The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 161 LIVE： Hit By A Minibus – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:08.320 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.660 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00

00:00:20.800 you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.240 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:34.980 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:42.800 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:48.560 and this bill today funds all of that continues to fund all of that every single republican should

00:01:02.300 vote no should vote no and should be ashamed of ever voting yes this is our opportunity this is

00:01:08.300 remember this is this was supposed to be done last september we're now in the middle of march

00:01:13.220 of the next year this is their opportunity to say what happened on the border yesterday that

00:01:19.140 all of america is now looking at as they wake up this morning this is going to stop and it's going

00:01:23.500 to stop with us and if they don't vote no on this bill what they're saying to their constituents their

00:01:29.720 bosses who sent them to washington dc democrat or republican what you saw at the border that's fine

00:01:35.600 with me that's good let's get more of that i urge all of our colleagues not just the brave ones

00:01:40.520 that are standing here today in front of you but every single member of the house republican and

00:01:46.380 democrat reject this bill

00:01:48.360 that was congressman scott perry we are live here in room 2021 of the rayburn house office building

00:01:56.340 on the capitol complex in washington dc where the very shame that scott perry described played out as

00:02:02.420 the house of representatives passed the second half of the omnibus spending legislation today that

00:02:08.580 we've worked so hard to try to stop at the end there were 286 yes votes 134 no votes so an

00:02:15.880 overwhelming more than two-thirds majority for this terrible piece of legislation we're going to go

00:02:20.640 through some of the bad earmarks in it some of the bad uh bad funding choices that were made we always

00:02:26.320 like to look at where the republicans stood and you heard scott perry there a leader in the freedom

00:02:31.120 caucus uh calling out republicans who would vote for this democrat spending bill 101 republicans

00:02:39.420 shamefully voted yes 112 republicans voted no so that means a majority of the majority voted against

00:02:49.260 this terrible legislation and yet it is going to become law anyway the majority of the majority you

00:02:55.340 thought for got rolled by the democrats and there was one particular moment in uh in this bill that

00:03:03.600 got me it was when uh mike bost fresh off of his one point primary election victory voted yes

00:03:11.820 and then when it became clear that the bill had all of the votes that it needed to pass oh then he ran

00:03:18.300 downed out of the clerk and changed his vote to a no vote so mike bost was actually for it then flipped

00:03:24.840 to be against it when the no vote didn't matter i wonder if that one point primary election victory had

00:03:31.040 anything to do with that motivation but it's deceptive and it's dishonest and uh unfortunately we saw

00:03:39.200 a betrayal of republican values there's no other way to describe it from a 101 republicans 112 of us

00:03:48.100 who voted no we're not enough to stop this bad bill there's other breaking news on capitol hill

00:03:53.540 today mike gallagher just announcing that he will be resigning from the house of representatives prior

00:03:58.640 to the conclusion of his term uh the end of i guess middle of end of april we saw april 19th bouncing

00:04:05.900 around as a date that was being reported by jake sherman at punch bowl news and mike gallagher is a very

00:04:11.020 smart person mike gallagher is someone who understands the world a great deal i sat next to him on the

00:04:17.100 house farm services committee for seven years he chairs one of the cyber intelligence evolving

00:04:23.520 technologies subcommittees upon which i serve and it's very disappointing to see him resigning

00:04:31.320 before the end of his term when we get elected we get elected for two-year terms we're on a two-year

00:04:37.260 contract i think every member should stay for the two years and it's it i have this view whether i like

00:04:43.460 the person or not i didn't like kevin mccarthy i was disappointed when he left before the conclusion

00:04:48.900 of his term i like mike gallagher disappointed that he's leaving before the conclusion of his term

00:04:54.280 because to me it's like a breach of contract with your voters you signed up for a job you knew when you

00:05:00.700 signed up for it how long it lasts and my frustration comes from the fact that we are we are now at a one

00:05:07.420 seat majority one one and that puts everything that we could potentially do at grave risk and it

00:05:16.800 it strengthens the hand of those who want to draw us into these bad bills that give away the farm to

00:05:22.700 the democrats when our majority is reduced cut by a quarter cut in half cut to barely nothing the other

00:05:31.660 breaking news on capitol hill today is that marjorie taylor green has filed a motion to vacate when i filed

00:05:37.340 a motion to vacate kevin mccarthy it demanded immediate legislative action within a prescribed

