The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 114 – BREAKING： Joe Biden Directly Implicated in Corruption Scandal. Trump Administration Makes Big Pharma Pay. San Francisco Goes Full CAREN.

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.

00:00:16.080 Welcome to Hot Takes, I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:18.900 Let's talk about the news.

00:00:20.540 It's debate night in America, the second and final debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.

00:00:26.580 And the mute button makes an appearance for the first time.

00:00:30.300 Presidential Debate Commission instituting the mute button as a tool for the moderator.

00:00:35.940 NBC is the host of the debate.

00:00:38.440 And it's worth noting what a complete joke NBC News is.

00:00:43.040 Like these are the folks who give two hours of primetime programming every night to hosts who have admitted to lying to their viewers.

00:00:51.620 In Brian Williams' case, he lied about being part of some combat-related encounter in Iraq.

00:00:58.060 That wasn't true.

00:00:59.080 He had to admit it.

00:01:00.260 Did he get fired?

00:01:01.060 No, he got a new 11 o'clock show on MSNBC.

00:01:04.040 And then you have the curious case of Joy Reid.

00:01:07.080 Some awful, homophobic, transphobic content ends up on her blog.

00:01:12.160 People find out about it. 0.81

00:01:13.440 They publish it.

00:01:14.500 And then she claims she was hacked.

00:01:15.940 Oh, the old hacker claim.

00:01:17.920 You can't even claim you're hacked and keep a job at C-SPAN if you're caught lying.

00:01:22.820 Ask Steve Scully.

00:01:24.440 But Joy Reid, getting the Chris Matthews 7 o'clock hour.

00:01:28.980 This is the network that is curating the questions.

00:01:32.460 And speaking of the topics, I just think it's quite something that, you know, the American recovery,

00:01:38.960 the juxtaposition of the lockdowns, to the openness that I think is really central to the Trump strategy.

00:01:47.520 You know, that seems to be something that the president's going to have to pull out of this debate.

00:01:51.600 In the last debate, I gave advice to both candidates.

00:01:55.620 Demonstrate some vision.

00:01:57.020 Talk about the future.

00:01:58.580 And it largely turned into a recrimination session between two boomers over the worst parts of the status quo

00:02:05.160 and their personal grievances with one another.

00:02:07.740 I'm on my way to Nashville today.

00:02:10.580 I'll be seeing the president before the debate.

00:02:12.720 And my advice to the president, absolutely.

00:02:14.960 You're going to want to press Joe Biden on these latest revelations indicating not just Hunter Biden's corruption,

00:02:21.540 but Joe Biden's corruption with international business people who we were investigating as a consequence of their misdeeds.

00:02:29.480 But you also have to let Joe Biden face his biggest challenge in this debate.

00:02:34.500 And that is the completion of a thought or a sentence or a paragraph.

00:02:39.420 If Joe Biden is continuously pressed by the president or even the moderator, though that's rather unlikely,

00:02:46.980 Joe Biden won't have to complete the thoughts that I think he really struggles with.

00:02:53.520 I think Joe Biden sometimes gets going on a paragraph and then kind of surrenders on it.

00:02:58.140 He did that in the debates with the other Democrats.

00:03:01.040 He's done that on the stump.

00:03:02.480 And I think it's one reason why they put a lid on his day pretty early.

00:03:07.060 The less is more strategy is alive and well in the Biden campaign.

00:03:11.940 And so let's try to tease out some responses that indicate that this is a guy who has pretty much embraced the radical left agenda

00:03:20.020 by virtue of his common cause with Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris and the Woketopians that animate that movement.

00:03:27.940 So it should be an exciting debate.

00:03:30.160 I hope that it is a fair debate.

00:03:32.920 I know the president will come with the heat.

00:03:35.720 San Francisco, California, Nancy Pelosi's home, sees the Board of Supervisors pass the Karen Act.

00:03:47.320 That's right.

00:03:48.100 Accessing the popular meme of upper middle class white women with racial prejudice,

00:03:53.880 the Karen Act in San Francisco, California, renders it illegal to make a racially charged 9-1-1 call.

00:04:01.880 Whatever that is.

00:04:02.900 I guess it's a 9-1-1 call where you're concerned about the conduct of anyone who doesn't share your race.

00:04:09.740 But the penalty isn't just one of a municipal fine.

00:04:13.380 No, actually, under the Karen Act, if someone is aggrieved because you've called 9-1-1 on them,

00:04:19.440 they have a special statutory right to sue you and expose you to civil liability.

00:04:24.960 See, the Woketopians don't just want to alter your conduct. 0.96

00:04:28.380 They're coming for your money.

00:04:30.940 And that's one element of this new radical wave of legislation.

