The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 129 – Dr. Fauci Was Wrong, Rand Paul Was Right. America First Patriots Join The Pentagon. FEC Chairman Says Voter Fraud IS Taking Place. Virtual Influencers On The Rise.

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. More lockdowns.

00:00:22.360 That's what Joe Biden hopes to bring to America if he's inaugurated as president. CNBC has

00:00:29.120 the story of Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is an advisor to Joe Biden and who is calling for a

00:00:36.360 nationwide lockdown for an additional four to six weeks. He says this will bring the virus under

00:00:42.860 control and allow us to recover economically. This as the Trump administration's project Warp Speed

00:00:49.780 has provided a vaccine that will likely be effective in upwards of 90% of cases and

00:00:54.900 will start distribution in December. But shutting down businesses and paying people for lost wages

00:01:01.880 for four to six weeks would presumably be the strategy of a potential incoming Biden administration.

00:01:08.560 And it is the ultimate utilization of government power to render people's jobs illegal, to render

00:01:15.140 their businesses closed. And it's heartbreaking to see the mom and pop stores that don't have

00:01:21.280 the ability to reopen after these lockdowns. And pardon me for not fully believing some of these

00:01:26.700 folks in government when they say four to six weeks. I thought this was, you know, 14 days to slow the

00:01:32.780 spread. Now, all of a sudden, we've been in a period of some version of lockdown in some places in this

00:01:39.240 country for many months. And now they're suggesting months more. America is at her best when her people 0.96

00:01:46.340 are free to make their decisions, to use sanitation, to access the vaccine if they so choose. But this

00:01:53.960 notion of, you know, beginning a potential Biden era with an extended national lockdown would be okay

00:02:01.500 for the elites. It would be okay for members of Congress, but it would be bad for the working men

00:02:06.860 and women in this country. And that's why I'll fight against it. 1.00

00:02:11.020 The chairman of the Federal Election Commission would seemingly have an important perspective to

00:02:19.580 share on the propensity and likelihood of voter fraud. Trey Traynor is the chairman of the FEC.

00:02:26.400 He was on Newsmax's national report. Take a listen.

00:02:30.260 I do believe that there's voter fraud taking place in these places. Otherwise,

00:02:33.660 they would allow the observers to go in. When you have claims of, you know, 10,000 people who don't live

00:02:39.040 in the state of Nevada, having voted in Nevada, you have the video showing where people are, you

00:02:44.420 know, they're either, they're either duplicating a spoiled ballot right there, or they're in the

00:02:49.880 process of just marking a ballot that came in blank for a voter. That's a process that needs to be

00:02:55.740 observed by election observers. State law allows those observers to be in there. And if they're not,

00:03:00.940 then the law is not being followed, making this an illegitimate election.

00:03:04.360 And I agree that if observers are not able to do their job, fulfill their obligation,

00:03:12.280 watch as the votes are being counted, we all ought to have a lower degree of confidence in

00:03:18.100 the outcome. And we got to fix this stuff. That's why the Federal Election Commission

00:03:21.980 needs to be a lot more aggressive about investigations. And when we see dead people voting,

00:03:27.620 we have to clean the rolls out and we have to have systems that are resilient against fraud.

00:03:33.240 It's clear that fraud has taken place. Take a listen to just a few of the instances of dead

00:03:39.400 people voting highlighted by Tucker Carlson last night.

00:03:42.860 Georgia Secretary of State has now confirmed there will be a hand recount of all votes cast

00:03:47.420 in Georgia. Among those votes, auditors will find a ballot cast by a woman called Deborah Jean

00:03:52.720 Christensen. It'd be hard to find anyone who's got a bad word to say about Deborah Jean Christensen.

