The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 105 - NBC BUSTED for Fake ＂Undecided＂ Voters. VP Debate Hot Takes. Troops Home for Christmas.

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, 1.00

00:02:59.440 to kill the terrorists that threaten peace, you know, themselves rather than expecting 0.86

00:03:05.180 the United States to do it in each and every circumstance at tremendously high cost in blood 0.83

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. 0.98

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 0.61

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. 1.00

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. 0.96

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 1.00

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. 0.56

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, 0.95

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 0.95

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. 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.60

00:12:36.040 for what they did to America with the coronavirus. 0.81

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. 0.69

00:15:12.080 China knows that they have a friendly ear 0.57

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. 0.72

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.60

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 1.00

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. 0.89

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 0.54

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. 0.87

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 1.00

00:24:14.060 through this bullshit. 0.99

00:24:16.380 Thanks for listening 1.00

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.

00:25:18.060 Make sure you do your part,

00:25:19.880 share our content,

00:25:21.080 subscribe,

00:25:21.900 leave a five-star review,

00:25:23.240 and make sure to join us

00:25:24.240 tomorrow for more

00:25:25.520 Hot Takes.

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.

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript