Episode 142 LIVE: SecDef Missing In Action (feat. Rep. Cory Mills) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
Summary
Member of Congress Cory Mills (R-FL) joins us to discuss his campaign to impeach Secretary of Defense lloyd A. Austin. Cory Mills is a firebrand who has been a long time member of the House of Representatives representing the 5th congressional district of Florida, where he is currently in his first term.
Transcript
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you
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matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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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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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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well he wasn't trying to remain a little subtle he was trying to remain
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secretive this is an individual who failed to uphold his duties and he basically vacated the
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seat without letting anyone know even deputy secretary hicks who was on vacation in puerto
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rico did not know that she'd assumed his duties now you've got five to six days that we don't know
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what the incapacitation was for secretary lloyd while we are seeing these increased attacks that
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we just talked about we talk about the idea of not just striking and attacking huti rebels but also the
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fact that that shipping lane carries 12 percent of global trade a majority of that for the united
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states so this is an attempt to also disrupt us and so i have you know submitted my impeachment
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articles long ago in august of last year i think that the uh the republican house needs to take up
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these articles of impeachment and we need to go forward with a dereliction of duty hearing i think
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we can look at the 2021 afghan botched withdrawal the failure to get status of forces agreements the 33 000
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recruitment deficit and also his inability to allow the administration to know what's going on as
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reasoning for us to take this up and impeach him with bipartisan support
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welcome back to firebrand he's calling for impeachments and hearings regarding secretary
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lloyd austin not upholding his duties as the secretary of defense it's congressman florida man and
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firebrand cory mills my good friend who's joining us here on firebrand you made big news
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last year you saw this guy lloyd austin for what he was a phony a fraud you called him out like i've
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never seen a member of congress speak to a secretary of defense and that's a lot coming from me um i want
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to get into what's going on with the secretary of defense what's going on more broadly uh in the
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middle east because you know a great deal about that region of the world but first just you know
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you're you're in your first term here in congress you represent the great state of florida you have you
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have chosen to lead from the front of this fight you take direct action uh rescuing americans from
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some of the most dangerous places in the world like how would you answer the question on the street to
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a person in a minute or two about like how did cory mills come to be in the united states congress
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i mean look it's a god thing you know every single thing that i've done in my life whether it was coming
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from a broken home whether it was serving in the military whether it was building successful
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businesses i mean it all basically was on a pathway that was set for me so for me it's kind of like
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the c.s lewis thing it's like the talents right so it's taking what i have my capacity capabilities
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and stuff and basically being able to apply that and make it forward because when we all meet our
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maker i want to be able to say are you proud of what i've done with all the things that you blessed
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me with and give us a little sense of your personal military experience and record to the extent that
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you can so uh served in the 82nd airborne division for a long time uh served on a scout reconnaissance
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team uh was a member of the joint special operations command and uh iraq invasion in 2003
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uh served a little bit of time with the state department as well as for other agencies so i
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spent seven years in iraq i spent three years in afghanistan kosovo pakistan north somalia area
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lived out in kenya for a little bit uh so quite a bit of time overseas and speak fluent arabic so you
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know the region you know the players you know the military the bureaucracy the interagency process
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and i i took note of early in your congressional career you sussed out lloyd austin and by the way
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every single person in our military even at the high end of it under joe biden isn't a bad person
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isn't a bad strategist but you seem to think that this guy in particular didn't have it how did you
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know well one i've talked to people who've actually served under lloyd austin when he was a flag
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officer and they've talked about the fact that most of his promotions was part of that kind of
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the diversity you know portion of this i mean that's the honest truth from many of the commanders
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who had actually served with him now you fast forward it's what has he done since he's become
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the secretary of defense he's failed horribly and prioritizing the things like being ready having us
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have the right equipment making sure that we're prioritizing increased lethality instead we're on
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diversity equity inclusion which resulted in 33 000 plus people who no longer want to serve in our
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recruitment deficit plus the 9 600 people who are unconstitutionally purged for refusing the vaccine
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for religious or medical freedom reasons where's their inclusion exactly you know like they seem to
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be missing out on the inclusion part of the diversity equity and inclusion because if you were a
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patriotic american a devout christian someone of any faith that had a legitimate basis to seek an
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exemption you got totally screwed you were excluded explicitly uh so we go through all this lloyd austin
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screws up the vax mandate you were very critical of the afghanistan stuff and here's what the lloyd