00:03:58.280 She was well known in her community for years as a bird watcher, an avid gardener, a committed fan

00:04:03.440 of the Georgia Bulldogs. Those who knew her were sad when she died last May. And they might be

00:04:09.080 surprised to learn that even after her death, Deborah Jean Christensen still managed to register

00:04:14.240 to vote and then cast a ballot, presumably for Joe Biden. In some ways, it's an inspiring story,

00:04:20.200 the triumph of voting over death. And no one quite embodies that story like James Blaylock of

00:04:26.720 Covington, Georgia. Mr. Blaylock was a mailman for 33 years until he passed away in 2006.

00:04:32.980 14 years later, according to state records, he was still mailing things. James Blaylock cast a ballot

00:04:38.860 in last week's election. How did he do that? It might be worth asking the New York Times. Maybe James

00:04:45.080 Blaylock was just one of those extraordinary mail carriers. Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of

00:04:50.660 night, nor even death itself could keep him from the mail. In his case, maybe voting from the grave

00:04:56.660 wasn't really fraud. It was just commitment. Okay. But what about Linda Kessler of Nicholson,

00:05:02.360 Georgia? Linda Kessler died in 2003. 17 years later, she was still voting in presidential elections.

00:05:09.460 Edward Swinod of Trenton, Georgia, spent his life working construction and teaching school.

00:05:14.920 In his spare time, he loved bluegrass music. According to those who knew him, he played multiple

00:05:19.700 instruments and enjoyed jam sessions. When he died five years ago at the age of 82, it seemed like he

00:05:25.620 was gone from this world for good. But no, last week he voted for president. And he wasn't the only one.

00:05:32.920 On your screen right now, you will see the names of other deceased voters. Every one of them played a

00:05:38.260 role in last week's presidential election. As of tonight, there aren't enough of them to alter

00:05:43.380 the outcome. That could change as we learn more. But for the moment, the point is, they exist.

00:05:49.280 They are dead, but they voted anyway. The question is, how did they do that? How exactly did they cast

00:05:55.040 their ballots? And the short answer is, by mail. Dead people tend to vote more often when you make it

00:06:02.780 easier for them to vote. They're like any other group. And this year, we made it much easier for the dead to vote. 0.94

00:06:08.140 This should not be tolerated in the United States of America. I'm glad the Federal Election Commission

00:06:14.380 chairman is acknowledging that the fraud is real and that it must be stopped.

00:06:19.120 A new study out in the New York Times shows that Rand Paul may have been correct in a dispute he had

00:06:29.500 in a recent congressional hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci over the types of immunities that could block

00:06:36.360 COVID-19 among young people. Take a listen to the September 23rd Senate hearing.

00:06:42.240 Some will argue, what about Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, each which have had extraordinarily low

00:06:48.720 death rates? Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea certainly enforced stricter quarantine and contact

00:06:54.420 tracing rules in the U.S., but Japan's rules were largely voluntary since their prime minister lacks

00:07:00.600 the legal powers to enforce a lockdown. One explanation for the low death rate in much of Asia is that the

00:07:07.140 population may have a higher degree of exposure to coronavirus colds, coronavirus colds, and therefore

00:07:13.440 have more pre-existing cross-reactive immunity. If scientists were interested, there is a fascinating

00:07:21.020 field of inquiry looking at susceptibility to COVID-19 and assessment of whether people not have

00:07:26.500 pre-existing immunity to similar coronaviruses. In fact, pre-existing cross-reactive immunity to

00:07:33.040 coronavirus may explain why we have so many people that have very little symptoms or asymptomatic.

00:07:38.340 Right now, if you look at what's going on right now, the things that are going on in New York to get

00:07:45.120 their test positivity one percent or less is because they are looking at the guidelines that we have put

00:07:52.460 together from the task force of the four or five things of masks, social distancing, outdoors more than

00:08:00.500 indoors, avoiding crowds and washing hands. Or they've developed enough community immunity that 0.99

00:08:06.900 they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity in New York City to actually

00:08:11.540 stop. I challenge that, Senator, because I want to please, sir, I would like to be able to do this

00:08:17.440 because this happens with Senator Rand all the time. You were not listening to what the director of the CDC

00:08:24.100 said, that in New York, it's about 22 percent. If you believe 22 percent is herd immunity, I believe

00:08:31.780 you're alone in that. There's also the pre-existing immunity of those who have cross-reactivity, which

00:08:38.180 is about a third of the public in many estimates from studies, which would actually get you to about

00:08:42.580 other senators. I'd like to talk to you about that also because there was a study that recently came out

00:08:48.100 that pre-existing immunity to coronaviruses that are common cold do not cross-react with the COVID-19.

