As the 116th Congress is coming to a close, the Democrats are busy trying to hold us all hostage while they try to pass their 4,000-page Omnibus Spending Bill. We talk to Rep. Dan Bishop about what he found in the bill, and why he thinks it's a waste of money. We also talk about why we should be focusing on domestic issues, rather than foreign affairs, and what we should do about it. And finally, we talk about how we should deal with anti-Semitism in the world, and whether or not we should focus on it in the first place. We are streaming live from Room 2021 in the Rayburn Office Building in the Capitol complex in Washington, D.C., where we are streaming out of Room 2021. We are simulcasted streaming from room 2021, which is located in Room 2021, Rayburn's office building in the Randal Rayburn Building, in the West Wing of the Capitol Complex. We apologize for the poor audio quality, we are working on transcribing this live stream, and we will be working on fixing that as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your support and your support, we appreciate it greatly. - Your continued support is greatly appreciated. - Your support is so appreciated, and so are the words you send in your support. - Thank you, and God bless you! -The Best Fiends and God Bless! -Eugene McCarthy and Matt Gates Thank you for your continued support, Matt Gaetz, Matt Gates, and all the patriots out there! -Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! - Blessings, Blessings! -Your support is much appreciated! -Amen and Happy Holidays! -Jon and Blessings. -RATE! -JOSH and Merry Christmas! -PSA to all! - -Robby and RAAAAY! -SORRY! -ROBERT AND RYAN AND RAY! -BRAYS! -GRABS! - JOSH and RAY & JOSEPH AND KELLY AND RABY -JACOB AND GRABS - SONGS & GRAYS & PODCASTING! - Thank YOU! - ENJOYING AND GOSTROLL! -PODCAST & JOSH & DOUBLES THANK YOU AND JOSETTE AND GARLEY AND KAROLA
00:04:31.000Matt Gates: "Embattled Congressman Matt Gates, 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.
00:04:52.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:04:55.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:04:58.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:05:02.000If you want to 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!
00:05:32.000Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians, that's the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans.
00:05:50.000That's sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.
00:05:56.000The campaign is their number one priority.
00:06:07.000Probably a shrinking economy here in our country, a crisis on our southern border, big tech getting exposed, and the FBI right there trying to manipulate public opinion on social media.
00:06:20.000These things would all be on our priority list far higher than Ukraine.
00:06:42.000We are simulcast streaming out of room 2021. In the Rayburn office building in the Capitol complex in Washington, D.C. And thank you for the comments.
00:06:51.000We got the live stream going and folks telling us they're joining us from Georgia, Tucson, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
00:06:59.000And what I can report to you is that as the 117th Congress is coming to a close now, the Democrats are doing their very best to steal Christmas by holding us all hostage while they try to pass their 4,000-page Omnibus spending bill.
00:07:17.000And I wouldn't touch this bill with a 39 and a half foot pole.
00:07:21.000So what I'm going to do on this program is break down some of the worst features.
00:07:26.000We've got Congressman Dan Bishop just stopped by the office, had a great conversation with him about some of the nuggets his staff found in this bill that work against the American people.
00:07:36.000So first, we are doing a lot of spending abroad and it is not good.
00:07:43.000We allocate $32 million for the United Nations Population Fund.
00:08:17.000I could not dream up a more Malthusian dystopic anti-human policy if I tried.
00:08:23.000An alien hell-bent on exterminating humankind could not do a better job than this bill.
00:08:29.000So we're going to spend another $25 million on people-to-people reconciliation programs which bring together individuals of different ethnic, racial, religious, and political backgrounds from areas of civil war.
00:08:48.000What Yale foreign policy master's graduate deemed this a critical function of our government?
00:08:55.000Is a U.S.-funded globalist design struggle session what we're really waiting for to stop the Hutus and the Tutsis from hacking each other to pieces?
00:09:05.000Maybe if we just gave the Sunnis and the Shiites a little more time to work out their differences under the auspices of an international program, maybe that would get them to put aside a centuries-old beef.
00:09:20.000You know, if this really worked, we should have tried it in Afghanistan.
00:09:24.000But no, that was the last forever war.
00:09:26.000Now we clearly know what the next one is.
