The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 128 – Happy Veterans Day! Dead Voters for Biden？ Will Nancy Pelosi Lose Her Title of Speaker of the House？ Cleaning House at the DOJ. Stand Your Ground Laws Strengthened in Florida.

00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:03.820 You all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.

00:00:06.580 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.

00:00:09.300 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.

00:00:12.260 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:16.060 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:19.240 Happy Veterans Day to everyone.

00:00:21.320 The district I represent has one of the highest concentrations of active duty military and veterans in the country.

00:00:28.140 Veterans coach our ball teams.

00:00:30.380 They are the parents who help out in our classrooms and they enrich our community with an elite level of patriotism that is so valuable, so cherished, so appreciated.

00:00:41.700 So if you have a moment today, make sure that you thank a veteran for being among those willing to step forward, fight for our country, and provide their skills for the betterment of the greatest nation that has ever existed.

00:00:55.820 Today's top story comes from the Epoch Times, dead and voting in the state of Michigan.

00:01:02.640 Peter Schwab has the piece, and it's astonishing what this particular study found.

00:01:08.100 More than 10,000 people confirmed or suspected dead have returned their mail-in ballots to vote in the state of Michigan.

00:01:15.940 According to analysis of the state's election data, about 9,500 voters confirmed dead through the Social Security Death Index are marked in the state's mail-in voting database as having returned ballots.

00:01:29.340 So Social Security thinks they're dead, but they're actually voting in the state of Michigan.

00:01:34.080 Another nearly 2,000 are 100 years old or more and aren't listed as being known, living centenarians.

00:01:44.640 So the analysis was provided by Richard Barris, who is the director of Big Data Poll.

00:01:50.520 The data includes that somebody else was trying to vote on behalf of these people.

00:01:54.960 And this is a quote from Barris, quote,

00:01:57.660 It is also entirely possible that some of them aren't even real people.

00:02:02.280 If someone is 110 or some ridiculous age, we should have their death record, but do not.

00:02:08.880 So Americans older than 110 are pretty darn rare.

00:02:12.420 Only a handful of them are known to live in the state of Michigan.

00:02:15.820 And so it's very bizarre that you have this high propensity of people registering to vote, voting, and some of them we know are dead, others we suspect are dead.

00:02:26.760 Now, I'm not sure that this exact analysis proves that there is fraud at the scale to overturn the specific result in the state of Michigan.

00:02:37.300 But I don't think that that ought to be the standard for us to take curative action to fix the problem.

00:02:43.580 Right now, Joe Biden is ahead by about 150,000 votes in Michigan, far more than the 10,000 that would potentially be implicated through this analysis.

00:02:54.280 But I do believe that we've got to clean up our election process, not just for the sake of the 2020 election, but for the sake of every election that will follow.

00:03:05.080 And I'm willing to bet that this dead vote swung overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.

00:03:10.600 So we've got to clean it up, we've got to get to the bottom of it, we've got to use state legislators and governors and state elections officials to clean the voter rolls and ensure that we have a fair, reliable, legal vote count in this election and every one that follows. 0.96

00:03:27.880 If you loot, we shoot.

00:03:33.880 That's the message Governor Ron DeSantis is sharing with those who would potentially do harm to my fellow Floridians.

00:03:40.800 This is Ron DeSantis proposing today an expansion of Florida's Stand Your Ground law to ensure that anyone who is attacked as a consequence of mobs or riots has the full complement of self-defense available at their fingertips for response.

00:03:58.120 So here's how the law has developed around the Stand Your Ground law.

00:04:01.280 In the common law, there is a duty to retreat if someone attacks you and you have the ability to retreat.

00:04:09.660 Well, we didn't believe in Florida that you should have to have a duty to retreat, that you ought to be able to meet force with force.

00:04:15.920 So first, we passed the Castle Doctrine, which says that your home is your castle and if someone breaks into your home with the intent to commit a felony or do a harm, then you have the ability to respond with requisite force.

00:04:31.300 We then expanded the Castle Doctrine to include encounters that one might have on a public street.

00:04:36.780 So if you're, you know, outside in a park on a beach and someone attacks you with deadly force in the state of Florida and you have a reasonable fear that they are attacking you with deadly force, you don't have a duty to retreat.

00:04:50.400 You actually have the ability to respond with deadly force and it is a complete defense.

