The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 04, 2021


Episode 14： Speaker Jordan？ (feat. Rep. Jim Jordan) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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Learn English with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAetz) on the latest episode of CNN's Hard Knocks. Rep. Gaetz was one of the few in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

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00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.000 You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.000 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.
00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:53.000 I don't care if they're Republican, Independent, Democrat, Martian, American.
00:00:56.000 I don't care. What I care about is getting the information.
00:00:58.000 Mr. Speaker, everyone knows this is a joke.
00:01:02.000 It's all pretend.
00:01:04.000 That the Comey FBI and the Obama Justice Department worked with one campaign
00:01:08.000 to go after the other campaign.
00:01:10.000 That's what everything points to.
00:01:12.000 Repeal Obamacare, reform welfare, build the border security wall,
00:01:15.000 and fix our immigration system and control spending.
00:01:18.000 We haven't done that.
00:01:19.000 What's it going to take?
00:01:20.000 What's it going to take for the State Department to put in place the practices that are going to save American lives?
00:01:26.000 I'm asking basic questions about the investigation, like who's heading it up?
00:01:30.000 And you can't tell me that.
00:01:32.000 Tell us if I'm wrong.
00:01:33.000 But I don't think I am.
00:01:34.000 I think that's exactly what happened.
00:01:36.000 And if it did, it is as wrong as it can be.
00:01:39.000 And people who did that need to be held accountable.
00:01:41.000 We're going to keep digging to get the answers.
00:01:44.000 This is unbelievable.
00:01:45.000 And I'm here to tell you, Mr. Rosenstein, I think the public trust in this whole thing is gone.
00:01:50.000 Somebody who was interviewed by the FBI told the FBI we tipped her off.
00:01:53.000 Have you done an investigation, Ambassador Kennedy, and who might have tipped off?
00:01:56.000 I mean, here's what this gets to.
00:01:59.000 Once again, Hillary Clinton gets treated different than anybody else. 1.00
00:02:03.000 She got tipped off.
00:02:05.000 Money in politics.
00:02:06.000 Here's how it works.
00:02:08.000 Politicians give money to Planned Parenthood.
00:02:11.000 We'll give it back to politicians at election time who get elected.
00:02:15.000 We'll give it back to Planned Parenthood.
00:02:18.000 We'll give it back to politicians who get elected, and the game plays on.
00:02:21.000 If you had the government working with one campaign to dress up a fake news National Enquirer garbage report,
00:02:29.000 to dress it up as intelligence, take it to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on the other campaign,
00:02:35.000 that should not happen in this country.
00:02:37.000 It's the most important issue in front of the country the last six weeks.
00:02:40.000 You don't know who's heading up the case?
00:02:41.000 Who the lead investigator is?
00:02:43.000 At this juncture, no, I do not know who did.
00:02:45.000 You get that information to us?
00:02:46.000 We'd like to know.
00:02:47.000 We'd like to know how many people you've assigned to look into this situation.
00:02:50.000 No wonder Americans hate this place.
00:02:52.000 No wonder they're cynical.
00:02:54.000 We make the job of being a member of Congress way too complicated.
00:02:57.000 Let's do what the-
00:02:59.000 Let's do what we said.
00:03:01.000 We make this so hard.
00:03:02.000 Let's just do what we said we would do.
00:03:04.000 That'll be good politics.
00:03:06.000 And more importantly, that'll be good policy for the hardworking families of this great country.
00:03:11.000 Do what you said you would do.
00:03:16.000 That's the directive from the OG Firebrand, Congress's most talented member, Congress's hardest working member, someone I look up to, someone who has really inspired a generation of fighters in the Congress.
00:03:29.000 My good friend Jim Jordan.
00:03:31.000 Also, the title of the upcoming book from my friend, and I think it informs on a lot of important issues facing the Congress, facing the country.
00:03:41.000 And Jim, you know, the title really, I think, begs the question, what is it that we have to say we are going to do to the country to earn the trust of our constituents and to strengthen the institution of Congress?
00:03:55.000 First of all, I'm not the most talented you are, and you are a friend, and I appreciate your leadership and your willingness to fight for what you told the constituents in Florida that you would fight for when they elected you.
00:04:06.000 I always say we make this job way too complicated.
00:04:08.000 What did you tell them you were going to do when you put your name on the ballot and you went out and talked to the folks in your district and they gave you the privilege to go serve in the United States Congress, which is a privilege only about 12,000 people have ever had in the history of our great country?
