The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 134 LIVE： Thanksgiving Inflation (feat. Sen. Jeff Brandes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:08.420 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.760 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00

00:00:20.900 you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.340 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he loves

00:00:35.320 this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:42.900 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:48.820 one thing i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing one that i can go campaign on and say

00:01:04.360 we did one anybody sitting in the complex if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to

00:01:11.480 me one material meaningful significant thing the republican majority has done besides well i guess

00:01:20.400 it's not as bad as the democrats

00:01:21.720 welcome back to firebrand that was firebrand texas congressman chip roy excoriating republicans for

00:01:31.680 having caved far too often for far too long and he is a hundred percent right we live in a country now

00:01:38.360 where over a hundred thousand people have been poisoned by fentanyl we allow china to continue 1.00

00:01:43.300 to eat our lunch in all kinds of respects from their military advancements to even their cultural

00:01:49.860 attacks and their poisoning of our fellow countrymen and if you look at the border and the economy

00:01:55.040 house republicans have got to do more to deliver wins that's why we made a change in leadership

00:01:59.780 and while house speaker johnson has got a little runway it's not a forever runway he's got to get us

00:02:06.240 back to the winning ways that chip roy is calling for and my advice to speaker johnson take a lot of

00:02:11.860 advice from that man a great texas congressman someone i respect a lot and uh someone who i think

00:02:18.640 has identified some of the problems and challenges facing the country one of those notably the bidenomics

00:02:25.140 inducing inflation now americans can expect to pay more this thanksgiving for just about every aspect

00:02:33.240 of their meal because president biden and bidenomics and biden inflation are well above the federal

00:02:41.120 reserves target and certainly well above our ability to pay for it since joe biden took office overall food

00:02:47.180 prices have risen over 17 percent frozen vegetables are up almost 11 percent uncooked beef steaks up almost

00:02:59.040 11 even the sauces and gravies you don't think about those being a major cost driver of thanksgiving but

00:03:05.940 sauces and gravies are up seven and a half percent uncooked turkey up about the same amount 7.2 percent

00:03:13.380 white bread up 7.1 percent and there are so many concerning facts about the biden economy the consumer price

00:03:22.300 index a key inflation indicator rose at an increased annual rate of 3.2 percent in october and keep in

00:03:30.920 mind though the rate of inflation may be slowing it is stacked so all the inflation we've already

00:03:38.180 endured has not been remediated or diminished so when you hear the white house talk about less inflation

00:03:44.400 what they cannot tell you is that it is resulting in lower prices lower prices that's what the american

00:03:50.660 people want and the prices are artificially high not as a function of some uncontrollable global

00:03:57.100 feature but the direct policy choices that joe biden and his government have made so according to a recent

00:04:04.000 ap poll about two-thirds of adults say their household expenses have risen over the last year 73 percent

00:04:11.560 describe the national economy as poor if 73 percent of the people are saying that the national economy is poor

00:04:19.100 i wouldn't be running on bidenomics it's not working for three out of four americans and a recent

00:04:25.920 study published by bankrate shows that just 21 percent of americans think that their financial

00:04:32.500 situation has improved since joe biden became president around one in five i feel like most people

00:04:39.220 definitely that observe this program consider themselves part of the four of five who've had their

00:04:45.380 conditions diminished as a consequence of joe biden and frankly if you listen to chip roy as a

00:04:50.480 consequence of republicans who have not been fighting hard enough so what should we be fighting for

00:04:57.120 you've heard me say it a lot on this program that only single subject spending bills will actually cut

00:05:03.280 spending these continuing resolutions and omnibus bills they are the path to more deaths more deficits and

00:05:11.480 higher spending and we got this admission that my vision on single subject spending bills will cut

00:05:18.560 spending from no less than one of the progressive leaders of the democratic party roe connor of

00:05:25.920 california he makes the admission on joy reid's msnbc program take a listen

00:05:30.580 most speakers last for years matt gates has literally said essentially mike johnson has

00:05:38.020 seven months to reduce spending to each bill everything one at a time which is madness

00:05:45.900 it's madness and it is reducing spending that is going to hurt working families