00:05:43.540 window so two days after i filed the motion to vacate mccarthy there was a window that opened

00:05:50.860 and immediately upon that window opening i called for a vote we heard congresswoman green describe her

00:05:57.540 intentions very differently today her her intention was not to file this and call it up for a vote within

00:06:03.380 two days as i did she's filing it and i guess for lack of a proper legislative term she's allowing it

00:06:09.420 to cook she's allowing it to simmer she's um allowing it to i guess be the subject of some discussion and 0.99

00:06:15.740 debate and it's hard not to view these two stories gallagher leaving green filing this in in some uh in some

00:06:23.880 concert right because whether or not you can execute a motion to vacate the speaker is contingent upon your

00:06:31.000 size of majority at any given moment and when i vacated mccarthy i made a promise to all of you

00:06:39.120 to the entire country that we would not end up with a democrat speaker i knew it i promised it and had we

00:06:46.940 ended up with a democrat speaker then i would have broken my word to you and i would have been rightfully

00:06:52.820 drubbed out of this job as i sit here now with a one vote majority with like i don't know 10 12 of our

00:06:59.960 members in biden districts am i sure that one two three of those people to be the head of the budget

00:07:07.040 committee to be the head of the appropriations committee to be the head of the intelligence

00:07:10.360 committee to be the head of the rules committee to be the floor leader that one or two of them

00:07:16.140 wouldn't cross over and vote for a democrat maybe even hakeem jeffries i'm not sure of that and because

00:07:21.940 i'm not sure of that do not count me among those who would support a motion to vacate at this time and

00:07:27.400 not that there's one that's been called up to be fair to congresswoman green i think she understands

00:07:32.220 that dynamic that's why she is pursuing a different path than i pursued with kevin mccarthy

00:07:37.620 but we'll continue to follow up on it and and really what brought us to this moment where we're even

00:07:43.320 having this discussion unfortunately is this omnibus spending bill and it violates all of the principles

00:07:50.760 that i set forth and frankly it violates a lot of the principles that i know mike johnson campaigned on

00:07:57.180 when he ran for speaker and that's why he wants to get to a discussion of 2025 spending to lay out a

00:08:03.780 vision to show those priorities and a lot of people are smarting and hurting over what we just experienced

00:08:10.260 today and if there is a sentiment that is just so washington and so wrong and so vile and so

00:08:20.240 destructive to our economy and our nation it is the sentiment that you always just have to be for the

00:08:25.460 deal some people get deal hungry deal happy you know what we just need a deal and it doesn't matter

00:08:32.080 if it's a bad deal good deal if it increases inflation if prices go up if the lobbyists get paid

00:08:37.220 off just just just get the deal done it is so corrosive and no one expresses that sentiment more

00:08:44.820 than someone who is leaving congress at the end of his term but fulfilling his term north carolina

00:08:50.640 congressman and former i guess you know mccarthy wet nurse patrick mckenry here's congressman mckenry

00:08:57.340 making this bad argument you know it's been well covered my constructive criticism of the speaker

00:09:05.300 and i i think i want to emphasize the first part which is go land the deal do not fear the deal

00:09:14.840 you have to go land those legislative priorities in order to show power and to exercise power

00:09:21.100 otherwise you don't want to be speaker unless you want to go land deals he has now landed his second

00:09:27.020 big deal as speaker and he'll land it this week that should be commended

00:09:31.900 just work for the deal and i'm going to go over some of the bad stuff that was in that deal but

00:09:39.780 we've got some comments on the live stream people want to know who voted which way and so jacob let's

00:09:44.920 make sure we get the vote sheet from our legislative team and post on our official facebook and our

00:09:51.460 official x pages so that the people here who want to know where their member of congress is

00:09:56.060 can see how the vote played out but it was a vote on so many things that do not have an appropriate

00:10:02.380 federal nexus let me just go through some of these earmarks so new jersey senators are at half a million

00:10:08.840 taxpayer dollars that they got to fund a state organization that force feeds the lgbt agenda in schools

00:10:15.280 the group garden state equality assists in finding gender mutilation surgeries for minors

00:10:22.700 and they harass schools that prevent biological men from using women bathrooms and participating in 0.61

00:10:27.420 women's sports so that's what half a million went to massachusetts senators got a million bucks in 1.00

00:10:33.100 taxpayer funds to support a leadership academy for left-wing political organizations the massachusetts

