The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 107 - Putin Wants to Work with Biden. Rick Wilson and Peter Strzok： Never-Trump Lunch Buddies. Fighting for the Panhandle.

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.140 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country tonight be offended

00:00:09.800 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:14.000 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news judge amy coney barrett

00:00:22.200 seeing her confirmation hearings began in the united states senate republican lindsey graham 0.95

00:00:27.000 leading the effort on the side to confirm this nominee here's chairman graham i think it's okay

00:00:33.520 to live your life in a traditional catholic fashion and you still be qualified for the supreme court

00:00:39.660 so all the young conservative women out there this hearing to me is about a place for you 1.00

00:00:44.960 i hope when this is all over that you there'll be a place for you at the table there'll be a spot for

00:00:51.560 you at the supreme court like there was for judge ginsburg let's talk about uh the two supreme

00:00:57.900 court cases regarding abortion what are the two leading cases in america regarding uh abortion

00:01:03.600 well i think most people think of roe versus wade and casey uh is the case after roe that preserved

00:01:10.020 roe's central holding but grounded it in a slightly different rationale so what is that rationale

00:01:15.940 rationale is that the state cannot impose an undue burden on a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy

00:01:23.200 okay unlike brown there there are states challenging on the abortion front there are states uh that

00:01:30.840 are going to a fetal heartbeat bill i have a bill judge uh that would uh disallow abortion on demand

00:01:38.960 at the 20 weeks the fifth month of the pregnancy we're one of seven nations in the entire world that

00:01:44.740 allow abortion on demand and at the fifth month uh the construct of my bill is because a child is 0.54

00:01:51.620 capable of feeling pain in the fifth month uh doctors tell us to save the child's life you have to

00:01:57.380 provide anesthesia if you operate because they can feel pain the argument i'm making is if you have to

00:02:04.020 provide anesthesia to save the child's life because they can feel pain must be a terrible death to be

00:02:09.620 dismembered by an abortion that's a theory to protect the unborn at the fifth month if that litigation 0.98

00:02:17.380 comes before you will you listen to both sides of course i'll do that in every case senator diane

00:02:22.980 feinstein has been i guess in the senate long enough to be the democrat head of the senate judiciary

00:02:30.100 committee there was some talk of maybe having a more aggressive uh or well-known senator on the

00:02:37.220 committee lead that effort uh instead at senator feinstein folks will remember she really really

00:02:43.540 was awful in the leaks and innuendo and treatment of judge kavanaugh i think she took substantial

00:02:50.180 backlash for that but here's senator feinstein with the opening salvo of the democrat effort let me begin

00:02:57.220 with um a question that the chairman touched on and it's of a great it's of great importance i think

00:03:05.780 in planned parenthood of southeastern pennsylvania versus casey justice scalia as was said earlier joined

00:03:15.380 the dissent which took the position and i quote we believe that roe was wrongly decided and that it can

00:03:24.180 and should be overruled consistent with our traditional approach to stare decisis in constitutional cases

00:03:33.940 do you agree with justice scalia's view that roe was wrongly decided so senator i do want to be

00:03:41.220 forthright and answer every question so far as i can i think on that question i you know i'm going to

00:03:48.580 invoke justice kagan's description which i think is um perfectly put when she was in her confirmation

00:03:54.420 hearing she said that she was not going to grade precedent or give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down

00:03:59.700 and i think in an area where precedent continues to be pressed and litigated as is true of casey it

00:04:06.100 would be particularly um it would actually be wrong and a violation of the canons for me to do that as a

00:04:11.620 sitting judge so if if i express a view on a precedent one way or another whether i say i love it or i hate it

00:04:18.660 it signals to litigants that i might tilt one way or another in a pending case judge amy coney barrett is not

00:04:25.620 using notes she is very engaging she's there to offer the best version of herself as any of us would

00:04:32.100 be in these very challenging conditions but she seems up to it here's future supreme court justice 0.84

00:04:38.020 amy coney barrett how does it feel to be nominated for the supreme court of the united states senator

00:04:44.180 i think um i should say why i'm sitting in this seat in response to that question too

00:04:50.020 why i've agreed to be here because i don't think it's any secret to any of you or to the american

00:04:54.580 people that this is a really difficult some might say excruciating process um and jesse and i

