The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - January 31, 2024


Episode 146 LIVE: Fani Willis And The Office Of Fraud – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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On this episode of Firebrand, we cover the latest in the fight against the uniparty, the latest on the border crisis, and our top story of the day. Firebrand is a political podcast produced by and .

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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
00:00:13.820 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00
00:00:20.980 you 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
00:00:35.160 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
00:00:42.960 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76
00:00:48.720 i want to remind the public that donald trump and house republicans
00:00:58.100 also have their own ideas for the border so let's review the majority's border ideas that
00:01:04.340 they've actually presented here they are donald trump actually has said that he wants to build
00:01:10.080 alligator moats along the border that's one of his incredible ideas another idea that donald trump
00:01:16.700 has promoted is he actually wants to electrify the border fence and maybe even put some spikes
00:01:21.720 on the border that's another donald trump and maga majority border idea another idea which i'm not
00:01:29.020 sure how well it would go is he wants to actually bomb northern mexico with missiles that's another
00:01:34.800 trump idea and finally i think one of the ones that i think is the most grotesque is suggestions that 0.98
00:01:40.940 instead we should maybe just shoot migrants in the legs as they cross the border so once again the 1.00
00:01:47.920 donald trump and maga plan is alligator moats bombing northern mexico shooting migrants in the legs 0.99
00:01:54.840 and electrifying the fence and putting spikes on them that is the donald trump border plan
00:02:00.080 welcome back to firebrand we are live that is triggered california congressman robert garcia
00:02:07.520 laying out what he perceives as the maga plan to secure a border that's wide open electrified fences
00:02:14.040 alligators ensuring that we bomb the places where they are producing the fentanyl that's killing over 0.88
00:02:20.140 100 000 americans and maybe even a little hot lead for the traffickers themselves that in fact harm the
00:02:27.020 migrants and harm our country and destabilize what ought to be a place of prosperity along the u.s 1.00
00:02:33.780 mexico border but instead is full of bandits and hoodlums and trouble so i was already supportive of
00:02:41.620 that agenda i didn't even need robert garcia to lay it out for me but he did in technicolor and the
00:02:46.560 bottom line is you cannot continue to allow 300 000 people every month to come across illegally we
00:02:51.840 have seen a huge increase in those on the terror watch list that are apprehended and released in
00:02:56.160 six million of the eight million that we've paroled into the country well we don't know who they are
00:03:01.500 and where they are so the impeachment of mayorkas is coming i'm going to be voting for that impeachment
00:03:06.260 supporting that impeachment you've seen some of the debate in the house homeland security committee
00:03:11.280 but impeachment is necessary but not sufficient as a posture for house republicans we have to be
00:03:18.360 demanding that the border be closed in order to continue extending funding for the government
00:03:23.560 agencies that have long been turned against the people during the biden administration so it's got
00:03:28.620 to be shut down the border or shut down the government and where speaker mike johnson is right on this
00:03:33.980 is that we don't need some new law to shut down the border trump did it it's the public health title
00:03:40.140 42 authorities remain in mexico and safe third country you do those things then you detain or
00:03:46.100 remove the people who come here illegally you have the border secure so don't buy this nonsense that that 0.97
00:03:51.960 dumb senate amnesty bill sponsored by senator langford is what is necessary it indeed is not i want to get
00:03:59.680 now to our top story of the day even more cheating even more trouble going on in fulton county you'll 0.84
00:04:06.120 remember fulton county is where the da the soros backed da funny willis brought an action for rico rico
00:04:13.920 is the stuff that like rudy giuliani used to go get the mob in new york but instead now it's being used
00:04:20.020 against rudy giuliani funny willis has a long history of misusing the statute she used it against 1.00
