Episode 125 LIVE: Fauci Frauds & Foreign Wars – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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The Firebrand is broadcasting live from Room 2021 of the Rayburn House office building in the capitol complex in Washington, D.C., where we are broadcasting live out of Room 2021. This week, we cover: President Trump's victory in the primary election, the ongoing Israeli conflict in Gaza, and the ongoing debate in the House of Representatives regarding funding for U.S. aid to Israel.
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank
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you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrand
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welcome back to firebrand we're broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office
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building in the capitol complex here in washington dc fauci has been naughty in montana we've got
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new investigative reporting on the coronavirus research that we were exporting from the united
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states of america that's coming up news from the colorado courtroom which has totally gone off the
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rails regarding the effort to get president trump off the ballot despite being just by far the leading
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republican candidate and if we're having any issues on rumble right now let us know uh we're we're
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working out a new rig here as you can see we began in israel let's get this bloomberg piece up
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israel uh showing that we've got some folks coming out of gaza we've got jordan recalling their
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ambassador uh here jordan puts out a statement recalling its ambassador to israel quote in rejection
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and condemnation of the ongoing war in gaza that's from the foreign minister of jordan and we're also
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getting word uh that there is some progress in the rafa crossing getting people out of harm's way
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uh this from the bloomberg report some foreigners and wounded palestinians were allowed to leave gaza
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wednesday and have arrived in egypt in the first such development since israel began its ground invasion
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in the territory the qatar mediated deal intends to lead around 500 people leaving each day this will be
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the wounded the injured the civilians and we certainly want them out of harm's way and it brings us to
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really the debate in washington regarding legislation and funding as you well know we have a memorandum
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of understanding with israel to maintain their qualitative military edge in the region israel
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maintaining a qualitative military edge is something that has been part of u.s foreign policy for decades
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it's something i support and it's something that has put israel on a 3.8 billion dollar auto pay
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to build the iron dome and david sling and arrow and other systems that not only benefit israel but
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really contribute to a lot of research and development of military equipment in the united
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states but there is politics all over this israel funding bill and that's what i want to talk to you
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about so mitch mcconnell wants to use the fact that israel is a place with a 4 000 year connection to
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our faith to drag more ukraine money across the line money for ukraine that has lost the support of
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a majority of the majority in the house of representatives i spoke with a key senator over
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the weekend who said that in the senate stand-alone ukraine money may have lost a majority of republicans
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there as well that would be a lagging indicator but very telling and very significant so what mitch mcconnell
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wants to do because he's putting ukraine first in all these negotiations is he wants to combine the
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question on ukraine and israel now i have advised house speaker mike johnson to separate the question
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that way we can isolate ukraine and deal with it on i think a more sober and honest and thoughtful
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paradigm than we have in the past when we've simply allowed a blank check to go out the door to
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zelinski and whatever his whims are so you've got mcconnell wanting to combine them you've got
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johnson wanting to separate them lindsey graham has become the front man to stop whatever money
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is going to israel from being offset in the budget take a listen
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do you side with the top democrat in the senate or the top republican in the house i side with israel
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and i want to get them as much money as they need as quick as they can get it so to the house
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i understand we need to start paying for things around here i get that but this is truly an emergency
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and i don't think we've ever offset an emergency aid before when we have a disaster when it's a
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hurricane it hits south carolina we don't have pay for us because it's an emergency what i don't want
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to happen is that the support for israel become partisan right i think there's probably 400 votes
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in the house to support israel and when you start putting things like pay for us on the table
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then you break that coalition apart that's what i worry about
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i cannot believe we just heard a republican senator say that it is against the concept of bipartisanship
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to have budgetary offsets and pay force of course that is the way to drive down the inflation that is
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crushing so many americans to ensure that we're not just printing more money sending it abroad and
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then diluting the dollars that are held by u.s citizens i was recently at an event in northwest florida
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and i talked about mike johnson's pay for for the 14 billion dollar israel fund appropriation that
