The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 170 LIVE： Kamalanomics (feat. Rep. Andy Biggs) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

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00:00:14.160 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00

00:00:21.300 you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.740 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.480 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:43.300 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:49.060 all the talk in washington is about whether we'll have this flavor of a continuing resolution for

00:01:01.300 government funding or that flavor of a continuing resolution and what that does is it presents

00:01:06.560 the entire funding of the united states government as an up or down vote an up or down proposition

00:01:12.000 and that is precisely the reason we're nearly 38 trillion dollars in debt we have to break the

00:01:18.180 fever dream of governing by omnibus spending bill and continuing resolution and we have to get to

00:01:23.180 single subject spending bills where these agencies have to defend their budget and it's programmatic

00:01:29.520 review and the reason that doesn't happen is because the lobbyists and the special interests who run

00:01:34.740 this town and who own the leaders on both sides they want it that way they don't want any itemized

00:01:40.260 review and so we have to get back to those single subject bills or we will continue this path we're

00:01:44.920 on we're adding a trillion dollars in debt to the national debt every hundred days the american people

00:01:50.360 don't want it only the folks in washington want it and i'm going to keep demanding a change in the way

00:01:55.360 we think breaking the fever dream and getting back to single subject bills i'll vote against these

00:01:59.920 continuing resolutions i yield back mr speaker welcome back to firebrand we are live hope everyone had a

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00:02:17.960 we're having about what's going on in the world in washington in florida available to our great

00:02:23.340 constituents so today is thursday september 12 2024 kamala harris is still the worst vice president in the 1.00

00:02:29.720 history of the united states and you can find out exactly why by taking a quick peek inside your wallet

00:02:34.500 not a single american citizen is doing better under this failed story of an administration unless in

00:02:39.320 fact you were a part of that administration or one of their preferred buddies or groups in the last 12

00:02:44.440 months alone over 1.2 native-born americans lost their jobs through kamalanomics now that could have

00:02:53.020 something to do with the fact that 1.3 million foreign workers have gained jobs during that same period so

00:03:00.340 you're going to hear a lot of discussion from biden and harris about all these jobs they've created all

00:03:05.220 all the good job numbers the reality is americans are losing those jobs to foreign-born workers and while

00:03:13.160 we're at it prices are out of control see these continuing resolutions i was just talking about on the floor

00:03:18.460 they lead to the debt they lead to the rise in interest rates they lead to the constrained supply the high

00:03:24.880 demand that leads to inflation gasoline prices have skyrocketed by nearly 50 percent since kamala harris

00:03:30.680 took office and if you think you can avoid it by taking an uber or a lift think again because

00:03:36.160 rideshare prices have gone up by almost 40 as well now if you decide to drive you better be paying

00:03:41.780 attention to the road because you'll be paying about 30 more for any repairs that your vehicle may need

00:03:46.640 and that's on top of your insurance which has gone up by almost 55 so if kamala harris becomes president

00:03:53.080 you might as well kiss your freedoms goodbye because you'll be stuck in your house for the next four

00:03:57.200 years if you cannot afford to leave your house your house is a prison and with these prices that's

00:04:03.740 what's happening inflation under kamala harris has risen by 22.2 percent and it's not only affecting

00:04:10.240 transportation eggs up 46.8 percent poultry up 24.4 percent ground beef up 26.3 percent bread up 24.3

00:04:20.140 flour up 37 percent sugar up more than 31 percent there's really no limit on what kamalanomics is

00:04:28.260 impacting and she's even taking away frosted flakes and cheerios that's right breakfast cereal is up 22.3 0.50

00:04:35.100 percent this is why they've been trying to convince us all to eat the bugs they're cheaper if you just

00:04:40.300 eat the grasshoppers and the crickets all your problems will go away maybe next they'll endorse

00:04:45.640 chasing around cats and dogs for your meals more on that later and as i said before there is no

00:04:50.500 outcome too far-fetched when it comes to kamalanomics so joining me to talk about the interface

00:04:56.940 between the very liberal tax and spend agenda of biden harris and what we see in the house of

00:05:02.600 representatives a great firebrand former head of the house freedom caucus congressman from arizona

00:05:07.520 andy biggs thanks for joining me andy as we look at these rising prices which i know you're hearing

00:05:13.620 about in arizona i hear about in florida who do you blame well you got to blame the i blame congress

00:05:20.140 and the policies of of this administration the reason you blame congress is because we've done

00:05:25.560 nothing to effectively stop the ridiculous spending levels that are being imposed on us even more by this

00:05:32.220 administration and when you talk about inflation inflation has two two drivers right now higher

00:05:37.340 prices has two drivers number one high energy costs so when you pay more at the pump everything

00:05:43.000 gets gets goes up because even if it's trained in or boated in whatever the last mile goes to gas

00:05:50.860 brother and and the other one is when you devalue your currency by just loading it with with uh

00:05:56.420 national debt like we do well you know that's that's inflation that's the classical definition of

