The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:06.100 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.740 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes this is congressman matt gates let's talk about the news and the news

00:00:21.180 is positive when it comes to the american economy and job numbers the numbers came in

00:00:26.900 and one of the folks that was reading the numbers said wow this is a great number it's only three

00:00:31.960 million job losses and then reading it and say you know i don't think this i'm not reading this right

00:00:38.200 let me look at it again oh wait a minute this is three million gain almost three million jobs gained

00:00:45.520 and then they shouted out one of them sort of semi shouted out is this a typo i think it was probably

00:00:53.720 the greatest miscalculation in the history of business shows the history of business shows

00:01:00.760 talking about wall street and that's okay but one of the reasons we're in this position is because we

00:01:06.800 had such a strong foundation so we were able to close our country save millions of lives open and now the

00:01:14.580 trajectory is great cnbc's fred imbert has a great headline it reads dow rallies more than 700 points

00:01:22.220 after shocking surge in u.s jobs so the expectation the prognostication from economists is that in may

00:01:30.520 we would lose 8 million jobs and have a 20 percent unemployment rate but the reality is that the u.s

00:01:37.440 economy added two and a half million jobs and now has a 13.3 percent unemployment rate we've seen

00:01:45.220 the increases in valuation and economic activity particularly benefiting a lot of the industries that

00:01:52.020 suffered the gravest consequences during coronavirus uh airline stocks cruises mgm assignment properties

00:02:00.220 which manages a lot of mall properties of financial services you know a lot of banks had seen their

00:02:05.760 margins really go down to nothing as they were administering a lot of the facilities from the fed

00:02:12.100 now that we've seen uh some of that money get out those businesses stay alive and engage in their

00:02:18.340 regular commerce wells fargo city bank a number of the other major financial institutions doing better

00:02:25.020 so great to see the american economy exceeding expectations this economy is driven and fueled by

00:02:32.460 confidence and production and it looks like we'll be right back on track to restore american greatness

00:02:38.860 defund the police that's right this is the new rallying cry of the political left in our country

00:02:46.980 not a desire to improve police not a desire to have better training better funding body cameras but

00:02:53.420 defund the police hand our society back over to the thugs and criminals you know i saw in minneapolis

00:03:01.920 where the son of keith ellison who's the attorney general there as a city councilman and said that

00:03:06.760 they're simply going to dismantle the minneapolis police department just take it apart and i'm thinking

00:03:12.580 to myself while that may make you feel good at a at a rally that may fire up the far left edges of the

00:03:20.980 political base it's not good for people who you know require protection and who require our laws to say

00:03:28.820 stay safe and and say prosperous and to stay free you know i think of police officers uh as you know

00:03:36.700 folks who just like the rest of us have good days and bad days just like there's good congressmen and

00:03:42.540 bad congressmen and good doctors and lawyers and bad doctors and lawyers there are good police and

00:03:47.540 bad police and i know for a fact that that a vast vast majority of the people who go put on that

00:03:53.060 uniform do it because they take pride in being part of that thin blue line between people who want to

00:03:59.380 abide by our laws and those who would create danger as a result of their unwillingness to do so

00:04:05.380 but defund the police i guess that's the sequel to defund border patrol and ice i couldn't believe

00:04:12.500 it as a sitting member of congress when my colleagues in an institution that is supposed to stand for our

00:04:18.120 people actually was i had colleagues filing legislation to get rid of border patrol get rid of

00:04:24.900 ice get rid of the whole department of homeland security and leave our nation vulnerable i opposed those

00:04:30.440 things but now they're even scaling that opposition to protection and to our people down to the street

00:04:37.840 level wanting to defund the police uh here's how we know and i'm going to break it down i'm going to

00:04:43.080 break down where the money comes from what's animating the movement and where i think it's likely to go

00:04:48.300 and really where we're already starting to see some effects that are going to put people in danger

00:04:52.440 so brian fallon is the executive director of an entity called demand justice and brian fallon tweets out

