The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 15, 2020


Episode 109 - Exposing the Corrupt, Lying Bidens. Facebook and Twitter's Mass Censorship of Conservatives. Pelosi Comes Unhinged on CNN.

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Matt Gaetz
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Joe Biden Hunter Biden Scalia Melania Trump Amy Coney Barrett Tucker Carlson Wolf Blitzer Nancy Pelosi Chris Coons Adam Schiff Bill Maher Burisma Rudy Giuliani Brett Baier Ben Shapiro Joe Rogan Elon Musk Ginsburg Barron
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Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, have been accused of corruption by the Ukrainian government. What's more, a whistleblower has come forward with a hard drive with incriminating evidence against the Bidens. Hot Takes on this and much more.

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00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:03.840 You all were not telling the truth, and you should not be trusted.
00:00:06.600 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
00:00:09.340 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
00:00:12.300 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:16.060 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:19.240 Let's talk about the news.
00:00:21.220 Ukraine. Corruption. The Bidens. Payments. Burisma.
00:00:26.440 You were told by the Democrats and most of the media that it was all fake, that it wasn't real,
00:00:33.560 that Joe Biden and his family were falsely accused of improper behavior.
00:00:39.600 And in fact, Joe Biden himself said that there was never discussion between him and his son
00:00:45.340 and folks at Burisma about energy policy or prosecutions.
00:00:50.380 And now what you know is that Republicans were being truthful with you.
00:00:55.000 This was corruption. President Trump was right to ask about it, and the Bidens have been lying.
00:01:02.060 The New York Post, one of the largest newspapers in the country, had explosive reporting today
00:01:07.880 showing emails between Burisma executives and Hunter Biden
00:01:11.700 talking about payments that need to be made before Joe Biden's travel to Ukraine,
00:01:17.780 about the value of Hunter Biden leveraging his connections and introducing folks to his father.
00:01:24.840 You see, Joe Biden said that he never met these folks, but in fact, he had.
00:01:29.700 Brett Baier had reporting on Special Report. Take a listen.
00:01:33.520 There are serious questions for Joe Biden this evening, following the publication of emails
00:01:37.840 allegedly belonging to his son, Hunter, that contradict, or seem to, the nominee's insistence
00:01:42.920 the two never discussed business dealings with Ukraine.
00:01:46.200 The Senate Homeland Security Committee is now investigating a hard drive brought forward by a whistleblower.
00:01:51.360 An attorney for Rudy Giuliani tells Fox News a computer repairman came forward with a laptop and hard drive
00:01:57.540 that he says belonged to Hunter Biden.
00:01:59.900 He claims that it was dropped off at his shop and never picked up.
00:02:03.960 Fox is told it had an estimated 40,000 emails, 1,000 text messages,
00:02:09.040 and salacious photos and videos of the former vice president's son.
00:02:13.360 Now Senate investigators are working with the whistleblower to confirm the information.
00:02:17.760 Fox News has obtained an April 17, 2015 email.
00:02:21.520 A source tells Fox it came from the computer in question.
00:02:24.280 It is from Vadim Pazarsky, a senior official from the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
00:02:30.500 He thanks Hunter Biden for inviting him to Washington and, quote,
00:02:33.640 giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together when Joe Biden was vice president.
00:02:39.720 But the real controversy here goes even further beyond just the Bidens and Ukrainians and Burisma.
00:02:47.860 Shockingly, social media companies in the United States, Facebook and Twitter,
00:02:51.960 did not want the American people seeing or analyzing this evidence of the Biden family corruption
00:02:59.220 just weeks before an election.
00:03:01.840 Tucker Carlson had, I think, very insightful commentary on this issue.
00:03:06.120 Here's Tucker.
00:03:06.640 A major American newspaper published a story, apparently an entirely accurate story,
00:03:11.600 about a presidential candidate.
00:03:13.140 The tech monopolies that control American media feared this story might hurt that candidate whom they favor.
00:03:18.400 So three weeks before a national election, they shut the whole thing down.
00:03:23.000 They prevented the public from reading the news.
00:03:26.300 They didn't apologize for doing this.
00:03:28.060 They didn't bother to make up reasonable-sounding justifications for it.
00:03:31.620 They just did it, exactly as the Chinese government does. 0.97
00:03:35.100 These are monopolies.
00:03:36.540 They have all the power.
