Learn English with Matt Gaetz. Rep. Gaetz was one of the few in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents. He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws, so we're going to keep running the 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. You are brave, and you are willing to fight for your country. Matt is a hero in many ways, but he's also a problem in the Democratic Party, and we're gonna keep hitting him with stories to hurt him. In this episode, we'll cover: 1. What does it take to be a hero? 2. What should you do after a mass shooting? 3. How should we respond to mass shootings? 4. What can we do to prevent mass shootings in the future? 5. How can we prevent them in the first place? 6. What are we to do about them? 7. How do we know they won't happen again? 8. What do we need to do? 9. What is the difference between good and bad laws? 10. Should we have more guns in schools? 11. What s the role of law enforcement? 12. What would you do in the wake of mass shootings like Parkland, Texas? 13. What kind of gun control? 14. 15. How many guns should we have in our schools be more secure? 16. What type of guns are we should have in schools 17. Is there a gun control in schools safer? 18. What makes a school safer than a safe school 19. How much money should we pay for our children s education 21. What we should we be allowed to own a gun? 22. What sort of guns we should be trained in schools in a school? or a gun that s a gun in a safe place and so much more? And so we don t have a gun policy? Is it possible to be safe in schools better than a gun background check 23. What's the worst thing we can we learn from a school shooter in the United States? 25. What will you do to stop a school shooting in America?
00:04:47.000Matt 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.
00:04:54.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:04:57.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:05:00.000So we're going to keep running the stories to keep hurting him.
00:05:04.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
00:05:35.000You guys are spasming into this reflexive response and you call it an emergency hearing, right?
00:05:47.000And the basis for the emergency is what happened in Evaldi.
00:05:51.000And we all agree it was awful and tragic, but you are not providing the thoughtful solutions that would actually reduce the likelihood of that.
00:05:58.000When you make an argument in the Judiciary Committee, For a change in the law, there are two components.
00:06:03.000You have to demonstrate a need for the change, and that what you're bringing forward will actually affect that in a positive way.
00:06:09.000And it's the second part of the argument where the bills you've presented today undeniably fail.
00:06:15.000And in Florida, I would suggest we had a process that's a little bit better than what we've observed here.
00:06:21.000In Florida, following Parkland, every Floridian Wanted to reduce the likelihood that that could ever occur again, for precisely the reasons that animate your passions today.
00:06:32.000But instead of rushing to town, stumbling bills together, we got our very best sheriffs, our very best police chiefs, former members of law enforcement, people with tactical experience, even parents of slain children.
00:06:45.000And we put them on a board to review the school shooting as if it were an airline crash, dispassionately, And then, as a consequence, what we saw was actually a failure in law enforcement, that the sheriff in Broward County was so recalcitrant in not doing the training, that the on-the-ground law enforcement were so derelict in their duties that children died that didn't need to.
00:07:09.000And so, Governor DeSantis rightly fired that sheriff, replaced them, put better training in, more money to harden our schools and our synagogues, our houses of worship across the state of Florida, and we're safer as a consequence.
00:07:23.000So it's not that we're particularly here to talk about abortion or the border.
00:07:27.000We understand we have to make these things less likely, but whether it's...
00:07:31.000Are you holding an emergency hearing to respond to a leaked draft opinion that's not even final?
00:07:36.000Or now when Congressman Roy from Texas says, gosh, before you have the emergency Uvalde hearing, maybe we ought to figure out what happened in Uvalde so that we can make that frequency less likely to occur.
00:07:52.000We are alive now in the Longworth House office building in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. And I gave those remarks in the House Judiciary Committee as Democrats brought expansive gun control to the body following the Uvalde shooting.
00:08:07.000And I thought to myself, gosh, you know, there seems like there may be more to the story here.
00:08:12.000We have a saying, tough cases make bad laws.
00:08:15.000And that's because sometimes in people's passion to be responsive and to look alert, they lurch into policy options that end up being really bad for our people.
00:08:26.000And oftentimes, those emotion-laden legislative reactions take people's liberty away.
00:08:34.000We saw that tremendously during the pandemic, and we certainly see it now.
00:08:40.000I said, gosh, you know, before we go and deprive law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment during a national crime wave, let's get the evidence.
00:09:02.000At 11.33 a.m., the shooter's seen in the school dressed in black, his long gun in hand, making the chilling walk down the hall.
00:09:10.000Three minutes after the shooter walked into the school, first responding officers run into the building.
00:09:14.000A total of seven officers initially inside.
00:09:17.000Three of them run towards the classroom and hold just outside of it.
00:09:21.000A minute later, the gunman shoots at police, and the officers retreat towards the other end of the hallway.
00:09:26.000One looks as if a bullet had almost grazed his head.
00:09:29.000No one would approach the classroom for the next 45 minutes.
