The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 08, 2020


Episode 105 - NBC BUSTED for Fake ＂Undecided＂ Voters. VP Debate Hot Takes. Troops Home for Christmas.


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25 minutes

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159.06769

Word Count

4,047

Sentence Count

230

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

In this episode of Hot Takes, Congressman Matt Gaetz reacts to the Vice Presidential Debates, clips, and analysis from Vice President Joe Biden's first debate appearance on CNN's "Meet the Press" and Sen. Amy Klobuchar's CNN appearance.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes, I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:19.100 We'll get to the vice presidential debate, clips, analysis, but first let's talk about
00:00:24.320 the news, the Commission on Presidential Debates, essentially making the decision to de-platform
00:00:31.180 live appearances by the president and vice president Joe Biden for the upcoming October
00:00:36.660 15th debate, saying that they instead want a virtual debate.
00:00:41.220 So like all of those Zoom meetings that you've been having with your office or your friends,
00:00:49.460 imagine that imposed on the presidential debate structure.
00:00:53.280 Here's my concern.
00:00:56.360 Are they really doing this, as they've stated, for the purpose of protecting Joe Biden from
00:01:01.860 the risk of coronavirus from the president?
00:01:04.340 Or is this an effort to create a platform where the moderator has more control, where the president
00:01:11.520 is not able to exert his dominance on the format the way he was live and in person?
00:01:17.120 The president now saying that he will not participate in a digital debate.
00:01:21.460 He is demanding the live, in-person performance.
00:01:24.560 I think that's smart for him politically.
00:01:26.720 I think that, you know, that makes Joe Biden look like he doesn't want to be live and in-person
00:01:31.960 with the president for other reasons.
00:01:33.460 If, in fact, the president is able to show repeated negative tests for coronavirus, for
00:01:39.680 the active virus.
00:01:40.800 Now, obviously, the president will test positive for the antibodies because that's how he seems
00:01:45.980 to be defeating the virus is through those antibodies.
00:01:48.600 And we certainly hope that process continues to go well.
00:01:51.660 And based on my knowledge of talking to the folks in and around the White House, he, in
00:01:57.900 fact, continues to get better and really is back to the full swing of things and full
00:02:03.600 focus on the country and what we need to do as Americans to defeat this virus, to open
00:02:10.340 up our nation, to restore our economy, and to preserve a safe life as we know it on our
00:02:16.800 streets in the absence of mob rule.
00:02:18.640 I think that's the direction that the country needs from its leader.
00:02:23.800 And it's what I suspect President Trump is doing each and every day to ensure that our
00:02:29.100 nation is still the envy of the world.
00:02:30.700 I think the Presidential Commission on Debates hopes that a Zoom debate would have less interruption,
00:02:38.060 would have sort of more of a virtual presentation feel.
00:02:42.420 But when American jobs are on the line and a president has to get eyeball to eyeball with
00:02:48.960 Xi, you don't get to Zoom in for that.
00:02:51.960 When we need these Asian monarchies to get their act together, to clean up their own countries,
00:02:59.440 to kill the terrorists that threaten peace, you know, themselves rather than expecting
00:03:05.180 the United States to do it in each and every circumstance at tremendously high cost in blood
00:03:09.660 and in treasure, you sometimes need to have that alpha male in-person presence that the
00:03:16.060 president brings.
00:03:16.920 And by the way, when I say alpha male presence, I've also seen that very effective with an alpha
00:03:21.980 female presence.
00:03:23.800 It's not gender specific, but in the case of Biden and Trump, you know, Biden is clearly
00:03:29.240 the beta and that was evident in the first debate.
00:03:32.920 And I think it's why the Commission on Presidential Debates was all too willing to accept a digital
00:03:38.680 format.
00:03:39.220 The president is not accepting that virtual format.
00:03:42.940 We'll see how it goes.
00:03:44.060 Last night's vice presidential debate was a good one.
00:03:51.080 There was a lot of policy discussion.
00:03:53.900 I thought the vice president clearly won the debate.
00:03:56.340 I thought he seemed in control most of the experience.
00:04:00.680 And that's not to say that Senator Harris didn't have a couple good moments herself.
