The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 24 - Defund US Soccer. Stand with Tucker Carlson. Chinese Disinformation Campaigns Flood Twitter.

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. This is Congressman Matt Gaetz.

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00:00:27.040 Let's talk about the news. Today, the news has me triggered.

00:00:31.620 The U.S. Soccer Board of Directors voted yesterday to repeal policy 64-01,

00:00:37.860 which required our players to stand during the national anthem.

00:00:41.920 I just could not believe this when I saw it.

00:00:45.220 This is the U.S. national soccer team making the decision that the soccer players who play

00:00:51.300 underneath our flag do not have to stand for it as it is being presented.

00:00:56.260 Now, I'll just go ahead and tell you from the outset, I don't like soccer enough for

00:01:02.160 the U.S. to even have a soccer team if that soccer team is going to disrespect our anthem 0.99

00:01:07.380 and our flag. It is not like some essential thing that we have to have if lashed to the

00:01:13.780 U.S. soccer team is this sense of such extreme wokeness that we cannot be proud of the United

00:01:21.080 States while wearing the uniform of the United States. And I think this is very distinct from

00:01:27.020 like the NFL player kneeling thing, right? Because as much as I oppose that and don't

00:01:33.040 like it and find it an overgeneralized indictment of the country and wholly unproductive, at least

00:01:39.580 those are private people working for a private company in a private league who absolutely have

00:01:46.260 the First Amendment right to do whatever the heck they want to do so long as it doesn't hurt

00:01:50.260 anyone else. And obviously, kneeling doesn't hurt anyone else. It's offensive speech. But

00:01:54.940 offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment. Remember, the First Amendment doesn't exist

00:01:59.940 to protect us from safe speech. It exists to protect the speech that may make us uncomfortable

00:02:06.620 and particularly political speech. So the kneeling gives the NFL players the right to express that

00:02:13.660 speech, however uncomfortable or unsavory as I may find it. And I have the right, if I don't like it,

00:02:19.000 not to go to an NFL game, not to buy a ticket ever again. But the U.S. national team, I mean,

00:02:24.800 that does actually get support from the U.S. government. Matter of fact, it was Senator Manchin

00:02:30.700 who introduced legislation at the federal level to attempt to leverage and compel equal payment

00:02:37.360 for the female members of the women's soccer team as for the male members of the male soccer team.

00:02:43.660 And so if we can compel equal pay, I certainly think we have the right to compel that our 0.66

00:02:50.100 national team stand for the national anthem. And you know what? If those players have a desire to

00:02:56.040 share their concerns about police brutality, make their opinion known, wrap themselves in the

00:03:03.080 woke-topia, declare allegiance to the Capitol Hill zone of Seattle, whatever they want to do,

00:03:09.900 it's unequivocally their right to do that. But while our anthem is playing, while you serve on

00:03:16.560 the team, I think there is an obligation to respect our country. In the coming days, I will be introducing

00:03:22.300 legislation to compel U.S. soccer to reverse the decision they made to repeal policy 604-1.

00:03:30.340 If players are playing for our national team, they should respect the honor that that bestows.

00:03:35.540 They should stand for the anthem. They should respect our flag. If we love America,

00:03:40.700 we would expect and deserve and demand no less.

00:03:45.840 Natalie Winters at the National Pulse again breaking news regarding China. Breaking Twitter

00:03:52.300 admits China used nearly 200,000 fake accounts to influence politics, 150 times more than Russia.

00:03:59.940 So you'll remember when Democrats and their allies in the fake news media were telling you that

00:04:06.080 American democracy just could not withstand 1,200 Russian bots tweeting out nonsense for rallies and

00:04:14.700 get-togethers that like would draw 11 people. But here you've got China with 200,000 bots according

00:04:22.620 to this report that you can go and link to through Natalie's story on the National Pulse.

00:04:27.360 But I mean, my goodness, they're out there spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus,

00:04:33.640 trying to run down the Trump administration's response, doing everything they can to elevate

00:04:39.520 the messaging coming out of the Joe Biden campaign. So if, you know, the Democrats were so worried

00:04:47.020 about the 1,200 fake Russian accounts, I hope they'll join in being just as outraged and just as

00:04:53.920 a speaker to get to the bottom of why there are 200,000 Chinese accounts that are trying

00:04:58.600 to influence our democracy potentially to help Joe Biden because they know that Sleepy Joe

00:05:05.000 will not be tough on them the way Donald Trump has. And it's easy to understand why they might

00:05:09.580 have that view of any president other than Donald Trump, because Donald Trump is the first American

00:05:14.480 president in my lifetime to fundamentally understand China and confront China and put our generation 0.93

00:05:21.520 in a position to beat China. Too woke for facial recognition success. Two major companies, Amazon and

00:05:31.400 Microsoft, both announcing that they will not engage in facial recognition technology transfers to law

00:05:38.260 enforcement for a period of one year. The Amazon story we find in Axios from Orion Rumler. And Amazon

00:05:46.320 saying that originally they had hoped that this technology would be able to sort of be utilized

00:05:52.060 across all different kind of folks. But there was a federal study that found that facial recognition

00:05:57.400 systems offered by Amazon, Microsoft and IBM largely failed to identify people of color, predominantly Asians

00:06:05.440 and African Americans. Amazon did not submit its algorithm to the study per the Washington Post.