00:04:25.640 teachers when that was widely panned as an overcharging uh of that particular crime and set of facts
00:04:33.420 but funny willis herself may be in a little trouble we've covered extensively how she 0.99
00:04:40.640 jacked up billing opportunities for her married boyfriend nathan wade and nathan wade charged like
00:04:48.380 650 000 to this matter whereas the other more qualified outside attorneys were only charging like
00:04:54.060 100 000 back of the napkin math then there were two grand juries i thought i found this was odd
00:05:00.420 in georgia like normally you would have a grand jury that would evaluate the matter and that would
00:05:07.540 then make a charging decision or not and it always was odd to me that there were two separate grand
00:05:13.340 juries and then i start to think to myself well maybe maybe the reason there were two was so that
00:05:18.200 nathan wade could double bill double charge and then thanks to nathan wade's estranged wife we now have
00:05:26.920 all the evidence of the trips he took and how he took the money from fonnie willis and then spent it
00:05:33.400 on fonnie willis well there's even more to this story and even more to the mismanagement someone from
00:05:41.000 fonnie willis's office gets an audio recording oh really a whistleblower here is trying to say that
00:05:46.760 there are grants that are being misused for personal emoluments for trips for laptops take a listen from
00:05:56.480 inside the fulton county da's office if you had to give me a sentence what is the sentence theme
00:06:05.840 once i told him about his respectfully and in an email about his lack of leadership and the fact
00:06:12.720 that he wanted to do things with grants that were impossible and i kept telling him like we can't do that
00:06:19.440 and questioning stuff he would take me off projects tell people i wasn't doing what i was supposed to
00:06:24.000 because i questioned him because i understood i helped write that grant i knew what was in that
00:06:30.080 grant he told everybody in front of crystal deontay everybody we're gonna get macbooks we're gonna do
00:06:36.960 that we're gonna get swag we're gonna use it for travel i said you cannot do that it's a very very
00:06:41.600 specific grant took me off i questioned junior da there's kids in there from out of the the um the
00:06:47.920 county all this took me off junior da i didn't not want to do it he made it look as if i wasn't doing
00:06:54.800 what i needed to do because i questioned him because i knew for a fact mr cuffy respectfully did
00:07:01.360 not know what he was doing period so i respect that is your assessment um it was clear to me that you
00:07:08.880 and mr cuffy were not getting along and i'm not saying that your assessment is wrong i want you to really
00:07:13.360 listen to the words i'm saying puffy and this is my personal opinion to one woman to another is
00:07:19.920 dangerous to your administration he tells people when i reached out to you he told me oh um you
00:07:26.240 think your word is safe um exactly when you reached out to miss uh willis she called me and told me she
00:07:32.080 tell me everything so once you reach out to her she's going to reach up back out to me so i didn't even go
00:07:36.480 to hr and he put dexter's name on my pdp and i didn't even feel safe going to anybody can i tell
00:07:42.560 you something i have three supervisors that have failed in this building what's interesting to me
00:07:48.960 because i'm in a learning curve too they each pretend to have a relationship with me that they
00:07:54.160 do not have i guess that's an intimidation tactic i'm sorry that you felt that way but you would dexter
00:08:01.200 certainly don't have no relationship with uh michael cuffy you were safe to go those places
00:08:09.040 we're back live swag and travel and laptops and if you listen closely to this interaction between
00:08:15.360 clearly a distraught whistleblower who is talking about having written the very grants that are being
00:08:21.680 abused funny willis tries to make it personal she tries to get away from the misuse of money any 1.00
00:08:29.360 accountability any crime that may have occurred by making a misrepresentation about how funds were
00:08:35.120 being used or planned to be used instead what you get from funny willis is well it just sounds like you
00:08:41.040 and this particular individual didn't get along and that's a tell because it shows you that the
00:08:47.200 construct for how funny willis views the work of the office is through the lens of personal relationships
00:08:53.760 you see this this particular grant writer didn't get along with the supervisor so that's really the
00:09:00.080 problem and then on nathan wade well you see funny willis getting along with mr wade real well in the