00:05:01.300 had a very brief amount of time to make a decision with momentous consequences for our family

00:05:06.740 we knew that our lives would be combed over for any negative detail we knew that our faith would be

00:05:11.620 caricatured we knew our family would be attacked and so we had to decide whether those difficulties

00:05:18.180 would be worth it because what sane person would go through that if there wasn't a benefit on the other

00:05:22.660 side and the benefit i think is that i'm committed to the rule of law and the role of the supreme court

00:05:28.740 and dispensing equal justice for all and i'm not the only person who could do this job but i was asked

00:05:35.140 and it would be difficult for anyone so why should i say someone else should do the difficulty if the

00:05:40.420 difficulty is the only reason to say no i should serve my country and my family's all in on that because

00:05:45.940 they share my belief and the rule of law it appears that coronavirus and delayed distraction tactics

00:05:52.980 from chuck schumer are not going to impair the senate calendar they're hard at work and we look forward

00:05:58.660 to seeing our new supreme court justice seated president trump talked about the nomination of

00:06:04.660 judge barrett at his rally in sanford last night take a listen to the president amy is fantastic a great

00:06:09.940 intellect a great scholar i think she's going to be a fantastic u.s supreme court justice as america saw 0.94

00:06:16.340 earlier today in amy's opening statement in the senate judge barrett a brilliant scholar who will defend

00:06:26.180 our laws our rights our freedom and our constitution like very few people would have the capability of doing

00:06:33.300 i'm often a critic of the hospital industrial complex when they unfairly raise prices and cheat

00:06:43.060 patients and take advantage of government programs but the health care corporation of america has really

00:06:49.860 been a counterweight to those more corrosive elements in the hospital industrial complex in their recent

00:06:55.620 decision making hca one of the largest hospital groups in the country they have a number of

00:07:02.340 hospitals throughout florida they have a very high concentration of health care provider activity in

00:07:08.340 my district and they have made the decision to return six billion dollars in cares act money to the

00:07:15.860 treasury this is the provider fund that was set up in the cares act to ensure that on the front end of

00:07:22.660 the fight with this virus we had the ability to get the personal protective equipment the machinery uh the

00:07:30.500 plus ups in nursing and physician's assistance for testing for a lot of these hospital systems and hca

00:07:37.940 when looking at their third quarter balance sheet you know they see revenues around 13 billion dollars

00:07:44.580 for a quarter and they were able to return this six billion dollars given their ability to make the

00:07:51.860 case to their investors that it was the right thing to do and they were able to meet the needs of the

00:07:56.500 communities they serve and the patients that they serve and they were able to give back the money so

00:08:02.020 it's rare that in corporate america you see this type of america first selflessness and so i wanted to

00:08:08.660 thank the health care corporation of america for doing right by their patients and their country

00:08:17.940 the constitutionally outlined process for impeachment

00:08:21.140 isn't enough for crazy nancy pelosi she along with congressman jamie raskin of maryland have now 1.00

00:08:28.660 introduced legislation to allow the congress of the united states to intervene in the process outlined

00:08:35.860 by the 25th amendment to remove a president for incapacity this is nuts congress already has power to 0.83

00:08:45.060 remove a president if they are able to impeach and convict the democrats tried that they failed during

00:08:51.540 the ukraine sequel to the russia hoax frankly they probably would have impeached in the russia hoax if

00:08:56.820 they ever had any evidence but we now see how fake that truly was and so democrats seeking more power

00:09:03.940 seeking more institutional violence really to the systems that have upheld our democracy in our republic and

00:09:12.260 have ensured that it has legitimacy throughout the world that's not enough for them they want

00:09:15.860 new ways to try to stand between the president and the voters who elected him and that's why they're

00:09:23.140 trying to change the 25th amendment you see everyone in the media views this as nancy pelosi taking on

00:09:29.220 trump but the reality is nancy pelosi is showing disdain for the people who voted for trump and when she 1.00

00:09:38.180 tries to criticize him for challenging our norms and our institutions and then she allows people like

00:09:44.660 jerry nadler to talk about packing the court jamie raskin to talk about changing the 25th amendment

00:09:50.580 you know chuck schumer talking about blowing up the filibuster this is all an effort to ensure that

00:09:57.460 they can seize power it's not about serving the people again you know the people have lived under

