The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 140 LIVE： Border, Budget, Bureaucrats, Bidens – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:08.500 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.840 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you 1.00

00:00:21.400 matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.420 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.180 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:42.980 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrand

00:00:48.480 welcome back to firebrand it's 2024 we're here broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn

00:01:01.040 house office building at the capitol complex in washington dc and i see already from the comments

00:01:06.360 several of you have missed me haven't gone anywhere but over the holidays we give our team a little bit

00:01:12.580 of a break but there have been a lot of negotiations uh we've been down to the border to continue to

00:01:17.160 observe the disaster there and so really this is a catch-up episode for everybody regarding what's

00:01:22.440 going on at the border these budget and and government spending negotiations uh the investigations

00:01:28.880 into the bidens and hunters showing up in the circus-like atmosphere and and also uh what we see

00:01:35.160 going on around the world and with our defense department so glad to have you back looking forward

00:01:40.300 to a productive 2024 and frankly it needs to be better than 2023 2023 we saw the nation go in the

00:01:46.480 wrong direction prices continue to rise and we saw a level of uh i think departure from the policies

00:01:54.060 even more so during that year the biden administration the only lever of power that republicans have is the

00:02:00.140 house of representatives so we have to use it we just have to we have to use the power of the purse

00:02:04.920 the power of the subpoena and we've got to have the will to endure a little bit of political pain

00:02:10.860 to deliver on what is necessary at this stage of the game to reverse the decline of the country and

00:02:17.120 there's there's no disputing that so now let's go to the border i went to eagle pass texas recently

00:02:23.440 a place that's been overrun by migrants migrants illegal aliens migrants what they call them but really 0.55

00:02:29.500 they're illegal aliens coming into our country and here in this video you're seeing right now 1.00

00:02:33.860 you're actually watching customs and border patrol cut the fencing that the state of texas put up along

00:02:41.220 the rio grande there at eagle pass and they're cutting that fencing they're allowing the illegal

00:02:46.420 aliens to come into the country and i've got a real problem with that there's currently a federal case

00:02:50.960 pending where texas is trying to maintain their ability to protect themselves and to have these

00:02:56.280 defensive barriers and we should not have your federal tax dollars going to remove those barriers

00:03:03.040 established by the state of texas so what you're seeing was given to me it was video taken

00:03:08.260 by someone who is a federal official and they shared it with me when i was down there to see

00:03:14.460 there it is just real time how the wires are being cut the people are being brought in

00:03:19.340 and you're funding your own invasion in a lot of ways but not enough according to one democrat congresswoman

00:03:25.780 the situation in new york has gotten very dire you see their facilities being overrun

00:03:33.020 their social services being strained uh and i just it it is beyond the pale that uh this is democrat

00:03:42.700 congresswoman representative clark of new york saying what we really need are more illegal aliens

00:03:49.160 she's calling for more illegal aliens from new york representative clark take a listen 0.81

00:03:52.940 and from brooklyn new york we have a diaspora that that can absorb a significant number of these

00:04:02.760 migrants and i that you know when i hear uh colleagues talk about uh you know the the the doors of the

00:04:09.440 inn being closed um no room in the inn i i'm saying you know i i need more people in my district but

00:04:16.400 just for redistricting purposes and those members could could clearly uh fit here

00:04:22.120 don't you see the tell in that all that matters to some of these people in congress is what's going

00:04:30.160 to preserve my political power she's talking about needing illegal immigrants in her district 1.00

00:04:35.800 for the purpose of redistricting because if you're able to demonstrate larger people

00:04:40.160 then you get more congressional districts that's what this is about and throughout america's history

00:04:45.840 there's always been a time where people have tried to create some some mass suffrage 0.99

00:04:51.140 or deprive mass suffrage in order to keep or limit political power of others we saw great debates in

00:04:58.660 the congress over these questions in the time that america was grappling with the offals of slavery

00:05:04.140 and how to count various slaves for the purpose of apportioning congressional districts and here

00:05:10.000 you have these people who oftentimes are like in the slave trade because they're part of a human

00:05:15.780 trafficking pipeline that ends up in a place like chicago or detroit or new york or miami

