Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 42 LIVE: Ultra MAGA – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:04:59.000 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.

00:05:06.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:05:09.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:05:12.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:05:16.000 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!

00:05:25.000 You are in the right place!

00:05:26.000 This is the movement for you!

00:05:29.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:05:31.000 It's like a machine.

00:05:32.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:05:33.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.

00:05:37.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:05:41.000 They aren't really coming for me.

00:05:43.000 They're coming for you.

00:05:45.000 I'm just in the way.

00:05:51.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:05:52.000 We're broadcasting live from our Capitol Hill office here in Washington, D.C. There is a lot going on in the Congress today.

00:06:00.000 I'm gonna have you hot clips from the House Armed Services Committee, floor action, the big news, the $40 billion that the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved Late last evening to send to Ukraine, there were 57 who voted no.

00:06:18.000 Think about that.

00:06:19.000 Out of 435 members of the House, there were only 57 who voted against this at a time when, as we covered extensively on the podcast yesterday, Americans can't get baby formula in some places.

00:06:31.000 But we got $40 billion to send to Ukraine.

00:06:34.000 And we hear the typical members of the Uniparty Republicans and Democrats making the case that more than your job, more than this inflation, what you ought to care about is the great battle of the titans to decide the history of the world is what's going on in Ukraine.

00:06:52.000 Here's Senator Lindsey Graham.

00:06:54.000 There is no off-ramp in this war.

00:06:57.000 Somebody's gonna win and somebody's gonna lose.

00:06:59.000 And I hope and pray and do everything in my power to make sure Ukraine wins No off-ramp? 0.98

00:07:06.000 That's what we have to share with the American people?

00:07:10.000 Look, there's always an off-ramp.

00:07:11.000 And we keep acting like Russia is not a country with enough nuclear warheads to blow up the entire planet Earth multiple times over. 0.81

00:07:19.000 Incredibly irresponsible.

00:07:20.000 And if there's no off-ramp, then we are already in this thing.

00:07:25.000 You got dog walked into this war without even really knowing about it.

00:07:30.000 And now they're admitting it.

00:07:32.000 Here's Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton making principally the same argument as Lindsey Graham.

00:07:37.000 If they wrap this in the Senate with a Ukraine funding and a COVID funding, you guys okay with that, Congressman Moulton?

00:07:47.000 Look, I'm going to support it because it's the right thing to do for Ukraine.

00:07:50.000 I mean, obviously, there's a lot of politics involved and there will be domestic debates here at home about other policies and whatnot.

00:07:55.000 But at the end of the day, we've got to realize we're at war.

00:07:58.000 And we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians.

00:08:00.000 We're fundamentally at war, although it's somewhat through a proxy, with Russia.

00:08:04.000 And it's important that we win.

00:08:07.000 We are at war with Russia and there is no off ramp. 0.97

00:08:13.000 That is what the regime is telling you.

00:08:14.000 And I think that's crazy and irresponsible and a terrible thing to do while the American people are essentially left in the dark.

00:08:22.000 Didn't Joe Biden promise us that he was going to be like the presidency that returned everything to this like copacetic state of normal and we wouldn't have to get agitated anymore?

00:08:32.000 Bring back the mean tweets and spare me the war with Russia that we are in, that we are unable to get out of. 0.97

00:08:40.000 I've just stepped off the floor of the Congress.

00:08:42.000 I delivered my remarks.

00:08:43.000 They're already everywhere.

00:08:45.000 Christina Wong's Breitbart covering them.

00:08:46.000 We see these remarks getting shared by the Columbia Bugle, but we want it here for the Firebrand audience.

00:08:52.000 My response to Lindsey Graham and Seth Moulton about this war with Russia.

00:08:57.000 Take a listen.

00:08:58.000 Madam Speaker, I rise to warn of a dangerous bipartisan consensus that is walking us into war with Russia.

00:09:06.000 In the days following Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, Senator Rob Portman said, I haven't seen this kind of unity since 9-11.

00:09:14.000 It's a nice statement, but what does it really mean?

00:09:18.000 Unity always seems to come before the worst decisions we make.

00:09:23.000 Our drive to unity often overruns our reason and discernment.

00:09:28.000 The post 9-11 consensus gave us the Iraq War, the Patriot Act.

00:09:32.000 The COVID lockdowns and mandates came from unity bundled by fear.

00:09:38.000 Defund the police took off because dissent wasn't allowed.

