Episode 3 - Pelosi's Wish List Bill, Flynn Saga, Burr’s and Loeffler’s Stock Trades
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In this episode of Hot Takes, we discuss the Coronavirus legislation proposed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi of the far-left wing of her party, the $500 billion coronavirus bill she has proposed for the states and the $25 billion she wants to spend on the United States Postal Service. We also give updates on the Flynn case and we talk about what s going on to hold senators accountable who were involved in a stock sell-off that I do not believe was patriotic and may have been illegal.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes this is congressman matt gates let's talk about the news and the big
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news of the day is that nancy pelosi has a coronavirus bill not one she negotiated with
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the president or the administration not one that republicans were involved in but really a liberal
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wish list of policy and spending i'll also give updates on the latest in the general flynn case
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and we'll talk about what's going on to hold senators accountable who were engaged in a stock
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sell-off that i do not believe was patriotic and may not have been legal but first let's talk about
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coronavirus legislation republicans have been calling for some time to return to the congress
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to get to work to make sure that the funds that we've already appropriated and printed are actually
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getting to the american businesses and to the american people who need provision in this time
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of great crisis but instead of doing that nancy pelosi in the far left wing of her party have
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drafted legislation that really is going nowhere in the senate but it shows what they're fighting for
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and i think that's important in in this time when our nation needs to draw together and meet big
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challenges uh solve our public health crisis reinvigorate our economy work to re-domesticate
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our manufacturing supply chain so that we're more resilient in the future in a time when we need that
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here's what the democrats have proposed a whole lot of spending first of all in this last legislation
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uh or in this next legislation i should say nancy pelosi has proposed half a trillion dollars
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for state governments that's half a trillion dollars now look i don't mind floridians and arizonans and
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texans and everyone else stepping forward to help our fellow americans no matter where they live
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deal with the coronavirus but what's happening in this half a trillion dollar bailout is that nancy pelosi
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is asking americans all over the country to now bail out states that had problems well before coronavirus i mean
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new york state had like a six billion dollar budget deficit before coronavirus california had budget woes
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before coronavirus and i just think it's a little insulting to say like hey you know uh california they've
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got enough money to give free health care to illegal aliens apparently while we still have americans who are
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working to get their own health care but somehow they expect this massive bailout that's in the legislation
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proposed by nancy pelosi go figure you know in the state of new york uh i think that their structural
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pension problems their structural debt problems the way they fund infrastructure all could look a lot
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more like florida and put new york in a stronger position and i don't necessarily believe that northwest
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floridians floridians folks from states where we've had responsible spending should necessarily have
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to come forward and fork over the cash to places like like illinois where uh where they've clearly
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failed well before coronavirus to institute policies that put their people first there's also 350 billion
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dollars direct to local governments uh again a whole lot of money not a lot of accountability we
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haven't had hearings on this we haven't heard from local governments regarding utilization it's just a way
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for nancy pelosi to fork over cash to these large urban centers and to these mayors that are
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politically uh more aligned with democrats in most of the cases where i think this 350 billion dollars
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is going to be uh going to be spent 25 billion dollars for the united states postal service i mean it's
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almost like in this bill nancy pelosi has there's not an institution that they haven't sought to bail out
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i don't know why necessarily the coronavirus would result in the need to go and give 25 billion
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dollars to the postal service obviously we want our postal workers to be secure in their safety with
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protective equipment we want to make sure that we have the right uh cleaning apparatus but what this
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looks like instead is um is just a way to shuttle cash to a government enterprise that largely gets
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beat by the private sector uh in in its various functions and in its uh in its applicability and
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value to the american people and and if anything i've observed folks are shipping stuff more so i don't
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know that we really have evidence that the united states postal service has suffered a 25 billion
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dollar loss as a result of coronavirus but nonetheless we see pelosi trying to fork over that that cash but
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it's not you know it's not just the the big ticket items on these things sometimes it's it's even the
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smaller amounts of money that just absolutely get in your craw like 25 million bucks in this bill
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for migrant farm workers like what is there something that has fundamentally changed about the way we grow
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crops in coronavirus if there is i guess i'm open-minded but i'd sure like to have hearings about that
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would like to learn about why but no without explanation without rationale migrant farm workers
