The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 152 – A Terrorist Released for Being...Too Fat？ Congress Stalls on Coronavirus Relief, Again. 2020’s Best COVID Love Story.

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.140 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.800 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:14.000 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the government runs

00:00:22.120 out of money tomorrow and based on the phone conference call i just had with republican

00:00:28.180 members of congress i do not believe that by tomorrow there will be an omnibus legislative

00:00:33.940 package alongside a coronavirus relief package ready to pass and send to president trump it

00:00:40.260 appears those negotiations are ongoing and so it's likely that tomorrow the congress will have to pass

00:00:46.580 a short-term continuing resolution backing the members of the house and the senate up against

00:00:51.340 christmas because if history holds members of congress will vote for just about anything to

00:00:57.000 get home to christmas and to be off for christmas break so it's one of the ways that swampy

00:01:02.760 features make their way into legislation i will tell you there's one substantial republican win

00:01:08.500 and i want to give the republican negotiators credit for this it does appear in the final legislative

00:01:15.100 text and again i haven't seen legislative text yet that there will be a provision to end surprise

00:01:20.620 medical billing this is something that really plagues our fellow americans where you go in you figure

00:01:26.580 you've got insurance but you didn't know that your hospital where you had insurance had a contracting

00:01:33.820 relationship with some other you know mri company or some other diagnostic company and then lo and

00:01:40.060 behold your visit that you know might normally have cost a few thousand dollars is automatically up to

00:01:45.840 like fifty sixty thousand dollars so we want to see an end to surprise medical billing and what we're

00:01:52.400 hearing on capitol hill right now is that that's going to be included in the final legislation now

00:01:58.120 there is a debate raging now over whether the ppp loans ought to be tax deductible a lot of republicans

00:02:05.520 in congress believe that it should be i know we're still working with the treasury secretary steve mnuchin

00:02:12.200 on that issue but that's something i hear about frequently from small businesses that need to have those ppp

00:02:18.560 loans tax deductible and so we're still fighting for that the other issue is rent many many americans

00:02:25.060 are renters are landlords are involved in the real estate industry and the government manipulation of

00:02:34.320 the rental market has had some real downstream impacts on the economy and at the same time we know

00:02:41.400 that we've got a lot of folks who are renters who've seen you know their jobs vanish into thin air and

00:02:47.260 it's not their fault that that happened so that is still a sticky wicket that we're negotiating and

00:02:53.200 i hope to be able to have more on that it's something that we're very very focused on we

00:02:57.540 don't want to create a situation where the renter is captive we don't want to create a situation where

00:03:02.200 the landlord is captive i'll be continuing to uh you know work on this legislation and update our

00:03:09.940 listeners but suffice it to say there's no legislative text the government runs out of money tomorrow

00:03:16.400 it looks like congress will be doing a little bit of work over the weekend

00:03:19.700 the senate's homeland security committee met yesterday to discuss election irregularities and

00:03:29.120 election integrity and there were some pretty heated moments between chairman ron johnson and

00:03:34.760 the democrat ranking member gary peters take a listen i just have to talk about russian disinformation

00:03:40.440 because the people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle senior democrat leaders including

00:03:48.360 ranking member peters you know were involved in a process of creating a false intelligence product

00:03:56.280 it was supposedly classified they leaked to the media that accused senator grassley the president pro tem of

00:04:01.960 the senate and myself of accepting and disseminating russian disinformation from andre kirk durkash i'd

00:04:09.940 never heard of the person until they brought it up sir mr chairman i gotta respond to that i mean you're

00:04:14.320 saying i'm putting out information well one i did had nothing to do with this report you you lied

00:04:19.240 repeatedly you lied repeatedly in the press that i was spreading russian disinformation and that was an

00:04:24.960 outright lie and i told you to stop lying and you continue to do it mr chairman this is not about airing

00:04:30.300 your grievances i know what i don't know what rabbit hole you're running down you talked about

00:04:33.840 russian disinformation senator paul this is simply not what we're dealing with but mr chairman you

00:04:38.860 can't make these false allegations and then dropping it there that is why this senator paul needs to

00:04:44.660 return back to it senator paul partisan things this is this is this is terrible what you're doing to

00:04:50.160 this committee and all the great work that you talked about it is what you have done to this

00:04:53.620 committee it is not also using the chairman of spreading disinformation nothing could have been

00:04:57.920 further from the truth and you're spouting it again which is why i had to respond oh come on

00:05:02.080 here's my hot take the democrats should be embarrassed for calling the hunter biden laptop

00:05:08.220 russian disinformation there's been no proof of that but plenty of proof that hunter biden was engaged

00:05:14.820 in wrongdoing now i'm not talking about his personal life or his personal antics frankly i don't