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we're sending into that conflict and folks were pretty excited when they learned what speaker
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johnson's idea was johnson would pay for the israel money by taking it right out of the hide of the irs
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and that is something i can undeniably get behind the irs used to have a 12 billion dollar budget
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that swelled to an 80 billion dollar budget as a consequence of the inflation reduction act
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and so this would peel back 14 billion of that and i think let our people off the mat
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when it comes to excessive government weaponization and that is exactly what these irs agents would be
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intended to do you heard kevin mccarthy promise the repeal of the 87 000 irs agents that never happened
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but if the irs functioned as the pay for for israel well then we take a meat cleaver to the irs and at
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the same time israel doesn't become the engine that has to haul the ukraine money politically
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so i think it's quite a dev strategy by the speaker also as we're looking at issues around the world
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i want to go to china because there are things happening in china that we should be very concerned
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about given this u.s involvement in the war in ukraine and growing involvement in the middle east
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as israel defends itself you have to monitor the activities and the rhetoric of the ccp and the
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people's liberation army in china there would be a perfect storm with the united states distracted
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overstrained to have a taiwan invasion while our focus was elsewhere the ccp and its military
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counterpart the pla recently made military movements that could signal pending conflict
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over taiwan we could be in that envelope of a potential invasion let me walk you through the
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timeline so back in august of 2023 they added 26 planes and 13 ships to the patrols and to the sorties
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that were around taiwan and i mean this was the biggest increase that we had seen throughout
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the summer then in september of 2023 taiwan says china bolstered its nearby coastal military bases
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here's the quote the information we have received is that all important military bases along the coast
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are being continuously updated now keep in mind these are oftentimes the military bases that they have
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carved out of reefs they've constructed these islands to be able to project power and to be able to
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maintain air superiority in the event of some sort of conflict then on october 16th 2023 xi jinping
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signals that continuity is critical to his political agenda he did this at the chinese communist party
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congress speech stating quote reunification definitively must be achieved and reunification will be achieved
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on october 20th 2023 a record number of chinese fighter planes about 100 flew around taiwan in just one day
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imagine that this tiny little island and they got 100 plus chinese fighter planes almost blanketing the sky
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also october 2026 2023 a chinese j11 fighter conducts a dangerous intercept of a u.s b-52 bomber at night
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in international airspace over the south china sea watch and listen to that encounter
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the u.s military has released video of yet another chinese fighter jet harassing and flying dangerously close
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to a u.s military plane officials say this happened tuesday over the south china sea the chinese jet
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coming within 10 feet of the american b-52 the pentagon says the chinese military has made similar
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reckless maneuvers on u.s planes more than 180 times in the past two years china claims most of the sea as
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theirs but the u.s now all of this is going on seemingly in a very short period of time
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also late october you get the chinese moving the shandong carrier strike group into the bashi channel
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entering the western pacific adjacent to taiwan this is the chinese aircraft carrier system that they
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would use to project power and to maintain air dominance then on october 30th 2023 the vice chairman
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of the pla said that an invasion and a war on taiwan would be quote just and legitimate
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so i cover these things because as you see a lot of the mainstream media focusing on what's going on
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in ukraine and certainly what's going on in israel we cannot forget that america's pacing challenge
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is china they are making aggressive moves and they're doing so i think with a keen eye
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to the distractions that we are facing particularly in ukraine
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we should not borrow money from china to go fight wars in ukraine or in the middle east
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and fortunately speaker johnson has given us the ability with these offsets with the irs
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so we don't have to do that i think as china sees us borrowing more money from them
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they see us as weaker they see us as more conquerable and they see us as less likely
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to prohibit their ambitions in the south china sea and certainly as it relates to taiwan
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i want to deal now with matters closer to home and here in the house of representatives
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and i couldn't help but notice how here in the last few days the new york times has really moved
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i mean they have really proliferated their viewpoint about the changes we've made in the house let's put
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up this first headline from the new york times october 4th 2023 how gerontocracy explains the matt gates