00:05:21.200 and here you have congresswoman clark saying we can absorb them we can absorb them well how is that

00:05:29.640 going we've got a report from james madison high school where children are no longer allowed to

00:05:36.920 attend class in person because the very process of absorbing illegal immigrants that you just heard 0.59

00:05:42.400 from representative clark isn't really going so well take a listen well students at a brooklyn high

00:05:49.160 school had to learn remotely today after thousands of migrants were relocated to their high school because

00:05:54.180 of the storm cbsu's natalie dudridge live in midwood brooklyn at james madison high school

00:05:58.740 with more natalie outraged parents and some midwood community members argued students classes at james

00:06:05.280 madison high school should never have been moved online to make room for migrants to temporarily 1.00

00:06:09.860 shelter in their gym and auditorium during tuesday night's storm what i'm talking about the human issue

00:06:15.740 here it's inexcusable to do this to the students of new york city high schools especially after all

00:06:20.640 they've been through with covid they have to come up with another solution they cannot do this to the

00:06:24.520 school kids tuesday city officials announced nearly 2 000 migrants would be bused from their tent shelters

00:06:30.020 at floyd bennett field to james madison high school due to concerns over the tents ability to stand up to

00:06:35.480 severe weather we are doing this out of an abundance of caution because of the high winds officials said

00:06:40.680 migrant families were bused back to floyd bennett field at 4 15 wednesday morning a timing decision new

00:06:46.640 york state assembly member michael novikov also questions along with the costs staffing and planning

00:06:52.000 required to move hundreds of people i'm sympathetic for migrants too i mean uh i i have no idea why

00:06:58.260 they were moved that during the night you know they're those people have kids why 4 15 in the

00:07:03.600 morning the school is closed anyway so they could have stayed here until 6 or 7 a.m elected officials

00:07:09.020 and community leaders say they can give the city a list of empty buildings much better suited to house

00:07:14.480 migrants during the next storm than a high school would be meanwhile we are told this high school is being

00:07:19.960 cleaned and sports practices they're still canceled today we are back live uh mike on facebook says

00:07:28.760 this all really began when ronald reagan engaged in a mass amnesty and there's certainly a fair critique

00:07:34.740 of the reagan amnesty to be had and levied and alan on getter with a critique of me saying matt why didn't

00:07:42.540 you grow a spine and become speaker of the house the answer to that question is that i would not have been

00:07:48.840 able to even garner double digit votes for such an endeavor on this podcast we have laid out

00:07:54.640 extensively that i'm not a particularly popular person among house republicans it's not because

00:08:00.140 i'm not conservative it's because i think that we have to change this system in order to save the

00:08:04.960 country they just want to run the system that's all that matters to a lot of my colleagues just being

00:08:09.660 in the majority so that it can be our hand on the wheel but if our hand is on the wheel as we're driving

00:08:14.600 over the cliff that isn't exactly the win that some of them think it is but uh appreciate hey

00:08:20.680 maybe alan will run for congress and vote for me for speaker one day then i'd have one vote maybe two

00:08:25.680 um let's see i want to go now to uh some of the bravery that i saw on the border sasha go ahead and put

00:08:33.000 up uh some of these images we have of this is florida fish and wildlife uh i was meeting with an eagle

00:08:38.960 pass also met with florida highway patrol texas state police texas guard florida guard and i got

00:08:44.900 to tell you we have got some real patriotic americans who are on that border who want the

00:08:50.080 tools to secure us and they know how to do it you have highly effective water teams there that could

00:08:57.200 establish a deterrent you have guardsmen who have volunteered for the opportunity to go there i met one

00:09:02.420 florida highway patrolman from south florida he said when i heard that there was a chance to go to

00:09:07.020 the border and to try to help defend my country i signed up right then and there and this was a young

00:09:12.620 man of hispanic descent who really viewed it as part of his obligation for safety and security to

00:09:17.960 volunteer for this mission and i didn't want to end my report on the border without giving great

00:09:23.440 tribute to those from all over the country who who have the patriotism in their heart to do this job

00:09:28.940 if we will simply allow them to do it and that's that's what ought to happen and it's what biden's

00:09:34.660 blocking now we go to a segment we like to call around the world

00:09:38.440 around the world today we address the evolving circumstances in ecuador and while there is all