00:10:40.700 women of color coalition that explicitly caters to non-white women so if you are a man or if you are

00:10:48.720 white this million dollars in massachusetts is not for you and really it is a beachhead for the defund the

00:10:55.420 police movement a part of what they're advocating for is quote use of force statutes and policies

00:11:01.180 a close quote for police to change maryland getting uh getting their nose down in the trough their

00:11:06.460 senators want half a million in taxpayer dollars for an organization called the third that provides a safe

00:11:12.320 space for women of color entrepreneurs i mean the in maryland if you need to go create safe spaces

00:11:20.200 for a specific ethnic or immutable trait of entrepreneurs then do it with your own money

00:11:27.760 connecticut senators won 156 000 to subsidize construction of the hartford gay and lesbian health

00:11:34.280 collective wisconsin senator i wanted half a million dollars to promote lgbt programs to teenagers

00:11:40.800 so we're going into debt we're 34 and a half trillion dollars in debt we're driving 2.5 trillion

00:11:46.960 dollar annual deficits but teens like us is a program that you are now funding so that there can be

00:11:55.220 trans tape kits provided to minors that's literally what they do and and uh wisconsin's democrat senator

00:12:02.220 tammy duckworth wanted that uh connecticut senators got 155 000 in taxpayer monies going uh to an 1.00

00:12:08.660 organization called make the road ct uh their executive director recently criticized joe biden for

00:12:16.740 rightfully calling lincoln riley's murder illegal so the head of this organization criticizes biden

00:12:25.220 for calling a murderer illegal and 155 000 windfall as a consequence this legislation is chock full of

00:12:32.160 this stuff the top lines are too high the debt is is just blown out and no one seems to be too eager

00:12:39.560 in taking responsibility for it one of my terrific colleagues fellow firebrand chip roy was debating

00:12:45.500 on the floor against this bad legislation take a listen

00:12:48.540 the democrat leader talks about the mosaic i assume by the mosaic that anyone who votes for this bill

00:12:58.620 today will be supporting that we're talking about 156 000 for the hartford gay and lesbian health

00:13:05.660 collective an organization self-describes as champions of lgbtqia equity and provides training

00:13:11.380 and cultural competency and access to health health care for lgbtq youth or two million dollars in

00:13:16.900 oregon clinic that provides hormone therapy for kids or the 850 000 for gay senior housing in

00:13:23.260 massachusetts or 400 000 for the briar patch youth services in wisconsin that has gender affirming

00:13:29.600 clothing program for kids 18 to 13 to 18 or 400 000 to the garden state equality education fund

00:13:36.940 which helps minors transition genders promote biological boys playing girls sports and using the

00:13:43.040 same restrooms i could go on and on how about the million dollars for the inner city muslim network 0.99

00:13:48.760 which calls for the destruction of israel that's what we're funding that's precisely what we're 0.97

00:13:54.400 funding in this legislation so when the democratic leader talks about a mosaic that's what he's

00:13:59.980 talking about and my republican colleagues who will campaign against it all year they will they're

00:14:06.240 voting to fund it today to be very clear my republican colleagues are voting to fund that so-called

00:14:12.280 mosaic today unless they choose the right path and vote against it and my friend from california

00:14:18.300 when he talked about oh oh the horrors that'll happen if we have a cr well we shouldn't be here 0.56

00:14:23.460 this is the swamp acting what it does have government funding expire on the friday before a two-week

00:14:29.980 recess heading into easter precisely to have the pressure of jet fumes so that the american people

00:14:36.200 are the ones left holding the bag so that we members of congress can go off to our codels can go travel

00:14:43.040 can go do your fundraisers can make sure you get home but the ones left holding the bag are the

00:14:49.440 the american people and we talk about this the game was given up when we talk about defense

00:14:55.200 everything that is happening here is being done in the name of defense everything that you see

00:15:00.660 and talking about our national security will be undermined well tell me about national security in

00:15:05.520 texas when you have the national guard getting rolled over in el paso when you have texans dying from

00:15:10.980 fentanyl poisoning when you have gangs and cartels operating in texas talk to me about national

00:15:16.440 security then that was congressman chip roy we're back live and despite that effective and persuasive

00:15:24.240 debate again we had over a hundred republicans voting for this bad legislation and they will have

00:15:30.120 to face their voters and i think the judgment is going to be very harsh we have another report from