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clown show so october 4th it's the matt gates clown show going on in congress and this printed in the
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new york times you can analyze the circus in the house of representatives in terms of personalities
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the bland ambition of kevin mccarthy coddling with the antic made for television career of matt gates
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what they have in matt gates who in his own way is truth-telling when he criticizes the
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can-kicking style in which mccarthy has tried to negotiate between his own members and the democrats
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or when he tells reporters gathered for his performances that the leaders of both parties
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are custodians of american decline here's the operative sentence but gates has of course no
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politically plausible vision of his own so beginning of the month it's a clown show that i run
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what i'm saying about spending and the need to reform congress those are all performances and i have no
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vision no opportunity for success fast forward to october 26th matt gates created a win-win situation for
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himself also published in the new york times and uh here we even get a reference to firebrand
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matt gates republican of florida and mccarthy's bet noir confirmed this week on firebrand quote
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if we end up with a more conservative speaker then we will have achieved an upgrade at the position and
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if not you will know why this implicit threat that you either have to accommodate mr gates and his allies
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or fulfill their grievance narrative was not lost on a weary conference looking to make peace
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however fleeting enter mr johnson who is broadly acceptable to the conference even as democrats
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blanch at his statements and record taking cue from mr gates the hardliners have decided to take
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the win at least for the time being there are early signs that mr johnson may be treated with a level of
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political grace not afforded to other hopefuls so we've gone from the clown show with no vision
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to the win-win situation they're setting it up and now that we've actually seen mike johnson's plan
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a return to single subject spending bills we have a whole new perspective published in the new york times
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here october 31st just yesterday on this issue matt gates actually has a good point this from peter
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suderman just days before winning the race for house speaker last week representative mike johnson of
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louisiana sent a letter to his colleagues laying out a plan to complete the brush budget process by
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bringing 12 individual appropriations bills to the floor mr johnson built his plan as a way to quote
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allow us to demonstrate good governance it put him firmly in the camp of the gop rebels like matt gates
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of florida who led the revolt against speaker kevin mccarthy and has been called whack job a whack job by
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their own colleagues whack jobs i remember that they've been likened to economic terrorists for
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their actions during budget negotiations but in one way the whack jobs have a point the federal budget
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process is broken it has been broken for decades what the republican rebels say they want isn't
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congressional chaos but the opposite good government legislative transparency and real demand i'm sorry
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and real democratic accountability when it comes to the power of the purse they want to achieve this
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through a return to regular order which means passing individual appropriations bills and allowing
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for a more open debate and amended process on the bills that is what mr johnson has promised
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for years sober budget policy experts on the right and left have called for a return to regular order
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viewing the current process as broken and corrosive the closed door nature of this process leads to
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distrust within the congress so what what a movement from the clown show to the win-win to the actual good
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substantive point that we are making and what's most important is not just that we are articulating
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a vision for a budget process that returns to regular order but that our new house speaker mike johnson
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shares that vision it is his vision it is what he has promised the country the republicans in congress
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and it is the only way to ever create any type of downward pressure on spending but of course
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predictably because mike johnson isn't bought and paid for by the swamp because he hasn't spent his entire
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career thinking about what decorations he would have in the speaker's office because he hasn't bent knee to
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every special interest group in this town the knives are out for mike johnson and perhaps the most
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ridiculous critique we have seen to date comes from the daily beast
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does the new speaker of the house mike johnson have a bank account and essentially this roger
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sallenberger piece from the daily beast criticizes mike johnson because he is not rich he is not corrupt
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and he is not rich as a consequence of being corrupt here's the piece what's more likely is
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that johnson lives paycheck to paycheck oh see at the daily beast i guess they look down their nose at
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the 61 of americans who live paycheck to paycheck so much so that he doesn't have enough money in his
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bank account to trigger the checking account disclosure rules for members of congress you see the ethics
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committee requires you to submit any account that at a particular date has more than five thousand
