Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) joins us on the show to discuss a variety of topics, including the use of threat tags on parents who attend school board meetings, and whether or not they have a First Amendment right to protest.
00:00:00.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party and he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:00:20.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.000You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000You ever watch this guy on television? It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet. Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way.
00:00:54.000Welcome to Firebrand. Upcoming in this episode, we've got an interview with Congressman Thomas Massey regarding natural immunity.
00:01:02.000We'll dive into the opioid crisis and ensure that we give you the best update regarding the oversight that has to happen for the House of Representatives to be worthy of the great people of this country again.
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00:01:27.000So first, recently in the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jim Jordan tried to bring up a resolution to address the deep concerns we have over the counterterrorism division at the FBI, placing threat tags on people who are attending school board meetings.
00:01:43.000Here's how that went. Here's what the October 4th memo said, quote, I'm directing the FBI to convene meetings with local leaders.
00:01:50.000These meetings will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting.
00:01:55.000Dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting.
00:01:59.000A snitch line on parents started five days after a left wing political organization asked for it.
00:02:07.000That's not political. I don't know what is.
00:02:11.000And remember these important questions asked by Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
00:02:19.000It also concerns us that your actions may have been motivated by your family's financial stake in this issue.
00:02:25.000Published reports show that your son-in-law co-founded a company called Panorama Education.
00:02:31.000We now know that that company publishes and sells critical race theory and so-called anti-racism materials to schools across the country.
00:02:38.000And it works with school districts nationwide to obtain and analyze data on students, often without parental consent.
00:02:45.000My first question is this. Are you familiar with Title V of the Code of Federal Regulations, which addresses the rules of impartiality for executive branch employees and officials?
00:02:56.000I am very familiar with it. And I want to be clear once again that there's nothing in this memorandum which has any effect on the kinds of curriculums that are taught or the ability of parents to complain about the kinds of.
00:03:12.000I understand your position on the free speech of parents.
00:03:15.000Not a position. It is the words of the memorandum.
00:03:16.000Wait just a minute. The question is, the thing that has concerned many of those parents that are showing up at these school board meetings,
00:03:22.000the very basis of their objection and their vigorous debate, as you mentioned earlier, is the curricula, the very curricula that your son-in-law is selling.
00:03:32.000This memorandum is aimed at violence and threats of violence.
00:03:36.000I understand that, but did you seek, excuse me, did you seek ethics counsel before you issued a letter that directly relates to the financial interest of your family? Yes or no?
00:03:46.000This memorandum does not relate to the financial interests of anyone. It's a, it's against...
00:03:52.000I take that as a no. I take that as a no.
00:03:54.000Instead of dealing with this seriously troubling matter, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler brought up legislation by Representative Eric Swalwell to address cold cases.
00:04:06.000We chose cold case legislation over the very hot matter of political targeting and lies from the Department of Justice.
00:04:14.000I wasn't quite done making the point and had a little debate with Representative Scanlon of Pennsylvania. Take a listen.
00:04:22.000I would just seek unanimous consent to introduce a USA Today article dated November 29th, 2021. Fact check.
00:04:32.000The FBI is not using threat tags on parents who protest at school board meetings.
00:04:36.000The good news is the American people aren't falling for it. The bad news is we don't know how many. That's my question. How many people who showed up to school board meetings, who sent an email, who made a phone call, who expressed their First Amendment rights. How many of those people right now are under any tag or designation or supervision?
00:04:56.000If you threaten their children. If you threaten their children and we've seen all of those things happen. We've seen property damage at people's homes, unpaid positions by community volunteers, and they're being targeted and threatened, then somebody has got to look at that.
00:05:12.000If there's a threat to violence in communities, there's no attestation or evidence that law enforcement in local communities can't deal with that. This isn't a threat.
00:05:24.000This is threat construction. Everyone knows what's going on here. The House Judiciary Committee should be investigating these things. And what we'll find in that investigation is when the FBI and the Department of Justice want to go after people, want to go after Trump, want to go after political opponents, want to go after organizing parents and communities.
00:05:44.000They seed a lie and they get that lie retold and then they use it to target people. What a shame. I yield back.
00:05:52.000Oversight is coming. They're terrified because they know it. I set the frame at a recent press conference with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:06:00.000This report must be a guidepost for ongoing Republican oversight effort in the Congress because we are going to take power after this next election. And when we do, it's not going to be the days of Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy and no real oversight and no real subpoenas.
