The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 151 LIVE： Dead Bill Walking – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:08.540 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.860 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00

00:00:21.020 you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.460 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.220 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:43.020 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:48.960 the vote we will soon take to provide military weapons for ukraine is the most important vote

00:01:01.760 we will ever take as united states senators today the future of the world i've just described

00:01:08.840 is in question the endurance of an order in which american support is craved and american strength

00:01:17.220 is feared is in doubt and we the united states of america have the most to lose

00:01:27.040 welcome back to firebrand we are live that was mitch mcconnell and mitt romney two people we used

00:01:35.340 to believe were republicans speaking on the senate floor about their desire to spend 95 billion

00:01:40.340 dollars not for the benefit of the american people or our citizens but for ukraine and all sorts of

00:01:45.800 ambitions all over the world they have no pay for there's not a single dollar that they sought to reduce

00:01:51.180 american spending in some other way maybe they wanted to reduce some other foreign aid no

00:01:55.780 they wanted to deficit spend every bit of it they wanted to go borrow money from china

00:02:00.580 so that we could give it to other countries and they want to act as though that's the most important

00:02:06.080 vote that that is what america will do to save the world from peril just to put the world's debt on our

00:02:12.520 balance sheet if anyone thinks that the right answer for you to be good to them is for you to assume all

00:02:17.920 of their debt i think that you ought to have a good amount of suspicion and when we're just basically a

00:02:23.160 debt brokerage firm masquerading as a country in the vision of these america last politicians

00:02:28.900 that's what you get so we're going to dedicate a good amount of today to what the senate's trying

00:02:35.120 to do what we're trying to do to stop it we are back broadcasting live in room 2021 of the rayburn

00:02:40.240 house office building here in the capitol complex on washington dc we thank our terrific hosts at rumble

00:02:46.360 they've got their new studio in washington and you'll see us from that platform with a lot of

00:02:51.440 innovative discussions i encourage you to look at the chat we had with kurt mills just yesterday

00:02:56.200 editor-in-chief of the american conservative and the best way to consume all this content is to

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00:03:11.880 house speaker mike johnson doubling down on his commitment not to bring the america last 95 billion

00:03:18.760 deficit spending forever war bill to a vote in the house and it's a democrat bill here's the tell every

00:03:25.840 democrat voted for it in the senate along with a little cobbling of republicans that they were able

00:03:31.820 to get together led by mcconnell and romney and senator tom tillis you'll hear from in just a moment

00:03:38.120 so they've got that going on it's a democrat bill principally supported by democrats democrats are

00:03:44.100 making the major contribution to the vote share for the bill and we don't have a republican house

00:03:50.480 majority to hear democrat bills and move democrat bills and by the way we shouldn't even be considering

00:03:56.880 ukraine and taiwan and u.s stockpiles in israel on the same bill anyway they should be reviewed

00:04:02.580 independently if you want to take a vote on those independently let's go and and proceed ensuring

00:04:09.020 that we don't roll the majority of the majority with democrats on substantive issues like foreign

00:04:15.160 aid now one of the america last republican senators who advocated vociferously for this legislation was

00:04:24.420 tom tillis of north carolina and his staff actually made this what you're going to hear is not uh a a full

00:04:32.600 clip of any speech that senator tillis made but his staff on his social media platforms

00:04:37.800 created a tillis supercut of what they perceived were all of the best arguments in favor of of this

00:04:46.680 ukraine aid and so you're going to hear from senator tillis of north carolina then i'm going to rebut

00:04:51.980 those arguments on the other side take a listen a lot of people when they hear senator speak they

00:04:58.720 believe that it's the truth they've heard somebody say that if we pass this bill that we're all going to

00:05:04.680 go ride to kiev with buckets full of money and let oligarchs buy yachts i wonder how the spouses of 1.00

00:05:11.880 the estimated 25 000 soldiers in ukraine who have died feel about that i mean really guys

00:05:19.680 sending billions of dollars to ukraine so right our ukrainian oligarchs can buy yachts is that the best

00:05:28.080 you've got a lot of people say we're sending 70 80 billion dollars to ukraine really well last time