00:08:55.540 Now, research released from the National Institute of Health, of which Fauci's National Institute of

00:09:00.980 Allergies and Infectious Diseases is a part in August, and that's a month prior to Fauci's statements

00:09:07.380 to Senator Paul, said that, and I'm quoting now, existing immune cells may help account for the wide

00:09:13.860 range of symptoms experienced by people with COVID-19. We have now proven that in some people,

00:09:19.940 pre-existing T-cell memory against common cold coronaviruses can cross-recognize SARS-CoV-2

00:09:28.500 down to the exact molecular structures. So that would seemingly back up the claim that Senator Paul

00:09:35.780 made and also Dr. George Kostosis wrote in the New York Times that particularly among children,

00:09:42.660 there may be a higher degree of these antibodies where they may only be effective in blocking COVID-19

00:09:49.220 in 5% of cases with adults, but that percentage could rise to as high as 43% of cases with children.

00:09:56.980 So Senator Paul, potentially getting the last laugh, will follow the evidence. It would be great to see

00:10:04.020 children, young people determined to be more resilient, found out to be more capable of living regular

00:10:11.380 lives because certainly the lockdowns have just a catastrophic effect on the development of young

00:10:17.300 people. And if they are at a lower risk to COVID as a result of these cross immunities where, you know,

00:10:23.700 the common cold immunities help young people fend off COVID more, that would certainly be exceptional news.

00:10:30.740 We picked up the story from the Washington Examiner. They said that, gosh,

00:10:34.820 they did not get comment back from Dr. Fauci. Go figure.

00:10:42.580 A privilege tax for those working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

00:10:47.940 That's what a report from one of the world's leading financial institutions, Deutsche Bank, has recommended.

00:10:54.420 We get the story from businessinsider.com. Deutsche Bank researchers call for a 5% privilege tax,

00:11:02.660 a privilege tax on people choosing to work from home with the money given to low income staff. Deutsche

00:11:08.980 Bank said Tuesday that people choosing to work from home rather than in an office should be taxed 5%

00:11:14.740 of their salary with the money used to support people on low incomes who cannot do their jobs remotely.

00:11:21.140 The German bank said that the average person would be no worse off if they paid the tax

00:11:25.780 because by working remotely, they save money on travel, food, and clothes. I don't know about

00:11:31.140 that Deutsche Bank. A lot of folks that I know who work from home find it quite taxing already.

00:11:37.780 They're incurring additional costs for childcare, for tutoring. If they're unable to send their children

00:11:43.780 back to school as a result of some liberal local mandate or some fear not backed by evidence,

00:11:52.100 then that's creating additional cost structures as well. So I don't think that we need to be pitting

00:11:57.300 one group of Americans against another group of Americans based on their ability to work from home.

00:12:03.380 What I think we ought to do is ensure that America get back to work one and all.

00:12:08.340 All Americans should have the opportunity to work because every job is an essential job for that

00:12:16.100 family. It's why I've opposed these lockdowns. It's why I trust the American people. And it's why

00:12:22.100 I would oppose the Deutsche Bank privilege tax. But you know what? Don't tell my Democrat colleagues

00:12:28.340 in Congress. They'll be introducing a bill to do it next week. There seemingly is no effort to

00:12:33.940 redistribute wealth to tax the productive sector of the economy that the radical left is not going

00:12:40.660 to sign up to do if they have the opportunity to consolidate power in this government. And that's

00:12:46.100 why we've got to fight for productivity and against the detriment that would be caused by additional

00:12:52.500 taxes on those already dealing with a challenging work from home environment.

