The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 108 - ACB Doesn't Need Notes. Tiger King's Doc Antle Charged With Wildlife Trafficking. Big Tech Mind Control. Mexico Weed.

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

00:00:06.120 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country tonight be offended

00:00:09.780 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.960 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news judge amy coney barrett

00:00:22.680 making all the news with no notes providing her legal brilliance putting her acumen on display

00:00:29.980 time and again i'll give this to the democrats though they seem to have a tremendous amount

00:00:34.560 of focus when making this confirmation about two things abortion and health care and it's noticeable

00:00:40.780 that in their treatment of amy coney barrett they're very different than during the kavanaugh hearings

00:00:47.320 during the kavanaugh hearings there seemed to be a lot more willingness to show personal hatred

00:00:53.180 personal disdain this appears to be with some exceptions mostly about trying to ripen these

00:00:59.480 issues of health care and abortion take a listen to this exchange on the issue of roe versus wade

00:01:05.400 and just how masterfully judge amy coney barrett handles it do you agree with justice scalia's view

00:01:12.240 that roe was wrongly decided senator i completely understand why you are asking the question but

00:01:21.800 again i can't pre-commit or say yes i'm going in with some agenda because i'm not i don't have any

00:01:29.420 agenda i have no agenda to try to overrule casey i have an agenda to stick to the rule of law and

00:01:36.100 decide cases as they come is roe a super precedent how would you define super precedent

00:01:41.360 i i actually i might have thought someday i'd be sitting in that chair i'm not i'm up here so i'm

00:01:48.200 asking okay well people use super precedent differently okay the way that it's used in

00:01:52.780 the scholarship and the way that i was using it and the article that you're reading from

00:01:56.800 was to define cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for

00:02:04.140 their overruling and i'm answering a lot of questions about roe which i think indicates that

00:02:08.800 roe doesn't fall in that category and scholars across the spectrum say that doesn't mean that

00:02:14.320 roe should be overruled but descriptively it does mean that it's not a case that everyone has accepted

00:02:20.460 and doesn't call for its overruling there was also a lot of discussion about obamacare about health care

00:02:26.720 and legislation that is still being reviewed for its constitutionality obviously no person that would

00:02:35.000 potentially serve on the court would be in a position to issue pre-rulings on matters that

00:02:40.360 could come before the highest jurisprudential body in the land here is an exchange on obamacare give us

00:02:47.440 an insight how you can be so unequivocal in opposing the majority decisions in nfid sebelius

00:02:54.760 and in king and burwell but have an open mind when it comes to the future of the affordable care act

00:03:01.460 or the affordable care act of the affordable care act of the house center.

00:03:05.460 Sure thank you for that question senator durbin because it gives me an opportunity to make my position clear

00:03:07.740 sure thank you for that question senator durbin because it gives me an opportunity to make my position clear

00:03:09.380 when i wrote and i at this was as a law professor about those decisions i did critique the statutory

00:03:17.700 interpretation of the majority opinions and as i've mentioned before my description of them was consistent with the way

00:03:23.780 that chief justice roberts described the statutory question but i think that your concern is that

00:03:30.900 that because I critiqued the statutory reasoning that I'm hostile to the ACA, and that because

00:03:38.600 I'm hostile to the ACA, that I would decide a case a particular way.

00:03:44.780 And I assure you that I am not.

00:03:46.700 I'm not hostile to the ACA, I'm not hostile to any statute that you pass.

00:03:52.180 And the cases on which I commented, and we can talk at another time, I guess, about the

00:03:57.320 context, the distinctions between academic writing and judicial decision making.

00:04:02.180 But those were on entirely different issues.

00:04:04.420 So to assume that because I critiqued the interpretation of the mandate or the phrase established by

00:04:11.980 a state means that on the entirely different legal question of severability, I would reach

00:04:17.760 a particular result just assumes that I'm hostile.

00:04:21.660 And that's not the case.

00:04:22.660 I apply the law.

00:04:23.660 I follow the law.

00:04:24.660 You make the policy.