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just get 25 million bucks but it's not just the spending in this bill there's some actual policy
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choices the legislation makes that really have nothing to do with coronavirus they have a lot to do with
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socially engineering our country toward a leftist view so let let me break down one of i think the
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worst sections of the bill the amnesty section they call this departure delay i guess that's the new
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leftist code for amnesty so get used to hearing it departure delay if you search in the pelosi
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coronavirus bill for departure delay you will find a provision that says that so long as someone was in
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this country by january 26th 2020 that they are not here unlawfully that we simply declare that if you got
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here by january 26 2020 that is not unlawful you are here now one there is the obvious fact that that is
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offensive to the rule of law it is offensive to the work of our border patrol even the notion of of having a
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country but i think even more dangerously this sets an absurd precedent that like whenever our nation is in a
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time of crisis that instead of providing care for our people instead of putting americans first that we
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lurch toward this notion of saying well you know if you're not an american but you're here we're just
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going to say that like you don't have to worry about how you got here we're just going to say that's all
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okay i mean is that is that what's going to happen in the next crisis is that what's going to happen in
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the next economic downturn we cannot allow this to happen as republicans it's not enough just to vote
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against this legislation we have to get out and explain to the american people that there are two
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different sides fighting for two different things the republicans are fighting for american workers
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american businesses americans who've been displaced and ultimately we want the american experience to
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come back in the most vibrant way possible meanwhile on the left they're worried about securing their
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ability to win elections forever reorienting the nature of our immigration policies and finding every
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possible excuse to dump cash on political allies in various big states and big municipalities so
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big problem departure delay make sure i i call on my republican colleagues to get the information out
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about how devastating that would be to our country but there's more in the amnesty policy choices in
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the bill the legislation says that the illegal aliens who are in ice detention just need to get
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released on their own recognizance ror catch and release i mean it's it's it's catch and release
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covid style in this legislation i mean the people that we have in ice detention americans paid border
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patrol ice folks to go and make these apprehensions someone actually spent the time to ensure that
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that we found these folks and that we were able to have some accounting of who came in and out of the
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country but you know just to release them on their own recognizance is the democrat plan and
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is there anyone who really thinks once we release these people that like we're going to see them back
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for some judicial proceeding a judicial process of course not of course not it's just a way for them
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to make their case on on immigration uh but it's not just the amnesty provisions uh that offend our
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our views on immigration it's also what they're going to do with some of the money the nancy pelosi
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coronavirus legislation includes within it stimulus direct payments to illegal aliens this is crazy to me
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we should secure the economic future and the economic standing of every single american before we spend
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the first dollar giving really an incentive for people to come here illegally so think about it the
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the republican plan is show up our businesses our people our economy and get ready for the great american
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relaunch the democrat plan is incite people over with amnesty if they happen to be caught release them
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and then give them cash as a result of having been here it it really is a surrender by nancy pelosi
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to the most radical wings of her party who don't believe in borders who don't believe in even having
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a department of homeland security or ice beyond illegal immigration there are other bad policy choices made
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in pelosi's bill there's a pretty substantial jailbreak i mean if people are uh older inmates if they
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are in certain conditions there's a part of this bill that lets them out without any bond just to
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just to walk the streets we've already seen circumstances where these coronavirus jailbreaks
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have resulted in attempted murder stabbings rapes so i want to see less jailbreak as a result of
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coronavirus not more jailbreak that's what the democrats are fighting for they've also got an element
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of this bill that federalizes elections that requires 15 days of early voting and creates a
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federal vote by mail system now there's been a lot of talk about vote by mail and i want to spend a
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little time on this here if you are a vote by mail voter when you hear the president talk about voter
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fraud or challenges of vote by mail he's not talking about the fact that if you send in your ballot
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that there is a chance that it will not be counted or that it will be subject to fraud there was an
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mit study that i cited on television as having really laid out the probability of fraud being higher
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in a vote by mail setting here's the clip where i make that argument what i can say for those who