00:09:41.000 You were shouted down as a racist. 0.92

00:09:43.000 Just as now, questioning our actions in Ukraine makes you a traitor. 0.85

00:09:48.000 Do we have amnesia in this house?

00:09:52.000 Is memory loss a consequence of the gerontocracy of Congress?

00:09:58.000 Just a year ago, we lost a war against goat herders waving rifles. 1.00

00:10:02.000 Now we're rushing to fight a nation that possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads?

00:10:08.000 Representatives now recklessly assert that we are at war.

00:10:12.000 Congressman Moulton said last week, quote, we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians, we're fundamentally at war, although somewhat through a proxy, with Russia.

00:10:24.000 The clandestine services are supposed to be the quiet professionals.

00:10:28.000 Seems now they can't stop bragging to news outlets about how America helped Ukraine assassinate Russian generals and sink Russia's flagship.

00:10:37.000 How exactly is this supposed to end?

00:10:40.000 It's as if the administration is probing Putin's nuclear red line.

00:10:46.000 A game of chicken between nuclear powers is insane, and this from Joe Biden, who campaigned to be America's calming sedative.

00:10:55.000 From Russia, I worry about nuclear weapons, not broken tanks.

00:11:01.000 Last night, this House approved $40 billion for Ukraine as American Families Go Without Baby formula.

00:11:08.000 To put that in context, Biden's budget calls for $15.3 billion for Customs and Border Patrol.

00:11:15.000 So apparently Ukraine is more than twice as important as our homeland.

00:11:21.000 Two weeks ago, we voted on the Ukraine Lend Lease Act.

00:11:23.000 I was one of just 10 representatives to vote no.

00:11:26.000 And here was the response from MSNBC. GOP's Putin wing balks at supplying weapons to Ukraine.

00:11:34.000 So you're a supporter of Putin if you think it's a bad idea to give the White House blanket permission to send, quote, any weapon, weapon system, munition, aircraft, vessel, boat, or other implement of war to Ukraine while surrendering our rights to repayment.

00:11:51.000 We are sending so many weapons to Ukraine that we're depleting our own stockpiles.

00:11:56.000 And we aren't just sending bullets and rifles.

00:11:58.000 Now we're sending howitzers that can fire up to 15 miles.

00:12:02.000 This means weapons we supply and train Ukrainians to use could potentially strike Russian territory. 0.87

00:12:08.000 And these weapons aren't just ending up in the hands of the Ukrainian military, either.

00:12:13.000 One official said weapons, quote, drop it to a big black hole.

00:12:17.000 Many of these are ending up in the hands of the Azov Battalion.

00:12:21.000 40 House Democrats called them a neo-Nazi foreign terrorist organization just three years ago.

00:12:27.000 Now that they're killing Russians, are these avowed ethno-nationalists apparently not so bad? 0.84

00:12:34.000 Democrats go on a daily snipe hunt for white supremacy here in America, and yet they're fine giving rockets to actual white supremacists in Ukraine.

00:12:47.000 Taking the position that we arm anyone to the teeth who will shoot at Russians has actually not always worked for America. 0.82

00:12:54.000 It's javelins to neo-Nazis today.

00:12:57.000 Stinger missiles to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan yesterday.

00:13:01.000 In Syria, another conflict that Washington had consensus on, we supplied jihadist terrorists in their fight against Assad.

00:13:09.000 Assad, like Putin, is an evil man, but does that mean the American taxpayer must arm his enemies without any further inquiry?

00:13:17.000 I don't think so.

00:13:18.000 And I would imagine most Americans don't think so.

00:13:21.000 But that's why we never have real debate on these issues.

00:13:24.000 The swamp would rather talk about saving democracy than our actual dangerous reality.

00:13:31.000 And if we are at war, like Congressman Moulton says, then why not vote on an authorization to use military force?

00:13:38.000 Or are we just going to operate in Ukraine like we have in Yemen and throughout the world? 0.69

00:13:44.000 Forever undeclared wars.

00:13:47.000 I suspect many in this body won't want a vote or a debate because regime change in Russia is their actual objective, not defending Ukraine.

00:13:56.000 And to achieve this goal, they're willing to send billions to Kyiv that will line the pockets of corrupt officials just like we did in Afghanistan.

00:14:05.000 We are sleepwalking into a war, and the American people are left in the dark.

00:14:13.000 We're back live here in my house office building on Wednesday, and the comments section fired up.