00:06:01.900 inflation and i'm wondering how this is going to play out specifically in arizona when i'm in arizona

00:06:06.480 there's a lot of driving yes a lot of people do have to come into the suburban centers or the urban

00:06:12.780 centers uh that live out in more rural places and so like the average drive in arizona is probably

00:06:19.080 longer for a worker than the average drive in massachusetts or connecticut right and and and i wonder if

00:06:25.660 that's going to be a voting issue and then also when i've been with you in some of these areas along the

00:06:29.700 border in arizona there's talk of well when there's all this uh increase in price on the u.s side

00:06:35.660 people go over to the mexican side to get their dental services to get auto repairs for for all types

00:06:42.540 of things and when we see this type of inflation in the u.s does it hurt the small businesses in

00:06:48.160 arizona when they're losing customers to mexico and could that cause some of them to vote republican

00:06:54.480 if uh if maybe they weren't otherwise inclined yeah i mean so if you're in nogalas or douglas or

00:07:00.940 if you're in yuma or even tucson which is about 45 miles north of the border um it's it's fairly easy

00:07:08.040 to go across and and go shopping there you're a little nervous because of the cartels right now but

00:07:12.520 i mean you can go find uh anything so so i know people who go to tijuana for big surgeries they don't

00:07:20.720 stay in the states they will go to tijuana for uh you know you name it as any a cosmetic surgery of

00:07:26.400 some kind maybe it's a lap band surgery they will go to tijuana i cannot tell you someone told me they

00:07:31.320 got a tijuana lap band i wouldn't even think it was a surgery i would assume it was something else

00:07:35.980 you know what i knew that was coming from you all right so so so that that impacts them uh the long

00:07:42.680 drive impacts them and and you get to what we're going to do about it here in congress now we've been

00:07:48.580 you know in the bowels of the capital in meetings with our leadership and meetings with our colleagues

00:07:53.200 and what they want is a continuing resolution and just kind of share your reaction to that and what

00:08:00.040 your concerns are well i'm i'm opposed to that because as you said in your monologue or your your

00:08:05.540 tape uh that that dates me of the video of you on the floor it's a monolithic vote to keep a massive

00:08:14.240 bloated spend you're not changing any policies so so think about it this way you will add by the

00:08:20.780 time they get back to correcting that 1.5 trillion dollars in national debt that's that's what they're

00:08:26.120 proposing that's what you're buying that's what you're buying yeah and do you think our colleagues

00:08:30.600 get that there's a connection between green lighting that that additional trillion plus in debt and these

00:08:38.200 high prices on poultry on eggs on ground beef on auto repairs on insurance like it's just so obvious

00:08:44.740 to me but i think we work with people who believe they can continue spending in washington and that

00:08:51.940 like the wizard of oz is off somewhere else turning dials on inflation maybe it's the fed or janet yellen

00:08:58.300 but in reality we are culpable too yeah that's that's exactly right so there's there's at least two

00:09:05.160 groups in congress that that don't get it first of all is the democrats who are largely modern

00:09:10.640 monetary theorists so so we'll leave that aside because they're not they're never coming around

00:09:14.020 because they don't get it but we have this other group which is our team and many on our team they

00:09:19.560 do stuff like this they say oh man we've got to cut spending we've got to watch the spending but you

00:09:25.080 know i introduced over 500 bills last year that would have reduced a million here a hundred million

00:09:30.960 there we never got a look-see and so i did a bunch more this year not one we actually got some of

00:09:38.280 those on the floor and you know how many passed out i think it was like 40 uh spending cuts one one

00:09:43.900 passed for like four million dollars they don't get it matt they don't get it well the fiscal hawk has

00:09:49.900 become the latest endangered species in washington dc you know after 2010 you saw a lot of the tea party

00:09:55.860 folks come in and say they really were going to going to wrestle federal spending and in large part

00:10:01.420 we've seen spending grow since and a lot of those folks have abandoned the mission and have returned

00:10:07.400 to other features of life and here we are with at times a small group trying to get back to single

00:10:14.040 subject bills because we actually think individual review of spending is what drives it down but all the

00:10:19.520 talk now on in the digital world and in the talking headspace is about a strategy to fund the

00:10:25.820 government with a requirement that the senate take up and pass the save act and that the president sign

00:10:31.280 it we're big supporters of the save act we're co-sponsors of the save act the save act would be

00:10:36.640 helpful in future elections to stop illegal immigrants from voting but uh why like give the answer to maybe the 1.00

00:10:44.540 critic online that would say well andy government funding is going to happen anyway why wouldn't you at

00:10:49.340 least pick the save act as a ripe fight a right battle to undertake for multiple reasons first of

00:10:56.220 all uh people are kind of misleading the public like it's going to cure the problems that we have with

00:11:01.580 election transparency right and fairness that's not going to happen in 2024 this bill only applies to

00:11:08.040 federal ballots and there's only one state that bifurcates exclusively like we do in arizona we are it

