The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 135 – California Sheriffs Defy Gavin Newsom’s Lockdown Orders. AOC Wants to Pay People to Stay Home. Bring the Troops Home! Trump 2024？

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

00:00:13.980 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the king of thailand

00:00:22.720 having some girlfriend problems we've all heard the jay-z song 99 problems well it appears the

00:00:29.860 king of thailand has 100 problems the los angeles times shashik bengali has the story the thai king's

00:00:37.760 companion vanished after upsetting the queen now she's back in the spotlight so the king of thailand

00:00:44.660 has this 35 year old girlfriend and she's actually got a title in the government she is thailand's

00:00:50.680 royal noble consort a title given to a companion of the king who is not his wife she's the first

00:00:58.220 person to be named to that position in literally a century and there are some academics in thailand

00:01:03.600 who suggest this is strategic this is a way for the monarchy and the king to bridge the gap that

00:01:10.520 exists between themselves and the people and there is a good deal of resentment in thailand over the

00:01:15.800 monarchy and so you've got this good-looking 35 year old former army nurse who was raised in the

00:01:22.740 northern thai countryside and she's been out helping the people with the challenges that

00:01:27.800 they've been dealing with following a number of natural disasters in thailand and it was just last

00:01:32.920 year that the royal noble consort disappeared and there was a statement put out by the royal gazette

00:01:40.280 reproaching her for misbehavior and disloyalty and trying to outshine the queen and causing discord in

00:01:47.500 the palace well now she's back she's active and we'll see how the king is able to balance the queen

00:01:54.720 the consort and the people in thailand

00:01:58.120 the apprenticeship act is up for a vote in the house of representatives today i support apprenticeship

00:02:08.020 i support internships career technical education but i just can't vote for this bill

00:02:14.380 i don't understand why our 50 states are not in a better position to meet the needs of their economies

00:02:22.020 than the federal government the federal government should abolish the department of education education

00:02:28.860 isn't a federal function it's a function best left to the states and the people and of course in

00:02:35.960 colorado in florida in arizona new jersey in new york the state legislators know best what

00:02:43.780 skills are needed to impart on young people to ensure that there's greater competitiveness

00:02:51.240 in the global marketplace more and more our education decisions are made in washington dc and

00:02:57.920 funds are withheld if states don't comply i don't want to see career technical education go that way i want

00:03:04.780 to see our states innovate and tinker and try with different strategies to try to impart skills on young

00:03:12.400 people that will ensure their success their higher wages their greater opportunities for career

00:03:18.840 development so i'll be voting no on the apprenticeship act today not because i don't support career

00:03:24.800 technical education but because i believe that washington might ruin it and our states are in the best

00:03:32.020 position to advance it

00:03:33.860 alexandria ocasio-cortez believes that the way to deal with the virus is to pay people to stay home 0.99

00:03:45.240 i know this because she tweeted it quote to get the virus under control we need to pay people to stay

00:03:55.960 home you see this is part of a broader theme that i expect you might see from democrats in the coming

00:04:03.260 months they're going to use the coronavirus to try to execute on the broader goals of socialism

00:04:11.040 and if coronavirus can be a veneer to redistribute wealth in this country they're here for it you see

00:04:19.620 i think that the best answer to coronavirus is not a stimulus bill it's not the printing of more money

00:04:26.420 it's allowing people to work it's giving people the confidence of reliable testing it's ensuring

00:04:33.480 that we have the proper sanitation in place but it's not shutting down america and making

00:04:39.500 our fellow americans reliant on government you see the goal of socialists is always to make people

00:04:46.480 reliant on the largesse of government but eventually that requires the extraction of resources

00:04:53.240 of other people without their consent that can disincentivize productivity and really the nature

00:05:01.040 of america look the reason we have the edge on the world is because we're the most competitive the

00:05:07.640 most innovative the most ambitious and if we do as aoc suggests and just pay people to stay at home

00:05:15.220 we'll lose that we won't be america anymore that's why i'm not going to support a universal basic

00:05:23.160 income under coronavirus i'm not going to support endless payments to people but i do believe

00:05:30.600 we should open up i do believe we should allow people to go to work and i would invite congresswoman

00:05:37.800 ocasio cortez to join me in that advocacy

00:05:41.720 today the house armed services committee held hearings on the administration's planned drawdown of troops

00:05:51.640 in afghanistan hopefully a total withdrawal of troops from afghanistan and on the armed services

00:05:57.620 committee you typically have a lot of folks who are in favor of wars because a lot of the donations

00:06:02.980 that come to members of the armed services committee for political campaigns are given by defense

00:06:09.280 contractors so it often is a very pro-war committee and i found myself at odds with many members of the

