Episode 168 LIVE： Moms For Liberty To The Rescue (feat. Catalina Stubbe) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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On today's episode of Firebrand, Rep. Matt Geeves is joined by the Director of National Hispanic Outreach and Director of Hispanic Outreach at Hispanic outreach at the National Hispanic outreach organization, Stubby Catalina, to discuss the lack of support for the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and whether or not he should continue as the Democratic nominee.
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank
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you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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are you all on the same page no what do you mean you're not on the same page
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not even in the same book was before president biden
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welcome back to firebrand i'm congressman matt gates that was congressman steve cohen democrat
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from memphis tennessee leaving a meeting with house democrats discussing the future of president
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biden his mental capacity his ability to continue as the democratic nominee and they're not even on
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the same book that's the response from congressman cohen when asked whether democrats are on the same
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page regarding president biden i can just tell you from inside the halls of congress where we're
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currently broadcasting from room 2021 of the rayburn house office building here at the capitol complex
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it is like a funeral mentality democrats had this long strategy meeting this morning it did not appear
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that they came out of that with any consensus last night biden was shoring up his base with the congressional
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black caucus that's typically where he enjoys his strongest sentiment of support among congressional
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democrats but then there are frontliners then there are those in you know districts that are very purple
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that could swing to the right or to the left and they are not as confident now there are members of the
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congressional black caucus who are also frontliners but a majority of the congressional black caucus
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they are in districts that are very safe democrat seats and so their experience is different than
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those who feel as though the strength of the presidential ticket is going to affect their own
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ability to serve in the united states house of representatives and then there are members who are not
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frontliners typically but now might be so consider this you're a democrat member of congress maybe you
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have a cook political rating of like a d8 or d12 that would mean that you typically win your
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contest by eight 12 percentage points that group of members is not used to being in a full-on
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election battle come november and now they're starting to get memos from their pollsters from
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their consultants saying joe biden's running even in our district where he used to be an updraft
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now that could put downward pressure on the ability of democrats running for the senate the house
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even further down ballot to be successful in some of those elections and so that is shaping how
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democrats are viewing the work that we're doing on capitol hill it's also shaping how republicans are
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thinking about it let me lay this out for you there are two school of thoughts among the republicans
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one is when the opposition is trying to fumble the football you let them you don't get in their way
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you don't do too much if they're in their own path of self-destruction and so make as little wake as
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possible keep calm waters on our side and just watch the left engage in the circular firing squad
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that's one theory the other theory is when you start to see the cracks in the opposition apply pressure
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here would be the strategy under a more uh a more forward-thinking paradigm make the democrats take a vote
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on whether or not there should be a mental competency test for president biden right now
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in his official capacity make them take a vote on whether or not proceedings pursuant to the 25th
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amendment ought to begin make them take a vote on whether or not he ought to have the nuclear codes
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it's a fair question to ask who's the president right now like if something terrible happened god
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forbid if we were attacked there was some catastrophe some natural event i mean they're definitely not going to
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this guy to make the decision so who is the president is it dr jill is it hunter is it is it
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the border czar kamala harris we don't know and i think applying some pressure by using the floor of
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the house to ripen those questions could be as effective a strategy as just sitting back and watching
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them self-destruct so we'll see how that goes we'll continue to follow but there's a really important
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discussion we want to have today about what's going on at our school boards in our classrooms
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and really in the education system at large and so we are welcoming back to firebrand my good friend
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catalina stubby catalina is the national director of hispanic outreach at moms for liberty she's also
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a radio host on americano media she's been on firebrand before too it was really in the heart of
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this uprising we saw from parents to change the way the education system was approaching active
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parenting and parents who wanted to be involved in curriculum review uh and you know now that you've
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been a leader in the moms for liberty movement catalina tell us a little bit about the mission of
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the organization how it is it is still very much prescient in what we're doing in the education space
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yeah that's correct thank you uh congressman for this invitation listen it's simple moms for liberty
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is fighting for the survival of america education get us into a big trouble and education is going to
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get us out of this trouble why because they indoctrinate our children our children were indoctrinated
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at school they were teach about crt they were teach gender ideologies most of it they are marxist
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ideologies that shake the foundation of the educational system the results are clear and only 30 percent of
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our student have been uh has passed the test in math in reading or in science only 30 percent that means
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more than 70 percent of the children in this country are graduating without being prepared for that
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without a purpose now uh the if you see the the for long ago moms uh have been taught that uh the government
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know best and um as as a parent you want the best for your child and with our tax dollar government have
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the responsibility uh to empower families with quality education options that nurture um our community
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and strength and strength our nation uh we as a parent we have the responsibility to educate