00:06:20.000It's going to be the days of Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dr. Gosar and myself doing everything to get the answers to these questions.
00:06:30.000So what I have laid out is a new way of thinking about the role of Republicans in Congress. This is observed by Steve Bannon on the War Room podcast.
00:06:40.000If Republicans need to know how to be led in an effort of rigorous, dogged, fair, but determined oversight, I'll show them how to do it. So will Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:06:50.000What we are not going to do is go back to the days of, you know, I would say kind of the George W. Bush era of Republicanism, where there was just this exasperated surrender to the frame that they set.
00:07:02.000This is a theory of governing, right? And it's fresh and it's new. This is Trumpism in power. That's when we went to the, to the, to the, to the, the 4,000 shock troops we have to have that's going to man the government and get them ready now, right? We're going to hit the beach.
00:07:19.000You know, you have the landing teams and the beachhead teams, all that nomenclature they use when, when, when, when President Trump wins again in 2024 or before.
00:07:27.000Dogged, fair, robust oversight of the Biden regime. This must be our focus to save the country. And it's coming.
00:07:39.000It seems like almost every week in Congress, we addressed opioid legislation. In fact, since 2013, members of Congress have introduced over 500 opioid research awareness or prevention bills.
00:07:52.000In recent years, opioid appropriations have spanned the bureaucracy, including HHS, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the DOJ, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services alone has spent over $9 billion in recent years on these very issues.
00:08:12.000Through these useless bills and crazy appropriations, we've created task forces, we've mandated studies, we've sent countless tax dollars to continue pretending that lawmakers are actually looking for a solution to the problem.
00:08:26.000Maybe it's the lawmakers who are the problem. Because here we are. Our nation only grows sicker, more addicted. Tens of thousands of people die every year.
00:08:38.000Meanwhile, Congress is just chasing the dragon of failure. But the drug Congress is hooked on most is the most powerful known to mankind.
00:08:49.000But of all the drugs under God's blue heaven, there is one that is my absolute favorite. I'm talking about this.
00:08:57.000Corruption. Follow the money. The opioid market is big business and Congress gets its taste.
00:09:03.000Congress paved the way for the opioid crisis to attack our families and communities. Here's how.
00:09:09.000In 1914, the Harrison Narcotics Act regulated and taxed opiates and that raised the cost of entry to the market and extraneously created the cartel-esque opioid manufacturers.
00:09:21.000This is essentially the turn of the century precursors to the Sackler family.
00:09:26.000In 1970, the Controlled Substances Act clarified specific drugs into five categories.
00:09:32.000Notably, making marijuana and other psychedelics more illegal than hard drugs, such as the lethal opioid-based drug heroin.
00:09:41.000In 1986, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act established penalties for controlled substances, including mandatory minimums for opiates.
00:09:50.000This raised the black market value of heroin for prescription-starved pain relief patients.
00:09:56.000Through all this time, the federal government was authorizing and building a wall around opioid production.
00:10:03.000In this past decade, they've abruptly cut the supply with well-intentioned legislation that has caused a transitory opioid addiction crisis to fentanyl and heroin.
00:10:15.000Patients that have been over-prescribed and addicted to pain relief prescriptions then became the targets of the heroin dealers of Mexico and others in the black market,
00:10:26.000who have all become very rich during these changes in U.S. policy, by the way.
00:10:30.000If only the U.S. government weren't prohibited from researching the pain relief efficacy of marijuana for the last hundred years.
00:10:38.000So, that brings us to the mid-90s, the early 2000s regime, where encouraging and allowing patients unlimited access to opioids exploded this crisis.
00:10:50.000And Purdue Pharma, they were at the center of it.
00:10:52.000They owned and operated this system that really was the modern-day cartel of opioids.
00:11:55.000The fact remains that the main area that we can improve on, and the approach that's available to every doctor with a prescription pad,
00:12:04.000is just for us to do a better job of prescribing strong pain medications, and I mean opioids.
00:12:12.000The politicians cashed the checks, and the regulators got pharma-funded golden parachutes.
00:12:19.000A knee-jerk reaction has now, of course, occurred, making things even worse.
00:12:24.000Government regulation, prohibition, and other top-down approaches to controlling human behavior have always failed to control human behavior.
00:12:32.000As of last year, the overall opioid prescribing rate had fallen 48% since 2012.
00:15:23.000You see, Democrats have this opportunity right now to pass responsible marijuana reform and liberate this as an opportunity to address pain at a lower acuity.