00:14:20.000 Russ has been putting out a manuscript in the comments section on Facebook.

00:14:25.000 I can't read it all, Russ, because there's a whole lot there, but I do appreciate your support for our military members, their families, our first responders.

00:14:33.000 Got a lot to say about the woke corporations.

00:14:36.000 And the 2000 Mules documentary.

00:14:38.000 We are going to have so much coverage coming up about election integrity and the way that geotracking and technology tools are actually showing you how just thorough the effort to steal the 2020 election was.

00:14:53.000 We are talking about Ukraine, but I gotta say, Ukraine is not the only country that is the subject of a series of regime lies to the American people.

00:15:06.000 This government, our government, is lying to you about Saudi Arabia.

00:15:11.000 Since September 11, 2001, there's been widespread speculation that Saudi Arabia had some involvement in planning, organizing, financing the terrorist attacks in New York City.

00:15:22.000 We all know they were part of the execution.

00:15:25.000 15 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi nationality.

00:15:29.000 The government of Saudi Arabia has staunchly claimed to be innocent, unattached, and otherwise rather offended at all the activity on 9-11.

00:15:40.000 The truth cannot hide forever.

00:15:42.000 On September 3, 2021, Joe Biden issued an executive order directing declassification review of documents related to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which I supported and that we talked about on Firebrand.

00:15:57.000 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia deserves intense focus on this exact front.

00:16:03.000 President Joe Biden recently ordered the declassification of documents evidencing Saudi Arabia's 9-11 connections.

00:16:11.000 Though Biden did this under political pressure from 9-11 families who were going to exclude him from 9-11 ceremonies, we enthusiastically endorse this declassification.

00:16:23.000 Now, we're going to learn a lot.

00:16:27.000 We sure did learn a lot.

00:16:29.000 Five days after this executive order was administered, the Saudi Arabian embassy released a, quote, statement on the release of classified 9-11 documents, including the proclamation that, and I'm quoting directly here from the Saudis, no evidence has ever emerged to indicate that the Saudi government or its officials had previous knowledge no evidence has ever emerged to indicate that the Saudi government or its officials had previous knowledge of the terrorist attack or were in any Any allegation that Saudi Arabia is complicit in the September 11 attacks is categorically false.

00:17:00.000 That's right.

00:17:00.000 That's what the Saudi Arabian Embassy said in an official statement in response to this decision regarding the classification of the 9-11 documents.

00:17:08.000 Sounds a little defensive.

00:17:10.000 Thou doth protest a bit much.

00:17:13.000 Two weeks later, I was reporting something quite different on our eighth episode of Firebrand.

00:17:19.000 It's called Criminal Consulates.

00:17:20.000 It's a great episode.

00:17:21.000 Check out this clip from that episode.

00:17:25.000 Saudi Arabia's Los Angeles Consulate was directly involved in assisting two 9-11 hijackers.

00:17:33.000 Housing, bank accounts, logistics, their American experience, coordinated and curated by Saudi government officials.

00:17:44.000 So on May 5th, Insider published this article titled Declassified FBI Memo Confirms Direct Connection Between the Saudi Government and 9-11.

00:17:56.000 This was spawned not by anything that the United States government released, but by newly released evidence from British intelligence, which further suggests that Omar al-Bayomi, who met two of the 9-11 hijackers and an imam with al-Qaeda ties before 9-11, who met two of the 9-11 hijackers and an imam with al-Qaeda ties before 9-11, that al-Bayomi was The connection is real.

00:18:20.000 It is obvious.

00:18:21.000 There is a money trail.

00:18:23.000 There's certainly evidence that the Saudi government, al-Qaeda, and the plane hijackers were connected in the planning, preparation, and execution.

00:18:31.000 But the money factor makes it clear.

00:18:34.000 If the U.S. intelligence agencies continue to open the seals of the existing evidence, the American public and the rest of the world will get answers.

00:18:43.000 This is where Omar al-Bayomi resurfaces. 0.52

00:18:47.000 Here's a Bayomi recap from Episode 8 of Firebrand.

00:18:50.000 Take a listen.

00:18:52.000 As you can see on this chart, Omar al-Bayomi and Fahad al-Tumari are top dogs in this uncovered, Saudi Arabia-supported, Los Angeles-based terror network.

00:19:04.000 Let's start with al-Bayoumi.