00:09:32.000And maybe, just maybe, we should stop meddling in these affairs abroad because our involvement doesn't always make things better and it frequently makes things worse.
00:10:01.000But are we really pretending that we know better than the Central Europeans what they want and need to be able to resolve their differences?
00:10:09.000At what point is the State Department the great provider of the silver bullet for anti-Semitism and repression of minority rights in Central Europe?
00:11:40.000So if we don't protect our borders, no one else will.
00:11:44.000And we're concerned about everyone else's, not our own.
00:11:46.000Now speaking of borders, we don't have any right now.
00:11:49.000Which is why we're allocating $1.2 million in services for DACA requirements.
00:11:55.000And $750,000 to the Trans-Latin Coalition to provide, quote, workforce development programs and supportive services for trans and gender non-conforming and intersex immigrant women in Los Angeles.
00:12:10.000Yes, that is literally something that the federal government is funding in this omnibus spending bill.
00:12:19.000Anyway, If that's not enough, the bill provides for the creation of a, quote, Ukrainian Independence Park in DC. Just what we need.
00:12:27.000I'll be talking about that with Congressman Dan Bishop in just a moment.
00:12:31.000So the establishment politicians want to stand in solidarity with everyone but their own people, and that is the principal message of this legislation.
00:12:40.000Let's pivot over to domestic policy real quick.
00:12:44.000I want to go through some of the domestic features.
00:12:47.000For starters, we are naming a federal building in San Francisco after Nancy Pelosi and spending $3.6 million to name a trail in Georgia after Michelle Obama.
00:12:58.000$2 million for the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore.
00:14:10.000And the icing on the cake is $2.63 billion for U.S. attorneys with an emphasis on January 6th prosecutions and domestic terrorism.
00:14:20.000That is deep state for anyone who has politics that makes us uncomfortable.
00:14:26.000Presumably to help with this, the bill allocates $7.5 million to better understand the, quote, domestic radicalization phenomenon, plus an extra $1 million to study gun violence.
00:14:39.000The deep state really wants to figure out why the American people just aren't so crazy about them.
00:14:45.000And if we aren't, if we aren't willing to just sign up to have entities like the FBI control social media and engage in domestic psyops, well then, you know what?
00:14:55.000They'll take this money and they'll engage in those activities and you just have to like it.
00:15:03.000No Republican should be voting for this.
00:15:05.000And if it's not enough, the bill is allocating $355 million to prepare for an influenza pandemic, including funding for additional surveillance tools.
00:15:14.000That shouldn't scare you at all right now.
00:15:16.000Surveillance tools in the hands of the medical industrial complex with $355 million behind them.
00:16:07.000When you get these bills that are thousands of pages and deal with all these different programs and equities at play, Talk to people about the process that you and your team use to go in and evaluate it on their behalf, because often we don't have a lot of time.
00:16:23.000You know, Matt, as you know, we have small staff, each member of Congress, and in your case, in my case, we've got some really fine young people that work themselves to a frenzy, and they just, you know, jumped onto this.
00:16:40.000This 4,000-plus page text appears out of nowhere, and they just began digging in, going as hard as they could, and had the vision to see that it would be helpful to the American people and people would take interest in it to get some information out about just how bad it is.
00:16:56.000And they know that no one's going to sit there and comb through every program with the particularity that they deserve.
00:17:05.000You've really exposed some of the worst elements.
00:17:07.000Put up the Bishop tweet, and you talk about the element of the bill that expressly prohibits CBP funding from being used to improve border security.
00:17:32.000It's quoted and highlighted in that tweet that none of the funds provided in this particular subsection shall be used to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve border patrol mobility.
00:18:34.000Well, any Republican who dares to vote for this better not say a word about the border because they obviously don't give a damn about the border, unless it's the border of another country because your staff also found...
00:18:45.000That at the same time, the legislation is allocating $410 million toward border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.
00:18:53.000So I guess it's not border security that the authors are opposed to.
00:19:38.000Another $47 billion for Ukraine and also the Ukraine Independence Park right in D.C. Don't you think that'll deter Vladimir Putin when he finds that we have built a Ukrainian Independence Park?
00:20:11.000Russia's entire defense budget is $84 billion.