00:04:35.680 And in this case, it passed unanimously.

00:04:38.860 You would think that in San Francisco, California, they might want to worry about getting the human excrement off their street

00:04:45.780 before telling people that their prejudices are what motivate their concerns over their safety or the safety of their families.

00:04:53.840 So if you call 9-1-1 in California, make sure you're calling on someone who has your same race or you could be subject to the Karen Act. 0.54

00:05:04.220 ESPN reporting the good news that legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden is out of the hospital, recovered from coronavirus.

00:05:17.740 And Bobby Bowden put out a statement saying he was really hoping he was going to beat this one

00:05:21.900 because he wanted to be around to vote for President Trump in the upcoming election.

00:05:26.620 Bobby Bowden is beloved throughout Florida.

00:05:29.240 He's one of those figures that really was transformational in terms of the program at Florida State,

00:05:35.680 but also widely, widely regarded for his work in the faith community, his development of young men,

00:05:42.000 and all that he did to put back into the Tallahassee community to a number of the communities in South Florida

00:05:47.520 where FSU was always very active.

00:05:50.200 And he wants to be there for 45.

00:05:52.700 And here's what I'm figuring.

00:05:53.700 If Bobby Bowden, at age 92, can whip coronavirus, and if Chris Christie, who I don't think is exactly winning the sit-up competitions at the local gym,

00:06:04.740 can whip coronavirus, he's out of the hospital now too as well,

00:06:08.540 obviously we need to wear masks where appropriate.

00:06:12.140 We need to socially distance where we can.

00:06:14.400 We need to wash our hands and use sanitizer frequently.

00:06:17.080 But if these guys can beat coronavirus, I just don't think coronavirus is the basis to lock down the economy

00:06:24.100 and negatively impact so many people's lives and development and interactions with one another

00:06:30.220 that we know are critically important to healthy humans and a healthy society.

00:06:34.600 Good to have you back, Coach Bowden.

00:06:36.920 Breaking news from Mike Emanuel at Fox News, who's obtained text messages that appear to directly implicate

00:06:47.520 not Hunter Biden, but Joe Biden in corruption.

00:06:51.600 The text exchange comes on May 20th, 2017, and it comes from Tony Bobulinski.

00:06:58.440 He warns his business partner, James Gillar,

00:07:02.040 don't mention Joe being involved.

00:07:04.560 It's only when you are face-to-face.

00:07:06.380 I know you know that, but they are paranoid.

00:07:09.960 We're told this is a reference to Joe Biden, and again, this would be unique

00:07:14.100 in that it would directly implicate the former vice president, not just his family.

00:07:19.620 And here's one thing I know.

00:07:21.000 If these guys were running a shakedown routine, a corruption racket in Ukraine,

00:07:27.060 they weren't just doing it there.

00:07:28.800 I honestly think that the biggest problems Joe Biden has regarding international corruption

00:07:33.280 involve China.

00:07:35.140 China, remember, gave enormous fees to the firm that Hunter Biden was involved in to manage

00:07:42.960 a billion dollars.

00:07:44.780 And this without Hunter Biden demonstrating the capability or the background where that

00:07:49.120 would be evident.

00:07:49.900 So if it's happening in Ukraine, it's probably happening in China.

00:07:53.640 We will send out the Mike Emanuel text messages that are very damning.

00:07:59.300 Congressman Jim Jordan was on Fox and Friends giving the American people a full update.

00:08:05.360 Take a listen.

00:08:06.060 We now know beyond a shadow of doubt the laptop is, in fact, Hunter Biden's.

00:08:09.240 The emails are, in fact, accurate.

00:08:10.680 The big guy referenced in one of the emails is, in fact, Joe Biden.

00:08:13.600 We know Hunter Biden had deals with communist China.

00:08:15.600 Ukraine deals with his company, Burisma, that even the State Department said was a concern.

00:08:19.860 And he was getting cash from the mayor of Moscow's wife.

00:08:22.020 So all that, of course, this should come up.

00:08:24.360 But what I also hope really comes up is the president stresses what he did for the American

00:08:29.620 people.

00:08:30.400 The fact that he said he would cut taxes and did, said he would reduce regulations and

00:08:34.080 did, said we'd have a roaring economy and we did, said he'd get out of the Iran deal

00:08:37.980 and we did, said he would put the embassy in Jerusalem and he did, said he would build

00:08:41.960 the wall and he did, said he would do a new USMCA, new NAFTA agreement and he did, said

00:08:46.860 he would put out a list and choose from that list to put on the highest court in our country

00:08:51.800 and he picked from that list Mr. Gorsuch, Mr. Kavanaugh, they're on the court, put out

00:08:55.960 another list, selected from that list, Amy Coney Barrett, and she's going on the court in 0.99

00:09:00.240 a matter of days.