00:04:04.960 I want to break down three parts of the debate, the virus, the economy and China.
00:04:10.420 Let's start with the virus.
00:04:11.940 Take a listen to Vice President Pence comparing the response of the administration to how the
00:04:19.380 prior administration dealt with the swine flu.
00:04:21.960 The reality is when you talk about failure in this administration, we actually do know
00:04:27.660 what failure looks like in a pandemic.
00:04:30.380 It was 2009.
00:04:32.300 The swine flu arrived in the United States.
00:04:35.320 Thankfully, it ended up not being as lethal as the coronavirus.
00:04:40.120 But before the end of the year, when Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States, not
00:04:46.860 seven and a half million people contracted the swine flu.
00:04:50.820 Sixty million Americans contracted the swine flu.
00:04:54.460 If the swine flu had been as lethal as the coronavirus in 2009, when Joe Biden was Vice
00:05:00.000 President, we would have lost two million American lives.
00:05:02.800 His own chief of staff, Ron Klain, would say last year that it was pure luck that they did,
00:05:10.540 quote, everything possible wrong.
00:05:13.320 And we learned from that.
00:05:16.060 They left the strategic national stockpile empty.
00:05:19.060 They left an empty and hollow plan.
00:05:21.860 But we still learned from it.
00:05:23.620 And I think the American people, I'm going to say again, can be proud of what we have done.
00:05:28.460 And Senator, please stop undermining confidence in a vaccine.
00:05:32.380 I thought that was interesting that the Vice President brought a lot of data to bear.
00:05:36.320 The criticism of the Trump administration in the era of coronavirus has largely been,
00:05:41.260 well, you know, they are over there operating on instinct and feel.
00:05:45.020 And there's this universe of technocrats who have all the data.
00:05:50.220 And if he would just put them in charge, then everything would be fine.
00:05:53.340 Here, I think Pence pushes back on that with data, with infection rates.
00:05:59.640 And I thought it was very effective.
00:06:01.780 And obviously, the Vice President knows his stuff.
00:06:03.780 As the chairman of the coronavirus task force, he seemed to be well in command there.
00:06:09.760 And with a path that puts our country back on a plan to reopen.
00:06:15.720 I mean, the bet here is that there are a lot more people who have been negatively impacted
00:06:21.980 by the lockdowns than have been negatively impacted by coronavirus.
00:06:27.240 And obviously, while even one death from coronavirus is not acceptable and is China's fault for the way
00:06:33.520 that they acted at the beginning of this disease that could have been contained,
00:06:38.080 we are at a circumstance politically where I think the candidate of lockdowns and shutdowns loses.
00:06:44.340 The candidate of reopen, use safety protocols, you know, follow the evidence on how we can do so in a way that is sustainable.
00:06:54.320 You know, that is the winning path.
00:06:55.660 And so I think that the Vice President was very good in that portion of the debate.
00:07:00.680 Also want to talk about the economy.
00:07:02.820 Senator Harris, she really utilized the Republican-Trump tax bill as the centerpiece of her critique of the administration's environment
00:07:14.220 or economic policy, I should say.
00:07:16.780 Take a listen to Senator Harris.
00:07:18.500 On the issue of the economy, I think there couldn't be a more fundamental difference
00:07:21.980 between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:07:25.200 Joe Biden believes you measure the health and the strength of America's economy
00:07:29.700 based on the health and the strength of the American worker and the American family.
00:07:35.920 On the other hand, you have Donald Trump, who measures the strength of the economy
00:07:40.400 based on how rich people are doing,
00:07:43.140 which is why he passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1%
00:07:47.220 and the biggest corporations of America,
00:07:50.120 leading to a $2 trillion deficit that the American people are going to have to pay for.
00:07:55.380 On day one, Joe Biden will repeal that tax bill.
00:08:00.180 He'll get rid of it.
00:08:01.600 And what he'll do with the money is invest it in the American people.
00:08:05.320 And through a plan that is about investing in infrastructure,
00:08:08.420 something that Donald Trump said he would do,
00:08:10.040 I remember hearing about some infrastructure week.
00:08:11.980 I don't think it ever happened.
00:08:13.560 But Joe Biden will do that.
