The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 122 LIVE： 9 Speaker Candidates – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt

00:00:08.420 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.740 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00

00:00:20.880 you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.320 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.080 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:42.880 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:48.700 welcome back to firebrand we are live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office

00:01:00.000 building here in our capital complex in washington dc shout out to my man kevin smith watching at the

00:01:06.240 loud majority on rumble we have a lot to get to war in the middle east we've got a speaker race coming

00:01:12.560 up this episode i'm going to walk you through the nine announced candidates for speaker of the house

00:01:18.140 who will be debating in just moments before the house republican conference laying out their vision

00:01:22.740 i want you to get a keen understanding of what the path forward looks like for each of them some of the

00:01:27.960 critical features of their voting record and really how we can unite behind someone who will make the

00:01:33.820 republican conference a fighting force for the people again i've got lots to share about my perspective

00:01:39.600 on the race the mainstream media has been freaking out because the normal powers that be are not in

00:01:45.340 control of washington dc right now we have got a historic opportunity to democratize power to put

00:01:51.420 the needs of the american people at the forefront again i can't wait to see what the next step is and

00:01:56.420 i'm really really excited about what it could mean for really reshaping the rules in a deeply corrupt

00:02:01.840 system first i want to go though to what's going on in the middle east and here is the direct statements

00:02:07.940 from prime minister netanyahu to hezbollah regarding a potential second front in israel's war in the north

00:02:15.360 take a listen

00:02:15.960 if hezbollah decides to enter the war it will miss the second lebanon war it will make the mistake of

00:02:25.980 its life we will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine and the consequence for hezbollah and for 1.00

00:02:31.540 the state of lebanon will be devastating but we are prepared for any scenario

00:02:36.020 so this is something really important to watch right now israel is in an asymmetric conflict

00:02:44.400 against these well-funded well-financed coordinated logistically centered terrorist groups but we do not

00:02:51.120 want to see this conflict broaden into more state-on-state violence that's where this goes from an

00:02:57.540 operation that israel's military is conducting in in gaza to a war that could sweep across the

00:03:03.960 middle east and through parts of the muslim world in asia in africa we want to see israel succeed in

00:03:10.400 destroying hamas that is the objective i believe that lebanon is one of the key countries to watch

00:03:16.140 because lebanon has hezbollah as a political party occupying about a third of the the seats in their

00:03:23.600 law making body and they've got a real goal to annihilate israel so while there are some positive 1.00

00:03:30.800 features of what the lebanese government is doing while they're trying to hold it together amid a lot

00:03:36.860 of economic strife and a banking collapse in lebanon lebanon would be the first country to descend into a

00:03:43.220 civil war and so netanyahu understanding that is trying to reset deterrence with hezbollah and have

00:03:49.640 them understand that this will not be the normal cycle of escalation this will not be hezbollah attacks

00:03:56.720 and then israel has a proportionate response you will see a a complete uh destruction mode you will 0.82

00:04:04.480 see a siege in southern lebanon and potentially in the golan heights around syria if you see those

00:04:12.520 nations devolve into civil war and anti-semitic entities seeking to wipe israel off the map gain any sort

00:04:19.620 of operational imperative uh in these early stages so very important i think it is quite the signal

00:04:27.060 from prime minister netanyahu that this is a critical objective of israel to deter uh any sort

00:04:33.320 of lebanese involvement in the war and to deter hezbollah to the max extent possible i do believe

00:04:38.000 that us having two carrier groups in the eastern med gives uh other countries that would seek to escalate

00:04:44.000 this uh reason to not do so doesn't mean we should be moving carrier groups through the suez canal

00:04:48.720 i think that that uh has real force protection risks to it but in the eastern mediterranean

00:04:53.880 we can be a part of helping israel set deterrence and i'm glad in fact that we are doing that here at

00:05:00.740 home there's other news that's troubling as well i want to bring your attention to a piece by will