00:06:11.160 So here I think there's a chance in the facial recognition game that the game you're watching may not actually be

00:06:19.040 the game that's being played. If you look at one of the fastest growing companies in America right now, it's

00:06:24.680 Clearview. They have facial recognition software that seems to be an improvement, an advancement over what you've got

00:06:32.340 at Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and they are deploying it at rapid scale. Now, I think that raises a number of public policy

00:06:39.580 questions about whether or not facial recognition software should be commercial, whether or not it should

00:06:44.620 be law enforcement only. Are there civil rights concerns? Is there a notice requirement that should

00:06:50.060 exist? Should there be some preemption so that you don't have different types of facial recognition

00:06:54.860 systems in every jurisdiction across the country? So these are all very legitimate questions to ask.

00:07:01.360 And I just don't think that like retreating to our wokeness and saying, oh, well, because we think there may be

00:07:07.500 some racial disparity, we're not going to do anything for a year. I don't know that that is really what's

00:07:12.880 best for our country. And I certainly think it's not realistic because in China, they're not taking a year

00:07:19.960 pause. They're not limiting their deployment. Matter of fact, they're utilizing their progress in AI and

00:07:26.020 machine learning to accelerate the pace of their facial recognition software. It's one of the reasons why

00:07:32.200 they're able to keep so many people oppressed is because they've got these technological advancements.

00:07:37.580 Now, you know, we don't want our government to have the ability to do that, but we sure as heck

00:07:42.380 don't want China to be the leading government that then becomes the purveyor of this technology and that

00:07:47.860 then develops the doctrine on its utilization globally among our allies and perhaps even with some

00:07:54.620 partners in the United States. I mean, we've seen how China gets their tech into police stations

00:07:59.460 through drone technology. You know, if we retard the U.S. development of tech, does that mean at some 0.77

00:08:06.140 point down the road, there's a greater likelihood that if there is some great need for like pandemic

00:08:11.660 contact tracing or something like that, that then it creates a vacuum filled by China. So if you've got 0.98

00:08:17.620 an America first view of tech development, even if you've got concerns about the technology, it's probably

00:08:24.200 better to answer those concerns rather than to kick the can down the road. Remember, I talked on a

00:08:29.120 prior podcast about kicking the can down the road being sort of the Bill Clinton strategy on space,

00:08:34.660 that if we didn't militarize space or engage in that practice, that somehow it would slow that from

00:08:42.100 being an objective of other nations. And the reality was that we are seeing a capability gap

00:08:49.260 close in space because we allowed our adversaries to catch up when it was such a uniquely American

00:08:57.560 achievement to get to space and to be successful in expanding the final frontier. And yet we've

00:09:04.120 allowed that gap to close because we didn't engage in the fight with great vigor. We don't want to see

00:09:09.280 that happen with machine learning, AI, 5G, facial recognition. That's why I think we need to develop

00:09:15.680 the capabilities, develop the doctrine, ensure it's consistent with our values. But just the fact that

00:09:21.720 Amazon and IBM and Microsoft may be pulling out of this space, maybe that doesn't mean that it's some

00:09:27.900 great moral reflection. It may just be that they're getting beat by Clearview and that Clearview is

00:09:33.980 rapidly deploying around the country. So let's have that national conversation. Let's not just concede

00:09:39.660 the game to China. This show is hot takes, but I've got a cold take for you. Ben and Jerry's launches new

00:09:48.660 anti-Trump ice cream called Pecan Resist. This is a story I found in People from Maura Homan. And yeah,

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00:10:12.500 A deliberately diverse mix. It will be available at participating scoop shops nationwide and on their

00:10:19.480 website for $6.99. The Pecan Resist from Ben and Jerry's. I stand with Tucker Carlson. That was the

00:10:29.500 hashtag trending last night and early this morning on Twitter. And I stand with Tucker Carlson. No take

00:10:36.160 was hotter than his last night on his show. So much so that six major advertisers are now boycotting

00:10:42.280 Tucker Carlson tonight. One of the greatest shows on television, if not the greatest show on television.

00:10:47.440 Disney, T-Mobile, Smile Direct Club, Papa John's, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, and Vary have all said

00:10:53.880 they will no longer advertise on Tucker Carlson's show. That is a report from thisweek.com.

00:10:59.500 Soon after this monologue. This may be a lot of things, this moment we're living through, but it

00:11:04.540 is definitely not about black lives. And remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, 0.89

00:11:09.960 they will. Anyone who's ever been subjected to the rage of the mob knows the feeling. It's like being

00:11:15.200 swarmed by hornets. You cannot think clearly. And the temptation is to panic, but you can't panic.