00:04:25.660 Republicans did a great job as well, allowing Judge Coney Barrett to express her judicial

00:04:31.380 philosophy, her desire to follow the law.

00:04:33.620 I think that one of the Senate's newest is, in fact, one of the Senate's best, Senator

00:04:39.320 Josh Hawley.

00:04:40.460 Here's his exchange with the president's nominee.

00:04:43.520 This bedrock principle of American liberty is now under attack.

00:04:49.140 That is what is at stake when we read these stories attacking Judge Barrett for her faith.

00:04:54.780 That is what is at stake when my Democratic colleagues repeatedly questioned Judge Barrett and many

00:04:59.940 other judicial nominees about their religious beliefs, about their religious membership, about

00:05:04.660 their religious practices, about their family beliefs and practices.

00:05:08.440 That is an attempt to bring back the days of the religious test. 0.98

00:05:13.640 That is an attempt to bring back the veto power of the powerful over the religious beliefs and

00:05:21.500 sincerely held convictions of the American people.

00:05:24.200 And that is what is at stake in this confirmation hearing.

00:05:28.640 Now, the Constitution says that people of faith, like Judge Barrett, are welcome in high office,

00:05:34.400 welcome in any office, welcome throughout our public life here in this country.

00:05:39.040 And I would just say to my Democrat colleagues that these years now, this pattern and practice,

00:05:45.040 as we say in the law, this pattern and practice of religious bigotry, because that's what it 0.96

00:05:50.840 is.

00:05:51.540 When you tell somebody that they're too Catholic to be on the bench, when you tell them they're 0.98

00:05:55.420 going to be a Catholic judge, not an American judge, that's bigotry.

00:05:58.660 The pattern and practice of bigotry from members of this committee must stop.

00:06:03.740 Now, the coldest take during these judiciary hearings likely came from Senator Hirono, who

00:06:09.920 for some reason felt like we needed to discuss Judge Coney Barrett's sex life.

00:06:16.680 I guess it just wouldn't be a day in the Senate Judiciary Committee with a Supreme Court nominee

00:06:21.380 if you weren't talking about sex in some way.

00:06:25.040 Take a listen to this exchange.

00:06:27.240 Very strange.

00:06:28.020 To ensure the fitness of nominees for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench or to any

00:06:32.540 of the other positions for any of the committees on which they appear, I ask each nominee these

00:06:39.740 two questions and I will ask them of you.

00:06:42.420 Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or

00:06:48.240 committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?

00:06:52.740 No, Senator Hirono.

00:06:53.960 Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?

00:07:00.040 No, Senator.

00:07:00.920 Now, what does it mean to ask someone if they've ever requested a sexual favor that wasn't desired?

00:07:08.500 I mean, is a date a sexual favor?

00:07:11.220 Is willingness or want to kiss someone a sexual favor?

00:07:16.000 I mean, so if you really break this question down to its most literal essence, Senator Hirono

00:07:21.520 is asking if this nominee has ever been rejected at any time that you've been an adult, if that's

00:07:29.220 in fact what a sexual favor is, not a sexual exchange that's improper, but any sexual favor

00:07:35.260 of any kind that you've ever sought since being an adult that was unrequited.

00:07:40.220 If I was nominated for anything and I had to answer for every time I'd ever been rejected

00:07:44.860 by a woman, it would be a long list. 0.79

00:07:47.200 Now, that wouldn't indicate any impropriety, but give me a break.

00:07:51.840 I mean, the notion that you have to sit there and walk through like any circumstances where

00:07:56.820 anyone has ever rejected you as an adult is just beneath the dignity of the Senate.

00:08:02.060 The Supreme Court deals with the most complex legal questions that our society has to answer.

00:08:09.020 I think whether or not someone got turned down for prom is probably less relevant than

00:08:13.920 their legal acumen, but they know that, and they know that Amy Coney Barrett has a tremendous

00:08:19.120 legal acumen, and so they are doing anything they can to distract because they know this

00:08:24.900 is a qualified nominee, and it's my expectation she's going on the court.