00:08:14.740 He'll invest in infrastructure.
00:08:15.940 It's about upgrading our roads and bridges,
00:08:17.580 but also investing in clean energy and renewable energy.
00:08:20.920 Joe is going to invest that money in what we need to do around innovation.
00:08:25.920 The Republican tax bill, while not perfect,
00:08:28.980 while I think too geared towards some of the K Street special interests that buy off congressmen,
00:08:35.420 it did work.
00:08:36.520 It did bring back capital to this country.
00:08:39.300 It did fund the wages of Americans.
00:08:41.640 It did lead to greater business confidence and consumer confidence.
00:08:45.840 And it was one of the cornerstones of building what was the strongest economy
00:08:50.280 that the world had ever known prior to coronavirus.
00:08:53.500 Vice President Pence also had, I think, very strong economic arguments.
00:08:58.600 I think this might have been actually his strongest portion of the debate,
00:09:01.980 talking about the onboarding of jobs, the negative impacts of the Green New Deal.
00:09:07.900 Take a listen to the vice president on the economy.
00:09:10.100 When President Trump and I took office,
00:09:12.160 America had gone through the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.
00:09:15.840 It was when Joe Biden was vice president that tried to tax and spend and regulate
00:09:19.860 and bail our way back to a growing economy.
00:09:22.960 President Trump cut taxes across the board.
00:09:26.080 Despite what Senator Harris says,
00:09:28.760 the average American family of four had $2,000 in savings and taxes.
00:09:33.560 And with the rise in wages that occurred,
00:09:36.840 most predominantly for blue-collar, hard-working Americans,
00:09:40.320 the average household income for a family of four increased by $4,000
00:09:44.220 following President Trump's tax cuts.
00:09:46.860 But America, you just heard Senator Harris tell you,
00:09:49.520 on day one, Joe Biden's going to raise your taxes.
00:09:53.260 It's really remarkable to think, Susan.
00:09:55.140 That's not what I said.
00:09:55.640 I mean, right after a time where we're going through a pandemic
00:09:59.340 that lost 22 million jobs at the height,
00:10:02.080 we've already added back 11.6 million jobs
00:10:05.560 because we had a president who cut taxes,
00:10:08.160 rolled back regulation, unleashed American energy,
00:10:10.780 fought for free and fair trade,
00:10:12.460 and secured $4 trillion from the Congress of the United States
00:10:16.080 to give direct payments to families,
00:10:18.500 save 50 million jobs through the Paycheck Protection Program.
00:10:21.740 We literally have spared no expense
00:10:24.060 to help the American people and the American worker through this.
00:10:27.280 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to raise taxes.
00:10:30.020 They want to bury our economy under a $2 trillion Green New Deal,
00:10:34.800 which you were one of the original co-sponsors of
00:10:37.040 in the United States Senate.
00:10:38.480 They want to abolish fossil fuels and ban fracking,
00:10:42.420 which would cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs
00:10:45.820 all across the heartland.
00:10:47.400 And Joe Biden wants to go back to the economic surrender to China,
00:10:51.020 that when we took office,
00:10:52.640 half of our international trade deficit was with China alone.
00:10:56.300 And Joe Biden wants to repeal all of the tariffs
00:10:58.680 that President Trump put into effect
00:11:00.700 to fight for American jobs and American workers.
00:11:03.640 Joe Biden says democracy is on the ballot.
00:11:05.980 Make no mistake about it, Susan.
00:11:08.040 The American economy, the American comeback is on the ballot
00:11:11.900 with four more years of growth and opportunity,
00:11:14.920 four more years of President Donald Trump.
00:11:17.520 2021 is going to be the biggest economic year
00:11:19.940 in the history of this country.
00:11:21.180 How America will confront China
00:11:23.300 is also a critically important question
00:11:26.400 in the upcoming election.
00:11:28.360 Take a listen to the Vice President's comments on China.
00:11:31.920 With regard to China,
00:11:33.920 look, Susan, first and foremost,
00:11:37.280 China is to blame for the coronavirus.
00:11:42.320 And President Trump is not happy about it.
00:11:44.580 He's made that very clear, made it clear again today.
