The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 102 - Murder Hornets Enter ＂Slaughter Phase.＂ De Blasio Forces New York City Lockdown 2.0. A Taxpayer-Funded Hollywood Bailout？

00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:03.800 You all were not telling the truth, and you should not be trusted.

00:00:06.600 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.

00:00:09.300 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.

00:00:12.300 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:16.300 Welcome to Hot Takes, I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:19.100 Coming to you on assignment, on the road, in the great state of Florida.

00:00:23.300 A little more on the road audio quality than probably we're used to, but it's election season.

00:00:29.300 It's time to move around and talk to folks and encourage folks, and that's what we'll be doing a good amount of the time.

00:00:35.800 But don't worry, we'll do everything we can each and every day to bring you more Hot Takes.

00:00:41.000 Let's talk about the news.

00:00:42.800 The news dominating the day is that the president is at Walter Reed.

00:00:46.800 Here's the latest update on his condition from his medical team.

00:00:49.800 Regarding his clinical status, the patient continues to improve.

00:00:53.800 He has remained without fever since Friday morning.

00:00:57.300 His vital signs are stable.

00:00:59.800 From a pulmonary standpoint, he remains on room air this morning and is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms.

00:01:07.800 He's ambulating himself, walking around the White House Medical Unit without limitation or disability.

00:01:15.800 Our continued monitoring of his cardiac liver and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings.

00:01:25.300 And we've also heard from the president through his videos posted on social media.

00:01:30.300 Take a listen to the leader of the free world.

00:01:32.300 Great reports from the doctors.

00:01:33.800 This is an incredible hospital, Walter Reed.

00:01:36.800 The work they do is just absolutely amazing.

00:01:39.800 And I want to thank them all, the nurses, the doctors, everybody here.

00:01:44.800 I've also gotten to meet some of the soldiers and the first responders and what a group.

00:01:49.800 I also think we're going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street.

00:01:56.300 And they've been out there for a long time and they've got Trump flags and they love our country.

00:02:01.300 So I'm not telling anybody but you, but I'm about to make a little surprise visit.

00:02:06.300 So perhaps I'll get there before you get to see me.

00:02:09.300 But I just, when I look at the enthusiasm, and we have enthusiasm like probably nobody's ever had.

00:02:16.800 Our people that love the job we're doing, we have more enthusiasm than maybe anybody.

00:02:22.800 So it's been a very interesting journey.

00:02:25.800 I learned a lot about COVID.

00:02:27.800 I learned it by really going to school.

00:02:29.800 This is the real school.

00:02:31.800 This isn't the let's read the book school.

00:02:33.800 And I get it and I understand it.

00:02:35.800 And it's a very interesting thing.

00:02:38.800 I'll be letting you know about it.

00:02:39.800 In the meantime, we love the USA and we love what's happening.

00:02:43.300 In the last several days, I've been communicating regularly with White House staff, some of the

00:02:48.800 president's closest aides, and also the First Family.

00:02:52.300 And the universal feedback that I get is that the president is roaring to get back in action.

00:02:59.300 I don't think he really wanted to go to Walter Reed.

00:03:01.800 I think that was largely a precaution that, you know, wouldn't likely happen to any other

00:03:07.180 person exhibiting the very mild symptoms the president was exhibiting.

00:03:10.680 But because he's the president of the United States, because the continuity and continuation

00:03:14.680 of our government depends on his impeccable health.

00:03:18.180 He was transferred.

00:03:19.180 And we're certainly grateful to all those fantastic health care officials who are keeping

00:03:23.680 the president safe and secure.

00:03:25.680 Every indication is that he is making decisions, doing all that is required to lead our great

00:03:31.280 country through the recovery that really is happening.

00:03:34.180 You know, with jobs being onboarded, with spending in the consumer sector starting to reach healthier

00:03:40.180 levels, we really are on our way to the great American comeback.

00:03:44.180 And it's great to see the markets responding favorably to the president's improving condition.

00:03:49.680 The Dow Jones up 150 points, S&P futures and NASDAQ up about 100.

