The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 136 LIVE： Santos Expelled – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:08.360 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.680 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you 1.00

00:00:21.240 matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.260 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.020 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

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00:00:48.580 welcome back to firebrand we are broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office

00:01:00.080 building on the capitol complex in washington dc on a historic day when congressman george santos of

00:01:06.720 new york's third district was expelled from the united states congress by more than two-thirds vote

00:01:11.520 we're going to break down the arguments who voted each way and what it means for the house of

00:01:16.340 representatives this effort was spearheaded by anthony d'esposito someone who has not yet served

00:01:22.620 his first full year in the united states congress but somehow felt the need to set new precedent by

00:01:28.500 advancing this expulsion and uh you had really uh quite the debate high emotions and for all the time

00:01:38.300 that the united states congress has existed there's been pretty clear benchmarks as to what it takes

00:01:43.340 to muster an expulsion and congressman d'esposito again not having served his first full year here

00:01:49.860 believed it was upon him to set a new standard the d'esposito standard for due process and here is

00:01:57.400 that brazen and that brazen admission take a listen the american people expect us to do the right thing

00:02:06.200 the american people are watching for us to do the right thing and if we have an opportunity

00:02:12.640 in this great institution to start a new precedent one that means we hold members of the house of

00:02:22.140 representatives to a higher standard well ladies and gentlemen i'm pretty confident that the american

00:02:28.600 people would applaud that i'm pretty confident that the american people expect that and i hope that

00:02:35.300 tomorrow in this great chamber we set that precedent mr speaker we set a precedent that we as members

00:02:44.360 of america's oldest institution are held to a higher standard

00:02:49.380 i guess we are all so fortunate that we have anthony d'esposito to set the higher standard for all of us

00:02:58.360 but is it a higher standard when you lower due process i had debate in response to congressman d'esposito

00:03:06.640 that i offered on the floor take a listen i'd like to yield as much time as uh he may consume my

00:03:13.920 colleague from florida mr gates gentleman from florida is recognized i do not believe that the long

00:03:19.420 island crew is acting in bad faith just exceedingly bad judgment and here's why since the beginning of

00:03:27.000 this congress there's only two ways you get expelled you get convicted of a crime or you participated in

00:03:34.740 the civil war neither apply to george santos and so i rise not to defend george santos whoever he is

00:03:44.660 but to defend the very precedent that my colleagues are willing to shatter now let's speak to due process

00:03:53.360 mr santos hasn't been convicted of anything but we haven't even moved to expel the people who have

00:04:01.860 mr bowman pled guilty to a misdemeanor for his little fire alarm stunt weeks ago so like while the ethics

00:04:10.520 committee is marching to throw george santos out of congress they take no action as to someone who

00:04:15.640 actually pled guilty to a crime what's that all about and then there's all this talk about well

00:04:20.740 he could have come and testified to the ethics committee and he didn't so he had his due process

00:04:25.780 but that belies the fact that he faces a trial and had mr santos testified before the ethics committee

00:04:32.340 an argument could have been made that he waived any of his rights that he would have had at trial

00:04:37.720 that any american would enjoy so it was a it was a procedural double bind that shouldn't be held

00:04:43.580 against mr santos as some sort of adverse inference let's also talk about this precedent the fact

00:04:50.900 pattern as to mr santos is remarkably similar to the fact pattern of former representative duncan hunter

00:04:57.700 duncan hunter used campaign money on girlfriends and trips and home improvements and all sorts of personal

00:05:04.940 lavishes he was indicted for those crimes and continued to serve in congress he pled guilty

00:05:11.300 to a number of those crimes and continued to serve in congress he was in congress for like

00:05:16.880 an additional pay period after having pled guilty to the very same things that were that mr santos has been

00:05:24.960 indicted for and so i think it's it's persuasive to me that mr higgins and mr nell's two law enforcement

00:05:31.220 officials with sterling reputations are here not necessarily to defend mr santos but to defend

00:05:37.660 this precedent and this due process that is being shattered and i was struck when the author of this

00:05:43.500 resolution said the quiet part out loud he didn't try to shoehorn the expulsion of george santos