00:09:01.320 No president, no president has done more of what they said they would do than this guy.

00:09:06.480 That should come out tonight loudly and clearly.

00:09:11.960 Republican lead of the Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, was on Shannon Bream's television

00:09:17.560 show last night discussing the latest revelations regarding Hunter Biden's laptop.

00:09:22.840 But there's a new piece here.

00:09:25.040 The FBI may have had the laptop.

00:09:27.140 They may have been aware of its existence.

00:09:29.320 They may have had knowledge that it contained information that would be highly relevant during

00:09:34.300 the impeachment process.

00:09:35.600 But you see, a lot of the folks at the head shed over there at the FBI, they wanted to see

00:09:40.480 the president impeached.

00:09:41.540 They didn't want evidence before the American people regarding the very legitimate concerns

00:09:46.820 the president had about corruption and illegal acts regarding the Bidens in Ukraine.

00:09:52.220 Here's Devin Nunes.

00:09:53.200 In August of 2019, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there was this new Ukraine hoax where it was

00:09:59.920 a leak of the president talking to the new president of Ukraine, talking about corruption.

00:10:04.880 And we started dealing with this all through the end of 2019.

00:10:09.660 Well, the computer technician came forward because he thought that he might have relevant information

00:10:14.360 that the Congress should have if you, in fact, are investigating Ukraine.

00:10:18.060 And we ended up actually impeaching the president of the United States over this.

00:10:23.300 So the fact that the FBI didn't take what that American's concern was, you know, the reason

00:10:28.380 he took that to the FBI was kind of twofold, troubling pornographic images and also because

00:10:33.820 it was in the news.

00:10:34.640 And the fact that the FBI did not bring that to the United States Congress during the impeachment

00:10:39.740 of the president of the United States is appalling.

00:10:42.380 And somebody needs to answer why that wasn't brought to the Congress.

00:10:47.220 Because remember, this would have been in December of 19, the very time that the president

00:10:52.500 was being impeached.

00:10:53.560 And then it was remember, it was delayed by Nancy Pelosi for like 45 days.

00:10:57.340 The FBI had plenty of time to get that to the United States Senate to say, hey, here are

00:11:03.380 some emails involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, money moving around.

00:11:08.600 They didn't want you to see the truth.

00:11:10.820 They didn't want the facts before the country.

00:11:13.460 They wanted their politically motivated impeachment, not just the Democrats, but even some of the

00:11:19.040 deep state officials at the FBI.

00:11:21.380 And now we know the truth.

00:11:26.120 Why are Democrats so insistent on having mail-in ballots sent to people who haven't asked for

00:11:33.120 them?

00:11:33.820 Well, it's because they want to create a universe of ballots that haven't been voted yet, that may

00:11:39.900 still be voted in the future, that they will be able to harvest between the election and

00:11:45.240 when they hope to get the results that they desire, even if that is not the result of the

00:11:50.680 democratic process that we cherish in this country, where each person has a vote and an opportunity

00:11:56.400 to cast their ballot and make a choice as to what leaders will govern our country and our

00:12:01.220 people.

00:12:01.620 NationalPulse.com has a breaking story from Natalie Winters regarding 12,000 ballots just

00:12:10.120 in the New Jersey shore area that have been returned undeliverable.

00:12:14.100 And these, of course, are ballots for people who've moved, died, gotten divorced, who've changed

00:12:20.960 locations in some other way.

00:12:23.100 And they're not going to be voted.

00:12:25.540 Now, there's an elections official quoted in the story saying there's a tremendous cost

00:12:29.680 associated with the printing and the postage and the sending and the sorting.

00:12:34.040 But the bigger issue is that in many places, these ballots that are undeliverable won't be

00:12:39.960 sent back to an elections office, but will be hanging out at an apartment complex that will

00:12:45.760 be available for some harvester who knows that there isn't a person there to lawfully cast

00:12:50.760 the ballot, but that the ballot is there and that they can illegally get it, fill it out

00:12:56.000 and hope that it is ultimately counted.

00:12:58.140 My hope is that we continue to observe and report these circumstances of bizarre behavior.

00:13:04.340 We're grateful for the National Pulse reporting this story.

00:13:10.720 The makers of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, have pled guilty to three federal charges.

00:13:16.700 The total fines and fees that they will pay accumulate up to about $8 billion.

00:13:22.940 Several hundred million of that will be paid by the Slacker family, who has had substantial 0.90

00:13:28.400 involvement in the control and operations of Purdue Pharma.

00:13:32.340 And it's nice to see the Trump administration getting tough on these purveyors of opioids that

00:13:37.480 have ravaged our country.