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dollars in it so if mike johnson is living paycheck to paycheck well then he likely could not could
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could fall below those disclosure requirements and oh this has got the daily beast quite animated
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back to their writing it's certainly not uncommon for americans to have less than five thousand dollars
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in their bank account most americans couldn't handle an unexpected thousand dollar expense according to a
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report earlier this year and the median account that america amount that americans keep in their bank
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account is fifty three hundred dollars but johnson's household income puts him in the top 12 percent of
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earners in the united states and it's extraordinarily rare for members of congress to not list a qualifying
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bank account let alone zero assets whatsoever so mike johnson doesn't trade stocks he's not involved in shady
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business deals he's a father of five kids who by the way i think a good number of them have gone
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through lsu and even though that's a state school it ain't cheap to send kids to college and the fact
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that this guy lives paycheck to paycheck and doesn't have all these exquisite sources of income because he's
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not trading stocks to come in a pauper and leave a prince from the united states congress the daily b says
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that he is vulnerable to exploitation you know who i think is vulnerable to exploitation the people who
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are trading the stocks and who do get their ne'er-do-well relatives a bunch of no-show jobs so i think mike
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johnson is a man of great character and the fact that the daily beast is uh is attacking him for not being
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rich i think will only endear him to more of our fellow americans we also uh today want to give you an
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update from the colorado courthouse now in colorado you're seeing a play that democrats tried
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previously in georgia when they tried to get marjorie taylor green disqualified from the ballot
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because they didn't approve of her language or rhetoric or behavior leading up to january 6th
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you know we have elections in this country where the voters are supposed to be empowered to make the
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decisions about who governs them not some judge deciding that in their eyes someone isn't worthy to
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stand for election that is an incredible abuse of the article 3 courts and it is a diminution in the
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rights of all americans ensconced in the constitution and in our general principles of self-government
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government so this decision in colorado is going to be made in a courtroom on a petition
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from colorado voters to exclude donald trump from the ballot to just say as a consequence of january 6th
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people in colorado shouldn't be able to vote for him and of course they've chosen colorado with the
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hopes that they would get a biased liberal judge to set precedent that they would then carry to the
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states that really matter and it just turns out that in colorado the leftists who want to limit
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your choices in an election got exactly the judge they wanted they got a judge who actually personally
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politically donated to a colorado campaign to try to get people to defeat lauren boebert ken buck
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doug landborn other republicans and so as you might expect the trump team filed a filed a motion
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to get the judge's ruling on recusal because if it is even the appearance of impropriety
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they're supposed to be recusal sasha what i want to do i want to go first to what the colorado turnout
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project was let's get that on the screen so the colorado turnout project is the campaign that this
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judge judge sarah wallace donated to and i'm going to read you their mission statement the colorado
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turnout project is a coalition of colorado students activists veterans and coloradans from all walks
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of life who are fed up with the complicity of colorado's republican representatives in our nation's
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venomous political atmosphere so already sentence number one they're saying that republicans are
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contributing to a venomous political atmosphere the mission statement continues we formed shortly after
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colorado republicans refused to condemn the political extremists who stormed the united states
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capitol on january 6 2021 in fact republican representative lauren boebert even encouraged
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the violence that that is such nonsense the colorado turnout project aims to prevent violent insurrections
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by addressing the problem at its source if we vote out pariahs like representative boebert
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we can turn colorado blue once and for all we aim to strengthen colorado's democratic congressional
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majority and expand it by taking the remaining three republican seats in our state can you join us in our fight
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to remove hate mongers like boebert from colorado's house delegation we are hate mongers we are venomous
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we are insurrectionists that's the colorado turnout project and the judge overseeing the case about whether
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whether or not trump is going to be able to be on the ballot gave money to support that politics
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that just naked partisanship and when she ruled on the recusal motion this is what she said take a listen
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i do not dispute that in october 22nd prior to taking the bench i apparently gave a hundred dollar contribution
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to the colorado turnout project that being said prior to yesterday i was not cognizant of this organization