00:15:34.540 business insider.com ex-trump official we'll get get to why that's ridiculous in a moment file suit

00:15:41.460 arguing lawmakers should make more than 174 thousand dollars a year so here's the crux of this argument

00:15:47.800 the 27th amendment to the constitution says quote no law varying the compensation for the services of

00:15:53.720 senators and representatives shall take effect until an election of representatives shall have intervened

00:16:00.060 so this lawsuit filed by ken kuchinelli the former attorney general of the state of virginia

00:16:05.580 uh was on behalf of republican congressman rick crawford of arkansas and a trio of ex-lawmakers from

00:16:12.760 both parties and it says that because the members of congress have 174 thousand dollar a year salary

00:16:20.220 that hasn't changed that it has been quote unconstitutionally suppressed they're seeking 50 million

00:16:28.000 dollars in this class action lawsuit and one of the named plaintiffs is actually this caught me by

00:16:35.040 surprise former uh republican representative tom davis of virginia is seeking 268 839 additional

00:16:42.800 dollars tom davis is now a lobbyist for foreign governments i think he might be like a registered

00:16:49.020 foreign agent or something but i how you can go from being a lawmaker and then you go to

00:16:57.320 using that prior experience to make money from foreign governments to lobby members of congress

00:17:05.560 and then the nerve to come back and say that's not a sweet enough deal and you need to get paid back

00:17:11.880 pay it is it is legally flawed and i believe it is it is morally bankrupt uh to back this lawsuit so

00:17:20.920 don't count me among those uh who want to get the 50 million in back pay for members of congress no one

00:17:27.080 needs to be worried about us we get taken care of just fine compared to the working people who get 1.00

00:17:33.080 screwed each and every day just like chip roy was talking about but outside of the substance of this

00:17:39.720 report what really got me was that ken cuccinelli the person who uh is bringing this lawsuit is described in

00:17:48.120 this big headline as ex-trump official ken cuccinelli was the chairman of never back down ron de sanis's

00:17:55.960 super pack why wasn't he described as i don't know the guy who formerly led a super pack attacking

00:18:01.880 donald trump just just to give you a flavor of it and spare me the throwback but i guest hosted a

00:18:09.640 newsmax program some months ago when the presidential contest was still raging between trump and de sanis

00:18:14.760 and i'd cuccinelli on to have a debate right where i was the pro trump person and he was the pro de sanis

00:18:20.840 person so just like take a listen to that and think about whether not it's fair for the media to describe

00:18:26.680 him as an ex-trump official take a listen can you commit tonight that none of the money from the never

00:18:34.040 back down super pack will be flipped to support the candidacy of glenn youngkin in the event that you

00:18:40.520 guys don't see de sanis as a good bet you know they didn't tell me they were bringing me on for

00:18:44.520 your conspiracy theories look this pack is committed it's a fair question are you going to use the money

00:18:50.680 that way no no it's not really i mean not with your 12 degrees of kevin bacon this we're committed

00:18:57.160 wait a second wait a second you have the total control to be able to direct that money you don't

00:19:01.640 think it's a fair question to ask you where it's going i'm answering it aren't i so it really doesn't matter

00:19:06.200 again any connection that they can make to trump for any negative headline they take a an absurd

00:19:19.400 license to do so so we don't back the lawsuit we don't back the characterization and the tie to trump

00:19:25.240 i don't think anyone associated with president trump believes that what we really need to do is create

00:19:30.680 more of a golden parachute for members of congress another story i want to bring to you is the wave of

00:19:37.560 illegal immigration that continues to pound our country and particularly the sunshine state st lucie 1.00

00:19:42.920 county is a small county in florida it's a coastal county uh that is right there on highway 90 95 and

00:19:50.120 also up is on the atlantic ocean and they are even experiencing uh some pretty some pretty odd

00:19:57.160 circumstances this report from st lucie county and their terrific law enforcement officials their

00:20:02.040 sheriff take a listen i'm st lucie county sheriff keith pearson illegal aliens aren't just flooding

00:20:09.320 across our southern borders they're arriving all across south florida beaches including right here in

00:20:13.320 st lucie county they are undocumented and unvetted individuals whom we have no idea what type of

00:20:18.120 positive or negative impact they could have on public safety of our community or nation working with

00:20:23.320 immigration to enforce the law of the land our deputies helped with this interception after

