The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 167 LIVE： Disorder at the Border – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 Matt Gaetz, the biggest firebrand inside of the House of Representatives.

00:00:06.480 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:00:08.880 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:00:13.820 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:00:19.200 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:00:23.320 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:00:25.320 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around. It's that simple.

00:00:30.900 He's so tough. He's so strong. He's smart, and he loves this country. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:37.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:00:42.220 We will save America. It's choose your fighter time. Send in the firebrands. 1.00

00:00:47.580 Welcome back to Firebrand. We hope you're with us.

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00:01:26.840 So much has been going on today.

00:01:28.080 We had a big hearing regarding the conduct of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

00:01:33.160 We've been taking DEI and ESG to task, and politics may be ruining dating.

00:01:38.920 But first, we are going to have a deep dive into the border.

00:01:42.380 We've talked a lot about the border on this platform, and it is amazing the journey we have been on.

00:01:49.080 Because as we are having this discussion, Joe Biden is now taking unilateral action that he says will close the border.

00:01:57.980 Executive action that he himself refused to take as a candidate, totally disclaimed, said it was a terrible idea,

00:02:04.980 then said it was impossible without this plan to let in 5,000 people every day.

00:02:10.320 But now Joe Biden is taking action, saying he's going to seal the border.

00:02:13.660 Do you believe it? I don't know.

00:02:15.400 The Joe Biden, I remember, who blew the total doors off the border was the guy in the Democratic presidential primary debates

00:02:25.380 when he was running for this position in 2016.

00:02:28.340 This was the defining moment for Joe Biden's border policies.

00:02:32.500 It was said in this debate. Take a listen.

00:02:34.980 I would, in fact, make sure that there is, we immediately surge to the border.

00:02:41.500 All those people are seeking asylum.

00:02:43.340 They deserve to be heard. That's who we are.

00:02:45.660 We're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're fleeing oppression, you should come.

00:02:49.860 We should not be locking people up.

00:02:52.180 We should be making sure we change the circumstance, as we did, why they would leave in the first place.

00:02:58.460 And those who come seeking asylum, we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them, 1.00

00:03:05.180 keep them safe until they can be heard.

00:03:06.980 A 15 second, if you could, if you wish to answer. Should someone who is here without documents, and that is his only offense, should that person be deported?

00:03:17.880 That person should not be the focus of deportation. We should fundamentally change the way we deal with them.

00:03:23.360 A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you've proposed in one form or another.

00:03:30.000 This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment so people can see.

00:03:35.080 Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.

00:03:39.720 There it is. There's your Democratic Party, all raising their hand to give free health care to illegal immigrants. 0.81

00:03:53.500 Like, when you see that, do you even blame the illegal immigrants for coming?

00:03:56.380 But you have to know what they ruined and what they destroyed.

00:03:59.860 They destroyed a system that was working, instituted by President Trump. Take a listen.

00:04:06.400 How do their records on the border compare?

00:04:09.200 Well, under President Biden, each year, there have been more and more border crossings.

00:04:14.140 According to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, there are around 2.46 million encounters by Border Patrol agents in the Southwest in fiscal year 2023.

00:04:23.480 In 2022, there were 2.34 million encounters.

00:04:27.280 In 2021, there were 1.7 million.

00:04:30.100 Compare that to the four years of the Trump administration, and it is higher on average from fiscal year 2017 through 2020,

00:04:36.760 when former President Trump was in office, encounters averaged around 572,000 each year.

00:04:43.140 A record 8.6 million migrants have crossed into the U.S. since President Biden took office,

00:04:48.300 the Border Patrol Union telling us Mr. Biden should not have reversed Trump border policies.

00:04:53.020 They were very effective for us as Border Patrol agents in securing the border.

00:04:56.460 An NBC News poll shows 57 percent of Americans say Mr. Trump can best secure the border.

00:05:01.520 Just 22 percent say Mr. Biden will.

00:05:06.520 We're back live.

00:05:07.640 It's funny, on the live stream comments, people are suggesting that that was a very different Joe Biden.

00:05:12.680 We saw in that debate than we saw now.

00:05:14.780 It's amazing how much he's lost off his fastball.

00:05:17.280 An anti-mom gene says, I paused TimCast replay to watch this.

00:05:21.400 I was on TimCast last night.

00:05:23.000 We got into a lot, as we typically do on that program.

00:05:26.000 But when you had Trump putting downward pressure on the border, then you have Biden saying he's going to give freebies,

00:05:31.240 free health care, free housing, you name it, to illegals, then this is what you get. 0.98

00:05:35.920 A total stampede on the border.

00:05:37.820 Take a listen.

00:05:40.400 Free for all at America's southern border. 0.89

00:05:43.100 A group of migrants crossing into the U.S. were spotted wearing,

00:05:47.340 Biden, please let us in, T-shirts.

00:05:49.820 And while the White House refuses to call what is going on a crisis,

00:05:54.900 a leaked memo says border agents are being overwhelmed.

00:05:58.560 According to Axios, hundreds of unaccompanied minors are being taken into custody on a daily basis.

00:06:04.260 And Border Patrol is struggling to deal with the skyrocketing number.

00:06:10.700 So let's do this Taylor Swift style, okay?

00:06:13.640 First, there was the, you know, Trump limitation on immigration, getting the border under control era.

00:06:22.720 Then we had the Biden promise of freebies era.

00:06:27.760 Then after that, you get the border is secure era.

00:06:32.180 Remember that era?

00:06:33.360 Remember, right as Biden gets in, they peel back these Trump policies on day one.

00:06:38.240 They offer the freebies.

00:06:39.380 All those people show up with their Biden let me in shirts on,

00:06:42.480 undeniably handed out by some sort of NGO that you're probably funding.

00:06:46.700 And then they say the border is secure.

00:06:49.480 Let's all relive that moment.

00:06:53.560 The bottom line is that U.S. borders are not open.

00:06:57.500 The immigration situation here in Del Rio has never been this bad.

00:07:01.840 Just yesterday alone, they apprehended more than 900 migrants in total.

00:07:06.200 The restrictions at our southwest border have not changed.

00:07:10.220 Border Patrol here completely overwhelmed, overstretched.

00:07:12.920 They can't be everywhere at once.

00:07:15.240 This was a human smuggling stash house that was busted in Alton, Texas yesterday.

00:07:22.160 More than 100 migrants being kept there by those human smugglers.

00:07:26.060 The United States continues to enforce its immigration laws.

00:07:30.580 We are prepared.

00:07:31.580 These migrants continue to show up by the hundreds pretty much every single hour. 1.00

00:07:37.580 The number of migrants under that bridge has now swelled to more than 14,000.

00:07:44.280 Individuals and families continue to be sent back.

00:07:47.560 But that's mostly single men being sent back.

00:07:49.960 A lot of the women, children, and family units will be able to stay.

00:07:53.000 They'll be processed and released into the U.S.

00:07:55.860 Consistent with enforcing our laws.

00:07:58.260 Do you have a message for U.S. President Joe Biden?

00:08:01.400 Yeah, I have a message for Joe Biden.

00:08:04.120 We see what he's doing in the whole of our watch.

00:08:07.220 Where are you?

00:08:07.800 Ghana.

00:08:08.220 Ghana. You're from Ghana.

00:08:09.880 You're from Haiti.

00:08:11.160 Where are you?

00:08:12.000 Hello.

00:08:13.140 Venezuela.

00:08:14.040 Venezuela.

00:08:14.800 We all appreciate him because he's a very good man.

00:08:17.040 Very humble.

00:08:18.420 He's a man of people.

00:08:19.480 The federal government has apparently been moving illegal immigrants all around the country in the dark.

00:08:24.640 Hey, where are you from?

00:08:25.780 What city?

00:08:26.820 Donde?

00:08:27.140 The bottom line is that U.S. borders are not open.

00:08:37.540 The border is secure era actually came with some startling admissions.

00:08:42.000 I had the opportunity to question Alejandro Mayorkas in this time.

00:08:45.960 And what I wanted him to focus on is the fact that as people were coming into our country committing crimes, 0.98

00:08:50.960 the people who were the victims of those crimes, were the collateral damage of these bad policy choices.

00:08:57.080 Take a listen.

00:08:57.520 You have the lowest deportation rate in the history of the department, right?

00:09:05.340 Your data that you cite is misleading.

00:09:07.840 No, it's your data.

00:09:08.980 This is actually what your own agency is reporting.