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or its mission it has always been my practice whether i was entirely successful or not to make contributions
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to individuals not packs while i have no specific memory of this contribution it was my practice
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and my intention to contribute to an individual candidate not a pack i can assure all of the litigants
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in this litigation that prior to the start of this litigation and to this day
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i have formed no opinion whether the events of january 6 constituted an insurrection
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or whether intervener trump engaged in an injured insurrection or for that matter any of the issues
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that need to be cited in this hearing if i did i would recuse myself but because i don't i deny the motion for recusal
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that is the worst analysis on a recusal matter i have ever seen this judge sarah wallace
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donated to an entity that wanted to categorize republicans as venomous insurrectionists and now she is having to
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preside over these proceed proceedings where they're making those precise claims against president trump
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it is blatant it is lawfare and one of the questions we got what are you going to do about it well i think
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the congress has equities in a federal election that we have not defended i think we need to have jack smith
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before us i think that we need to pass legislation to protect the rights of voters from out of control
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judges and proceedings like you just saw there in colorado i mean that is like having the referee of the
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game where the jersey of the other team it's like having the referee of the football game one of the
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paid boosters of the team that you are playing against and it shows how illegitimate it is and i
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think getting that information out is essential to our mission here we've also got to get some information
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out regarding the inappropriate actions potentially unlawful actions of dr anthony fauci there's an article from
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daily mail that we've just seen that discusses an investigation into the nih under fauci's
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leadership they were conducting experiments involving coronavirus more than a year before
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the global outbreak of coven 19 they were doing so with this montana lab in concert with the chinese
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here are the key facts in 2018 the nih under dr fauci infected 12 egyptian fruit bats with a
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sars-like virus called wiv1 that was at this montana lab the wiv1 coronavirus was obtained
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from the same wuhan lab which is suspected to be the source of the covet 19 pandemic
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the bats were acquired from a maryland zoo and the experiment was aimed to determine whether or not the
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virus would cause robust infection the research found limited evidence of virus replication and concluded that the
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virus did not cause robust infection in the bats but there are also key issues regarding funding and
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collaboration the investigation revealed that u.s taxpayer money was used for these experiments
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between 2015 and 2023 at least seven u.s entities supported nih grant money totaling 3.3 million
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dollars that went to labs in china performing animal experience experiments the research was a joint venture
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between the nih's rocky mountain laboratories and the wuhan institute of virology specifically
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with their collaborator ralph barrack at the university of north carolina this has not come
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without substantial concerns and criticisms the investigation was brought to light by a campaign
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led by a group called the white coast coat waste project they aim to stop american tax dollars from
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funding dangerous experiments that involve animals white coat waste's founder says quote our investigation
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has uncovered the real-life horror story of how a shady roadside zoo curated experiments with an nih animal
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experimenter and shipped off bats to a deadly government virus lab overseen by dr fauci which infected
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coronavirus that came from the wuhan lab the zoo from which the bats were sourced the kakatan wildlife
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preserve has had a history of animal welfare violations the public has responded to this information the white coat
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waste project is now using the freedom of information act to request more details about these particular
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experiments and of course we will follow those as well and this is why the individual single subject
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spending bills now are so important because it gives us the opportunity to go program by program
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line item by line item to find where we're engaging in these inappropriate foreign collaborations to
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force votes on them to root them out and you know what there'll be times we lose the votes and when we do
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maybe we need to be replacing the lawmakers who aren't putting the needs of our people first and who aren't
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serious about the impact of this federal spending and the deficits and the debt and the ultimate
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impact that that has on inflation there's a lot more coming up this week we've got our single subject
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spending bill on the department of the interior so i'll be breaking down some of the provisions of
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that you are going to be shocked at some of the ways we spend money in the bide administration to
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the department of the interior it is it is nowhere near what you think and we're going to be exposing it
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