00:09:05.840 receipts that are produced by nathan wade's wife but since the relationship was strong between willis and
00:09:12.240 wade the financial malpractice and malfeasance was acceptable i am calling on the house judiciary committee
00:09:22.800 to immediately hold hearings on the misuse of federal grants by fonnie willis that whistleblower
00:09:29.040 should be allowed to tell her story to the united states congress fonnie willis should have to answer 0.99
00:09:33.920 for any misuse of federal grants for personal lavish experiences and if there are other funds
00:09:40.640 co-mingled with those federal funds that allow fonnie willis to go hire her married boyfriend give him
00:09:46.640 six hundred and fifty thousand dollars and enjoy trips as a consequence we need answers the house
00:09:52.240 judiciary committee would be derelict in not bringing fonnie willis before us for a hearing
00:09:57.520 following the release of this explosive whistleblower transcript and audio let's get to the bottom of
00:10:03.840 it let's get her here to answer questions my expectation is that you'll learn a lot more about the corruption 0.72
00:10:10.480 going on in the fulton county da's office turning now to capitol hill there was a really important
00:10:17.040 hearing with mark zuckerberg over in the senate and zuckerberg got a real uh a real haranguing
00:10:23.840 from senator ted cruz of texas let's listen in
00:10:29.200 instagram also displayed the following warning screen
00:10:33.360 to individuals who were searching for child abuse material
00:10:41.440 these results may contain images of child sexual abuse and then you gave users two choices
00:10:49.200 get resources
00:10:52.080 or see results anyway
00:10:56.640 mr zuckerberg what the hell were you thinking
00:11:01.680 all right senator um the the the basic science behind that is that when people are searching for
00:11:08.880 something that is problematic it's often helpful to rather than just blocking it to help direct
00:11:15.120 them towards something that um that could be helpful for getting them to get help in what i understand get
00:11:21.040 resources in what sane universe is there a link for c results anyway well because we might be wrong we we
00:11:28.480 try to trigger this this uh warning or we tried to um when we think that there's any chance that the
00:11:35.840 okay you might be wrong let me ask you how many times was this wording screen displayed i don't know
00:11:41.680 but the but the you don't know why don't you know i i don't know the answer to that off the top of my
00:11:46.880 head but but you know what mr zuckerberg it's interesting you say you don't know it off the top of
00:11:50.560 your head because i asked it in june of 2023 in an overnight oversight letter and your company refused to
00:11:57.840 answer will you commit right now to within five days answering this question for this committee
00:12:03.760 we'll follow up on that is that a yes not a will follow up i know how lawyers write statements
00:12:09.280 saying we're not going to answer will you tell us how many times this warning screen was displayed yes
00:12:14.320 or no senator i'll personally look into it i'm not sure if we okay so you're refusing to answer that let
00:12:19.520 me ask you this how many times did an instagram user who got this warning that you're seeing images
00:12:26.480 of child sexual abuse how many times did that user click on see results anyway i want to see that
00:12:31.840 senator i'm not sure if we stored that but i'll personally look into this and we'll follow up after
00:12:39.760 ted cruz clearly did not have decaf on the morning of this questioning and zuckerberg is quite deft and
00:12:46.560 quite charming in these deflections and in his unwillingness to commit to get information that
00:12:51.840 senator cruz has been asking for for years another of our great senate fire brands also got all over
00:12:57.840 mr zuckerberg it was senator josh holly take a listen with so much of our lives spent on mobile
00:13:04.960 devices and social media it's important to look into the effects on teen mental health and well-being
00:13:11.040 i take this very seriously mental health is a complex issue and the existing body of scientific work
00:13:17.840 has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health
00:13:23.040 outcomes did i hear you say in your opening statement that there's no link between mental
00:13:28.560 health and social media use senator what i said is i think it's important to look at the science i know
00:13:34.880 it's people widely talk about this as if that is something that's already been proven and i think that
00:13:40.400 the bulk of the scientific evidence does not support that well really let me just remind you of some of
