant, powerless serfs.
00:01:50.000This is one of the six ways from Sunday.
00:01:52.000Remember the same time they're trying to change all this with how the intelligence information is shared among various agency.
00:01:58.000Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the United States Congress at the time is on one of the other networks.
00:02:03.000And he says this, if you mess with the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday and getting back at you.
00:02:08.000So this is one of those six ways coupled with all the other things we know that you talked about.
00:02:13.000The dossier, the person named Azra Turk, the plant they put pretending to be somebody else next to George Papadopoulos, and all that stuff took place.
00:02:21.000This is exactly what Chuck Schumer said they were going to do, and it sure looks like they did it.
00:02:25.000That's why what Mark just said is so important.
00:02:27.000The Attorney General of the United States and U.S. Attorney John Durham are doing an investigation, and they have told us this is broader than just the FBI. You heard Jordan say it.
00:02:36.000John Durham, he was supposed to investigate the corrupt origins of the Russia hoax.
00:02:43.000Now, Attorney General Bill Barr's appointment of John Durham triggered the left.
00:02:48.000And remember, we've got the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, led by Lindsey Graham, who now says what he's going to investigate is the start of the Russia investigation and maybe Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:03:00.000We've got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a U.S. attorney named Huber in Utah to look at the origins of the Russia investigation.
00:03:08.000We've got the Inspector General at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation.
00:03:13.000And now, Attorney General Barr, fresh off of pounding his chest in Congress and saying, we need to stop using the Justice Department for political purposes.
00:03:21.000Now, he too has appointed somebody else, yet another U.S. attorney, to look into the origins of that investigation.
00:03:27.000Meanwhile, we have no idea what the results were of that investigation.
00:03:30.000We have no idea what the findings were of the counterintelligence investigation into Russia and its potential links with the Trump campaign.
00:03:37.000And the Republicans you know and trust told you that we would get to the bottom of this corruption.
00:03:43.000Accountability was right around the corner.
00:03:45.000It's time that somebody goes to jail for truly trying to overthrow this president who was duly elected.
00:03:54.000And I think accountability is right around the corner.
00:03:56.000At times, it felt like we were spoon-feeding the evidence and witnesses and crooks right to John Durham.
00:04:04.000Listen to former Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarlane describe the deep state actually trying to convince her To plead guilty to a crime to further the Russia hoax.
00:04:16.000When they came to me, Melissa, they said, well, we want, they really wanted me to plead guilty to confess that the Trump administration had violated the Logan Act.
00:04:26.000And when I laughed at them and said, look, That's like a joke in the foreign policy community.
00:04:31.000And they said, oh, no, no, the Logan Act is really serious.
00:04:35.000And I said, well, how do you guys even know about the Logan Act?
00:04:38.000And they said, well, we know about it because we just looked it up.
00:04:42.000Devin Nunes made 14 criminal referrals.
00:04:46.000This is the swamp creature deep state motherlode, but nothing happened.
00:04:52.000We also categorized subject areas clearly, as I did here contemporaneous with John Durham's appointment.
00:04:58.000We're actually looking at multiple scandals, and I think that as Mr. Durham engages in his work, there are three areas we'll want to evaluate.
00:05:06.000You'll recall that under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, the FBI wasn't investigating as their principal activity.
00:05:12.000They were trying to shape public opinion by getting the media to report certain things that were Negative about Donald Trump or positive about their agency.
00:05:21.000The second, as you've well detailed, are the frauds that were committed on the secret court that then impaired the constitutional rights of American citizens.
00:05:29.000Those frauds included never disclosing that a British spy was the person Curating Russian lies about Donald Trump to delegitimize him both before and after his election.
00:05:41.000But the third, and I would say potentially the most important area to investigate, is the corrupt intent that seemed to germinate out of the Obama White House to try to smear Donald Trump.
00:05:51.000And as we saw Peter Strzok and Lisa Page texting about The people in the Obama White House who wanted to be kept up to date onto their work.
00:05:59.000It seems to suggest that people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper were very much involved in trying to create this narrative.