00:11:14.200 and it wouldn't but you you have a democrat governor a democrat attorney general and a democrat

00:11:18.600 secretary of state so what you're the news you're breaking to the firebrand audience is upon the

00:11:23.240 passage of the save act there won't be this instant uh lurch toward election integrity in the state of

00:11:30.100 arizona that's that's exactly right or anywhere because what will happen is you're going to get

00:11:34.340 these secretaries of state saying well to call you know to find this out we're going to have to

00:11:39.140 litigate this so there's going to be litigation and then following the litigation there's going to be

00:11:43.580 this long period of time saying well we don't have the uh you know the technology to do it so we need

00:11:48.560 to up the technology it's so in the long run which is what you alluded to it's going to work out fine

00:11:54.860 and that and we need to do it but are you willing to you're willing to spend and keep the green new

00:12:02.500 deal in place for something that won't kick in for for two and a half three years and i'm not i look at

00:12:09.260 going to say okay you're going to keep green new deal we've put we're subsidizing these private

00:12:14.320 businesses you're keeping uh plan you're going to keep funding planned parenthood that was always a

00:12:19.260 big one for you yeah yeah yeah whenever you raise the issue of planned parenthood funding in the

00:12:24.400 continuing resolutions and all these folks who put on their mailers that they would never support

00:12:28.240 funding planned parenthood they were going to defund planned parenthood yeah and has their i don't

00:12:32.700 recall even having a vote on stripping the planned parenthood funding out of the continuing

00:12:37.580 resolutions well well they won't let you so i mean in the past i have introduced an amendment here

00:12:42.340 and there and they they killed the amendment in the rules committee the 10 i i offered 10 amendments

00:12:47.320 to actually reduce spending one of mine by the way i had two actually two bill two amendments that did

00:12:51.740 this would have defunded jack smith's prosecution and other prosecutions of this of i should i should

00:12:58.220 say the former president but but our president president trump you know who killed it it wasn't the

00:13:03.140 democrats it was the republicans on the rules committee okay so so i think people are going

00:13:07.860 to watch and wonder why is it that the republicans won't fight on these questions present each one of

00:13:13.800 them force votes and then hold our ground when negotiating with the senate and by the way if we

00:13:18.920 picked a bunch of these things the border planned parenthood the green new deal um you know a lot of

00:13:24.480 the spending priorities that we find wasteful that are that are targeted in your 500 plus pieces of

00:13:29.460 legislation we wouldn't win them all but we also if we were willing to fight we wouldn't like lose all

00:13:34.740 of them and when you don't even go through the legislative process to put your cuts forward you

00:13:41.440 are certain to lose you're guaranteed to lose and there's a part about lying to the public that we will

00:13:47.660 not do we'll tell you the truth and the truth is ugly in the case of these high prices and the

00:13:52.720 connection to federal spending but but what i think some republicans want to tell you is well we're

00:13:57.580 going to act as though this is a big fight we're going to pick on the save act we're going to send

00:14:01.560 that bill over to the senate but you and i know they've already pre-choreographed their surrender

00:14:07.900 where even the save act which you've said is is frail in protecting the integrity of the upcoming

00:14:14.300 election even that will be thrown over the gunnels just to continue perpetuating the spending and

00:14:21.340 you know you you are probably the most knowledgeable congressman on the border you bring

00:14:26.300 multiple members of congress to the border do you think it is going to demoralize like republicans

00:14:31.600 and conservatives and frankly just any american who cares about the border if we go and say you

00:14:36.080 must have the save act to fund the government and then we've already pre-negotiated surrendering on

00:14:40.740 the save act like what will that do the psychology of people who care about your central issue well if

00:14:46.300 they if they if they have any exuberance left uh they're gonna it's gonna come out like a beach ball

00:14:52.500 on the you know just that's not just through the little nozzle and you're a florida dude with beach

00:14:57.220 you know you're playing with a beach ball but it's got a big knife gash through it it that's the

00:15:01.840 enthusiasm level it's going to go down and that is that that's part of the problem matt when you start

00:15:07.040 looking at this and you say uh we're going to negotiate away so i mean i can't remember whether

00:15:12.060 yesterday when we were meeting with leadership you used to the whether the generals already negotiated the

00:15:16.700 terms of surrender right you know and and so we're we're we're we're basically just cogs in the wheel

00:15:23.260 at some point because we know he gave away leverage when he said we'll never shut the government down

00:15:28.780 and and and you know what and no nobody wants to advocate for that i actually gave him some

00:15:33.200 some options so he wouldn't do that will you will you go because because i've got folks who watch this

00:15:38.500 program who are pro shutdown they actually think that is the landing spot i am not a cheerleader for

00:15:44.740 shutdowns i actually think that a responsible governing methodology that we see play out in

00:15:50.820 almost every state in the country is one that would be apropos for the congress but but walk through what

00:15:56.200 you think would be a preferable path forward given the reality of where we are i know you and i would