00:09:11.840 So do you think that it just might be the case that one reason that we will encounter the highest number of illegal immigrations in our nation's history this month and next month?

00:09:22.920 Because everybody knows that even if they come here, even if they go through the removal procedures, even if a judge issues a final order, you still think there might be more due process and you have no plan to remove them.

00:09:34.940 And then when I ask you what the plan is, you say, oh, well, resources, I've got to make finite decisions.

00:09:39.220 I go back to my first question.

00:09:41.220 How many ICE agents to remove the 1.2 million?

00:09:44.460 Congressman, I'd be pleased to provide you with a resourcing data subsequent to this hearing, if I may.

00:09:51.080 And I think it's telling that you got plans for pronouns and you got plans for misinformation.

00:09:57.580 But when it comes to the plan to remove the people that have had due process, you don't have one at all.

00:10:03.040 Now, 800,000 people have encountered your CBP agents, and those folks have been released into the country.

00:10:09.820 Like, some of those people are going to commit crimes, aren't they?

00:10:13.220 Congressman, may I have a moment to answer your questions?

00:10:17.020 Will some of the 800,000 commit crimes, yes or no?

00:10:20.500 Undoubtedly.

00:10:21.460 Undoubtedly.

00:10:22.040 And so the Americans who are the victims of the crimes for the people that you release in the country are collateral damage

00:10:29.420 that you are willing to accept in order to have our border function as a turnstile.

00:10:34.600 And you're willing to accept that collateral damage.

00:10:36.720 Congressman, I couldn't disagree with you more.

00:10:39.300 Let me give you, if I can, some data that will actually...

00:10:42.940 More than the data.

00:10:43.940 How about this?

00:10:44.480 How did it feel to you when you went to the border and the border patrol agents turned their back on you?

00:10:50.160 One border patrol agent turned his back on me, and I addressed that as the leader of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:10:58.780 So if I can return to data because I want to make sure that you have accurate information.

00:11:04.540 Everyone knows that you have more people coming in than ever, and you're removing fewer people than ever,

00:11:09.740 and it's because you have no plan and because it's on purpose.

00:11:12.740 See, I don't buy the theory that you don't know how to do this.

00:11:15.320 I think you're actually a highly competent dude, but the reality is your plan is to bring these people in

00:11:21.220 and to send the message to the smugglers and the criminals that they will never have to leave.

00:11:26.420 That's why your workforce turns their back on you, and you have tools that you could use to deport these people.

00:11:31.440 You have facial recognition.

00:11:33.280 You have flights going all over the country dropping people off,

00:11:35.960 and I think we ought to use the best tools in the country to find these folks,

00:11:40.120 round them up like they were at the Capitol on January 6th, and deport every last one of them.

00:11:44.060 I yield back.

00:11:45.320 Treason is the word we're seeing on the live stream and a lot of frustration over the limited removals of people

00:11:53.820 who have gone through the entire process, and he wouldn't do it.

00:11:58.200 Now, what do we do about this?

00:11:59.540 What do we do about the fact that you've got Mayorkas who's gone lawless. 0.99

00:12:03.200 You've got the border that's been flung open.

00:12:06.300 House conservatives repeatedly call for fixes on the border, demands on the border, closure of the border,

00:12:13.360 before we fund every other woke and weaponized element of this government.

00:12:17.860 This is the essence of the House conservative argument.

00:12:21.580 No border, no funding.

00:12:23.980 Take a listen.

00:12:26.920 Well, right now, my position is very clear.

00:12:29.460 No security, no funding.

00:12:31.340 I believe that we're seeing an increased understanding by my Republican colleagues because, guess what?

00:12:37.020 They were at home in August.

00:12:38.480 They're getting their butts kicked up and down by their constituents from New York to Texas, all the way out to, you know, throughout the entire country.

00:12:46.360 They're seeing the reality of what's happening on the ground, and Republicans will be a total and complete failure, a failure, if we do not hold the line and demand that President Biden come to the table, sit down with us, and pass legislation that will no longer fund a Department of Homeland Security at war with the American people.

00:13:08.060 That is it.

00:13:08.880 There is no negotiation on that.

00:13:11.020 Secure the border, or you shouldn't fund the Department of Homeland Security.

00:13:14.860 More and more of my colleagues are starting to understand that.

00:13:18.200 Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans are still hand-wringing around about shutdowns.

00:13:22.920 The American people are tired of all that Beltway speak.

00:13:25.340 They want their country back.

00:13:27.020 Speaker Mike Johnson today led a delegation of some 60 GOP House members to Eagle Pass, Texas, where the crisis, again, is at a breaking point.

00:13:37.380 And there are five Republican House members who are kind of branching off and doing their own thing here in Eagle Pass today, away from the Speaker's event.

00:13:44.420 They include Matt Goetz, Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Eli Crane, and Matt Rosendale.

00:13:49.160 They spoke to me about an hour ago telling me they are willing to shut this government down if this border isn't fixed.

00:13:54.600 Take a listen.

00:13:56.380 No more money for this bureaucracy of his government until you've brought this border under control.

00:14:03.680 Shut the border down or shut the government down.

00:14:06.000 We are all committed to that.

00:14:09.300 There's a national security issue that is being taken place here on the southern border, and that's what it's going to take to hold this administration accountable.

00:14:19.380 That was Matt Rosendale, Andy Biggs, and Chip Roy making what was a pretty solid argument.

00:14:26.840 I joined them in that perspective and, indeed, in that trip.

00:14:29.980 But that's not what happened.

00:14:31.740 Instead of getting demands on the border, instead of stopping the flow, instead of making Joe Biden reverse course on the demolition of the Trump policies that were working, we got this.

00:14:44.200 Take a listen.

00:14:44.680 And we have a Fox 5 newsletter.

00:14:49.140 Congress rushes to pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown, at least for now.

00:14:53.040 Shireen Roger joining us with the latest from Capitol Hill.

00:14:55.400 Shireen?

00:14:55.640 Yeah, Jim, Angie, the winter weather expected in D.C. tomorrow likely added to the pressure to hold a vote today ahead of Friday's deadline.

00:15:04.200 Congress took the crucial step earlier this evening, voting to pass a short-term spending bill to President Biden.

00:15:10.320 If signed by the president, the measure will keep agencies open.

00:15:13.520 And again, this is just temporary until March 1st, which is now the new shutdown deadline.

00:15:18.260 About half of House Republicans joined Democrats today in passing this stopgap measure.

00:15:23.140 But some on the far right are still skeptical of using the temporary measure again for the third time.

00:15:28.160 In just moments, I have to go to the House floor and I have to vote against this turd sandwich of a continuing resolution.

00:15:36.740 This thing's apparently going to March 1, March 8.

00:15:40.260 No demand on border.

00:15:42.120 It's not sufficient.

00:15:43.540 It's not enough.

00:15:44.900 It's not what the House of Representatives should be doing.

00:15:46.840 So we surrendered the leverage and the advantage that we had at that time by unlocking all of Joe Biden's spending ambitions in the absence of that downward pressure on the border.

00:15:58.740 And then we got this.

00:16:01.460 We got the argument.

00:16:03.140 Remember the Lankford bill?

00:16:04.440 We talked about the Lankford bill a ton.

00:16:06.140 That was the bill that said, well, we're going to do the executive actions to shut down the border, but only after 5,000 people come in each day.

00:16:16.320 Remember that?

00:16:17.000 Remember that crazy Lankford era?

00:16:19.300 Take a listen.

00:16:19.740 A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here.

00:16:30.920 President Biden on Saturday making a lofty promise to lawmakers if they can get a deal done on immigration.

00:16:37.560 If that bill were the law today, I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.

00:16:41.520 The White House has been working with a bipartisan group of senators for weeks to reach an agreement on the first major overhaul of the country's immigration system since the 1990s.

00:16:51.900 Among the changes, it would reportedly give the White House the authority to deny asylum seekers when migrant crossings surpass a certain number.

00:17:00.460 When we can no longer detain and deport, when we can't process the people and actually make a decision right there at the border,

00:17:07.240 then we'll actually turn those folks back around to Mexico and say we can no longer do this.

00:17:11.520 While I have people from around the country and back home that say do a Republican-only bill, just get all of our priorities and none of them, none of theirs,

00:17:20.520 I smile at them and say, welcome to governance.

00:17:25.100 We understood from the beginning we're not going to solve everything.

00:17:28.040 We're not.

00:17:29.620 We knew from the beginning it's not going to be perfect.