00:05:49.900 into some existing construct or precedent he said yep we're making a whole new precedent

00:05:56.220 we're making whole new rules right now but he defends that by saying that the new rules are better

00:06:02.900 that it's a higher standard so we should just throw away everything that's happened from the first

00:06:08.020 congress to the 118th because the new precedent is more robust the problem is it's a lower standard for

00:06:13.860 due process without merit mr speaker whatever mr santos did with botox or only fans is far less

00:06:25.440 concerning to me than the indictment against senator menendez who's holding gold bars inscribed with

00:06:33.160 arabic on them from egypt while he is still getting classified briefings today but he's not getting

00:06:40.540 thrown out of the senate he's getting classified briefings under indictment for bribery but whoa what

00:06:46.860 because because santos was was buying botox and only fans we got to throw him out

00:06:51.020 if george santos is convicted he ought to be expelled but until then it is an incredibly

00:06:59.880 dangerous thing for people in washington dc to substitute their judgment for the judgment of

00:07:07.540 voters winston churchill said that you know in in a democracy people get the government that they

00:07:14.760 deserve well the people of mr santos's district elected him and like this is not some district

00:07:20.880 in rural mississippi with like one newspaper this is new york city and george santos rolls in there

00:07:28.420 wins and you know what it's between him and his voters him and the justice system and the fact that

00:07:34.600 the ethics committee has done this incredible violation of precedent will do grave damage to this

00:07:41.380 institution for many years to come because now there is no requirement of any conviction there is a

00:07:47.520 departure from the precedent from the duncan hunter matter and many others and i i fear what that

00:07:53.000 may indicate lies ahead for the future of due process in the house of representatives i yield back

00:07:58.980 there is no standard anymore for expulsion if the standard was conviction of a criminal violation

00:08:09.420 then jamal bowman would have been subject to expulsion but congressman jamal bowman after his

00:08:16.200 fire alarm stunt didn't even have a single adverse action against him by the ethics committee that's

00:08:23.800 right the matter of jamal bowman was referred to the ethics committee and the ethics committee said

00:08:30.180 nothing to see here we declined to take any action against someone who pled guilty to a crime

00:08:37.180 so that's not the standard is the standard lying george santos told lies so we've got to throw him out

00:08:45.600 if we're throwing out every liar in congress we can get rid of a lot of the seats on the house floor

00:08:50.840 and by the way on the live stream you seem to take particular note of the fact that if we're throwing

00:08:56.420 out liars why don't we start with adam schiff not george santos and what if it's just we throw out people

00:09:04.460 we don't like how about rashida talib you see all of this is crazy there was a standard that held for

00:09:12.940 hundreds of years but some new york freshmen who've been here for all of 11 months decide it's upon 0.83

00:09:20.580 them to set a new precedent a higher precedent how foolish how short-sighted it's important to note

00:09:30.060 this is not on mike johnson so some of you have asked me well if this was something that we shouldn't 0.72

00:09:36.100 have done if it was something speaker mike johnson was against then why did mike johnson allow the vote to

00:09:42.140 come to the floor and as we've discussed kind of the intricacies of procedure on this program when

00:09:48.340 there are certain matters by house rule that are privileged which means they don't require the

00:09:55.860 consent of either party's leadership or the floor managers or the leaders the speaker to have a vote

00:10:02.580 any member can force a vote on something that is privileged and i gotta say i don't disagree with

00:10:11.080 that paradigm because i've used it quite frequently i use the privilege of one member to force votes on

00:10:18.540 where we ought to have u.s troops marjorie taylor green and i have used the privilege to try to advance

00:10:25.960 impeachments that we think need to be voted on for people like mayorkas and i think perhaps

00:10:33.000 considerably more folks within the biden administration joe biden himself

00:10:37.220 you also have privilege to remove a speaker and so we don't disagree with the concept that any member

00:10:48.200 should have privilege to bring certain things to the floor but it's important when you're trying

00:10:53.960 to assess who is accountable for this foolishness to not visit that on house speaker mike johnson

