The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 20, 2020


Episode 112 – #MeToobin. Chief Justice Roberts Disappoints Again. DNI Ratcliffe Slams Schiff For Lying.

Topics
Pennsylvania election fraud Hunter Biden's laptop
Hosted by
Matt Gaetz
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Hunter Biden Donald Trump Adam Schiff Joe Biden Amy Coney Barrett John Roberts Luke T. Ball John Ratcliffe Steele W. James Antille III Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hillary Clinton Jeffrey Toobin Chuck Grassley Joel Valdez Katie Hill Motherboard COVID-19 Burisma Kassam and 1 more
Episode 111 – TPUSA's Charlie Kirk Suspended From Twitter. Ice Cube and President Trump Team Up. Delayed WWII Bomb Explodes in Poland. Episode 113 – 50 Cent Joins The Trump Train. Democrats Demand An Orwellian Report. The Proud Boys, Explained.

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Pennsylvania is more and more looking like the epicenter of potential election fraud, and the U.S. Supreme Court is unable to overturn the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision to count ballots three days after the election, even though they had improper postmarks.

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00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:03.820 You all were not telling the truth, and you should not be trusted.
00:00:06.580 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
00:00:09.300 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
00:00:12.260 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:16.060 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:18.840 Let's talk about the news.
00:00:20.860 Pennsylvania, more and more looking like the epicenter of potential election fraud.
00:00:26.080 We covered the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision to count ballots three days after the election.
00:00:34.320 To count ballots even that had improper postmarks.
00:00:38.040 Now, that decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court went up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:00:43.560 And very disappointingly, but I can't say shockingly, Chief Justice John Roberts creeps over,
00:00:50.440 joins the liberals on the court, votes with them.
00:00:52.900 Because there is an eight-member court right now, that leaves the decision as a 4-4 deadlock.
00:00:59.680 And so the United States Supreme Court is unable to overturn this bizarre anti-democratic decision
00:01:05.420 by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
00:01:07.600 And it leaves that lower court decision intact.
00:01:10.300 Now, this may change once Justice Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
00:01:16.300 That may leave the court the opportunity to grant certiorari to review that again and decide it 5-4.
00:01:23.180 I don't know how Judge Barrett would decide that case.
00:01:27.180 I suspect she won't be asked that, but I do believe she's going to be confirmed.
00:01:31.680 But yet again, you know, it's always the institutionalist right that seems to present us these disappointments.
00:01:39.260 I mean, you know, the Bushes, who take great pleasure in criticizing President Trump
00:01:45.500 for attacking the great institutions of our country, give us John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
00:01:51.380 And this decision, where Roberts has joined the liberals on the court,
00:01:55.540 has done far more violence to the institution of democracy and voting than Donald Trump ever has.
00:02:00.920 I mean, think about it.
00:02:01.760 Three days after the election, we're not going to know who won Pennsylvania?
00:02:05.100 Pennsylvania? That's crazy. That's going to make us look incompetent to the world.
00:02:09.940 I feel good about states like Florida, where we have a sound elections operation run by our Secretary of State.
00:02:17.420 I feel good also about North Carolina, because there I think there's at least a court that will properly and fairly interpret the law.
00:02:24.720 But man, in Pennsylvania, it continues to look like there may be no backstop to the type of fraud that undermines our confidence in the result.
00:02:33.680 I hope we can get Justice Barrett confirmed.
00:02:37.760 I hope that this question will be reviewed again by the United States Supreme Court.
00:02:43.000 And I hope that we're not, you know, 48, 72, even more hours after the election,
00:02:49.240 still counting ballots that may not have been lawfully cast.
00:02:52.900 I am President Trump's main man on cable news and in the halls of Congress.
00:03:02.220 That's the subject of W. James Antille III's piece in The Washington Examiner,
00:03:07.660 chronicling my support not just for the president's politics, but for his policies
00:03:12.580 and the way in which those policies do represent a realignment of republicanism,
00:03:18.000 towards a populism that puts the people of our country first.
00:03:22.920 And we're really pushing back against the special interests, the president and I,
00:03:27.660 whether they want forever wars abroad or whether they want trade deals that impoverish our people here at home.
00:03:34.020 I think that the president has created a unique opportunity for public servants like myself
00:03:39.200 to step forward and free ourselves from the traditional dogmas of our parties.
00:03:43.520 And sometimes it even means forging some relationships across the aisle.
00:03:47.820 And in this Washington Examiner piece, they talk a little bit about my friendships with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Katie Hill,
00:03:54.820 two people I disagree with strongly on the issues, but who I don't think are sellouts.
00:04:00.000 They might be socialists, but they're not sellouts.
00:04:02.360 And I can appreciate someone who holds views sincerely, even if they're not my views,
00:04:08.380 even if they're dangerous views, as opposed to somebody who's willing to take any view
00:04:13.360 if they get the right campaign donation or the right promise of a job after their public service.
00:04:19.640 So I'm grateful that I represent a new breed of republican populists.
00:04:25.480 And I think that President Trump is just the type of transformational leader
00:04:29.220 who can ensure that our movement, our party, and our country are better off in the future.
00:04:38.380 From Motherboard Vice,
00:04:40.560 The New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on Zoom call.
00:04:44.980 The call was an election simulation featuring the New Yorker's all-star panel. 0.99
00:04:49.900 Toobin apologized for the embarrassingly stupid mistake. 0.95
00:04:53.780 The call was apparently one where they had different people playing different roles 0.97
00:04:58.120 as establishment Republicans, establishment Democrats, Joe Biden,
00:05:02.500 and Toobin was playing the role of the courts.
00:05:05.400 He did not know that his Zoom video was on.
00:05:10.460 And he was seen, I guess, simulating more than the election,
00:05:15.060 I guess would be the way that I would put it.
00:05:17.420 No word from Toobin's talent network or his publisher for his books.
00:05:23.840 I've not seen anything from CNN on this.
00:05:25.900 I don't know if they've joined in suspending Toobin.
00:05:28.260 But he says he apologizes to his family, his wife, and his co-workers.
00:05:34.640 I would think that when one is participating in their election analysis,
00:05:41.120 they wouldn't be so distracted as to engage in this activity.
00:05:45.360 But who knows?
00:05:46.120 You know, different people, I guess, react differently to different types of simulations.
00:05:50.980 Senator Chuck Grassley is my favorite Senate octogenarian.
00:05:59.160 He had some hot takes on the election interference of being prosecuted by Twitter and other digital platforms.
00:06:06.140 Take a listen.
00:06:06.640 Last week, news broke about Hunter Biden's questionable financial dealings.
00:06:13.600 That information, allegedly from Hunter Biden's laptop,
00:06:20.480 appears to show Vice President Biden may have been more aware of his son's financial dealings
00:06:26.880 with foreign despots and criminals than he admitted to the American people.
00:06:32.480 That information was quickly censured by big tech companies.
00:06:39.680 Just today, DNI Director Ratcliffe said that Hunter Biden's laptop isn't,
00:06:48.860 that issue is not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
00:06:54.880 You know what actually is fake news?
00:06:58.480 The Steele dossier.
00:06:59.800 But I don't recall reporters and big tech censoring the false reporting about President Trump
00:07:08.880 and the Steele dossier.
00:07:11.800 Instead, the liberal media did just the opposite.
00:07:15.920 They became super spreaders of false reporting across the world.
00:07:21.360 What happened last week is the election interference and anti-conservative bias and Facebook and Twitter are guilty.
00:07:34.040 Democrats and liberals in the press can't have veto authority over information just because it makes their nominee look bad.
00:07:42.880 They can't have a double standard.
00:07:44.600 Vice President Biden owes the American people answer.
00:07:49.340 The senator's right.
00:07:50.820 And you know what?
00:07:51.480 We need to do more in Congress.
00:07:52.880 The problem is Congress has been bought off by big tech.
00:07:56.120 And so if Congress won't act, the administration and the appointees of the president to the FCC and the Federal Election Commission need to do so.
00:08:04.620 The laptop from hell.
00:08:09.960 That's what President Trump has dubbed the Hunter Biden laptop that apparently languished at a computer repair shop for some time before being discovered with a tremendous amount of evidence on it.
00:08:22.280 Evidence of Hunter Biden's personal misdeeds, which aren't particularly interesting to me.