00:17:33.120 But we also knew the status quo is untenable.

00:17:35.980 The National Border Patrol Council gave this statement.

00:17:38.640 The Border Patrol Act of 2024 will give the United States Border Patrol agents authorities codified in law that we have not had in the past.

00:17:48.240 While not perfect, and I'll agree with him on that, the Border Patrol Act of 2024 is a step in the right direction and it is far better than the current status quo.

00:17:57.900 Governance, Senator Langford lectures us.

00:18:03.560 We need to understand governance.

00:18:05.440 Well, as House conservatives, we knew what that governance could look like.

00:18:10.100 It didn't have to look like some compromise with Chuck Schumer.

00:18:13.240 We just had to put pressure on Biden to not do the things he did by executive order when he first came in that he promised on his campaign.

00:18:19.280 And no one made the argument better than Mike Johnson.

00:18:24.800 Take a listen.

00:18:25.460 And it's important to point out, and I want to make this very clear, the president's statement on Friday, he falsely claimed, it was a false claim, that he needs Congress to pass a new law to allow him to close the southern border.

00:18:37.920 He knows that's not true.

00:18:39.560 The president has been around Washington a long time, okay?

00:18:43.060 And the president repeated his claim yesterday on the White House lawn.

00:18:45.700 He said, quote, I've done all I can do.

00:18:48.160 Just give me the power I've asked for.

00:18:50.060 Absolutely.

00:18:50.980 All I can do.

00:18:52.180 Give me the power.

00:18:53.380 I've asked for the very day I got an office.

00:18:55.920 Give me the border patrol.

00:18:57.840 Give me the people, give me the people to judge.

00:19:00.120 Give me the people who can stop this and make it worse.

00:19:03.440 Let's set the record straight.

00:19:05.000 What he said is demonstrably false.

00:19:08.240 I've explained to him specifically.

00:19:09.820 I read the president of the United States, the law, the black letter law, on the phone about two and a half weeks ago.

00:19:15.700 I said, Mr. President, it says very clearly, you have all the tools and the executive authority necessary to reverse the catastrophe that you have created.

00:19:24.960 He has those tools right now, and he has since day one.

00:19:28.540 The Immigration and Nationality Act, for example, coupled with recent Supreme Court president,

00:19:33.980 give the president, quote, ample authority to suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens or impose any restrictions he may deem appropriate.

00:19:46.140 That's the broadest authority that Congress probably has ever given a president, and it's been there for a long, long time.

00:19:52.640 In fact, the very provision that I just read you was used by the Obama administration more than 19 times.

00:19:58.720 It's been used, I think, 69 times by presidents since 1980, but not by President Biden.

00:20:05.220 He pretends it's not there.

00:20:07.320 Any attempt by this president to pretend that he's a bystander bereft of any ability to secure the border is patently absurd,

00:20:14.040 and we're going to continue to remind the American people of that.

00:20:17.140 So it's absurd for the president not to take those 64 actions that Mike Johnson talked about,

00:20:24.780 but that's when Joe Biden rejects the use of executive authority.

00:20:28.120 He says, no, no, no, it cannot be by my hand.

00:20:31.480 This can only happen through a bill, he said so, in the State of the Union.

00:20:35.320 Here are the receipts.

00:20:35.840 My team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators.

00:20:43.020 The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen.

00:20:48.640 Oh, you don't think so?

00:20:53.460 Oh, you don't like that bill, huh?

00:20:56.260 That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill? 0.96

00:21:00.180 I'll be darned. 0.94

00:21:01.520 That's amazing. 0.95

00:21:02.320 The long-awaited border security bill is done, already facing backlash in some sectors,

00:21:07.540 as the text claims there is no amnesty for anyone already here.

00:21:11.800 These are just some of the highlights.

00:21:13.140 50,000 new visas per year for five years.

00:21:15.840 $650 million led over from the Trump years to build the wall.

00:21:19.680 They'll start finishing, get about 50 miles.

00:21:21.940 Increase ICE funds and detention capacity to 50,000.

00:21:25.660 Shut down authority after an average of 5,000 encounters a day.

00:21:30.180 Here's what Speaker Johnson said.

00:21:32.020 I have seen enough.

00:21:33.020 This bill is even worse than we expected.

00:21:35.000 It won't come close to any of the border catastrophe the president has created.

00:21:38.120 As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed,

00:21:40.440 under this legislation, the border never closes.

00:21:42.480 If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.

00:21:46.300 Your thoughts?

00:21:47.980 Yeah.

00:21:48.640 Unfortunately, he would step out and be able to say that right away before,

00:21:51.180 obviously, he had had a chance to be able to read it as well

00:21:53.500 and to be able to go through it.

00:21:54.580 The key aspect of this, again, is,

00:21:56.600 are we as Republicans going to have press conferences

00:21:58.980 and complain the border's bad

00:22:00.500 and then intentionally leave it open?

00:22:02.840 After the worst month in American history in December,

00:22:06.200 now we've got to actually determine,

00:22:07.640 are we going to just complain about things

00:22:09.240 or are we going to actually address and to change as many things as we can?

00:22:14.480 No one is saying we shouldn't change everything we could change.

00:22:17.360 The issue is who ought to do the changing

00:22:19.440 and what is the appropriate remedy given the harm that was done.

00:22:22.960 And as we've showcased in this episode,

00:22:24.760 the original sin of the Biden administration

00:22:26.700 was repealing the Trump policies with their executive order.

00:22:30.480 And yet, after all this,

00:22:34.280 after the, I'm going to give free stuff era,

00:22:37.600 after the border is open era,

00:22:39.760 after it has to be a bill era,

00:22:42.200 after there can't be executive action,

00:22:45.500 lo and behold, we get Joe Biden

00:22:48.140 doing the thing he said could not be done,

00:22:51.520 taking executive action on the border

00:22:53.240 and still, without a hint of shame or irony,

00:22:57.400 blaming Republicans.

00:22:58.320 Take a listen.

00:23:00.480 So today, I'm moving past Republican obstruction

00:23:04.000 and using the executive authorities available to me as president

00:23:06.700 to do what I can on my own to address the border.

00:23:11.020 Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue

00:23:13.820 through a bipartisan legislation

00:23:15.360 because that's the only way to actually get the kind of system

00:23:19.700 we have now that's broken, fixed,

00:23:22.040 to hire more border patrol agents,

00:23:24.060 more asylum officers, more judges.

00:23:26.200 But Republicans have left me with no choice.

00:23:28.400 Today, I'm announcing actions to bar migrants 1.00

00:23:32.200 who cross our southern border unlawfully

00:23:34.420 from receiving asylum.

00:23:37.240 Migrants will be restricted from receiving asylum

00:23:39.780 at our southern border

00:23:41.400 unless they seek it after entering through an established lawful process.

00:23:45.420 And those who seek to come to the United States legally, 0.76

00:23:48.640 for example, by making an appointment and coming to a port of entry,

00:23:52.720 asylum will still be available to them, still available.

00:23:56.180 But if an individual chooses not to use our legal pathways,

00:23:59.440 if they choose to come without permission and against the law,

00:24:02.940 they'll be restricted from receiving asylum

00:24:05.420 and staying in the United States.

00:24:06.800 This action will help us gain control of our border,

00:24:10.620 restore order to the process.

00:24:13.080 This ban will remain in place

00:24:15.520 until the number of people trying to enter illegally

00:24:18.220 is reduced to a level that our system can effectively manage.

00:24:21.620 Man, I did not plan for this to be a feature of this episode.

00:24:27.980 But if you just watch the clips of Biden in the debates

00:24:31.140 and then you watch these current clips,

00:24:32.720 the guy looks like he's aged 100 years.

00:24:34.640 It doesn't even look like the same guy.

00:24:37.680 And of course, even though he's taking this action,

00:24:40.240 here's why it won't work.

00:24:41.520 They're still giving health care to illegals.

00:24:44.420 They're still setting up sanctuary cities

00:24:46.380 where in jurisdictions like New York,

00:24:48.240 a huge percentage of the overall hotel rooms

00:24:51.680 are for the illegal aliens.

00:24:53.980 You're paying higher prices when you go visit the Big Apple

00:24:56.700 because there's less inventory for Americans

00:24:59.160 because you're paying out of your pocket

00:25:01.180 for illegals to get those benefits.

00:25:04.740 Lenny Bell in Washington State, Spokane County,

00:25:08.540 she's mad that her only ballot option is a mail-in ballot. 1.00

00:25:12.820 Says it's not right.