00:08:32.280 Doc Antiel of Tiger King fame has been charged with two felony counts of trafficking lion cubs stemming

00:08:41.140 from the movement of cubs from South Carolina to Virginia and what is alleged to be a commercial

00:08:47.320 transfer to a Virginia-based expo for these big cats.

00:08:53.320 And Doc Antiel was interesting in the Tiger King documentary, not just for his treatment

00:09:00.220 of the cats and animals, but for the women, for the way that he would recruit these women 0.85

00:09:07.000 into the tiger operation and then seduce them into his life otherwise.

00:09:14.140 Now he's saying he greatly disputes the charges, that he and his family have not been involved

00:09:19.780 in animal cruelty, and he looks forward to clearing his good name.

00:09:24.280 So we'll see what happens with Doc Antiel, but he seems to have really ceded a lot of the

00:09:30.020 interest in a lot of these kind of roadside, weird, bizarre zoos that were featured in Tiger

00:09:35.820 King. A lot of those folks had studied with him, worked with him, probably a bunch of them

00:09:40.380 got their first cats from him, though that is a violation of the Endangered Species Act.

00:09:45.840 And some of the attention that these folks are getting from Joe Exotic to Doc Antiel following

00:09:51.520 Tiger King might not precisely be the attention they wanted. We'll keep following the story.

00:09:56.800 The National Pulse.com has a piece up by Thomas Farnan, how the Russia lie doomed the Durham

00:10:07.340 investigation. America is now more than four years into the Russia lie, and nobody has gone

00:10:13.880 to jail for it. The Spygate conspirators have escaped prosecution and instead are smiling

00:10:21.140 smugly on the sets of their swank CNN gigs. The stranger than fiction truth is that the DNC and

00:10:28.980 the Clinton campaign joined with the CIA, the FBI, think tanks, private contractors, and foreign

00:10:35.580 intelligence services to raise a false Russian flag over the Trump campaign. It's an interesting

00:10:42.280 piece, check it out. I do think it lets some of the Republicans off the hook a little bit. Folks like

00:10:49.060 Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy and then Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte did not authorize a single subpoena

00:10:57.140 when we knew the Russia hoax was a lie and had the opportunity in real time to expose it, to catch the

00:11:04.940 real criminals, and to restore confidence in the president and the presidency, and to vindicate the

00:11:11.780 voters who selected Donald Trump as president from these vicious attacks, not just on Trump,

00:11:18.660 but on them, by the media, by the Democrats, even facilitated by some of the Republicans.

00:11:25.880 History should judge harshly those Republicans who had power when we were in the majority and fought

00:11:32.380 against Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and Ron DeSantis and Andy Biggs and myself as we were doing all we

00:11:38.740 could to expose the lies, the crimes, and the criminals. We'll keep working hard, but we lost really

00:11:46.320 important time. And I do think where the Farnan piece is accurate is that that loss of time really

00:11:53.260 did impair our ability to get justice where it is so badly needed. So remember what the Democrats,

00:12:01.660 the Obama administration, the Biden folks did, but also remember that there were a lot of Republicans

00:12:08.100 who let us down. Mexico is set to become the largest legal marijuana market in the world. The Los Angeles

00:12:19.100 Times has the story. The Mexican Supreme Court ruled that the ban on marijuana in the country is

00:12:25.620 unconstitutional, and they gave the Senate until December 15th to pass marijuana regulatory policies

00:12:33.700 that are permissive, that allow people to engage in the cultivation and use. Now you've got that

00:12:40.240 battle underway. And my favorite part of this story is that the pro-marijuana activists have literally

00:12:46.480 created a fragrant garden outside of the Senate where they grow marijuana plants and where they freely

00:12:54.540 walk around lighting up joints. So the senators on their way in and out of work are literally having to

00:13:01.320 pass in and out of this man-made marijuana jungle that was developed by the activists. Now you get

00:13:08.480 some of the interesting features of this regulatory battle in Mexico that we saw in the United States

00:13:14.220 and Canada. And I had a big role in that. I wrote Florida's first and second marijuana regulatory regimes.

