The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 132 – The Trump Administration's Beat Down of Big Pharma. Smartmatic CEO Confirmed Millions of Votes in Venezuelan Election Were Fabricated. Why I'm Against Zoos.

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.120 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.780 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.960 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates we're back in washington dc for the lame

00:00:21.740 duck session starts this week and continues toward the end of the year when we'll swear

00:00:26.940 in the new congress in january let's talk about the news and the news in the united states is

00:00:32.900 optimistic with the revelation that not only is pfizer going to be deploying a vaccine but also

00:00:39.760 moderna inc has announced that in their phase three clinical trials their vaccine is upwards of 95

00:00:46.540 effective this is great news for the country it's great news for the trump administration

00:00:52.440 it was done in cooperation with operation warp speed but there is something just a little

00:00:59.580 suspicious about the fact that we have these vaccine breakthroughs days and weeks after the election

00:01:06.020 and there's i think a dynamic that may explain it no american president no american politician

00:01:13.720 in recent history has been tougher on big pharma than president trump and here's why

00:01:20.120 there's no major drug in this country that has not enjoyed the investment of u.s taxpayers to get

00:01:27.960 to market in research and development i mean quite literally the fda hasn't approved any major drug that

00:01:34.920 you can buy on the market today where the u.s taxpayer hasn't been involved through universities or the

00:01:40.960 national institute of health in some form of collaboration so big pharma gets the benefit of the u.s

00:01:48.640 taxpayers taxpayers generosity and then they turn around and sell those drugs for one price pennies

00:01:55.160 on the dollar in canada europe elsewhere and then they charge you know four or five times sometimes

00:02:01.000 even more of that international price here against our citizens and then you hear how seniors and

00:02:08.620 vulnerable americans have to choose between their pharmaceuticals and food that shouldn't happen in this

00:02:14.900 country and donald j trump blew the whistle on it he said well you know what if we're going to pay to

00:02:20.220 develop these drugs then america has to get most favored nation status with the drug companies that

00:02:27.080 means you can't treat other countries better than you treat us oh my gosh this caused big pharma to go

00:02:34.100 crazy they spent tens of millions of dollars on commercials calling president trump's administration's plan

00:02:42.220 socialist and demanding that congress step in and stop the executive orders that were going to lower

00:02:47.760 drug prices oh these were international price controls said big pharma now did president trump

00:02:54.000 allow that disagreement that massive political spending against him during an election to impair the

00:03:02.040 collaboration and cooperation with operation warp speed no quite literally as big pharma were out there

00:03:09.280 running ads against the president he was making an enormous amount of resources available in terms of money

00:03:16.820 human talent national agencies everything we could bring to bear in operation warp speed we did and you know what

00:03:25.260 it worked and if we later find out that these drug companies knew that this was going to work before the

00:03:32.560 election and they sat on that information until after the election you'll know why it's not that they don't like

00:03:38.660 donald trump's tweets it's not that they don't like his tax policy it's that big pharma understands that

00:03:45.000 donald trump can't be bought you see the reason big pharma was able to get away with this scheme of charging

00:03:51.560 other countries low prices and our country high prices is because they use the vig they use that delta that profit

00:03:59.680 margin to go buy off politicians and frankly it's a shame how many politicians are bought off so cheaply

00:04:07.340 that it worked but you can't buy off donald trump he blew the whistle he simultaneously lowered drug prices

00:04:14.800 for millions upon millions of americans and he ensured that the resources were available so that we could

00:04:22.560 achieve the objective of project warp speed and get not one but two vaccines to the market for our people

00:04:30.120 and for the world congratulations mr president and if there were any shenanigans with big pharma

00:04:36.180 we'll find them eventually

00:04:38.460 election manipulation and voter tampering proven possible and with some of the same systems that

00:04:49.040 were used in the united states antonio mugisa is founder and ceo of smartmatic a multinational election

00:04:56.900 system that we use in this country and you're about to hear his audio admitting that in the

