The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 16, 2020


Episode 131 – Investigate Dominion Voting Software. President Trump's Action Plan Against China. SpaceX Launches Humans to ISS! Stacey Abrams Ramps Up Mail-In Ballot Effort in Georgia.


Episode Stats

Length

13 minutes

Words per Minute

139.01111

Word Count

1,864

Sentence Count

103

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi challenges Republicans on how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Rep. Matt Gaetz responds to the Democratic whip and asks if there is a way to change the voting system to prevent massive voter fraud.


Transcript

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 Republicans.
00:00:12.260 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:16.080 Welcome to Hot Takes, I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:18.980 Let's talk about the news.
00:00:20.780 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issuing a challenge to Republicans.
00:00:25.400 Here's the speaker.
00:00:26.100 Right now, we are talking about addressing the crisis, the pandemic.
00:00:33.020 If we do so scientifically, we will be able, we will be able to open our economy.
00:00:41.180 We'll be able to open our schools safely.
00:00:45.140 We're able to do so in a way that recognizes the tragedy that has befallen us in our country
00:00:52.980 because of the Republican denial of science and disdain for governance.
00:00:59.640 So stop the circus and get to work on what really matters to the American people,
00:01:07.140 their health and their economic security.
00:01:09.740 Here's my challenge back to the speaker.
00:01:11.900 If you believe so much in your coronavirus response legislation,
00:01:15.900 put it on the floor of the House of Representatives open to amendment
00:01:19.580 because we might find areas of agreement.
00:01:22.940 If we could strip out the payments to illegal aliens,
00:01:26.020 if instead of giving more money to states that had financial problems before coronavirus,
00:01:32.920 let's make sure that we fund our frontline workers and our hospital systems.
00:01:37.280 Let's make sure there's stimulus available for our fellow Americans
00:01:41.040 who, through no fault of their own, found their jobs rendered illegal.
00:01:45.320 I think you'd get a lot of Republican support for that,
00:01:48.580 but permanent changes to the voting system?
00:01:51.600 Why don't we have an up or down vote on the amendments regarding those provisions of the bill?
00:01:56.620 You see, Nancy Pelosi doesn't want an open vote with open amendments on a major piece of legislation
00:02:03.720 because she knows that that legislation could not survive that type of scrutiny.
00:02:09.180 But that's what the legislative process calls for.
00:02:11.860 So if she's serious about really responding to coronavirus with a bipartisan approach,
00:02:18.720 which is necessary in divided government,
00:02:21.800 she should allow amendments, allow debate, and allow the legislative process to move forward.
00:02:27.600 And if we did that, I think we would find a lot of agreement
00:02:30.740 on how to help our fellow Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
00:02:34.640 Brilliant attorney, Sidney Powell, who represents General Michael Flynn,
00:02:42.260 was recently on Sinclair Media with Eric Bolling talking about the Dominion election software.
00:02:48.800 She had some very hot takes.
00:02:50.860 Take a listen.
00:02:51.440 Sidney, very important information news you're breaking here.
00:02:55.080 Is it a software glitch or something more nefarious?
00:02:59.000 It's a feature of the system that was designed with a back door
00:03:04.220 so that people could watch in real time and calculate with an algorithm
00:03:09.560 how many votes they needed to change to make the result they wanted to create.
00:03:14.840 How did you find out about this?
00:03:17.640 People have come to me with information.
00:03:21.100 I think when people realize there's somebody they can trust
00:03:24.300 that will actually do something about it, they speak up.
00:03:27.360 We have a lot of patriots in this country.
00:03:29.740 They are absolutely fed up to the gills with corruption at every level of government.
00:03:35.640 They have no trust in our public institutions now,
00:03:38.640 and we will not let this election be stolen or any cheating to survive.
00:03:43.520 So let me get this straight.
00:03:44.720 It's a real important point here.
00:03:46.460 Dominion voting machines were in numerous states, numerous counties.
00:03:50.460 There's some sort of software backdoor, not unlike most phones will have a backdoor,
00:03:56.460 but this will actually calculate and tell the person accessing the backdoor
00:04:01.840 what type of voting percentages and what type of numbers are needed to change
00:04:06.860 the win for a certain party, for a certain candidate.
00:04:11.600 Exactly.
00:04:12.400 They can watch the voting real time.
00:04:15.240 They run a computer algorithm on it as needed to either flip votes,
00:04:20.420 take votes out, or alter the votes to make a candidate win.
00:04:25.100 So that's different.
00:04:25.980 Now this is even different, and I just really want to be very careful here
00:04:30.660 and be very meticulous about this.
00:04:32.260 It's one thing to be able to watch it and decide how much more input you need to change
00:04:37.040 to change the number, but now you're saying there's an actual way to change the total,
00:04:42.480 the vote tallies within the system?
00:04:44.800 That's exactly right.
00:04:48.360 That's a very, very big claim there.
00:04:51.680 I mean, that would be voter fraud defined right there.
00:04:57.160 What's the next step?
00:04:58.580 It's massive criminal voter fraud writ large across at least 29 states.
00:05:06.680 It could have been happening.
00:05:07.840 Any time a voting machine was connected to the Internet, and we have evidence that many were,
00:05:14.820 it was obviously happening.
00:05:17.200 It's obvious from the algorithm and the statistics that our experts are tracking out
00:05:24.340 for batches of votes and when the curves changed.
00:05:27.560 And it's going to blow the mind of everyone in this country when we get it all together
00:05:36.320 and can explain it with the affidavits and the experts that have come forward.
00:05:42.040 And if it's true that Dominion has the ability to review votes as they're coming in in real time,
00:05:49.180 it would create conditions far more ripe for fraud.
00:05:53.020 I find it particularly interesting that it's not just Republicans who have questioned this Dominion software.