00:05:35.820 i checked about half of it's going to the military industrial base here to replace the inventories

00:05:40.860 that we've sent to them to replace and and to aid our modernization of our arsenal no thank goodness

00:05:49.240 this is not against the nato ally because we would be desperate trying to actually support it all out

00:05:56.780 war putin is losing this war folks this is not a stalemate this guy is on life support he will not

00:06:06.480 survive if the 50 nations who have come together in the ramstein process to support ukraine stick

00:06:13.360 together nato allies in 25 some two dozen other countries have come together and made it very

00:06:20.220 clear that putin's desire to reestablish the russian empire is inconsistent with a democratic world order

00:06:27.940 and we are the beacon of hope for democracy when we step away who fills the void

00:06:37.660 you'd be hard-pressed to find any nation that has the scale and the ability to do it but the united

00:06:44.560 states with all due respect to my friends why am i so focused on this vote because i don't want to

00:06:50.920 be on the pages of history that we will regret if we walk away you will see the alliance that is

00:06:59.140 supporting ukraine crumble you will ultimately see china become emboldened 1.00

00:07:07.120 and i am not going to be on that page of history but let's let this chamber

00:07:12.900 be the chamber that stands with the free world

00:07:18.240 we're back live so let's deal with these arguments that senator tillis is making the first is there will

00:07:26.020 be no buckets of cash in ukraine what is everyone talking about yachts and cash it is an uncontroverted

00:07:34.300 fact that the wife of a former senior defense official in ukraine was literally caught with

00:07:41.760 with millions of dollars was more than 10 million dollars in u.s cash at the at the border with

00:07:48.600 poland so literally buckets of cash are being found in the possession of the family members of the people

00:07:55.600 connected to the ukraine defense apparatus mike lee put out a report that the cia had to directly confront

00:08:03.520 zelinski about his own personal corruption does senator tell us have any response to that does he think

00:08:10.880 it didn't happen is there any evidence to the contrary no when we find the cash and when we see that

00:08:17.900 people like zelinski are able to convert materiel into cash because in the world right now far too much of

00:08:24.500 this is fungible then yeah there's a real problem second argument tell us makes putin's losing the war

00:08:31.340 that's his argument you know he's losing this war the people were dying in it principally that's

00:08:37.440 ukrainians and we want to see less war and less death but what does winning and losing this war even

00:08:43.260 really mean to senator tillis and the rest of the neoconservatives because i know what it means to

00:08:48.400 the ukrainians when ukrainian officials come and brief members of congress you know what they say

00:08:53.280 every inch of our territory back the entire russian speaking portion of eastern ukraine in the donbass

00:09:00.440 and crimea it crimea has been in russian hands for quite some time there's not a serious person

00:09:06.720 who actually believes that this war is going to resolve with crimea being returned to ukraine anyone

00:09:12.800 who says that is lying to you and they're doing it in order to extend a war where the people who are

00:09:19.620 actually losing it are the ones who are losing their lives and their families and their homes and

00:09:23.360 their businesses and their prospect for any future whatsoever putin's losing the war maybe but what

00:09:31.020 are we winning what are we even trying to win that's something that tillis can't define third he says

00:09:37.140 nato is coming together the u.s has to fill this void this is this great moment and if we don't continue

00:09:43.540 to serve as a blank check for all of it then we will be the cause of its collapse here's the truth

00:09:49.860 this war in ukraine can end whenever europe wants it to whenever they want to stop buying cheap russian

00:09:55.780 gas whenever they want to enter into a serious european security agreement that would naturally have

00:10:02.620 to contemplate russia hopefully it would include russia on areas of agreement where we're fighting

00:10:08.020 radical islamic extremists hopefully we could include russia on non-proliferation on nuclear 0.81

00:10:14.440 weapons destruction there are certain things where cooperation between the united states and russia

00:10:18.920 make the world and everyone here safer and that's not to say that we're saying they're nice guys or

00:10:24.880 inviting them over for christmas dinner but they're a nuclear power and in europe i think there's an ability