00:05:03.140 venezuelan elections there were votes that were tampered with now i don't want to hear from democrats

00:05:08.580 anymore that it's not possible because we saw the dominion systems flip thousands of votes and now we hear

00:05:14.560 this founder and ceo of this elections software company saying that in fact there have been elections

00:05:20.760 with tampering you'll also hear antonio talk about the need for real-time review and auditing and

00:05:28.100 actually if you have those safeguards in place you can stop the manipulation of votes and so i think

00:05:34.460 it's critically important for us to audit these systems to ensure that they're fair and accurate

00:05:39.880 to ensure that all americans that the whole world can have consequence in the tabulated results

00:05:45.740 but listen to this circumstance where they clearly couldn't based on the robustness of our system

00:05:51.980 we know without any doubt that the turnout of the recent election for a national constituent assembly

00:05:59.560 was manipulated it is important to highlight that similar manipulations are made in manual elections

00:06:08.980 in many countries but they go undetected because of a lack of electronic security and auditing safeguards

00:06:19.300 so what happened why can't we stand by the results of previous venezuelan elections but we cannot endorse

00:06:25.060 the elections held last sunday our automated election system is designed to make to make it evident when

00:06:32.740 results are manipulated however there must be people auditing the system and watching for that

00:06:38.900 evidence during the national constituent assembly elections there were no auditors from the

00:06:44.500 opposition parties as they did not want to participate an audit would allow any everyone to know the

00:06:51.940 exact participation we estimate the difference between the actual participation and the one announced

00:06:58.740 by the authorities is at least one million votes it is important to point out that this would not

00:07:05.700 have occurred if the auditors of all political parties have been present at every stage of the election

00:07:15.380 we get this story from fox news's sam dorman ilhan omar famous squad member from minnesota

00:07:23.540 has claimed that trump rallies are kin to clan rallies this is just so sad in an interview with the washington

00:07:31.300 post jonathan capehart ilhan omar says that she doesn't personally take much offense to the president's

00:07:38.260 criticisms of her but that the rallies were like clan rallies that he was holding all over the country

00:07:44.820 i could tell you from personal experience the president's maga rallies are full of joy and love

00:07:50.900 and patriotism and appreciation for the fact that we live in the greatest country in the world and we were

00:07:57.060 expressing ourselves through politics to try to maintain america's place as that cherished glowing city

00:08:05.620 on the hill ilhan omar is willing to say these very negative and derogatory things about her fellow americans

00:08:13.620 because frankly there are times when i don't think she thinks too much of this country she thinks that

00:08:18.740 america is an evil intractably racist doomed place which is hard to understand because

00:08:26.020 ilhan herself her family they've benefited from the love and grace extended by america as they traveled

00:08:32.980 here to start new lives and by the way i want immigrants to our country to be successful i want

00:08:38.820 everyone in our country to be successful i think people should have to come here legally as ilhan and her

00:08:44.180 family did under a refugee program but it is concerning to many of our fellow americans when

00:08:50.980 our country extends our grace and our love and our hope for a better tomorrow to refugees who then come

00:08:57.540 to america and compare like the rest of us to clan members and say that we're participating in a clan

00:09:04.980 rally because we want to go sing ymca and macho man and talk about the need for our country to get out of

00:09:12.020 foreign wars and be more productive and create rising wages and summon the intellectual capability

00:09:19.220 and the imagination of our best and brightest to defeat the coronavirus all while we recognize that

00:09:25.380 for america to succeed in the upcoming century for us to win the fight that matters isn't against

00:09:31.220 one another it's not against some despot in the middle east it's against china and we do need to pull 1.00

00:09:37.620 together and work together to ensure that we prevail in that endeavor because the future of the world

00:09:44.100 quite literally depends on it and we do nothing to advance that needed cooperation when we have

00:09:49.940 politicians like ilhan omar comparing trump supporters and america first patriots to klansmen it is uncalled for