00:04:55.540 Now, Governor DeSantis is saying that that very same right to respond with deadly force if you are under attack would apply in the event of looting or rioting.

00:05:06.700 And I think it's a good thing to deter this type of violence with our laws and to put the law on the side of law abiding people.

00:05:15.320 If someone's not breaking the law, if they're managing their storefront, if they're going to get their hair done or their nails done or make a purchase, they should not have to worry that the latest political kerfluffle will justify violence.

00:05:30.860 Far too many governors and mayors in some of these left-wing areas are willing to tolerate violence.

00:05:37.140 In Florida, we will not. 0.83

00:05:39.300 If you loot, we shoot. 0.82

00:05:41.540 And that's exactly how we like it in the Sunshine State.

00:05:45.320 Resignations, departures, an exodus at the United States Department of Justice.

00:05:53.680 And some might say it didn't quite come soon enough.

00:05:57.640 Richard Pilger was the head of the Elections Crimes Unit and he has resigned that position following Attorney General Bill Barr's memo indicating that the department needs to investigate these substantial irregularities in the voting process.

00:06:13.160 Pilger resigns from that post.

00:06:15.020 He ends up being reassigned as a line prosecutor in the Public Integrity Division.

00:06:20.080 But one has to ask the question, why was he given this really important position in the first place?

00:06:27.060 Shouldn't the Trump administration, Attorney General Bill Barr, ensured that the person we had as the head of the Election Crimes Division was aggressive?

00:06:36.460 Here's my hot take.

00:06:37.540 We did not do enough prophylactic work to stop fraud on the front end.

00:06:44.180 The way fraud works with these mail-in ballots is typically before the Election Day.

00:06:49.460 It is the harvesting and the signing of ballots, the returning them, the funny games that some may play with the dating of ballots.

00:06:59.220 All these things that could potentially happen, happen before Election Day.

00:07:04.000 And it is just incredibly difficult following the election to go and build the case for fraud because oftentimes the ballots that have the identifying information, the signatures, have already been separated from the ballots themselves.

00:07:17.800 If there were failures to protect the integrity of the vote in this election,

00:07:22.860 Those failures can be traced directly to Richard Pilger and his inability to go and ensure that we had the protocols and procedures and safeguards in place,

00:07:34.200 particularly in some of these urban areas where there is a history of stuffing ballot boxes and limiting the utility of legal and lawful votes by polluting those votes with improper votes.

00:07:48.220 And this is an endeavor that is going to call on many of us to do work in the years to come.

00:07:54.360 State legislators will have a specific role to play in this process.

00:07:59.200 I discussed it on the Sean Hannity program last night.

00:08:02.180 Take a listen.

00:08:02.780 Every Republican state legislator has an obligation now to pursue election integrity legislation in their state to ensure that we do not have these mass mailings of ballots.

00:08:13.240 We deserve to know that the person who voted that ballot intended to vote that ballot.

00:08:18.680 And once you get the ballots separated from the signature envelopes, it becomes very difficult to chase the fraud after the fact.

00:08:25.860 You have to catch the fraud in the act.

00:08:28.220 That's why Florida's laws create greater confidence in the outcome in the election.

00:08:32.280 In every state in America, we absolutely need our Republican colleagues looking for ways to use technology better, to use verification better.

00:08:42.000 I mean, we have ways to identify people in this country.

00:08:45.200 If you don't think so, try getting on an airplane.

00:08:47.920 But somehow we treat the ballot box, the voting process, less important from an identity verification standpoint.

00:08:57.360 And that has to change if we want honest elections. 0.84

00:09:03.360 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a hard time with the question of whether she would condemn socialism.

00:09:10.160 She ultimately refused to do it.

00:09:12.680 Take a listen.

00:09:13.280 Welcome to my world.

00:09:14.420 We always have we always have a beautiful dynamism in our caucus.

00:09:20.580 But no, I think people are some people.

00:09:27.400 I would say we have a healthy difference of opinion within our caucus, but not in any way to be problematic in how we legislate.

00:09:36.620 What the conversation was about what is the winning message outside and the message in the districts that we have to win is the message that unifies us, a message for America's working families.

00:09:48.900 And everybody knows that.

00:09:50.200 So there are many rumors.