00:25:14.100 You move to Washington.

00:25:15.640 Florida's ready when you are.

00:25:16.580 It's always been that way in the Pacific Northwest.

00:25:19.060 A little strange to me.

00:25:20.120 Like what?

00:25:20.660 Is it the rain?

00:25:21.540 You guys can't go out and vote in person?

00:25:23.300 I'm with you.

00:25:25.300 All right.

00:25:26.140 We got to go over the vestiges of these Biden choices

00:25:29.760 that are going to impair this executive action.

00:25:32.060 The first, of course, is the free health care

00:25:33.800 that was promised in the debates.

00:25:35.540 Let's get an update on where that stands.

00:25:38.960 New this morning, President Joe Biden

00:25:40.920 is extending Affordable Care Act coverage

00:25:42.980 to include recipients of Deferred Action

00:25:45.520 for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

00:25:48.380 In a new federal regulation,

00:25:50.520 the administration is modifying the definition

00:25:53.000 of lawfully present so DACA residents

00:25:56.180 can get access to certain health care coverage.

00:25:59.660 DACA allows undocumented immigrants

00:26:02.020 brought to the U.S.S. children

00:26:03.740 to live and work legally in the country.

00:26:06.040 Health and Human Services estimate

00:26:08.320 that 100,000 uninsured DACA recipients

00:26:11.440 will likely take advantage of this new rule.

00:26:16.260 When people in the third world see 1.00

00:26:18.880 that illegal aliens are getting free benefits 1.00

00:26:22.300 and free health care, they will come here.

00:26:24.940 And I don't even particularly blame them.

00:26:26.920 I blame us.

00:26:28.100 I blame the pull factors that we create.

00:26:32.320 Sometimes we create the push factors,

00:26:33.760 but we definitely create the pull with policies like that.

00:26:36.780 And what's the consequence?

00:26:38.480 The once great cities of America being overrun.

00:26:42.340 No sanctuary from my standpoint,

00:26:44.060 more like a hellhole.

00:26:45.360 Watch and listen.

00:26:48.140 These migrants whose journey brought them

00:26:50.280 to the United States,

00:26:51.760 now making their way through the American justice system

00:26:54.220 in handcuffs.

00:26:55.300 So in recent months,

00:26:57.000 a wave of migrant crime has washed over our city. 1.00

00:27:00.320 In this alleged crime spree,

00:27:01.580 the NYPD says 13 men and a woman

00:27:04.480 were behind a lucrative robbery ring

00:27:06.540 that was being driven by moped thefts,

00:27:08.860 then used for violent muggings

00:27:10.660 across the city in recent months,

00:27:12.360 just like this woman who was dragged in Brooklyn. 1.00

00:27:15.340 Since the arrival back in April of 2023 of migrants, 1.00

00:27:20.880 this type of crime,

00:27:22.160 this pattern,

00:27:22.840 we're seeing a significant increase in.

00:27:24.620 The NYPD has also seen increases

00:27:26.480 in retail and subway thefts,

00:27:28.640 pickpockets,

00:27:29.560 and even human trafficking.

00:27:31.200 So cops are increasing foot patrols

00:27:32.860 around migrant shelters

00:27:33.860 and going after the ringleaders

00:27:35.400 and seizing scooters,

00:27:36.860 some 20,000.

00:27:38.320 This was a scene last Thursday

00:27:40.340 at around 11 a.m.

00:27:41.680 According to the NYPD,

00:27:43.280 they responded to a 911 call

00:27:45.080 about a man causing a disturbance

00:27:47.160 at the migrant shelter on Randall's Island.

00:27:50.040 Police say they saw the migrants

00:27:51.160 getting in a verbal dispute with security,

00:27:53.580 so they removed him from the shelter,

00:27:55.240 but not before the other migrants 1.00

00:27:57.180 in the shelter started throwing things

00:27:58.960 at the officers.

00:28:00.120 Mayor Eric Adams says

00:28:01.220 around 3,000 people live at that shelter.

00:28:04.400 It's also not the first time

00:28:05.580 police have had to respond to a situation there.

00:28:08.360 Adams on Tuesday also responded to questions

00:28:10.680 about the incident that occurred at Times Square.

00:28:13.300 According to police,

00:28:14.400 they asked a group of migrants

00:28:15.580 acting disorderly to disperse.

00:28:18.020 And when one man refused,

00:28:19.580 they attempted to place him under arrest,

00:28:22.020 which is when a group of around a dozen migrants

00:28:24.280 ganged up on the officers,

00:28:26.260 kicking them repeatedly.

00:28:27.860 Under no circumstance

00:28:28.900 should we ever give the belief to anyone,

00:28:33.780 migrant or non-migrant,

00:28:35.280 that you have the authorization

00:28:36.440 to try to grab a police officer's gun,

00:28:39.080 to kick an officer,

00:28:40.580 to fight an officer.

00:28:41.700 Now to a significant increase

00:28:43.960 in people experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

00:28:46.960 According to the city,

00:28:47.900 a one-night snapshot shows

00:28:49.260 the number of unhoused people

00:28:50.520 has tripled year over year.

00:28:53.020 The city's annual count explains

00:28:54.560 how migrants have played a big role

00:28:56.420 in that growing number.

00:28:57.920 A snapshot of homelessness in Chicago

00:28:59.800 released by the city

00:29:00.960 shows nearly 19,000 people

00:29:03.160 experienced homelessness

00:29:04.260 on a single night in January.

00:29:06.440 Roughly three times the number reported

00:29:08.860 in that same analysis in 2023,

00:29:12.220 due in large part to the influx of migrants.

00:29:15.360 Meanwhile, hotels in Santa Monica

00:29:16.620 and Los Angeles are being accused

00:29:18.340 of hiring migrants 1.00

00:29:19.400 to replace striking workers.

00:29:21.500 The L.A. County District Attorney's Office

00:29:22.980 and the Hotel Workers Union

00:29:24.360 now saying some of the hotels

00:29:26.120 are exploiting the desperation

00:29:28.060 of the migrants 0.99

00:29:28.880 by giving them these jobs

00:29:30.500 without paying them fair wages.

00:29:32.600 The group making the accusation

00:29:34.020 say some of the migrants even hired

00:29:36.140 were on the buses

00:29:37.020 sent to L.A. from Texas.

00:29:41.580 We are back live.

00:29:42.600 The obvious answer to these questions

00:29:44.120 is a return to the Trump policies.

00:29:45.700 It could be done immediately,

00:29:47.120 and I think it just may be

00:29:48.960 in January of 2025.

00:29:51.100 A lot of hot takes on the live stream.

00:29:53.160 Ditka on Getter says, 1.00

00:29:54.460 Chip Roy sucks. 0.99

00:29:55.300 I totally disagree with that. 1.00

00:29:56.560 Chip Roy is, in a lot of ways,

00:29:58.240 the intellectual leader

00:29:59.040 of House conservatives

00:29:59.840 on a lot of these major policy questions

00:30:01.580 that we have to address,

00:30:03.000 and he's a good partner of mine.

00:30:04.600 And we had another comment.

00:30:05.960 Donald, I wish we had Matt in Idaho

00:30:08.120 instead of the rhinos we send back,

00:30:11.140 except Russ Fulcher will keep him.

00:30:13.740 I certainly agree with you

00:30:14.640 as to Russ Fulcher.

00:30:15.660 He's a great guy,

00:30:16.380 certainly not a rhino.

00:30:17.580 Idaho is one of the few states

00:30:18.600 I have never been to,

00:30:19.640 but I hear it is becoming

00:30:21.140 a refugee camp for Californians

00:30:23.420 who want to get to a state

00:30:24.480 where you can own a gun

00:30:25.440 and not have to pay everything

00:30:26.560 that you own in taxes

00:30:27.520 while people defecate on your streets

00:30:29.520 and make quality of life miserable.

00:30:31.580 One thing that makes

00:30:32.460 quality of life miserable

00:30:33.400 is the work of a lot

00:30:35.200 of the woke corporatists

00:30:36.900 in boardrooms,

00:30:38.120 and they are doing so in a way

00:30:39.280 that puts ESG and DEI

00:30:42.040 at the forefront

00:30:42.720 of the otherwise free economy

00:30:46.120 that we would like to be able

00:30:47.240 to enjoy in the United States.

