The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 129 LIVE： Gaza Disrupts Congress – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:08.400 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.720 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

00:00:28.300 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.060 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:42.860 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:48.780 welcome back to firebrand we are broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office

00:00:59.460 building here at the capitol complex in washington dc and votes are in just a few moments on yet

00:01:05.020 another of our single subject appropriations bills and the amendments there too i'll be introducing

00:01:09.540 an amendment to defund the 300 plus million dollar brand new fbi headquarters here in washington dc larger

00:01:17.220 than the pentagon we'll have more on that in a little bit but today in the house judiciary committee

00:01:21.760 we had a key hearing on free speech college campuses it erupted it was explosive some of the best

00:01:30.320 testimony we got was from jasmine jordan she is a third year student at the university of iowa

00:01:35.920 where she serves as chairwoman of the college's young americas for freedom chapter the group's

00:01:41.240 events have been protested repeatedly by antifa miss jordan has really been ostracized and threatened

00:01:47.580 as a consequence of her conservative views she was also really harassed by some of the

00:01:54.040 black student union associations she was even called a white supremacist powerful testimony in the

00:02:00.360 house judiciary committee we take you there now in spring 2022 i joined iowa young americans for

00:02:07.100 freedom when i discovered that this organization aligned with the christian conservative values

00:02:11.080 instilled in me by my church and family the more involved i became in the club the more i discovered

00:02:16.640 that the playing field for freedom of speech on college campuses was not equalized the first time i

00:02:22.420 noticed this was when iowa yaf hosted kellyanne conway as a speaker in response i was doxed in a group

00:02:28.460 chat of over 800 students and was falsely labeled as a nazi a token a white supremacist and a bigot

00:02:36.040 some individuals even expressed that i made them uncomfortable and feared that i might commit a

00:02:42.100 hate crime against them simply because i am black and hold conservative principles these students believe

00:02:48.280 that if you are conservative you are hateful support oppression and only want to benefit straight white 0.71

00:02:53.860 men even though such beliefs are untrue when we hosted lieutenant colonel alan west speak on campus

00:02:59.940 last year he spoke on the topic of debunking diversity equity inclusion and proved that america

00:03:05.580 is not racist we use chalk advertisements to promote the lecture which is something many colleges do

00:03:11.540 to effectively let students know about upcoming events immediately our chalk was altered which is a

00:03:16.880 violation of school policy new messages were put in place saying that alan west is racist and that racism is

00:03:22.880 prevalent in schools thus critical race theory should be supported at alan west's lecture a protester

00:03:28.740 stood in the back holding a sign that read stop the alt-right punch your local nazi today this is blatant

00:03:34.900 irony conservatives are slandered by students and faculty as harmful yet here's an obvious example of

00:03:40.440 someone openly delivering a violent threat and facing no repercussions the entitlement continues i find that

00:03:47.520 when a conservative doesn't want to hear a speaker they just don't attend the event but when a leftist doesn't

00:03:51.840 want to hear a speaker they do everything they can to shut the lecture down our club recently hosted

00:03:56.660 matt walsh students and faculty were willing to do anything to cancel the event just because they

00:04:02.020 found walsh's speech to be offensive some people were so dedicated to silencing our voices that literally as

00:04:08.200 one of us was advertising with chalk a leftist student was erasing each of those letters with a wipe

00:04:13.140 we received death threats along with plenty of verbal harassment that night before the speaking event my

00:04:18.980 hallmate who happened to be the one erasing the chalk stalked outside of my bedroom door by putting his

00:04:24.280 ear on it to see if i was in my room because he was just so outraged by my involvement that was a terrifying

00:04:30.480 experience but what i find to be more appalling is when i talked to our hall coordinator about this and she

00:04:37.180 replied people are allowed to think feel and react however they want to about this upcoming event at the event

00:04:44.380 someone threw 20 000 marbles on the floor to prevent people from entering the venue attendees were spat

00:04:50.900 on outside a popular pep band well known to our school played loud music to try and drown out the