00:20:28.040 making sure there were no immediate medical needs we provided fresh water while they wait to be picked

00:20:32.600 up from the united states coast guard and processed behind me you see a vessel loaded with the migrants

00:20:36.920 that we're talking about the men and women of the st lucie county sheriff's office will continue to

00:20:41.880 monitor and assist our federal partners to ensure we protect our borders

00:20:46.760 and we are proud of the men and women of the st lucie sheriff's office for doing this but frankly

00:20:54.840 there should be a force multiplier from the federal government we know we are facing a mass wave of

00:21:00.520 these haitian migrants and if joe biden would declare the anticipated mass maritime migration we would

00:21:07.160 have support for folks like those brave public servants that are working for the st lucie county

00:21:12.440 sheriff's office again we thank you we salute you and the federal government should be doing a lot

00:21:16.920 more to have your back and really this immigration crisis takes so many twists and turns and has so

00:21:22.920 many tentacles i wanted to just bring you an interesting perspective on like how bad it's gotten and we get

00:21:28.600 this story from the terrific team at wear in pensacola but the the illegal immigration and the phony asylum

00:21:38.520 process has gotten so bad it's created a cottage industry of fraud feasors who go and act as if

00:21:47.240 they are the government or a lawyer or helping you to like make your asylum claim when you come to the

00:21:53.080 country illegally and then they end up grifting the illegal aliens so in this story you have a honduran 0.95

00:21:59.000 man living in pensacola and he used a massive immigration scheme to make 2.8 million dollars

00:22:04.840 uh this from the wear report a honduran national living in pensacola has been sentenced to nine

00:22:10.840 years in federal prison for orchestrating a massive immigration fraud scheme involving over 425 victims

00:22:18.280 nationwide franklin javier perez rios age 29 orchestrated a fraud scheme from 2017 to 2023 in which he claims to

00:22:27.160 be able to provide immigration related services to foreign nationals living in the united states he posted at

00:22:33.400 least or he profited at least 2.8 million dollars from victims according to the district attorney's

00:22:38.440 office which he used for gambling and to fund a lavish lifestyle perez rios who had no legitimate

00:22:44.360 qualifications pretended at various times to be a united states government official a former united

00:22:50.040 states government official an immigration attorney a paralegal or an or an immigration services

00:22:56.360 personnel of some other means perez rios did not obtain status for any of the victims he promised

00:23:01.960 rather he routinely filed asylum paperwork with uscis on the victim's behalf and told them they had to

00:23:07.880 travel to california with him where they would be subjected to medical examinations and vaccinations

00:23:13.240 neither the medical examinations nor the trips to california were legitimately part of the asylum

00:23:17.960 process for other victims perez rios filed no paperwork on their behalf and to keep victims believing he was

00:23:23.720 working on their behalf perez rios provided them with forged documentation supposedly from the united states

00:23:29.000 government again it's gotten so bad that you've created a cottage industry of fraudsters to go after

00:23:35.880 the illegal aliens i i never thought we'd be at this point but nonetheless uh that's where we are

00:23:43.800 uh we had big testimony from general mark milley on the hill this week regarding the botched withdrawal

00:23:48.840 from afghanistan and one thing i found interesting like you can always count on mark milley to throw

00:23:54.840 somebody under the bus right i mean he took every occasion to throw trump under the bus and now

00:23:59.240 they're even throwing the department of state under the bus regarding the afghanistan withdrawal a lot of

00:24:04.440 shade being thrown at the biden white house see if you can read in between the lines take a listen

00:24:10.600 number of americans that this was always an issue uh the number of americans as general mckenzie said

00:24:17.240 and f77 report is supposed every ambassador in every country of the world keeps an f77 report and

00:24:22.120 they're supposed to track the americans where they're at the phone numbers address etc in the

00:24:26.200 country that was always a difficult number for us in the department of defense to get a hold of and

00:24:32.440 i think it's true at the tactical level as an operational level as well and i'll be candid i don't know

00:24:37.960 the exact number of americans that were left behind because the starting number was never clear

00:24:42.520 same is true of at-risk afghans sivs the commandos other afghans that served with us

00:24:49.000 uh those numbers uh varied so widely that they were quite inaccurate uh as best i could uh tell at

00:24:56.680 the time uh so um i i would just say i'm not sure even today about the accuracy of all those numbers

00:25:05.640 i think the call to execute the neo came too late and as general mckenzie mentioned it was officially