00:08:27.380 What's far more interesting is the evidence that buttresses the claims that myself and many others made regarding the corruption in Ukraine, regarding the exchange of favors and influence for money and lucrative business deals.
00:08:43.040 Now you have Adam Schiff actively continuing to run defense for the Bidens.
00:08:49.160 He did that with the phony impeachment.
00:08:51.720 Now he's doing it by claiming that the evidence that has been generated directly refuting the claims by the Bidens regarding corruption is part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
00:09:04.600 Haven't we seen this movie before?
00:09:06.300 I mean, I'm old enough to remember the first time Adam Schiff told us that it was the Russians that we really need to be worried about.
00:09:12.320 You know who we really needed to be worried about in 2016?
00:09:14.460 Hillary Clinton messing with the Russians, paying them through the DNC to go and get spies and intelligence assets and this crazy part of the world to try to destabilize our democracy. 1.00
00:09:26.360 And now when the truth is out, when the emails showing meetings and communications regarding Burisma surface, Adam Schiff says, well, don't pay attention to that.
00:09:40.120 That's just the Russians again trying to attack our democracy. 1.00
00:09:42.980 It sure would be nice if we started with the Americans who undermine our democracy and our country and our institutions by selling out to corrupt foreign businesses before we go, you know, creating this theory that it's the Russians that pose the greatest threat to America. 0.97
00:10:02.320 John Ratcliffe was on Fox News to directly refute that.
00:10:05.560 He's the director of national intelligence.
00:10:07.540 Take a listen.
00:10:08.040 So, Maria, it's funny that some of the people that complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing intelligence.
00:10:17.120 And unfortunately, in this case, it is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who, as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
00:10:34.040 Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that.
00:10:40.320 And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
00:10:48.200 It's simply not true, and this is exactly what I said I would stop when I became the director of national intelligence, and that's people using the intelligence community to leverage some political narrative.
00:11:01.100 And in this case, apparently, Chairman Schiff wants anything against his preferred political candidate to be deemed as not real and is using the intelligence community or attempting to use the intelligence community to say there's nothing to see here.
00:11:14.200 Don't drag the intelligence community into this.
00:11:17.420 Hunter Biden's laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign, and I think it's clear that the American people know that.
00:11:26.780 The Presidential Debate Commission continuing to do the bidding of Joe Biden.
00:11:33.180 Raheem Kassam at the National Pulse has the story.
00:11:35.840 Presidential Debate Commission ditches foreign policy focus following Hunter Biden laptop leaks.
00:11:42.180 The third presidential debate was originally set to take place on Thursday.
00:11:47.240 Obviously, now it is going to be the second presidential debate.
00:11:50.400 But following the release of the Hunter Biden emails and laptop details in the New York Post,
00:11:56.420 the widely partisan Presidential Debate Commission announced that it would no longer be focusing on foreign policy,
00:12:03.100 the effect being the protection of Joe and Hunter Biden.
00:12:06.280 The topics will be American families, COVID-19, race in America, climate change, leadership, and national security.
00:12:15.200 I guess you could say the national security is challenged when you have a president or a vice president,
00:12:20.660 in the case of Joe Biden, utilizing their family to go and undermine America's interests in the world.
00:12:26.460 But the Trump doctrine, the realignment of our foreign policy values to put our country and our people first,
00:12:33.820 not to spill our treasure or the blood of our bravest patriots and far away wherever a stand,
00:12:39.920 that has been an element of the Trump presidency that has been deeply inspiring to me,
00:12:45.100 and also one that I think has realigned our politics and our vision of the world to embrace realism rather than the fiction and mirage of nation building.
00:12:57.400 And I think that there's something to the fact that an establishment institution like the Presidential Debate Commission
00:13:03.980 wouldn't want to have real talk about America's role in the world and about the need to ensure that we preserve Americanism for our country
00:13:15.300 and that we don't think so low of it that we believe it could be exported through endless foreign wars.
00:13:22.400 I suspect the president will probably not give too much credence to the topic choices of the Presidential Debate Commission.
00:13:29.540 I think he's going to say what he wants to say.
00:13:31.700 I think he's going to pressure Joe Biden on the activities of his family, and I think it's going to be something to watch.
00:13:39.760 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Cates.
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