00:04:56.000 speaker's message i share these occurrences with you all to show that despite repeatedly meeting with the

00:05:02.120 university administration the rules are continually permitted to be broken by left-leaning students

00:05:07.520 they are in fact coddled by our school

00:05:10.320 we are back live that's jasmine jordan third-year student at the university of iowa and strong reactions on the live stream

00:05:19.820 rob on facebook saying we need more mac gates's and mtgs in washington i appreciate that i would certainly agree as it

00:05:26.640 relates to mtg and bill says is matt for or against free speech since he became a democrat it's hard to know

00:05:34.540 well bill let me know how you think i've become a democrat i think actually the democrats here in

00:05:39.160 washington would have a very different perspective but there was a perspective that was shared in a

00:05:44.580 pretty disruptive way at this hearing on free speech and you've got to appreciate the irony when you're

00:05:50.220 having a free speech hearing and folks are not allowing the witnesses to give testimony hear a great

00:05:57.620 deal of angst over what's going on in gaza and we actually got a little taste of maybe what some of

00:06:02.920 these students who are getting harassed feel on college campuses here is the raw footage from the

00:06:08.840 house judiciary committee today

00:06:10.180 we will not be silenced

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00:06:37.940 4,000 children and students are dead

00:06:39.940 what is your right to impeach if all of us are not free what does it mean if they can die until you can

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00:07:09.200 Palestinian students deserve to speak all about the genocide of their families. 1.00

00:07:15.200 Stop silencing Palestinian students! 0.71

00:07:18.200 They're speaking of the genocide of their families!

00:07:22.200 Stop silencing Palestinian students! 0.71

00:07:25.200 It is an honor to bring my experience.

00:07:27.200 Palestinian students should not be censored.

00:07:30.200 You want to talk about paying money the way your mouth is, there are 10,000, over 10,000,

00:07:36.200 dead, and more married, half of whom are under the age of 18.

00:07:41.200 And you're going to spend money and talk about this?

00:07:44.200 Where are they even denying these Jews in this room?

00:07:47.200 Nowhere.

00:07:48.200 So you are not offering plurality of opinion.

00:07:51.200 You are offering partisanship. 0.94

00:07:53.200 And you are offering murder to more goblins. 0.85

00:07:57.200 Free power stuff!

00:08:01.200 We are back live. 1.00

00:08:03.200 Lynn on Rumble says these morons need to be arrested. 1.00

00:08:06.200 Joe on Facebook wonders whether or not it's an insurrection. 1.00

00:08:10.200 And Ms. Soto saying they are liberal rich kids with no clue.

00:08:15.200 It's quite something that we no longer embrace this notion that we can present our ideas to one another

00:08:20.200 and have those criticized and reflected upon and subject to public debate.

00:08:26.200 Now, increasingly, you have a dynamic where if people don't like the speech of another entity,

00:08:32.200 they just want to shut down that speech and limit it and not engage with it.

00:08:35.200 And clearly what you saw here were these students speaking out not in order to have a discussion,

00:08:42.200 but to try to have a heckler's veto over the witnesses that we had brought forward.

00:08:48.200 They didn't want those witnesses like Jasmine Jordan to be able to share their story.

00:08:52.200 And so they just heckle over them.

00:08:54.200 We've got to get past that.

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00:09:01.200 deserve to be able to present an argument in the halls of Congress.

00:09:04.200 Now, that argument ought to be subject to rebuke and the best in rhetorical opposition that we can bring to bear

00:09:14.200 when it's not the right thing for our fellow countrymen.

00:09:17.200 But I do not like de-platforming as a strategy to win an argument.

00:09:24.200 I'd rather confront that argument dead on and have it and not just say there's these verboten areas of speech.

00:09:31.200 And so there were witnesses today, like the next clip I'm going to show you, this woman, Dr. Nadal,

00:09:37.200 she's there to really reflect on anti-Semitism as a concept.