00:25:12.440 logged in on the 14th at that point in time the afghan government senior leadership was preparing to

00:25:18.120 depart and they departed the next day on the 15th the thousands of afghan civilians were gathering at

00:25:23.960 the airport the afghan security forces were collapsing in the various provincial capitals and and although

00:25:29.080 there were some still in and around uh kabul so the general situation at that point with 750 u.s

00:25:34.680 soldiers in and around the embassy the turkish troops were required along with some ansf to protect

00:25:40.760 uh h kaya they melted away so you had a situation with the u.s embassy and 750 troops uh when that neo

00:25:48.360 was called and that's and now we had leaned forward so i think it's the 9th 10th or 11th time frame we had

00:25:54.600 already put forces on alert etc but in essence we alerted marshall deployed 82nd airborne division division

00:26:01.000 ready brigade and the uh mu uh out of saudi under that was underneath general mckenzie's control they

00:26:07.000 rapidly deployed along with special forces uh to take control of that airport uh it took two two to

00:26:12.840 three days that's where those videos come from uh but they eventually rested control of that airport

00:26:17.560 and general mckenzie you agree with that assessment i do that reflects the opinion i had at the time

00:26:22.840 and in the opinion i had now yeah i believe the accountability ensures mistakes of the past

00:26:27.960 are not repeated but from where i sit president and this administration refused to acknowledge their

00:26:35.400 failures our investigation uncovered the white house refused to listen to warnings about the situation

00:26:42.120 on the ground disturbingly we have uncovered that state department leadership prohibited prohibited

00:26:49.720 its employees from even uttering the word neo shorthand for emergency evacuation until as late as august

00:27:00.360 of 2021 too little too late we are back live deanna on facebook says make accountability great again

00:27:10.920 indeed and joe on youtube asks why does he look so bloated joe help us out were you talking about me

00:27:16.440 or millie because frankly he looks bloated and i feel a little bloated myself this week we also had a

00:27:22.600 chance in the house armed services committee to discuss what is really going on with taiwan and with a

00:27:28.040 country so capable as china with their ambition set on taiwan what are the things we're actually doing 1.00

00:27:33.880 to try to deter that a potential invasion so that we don't get caught in some war in asia i had the

00:27:40.040 opportunity to ask some of the top military leaders about our indo-pacific strategy take a listen

00:27:47.480 admiral aquilino during the revolutionary war i think it was like 15 percent of americans who fought

00:27:53.560 for liberty is that sound about right 15 20 percent i couldn't answer that now congressman i have to go

00:28:01.080 back and look i guess i'm just kind of wondering in taiwan what percent of the taiwanese do we assess

00:28:06.760 would actually fight in the event of kinetic conflict with china yeah i also don't have that calculation

00:28:14.680 what i can tell you is uh when the russians invaded ukraine that was a pretty good wake-up signal for a lot

00:28:21.720 of people across the globe and especially for those people on taiwan and we continue to execute 0.99

00:28:30.520 our responsibilities under the taiwan relations act to ensure we support their ability to defend

00:28:36.120 themselves and does that act require the development of a home guard in taiwan uh i'd have to go back and

00:28:43.720 look at the law i'm not i don't specifically know if that i don't think it does but maybe you could

00:28:48.040 talk a little bit about what what the home guard theory is in taiwan how that would enhance their

00:28:52.600 capabilities well again it's uh what the people on taiwan have done is they do have a reserve

00:28:57.800 activation program president sai just extended that to a one-year commitment so again when i talk about

00:29:03.880 the taiwan the people on taiwan taking it seriously they are it includes that approach that you've just

00:29:09.960 articulated and i almost think that's what it's going to take because i worry that the taiwanese 0.90

00:29:14.680 military may be infiltrated by the pla and that if there's really going to be a deterrent from a

00:29:19.960 chinese invasion that might not come exclusively from the uniform military or even the reservists we

00:29:26.360 may have to actually um you know render capability to the hundreds of thousands of taiwanese who don't

00:29:33.880 want to be part of china right yeah your point is valid and again i believe that that approaches

00:29:40.040 uh and actions are being taken there what i would say is the example the best example that i think

00:29:46.200 exists is when israel was attacked by the violent extremists in hamas the next day 360 000

00:29:57.080 israelis reported for duty that's the type of response that i believe yeah but i worry that we