00:15:36.000Instead, 57 bills fixated on opioids have been introduced in the 117th Congress.
00:15:44.000But we can't move a marijuana bill successfully.
00:15:47.000Now, while I don't call on the extinction of this opioid analgesic drug in hospitals for surgeries and relief from cancer-related pain,
00:15:55.000it is long past time to one, cut off the quality-of-life motivated prescriptions,
00:16:02.000and two, dedicate real resources to researching non-addictive alternatives.
00:16:08.000A Quinnipiac University national poll shows that nearly 90% of Americans support medical marijuana.
00:16:14.000A Pew poll finds that two-thirds of Americans support the full legalization of marijuana.
00:16:19.000Every Congress, there are countless bills introduced to end the federal prohibition on marijuana.
00:16:24.000Why is it still a Schedule I drug making it more illegal than opioids?
00:16:28.000Answer, the Democrats, particularly the Congressional Black Caucus.
00:16:33.000I think it's important that we support this bill by beginning to deschedule marijuana,
00:16:41.000working on these initiatives to make sure that the bill will add equity to minority communities,
00:16:50.000and ensuring that they have a voice in the growing industry as well.
00:16:54.000Because what I have also seen is that we have a tale of two Americas.
00:16:58.000On the one hand, we have a wealthy white business America that dominates the medical cannabis,
00:20:09.000So what was it like when you were there on the Oversight Committee questioning John Kerry and he, instead of responding to specific scientific data points, said you were not a serious person, said that you lacked sort of an understanding of science and data.
00:20:27.000Did that strike you as a bit condescending coming from, you know, a politician who essentially married wealthy in order to get a claim that, like, otherwise would never append a person like John Kerry?
00:20:39.000I wasn't personally offended, but his opening statements, he said when President Trump decides to listen to educated adults, then he might understand.
00:20:48.000And so that's when I looked into John Kerry's credentials and found out that he was indeed a scientist.
00:21:18.000So I think it's somewhat appropriate that somebody with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee today.
00:21:26.000Well, Thomas, I bring it up because it seems that the body doesn't always quite know how to deal with you because you are a data first person.
00:21:33.000You are on the front end of a lot of scientific issues that arise in the country.
00:21:38.000You served on the science committee where you focused on a lot of that stuff.
00:21:42.000And when COVID really started to become central to American consciousness, I remember very early you were one of the first to seek out an antibodies test because you wanted the data as to your own person and your own health.
00:21:57.000Do you mind sharing sort of how you made that decision and how you've lived as a consequence of that result?
00:22:03.000Oh, sure. Well, first of all, I asked people who get the vaccine because they want to save grandma and, you know, stop the spread of the disease.
00:22:10.000Did you go get an antibody test after you got the vaccine?
00:22:13.000Like if you're relying on this to save people's lives, did you spend the other 50 bucks to see if it worked?
00:22:18.000And of course, almost nobody does that. But I had an antibody test 18 months ago that came back positive with high levels of antibodies.
00:22:29.000And so I've been interested personally as to whether the vaccine improves on that immunity and how durable and long lasting is that immunity.
00:22:38.000And so when the vaccines were first approved by the FDA and then the CDC published a little short, little blurb, I noticed there was a typo in there.
00:22:52.000Of course, I characterized it as a typo. This is December of last year. We're a year later.
00:22:58.000And they said that the vaccine was 92 percent efficacious for those with evidence of prior infection.
00:23:04.000And whoa, that's a pretty tall claim. Let me go look at the data.
00:23:09.000And I looked at the data and it showed that it was minus seven percent efficacious for those.
00:23:14.000And where did you find that data from the FDA?
00:23:17.000So not some private group, not some obscure website, but from the federal government's own collected data.
00:23:24.000Yes. It's still there. The data is still there. You can go see.
00:23:28.000The remarkable thing is they really didn't have much data.
00:23:31.000There were 1,200 or 1,300 of the 30,000 who participated who had evidence of prior infection.
00:23:38.000And so they split almost evenly, showing that the vaccine really didn't have much of an effect at all for those people.
00:23:46.000And so I called up the CDC, the director here in Washington, D.C., and I said, I think I found a typo.
00:24:29.000Yeah, it's wash. So but we did the word was taken out and literally nobody had picked up on it, including us when we read the version that was published.
00:25:24.000And the reason this question was important was who do we prioritize in a period when the vaccines are limited?