00:16:01.500 probably love to go back to june july and hammer through these single subject bills but given where we

00:16:06.580 are we are in the middle of an election people are voting what would the house uh optimal path be

00:16:12.640 so there's there's two paths that i gave to johnson number one is that my least favorite and that is

00:16:17.440 you know if you're afraid of a shutdown go ahead and pass legislation that would fund veterans military

00:16:24.360 the contractors so you can keep building your stuff uh and and cbp tsa faa and and kind of leave it at

00:16:32.500 that and then just let and then try to negotiate through the the other 12 spending bills that were

00:16:37.500 required or another option would be you take the five bills we've passed ladies and gentlemen we

00:16:43.720 are required by law the 1974 budget uh control and impound act to pass those 12 appropriations bills by

00:16:50.400 by by by june 30th every year hasn't been done since 1976 but we did five we're on a roll we're on a

00:16:58.660 roll we've done why stop it now we've we've done five spending bills appropriations bills single you know

00:17:04.960 these are on the subject yeah what we would consider single subject specific areas yeah and we won some

00:17:10.580 fights and we lost some on those yeah but we but we got a whole lot of good stuff in there a lot of

00:17:14.900 good policy get rid of di and woke stuff and stop planned parenthood defending that you take those 0.99

00:17:20.360 five and you say okay the rest of the cr because there's no time because because they don't they

00:17:27.500 don't want to shut down they've already negotiated no shutdown so i'm trying to help him avoid the

00:17:32.320 shutdown so you say we will see are the rest of the budget for whatever it is 90 days while we

00:17:39.620 finish out the other seven spending bills that would be that would be more progress toward responsible

00:17:46.580 budgeting than i've than we've seen in our seven years here yeah it probably is than has existed since

00:17:52.480 1974 yeah well i think that that's an excellent option and and i also think it is appropriate

00:17:58.380 in those bills we're addressing to have the focus on the border and that's really one of where i want

00:18:03.160 to take our discussion sasha throw up our illegal immigration kind of a trend chart there for the 0.99

00:18:08.080 audience and and here you see the impact of the biden harris administration and their border policies

00:18:13.140 and and andy one of the arguments we've heard from secretary mayorkas in the administration

00:18:17.600 is that well actually now border crossings are down we're encountering fewer people at the border now

00:18:23.600 than we did during some of the peaks of the trump presidency you and i know why it's because the

00:18:30.160 illegals no longer have to even make the trek to the border we built them an app gave it to the cartels 0.97

00:18:36.780 allowed them to scale it to the moon and now there is a cbp1 app that has planes full of migrants 1.00

00:18:42.860 flying into the heartland of the country all over the country and they don't even have to make an

00:18:49.320 encounter at the border they have they have created a yellow brick road for illegal immigration that

00:18:54.560 doesn't even go through the border physically it just lands on an aircraft somewhere in in your

00:18:59.440 community but but debunk that myth that they're advancing well when they say that the the numbers

00:19:05.300 are down you can screw around with statistics any way you want and that's what they've done so

00:19:10.060 they've said we're not they're not even going to count the cbp1 app folks coming in at all they

00:19:14.860 don't count them they're they're bypassing the border so we're not going to count those people

00:19:19.020 and those people by the way are uh probably 40 to 50 000 a month minimum okay just just think of

00:19:26.580 that about that then they're not they're not going to count like uh uh people who show up at the at

00:19:34.100 the port of entry so they show up at the port of entry they're not counting those people so when the

00:19:38.840 numbers you're seeing they're really the between the ports of entry and those remain high so so like i was

00:19:45.520 in san diego at the border last week and uh we just showed up just rolled up we've got a big caravan

00:19:50.860 i've told you this before you show up with a big caravan nobody's going to come across but well

00:19:54.380 what happened some people came across the border and where are you from i'm from india i'm from

00:19:58.480 guatemala i'm from colombia well you know what have you heard of cbp1 app no we never heard of cbp1 app

00:20:04.640 so so they're either coming in on cbp1 app or they're coming through the cartel and all five of

00:20:10.740 those people had been put together in that little group of five by the coyote the night before they

00:20:17.920 all paid five grand apiece well i mean we ask them this stuff and they they respond and that it's the

00:20:23.000 numbers don't lie it's just kind of like them saying well you know we've we've seized more fentanyl than

00:20:29.460 ever at the point and we get 90 of it at the port of entry well you know why because you aren't able

00:20:35.420 to catch the people between the ports of entry and this is really the that's really the problem

00:20:39.540 it's it's it's a lying bunch of people from uh you know uh 1984 i think that there's real risk in

00:20:47.040 that because they're asking people to believe what they're saying rather than their own lying eyes

00:20:51.740 like if you're watching this program you look around your own community you look at the schools

00:20:57.940 you look at the hospitals you look at the jails and you see the impact of illegal immigration

00:21:03.820 everywhere now so then to tell people that it's not really happening while they observe it uh it it