00:05:06.280 kessler and the daily caller styled americans are burning through savings to keep biden's economy

00:05:12.660 afloat so the biden administration is noting that there is economic growth now but if you peel back

00:05:18.040 a lot of that growth is funded by high consumer deficit spending where you're seeing aprs increase

00:05:25.820 on credit cards uh and i'm quoting now directly from the piece to sustain this level of consumer

00:05:31.640 spending americans are draining their savings spending more than they are bringing in as their

00:05:36.740 wages stay stagnant or decline ej antonio a research fellow at heritage foundation quoted saying people

00:05:44.560 need more savings today than ever to cope with the higher cost of living and instead many families are

00:05:50.620 heading into the next recession with less savings and more debt so as the biden administration tries to

00:05:56.460 show you economic growth numbers know that that comes on the backs of the savings of the american

00:06:02.220 people and as the american people burned through savings more and more are utilizing credit cards

00:06:07.080 to bridge from one month to the next with high government spending and high interest rates that apr on those

00:06:13.260 credit cards is increasing and ej and tony making this argument in the daily caller piece that uh we may

00:06:20.200 very well be heading into a recession and if we are it is the government spending that i am trying to

00:06:27.300 stop in this town that is driving it and it was that government spending that kevin mccarthy was all too

00:06:32.980 willing to advance as house speaker now we've got the opportunity to get a new house speaker and there are

00:06:38.260 nine announced candidates in this round of the balloting and i agree with what my colleague bob good said

00:06:44.500 recently i would rather get this done right than just get it done quickly we've never seen anything

00:06:51.220 like this in washington dc before where the core of the control center that the lobbyists and the

00:06:58.620 special interests have on the leadership and on the agenda that has been shaken that has been disrupted

00:07:05.780 and and now we've got nine folks and we may have a speaker among them so i'm going to go through these

00:07:10.620 in alphabetical order i'm going to tell you a little bit about these folks please don't take

00:07:14.700 anything i say positive or negative about them as dispositive on my vote i think that with any of

00:07:19.820 these people you're going to have to have to weigh multiple factors okay and at the end of the day

00:07:25.800 the the ideal candidate that i would have liked to have seen jim jordan well he came 17 votes short of

00:07:33.160 the speakership and while that's discouraging to many and certainly it's got a lot of folks fired up

00:07:38.320 in the live chat right now what i can tell you is that we have moved the ball forward for conservatism

00:07:45.220 just by where we are right now consider this just three speakers ago jim jordan was called a

00:07:53.820 legislative terrorist by john boehner and just like three days ago we had jim jordan within 17 votes

00:08:02.720 of the speakership that shows you the direction this is moving and the american people who are

00:08:08.340 engaged and demanding more you are the ones that are the driving force in that movement so let's get

00:08:13.260 to these nine candidates now uh with full context that i'm describing them to you not trying to

00:08:19.920 persuade you one way or the other on these folks there's just things i think you need to know

00:08:23.680 so alphabetical order let's start with jack bergman jack bergman is the highest ranking member of the

00:08:30.860 military to have ever served in congress in america's history general bergman served in the

00:08:37.000 united states marine corps now he's a more moderate member of congress he's from the state of michigan

00:08:42.540 represents the upper peninsula there he was actually elected class president when i entered congress so

00:08:49.460 several of the people that you're uh you're going to hear about or certainly mike johnson i guess in

00:08:54.720 addition to bergman uh from the same class that was elected with me in 2016 jack bergman was elected

00:09:00.360 our class president uh always viewed uh viewed well among the members of our class member of the

00:09:06.460 armed services committee with me has also served as a member of the veterans affairs committee now one

00:09:11.940 thing about jack bergman he voted for the debt limit increase that is in many ways the original sin

00:09:20.000 of the mccarthy era of the speakership before that debt limit vote kevin mccarthy was actually doing