00:09:32.000This time lapse from 11.38 to 12.23 shows you the number of officers from multiple agencies that poured into the school, armed with long guns and plenty of shields.
00:09:42.000At 1221, gunshots heard coming from the classroom again, and we see law enforcement move closer down the hall, but they stall there for another 30 minutes.
00:09:51.000This time-lapse shows you the activity in that hallway from 1221 until 1250. No apparent attempt to breach the class.
00:10:15.000A more effective law enforcement response would have saved lives.
00:10:20.000And oftentimes we have states that are willing and able to craft the more effective law enforcement responses.
00:10:27.000I mean, the good here is not going to come out of Washington, D.C. Communities and states can undeniably become more resilient against school violence, and in Florida we've done that.
00:10:40.000But here, You could have taken away guns of a whole lot of law-abiding Americans and still not have narrowly tailored a solution to what resulted in just a tremendous amount of senseless and horrific death in the great state of Texas.
00:10:58.000Go ahead and play the hand sanitizer video here.
00:11:02.000I mean, if there's an enduring image burned in, it's the children being slaughtered, these students in the classroom calling 911, And here you've got this law enforcement response that is shameful and dangerous and horrific.
00:11:23.000And frankly, all Americans deserve better than a government that would, as I said in committee, spasm into a reaction without actually knowing what's going on.
00:11:35.000Hot action on the floor of the House of Representatives.
00:11:38.000Democrats are pushing what they call an active shooter alert bill.
00:11:44.000Every time there is a shooting, presumably within any proximity of where you are, within any grouping of people, the left, the Democrats in Congress, want to bombard your cell phone with active shooter messages.
00:12:12.000They were in a school building with an active shooter and didn't take action.
00:12:17.000You know, America is at her best when she encourages her citizens to have safe, responsible gun ownership.
00:12:25.000But under Democrats, instead, we have a government that instead wants to stigmatize and scare people about guns.
00:12:35.000Imagine you're at a concert with 5,000 people and everyone gets an alert on their phone, active shooter, because six blocks away there was a gunfire that went off, maybe an accident, maybe a tragedy.
00:12:48.000Would that make the circumstance safer?
00:13:17.000If you live in or near Democrat-run cities, it sounds like your phone will likely be buzzing off the hook.
00:13:24.000Some of our cities have shootings every day where multiple people are injured and often this happens in the jurisdictions with the most intense and liberty-depriving gun control.
00:13:34.000The bill states that an active shooter is defined as an individual, quote, determined to pose an active imminent threat to the people in a populated area.
00:13:42.000That sounds like a sizable amount of the people walking around the south side of Chicago every day.
00:13:57.000Working on police response times is of course a worthy goal, a worthy goal for the states where the Constitution resides, the police power.
00:14:05.000But alerting thousands of people to what may or may not have happened 30 minutes ago or 30 blocks away is in fact dangerous.
00:14:14.000And so one has to ask, what is the true purpose of this bill?
00:14:17.000Why do the Democrats want to use the power of government to bombard your cell phone with active shooter alerts 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
00:14:26.000It's because they want you to be afraid of the Second Amendment.
00:14:31.000It's because they want you to be afraid of responsible gun ownership and they hope That if they program you and bombard you long enough, that you'll hate your own Second Amendment rights or that you may tattle on your neighbor who is lawfully and rightfully exercising theirs.
00:14:46.000The American people should not fall for this.
00:14:53.000The American people shouldn't fall for it.
00:14:55.000And the American people deserve a government that will actually stand up for the virtue of safe, responsible gun ownership.
00:15:03.000But all you get from these Democrats in Congress today is anti-Second Amendment fear porn.
00:15:10.000And they want to plow it into your phone each and every hour of each and every day.
00:15:15.000I'm going to vote against this active shooter bill, and I would encourage everyone watching, reach out to your House members, reach out to your senators, let them know that you don't need the government in your cell phone, just...
00:15:27.000Evoking fear and trying to create an anti-gun society out of the United States of America.
00:15:34.000Certainly the will to fight was not something that we saw in these police responding in Uvalde, a will to even engage in responsible law enforcement.
00:15:43.000But the will to fight is actually something that we also have to frequently assess around the world, not just in our own country.
00:15:50.000And we've actually been really, really bad at it.
00:15:54.000You see, the neoconservatives and the interventionist Democrats, they want you to believe that America can be replicated in faraway lands.
00:16:04.000That there's nothing really special about our land or our people or our culture.
00:16:10.000That we could just go to some cave in Central Asia or some grouping of sand dunes in Arabia and build Jeffersonian democracies out of sand and blood and oil.
00:16:23.000And oftentimes, we spend your tax dollars, we spend the treasure of our nation, we deploy the credibility of our society, and we spill the blood of our bravest patriots in conquests that we should not be involved in.
