The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - December 03, 2020


Episode 142 – The Bipartisan Populist Alliance. Did FBI Agents Use Fake Names？ American Companies Listed as Top Plastic Producers.


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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) joins Laura Ingraham (D-CA) on her show to discuss the need for those on the right and left to join forces to fight against endless wars. The New York Times named the top 3 single-use plastic producers in the world, and more.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. Laura Ingram
00:00:22.080 made some news by having my friend from California, Democrat Ro Khanna, on her program to discuss
00:00:29.040 the need for those on the right and the left to join together to fight against these endless wars.
00:00:36.220 Take a listen to that interview with Laura Ingram and Ro Khanna.
00:00:40.420 What do you think about the potential DOD picks that have been floated for a Biden administration?
00:00:48.000 I mean, a lot of these folks doesn't look like they're going to be anxious to pull more troops
00:00:53.000 out of Afghanistan. Certainly the generals don't seem to want to do that.
00:00:56.680 Well, I've expressed concern about Michelle Flournoy. Let's see what she says. But she was for an 0.91
00:01:04.100 escalation in Afghanistan. She was for Iraq. She was for Syria. These policies have cost us
00:01:10.240 trillions of dollars. China hasn't been in a war since 1979. We've been in 40 wars. If you view
00:01:16.700 China as our biggest strategic competitor in the 21st century, then these policies aren't what's
00:01:21.840 going to allow America to win and compete. So this is Matt Gaetz shares this view. There are people
00:01:27.360 on the armed services committee who shares this view. This is really not partisan. It's about making
00:01:31.620 sure America leads the 21st century. Now, this sparked tremendous controversy, particularly
00:01:37.880 Congressman Khanna referencing his work with me to ensure that we do not overextend our country.
00:01:44.460 I had the opportunity to join Laura Ingraham to discuss our alliance and the opportunity
00:01:51.240 that we have to join right wing populists and left wing populists to do some stuff that might
00:01:58.220 be popular. Take a listen.
00:02:00.420 I believe that the coalition will be larger in the next Congress than in the last Congress
00:02:05.840 based on the influence that Donald Trump has had on the Republican Party and on the types
00:02:11.260 of candidates that he is inspired to run for Congress. Remember, I mean, we are a coalition
00:02:16.420 that lost in this last round of national defense authorization discussions because the pro-war Democrats
00:02:22.780 worked together with the neoconservative Republicans like Liz Cheney. And while Ro Khanna
00:02:27.160 and Tulsi Gabbard and I offered resistance to the endless wars, we did not prevail in that endeavor.
00:02:33.560 But I figure, Laura, it took the establishment and both parties to get us in this war
00:02:37.620 and in multiple wars. Why not work together across the aisle to get out of them? And I also think
00:02:42.860 there's a generational piece here. Young people are weary of these wars. They've been going on
00:02:47.820 almost all of our adult lives. And I think that perhaps generationally, we may be able to bridge
00:02:52.760 some of those divides.
00:02:56.780 America's brands top the list of the world's worst plastic producers. The New York Post's Hannah
00:03:04.640 Sparks has the story. America's top household brands are also the world's most prolific plastic
00:03:12.560 producers. Much of the world's lands and our waters and our wilds are impacted by this phenomenon.
00:03:20.720 For the third year in a row, the Coca-Cola company, PepsiCo and Nestle, a Swiss company, ranked highest in the
00:03:29.580 amount of plastic pollution they create, according to an annual audit by the Free From Plastic campaign.
00:03:37.660 Now, we know that in the ocean, 90% of the world's plastics come from 10 rivers. Seven of them are in
00:03:45.420 Asia. But that does not absolve these American companies of their potential responsibility.
00:03:52.420 Because many of these American companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, they operate in Asia, where they don't
00:03:59.280 have the same environmental standards, where there are not the same requirements for plastic collection,
00:04:06.500 recycling, disposal. And that impacts the whole world. So we hope that these companies will step
00:04:13.360 forward. Now, there is a call for them to reduce the number of single-use plastics that they create.