00:19:05.000 Omar al-Bayoumi is a Saudi intelligence agent.

00:19:09.000 I'm sure he's bonesaw trained.

00:19:11.000 Al-Bayoumi was the advance team for two of the 9-11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mindhar.

00:19:19.000 They had nowhere to live, fresh from the desert, probably still had sand in between the pages of their Quran, and Al-Bayomi secured their housing.

00:19:29.000 After meeting both of the terrorists at the Mediterranean Grill in 2000, Al-Bayomi finds them an apartment in San Diego.

00:19:37.000 He even signed financial documents to secure that apartment and bank accounts.

00:19:44.000 On the record, Biomi declares this a chance encounter.

00:19:48.000 Now, I've had a lot of chance encounters in my life, and some of those I certainly regret.

00:19:53.000 But chance encounters typically don't start with kebabs and hummus and end with opening bank accounts together or signing financial guarantees to lock in rent agreements.

00:20:05.000 I wouldn't even co-sign a rent agreement for most of my friends, much less a chance encounter at a terrorist hangout.

00:20:12.000 We are supposed to believe that the Saudi government officials who opened bank accounts with two terrorists and secured housing for terrorists were somehow not involved when those very jihadists flew planes into buildings.

00:20:28.000 So it was obvious to me then, and it is even more evidenced now after the Brits released this information.

00:20:36.000 But the FBI, they had memos on Al Biomi and his involvement in 9-11.

00:20:40.000 They've existed for years.

00:20:42.000 But it was a recent reveal of documents by the British government, not by their own volition, but as a consequence of litigation from the 9-11 victims' families.

00:20:53.000 It was a civil suit, and it confirmed our beliefs.

00:20:56.000 In a once obtained document from Albiomi, British investigators discovered a drawing of a plane descending toward a target, including an equation that an FBI source said was used to calculate, quote, the height of an aircraft necessary to see a target.

00:21:17.000 So the Insider article also reports that the evidence declassified by the British government also includes videos showing Bayoumi filming himself and his circle during his time in San Diego.

00:21:30.000 One of them shows him embracing a local imam who at the time had ties to al-Qaeda.

00:21:34.000 Like al-Bayoumi, al-Waqi was used by the hijackers.

00:21:39.000 This was the imam.

00:21:41.000 He was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.

00:21:43.000 So this guy's hugging the people that are so bad, we're drone striking them in Yemen.

00:21:48.000 He's providing the rent and materiel and logistical assistance to the hijackers.

00:21:54.000 And now, because of what we learned on May 5th, we know he was getting paid by the Saudis.

00:21:59.000 And we know that their denial was full of it.

00:22:02.000 A second video shows Khalid al-Mindhar, one of the two San Diego hijackers, in the kitchen of the apartment that Bayomi helped him rent.

00:22:10.000 At one point you can even see those doubting Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9-11 coming to the conclusion here that there is clearly significant activity at play.

00:22:21.000 So how many more diagrams?

00:22:23.000 Hugs with imams that are involved in terrorism? 1.00

00:22:26.000 How many rent agreements?

00:22:27.000 How much logistical support?

00:22:29.000 How much video evidence do we need?

00:22:31.000 Omar al-Bayomi has now returned to Saudi Arabia, of course.

00:22:35.000 But the deposition he gave in the civil suit involving the families of 9-11 victims remains under seal.

00:22:42.000 And it is time to release all the al-Bayomi files.

00:22:45.000 And you know what?

00:22:47.000 It's time for the Saudi government to present this guy for questioning to our victims' families so that we can get to the bottom of it.

00:22:54.000 And if they won't do that, what kind of friend are they?

00:22:58.000 I've called for the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles to be closed and now as a result of Information that 9-11 victim families got in litigation, not in our country, but in the UK, we know that al-Bayomi was getting paid by Saudi intelligence.

00:23:15.000 And we know why.

00:23:16.000 It was 9-11.

00:23:18.000 It was horrible.

00:23:19.000 And look, if the current leaders in Saudi Arabia want to move past this, if we're supposed to believe that MBS is some new type of enlightened leader because he lets women drive... 0.65

00:23:32.000 Then he should prove it.

00:23:34.000 He should expose the elements of the Saudi government, of the royal family who were involved in this, and he should help us bring them to justice.

00:23:41.000 But if MBS is going to cover for these guys, if he's going to protect al-Bayomi, if his government entities are going to release these statements just repeating their denials, then it really calls into question what kind of friends they are.