00:13:45.840 the science from your own company instagram studied the effect of your platform on teenagers let me
00:13:52.960 just read you some quotes from the wall street journal's report on this company researchers found
00:13:56.560 that instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of teenagers most notably teenage girls here's a
00:14:03.280 quote from your own study quote we make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls here's 1.00
00:14:10.480 another quote teens blamed instagram this is your study for increases in the rate of anxiety and
00:14:15.520 depression this reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups that's your study
00:14:22.480 senator we try to understand the uh the feedback and and how people feel about the services we can
00:14:28.160 improve what a minute your own your own study says that you make life worse for one in three teenage
00:14:34.800 girls you increase anxiety and depression that's what it says and you're here testifying to us in public
00:14:40.320 that there's no link you've been doing this for years for years you've been coming in public and
00:14:44.240 testifying under oath that there's absolutely no link your product is wonderful the science is
00:14:49.440 nascent full speed ahead while internally you know full well your product is a disaster
00:14:55.440 for teenagers and yet you keep right on doing what you're doing right not true 37 of teenage girls 0.65
00:15:02.880 between 13 and 15 were exposed to unwanted nudity in a week on instagram you knew about it who did you fire
00:15:10.160 senator this is why we're building all who did you fire rules senator that's i don't think that that's
00:15:15.680 who did you fire i'm not going to answer that um that's because you didn't fire anybody right you
00:15:21.600 didn't take any significant action it's appropriate to talk about it like it's not appropriate decisions
00:15:27.680 do you know who's sitting behind you you've got families from across the nation whose children are
00:15:34.560 either severely harmed or gone and you don't think it's appropriate to take a talk about steps that
00:15:39.680 you took the fact that you didn't fire a single person let me ask you this let me ask you this have
00:15:43.840 you compensated any of the victims sorry have you compensated any of the victims these girls have you
00:15:49.760 compensated them i don't believe so why not don't you think they deserve some compensation for what your
00:15:58.560 platform is done help with counseling services help with dealing with the issues that your your
00:16:04.400 service has caused our job is to make sure that we build tools to help keep people safe are you going
00:16:09.440 to compensate them senator our job and what we take seriously is making sure that we build industry
00:16:15.440 leading tools to find harmful to make money take it off the services to make money and to build tools
00:16:20.480 that empower parents so you didn't take any action you didn't take any action you didn't fire anybody you
00:16:25.520 haven't compensated a single victim let me ask you this let me ask you this there's families of
00:16:29.200 victims here today have you apologized to the victims i would you like to do so now well they're
00:16:35.840 here you're on national television would you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed
00:16:41.120 by your product show them the pictures would you like to apologize for what you've done to these good
00:16:46.160 people
00:16:57.440 it was quite a moment in the senate judiciary committee when zuckerberg did indeed take uh
00:17:03.840 take holly up on that offer kathy on rumble asks an important question what about section 230 didn't we
00:17:10.080 get rid of that so here's the background section 230 is a provision of uh law federal law that
00:17:16.000 gives the publishers of uh information or i should i should say that differently section 230 allows
00:17:22.320 entities that are technology platforms to avoid the liability thresholds that exist if they were a
00:17:29.280 publisher so there's big debate going on is facebook just an aggregator or indeed are they a publisher
00:17:35.600 and the more you see them engage in censorship and the more the algorithm tries to shape how people
00:17:41.040 think the more we really get to the point that there is no just blanket tech platform that makes
00:17:48.000 information available that is operated by meta and so we wanted to repeal section 230 and we had
00:17:55.520 republicans and democrats certainly not senator holly and senator cruz but republicans and democrats who
00:18:01.040 stood in the way of that effort so the very harm that you saw senator holly and senator cruz