00:09:52.880 kind of media attention regarding the conflicts that are oceans away and continents away right here

00:09:58.700 in you know the sphere of influence that we considered the american sphere of influence in

00:10:04.280 the marshall plan we have a destabilized government armed gunmen taking over a national communications

00:10:11.100 asset their television station take a listen

00:10:13.760 tonight this is the chilling moment armed men storm the set of a public tv channel in ecuador

00:10:22.360 firing off guns and waving apparent explosives during a live broadcast

00:10:27.200 the studio crew taken hostage for at least 15 minutes on air as the country watched

00:10:34.440 police later surrounding the station arresting several suspects

00:10:39.540 and across ecuador fiery blasts rocking multiple cities this one engulfing a police car

00:10:46.600 the wave of violence beginning just hours after ecuador's president declared a state of emergency

00:10:52.060 following a prison escape by notorious los choneros gang leader adolfo macias the government battling

00:10:58.760 with what they say are at least 22 different criminal groups angered by that state of emergency

00:11:03.920 tonight authorities say at least seven police officers have been kidnapped ecuador once known as one of

00:11:09.820 south america's most peaceful countries seeing an explosion in recent years of organized crime

00:11:15.200 related violence linked to mexican drug cartels

00:11:17.960 we are back live and i want to talk about how to think about this destabilization in ecuador

00:11:26.080 there's one theory of the case that it's a dangerous country and gangs rise up a little bit of violence but

00:11:32.280 ultimately this is something where the government will prevail there's another thing a line of thinking

00:11:36.920 that we are now entering an era where the drug cartels have been given such a permissive environment

00:11:42.860 in mexico that they are now able to export their malign influence and destabilizing assets 0.96

00:11:49.080 so the cartels having been given that home base in the sinaloa mountains throughout mexico now they're

00:11:55.920 able to say all right our our most permissive environment to operate is where you have weak

00:12:01.600 nation states weak borders and then as people or drugs or weapons are moving around there there aren't a

00:12:08.400 lot of barriers to to that illicit movement and when you have those strong nation states it's problematic

00:12:15.360 and they try to go topple them in a way it's the most devious iteration of the banana republic 0.73

00:12:23.760 corporatization of governments in latin america that we saw in the 70s and 80s bananas is a great book i

00:12:31.560 read about it and it kind of goes over how these companies like united fruit company and standard fruit

00:12:35.980 company um that are now chiquita and dole they would do everything they could to get a captive 0.92

00:12:43.600 government to allow them to do whatever they wanted with banana plantations to drive people off their 0.54

00:12:48.820 land to be able to access various growing contracts and growing rights and so you'd have these fruit

00:12:54.220 companies warring with each other over who got to install their puppet government well take away the

00:12:59.920 fruit companies and insert mexican cartels because that seems to be pretty obviously what's going on

00:13:06.800 right here the cartels want access to the thoroughfares and the infrastructure and they don't want a

00:13:13.220 legitimate government to stand in their way and when one does and has a state of emergency to try to

00:13:18.460 counteract that malign influence this is the reaction to retaliation you see i've also got experts on my team

00:13:24.480 have briefed me that this could also be part of what you see with exporting more and more malign 1.00

00:13:30.220 influence from venezuela you've seen maduro make the argument about why venezuela has a claim to like

00:13:36.320 two-thirds of the country of guyana and the esikibo region we covered that last year on firebrand so this

00:13:42.140 could be another outgrowth of that effort at venezuelan south american hegemony these things should concern us

00:13:50.380 that's more than which guy in a sweatsuits run in crimea because whether or not we have stable

00:13:57.760 legitimate governments in our neighborhood affects quality of life here the connection is far more

00:14:07.100 tenuous in places where we seem to be a lot more interested one thing that i want to talk about is

00:14:15.080 this latest scandal with secretary lloyd austin and breitbart picks up our call for a hearing

00:14:22.140 to determine how the defense department after losing billions of dollars worth of assets in afghanistan

00:14:30.160 after failing every financial audit that they've been put through can literally lose the secretary of

00:14:38.160 defense lloyd austin was incapacitated i the reports are that he has prostate cancer he had a procedure