00:05:20.860 think that's the business of the united states senate certainly not the fbi and the department of

00:05:24.840 justice but if hunter biden was engaged in activities that put other countries before ours

00:05:31.140 that had these foreign interests entangled with the workings of our government well that is worthy of

00:05:37.800 review and it's why it's so frustrating to have democrats unwilling to see evidence unwilling to

00:05:45.380 evaluate the information that is before them without such a partisan lens i also think that it's

00:05:52.320 ridiculous for democrats to just dismiss out of hand these irregularities that occurred as a

00:05:58.900 consequence of the election just hear from some of the witnesses in the senate's homeland security 0.90

00:06:04.360 hearing take a listen in wisconsin we just completed it we just completed a recount we found that there

00:06:09.520 were incomplete and altered certificates these are the certificates on the front of the envelopes

00:06:14.940 that have to be exactly done correctly under our law if not those results may not be counted how many of

00:06:22.680 those more than three thousand of those identified by person were nonetheless counted even though they

00:06:31.340 are clearly invalid under the law then we have an interesting category called indefinitely confined

00:06:36.400 these are people which the statute i read from the statute by age physical illness or infirmity or are

00:06:42.980 disabled indefinitely among those claiming this status so they don't have to provide any identification

00:06:48.980 among those claiming this status is one of the electors for joe biden three million people properly voted in the

00:06:56.980 wisconsin more than 200 000 identified during this recount did not but those votes got counted and our statute says

00:07:06.540 they should not have been so it remains to be seen whether or not this evidence will result in

00:07:11.240 a senator joining members of the house of representatives to offer an objection to the counting of the electors from

00:07:18.860 states with these substantial irregularities and i think that the country would actually benefit

00:07:24.220 from more of this discussion more debate more exposure and if we continue to shine the light

00:07:31.560 on election fraud and election irregularities it may function as more of a deterrent to that type of bad behavior in the future

00:07:39.560 too fat for prison that was a winning argument for one of osama bin laden's former henchmen who was

00:07:50.280 just freed from a new jersey prison after a judge deemed him too fat for jail we get the story from

00:07:57.040 the new york post and abdel abdul barry was convicted for two deadly 1998 bombings he's now free and living

00:08:05.880 in the united kingdom the judge saying quote the defendant's obesity and somewhat advanced age make

00:08:11.760 covet 19 significantly more risky to him than to the average person uh barry's lawyers had cited their

00:08:18.300 clients age girth and asthma as reasons that he ought to have been released he's 60 years old spent 21

00:08:25.340 years in a new jersey prison was involved as an al-qaeda operative that in activities that ended up

00:08:33.920 killing 224 people including 12 americans those bombings occurring at embassies in africa i never thought

00:08:42.940 i'd see the day that too fat for prison was a winning argument but i guess with one manhattan judge

00:08:49.300 it turned out to prevail

00:08:50.840 billionaire republican mega donor charles coke has joined in an op-ed calling for massive amnesty

00:09:00.960 for illegal aliens residing in the united states of america he writes that the 11 to 22 million

00:09:08.780 illegal aliens here ought to have the opportunity to come out of the shadows this while we still have 1.00

00:09:14.560 tens of millions of americans who want to work but who can't because of lockdowns following coronavirus

00:09:20.800 now i appreciate all that the coke brothers have done to elect republicans over the years it's probably 0.94

00:09:26.300 resulted in a lot of good but this position for amnesty is not one that should be held in the

00:09:33.040 america first republican party amnesty undermines the opportunity that we have to preserve for our

00:09:42.240 fellow americans i think those who support amnesty and open borders take too low of a view of what

00:09:49.440 america is america is not just a constitution or an idea america is our home and just as we wouldn't let

00:09:57.480 just anyone walk into our home without knowing who they are what their intentions were we can't just

00:10:03.920 let anyone walk into our country and if someone were to come into your home without permission

00:10:09.480 you wouldn't start by then wondering whether or not they could add value to your home the first thing

00:10:14.620 you would say is you don't have permission you have to depart until permission is granted and then

00:10:19.400 perhaps there's an opportunity for a positive experience a positive exchange but when you just

00:10:25.460 have amnesty proclamations like those from charles coke and like those from a lot of left-wing

00:10:31.280 politicians you encourage the caravans the human trafficking the mass migration the erosion of borders

00:10:39.040 and the undermining of wages of our fellow americans i have a hard line view on immigration people off

00:10:46.860 ought to have to get permission to come into our country and we ought to give permission to those who

00:10:52.620 would enhance the american experience i don't believe that our immigration system today works

00:10:58.720 i think it is a broken system i think that it is dramatically improved as a consequence of president