00:25:30.000Should we give should we be giving them to 25 year olds who've already had COVID and recovered who work in the accounting department at a big hospital?
00:25:37.000Or should we be giving them to nursing home patients or or 60 year old retirees or whatever?
00:25:44.000And because in Kentucky, they were in short supply and they a month later, they the vaccines came out and they had refused to change it on their website.
00:25:53.000And they still I challenged them on it again.
00:26:00.000Explain to viewers why the federal government would purposefully maintain false information on their website that you have pointed out to them and which they have admitted is false.
00:26:13.000In the beginning, I tried to impart the best motives possible to them.
00:26:18.000Maybe they thought that people would think they already had COVID and without have had it getting a test.
00:26:25.000And why wouldn't they just fix something that's wrong on their website that they acknowledged was wrong and found by Eagle Eye Massey?
00:26:31.000Because the basic assumption is that Americans are stupid and that they are the the science there are and that there are such things as noble lies.
00:26:44.000If it's anything, the government's response to COVID is a series of noble lies with that have been reversed multiple times.
00:26:51.000So, well, I think that's a that's a very charitable.
00:26:54.000I'm trying to be charitable, but my charity ran out and they have caused people to die early on when there were limited numbers of vaccines available.
00:27:05.000And now because they refuse to recognize natural immunity, they're putting people at risk who don't need to be put at risk because any extra benefit that might come to somebody who's already been infected and recovered from the vaccine.
00:27:20.000And in most cases, I believe, is not out does not outweigh the risk that that person faces.
00:27:29.000What is your best analysis just of the data when you look at the effect of natural infection immunity versus the immunities that append to a regimen of vaccine?
00:27:39.000Well, you can go back and look at the original Pfizer data and the Moderna data, which is published, and then the Cleveland Clinic study, which has 50,000.
00:27:48.000I'm like, wow, do they even have 50,000 employees?
00:27:53.000They have 50,000 employees in their network and they showed that it was as durable or more durable.
00:27:59.000And then you've got like the whole nation of Israel, OK, as a study.
00:28:05.000And they've shown that it's more durable in Israel.
00:28:08.000Is there a single study that you're aware of that you've read and reviewed that shows that vaccination provides longer lasting, stronger immunity than natural infection?
00:30:44.000If there were, we'd be recognizing natural immunity, but it doesn't exist.
00:30:49.000But one one hire that's really paid off for Pfizer is to hire Scott Gottlieb, who's the former FDA director as to be on their board.
00:31:00.000And guess what? They are the only one of this is another thing that's not a conspiracy because you can go find it.
00:31:06.000It's on the CDC's website, but they're the only one who have full FDA approval.
00:31:11.000By the way, that vaccine is not available in the United States, according to CDC's website.
00:31:16.000But but I think that really is is the big grift here.
00:31:20.000We have so many influences from big pharma and no one has figured out how to make money off of natural infection immunity.
00:31:27.000If natural infection immunity resulted in some windfall profit to some industry, wouldn't it be more part of the discussion here in Washington?
00:31:36.000It would be. By the way, I talked to the CEO and some scientists of a company that has a conventional killed virus type vaccine.
00:31:46.000130 million doses of this have been given in India.
00:31:50.000They're trying to get the FDA to approve their vaccine in the United States and they're not having much luck.
00:31:57.000I said maybe you should hire a former FDA director.
00:32:01.000It seems to have worked out for Pfizer.
00:32:03.000And, you know, DERNA has some link to certainly worked out for them.
00:32:07.000You and I have constituents who are going to be driven out of the workforce.
00:32:12.000Yeah, going to be driven out of military service.
00:32:15.000I mean, you you are not on the Armed Services Committee, but you were really putting pedal to the metal on legislation to help our service members.
00:32:23.000Walk me through your thought process on the military, natural immunity and vaccine.
00:34:20.000Wow. Well, you know, I remember how compelling that legislation was to my constituents.
00:34:27.000And so during the National Defense Authorization markup, I took the framework of your legislation and I introduced it as an amendment to protect our military families.
00:34:36.000And I expected the Democrats to fight me.
00:34:40.000What I didn't expect is that the leading Republican on the Armed Services Committee, Congressman Mike Rogers of Alabama, would lead the debate against the amendment that you crafted that I introduced.
00:34:53.000How should we think about Republicans who are going along with the narrative from Dr.
00:35:00.000Fauci and the Biden regime and really big pharma that 100 percent vaccination ought to always be the goal and we ought to limit exemptions to the greatest degree possible?