00:23:57.000 Now, we're still sending them All kind of military equipment.

00:24:01.000 We especially send the Saudis some of the most elite fighter jets in the world.

00:24:06.000 And part of them buying those jets isn't just buying the steel.

00:24:10.000 They buy the training.

00:24:11.000 They buy the work that is done to develop the capabilities and skills of the various pilots, technology, network communication, and the like.

00:24:23.000 And oftentimes that training is It occurs in our country.

00:24:27.000 Some of it occurs in my district in Pensacola.

00:24:30.000 And on December 6th, 2019, a Saudi flight student opened fire on my constituents, killing three sailors, injuring many others, summoning as a response just tremendous effort and patriotism and bravery from uniformed military and from our local law enforcement. 0.96

00:24:52.000 Now we see that some folks are trying to determine the extent of Saudi's involvement in that activity.

00:24:59.000 Was it recklessness?

00:25:00.000 Was it negligence?

00:25:02.000 Something worse?

00:25:03.000 Not recognizing radicalization?

00:25:05.000 So just today, we had a hearing with the Secretary of the Navy And it's my hope and it's my belief that the Navy is going to do more than they have done for the benefit of our sailors and our brave law enforcement.

00:25:20.000 Take a listen to that exchange.

00:25:23.000 Admiral Gilday, I come from Pensacola, a proud Navy town.

00:25:27.000 And our community was rocked December of 2019 when a Saudi student opened fire, killed three sailors, injured others, injured members of our law enforcement.

00:25:40.000 And I've been to many briefings since then.

00:25:43.000 In public and in private, and the picture emerges that definitely the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was not doing enough to send only their best people, as one might say.

00:25:53.000 They were not doing enough to monitor potential radicalization.

00:25:57.000 And frankly, we weren't doing enough to ensure that that was happening.

00:26:02.000 What assurance can you give my constituents in Pensacola that we have improved?

00:26:08.000 So sir, since that incident, under then Secretary of Defense Esper, significant changes were made in the screening process for all foreign students from any military, including our NATO allies, that come to the United States to train with us.

00:26:24.000 And so I met as recently as yesterday with a senior leader from a partner nation who Who expressed concern about the amount of time it's taking to get his sailors into our country to train.

00:26:39.000 And I explained to him how important it was that we work together to go through this process very deliberately and methodically so that we don't make any mistakes.

00:26:48.000 And he accepted that.

00:26:50.000 But we have leveraging the intelligence community and the FBI made significant changes.

00:26:58.000 I really appreciate that.

00:26:59.000 And as much as we want to host these missions for the benefit of global security, we have to put the safety of our sailors, of our service members first.

00:27:09.000 And, Admiral Gilday, there was, in 2019, base-specific guidance for these Saudi students, wasn't there?

00:27:18.000 There was, yes, sir.

00:27:19.000 And there also were specific rules for the installation regarding these students that were there, right?

00:27:27.000 Yes, sir.

00:27:28.000 And there were arrival packets for each of the Saudi students who arrived with their specific information such that we knew it, right?

00:27:36.000 Yes, sir.

00:27:37.000 They were assigned liaison officers with each of those students.

00:27:41.000 They were assigned in-boarding processes for each of those students.

00:27:46.000 Yes, sir.

00:27:47.000 And on January 13, 2020, there was a memorandum issued by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for continuous review for international military students, right?

00:27:57.000 Yes, sir.

00:27:58.000 And there have been written policies and procedures off that memo subsequently, right?

00:28:02.000 Yes, sir.

00:28:03.000 There have been many changes.

00:28:04.000 And we've specifically required changes from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, right?

00:28:09.000 We have.

00:28:11.000 All these things are probably not that difficult to find, right?

00:28:16.000 Would you be willing to provide those things to my office that I've just asked for?

00:28:20.000 Yes, sir.

00:28:20.000 We'll provide a detailed briefing for you.

00:28:22.000 That is incredibly helpful and comforting.

00:28:24.000 I know it's a work in process.

00:28:26.000 I know the social media tools and the technologies change.

00:28:29.000 My one concern is that the first responders who were running in the direction of the bullets to save our sellers, they are in litigation now with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

00:28:41.000 And I posit no perspective on how Course will rule on those things.

00:28:45.000 I'm certainly not asking you to do that.

00:28:47.000 But they've made a FOIA request of the Navy for the things that I've just asked you to provide and that you said would not be all that difficult to put our hands on.