00:11:00.040 santos has been expelled the governor of new york has been notified there'll be a special election

00:11:07.960 and let me just break down the math for you practically and what this means republicans had

00:11:15.940 a four-seat majority okay expel santos that's a three-seat majority congressman bill johnson of ohio

00:11:25.680 he's taking a job to be president of youngstown state no one can blame him for that kind of a dream

00:11:31.360 job now it's a two-seat majority every photograph of kevin mccarthy's offices indicate that he's packing

00:11:39.860 up and i don't think it's just for the holiday break so if mccarthy departs now you're down to a one-seat

00:11:46.260 majority do you know how many octogenarians we have in the republican conference like god forbid 0.87

00:11:53.960 any of them were to take their last breath this action unprecedented would be the reason

00:12:02.940 democrats could take control of the house of representatives so the math is very very important

00:12:09.340 there was uh there was more stirring debate more hypocrisy that i want to showcase for you

00:12:15.520 this was an exchange between ohio congressman max miller and george santos and just for for background

00:12:22.740 here congressman miller previously served in the trump white house and had a romantic relationship

00:12:30.080 with stephanie grisham stephanie grisham then wrote a book saying that max miller used to beat her 1.00

00:12:36.300 i don't think max miller beat anyone i don't know but i don't jump to conclusions based on allegations

00:12:45.800 i've lived too much life and gone through too much to pass judgment just on the face of allegations in

00:12:52.780 the absence of evidence but max miller and george santos had quite the testy exchange on the house

00:12:58.640 floor ticket list

00:12:59.360 i myself have been a victim of george santos and as well as other members of congress in terms of

00:13:06.540 defrauding through public donations i had received an ethics complaint from the fec which i had to spend

00:13:10.940 tens of thousands to defend myself you sir are a crook i know i should direct my comments to the 0.80

00:13:15.360 chair i yield back gentlemen gentlemen's time has expired uh gentlemen from new york mr santos is

00:13:24.580 recognized i'd like to move to have the gentleman from ohio's word stricken from the record please

00:13:28.440 gentleman's request is not timely but i would remind members to direct their remarks to the

00:13:42.860 chair gentleman is recognized mr speaker 0.75

00:13:46.220 hypocrisy as i mentioned my colleague wants to come up here call me a crook 0.91

00:13:56.140 same colleague who's accused of being a woman beater are we are we really going to ignore the 0.66

00:14:04.260 facts that we all have passed and we all have the media coming out against us on a daily basis

00:14:09.880 we're back live and a lot of you are asking about senator menendez you on the live stream are

00:14:19.780 very very upset about the fact that bob menendez is caught with these gold bars from egypt while he

00:14:29.860 was the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and he's still in the senate getting

00:14:35.860 these classified briefings and yet george santos is expelled and here's something quite rich a tweet

00:14:42.300 that we get from olivia beavers of politico who notes that senator menendez's son who serves in the

00:14:52.260 house of representatives actually voted to expel george santos so someone should ask representative

00:15:00.420 menendez if he believes that allegations alone justify removal and guess what it looks like he does

00:15:08.940 that's what his voting card says would he vote to remove his own father maybe we ought to have a

00:15:15.600 sense of congress that senator menendez shouldn't be serving in the senate put that up and see how

00:15:21.460 representative menendez votes on it and and what it again it goes back to the point i made at the top

00:15:26.760 of this report there is no standard there is no bright line it's now a function of your popularity in

00:15:35.780 congress and that that is so beneath the dignity of this institution so who did it what republicans

00:15:46.000 joined with democrats to weaken our majority to erode precedent and due process because they had to

00:15:54.620 expel george santos 105 of them let's put those up let's put those names up i'm going to leave them up

00:16:02.760 so that you have an opportunity to see the 105 republicans who think it's better to set a new

00:16:10.960 precedent and diminish the important due process that our nation is founded on and and there are there

00:16:17.760 are a few names here that are particularly interesting to me because four of the people who voted to expel

00:16:27.480 george santos from congress stood in the way of impeachment of mayorkas

00:16:35.360 those representatives would be cliff bentz of oregon virginia fox of north carolina mr duarte of