00:12:57.220 Jonathan Swan for Axios has a great piece detailing how changes in personnel could be impacting major

00:13:08.340 foreign policy in the Trump administration at the Pentagon. It's titled, Divisive Pentagon Hire

00:13:14.820 May Rush Troop Withdrawals Before Trump's Exit. And I certainly hope it's true that we have troop 0.97

00:13:20.660 withdrawals from the Middle East on the horizon. President Trump has appointed Christopher C.

00:13:25.620 Miller as the acting Secretary of Defense, but there are two other hires that are making a lot of news.

00:13:33.540 Douglas McGregor will be brought on as a senior advisor. He's a retired Army colonel,

00:13:39.540 frequently a guest on the Tucker Carlson show, and a strong advocate for a realistic foreign policy,

00:13:46.420 not one that tries to maintain these low levels of conflict in wherever a stand and all over the world.

00:13:53.940 The other major hire is the chief of staff position at the Pentagon, where Kash Patel will fill that role.

00:14:00.820 I know Kash well. He was a staff member on the House Intelligence Committee when we were

00:14:06.100 debunking the Russia hoax. Frankly, the Russia hoax doesn't get debunked without Kash Patel. He was

00:14:13.620 Devin Nunes' right-hand man. And it's great to see him in another position where he can continue to help

00:14:19.940 the country. He's also spent time as a front-line prosecutor in terrorism cases. He's been a criminal

00:14:27.860 defense attorney as a public defender. He's also been an official at the National Security Council.

00:14:34.340 So Kash Patel going to the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor going there as an advisor, a new acting Secretary of

00:14:42.340 Defense. And if Jonathan Swan is right, and this marks a move on the part of the Trump administration

00:14:49.860 to withdraw our troops from the Middle East, I am here for it. 1.00

00:14:57.460 Joe Biden has announced that Ron Klain would be his potential chief of staff and his potential

00:15:03.780 government. Ron Klain served in the Clinton-Gore administration, in the Obama-Biden administration.

00:15:10.020 And Kurt Mills has got an interesting piece out in The American Conservative where he calls Ron Klain

00:15:16.340 a backstabber, a double-crosser. And it turns out in some of the WikiLeaks revelations from the Clinton

00:15:23.060 campaign emails that Ron Klain actually wrote that he lamented the role that he played in Biden's demise

00:15:30.260 in 2015, doing all he could to help Hillary Clinton ultimately secure the Democratic nomination.

00:15:36.580 And it goes to show that there really was a divide in the Democrat establishment back in 2015,

00:15:43.060 with a number of them trying to get Joe Biden into the race. He declined at that time. A lot of them

00:15:49.700 jumping to Hillary, wanting to make sure that she had a clear path because she was a very vulnerable 0.96

00:15:55.300 candidate, as we all saw. Ron Klain should give Joe Biden a little bit of pause, a little bit of concern,

00:16:02.020 because gosh, if he was willing to jump to whatever he thought was the political rising star of the

00:16:06.980 moment, he may be willing to do that again. It'll be interesting. We'll keep an eye on it. Check out

00:16:13.220 the piece by Kurt Mills in The American Conservative.

