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