00:10:33.300 to negotiate and reach a conclusion that is considerably less bloody than the present that

00:10:39.240 we currently face fourth argument the face of history right we can act so we must act this is

00:10:48.580 essentially tillis's argument that because the united states is strong and powerful then might makes

00:10:54.000 right and we are obligated to take action anywhere in the world where our values are in any way

00:11:01.240 diminished by the rising hegemony of some other entity or even the declining hegemony right just the

00:11:08.420 hegemony period here's what i don't think history will judge well if our tinkering around over with

00:11:16.560 russian tanks and european boundary disputes leads to some sort of catastrophic accident or escalation

00:11:23.900 as i've said many times i don't worry about broke down russian tanks in the donbass so much as i worry

00:11:29.020 about some crazy russian general believing that they have the authority to execute some sort of

00:11:34.080 launch that then we would have to retaliate against you would activate the entire nuclear triad we could 0.80

00:11:38.840 melt the globes put all of human existence asunder under a nuclear winter what what so that we can

00:11:46.180 take the perspective that crimea has to be returned to russia is that worth it

00:11:50.480 history i hope history doesn't judge us for the mistakes that these neoconservatives would make

00:11:58.480 fifth and final argument that tillis makes is that china will be emboldened

00:12:03.060 china do you know who we're borrowing the 95 billion dollars from china when we suffer inflation

00:12:10.360 because this type of unpaid for spending is inherently inflationary you know who benefits

00:12:15.300 china with russia entangled in this battle there is a leveraged buyout of the russian farms

00:12:23.520 in east russia the chinese are benefiting from that and as russia is bogged down in ukraine they are

00:12:29.640 selling off assets in cuba where these broke down russian spy entities are being converted into high-end

00:12:37.160 chinese intelligence signals collection capabilities for our true adversary an adversary that wants to 0.59

00:12:44.300 dominate us not one that wants to join nato with us so i think that it is foolish to suggest that the

00:12:53.420 way to be stronger toward china is to become deeper indebted to china and when we borrow money from china 0.96

00:13:01.080 to give it to another country we just look like fools we don't look like leaders speaking of fools 0.90

00:13:07.140 we get a report from the calvin coolidge project that republican senator and neoconservative mark wayne 0.96

00:13:13.780 mullen is meeting with folks to consider a discharge petition and here's the report senator mark wayne

00:13:19.660 mullen has spoken to house lawmakers about a discharge petition a discharge petition would bring the 95

00:13:25.300 billion dollar overseas aid bill to a vote in the house of representatives if speaker mike johnson

00:13:31.300 doesn't introduce it so here is here is the real-time fisticuffs of this you've got mike johnson

00:13:38.020 taking the right position that we're not going to consider this crazy bill on the terms that the

00:13:45.180 senate has sent it over and then you have mark wayne mullen trying to encourage republicans to go sign a

00:13:51.880 discharge petition with democrats to force this america last bill forward and mark wayne mullen didn't

00:13:58.540 even have the guts to vote for it that's what's crazy about this mullen votes against the bill because

00:14:03.140 he's afraid that his constituents in oklahoma will know how he actually feels about these questions

00:14:07.740 and then he goes and tries to get some republicans in the house to do an end run around mike johnson

00:14:13.060 i will fight against that i will stand with speaker johnson to stop this terrible unpaid for 95 billion

00:14:20.300 dollar aid bill and i'm glad the speaker is staying strong on that another little dispute we see going on

00:14:25.600 on social media is between a terrific attorney general in the state of texas ken paxton and john cornyn let's

00:14:32.080 get those tweets on the screen so attorney general paxton takes a shot at cornyn says that he's willing

00:14:38.660 to stay up all night to defend other countries borders but obviously there's a sensitivity to

00:14:43.980 that in texas because the texas border is not being defended cornyn replies with just an ad hominem

00:14:50.320 attack saying that oh ken paxton's under felony investigation and there's a grand jury looking at him

00:14:56.880 and it is just such a weak play for cornyn to ignore the substance of paxton's argument that

00:15:03.460 cornyn seems to be more worried about borders oceans away and not those uh among the texans who