00:06:44.000We cannot forget that this happened, that people at the Department of Justice and the FBI were using political dirt that had origins at the Democratic National Committee to harm our republic.
00:06:56.000It was a terrible crime, but the deep state doesn't really go after their own.
00:07:02.000I don't know if we will ever see meaningful work product from John Durham.
00:07:07.000The truth is that nobody at the Department of Justice thinks they're going to make their career by pushing accountability over the Obama-Biden White House.
00:07:16.000Biden is the sitting president, and the Obama team?
00:07:18.000Well, they're the ones making all the decisions while they feed Sleepy Joe ice cream and send him off to Camp David for long naps.
00:07:33.000I can't put it any better than Devin Nunes.
00:07:37.000The Democrats in this country have weaponized over the last five, six years, and it really has been that long because you've got to go back to the Iran nuclear deal.
00:07:44.000They've weaponized the FBI, all the intelligence agencies.
00:07:50.000And look, you may hear a little bit of frustration in my voice.
00:07:53.000It's just because I didn't go to Washington to sit here and figure out who in our own government and the Democrats are using our intelligence services and military apparatuses to spy on our own citizens and play politics with it.
00:08:49.000Just as alligators have adapted to my Florida swamps over millennia, Joe Biden has adapted to Washington.
00:08:56.000Over the last 40 years, Joe Biden has turned the D.C. swamp into his own personal mud bath.
00:09:04.000Biden understands that personnel is policy.
00:09:08.000He has nominated David Chipman, a radical anti-gun lobbyist, for Michael Bloomberg to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
00:09:16.000Which, by the way, shouldn't even exist.
00:09:19.000Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms ought to be a chain of convenience stores, not a government agency.
00:09:24.000We don't need a bunch of gun-grabbing bureaucrats to tell us what shall not be infringed means.
00:09:30.000As evidence, the ATF wasn't even that friendly to gun owners during the Trump administration.
00:09:34.000In fact, if there's one thing the ATF is good at, it's turning the very people who arm themselves and keep their families and their communities safe into felons overnight.
00:09:47.000I know President Trump didn't want to turn gun owners using stabilizing braces into criminals, yet we had to send the Trump ATF this letter in December because they were doing just that.
00:09:59.000The December letter was a follow-up to a demand that then Representative Doug Collins and I sent in October that the ATF knock it off harassing gun owners with stabilizers.
00:10:10.000I don't think it's a coincidence that the ATF began hassling gun owners in October, right before the November presidential election.
00:10:20.000There's a deep state over there at the ATF, too.
00:10:24.000Now, Biden's pick to lead the agency, David Chipman, is uniquely dangerous and a clear and present threat to your unalienable Second Amendment rights.
00:10:33.000He should not be confirmed by a 50-50 Senate.
00:10:36.000His fate and the rights of every gun owner in America hang in the balance right now.
00:10:43.000Upon returning from August recess, it will be fish or cut bait time for the Chipman confirmation.
00:10:49.000Every Republican voted against him in the Judiciary Committee, and zero Republicans are expected to sport him on the floor.
00:12:30.000The AR-15 is a gun I was issued on ATF's SWAT team, and it's a particularly lethal weapon, and regulating it as other particularly lethal weapons It's not just that he has radical views.
00:12:47.000He wants to restrict your views, your expression, your speech.
00:12:52.000As if this clown wasn't sufficiently satisfied depriving Americans of their Second Amendment rights, he also wants to deny us of our First Amendment rights.
00:13:01.000Here's the Biden ATF nominee lamenting how frustrating it is that we can't take people's guns away for their speech.
00:13:09.000The frustration is, in the United States, the freedom of speech and to say things largely cannot be regulated.
00:13:18.000But yes, we have to do more to monitor hate speech on the Internet, but we also have to do more to curb that same speech being presented by our president and other elected public officials.
00:13:31.000The FBI, other federal agencies have a tough job responding to these threats when they don't currently have the authority to remove weaponry just because people are saying hateful things.
00:13:44.000The Second Amendment exists so we can protect the First Amendment.
00:14:30.000I've also watched the speeches of black ethno-nationalists like Al Sharpton.