00:09:43.200 And the inherent tension in this hearing is you've got these students like Jasmine Jordan saying,

00:09:48.200 look, we want to speak, we want to be heard, we want to have our First Amendment rights vindicated,

00:09:53.200 not subject to this heckler's veto, while at the same time you have some of these anti-Semitism experts saying,

00:09:59.200 well, we're here to tell you all the things that shouldn't be allowed to be talked about.

00:10:02.200 And one of those things, she said, is George Soros.

00:10:06.200 Anything that's a criticism of George Soros is inherently anti-Semitic.

00:10:10.200 And I pushed back on that.

00:10:13.200 Because whether it's pro-Israel, anti-Israel, pro-Gaza, anti-Gaza, pro-America, anti-America.

00:10:21.200 Let's have the debate.

00:10:23.200 Here's the discussion from House Judiciary. Take a listen.

00:10:27.200 Is it possible to criticize George Soros without being anti-Semitic?

00:10:35.200 I don't know all the tropes that people use to associate with George Soros, but when they talk about...

00:10:42.200 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not when they talk about something else.

00:10:45.200 Is criticism against George Soros ever not anti-Semitic? That's the question.

00:10:52.200 Ms. Burdette has offered to answer that.

00:10:56.200 No, no, no, no, no. But you mentioned Mr. Soros. I want you to answer that.

00:10:59.200 There's no phone a friend here in the Judiciary Committee.

00:11:02.200 What has happened in the United States is that we use different code words...

00:11:09.200 Right, no, I'm not... That's not the question.

00:11:11.200 No, wait. I'm answering your question.

00:11:13.200 Okay.

00:11:14.200 We use different code words to disguise anti-Semitism.

00:11:17.200 And so Soros has become the code word that replaced Rothschild that replaced Shiloh.

00:11:23.200 But is it possible to criticize him without being anti-Semitic? Yes or no?

00:11:26.200 I don't know the context. I'm not going to talk without knowing context.

00:11:29.200 So there's no context. That is just an astonishing thing.

00:11:31.200 And similarly, you said any critique of globalism is anti-Semitic.

00:11:36.200 Now that really is an Austin Powers...

00:11:38.200 No, what I said was that the word globalist...

00:11:41.200 I didn't say any critique of globalism.

00:11:43.200 What I said was the word globalist had become the new code word...

00:11:47.200 Or the internationalist code word from the previous period.

00:11:50.200 But you ascribe that motive.

00:11:52.200 See, when I criticize globalism, I'm often criticizing the UN,

00:11:57.200 which then in turn goes around and criticizes Israel.

00:12:01.200 So if critiquing a globalist entity that criticizes Israel is anti-Semitic...

00:12:08.200 So why use the word globalist instead of the UN?

00:12:11.200 Well, because the UN's goals are to have a global order over things that deprive countries of their sovereignty.

00:12:16.200 One of those countries is Israel!

00:12:18.200 That is the great hypocrisy of what I think is frankly a reverse trope,

00:12:23.200 that any criticism of Soros or any criticism of globalism is somehow anti-Semitic.

00:12:28.200 Sometimes they're just criticisms of Soros and of globalism.

00:12:32.200 But I see my time's expired and I yield back.

00:12:35.200 We're back live.

00:12:37.200 And yeah, doesn't that make obvious sense?

00:12:40.200 That we're able to separate the person or their identity from the goals of a political movement?

00:12:46.200 That's what is acceptable about criticizing globalists or globalism.

00:12:52.200 There are a lot of globalists who I have no idea what their faith or background or ethnicity is.

00:12:58.200 I see that what they're trying to do is deprive the American people and frankly other countries from their own sovereignty.

00:13:04.200 And I believe that sovereignty is one of the greatest drivers of self-determination ever created on planet Earth.

00:13:10.200 In the absence of it, we all just become cogs in a system, producers and consumers.

00:13:16.200 Not identified with a common sense of pride.

00:13:20.200 Something that allows us to break through some of these disagreements and concerns.

00:13:25.200 So, I think that going forward, we have to understand that milquetoast speech and broadly accepted speech

00:13:34.200 doesn't need the protection of the First Amendment.