00:15:09.820 elected him and were hoping that they would serve there were some good arguments made in the senate

00:15:14.320 notably by missouri's josh holly i thought he nailed it in debate take a listen

00:15:18.880 my goodness we have enough money to make hundreds of millions of dollars of our taxpayer funds available

00:15:28.600 to the private sector in ukraine we are now literally funding their businesses their banks

00:15:35.800 lord knows what we've got money without end we've got enough money to pay for bureaucrat salaries we've got

00:15:45.280 enough money to pay for ukrainian government officials pensions we've got enough money for so-called

00:15:51.360 humanitarian aid that gets funneled away from siphoned off into any manner of corrupt uses we won't know

00:15:59.580 because we don't have a special inspector general to oversee this money but that's a different story

00:16:03.420 oh no we've got plenty of money and i have listened carefully carefully to colleague after colleague

00:16:11.500 of mine come to this floor and stand where i am now and say it's so important that we spend this money

00:16:18.720 on these overseas wars we must spend the money if we don't spend this money now why it may cost us

00:16:26.020 more money in the future no we it's it's imperative it's imperative that we spend this money meanwhile

00:16:33.700 these same people turn to the citizens of missouri and say you're not worth a dime

00:16:40.240 they say you can't have a penny they turn to the residents of kentucky and tennessee and alaska

00:16:48.400 and new mexico and arizona and utah and texas and they say we don't care that you are poisoned

00:16:55.780 we don't have a dime for you we have unlimited money for ukraine we're going to rebuild the borders

00:17:01.380 of ukraine that's in this bill but we don't have anything for you

00:17:03.960 nailed it we in fact are paying for the pensions and salaries of ukrainian officials that have

00:17:11.340 nothing to do with the war and in a way the uh the impeachment trap that we talked about on the

00:17:17.940 program yesterday seems to be an effort to try to in to it really create a yellow brick road for more

00:17:25.400 war and more funding of it and actually all of it when what we need is peace a point made quite well

00:17:31.780 by our good friend from kentucky senator ran paul take a listen

00:17:34.600 so i for one think that the american people are opposed to this bill i think they're opposed to

00:17:44.040 the concept of ukraine first and america last and i predict that this issue doesn't go away

00:17:51.020 i predict that the house of representatives is not going to take up this bill i predict that the vast

00:17:57.060 majority of the republicans in the house of representative are more conservative than

00:18:01.040 the republicans in this in this body and i predict that this fight is not over during this debate

00:18:07.500 and the fact that we were able to delay and talk about this for five days five and a half days

00:18:14.100 the speaker of the house spoke out and i don't know that he would have been prompted to speak out

00:18:19.460 although he has spoken out previously against this but the speaker of the house spoke out today

00:18:23.980 and said he's not taking this bill up see they've put together border reform that actually would

00:18:30.640 transform things border reform that acknowledges that it's an emergency so i will be a no and continue

00:18:36.860 to be a no on this bill because i think it puts a ukraine first and america last and with that madam 0.97

00:18:43.020 president i yield my time

00:18:44.760 senator paul did a terrific job we also saw harrowing work by senator mike lee of utah and at the end of

00:18:54.620 the day the senate did advance this legislation and the work we're doing right now is to ensure

00:18:58.940 that speaker johnson continues to block the consideration of this disparate omnibus unpaid for

00:19:07.340 a bad bill so good work on the speaker good work senator paul and our senate allies and you senate

00:19:12.880 republicans like mark wayne mullen trying to get a discharge petition or senator tillis trying to get

00:19:18.280 another blank check for a corrupt country it's it's disappointing and it's not something that

00:19:23.880 your constituents would ever approve so there's a certain hubris to all of it um we want to make

00:19:28.800 sure we do focus on america's border in this program and i want to bring up to date on legislation

00:19:33.180 that i'm filing this exclusive comes from henry rogers at the daily caller matt gates introduces

00:19:38.540 bill to protect states right to defend the southern border now this speaks directly to the litigation

00:19:43.840 that's ongoing between texas and the federal government texas has put up barricades i observed