00:09:58.900 it is factually false and it's hurtful and i hope ilhan does better

00:10:03.620 senator chuck schumer recently said that joe biden if sworn in as president would be able to eliminate

00:10:13.460 the first fifty thousand dollars in student debt with the stroke of a pen with an executive order

00:10:20.020 without the need of legislation now i don't quite know what senator schumer's perception is of separation

00:10:27.060 of powers and how that would be able to occur because it quite literally would be an appropriation of

00:10:33.220 the congress but be that as it may would joe biden even want to eliminate this student debt i'm going

00:10:39.220 to flash back to a moment in the house judiciary committee recently where we were debating legislation

00:10:44.900 that would have allowed students to discharge their debt through bankruptcy and it surprised many when

00:10:50.740 i was the only republican that joined democrats to say that absolutely we ought to just hit the reset

00:10:57.940 button on the higher education industrial complex allow students who qualify who might have been

00:11:04.820 the victims of fraud of some of these colleges that sell students a bill of goods we ought to be able

00:11:09.860 to allow them to declare bankruptcy but you know who the villain was that passed the legislation that helped

00:11:17.540 the creditors and the credit card companies screw students that's right it was senator joe biden

00:11:23.940 i make the case in judiciary committee and you'll even hear judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler

00:11:30.260 say i'm right joe biden was wrong and i wonder if he'd even take action take a listen last but most

00:11:37.380 certainly not least my my favorite writing on joe biden's role in this uh is a harvard law school

00:11:44.580 piece by elizabeth warren entitled what is a women's issue bankruptcy commercial law and other gender

00:11:50.900 neutral topics mr chairman i seek unanimous consent to enter that into the record and and in this piece

00:11:56.260 i i think particularly noteworthy is where senator warren says missing for example is a picture of

00:12:02.180 senator biden standing shoulder and shoulder with the ceos of the credit industry co-sponsoring

00:12:08.100 legislation to increase restrictions on consumer and small business bankruptcy it appears as though joe biden

00:12:15.540 was the student loan indebtedness senator and i'm grateful that the majority on this committee wants

00:12:21.780 to break away from the biden record on student loans and would instead chart a way forward that is more

00:12:27.220 fair to america's young people i yield to the chairman i thank the gentleman for yielding i the gentleman is

00:12:31.700 quite correct um at the time uh which was what 19 2005 uh there was an attempt to do exactly what was

00:12:40.900 done it was the wrong thing to do uh senator biden was on the wrong side many people in both parties

00:12:46.500 were on the wrong side joe biden no friend of students suffering from student debt i doubt he

00:12:52.900 would ever be in a position to handle it with the stroke of a pen as senator schumer suggests he seems

00:12:58.340 to be too busy bending over backwards for the creditors what a shame

00:13:02.660 i am a big believer in apprenticeships and career and technical education i think too often in america

00:13:13.460 our education system spends so much time trying to infuse skills into young people that are less

00:13:20.340 relevant in today's economy what we really ought to do as policy makers is lash the needs in the economy

00:13:26.740 to the pedagogy that we're providing our students so if they can learn coding if they can pick up

00:13:32.500 industry certifications if they can get a clean safe certification so that right out of high school

00:13:38.900 they could be insured to be a manager or some other leadership position in the hospitality industry

00:13:45.380 all the better for young people construction technology another big area where industry

00:13:51.220 certification really gives people careers the question is whether or not the united states federal

00:13:57.060 government is in the best position to set standards for apprenticeships this week in the united states

00:14:03.140 congress will take a vote on the national apprenticeship act sponsored by congressman bobby scott and

00:14:10.100 it may surprise you that there is not a single republican co-sponsor of this legislation now our team is

00:14:17.540 still looking through it and i haven't decided how i'm going to vote on that bill on friday but i thought

00:14:22.260 it would be helpful to share with our listeners some of the equities that are at play first during

00:14:28.660 coronavirus there has been a tragic negative impact on the development of young people i see it just in

00:14:36.820 our congressional office the inability to have interns there that are scheming and strategizing and helping