00:13:37.200 It is horrid speech, offensive speech, speech that we don't like, that we have to acknowledge has a right to permeate the marketplace of ideas.

00:13:46.200 And the best way to confront that and defeat that is with more speech, better speech, and more thorough argument.

00:13:52.200 And that is what I try to bring to the House of Representatives.

00:13:55.200 Another person who brings that terrific argument is our good friend, Senator J.D. Vance.

00:14:00.200 So, let me break down what's going on right now.

00:14:03.200 You've got Mitch McConnell in the Uniparty and Joe Biden and Hakeem Jeffries all trying to lash Israel aid to Ukraine.

00:14:14.200 And in the House, we passed an Israel aid bill that hollowed the money out of the IRS so that we weren't deficit spending.

00:14:22.200 We weren't borrowing money from China so that we could provide aid to Israel.

00:14:26.200 We would actually prioritize what we were doing in a fiscally responsible way.

00:14:30.200 Well, in the Senate, they are doing everything they can to kill the House bill.

00:14:35.200 And one man doing work, leaning in, representing the America First perspective and putting a fly in the ointment for Mitch McConnell just like I knew he would.

00:14:46.200 Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, we bring you now to the Senate floor.

00:14:50.200 Many of my colleagues may forget that a matter of weeks ago, a matter of months ago, there were people in this chamber,

00:14:59.200 there were people in the United States of America demanding that the State of Israel give money and weapons to the Ukrainians.

00:15:06.200 Money and weapons that the Israelis are now using this very moment to defend themselves. 0.92

00:15:11.200 The idea that these policies are not in tension with one another, the idea that what happens in Russia and Ukraine is separate from what happens in Israel is not just obvious,

00:15:23.200 it is common sense and it has been borne out by the reality of the last couple of weeks.

00:15:27.200 Now, my colleagues would like to collapse these packages.

00:15:30.200 Too many of my colleagues would like to collapse these packages because they would like to use Israel as a political fig leaf for the President's Ukraine policy.

00:15:39.200 But the President's Ukraine policy, just like the Israeli policy, should be debated.

00:15:44.200 We should talk about it. We should discuss it. We should separate the costs and benefits and analyze them as distinct policies

00:15:51.200 because that is what the American people deserve of their legislature.

00:15:55.200 Now, there are many questions we could ask about the Ukraine policy, many issues that have gone completely unanswered.

00:16:01.200 Number one, what is our end goal in Ukraine?

00:16:05.200 You hear commonly that the goal is to throw the Russians out of every ounce of Ukrainian territory.

00:16:11.200 And yet, when you talk to the President's own administration in private, they admit that that is a strategic impossibility.

00:16:18.200 Let me repeat that. No rational human being in the President's administration believes that it is possible to throw the Russians out of every inch of Ukrainian territory.

00:16:30.200 So why is that the public justification offered by many advocates of indefinite, unlimited Ukrainian aid?

00:16:37.200 Because this debate is fundamentally dishonest.

00:16:40.200 We are not telling the American people the truth because we know that if we did tell them the truth, they would not support an indefinite flow of money to Ukraine.

00:16:48.200 What are we doing, ladies and gentlemen?

00:16:51.200 How long is this supposed to go on?

00:16:53.200 How much money are we expected to spend?

00:16:56.200 What is the strategic objective?

00:16:58.200 What are we trying to do?

00:17:00.200 Are we monitoring the fact that we have spent nearly $200 billion, if the supplemental passage passes, $200 billion to one of the most corrupt countries in the world?

00:17:12.200 Do we have proper assurances that all that money is being spent on the things that we tell ourselves that it's being spent on?

00:17:20.200 The answer, of course, is no.

00:17:22.200 Because we have not had a real debate in this chamber.

00:17:24.200 The American people, I think, should be ashamed of us for that fact.

00:17:28.200 Let me offer just one final observation here.

00:17:33.200 You have heard in this chamber, you have heard even today, that the Ukraine policy was born of a spirit of bipartisan agreement.