00:14:44.320 associated with that prostate cancer we of course want the best for him in his short and long-term

00:14:49.160 health but he was incapacitated for five days he was totally out and his deputy kathleen hicks

00:14:55.800 didn't think enough of like being the acting secretary of defense for those days to terminate her

00:15:01.600 vacation in puerto rico i'm not making this up like our military was being run by a lady on vacation in

00:15:11.340 puerto rico and they didn't even tell the white house is joe biden so out of it and himself

00:15:18.080 incapacitated that when other people are incapacitated they don't even feel the need to

00:15:22.860 i don't know let somebody know that somebody else should be running the military who was in charge of

00:15:28.420 the force protection posture in iraq where we're getting these these one-directional drone strikes

00:15:34.520 coming from iranian-backed proxies the red sea is like on fire right now with houthis engaged in 1.00

00:15:40.300 naval exercises against energy shipments this is the time to not tell your boss you're gonna be out

00:15:47.280 for five days there could be something else going on here there could be a total breakdown

00:15:52.380 in communication between the pentagon and the white house and this could just be one iteration of it

00:15:59.380 we have to explore this and it's why i've called for hearings and i'll be giving you updates regarding

00:16:04.620 how the chairman of the armed services committee plans to proceed i can tell you that uh there has

00:16:10.140 been a joint expression of concern from chairman rogers and from the lead democrat on the house

00:16:15.920 armed services committee who we've had on the program adam smith also the pentagon inspector general

00:16:20.660 will probe the lloyd austin hospitalization this is news just coming in from a bloomberg government

00:16:26.580 and uh that i think is uh is certainly an appropriate next action but we shouldn't

00:16:32.160 outsource that to the inspector general we've got to have the hearings in uh in the united states

00:16:36.440 congress as well we've uh we've also got a report regarding some of these uh really uh nasty

00:16:44.960 and negative efforts from the january 6th committee to go and goose criminal prosecutions

00:16:51.180 of president trump the the goal of a congressional committee is not to to try to create a yellow brick

00:16:58.740 road for a prosecution of anybody and that may upset some of you some of you might think all we

00:17:04.200 ought to be doing is setting up to get handcuffs on people and anything short of that is insufficient

00:17:09.260 oversight it's not really our job our job is to use the power of the purse to make sure the law

00:17:13.320 is being executed in accordance with our commands and if it's not don't appropriate money to those

00:17:17.980 programs of those agencies anymore we don't do that but it's what we should be doing that would

00:17:22.600 be nice but in this particular case we've got a report from politico and and i'll read from it in

00:17:28.160 the spring of 2022 the committee staff and remember this is the committee staff handpicked by liz cheney

00:17:35.120 and adam kinzinger they didn't just run through the typical capitol hill types they went and got people

00:17:39.600 out of cia fbi state attorneys attorneys general they really assembled a legal dream team they helped

00:17:46.580 fulton county prosecutors prepare for interviews with key witnesses georgia prosecutors probing

00:17:51.540 donald trump's effort to subvert the 2020 election got an early boost in the spring of 2022 it came

00:17:56.940 from another set of investigators who were way ahead of them the house january 6th select committee

00:18:03.360 committee staff met quietly with lawyers and agents working for fulton county district attorney

00:18:08.460 fanny willis in mid-april 2022 just as she prepared to convene a special grand jury investigation 1.00

00:18:15.720 this is an improper use of the united states congress this is a corrupt collusion between

00:18:24.120 benny thompson and liz cheney and fanny willis this reporting is something that we could have gotten to

00:18:31.380 a lot quicker if former speaker mccarthy would have done as many of us demanded and as many of you on the

00:18:37.500 live stream supported and that is use the january 6th committee for our purposes don't disband it

00:18:43.620 put me on there put jordan on there put mtg on there find the truth out about this stuff and we would

00:18:50.780 have gotten to this a lot faster but it took some uh some smart reporters at politico to get the job

00:18:56.260 done and and thus we now know and we have to take we have to take action as a result of this to shut down

00:19:03.640 the corrupt illegitimately produced and and invigorated prosecution of trump from fanny willis

00:19:13.520 emanating from the january 6th committee now let's uh talk about hunter biden a little bit he was on