00:35:10.000Well, you shouldn't really trust them with your life or your vote, in my opinion.
00:35:16.000We forced this vote in other committees.
00:35:19.000I'm on. Well, the Judiciary Committee, we had a vote on this to defund vaccine mandates, and we had a vote in Transportation Committee to defund vaccine passports and mandates.
00:35:31.000In every single instance, the Democrats voted for effectively for the mandates for the passports.
00:35:38.000But we I can't remember who. We had one or two defectors in there on the Republican side.
00:35:43.000But let me go a little bit further. How did Biden seek to promulgate and enforce?
00:35:49.000Who was his army going to be for the three vaccine mandates that have been ruled out by the courts?
00:35:54.000He was going to weaponize the OSHA. Right.
00:35:58.000He was in other agencies within the government, the contracting federal contracting process.
00:36:04.000He was going to weaponize that he was going to weaponize CMS.
00:36:08.000And so anybody who thinks that we can pet the rattlesnake when we're in the majority and feed it, which are these agencies, that they will be kind to us if we feed them.
00:36:20.000OK, better remember that nobody at those agencies told Joe Biden, hey, you're asking us to do something that's unconstitutional and illegal on its face.
00:36:30.000They just complied and they were gleefully and happily going to subjugate the American people and make them lose their jobs.
00:36:37.000And a lot of people already have. Well, I'm concerned that that problem is actually getting worse because I know people who are liberty minded,
00:36:45.000constitutionally oriented, who serve in these agencies, who are having to leave federal service as a consequence of not complying with a vaccine mandate.
00:36:53.000People who believe that as a consequence of their natural infection immunity, the vaccine presents only risk for them. Right.
00:37:00.000And so I worry that the administrative state is becoming more monolithic, not less and becoming more threatening to our liberties.
00:37:07.000And on that point, Thomas, there was a moment in your time in Congress that was behind closed doors, that was with our colleagues that I remember.
00:37:17.000And it was so true. You stood up when a group of people in our party were trying to drive you out of Congress, were trying to support other candidates against you.
00:37:26.000And you said there are a lot of Americans who wouldn't be Republicans if I wasn't a member of the Republican conference.
00:37:34.000And it's because you embody, I think, you know, a a traditional embrace of constitutional principles that people are attracted to, even if they aren't Republicans.
00:37:45.000Could you could you explain that sentiment, the notion that you bring something to the party that we wouldn't be able to to sort of claim as our space in the absence of your contribution?
00:37:55.000I feel like what I bring is a mirror and I try to hold it up to everybody and say, OK, look at yourselves.
00:38:02.000What did you campaign on and what are you doing here?
00:38:05.000And if the American people could see what we're doing here behind closed doors, would they vote for your reelection?
00:38:12.000Like, that's the question you need to ask yourself. I remember a moment on the floor of the House where one of our Republican colleagues came down and was just berating Marjorie Taylor Greene for asking for a vote, for having the audacity to put things on record.
00:38:29.000And he's he said, I know you're trying to do the right thing, but you need to consider this.
00:38:35.000And I and I interrupted and I said, if your constituents could see what you're doing right here, they would be highly upset.
00:38:42.000And he went off on me. He said, I'll worry about my district. You worry about yours.
00:38:46.000I said, well, what you're telling Marjorie, go down to the microphone and say it for the world to hear and see how that works out for you.
00:38:53.000Hmm. Yeah, we always get more candid conversation, sometimes off the mics than on them.
00:38:58.000But that's what we change here on Firebrand.
00:39:00.000The controversy you've been in recently is about something like a Christmas card.
00:39:06.000And here's what I think a lot of folks don't know.
00:39:09.000You did not originally have the intention to have a firearm Christmas card.
00:39:14.000But the Massey family actually has firearms around.
00:39:18.000You live in a rural part of Kentucky. Firearms are sort of a part of life.
00:39:22.000So maybe just tell us, how does the Massey family think about firearms?
00:39:26.000And do you view them as solely this tool of destruction?
00:39:29.000Or is there maybe just a more modest approach to this type of life that a lot of Americans wouldn't understand?
00:39:35.000Well, first of all, we live in a place where there are like three sheriff's deputies to cover hundreds of square miles.
00:39:42.000Everything's been adjudicated by the time the police show up.
00:39:45.000OK, so you've got to keep that in mind.