00:16:44.580 california and mr buck of colorado those four members sought fit to expel santos but protect

00:16:53.500 mayorkas that is a tough tough sell that's bens buck duarte and fox

00:17:00.660 no impeachment for mayorkas but expulsion for george santos unreal uh there was also activity

00:17:11.580 in the senate that was bizarre and weird this week that i want you to be able to see now the senate of

00:17:17.760 course has the advice and consent function in the constitution for federal nominees to the bench

00:17:24.260 to article three courts so the judiciary committee spends a lot of time in the senate going over who

00:17:29.360 the president is nominated to serve on one bench or another they debate they discuss sometimes i refer

00:17:35.540 to the senate as the house of lords they have they have no real time constraint when they're on the floor

00:17:42.780 they call themselves the most exclusive club in the world the most deliberative body in the world

00:17:49.700 senator dick durbin of illinois is the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and just remarkably

00:17:58.680 he started moving to votes in the absence of full robust and complete debate on the nominees

00:18:08.420 usually the senate is viewed as the collegial body right they're the saucer that cools the tea

00:18:17.040 see if this looks deliberative to you take a listen

00:18:21.280 mr chairman mr chairman don't we get the opportunity to speak we're in a roll call

00:18:29.440 so you're telling us to shut up even though multiple members you want us to shut up is that what you're

00:18:35.980 saying a lot of people didn't speak on the two nominees before we've done i would you raise your

00:18:41.280 hand if you did not speak i did not have a chance to speak senator blackburn had a chance to speak

00:18:48.400 we've got several folks mr chairman who didn't have a chance to speak we want to tell you again why

00:18:53.880 these nominees are awful mr wells or in senator corin's case tell you for the first time you're just

00:19:02.700 going to sit there and ignore us i'm waiting to be heard on the nominee i've requested several

00:19:09.500 times to be heard on the nominee so now i guess senator durbin's not going to allow women to speak

00:19:15.540 either i thought that was sacrosanct in your party next is judge yumi lee nominated to the u.s 0.77

00:19:20.660 district court for the mr chairman who has not been allowed to speak on that mr chairman you just

00:19:26.600 destroyed yeah one of the most important committees in the united states senate chair would and you

00:19:34.760 set a precedent the chair will be repeated every time one party or the other takes advantage and

00:19:41.340 takes the low road it sets a precedent that will then be come the norm congratulations on destroying

00:19:49.520 the united states senate judiciary committee up next to judge yumi lee nominated to the u.s district court 0.97

00:19:55.200 who has not spoken on this nominee i don't know what drives this dick i really don't mr chairman 0.96

00:20:02.740 is it you driving it or is it your staff driving this this is completely inappropriate not to let us 0.98

00:20:11.380 be heard on these nominations and you know that yes senators don't really like it when you cut them

00:20:20.500 off and don't give them the opportunity to give remarks but it begs the question what about the

00:20:26.140 debate from lindsey graham or senator cornyn or senator blackburn was like so concerning to dick durbin

00:20:33.760 that he didn't want to hear it i know one thing dick durbin didn't want to have happen and marsha

00:20:40.340 blackburn was was pretty sharp on this point so you've got a real move in the senate to try to discredit

00:20:47.620 the supreme court right now they don't like the decisions that have come out of the supreme court

00:20:52.160 with trump having fundamentally remade the court and decisions starting to align with originalism

00:20:58.520 through through the work that they're doing and the decisions that are coming out so they want to

00:21:03.420 discredit the court and they've really put a target on clarence thomas we've talked about that a lot on

00:21:09.920 the program and so they're sending out all these subpoenas all of these demands to try to just kind

00:21:18.320 of rough up smear and imperil the court and so senator blackburn marsha blackburn out of tennessee she's 1.00

00:21:25.900 really one of my favorites over there she's a firecracker and she thought well if we're sending 1.00

00:21:31.820 out subpoenas how about we send some out for the epstein flight logs how about get that information

00:21:39.320 senator durbin how about the judiciary committee be more worried about who was flying around with