00:30:48.600 But when massive woke power centers

00:30:51.120 start driving decisions

00:30:52.400 in corporate boards,

00:30:53.320 then you see more ESG,

00:30:54.900 higher prices,

00:30:56.020 more DEI,

00:30:56.820 more racism.

00:30:57.940 No one was better

00:30:58.680 at laying this out,

00:31:00.040 laying out how

00:31:01.200 the ESG cartel

00:31:03.280 is working to drive up

00:31:04.560 your prices.

00:31:05.580 Then House Judiciary Committee

00:31:06.740 Chairman Jim Jordan

00:31:07.940 in a hearing this week.

00:31:09.180 Take a listen.

00:31:11.860 I now recognize

00:31:12.840 the chairman of the full committee,

00:31:13.980 Mr. Jordan,

00:31:14.580 for his opening speech.

00:31:15.280 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:31:16.040 Thank you, witnesses,

00:31:16.560 for being here.

00:31:17.080 It's good to see

00:31:17.520 our former colleague,

00:31:18.380 the Attorney General,

00:31:19.020 Attorney General Ellison.

00:31:20.000 If you conspire to reduce

00:31:21.100 the output of a good,

00:31:22.080 it's called restraint of trade.

00:31:23.700 And when you form a cartel

00:31:24.860 to limit supply,

00:31:26.580 it's restraint of trade.

00:31:28.740 And more importantly,

00:31:29.740 it's illegal.

00:31:31.240 And it's illegal

00:31:32.040 because it drives up

00:31:33.280 the cost to consumers,

00:31:35.240 to Americans,

00:31:36.260 to the people we represent.

00:31:38.280 And it sure looks like

00:31:39.460 that's exactly what

00:31:40.440 these three organizations

00:31:41.620 are engaged in.

00:31:43.780 Now, they'll say

00:31:44.340 it's for a good cause.

00:31:45.520 We're going to save

00:31:46.220 the planet.

00:31:47.600 Never mind that the cost

00:31:48.560 of food is going to go up,

00:31:49.480 the cost of fuel is going to go up,

00:31:50.720 there's going to be

00:31:50.980 less airline flights,

00:31:51.900 there's going to be

00:31:52.080 less cars.

00:31:52.660 Never mind all that.

00:31:53.840 We're saving the world.

00:31:55.140 But courts have been clear,

00:31:57.060 very clear.

00:31:58.400 So, quote,

00:31:59.120 social justifications

00:32:00.320 proffered for restraint

00:32:01.620 of trade

00:32:02.180 do not make it

00:32:04.360 any less unlawful.

00:32:07.160 How does this conspiracy work?

00:32:09.840 Ceres,

00:32:10.680 CalPERS,

00:32:11.360 and Arjuna,

00:32:11.940 our witnesses today,

00:32:12.740 formed this group

00:32:13.360 called Climate Action 100.

00:32:15.560 I'm sure the chairman

00:32:16.200 talked about it already.

00:32:17.980 They describe themselves

00:32:19.040 as the global navy

00:32:20.480 in a war

00:32:21.120 to decarbonize companies.

00:32:22.820 700 member investors

00:32:24.720 $68 trillion

00:32:27.560 in assets.

00:32:29.820 Those member investors

00:32:30.760 are required

00:32:31.320 to sign this statement

00:32:32.200 and agree,

00:32:32.660 as Mr. Massey

00:32:33.240 just pointed out,

00:32:33.940 the chairman

00:32:34.220 just pointed out.

00:32:35.840 They push companies

00:32:36.720 that they invest in

00:32:38.260 to disclose

00:32:39.480 and reduce emissions,

00:32:41.220 in some cases

00:32:41.860 reduce the output

00:32:43.060 of their product.

00:32:45.020 And what do we know

00:32:45.640 about these groups?

00:32:46.960 Here's what Ceres said.

00:32:48.220 This is a quote from them.

00:32:50.020 Ceres' objective

00:32:50.740 is to, quote,

00:32:51.500 make access

00:32:52.200 to finance

00:32:53.040 dependent

00:32:53.760 on the transition

00:32:55.680 to net zero

00:32:56.740 by fundamentally

00:32:57.880 rewriting the rules

00:32:58.940 of capital formation.

00:33:01.580 Arjuna said this,

00:33:03.200 U.S. is facing

00:33:04.080 a second civil war

00:33:05.620 led by a pro-Christian agenda.

00:33:10.920 This war will be fought

00:33:12.220 by the investors

00:33:12.940 who have a voice

00:33:13.860 in how corporate America

00:33:15.120 responds to this pro-Christian.

00:33:16.800 Wow.

00:33:18.040 What does this global war,

00:33:19.040 this civil war,

00:33:19.760 mean to consumers,

00:33:22.360 to the American people?

00:33:24.080 These guys get their way.

00:33:25.300 What does it mean?

00:33:26.340 Even though the demand

00:33:27.040 for energy is on the way up,

00:33:28.500 more energy demand

00:33:29.280 around the world,

00:33:30.480 they say fossil fuels

00:33:31.860 should stay in the ground.

00:33:33.920 They want to,

00:33:34.380 literally,

00:33:34.780 this is in their,

00:33:35.460 they want to end

00:33:36.280 the internal combustion engine

00:33:37.480 in 10 years.

00:33:39.300 They want to reduce

00:33:40.360 air travel by 12%.

00:33:42.120 They even want to restrict

00:33:43.920 the amount of beef

00:33:44.780 we consume.

00:33:46.600 One and a half

00:33:47.380 hamburgers a week. 0.93

00:33:49.300 Chairman Massey eats that

00:33:50.440 every meal

00:33:52.060 from his grass-fed beef

00:33:53.640 on his farm

00:33:54.460 in northern Kentucky.

00:33:56.180 But oh, no, no.

00:33:57.180 One and a half

00:33:57.760 is all you're allowed

00:33:58.340 a week, Thomas.

00:33:59.100 Forget Mr. Massey,

00:34:00.320 Mr. Chairman.

00:34:01.160 They want to make it,

00:34:01.860 think about this,

00:34:02.460 more expensive to drive,

00:34:03.740 more expensive to fly,

00:34:04.800 and when you're waiting

00:34:05.280 around the train station

00:34:06.200 for the high-speed rail,

00:34:07.760 you can order a hamburger

00:34:08.740 while you're waiting,

00:34:09.580 unless you've already

00:34:10.320 had one that week.

00:34:14.280 Less coal,

00:34:15.600 less cars,

00:34:16.380 less cows.

00:34:18.760 They even said

00:34:19.260 cows are the new coal.

00:34:21.540 This is crazy.

00:34:23.300 Oh, and by the way,

00:34:24.040 the Democrats agree

00:34:24.740 with all this.

00:34:25.580 I want to play a quick clip

00:34:26.820 from last Congress.

00:34:28.660 One of our colleagues,

00:34:30.000 when we had Chevron BP,

00:34:31.140 we had the oil and gas

00:34:31.820 companies in front of us,

00:34:32.660 here's what,

00:34:32.980 watch this questioning

00:34:35.120 from Mr. Kahn,

00:34:36.120 one of our colleagues.

00:34:37.420 Are you embarrassed

00:34:38.420 as an American company

00:34:39.540 that your production

00:34:40.280 is going up

00:34:40.980 while the European 0.64

00:34:41.640 counterparts are going down?

00:34:43.100 Congressman,

00:34:44.620 as we have already heard of,

00:34:46.560 That's enough.

00:34:47.160 I mean,

00:34:47.280 we got the point.

00:34:48.360 The point.

00:34:49.220 He's actually wanting

00:34:50.300 oil companies

00:34:51.380 to produce less oil.

00:34:54.340 I thought when you're

00:34:55.100 in business to do something,

00:34:56.160 you kind of want to

00:34:56.660 make more of the product,

00:34:57.720 sell more of the product.

00:34:58.580 I mean,

00:34:58.860 that's what we're up

00:35:00.120 against right here.

00:35:00.960 That's why this hearing

00:35:01.640 is so important.

00:35:02.320 Mr. Chairman,

00:35:02.800 I thank you

00:35:03.360 for putting this together.

00:35:04.980 It's important that we stop

00:35:06.240 where climate action

00:35:07.320 wants to take the country.

00:35:09.440 I yield back.

00:35:09.860 I could not let

00:35:13.240 Jim Jordan

00:35:13.860 have all the fun.

00:35:15.020 I wanted to get

00:35:15.600 my licks in

00:35:16.400 with these folks,

00:35:17.340 particularly when it comes

00:35:18.240 to their pushing of DEI.