00:11:21.120 You've got to keep your head and tell the truth. Tell the truth. If you show weakness of any kind,

00:11:26.360 they will crush you. Ask Drew Brees. By some accounts, poor Drew Brees is on his fourth

00:11:31.560 apology for the crime of defending the American flag. He decided to apologize, another using him

00:11:37.860 as a propaganda organ. Hostage tape after hostage tape. At a moment like this, there is no advantage

00:11:43.720 in cowardice, in being Mitt Romney. You think you're saving yourself. You're just empowering the worst

00:11:49.300 people, people who hate you. Before you know it, you're confessing to crimes you didn't commit.

00:11:53.780 Don't start. Tell the truth. And the truth is, this is a good country, better than any other. Of course,

00:11:59.420 we are flawed, but we are trying, unlike most places, and we have nothing to be ashamed of,

00:12:03.920 none of us. Immigrants know that best of all, that's why they come here. A million new Americans

00:12:08.380 every year. They're not coming because America is a racist country. They're coming because it's not. 0.92

00:12:14.060 That's all true. And in our clear moments, we know it's true. Even the people claiming it's not.

00:12:20.440 Truth is a defense, no matter what they're telling you at this moment. This moment will pass. Remember

00:12:25.540 that, all moments do. When it does, we will look back at what we just saw in a horror and disbelief.

00:12:31.980 But if you're honest now, you will keep your dignity, and ultimately, you will be very glad about that.

00:12:38.660 Life is not worth living without it. When it comes to the riots and the destruction of

00:12:43.720 property, and the taking of city blocks to hold in some warlord status, Tucker Carlson is absolutely

00:12:50.520 right. This is not about racial injustice. This is about a permanent criminal element that is

00:12:56.700 utilizing chaos to try to seize power. And it is grotesque, and no element of our government should

00:13:03.760 allow it. This is not the conduct of a great nation. And I appreciate Tucker Carlson's voice on

00:13:09.300 television, and I absolutely stand with Tucker Carlson.

00:13:15.100 One of the interesting elements of the upcoming debate on criminal justice reform and police reform

00:13:22.060 will be the treatment of unions, police unions. And I just want to get into why this is a little bit

00:13:28.640 politically sticky, and why it might actually lead to an opportunity for some bipartisan consensus

00:13:34.480 in a productive way. So police unions traditionally have trended democratic. Republican reform efforts

00:13:41.560 have gone after the way in which unions are funded. That is typically opposed by police unions, teachers

00:13:48.380 unions, public sector employee unions, and they donate to pro-labor Democrat candidates. But with the

00:13:56.780 political realignment really reflected by Donald Trump's election, you have started to see more of these

00:14:02.900 police unions trending Republican. And they've trended Republican at the same time as a lot of Democrat

00:14:09.620 voices have become more shrill against the police. It's not any Republican group out there calling to

00:14:16.480 defund the police right now. Those are left-wing groups. They're funded by people like George Soros,

00:14:22.500 who are the very left-wing funding sources for many of the candidates for public office. And we covered

00:14:28.600 the Soros connection specifically to a tweet about defunding police in an earlier episode that you can check

00:14:34.920 out. So with that as the mantra of the left, police unions who as a consequence of kind of their, their

00:14:41.080 brotherhood and sisterhood with other unions, organized democratically, sometimes donate

00:14:47.400 democratically, but their members are trending more and more Republican. So how will this play out in the context of the

00:14:55.240 debate over police reform? Well, the allegation has been made, and it was the subject of a lot of discussion

00:15:01.320 among the Republicans on judiciary in a lot of our closed door meetings. Police unions do at times protect

00:15:08.520 the incompetent, the abusive, the members of the force that receive the most frequent complaints, maybe

00:15:16.440 not as a consequence of the profile of work that they do, but maybe as a consequence of how they do that

00:15:21.080 work. And if the police unions are too strong, if they never lose, if they always win in the defense

00:15:27.800 of an accused officer, well then that's not really justice for the accuser. Just as if unions and

00:15:35.720 defense for labor and opportunity for labor to come together in some sort of an organizing capacity,

00:15:43.400 if that is not allowed, then you could see whistleblowers really targeted. I mean, there are

00:15:48.440 police and law enforcement entities in the country where a whistleblower will step up and accuse a

00:15:54.600 fellow officer of misconduct, of abuse, of assault, of excessive use of force. And if there's no union

00:16:03.240 to protect some of those, that can also create the perverse dynamic. So how do we strike that balance,

00:16:08.360 where unions are not so strong that it creates this element of the permanent bad cop that gets shuffled

00:16:15.480 from one force to the next, while at the same time, not decimating the ability to have some protection

00:16:22.520 for those who are making a legitimate claim. So very intricate policy issue. It's got a political

00:16:28.280 sensitivities to it. It's one I'm researching and seeking feedback on if you've got any hot takes or

00:16:33.640 good ideas. Thanks for listening. This has been Congressman Matt Gaetz. Be sure to leave us a five-star

00:16:39.960 review and a comment or suggestion or even a criticism. I love your hot takes and I hope you'll be back

00:16:45.480 tomorrow for mine.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - June 12, 2020

Episode 24 - Defund US Soccer. Stand with Tucker Carlson. Chinese Disinformation Campaigns Flood Twitter.

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