The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 153 – Tommy Tuberville： Overnight Senate Hero. NEW Peter Strzok Texts Question FBI's Trump⧸Russia Timeline. Non-Essential Is the New Deplorable.

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

00:00:06.120 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.780 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.980 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news senator elect

00:00:22.120 tommy tuberville he's going to be sworn in on january 3rd already making noises that he may

00:00:30.080 prompt senate action on the objections from the house to the electors that have been sent from

00:00:36.200 states where there are still a lot of questions about the validity of those votes cast the

00:00:42.260 procedures the authorities for elections officials to make changes to the voting process itself

00:00:49.020 tommy tuberville giving a statement that essentially reads hey the house is gonna get

00:00:54.600 this thing going and we should have to deal with it in the senate and i totally agree here's my hot take

00:01:00.680 i know tommy tuberville he is the river boat gambler that's what they called him when he was the coach

00:01:07.320 at auburn he was a guy willing to go for it on fourth down a lot willing to take a risk and he

00:01:14.840 might have just the moxie to do this now it is quite something to expect a senator elect you know 0.95

00:01:21.360 a someone who's been a member of elected office for just a matter of days to stand up and be the

00:01:27.660 one to show this courage frankly i'd like to see maybe some other members of the senate express their

00:01:33.460 intention to join in the objections from the house in the specific places where there is a need for

00:01:39.680 debate about the irregularities but if senator elect tuberville sees the opportunity sees the opening

00:01:46.460 he might be just the type of guy to take it the other thing about him is i think he's got a really

00:01:51.260 good relationship with the president and this is about more than any one president or any one election

00:01:56.100 it's about whether or not when you have a pollution of the electoral process is that worthy of deliberation

00:02:02.480 at a factual level by someone and the preference would have been that the article three court step

00:02:08.580 forward exert their jurisdiction hold evidentiary hearings and then make determinations on the

00:02:14.680 evidence unfortunately we didn't really have a court willing to exercise its jurisdiction they were

00:02:19.980 largely granting motions to dismiss based on the sufficiency of pleadings not based on the validity

00:02:25.980 of the evidence so if we had that evidentiary discussion and debate in the house and in the senate i know

00:02:32.720 jim jordan and i'll be ready for it along with folks like andy biggs and jody heiss and scott perry

00:02:38.040 who've got a lot of information from pennsylvania georgia arizona michigan wisconsin that i think the

00:02:47.340 public deserves to hear and i think it deserves a robust debate in congress i mean if some dispute

00:02:53.260 over ohio in 2005 deserved a debate certainly what we've seen in this last election does as well so

00:02:59.880 tommy tuberville right now maybe i would say offering up a political weather balloon to see how

00:03:06.100 the other senators will react to see how the public will react and he'll have to balance out

00:03:10.660 some frustration from mitch mcconnell maybe some resentment for his fellow americans to being a

00:03:16.840 hero to the tens of millions of americans who believe that the irregularities the fraud the

00:03:24.420 departure from procedure and authority in this last election at a minimum deserves a debate in the

00:03:30.220 united states house of representatives and senate president trump has retweeted an article from

00:03:38.340 breitbart that's quite interesting new peter struck texts undermine official narrative on start of russia

00:03:45.120 collusion investigation it's by joel pollack and these newly released text messages are offered up by

00:03:52.160 homeland security committee chairman ron johnson and senator chuck grassley and in the new texts

00:03:58.280 you see how peter struck and lisa page are discussing open counterintelligence investigations

00:04:05.820 regarding trump and russia on july 28 2016 now the reason that's significant is that up until now

00:04:14.640 we've been told even by senior officials at the justice department that the trump russia counterintelligence

00:04:21.440 investigation started on the 31st of july after they got the tip from downer with

00:04:28.120 papadopoulos which was itself a setup you see what papadopoulos has been saying is that this was not

00:04:34.620 some organic reporting from downer back through the western intelligence channels to the united states

00:04:41.460 it was actually the united states that had recruited downer to go and try to entrap papadopoulos into

00:04:48.700 admissions that he never ended up making and of course since papadopoulos wasn't involved in any criminal

00:04:54.420 conspiracy with russia they had to charge him with this ancillary crime of not being honest with the

00:04:59.780 fbi but if you go to prison for not being honest with the fbi what happens when the fbi and the

00:05:07.420 department of justice aren't honest with the rest of us which is clearly evidenced by these text messages

00:05:14.160 it wasn't true when the fbi and department of justice said the trump russia investigation

00:05:19.220 began on the 31st of july because in text messages on the 28th they're talking about existing open

00:05:27.720 counterintelligence investigations we should know the truth about this effort to destabilize our

00:05:34.140 president and the presidency but sadly given just the effectiveness of the deep state to maintain

00:05:40.420 control at the department of justice we may never truly find out who was so willing to pervert

00:05:48.180 the doj and the fbi for political reasons that they did immeasurable damage to our country