00:04:19.080 I don't know how feasible that is. But I do think that there is a reuse and recycling strategy that
00:04:25.400 is viable. And these companies could play a leading role in getting it done.
00:04:33.740 I wrote a book called Firebrand. And in that book, there's a chapter entitled,
00:04:40.120 A Birthright Worth Defending. I make the argument that in America, birthright citizenship is given
00:04:48.340 too liberally. It's a provision that is not allowed in most of the developing countries in the world.
00:04:57.020 And today we get news from the Eastern District of New York. Six defendants indicted for fraud and money
00:05:05.280 laundering scheme that operated seven birth houses in Suffolk County. And this was a scheme that led to more
00:05:12.980 than 100 Turkish children obtaining birthright U.S. citizenship and a $2.1 million loss to Medicaid.
00:05:23.860 So a lot of these foreign countries will set up birthing suites in the United States where their rich 0.97
00:05:30.120 elite can pay untold sums of money to have pregnant women come to America, have their children, 1.00
00:05:37.700 and then have those children enjoy the full benefits of citizenship in our country. You see,
00:05:44.800 I think in America, citizenship is so precious that we shouldn't sell it for any price. People in our
00:05:52.880 country should get the full complement of our citizenship without seeing it diluted by those who 1.00
00:05:59.320 would pay money for citizenship by fraud. Check out the indictment, check out the construct, and then join
00:06:08.160 me in the movement to limit birthright citizenship and to ensure that we value citizenship in our country
00:06:16.660 so much that we wouldn't allow it to be bought or sold by anyone.
00:06:21.720 Is government the best entity to run things? Should they run our health care, our economy? 0.67
00:06:32.260 FIDOT orgs John Miltmore and Dan Sanchez make the argument government can't count ballots. How can it
00:06:40.100 possibly manage a pandemic or our health care? And at the end of the day, whether it's the economy or health care
00:06:48.080 or election systems or the environment or any number of other challenges that we face,
00:06:55.980 ultimately it's the processing of data that we must be proficient at. And if we can't process data in
00:07:04.160 an election in a way to inspire confidence in our people, in a way to ensure that information or inputs
00:07:11.180 are not lost, how then should we utilize the government as the centralized entity to drive health care
00:07:18.760 innovation or education innovation or environmental testing? You see, FIDOT org advances the libertarian
00:07:26.640 principle that maybe the best innovation in our country doesn't come from government. Maybe it's those
00:07:33.980 outside with a motive driven by markets that they can best provide for our people and ensure that we live
00:07:42.140 better lives and can have greater confidence in the information that we're provided. I think it's an interesting
00:07:48.760 essay. Check it out and figure if you can't get most of the people in both political parties to trust the
00:07:56.980 result of an election. How could you ever ensure that we got the unity in this country around a
00:08:03.140 centralized, pre-planned, one-size-fits-all solution to health care or education or the environment or
00:08:10.080 any number of other challenges that we must confront? Now, I don't think that we can ignore these challenges.
00:08:16.740 I just think they're best managed by those at the lowest level and by those who can benefit most by ensuring
00:08:25.220 that they're responsive to markets and people and consumers, not just government bureaucrats.
00:08:34.600 I am a big believer in renewable energy, not because I believe that energy prices should be higher so
00:08:42.600 that the elites can virtue signal, but because I believe that ultimately, if we embrace renewables,
00:08:49.320 if we create the infrastructure that will support them, that energy prices can be lower for
00:08:55.220 all Americans, for people all around the world. That's why I am intrigued by the essay from Max
00:09:03.380 Roser in ourworldindata.org. Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? And what can we do to use this
00:09:12.780 global opportunity for green growth? Now, the world is in a transition now to renewable energy. There's no
00:09:21.040 doubt about that. Each and every year, renewables become a larger part of the global energy portfolio.