00:11:47.680 China and the World Health Organization
00:11:49.200 did not play straight with the American people.
00:11:50.900 They did not let our personnel into China
00:11:54.460 to get information on the coronavirus
00:11:56.420 until the middle of February.
00:11:58.820 Fortunately, President Trump,
00:12:00.880 in dealing with China from the outset
00:12:02.400 of this administration,
00:12:03.400 standing up to China that had been taking advantage
00:12:05.640 of America for decades
00:12:06.960 in the wake of Joe Biden's cheerleading for China,
00:12:10.980 President Trump made that decision
00:12:12.500 before the end of January
00:12:13.600 to suspend all travel from China.
00:12:16.400 And again, the American people deserve to know
00:12:18.280 Joe Biden opposed President Trump's decision
00:12:20.840 to suspend all travel from China.
00:12:23.660 He said it was hysterical.
00:12:25.020 He said it was xenophobic.
00:12:26.140 Thank you, Vice President Pence.
00:12:26.620 But President Trump has stood up to China.
00:12:28.820 We're going to continue to stand strong.
00:12:30.560 Thank you, Vice President Pence.
00:12:31.620 We want to improve the relationship,
00:12:33.000 but we're going to level the playing field
00:12:34.440 and we're going to hold China accountable
00:12:36.040 for what they did to America with the coronavirus.
00:12:38.680 And here's how Senator Harris responded on China
00:12:42.080 and how the Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden
00:12:45.560 or however you would say it,
00:12:46.640 how their administration would deal with China issues.
00:12:49.660 You know, Joe, I think he said it quite well.
00:12:52.220 He says, you know, foreign policy,
00:12:53.740 it might sound complicated,
00:12:54.940 but really it's relationships.
00:12:56.420 Just think about it as relationships.
00:12:58.760 And so we know this
00:13:00.160 in our personal and professional relationships.
00:13:02.360 You got to keep your word to your friends.
00:13:05.220 Got to be loyal to your friends.
00:13:06.540 People who have stood with you,
00:13:07.780 got to stand with them.
00:13:09.680 You got to know who your adversaries are
00:13:11.680 and keep them in check.
00:13:13.260 But what we have seen with Donald Trump
00:13:16.580 is that he has betrayed our friends
00:13:20.620 and embraced dictators around the world.
00:13:26.860 Let's take, for example, Russia.
00:13:30.220 So, I serve on the Intelligence Committee
00:13:33.420 of the United States Senate.
00:13:35.840 America's intelligence community told us
00:13:38.560 Russia interfered in the election
00:13:40.760 of the president of the United States in 2016
00:13:42.620 and is playing in 2020.
00:13:44.820 Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI,
00:13:47.380 said the same.
00:13:48.940 But Donald Trump,
00:13:49.820 the commander-in-chief
00:13:50.700 of the United States of America,
00:13:52.680 prefers to take the word of Vladimir Putin
00:13:54.840 over the word of the American intelligence community.
00:13:58.160 You look at our friends at NATO.
00:14:01.620 He has walked away from agreements.
00:14:03.900 You can talk, look at the Iran nuclear deal,
00:14:06.560 which now has put us in a position
00:14:08.480 where we are less safe
00:14:10.920 because they are building up
00:14:12.440 what might end up being
00:14:14.120 a significant nuclear arsenal.
00:14:17.380 We were in that deal, guys.
00:14:19.320 We were in the Iran nuclear deal
00:14:20.840 with friends, with allies around the country.
00:14:23.020 And because of Donald Trump's unilateral approach
00:14:26.020 to foreign policy,
00:14:27.780 coupled with his isolationism,
00:14:29.880 he pulled us out
00:14:31.440 and has made America less safe.
00:14:32.900 So, Susan, it's about relationships.
00:14:36.000 And the thing that has always been part
00:14:37.640 of the strength of our nation,
00:14:39.360 in addition to our great military,
00:14:41.560 has been that we keep our word.
00:14:43.020 But Donald Trump doesn't understand that
00:14:45.080 because he doesn't understand
00:14:46.640 what it means to be honest.
00:14:48.780 Now, here's the interesting thing.