00:04:59.940 quite simply defund the police and so i start to think to myself like who is this guy what is this demand

00:05:08.200 justice organization and what role does it have in in the democratic party and there is a there is a great

00:05:15.940 piece in influence watch.org i'll post it up on on our twitter page when we get the podcast posted

00:05:23.300 and demandjustice.org is characterized by influence watch as a liberal dark money organization

00:05:31.800 and they brag that they've been given 2.5 million dollars by george soros now george soros is typically

00:05:41.840 like a political windsock for where the left is going to go because he throws in the money and then

00:05:48.740 the politicians and policymakers and aspiring politicians and a lot of these outside shadowy

00:05:55.800 dark money groups then gravitate to that soros message and that's how they're trying to reshape

00:06:01.460 our society not as a society built on capitalism and freedom but one where the government essentially

00:06:08.480 controls us and and we have anarchy and chaos that is that is ultimately the um the goal of of the

00:06:15.740 radical left and so soros gives 2.5 million dollars to this entity and they come out saying defund the

00:06:22.960 police i think every democrat in the congress every democrat candidate for office should be required to

00:06:31.080 be on record like do you support the defunding of our police or do you stand with the people who work

00:06:36.800 so hard to keep our community safe do you stand with their family members who have to make sacrifices

00:06:41.940 when the people they love are out on patrol so that we can live lives free and that we can look to our

00:06:50.000 our highest ambitions without being worried uh moment after moment for our fit for our physical security

00:06:55.640 and and this mentality that all the police are at fault seems to be creating some really negative

00:07:02.800 policy consequences there's a piece in the associated press reporting out of portland that the largest

00:07:09.100 school district in portland has now abolished the program that keeps uniformed law enforcement

00:07:16.000 in our schools i i just can't even believe this like in portland now apparently they're so woke

00:07:23.280 that they think that police protecting our students uh is part of the problem i've seen no circumstances

00:07:30.760 where the police who are there working with young people in our schools have been uniquely uh challenged

00:07:38.080 by some of these dynamics that we see uh out on the streets and and with communities that have had

00:07:43.480 some i think you know appropriate long-standing grievances about the interactions that that police have

00:07:52.820 and i just don't understand why we wouldn't seize the opportunity to build stronger relationships

00:08:00.120 between young people and police in the state of florida we went exactly the opposite direction

00:08:06.020 when we were challenged by the school shooting in parkland when we saw the pain that that brought

00:08:12.000 to family members and to teachers and to students it was our position that we needed more school

00:08:17.600 resources officers not fewer actually we came together republicans and democrats in the state legislature

00:08:23.940 and we funded more training more body cameras uh we want that 12 13 14 year old at school to look at that

00:08:32.340 police officer not as someone that would want to do them harm but as someone who will protect them and

00:08:37.420 encourage them and and perhaps even most importantly at this moment understand the experiences of young

00:08:44.600 people at at a basic level at that day in day out do the homework go to the extracurricular activities you know

00:08:51.740 resolve conflicts peacefully and without violence and physical altercation these are all things that

00:08:58.020 we can build on with strong school resource officer programs but when you got the largest school

00:09:04.100 district in portland abolishing these police program in our schools what it does is it's a step back it

00:09:10.260 says these people are the problem and what message does that send to the students you know the students

00:09:14.580 who were interacting with these law enforcement officers that now don't get to have essentially been told by

00:09:19.380 their own government that law enforcement is the problem do you think that's going to make things

00:09:23.580 easier do you think that's going to create less conflict on the street i certainly don't and so

00:09:28.660 this is this is very short-sighted and it's not just me as a conservative republican saying it's

00:09:33.660 short-sighted now my good friend former state representative from parkland florida jared moscowicz

00:09:39.900 tweeted out that this was short-sighted and wrong and that the people of portland should talk to the

00:09:45.820 people of parkland to figure out how improving the training and improving the interactions with law

00:09:53.940 enforcement can be a great force for good in our communities so you know i think we need to move