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austin defenders would say on the afghanistan withdrawal well that was the state department's fault
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we weren't really you know we would have done it differently but really at the end of the day the
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white house listened to blink in and the state department and this belief that there would be this
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durable afghan government led by ghani or whomever which they knew was that would yeah well it was a
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it was a patina it was just a money laundering operation with a lot of those guys well but it
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has been for a long time i think the further investigation after we remove people like
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secretary of austin who has a dereliction of duty we need to be doing investigations into these defense
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contractors who was responsible for the training like nprs or any of the others and saying you were
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giving reports to say that this battalion was ready to fight and had the necessary sustainability
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clearly that was wrong were you feeding bad intel to continue your you know contracts or continue to
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try and bleed the government dry there's a bigger portion of this that we need to be looking at
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outside of procurement reform and how the military industrial complex works this needs to be about
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people who are signing up to do a job that are not scared to tell the president when he's right when
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he's wrong secretary lloyd had no escalation of force he had no rules of engagement and that's what
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resulted in 13 heroes losing their lives to 13 new brave uh gold star families and do you think
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they've fixed it because i'm looking at what we've got going on in the red sea right now and we've got
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a lot of force posture there and like are we setting up for some gulf of tonkin moment as as a consequence
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of just poor decision making at the tactical level i mean it's poor decision at the tactical level but
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it's really as secretary gates said when biden was vice president he's wrong on 100 of foreign policy
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this is you know the result of the houthis increasing their attacks was when they got
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delisted as a terrorist organization the increase in funding and mid-range ballistic missiles is
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because iran has the largest oil revenue they've ever had so we have to start you know instead of
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treating the the symptoms we have to recognize the disease the disease is joe biden has failed
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foreign policies we have to look at iran china russia and north korea and their geopolitical alignment
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but to your point we also have to address the fact that 12 percent of global shipping
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goes to the suez canal of which we're a large importer of and that this is an actual attempt
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by the houthis by iran and by china to disrupt commerce for america so you believe the american
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people haven't have a specific definable interest vis-a-vis global shipping in the suez canal i
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absolutely do look the bottom line is we become way too reliant on adversarial nations like china
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we're continuing to water ourselves down by doing what we just did last year which is the 14.4
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billion dollar sale of our last and largest steel manufacturer so yes we have a national security
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interest and an economic interest when it comes to the global shipping lanes yeah apparently
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blinken is stuck in davos right now we got a lot of people on the live chat saying leave him there
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uh maybe they can have him he's comfortable with the globalist elites so we have this eruption of
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conflict you talk about the interconnectivity of what's going on in the world and then lloyd austin
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goes to get a medical procedure uh does not disclose that to the white house or the president
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doesn't really set up the next person in command to even come off of a vacation and now a lot of
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people are looking back to the articles of impeachment that you originally filed against lloyd austin
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and folks are starting to ask some some really tough questions sasha put up the tweet from congressman
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chris deluzio this is a democrat congressman on the house armed services committee where where
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representative mills and i do a lot of our work and here it is i've lost trust in secretary austin's
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leadership of the defense department due to the lack of transparency about his recent medical treatment
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and his impact on the continuity on the chain of command i have a solemn duty in congress to conduct
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oversight of the department of defense through my service on the house armed services committee
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that duty today requires me to call on secretary austin to resign so here is a house democrat
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on our committee that's right calling for that resignation your reaction well look deluzio is
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exactly right not only was there a violation of protocol which is the rule 3349 which allows the
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people to announce a vacancy if they're going under any type of medical procedure the presidents do it
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when they do colonoscopies or whatever the case may be but the other thing is that we had a national
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security breach we've got attacks increasing like we've not seen at any point in time in syria and
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just want to point out the fact that both you and i fought to repeal the authorization of use of
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military force the ams that was keeping our troops uh there since oh one oh two which is being wrongfully
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and being abused for the wrong reasons but the whole point is that you've got increased attacks you've got
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the shipping lanes and commerce and economic trade that's getting threatened you've got an increase in
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china's rhetoric about the unification to take taiwan and meanwhile for five days you have the
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secretary of defense who doesn't tell anyone to include deputy secretary hicks who's on vacation in
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puerto rico that she's now assumed his duties so during those missile attacks those counterattacks
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my question is who is authorizing those attacks whenever you got no one at the helm and and god forbid
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the plan doesn't go exactly according to plan as you well know some of these attacks can you know