00:14:34.000I found Nick's perspective on environmental preservation both well-informed and thought-provoking.
00:14:40.000Dailyveracity.com is reporting that the FBI has frozen Nick Fuentes' bank accounts, deactivated his credit cards.
00:14:47.000He's been placed on the commercial no-fly list.
00:14:51.000No evidence has been presented suggesting Fuentes did more than attend Trump's speech on January 6th, march to the Capitol, and cheer those who entered.
00:15:02.000I offer no praise for those who forced their way into the Capitol or were violent.
00:15:07.000I told them to go home on January 6th.
00:15:12.000But should the FBI have the ability to target people for just bad politics?
00:15:17.000Is having bad politics a criminal offense in America today?
00:15:21.000Does it justify harassment from the feds?
00:15:24.000Should the Department of Homeland Security really have the power to ban non-violent white supremacists or non-violent black supremacists from air travel?
00:15:35.000Matt Gaetz is defending white supremacy.
00:15:37.000The press will freak out when I drop this episode.
00:15:43.000I've just seen enough to know that if we aren't judging people based on their actions, if we want to create a new class of thought crimes, it won't be long before we're all labeled and banished for one reason or another.
00:15:56.000And finding ways to limit our interactions with one another.
00:16:11.000In the 90s, so many Republicans were trying to make content illegal.
00:16:15.000The left embraced the odd, the weird, the different.
00:16:18.000In the 2020s, we have ushered in a tyrannical new left, aided by the FBI, apparently.
00:16:25.000They'd punish you for your worst tweet, prosecute you for your most ill-advised association, banish you for politically incorrect expressions.
00:16:35.000The Democrat chairman of the Homeland Security Committee doesn't believe that United States Senator Josh Hawley or Congresswoman Lauren Boebert should be able to fly on commercial planes.
00:16:48.000There's no exemption for being put on the no-fly list.
00:16:55.000There's even a member of Congress that commits a crime.
00:18:46.000From sea to shining sea, not from toxic sludge pit to Asian carp infestation.
00:18:53.000Purple Mountain's majesty, not smog in the air poisoning our people and reducing our cherished land to mire.
00:19:00.000America First conservatives must love our environment.
00:19:04.000We must endeavor to protect it from filth.
00:19:08.000I've introduced the Green Real Deal in every Congress.
00:19:11.000It embraces conservation as a tenet of nationalism.
00:19:15.000Improve our electric grid, use nuclear, stop local governments from banning hydropower, allow innovators to test and tinker more on our federal lands.
00:19:23.000In fact, it might come as a surprise to many here, though it makes perfect sense that many of the prominent environmental organizations in this country at their founding held immigration views that were quite similar to the views held by President Trump.
00:19:37.000The concern was that unchecked immigration and open borders could put unsustainable pressure on the nation's environment and resources.
00:19:45.000Securing our environment from existential threats is something we might refer to as environmental security, And it is essential to securing both national security and border security in the long term.
00:19:57.000There is an existing portfolio of legislation that falls within the priorities and values of My Green Real Deal that could do a lot to solve the problem.
00:20:05.000Protecting our environment is not an issue of left versus right.
00:20:14.000It's conservative in the most essential, non-partisan and literal sense of the word, conserving the resources and the splendor of our natural world.
00:20:24.000America is often lauded as more than a country, it's an idea.
00:20:28.000But I would say it's even more than an idea.
00:21:24.000So as I'm standing at the border, literally at the border fence, thinking about this, watching the German Shepherd amble past, I was trying to talk to a border guard who, by the way, like, as noted, like, every Hungarian I have met, every, from the driver to the waiter to the border guard, had better English than our own president.
00:21:45.000I said, how often do people come to the border?
00:21:53.000How often do you see migrants putting ladders atop the concertina wire?
00:23:18.000The answer doesn't lie in the siren song of communism masquerading as environmentalism.
00:23:23.000After all, in communist countries large and small from China to Cuba, they are awful to the environment.
00:23:30.000Literally unilaterally disarming the American economy would actually make China stronger and the global environment far worse.