00:10:03.780 systems that allow for the election and removal of presidents uh through the test of time you know

00:10:09.860 through the architecture of our founders nancy pelosi doesn't have any reverence for the way that our

00:10:18.020 founders set up our government or our systems she just wants to accumulate power and attack trump 1.00

00:10:24.900 and it's shameful and we won't let her americans could be taking to the skies to go to europe sooner 0.99

00:10:35.140 than we may have originally thought the wall street journal has the story u.s officials aim to open

00:10:40.580 new york london air travel by the holidays due to the growing availability of covet 19 tests in the united

00:10:46.980 states u.s officials are working to revive these efforts for safe travel between america and various

00:10:53.300 international destinations with testing done before the flights right now we see temp checks done but

00:11:00.740 as we've seen in florida we even have these 15 minute results that don't have to go through a major

00:11:06.340 lab processor they're able to just react with a reagent and so if we're able to get airlines to ensure

00:11:12.740 that people getting on these flights don't have active replicating virus i think that it will be

00:11:18.900 incredibly helpful to business confidence consumer confidence to global economic systems and just

00:11:26.340 maybe the fact that in the united kingdom there's a desire maybe to make a little more independent

00:11:32.980 decisions relative to the rest of europe a little bit more of a willingness to use your own thought

00:11:39.300 process and not participate in the groupthink of the eu might make london the perfect partner for america to

00:11:46.900 restore this international travel and i i think it will ultimately inure to our benefit to do let's

00:11:52.900 hope we get the technology and the testing to execute on it safely

00:11:59.700 it was great to see president trump back on the campaign trail in his and my home state of florida

00:12:06.420 last evening in sanford the crowd was electric it was huge i cannot stress the extent to which

00:12:13.860 you know there were just so many people who showed up beyond the expectations of the event organizers

00:12:20.340 frankly i think there were two or three times as many people as the organizers originally anticipated

00:12:26.740 i've spoken to the president a number of times in the last few days check in on his condition check

00:12:31.460 in on a few policy matters we're working on together and it was just something to see him so energetic

00:12:38.100 and enthusiastic and encouraging and comforting to the rest of the country and he did have occasion

00:12:44.900 to chat about the discussions he and i have had around hurricane sally and as you'll recall the

00:12:49.700 president was falling ill as the panhandle was developing its disaster assessments and measurements

00:12:56.740 and the pensacolian fake news journal back in my district was very critical of me and of the

00:13:01.460 administration and they just didn't know what was going on they were obviously like most of the fake

00:13:06.100 news out trying to get clicks with a very limited amount of information based on very light reporting

00:13:11.940 and president trump really illuminated the extent to which i was contacting him and making the case

00:13:17.300 for my people here's the president's comments about our work together the florida panhandle affected

00:13:23.140 by hurricane sally and i will tell you ron and marco and everybody i'll tell you rick everybody's been

00:13:31.940 calling and calling matt gates has been going driving us a little crazy matt you could take it a little

00:13:37.060 easy but that's what somebody that's good is supposed to do right he's supposed to call

00:13:43.060 but we take care of the panhandle and we're doing it at a level that's never been done before and i've

00:13:47.540 done it i think i can say right from the beginning right and i make no apologies for calling the

00:13:52.820 president frequently and for highlighting the needs and concerns of my citizens that is the obligation of

00:14:00.420 leadership fighting for your people i fight for my people the president fights for our country

00:14:06.260 and we're all the better for it

00:14:10.820 and while president trump is out in the country inspiring leading talking to the american people

00:14:17.460 showing all of our fellow americans that coronavirus doesn't have to dictate every decision

00:14:23.140 that each and every one of us make throughout our lives that we can persevere that we can defeat

00:14:28.980 this virus and we will defeat this virus the way president trump did and it bears a real contrast to

00:14:35.620 what we see on the political left jane fonda one of joe biden's top surrogates saying this about 0.97

00:14:42.580 coronavirus i just think um covet is god's gift to the left coronavirus is not god's gift to anyone

00:14:52.580 it is a scourge on the world unleashed by china covered up by the chinese communist party i think 1.00

00:14:59.860 fundamentally misunderstood by the world health organization and frankly a lot of technocrats

00:15:05.060 even in our own country fortunately president trump knew to shut down travel early fortunately we have