00:18:07.520 expressed concern over is allowed to occur with a full liability shield for meta so we bring them
00:18:14.800 before congress we ask these questions but at the end of the day the people who are really harmed
00:18:19.760 can't sue they should be able to that's why section 230 should be repealed i now want to
00:18:26.720 talk about something going on in iowa former mississippi congressional candidate and american hero
00:18:32.960 michael cassidy was just charged with fourth degree criminal mischief a misdemeanor in iowa for
00:18:39.120 beheading that statue of the blasphemy that was placed on display at the state capitol in iowa it was
00:18:45.520 a big story he had the satanic symbol and this veteran goes and beheads the weird idol thing but 0.99
00:18:54.240 unfortunately for michael who did what was right another demon has reared its ugly head that demon
00:19:00.640 is the soros funded county attorney kimberly graham who has decided to charge michael with
00:19:07.520 a felony hate crime any same country would give michael a medal but while michael may have earned
00:19:12.960 himself another jewel in his crown of heaven here he has earned himself official condemnation and enhanced
00:19:19.280 felony charges from our most nefarious adversaries now county attorney kimberly graham is most known for 0.98
00:19:26.960 taking over 300 000 from the george soros justice and public safety political action committee and
00:19:35.200 i've spent some time in iowa recently 300 000 from a pack for a county prosecutor position
00:19:43.280 is a lot of money it is dispositive in races like that and if it's not enough to make your skin crawl
00:19:49.440 she claimed in the past that she was inspired to run for county attorney by rachel collins the famous 1.00
00:19:56.640 progressive d.a in boston who publicly released a list of 15 crimes that her office would refuse to
00:20:02.720 prosecute like trespassing shoplifting larceny disorderly conduct receiving stolen property driving
00:20:08.240 on a suspended license breaking and entering with property damage wanton and malicious destruction of
00:20:13.120 property threats and more and we talk a lot about soros prosecutors and their commitment to
00:20:18.720 destruction of the rule of law and really the mockery of natural law but one feature of anarcho
00:20:25.600 tyranny that gets less attention is that of unequal enforcement of the law rules for thee but not for me
00:20:34.800 if michael cassidy destroyed a statue of george washington or thomas jefferson or virtually any
00:20:41.840 ancestral american deemed problematic by today's mores well he wouldn't have been prosecuted
00:20:48.400 he probably would have received millions of dollars in settlements like the blm riders in seattle but
00:20:53.440 michael is being prosecuted because he stands for the values that the regime opposes that this soros 0.62
00:21:00.640 funded regime stands against this is not an isolated incident it's not even isolated to iowa in 2019
00:21:07.920 adolfo martinez was sentenced to 15 years for the hate crime of burning a rainbow flag flying on the side
00:21:14.800 of a church in central iowa what happened to victimless crimes and restorative justice no that's just for
00:21:21.520 the left and it's all a show it doesn't have to be consistent it's not meant to be a system isn't
00:21:27.360 characterized by what it is meant to do is characterized by what it does and the current
00:21:33.280 system of laws throughout this country criminalizes the behavior of those that the regime hates and it
00:21:40.400 overlooks the behavior of those supported by the regime and then you see people like michael like
00:21:46.880 daniel penny pay the consequence for that unequal enforcement of the law so make no mistake the
00:21:54.480 regime has a state religion complete with its own blasphemy laws and if you offend the rainbow satanic 0.99
00:22:01.360 empire the powers that be will throw you in the lion's den that's what happened to michael cassidy it's what 0.81
00:22:07.360 will happen to you if we do not take back control of the justice system and kick these soros prosecutors 1.00
00:22:14.400 out of office they are doing tremendous damage speaking of damage here in congress we get another
00:22:21.920 report from quiver quantitative regarding the trading that goes on with members of congress so before i go
00:22:27.760 over this specific post i do not believe that members of congress should be able to trade individual
00:22:34.720 stocks even if the action is not nefarious it undermines our trust in the system and oftentimes
00:22:42.880 it is nefarious we don't let referees bet on the game and we shouldn't let congressmen trade on
00:22:47.840 individual stocks i highly recommend quiver quantitative as a follow at q ui v e r q u a n t they've built