00:14:50.860 I saw on Congressman Lee Zeldin's Twitter
00:14:53.480 the news breaking
00:14:55.400 that China actually censored
00:14:58.280 Mike Pence's answer that you just heard.
00:15:00.840 But did they censor Kamala Harris's answer?
00:15:03.680 Absolutely not.
00:15:05.220 That tells you all you need to know
00:15:07.120 about which administration you should trust
00:15:09.700 to stand up to China.
00:15:12.080 China knows that they have a friendly ear
00:15:14.540 in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:15:16.940 They know that their policies
00:15:18.500 will bring China closer to America.
00:15:21.060 But that doesn't make China more like us.
00:15:23.880 It just creates more vulnerability
00:15:26.400 and makes our nation, I think,
00:15:28.720 less resilient when we allow China
00:15:31.360 to send their students
00:15:32.900 to our colleges and universities
00:15:34.940 for quantum physics degrees
00:15:37.560 and high-end AI
00:15:39.260 and machine learning capabilities.
00:15:40.900 It doesn't make China more like us.
00:15:43.460 And when China forces technology transfers,
00:15:47.820 you know, that doesn't make China
00:15:49.180 more like the American businesses.
00:15:50.900 It just makes the Chinese businesses
00:15:52.580 more likely to steal
00:15:53.700 from the American innovators
00:15:55.260 the way they've done
00:15:56.120 with so many renewable energy technologies
00:15:59.500 that were initially developed here,
00:16:01.220 but where China now owns global market share.
00:16:04.660 And so there is the pro-China approach
00:16:08.180 of the Biden-Harris administration
00:16:09.760 embraced by China,
00:16:11.160 even broadcast on Chinese state media.
00:16:13.780 And then there is the realistic view
00:16:15.720 represented by the president,
00:16:17.740 Donald Trump and vice president, Mike Pence.
00:16:20.820 And even Pence's comments
00:16:22.920 that were true and accurate about China
00:16:25.620 were censored by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:16:28.720 This is the fight that will determine
00:16:30.480 whether or not the millennials
00:16:32.060 and the Zoomers will continue
00:16:33.500 to live in an America
00:16:34.720 that dominates the next century,
00:16:37.820 or whether or not we will have
00:16:39.280 a diminished America,
00:16:40.820 a less safe America,
00:16:42.500 a less economically viable
00:16:44.040 and secure and self-determined America.
00:16:46.360 I think the choice is clear.
00:16:48.400 And I think China is one of the biggest issues
00:16:50.700 in this election for young people
00:16:52.580 who want to ensure the greatness
00:16:54.140 of our country continues.
00:16:59.060 Binax now and results now.
00:17:02.120 That's the mantra for the new testing strategy
00:17:04.400 in the state of Florida.
00:17:05.540 Governor Ron DeSantis announcing
00:17:07.120 in the villages,
00:17:08.660 the deployment of a new testing technology
00:17:11.220 in Florida.
00:17:11.980 Take a listen to the video
00:17:13.240 put out by the governor.
00:17:14.220 Good afternoon.
00:17:14.860 It's great to be back at the villages.
00:17:17.200 I announced last week
00:17:18.420 that Florida was going to be receiving
00:17:20.640 large shipments of a new rapid test
00:17:23.740 done by laboratories
00:17:24.980 called the Binax Now test.
00:17:27.480 It's a test that delivers results
00:17:29.300 in 15 minutes or less.
00:17:30.940 Does not require the results
00:17:33.060 to be run through a lab
00:17:34.160 or any type of a machine.
00:17:38.660 U.S. troops in Afghanistan
00:17:40.400 should be home by Christmas,
00:17:43.140 according to President Trump.
00:17:44.980 Reuters has the story.
00:17:46.180 All U.S. troops in Afghanistan
00:17:47.580 should be home by Christmas.
00:17:49.420 President Donald Trump said
00:17:50.660 on Wednesday,
00:17:51.740 just hours after his national security advisor
00:17:54.020 said Washington would reduce its forces
00:17:56.460 in Afghanistan to 2,500
00:17:59.140 by early next year.