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choose to vote by mail is that there's a low risk that their vote will be tampered with so people who
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want to vote by mail should but in states that expand their vote by mail there is a belief that
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there will be an increased opportunity for fraud mit professors have done studies that show that vote
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by mail actually has the highest propensity of fraud when compared to in-person voting or early voting so
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again if you're a vote by mail voter you can have confidence in your vote being counted here's where the
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fraud comes in there are organizations and institutions that go out and create fake voter registration
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for people that are dead for people that have moved for people who were never alive and then when those
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ballots get mailed out the value of a real voters vote can be diluted because when someone doesn't have to
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show up in person and you know maybe check an id or have some some rationalizing of their identity and their
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ballot you've got the opportunity for massive amounts of fraud and so that's why i think that you know in
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states like florida where we've got a pretty sound election infrastructure for the most part now that
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governor de santa's fired the people that didn't know what they were doing down south florida you know
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we've got that i think we've got a secure vote by mail system uh when people submit their votes but i do
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think that going to a federalized election system limits the ability of states to have robust enforcement
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to have security of the ballot box and to ensure that the people who are chosen by the voters actually
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there's another provision of pelosi's coronavirus bill which actually seeks to undo provisions of the
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republican tax cut legislation that created the strongest economy in the history of the united states an
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economy so strong that we were really charging toward new heights and new ambitions as a nation
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before this invisible enemy attacked us so here's the provision they want to change it used to be the
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case before the republican tax bill that if you got a really high uh local tax assessment or a really high
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state tax assessment that you could deduct your state and local taxes off of your federal tax liability
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so for a lot of folks that meant that the sting of a local government or a state government taxing you
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to a high degree could be diminished as a consequence of that write-off we did away with that write-off when
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we were in power and the reason we did is that we wanted to create broad-based tax cuts for every
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american and the state and local tax deduction could only really be realized by people who were from high
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tax states or high tax local government so in an effort to create broader lower taxes for everyone
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we did away with that uh deduction or we substantially reformed it in a way that that that functionally
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changed the math on it that has resulted in a tremendous amount of flight away from blue high tax states
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to red low tax states right i mean why in the hell would you stay in connecticut or new jersey or new york
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with incredibly high taxes that you can no longer deduct when you could move to florida which i'm
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very proud to say is the lowest per capita state taxes in america and i take some pride in that as
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the former ways and means finance and tax chairman in the state legislature so low tax states like
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arizona texas florida georgia south carolina they were seeing great benefit as a result of this reform
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in our laws that the republicans instituted and now so that high tax states can continue to be high
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tax states without feeling the result of people voting by their feet and leaving nancy pelosi wants
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to repeal our reforms to the state and local tax system i oppose that as a floridian i oppose it as
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an american who wants to see lower taxes some weird stuff's happening in the michael flynn case
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judge emmett sullivan is refusing to allow the case to be resolved despite the fact that
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the government the department of justice wants to drop charges based on the recent revelations that
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the pursuit of michael flynn was not the pursuit of justice it was the pursuit of a setup i mean the
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whole goal of the fbi and then subsequently the muller probe was to create leverage with people
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around president trump with the hopes that one of them would flip on president trump and lie about him
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and say something that wasn't true when in fact he was innocent the whole time so the department of
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justice realizes that the deal was a setup it's their hope intent to have this case resolved and over
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with and allow michael flynn to get on with his life and weirdly the judge in the case emmett
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sullivan creates this delay to allow third parties so not the government not general flynn but i guess
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just intermeddlers about the country to file amicus briefs i've practiced law i've been involved in
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criminal litigation and civil litigation and i gotta tell you i have never once seen this i have never
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seen a circumstance in a criminal matter where the judge essentially invites third parties to opine
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on the status of the resolution of a criminal case i mean i i don't even know if that's
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constitutional i think it's certainly out of the ordinary and in a case where there's been so much
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out of the ordinary with the setup of michael flynn you would think and hope that the judge would