00:28:57.000 And that FOIA request has been pending since March 23rd.

00:29:00.000 And the correspondence from the Navy back sort of says, well, gosh, this is voluminous.

00:29:05.000 There may be other people who block our access to it.

00:29:08.000 And I just think that the Navy ought to stand up for our sailors and their family members.

00:29:16.000 I want your assurance that the Navy will do everything possible to provide the documentation and evidence, because the way this has to work in court is that there's this JASTA law where there have to be specific elements pled and there has to be evidence for those elements to unlock discovery.

00:29:32.000 And some of these documents that these litigants are asking To get from the Navy are necessary to sink jurisdiction in that matter.

00:29:40.000 So again, I won't ask you to opine on the status of litigation or the law, but just these things that seem pretty basic, I'm very grateful for your focus on it and for your willingness to facilitate the delivery of those records.

00:29:52.000 Yes, sir.

00:29:52.000 We'll find out what constraints might be in the way here that are causing...

00:29:56.000 I'm sorry, who might be in the way?

00:29:58.000 We will take a look at what constraints may be inhibiting the release of those documents under that FOIA request.

00:30:05.000 But I owe you a more detailed answer in terms of the...

00:30:09.000 I'm just used to this with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where they seem to have a lot of people sympathetic to their cause, wandering around the Justice Department and wandering around elsewhere.

00:30:18.000 I take your sincerity here that you're going to do everything possible to make sure that we resolve this and that we get better going forward.

00:30:27.000 You notice how the tune changed when I mentioned that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was being sued.

00:30:32.000 When I started by just asking like the basic questions, do you have these records that these people that showed up on our military bases have packets that you could produce?

00:30:40.000 The answer was yes, we can get those.

00:30:42.000 We'll provide them to you.

00:30:43.000 And then when I explained that the reasoning is that we have Americans who are seeking redress, you automatically saw Admiral Gilday become far more reserved and say, well, I've got to take a look at what might be getting in the way.

00:30:55.000 And it really brings us back to the point with Albiomi and 9-11. 0.92

00:30:59.000 I mean, the American system ought to be better at generating the truth and the records and the evidence than the British system when it comes to the stuff happening in the United States of America, like 9-11, like my constituents getting shot by this terrorist who was working for the government of Saudi Arabia when he committed these murders in northwest Florida.

00:31:21.000 So I'm going to stay on this.

00:31:23.000 I'm going to stay on the Navy.

00:31:24.000 The Navy needs to be on the side of America's sailors.

00:31:28.000 And our law enforcement, they do not need to be acting as some proxy for Saudi Arabia, and they don't need to be out there whitewashing the activities of Saudi Arabia or standing in the way of evidence.

00:31:39.000 Too many entities within our government are already standing in the way of the 9-11 evidence, and I am not going to allow this to happen to my constituents in Pensacola, Florida.

00:31:48.000 It will not happen.

00:31:49.000 We're getting to the bottom of it, and I will report further on Firebrand if necessary.

00:31:55.000 We do see now a real confluence of events around the strategy of Democrats in the Congress and politically.

00:32:03.000 You saw the Ministry of Truth set up by this Nina Jankiewicz lady under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. 0.99

00:32:09.000 We've covered that a lot on Firebrand.

00:32:12.000 The January 6th committee is about to hold their hearings.

00:32:15.000 You see The Supreme Court threatened.

00:32:19.000 Now they're talking about packing the court again.

00:32:21.000 They're outside people's homes, rallying up their armies, their call to arms, as some might say.

00:32:28.000 I think that was Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago.

00:32:33.000 But there has always been, I think, an effort to take their disdain for Donald Trump and to turn that on the rest of us.

00:32:43.000 A political movement that they fear.

00:32:46.000 And we saw direct evidence of this from the President of the United States, Joe Biden.

00:32:50.000 Take a listen.

00:32:52.000 Senator Rick Scott of Florida, United States Senator, who's leading the Republican National Senatorial Campaign Committee, released what he calls the ultra MAGA agenda.

00:33:02.000 It's a MAGA agenda, all right.

00:33:04.000 Let me tell you about this ultra MAGA agenda.

00:33:06.000 It's extreme, as most MAGA things are.

00:33:09.000 I don't want to hear Republicans talk about deficits and their ultra MAGA agenda.