00:16:16.500 Could America's great ally, India, be the next country to purchase the Boeing F-18? We pick up the

00:16:26.980 story from nationalinterest.org. And it does appear that there are very productive negotiations going

00:16:33.940 on right now to authorize this sale. Previously, India's Navy actually opposed the idea. They thought

00:16:41.060 that any chilled relationship with the U.S. in the future could result in sanctions and could

00:16:46.740 negatively impact life cycle management, maintenance, and the like. But now, India and 0.93

00:16:52.500 the United States are seeing a relationship truly at its zenith because both countries view China as a

00:16:59.700 common threat and the real threat. So the reason this matters, if you recall the story from just a few

00:17:05.780 days ago, when I talked about China's development of aircraft carriers, their aggressive posture in

00:17:11.860 the South China Sea, well, if India is able to acquire the F-18, then they would be able to land

00:17:18.180 those aircraft on aircraft carriers. They have one such carrier now, but that is a total game changer

00:17:24.900 in the ability for India to be a regional check on China from a naval standpoint, from a power

00:17:32.420 projection standpoint. And I think it will bring some of the South Asian community into greater orbit, 1.00

00:17:41.300 into greater concert with India, which is the world's largest democracy. So that would be very

00:17:47.780 beneficial to the United States. I totally support this decision to make the F-18 available to India.

00:17:54.580 And it is my sincere hope that this military sale, this transfer, this cooperation could do even more

00:18:01.860 to advance a great relationship between the United States and India, and it helps us push back and

00:18:07.940 check China. Jamal Bowman is an incoming member of the 117th Congress. He beat the powerful chairman of

00:18:18.580 the Foreign Affairs Committee, Elliot Engel, with the backing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and members of the

00:18:25.860 the squad. And he's wasting no time telling the American people what the agenda is for the socialist

00:18:32.900 left, tweeting out all this backlash to defund the police. How fast are people going to fold when we get

00:18:40.660 serious about reparations? You have to give the progressive left this. They're honest about their

00:18:47.860 intentions. They intend to utilize power to execute on a reparation strategy. Now that can take several

00:18:55.540 forms. There's a reparations bill sponsored by Sheila Jackson Lee to set up a commission to devise the

00:19:02.580 feasibility of reparations to African-American people. But there's also a reparations element

00:19:10.660 to a lot of legislation that you could see. I think in any major bills that are moving through the House

00:19:16.740 of Representatives now, there's going to be a demand from the squad and their newfound constituency in the

00:19:24.580 Congress that they've gone out and helped elect to ensure that there is a reparations element,

00:19:30.820 a reparations feature. In a transportation bill, you could do a reparation strategy. In a community

00:19:37.540 development bill, you could have a reparation strategy. In the farm bill, you could have a

00:19:41.620 reparation strategy. One might even try to utilize the National Defense Authorization Act to execute on

00:19:49.140 reparations. I stand against reparations because everyone in America needs to be treated equally. We don't

00:19:56.980 need to treat people differently as a consequence of circumstances that happened quite some time ago before

00:20:04.820 any of us were around to engage in the crimes against humanity that absolutely impacted people of color in our 0.99

00:20:12.420 country. But reparations aren't the way to get right now. But they're certainly the strategy of the radical left.

00:20:19.220 And you know why? Because they're telling us.

00:20:25.380 There is an active, organized effort underway led by Democrat operatives to find the people who have

00:20:33.780 supported President Trump during his administration, who've supported him politically or financially,

00:20:40.900 and to hurt them. It's called trumpaccountability.net, the Trump Accountability Project. And it

00:20:48.340 starts with a very ominous message. Remember what they did. I'm reading now from this website,

00:20:55.220 those who took a paycheck from the Trump administration should not profit from their

00:20:59.940 efforts to tear our democracy apart. The world should never forget those who, when faced with a decision,

00:21:06.740 chose to put their money, their time, and their reputations behind separating children from

00:21:11.300 their families, encouraging racism and anti-Semitism, and negligently causing the unnecessary loss of life

00:21:18.660 and economic devastation from our country's failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:21:23.540 So for just a moment, put aside how hideous it is to have this approach to your political enemies and

00:21:31.540 to try to wield the power of government to hurt them. Let's just fact check this. The COVID-19 pandemic,

00:21:38.420 we learned six days after the election that as a consequence of collaboration with Project Warp Speed,

00:21:45.140 an initiative of the Trump administration,

00:21:47.460 Pfizer now has the vaccine that is going to be effective in upwards of 90% of cases. So that's a