00:05:51.840 even our critics even the people who have a different vision on governance and budgeting admit

00:06:00.200 that my vision will result in less spending and we've got to have it because that is what's driving

00:06:05.340 the inflation and it hearkens back to remember that july 4th tweet that the biden white house put out

00:06:11.400 previously oh yes we've got it on the screen there yes a 16 cents decrease in the cost of all of those

00:06:20.960 food stuffs and goods so 16 cent decrease not even true today we went through the numbers the numbers are

00:06:29.980 all up and another area where the numbers are up and troubling the border we break down the border

00:06:36.680 numbers for you frequently on this program it is important that when discussing these matters we don't

00:06:41.080 do so in the abstract so month by month year by year we're here to lay out how bad the problem has gotten

00:06:47.980 so let's look at the october numbers in october alone there were 240,988 illegal immigrant

00:06:56.340 encounters at the southern border it's a staggering number it is a 235 percent increase from october 2020

00:07:05.400 october was the 32nd straight month where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than the

00:07:13.540 highest month ever seen under president trump 32 in a row in october 12 individuals whose names appear on the

00:07:22.500 terrorist watch list were stopped trying to cross into the united states from mexico so far under biden

00:07:29.960 279 of these individuals whose names appear on the terror watch list were stopped trying to cross the

00:07:36.720 southern border and you don't know how many gotaways were known terrorists how many people we never even

00:07:42.600 encountered were known terrorists but you know it ain't zero based on the hundreds that we have seen and

00:07:48.340 more than a dozen just this last month in fiscal year 2023 169 people whose names were on the terrorist watch list

00:07:56.440 were stopped trying to cross the southern border an all-time record this total is more than the encounters in all of

00:08:02.820 fiscal year 17 to fiscal year 2022 combined biden's far left open border policies are precisely why we find

00:08:12.820 ourselves in this crisis they must be reversed and we have to be willing to use every bit of leverage that we have

00:08:20.460 to see that outcome come to fruition as uh as we're chatting president she has made his stops throughout the

00:08:30.700 united states notably in california and california governor gavin newsom criticized for all the cleanup that

00:08:37.860 california was willing to do not for their own citizens not for visitors from america but from

00:08:44.000 their bankers in china and responding to that criticism here we have california governor gavin newsom take a

00:08:49.580 listen i know folks say oh they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming

00:08:56.300 into town um that's true because it's true

00:09:00.900 so they are willing to clean up california for the foreign communists but she stays filthy and dirty for 0.99

00:09:11.720 the homegrown communists not exactly america first but from my standpoint we had an important hearing

00:09:18.460 this week in the house armed services committee regarding hypersonics and that really sets deterrence

00:09:23.660 with china china china and russia have capabilities in hypersonics that exceed america's that is not an

00:09:32.120 admission that i have any joy in sharing with you we ought to have the best strongest most most least lethal

00:09:39.280 survivable and capable military in all of the world and when you have a delivery system for a nuclear

00:09:48.140 warhead for another type of payload that can hit the target at a far higher rate of speed and with

00:09:57.040 more accuracy than the other systems that starts to inform almost all of the strategic thinking that

00:10:04.220 your nation does in times of conflict or risk of escalation or accident so today we had uh several

00:10:11.220 folks who were really speaking to that strategic imperative and we talked about the united states being

00:10:18.100 behind china and behind russia on hypersonics take a listen

00:10:22.000 i focus a lot on hypersonics here and so i was wondering what your perspective was on how our

00:10:30.720 current hypersonic capabilities compared with these two near pure adversaries was contributing to that

00:10:36.060 that sense of deterrence well sort of simply put we're a little behind uh in terms of the development

00:10:41.780 of our hypersonics capabilities uh madeline is is right we're behind both countries with regard

00:10:47.800 to the hypersonic issue uh we've had tests and i won't get into the details but uh the bottom line

00:10:54.580 is that we're we are behind where our two opponents are and what this means is that they have some

00:11:01.540 capabilities with which they can threaten us and just to draw a finer point on it senator when you say