00:09:25.400 a pretty good job as house speaker wouldn't have lost his job but when they did the deal to underwrite

00:09:32.040 an unlimited amount of biden debt through january 1 of 2025 you created this runway for the very

00:09:39.900 weaponized government that we have been fighting against so i i will certainly weigh in my decision

00:09:44.900 the fact that jack bergman was a yes vote on that bad debt limit deal i think that that we probably uh

00:09:51.400 would do better with someone who didn't vote for that and that brings us to our next uh candidate

00:09:56.480 for speaker byron donalds my fellow florida man so i i am a little biased byburn and i have known each

00:10:03.020 other for quite some time uh we've been on the campaign trade together throughout florida politics

00:10:08.540 helping republicans get elected we served in the state legislature together byron donalds is a respected

00:10:14.420 member of the house freedom caucus he is a dynamic communicator uh in one area where he and i had

00:10:20.680 disagreement and it was uh it was renoted on social media somewhat recently uh byron had supported a

00:10:27.320 continuing resolution that demanded some policy changes on the border and that had ostensibly

00:10:33.100 some spending cuts for 30 days i did not support that i think governing by continuing resolution is a bad

00:10:38.640 idea but byron is considered probably you know among the more conservative members of this field

00:10:45.420 and someone who's certainly got a lot of people excited i know having campaigned with byron across

00:10:51.940 florida throughout the country he's a very dynamic guy and when people interact with him on the campaign

00:10:56.940 trail they seem to like him uh so byron donalds another candidate for our speaker the the real question i had

00:11:03.100 with donalds he's in he's in his second term i think second or third term i think he's in his second

00:11:10.160 term and there are some here who believe that you've got to have extensive seniority you've got to have

00:11:16.800 been in washington for 10 12 years to even be considered frankly all the people we've considered to date

00:11:22.700 have had at least a decade of experience in congress and and byron has less congressional experience

00:11:28.900 but i would remind people that he's got experience in the state legislature and one of the features of

00:11:34.620 his candidacy that i think he's been promoting is that he's not been entirely encapsulated in the

00:11:40.600 beltway view of thinking and that as someone who's a former state lawmaker like many members of congress

00:11:46.260 are we might be able to reset that that semblance of federalism where the congress doesn't have to solve

00:11:52.300 every problem where we've got states doing what's within their constitutional purview so that is byron

00:11:57.760 donalds next alphabetically tom emmer he is the current whip of the republican conference and in

00:12:04.260 that role he is very well thought of from our more moderate members to our more conservative members

00:12:09.640 as a truth teller tom emmer is one of the few members of leadership who doesn't lie to the membership

00:12:15.200 there is a trump factor here president trump initially put out a statement that he did not support tom emmer

00:12:20.740 he'd apparently heard things that were concerning to him about how tom emmer had run the campaign arm of

00:12:27.400 the republican caucus the nrcc i am told that president trump and tom emmer spoke over the

00:12:34.000 weekend and that that conversation went well so we'll see if there are other comments from president

00:12:38.900 trump about tom emmer though tom emmer is the whip of the congress it is important to note that emmer has

00:12:46.060 only been in that position for nine months whereas other members of leadership at times struggled with

00:12:53.040 uh with members who said well you know you're part of the same system you're part of the same structure

00:12:57.700 and some had been members of that system and structure for many years here tom emmer has been there for nine

00:13:04.220 months i think the membership likes him now there there have been some clips that have been coming out

00:13:09.120 from his time as a minnesota uh based politician lawmaker i think he ran for governor in minnesota

00:13:16.360 came up just just short in in the closest of races there as minnesota was taking kind of a bluish turn

00:13:24.540 uh you know you could find old clips about just about anybody and and use them if they've been in

00:13:30.780 politics long enough we'll see if those motivate a lot of conservative activists to oppose emmer i

00:13:36.300 certainly have seen the most opposition to emmer online as opposed to any of these other candidates