00:04:19.000 What did you tell them you were going to do?
00:04:20.000 Do that.
00:04:21.000 Do that.
00:04:22.000 No matter who's against you, go do what you said.
00:04:25.000 You have done that, and that's why you're a friend and someone I so respect.
00:04:28.000 What we told them we're going to do is the things they care about.
00:04:31.000 Make sure we defend the sanctity of human life.
00:04:34.000 Make sure we don't spend this country into the debt that we now see.
00:04:37.000 Make sure we stand up for the Constitution and stop this assault that we have seen over the last year on their First Amendment liberties.
00:04:44.000 This is the part that bothers me the most as two guys who sit on the Judiciary Committee, the committee that's supposed to protect the Bill of Rights, the Constitution,
00:04:51.000 and your liberties under the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Second Amendment.
00:04:55.000 That's what we've got to make sure we do.
00:04:57.000 If we get the majority, that's what we've got to focus on.
00:05:00.000 You know, Jim, all over America right now in Republican primaries, people are working to define themselves as Jim Jordan Republicans in a lot of ways because you and Mark Meadows and many of our other colleagues started the Freedom Caucus to be a rudder for the body to provide a sense of direction in a town that can often be so corrupt and tumultuous.
00:05:24.000 Walk us through kind of the scenes of the book where you start the Freedom Caucus, where you decide that this has to be an organization to inspire people and to draw people in.
00:05:34.000 And it's an organization that's inspiring campaigns throughout America today.
00:05:39.000 In the introduction, I talk about the day Mark Meadows filed a motion to vacate the chair, something that hasn't been done over 90 years in this country where it's the equivalent of filing a vote of no confidence in a parliamentary form of government.
00:05:52.000 And I will always remember this, and they can read this in the introduction, but it's a moment that has stuck with me.
00:05:58.000 Mark is in the well of the chamber.
00:06:01.000 We're sitting in the back where Freedom Caucus people typically sit.
00:06:04.000 And as Mark is getting ready to sign the document down there at the dais, he turns and looks back and he's actually just thinking.
00:06:12.000 He wasn't trying to look at anyone. He's just thinking it was because it was a major moment.
00:06:15.000 It was a huge moment in, frankly, in American history, I think.
00:06:19.000 And he turns back, he's looking up, and then his gaze sort of came down and we lock eyes.
00:06:25.000 And that's when I thought, he's doing it.
00:06:27.000 We've been talking about it.
00:06:28.000 We didn't know he was going to do it that day.
00:06:29.000 And I thought, he's doing it.
00:06:31.000 And there was this smile on his face and it wasn't a smile that said, we're going to get John Boehner.
00:06:37.000 It was just a smile that said, here we go.
00:06:40.000 We're going to do something that hasn't been done in almost a century.
00:06:44.000 And with that, signing that document, filing that motion, within a few months, something that has never happened in American history,
00:06:51.000 the Speaker of the House steps down midterm with no health concern and no scandal.
00:06:57.000 He stepped down because he didn't have the votes to stay in power because he wasn't doing what the people elected us to do.
00:07:03.000 And we start with that and we talk about that a lot through the book.
00:07:05.000 We talk a lot about Matt Gaetz, particularly one of my favorite things in my time in Congress was when you and Steve Scalise and a bunch of our colleagues stormed the bunker in the basement.
00:07:17.000 And frankly, and I know your viewers know this, but that would not have happened but for your leadership.
00:07:22.000 And you joined those of us in there who were doing the depositions.
00:07:25.000 And I remember Adam Schiff.
00:07:27.000 He got all fired up, stormed out, if you remember.
00:07:29.000 And he wanted to talk to me, so I had to go down to his office.
00:07:32.000 And he basically told me, you got to kick him out.
00:07:34.000 And I'm like, I'm not kicking him out.
00:07:35.000 You're the chairman.
00:07:36.000 And oh, by the way, I'm kind of glad they're here.
00:07:38.000 And they want to be here because they're standing up, they're doing.
00:07:40.000 Oh, I remember what you said to me, which is now that you're here, you better not leave.
00:07:44.000 But that was your direction to me at the time.
00:07:45.000 But that was a turning moment and a moment.
00:07:47.000 We jail broke the truth.
00:07:48.000 Yes, yes.
00:07:49.000 Where with your leadership, our conference came together.