00:20:15.000And it seems as though it's not just defense where some of this money is headed.
00:20:20.000$12.9 billion in economic assistance to stabilize the economy and spur economic recovery in Ukraine.
00:20:26.000So if you were looking for An economic nationalist agenda, I guess you've got one, it's just for Ukraine, not for the United States of America.
00:20:37.000And, you know, I think there are a lot of viewers who sympathize with the plight of the Ukrainians, but, I mean, in an $80 billion war, is it the last $47 billion that kicks the door in?
00:20:53.000Republicans in the Senate will make this bill pass.
00:20:56.000And then, I don't know, maybe a Republican or two in the House will support it.
00:20:59.000But, you know, I really don't think the country can take much more of this, Matt.
00:21:04.000And I worry about the leverage that we need with the power of the purse, not to bring chaos to our government, but you and I want to work real hard to try to constrain the very spending that's been impacting inflation.
00:21:16.000It kind of feels like this ties our hands, too.
00:21:18.000Another half billion dollars for the FBI. You and I want to get after the FBI. Another half billion dollars and several hundred million dollars for a new FBI headquarters.
00:21:26.000We need to be asking them questions, holding them to account.
00:21:29.000This takes our leverage away right here.
00:21:32.000Well, Mitch McConnell should be ashamed for supporting this.
00:21:35.000He should be ashamed for saying that the number one priority is to fund our ambitions in Ukraine, and any Republican should absolutely be ashamed that votes for it.
00:21:54.000Speaker 1: Speaker 1: says that MSNBC makes me look nuts, but I seem a lot more logical on the live stream.
00:22:06.000So thank you for joining us on Twitch.
00:22:08.000And Friday Girl on Rumble says we are mad about the omnibus, so what do we do?
00:22:13.000Contact your members of Congress, Republican or Democrat.
00:22:17.000Lay out some of the spending that we've talked about on this program.
00:22:20.000Show them that this does not advance the interests of American people.
00:22:25.000Regardless of your ideology, regardless of whether you're a Democrat or Republican, we need that advocacy.
00:22:31.000It's not done yet, but unfortunately, the uniparty forces in the swamp, they're really at a zenith of power right now, with Democrats holding unified control of the government.
00:22:42.000So we talked a lot about how that's going to change and Republicans are going to take over, albeit through a disappointing midterm election.
00:22:48.000I was at the Turning Point America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:22:53.000The rest of the show, we're going to show you some clips from my speech.
00:22:56.000I want you to know what I thought, breaking down the midterms, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the lessons we should learn.
00:23:02.000Here's some of my remarks from Turning Point.
00:23:06.000These midterms did disappoint many of us, but in a lot of ways, I don't blame the Democrats.
00:23:14.000They did everything they could possibly do to hand us this election.
00:23:19.000They crashed the economy, attacked American energy.
00:23:23.000They were doing this weird, woke stuff that is unmentionable in polite company.
00:23:32.000Indeed, the Democrats did their part, but I believe we deserved far better from Republicans, and I am here tonight to talk about how to fix it.
00:23:45.000Some say we should moderate, paint in those pastel colors, put the bold away, embrace the meek, less America first, more Liz Cheney, Maybe shake the Bush family tree and see what falls out?
00:24:05.000My friends, the problem with slow surrender as a political strategy is that even when you win with these establishment shills, America still loses.
00:24:20.000Was it really worth standing with Republican governors in Maryland, Ohio, and Arizona who got elected preaching freedom and then pushed lockdowns and mandates on their people?
00:24:37.000In Florida, if you're still wearing a mask, we just assume you're hideous.
00:24:48.000But on the big stuff, the major challenges that we now face, a Republican party with no sharp edges will be manipulated, co-opted, and worthless.
00:25:01.000Controlled opposition just isn't going to cut it anymore.
00:25:11.000Just look at what we learned this week.
00:25:14.000The FBI has entire teams of people dedicated to try to shape public opinion on social media.
00:25:22.000And we know about it at Twitter because Elon bought Twitter.
00:25:26.000But this same stuff is going on at Meta, at Google, at Amazon.
00:25:31.000They want to control what you see so that they can ultimately control how you behave.