00:13:42.320 uh we'll see if that ends up being dispositive for for folks and another thing you should know about

00:13:47.140 tom emmer he too voted for the debt limit deal so if if you're viewing that as dispositive as i am if

00:13:54.660 you're viewing that as critical to where the house of representatives is right now it's quite the tell

00:13:59.400 tom emmer was a yes vote on the bad mccarthy debt limit deal that brings us to our next candidate

00:14:05.460 kevin hearn kevin hearn is the chairman of the republican study committee that is the largest

00:14:11.240 conference in the united states congress and kevin hearn is a guy who grew up on public assistance

00:14:17.120 got a job at a mcdonald's became scraped together enough money to get a mcdonald's franchise

00:14:24.760 and then became one of the most successful mcdonald's franchisees in the country and as it just so

00:14:31.520 happens i have a delivery from kevin hearn that came just as we were starting the show

00:14:36.840 and uh i'll i'll read you his platform uh he's a he's a congressman from arkansas

00:14:43.040 and it reads actually is he from he's from oklahoma isn't he yeah oklahoma my mistake

00:14:50.420 all right dear colleague how would you get us back on track that is the question i've received most

00:14:56.000 since announcing my bid for speaker to me the answer is simple if we want better outcomes we need to

00:15:01.520 pursue a fresh approach but truth is congress has not been working properly for a long time

00:15:06.420 here are some facts 38 that's the number of continuing resolutions we've passed in the last

00:15:12.560 10 years eight that's the number of omnibus spending bills we've passed in the last 10 years

00:15:17.560 1977 the last and only time congress passed a budget and enacted all of its appropriations bills

00:15:24.640 separately and on time think about that 1977 last time we followed the law but i'm the crazy one

00:15:30.820 that wants us to follow the law back to hearn's letter 1208 the number of unauthorized programs

00:15:38.900 at the beginning of fiscal year 2023 we've talked a lot about this over 1200 unauthorized programs

00:15:46.260 we've got to stop spending money in this way so back to the hearn letter two the number of years we

00:15:52.240 are away from debt interest payments surpassing annual defense funding and the letter goes on to talk

00:15:59.860 about the number of americans that are dying from the national debt the debt uh increase now

00:16:06.000 approaching 34 trillion dollars and an approval rating for congress of 17 percent hearn talks about

00:16:12.900 his 35 years of leadership in the mcdonald's organization motivating people and you know what

00:16:19.280 let's see what he sent us a cheeseburger actually we got two of them and uh you know they say there's a lot

00:16:26.600 of stuff that goes on to buy and sell votes in this town but kevin hearn sending me a mcdonald's burger

00:16:31.400 probably one of the best efforts we've had so far i'm taking a bite

00:16:34.640 oh it's been a long time since i've had a mcdonald's burger

00:16:43.740 all right that's kevin hearn's candidacy we'll see if anybody else sends any other uh any other

00:16:51.820 fast food that brings us to the next candidate mike johnson

00:16:55.700 mike johnson a constitutional conservative a brilliant attorney whips jamie raskin up and down the floor

00:17:04.820 whenever they debate the finer points of constitutional law uh on the judiciary committee mike johnson has

00:17:11.160 been central to a lot of the oversight we've been conducting over the biden crime family over the

00:17:17.260 fbi the doj the atf here here is the uh is the challenge that mike johnson will have to overcome

00:17:24.800 he did not vote for the debt limit deal but the challenge he'll have to overcome is that he's from

00:17:30.100 the state of louisiana and our number two right now steve scalise who withdrew from the speaker contest

00:17:36.600 is also from louisiana so i know this sounds crazy but as qualified as mike johnson is and he would

00:17:42.800 make a phenomenal speaker i can tell you that right now having worked with him there are some people

00:17:47.500 who don't want to vote for mike johnson because they're concerned about the centralization of power

00:17:51.820 with a speaker of the house and a majority leader from the state of louisiana i don't view that as all