00:21:45.060 epstein rather than who was flying around with clarence thomas here's how that went take a listen

00:21:50.660 and since we're in the business of issuing subpoenas now here are a few more that i've filed

00:22:00.600 a subpoena to jeffrey epstein's estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane given the

00:22:08.820 numerous allegations of human trafficking and a sexual abuse surrounding mr epstein i think it is

00:22:17.980 very important that we identify everybody that was on that plane and how many trips they took on that

00:22:26.440 plane and the destinations to which they arrived so senator blackburn made that request and senator

00:22:36.820 durbin blocked it blocked the request to send a subpoena for the epstein flight logs you have to

00:22:44.360 wonder why you see the democrats don't like when republicans like senator blackburn punch back and she

00:22:51.400 did effectively and sometimes you you really reveal more about how these folks are thinking

00:22:57.400 by what they're willing to imperil rather than what they're willing to advance incredibly revealing now

00:23:03.200 i saw that on the gateway pundit a website that i read they do breaking news they do investigative

00:23:11.500 reporting they do opinion pieces they publish op-eds the gateway pundit is a great website it's a great

00:23:19.420 source for analysis and information and opinion well we went back to harvest the clip to show you on

00:23:28.440 this program from the gateway pundit and i have breaking news for you the united states house of

00:23:34.700 representatives has blocked access for congressmen and congressional staff to the gateway pundit that's

00:23:41.680 right if you try to go to the gateway pundit the website is blocked according to house of

00:23:47.620 representatives policy so we're going to fix that i don't know who thought that was an appropriate

00:23:53.880 action but we're going to get to the bottom of it i'm going to be speaking with the house

00:23:58.760 administration committee chairman style speaker of the house if necessary we're not going to have the

00:24:05.300 house censoring our access to conservative news into conservative analysis speaking of blocking

00:24:13.120 access to information that is the story of what's going on with unidentified aerial phenomenon right

00:24:20.080 now we've had congressman tim birchett of tennessee on the program before to talk about uaps ufos

00:24:27.620 and right now we're in the process of negotiating the national defense authorization act and we are

00:24:34.720 trying to get provisions into that bill that require the dod and the cia and the faa and the nsa and the

00:24:41.760 fbi and state and local authorities to get this information available for review by members of

00:24:48.760 congress and ultimately the american people the government has been holding secrets for too long

00:24:54.680 on uaps and i'm not here to tell you that they're little green men witnesses have told us that witnesses

00:25:02.800 have talked about biologics that are non-human that are not of earth origin whistleblowers have come

00:25:10.320 forward from the cia to talk about aircraft that have been recovered but i'm about the facts and the

00:25:18.800 evidence i'm a lawyer by trade so just as in the santos matter allegations alone are insufficient but

00:25:27.840 when we see the allegations and then we try to do the investigation to find out okay is this you know some

00:25:34.240 debris is this a foreign adversary is it something even more concerning and nefarious all we get is 0.71

00:25:41.200 the runaround well a few of us had had enough we had a bipartisan press conference to go over what

00:25:48.320 we were doing to try to get answers take a listen we are here today because all of the whistleblowers

00:25:57.600 the hearings the investigations the discussions the work that we have done have culminated in a

00:26:03.200 negotiation that is happening in real time right now over the national defense authorization act a

00:26:09.760 piece of legislation i care deeply about as a member of the house armed services committee

00:26:14.240 and in that negotiation we are fortunate that the amendment congressman birchett offered to the house

00:26:20.560 version of the ndaa provides a beachhead for us to be able to get the answers and to be able to

00:26:27.120 demand the transparency that is necessary it is insufficient though to seek this transparency

00:26:33.920 from the department of defense alone we have to have cooperation so that title 50 authorities through

00:26:41.200 the intelligence community are also subject to review that the faa the nsa the fbi even state and local

00:26:49.680 authorities that have information are able to have that catalogued assessed and then put out before the

00:26:56.080 public it is my belief that the birchett amendment is the strongest position uh when when coupled with

00:27:03.920 the additional authorities and additional agencies that i've just mentioned in order to be able to get to