00:21:10.040 risks the government not having credibility which even when democrats are in charge is actually a

00:21:15.080 pretty dangerous thing for america um because you know they always criticize us for being anti-institutional

00:21:20.220 but when they make the institutions so uh incredulous then then you get this this uh this very

00:21:27.780 bizarre outcome i want to go to uh this new york post headline cookie and his monsters this is the

00:21:32.640 this is some of the information cookie i guess is one of these venezuelan uh gangsters they're

00:21:38.080 invading the suburbs they're invading housing units and like meet your new landlord the the uh

00:21:44.820 the long gun toting venezuelan gangs uh roving around and extorting people and robbing people

00:21:51.440 this is another matter where our colleague jason crowe of colorado and uh governor polis of colorado

00:21:57.960 said this this is not really happening this is uh this is something that's just being blown up by

00:22:03.400 conservative media how do you think the country is reacting to these scary and stark images well

00:22:09.600 they're putting the lie to the people who are lying and so when these guys are out there saying i mean

00:22:15.940 we served with with polis before he became governor when he's out there saying oh this is just all in

00:22:21.360 somebody's imagination well tell that to the lady who's there and there's an ar-15 pointed at your 0.88

00:22:27.620 door and people are actually using pry bars to get into your apartment to boot you out explain that uh

00:22:34.320 to the this aurora city council that's now having to condemn those buildings because uh because they've

00:22:41.540 been they're being run down and taken over how about in chicago same thing new york city same thing

00:22:46.780 this is going on around the country and again it's like oh well you know hey you guys didn't vote for

00:22:53.280 that bill the bill that would have guaranteed 7 500 people a day matt could come into this country

00:22:58.780 illegally and then on top of that anybody above that if you fit into one of 40 categories they would

00:23:05.100 have let you in with impunity and then so so you explained explain those types of lies to the average

00:23:12.600 person who's watching this it's it's a scary thing and we've talked about migrant crime as this new 0.87

00:23:17.800 category but you just identified the category of migrant blight where when gangs of migrants come in

00:23:24.240 throw out the americans extort the businesses convert things to their uses leave it in a state of

00:23:30.540 disrepair that we're going to have areas of the country not just in new york city i mean this is

00:23:37.180 out in the burbs yeah and you're going to see a blight and a degradation of america that biden harris are

00:23:44.040 willing to tolerate because they ultimately want to convert them to voters that's what i mean isn't

00:23:48.740 that isn't that the end goal for them that that is the very end goal they they sometimes slip it out and

00:23:54.320 accidentally say it you know that that that we want to increase the voters but the bottom line it mad is

00:23:59.840 the average american who sees this feels the inflation they give you feel the danger and

00:24:06.040 insecurity in their cities and they watch what's happening on the border and these guys won't stop

00:24:10.500 it they're losing voters so let's go to springfield ohio this has gotten a lot of attention sasha go

00:24:17.700 ahead and throw up our our springfield ohio he looks he looks very pleasant now this post comes from

00:24:23.580 the springfield ohio crime watch facebook group and the uh the gentleman there carrying the dead goose

00:24:30.800 does not appear to be the head of the springfield ohio crime watch facebook group i don't think he's

00:24:37.000 being elected as the new block captain of the crime watch but there's the photo here's what the post

00:24:41.980 reads and again this is from springfield ohio we found this on facebook warning to all of our beloved

00:24:48.840 pets and those around us my neighbor informed me that her daughter's friend had lost her cat

00:24:55.300 she checked pages kennels asked around no one or one day she came home from work and as soon as she

00:25:01.900 stepped out of her car and looked toward her neighbor's house where haitians live she saw her 0.55

00:25:06.560 cat hanging from a branch like you do to a deer for butchering and they were carving it up to eat

00:25:13.320 i've been told they do this to dogs and have been doing it at snyder park with the ducks and geese

00:25:19.180 i was told the last bit by the rangers and police please keep a close eye on these animals so that is

00:25:26.820 that is the post from springfield ohio uh this is like the new defined defined hoax that guy clearly

00:25:33.980 has a goose and the goose does appear to be on the menu i think at the end uh geese can be pets you

00:25:40.360 ever known anybody who's had a goose as a pet we we actually did believe it or not you had a goose

00:25:43.860 yeah we had you know so the people claiming that this is not pets being killed because geese cannot

00:25:48.280 be pets you you can you can defy that argument yeah we had we had uh a couple of geese i mean we

00:25:54.400 kept a little wait you know kids waiting pool was it a gaggle or just a couple ah it was not a gaggle

00:26:00.280 i think we were three or more make a gag yeah i think we were two and and you know and one of them

00:26:05.240 one of them became infatuated with my wife and followed her around i mean really truly uh followed her

00:26:09.720 around whenever she's in the yard you know honey what are you gonna do about that goose i don't

00:26:13.540 know i gotta i gotta leave you know and the goose wouldn't let her leave you know he loved her he