00:07:53.000 And remember at the time, the conventional wisdom was that the Democrats were all going to vote to impeach President Trump.
00:08:00.000 The best president we've had, they were all going to vote to impeach him just 13 months before an election.
00:08:05.000 And they thought a bunch of Republicans were going to jump on their side.
00:08:08.000 And what happened because of what you did and so many people come together and the good staff we had and all the fighting we did, what happened is no, every Republican voted not to impeach President Trump.
00:08:17.000 And Democrats came our way.
00:08:19.000 And one of them even switched parties.
00:08:21.000 And I don't know that all that happens.
00:08:23.000 You really don't believe it does if you don't take the action you did.
00:08:26.000 And the country is better off because of what you did and a number of other of our colleges stood strong.
00:08:32.000 Well, those were times when a lot of people in our party believed that we ought to just fold our hands and hope that Donald Trump hadn't done anything illegal or criminal.
00:08:42.000 And they were unwilling to challenge the basis for these investigations, whether it was the Ukraine sequel or the Russia hoax at the outset.
00:08:51.000 And, you know, you talk about your role in history, dislodging John Boehner and really setting the right on a new course and a better course.
00:08:59.000 But it hasn't been a course without some rough seas.
00:09:02.000 The Paul Ryan speakership.
00:09:03.000 I mean, we went from Boehner to Paul Ryan.
00:09:06.000 The title of your book is do what you said you would do.
00:09:10.000 And what we said to our voters in election after election was that if they trusted us, we would repeal Obamacare.
00:09:17.000 And then Paul Ryan took like 14 million dollars from HMOs in the weeks leading up to dropping legislation that they told us repealed Obamacare, but they didn't repeal Obamacare.
00:09:30.000 And so so talk about being in that position and the pressure that the Freedom Caucus was under to inform the entire movement and the entire body that to do what we said we had to do, we couldn't turn the product over to the lobby corps.
00:09:44.000 Yeah. Great point. It was a tough time.
00:09:47.000 And the legislative strategy we embarked on was maybe the dumbest in history, because if you remember, Paul Ryan talked about three buckets, like we were going to do something now, something later, then have the Dr. Price, who was head of HHS Health and Human Services, do something on his own, which sort of begged the question, well, if he can do it on his own, why doesn't he do it now?
00:10:07.000 Why does he have to wait until we pass? It was just a crazy legislative strategy. 0.93
00:10:11.980 We should have just passed what we had passed the Congress before President Trump got here and and had it on his desk because President Trump would have signed that on January 20, 2017.
00:10:21.000 So your concept is put the same bill on Trump's desk that we had put on Obama's desk.
00:10:25.980 But but is there a greater example during your time in Congress of people not doing what they said they would do than the Republicans who were willing to vote for an Obamacare repeal when they knew Obama would veto it, but then who weren't willing to vote for the same bill in the whip checks when it was President Trump?
00:10:42.760 That's a great point. And you're exactly right. But guess what? Guess who was willing to do what he said he would do when he got here?
00:10:48.700 President Trump. You remember, we first got here and we go to we go to the White House and in the West Wing, they have on the board that big whiteboard and they wrote down every single promise they made to the American people.
00:10:58.220 And then when they did it, they checked it off. That's the kind of leadership we had under President Trump.
00:11:03.040 And we go back to the to the when when they started the lies about President Trump.
00:11:08.580 Here's the other thing I remember. There were only four or five of us.
00:11:11.560 There were only four or five of us who said, wait a minute, something doesn't smell right here.
00:11:15.140 One of them's the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. Exactly right.
00:11:18.160 And in the leadership of Devin, you, Matt, Mark Meadows and Ron DeSantis, that's all there was.
00:11:25.020 And there were a few people in the press, Molly Hemingway and some of the other great people who wrote some things.
00:11:29.520 And we started reading this. We said something doesn't make sense here.
00:11:31.760 And the willingness to we were close enough to the Trump campaign to know that it was impossible for that group to collude with Russia because we were a traveling carnival.
00:11:40.300 We were just so happy to be on to the next city to bring positivity and an America first spirit, never violence, never destruction, always love of country reverence for our military and our law enforcement colluding with Russia.
00:11:53.320 We could barely collude with the next venue location, you know, and so we knew that it was such a joke at the outset.
00:11:59.120 And it was an effort to destabilize the presidency because they couldn't deal with the results.