00:27:10.080 that productive result unfortunately we have members of the house intelligence committee and the senate armed

00:27:16.800 services committee who right now are frustrating the effort that we are putting forward in order to be able to

00:27:24.080 to obtain the information and to move forward i think it is productive that senator schumer has engaged

00:27:30.400 on this issue he's not an insignificant person in this town but i am concerned about embracing a disclosure

00:27:39.040 paradigm that mirrors the jfk assassination disclosure paradigm i don't know that there are any americans

00:27:47.520 who would view the jfk assassination disclosure paradigm as some sort of vaulted standard time and again we've

00:27:55.600 seen that that system fail i also don't believe that pursuant to the schumer language we would have to wait 25

00:28:02.880 years in order to get this information 25 years is a long time when you consider what mr birchett said

00:28:09.600 about the uh the uh the lack of of veracity that the government has provided to the people up into this

00:28:16.560 point and so we're here to call for the most inclusive most robust provisions possible to be included in the

00:28:24.880 ndaa we don't want to see a lot of log jams created and in the event that there's any designation of a national

00:28:34.320 security concern regarding disclosure we believe that this information can no longer be siloed with

00:28:41.520 the entities that have frustrated disclosure that there should be broader briefings to members of

00:28:47.040 congress that the oversight committee which many of my colleagues here serve on should be receiving

00:28:52.320 those briefings that the armed services committee should be receiving those briefings and it should

00:28:56.320 not just be the fiefdom of the intelligence committee and uh the intelligence community and if we

00:29:02.720 achieve that objective i think we can start to restore some of the trust the public has but as we

00:29:08.000 work through the finer points of that legislation we felt it was important today to come forward and

00:29:13.120 express where the log jams exist where the opportunities lay before us and we will pursue those with great

00:29:19.680 vigor i also wanted to specifically thank house armed services chairman mike rogers he allowed the

00:29:26.320 birchett amendment to go on the bill without objection and i think he is to be commended for that

00:29:31.520 and also when uh my my colleagues uh miss luna and mr birchin and i were at an air force base and

00:29:37.920 were told by air force officials that we weren't allowed to see information that whistleblowers had

00:29:44.160 expressed to us existed it was in fact chairman rogers himself who personally engaged with the office of

00:29:50.560 the secretary of defense and gave us the opportunity to view the images that were taken by pilots of some of

00:29:59.040 these unidentified aerial phenomenon so uh work to be done but we hope that this gives you clarity as

00:30:05.520 to what our goals are how the scope and depth of uh of the mission ahead

00:30:12.480 we are back live and uh that was congresswoman anna paulina luna standing behind me in retro on youtube

00:30:18.400 says she makes plaid look good quite quite the observation so we often share information with you about how the

00:30:27.760 government works with private companies to go around your fourth amendment rights and it's

00:30:32.880 too often that i have to report to you time and time again of these egregious examples of federal

00:30:39.280 government malfeasance you are not going to believe what the federal government has been up to

00:30:45.360 with at&t and this time senator wyden a democrat from oregon seems to have stumbled on a real big

00:30:54.720 violation of civil liberties it's called the hemisphere project man if that doesn't sound like the name of

00:31:01.920 some sort of bond villains evil like project i do not know what does so apparently the hemisphere project

00:31:09.360 is a program where the white house office of national drug control policy pays at&t to provide all

00:31:18.800 federal state local and tribal law enforcement agencies with the ability to request searches

00:31:24.640 of trillions of domestic phone records dating back to at least 1987 plus the four billion call records

00:31:34.560 that are added every single day senator wyden thinks that these searches are usually occurring without

00:31:40.400 warrants that is awful but not entirely unbelievable when you look at the faiza abuses that our own

00:31:46.400 government's engaged in so at&t of course claims that any of this information would have been

00:31:51.760 compelled by a subpoena warrant or court order but it's hard to know who to believe the dea of course

00:31:59.120 can issue subpoenas even without the need of courts what we do know is that hemisphere is not subject

00:32:06.720 to a federal privacy impact assessment due to how it's being funded apparently the white house provides a