00:26:17.560 loved her there was the male goose i don't know but but whatever it was it was it was a pet goose

00:26:24.080 and we had a couple of pet geese they and apparently they can form an attachment yes they can they can

00:26:28.940 sure uh you know zooming out from this and what it really means when you invite the third world 1.00

00:26:34.480 you get the third world yeah honestly i mean i don't know that you really can blame these haitians 0.99

00:26:40.220 right that are doing they don't know any better like in haiti if you see an animal and you're 0.82

00:26:45.460 starving you capture that animal and you eat it it's not a it's not a good place and it's because

00:26:50.240 they've been victimized by a lot of corruption and a lot of bad government and frankly the the

00:26:54.900 negative impacts of globalism have played out catastrophically in haiti but i blame us and i just

00:27:01.900 worry that like more of these third world behaviors like the defecating in the farms of the yuma farmers 0.99

00:27:07.880 that we went and talked to they talked about the ways a lot of these haitian migrants like even using 1.00

00:27:13.840 running water in some cases or when when there would be grace extended to try to create food

00:27:18.640 opportunities or sanitation opportunities the level of desperation is so deep like these are the people

00:27:23.540 who will eat the ducks out of the neighborhood pond and then will string up and gut the cat yeah 1.00

00:27:28.680 when you when you you have to acknowledge that the u.s has a rather unique culture and we are

00:27:36.140 an affluent country very affluent country uh and you're bringing in people literally by the millions

00:27:42.920 who have no they have no sense of who we are and we have no sense of who they are really i mean we

00:27:50.060 you know uh and and so you have a culture clash going on and it's not just from one country

00:27:55.400 because we have over 170 countries where people have come in in the last year and uh they're coming

00:28:02.140 in since they're coming in in by the millions it really actually is going to have impact on wherever

00:28:08.200 they gather and um because you're just gonna have a cultural impact and that's not to say that

00:28:14.400 that um we we can't try to understand it but the problem is at the same time you're allowing

00:28:21.540 millions of illegal aliens to come in you have over a million legal uh uh in migration as well

00:28:30.540 more than all other countries combined in the world and still somehow we're expected to open up

00:28:37.760 when people who don't have any intention to assimilate i mean there's really there there's no

00:28:42.340 intention for them to assimilate and the biden harris program specifically includes exclusion from

00:28:49.820 those numbers we were talking about of haitians uh cubans venezuelans venezuelans and nicaraguans

00:28:56.900 and now why is it they'll tell you well we well we have no compact with them to send them back

00:29:01.520 yeah but but you aren't just sending them back you're recruiting them right and that's that's the

00:29:07.420 problem and in our own ngos that are funded by our own government are doing the enticing of the

00:29:12.660 very groups that we're seeing um that we're seeing impact those overall immigration numbers but in a

00:29:17.940 clandestine way because it's not being accurately reported one more thing i want you to help me set

00:29:22.400 up before we go you are the chairman of our crime subcommittee on the house judiciary committee you

00:29:27.000 held a hearing today uh about violent crime about the way that these soft on crime policies are

00:29:31.800 impacting americans at a time of this this great immigration wave just give a give a quick update to

00:29:37.680 the audience about why you held the hearing today and what's your big takeaways well we held the

00:29:41.640 hearing for the purpose of of kind of exposing some of these soft on crimes it just so happened

00:29:48.000 that we were talking about california minnesota where you have had probably some of the worst soft

00:29:53.800 on crime policies and i will just tell you when you listen to the the victims of these crimes and then

00:30:00.140 the guy who was head of the business organization and you see it and you by the way your questioning was

00:30:05.360 brilliant it was wonderful stuff with with the gentleman restaurateur and i talked to him some more

00:30:10.800 after the hearing i said so what tell me what else is going he said he's he owns four or five

00:30:15.020 restaurants i can't remember the number but he said all of them are thriving in the suburbs where

00:30:20.280 the law is enforced but in the area where the law is not being enforced our sales have plummeted

00:30:26.680 because it's not safe nobody wants to come in to a restaurant and and be looking over your shoulder

00:30:31.580 because he's been burgled 13 times under governor waltz geez it's it's it's demoral i don't even know how

00:30:39.720 you have the gumption to stay in business when you're constantly under that threat and you don't

00:30:45.620 even have your own government on your side they're on the side of the criminals how andy how can folks

00:30:50.220 follow you stay up with all of your information and social media accounts well just go to biggs.house.gov

00:30:56.020 or you can find me on any uh social media site at uh at rep andy biggs well thanks so much for

00:31:02.660 joining me i do want to get to the audience to some of that hearing that we had but thanks for being

00:31:07.600 here this is congressman kevin kiley he was really laying the lumber down on some of these soft on

00:31:13.240 crime policies take a listen thank you mr chair uh just a couple weeks ago the governor of california

00:31:20.280 gavin newsom uh referred to california's crime policies as a national model uh and vice president