00:23:38.000Go to gates.house.gov to learn about my Green Real Deal legislation that embraces research, markets, and strategic investment to keep this stunning country we are so blessed to live in splendid and lovely.
00:24:09.000Public transportation carried this unreasonable risk of getting stabbed just for doing nothing, like possibly by some crazy person or someone that had been released.
00:24:40.000Managers greeted us with smiles and gratitude.
00:24:43.000This was a time when so many Americans saw their jobs become illegal.
00:24:48.000And a lot of these Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
00:24:51.000They hadn't done anything wrong, but because of some tyrannical governor or mayor, they weren't allowed to work, they weren't allowed to provide, they weren't allowed to contribute.
00:25:00.000And then, this venue that we went to in Jersey City, that we brought resources to, that we allowed to reach employment, they were threatened with criminal prosecution.
00:25:34.000This gathering of incredibly well-dressed New York political refugees had become an international incident.
00:25:40.000It is off and we begin here tonight with that party that is now a public safety concern.
00:25:44.000A posh Jersey City restaurant shut down after a maskless secret gala for the New York young Republicans last night.
00:25:52.000It has been dubbed the forbidden gala even by those in attendance, 150 people inside a New Jersey venue, at one point elbow to elbow, Posing for a maskless group photo.
00:26:01.000Maritime Park, a private events hall located in Jersey City's Liberty State Park, remains under investigation Friday.
00:26:08.000The result of a gala held here the night before, thrown by the New York Young Republican Club.
00:26:14.000In New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy blasting Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for attending an event at a New Jersey restaurant.
00:26:20.000Photos capturing dozens of people without masks.
00:26:23.000My mother saw this chyron on Fox News and wondered why I had been captured.
00:26:53.000By Florida Man standards, it wasn't even that rambunctious of a party.
00:26:56.000No one even tried to wrestle an alligator.
00:26:59.000I couldn't help but reflect on the hypocrisy.
00:27:02.000Had I come to Jersey City to torch a Wendy's or throw a Molotov cocktail at a George Washington statue, I would have been welcomed as a political expressionist.
00:27:13.000But because I came to give a political speech after having developed natural infection COVID immunity, I was dangerous.
00:27:21.000I don't bring this up now to rehash an old grievance or even because I want to go back to Jersey.
00:28:07.000New Jersey has a COVID death per capita rate of 299 for every 100,000 people.
00:28:12.000In Florida, it's not 299. It's 180. For those who have managed to survive Murphy's mismanagement of COVID, his mangling of the New Jersey economy has led to an unemployment rate of 7.3%.
00:28:26.000Compare that to Florida's 5% unemployment rate, which will go down further as Florida recharges through freedom.
00:28:35.000Perhaps Phil Murphy can call America's best governor, Ron DeSantis, for a few tips that could save lives.
00:28:41.000If New Jersey had maintained the COVID death rate that Florida has, there would be over 10,000 people who would be alive in Jersey today.
00:29:16.000A lot of members of Congress concerned about it.
00:29:18.000And we were supposed to have a call with Republicans from Florida at 11 o'clock today with the State Department, actually the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere.
00:29:31.000Had a lot of questions about why the Biden administration has allowed Thugs from Venezuela and Russia to move from Caracas into Havana, questions about the Biden administration simultaneously seeming to support freedom in Cuba, but then also being in unity of purpose with the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:29:54.000And BLM has actually put out a statement supporting the oppressive Cuban regime, leading us to believe that socialism may run thicker than blood.
00:30:05.000We're not going to be able to ask these questions of the Biden administration because just before our call with the State Department was supposed to occur, we get this message that the State Department has canceled the call.
00:30:17.000So we're going to continue to pursue the Biden administration on Cuba.
00:30:50.000Members of Congress are actually the ones who should be locked up and locked down if health conditions call for it.
00:30:55.000It was a point I was trying to make when I wore a large gas mask on the House floor.
00:30:59.000While every media outlet assumed my motive, saying I was mocking or making light of the virus, I was actually attempting a different point altogether, albeit, admittedly, unsuccessfully.