00:18:00.900 A landmark deal between the United States
00:18:02.900 and the Taliban in February
00:18:04.420 said forces would leave Afghanistan
00:18:06.440 by May 2021
00:18:07.820 in exchange for counterterrorism guarantees
00:18:10.880 from the Taliban,
00:18:12.560 which were agreed to be negotiated
00:18:14.420 through this permanent seats fire
00:18:16.480 and power sharing formula
00:18:18.340 with the Afghan government.
00:18:20.100 The Trump administration
00:18:22.100 and other officials have said
00:18:23.300 that the United States
00:18:24.260 will go down to between 4,000
00:18:26.700 and 5,000 troops in Afghanistan
00:18:28.740 around November.
00:18:30.160 Beyond that,
00:18:31.120 officials have said
00:18:31.900 that a reduction will depend
00:18:33.040 on conditions in Afghanistan.
00:18:35.440 On Twitter,
00:18:36.020 Trump said,
00:18:36.800 we should have the small
00:18:37.740 remaining number
00:18:38.520 of our brave men and women
00:18:39.840 serving in Afghanistan
00:18:40.780 home by Christmas.
00:18:43.080 Wouldn't that be
00:18:43.740 the greatest Christmas gift
00:18:45.260 one could possibly give?
00:18:47.140 It would put America first.
00:18:48.780 It would put our people first.
00:18:50.260 It would put our military families first.
00:18:52.200 And while I'm not super optimistic
00:18:54.660 about any guarantees
00:18:55.780 from the Taliban,
00:18:57.160 I understand that
00:18:58.660 we can keep our country
00:19:00.500 safer and more resilient
00:19:02.040 without spilling trillions
00:19:04.220 of dollars in Afghanistan
00:19:05.880 for decades longer
00:19:07.820 and standing over
00:19:09.100 the flag-draped caskets
00:19:10.500 of our best Americans,
00:19:12.640 our bravest,
00:19:13.560 some of our most talented
00:19:15.080 as they go out
00:19:16.860 and fight
00:19:17.320 in these godforsaken places
00:19:19.680 for, at times,
00:19:22.600 unknowable gain.
00:19:23.940 And that is not
00:19:25.120 just my commentary.
00:19:26.380 That's what we learned
00:19:27.220 through the Afghan papers
00:19:28.820 that were published
00:19:29.880 in the Washington Post
00:19:30.920 that well into this conflict
00:19:33.100 senior military officials
00:19:34.720 and leaders
00:19:35.260 admitted to one another
00:19:37.320 and themselves
00:19:37.980 that they didn't know
00:19:38.780 what they were doing,
00:19:39.620 that they couldn't define victory.
00:19:41.380 And in those circumstances,
00:19:42.680 it is simply not tenable
00:19:44.500 to maintain this conflict.
00:19:46.180 Now, there is bipartisan
00:19:47.600 disagreement
00:19:48.640 from this view
00:19:49.860 by the president
00:19:51.180 in the Congress.
00:19:52.480 Congresswoman Liz Cheney,
00:19:53.840 the Republican chair
00:19:54.680 of the conference,
00:19:56.100 worked with Democrat
00:19:57.260 Jason Crowe,
00:19:58.340 to try to impair
00:19:59.820 the decision
00:20:00.580 by the administration
00:20:01.580 to withdraw troops
00:20:02.860 from the area
00:20:04.340 of Afghanistan.
00:20:05.320 So as President Trump
00:20:06.140 is trying to bring troops home,
00:20:07.920 there is a bipartisan
00:20:08.900 coalition in the Congress
00:20:10.300 led by Republican
00:20:12.180 Liz Cheney
00:20:12.880 and Democrat Jason Crowe
00:20:14.560 to try to keep
00:20:15.660 the United States
00:20:16.360 in Afghanistan.
00:20:17.560 I think if that's
00:20:18.600 their plan,
00:20:19.540 they ought to explain
00:20:20.940 to the American people
00:20:22.180 what it is
00:20:23.040 we're fighting for,
00:20:24.100 what metrics
00:20:24.900 we're using
00:20:25.480 to determine success
00:20:26.960 because as a generation
00:20:28.900 and as a nation,
00:20:30.060 I believe we have
00:20:31.200 grown weary
00:20:31.800 of these Middle East wars.