00:11:07.720 we are behind both countries in hypersonics you are referring to china and russia right mr chairman

00:11:14.120 representative gage that's correct we are behind china and russia and we should be using the entire

00:11:22.920 national security apparatus to catch up to keep our country safe and secure but instead we've been so

00:11:30.420 distracted by nonsense at the dod at the cia and even the national security agency the nsa the nsa

00:11:40.540 has apparently been up to no good but not in the usual sense instead of spying on americans without warrants

00:11:47.420 it seems the nsa has now shifted its focus to you guessed it diversity equity and inclusion the nsa has

00:11:57.380 compiled possibly the most expansive glossary of dei terms the world has ever seen and it begs the question

00:12:05.280 is the nsa running like the biggest psyop in american history or are they too corrupted by the

00:12:12.180 managerial hr culture that dominates every aspect of modern society why is the nsa creating a glossary

00:12:20.160 of woke terms the glossary itself states quote the following is a glossary of terms and commonly used

00:12:26.700 language in dialogue regarding diversity equity inclusion and social justice to be used as a reference

00:12:32.720 this glossary and its definitions provide a starting point for engaging in open and honest

00:12:39.160 conversation and it's a tool meant to build shared language and understanding sounds wonderful does

00:12:46.420 it feel so much better now let's take a look at what this shared language and understanding actually

00:12:52.620 sounds like these are the terms white fragility white privilege white supremacy even whiteness which the

00:13:00.000 report that the nsa put out defines as quote a broad social construction that embraces the white culture

00:13:07.520 history ideology radicalization expressions experiences emotions and behaviors all in order to reap material

00:13:16.400 political economic and structural benefits for those socially deemed white wow what does it mean to be

00:13:25.640 socially deemed white i i thought that the color of your skin was an immutable trait and why is it whenever white people

00:13:34.240 are seeking some sort of advancement in the economy or culture or national security it's all meant to reap the

00:13:42.860 benefits for those who are culturally white

00:13:44.940 no group of humans in all of human history has ever been without a series of pretty bad actions right you get a group of

00:13:56.340 humans together for long enough we do bad things to one another that goes back to biblical times

00:14:01.400 but white people have built some of the most durable and inclusive civilizations that have ever existed and of course mistakes have

00:14:12.400 been made along the way and that is why we strive to be a more perfect union that does not judge people based on their

00:14:19.420 immutable traits like the color of their skin but now the nsa is putting reports together saying if you're deemed

00:14:26.380 socially white anything you do is has got to be viewed through this lens of the advancement of one group of people

00:14:33.980 at the expense of another when the reality is the united states of america has been a platform for people of 0.97

00:14:39.760 all kind and color and creed to advance and so what the nsa is pushing is a load of insane bigoted nonsense 0.79

00:14:48.420 and these are just a few of the 327 social justice terms listed in their glossary to blame white

00:14:58.500 europeans for engaging in settler colonialism settler colonialism it's one of those terms that's gaining

00:15:05.980 popularity with hamas supporters apparently jews and israelis are the white colonizers now welcome to 0.68

00:15:13.520 the club i guess now second to the anti-white rhetoric in this nsa report we get a bizarre transgender 0.98

00:15:22.260 vernacular emerging the list that they have produced like seems to make up every pronoun under the sun

00:15:30.820 and every now and then there's a little comic relief with terms like trans misogyny i had to look at

00:15:38.920 that one a couple times trans misogyny they describe as the intersection of transphobia and misogyny

00:15:46.020 the irrational fear of aversion to or discrimination against transgender people trans misogyny is often

00:15:55.100 directed at trans women in particular so after billions of dollars in funding little oversight

00:16:04.140 the nsa has now taken it upon themselves to decide that men can now be misogynistic to other men

00:16:12.780 what a breakthrough your tax dollars at work meanwhile china and russia beating us on hypersonics

00:16:18.860 but we figured out that men can be misogynistic to men wow what an advancement just about the only thing

00:16:26.320 that this report doesn't explain is what business the nsa has in cataloging and promoting any of this

00:16:33.260 hysterical mentally ill lunacy big brother getting into crt should concern us and if we don't nip it in the bud