00:40:57.000I'm hungry just when you mentioned Canterbury.
00:40:59.000I made me want one of those chocolate eggs.
00:41:01.000But I think what a lot of people in my district saw through that is that firearms are not in and of themselves some deeply offensive thing to other people.
00:41:11.000You know, a family that is well versed on firearm safety and on the basic practices that allow you to protect your property, protect your home, that those things are not viewed as confrontational in rural America.
00:41:27.000Whereas I really think in some of these, you know, sort of, you know, ivory towers of elitism, they thought that you meant some offense by that.
00:41:35.000No. And it's it's here's what I take objection to is this idea that you should be ashamed that you have guns.
00:41:42.000Right. Look, we you can see in the picture, we're all exercising excellent trigger discipline.
00:41:49.000Everybody in the family knows how to use those, how to shoot them and how to shoot them safely and knows what the consequences of using one are.
00:41:57.000It's just it's part of our culture and we shouldn't be drummed out of society for having this as part of our culture.
00:42:04.000And no, gun owners don't mean harm to others simply by owning guns.
00:43:09.000I have been suspended for a couple of tweets.
00:43:11.000This may be the episode that gets Firebrand pulled off of YouTube.
00:43:15.000We're principally a rumble and anchor system, but this could be the one.
00:43:19.000But I tell you what, it shouldn't be threatening or frightening to people to simply look at data regarding what the government is telling us
00:43:27.000to ensure that that matches with what they've told us previously.
00:43:30.000And I'm sure glad to fight alongside you for folks who simply want the science that informs natural immunity
00:43:36.000to be part of our public policy approach to combating this virus.
00:43:42.000So appreciate what you do and hope you're driving the Republican message and our ideology for quite some time.
00:43:49.000Amen. That's what I'll do and I'll keep the party honest just like you.
00:46:36.000And many share, share, share horrible stories of lacking adequate medical treatment.
00:46:40.000They're keeping this elderly gentleman in jail.
00:46:43.000You look at his hand and it's obviously dark.
00:46:50.000Looks like it's going toward gray or black.
00:46:54.000You know, that's normally leading toward amputation when it gets that bad.
00:47:00.000But they haven't given him proper medical care.
00:47:03.000Another inmate had his finger going just sideways at the last joint.
00:47:09.000He said it was broken by one of the guards and they won't allow him to get medical care for that.
00:47:15.000There are just all kinds of things there.
00:47:17.000And to be clear, it's not just the inmates that have suffered.
00:47:22.000As Marjorie and I toured the D.C. jail, some of the conditions were so astounding.
00:47:29.000I asked more than one guard, have you ever worked in a facility that had these kind of problems?
00:47:40.000And quietly they would say, never, no.
00:47:44.000Leave it to the political activists masquerading as news anchors at CNN to miss this point in the most spectacularly stupid of ways.
00:47:53.000Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, among those who had a press conference,
00:47:58.000they wanted to defend, defend the people charged in the insurrection saying they were being treated unfairly.
00:48:04.000And at that event, Congressman Gaetz went on to say that he still likes the idea of Donald Trump as speaker if the Republicans were the majority.
00:48:11.000So they poke their own leadership and they just say things that, forgive me, are not American,
00:48:16.000not patriotic about defending people who stormed the Capitol building.
00:48:19.000That was CNN's John King, and he is clearly an imbecile.
00:48:24.000I didn't even bring up Trump as speaker.
00:48:26.000A reporter asked me about it and I responded honestly.
00:48:29.000And frankly, Speaker Trump has a great ring to it.
00:48:33.000And you see that it just triggers them into these frantic false allegations.
00:48:41.000Pardon me, but I don't take lectures on patriotism from a network that peddled the Russia hoax for years.
00:48:48.000Only to then hire some of the greatest affront to patriotism in our time, Andrew McCabe and James Clapper.
00:48:56.000Andrew McCabe repeatedly told lies about his media leaks and political activity when he was questioned by the Department of Justice's Inspector General.
00:49:06.000In fact, the greatest threats to our nation, liars like Clapper and McCabe, they benefit directly, financially, from the corrupt, unpatriotic revolving door between the deep state and CNN.
00:49:21.000CNN says we are unpatriotic for demanding the fair application of constitutional rights to all Americans, regardless of politics.
00:49:31.000Nothing could be more patriotic than that.
00:49:35.000CNN is far more dangerous to America than anyone who traveled to Washington, D.C. on January 6th, from the left or the right.