00:20:36.460 If you're still wondering
00:20:37.840 about the corruption
00:20:39.160 that exists
00:20:40.300 between the mainstream media
00:20:41.860 and the political left,
00:20:43.480 there's a great piece out
00:20:44.360 by the Washington Free Beacon.
00:20:46.500 NBC News undecided voters
00:20:48.500 previously featured
00:20:49.700 as Biden supporters
00:20:51.060 on MSNBC.
00:20:52.960 So they hold this
00:20:53.920 Joe Biden town hall
00:20:55.940 with presumably
00:20:56.840 undecided voters
00:20:58.020 and literally
00:20:58.660 they have people there
00:21:00.100 who their own network
00:21:01.740 has featured
00:21:02.700 as supporters
00:21:03.540 of Joe Biden.
00:21:04.900 I mean,
00:21:05.180 not only
00:21:05.900 the collusion
00:21:07.440 going on there
00:21:08.440 to try to
00:21:09.300 basically create
00:21:10.320 a Joe Biden infomercial,
00:21:12.460 but just the lack
00:21:13.080 of self-awareness
00:21:13.980 that even their own network
00:21:15.560 had these people
00:21:16.660 on explaining
00:21:17.340 why they had voted
00:21:18.420 for Joe Biden previously.
00:21:19.840 So, you know,
00:21:20.940 shame on NBC News
00:21:22.520 for engaging
00:21:23.820 in this type
00:21:24.480 of obvious electioneering
00:21:26.680 on behalf of Joe Biden,
00:21:28.060 but it just shows
00:21:29.620 the real Americans
00:21:31.000 out there in our country
00:21:32.140 what we're up against
00:21:33.460 and how hard
00:21:34.520 we have to work
00:21:35.400 to share the truth,
00:21:36.540 to get the truth out,
00:21:37.760 to communicate directly,
00:21:39.040 to organize
00:21:39.900 and to mobilize
00:21:40.860 around America First principles.
00:21:43.420 They still are
00:21:44.140 the most popular principles,
00:21:45.820 but you see how hard
00:21:46.980 some of the America Last
00:21:48.380 media entities
00:21:49.220 are working
00:21:49.880 with the political left
00:21:51.180 to get in our way.
00:21:52.780 We shouldn't let them.
00:21:54.120 We should see
00:21:54.680 through the nonsense.
00:21:58.840 Did Ariana Grande's tweet
00:22:01.400 break the Florida
00:22:02.960 voter registration system?
00:22:05.900 That's the story
00:22:06.660 that the Sun Sentinel
00:22:07.820 has covered.
00:22:09.640 Skylar Swisher
00:22:10.680 has the write-up.
00:22:11.700 Pop superstar
00:22:12.880 Ariana Grande
00:22:14.120 contributed to
00:22:15.080 an unprecedented surge
00:22:16.600 in civic passion
00:22:17.580 in Florida
00:22:18.160 that left the state's
00:22:19.600 computer servers
00:22:20.500 struggling to keep up.
00:22:22.440 So on the last day
00:22:23.600 of voter registration
00:22:24.540 in Florida
00:22:25.100 at about 3 o'clock p.m.,
00:22:26.820 Ariana Grande
00:22:27.580 tweets out to her
00:22:28.660 77 million Twitter followers
00:22:30.840 her encouragement
00:22:33.000 to register to vote.
00:22:35.220 And that tweet
00:22:35.920 was retweeted
00:22:36.720 nearly 7,000 times.
00:22:38.540 Ariana Grande
00:22:39.180 ranks number 10
00:22:40.460 in a list of the most
00:22:41.360 followed accounts
00:22:42.360 on all of Twitter.
00:22:44.180 The barrage
00:22:44.880 sends all of this traffic,
00:22:46.380 1.1 million hits per hour
00:22:48.620 leading up to the state's
00:22:49.860 registration deadline.
00:22:50.900 Of course,
00:22:51.840 Florida then extends
00:22:52.860 that deadline
00:22:53.660 as a consequence
00:22:55.020 of the traffic
00:22:56.500 leading to some folks
00:22:57.580 getting error messages.
00:22:59.400 So Ariana Grande
00:23:00.320 getting folks
00:23:01.520 to the Florida
00:23:02.240 voter registration system
00:23:03.860 led to an extension.