00:06:16.480 committee on both sides of the aisle because i believe america is at her best when she has a

00:06:21.260 focused foreign policy not an adventurous foreign policy for the benefit of those who financially

00:06:27.720 get to access untold sums of slush fund cash during these overseas operations here's the chairman of the

00:06:35.660 armed services committee adam smith with his opening statement as mentioned this is an incredibly

00:06:40.160 important and very timely topic it's just about 19 years ago that we went into afghanistan and at the

00:06:47.520 time we had a very clear mission having just been attacked on 9 11 by osama bin laden and al-qaeda out

00:06:55.040 of afghanistan we went in there to make sure it never happened again to stop the threat and to contain it

00:07:01.120 and i think that continues to be the top mission we face a threat from transnational terrorist groups we

00:07:08.320 we can debate how large that threat is where exactly it comes from um and how best to contain

00:07:13.680 it but it is not debatable that that threat is there it's also worth noting that for all the problems

00:07:19.920 and troubles and difficulties that we had that mission has been successful in one sense we we have

00:07:26.240 not had a transnational terrorist attack on the u.s and when we think about all the men and women who

00:07:32.800 served in the military those who lost their lives those who were injured those who have suffered because

00:07:38.000 of this also all of the state department personnel and all the aid workers who have been there and

00:07:43.680 all of our allies and partners keep in mind this is not just the united states of america nato and a

00:07:48.880 number of other countries have participated in this mission and in that one key point it has been

00:07:54.160 successful and it should not be taken for granted but the question is where do we go from here because

00:08:00.240 while that has been successful there has also been a great cost as was just mentioned in terms of lives

00:08:06.080 uh lost people injured and the sheer cost to the nation in in money as well so where do we go from

00:08:13.040 here and how do we move forward i think it's important that we continue to maintain the mission

00:08:17.760 to stop transnational terrorist threats i took a different position than many here was my contribution

00:08:23.840 to the debate not only am i a minority member of this committee i hold a minority view on the war in

00:08:29.600 afghanistan on the committee i'm against it based on even the words of our own witnesses today the

00:08:37.840 corruption in afghanistan is unsolvable the war is unwinnable and the strategy is indecipherable it's not

00:08:45.360 a criticism of the current administration these are conditions that have been present for the last 19

00:08:51.600 years as we've traded the same villages back and forth with the taliban i listened intently as dr biddle said

00:08:58.080 well we're leaving and we're getting nothing what we're getting is out to me the biggest loser in

00:09:05.520 afghanistan is the nation that stays the longest now as i read some of the prepared testimony of our

00:09:11.440 witnesses particularly dr biddle here's how the argument seems to go 2500 troops really has no military

00:09:19.440 value there is no technical capability with 2500 troops that we have that is going to fundamentally

00:09:25.760 win this war we've had a hundred thousand troops there and we couldn't win it and now we think with

00:09:30.480 2500 that's what's going to like preserve these alliances and ensure our allies that were really

00:09:38.080 there with sufficient grit but that the purpose of these 2500 troops is politics that it is a political

00:09:44.880 feature of the war in afghanistan that if we leave 2500 troops there we will get more leverage and that if we

00:09:52.480 engage in accelerated drawdowns well the afghans uh the taliban in particular will see that this is

00:10:00.240 sort of a war of attrition that the united states is going to lose and so they're just going to stick

00:10:06.080 there and and maintain a level of violence that allows them to potentially recapture their political

00:10:11.840 power but the obvious question is if we know that the 2500 troops we're leaving there don't have military

00:10:20.000 value and are there as a political statement probably the enemy knows that too probably they understand

00:10:26.800 the very dynamics that our witnesses have laid out to their testimony today that this only ends one way

00:10:33.280 with us leaving with the taliban getting more power and with conditions in afghanistan 0.94

00:10:41.040 in pretty rough shape going forward as they have been for the last two decades as they were

00:10:47.440 for a substantial period of time before that i'm grateful that in the trump administration we have

00:10:53.520 highlighted our near peer adversaries as the requisite focus for our work i'm glad that we don't believe we

00:11:00.640 have to chase every potential terrorist into every potential cave in wherever i stand so that we can

00:11:08.400 you know thump our chests and say that we're being tough with a global counter-terrorism mission

00:11:13.440 it is my sincere hope that we not only reduce our troop levels to 2500 but that we reduce them to zero

00:11:22.400 that we leave afghanistan this has been the longest war in our nation's history our country is weary of it 0.91

00:11:29.520 even if the armed services committee is not and i yield back

00:11:32.560 disobedience in california no i'm not talking about gavin newsom disobeying his own orders for lockdowns