00:05:59.580 Matter of fact, January 6th of 2019, Senators Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar,
00:06:06.380 all Democrats, sent letters to some of the senior executives at Dominion demanding more transparency
00:06:12.680 and sharing their concerns about the potential to change votes.
00:06:18.140 I'm glad to see Sidney Powell's on the case,
00:06:20.460 and this is something we unequivocally must get to the bottom of and fix.
00:06:28.460 President Trump planning even more crackdowns on China.
00:06:32.620 President Trump will enact a series of hardline policies during his final 10 weeks
00:06:37.500 to cement his legacy on China,
00:06:40.220 senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the plans tell Axios.
00:06:44.580 Now, it matters because under the scenario where Biden would potentially become president,
00:06:49.920 Donald Trump wants to make it untenable for any Biden administration to change course on China
00:06:55.760 as China continues to provoke India, continues to act aggressively in Hong Kong and Taiwan,
00:07:01.940 and as there really is a growing anti-China sentiment following this pandemic.
00:07:06.920 Behind the scenes, senior administration officials are discussing expanding a Department of Defense list
00:07:12.720 of Chinese companies that have ties to the Chinese military that would bar investment in these companies
00:07:18.540 from U.S. installations and would stop these companies from making purchases of U.S. national security assets.
00:07:26.040 Director John Radcliffe will play a leading role in coordinating this strategy.
00:07:30.020 He will also give briefings on the granular detail of the intelligence regarding China's efforts
00:07:36.500 to undermine the United States.
00:07:38.600 Getting that information out, I think, is all the better
00:07:41.920 because it ensures that we have a coordinated national response
00:07:45.980 to China's dangerous growing hegemony.
00:07:51.880 Stacey Abrams.
00:07:53.240 More than 600,000 Georgians already requested absentee ballots for runoff election.
00:08:00.020 We pick up the story from Breitbart's Kyle Morris.
00:08:03.620 Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams announced Sunday that more than 600,000 Georgians
00:08:10.200 have requested their mail ballots for the Senate runoff elections on January 5th.
00:08:15.300 She urged her followers to do the same and support Democratic candidates.
00:08:20.320 And this is indicative of something that we really saw play out with significance in the 2020 election.
00:08:26.160 I think Republicans are rightly focused on why people vote.
00:08:32.200 And I think that Democrats are far more focused on how people vote.
00:08:36.880 The literal mechanics of requesting a ballot, harvesting that ballot, and times curing that ballot.
00:08:43.720 These are things that really don't drive the Republican energy and effort.
00:08:47.640 The Republican effort was really driven by the inspiration of the president and of the economy
00:08:54.100 that he built and just the desire to continue the policies and the success that our country
00:09:00.440 had seen prior to this pandemic and the belief that it would be Trump who would be best positioned
00:09:05.680 to rebuild a great economy, having seen him done it before.
00:09:09.300 But here we see again, in just an enormously consequential election in Georgia,
00:09:15.040 you've got to give Stacey Abrams credit for generating the absentee ballot requests
00:09:19.740 that then in turn create the opportunity for Democrats to begin that whole process
00:09:24.820 of harvesting, curing, and allowing these votes to be counted so long as they are mailed to some person.
00:09:33.240 You know, we talk a lot about voter ID laws in this country,
00:09:36.000 but if you return your ballot by mail, there's no ID required.
00:09:39.940 And as I've said before, dead people don't always vote.
00:09:43.160 But when they do, they typically prefer to vote by mail because they don't have to present an ID to do so.
00:09:50.860 We'd love to see the voting process more secure.
00:09:54.000 We're going to fight for greater integrity in that process.
00:09:57.200 And we're certainly going to keep an eye on Georgia,
00:10:00.040 where it appears Stacey Abrams is hard at work generating hundreds of thousands of vote by mail requests.
00:10:07.180 Elon Musk's SpaceX continues to break barriers in meeting our nation's needs for space exploration and access with the private sector.
00:10:20.720 We pick up the story from The Daily Caller's Lauren Overholtz.
00:10:24.360 SpaceX successfully launches four astronauts headed to the International Space Station.
00:10:30.580 It's about a 27 and a half hour flight.
00:10:33.660 Crew members have been quarantining since October to reduce the risk of coronavirus.
00:10:40.000 And we're grateful to see that at a lower cost,
00:10:44.200 companies like SpaceX are able to use these platforms at Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
00:10:50.000 that they're able to meet the low Earth orbit needs.
00:10:54.820 They're able to shuttle some of the human talent back and forth to the International Space Station.
00:11:00.760 And it allows NASA to really raise their gaze to look at a Mars mission,
00:11:06.340 missions even beyond Mars, to see what's out there and what it means for all of us who are still here on Earth.
00:11:17.120 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeting,
00:11:20.040 So it appears it was another lawmaker, according to reports that Boris Johnson had interacted with.
00:11:43.840 And we all remember Boris Johnson having to be hospitalized and really having a tough go of it with COVID back in April.
00:11:53.380 It appears he's not too confident in those antibodies lasting until now.
00:11:58.140 And I think that it raises broader questions about the duration of time where we can have antibody confidence.
00:12:04.740 And if, you know, it really is the case that these antibodies last longer than two or three months,
00:12:09.980 it informs greatly on our ability to combat the disease and the virus.
00:12:14.600 So we'll be eager to see if Boris Johnson is able to maintain virus-free.
00:12:20.240 We have not seen a lot of people around the planet Earth getting reinfected with the virus.
00:12:24.560 And it just seems to show maybe just a little bit of a diminished confidence that once you get it, lightning won't strike again.
00:12:36.040 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes.
00:12:37.800 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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