00:03:55.680 When you look at the response following the president's motorcade visit to some of his

00:04:00.680 supporters and rally goers who were outside Walter Reed Medical Center, giving that encouragement.

00:04:06.680 And as I know the president, probably nothing make him feel better than seeing Americans express their

00:04:11.680 patriotism and seeing the market improve, knowing that that's going to result in a more secure

00:04:16.680 future for so many of our fellow Americans who have 401ks and other retirement assets that

00:04:22.680 are dependent upon America's continued success.

00:04:25.680 Let's hope the president keeps getting better and that America keeps getting better.

00:04:33.180 As we were getting word of the president's condition, I had the chance to join Tucker Carlson

00:04:38.180 to discuss the issue.

00:04:39.180 Take a listen.

00:04:40.180 Tucker, I've traveled with the president frequently.

00:04:42.180 I'm familiar with the testing and other coronavirus protocols that are around the Oval Office

00:04:48.180 and Air Force One.

00:04:49.180 And what I can tell you is that if this virus can get into the Oval, into the body of the

00:04:53.680 president, there is no place where it could not possibly infect one of our fellow Americans.

00:04:58.680 And that's why it's so important to continue executing on President Trump's strategy to allow

00:05:03.680 our country to open up, but then to ensure that we protect the vulnerable because there is no lockdown

00:05:09.180 that can be a panacea to save everyone from everything.

00:05:13.180 And this is proof positive that's the case.

00:05:15.180 I hope that in a matter of days or weeks, we're not talking about how Trump survived the coronavirus,

00:05:20.180 but maybe how the coronavirus survived Trump.

00:05:23.180 He is the hardest working man I have ever met.

00:05:26.180 He's one of the strongest, and I wish him all the best.

00:05:32.180 The vice presidential debate, the one and only debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris,

00:05:38.180 will occur tomorrow evening from Salt Lake.

00:05:41.180 It appears that it is going on without any type of interruption or change in schedule.

00:05:47.180 Here's my hot take.

00:05:48.180 I think both Harris and Pence have principally the same job in this debate.

00:05:54.180 Both are there to be reassuring.

00:05:56.180 I think if either come off as too hot, too aggressive, too biting, or too combative during the time when the president's in the hospital,

00:06:06.180 when the nation is in recovery, when there is so much discord, I think it will not anure to the benefit of their campaigns.

00:06:15.180 I think that the calming, assuring, kind elements of these two people would be best to come through if either of them intends to win.

00:06:25.180 Fortunately, that's right in the breadbasket of Mike Pence.

00:06:29.180 I've spent a lot of time with Vice President Pence where people need assurance.

00:06:33.180 I write in my book, Firebrand, about how Vice President Pence, along with the president,

00:06:38.180 really know how to comfort the families that are dealing with loss.

00:06:43.180 And in a lot of ways, that empathy, that kindness, that willingness to share in someone's pain and feel it alongside them,

00:06:51.180 might just be what the country needs right now more than any particular substantive issue.

00:06:57.180 I don't get the sense that policy disagreements will dominate the debate.

00:07:01.180 I think it will be more about style, more about leadership, more about the direction of the country.

00:07:07.180 Here's hoping Mike Pence brings great vision to that endeavor.

00:07:15.180 If you thought 2020 couldn't get any worse, the murder hornets have arrived.

00:07:21.180 That's right, giant Asian hornets are now being found according to the Seattle Times.

00:07:26.180 And what they do is they find a beehive, they decapitate all of the bees, and then they live off of their insides for days.

00:07:36.180 This is apparently called the slaughter phase of the murder hornets.

00:07:40.180 And they are, according to the leading biologists, now entering that slaughter phase.

00:07:47.180 And the reason this is so important is that we are actually in the era of a global bee collapse.

00:07:53.180 We need bees for pollination, for agriculture. 0.97

00:07:57.180 Really, we need bees to live. They are a keystone species.

00:08:01.180 And these invasive species, these giant Asian murder hornets, they really do pose a threat to the bee population that we have. 0.78

00:08:09.180 Because if they go and take out entire hives, then, of course, you don't get that reproduction.