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and our next generation about the ideals um of of this nation about the ideas and values that make
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our country uh the best now uh let's say this biden administration is using laws and and like for example
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title nine against our parents against the girls against the sports in in in the uh the the girls in in sports
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but uh gender ideology does not belong in public school and we are glad that courts made the correct call
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to support parental rights we will always stand up for the rights of parents and uh the protection of
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children all parents must have their voice heard and the right to raise their own children um is part of
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the very fabric of the free america the federal government has no right to claim our children as their own
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or to push parents out of the classroom this is simple and and now for sure well well i want to get
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in i want to draw a finer point on this because you have just scored a major victory uh for the title nine
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movement and uh and this was a report that we're getting from moms for liberty dot org moms for
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liberty succeeds in halting title nine changes this out of topeka kansas and a landmark ruling a federal
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court in kansas issued an opinion halting the biden department of education's title nine changes in a
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lawsuit brought by the southeastern legal foundation and the mountain states legal foundation on behalf of
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their clients moms for liberty and young america's foundations the organizations joined
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the states of kansas wyoming utah and alaska as well as other students and interest groups in
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challenging the department of education's blatant disregard for the first amendment and for the
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rights of k-12 students so for for those who aren't parents but are watching what's going on right now
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in girls sports and why was protecting a girl sports through the use of this title nine litigation a
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strategy that moms for liberty pursued right listen first of course must i want to say no child is born
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in the ground body boys and girls are perfectly just the way they are and gender ideology has no place
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in public schools and your parental right do not stop at the classroom door that's why moms for liberty
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is fighting for this and that's why moms for liberty now is winning with common sense it's pure common sense
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that uh no men should be allowed at the sports why because before or this um the the title nine
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wrote in 1972 to protect initially to protect a woman uh it was twisted let's say it was it was by the
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biden uh administration it was used in the wrong manner when they um remade the the significance of the sex
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let's say any man that can identify as a woman any man living in this fake reality of of living in this
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fantasy of that it's just the guy thing as a woman can just participate in any uh in any sport and take
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away all the opportunities for a for a woman and for a for a child that since the beginning of his life
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has been training hard every day waking up very early to prepare to be a champion to prepare to excel in
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sports so for us this was not only against uh uh against the constitution but it's against the right
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of a parents to direct the upbringing of the education of our children and and you've got a
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lot of agreement on that catalina on the live stream jill davis saying god does not make mistakes and
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it's child abuse to tell a kid that they are born in the wrong body you know you mentioned the biden
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administration in the department of education being uh one of the one of the villains in this story
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unfortunately frankly if i had my druthers we would just abolish the federal department of education
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we would leave this power constitutionally to the states and to our our local communities where i
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think it best resides but i wanted to also ask you about other other villains that you have to fight
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you know as as part of the moms for liberty movement do you how do you view the unions how do you view the
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textbook creators where should people be looking for some of the negative influences that you're
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looking to expose and root out so this is outrageous that with our tax dollars are using indoctrination
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directly in schools from kindergarten until uh until 12th grade and even more because we are now
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yes seeing uh how they use students in the university in the college and they are uh now converting to
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activists and uh defending even terrorists so now uh our fight in our in our fight also were the
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inappropriate books they say we were banning books we are not the ones banning books first of all
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second of all we're not banning books we're just uh saying that we should use the tax money dollar
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in in a good way just focusing on math science and the core and the core um courses why because
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no parent want inappropriate content explicit content that even describes uh how to masturbate
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how to even uh do an intercourse between two same sex this is not sex education this is a perversion
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from the left that is pushing this nationwide to our children now our children know better the
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positions in sex rather than that they can name even the the 50 states or they can even learn about the
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constitution of the united states they can they cannot even name the 10 commandments and so this is
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about education we're focusing uh on education in academics excelling in academics you know and you
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started out our discussion talking about the goals for those competencies and reading and math and the
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basics and you know i i wonder specifically how this moms for liberty movement has grown within the
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hispanic community you're the director of of hispanic outreach and so there seem to be a lot of of
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cultural values supporting the family of supporting a connection to faith being rooted in the foundation
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of civilized society uh that would be a very very attractive talk about what reaction you have received as
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you've worked toward that outreach listen for me i came from colombia and i came from a better a better
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life to actually be proficient in my profession and not to seen as my uh preference sexual preference or
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if i became to a party or not or i belong to a party or not just simply when i came to this country i saw uh
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the american dream and i saw liberty and i don't want to make the same mistakes that i that i made in in
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in the in the in in our countries in colombia so i see right now that um hispanics has a lot in common
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with uh with americans but it's something beautiful that americans teach me is how to work in a team