00:05:54.520 as the result of a widespread doping scandal russia has been banned from using its flag or anthem at the

00:06:05.820 olympics and world championships through the year 2022 that halves the term of years of their prior

00:06:13.040 punishment the associated press graham dunbar has the story russia will not be able to use its flag

00:06:19.320 or anthem at the next two olympics or any world championships for the next two years after a ruling

00:06:25.280 thursday by the court of arbitration for sports now russia does get a small win they are allowed to

00:06:31.960 have the name russia on the uniform so long as neutral team or neutral athlete are displayed with

00:06:39.380 equal prominence now the history of the russian teams and doping is well documented the ruling does

00:06:47.560 allow russian government officials including vladimir putin to attend major sporting events if invited

00:06:53.420 by the hosts nation state very interesting review of the facts in that case and just truly how widespread

00:07:02.200 it was and how many athletes and coaches were involved it was the national strategy of russia

00:07:07.800 to cheat at the olympics they got busted now no flag no anthem

00:07:13.440 no swath of tens of millions of americans are deplorable or non-essential every job is essential

00:07:26.280 to the family that relies on that job to the person who's using that job to build a better life

00:07:32.280 a stepping stone to a career or another opportunity for prosperity it was a great segment on sean

00:07:39.360 hannity's program last night with mike roe the dirty jobs guy just about the frustration that is

00:07:46.980 really bubbling up around the country among the people who have been told by their government that

00:07:53.000 their livelihood is somehow less worthy than the livelihoods of others take a listen to mike roe's

00:07:58.740 hot take here's a question what what did joy behar candace pete you and me all have in common

00:08:05.600 i'm listening the government has deemed us all essential incredibly i don't know about you but i've

00:08:15.380 that's true i'm not essential i've worked every day in my chosen field since march in some way shape or

00:08:25.240 form i've done it cautiously i've taken precautions and followed protocol but i have worked literally

00:08:32.960 every day consequently i'm i'm making my bills and my people are employed and when i see you talking to

00:08:38.580 guys like that and i mean it's been a slow burn for me to be honest but i have come to the point where

00:08:47.060 you know candace mentioned irredeemable and deplorable there's a new word for 40 million people in this

00:08:54.200 country non-essential and it's crazy we have deemed a giant hunk of our people essentially one click away

00:09:05.140 from unimportant or worthless what happens to an economy when you call men like those non-essential

00:09:12.160 people the fact that you and i are allowed to work in our chosen field and they can't is just another

00:09:19.400 example in my opinion of a big cookie cutter approach in the name of public safety where we treat everybody

00:09:27.900 basically the same except for the essential folks and this is weird for me to say sean because i i hosted the

00:09:34.740 granddaddy of essential shows you know dirty jobs and deadliest catch really are about essentiality

00:09:40.560 but during this pandemic i've i've seen firsthand that everybody is essential to somebody even if

00:09:48.300 you're just working to pay your own bills so something is going on here that is that is fundamentally

00:09:53.960 upside down and the fact that these policies are now being instituted by leaders who have shown

00:10:01.380 themselves to be the very definition of rank hypocrisy is i'm afraid going to lead us into a place where

00:10:10.160 it's going to be very difficult to get the poop back in the goose

00:10:12.700 drinking red wine and eating cheese could reduce cognitive decline we get the story from the new york

00:10:22.560 post's james legate wine and cheese could protect against cognitive decline according to research from an

00:10:29.800 iowa state university study published in november 2020 in the journal of alzheimer's disease and it

00:10:37.040 studied the intake and how that impacted brain function over a four-year period with adults ages 46 to 77

00:10:47.440 so if wine and cheese protect you against cognitive decline i should be in excellent shape upstairs for the

00:10:55.240 long term brad palumbo has a piece in fee.org gallup poll americans mental health hits 20 year low

00:11:06.700 ahead of renewed lockdowns and certainly makes the argument that the public health impacts of

00:11:14.140 lockdowns have to include an analysis of mental health this is the lowest americans have rated their

00:11:21.940 mental health according to gallup in 20 years 34 of respondents said that their mental health was

00:11:28.060 excellent which is down nine points from just last year similarly 85 of americans had rated their health

00:11:36.680 as good or excellent in 2019 just 76 did this year so clearly a diminution in how folks are viewing their

00:11:47.420 conditions and it's easy to see why with so many governments engaging in these reactionary policies

00:11:53.800 that seem to pit one industry against another one neighbor against another and it hasn't been

00:12:00.440 cooperative and i think that that's because far too many politicians view these pandemics as an

00:12:06.180 opportunity to exercise power and show responsiveness rather than showing leadership

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - December 18, 2020

Episode 153 – Tommy Tuberville： Overnight Senate Hero. NEW Peter Strzok Texts Question FBI's Trump⧸Russia Timeline. Non-Essential Is the New Deplorable.

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