00:12:04.280 So, you know, in this next kind of period for Congress, you know, what is that thing that you think, particularly the Judiciary Committee, can have a role in delivering on?
00:12:14.880 No secret. You're the Republican lead on the Judiciary Committee.
00:12:17.200 If we take the majority, you will likely be the first chair of that committee to not be a member of the bar in the history of the committee.
00:12:26.300 So walk us through the Jim Jordan vision for kind of the opening weeks.
00:12:30.740 No, that committee has a I always say a storied history.
00:12:35.180 You think about Henry Hyde. You think about some of the people who've led that committee, a storied history of defending the Bill of Rights, Americans, the American people's fundamental liberties and freedoms.
00:12:47.980 And right now what we have is a committee that's doing just the opposite.
00:12:51.940 So what we're going to have to do is, one, we're going to have to do the investigations that need done.
00:12:55.760 I mean, this idea that the IRS released thousands of people's tax returns.
00:12:59.660 Now, that'll probably be, you know, led over in the ways that means we have an investigation subcommittee and an oversight subcommittee.
00:13:05.500 We definitely need that. We need to we need to look into the IRS situation.
00:13:09.500 We need to look into what what's happening with this Justice Department going after parents. 0.95
00:13:13.520 This issue that we're focused on right now and school board meetings, what they're doing, the political nature of our Justice Department right now.
00:13:19.520 We need to look at all that. We need to we need to go after big tech censorship.
00:13:22.840 I mean, this thing, what's happening to speech?
00:13:26.860 I always say the five liberties we have under the First Amendment, your right to practice your faith, the right to assemble, right to petition your government, freedom of press, freedom of speech.
00:13:33.680 Speech is the most important because if you can't speak, if you can't speak, you can't really fully practice your faith.
00:13:39.920 So speech is the most important. What big tech in collusion with big government is doing in this cancel culture world we live in is so wrong.
00:13:48.720 Barry Weiss called it the digital thunderdome.
00:13:50.620 You take on you take on the woke mob, they will put you in the thunderdome. 0.87
00:13:54.740 Ask as someone is asked Drew Brees, who said we should stand for the national anthem.
00:14:00.840 Now, Drew Brees is as apple pie as you can get.
00:14:03.180 He is a great American, wonderful Christian family guy.
00:14:06.100 And he had to he had to back down from the mob.
00:14:09.220 This is frightening.
00:14:10.100 But I said this last week, I actually think Americans are are are going to push back in a big way.
00:14:16.680 And I think the main reason is what happened with Merrick Garland when he goes after moms and dads like, wait a minute, this is the last straw.
00:14:23.980 So that's what the Judiciary Committee has to focus on.
00:14:27.160 Those those fundamental rights we have had have under the First Amendment, making sure we defend them.
00:14:31.400 So you write in the book, do what you said you would do, which, by the way, I'm going to get for my parents for Christmas.
00:14:40.140 Anybody that that is going to be something they will truly enjoy.
00:14:43.200 You write that we need to break up big tech.
00:14:45.220 How would you do it?
00:14:46.120 Yeah, I think you got to get the case.
00:14:47.460 One of the things we're talking about is speeding up the process.
00:14:49.680 So you get it to the Supreme Court.
00:14:51.420 Justice Thomas seems to want to deal with this.
00:14:53.180 He's indicated, I think, that a lot.
00:14:55.000 So you get rid of the liability protection in Section 230 and you create a expedited path to get that to the Supreme Court so it can happen.
00:15:03.760 And it does take 100 years for this to break them up because we ain't got that amount of time.
00:15:07.240 What you describe is not dissimilar to the way that we went after tobacco companies at the state level in a lot of ways.
00:15:13.800 Strip these entities of their defenses and declare open season on them and stick the trial lawyers on them.
00:15:19.720 But then the remedy does not emanate from the legislative branch of government.
00:15:24.020 It emanates out of the judicial branch in your vision.
00:15:26.540 Yeah, it does because I'm nervous.
00:15:28.620 And I know we we've debated this.
00:15:30.360 I'm nervous about giving more power to the bureaucracy, particularly the bureaucracy controlled by the Biden administration.
00:15:37.160 And I guess exhibit number one would be look at the Justice Department controlled by the Biden administration, what we've seen there.
00:15:43.480 So that makes me nervous because I actually think big tech and big government collude to further stick it to conservatives.