00:33:15.000 So initially it was an impeachment of Trump, but now it's ultra MAGA. It's all of MAGA. By the way, I've looked at Senator Scott's plan, and I think it deserves debate, discussion.

00:33:25.000 Of course, a lot of plans can be changed over time, but I'm grateful that Rick Scott, my senator, at least had the guts to put out an agenda and a plan.

00:33:34.000 Too often, Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are just willing to be defined by what the Democrats say or do, and I think putting out an aggressive, bold plan, as Rick Scott did, is a sign of leadership, and it's something that more Republicans ought to be willing to do.

00:33:49.000 That way the American people can bring into technicolor what we believe and how it will help them.

00:33:56.000 What the Democrats are trying to bring into technicolor is fear.

00:34:00.000 And you saw Joe Biden right there in that clip trying to stoke that fear.

00:34:05.000 And what they believe is the great theater, is the great forum, is the great platform to really bring all this fear together and use it in the midterm elections, it's the January 6th committee.

00:34:19.000 Now, a lot of folks say, ah, well, you know, the Democrats, they're screwed on this January 6th committee.

00:34:24.000 And the American people have moved on.

00:34:26.000 The American people are looking at grocery bills, gas prices, inflation, limited economic opportunities, crushing effects of the slowing growth that we've seen under President Biden.

00:34:39.000 But here's what I'll tell you.

00:34:41.000 They get better at this every time and Republicans might not want to hear that like I remember being in grade school and like the North Korean missile program was always the butt of every joke it was like synonymous with failure if you're talking about the North Korean missile program you were talking about something that wouldn't work that was laughably bad and now you should hear some of the briefings we get about that program and its capabilities and the real concern that Americans ought to have over it and the reason is They 0.71

00:35:11.000 tried and tried and failed and failed, and they got better.

00:35:16.000 Democrats have done the same when it comes to this impeachment strategy.

00:35:21.000 The Russia hoax was a nightmare for them.

00:35:24.000 The Mueller hearing was a disaster.

00:35:27.000 We dispositively won that.

00:35:29.000 Jim Jordan, myself, Ron DeSantis, Mark Meadows, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert.

00:35:34.000 We won.

00:35:36.000 They lost.

00:35:37.000 And they got like a little bit better on the Ukraine impeachment, right?

00:35:41.000 Well, then they got actually to an impeachment, rather than it fizzling out as a consequence of no evidence.

00:35:47.000 And the reason is because their tactics changed, right?

00:35:51.000 In the Ukraine impeachment, you didn't see the Jerry Nadler strategy of, the moment we get something, we're going to hold a hearing and put it out.

00:35:57.000 That just became like a kaleidoscope of information that the American people never really saw drawn into a consistent frame or focus.

00:36:05.000 But on Ukraine, Adam Schiff...

00:36:09.000 Evolved the strategy.

00:36:10.000 He changed the tactics.

00:36:11.000 He brought Democrats down into the bunker.

00:36:14.000 And then they had secret depositions and selective leaks to try to frame up what didn't really exist.

00:36:22.000 Now, President Trump blew a hole through that when he released the transcript, which they never thought he would do.

00:36:26.000 And I would like to say my Republicans and I went down and we jail broke the truth out of that skiff by storming the skiff when they were engaged in improper activity down there.

00:36:36.000 That forced them to the surface.

00:36:38.000 But they still didn't get a conviction, weren't successful.

00:36:41.000 Then January 6th comes around.

00:36:44.000 They build a multimedia plan.

00:36:47.000 They get better storytellers.

00:36:50.000 They get better venues.

00:36:52.000 And in the January 6th impeachment of President Trump, you see they actually not only impeached him in the House, but they actually got Republicans, you know, more than just one or two, to vote for that impeachment in the United States Senate.

00:37:05.000 So each time a little better.

00:37:07.000 And now what they're doing is not an impeachment of Trump, but the January 6th committee is an impeachment of MAGA. It's an impeachment of America first.

00:37:16.000 And Joe Biden gaslights it himself right there.

00:37:20.000 And what they're really looking forward to is that now they have a system where they don't have to tussle with me and with Jim Jordan.

00:37:28.000 And you can hear him confessing it on MSNBC News.

00:37:32.000 This is Jason Johnson's program on MSNBC, and he's interviewing one of these liberal commentators that are on.

00:37:38.000 Take a listen.