00:13:22.040 They've been subsequently altered. And I think over time, in many ways, they've been approved. You've got

00:13:27.980 some folks in Mexico now saying that the interests in the United States and Canada, the growers from

00:13:34.160 California, from elsewhere, outside of Mexico are having an outsized role in what those regulations

00:13:41.340 look like, that it's going to create a gourmet market for the higher end and more efficient and

00:13:48.300 effective and elite operators. And by the way, that's exactly what I did in Florida. That's what I wanted to do

00:13:54.260 in Florida because we wanted to institute a uniquely medical regime. We weren't there on adult use back

00:14:00.420 when I made these laws in 2012. And so we really wanted only the best, most reliable entities to

00:14:07.160 operate in the state. And we wanted to make sure that if we had to get rid of them, we could pull them

00:14:11.720 up root and branch, that they would be vertically integrated so that there wouldn't be any bad actors

00:14:18.500 that could be blamed if you had a license holder engaging in conduct that wasn't contemplated by

00:14:24.560 the law. Now in Florida, I think we have a more sophisticated system than that which I originally

00:14:28.880 developed. We allow for more horizontal integration, more specialization. And I think that Mexico is now 0.59

00:14:36.220 grappling with those issues. Here's my advice. Start with the best, open up more opportunities for

00:14:42.920 people. And there will be innovations that grow into different niches in the market, whether that

00:14:49.680 is in the medical field and the different types of ailments and the different types of strains

00:14:55.020 that can accommodate those ailments, or whether there are matters of preference that continue to

00:15:01.120 evolve in the adult use market. It'll be interesting to see how Mexico deals with this. But hey, anything

00:15:06.960 that reduces the power of the cartels, and that brings this industry into an open and honest

00:15:13.220 marketplace, I would say is all the better.

00:15:18.940 Is big tech engaged in active mind control? Fox News has the story. Ex-Google staffer warns social media

00:15:28.140 apps are big tobacco for our brains. Tristan Harris is a key figure in the Netflix documentary,

00:15:35.380 The Social Dilemma. He joined Bill Hammer. Take a listen.

00:15:39.200 This is, I think, the most deep and subtle issue of our times, and I believe it's actually an

00:15:44.100 existential threat to democracy, which I'm sure we'll get to, because these things have become

00:15:49.380 sort of what we rely on. We have three billion people have a brain implant that's a remotely

00:15:53.720 controlled brain implant, because especially in the coronavirus times, we are relying on these things

00:15:58.640 to make sense of what's the reality out there in the world. We're staring through our binoculars

00:16:02.380 while we're home, many cases. They have become the fabric for our sense-making and the fabric

00:16:07.500 of our choice-making, the fabric of how children develop. You know, kids who are spending hours a

00:16:12.180 day on YouTube to sort of do learning. Parents, their kids in front of YouTube, they come home

00:16:16.420 at the dinner table and they say, yeah, mom, dad, the Holocaust didn't happen. And you wonder,

00:16:20.100 what is going on here? Why does it feel like everyone's going crazy around the world?

00:16:24.140 It's because of this business model that's at the heart of these technology companies,

00:16:27.840 which is that they make more money the more time they get you to spend. And if you had to choose

00:16:32.700 between two Facebook feeds or two TikTok feeds, and let's say every time you swipe up on one feed,

00:16:38.900 it gives you more affirmation, more view of, yes, you are right, the other side is wrong.

00:16:42.820 That's one feed. Imagine another feed called the challenge news feed, where every time you swipe,

00:16:47.060 it challenges your view of reality. It shows you a different perspective or a different statistic.

00:16:51.580 Which of those two feeds is going to be better for their business model of holding your attention?

00:16:55.340 And remember, this is someone who worked at Google, who understands how these tech corporations work

00:17:01.760 to at times addict us to the worst elements of our own personalities and our own vices. And

00:17:08.180 certainly, it is a warning that we should heed.

00:17:13.040 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Give us a hand and throw a five-star rating

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 14, 2020

Episode 108 - ACB Doesn't Need Notes. Tiger King's Doc Antle Charged With Wildlife Trafficking. Big Tech Mind Control. Mexico Weed.

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