00:15:50.760 So let's make sure we get after big tech, but let's do it in a way that doesn't combine the all powerful big government with the all powerful big tech that will, you know, both those entities want to want to censor Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan.
00:16:03.060 I still remember the I still remember the day that you called me up because you're much better at all this tech stuff than me and how to handle it and the tweet and the post and everything.
00:16:12.680 You called me up just a few summers ago and you said, Jim, Twitter is shadow banning us.
00:16:18.460 And I think you related that.
00:16:20.540 I said something like, well, that sounds terrible, Matt, but what's shadow?
00:16:23.980 And then you explained it to me and we figured out and you were 100 percent right.
00:16:28.620 They were doing that.
00:16:29.880 And it was interesting.
00:16:30.960 It was Gates, Meadows, Nunes, Jordan.
00:16:34.760 Interesting for and Jack Dorsey.
00:16:36.520 Actually, remember he put out the statement and said, oh, no, no, wasn't intentional.
00:16:39.620 It was just a glitch in their algorithm.
00:16:42.440 And I'm like, glitch in their algorithm.
00:16:44.500 What did they put in the algorithm?
00:16:45.580 The names Gates, Meadows, Nunes, Jordan.
00:16:47.980 So this is this is this is why we got to get a remedy.
00:16:51.020 I think that a Judiciary Committee that is laser focused on vindicating the liberty interests of our fellow Americans, where we have seen them so abridged by tyrants at every level of government would really rally people and expand our movement to the very types of people we see rising up and becoming hyperpolitical in places like Loudoun County, Virginia.
00:17:13.420 And so, you know, I do think that that's a way to expand the movement.
00:17:16.840 I would I would go further with legislative power.
00:17:19.880 I think that, you know, we can go beyond using legislative power to strip immunities.
00:17:24.300 We could use it to literally reshape these companies.
00:17:26.400 But I think the ultimate result is is one that would democratize access to the digital world for people, regardless of their politics.
00:17:34.840 I mean, access to the digital world is central to the American experience.
00:17:39.480 And the terms of service on Twitter can't be more important than the rights that undergird the constitution of our country, for sure.
00:17:48.100 So some of our colleagues, Jim, have impeachment fever.
00:17:51.980 And I want to talk to you about this because you and I have spent a great deal of our time in Congress and we've deployed a great deal of our credibility to defend the presidency and the institution of the presidency against frivolous and politically motivated impeachments.
00:18:11.460 And while I do think Joe Biden is worthy of impeachment and particularly where they seem to be failing on purpose on the border, I worry about impeachment by reflex.
00:18:21.540 And I worry that if everything is a basis for impeachment, not just purposeful wrongdoing, then any time you have a president and a Congress that are in different parties, part of the ceremonial exchange of power will be an impeachment.
00:18:37.560 I don't want the country to look that way.
00:18:39.880 Do you also worry about impeachment by reflex?
00:18:42.800 I do.
00:18:44.000 And I have not called for that.
00:18:45.960 There may be a time when it needs to happen.
00:18:47.460 I think that's where you are.
00:18:49.140 I've actually called for Joe Biden to resign.
00:18:50.760 I mean, you watch that.
00:18:52.360 I go back to that press event after the debacle that was the Afghanistan exit.
00:18:56.620 And I said, this guy's just not capable of doing the job.
00:19:00.460 But, yeah, we do have to be careful of that because you don't want it just to flip back and forth.
00:19:05.160 And that is a—
00:19:05.960 And to be frivolous.
00:19:06.800 Yeah, and certainly what the Democrats have made it and what they did to President Trump.
00:19:10.820 I mean, they tried to kick him out of office before he got there.
00:19:12.720 That's when they started the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:19:14.280 They tried to kick him out while he was there.
00:19:15.840 And then once he left, they tried to kick him out even though he'd already left.
00:19:18.160 And he had the greatest presidency, I think, certainly in our lifetimes, but maybe in the history of this great country.
00:19:25.280 And yet the Democrats were so obsessed because this guy came here and turned his town around, took on the bureaucracy, took on all the Democrats, took on all the mainstream press.
00:19:35.260 And he had to take on some of the Republicans too, which was amazing.
00:19:38.480 And yet, in spite of all, that did all he did.
00:19:40.700 But it was so invigorating.
00:19:41.940 It sure was.
00:19:42.360 Because when we had good ideas, we could get them right to the forefront of power in our government when everything in Washington is driven to try to constrain innovation and creative thinking.