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there can be problems in targeting me let's keep in mind this is the crew that went and bombed some
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family on their way to a barbecue in afghanistan and told the rest of us it was a it was a good kill
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it was a virtuous strike on a terrorist right so they don't nail it every time and the fact that this
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that this guy's being totally not transparent about this you got someone uh you know who did some of
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the most intense work like you you've got democrat congressman deluzio and even seth moulton
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democrat congressman from massachusetts former democrat presidential contender also on the house
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armed services committee here's what congressman moulton had to say
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what he did is completely unacceptable uh i can't imagine that happening at the lowest levels
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of the military chain of command like where i was as a as a mere lieutenant platoon commander
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in iraq i can't even imagine it happening when i was a 15 year old bus boy i mean if i was going to be
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out for a week i had to tell my boss so this is a major breakdown in the chain of command and the
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commander in chief needs to make a decision here it's up to the president as to whether he fires
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secretary austin but i tell you what he needs to send a decisive message that this is never going
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to happen again what what what would you do i'm curious if you had to make the call if i were the
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president of the united states i would fire him in about five minutes
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so so here we are with a joe biden crime family that not a single democrat will stand up against
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there's not a single democrat that will vote to impeach joe biden over the bribes that we've shown
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we have an open border where we have eight million people we've let in and there's not a single democrat
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that will vote to impeach my orcas over the open border but here to their credit and i don't always
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agree with molten delusio disagree with them more frequently than not but when you have two
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democrats willing to step up and say this is unacceptable i would fire him he should resign
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then the question becomes what is the republican response you've laid out the protocols the
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procedures in a very kind of dispassionate matter of fact way and we have uh from the chairman of the
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house armed services committee a strongly worded letter to lloyd austin this comes from mike rogers
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who is from the state of alabama a republican and in this letter chairman rogers asks nine really
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good questions uh and regarding the occurrences of any sedation or general anesthesia regarding any
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orders or instructions to other people in the defense department regarding the hospitalization or
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medical condition regarding the authorities that were given to deputy secretary hicks who by the way
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was on vacation in puerto rico as cory mills pointed out and really really an overall accounting of all
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official actions let me give you this take when you have two democrats calling for the firing or
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resignation of the leader of the united states defense department and you are in a global era of
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erupting conflict as cory mills just laid out a strongly worded letter is insufficient it is necessary
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but insufficient we should be holding hearings right now this week in the committee that molten and
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delusio and mills and gates all serve on to find out what the hell happened and who's making the
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decisions because as you just heard cory say this stuff isn't over we're still in in the kill zone with
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a lot of people in the middle east right now and i think the pentagon is in shambles over this so you
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know i i guess you've asked lloyd austin some of the toughest questions in committee if you had
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lloyd austin or a senior defense department official before us in a hearing which should
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happen which will already be happening what what would you ask what are you going to drill down on
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look when i asked him in our last hearing about what is willful dereliction of duty i read the
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definition he acknowledged it i asked if some of the things that he didn't know i was reading his
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own resume but i asked if you would have removed an officer for dereliction of duty based on these
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principles he said yes i would now this furthers my argument on my impeachment articles from last
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year that was filed which i still don't know why the speaker is refusing to take up or our committee
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chairman is refusing to start investigating this is a willful dereliction of duty it's not as if he
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didn't know what he was doing he vacated his seat didn't have responsibility had no continuity and
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committed a national security breach and meanwhile he's allowed to still consider himself to be
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secretary of defense if any of his officers or even his deputies would have done what he'd done he would
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have had him removed but he thinks he's above the law one of the key questions that the mike rogers
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letter asks is whether or not other people in the defense department were involved in this concealment
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and that's a really important question right because because i do think it's appropriate to say well
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if i'm making a personal choice maybe doesn't fit in with work but once i start to involve others
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in the cover-up but we know that there was exactly because his staffer called the ambulance
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so asked for it to be subtly turn the sirens off turn the lights off look this wasn't about
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subtlety as the 9-1-1 call it was about secrecy and him withholding information that is pertinent
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to national security so this headline we get from the daily beast lloyd austin's secret ambulance
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request revealed in audio of 9-1-1 call and let's go ahead and take a listen to that audio that
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the congressman mills just pointed out 9-1-1 where is your emergency tonight the 9-1-1 call just
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obtained by cbs news reveals an aide to secretary of defense lloyd austin asked the dispatcher to