00:09:58.840 away from demonizing law enforcement and criticizing those who serve our communities obviously we need

00:10:04.880 to see justice in the floyd case and i think that we're well on a way to achieving that based on

00:10:10.360 the arrests that we've seen and the fact that these folks aren't aren't on the force and out on the beat

00:10:14.980 following this uh this terrible and tragic uh killing of george floyd but if we if we do create

00:10:23.080 the right policy framework i'm hopeful that that we can come together as republicans and democrats i

00:10:30.680 mean again i support enhanced training and body cameras and i think that community policing review

00:10:36.560 boards can give communities better confidence that the police that are walking the streets in their

00:10:42.360 neighborhoods are responsive and responsible and accountable for the decisions and for the force

00:10:48.600 that they deploy i also think that we could do a lot more in this country to have good geographic

00:10:54.060 recruitment i've long believed that when police officers come from the communities that they are

00:11:00.000 serving that there is a life experience and a context and an understanding that really improves the

00:11:07.020 quality of that policing and improves the the reception of that policing within the community if if they see

00:11:15.160 faces that are familiar if they know that the life experiences that people have had wearing the badge match the

00:11:21.560 life experiences of those uh who are who are working that live the great american experience and so i i think we can do a

00:11:29.020 lot more to resource geographic based recruitment in areas where we need to grow the next generation

00:11:35.180 of responsive and responsible and accountable law enforcement officials now is that the way

00:11:40.640 we're headed in the congress of course not the news is that in the coming week the house judiciary committee

00:11:49.620 will be holding hearings on policing and on the interactions between police and communities and that we may in fact

00:11:57.240 be looking at this floyd case to open our eyes into potential improvements and what i'm so disappointed by is that

00:12:05.920 we really should have done this before in fact the house judiciary committee did have a hearing on community

00:12:12.300 policing and what i'm so offended by is that the democrats used it as a way to inflame racial tension rather

00:12:20.800 than uh than to try to calm it and to try to bring us together who would be the worst person in the

00:12:27.060 world you could think of uh to come and provide testimony at a community policing hearing well i think it would

00:12:34.200 be pretty freaking awful to invite someone who is called cops pigs who has suggested that white people

00:12:40.960 be murdered who has been anti-semitic in their comments about jewish merchants in in communities

00:12:47.920 particularly communities of color but that's exactly what the democrats did that's right last year democrats

00:12:53.660 brought in al sharpton the racist the race baiter al sharpton someone who essentially is a professional

00:13:00.900 racist for a living and i was so pissed off by that because i think about the law enforcement officials

00:13:08.160 in my community of of every race of every background of every creed who works so hard to keep my district

00:13:15.420 safe who take such pride in the work that they do and it is offensive to the people who wear the badge

00:13:22.140 to trot out a racist like al sharpton as some sort of authority on community policing or policing at all

00:13:30.280 and that's the point i made when i questioned al sharpton here's some of that testimony whereas the

00:13:35.420 reverend al sharpton has referred to members of the jewish faith as blood-sucking jews and jew bastards

00:13:40.780 so my question to you is does mr scarborough's assertion that you said these things is that true or did

00:13:46.660 you not say those things they are patently untrue whereas the reverend al sharpton led a protest in

00:13:52.600 the crown heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read the white man

00:13:58.200 is the devil did you march next to a sign that said i have no recollection of that have you ever

00:14:02.840 referred to african americans who disagree with you as yellow and then the n-word i don't know that

00:14:08.920 i've referred to people as as names i don't know if it's because i disagree with me have you ever

00:14:14.820 uh referred to african americans who disagree with you as negro militants

00:14:18.480 i didn't know that was a derogatory statement have you said i'm in hell already i'm in israel

00:14:25.520 yeah you referred to people as greek homos didn't you i do not recall have you have you can you can

00:14:31.540 ask all the questions you want but i'm going to answer the question

00:14:35.480 when you call greek homos when you talk about white crackers those are bigoted statements and so

00:14:42.000 next week as we head back to washington to work together to try to improve these circumstances