00:09:52.320 There's a lot of speculation surrounding the leadership future of Nancy Pelosi.

00:09:57.780 House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said he doesn't believe she has the votes to be speaker.

00:10:02.400 A Newsweek also put out a piece recently saying that they expect her to be unopposed for the speaker position among her fellow Democrats.

00:10:10.360 So there are a few things that I want to talk about to break this analysis down.

00:10:15.140 First, don't ever bet against Nancy Pelosi.

00:10:18.260 Regardless of what you may think about her tactics or her ideology, she rules the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives with an iron fist. 1.00

00:10:27.420 A lot of them are afraid of her, so I wouldn't bet against her re-election as speaker among her fellow Democrats.

00:10:34.420 Now, the second thing I would note is that she does have problems that exist both on the left and on the right of her caucus. 1.00

00:10:41.660 With the squad, she had to make deals last time to secure the votes to be speaker. 0.99

00:10:46.460 She had to give them the very prize plum committee assignments that they wanted, that they might not have otherwise earned as freshmen,

00:10:54.020 but they had the power, they wielded it correctly, and they got what they wanted out of Pelosi.

00:11:00.300 But also on the more moderate side of the caucus, you know, there are people like Jim Cooper of Tennessee who won't vote for Nancy Pelosi.

00:11:07.820 Conor Lamb is back in Congress, and he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi.

00:11:12.140 He voted for Joe Kennedy.

00:11:13.660 So there are moderates and there are socialists who have questions about her leadership,

00:11:19.240 but my expectation is you're going to have to pry that speaker gavel from the cold, dead hands of Nancy Pelosi.

00:11:26.180 She's not going to be giving it up easily.

00:11:28.360 Now let's talk about the Republican side and the leadership races.

00:11:32.220 There are times I've disagreed with Kevin McCarthy, his strategy, his tactics,

00:11:36.860 but there's no question that Kevin McCarthy deserves re-election as the Republican leader in the House of Representatives.

00:11:44.780 He unified our caucus to defend the president.

00:11:47.220 He protected every Republican member.

00:11:49.220 Not a single Republican incumbent lost this election.

00:11:52.720 And we picked up a lot of seats, making it more difficult for Democrats to be able to pursue

00:11:58.360 their wildest, most destructive socialist policies.

00:12:02.580 So when you unify the party, when you have good candidate recruitment and good fundraising,

00:12:07.700 and when you win seats, you deserve re-election despite disagreement.

00:12:12.680 House Whip Steve Scalise similarly is really the heart and soul of our caucus,

00:12:17.820 and I expect he'll be re-elected as the Republican Whip.

00:12:21.460 One person I am not voting for is Liz Cheney.

00:12:24.640 No Republican in the House of Representatives did more to oppose the Trump agenda

00:12:30.660 and frustrate the Trump agenda during these last four years than Liz Cheney. 1.00

00:12:35.120 She does not deserve to be one of the leaders of our caucus. 0.79

00:12:39.140 I don't know if anyone will run against her.

00:12:40.760 Frankly, I don't know if anyone else particularly wants to be the chair of the conference,

00:12:45.100 but she is no leader of the movement that I'm a part of to put America first,

00:12:51.020 to put our people first, and to ensure that President Trump's impact on the Republican Party

00:12:57.300 is an enduring one, because he has held views that are different than Republicans past,

00:13:04.260 who I think have been too corporatist in their approach.

00:13:07.720 And so a blue-collar, worker-first, pro-America Republican Party

00:13:13.720 is not one that I believe Liz Cheney could effectively represent. 1.00

00:13:18.160 And whether she's elected to this position or not, she is no leader in our movement.

00:13:23.420 America's Newsroom is a daytime program on the Fox News Channel.

00:13:31.060 One of the hosts is Sandra Smith.

00:13:33.900 And boy, did Sandra Smith have a hot take that was leaked. 1.00

00:13:38.020 There was a Trace Gallagher interview of people regarding the election

00:13:42.600 and the activities surrounding that election.

00:13:45.060 And so you're going to hear Trace Gallagher engaged in an interview

00:13:48.940 and how folks are responding to his questions.

00:13:51.340 And then you will also hear the female voice of Sandra Smith quite frustrated and confused.

00:13:58.220 Take a listen.