00:11:44.480 that was heavily covered in the media it's the news that orange county sacramento and el dorado county

00:11:51.600 sheriffs will not enforce gavin newsom's curfew order we get the story from the gatewaypundit.com's

00:11:58.720 christina layla california governor gavin newsom on thursday issued a curfew for most california

00:12:05.440 counties the curfew will affect 41 out of 58 counties in california currently in the most

00:12:12.480 restrictive quote unquote purple tier earlier this week newsom said he was looking at studies from

00:12:17.840 other countries on curfews including france and saudi arabia let's hope that gavin newsom isn't picking

00:12:24.480 up a whole lot of other policy ideas from saudi arabia and when you look at france they're only

00:12:29.440 allowing their citizens out of the house for like an hour a day you get your one hour to go and do any

00:12:36.800 grocery shopping or any other errands you have or do any sort of exercise and then you've got to be

00:12:42.640 back in your house so let's hope that there's not a continuing trend to import those policies

00:12:47.760 from europe to our country and the hypocrisy here is just so palpable like that gavin newsom would go

00:12:54.960 and violate his own orders and then become even more restrictive so these particular sheriffs in

00:13:00.640 these particular counties are not going to enforce the curfews instead embracing more

00:13:06.160 freedom for their citizens we stand with the sheriffs

00:13:09.680 floridapolitics.com's ag gankarski reports that i'm here for the donald trump 2024 campaign

00:13:23.440 and it's true there is no republican who could summon the populism and the energy and the enthusiasm

00:13:32.480 that we saw as a consequence of president trump's campaign look i was there in the final weeks

00:13:40.080 president trump is all about the enthusiasm of our country rising wages economic nationalism

00:13:48.880 putting our people first ending these forever wars canceling trade deals that put our people last

00:13:55.840 and ending the policies that make our border a joke ensuring that if people have to make a claim

00:14:03.600 for asylum that they can do it in their own country not ours as a consequence of catch and release

00:14:10.560 i just see the way the american people react to president trump and there is not a republican

00:14:16.720 politician on the scene who in 2024 could really summon this populist enthusiasm the way that donald trump

00:14:24.960 does so if he's running in 2024 i'm with him and i'm pretty sure you will be too

00:14:30.800 i joined steve bannon on the war room pandemic podcast we discussed how our nation should respond

00:14:42.000 to coronavirus we discussed the election and the future of the republican party here are a few of the

00:14:49.280 highlights we do not fix this if we do not expose this fraud they're not going to get worse at it

00:14:55.200 they're going to get better at it and we will never win another national election again those are the

00:15:00.080 stakes in these fights in the several states that you've discussed and i don't think that like to

00:15:06.320 really get a full audit across the enterprise we have to flip every one of these states at once

00:15:11.360 here's my prediction steve we flip one of these states that the media has called for joe biden and

00:15:18.240 the whole veneer comes down the whole fiction that he's president-elect joe biden and that this thing

00:15:23.760 is over is eroded if you're able to see that there was fraud sufficient to flip a state because then i

00:15:30.880 think the american people will say well wait a second like if you lied to us about georgia we got

00:15:35.840 to ask some more questions about wisconsin or if you lied to us about wayne county michigan how are we

00:15:40.160 supposed to believe what went on in fulton county right and i think that asking those tough questions

00:15:45.760 is an important obligation the president has not for his own political fortunes but for the future

00:15:50.960 of a populist movement that is very much opposed by the people who run these places where they're

00:15:57.040 more susceptible to fraud biden's acting like he's reaching across the aisle for republicans but he's

00:16:02.640 reaching in all the wrong places i mean he wants to import the foreign policy of dick cheney and the

00:16:07.360 trade policy of paul ryan you know and and in his own mind that's all globalism well right but like

00:16:12.960 that when you talk about the future of our movement yeah you know i don't believe that uh it is it is

00:16:19.920 going to be easy for us to even maintain the republican mantle uh if you see some of these establishment

00:16:25.840 figures kind of you know migrate to a biden world china is not our friend joe biden is holds this view

00:16:32.800 that if we just bring china closer to us that they will be more like us but the reality is when we 0.98

00:16:38.000 bring china closer it makes us more vulnerable and the chimerica dream that we've been sold by 1.00

00:16:44.080 both parties has really become a nightmare for our people thanks for listening to hot takes i'm

00:16:50.400 congressman matt gates make sure you subscribe give us a five star rating leave us a comment to let us know

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 20, 2020

Episode 135 – California Sheriffs Defy Gavin Newsom’s Lockdown Orders. AOC Wants to Pay People to Stay Home. Bring the Troops Home! Trump 2024？

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