00:21:54.260 pretty darn effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And when you talk about racism,

00:22:00.500 it's hard to believe that Donald Trump is a racist when the greatest gains he made in the election

00:22:06.340 were among African Americans and Hispanics. As a result of Donald Trump's policies, Hispanics were

00:22:14.500 flipping congressional districts in Florida and in Texas with Hispanic voters driving Republican gains. 0.98

00:22:22.340 So if Donald Trump is a racist, he's terrible at it. And I would say the same for anti-Semitism. You

00:22:28.180 look at all President Trump has done for the U.S.-Israel relationship, recognizing the Golan Heights,

00:22:35.220 moving our capital to Jerusalem, securing the funding for the memorandum of understanding so that

00:22:41.220 Israel can have a qualitative military edge and then building the type of lasting peace with Bahrain, 0.54

00:22:48.660 the United Arab Emirates, the Sudan, countries that wouldn't even recognize Israel before and are now

00:22:55.380 part of this total realignment in the Middle East for Israel to have peace and stability and prosperity,

00:23:03.700 hopefully for generations to come. So he's one heck of an anti-Semite for doing all of this for 0.95

00:23:09.140 Israel and for the Jewish state. But I guess the whole concept of wielding the power of government

00:23:17.220 to try to dox, shame, persecute, render unemployable, maybe even worse, people who supported this

00:23:23.860 president is unprecedented in our politics. And frankly, I think that it says a lot more about the

00:23:30.100 people who seek to come into power than about those who were working with Donald Trump for the Jewish

00:23:36.980 state for expansion of opportunities for African Americans and Hispanic Americans who supported

00:23:43.220 President Trump in historic numbers. I mean, it's like the best a Republican has done since Richard

00:23:49.300 Nixon among African Americans and very, very strong numbers among Hispanics as well. So I'm proud of the 0.98

00:23:56.740 work I've done with President Trump. I hope to do a great deal with him in the future to ensure that

00:24:02.900 America remains the greatest, strongest country in the world.

00:24:10.820 Corporate America is expected to spend $15 billion on influencers in 2022. That's up from about $8 billion

00:24:21.780 on influencers last year. And some of the influencers might not even be real. We pick up this story from

00:24:29.460 Bloomberg about Ima. I-M-M-A is her name. She has nearly 300,000 Instagram followers. She doesn't

00:24:38.420 age. She doesn't get involved in any human scandals because she isn't real. She's superimposed to doing 1.00

00:24:45.860 various fun things with different types of products and actually generates revenue. So this is crazy. We

00:24:52.500 actually found yet another job that robots can do. And that would be the influencer job. It'll be

00:24:59.460 interesting to see whether or not these like fake digital influencers are able to maintain the type

00:25:06.740 of connection with an audience. And how sad would that be if they do? I mean, I think the whole point

00:25:12.420 of like the influencer game is that you see someone online engaged in various activities that you admire,

00:25:19.700 or maybe they're wearing something or eating something that looks interesting or appealing

00:25:24.340 to you. But now, if it's just a hologram, if it's just an image, if it's just a computer generated

00:25:30.660 persona, will people still feel that same connection? I guess with Ima, there are about 300,000 of them

00:25:37.780 that do. Gosh, it is quite something that in the digital world, we can literally create value and revenue

00:25:46.260 around that which is totally fictitious and not real. And we use that to try to justify the decisions

00:25:53.540 we make on what we buy or what we click. If I've been influenced by a virtual influencer,

00:26:00.580 I haven't known it yet. And I frankly prefer the real life human beings.

00:26:07.940 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. And there are a lot more of you who are

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 12, 2020

Episode 129 – Dr. Fauci Was Wrong, Rand Paul Was Right. America First Patriots Join The Pentagon. FEC Chairman Says Voter Fraud IS Taking Place. Virtual Influencers On The Rise.

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