00:17:43.200 That we had this moment where Democrats and Republicans recognized that it was very, very important to help the Ukrainians push back against the Russian attack.

00:17:53.200 And, of course, we support and praise our Ukrainian friends.

00:17:56.200 They've done a lot more than many people gave them credit for.

00:18:00.200 But let's also be honest that for 30 years, Washington, D.C. has run on bipartisan foreign policy wisdom.

00:18:08.200 And it has run this country to the ground with $1.7 trillion deficits, war after war after war,

00:18:15.200 that has killed thousands of Americans, millions of other people, and has not led to the strategic strength of this country.

00:18:22.200 It was great bipartisan agreement after September the 11th that threw Saddam out of Iraq.

00:18:28.200 And, of course, a lot of people celebrated it until we now realize that Iraq is a client state of Iran.

00:18:34.200 We empowered one of the worst regimes in the world with our bipartisan wisdom.

00:18:39.200 Maybe what we should have is some bipartisan wisdom that the foreign policy consensus of this country for the last three decades has been a disaster.

00:18:48.200 It's been a disaster for this country.

00:18:50.200 It's been a disaster for our dead Marines, Army soldiers, Navy sailors, and Air Force airmen.

00:18:57.200 It has been a disaster for this country's finances, and it has been a disaster for the entire world.

00:19:04.200 Let's have a real debate. We haven't had one in 30 years.

00:19:08.200 We are back live.

00:19:12.200 RebelNurse97 on Rumble says,

00:19:15.200 I did reckless spending once. Took me nearly a decade to recover.

00:19:19.200 And another comment, I love that J.D. Vance was elected.

00:19:23.200 He and Congressman Gates, modern-day statesman.

00:19:25.200 It's a great thing to see.

00:19:26.200 We agree entirely with what J.D. Vance just said.

00:19:29.200 Make sure to share it far and wide.

00:19:32.200 But as he was speaking, we got breaking news out of NBC.

00:19:38.200 House subpoenas James and Hunter Biden in GOP-led probe of the president's family. 0.99

00:19:44.200 Finally, Hunter Biden got a damn subpoena. 0.63

00:19:47.200 When we had the California lottery winner instead of a constitutional lawyer in the Speaker's office, we weren't exactly seeing the subpoenas fly in a way that demonstrated sincerity and rigor to a real investigation. 0.98

00:20:01.200 But now with Mike Johnson in the Speaker's office, we get the news.

00:20:05.200 Republicans on Wednesday issued subpoenas to Hunter and James Biden, as well as Biden family associate Rob Walker, marking an escalation of the Republicans' impeachment inquiry into the president.

00:20:16.200 The piece continues Comer's office that he plans to send additional subpoenas and transcribed interview requests later this week.

00:20:22.200 The subpoenas and interview requests come after the special counsel overseeing the probe into Hunter Biden testified before the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors earlier this week.

00:20:32.200 That was an interview that I was a part of.

00:20:35.200 And I can tell you this right now, David Weiss was not entirely forthcoming when it came to his communications with the Department of Justice, with other people who had jurisdictional claims to Hunter Biden matters scattered about the American Northeast and even on the West Coast.

00:20:53.700 It is about time.

00:20:55.520 We fully applaud this decision to send the subpoena to Hunter and James Biden.

00:21:00.160 I have been speaking with House Speaker Mike Johnson about the process and flow of subpoenas as recently as this week.

00:21:09.560 And so we're glad to see it.

00:21:11.560 And know this about litigation.

00:21:14.200 There are times when subpoenas are altered in scope, where they are negotiated, where they are redrafted.

00:21:23.100 So this is a process that, frankly, Kevin McCarthy had blocked for quite some time and were behind as a consequence of Kevin McCarthy's poor leadership.

00:21:34.640 But now we are doing what we need to do to get on track.

00:21:37.400 Breaking news.

00:21:38.740 James Biden and Hunter Biden getting subpoenas to testify.