00:13:39.520 One disagreement I have with many politicians in Washington is how to measure our response

00:13:44.840 to the opioid crisis.

00:13:45.980 It seems more and more Republicans and Democrats are willing to measure how well we've done

00:13:51.440 by how much money we've spent, how many billions, how many hundreds of millions do we put into

00:13:57.680 this program or that program.

00:13:59.660 And we never seem to understand what really works, what gets people out of the cycle of

00:14:04.640 addiction.

00:14:05.720 I certainly think that enforcement actions like we see from the Department of Justice announced

00:14:10.420 today do a great deal to ensure that we don't have the type of corporate greed that preyed

00:14:17.880 on our people through the pushing of these prescriptions, through the utilization of these drugs, oftentimes

00:14:24.260 when they weren't necessary.

00:14:25.880 And it's just tragic to see the stories in every single town in this great country where

00:14:31.880 you have somebody that goes in for a surgery and comes out a drug addict.

00:14:35.920 We want to make sure that we do have services available for those that are eager to break

00:14:41.380 from the shackles of addiction.

00:14:44.340 But at the same time, we shouldn't just throw money at a problem acting like that is an adequate

00:14:49.060 way to show that we care about it.

00:14:51.720 Enforcement, prosecution, consequences for those involved, that seems to do a lot more than

00:14:58.200 virtue signaling.

00:14:58.960 Congratulations to the Trump administration and the Department of Justice.

00:15:05.800 They say age is just a number, but in Noah Smith's Bloomberg opinion piece that we'll

00:15:11.080 be sending out, it also may be the next sign of global economic threat.

00:15:16.740 It may be a critically important feature of a nation's economy.

00:15:21.220 And in Noah Smith's Bloomberg piece, we see the median ages of the world's major economies.

00:15:28.060 And in fact, Japan has the oldest population for a major economy in the world.

00:15:34.040 And the consequence is deflation in their currency and a constriction of their economic

00:15:39.900 opportunity for their people.

00:15:41.280 So Japan's the oldest at 48.6 years, median age.

00:15:45.820 And then you've got Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Canada, France, the United Kingdom,

00:15:51.820 Russia, and then you get to the United States.

00:15:53.660 The four youngest countries in terms of median age for the major economies, India, Mexico,

00:16:02.800 Brazil, and China.

00:16:04.760 And so we see the extent to which a young population can coincide with tremendous periods of economic

00:16:13.320 growth.

00:16:13.860 I mean, the Indian economy, the Mexican economy, the Brazilian economy, they're growing a great

00:16:18.480 deal.

00:16:18.820 And I think it's a sign of the challenges to come for countries like Russia and the United

00:16:26.060 Kingdom, and hopefully not the United States, but maybe regarding an aging population, a workforce

00:16:33.060 that is aging, skill sets that are evolving and needed in the global marketplace, and consumers

00:16:40.640 having the purchasing power at different stages of their life in different increments that allow

00:16:46.420 them to be able to participate in the economy and benefit from the work that has been done

00:16:50.960 and the value that has been created.

00:16:53.480 So while we can do a lot of things to slow the aging process, we might not be able to slow

00:16:59.640 the economic impact of aging itself.

00:17:02.660 Saga van Eck, eight-year-old girl from Sweden, finds a 1,500-year-old sword that she is able

00:17:15.000 to pull out of the bottom in a lake.

00:17:18.100 The sword had been there for a thousand years, and it's just not every day that you see this

00:17:23.700 type of history and this type of a discovery.

00:17:26.220 The young lady seems to be quite impressed, and I'm pretty sure this makes her the queen

00:17:29.620 of Sweden now.

00:17:30.680 I mean, if you find an ancient sword and pull it out of the bottom of the lake, it seems

00:17:35.860 as good a measure as any to make you the ruler of the country.

00:17:42.900 Sudan has apparently forked over enough cash to get themselves off of the list of state

00:17:48.820 sponsors of terrorism.

00:17:50.580 President Trump tweeting out,

00:17:51.860 Is this the precursor to yet another peace deal in the Middle East with Sudan and Israel

00:18:17.780 having the ability to come together?

00:18:19.520 It might be.

00:18:20.640 You couldn't have a peace deal with Israel if you still had Sudan on the state sponsor 1.00

00:18:24.700 of terrorism list.

00:18:26.000 So this could be good cleanup, good work, and always we're grateful to see Americans who've

00:18:30.860 been harmed by terrorism compensated.

00:18:33.940 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes.

00:18:35.660 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 22, 2020

Episode 114 – BREAKING： Joe Biden Directly Implicated in Corruption Scandal. Trump Administration Makes Big Pharma Pay. San Francisco Goes Full CAREN.

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