00:25:39.000This is not the proper role of government and any official who gave the orders to try to manipulate the political perspectives of American citizens will be called to heel before the House Judiciary Committee in the coming weeks and months.
00:25:56.000I don't plan on a whole lot of softball questions and patty-cake games with the corrupt deep-state Relentless interrogation is what they deserve and we should stand for no less.
00:26:18.000Christine on Facebook says we need new leadership.
00:26:21.000Maggie on Getter says defund the FBI. That might be where this ultimately ends up.
00:26:26.000And John on Rumble wants to know why even AOC would vote for this bill when the populist left claims they are against all of these foreign entanglements.
00:26:37.000You think they might actually show some opposition, show some backbone.
00:26:42.000But they have totally folded and they intend to vote for this monstrosity.
00:26:46.000So I think it's right to call out the hypocrisy of AOC and the rest of the squad for backing this legislation that does so much that we're just blatantly against their stated goals.
00:26:58.000I also had an opportunity at Turning Point to talk about changes in election laws.
00:27:03.000And this is really important because in a lot of places, people are getting blackpilled on politics because they just say, you know what, we feel like our vote doesn't count.
00:28:56.000We had the hanging chads and the dimpled chads.
00:29:00.000What is astonishing to me, reflecting back on that, is that it was actually embarrassing and an oddity to not be able to quickly and precisely resolve your elections within approximate time of the people voting.
00:29:15.000And now you look at these elections and you see like Jake Tapper on CNN saying, well, we won't know Pennsylvania for weeks.
00:29:23.000Well, In Florida, we changed the laws.
00:29:28.000And so if you are a state lawmaker, if you have influence with our several states, let's talk about some of the specific changes that I think will help us combat this challenge going forward.
00:29:40.000Florida, indeed, can be the nation's guidepost on this.
00:29:45.000In Florida, we passed legislation that allows counties to start counting mail-in ballots 22 days before the election.
00:29:53.000Now think about how significant that is.
00:29:55.000That means in smaller batches, we can actually look at the votes, we can compare the signatures, and you don't end up with some crazy circumstance in Wayne County, Michigan, Where somehow only in the urban areas they have laws and chain of custody that only applies to them and not anyone else.
00:30:12.000And it's the same story in Fulton County and in the just absolute pitholes of election failure that we should not have to tolerate in America.
00:30:21.000In Florida, state law also requires that early voting ballots be completed and counted before election day.
00:30:29.000And then the results are immediately posted within 30 minutes of the election.
00:30:33.000So there's not this crazy guessing game about finding out whose Aunt Irma works at the elections office and where they might have another bucket of 200 ballots.
00:30:44.000Mail-in ballots have to be received by 7 p.m.
00:31:06.000And we do so because it was one of the demands of Florida Democrats.
00:31:11.000Our machines are rigorously tested so we don't end up like Maricopa County where voting machines are breaking down more than the ice cream machine at the McDonald's.
00:31:22.000The other benefit of having like sane, real people election laws is that if things go crazy and lawsuits start filing, we might actually win some of them.
00:31:36.000In 2018, There was a serious effort to steal the election in Florida from Senator Rick Scott and Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:31:45.000It was tens of thousands of ballots in a universe of more than eight and a half million.
00:31:50.000And when the local supervisors of elections did not follow the law, we were able to go immediately to court against two supervisors, have the judges issue injunctions, and then there were no mystery ballots that could be willed into existence at some later time.
00:32:07.000We treat ballots and voting like public records and our citizens have a constitutional right to know what the hell is going on.
00:32:15.000That should be the standard for America.
00:32:17.000We are back live and some folks are suggesting in the comments section that I pursue a bid for Speaker of the House.
00:32:29.000I assure you that would not be successful.
00:32:32.000I would not have the requisite support.
00:32:34.000I would not have anywhere close to the requisite support.
00:32:37.000But I am making a critique not just of one person.
00:32:41.000But a corrupt institution in Washington, D.C. And unfortunately, that means we have to take a stand and maybe have some turbulent days at the beginning of January, but it will be worth it if we do not have Kevin McCarthy unaccountable as Speaker of the House.
00:32:57.000And I made that argument at Turning Point.