00:14:48.180 it's my hope that house democrats won't try to inflame the situation by giving a platform to racists

00:14:54.880 but that they'll instead work with us for the types of solutions that can result in better policing

00:15:00.800 stronger communities more safety and confidence among the american people that we will get through

00:15:07.780 this and we will be stronger as a nation as a consequence twitter's double standards just

00:15:14.540 continue to amaze me they had i guess limited the reach of one of my tweets because i said that

00:15:21.680 we ought to identify antifa and hunt them down the way that we do terrorists in the middle east since

00:15:27.140 you know they are terrorists they are burning things in our communities the latest uh twitter

00:15:33.360 uh i guess indication of that double standard is their unwillingness to give the same treatment

00:15:41.600 to tweets that actually do glorify violence so they say when i indicate that we should hunt down

00:15:47.180 antifa terrorists that that glorifies violence but there is reporting from danielpaines justthenews.com

00:15:54.160 that i think really effectively chronicles the bias on social media and the double standards faced by

00:16:00.840 conservatives and what i think was particularly important about payne's reporting is that he went

00:16:05.680 through circumstances where people had glorified violence and twitter allowed their content to spread

00:16:12.180 and proliferate around the country there's a verified account rachel hillsop she tweets clearly

00:16:18.500 rioting works clearly burning things works and she goes on to describe her anger but i mean when

00:16:25.040 you're glorifying violence and burning things apparently twitter has no problem with that there

00:16:30.980 was also an article from a writer with the root a michael harriet uh the article is entitled

00:16:37.260 all times when rioting and violence worked so i mean there is clearly not an opposition to violence

00:16:45.220 on the part of twitter it is opposition to a conservative viewpoint that we ought to suppress

00:16:50.660 the violence that we ought to use not vigilantism but we ought to use the tools of our government as

00:16:55.920 president trump has effectively done to ensure that our nation can be safe and our people can be free

00:17:02.400 a slate.com a verified twitter account an account that's got 1.7 million followers tweets the following

00:17:10.080 on uh 6 4 20 at 12 35 a.m they say non-violence is an important tool for protests but so is violence

00:17:21.120 so literally slate.com this is pinned to the top of my twitter profile at matt gates says that violence

00:17:28.960 is an important tool so twitter doesn't think that glorifying violence glorifies violence but they think

00:17:35.880 that me uh tweeting about the need to go after people who would burn our buildings and terrorize

00:17:42.980 our people is somehow improper for their platform and in the latest antifa violence watch uh we see

00:17:50.740 some reporting from the daily callers andrew kerr that in richmond the federal courthouse was actually

00:17:57.060 marked for potential art arson this is a courthouse where i'm sure people work who both agree and disagree

00:18:04.580 with various elements of politics and our our national discussion today but they certainly don't

00:18:11.680 deserve to be the victims of arson we thank the good folks at the richmond police department they

00:18:16.940 arrested seven people who had fire accelerants and were apparently quite eager to do harm to our fellow

00:18:23.860 citizens uh politico's betsy woodruff swan also has a report on the doj crackdown on a lot of this

00:18:32.700 violence uh and i'm glad that attorney general bar is engaged in this crackdown attorney general bill

00:18:39.080 bar has my full support in his effort to identify target trace defund and then ultimately arrest the

00:18:48.440 people that would uh smash our cars that would destroy our shops and that would do so in a desire to

00:18:55.720 terrorize americans uh 51 arrests have been made by the department of justice with a nexus to violent

00:19:01.940 crime and frankly i think there need to be a lot more arrests and there needs to be a lot more

00:19:07.080 enforcement one thing i found particularly interesting is that apple has had a unique way to track and trace

00:19:15.560 those who have victimized them by stealing their products and and perpetrating their partner retail

00:19:22.320 establishment so a lot of people have stolen iphones for some reason during this during this rioting season

00:19:30.060 and you know i i i we just have to reflect that you know going and smashing a window and stealing an

00:19:36.120 iphone is not political speech but what has apple done in response to the stealing of iphones they've