00:19:49.640 those barricades they were effective they were a deterrent people were moving around them to other

00:19:54.480 places like lukeville arizona and to california because texas actually started standing for its own

00:19:59.400 sovereignty but then the biden administration's department of justice tried to do

00:20:03.040 everything possible to litigate against texas to get injunctions against barricading their own

00:20:10.140 border from the invasion that is coming over as high as 10 000 people a day so senator vance came

00:20:16.520 up with this idea originally he filed it in the senate to create within federal law a permission

00:20:21.260 structure for exactly what texas is doing we would hope other border states would then follow suit under

00:20:26.400 that permission structure vance has got it in the house or in the senate i've got it in the house of

00:20:31.000 representatives and i'm excited to work with senator vance on that important priority and really we

00:20:36.900 shouldn't be voting for government funding bills without it we shouldn't be voting for government

00:20:40.580 funding bills without appropriate demands on the border and this is one way we could work together

00:20:46.320 to create that sovereignty for our country and we could actually leverage the power and capability of

00:20:52.360 our states that are indeed willing to help one power that's been abused we've talked about it a lot

00:20:58.100 is the spying power of the federal government and where we've seen the most egregious abuses are in

00:21:03.820 the foreign intelligence surveillance act now there's a reauthorization for that coming up we had punted it

00:21:09.720 previously my conservative colleagues and i are actually working with some very liberal democrats to try to get

00:21:16.420 a warrant requirement to try to get more oversight and to not let the deep state just continue to target

00:21:22.660 americans in the absence of the constitutional protections that we all hold so dear bob good

00:21:28.020 chairman of the house freedom caucus held a press conference on our intentions and our demands

00:21:32.080 i spoke at that press conference moments ago take a listen

00:21:34.540 i can't imagine that when a prior congress passed the patriot act that they expected that its provisions

00:21:42.760 would be used against patriots or even blm riders for that matter that's what's

00:21:48.420 so interesting about this issue we've seen these authorities abused against the right the left the

00:21:55.100 middle the rural the urban certainly people all over this country and don't take my word for it when

00:22:02.000 the inspector general for the department of justice appointed by president obama did an analysis of the

00:22:08.840 utilization of these fiza authorities they found that our intelligence community had violated the law and the

00:22:15.940 regulations 278 000 times they were breaking the law 38 times an hour for the period that was being reviewed

00:22:25.400 i don't think it makes us unreasonable to suggest that if there's a law being violated 38 times every

00:22:31.240 hour that it should not just be expanded without some sort of curtailment or enforcement when those

00:22:37.880 violations do occur and that's why we want a warrant because it creates a process by which our

00:22:43.160 constitutional norms can apply to something that has broken bad and it is helpful that we have a a

00:22:50.640 a real u-shaped coalition here where it's folks on the populist right aligned with those on the

00:22:56.940 populist left and we are fighting against the establishment of both parties who seem all too willing

00:23:02.700 to do whatever the national security state wants of them so our plea to speaker johnson is not to

00:23:09.500 just continue to punt on fiza that's what we did previously and it's unacceptable it's no fun

00:23:15.140 watching a team whose best play is the punt that's what we that's what we did previously and we shouldn't

00:23:19.720 do that again and if we're going to make changes to fiza rather than expanding the authorities as

00:23:26.420 chairman turner and some on the intelligence committee want to do so that they can be weaponized

00:23:31.720 against anybody with just you know access to wi-fi at a starbucks or a mcdonald's they should

00:23:38.240 be curtailed and if they are not curtailed if there's not an if there's not a willingness in

00:23:42.740 the senate to curtail these authorities then we should allow them to expire as is contemplated

00:23:48.580 originally in the patriot act we will still fight for those constitutional fourth amendment principles

00:23:56.240 but the fight is on and our adversaries are doing everything they can to maintain that power among a

00:24:02.960 select group of people in washington dc to be able to do an end run around the constitution

00:24:06.860 the fourth amendment shouldn't be up for negotiation and it shouldn't be for sale thank you so much for

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - February 13, 2024

Episode 151 LIVE： Dead Bill Walking – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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