00:17:58.560 that important but it's something he's going to have to work through also mike johnson's not a member

00:18:02.600 of the house freedom caucus a lot of times he aligns with the conservative perspective and viewpoint

00:18:07.220 some members of the freedom caucus say well if you're a real conservative that wants our backing

00:18:11.520 you should be in the freedom caucus full disclosure i'm not a member of the freedom caucus

00:18:15.700 i think that you can be a conservative and be more independent minded or you don't have to necessarily

00:18:22.820 be a sworn in member of the house freedom caucus in order to fight for the american people

00:18:27.600 mike johnson's going to be a really strong candidate for the speakership

00:18:30.820 next is dan muser dan muser's from pennsylvania uh he is more uh i think drawing on a base of

00:18:39.360 suburbanite republicans to support his candidacy he supported the debt limit deal uh and you know

00:18:45.260 that he's going to make a case that someone from a swing state like pennsylvania someone who can

00:18:50.000 uh make a case to country club republicans uh would would be helpful that'll be the the central

00:18:55.900 candidacy of dan muser next it brings us to gary palmer gary palmer is currently the policy chairman

00:19:03.580 he's viewed within the republican conference as someone who is uh wonky who understands the

00:19:09.600 intricacies of policy choices he studies budget issues and entitlement issues very closely i served

00:19:16.380 on the budget committee with gary palmer i can tell you this guy is a fiscal hawk he's from the state

00:19:21.720 of alabama so hey if we went from a house speaker from california to a house speaker from alabama

00:19:27.960 uh that that has its own panache to it i think he understands how to reform entitlement programs

00:19:34.200 he is a devout christian and more of a mild-mannered guy a gary palmer he played wide receiver at the

00:19:40.840 university of alabama was quite the standout athlete a pretty fast guy we hear but he's not the person

00:19:47.160 um to take over a room with his mere presence i think he's more of a of a student of the

00:19:55.040 intricacies of policy more mild-mannered in his nature next up is pete sessions of texas and pete

00:20:01.920 sessions is a bit of a throwback candidate prior chairman of the house rules committee under house

00:20:06.780 speaker paul ryan and he was really ousted from that that rules committee seniority and that rules

00:20:13.480 committee position under kevin mccarthy so he and mccarthy do not get along particularly well

00:20:17.780 he will pete sessions will draw heavily on the fact that he's from the largest delegation in for

00:20:24.340 republicans in the country that's the texas delegation if all of the texans get behind pete

00:20:30.340 sessions i think he's got a really high probability of of coming out of the gate with a strong base of

00:20:36.660 support and he'll make the argument that just like the texas delegation the republican conference has

00:20:42.660 more conservatives more suburbanites more centrists more moderates so if he could convince that

00:20:47.680 delegation to support him he would likely argue that that would allow him to bring in people from

00:20:52.960 the various factions of our conference to be able to lead us effectively that is the pete sessions case

00:20:58.580 from texas former rules chairman that brings us to our final candidate austin scott austin scott

00:21:06.600 from the state of georgia you'll remember he challenged jim jordan got 81 votes in that contest

00:21:11.760 i praised austin scott online because after he was defeated by jim jordan he backed him 100 for

00:21:20.020 speaker voted for him three times was working hard to get the gavel for jordan and i just think that's

00:21:25.020 a class act it's a total uh i think you know responsible thing to do after someone bests you

00:21:30.360 in a contest like that to back them he is running on a campaign that includes consequences for the eight

00:21:35.920 of us who did not support kevin mccarthy including yours truly he serves on the house armed services

00:21:41.400 committee and the agriculture committee he voted for the debt limit deal that many of us oppose i i i want

00:21:49.300 to play one clip for you because it overlays one of my principal critiques of this town i've told you

00:21:56.680 that washington dc is a corrupt place and the lobbyists and bundlers and political action

00:22:04.500 committees exist for one principal reason to use the money that lawmakers need for political campaigns