00:16:41.040 right now we're going to be paying for it imagine the nsa intercepting your text messages and flagging 0.96

00:16:47.400 any material deemed to support extremist beliefs like there are only two genders or men can't be

00:16:54.640 misogynist to other men or i'm not sorry that my ancestors created western civilization perhaps they're

00:17:01.780 already doing this after all we learn oftentimes after the fact of the nsa's violations of the law and

00:17:08.580 our civil liberties what else would they be keeping a glossary like this for as insane as it is it's

00:17:16.640 dangerous and the nsa owes the american people an explanation we can't let this continue history 0.74

00:17:22.040 is fraught with mass hysteria like this and sadly the good guys don't always win we need to put an end

00:17:28.180 to it before we figure out what it looks like when the crt regime is lashed to the most exquisite 0.73

00:17:34.880 spying and surveillance tools that have ever existed on the planet earth there's sad news that we also

00:17:42.960 must share with you today from florida's first congressional district i want to send out

00:17:47.760 condolences to the family of u.s air force captain nicholas smog brown captain brown was a pilot

00:17:55.240 instructor for the 58th fighter squadron and a member of our eglin air force base family in northwest

00:18:01.200 florida captain brown tragically passed away on november 11th 2023 as a result of injuries sustained

00:18:07.200 during a free dive incident near the east destine pass captain brown was described as a devoted father

00:18:15.220 husband and beloved squadron mate captain brown's family has shared a gofundme page we'll be putting

00:18:21.900 that information out on our social media platforms they've raised 141 000 with a goal of 158 000

00:18:29.100 dollars i will be donating and would encourage you to do so as well we had an interesting

00:18:36.720 conversation recently that i want to let all of our viewers in on in florida there's a lot of

00:18:41.620 discussion about how to drive down some of our incarceration and corrections costs how to have

00:18:46.720 better outcomes in the criminal justice space i'm a former state lawmaker i chaired our criminal justice

00:18:52.940 subcommittee in the state house of representatives and i caught up with one of my former colleagues former

00:18:57.900 state senator jeff brandes to discuss what some of his policy visions are regarding florida and

00:19:04.680 veterans criminal justice take a listen jeff brandes is a former member of the florida senate and florida

00:19:12.340 house of representatives we serve together in the legislature he now leads the florida policy project and

00:19:17.800 they are out with an interesting new report about the incarcerated population in florida particularly

00:19:23.280 veterans who are getting older and senator brandes has some policy prescriptions so jeff thanks so

00:19:29.360 much for joining me and tell me what you've learned about our veterans who are incarcerated in the

00:19:32.980 sunshine state sure the florida policy project is an organization dedicated to identifying best

00:19:38.400 practices in the country on criminal justice property insurance transportation and housing

00:19:41.960 and right now we're just launched a report on veterans which basically says we have about 4 000

00:19:48.040 veterans we think that's underreported that are incarcerated in the state of florida and we're not

00:19:52.660 serving them at the level we think would be considered a best practice at all in fact oftentimes we aren't

00:19:57.020 serving them at all in the prison system other than putting them in veterans dorms that we aren't 0.99

00:20:00.660 monitoring what have we learned about their age and the risk that they would pose if there was some sort of

00:20:06.920 re-entry opportunity so that's the thing florida's veterans are largely serving very long sentences

00:20:12.320 and they're getting old in prison and and so we think that there is uh we can provide more services we

00:20:17.920 can provide more uh counseling to those that are incarcerated and provide them better re-entry

00:20:23.460 opportunities connecting them to services on the outside um while they're and connecting to the va services

00:20:29.500 that are available while they're still incarcerated there are also a lot of federal benefits that our

00:20:34.720 veterans would be able to access if they weren't incarcerated and frankly a lot of their health

00:20:40.320 care that would be paid for not by florida taxpayers but uh but by you know those who uh who are

00:20:46.960 contributing to to federal programs and we've had this uh this immersion of veterans courts in florida

00:20:54.880 where it's a specialized docket to review uh the different allegations and charges that are made and then to try to