00:15:11.780 mobilized the greatest industrial effort really since world war ii in this country to ensure that every

00:15:18.020 every single american who needed a ventilator got one survivability against the coronavirus in the united states

00:15:24.660 has improved dramatically because of the drugs therapeutics and cures that american innovators have

00:15:31.300 developed and tested and are using now on everyone from the president of the united states to

00:15:37.540 someone who may be in need in a hospital today joe biden needs to denounce the comments of jame fonda

00:15:45.540 not encourage her as one of his surrogates but this is the left now anything for power their fellow 0.99

00:15:52.660 americans getting sick maybe even dying they could view that as god's gift we think all life is god's

00:16:00.100 gift that's why we fight to protect life from the unborn to those who may contract this virus and

00:16:07.940 regardless of what your politics are we want everyone to survive and get through this virus and we want

00:16:13.860 everyone to rise as one great country one great people united for success that's what we believe

00:16:20.980 in it's not what jane fonda believes in and she's the one joe biden trusts so who do you trust

00:16:30.020 my fellow americans my fellow floridians will remember the criticism and hatred that was directed at

00:16:37.540 governor ron desantis and others who said that we have to open up schools

00:16:42.020 and the argument i made on this podcast and elsewhere is that you've got to give parents

00:16:46.340 the choice and sure there'll be some parents who rightly decide that maybe the traditional

00:16:50.820 education setting isn't the right one for their student in these times maybe you've got a unique

00:16:55.300 medical frailty maybe you've got a multi-generational household where some in-home learning would be

00:17:01.060 more appropriate but in homes where you've got healthy people where you've got young people where you've got a

00:17:08.340 need based on the revenue and workforce needs of a family to have a child in school maybe where you've

00:17:15.060 got a particular social emotional need on the part of a student for growth and understanding that you've

00:17:21.460 got to give parents the option to open schools and oh my gosh you had the pta saying that this was like

00:17:28.260 gonna be you know scourges of waves of death you know washing across the country and you had the

00:17:34.500 political left just clutching their pearls the atlantic is not typically a publication that i rely

00:17:40.340 on for much of anything but emily oster is an economist at brown university and she penned the

00:17:46.900 findings of some of her work and it is fascinating you must read it schools aren't super spreaders

00:17:54.180 fears from the summer appear to have been overblown here she surveys 20 000 students with a bunch of

00:18:02.260 fellow data nerds at qualtrics they find an infection rate at 0.13 so despite the crowded hallways despite

00:18:12.580 the kids uh touching each other and talking to each other not the big infection rate and even among staff

00:18:19.700 you see an infection rate at 0.24 so very low infection a very low negative health impact and

00:18:27.940 you've just gotta believe that there is an immeasurable positive impact that comes with

00:18:33.540 getting the schools open getting families back into their normal routine and ensuring that we get

00:18:39.380 back to our wonderful proud prosperous american way of life

00:18:47.940 this is weird we see a picture on twitter of republican i guess i should say former republican

00:18:54.980 political operative now never trumper og rick wilson having dinner with none other than peter struck

00:19:03.860 you'll remember peter struck once america's premier counterintelligence official but then

00:19:09.700 demonstrated bias and resentment and anger toward the president as he was investigating him

00:19:15.300 shared those messages with his girlfriend both of them were married at the time but engaged in a

00:19:20.500 relationship at the fbi then they really did everything they could to restore their phones to factory

00:19:26.420 settings to eliminate those messages the inspector general was able to recover a great deal of them

00:19:32.740 and they formed i think the basis for our position that this was not a fair investigation of the president

00:19:40.740 peter struck testified to the judiciary committee and was a tough nut to crack but i do think

00:19:46.660 we were able to show how flawed it was that you had these people with an axe to grind against the

00:19:52.660 president doing all they could to delegitimize him both before and after his election and remember it's

00:19:57.540 the same peter struck who wrote in his notes that the flynn investigation was a setup there wasn't

00:20:04.580 really a sincere effort to find out what flynn had said to the russians in fact our government had that

00:20:10.740 on tape and what flynn said to the russians was right that we needed to calm down from the escalatory

00:20:18.420 cycle that we were in at the back end of the obama administration that we needed to de-escalate in

00:20:24.660 syria that we needed to reduce violence in the middle east by working together and that we really