00:11:04.640 trump i mean think look we don't have these caravans forming at the same level now as they were four

00:11:11.320 years ago and that's because president trump built more border wall about 400 miles to be precise

00:11:17.220 he changed the amnesty policies he ended catch and release he ensured that if people wanted to claim

00:11:23.460 asylum that they could do so from their home country or from a safe third country i'm concerned 0.99

00:11:29.360 that the america first pro-trump immigration policies that have been working over the last few

00:11:36.200 years for our country could be undermined in the coming years the fact that republicans are calling

00:11:41.940 for amnesty is not a good sign a member of the seattle city council who wants to defund the police

00:11:52.500 recently ended up having to call the police you just know this was going to happen we pick up the

00:11:58.340 story from the post-millennial and it is one of lisa herbold member of the seattle city council

00:12:04.620 she had previously introduced legislation to excuse or dismiss almost all misdemeanor crimes committed

00:12:12.920 in seattle by quote persons with symptoms of addiction or mental disorder then she ended up

00:12:20.020 calling 9-1-1 to protect her from the very type of crime she might want to legalize when someone

00:12:26.620 threw a rock at her window a witness said they saw an unathletic and bad runner leaving the scene

00:12:33.620 the suspect was described as a clean-shaven white male with a black hoodie and jeans the witness

00:12:39.720 told officers that he would recognize the suspect if he saw him again but declined the officer's

00:12:44.980 business card for contact or follow-up so it's just interesting that in our time of need we seem to

00:12:52.960 value law enforcement a great deal but for political reasons to virtue signal to those who are anti-police at

00:13:01.700 the local level there is a willingness to legislate otherwise we want everyone to be safe we want to

00:13:07.820 support our law enforcement particularly those police who go out there and keep our streets safe each and

00:13:13.640 every day and we want those police to exist for law-abiding americans and even for members of the

00:13:20.140 seattle city council just yesterday the house of representatives passed a major bipartisan piece

00:13:28.720 of legislation for our nation's veterans the bill increases resources for homeless veterans and one of

00:13:36.140 the really important features of the bill it creates dedicated women's health providers at the va

00:13:43.340 females are a rapidly growing demographic within our veteran community a va health has seen a real 1.00

00:13:52.000 increase in the number of women they're treating as a consequence it has increased from 160,000 to

00:13:58.960 475,000 since just the year 2000 so with that massive increase in the number of women who need veteran

00:14:07.580 care creating dedicated funding and requirements for women's health care within the va system absolutely

00:14:14.580 essential for our war fighters for our veterans other provisions of the bill ensured that there are

00:14:20.740 economic opportunities for veterans and that we ensure the continuation of employment because that

00:14:28.160 transition from you know military active duty service life to civilian life is one that man if we nail it

00:14:35.600 there is just a huge return on investment for society with a veteran who is now deploying skills in the

00:14:42.200 economy helping our businesses grow helping our nation's productivity but frankly there are a lot of

00:14:47.680 veterans who fall through the cracks who aren't given those transition services into private life this bill

00:14:54.240 will make that stronger and i'm glad i got the chance to vote for it along with every other member of the

00:15:00.080 house of representatives this is definitely the most romantic story i have ever seen in the daily caller

00:15:09.680 man jet skis nearly five hours to visit his girlfriend across the irish sea and then is jailed for violating

00:15:18.480 coronavirus restrictions dale mclaughlin 28 years old was sentenced to four weeks in jail on the isle of man

00:15:26.320 on monday for flouting the island's strict coronavirus travel restrictions he buys a jet ski and then the

00:15:33.840 next day drives it for four and a half hours to the island from scotland to see his girlfriend now it's 0.70

00:15:42.320 only a fool who looks for logic and matters of the human heart according to my favorite movie oh brother 0.77

00:15:48.140 where art thou and my goodness to see uh a four week jail sentence handed down to this guy i don't know 0.98

00:15:56.320 about this but i'm willing to guess that the judge who issued that sentence has probably suffered some

00:16:01.860 recent heartbreak and was just not in the mood for romance as an excuse for violating coronavirus

00:16:08.280 restrictions hey we all need love man we all need human contact i salute dale mclaughlin for his tribute

00:16:16.740 to romance and passion and look if the girlfriend who he drove four and a half hours to see on a on

00:16:24.860 a jet ski and then went to jail for four weeks on if she doesn't stick with him through this jail 1.00

00:16:28.920 sentence there are plenty of women that i know that would love to meet this guy thanks for listening 0.96

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - December 17, 2020

Episode 152 – A Terrorist Released for Being...Too Fat？ Congress Stalls on Coronavirus Relief, Again. 2020’s Best COVID Love Story.

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