00:23:06.300 Hopefully,
00:23:06.720 everyone who
00:23:07.500 is eager to register
00:23:08.700 to vote
00:23:09.360 and cast a legal vote
00:23:10.660 had the chance
00:23:11.520 to do so.
00:23:12.120 The persecution
00:23:16.500 of Michael Flynn
00:23:18.080 continues.
00:23:19.440 I want to give you
00:23:20.160 an update
00:23:20.740 on the case
00:23:21.660 reported by our friend
00:23:23.320 John Solomon
00:23:23.940 over at
00:23:24.500 JustTheNews.com.
00:23:26.160 Sidney Powell,
00:23:27.080 the great lawyer,
00:23:27.960 has filed a motion
00:23:29.200 to disqualify
00:23:30.320 Judge Emmett Sullivan
00:23:31.460 as a consequence
00:23:32.560 of the abject bias
00:23:35.180 and disdain
00:23:36.080 that he has shown
00:23:37.000 to the defense.
00:23:38.240 It is really far
00:23:39.620 exceeded actual bias.
00:23:41.360 It is unprecedented bias.
00:23:43.720 So we have not seen
00:23:45.740 whether or not
00:23:46.500 Judge Sullivan
00:23:47.100 will grant that motion.
00:23:48.420 He likely won't,
00:23:49.460 but then that creates
00:23:50.260 another mechanism
00:23:51.700 for appeal.
00:23:53.040 And it is ludicrous
00:23:54.860 that this prosecution
00:23:56.040 has continued
00:23:56.860 despite the Justice Department's
00:23:59.600 recognition
00:24:00.480 that there was no crime
00:24:02.380 by General Flynn.
00:24:03.580 This was all a setup.
00:24:05.360 It was a setup
00:24:06.000 over politics.
00:24:07.460 General Flynn
00:24:08.080 is an American patriot
00:24:09.700 and we all should be
00:24:11.280 thanking him
00:24:11.800 for his service
00:24:12.300 to the country,
00:24:13.180 not putting him
00:24:14.060 through this bullshit.
00:24:16.380 Thanks for listening
00:24:17.200 to Hot Takes.
00:24:18.000 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz
00:24:19.300 and a while ago
00:24:20.420 I asked folks
00:24:21.320 on social media
00:24:22.200 and on the podcast,
00:24:23.840 do you think we should
00:24:24.320 change the format
00:24:25.120 as we prepare
00:24:26.380 to move into
00:24:27.140 a new year,
00:24:28.260 a new Congress
00:24:28.900 over the next few months?
00:24:29.940 Should we invite guests?
00:24:31.140 Should we go
00:24:31.960 to a video format?
00:24:33.100 And the results
00:24:34.160 were fascinating.
00:24:35.160 On Twitter,
00:24:36.580 online,
00:24:37.620 we saw,
00:24:38.760 gosh,
00:24:39.200 80-85% of folks
00:24:40.980 saying yes,
00:24:41.640 we'd prefer
00:24:42.180 lower frequency,
00:24:43.880 more guests,
00:24:45.000 more video.
00:24:46.200 And yet,
00:24:46.660 for those who
00:24:47.320 I think are probably
00:24:48.600 those who listen
00:24:49.360 to the pod more,
00:24:50.820 those who write
00:24:52.020 their reviews
00:24:53.020 like on Apple,
00:24:54.440 there's probably
00:24:55.320 more of a desire
00:24:56.140 to keep our format
00:24:57.060 like it is,
00:24:58.120 straight to the point,
00:24:59.680 talking about the news,
00:25:00.860 giving my perspective,
00:25:02.300 maybe have a guest on
00:25:03.640 every once in a while.
00:25:05.440 But certainly not
00:25:06.440 sacrifice the daily
00:25:07.680 element of the platform.
00:25:09.740 So,
00:25:10.360 a message received,
00:25:11.240 we'll continue to look at it,
00:25:12.480 think about it,
00:25:13.520 make sure it fits in
00:25:14.360 with the other work
00:25:15.300 we're doing to serve
00:25:15.980 the great folks
00:25:16.600 in Northwest Florida.
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