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how to have a vision because we can all become one and then we can all work together toward one goal
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and is basically life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that we are all men created equal
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and um it's sad how every pillar of american culture now is under attack and it's this colombian girl
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that it's it's now defending the basics in now even the the basic of education in in this country that i
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now choose to be my home and i'm going to defend my home as every single hispanic or every single american
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will do with their children the children is the most precious gift that we receive and we are going to
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defend that with everything we have that's why we're so passionate about it and it's so important
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because they are becoming the future of our country they are going to become our next legislators
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our next doctors are you congressman going to trust this this young generation that just graduated from
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high school to be the next voters uh choosing uh the next presidents or the next legislators
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they are going to and so we it's our duty to defend the education transparency in education and to offer
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them uh an education free from from indoctrination and actually uh they deserve better they deserve better
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than this because right now our country is is every pillar is under attack freedom of speech the justice
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department uh the media the medicine and but for me the most um outrageous is education using education
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using our tax dollars to indoctrinate our children that's must stop and the it is start at home i don't
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expect a politician to solve all my problems but parents uh know best and need to tell the truth to to their
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children so right now yes no i i think we're all very lucky to have you in that fight and i think that
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after people hear that description they're going to want to join you in that fight and so talk a little bit about
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who the people are that are participating in the moms for liberty movement maybe talk about how people come to the
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movement and and what work you're doing together and then uh if you could let folks know if if they see this and are
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inspired to be in that fight with you to save our education system uh how they can how they can join the
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the great efforts that that you're endeavoring upon listen this is this is nice because uh people always
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tell me why you became involved in politics i don't like politics i just simply i'm just a mom trying to
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raise their children the right way that's it and i think this is the common uh denominator of all uh moms
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for liberty that we are just parents trying our best with our children we want to uh that our
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children become become a productive member of society with a beautiful purpose in life that they
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just not in in in money but but helping other helping our nation and and we're just simply going
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straight and and practicing laser on education and i think this moms can change the world and they
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underestimate the power of a mom because we can do a lot of things and uh we just need uh a voice
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that's why moms for liberty is unifying uh educated and empower parents to defend their parental rights
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at all level of government right now when when we want uh this battle against uh the biden administration
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against uh the the title nine is the moment to join um moms for liberty why because it's only
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for the uh for the benefit for the moms for liberty and i think is the time to fight for truth and the
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children is now so you must join first of all moms for liberty become a member you're going to be
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protected from child nine and so on and to be to get informed uh another thing we are going to be uh
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uh we are going to do a town hall in milwaukee uh that is going to be uh with a lot of guests including governor
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desantis including governor huckabee from arkansas and i think this is the time that we are just stepping up
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for our children and start fighting also join our march for kids also join the submit at the end of
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august it's important and hopefully you can join this summit because it is where we train our parents
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is where we awake our parents and we show the reality that what is is is happening right now in the
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educational system moms for liberty the director of hispanic national outreach catalina stubby thank
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you so much for joining us on firebrand there are so many opportunities to be involved we want to bring
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those opportunities to our constituents in florida and throughout the country thanks for everything
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you're doing and we'll see you in milwaukee thank you so much congressman thank you and we also wanted
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to let the firebrand audience know that there was work happening in the house judiciary committee
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regarding the real abuse of the legal process that we saw on display during the prosecution of
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president trump by alvin bragg in manhattan now the core theory of that case is that somehow president
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trump violated federal election law by not using donor money for this non-disclosure agreement with
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stormy daniels and i had the opportunity to question bradley smith who's the former chair of the fec
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who oversaw the enforcement of our election regulations and the precedent set by the democrats
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would lead to a pretty absurd result take a listen to my questioning of the former chair of the fec
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so mr smith following up on mr stubby's question i want to understand the precedent here so if a
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candidate for federal office wanted to use campaign money now to make a hush money payment
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could they point to what has occurred in this new york litigation and say well i guess i can go use
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my donor money to make a hush money payment i suppose they could at least unless judge jackson is
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correct and we'll have to wait for that overturning on appeal but yes yeah but so well i guess i want
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to ask the question if an appellate court does not in some way deal with what has been laid before the
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country could we could we see people collecting money from donors lobbyists and packs and then
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using it to make hush money payments yeah and you could do almost anything else you could say for
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example i'd really like to go to the super bowl this year think i'll take a couple donors along
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and buy your super bowl tickets and your whole trip to the super bowl because it's for the purpose of
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influencing your campaign so in the prosecution to preserve our democracy we have now greenlit
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potentially the most expansive abuses of campaign funds ever well put