00:22:56.880 a system that tracks these congressional trades and one of them caught our eye the senator mark wayne
00:23:03.360 mullen just disclosed the purchase of a stock in a company called badger meter badger meter produces
00:23:10.720 automated water meter technology the epa recently passed a mandate requiring utilities to upgrade to
00:23:20.160 new automated water meters senator mullen sits on the senate committee on the environment and public
00:23:27.200 works tulsa oklahoma just announced that they will be spending 94 million dollars to upgrade their
00:23:33.840 meters senator mark wayne mullen represents the state of oklahoma we'll keep an eye out to see how
00:23:40.560 much federal money goes to badger meter thank you for that report from quiver quantitative in new york
00:23:48.480 city mobs of migrants are attacking people and hurting them take a watch 1.00
00:23:55.600 a group of migrants in new york city are arrested after attacking nypd officers near times square
00:24:02.480 five of those migrants were arrested four already released without bail brian can you imagine even
00:24:08.160 putting your hands on a police officer and not thinking you're still in prison they are beating them
00:24:13.440 up they don't even belong in this country and they're out of prison well some are repeat offenders
00:24:19.200 the brawl started when two officers were trying to break up a rowdy crowd near a migrant shelter around
00:24:23.760 42nd street while arresting one of the men the others jumped in as you're seeing kicking and
00:24:28.720 punching the officers that might work in your country it doesn't work here the manhattan da's office
00:24:34.000 says it's investigating the incident as police search for five other men involved what's there
00:24:37.840 going to investigate it's an absolute embarrassment remember that that manhattan da is alvin bragg who
00:24:45.600 has turned the streets over to the thugs and criminals while he's engaged in some novel stitching
00:24:51.440 of federal election law to local reporting requirements in order to prosecute president trump
00:24:57.360 because he has failed to protect the people of manhattan you see it right there so i guess to the folks
00:25:02.480 in new york when are you going to get tired of it like when are you going to get tired of the fact
00:25:06.320 that these folks can hurt you and then go right back on the street and hurt somebody else when are
00:25:10.960 you going to get tired of the fact that they're throwing your kids out of the schools to house
00:25:14.160 migrants this sanctuary city that you live in appears more like a hellhole to me not a sanctuary that i 1.00
00:25:21.360 would ever want to be a part of and maybe that's the reason that so many new yorkers are taking their
00:25:26.480 sanctuary in the sunshine state and we welcome them so long as they remember why they're leaving what
00:25:32.800 they're coming to and to preserve the greatness of the quality of life that we're able to lead
00:25:38.480 in florida that that looks nothing like what you just saw with that new york city migrant mob there's 0.99
00:25:44.240 a final update i want to give you regarding a matter in northwest florida we are very proud of our training
00:25:49.520 mission and our testing mission particularly at nas pensacola and whiting field we are able to have the
00:25:56.400 best aviators in the navy come through and learn and prepare for their mission ahead and i'm very
00:26:02.720 proud that in our congressional work we were able to secure additional updated newer flight training
00:26:09.040 assets particularly new helicopter systems and new hangar systems to hold those helicopters at whiting
00:26:14.720 field and there was recently an accident where uh two of our flight students had were in air taxi
00:26:22.720 and were hospitalized after an incident where their helicopter during that taxi rolled over onto its side
00:26:28.960 we've gotten reports now that there are no serious injuries those flight students will be fine
00:26:33.840 but i will be following up on this matter to ensure that we've got the very best aviators that
00:26:39.040 we've got the very best equipment and that we're prepared to project force anywhere in the world
00:26:43.600 if necessary and certainly defend the homeland thank you all so much for joining make sure you are subscribed
00:26:49.280 that you click that little bell on youtube or rumble for notifications to be turned on and if you
00:26:54.960 haven't checked out yesterday's episode man thomas massey was here and had breaking news regarding the
00:27:00.640 pipe bomber i suggest you check out that episode as well thanks for joining us let's roll the credits
00:27:19.280 oh
00:27:30.480 you