00:19:20.360 the hill there was the contempt hearing both the house oversight committee and the house judiciary

00:19:25.840 committee upon which i serve have passed resolutions of contempt against hunter biden for not agreeing to

00:19:33.000 answer our questions this was hunter biden on the hill getting a question i don't think he was

00:19:37.040 expecting

00:19:37.440 would you please i'll answer your question if you'd be quiet and let me make a statement okay

00:19:44.520 crack do you normally smoke mr biden

00:19:46.680 hunter what's your favorite type of crack

00:19:50.680 are you on crack today

00:19:54.120 mr biden why did you put your dad on speakerphone with your business orders if you had no involvement in

00:20:01.780 all right so he wasn't expecting those questions and uh certainly it's concerning the way he's

00:20:13.380 treated the congress and the subpoenas that finally we got out the door uh directed to him and his

00:20:18.060 interests and his records and uh here's what i would have done if hunter biden would have shown up

00:20:23.100 to a committee i was chairing to clown me i'd have told him to step behind that microphone i'd have

00:20:29.080 waived the rules sworn him in and i'd asked him this question first did you facilitate bribes to

00:20:34.680 your father he's either going to admit that he did he's either going to deny it which will function

00:20:41.260 as a complete and total waiver of any executive privilege he would have or any fifth amendment

00:20:46.180 privilege he would have or any other privilege he could conjure up because he would have denied it

00:20:51.340 so then he's opened the door to every follow-up question or he would have taken the fifth which is

00:20:57.060 entirely his right and just because someone takes the fifth it does not mean they're guilty but then

00:21:00.640 he would have had to take the fifth in front of god and everyone instead we get more of this stuff

00:21:07.320 and i i wonder if the accountability is ever going to catch these guys i really do it should but here we

00:21:15.520 are a year into the republican control and so far the closest we've gotten hunter biden to the witness

00:21:24.900 chair is sitting in the first row of the audience it's not good enough nancy mace was in fuego during

00:21:33.660 that hearing take a listen and enjoy um first of all my first question is who bribed hunter biden to

00:21:41.900 be here today that's my first question um second question you are the epitome of white privilege 0.61

00:21:48.500 coming into the oversight committee spitting in our face ignoring a congressional subpoena to be 0.99

00:21:53.800 deposed what are you afraid of you have no balls to come up here and mr chairman point of inquiry 0.98

00:22:00.020 chair recognizes miss mace it does not matter who you are where you come from or who your father is 0.98

00:22:06.380 or your last name yes i'm looking at you hunter biden as i'm speaking to you you are not above the law

00:22:12.020 at all the facts in this case are crystal clear this committee used and issued a law for subpoena to

00:22:17.980 hunter biden a critical witness in this committee's investigation into biden family corruption

00:22:23.720 hunter biden his lawyers did not claim privilege of any kind because clearly he has none they didn't

00:22:29.220 contest the legitimacy of our reasons for issuing the subpoena no reasons because they clearly

00:22:34.700 are legitimate and yet he refused to comply uh trump's family members don trump jr he uh he did not

00:22:43.940 defy a congressional subpoena he showed up multiple times for multiple depositions for several hours

00:22:49.000 um in doing so you know hunter biden broke the law he did so deliberately you did so flagrantly

00:22:55.320 you showed up on the hill on the senate side the day of that congressional subpoena to defy it and spit

00:23:01.720 in the face of this committee that's what you did i believe that hunter biden should be held completely

00:23:06.900 in contempt i think he should be hauled off to jail right now because it wasn't long ago two of my

00:23:11.600 friends on the other side of the aisle um that you also believed in the the power of a congressional

00:23:17.020 subpoena not long ago at all you believed in holding those who refuse to comply with congressional

00:23:22.000 subpoena accountable let me be clear this should not be a partisan issue if congress issues a subpoena

00:23:29.280 you show up period this is not a responsibility we take lightly it brings no joy for us to do this but

00:23:37.660 the president's son broke the law and must be held accountable in the same way anybody else would

00:23:42.280 i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do so and my last last message to you hunter biden 1.00

00:23:48.220 you play stupid games you win stupid prizes 1.00

00:23:51.040 i think we can call congresswoman mace a firebrand after that uh she read the riot act right to hunter 1.00