00:30:02.760 conflate the cultural features there right because it what i worry about in taiwan is kind of a replay of

00:30:09.960 afghanistan where we look at some fake government and we do the normal kind of dod thing of large 0.61

00:30:19.400 weapon systems and then we give them to that government and then the real governing power

00:30:26.280 in afghanistan's case the taliban in taiwan's case perhaps china has the ability to then repurpose those

00:30:32.920 assets against the united states so it just seems to me i mean you you are the guy you're the person in

00:30:38.120 charge of this this theater i think you need to know you need to have some sort of assessment

00:30:44.680 as to whether or not you're going to get that israel level response from the taiwanese you know what

00:30:50.120 percentage of these this group of people is going to stand up and fight and sure we're all continuously

00:30:54.600 informed by events going on around the world but in taiwan specifically like we've seen cases where

00:31:00.680 the pla is infiltrating their government their military and i don't offer that as some sort of

00:31:06.520 criticism heck i think they ought they try to infiltrate our government and our military too

00:31:11.160 but i worry i worry whether or not we're going to be able to rely on the uniform service there so

00:31:17.240 is there a plan at dod to kind of make these assessments about a home guard and ensure that

00:31:22.600 you have small arms in the hands of these people that might that might deter a chinese invasion 0.99

00:31:28.440 congressman there absolutely is and i'd love to talk to you about it in a classified setting great no it's

00:31:33.160 it's good to know and uh is that consistent with this porcupine theory that we we think about often

00:31:40.040 with taiwan uh i don't use the term porcupine theory a lot of people do what i would why don't

00:31:48.200 you use it i hear it a lot on this committee well again i would articulate it in a way that

00:31:52.280 is in alignment with the law which is we're providing the people on taiwan the ability capability

00:31:57.800 and training to be able to defend themselves in time of conflict that by itself with regard to a

00:32:03.560 strong uh taiwan sets of capabilities is a strong deterrent yeah i just think this is a real important

00:32:10.040 piece of the homework to emanate from this is to you've talked about the taiwan secured engagement act

00:32:15.160 i get that but i i think you and i are both a little unclear as the extent to which that authorizes

00:32:21.720 the work with the home guard that we really need to convert taiwan into a an effective porcupine

00:32:27.400 because i assess that this is all about time china cannot endure an extended war with taiwan they

00:32:34.200 can't endure the sanctions they can't endure the other consequences and so if we can demonstrate to

00:32:38.120 them that that's going to be a longer period of time i think that pushes out uh the you know the

00:32:43.960 inevitability of a kinetic conflict with china so appreciate the exchange mr chairman i yield back

00:32:47.880 and we are back live there's a mtg for speaker sentiment uh on the live chat one uh man wouldn't

00:32:57.800 that be something i would be here for the mtg for speaker experience no doubt pk on youtube asks how

00:33:02.840 can i work with the 101 republicans who voted for this bad bill and honestly it's not that easy and they

00:33:10.280 for whatever dislike i have for that vote they probably have plenty of dislike directed back at me but

00:33:16.840 the difference is when i do things that folks don't like in washington they don't like it because it

00:33:22.440 makes them uncomfortable it disrupts their fundraising and their progression to power and leadership and

00:33:30.200 when the establishment does things that i don't like it's not like to me it's to the country it's to

00:33:36.440 every person paying higher prices it's it's to the next generation of americans that will be saddled with

00:33:42.920 an unprecedented amount of debt because we're unwilling to confront the challenges that that

00:33:47.320 that face us so we're going to stay on it this next two weeks is going to be very critical i'm

00:33:52.360 going to be traveling around the country doing a lot of work with policy makers uh with with thought

00:33:58.120 leaders and and doing some stuff that i can't exactly talk about on this platform but it's going

00:34:02.600 to be important work it's going to be central to how we get a house of representatives that is actually

00:34:07.160 willing to fight for we the people so since i'm going to be not giving direct live reports on firebrand

00:34:13.720 for a little bit of time here coming up we are trying out something new the gates news network will

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00:34:34.680 we've done on investigations some of the work we've done on the floor of the congress some of the

00:34:39.560 committee work that's been essential to getting people into a fighting posture and also some of the

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00:34:50.840 critical race theory uh dei on the illegal immigration that's crushing our nation so we hope 1.00

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - March 22, 2024

Episode 161 LIVE： Hit By A Minibus – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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