00:35:19.800 And if you can hang with me

00:35:21.480 through this five-minute clip,

00:35:23.340 the real delicious morsel

00:35:24.860 is at the end

00:35:25.880 because you're going to learn

00:35:27.240 that the person

00:35:28.080 I'm asking questions to

00:35:29.280 is not just a DEI purveyor.

00:35:31.720 He is also a victim.

00:35:33.900 Take a listen.

00:35:36.440 Mr. Bienvenu,

00:35:37.440 how much do you invest

00:35:38.500 each year

00:35:39.100 on behalf of

00:35:39.920 how many of your members?

00:35:43.520 We manage a $500 billion

00:35:45.060 portfolio on behalf

00:35:46.280 of our 2.2 million

00:35:47.460 members and beneficiaries.

00:35:48.760 And you've highlighted

00:35:49.660 your principal responsibility

00:35:50.820 is return

00:35:51.760 for those beneficiaries, right?

00:35:54.320 Correct.

00:35:54.860 Everything that we do

00:35:55.580 every day

00:35:55.960 is about generating

00:35:56.700 returns to pay benefits

00:35:57.740 over generations.

00:35:58.280 And you've worked there

00:35:58.400 20 years.

00:35:59.300 You've been the principal deputy

00:36:01.000 since 2020, right?

00:36:02.980 I was named

00:36:03.800 the deputy chief investment officer

00:36:05.520 in August of 2020.

00:36:07.220 Or I'm sorry,

00:36:07.620 in April of 2020.

00:36:08.460 Okay, great.

00:36:09.100 And so I think

00:36:10.120 there's some parallels

00:36:10.800 between what's going on

00:36:11.620 with ESG and DEI.

00:36:13.440 You don't deny 0.72

00:36:14.420 that CalPERS

00:36:15.560 has a DEI agenda, right?

00:36:19.720 CalPERS is all about

00:36:20.800 generating returns

00:36:21.640 to pay benefits

00:36:22.320 and every topic

00:36:24.060 that we approach

00:36:24.880 is through that lens.

00:36:25.880 Well, does DEI improve

00:36:29.180 the returns to your investors?

00:36:32.260 I think part of good governance

00:36:33.840 of a company

00:36:34.660 is having diverse perspectives

00:36:36.180 brought to bear

00:36:36.760 as they manage that company.

00:36:37.840 And I feel strongly

00:36:39.180 about that

00:36:39.680 for the investment team

00:36:40.460 that I lead also.

00:36:41.300 We want diverse perspectives.

00:36:42.060 Terrific.

00:36:42.160 And what is the evidence

00:36:43.420 that you rely on

00:36:45.520 for the belief

00:36:46.280 that the DEI agenda

00:36:48.240 will produce better returns?

00:36:50.520 Is there any study,

00:36:51.980 report, analysis?

00:36:54.080 You know,

00:36:54.320 as an investor,

00:36:55.180 I read research reports

00:36:56.720 constantly.

00:36:57.320 I probably read

00:36:58.080 five, six,

00:36:58.780 eight of them a day.

00:36:59.780 So over the course

00:37:01.300 of my career,

00:37:01.900 that's probably been

00:37:02.680 thousands.

00:37:03.380 I know.

00:37:03.580 I'm just wondering

00:37:04.100 if there are one

00:37:04.680 that kind of sticks

00:37:05.280 in your mind

00:37:05.940 and say,

00:37:06.280 Congressman,

00:37:06.880 I'm here to do good

00:37:08.240 by these 2.2 million

00:37:09.560 beneficiaries

00:37:10.100 and my embrace of DEI,

00:37:12.700 this is what I can point to

00:37:13.780 as the evidence

00:37:14.380 that that's helping them.

00:37:17.640 Every data-based study

00:37:19.760 can tell lots of different things

00:37:22.160 and every data works that way.

00:37:23.980 That's the way investing works.

00:37:24.920 And remember

00:37:25.280 that when we're focused

00:37:26.160 on investing,

00:37:27.060 we're focused on how we...

00:37:28.360 Mr. Bambi,

00:37:28.660 you can either cite a study

00:37:30.180 or you can't.

00:37:31.320 You can't, right?

00:37:32.220 In the thousands of studies

00:37:34.220 that I...

00:37:34.620 Just name one.

00:37:35.160 Okay, well, here's what.

00:37:35.960 I found a study

00:37:36.860 that actually CalPERS did.

00:37:39.260 You guys did this study.

00:37:40.620 It's entitled

00:37:41.140 Emerging Diverse Manager

00:37:42.700 Data Report.

00:37:43.900 And I'm citing

00:37:44.860 from the sixth page of report

00:37:46.860 where it says,

00:37:48.040 since inception,

00:37:49.560 current diverse managers

00:37:50.820 generally underperformed

00:37:52.760 non-diverse managers

00:37:54.160 in the asset class

00:37:55.700 in the policy benchmark.

00:37:57.720 Are you familiar

00:37:58.260 with this report?

00:37:59.820 Can I see a copy

00:38:01.000 of that study, please?

00:38:01.780 Well, Mr. Chairman,

00:38:03.340 I seek unanimous consent

00:38:04.380 to enter into the record

00:38:05.120 the Emerging Diverse Manager

00:38:06.420 report published by CalPERS.

00:38:08.760 Without objection.

00:38:09.540 I'm not able

00:38:10.060 to show it to you now,

00:38:10.800 but you don't have

00:38:11.800 any basis to disagree

00:38:12.960 with the agency

00:38:14.620 you've been a part of leading

00:38:15.700 saying that the diverse,

00:38:17.780 the DEI hires

00:38:18.820 aren't doing as well

00:38:20.380 as the non-DEI hires.

00:38:23.060 As I say,

00:38:23.840 when we think about diversity,

00:38:25.100 we think about diverse perspectives

00:38:26.500 being brought to bear

00:38:27.360 on investment decisions.

00:38:28.300 Right, but, okay,

00:38:28.920 so those are two different things,

00:38:30.100 Mr. Bienvenu,

00:38:30.680 because on one hand,

00:38:31.700 there's provide returns

00:38:33.280 for my investors,

00:38:34.640 and what your own data says

00:38:36.660 is that your DEI hires

00:38:37.920 underperform there.

00:38:38.900 And then on the other hand,

00:38:39.620 you say, well,

00:38:40.140 all these diverse perspectives

00:38:41.240 are really important.

00:38:42.080 But I worry about

00:38:42.740 the market manipulation

00:38:43.760 and the bullying

00:38:44.400 because as I review

00:38:46.300 what CalPERS has put out

00:38:48.060 under its own investment

00:38:49.060 guidelines,

00:38:50.700 you brag about the fact

00:38:52.320 that you voted against

00:38:53.940 768 directors

00:38:56.200 at the companies

00:38:56.880 you invest in

00:38:57.820 most recently,

00:38:59.120 and then in the prior year,

00:39:00.200 you'd only voted

00:39:00.760 against 133 directors.

00:39:03.020 So is CalPERS voting

00:39:04.420 against people

00:39:05.160 as directors for companies

00:39:06.860 based on their skin color?

00:39:09.960 We take up every vote

00:39:11.460 independently

00:39:12.300 based on the merits

00:39:13.300 of the vote itself.

00:39:14.260 Right, but do you ever consider,

00:39:15.200 like, someone's skin color?

00:39:16.820 Because it's pretty immutable.

00:39:19.260 People don't choose

00:39:19.900 to be white or black or Asian.

00:39:22.160 They just are.

00:39:24.080 We choose based on

00:39:25.220 what will make the best

00:39:26.000 oversight of that company.

00:39:26.520 You're under oath here,

00:39:27.260 Mr. Bien-Mannou.

00:39:27.840 Can you deny, under oath,

00:39:30.040 that CalPERS

00:39:30.900 is voting against directors

00:39:32.880 based on the color

00:39:33.800 of their skin?

00:39:35.280 I can tell you

00:39:35.960 we make every vote

00:39:37.020 based on what will make

00:39:38.180 that the best board

00:39:39.240 for oversight of that company.

00:39:40.740 Right, but the best board

00:39:42.620 is actually not doing so well.

00:39:44.100 So, Mr. Chairman,

00:39:45.160 let's look at the scorecard.

00:39:46.820 In the state of Florida,

00:39:48.260 where we aren't pushing ESG

00:39:49.700 and DEI,

00:39:50.840 the Florida retirement system

00:39:52.060 is netting a 7.5% notch

00:39:55.000 for the fiscal year.