00:09:28.640 And the fundamental driver of this change is that renewable energy technologies follow learning curves,
00:09:34.840 which means that they will each see a doubling of their cumulative installed capacity and their price
00:09:42.820 declines will exist by the same fraction. Thus, the price of electricity from fossil fuel sources
00:09:49.620 will not follow those same learning curves. So we should expect more and more of the energy pie
00:09:57.160 to be consumed by renewables. Now, currently, the American Society of Civil Engineers rates our grid
00:10:04.680 a D minus, meaning that the renewables that we currently innovate around and generate are not
00:10:11.900 even able to realize their full capacity, their full potential for the benefit of our people,
00:10:17.580 because the infrastructure to store that energy to manage its capacity just doesn't exist at its
00:10:24.900 highest and best use. And that's why I believe there should be massive investment in the grid,
00:10:31.560 in the energy storage and transmission capabilities of our country, so that renewables can become
00:10:38.460 a bigger part of our lives and a bigger part of our renewable, well, not just our renewable,
00:10:44.120 but our overall energy portfolio. So check out the piece. We'll put it out on social media
00:10:49.660 and contemplate whether or not renewable energy could be a bigger part of your life at a lower cost.
00:10:56.100 Are FBI agents using fake names, aliases, so that they are able to exact their politics
00:11:09.220 on their political enemies for sport to advance their careers in the FBI? We get the story from
00:11:17.500 dailycaller.com. Chuck Ross writes it. Carter Page says FBI agent used a fake name during interviews,
00:11:25.980 now. Carter Page has alleged in a lawsuit that an FBI counterintelligence agent used an alias
00:11:32.860 during interviews with him in 2017. A retired FBI official who has worked in undercover operations
00:11:39.800 says that an agent using an alias in such a situation would be highly unusual. Page claims in the lawsuit
00:11:47.660 that Stephen Soma, a veteran counterintelligence agent, introduced himself as Steve Holt during their
00:11:54.660 interviews. And an inspector general's report has criticized Soma in the FBI's crossfire hurricane
00:12:02.660 probe. And that, of course, dealt with kind of the origins of all this effort to discredit the incoming
00:12:09.440 Trump administration with phony investigations. And I am deeply troubled at any departure from
00:12:18.660 procedure or practice that we see in the FBI because we know with certainty that warrants to spy on Carter
00:12:26.820 Page were based on bogus information. Information that the FBI and the Department of Justice knew came from
00:12:35.700 Christopher Steele, who was a known liar, who was a foreign agent, who was someone hired by ultimately the
00:12:43.560 DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to undermine our elections and our president and the institution of the 1.00
00:12:52.560 presidency itself. And so when I see news that there's an allegation of even more nefarious activity from the FBI, I'm
00:13:02.640 reticent to just discount it. So we'll continue to follow the Carter Page lawsuit. And we will hope that the FBI and the
00:13:09.560 Department of Justice are never again used for politics are never again used for politics.
00:13:17.560 Are we better off as a consequence of booze or not? The counter dot org's Jessica Fu has the story. Less than half of 0.60
00:13:26.560 Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen and big booze wants to keep it that way. The alcohol industry regularly spreads
00:13:35.560 misinformation to obscure booze is linked to cancer. Public health groups are demanding label warnings to give
00:13:45.560 consumers more clarity. And the piece goes through the efforts by some to ensure that the true impacts from
00:13:52.560 throat cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer are acknowledged. That the perspective regarding liver disease,
00:14:02.560 heart disease, lung disease is fully exposed. And you know, the comparison to cigarettes is one that is noted.
00:14:10.560 The tobacco industry pioneered the manipulation of science on heart cancer, other ailments to the human body.
00:14:19.560 And there may have been some in the alcohol industry who learned from this, who saw it. So check out the piece and figure out
00:14:28.560 whether or not booze is for you. Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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