00:21:42.840 We will be all over that to ensure that we get accountability over the Biden crime family.

00:21:48.240 But it wasn't just a subpoena to Hunter Biden that I have really been pressing to advance.

00:21:56.500 It's also been the release of the January 6th tapes and better oversight over the treatment of January 6th prisoners.

00:22:02.760 At this stage of the game, releasing the tapes alone is not going to get the job done.

00:22:06.520 We actually have to get answers regarding how people's civil rights are being abused,

00:22:11.260 or we cannot keep sending money to a government that is making us look terrible on the world stage by using people as political pawns.

00:22:19.740 I have been so frustrated about the inability at times to meet with some of the January 6th prisoners

00:22:25.540 and get evidence directly from them to bring into our congressional work.

00:22:30.880 The Bureau of Prisons has frustrated that effort.

00:22:33.980 And so we had the head of that bureau before the House Judiciary Committee.

00:22:37.360 She gave me a commitment that I will get to go and meet with these folks.

00:22:41.880 And it is something I look forward to doing very, very soon.

00:22:45.220 There are specific people who I think have been really, really subject to some of the worst retaliation.

00:22:51.680 John Strand, who you know from the field hearing that we had on January 6th, and also Owen Schrayer.

00:22:58.140 So take a listen to that exchange.

00:23:00.060 Does the Bureau of Prisons retaliate against people based on constitutionally protected speech?

00:23:08.920 I have been very clear that retaliation will not be stood for on my watch.

00:23:13.540 And you're confident that that's being observed throughout the Bureau?

00:23:18.280 I'm confident that message has been delivered, and if anyone engages in retaliation, we will hold them accountable.

00:23:23.840 Are you familiar with the matter of John Strand?

00:23:26.020 And people were posting on some of his social media platforms as concerns about the treatment he'd received at the Bureau.

00:23:32.340 And then I sent a letter to you concerned about that because, like you, I don't want anyone to retaliate it against for constitutionally protected speech.

00:23:39.740 And thereafter, I got a letter back from the aforementioned Office of Legislative Affairs in your office.

00:23:45.060 And they say, in part, Mr. Strand was moved to a secure housing unit with increased supervision and frequent employee contact on September 26, 2023, pending completion of an investigation.

00:23:56.600 So I guess my question is, when someone, is that like akin to what we would normally think about as solitary confinement, those words?

00:24:06.040 Secure housing unit with increased supervision and frequent employee contact?

00:24:09.120 We would use the word restrictive housing.

00:24:10.560 Okay, so what's this then?

00:24:13.340 Because this guy's a non-violent, he was never violent toward anyone, so I'm just wondering why the assets that we fund for the highest acuity violent people would be used for this purpose.

00:24:25.020 Congressman, we use that special housing unit for individuals that engage in any sort of misconduct inside our institutions.

00:24:33.320 I don't know what he was found to be guilty of by our hearings administrative process that would warrant his need to go into restrictive housing.

00:24:45.520 But I assure you we have administrative processes that people have to go through before those placements actually occur.

00:24:52.200 Yeah, I get that you can't know the conditions of every single prisoner throughout the Bureau.

00:24:56.640 This is one I've ripened and sent to you because I am worried that throughout our Department of Justice and what we've endured, that there are some people who are sort of being used as pawns, and they're being mistreated in order to send a message to other people.

00:25:12.860 And I'm grateful that you've said here that is not your doctrine, you don't want to see that happen, but you also haven't been able to share with us an entire confidence that that isn't happening in some cases.

00:25:21.940 And I'm worried that it's happening here. Have you heard of the matter of Owen Schrayer?

00:25:26.360 No, that name is not familiar to me.

00:25:27.880 Very similar fact pattern. You know, somebody who'd sort of spoken out, was prominent in the public, was convicted as a consequence of activities on January 6th, and now feels as though there's specific Bureau of Prison retaliation.

00:25:41.760 I don't think any group of people should be retaliated against, so I look forward to taking you up on the offer to perhaps go in and do some site visits and see how people are being treated and get that information directly.