00:16:39.000In coups that we should not be supporting, and in the affairs of other nations best handled by them.
00:16:46.000It was an interesting point, and we got an interesting admission from truly one of the most despicable deep staters, the former director of national intelligence, James Clapper.
00:16:58.000Listen to former DNI Clapper in these remarks.
00:17:04.000And I would observe first that we have never been able to accurately gauge will to fight, and that's what this really boils down to.
00:17:15.000If you go back to my war, Southeast Asia, I did a couple tours there, and we consistently overestimated the will to fight of our client, the South Vietnamese, and profoundly underestimated the will to fight of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese.
00:17:35.000Similarly, we underestimated the will to fight of the Taliban and overestimated the will to fight of the Afghan military and the viability of its government.
00:17:58.000And if we're unable as a country to assess the will of others to fight, maybe we shouldn't try to do it so much.
00:18:05.000I had an exchange in the House Armed Services Committee with the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on just this subject and how indescribably bad he is at this.
00:18:32.000And that's the point that the chairman made earlier.
00:18:34.000That's just like an incredibly disappointing thing for the Secretary of Defense to simply say, I can't assess whether someone has the will to fight.
00:18:42.000But it is consistent with your record.
00:18:44.000I mean, during the Obama administration, I think they gave you about $48 million to go train up Some folks in Syria to go take on the Assad government, and I think your testimony was that only four or five survived first contact with the enemy.
00:18:56.000So what confidence should this committee have in you or should the country have in you when you've now confessed to us, and whether it's the swing and a miss in Afghanistan that General Milley talked to the Senate about yesterday, total failure, or whether it was your failures in Syria, you don't seem capable to look at a fighting force and determine whether or not they have the will.
00:19:25.000We spend a tremendous amount of public money to try to get the best minds, the best theories, the best war fighting strategies, opportunities to win the future before folks who will one day take command in our military or occupy some senior position in our defense infrastructure.
00:19:44.000And are we now having recognized that we can't assess this will to fight learning new ways and techniques to do that?
00:19:51.000Or are we learning other things that are quite different?
00:20:31.000Early on in my tenure, I asked the force to conduct a brief stand-down to discuss the issue of extremism in our ranks.
00:20:45.000Admiral Gilday, I was glad to hear Congressman Lamborn ask you about your decision to include Ibram X. Kendi's How to be an Anti-Racist in your recommended reading list.
00:20:56.000Do you expect that after sailors read this book that says that the United States Navy is racist, That we will increase or decrease morale, cohesion, and recruiting race into the United States Navy.
00:21:07.000I think we'll be a better Navy from having open, honest conversations about racism.
00:21:14.000When I was six years old, one of my moms had an accident that left her paralyzed.
00:21:18.000Doctors said she might never walk again.
00:21:21.000But she tapped into my family's pride to get back on her feet, eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom.
00:21:30.000And that, ladies and gentlemen, is an ad for the United States military.
00:22:46.000There is something that we absolutely have to be able to do.
00:22:49.000When we spend gazillions of dollars, when we deploy our military members to try to train and equip other entities, we have to know whether or not that is going to be used for good, for defense, for America's interests.
00:23:06.000And if we don't know how to do that, we shouldn't spend another freaking day on pronouns or critical race theory or what it's like in, you know...
00:23:16.000Various forms of non-traditional family environments.
00:23:23.000I'm fine with people reading whatever the heck they want to read, but it should not be part of the precious moments that we have for our military to become more capable.
00:23:34.000This is a great country, and it deserves better than men in dresses at the Pentagon trying to convince you that you need to get more in touch with your white rage or your woke-ism.
00:24:05.000Real strength Is not sending America's best to go and die for some of the world's worst.
00:24:12.000Real strength is having the ability to stand up to the military-industrial complex, to be able to face down the woke generals, and to be able to demand a military That is worthy of the greatest nation and the greatest society that has ever existed.
00:24:27.000So having a realistic view of foreign policy and America's capabilities does not make one weak.
00:24:33.000We don't need the cowboy attitude of trying to go around swashbuckling, saying that we can take on everyone and everyone.
00:24:46.000So I think that we can demonstrate a lot of strength in our military by learning more about our friends, about our enemies, about our fighting forces, about our allies and what they're capable of doing.
00:24:58.000And this terrible rot of woke-ism that Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin have nurtured in the Pentagon must go.
00:25:10.000There was an interesting moment yesterday on CNN with Jake Tapper and John Bolton.
00:25:15.000I don't think it was the moment that Jake Tapper was quite expecting.
00:25:18.000So the January 6th committee concludes and there's this expectation that John Bolton with his long list of government offices held and his regal mustache and his stern voice will go on with Jake Tapper as a Republican and Smear anyone associated with MAGA or President Trump or the America First political movement.