00:24:01.080 biden explaining what questions she would want to ask him if he were willing to step forward and uh

00:24:05.660 it was no nonsense and not to be outdone congresswoman green was up next she uh she was going to give a 0.97

00:24:13.040 presentation that wasn't even going to result in hunter biden being able to stay in the room

00:24:16.440 as mtg got recognized hunter to see literally got up and scurried away take a listen

00:24:21.500 thank you mr chairman uh excuse me hunter apparently you're afraid of my words

00:24:29.440 uh here goes oh i like to reclaim my time mr chairman

00:24:37.860 wow that's too bad i think it's clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that hunter

00:24:47.980 biden is terrified of strong conservative republican women because he can't even face my words as i was 0.94

00:24:55.720 about to speak to him what a coward a coward indeed certainly proud of the efforts of congresswoman 0.86

00:25:03.960 green and congresswoman mace i do think we've got to turn up the heat and i don't think we can allow 0.97

00:25:09.040 these guys to walk out of the room if we've got to send the house sergeant at arms to go and enforce

00:25:14.440 congressional contempt with imprisonment well then that's what we should do because we've got questions

00:25:19.360 that are central to whether or not our government's been sold out and we should get answers to those

00:25:23.900 questions i want to now talk about where we are with budget negotiations and with the spending uh

00:25:31.120 talks going on with speaker johnson chuck schumer joe biden all the rest of us uh but we have to set

00:25:38.860 the stage here for why this matters the inflation the increasing in price for almost everything that

00:25:46.960 you are seeing is a direct consequence of government deficit spending okay we are about to run

00:25:53.420 two and a half trillion dollar annual deficits we are at a 34 trillion dollar debt that is causing

00:26:01.040 interest rates to rise prices to rise cost of cars cost of homes cost of debt all of it and you pay it

00:26:08.380 and so we don't fight against these spending programs because we're mean-spirited or we want to take

00:26:16.220 people down we do it because we don't think you should have to feel the pain of the gutlessness

00:26:21.280 in this town and that pain is real let's go to this uh breitbart report inflation reignites

00:26:28.320 consumer prices rose at an even faster pace in december inflation accelerated more

00:26:33.760 than december in december marking the 33rd consecutive month with annual prices rising significantly faster

00:26:43.020 than the two percent target set as healthy by the federal reserve the consumer price index

00:26:47.460 rose 3.4 in december from a year earlier so we're looking for the two percent we're still at 3.4 33rd

00:26:58.540 consecutive month with prices rising above that goal and let me just give you an example of a few

00:27:04.280 motor vehicle insurance up over 20 percent food from vending machines up over 13 percent uncooked beefsteaks

00:27:13.580 up 11 percent transportation services up close to seven percent these are the things that americans buy

00:27:21.340 these are the things that we need and it's not because you've done anything wrong it's that we

00:27:27.940 won't subject the budget of the government of the united states to itemized review and so where we stand

00:27:35.940 right now you've got schumer and johnson who have agreed to a top line spending number that is that is

00:27:41.780 too high it is essentially here's how you think about it okay mccarthy made the deal with biden and

00:27:48.580 schumer called the fiscal responsibility act i'll just call that the fra because we can't even call it

00:27:54.300 fiscally responsible so they agree to an fra number then on top of the fra spending number mccarthy does

00:28:01.640 50 billion dollars in secret side deals that he doesn't tell us he doesn't tell you

00:28:09.240 that he doesn't even tell other members of the house leadership team so johnson gets in sits down

00:28:16.200 schumer and biden say well this is this is the freaking deal it's what mccarthy agreed to it's what

00:28:21.440 we're going to hold you to and mccarthy and johnson successfully takes 20 billion ish out of the 50

00:28:30.060 billion plus in side deals and claws that back it takes another fairly big bite out of the irs

00:28:36.880 so you've got conservative economists like stephen moore who we have a very high opinion of on in this

00:28:43.840 office and on this program stephen moore says this is this is savvy this is this big win for johnson

00:28:49.960 that he clawed back this 20 billion of the mccarthy side deals it's he's proving better than mccarthy 0.87