00:03:38.020 You have none.
00:03:39.200 They don't have to care what you think, and they don't.
00:03:41.180 This was mass censorship on a scale that America has never experienced, not in 245 years.
00:03:48.180 And it's a threat to all of us.
00:03:50.060 Democracies only function when there is a free exchange of information between citizens.
00:03:54.660 We no longer have that.
00:03:56.320 This is a dark moment.
00:03:57.400 Tucker's right.
00:03:58.220 This is outrageous.
00:04:00.000 In days before an election, with highly relevant information coming to light, not just showing
00:04:06.240 corruption, but showing lying about corruption.
00:04:09.760 These emails cannot both be authentic, and Joe Biden have been telling the truth that he did not
00:04:16.100 engage in these meetings.
00:04:17.560 And very important, the Biden campaign is not challenging the authenticity of these emails,
00:04:23.320 which means there was no authenticity to Joe Biden, just corruption.
00:04:28.340 President Trump addressed the breaking scandal from Iowa.
00:04:32.460 Here's the president.
00:04:33.160 When a Democrat voter here in Iowa asked Joe last year, you remember, if his son raked in 1.00
00:04:38.960 money in exchange for providing access, Joe called that man a damn liar. 1.00
00:04:43.720 You're a damn liar. 1.00
00:04:45.720 Kids making millions of dollars. 1.00
00:04:48.060 He had nothing.
00:04:49.480 He didn't have a job.
00:04:50.780 Thrown out of the military, sadly.
00:04:52.440 But thrown out of the military.
00:04:54.400 And he knew nothing about energy.
00:04:56.200 He knew nothing about investments.
00:04:58.100 Knew nothing about China.
00:05:00.120 How about he walked away a billion and a half dollars to manage for China?
00:05:04.280 They don't do that with the most brilliant people on Wall Street.
00:05:08.400 Vice President Biden, you owe the people of America an apology because it turns out you 0.98
00:05:14.840 are a corrupt politician.
00:05:16.680 Joe Biden must immediately release all emails, meetings, phone calls, transcripts and records
00:05:23.380 related to his involvement in his family's business dealings, influence paddlings around
00:05:30.520 the world, including China and including Russia.
00:05:34.080 The president's right.
00:05:35.120 Think about it.
00:05:36.180 You had Democrats just going absolutely nuts for an extended period of time, alleging that
00:05:42.800 the president needed to release his tax returns just to be eligible to be a candidate from
00:05:48.980 deals that he made as a private business person that didn't have anything to do with public
00:05:53.820 service because he didn't have anything to do with public service.
00:05:56.400 And while I think it would have been fine for the president to do that, it's certainly
00:06:00.620 vastly different from asking Joe Biden to release the transcripts and calls and meeting logs
00:06:06.500 from activity that is directly linked to public service and appears to be directly linked
00:06:12.640 to corruption.
00:06:13.820 I join the president in his call to Joe Biden.
00:06:19.620 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi got into it with Wolf Blitzer.
00:06:24.760 Take a listen.
00:06:25.220 These are incredibly difficult times right now, and we'll leave it on that note.
00:06:29.100 Thank you so much for joining us.
00:06:30.340 No, we'll leave it on the vote that you are not right on this, Wolf, and I hate to say
00:06:33.500 that to you, but I feel confident about it and I feel confident about my colleagues and
00:06:37.800 I feel confidence in my chairs.
00:06:39.640 And it's not about me.
00:06:40.520 It's about millions of Americans who can't put food on the table, who can't pay the rent,
00:06:44.680 who are having trouble.
00:06:45.860 And we represent them.
00:06:46.200 And we represent them.
00:06:47.600 And we represent them.
00:06:49.020 And we represent them.
00:06:49.280 These long food lines that we're seeing.
00:06:51.020 I know you are.
00:06:51.820 We know them.
00:06:52.440 I'm just saying.
00:06:53.400 We represent them and we know them.
00:06:55.220 As we say.
00:06:56.020 We know them.
00:06:56.600 We represent them.
00:06:57.500 Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as they say here in Washington.
00:07:00.440 It is nowhere near perfect.
00:07:01.940 Madam Speaker. 0.99
00:07:02.840 Always the case, but we're not even close to the good.
00:07:05.780 All right.
00:07:06.060 Let's see what happens, because every day is critically, critically important.