00:31:26.640 harris of course herself from california uh has said uh that california is a quote role model for what 1.00

00:31:32.680 can be done uh around the country so i think that this hearing looking specifically at california's

00:31:38.040 crime situation uh is a timely opportunity to evaluate that thesis as to what kind of a national

00:31:45.160 model uh california provides uh when it comes to its approach to crime and that approach consists of

00:31:51.260 three main elements the first is a systematic effort to defund police departments in cities like

00:31:57.260 los angeles san francisco and oakland second a systematic uh effort to not enforce criminal laws

00:32:04.520 uh with the uh election of so-called progressive prosecutors like uh george gascon kamala harris

00:32:11.860 uh and chase abodee in san francisco gascon again in la pamela price uh in oakland and then thirdly

00:32:19.120 is just taking a hatchet to the criminal code uh with laws like prop 47 for example uh which passed in

00:32:26.700 2014 and effectively legalized retail theft uh spawning this crisis of retail theft and smash

00:32:34.660 and grabs across california prop 47 also effectively legalized drug possession even for class a drugs

00:32:41.560 even for fentanyl and what that has done is made it impossible for us to get uh folks who have drug

00:32:47.300 addiction the help that they need so that you have uh them just living on our streets and tragically

00:32:52.640 all too often dying on our streets and these open-air drug markets uh that you have to walk

00:32:57.480 through wade through in many of our major cities two years after prop 47 came prop 57 which made tens

00:33:04.460 of thousands of very serious heinous criminals eligible for early release now of course california

00:33:10.660 voters would never have passed such a thing uh the re if it were properly described to them

00:33:15.480 but unfortunately the initiative was described on the ballot as only applying to non-violent offenders

00:33:21.200 it was described as such by the then attorney general kamala harris in reality it made uh criminals

00:33:28.140 eligible for early release who had committed crimes like rape human trafficking uh with minors assault

00:33:33.980 with a deadly weapon derived by shootings all of this was described as non-violent activity by the

00:33:40.080 attorney general and so with the passage of these measures prop 47 prop 57 the defunding of police

00:33:46.320 uh the so-called progressive prosecutor movement uh we have seen crime go up in california the results

00:33:53.200 speak for themselves just over the last five years violent crime has gone up 15.1 percent aggravated

00:33:58.560 assault 30.6 percent homicide 9.1 percent aggravated assault with a firearm 62.9 percent the violent crime

00:34:05.960 rate in california is 31 percent higher uh than the rest of the country but those statistics don't even

00:34:11.680 tell the full story if you look at san francisco for example businesses are closing left and right in

00:34:17.360 just a short span of time in the last year you had the closure of nordstrom whole foods t-mobile

00:34:22.160 anthropology sax uh the iconic toy store that this movie toy story was based on had to close in and out

00:34:28.460 had to close its first restaurant ever citing the danger to customers uh and to their workers or if you

00:34:35.340 just walk into uh you know any many of our major cities you have to if you want to go to the grocery

00:34:40.560 store you have to dodge needles you have to wade through uh encampments and when you go into the

00:34:45.020 store if you want to buy basic goods like you know frozen foods or uh shampoo or conditioner you have

00:34:50.740 to go get a clerk to open up the uh the the cabinet to get it for you because everything is under lock and

00:34:56.680 key in los angeles the police has specifically told people warned people that you shouldn't go outside

00:35:02.000 when you are wearing jewelry this is the reality of life in many parts of california uh following this

00:35:11.620 dangerous decriminalization uh experiment but the good news is this that well gavin newsom says this

00:35:19.440 is a national model well kamala harris says it's a role model uh for the rest of the country the people

00:35:25.320 of california are rendering a very different verdict uh those cities that defunded their police have now

00:35:31.540 refunded their police several of these so-called progressive prosecutors have been recalled or are

00:35:37.100 currently being recalled or being removed from office and there is a bipartisan initiative right

00:35:43.100 now to largely reserve reverse prop 47 and end the prop 47 experiment uh in california and it has

00:35:51.320 received broad bipartisan support i was just on a bipartisan panel supporting it with our colleague

00:35:55.940 ami berra the mayors of san jose san diego san francisco are supporting this initiative even

00:36:01.460 though the governor of california gavin newsom has continued to stand by prop 47 and fought our reform

00:36:07.360 effort every step of the way uh so mr chairman uh well there are some who will point to california's

00:36:12.960 uh crime policies as a national model i would encourage folks across the country to listen to the people

00:36:18.640 of california themselves who are saying very clearly this is not a model for the nation it is a warning

00:36:23.780 to the nation i yield back we are back live and we do not want america to become california and it was

00:36:32.720 a land of great bounty and beauty the most temperate climate in the hemisphere and as a consequence of

00:36:38.800 these soft on crime policies and other policies people are leaving and they're leaving for like the

00:36:43.700 deserts of arizona glad we let mr biggs go before making that derogatory reference but no arizona is