00:13:59.080 Whoever has decided to be the president, remember, just because CNN says,

00:14:03.880 or even Fox News says that somebody's president doesn't make them president.

00:14:07.200 So I think everybody wants to know that this was done properly and legally.

00:14:11.520 What is happening?

00:14:12.500 Trace, we've called it.

00:14:13.800 And I think we have to look into every one of these concerns.

00:14:16.800 Here's my hot take.

00:14:18.300 This was not something that was on air.

00:14:21.540 This was not something that was leaked by some producer.

00:14:24.540 I honestly believe that this Sandra Smith hot take video was leaked by Fox News PR.

00:14:32.940 Think about it.

00:14:34.020 If a producer accesses footage, there is a very clear record in the Fox News system as to who accesses it.

00:14:43.280 You're able to track that and see that and potentially punish that person.

00:14:47.820 So I got a hard time believing that some like, you know, producer in their 20s went and harvested this off air footage of Sandra Smith and then leaked it.

00:14:58.520 I think it's far more likely that the Fox News channel and some of the executives there wanted to virtue signal to the anti-Trump audience that they're just disgusted by those who would demand a review of the legitimacy of votes.

00:15:14.800 And Fox News and all of their experts have called this election and they want a certain echelon of the people out there in the country to gravitate to this acceptance of how the election went down.

00:15:28.300 And obviously, if the legal process concludes and if Joe Biden is sworn in as president, we'll accept that.

00:15:34.300 And just like Tucker Carlson said, we'll encourage others to do the same.

00:15:37.920 But that is not where we currently stand.

00:15:40.520 There are legitimate allegations of fraud.

00:15:43.220 There are affidavits signed describing weird entry points and times for ballots being counted.

00:15:51.140 Unfair opportunity for the president's campaign to review this counting process.

00:15:58.060 And so I think there's enough smoke that there's probably some fire.

00:16:01.200 And I don't know if it's enough fire to burn down the election, but it's certainly worth an investigation.

00:16:06.560 And for Fox News to potentially have leaked this, which I bet they did, is a sign where that network is going, particularly during their daytime programming.

00:16:17.860 I think in the PM hours, you've got Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, others who have sufficient control over their theme and style and message that I think you'll hear a consistent message once the sun goes down.

00:16:31.320 But when the sun's up, it's a different kind of Fox News.

00:16:35.260 And based on this leaked video, I think they want you to know it.

00:16:39.160 Three people have been banned from Yellowstone National Park because they tried to cook chickens in the hot springs.

00:16:50.480 The New York Times' Johnny Diaz and Concepcion DeLeon have the story.

00:16:56.480 There was a scoutmaster who was used to going in Yellowstone National Park with his troops.

00:17:01.900 Every once in a while, they'd boil some hot dogs in the hot springs and have them as sort of a way to live off the land.

00:17:08.760 And this time, they upgraded from the hot dogs with a couple friends to two whole chickens in burlap sacks.

00:17:16.200 They were busted by park rangers who saw them hauling cooking equipment toward the hot springs.

00:17:22.800 And apparently, it's illegal to do that.

00:17:25.500 They've got two years probation and are facing between a $500 and $1,200 fine.

00:17:30.940 It is noteworthy that they brined the chickens beforehand.

00:17:34.480 They still ate the chickens and they said they were fantastic.

00:17:38.480 Apparently, this is something that's frowned upon.

00:17:41.400 Who knows if they're banned from all the national parks or just Yellowstone.

00:17:45.400 But if your approach is to throw some brine chicken in a hot spring and eat it, you might get a good chicken, but you might also get probation.

00:17:54.920 I guess we're glad it's probation and not, like, hard time incarceration.

00:17:59.080 Can you just imagine that?

00:18:00.260 Like, hey, what are you in for?

00:18:01.960 Murder.

00:18:02.780 Hey, what are you in for?

00:18:03.860 Robbery.

00:18:04.700 Hey, what are you in for?

00:18:05.960 Well, I tried to cook two chickens at a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.

00:18:09.860 That probably wouldn't get someone the toughest reputation on the prison yard.

00:18:15.920 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 11, 2020

Episode 128 – Happy Veterans Day! Dead Voters for Biden？ Will Nancy Pelosi Lose Her Title of Speaker of the House？ Cleaning House at the DOJ. Stand Your Ground Laws Strengthened in Florida.

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