00:22:11.320 in order to extract favors that otherwise they would never get because in the absence of all of that

00:22:18.660 our principal motivation would be to put the needs of our constituents our voters first but if you view

00:22:26.000 money as the principal path to get to the voters well then you end up working for the lobbyists and the

00:22:32.500 special interests we are live broadcasting to you right now from the rayburn building but if i were to

00:22:39.240 take about 30 or 40 steps outside of this building i would go across the street where there is an

00:22:48.560 office building for the republican national committee and the national republican congressional

00:22:53.260 committee across the street from the capital is where our party leaders and bosses often meet with

00:22:59.980 lobbyists to get commitments for them to provide money and then ultimately to receive those donations

00:23:05.960 in the form of fundraisers gatherings policy conferences dinner that all happens just across the street

00:23:14.460 from where we are right now when you're in the capital building it is not only verboten it's quite literally

00:23:22.060 against the law to talk about fundraising and donations you have to do that across the street you can't do it in the

00:23:30.720 capital building

00:23:31.540 astonishingly i watched former house speaker kevin mccarthy make the case on meet the press that what's most important

00:23:41.920 when evaluating a potential candidate for speaker is not just how they will lead inside the capitol building it is what

00:23:51.060 they will do across the street for the lobbyists and special interests take a listen

00:23:56.940 this is not a moment in time to play around with learning on the job we need someone who understands how to do this job

00:24:05.920 i believe tom emmer our whip he's been in the room with all of our successes from our bills to secure the border from

00:24:12.560 parents bill of rights from cutting two trillion dollars getting work requirements he knows how to do the job across the

00:24:19.280 street at the same time helping us win the majority he's he sets himself head and shoulders above all those others who want to run we

00:24:26.320 need to get him elected this week and move on and bring this not just party together but focus on what this country needs most

00:24:34.080 so did you hear the tell kevin mccarthy while endorsing his preference for house speaker

00:24:43.480 literally referenced the across the street work as central to the position you see it's it's the

00:24:50.380 parlance in washington you talk about the people who are best at laundering special interest money

00:24:55.760 at being good across the street i can't i just can't believe that that was so off-putting to me

00:25:02.140 so debasing that the way we have to evaluate leadership is based on who can go and launder the

00:25:07.720 most lobbyist money and then all of that money has strings attached the live stream is going crazy

00:25:14.040 with different people offering their perspective nobody wants to return to kevin mccarthy some of you

00:25:19.480 just want no speaker if the house of representatives is so eager to open up to send money to ukraine

00:25:24.900 there is substantial sentiment that uh maybe if we kept the lights off for a few more days we might

00:25:31.520 get people oriented back to a perspective to put the needs of our fellow americans before the needs of

00:25:36.080 which guy next wants to run crimea uh also a lot of sentiment for candidates that i did not list

00:25:42.980 so donald trump we we have thrown this lure as many times as is possible president trump does not want

00:25:49.300 to be considered candidate for house speaker uh i've tried troy nels has tried marjorie taylor green's

00:25:55.020 tried lauren boebert's tried nunes nunes is another one picking up particularly on rumble a lot of

00:26:02.620 positive sentiment i would absolutely vote for devin nunes for speaker there are other folks who aren't

00:26:08.080 in the congress now prior members who've been thrown out some people throughout newt gingrich i think

00:26:14.020 that's a terrible idea actually throwing out newt gingrich was the good idea throwing his name out for

00:26:18.260 speaker not so much but lee zeldin got a number of votes in prior rounds and lee zeldin is someone i

00:26:24.200 could absolutely support for speaker but i i talked to a lot of our members and i just want to bring

00:26:28.920 you inside the decision making here right now about one out of every four people in the united states

00:26:35.460 congress would not vote for someone who's not a current member of the body i would but one in four

00:26:41.680 wouldn't even consider such a person so as as attractive as people like devin nunes and lee zeldin