00:36:49.840 beautiful as well i had some thoughts as well and some questioning of these witnesses in the crime

00:36:54.360 hearing take a listen chair recognizes the gentleman from florida mr gates i had questions

00:37:00.040 for mr ingram but that was a remarkable presentation from congressman kiley about how things have gone in

00:37:05.160 california and when i heard that they had to close an in and out and a whole foods but that is a broad

00:37:12.880 swath of the constituency in california when you get both of those establishments having to close

00:37:19.040 it's remarkable mr ingram so we have this dynamic now the mr kiley just laid out perfectly where

00:37:25.280 you're seeing more and more crimes not really being counted as crimes and you're seeing more and more

00:37:30.780 criminals just being let out and not really deemed part of the criminal justice system for any

00:37:35.900 meaningful period of time and so i want you to bring like the average american who's heard the

00:37:41.680 presentation all the crime rates are down we're safer now under these policies that don't really

00:37:47.220 punish people for things like theft like what does that what does that actually mean on the streets

00:37:53.920 of america what would you say to an american that encountered that information but it didn't jive with

00:37:58.500 how they felt what i would equate it to is we see it every day in our city where we sit right now

00:38:05.720 it's mind-boggling on how we we talk about crime for us again somebody that has been in minnesota

00:38:13.520 since 2012 the five years kind of we had one burglary now we've had 12 13 every time i get a thing

00:38:22.300 from our district attorney it says we've reduced the charges to under a thousand dollars even though

00:38:28.280 it may have cost me 20 000 to repair the building a safe they rolled down three flights of stairs ripped

00:38:33.860 out walls ripped out staircases we reduced it down to under a thousand dollars and the person is back

00:38:42.140 on the streets and he robs us again and we reduce it down and he robs us again and we reduce it down

00:38:49.040 to me that that is the madness of it recently our breakfast restaurant called hope somebody broke

00:38:56.160 into it busted out the garage door went into the space and then we get a letter saying we've reduced

00:39:02.680 the crime down to under a thousand dollars where the glass on the garage door costs more than that

00:39:07.760 it's it's to me it's when when we have these again this isn't a political thing for me it's it's real

00:39:15.240 life this is real humans these are real businesses we're having businesses closed every single day we're

00:39:21.320 having people murdered we have a drug dealer that provided laced drugs with fentanyl to my partner's son

00:39:30.860 he died he texted him something is wrong he said you'll be fine we had his address that drug dealer

00:39:40.080 to my knowledge is still on the streets to this day mr ingram uh vice president harris filled out a

00:39:46.160 questionnaire for the aclu when she was running for president back in 2019 and she advocated for the

00:39:51.420 position of decriminalizing fentanyl making it where that wasn't something where people would interface

00:39:57.260 with the criminal justice system but would would have a different path um do you think that would

00:40:01.720 make your streets safer i don't believe that will make our streets safer people you must be held

00:40:06.900 accountable for your actions words don't really matter actions matter we can all say i can sit here

00:40:13.600 say whatever i want to say any of us can say actions are what matter what is happening every single day

00:40:19.440 is what mattered and that's really what we need is common sense to take over if you've been arrested

00:40:25.520 50 times in three years you shouldn't be out to do it again here's what i don't get mr ingram

00:40:31.740 why do people i've never been a prosecutor but why would you want to become a prosecutor

00:40:36.820 to then not prosecute the criminals that that'd be like opening restaurants and not wanting to make

00:40:43.120 food that'd be like opening a bar and not wanting to make drinks like do you ever get to talk to some

00:40:48.800 of these folks in your community and say hey like i just sort of assumed that me being the

00:40:52.460 restaurant tour i would run a restaurant and you being the prosecutors you would prosecute the

00:40:57.140 criminals is that too much to ask yeah unfortunately i just get to speak to our first responders that

00:41:03.180 show up on site and i see the look in their eyes how defeated they are because they've arrested they

00:41:08.640 know them by name we show them the picture and they tell us their name they know where they live

00:41:14.880 and they're so demoralized and defeated it's it's it's insane we don't live like this in florida you

00:41:22.300 don't have to live like this florida's ready when you are as a matter of fact but but i do worry that

00:41:27.400 these bad ideas that we've seen emerge in some of our democrat-run cities could could spread to other

00:41:33.320 parts of the country and in our last few seconds what would be your warning to a community thinking

00:41:38.600 about adopting these policies that reduce the theft thresholds and allow this type of conduct

00:41:44.420 my biggest thing would say love people and love is hard my dad had to discipline me because i made

00:41:50.920 mistakes discipline sucks but it has to happen love people and that includes discipline uh terrific

00:41:59.360 advice i very much appreciate you being here and i see my times expired i yield back

00:42:02.720 we thank mr ingram for uh his work as an entrepreneur in our country you should be able to

00:42:10.860 do that with the law and the government on your side not on the side of the people who are trying

00:42:15.100 to victimize you thank you all so much for joining us today on firebrand the best way to

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