00:28:55.620 and shrewd in that regard and then the wall street journal editorial board who hate me

00:29:02.520 who totally disagree with the removal of mccarthy even they say sheepishly that mike johnson cut a

00:29:10.440 better deal than mccarthy all of it bottom line for you it's not enough it is not good enough it is

00:29:17.820 not even close to good enough okay if we'd have gone to kevin mccarthy and said it's 20 billion dollars

00:29:22.720 in your side deals or your head he'd have probably done the same thing we need transformational

00:29:27.840 change about how we think about the budget and continuing to trip along continuing resolution to

00:29:33.380 omnibus with exploding caps and supplementals that fund ukraine or other foreign nations

00:29:39.960 that is what has put us in this position where you're paying 10 more for beef or 20 more for

00:29:48.520 auto insurance it's linked back to the devaluation of the american currency that is driven out of

00:29:55.660 washington dc that's why we're trying to change it so here's what a few of us said to the speaker and

00:30:01.560 you know we had a relatively large group of members folks you know byron donalds cad kamik

00:30:07.620 scott perry bob good chip roy marjorie taylor green we all went and met with speaker johnson

00:30:13.760 and i felt the consensus coming out of that discussion is that we house conservatives are

00:30:20.660 not going to tolerate a government funding bill while the border is open you have to shut down

00:30:27.120 the border or we will shut down the government and i don't say that with any twinkle in my eye or any joy

00:30:34.240 or any celebration for a shutdown i know some of you on the live stream want to shut down but i live in

00:30:40.200 a district with a whole lot of troops a whole lot of government contractors who are not at fault

00:30:46.040 for this the customs and border patrol who are actually following the law who care and love our

00:30:53.240 nation they did not do this but they will have to disproportionately shoulder the burden of a

00:30:58.240 shutdown okay and i don't think some airman abroad or some sailor on the high seas should have to

00:31:06.880 disproportionately shoulder that i really don't but we have no choice right now there are no easy

00:31:12.840 choices in front of us okay it is just hard choices and if we do not get this budget under

00:31:17.780 control if we do not get this border under control we are not going to have a country to defend

00:31:22.280 and so it's not joyful it's not a pleasurable experience to go through this but we have to we have

00:31:29.560 to shut down the border or shut down the government and all these little games about you know modest you

00:31:35.920 know little minor adjustments they function often to virtue signal not to alter the shape of this

00:31:45.820 corrupt system so we will have more meetings later today with the speaker more discussions with cross

00:31:52.220 section of our our conference we've had moderates and some of the big spending republicans say we

00:31:57.640 don't want the border fight in the appropriations fight as a matter of fact one told me that just a just

00:32:02.180 a couple hours ago said i i just want no chaos and no drama i don't want the border fight to be

00:32:08.300 included in how we think about government funding it's just unrealistic that's going to lead us to

00:32:13.860 being overrun and so we've got to build a reservoir of courage with house republicans to fight on the

00:32:20.980 border and to cut spending and to go after the pines and to go after the bureaucrats if we do these 0.99

00:32:26.880 things victory is in sight but if we do this schumer deal i won't be speaking to you next congress

00:32:33.120 from the position of a member of the house majority if we do this deal that that uh chuck schumer is

00:32:40.480 applauding we will be out of the majority because our own voters will look at us and say

00:32:44.700 what what have the house republicans done for me what did you fight for and we may fight and lose

00:32:51.300 we may fight and get rolled anyway that happens a lot here it's happened a lot to me over the last

00:32:58.200 seven years but if no one is making these arguments and and deploying this leverage to fix the border

00:33:04.820 then what is going to be left to fight over or preside over

00:33:09.960 anyway appreciate your help appreciate you guys being in the battle here's my ask here's your homework

00:33:16.480 assignment reach out to your members of congress let them know that you want to shut down the border

00:33:21.200 or shut down the government and if you do that just maybe we'll build enough courage among house

00:33:26.660 republicans to be able to go to battle for you and to win because that is what you deserve thanks so

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00:33:41.480 another firebrand before week's end and many more in 2024 roll the credits

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - January 11, 2024

Episode 140 LIVE： Border, Budget, Bureaucrats, Bidens – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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