00:19:41.920 actually activated the iphones and then traced them and tracked them and then sent messages to the

00:19:48.720 people saying like hey we know who you are we know where you are like bring back the freaking iphone so

00:19:54.540 maybe be careful before you steal technology it may tell more about you than you want it to and i certainly

00:20:02.160 hope that those who have created this chaos face the full consequences of our law enforcement and i'm

00:20:11.840 glad that attorney general barr is taking action to remove violent people from our streets hunt down

00:20:17.440 antifa terrorists and it sure would be nice if social media platforms like twitter would apply the same

00:20:23.760 standard to slate.com remark regarding glorifying violence that they seem to want to misapply to

00:20:31.720 republican members of congress like me that they don't agree with

00:20:34.640 it's time for fun and sun at universal orlando that's right universal studios orlando here in my beloved

00:20:44.140 florida i think the first major theme park to reopen after coronavirus and there is a great review

00:20:52.020 by richard kerr at thepointsguy.com that's thepointsguy.com richard kerr's got a piece having

00:21:00.400 gone to universal orlando and sort of reflected on the experience of a theme park in this era of

00:21:06.480 coronavirus and i want to start by saying i think that my governor ron de santis has really looked at

00:21:12.340 this data not just in in terms of number of people infected but in terms of the actual science of

00:21:20.800 sunlight and moisture humidity rates and how that impacts the spread and transfer of coronavirus and

00:21:27.940 in florida while we are unique in that we invite a lot of international visitors to our state we've got

00:21:34.420 a lot of people who travel here from other parts of the country particularly the american northeast we

00:21:40.700 have not seen the same rate of intubation and community spread as in other places and i really think

00:21:46.960 our governor has drilled down into some of the scientific reasons why so universal orlando opens

00:21:53.620 and of course when you're doing something new and different when you are utilizing a facility whether

00:21:59.700 it's a workspace or a theme park or a school differently than you had contemplated as a result

00:22:06.280 of the need for social distance there are going to be a few bumps in the road there's going to be a few

00:22:11.020 points of transition that you've got to work through but i was encouraged to see that there's a real

00:22:16.380 combination of signage and employee guidance and hand sanitizing stations and social distancing

00:22:24.880 at a lot of the rides and entry points at universal orlando you're seeing temperature checks and and of

00:22:32.500 course there are still instances where where there are people getting bunched up at various choke points

00:22:38.420 we've got to work through that because you know if you're able to social distance a great deal of

00:22:42.320 time but then everybody gets bunched up for a temp check or on an escalator or elevator you've still

00:22:47.640 got to work through that i thought it was interesting that those three and older were required to wear a mask

00:22:53.880 and from the reporting that we saw from richard kerr it seems as though there was really strong

00:22:59.500 compliance with this mask policy that that people you know saw the value in being each other's

00:23:05.520 uh keepers and in keeping one another safe and so that's good to hear and and then of course there's a concept

00:23:11.200 of virtual lines and while that'll have some kinks that have to get worked out the notion that

00:23:15.980 to wait for something you all don't have to be in the same space that our smartphones can allow us to

00:23:22.560 virtually line up and then be called into uh into whatever opportunity may present itself whether it's a ride

00:23:30.300 or a medical appointment or a dmv appointment for you know a driver's license any of those things i think

00:23:39.020 we're going to start to see this type of tech needed uh even more and while of course there's initial

00:23:44.720 confusion as we deploy these solution sets i'm sure glad to see universal orlando back up and running

00:23:51.100 i wish everybody a safe fun time and i'm hopeful that all of the attractions in florida will be able to

00:23:57.240 use this tech we'll be able to leverage the desire of people participating to be compliant and that

00:24:04.120 we will get to some sense of normal as soon as possible have a great weekend everyone we'll be

00:24:09.960 back next week with more hot takes

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Episode 19 - Clashing with Al Sharpton. The Greatest Jobs President Ever Created. Exposing Biased Twitter...AGAIN!

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