00:08:15.180 You don't get that, I would say, you know, kind of re-onboarding into the ecosystem that is absolutely essential.

00:08:22.180 So we've got the folks from the state of Washington's environmental apparatus out trying to kill the murder hornets.

00:08:32.180 And we're hopeful that they're successful because America's bee population, the global bee population, is already really in the throes of some challenges as a consequence of loss to habitat and global warming and other issues.

00:08:47.180 And so we hope that the giant Asian murder hornet is not just the next bad thing to come out of Asia that we have to grapple with for quite some time. 1.00

00:08:59.180 Today, I joined Congressman Andy Biggs, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus and FreedomWorks for a press conference regarding the open judicial seat on the Supreme Court,

00:09:10.180 the process the Senate is utilizing, and the importance of election integrity.

00:09:15.180 Take a listen to some of the experts from FreedomWorks and their perspective on the interplay between the laws that have existed and the laws that are changing and the integrity of the ballot.

00:09:26.180 We see how important the courts are because Congress, Congress needs to fix motor voter. 0.98

00:09:32.180 The courts have done terrible things to motor voter to the National Voter Registration Act.

00:09:38.180 For example, the Third Circuit said that citizens, if aliens are not covered by the act, that if you have 500,000 aliens on the rolls, it doesn't matter, you can't get them cleaned up.

00:09:49.180 The Eleventh Circuit found Brenda Snipes in Broward County. 0.93

00:09:54.180 It doesn't matter how many dead people are on the rolls.

00:09:57.180 Motor voter doesn't require her to do anything as long as she's trying, no matter how bad the results are. 1.00

00:10:03.180 Congressman Andy Biggs participated. Here's what he had to say.

00:10:06.180 We all know that the elections are most protected when we have in-person balloting where you show your ID.

00:10:13.180 That is the safest way to do this.

00:10:15.180 But most states, including my own state, provide for some form of mail-in balloting.

00:10:21.180 Arizona has done it where you've had to request your mail-in ballot.

00:10:25.180 And we have a permanent early voters list.

00:10:27.180 And that is, you show your ID.

00:10:31.180 So that can work.

00:10:32.180 The problem is we're not culling, we're not cleaning up those voter rolls as often as we should.

00:10:38.180 I know because I happen to get, I've grown children and I get some of their ballots every time, every election cycle, even though we're requesting that they take them off.

00:10:47.180 And last but not least, here is my argument for the need to fill the seat, confirm Judge Barrett, put her on the court, and ensure that we have a full complement to resolve election disputes.

00:10:59.180 The Democratic whip, Jim Clyburn, said early in this coronavirus experience that it was an opportunity for Democrats to shape legislation in order to execute on their worldview rather than just responding to coronavirus.

00:11:16.180 And since the whip made that statement, Democrats not only at the national level but throughout our nation's state governments have made good on that.

00:11:26.180 They have used the coronavirus as an excuse for last-minute election changes that never would occur otherwise, that are occurring solely as a result of Democrats taking advantage of this pandemic in order to create electoral advantage.

00:11:43.180 And the reason that the changes that Democrats are making in large part create an electoral advantage, at least in their mind, is that it seems to be pretty widely accepted that Donald Trump will win the election day vote.

00:11:57.180 And so in order to create confusion and chaos and chaos in the interim, Democrats are trying to create some period of time after the election where there is uncertainty despite the president prevailing on that election day vote.

00:12:16.180 It looks like New York City is heading back into lockdown phase.

00:12:21.180 Not that they ever really came out of lockdown, but New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is now closing all non-essential businesses in New York in nine zip codes, including schools.

00:12:33.180 Public schools are not going to be able to be open, giving parents that choice.

00:12:38.180 We've chronicled on the podcast a great deal what a bad decision is not to give parents some choice in schooling.

00:12:45.180 But also there is a political consequence here.

00:12:48.180 We've already seen Democrats step away from Bill de Blasio, even Democrats in New York and swing districts.

00:12:54.180 But now as de Blasio further ensconces the Democratic Party in the shadow of the lockdown paradigm and regime, I think the harder it is for Democrats up and down the ticket.