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keep the emergency discreet can i ask but can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens
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we're trying to remain a little subtle yeah i understand um yeah usually when they turn into a
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residential neighborhood they'll turn them off but they're required by law to run with them with
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the main street the operator then asks for details about austin's condition did he pass out or does he
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feel like he's going to pass out uh no i'm just curious if we need them to take him to walter reed
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medical is that a possibility um let them know that when they get there like i said i'm noting
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all this in the call the 9-1-1 call adds to questions about why president biden did not find
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out about austin's hospitalization for three days neither did his deputy who had taken over austin's
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duties while she was on vacation in puerto rico we're back live with congressman cory mills
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clemo on rumble wants to know if there were any umbrella drinks in puerto rico with the person that
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was running our defense department while lloyd austin was comatose and national interest on
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youtube wants to know if he can be arrested for desertion well i think that desertion is definitely
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something but to answer clen mose she was probably having my ties the same way that joe biden has ice
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cream in the white house so um this is the problem we literally have a vacancy at 1600 and a vacancy at
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the pentagon during a time when all our adversaries are running amok when we're running towards economic
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collapse when congress can't get their shit together we really need to face the facts that we're in a
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worse position than we've ever been that's why both you and i and i know you were just out in iowa as
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well but that's why we have to have president trump back in office we need him now more than ever from
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a military diplomatic and economic perspective and i tell you we have to get accountability for the
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american people that's why i ran that's why you know i promised that i was going to come up here and be a
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fighter austin's my first target the border is the most important issue but if we're unwilling to
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actually get that done let's take out austin for his dereliction of duty and his desertion yeah like
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there's over 200 republicans like we can get a smart team to dig into these facts i mean isn't it
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embarrassing that the daily beast did better oversight over the pentagon than we did but matt i
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mean you you know this all too well and i'm gonna interrupt everyone talks about the fact that
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republicans have the majority let me just go ahead and clear the air if your definition of having the
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majority is having an r next to your name and counting and tallying those up and saying okay
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you have the majority then you're not focused on what's actually happening which is the ideological
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alignments if you're not a true constitutionalist you're not a true conservative but you're a republican
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from the old guard we don't have the majority that's why in most of the real tough votes that protect the
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american people there's 21 of us 73 of us maybe we get to an 80 plus you know stance when it comes to
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things like blocking fisa that's been violated 287 000 times but the reality is is that we have
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the numbers if you look at the r's next to us but ideologically as conservatives who want to fight for
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the american people we are not the majority and we see that play out not just in lackluster oversight
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at times but in how we are funding the government and i want to turn our attention to that next let's put
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up the jake sherman tweet from punch mobile news reporting that the stopgap funding bill which is the
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pending business in the senate is riding on hr 2872 the permanent electronic duck stamp act
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so let's set the stage here that we have a bill that we've sent over to the senate where duck hunters
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have agreed to pay a little bit extra when engaged in migratory duck hunting over certain species so
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that that can go into various conservation funds to support ducks and duck hunting okay i'm not a duck
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hunter i love duck hunters great people but this seemed to be a pretty non-controversial agreed upon
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the hunters liked it the conservation community liked it duck hunting stamps yay and they are adding as an
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amendment to that bill the funding of the entire government of the united states through march and
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i'm looking at this saying like this is no way to fund the government and it's not even the right
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way to pass a duck hunting bill so we fought hard in in uh throughout this congress to try to change
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the way business is done and this just looks like the same swampy nonsense to me where we are punting
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we are kicking the can down the road and so uh you know you can share with uh with all the folks
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watching from florida and around the country what you think about how we're approaching government
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funding because it seems deeply unserious to me well it is unserious and again we're continuing to not look at
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things like we voted for in rules the germaneness i'm not sure what the duck stamp act has to do
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with everything else we talked about 12 single point of preparation bills we talked about going
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through committees of jurisdiction and making sure that we had regular order why did we fight so hard
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for all these things if it's going to constantly be waived or dismissed they people need to understand
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this is not dc as usual i have never voted for a cr i never will i will vote for 12 single point
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of preparation bills but not looking at these minimal cuts that they think that they're making in there
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the reality is that i've explained this of every dollar we borrow and it's borrowed because we
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didn't make it of every dollar we borrow we got 73 cents on average that's already pre-allocated to
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our mandatories that we're scared to reform to improve and preserve and then you've got roughly 11 cents of