00:39:56.280 May I enter that

00:39:56.680 under the record?

00:39:57.320 Without objection.

00:39:57.880 And CalPERS reports

00:39:59.980 only 5.8% for 2022 to 2023.

00:40:03.520 Can I enter that

00:40:04.020 under the record as well?

00:40:04.720 Without objection.

00:40:05.340 So, you're not performing

00:40:07.080 as well.

00:40:08.120 Your own data says

00:40:09.920 that your DEI hires

00:40:11.280 aren't performing as well.

00:40:12.240 And you were there

00:40:12.840 for 20 years.

00:40:14.240 And you applied twice

00:40:15.680 for the chief investment position

00:40:17.300 and you were passed over

00:40:18.920 for that position twice

00:40:19.860 and you said

00:40:20.460 you weren't going to apply

00:40:21.240 for it the third time

00:40:22.040 because you'd been

00:40:22.560 passed over twice.

00:40:23.660 And I guess they've hired

00:40:24.500 an immigrant

00:40:25.380 to do that job instead.

00:40:27.100 Do you think that maybe

00:40:28.020 you were passed over

00:40:29.500 for some of these DEI reasons?

00:40:31.220 CalPERS hiring decisions

00:40:34.460 is their own hiring decisions

00:40:36.500 and I'm not really

00:40:37.180 a part of that candidate.

00:40:38.500 Clearly you aren't

00:40:39.520 and I think we all know why.

00:40:40.900 I yield back.

00:40:44.000 There is a part of me

00:40:45.360 that felt pity

00:40:46.380 for this person

00:40:47.040 I was asking questions to

00:40:48.000 but these corrupt 0.72

00:40:49.040 and racist systems

00:40:50.180 only exist

00:40:50.920 because there are people

00:40:51.720 like that

00:40:52.260 that are willing

00:40:52.760 to advance it

00:40:53.740 and demand it.

00:40:54.840 And then

00:40:55.160 the great irony is

00:40:57.100 he may have been a victim

00:40:58.800 of that very system

00:41:00.100 in his own desires

00:41:01.940 for career advancement.

00:41:03.660 I want to get to

00:41:04.360 a moment that we had

00:41:05.500 in the House Judiciary Committee

00:41:06.480 today

00:41:07.240 regarding the testimony

00:41:08.720 of Alvin Bragg

00:41:09.700 that we would like to have

00:41:10.680 before our body

00:41:11.900 regarding coordination

00:41:12.860 that his office had

00:41:14.020 with any federal entities

00:41:15.580 in the lawfare prosecution

00:41:17.540 persecution

00:41:18.100 of President Trump.

00:41:20.040 Now,

00:41:20.680 Attorney General

00:41:21.280 I'm sorry

00:41:22.160 DA Bragg

00:41:23.320 was the subject

00:41:25.040 of today's Judiciary Committee

00:41:27.140 hearing

00:41:27.420 but he wasn't there.

00:41:28.800 And

00:41:29.240 I'm getting frustrated

00:41:31.600 because I worry

00:41:33.260 that time

00:41:34.720 is running out

00:41:35.540 on our ability

00:41:36.320 to hold these people

00:41:37.240 accountable

00:41:37.760 and we seem to be

00:41:39.840 very eager

00:41:40.500 to send

00:41:41.040 strongly worded letters

00:41:42.100 and demands

00:41:43.020 and invitations.

00:41:44.900 I think we should

00:41:45.980 be sending subpoenas

00:41:47.560 and then enforcing

00:41:49.140 those subpoenas

00:41:49.720 with great rigor.

00:41:51.720 And I

00:41:52.460 presented that opportunity

00:41:54.620 today in the House Judiciary Committee

00:41:55.860 and would love to show it to you.

00:41:57.440 Take a listen.

00:41:58.800 We are here

00:42:01.280 at the hearing

00:42:03.060 on the Manhattan

00:42:03.940 District Attorney's Office

00:42:05.340 and the essential ingredient

00:42:07.700 we seem to be missing

00:42:08.800 is the Manhattan

00:42:10.660 District Attorney

00:42:11.600 which I guess

00:42:13.400 Mr. Roy

00:42:13.900 would be a lot like

00:42:14.580 going to the salt lick

00:42:15.460 barbecue

00:42:15.860 and not getting

00:42:16.440 the moist brisket.

00:42:18.920 To Mr. Jordan's credit,

00:42:20.540 great credit,

00:42:21.420 he sent a letter

00:42:21.960 to Mr. Bragg

00:42:22.860 on May 31st

00:42:24.020 inviting him

00:42:24.600 to come participate

00:42:25.440 and we got sort of

00:42:26.740 a nasty gram back

00:42:28.440 from Mr. Bragg

00:42:30.640 on June 7th.

00:42:31.340 Mr. Chairman,

00:42:31.820 I seek unanimous consent

00:42:32.600 to enter into the record

00:42:33.120 the June 7th response

00:42:34.760 from A.G. Bragg.

00:42:35.860 Objection.

00:42:36.840 And I'm sorry,

00:42:37.680 D.A. Bragg.

00:42:38.520 And in this letter,

00:42:40.340 I'm going to quote from it,

00:42:41.440 Ms. Foley.

00:42:43.460 Bragg says,

00:42:44.340 this office is committed

00:42:45.440 to voluntary cooperation.

00:42:47.680 Do you believe that?

00:42:50.100 No.

00:42:51.120 The letter continues,

00:42:52.160 that cooperation

00:42:52.720 includes making

00:42:53.780 the district attorney

00:42:54.600 available to provide

00:42:55.560 testimony on behalf

00:42:56.620 of the office

00:42:57.320 at an agreed upon date.

00:42:58.900 Do you believe that?

00:42:59.880 I'll believe it

00:43:00.600 when I see it.

00:43:01.700 It goes on to say

00:43:02.660 that they're evaluating

00:43:03.600 the propriety

00:43:04.620 of allowing an assistant

00:43:06.220 district attorney

00:43:07.020 to testify publicly

00:43:08.320 about the matter.

00:43:09.740 Now,

00:43:10.220 that assistant district attorney

00:43:11.480 is the one

00:43:12.000 who downstreamed

00:43:12.900 from DOJ, right?

00:43:14.340 So you think

00:43:15.000 they're going to provide

00:43:15.860 Mr. Colangelo here

00:43:17.080 to answer our questions?

00:43:18.780 I would not expect

00:43:19.620 Mr. Colangelo to show up.

00:43:20.900 And do you base

00:43:21.880 that opinion

00:43:22.600 on the lawsuit

00:43:23.860 that Alvin Bragg

00:43:25.580 filed against Jim Jordan

00:43:27.320 in his official capacity

00:43:28.820 in the Committee

00:43:29.300 on the Judiciary?

00:43:31.320 I saw some of that, yeah.

00:43:33.320 I mean, look,

00:43:33.800 you have a legitimate

00:43:34.740 legislative purpose

00:43:35.620 to be inquiring

00:43:36.720 as to what you're doing.

00:43:37.860 So they have no leg

00:43:38.920 to stand on.

00:43:40.060 But they're not going

00:43:40.880 to come because we ask.

00:43:43.320 And they're not going

00:43:43.840 to come because

00:43:44.840 they say so.

00:43:46.580 And we learned that

00:43:47.760 by observing our dear friends

00:43:49.240 at the Oversight Committee.

00:43:50.620 Because this will surprise

00:43:51.640 a lot of Americans.

00:43:52.400 After hearing

00:43:53.480 the enthusiasm

00:43:55.760 around oversight

00:43:57.240 of the Biden crime family,

00:43:59.960 we never sent

00:44:02.020 a subpoena

00:44:03.280 to Hunter Biden

00:44:04.840 to give live testimony

00:44:06.440 before Congress.

00:44:07.980 Let that sink in.

00:44:08.860 The Republican House majority

00:44:11.120 has never subpoenaed

00:44:13.880 Hunter Biden

00:44:14.560 for live testimony

00:44:15.860 in public.

00:44:16.940 We've never done it.

00:44:18.680 And I worry that,

00:44:20.220 you know,

00:44:20.380 we're going about

00:44:20.940 the same kind of process here.

00:44:22.600 And we may end up

00:44:23.940 there in July

00:44:25.700 right after sentencing

00:44:27.200 with an empty

00:44:28.500 Alvin Bragg nameplate

00:44:30.840 and an empty

00:44:31.940 Matthew Colangelo nameplate.