00:32:12.880 grant to the houston high intensity drug trafficking area which is a partnership between federal state

00:32:18.720 and local law enforcement agencies and then this partnership in turn pays at&t to operate its

00:32:26.960 surveillance scheme potentially outside of the bounds of the constitution now if hemisphere were subject

00:32:35.360 to a federal privacy impact assessment that would mean the public would be able to see a report

00:32:40.880 that includes how any analysis of personally identifiable information is handled a federal privacy

00:32:48.800 impact assessment is both an analysis and a document detailing the the outcomes and the impacts of course

00:32:58.480 but we'll never see such a document because the feds are trying to keep all of this very hush-hush

00:33:04.080 hemisphere is also not subject to the freedom of information act because the justice department has

00:33:10.720 labeled the program and its documents all law enforcement sensitive this designation prevents the documents

00:33:18.240 from being publicly released so they really don't want you to know what's going on behind the scenes

00:33:24.640 senator wyden's law enforcement source a whistleblower has called hemisphere google on steroids and it appears

00:33:32.080 that hemisphere can pull in phone records of everyone who communicated with the target of an investigation

00:33:39.040 that is a huge net and at&t is quite literally casting that net for the feds

00:33:48.160 the white house is dodging having to explain the ins and outs of the program and my guess is that's

00:33:53.280 because they'd have a hard time explaining it to the courts to the american people and as we continue to

00:33:59.680 investigate we'll learn more about this suspect program and we'll see just what big brother is trying to hide from us

00:34:07.040 the federal intelligence apparatus has morphed into a complete and total police state instead of

00:34:14.240 respecting the spirit of the fourth amendment they're working overtime to try to go around it undermine it

00:34:20.880 get private companies to do what they couldn't do directly but then they pay those private companies

00:34:26.160 congress has to put a stop to this and hold the government accountable to the people that's exactly

00:34:33.360 what i plan to do as we move forward with this investigation and senator wyden should be commended for

00:34:39.120 his work and his development of the whistleblower who has brought this forward i also want to give you a

00:34:45.760 key update regarding the border we get this report from the daily caller texas border sector at 169

00:34:54.000 migrant capacity uh the border patrol nationwide has about 20 000 migrants in their custody

00:35:01.520 the arizona tucson sector 175 capacity nationwide the capacity is just absolutely brimming now you know what i

00:35:10.880 think about the border detain or remove detain or remove if we don't have a bed for somebody

00:35:19.520 then they need to go home they need to be rejected at the border of course that's not what the biden

00:35:24.960 administration is doing they they just want more money to process more people into the country and

00:35:31.280 they think that's the sweetener to give conservatives to get us to vote for more money for ukraine which is

00:35:37.680 crazy i will never do that write it down you have my commitment the final story i want to update you

00:35:44.960 on this comes from newsweek seth rich's laptop to be turned over to the fbi a judge has ordered the fbi

00:35:52.880 to turn over the laptop of murdered democrat staffer seth rich rich was killed on july 10 2016 while making

00:36:01.280 his way home in washington dc and in this case it appears as though the records on that laptop have

00:36:11.280 not yet been uncovered and they want to get to the bottom of it rich's death sparked a wave of conspiracy

00:36:20.640 theories claiming he was responsible for publicly leaking thousands of dnc emails this according to newsweek

00:36:28.640 but are they conspiracy theories i guess we'll find out one person's you know there's there's an

00:36:33.600 interesting cycle in washington right first it's a conspiracy theory then it's russian disinformation

00:36:40.640 then it's true but not that big a deal and then it's a basis to go and target prosecute defame

00:36:46.880 conservatives well a lot of people have been trying to get to the bottom of the seth rich thing for a

00:36:51.600 while and i think that requiring this laptop to be turned over might give us more answers than we've

00:36:59.200 received to date thank you so much for joining me today on firebrand again a historic day

00:37:06.000 with the erosion of due process and precedent in the house of representatives with the expulsion

00:37:11.520 of george santos it was an act of self-mutilation by the house republican conference 105 republicans voting for

00:37:18.880 it even including four who stood in the way of accountability for failed homeland security secretary

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