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every dollar that is just going towards servicing our interest payments which is going to be like
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844 billion dollars next year on our 34 trillion dollar deficit which means that when i think it'll be
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more i think i think it'll be over 900 because i think a lot of this national defense spending level because
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think about all the debt that we finance lower interest rates that's now rolling off that that
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we have to refinance at higher absolutely right but my whole point is that in the reality of things
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when you eliminate defense you eliminate interest rates you eliminate mandatories we're all fighting
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over the idea that oh we're going to cut 20 30 percent yeah of the available eight cents that you
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actually have available to you with zero economic growth strategy if you are a business owner today you
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know it's simple math account receivables have to exceed account payables the same as our gdp to
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national debt ratio and you can't cut your way to profitability you have to grow through prosperity
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and the person who understood that who got tax reform in play was president donald j trump and we
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saw more irs revenue come in than ever before the democrats failed to acknowledge the fact that we
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have five trillion dollars that comes in in available revenue but now it's like anyone else when they
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start making a new paycheck they're like well i've got more money so therefore i can spend more
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well when you're spending at 7.4 7.5 trillion dollars taking in five driving up our inflation
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rates driving up consumer suppression that's why we are where we are i won't vote for a cr i've never
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voted for a cr i don't care if it's an omnibus minibus or a short bus i am not going to continue to do
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the dc dance no it's it it only leads to one thing and it's more despair and higher prices for the
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american people he laid it out perfectly glad to have you and and we do want to pay attention to what's
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going on with all the folks out in davos right now and i've i've been watching it i've been paying
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attention uh and what i want to do i want to close out the show representative mills and i have to
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roll back to some additional votes we have this afternoon but i want to give you a taste of what
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you heard from melee uh the newly elected leader with a populist nationalist spirit from south america
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he gets up and drops the hammer on these globalists in the world economic forum president melee of
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argentina take a listen today i'm here to tell you that the western world is in danger
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and it is endangered because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the west
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are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty
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unfortunately in recent decades motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others
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and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste the main leaders of the western
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world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism
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we're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict
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the citizens of the world rather they are the root cause do believe me no one better place than us
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argentines to testify to these two points when we adopted the model of freedom back in 1860
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in 35 years we became a leaning world power and when we embraced collectivism over the course of the
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last 100 years we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished and we dropped
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to spot number 140 globally they say that capitalism is evil because it's individualistic and that
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collectivism is good because it's altruistic of course with the money of others so they therefore
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advocate for social justice but this concept which in the developed world became fashionable in recent
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times in my country has been a constant in political discourse for over 80 years the problem is that
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social justice is not just and it doesn't contribute either to the general well-being quite on the
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contrary it's an intrinsically unfair idea because it's violent it's unjust because the state is financed
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through tax and taxes are collected coercively or can any one of us say that they voluntarily pay taxes
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which means that the state is financed through coercion and that the higher the tax burden the higher the
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coercion and the lower the freedom and it should never be forgotten that socialism is always and
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everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries where it's been tried out
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it's been a failure economically socially culturally and it also murdered over a hundred million human
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beings fortunately there's more and more of us who are daring to make our voices heard because we see
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that if we don't truly and decisively fight against these ideas the only possible fate is for us to have
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increasing levels of state regulations socialism poverty and less freedom and therefore will be
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um having worse standards of living i would like to leave a message for all business people here and for
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those who are not here in person but are following from around the world do not be intimidated
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intimidated either by the political cast or by parasites who live off the state do not surrender to a
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political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges you are social benefactors
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your heroes you're the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we've ever seen
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let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral if you make money it's because you offer a better
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product at a better price thereby contributing to general well-being do not surrender to the advance of the
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the state the state is not the solution the state is the problem itself you are the true protagonists
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of this story and rest assured that as from today argentina is your staunch unconditional ally thank you
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thank you very much and long live freedom damn it