00:20:29.460 needed to focus on the threats associated with china and so today with peter struck now gone from the fbi

00:20:36.100 with rick wilson essentially gone from the republican party taking on his newfound role as as a trump

00:20:42.980 critic why are the two of these guys having to dinner together at a swanky washington steakhouse it does it

00:20:50.420 appear that they're working together on a project are they trying to drum up fake information about the

00:20:56.660 president about people they don't like this looks a lot less like a social dinner between friends and more

00:21:03.540 like an ongoing election interference planning strategy session and it remains to be seen how

00:21:10.580 they'll work to execute on that but i do know this donald trump winning the election won't stop them

00:21:16.260 these are folks who believe that their assessment of who ought to be president should be substituted

00:21:22.500 for the assessment of the voters who cast their votes through the electoral college and so i think that

00:21:27.300 this isn't just potentially a discussion about what's going to happen over the next tens of days but even

00:21:32.900 beyond as the anti-trump forces in washington in the deep state in the media in the democratic party and even

00:21:41.460 some like rick wilson from the republican party work together because they see the power of the president's

00:21:47.860 movement a populist popular america first movement that puts our country and our people before the elite

00:21:55.620 interests that have too often failed the great folks of our nation i think the president's going to prevail i think

00:22:01.940 these folks are going to be shocked yet again but it doesn't mean they'll stop coming for us

00:22:06.900 and so at some point we've got to start coming for them

00:22:13.140 putin says he wants to work with biden claims shared values between democrats and communism newsweeks

00:22:21.140 david brennan has the story russian president vladimir putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance

00:22:26.500 between democrat presidential candidate former vice president joe biden and soviet communists in a

00:22:32.100 wide-ranging interview that was released and shared with a lot of folks internationally putin said that

00:22:38.980 the kremlin would be open to working with whoever sits in the oval office despite u.s intelligence

00:22:44.020 reports indicating that russia is trying to undermine biden but putin linked biden to communist ideology

00:22:50.900 during the interview putin of course being a former colonel in the kgb now if this were putin saying

00:22:57.940 something positive about trump you better believe that cnn and msnbc would have it in the a block of

00:23:03.860 every show proof trump is a puppet of putin they are colluding they are working together but this is

00:23:11.620 probably something the fake news will sit on or totally ignore and look i do think that our nation needs to

00:23:18.340 de-conflict with russia russia is not our friend they're a competitor but they do have presence

00:23:24.660 in areas of the world where we need to avoid escalating conflict syria is one such place and

00:23:31.620 it appears in syria there has been a de-escalation as a consequence of the russians not wanting to see

00:23:38.340 their allies in damascus clash with their allies in istanbul and if that means that there's less bloodshed

00:23:46.980 less american bloodshed i would say we would want to fully exercise the opportunities under such a

00:23:53.380 de-confliction strategy but here you've got putin hugging biden we'll see if anybody notices

00:24:03.860 different movie theaters are taking a different approach to the pandemic the national interest has

00:24:09.540 the story get your popcorn amc theaters will remain open despite regal closures the pandemic is forcing

00:24:17.540 hollywood to push most of its major releases for the rest of the year until 2021 and the parent company

00:24:23.700 of regal cinemas one of the largest movie chains in the country announced that it will close all of

00:24:28.660 its theaters in the united states and the uk citing the pandemic you do not see that same decision from amc

00:24:35.460 so it will be interesting to see which model works whether or not these movie theaters are going to

00:24:40.980 be sites of viral spread it is inside they can be close quarters but i always want to give innovation

00:24:48.660 the opportunity to succeed so we'll see what sanitation and distancing protocols can be used so that folks

00:24:55.140 can get the popcorn and go to the movies maybe don't share the popcorn in the era of the pandemic maybe

00:25:00.260 get your own popcorn get your own drink that would be one way to ensure that we're doing our part

00:25:06.900 while we get to enjoy the movies and the red carpet and the american way of life thanks for

00:25:12.580 listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates thanks as always to luke ball and joel valdez

00:25:18.900 my fantastic communications team that puts this pod together each and every day yesterday we gave

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 13, 2020

Episode 107 - Putin Wants to Work with Biden. Rick Wilson and Peter Strzok： Never-Trump Lunch Buddies. Fighting for the Panhandle.

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