00:07:10.180 Thanks so much for joining us.
00:07:11.100 Thank you for your sensitivity to our constituents' needs.
00:07:13.760 I am sensitive to them because I see them on the street begging for food, begging for money.
00:07:18.240 Madam Speaker, thank you so much.
00:07:19.620 Have you said them?
00:07:20.300 We feed them.
00:07:21.300 We feed them.
00:07:22.100 We'll continue this conversation down the road for sure.
00:07:25.020 We'll take a quick break.
00:07:25.880 We'll be right back.
00:07:26.600 Wolf, indeed.
00:07:28.040 For Nancy Pelosi.
00:07:29.080 What a disastrous interview.
00:07:31.000 The arrogance and hubris just coming through with every word.
00:07:35.720 Here's the deal.
00:07:36.720 Nancy Pelosi should take the provisions of relief that have broad bipartisan support,
00:07:42.380 like individual stimulus, like the extension of the Paycheck Protection Program, like rent relief.
00:07:48.580 Relief, by the way, that isn't just an edict, but that also recognizes the impact on the economic conditions of landlords in these trying times.
00:07:57.660 But instead of doing all that, she is holding hostage those bipartisan reforms, those bipartisan programs, 0.95
00:08:04.940 so that she can extort more money out of the administration and Republicans to bail out blue states. 1.00
00:08:11.780 And the problem with that is not just the printing of the money and giving it to the states.
00:08:15.560 It's the moral hazard it creates.
00:08:17.040 It's this new precedent that you can just have totally financially irresponsible programs and actions.
00:08:25.520 And so long as there's any disaster that comes up, we'll go and backfill those bad decisions.
00:08:30.100 It will lead to more bad decisions.
00:08:33.200 So if Pelosi really empathizes with the struggles of Americans during this pandemic, she will put legislation on the floor to help them.
00:08:42.960 And if she does, and if it's work that we've negotiated previously, like Paycheck Protection, like individual stimulus, it'll pass.
00:08:51.160 But see, she doesn't want something to pass because she doesn't want Trump to get the credit.
00:08:55.400 And that's really what this is about.
00:08:57.180 Power and ego, not the suffering of our fellow Americans.
00:09:01.480 The confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court continued today.
00:09:12.560 One particularly interesting exchange was with Democrat Senator from Delaware, Chris Coons.
00:09:18.680 Take a listen.
00:09:19.260 I'm just getting at how closely you would ally yourself with Justice Scalia's jurisprudence.
00:09:24.280 Would you agree with Justice Scalia that Justice Ginsburg's decision in VMI was wrong?
00:09:30.420 Well, Senator Coons, to be clear, as I said, I think in response to this question yesterday, I do share Justice Scalia's approach to text, originalism and textualism.
00:09:41.580 But in the litany of cases that you've just identified, the particular votes that he cast are a different question of whether I would agree with the way that he applied those principles in particular cases.
00:09:54.060 And I've already said, you know, and I hope that you aren't suggesting that I don't have my own mind or that I couldn't think independently or that I would just decide, like, let me see what Justice Scalia has said about this in the past, because I assure you, I have my own mind.
00:10:10.680 But everything that he said is not necessarily what I would agree with or what I would do if I were Justice Barrett.
00:10:19.580 That was Justice Scalia.
00:10:20.700 So I share his philosophy, but I have never said that I would always reach the same outcome as he did.
00:10:28.280 Judge Amy Coney Barrett indeed does have her own mind.
00:10:32.160 It has been on exquisite display these last several days.
00:10:36.880 I think she handled herself quite well and is showing that she will not only be a persuasive voice on the bench, she will be an independent one where necessary, where justice calls for it.
00:10:46.900 We'll leave the light on for you.
00:10:52.480 That's the Motel 6 million dollar slogan.
00:10:56.060 But it looks like the hotel chain isn't going to be leaving the light on for their ad agency anymore.
00:11:02.280 CBS News has the story.
00:11:03.800 Motel 6 Home Depot drop ad agency over two black comments.
00:11:09.320 The Richards Group, the nation's largest independent advertising agency, has lost Motel 6 as a client after its founder reportedly labeled an ad pitch as too black for the, quote, white supremacist constituents of Motel 6.
00:11:26.080 The Motel 6 group dissing the ad agency, leaving them, firing them, saying that these comments do not reflect the values of the more than 1,400 hotel properties that they have in the United States and Canada with diverse customers, diverse employees.