00:19:52.600 And actually valuing the people who sent us who we owe, I think, a tribute of fidelity.
00:19:59.760 And Trump just gave us that platform.
00:20:02.120 He sure did.
00:20:02.500 And it's certainly a time that I know we'll enjoy.
00:20:05.220 Is one reason people need to read, do what you said you would do, because you're going to be Speaker of the House one day, Jim?
00:20:11.600 No, I'm not.
00:20:12.340 I want to be Chair of the Judiciary Committee.
00:20:14.580 I want Matt Gaetz Chair in one of the subcommittees, whichever one he wants.
00:20:18.020 I want to fight for the things I think the American people sent us here to fight for.
00:20:23.820 And first and foremost is their rights.
00:20:26.780 I mean, what's happened to Americans?
00:20:28.060 But you used to want to be Speaker.
00:20:28.900 I mean, I remember in Florida with you and Ron DeSantis going from small town to small town in my district.
00:20:35.040 That was a fun trip.
00:20:38.220 I was very proud to be the first member of Congress to endorse Jim Jordan this evening.
00:20:44.940 Thank you for sending Matt Gaetz to Congress.
00:20:47.500 We're two truly great Americans who are fighting for the things that matter in our country, that made our country great in the first place.
00:20:53.060 Jim, you'll learn about my district.
00:20:54.500 These are fighting folks.
00:20:55.580 These are warriors.
00:20:56.440 These are people who served in our military, who've been members of military families, and they did not send me to Washington to play defense.
00:21:02.860 I believe I represent the best district.
00:21:05.540 You didn't have a Speaker campaign with a great deal of corporate infrastructure.
00:21:10.840 But people showed up with homemade signs.
00:21:13.140 And I'm going to put them on the screen.
00:21:14.480 They brought their homemade signs that said Speaker Jordan.
00:21:17.680 And I've never seen people react to a leadership race in our country the way they did that.
00:21:23.920 What was the day you realized you didn't want to be Speaker anymore after that?
00:21:26.860 I never really did want to be Speaker.
00:21:28.380 You just sort of had to run at that time.
00:21:31.060 But I still remember that was such a fun trip.
00:21:33.820 You had to run at that time.
00:21:34.840 Yeah.
00:21:35.160 I don't want to run.
00:21:36.040 I didn't want to do it.
00:21:38.160 But anyway, we started on the western end of your district, traveled east.
00:21:42.620 I think we made three stops in one day.
00:21:44.820 Had the Harley guys, the big Trump bikers team leading the charge.
00:21:49.440 We had you emceeing every stop.
00:21:53.060 And, of course, Ron running for golf.
00:21:54.500 It was one of the most fun campaign kind of things I've ever done.
00:21:58.580 And then we got to hang out in your fine town.
00:21:59.860 And now we get to be a part of the Ron DeSantis fan club as he takes these values that we fight for, you know, often tilting against windmills in Washington.
00:22:09.920 And he goes and puts them to work for people.
00:22:11.960 A lot of the liberty agenda that a chairman, Jim Jordan, would pursue in the Judiciary Committee, we are seeing play out in the great state of Florida every day.
00:22:20.640 I liked when he said, my job is not to protect business.
00:22:24.400 My job is to protect the citizens of my state, their liberty.
00:22:28.880 And I thought, that's Jefferson, that's Adams, that's Madison, that is what it's supposed to be when he said that.
00:22:38.440 Kind of sounds like what we said we would do, right?
00:22:40.200 Yeah, exactly, exactly.
00:22:41.620 And that's why the country loves him so much, too.
00:22:44.220 And we do as well.
00:22:45.480 Do what you said you would do.
00:22:47.300 It's the upcoming book by Congressman Jim Jordan.
00:22:50.100 And if you read it, you'll be able to see the future because you will be able to see the agenda that we are going to fight for in the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of our fellow Americans.
00:22:58.960 Thanks for joining me on Firebrand.
00:23:00.480 Thanks for being the OG Firebrand.
00:23:02.400 Thanks for inspiring a generation to try to serve in Congress in a way that is worthy of, I think, the great platform you and Mark Meadows have created.
00:23:11.400 I forgot to say one thing.
00:23:12.340 My two boys love Matt Gaetz's speeches.
00:23:14.860 They love all the stuff you do.
00:23:16.420 So thank you again for having me.
00:23:18.000 All right, man.
00:23:18.660 Take care.
00:23:19.100 We'll be right back.