00:31:10.000As I stated in The Hill the day I wore the mask, look, members of Congress are human petri dishes.
00:31:25.000Many members of Congress got COVID. It was at times fatal.
00:31:30.000The great Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky demanded that the rules in place pre-COVID requiring members to show up and vote must be followed.
00:31:39.000He made Congress show up in person before spending trillions of dollars on COVID relief.
00:31:46.000We are learning late tonight that lawmakers are scrambling, if you can believe it, to get back to Washington by tomorrow morning in the middle of a global pandemic because one Republican Congressman, Thomas Massey of Kentucky, is expected to demand an in-person vote.
00:32:08.000Massey highlighted the appropriate critique of what was really going on.
00:32:11.000Congress was trying to spend $1.9 trillion without putting the names of the representatives next to whether or not they had voted yes or no.
00:32:19.000Whether you support CARES or not, authorizing $1.9 trillion of federal spending under the anonymous shroud is un-American.
00:32:29.000Voice votes are used as a mechanism all the time to quicken federal spending.
00:32:34.000Through swamp parlance, it's called suspension votes.
00:32:38.000Through this procedural tool, an unlimited number of bills can be passed almost instantly by the call of the speaker.
00:32:45.000Zero members will be held accountable by the recorded and permanently available congressional record.
00:33:21.000President Biden will continue to sign nice-sounding legislation, costing the taxpayers trillions of dollars.
00:33:29.000Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to artificially manipulate our economy, pushing down interest rates.
00:33:35.000Consequently, the value of your dollar is decreasing, and the price of consumer goods goes up every single day.
00:33:43.000You see it in the grocery store, you see it at the gas pump, you see it everywhere.
00:33:47.000This, in fact, is the worst outcome for real America.
00:33:50.000Joe Biden and the Democrats picking winners and losers and simultaneously making every one of the dollar bills you've worked for worth less in value.
00:34:01.000Representatives of yesteryear rode on horseback to Washington during the Civil War.
00:34:06.000They traveled and congregated against threats of murder, disease, savagery.
00:34:12.000We could probably stomach a few long car rides until vaccines or other remedies developed.
00:34:18.000That way there would be a recorded vote.
00:34:20.000So now, with vaccinated senators getting COVID anyway, congressional fear is at an apex.
00:34:29.000So we are likely to continue voting remotely, having committee hearings remotely, and having remote governance.
00:34:38.000There will be benefits and drawbacks to this system, of course.
00:34:42.000One consideration that I love is that lobbyists actually hate remote voting.
00:34:47.000They prefer congressional servants to be here in Washington D.C. It makes Congress easier to reach and easier to corrupt.
00:34:56.000Most lobbyists have multiple lunches and dinners and cocktail hours every single day with members of Congress.
00:35:01.000That's how they get their agenda before your agenda.
00:35:05.000It's far more difficult when we're strewn about the country.
00:35:09.000So let's all hope that Boomer Congress stays safe and returns to the fidelity of service to the people, wherever we may be.
00:35:19.000Let's also hope that after 16 months of Zoom meetings, Boomer Congress gets a little bit better at it.
00:35:25.000Because I don't know if I could take another year of this.
00:35:28.000We must make sure that our nation's sole proprietors and the smallest of small businesses receive timely...
00:35:46.000Authorizing capabilities CISA has brought, has built through a pilot called Cyber Sentry, which allows CISA to partner with certain strategically placed critical infrastructure.
00:36:01.000But as bad as American Congress is, the Canadians found a way to make it weirder.
00:36:10.000Mr. Speaker, As you know, since the beginning of the pandemic, we have tried to emphasize the importance of respecting quorum, the dress code here in the House, and I think that this, today, we've set a new record.
00:36:31.000We've seen a member during question period improperly dressed, that is...
00:37:10.000I would like to thank the Honourable Member for her observations.
00:37:15.000I missed that, but as she was speaking, I spoke with the technicians and indeed they did see something.
00:37:23.000And what I would like to do is to remind the members that when they even are at home, they must be aware that there is a camera and a microphone and they need to be aware of their functioning.
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