00:11:45.600 And it's quite something that, you know, these mad men type groups who think that they just have the total corner on who everybody is, what they believe, where they shop, what lodging choices they make.
00:12:00.980 That's not the America we live in out in the real world.
00:12:03.840 We are a diverse, loving, wonderful, inclusive country.
00:12:07.980 And frankly, if the New York elites can't get on board with that, they may start losing their own customers.
00:12:15.240 And in this case, I support the decision of Motel 6 to stand up for their customers, to stand up for their employees, and to not allow themselves to be labeled by the vendors that they choose to work with.
00:12:28.760 I've stayed in plenty of Motel 6 in my day.
00:12:31.420 I can't say I stay in them quite as much anymore.
00:12:33.700 I probably did it more as a college student traveling around on a budget, packing four, five, six of my friends into a Motel 6 room on our various adventures.
00:12:43.560 But they do occupy an important echelon within the lodging market.
00:12:48.620 I wish them the best.
00:12:50.200 And I certainly hope that any group of people doesn't have to face the type of bigoted generalization that the Richards Group offered in this case.
00:12:59.700 California really is a beautiful place that's been ruined by its government and, in many ways, by its liberalism.
00:13:12.580 Bill Maher and Adam Schiff, two California liberals, had to acknowledge that fact in an interview recently.
00:13:19.680 Here's Bill Maher.
00:13:20.480 Look, you're a congressman from California.
00:13:22.220 I know some of this is not in your domain because you go to Washington and work on national issues. 0.90
00:13:26.080 But I live in California, so I'm going to bitch a little bit, can I? 0.94
00:13:29.900 Okay, because, you know, I mean, there is an exodus.
00:13:34.760 I mean, California businesses are leaving the state in droves.
00:13:38.480 In just 2018 and 19, which were economic boom years, 765 commercial facilities left.
00:13:46.520 13,000 businesses left between 2009 and 2016.
00:13:50.940 Look, I came out here in 1983.
00:13:52.980 I found paradise.
00:13:53.920 I love California.
00:13:55.740 I do.
00:13:57.080 I don't want to leave.
00:14:00.680 But I feel like I'm living in Italy in the 70s or something.
00:14:05.360 Super high taxes, potholes in the road.
00:14:08.860 I don't know what I'm getting from my super high taxes.
00:14:12.020 And I do understand.
00:14:13.400 And this talk of exodus, you know, I tell you, people talk about this a lot now.
00:14:21.320 And people are leaving.
00:14:22.520 Like, in my industry, Joe Rogan left.
00:14:25.260 Ben Shapiro.
00:14:26.300 Sorry, ladies. 1.00
00:14:31.200 Elon Musk talks about leaving.
00:14:34.180 What do you say about this as a California representative?
00:14:36.900 Well, I think we have to make every effort to make this a more business-friendly state.
00:14:41.680 And I don't think there's anything incompatible with being progressive and also wanted to make sure that this is a place that businesses can survive and thrive.
00:14:51.640 Adam Schiff really struggles to show us how that progressive policy of California can favorably intersect with the business climate.
00:15:00.140 Here's what I could tell you from Florida's perspective.
00:15:02.700 When you cut taxes, when you right-size regulations, when you invest in your schools, when you innovate government so that it provides services more efficiently and effectively, people vote with their feet.
00:15:13.900 That's why they're leaving California and coming to states like Florida.
00:15:21.240 Whitehouse.gov has published an essay penned by First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, regarding her experience with coronavirus.
00:15:31.160 Her concern for her husband and her son, Barron, who both also tested positive.
00:15:36.680 The reflections that one has on family and love and sacrifice during recovery.
00:15:43.320 And it struck me that she also noted the importance of health and healthy living and doing all you can to be personally resilient against any virus, against any ailment that might limit your time with your loved ones or your family members.
00:15:57.980 And I hope everyone has the chance to check out the first lady's essay because there is something just so universally human and empathetic about it with so many Americans struggling with the impact of coronavirus, whether that be the health impact or, frankly, the impact of the lockdowns, which also impacts our family life and the love that we are able to share with one another.
00:16:22.100 Check out the First Lady's essay. 0.98
00:16:23.940 Let me know what you think.
00:16:26.240 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes.
00:16:27.980 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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