00:13:07.180 As de Blasio, you know, does more and more to allow people to live less and less of the lives that they choose, I think he will become a poster child in major swing races.

00:13:18.180 And it may even come up in the vice presidential debate tomorrow that here you have folks on the left wanting to keep people locked up and locked down.

00:13:26.180 And that bears a real contrast to what we see in places like Florida, where we want to give people the tools, give people the choice and then hope that we get the least negative outcome possible.

00:13:37.180 Obviously, recognizing that lockdowns are no panacea for public health.

00:13:42.180 In fact, lockdowns do a great deal to damage public health.

00:13:46.180 I don't think Bill de Blasio fully gets that.

00:13:49.180 And I think Democrats up and down the ticket will have to pay for Bill de Blasio's bad decisions.

00:13:58.180 Our good friends, the talented investigative guerrilla journalists at Project Veritas have new reporting on the Arizona U.S. Senate race.

00:14:06.180 Take a listen to James O'Keefe.

00:14:08.180 I'm James O'Keefe on location in Arizona, and Helica Carpeo is a field organizer for Mission for Arizona, basically Arizona's Democratic Party and an extension of the Mark Kelly campaign.

00:14:18.180 Mark Kelly can't get elected if he's honest with the voters.

00:14:21.180 And Helica tells us to what lengths Kelly will go in order to win the election.

00:14:26.180 Arizona's very Republican state in general, like a red state.

00:14:30.180 And I know actually right now it's purple technically, but I just think he wants to get those independents.

00:14:36.180 He wants to get those Republicans that don't trust Trump anymore.

00:14:39.180 But one of their main issues is guns.

00:14:41.180 So I don't think he's fully like been out there saying like, I want like a full gun like control type measure.

00:14:49.180 And I think it's because he just wants to get elected first and then he wants to go forward.

00:14:54.180 Here's my hot take.

00:14:55.180 It's never good for politicians to say one thing on the campaign trail and then to try to do something vastly different in office.

00:15:02.180 That applies to every party, every state.

00:15:05.180 And it's my hope that the voters in Arizona will think long and hard about that which they see, that which they hear and the rights that they hope continue to be full and vindicated under the United States Constitution, especially the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

00:15:27.180 Hollywood is increasingly concerned that in the era of coronavirus, the movie theater experience, the money that goes into the creation of movie content may be substantially hindered.

00:15:40.180 The L.A. Times has the story and instead of calling for maybe some more spacing within the movie theater, some open air options, you've got the industry, the actors and the grips and the support staff and everyone calling for.

00:15:55.180 And I'm quoting directly here from their their petition specific relief.

00:15:59.180 So they're looking for a Hollywood movie industry specific appropriation, I guess, in the coronavirus relief legislation to deal with the challenges to their industry.

00:16:11.180 Here's my hot take.

00:16:12.180 It's a shame that Nancy Pelosi won't allow us to expand and extend the Paycheck Protection Program for anyone. 0.96

00:16:20.180 I oppose specific relief for Hollywood or movie theaters.

00:16:25.180 But I do think as part of our national collective response to coronavirus, we could do a lot more than we're doing if Nancy Pelosi would let us take these votes without holding them hostage, because there are issues that I think we could all agree on if we had the ability to take an up or down vote.

00:16:41.180 So no specific relief for you, Hollywood, you probably have Nancy Pelosi to thank.

00:16:48.180 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes.

00:16:50.180 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:16:51.180 Again, I'm so sorry that our sound quality today is off of the standard that we usually like to have for the podcast, just sort of the nature of being on the road, moving around Florida, seeing folks and ensuring that we've got the right energy and enthusiasm for our country to succeed,

00:17:08.180 for our president to succeed and for our movement to prosper.

00:17:12.180 Hope you subscribe and leave us a five star rating and that you'll join us tomorrow for more Hot Takes.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 05, 2020

Episode 102 - Murder Hornets Enter ＂Slaughter Phase.＂ De Blasio Forces New York City Lockdown 2.0. A Taxpayer-Funded Hollywood Bailout？

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