00:26:48.160 as unifying consensus options i think they would they would struggle to win over a sufficient number

00:26:54.380 of institutionalists to be able to get there can't let you go without showing you how the

00:26:59.240 mainstream media is freaking out about what's going on in the house right now they the power centers of

00:27:05.720 the establishment in the mainstream media are so aligned they are really losing it lead opinion in

00:27:11.400 the new york times the people who broke the house and if you're watching right now on youtube rumble

00:27:17.420 on x or facebook you can see that the camera guys get a pretty good look at my phone if you zoom in

00:27:24.960 there you can see i'm i'm charting in the second round of the jordan balloting who is voting and who

00:27:30.660 they're voting for but they make the argument that i've broken broken the house this is the same new york

00:27:36.400 times that often calls me far right and extreme but they actually charted out the ideology of the

00:27:43.320 people who blocked mccarthy and then the people who blocked jordan and it tells you an interesting

00:27:48.400 story so if you're watching right now i'm sorry if you're if you're one of our tens of thousands of

00:27:53.300 listeners you can use this time to go and give me a five-star rating leave a review but if you're

00:27:57.780 watching you can see on the screen this chart that the new york times has put together showing the

00:28:03.180 ideologies of the republicans who were against mccarthy the most uh moderate the the closest to

00:28:09.580 the center uh nancy mace the most conservative andy biggs and there you see me nestled right there in

00:28:18.620 the center right of the republican conference kind of right where i want to be reflecting the views of

00:28:24.380 our fellow americans without any sort of of of agenda beyond what would make life better for

00:28:32.980 people in northwest florida so whenever the new york times calls me an extreme right hard line member

00:28:39.860 going forward i may have to show them their own data that suggests otherwise but then the story gets

00:28:45.860 even richer if you go to the next chart you see the people who blocked jim jordan and ken buck

00:28:52.340 very conservative he's the most conservative person who blocked jordan and and then though at the end

00:28:58.100 i'm pretty sure buck was not going to stand between jim jordan and the speakership i actually have some

00:29:02.300 some information on that so he wasn't really the one blocking jordan but it's all these dots on the left

00:29:08.940 the most liberal members of our caucus blocked the most popular republican in the united states house of

00:29:18.600 representatives and they did so because their lobbyist friends knew that jim jordan wouldn't put

00:29:24.640 them first and wouldn't be a part of this corrupt system and it's a shame but this is also a hundred

00:29:31.000 percent an exercise in exposing the people who do not truly work for you there's another piece in the

00:29:38.400 wall street journal molly ball the headline matt gates tore the house gop apart he isn't sorry and the

00:29:46.900 he says in part mccarthy told reporters listen the whole country i think would scream at matt gates

00:29:53.840 right now and molly ball continues gates a canady student of procedure with a knack for tapping the 1.00

00:30:00.840 conservative zeitgeist has taken it upon himself to assemble a shifting band of dissidents and up to now

00:30:07.360 he's been dramatically successful while critics accuse gates of attention-mongering he insists he is

00:30:13.400 about outcomes not headlines chaos doesn't scare me american decline does whether mccarthy is

00:30:21.360 replaced by a similar figure or a more conservative one gates wins either way said liam donovan a

00:30:28.460 republican lobbyist if a conservative wins it would make gates a hero to the right otherwise it would

00:30:35.680 further his argument that the dc cartel is conspiring to frustrate conservative aims i do not know who

00:30:43.720 liam donovan is the republican lobbyist cited in this article but he's kind of right if we end up with a more

00:30:52.300 conservative speaker then we will have achieved the objective of upgrading the position maybe it's not the ideal

00:30:59.360 person you want if you're hoping for donald trump or jim jordan or devin nunez or me it's not going to

00:31:05.560 be that first choice but if it's someone more conservative then we've moved in the right direction

00:31:11.340 and if it's not you will know why you won't have to wonder why republicans in congress continue to send