00:33:02.000So our laws and our tactics must change.
00:33:08.000But some of our leaders must be changed too.
00:33:14.000Our ancestors, out of love of country, pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor.
00:33:23.000Is the best Congress can really do today pledging a vote for Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy?
00:33:32.000I've had enough McFailure in football!
00:33:38.000When the team doesn't win the games it's supposed to win, they fire the coach.
00:33:42.000In business, when the company does not match its projected earnings, then the board gets rid of the CEO.
00:33:50.000And so in Republican politics, maybe I'm not the crazy one if I say that the people who vastly underperformed expectations shouldn't be promoted to third in line to the presidency.
00:34:08.000My friends, I take no joy in sharing this with you, but I'm going to tell you now what every single Republican member of Congress knows in their heart, whether they'll admit it or not.
00:34:52.000Because we saw failure up close, and as Tucker Carlson reminded us at the beginning of this conference, we must learn from this experience and grow and be better.
00:35:04.000Kevin McCarthy calls his lobbyist-written platform the commitment to America.
00:35:10.000But Kevin doesn't keep his commitments.
00:35:12.000Not to the Republican conference, not to anyone but the lobbyists that fund campaigns.
00:36:10.000You say what you will about Trump, but he actually believed in stuff, making our country better.
00:36:16.000His beliefs were so bold that the media could not stop obsessing about them or him or all of us who supported him.
00:36:29.000Trump's policies were so good, Joe Biden's even trying to copy him right now.
00:36:34.000Banning TikTok was initially a Trump initiative.
00:36:37.000Domesticating manufacturing was an issue set that Trump talked about way before anyone else in American politics had any type of vision for it.
00:36:46.000And the Joe Biden streamlining permitting bill is essentially an extension of the regulatory reform instituted by President Trump.
00:36:55.000These are indeed Trump's initiatives and now I fear, my friends, we are in need of true vision.
00:37:01.000Our politics cannot just be money running through lobbyist luncheons and sloganeering with focus groups.
00:37:25.000I believe we should put budgets on the floor of the House that balance and then we should vote for them.
00:37:30.000I believe we should have immigration laws that we're serious about and actually enforce.
00:37:35.000And when people break those laws, they should actually be deported where they came from, not be allowed to stick around our country by the millions, starting the new wave of chain migration.
00:37:47.000I believe we ought to have a full court press against this weaponized government that has been turned against our people.
00:37:54.000And if that means abolishing every one of these three-letter agencies, from the FBI to the ATF, I'm ready to get going, and I've got my pencil.
00:38:03.000I believe that we actually ought to make voting easy and cheating hard.
00:38:15.000And I believe we should not sell out to powerful corporations that pollute our water, our skies, or the digital marketplace of ideas.
00:38:27.000I'm grateful for your response, but I will admit, I am the most imperfect of vessels to be carrying this message.
00:38:36.000Many of you prayed for me and hoped for me, and I want you to know how much that means to me.
00:38:42.000Your faith in me I truly hope to justify each and every day with service to you and you alone.
00:38:55.000President Trump proved that even those of us who have flaws can fight back against a corrupt system without fear.
00:39:03.000And so I will work with anyone and everyone to change this system and to deliver results for our brave patriots.
00:39:10.000To stop the invasion on our southern border.
00:39:13.000To end wars that drain our nation of its treasure and its bravest patriots.
00:39:23.000Somehow that's a bigger priority than what's happening to our people, and certainly to restrict unfair trade.
00:39:30.000But we should not move forward beholden to the legislative policy written by Frank Luntz on a bar napkin.
00:39:39.000We should not be beholden to the free speech policy that was passed to Kevin McCarthy in exchange for money from his best friend Pfizer lobbyist.
00:39:50.000And we should not be beholden to the political philosophy of Kevin McCarthy at all, because Kevin McCarthy believes in nothing.
00:40:00.000I believe in things, and I know you do too.
00:40:18.000Special thanks to Charlie Kirk and the entire team at Turning Point for putting on just a terrific opportunity for collaboration and discussion of ideas.
00:40:30.000We're going to be fighting against this omnibus spending legislation and the corrupt system that allows that to continue to happen to our people.