00:25:51.580 So I hope I get prompt cooperation from OLA.

00:25:57.460 We will seek that cooperation. We will do those site visits, and we will share with you directly what is going on behind bars if there are our fellow patriots, our fellow Americans being mistreated as a consequence of politics,

00:26:09.600 and what the Department of Justice is trying to scare everyone into believing that if someone is MAGA or America First or supports gun rights or supports a strong border, that they are somehow dangerous.

00:26:21.640 That is what overlays these individual actions against individual people.

00:26:26.840 And Owen and John and the many others, many names I'm seeing on the live stream, they should not have to bear a disproportionate brunt for a weaponized government.

00:26:37.780 We should stand with them, and we should do more, and Congress should do more, and I should do more.

00:26:41.440 That's why, frankly, we told McCarthy if he didn't get with the program on the January 6th tapes that his speakership would face a motion to vacate that ultimately turned out being successful,

00:26:52.680 and there will be these tapes on the way.

00:26:54.860 I expect them in tranches, and I expect Mike Johnson to get right on it.

00:27:00.700 There's other breaking news on something we've talked about a great deal on Firebrand, and that is Senator Tuberville's holds on military promotions as a consequence of the DOD unilaterally without a change in the law,

00:27:13.380 deciding that they're going to pay for travel and time off so that service members can have abortions.

00:27:18.460 This from Bloomberg government, NDAA emerges as the way out of Tuberville's holds.

00:27:24.120 The piece says, Republicans haven't yet found a way out of Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama's blockade of more than 450 promotions of military officers,

00:27:32.380 but the must-pass defense policy bill has emerged as an option.

00:27:37.760 GOP senators put their heads together in a meeting yesterday to find out a way forward.

00:27:41.720 Though they didn't reach an agreement, everyone walking out described it as constructive and positive, including Tuberville himself.

00:27:48.480 The defense authorization bill would be a solution, Tuberville told reporters after the meeting.

00:27:52.880 The House version carries a prohibition on the Pentagon's travel and leave policy,

00:27:59.000 and Tuberville indicated he would accept that as a solution if that prohibition stayed in the final conference bill that would head to President Joe Biden for his signature.

00:28:09.380 Ladies and gentlemen, Tommy Tuberville has just given us all a lesson in leverage.

00:28:14.740 See, we had this House bill going to explicitly state in policy, in law, actually voted on by our elected representatives,

00:28:23.600 that we were not going to allow this type of subsidizing of the abortion industry through the Department of Defense.

00:28:30.940 And Tommy Tuberville objected to the fact that in the absence of any change in law,

00:28:38.340 any change in the Hyde Amendment that says no public money toward abortion,

00:28:41.820 they were just doing it anyway.

00:28:44.720 And so if Tommy Tuberville didn't have the pressure of those 450 holds sitting over DOD right now,

00:28:51.320 I can tell you exactly what would happen.

00:28:53.080 They would strip out the clarifying language from the House bill,

00:28:57.240 and they would just keep doing everything the way they're doing it.

00:29:00.440 But because Tommy Tuberville put on those holds,

00:29:03.800 now this provision that I fought for, that my colleagues fought for in the House Armed Services Committee,

00:29:08.720 it's got more of a chance than ever to become law.

00:29:13.440 The lives this will save, the value this will provide to the national defense,

00:29:17.480 all of us owe Senator Tuberville a great deal of gratitude.

00:29:21.300 And I owe you gratitude, but right now we're heading for votes on the House floor.

00:29:24.860 I'll be meeting with some of our leadership in the coming hours

00:29:27.900 to discuss the path forward on government spending.

00:29:30.120 As you know, I am for the single-subject spending bills.

00:29:32.960 I summarily reject this notion that we fund all of the government all at once for all the same time.

00:29:40.660 That's how the Uniparty wins, and that's how we end up $33 trillion in debt,

00:29:44.380 so we'll be working on that later today.

00:29:45.880 Okay, thank you so much for joining us.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 08, 2023

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