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accept the government's desire to not have this prosecution continue any further so we'll follow
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that very closely but certainly suffice it to say very very strange
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finally some news today in the senate stock sell-off story those who've been following my
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social media and television appearances know that i'm sickened by the notion that it would be either
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republicans or democrats taking advantage of a crisis to protect their own losses while not being
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straight and honest with the american people so we saw a number of republicans and democrats implicated
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in this whether it was diane feinstein or chairman richard burr or the georgia senator who was recently
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appointed kelly loffler i don't think every fact pattern is the same i don't think everybody necessarily
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deserves to be in the same bucket but it's kelly loffler senator from georgia making some news today
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against uh senator loffler was not elected to this position she was appointed by the governor of georgia
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uh fox business reporters charlie gasparino and linda moynihan are reporting that loffler is taking a
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very proactive approach to the policy side of this she is going to the sec the securities and exchange
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commissions and seeking some sort of green light from them that she was innocent she rather than
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awaiting the judgment of the media she's trying to get some affirmative finding or ruling that she did
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not direct these stock sales that she did not use insider information and that uh that she ought to be in
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the clear i suspect perhaps that one reason why senator loffler is taking this approach is that she is
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certainly trailing in the polls to congressman doug collins who i worked with on a lot of these
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impeachment matters on the house judiciary committee and who i know quite well so we'll see whether or
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not uh the sec is going to give senator loffler the the green light that she so eagerly seeks but it's a
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different story with senator burr senator richard burr is quintessential washington i've been there for a long
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time kind of played by washington's rules became the chairman of the senate intelligence committee
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on february 13th senator burr basically liquidates his stock portfolio all the same time he wrote an
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op-ed on foxnews.com saying america's ready for this virus this is you know essentially downplaying
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the impact that this would have on markets and the economy and people's lives so it's like
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telling the american people one thing and then doing something else recently the new news is that
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pro publica is reporting that senator burr's brother-in-law on the same day that senator burr
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liquidates his portfolio uh has a bunch of stock sell-offs as well so hey only senator burr and his
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brother-in-law know whether or not there are any communications between the two of them either directly
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or through intermediaries and if if there are um you know that that is going to be some really
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damning evidence in a potential criminal investigation of senator burr and by the way
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we already know based on reporting that the fbi is investigating senator burr for potential insider
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trading now why is that so damning well it's because senator burr is the chairman of the senate
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intelligence committee so right now we have the the person that is supposed to oversee the fbi
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how in the world has mitch mcconnell the majority leader of the u.s senate not removed richard burr
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as the intelligence committee chairman it renders the whole notion of congressional ethics a joke i mean
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you could perhaps make the argument that with kelly loffler at least she's out there proactively trying
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to get her conduct reviewed by the sec you know maybe uh you know somebody else in her world made
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the decisions on those trades but with burr he's admitted that he directed the trades he was out there
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telling the american people one thing and then telling his like behind the scenes friends something else
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and he's got the brother-in-law who uh apparently you know had massive sell-offs the same day burr did
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and if they find out that those two were communicating you know i i just think that that tells a very
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grim picture about what burr was up to and you know there it's not like there's been some big defense
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from burr so i think that mcconnell erodes the credibility of our intelligence process at a time when
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credibility needs to sort of be built up there you know when you look at what they did to politicize
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that entity so it'd be nice if you know intelligence didn't look political if it didn't look like
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burr's kind of getting protected by the majority leader because he's a republican and you know we
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don't have the biggest republican majority over there so i don't know but i i think that when you've got
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something that so obviously flies in the face of honorable conduct with the american people
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uh that there should be action uh when it's for self self gain self benefit you know i mean i think
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that people can make mistakes you know i don't i don't exactly want to you know get into the guilt
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by accusation game but i mean here i think there is a there's a pretty substantial case to be made
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that this guy doesn't need to be the chairman of the intelligence committee uh after this activity
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and it's mcconnell who can make it happen and i sure hope he does
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thanks for listening to hot takes with matt gates we'll be back tomorrow with another episode