00:37:40.000 One of the things that's going to be very unique about these proceedings, that's going to be varied, even from the Mueller proceedings, different from impeachment, there's not going to be the Jim Jordans, the Matt Gaetzes, the Louie Gohmerts, the Steve Kings, the clown show.

00:37:55.000 They're not a part of this hearing.

00:37:56.000 Because Kevin McCarthy made the ingenious decision not to put anybody forward that could actually defend the president.

00:38:02.000 So this hearing, these proceedings, it's going to be wall-to-wall message discipline.

00:38:06.000 It's going to be wall-to-wall controlled by people who believe in the purpose of this committee.

00:38:10.000 There's not going to be any filibustering of witnesses.

00:38:12.000 There's not going to be any random redirects talking about things that have nothing to do with the topic, like child pornography.

00:38:17.000 It's not going to be a repeat of what we saw during the confirmation hearings.

00:38:20.000 It's going to be straightforward.

00:38:21.000 It's going to be direct.

00:38:23.000 It's going to be on message.

00:38:24.000 And Republicans will have no way to disrupt it.

00:38:26.000 And I believe that as Donald Trump is watching, that he's going to lose his mind wondering, why isn't anybody out there defending me?

00:38:32.000 It was a huge tactical mistake by Kevin McCarthy.

00:38:36.000 I don't think it'll just be President Trump wondering why there aren't Republicans on that committee.

00:38:40.000 I think it'll be a lot of our fellow Americans who are saying, wait a second, shouldn't you see a Mike Johnson, a Jim Jordan, a Matt Gaetz on that committee providing, I think, appropriate context?

00:38:51.000 But you heard it there.

00:38:52.000 You heard the absolute signal.

00:38:55.000 Wall-to-wall control.

00:38:57.000 That is what they want.

00:38:58.000 Wall-to-wall control because they cannot win a fair and honest debate.

00:39:03.000 Other things going on in the Congress right now, if you just heard those bells, that's a signal that it's time to vote, so I'll be heading down to the floor in just a moment.

00:39:10.000 But late last night, as part of the Ukraine deal, the House of Representatives passed a resolution changing House rules so that staff could unionize, congressional staff could unionize.

00:39:22.000 And I want you to know, I'm totally against that.

00:39:25.000 And it's not because I don't think unions do good things for some people, but this is not a business.

00:39:29.000 This is government, okay?

00:39:31.000 We have a certain number of dollars that we lay out for the provision of our services to our constituents, like this very service of a video report in real time about what's going on.

00:39:41.000 And I would not have been able to build this podcast for you if we had unionized rules because I had to bring in special people with special talents who maybe didn't build up an extended resume of working their way up from the lowest level of a congressional staff.

00:39:57.000 They had done other things in the private sector or even people in Congress who get promoted quickly because they are very good at their job.

00:40:06.000 You see, that doesn't happen in a world in which you have to honor seniority above all else, which is typically what's enforced by unions.

00:40:14.000 So I'm against it.

00:40:15.000 I think that if it becomes required in any way or if there's any sort of effort to coerce union membership, then that would be very unfortunate.

00:40:25.000 That would be a bad thing for our constituents. 0.96

00:40:28.000 That would be a bad thing for the country.

00:40:30.000 So I will continue to follow it.

00:40:32.000 I'll continue to give you updates.

00:40:33.000 Another story I want to make sure that folks check out.

00:40:36.000 This is from...

00:40:38.000 Breck Dunn at Fox Business, GOP primary voters want Congress to crack down on big tech survey fines.

00:40:45.000 So, great to see that Republican voters are really catching up to this.

00:40:50.000 We still have far too many Republicans in Congress who are willing to do the bidding of big tech.

00:40:55.000 If you're interested in the specific proposals or the specific timelines, go back and check out our big tech episode.

00:41:02.000 It was live with Ken Buck.

00:41:05.000 And you'll really get a sense of what the game plan is and how we go at this thing.

00:41:09.000 And frankly, it's going to be a bipartisan effort.

00:41:11.000 And I'm okay with that because big tech is kind of like the Death Star and we have to shoot everything we can at it in order to have a chance for free speech to prevail.

00:41:21.000 Thanks so much for joining us here on Firebrand.

00:41:23.000 Make sure you are subscribed with notifications turned on.

00:41:26.000 That way you know each and every time we go live.

00:41:28.000 Roll the credits.

00:41:29.000 Look forward to being back with you.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - May 11, 2022

Episode 42 LIVE: Ultra MAGA – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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