00:31:19.020 out press releases and tweets about their intentions and what they're going to fight and what they're going

00:31:24.680 to defund you see what they're willing to fight for one of them illinois congressman mike bost even

00:31:29.960 wanted to fight me seen people get to the microphone with tears in their eyes about

00:31:34.680 how much they love one leader another they never were that concerned as joe biden was opening the

00:31:42.080 border and as our fellow americans were being poisoned by fentanyl i can tell you that their way

00:31:46.740 the establishment hacks are way more worried about their precious power centers here than about what's

00:31:53.460 happening to the american people right now and so yeah it's either going to be more conservative or

00:31:59.180 it's not in either way you're going to win because you're going to have better outcomes or you're going

00:32:05.060 to have a specific pathway on what you have to do to get them and we are demystifying this and i'm glad

00:32:12.800 we're doing it we're doing it all over the country too not just here in washington i was traveling over the

00:32:19.420 weekend in the fifth district of virginia with my friend bob good and i had a chance to stop at

00:32:24.180 appomattox courthouse and i just i just couldn't resist making this little video for you take a listen

00:32:29.820 well that's about as useless as confederate money it's a saying to denote that something has lost

00:32:38.260 all of its value it's because right behind me at appomattox courthouse when general robert e lee

00:32:44.500 surrendered to ulysses s grant everyone holding confederate money all of a sudden saw the value

00:32:51.300 go to zero well you know what over this last week there's been a lot of criticism over what we've done

00:32:57.120 in the united states congress one thing i can tell you all the lobbyists and special interests who gave

00:33:03.600 kevin mccarthy a billion dollars they're all holding confederate money because the ious from the swamp

00:33:11.500 and the special interests have gone to zero and the interests of the american people they're about

00:33:17.060 to be front and center stay tuned

00:33:18.940 so we are back live in just a few hours i'll be meeting directly with austin scott one of the

00:33:27.680 candidates he's invited a group of us to chat with him about his vision we ought to be open-minded

00:33:32.840 listening to everyone a lot of you on the live stream are asking who who are my favorites

00:33:37.580 so i'll end the show with that look i believe that what you just heard from kevin hearn is a real

00:33:45.420 plan this is a real plan to stop governing by continuing resolution and it's serious and he's

00:33:51.660 a very serious person he would make a phenomenal speaker i've sat next to mike johnson for seven

00:33:56.640 years on the house judiciary committee i know that if he is the speaker of the house everything that

00:34:01.420 kevin mccarthy has done to block the release of the january 6 tapes to block our subpoenas that will

00:34:07.140 be over and it will be a new era of exciting leadership mike johnson would make a phenomenal

00:34:11.920 speaker and of course you know how i feel about byron donalds my fellow florida man a dynamic

00:34:18.740 communicator an inspiring choice someone who has effectively worked across the conference to bring

00:34:25.300 bring people to i think a more conservative position but a unifying issue a position on a number

00:34:32.220 of issues including our big border bill hr2 byron donalds also shares a lot of the concerns of

00:34:39.220 coastal communities that impact northwest florida so i think that he would also make a phenomenal choice

00:34:45.620 for house speakers so those are three of the nine that i'm real excited about and i'm gonna allow

00:34:52.060 myself the opportunity to hear what the others have to say it's not about one man it's not about one

00:34:59.100 person it's not even about us you see that's why seven of the eight offered last week to accept

00:35:06.740 punishment or sanction removal from the conference if people were willing to get past their issues and

00:35:13.880 vote for jim jordan but we can we can still end up with a phenomenal speaker the plan wasn't jordan or

00:35:19.620 bust uh these other men are of great virtue and i think that we're going to hear a lot more tonight

00:35:26.620 i can't wait to update you in the future the best way to stay informed regarding what's going on in

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 23, 2023

Episode 122 LIVE： 9 Speaker Candidates – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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