00:14:43.380 build ways to be of better service to our district and our constituents we're not able to have that same

00:14:49.780 level of engagement sometimes from entry-level positions through a zoom call that we might have

00:14:55.300 through a conference meeting or people coming in and out of the office sharing their ideas on proposed

00:15:01.300 legislation and so it does seem to be an appropriate national goal to try to help people that through

00:15:09.460 no fault of their own just through the circumstances of the date of their birth have found themselves caught

00:15:15.700 in this coronavirus pinch in the talent development pool at the same time i am concerned about

00:15:23.140 nationalizing the apprenticeship system because i fear that it may squelch some of the innovation

00:15:30.020 that's occurring at the state level i'm particularly proud of what we do in the state of florida matter

00:15:36.180 of fact when my father was the state senate president he really designed in the state of florida our system

00:15:42.260 of ensuring that we had highly relevant skills being taught to our young people and what we found

00:15:49.300 is that it really helped us with populations that might otherwise be very susceptible to dropouts but

00:15:56.180 the hardest thing to do in career technical education is something called articulation where you take the

00:16:03.140 skills and the learning and you convert that to the credits the articulated achievement that would

00:16:11.540 justify an employ a diploma or a certification or some recognition and valuation of that work that can

00:16:19.460 be recognized and applied by others and so if we take this system where 50 states are trying different

00:16:26.260 things and tinkering and coming up with the best solutions for their students and we wrap up the whole

00:16:32.100 deal in washington dc and nationalize it sure there may be more resources available because you know the

00:16:38.340 federal government prints money and this bill prints about an additional 3.1 billion dollars but it also

00:16:44.900 could change the way that our states are developing strategies that might be unique to their conditions

00:16:52.260 i would suggest that in the state of florida hospitality is probably more relevant of an industry with our

00:16:58.820 tourism base than it might be in idaho and in idaho agriculture might be a little more relevant than it would

00:17:07.300 be in connecticut or new jersey and so my hope is that we've got great resources that we've got a

00:17:14.500 focus on people that are caught in this talent development pinch but that we use the federal

00:17:20.580 government not as an overlord or as a full-on synthesizer of all of the curriculum and all of

00:17:27.620 the articulation but more as an encourager and that's what we're looking at in this bill i'd love to hear

00:17:33.540 your thoughts you can always leave them in the comments section on the podcast listening platform

00:17:38.180 of your choice or you can go to our website and submit an idea on the apprenticeship legislation

00:17:43.860 at gates.house.gov i'd love to hear from you and i'll let you know how we're voting on friday

00:17:53.940 felicia and ralph have had a baby bambino felicia and ralph are african lions who live at the santa

00:18:02.340 barbara zoo we get the story from nbc for los angeles and it gives me the opportunity to share

00:18:08.500 what might be a bit of an unpopular hot take i'm not a big zoo guy i don't get the whole zoo thing

00:18:14.980 i love watching national geographic i love animals i love seeing in their natural habitat but for me

00:18:20.500 there's just something interminably sad about seeing some of the greatest animals in the world

00:18:25.940 in very small habitats and cages and i've heard the whole spiel about necessary breeding programs and

00:18:33.060 animal rehabilitation and while there are places where that's needed and necessary and helpful

00:18:39.460 it is not the racket i mean if you look at any business the racket is where the revenue is and

00:18:44.500 the revenue is in admissions and so the zoos aren't really there for the benefit of the animals

00:18:49.860 they're there for the benefit of the people and if you're one of those people no judgment go enjoy

00:18:55.540 the zoo have a great time go and watch bambino and felicia and ralph but i won't be joining you

00:19:02.260 i wish the animals the best i wish the people the best but i think they're both at their best when

00:19:07.700 they're in their freest state thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates make sure to

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 17, 2020

Episode 132 – The Trump Administration's Beat Down of Big Pharma. Smartmatic CEO Confirmed Millions of Votes in Venezuelan Election Were Fabricated. Why I'm Against Zoos.

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