00:44:33.360 And then we'll start

00:44:34.020 the process again

00:44:34.920 on letters

00:44:35.480 and subpoenas

00:44:36.200 and accommodation.

00:44:37.440 And I've just grown

00:44:38.800 tired of it.

00:44:40.020 And I think you're right,

00:44:41.300 Ms. Foley,

00:44:41.900 that this is all

00:44:43.560 professional wrestling.

00:44:45.560 There's no real effort

00:44:47.300 to bring these people

00:44:50.440 to bear.

00:44:51.100 So will the gentleman

00:44:51.940 yield for a question?

00:44:52.720 No, one second.

00:44:53.860 I got a motion.

00:44:54.720 Mr. Chairman,

00:44:55.140 I move under

00:44:56.120 Committee Rule 4

00:44:57.140 and Clause 2M

00:44:58.260 of House Rule 11

00:44:59.300 to require the attendance

00:45:00.380 and testimony

00:45:01.040 of Alvin Bragg

00:45:02.000 and Matthew Colangelo

00:45:03.020 on July 12th

00:45:04.520 to discuss their involvement

00:45:05.700 in the Trump prosecution,

00:45:07.200 including their office's

00:45:08.100 coordination with

00:45:08.720 the Department of Justice.

00:45:09.480 Mr. Chairman.

00:45:11.200 Mr. Bragg and Mr. Colangelo

00:45:12.280 have agreed

00:45:12.820 to come on the 12th.

00:45:15.440 If they don't show up

00:45:16.460 on the 12th,

00:45:17.060 they will be subpoenaed.

00:45:18.540 So I would ask

00:45:19.540 the gentleman

00:45:20.020 if he could

00:45:20.840 withdraw the motion.

00:45:23.180 They're coming.

00:45:24.680 We worked hard

00:45:26.020 over the weekend

00:45:26.660 to make sure

00:45:27.540 they're coming.

00:45:28.140 And if they change

00:45:28.920 their mind,

00:45:30.360 they will get a subpoena

00:45:31.300 from the committee

00:45:32.120 requiring them,

00:45:33.440 compelling them

00:45:33.940 to be here.

00:45:34.380 And then if they

00:45:35.000 choose to go to court

00:45:36.300 on that,

00:45:37.080 I think we'll beat them

00:45:37.760 in court like we did

00:45:38.540 the first time

00:45:39.260 when we got

00:45:39.660 Mr. Pomerantz

00:45:40.540 to come testify

00:45:41.320 in front of the,

00:45:43.140 come be deposed 0.62

00:45:44.200 in front of the committee.

00:45:44.820 Time then becomes

00:45:46.220 determinative.

00:45:47.380 The problem is

00:45:47.940 if we're going to

00:45:48.320 bring these people in,

00:45:49.540 let's go,

00:45:49.940 I've made a motion

00:45:50.940 to subpoena

00:45:51.580 these people now

00:45:52.940 pursuant to the rules

00:45:54.160 and I want to vote

00:45:55.100 on my motion

00:45:55.780 or I want someone

00:45:57.160 to move to table it.

00:45:58.180 You made the motion

00:45:59.060 to subpoena them

00:46:00.060 for the 12th?

00:46:00.760 I moved under

00:46:02.980 Committee Rule 4,

00:46:04.300 Clause 2M

00:46:05.000 of House Rule 11

00:46:06.300 to require the attendance.

00:46:08.520 I moved to table.

00:46:09.800 I second that.

00:46:11.380 The committee will come to order.

00:46:12.160 The gentleman from Florida

00:46:13.480 has two minutes remaining

00:46:14.280 on his five minutes

00:46:15.100 of a question.

00:46:15.640 Mr. Chairman,

00:46:16.060 I will withdraw my motion

00:46:18.000 based on the representations

00:46:19.920 not only that you've made

00:46:21.320 but that the ranking member

00:46:22.360 has made

00:46:23.100 in our colloquy previously

00:46:24.680 that Mr. Bragg

00:46:26.540 and Mr. Colangelo

00:46:27.320 will be here

00:46:28.040 and willing to answer

00:46:29.260 our questions.

00:46:32.540 SLB on Rumble says,

00:46:35.100 tired of the corrupt Dems 0.94

00:46:36.360 getting away with murder 0.97

00:46:37.800 and will vote for food,

00:46:40.200 replied,

00:46:40.900 their Republican friends 0.96

00:46:42.000 are even worse.

00:46:44.860 I am used to

00:46:47.660 civil law practice

00:46:49.380 where even when someone

00:46:50.500 agrees to come in

00:46:51.460 and offer testimony,

00:46:52.860 you issue a subpoena

00:46:54.280 to undergird that

00:46:55.920 so that you have a basis

00:46:57.380 to actually compel responses

00:46:59.400 rather than just

00:47:00.680 their physical attendance.

00:47:03.220 Because I worry

00:47:03.920 you could have people

00:47:05.080 not show up.

00:47:05.920 Our own witness said

00:47:06.880 she didn't think they'd show.

00:47:08.660 Or if they show up

00:47:09.960 to not answer the questions

00:47:11.360 and if you don't have a subpoena

00:47:12.680 then there's no mechanism

00:47:14.980 to enforce

00:47:15.900 for the information we need

00:47:19.940 for our legitimate legislative work

00:47:21.560 and for our oversight work.

00:47:24.280 enforcement of subpoenas

00:47:28.180 creates an ethic

00:47:30.820 that I think

00:47:32.200 is very helpful

00:47:34.320 in resisting the corruption

00:47:35.760 of this town.

00:47:36.920 And I give Chairman Jordan

00:47:39.120 deference.

00:47:39.660 He's been doing this

00:47:40.440 longer and better

00:47:41.440 than I have

00:47:42.160 and he believes

00:47:43.400 that they will show up

00:47:44.520 the day after sentencing

00:47:45.940 and answer our questions

00:47:47.040 and I certainly hope

00:47:48.160 that Chairman Jordan

00:47:49.180 is correct about that

00:47:50.020 because if he's not

00:47:50.880 and then we've got to go back

00:47:52.580 through this entire process

00:47:54.180 we will have lost

00:47:55.080 valuable time

00:47:55.920 and they will have

00:47:56.980 gotten away with it

00:47:57.720 because we did not

00:47:58.800 send a subpoena.

00:47:59.900 Just like

00:48:00.680 we've never sent a subpoena

00:48:02.360 for live testimony

00:48:03.720 for Hunter Biden

00:48:04.780 in public.

00:48:06.440 And I don't know why.

00:48:07.820 And it is so bizarre to me.

00:48:11.060 Politics may be ruining dating. 0.75

00:48:13.220 MSNBC did a recent segment

00:48:14.880 that caught our attention.

00:48:16.880 Are you on one of those dates

00:48:18.020 where if you say the wrong thing

00:48:19.460 about MAGA

00:48:20.720 or Black Lives Matter

00:48:21.960 you might not get

00:48:23.680 that second date?

00:48:24.900 Maybe not for a while.

00:48:26.060 Take a listen.

00:48:28.800 Politics though

00:48:29.880 did come up

00:48:30.620 in a few conversations.

00:48:32.480 A few of the women

00:48:33.060 we spoke to

00:48:33.880 felt that they

00:48:35.500 were really turned off

00:48:37.080 by a few dates

00:48:38.020 where the men

00:48:39.960 in one instance

00:48:41.840 somebody

00:48:43.600 denigrated

00:48:45.660 the Black Lives Matter movement

00:48:46.880 and the woman 0.95

00:48:47.620 pushed back on that

00:48:48.760 and the man

00:48:49.560 didn't receive it well

00:48:50.560 and that

00:48:51.360 made her swear off

00:48:52.880 going on dates

00:48:53.600 with men

00:48:53.880 for about eight months.

00:48:58.520 She goes on a date

00:48:59.860 and because the guy

00:49:00.840 didn't sign up

00:49:01.560 for the Black Lives Matter

00:49:02.640 movement agenda

00:49:03.540 she was pushing 0.97

00:49:04.220 she didn't date

00:49:05.120 anyone else

00:49:05.920 for eight months.

00:49:07.480 Something tells me

00:49:08.240 in this case

00:49:08.740 there might have been

00:49:09.460 another condition

00:49:10.240 that resulted

00:49:11.020 in not getting a date

00:49:12.020 for another eight months

00:49:13.120 but either way

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Episode 167 LIVE： Disorder at the Border – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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