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i don't think that it was the intent of the bragg prosecution to create a massive loophole
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for people to misuse campaign funds but that's exactly what they seem to have done according
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to that expert and i continue to take exception with how judge mershon in that case was able to
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preside over a matter where his own family was benefiting off of the notoriety of the case and
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we had a former judge before the committee i asked him what that would have been like in his court take a
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listen uh judge wilson i just want to ask ask you a a precise question was there ever a case that you
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were presiding over where you had a family member economically benefit from the notoriety of the case
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no never you sure you don't want to take some more time on that think about it i don't need more time
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i know that for a fact well i mean if that had ever arisen would you have allowed a family member to
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make money off the notoriety of a case i would have recused myself from the case
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huh well it's just interesting because we had attorney general garland who was you know spent a good
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amount of time on the bench and i asked him the same question and you know he said that he wouldn't
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answer it because it was obviously a reference to what had gone on in new york i mean i thought it
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was i thought he could might could have answered it but i mean when you look at what happened in new
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york does it concern you that the judge in that case seemed to have a family member who was
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economically leveraging the notoriety of the case it greatly concerned me but not so much from the
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perspective of the ethical violation that would be apparent because that judge did get an ethical
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opinion from the judicial ethics committee in new york that exonerated him from any wrongdoing
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and listening to the case when his daughter was benefiting what i was concerned about was the
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appearance of impropriety you know when i sat on the bench sometimes i would get a report from
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probation or some other organization and they would hand it to me in an envelope and i made certain to
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open up that envelope and show everybody that it was a report that i was looking at because i didn't
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want there to be the in the appearance of impropriety that i'm receiving an envelope from someone in the
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courtroom the concept is the same here you're presiding over a case where your daughter is benefiting
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and where you've made political contributions in small amounts but it's irrelevant the amount
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but you've made contributions to uh the political opponents of the defendant before you the these are
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the very essence of the appearance of impropriety and i feel strongly that judge marchand should have
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recused himself on that basis just simple as can be mr chairman straightforward answer to a
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straightforward question i wish we could have gotten that from the attorney general i yield back
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we are back live and we made news yesterday by announcing the establishment of the congressional
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el salvador caucus i am going to be leading that caucus as chairman along with vincenti gonzalez
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democrat from the state of texas who knows that part of the or that part of the world rather well
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this was the announcement of the congressional el salvador caucus take a listen
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mr speaker i rise to notify the house of the creation of the congressional el salvador caucus
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for which i will serve as chairman and for which i have appointed the gentleman from texas vincenti
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gonzalez to serve as the bipartisan co-chairman congressman gonzalez has extensive relationships
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and insights drawn from his time in el salvador and throughout latin america and undeniably that will
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assist in leading the caucus mr speaker el salvador's president naib bukele has converted el salvador
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from the murder capital of the world into a reliable and stable partner for peace and security for the
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united states of america the el salvador caucus will exist to nurture and advance the u.s el salvador
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relationship to encourage strong borders strong culture and the strong reforms that president bukele has
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put into effect they've defeated the gangs they've put prosperity on the march in el salvador and
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even the 70 000 people who are incarcerated in that country are not just seeing their lives uh wasted
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away president bukele has instituted a zero leisure policy where they are now restoring buildings and
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murals and actually rebuilding the country that so many of them had a hand in ravaging through gang
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warfare the purpose of this caucus will be to vindicate the choices that president bukele has made
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that indeed strengthen the u.s el salvador relationship and el salvador's resurgence has not
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existed as a consequence of falling for the siren song of globalism instead president bukele believes that
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the way el salvador can lead within central america and indeed throughout the west is by being the best
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version of themselves not being excessively reliant on some of these globalist institutions president
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bukele has delivered instant justice to the satanic gangs and the endemic political corruption but in
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fact no good deed goes unpunished too often our own government and even some members of this congress
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mount attack after attack at el salvador and president bukele presumably because the comeback that el salvador
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is living is a breathing indictment of other failed ideologies through the inspiration from el salvador's
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astonishing transformation the great american rejuvenation can become a reality as well so that
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we can experience a triumphant return of safety and prosperity that we once inspired in others i would
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invite my colleagues in the house and senate to contact our office we would love to have you as a member of
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the el salvador caucus as we strengthen the us el salvador relationship as we work to amplify some of
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the good decisions that are being made by president bukele and his government and as we hope that these
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good ideas have legs and can travel and can be copied and implemented for a more stable world thank you
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thanks so much for joining us today on firebrand we'll continue to cover whatever is going on with
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the democratic party right now and their leadership and the president and his condition we've also got
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jeremy carl joining us for an episode we're going to have a little later in the week we may do that from
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