00:25:39.000And instead what happens is John Bolton functionally confesses to being involved in coups around the globe.
00:25:49.000It's also a mistake, as some people have said, including on the committee, the commentators, that somehow this was a carefully planned coup d'etat aimed at the Constitution.
00:25:59.000That's not the way Donald Trump does things.
00:26:01.000It's rambling from one half-vast idea to another, one plan that falls through and another comes up.
00:26:53.000Well, I wrote about Venezuela in the book, and it turned out not to be successful.
00:26:58.000Not that we had all that much to do with it, but I saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn an illegally elected president, and they failed.
00:27:06.000The notion that Donald Trump was half as competent as the Venezuelan opposition, is laughable.
00:27:27.000Alan on Instagram says keep fighting no one else is.
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00:27:51.000Jake Tapper was trying to help John Bolton get there on the description of the various and sundry coups that he's been involved in.
00:27:58.000And I left that conversation really astonished, but also of the view that John Bolton is categorically against any coups That he himself was not a part of planning.
00:28:14.000I remember talking with President Trump about John Bolton, and he always kind of viewed Bolton as a mascot when he was in the White House, less a thinker and less an architect of America First foreign policy.
00:28:28.000Bolton was a guy that Trump liked to just bring around the Iranians because he knew it drove the Iranians crazy.
00:28:34.000And Bolton eventually kind of liked the fact that he was back at the table and People were listening to him because that hadn't happened in quite some time in his career.
00:28:44.000Bolton fundamentally understood that Donald Trump didn't really listen to him, didn't really respect his views, but instead just brought him there to troll other people.
00:28:52.000And upon realizing that, Bolton left and wrote a book that probably had a bunch of stuff in it that wasn't true because that's what John Bolton does.
00:28:58.000He writes books about people who he used to work for.
00:29:01.000Maybe that's a lesson for anybody else that might want to hire John Bolton.
00:29:06.000Moving on to another issue that's a little closer to home in the state of Florida.
00:29:10.000All Americans know that the Dobbs decision has overturned Roe v.
00:29:16.000We now are a pro-life nation and that's going to give our states the opportunity to embrace life and advance life and create greater ease for adoptions and the creation of families.
00:29:27.000And that is something that enhances the humanity of all of us.
00:29:35.000It's something very different than we've seen on the radical left with threats of intimidating justices and engaging in nights of rage and violence.
00:29:43.000And we've even seen folks go to like the crazy extremes of suggesting novel, new, and innovative ways to kill unborn life.
00:29:56.000Take a listen to this report from CBS News.
00:30:01.000This is all about bodily autonomy and choice and so you know people have a right to Be pregnant and have a pregnancy, but also not have a pregnancy.
00:30:14.000Dr Meg Autry, a UCSF OBGYN, said she's had the idea for a vessel that would provide surgical abortions and reproductive health care services for a very long time.
00:30:25.000But it was the recent Supreme Court decision that helped inspire her to kick it into gear.
00:30:31.000She's now spearheading the Prowess, which stands for Protecting Reproductive Rights of Women Endangered by State Statutes.
00:30:39.000The vessel would be located in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, near states where abortions are banned.
00:30:45.000She wants to offer the services at low or no cost.
00:30:49.000People that care deeply about access to reproductive rights know that we have to be innovative and creative in order for patients to We know internationally that when access is limited or abortion is illegal, patients die.
00:31:43.000But there is a necessary legislative response here and the Florida legislature ought to look at it because we do not want to be in a world where people are going 3.1 miles offshore to kill unborn life.
00:31:58.000There is instructive precedent here with casino gambling boats that used to leave Florida.
00:32:05.000It ties back to the Jack Abramoff scandal.
00:32:08.000Jack Abramoff was one of the owner investors in an entity called Sun Cruise.
00:32:13.000And they would take these old decommissioned cruise vessels and they would float them offshore and they would turn on all the gambling machines and people would do their gambling and then the boat would return.
00:32:24.000And ultimately, the Florida legislature gets wise to this and realizes that if there is refueling or docking at ports, you actually have some jurisdiction over those vessels.
00:32:36.000And so the Florida legislature, upon learning that there is a desire for floating abortions off our shore, should pass laws making it illegal to Leave a Florida port for the sake of breaking our abortion laws.
00:32:53.000And we should not allow vessels to have docking privileges or have any other opportunities to utilize Florida assets.
00:33:02.000A lot of our ports are in fact state funded, state supported, state subsidized.
00:33:07.000We don't want them to have access to any of those things to have a loophole to break our laws.
00:33:13.000As weird as it is to think about donated floating abortion barges, I do think it's something that necessitates a legislative preemptive response on, and the Florida legislature could do just that, following the playbook that we got from the Sun Cruise casino boats.
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