00:21:01.120 fashion a correction solution that might be unique to veterans uh what's been your perspective on the

00:21:06.500 success of that program in florida i think it's the the veterans court has been incredibly effective

00:21:11.420 at dealing with some of the the you know those that are incarcerated for drug crimes or property crimes

00:21:16.080 unfortunately you know veterans uh have a higher incidence of sex crimes and that's largely why 0.78

00:21:21.840 they're incarcerated or larger or violent crimes and so that's typically is why you see veterans 0.89

00:21:27.760 being incarcerated for longer periods of time but even that population uh we can find solutions for

00:21:33.320 and that's why you know the floor policy project is calling for more investment in our veterans that

00:21:37.380 are incarcerated uh senator brandes you know re-entry more broadly beyond these specific populations we've

00:21:43.940 talked about has proven to be an essential component to reduce recidivism and there are some folks in

00:21:50.140 criminal justice uh thinking who just are of the lock them up throw away the key perspective and

00:21:55.600 certainly for probably some defendants that's warranted but how should we think about re-entry

00:22:02.220 as a concept and uh and the investment we ought to make in it well first of all i think we need to

00:22:07.980 praise and recognize the success of the first step act and that the overwhelming data that we're getting

00:22:12.920 back now that that has kind of matured now is that it's been incredibly positive i think the second

00:22:18.740 thing is to recognize that there's two key indicators when we're re-entering people what kind of house or

00:22:23.860 household are they going back into and are they available to get and keep a job and those are the

00:22:29.220 two primary factors that i think the state of florida and frankly every different uh corrections

00:22:34.200 institution can do better at is identifying best practices that help people re-enter society which

00:22:40.640 means can they get it they get an id when they leave prison can they get a bank account when they

00:22:44.520 leave prison those kind of key things that we don't even think about your transportation is often a

00:22:48.880 major challenge for those leaving prison in florida they leave prison with 50 bucks and a bus pass now

00:22:53.840 nobody will tell you that's a best practice and it's an area where we can do a lot more work for

00:22:58.040 our veterans and just those that are not veterans that are leaving prison the key thing is how do we

00:23:03.440 get them to re-enter society um we're all focused on public safety but the best thing we can do is

00:23:08.600 taking those people that are incarcerated and getting out ensuring that they're successful when they get out

00:23:13.080 no doubt i mean what what folks don't think about is that almost everyone in prison is going to get

00:23:18.120 out one day and we know what that day is going to be for the most part from the government side

00:23:23.020 and so we we should be doing more to plan for the success of that individual whether it's industry

00:23:29.040 certification education uh whether it is like you said an id or or some sort of re-entry plan where

00:23:35.580 folks are getting a job working and i think that can do a lot to reduce the number of victims and

00:23:41.320 of crimes that that we ultimately have in this country a final question for you senator brandes

00:23:45.960 what is next for the florida policy project what issues are you going to be putting out reports on

00:23:50.380 and where can folks uh follow that work and follow you so obviously the one of the top challenges in

00:23:56.060 florida is uh property insurance and housing affordability and so we're going to be launching

00:24:00.420 our uh property insurance uh discussion and best practices in the coming days uh that we have one on

00:24:06.460 vouchers uh for housing affordability and then we're going to specifically look at women in prison

00:24:11.940 i mean i think that's one of the most challenging areas that we see in the country is best practices

00:24:16.020 for for dealing with that women are incarcerated they often come in with a lot of trauma uh they

00:24:20.880 they often are leaving their kids and they're often separated from their kids by my hours and hours of

00:24:25.640 travel and so i think it's an area that's under-researched and when we're going to spend some time

00:24:30.080 looking at best practices and how can folks follow the group and follow you sure you can go to

00:24:36.180 floridapolicyproject.com and see all the great work we're doing and you can follow us on twitter

00:24:40.300 at jeffrey brandes or at florida policy project senator jeff brandes head of the florida policy

00:24:44.980 project thanks so much for joining me great to see you matt

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 16, 2023

Episode 134 LIVE： Thanksgiving Inflation (feat. Sen. Jeff Brandes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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