The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 3 - Pelosi's Wish List Bill, Flynn Saga, Burr’s and Loeffler’s Stock Trades

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 big

00:00:20.320 news of the day is that nancy pelosi has a coronavirus bill not one she negotiated with

00:00:26.280 the president or the administration not one that republicans were involved in but really a liberal

00:00:31.840 wish list of policy and spending i'll also give updates on the latest in the general flynn case

00:00:36.920 and we'll talk about what's going on to hold senators accountable who were engaged in a stock

00:00:42.060 sell-off that i do not believe was patriotic and may not have been legal but first let's talk about

00:00:48.120 coronavirus legislation republicans have been calling for some time to return to the congress

00:00:53.860 to get to work to make sure that the funds that we've already appropriated and printed are actually

00:00:59.900 getting to the american businesses and to the american people who need provision in this time

00:01:04.800 of great crisis but instead of doing that nancy pelosi in the far left wing of her party have

00:01:10.620 drafted legislation that really is going nowhere in the senate but it shows what they're fighting for

00:01:16.440 and i think that's important in in this time when our nation needs to draw together and meet big

00:01:22.220 challenges uh solve our public health crisis reinvigorate our economy work to re-domesticate

00:01:29.480 our manufacturing supply chain so that we're more resilient in the future in a time when we need that

00:01:34.700 here's what the democrats have proposed a whole lot of spending first of all in this last legislation

00:01:41.540 uh or in this next legislation i should say nancy pelosi has proposed half a trillion dollars 0.99

00:01:47.740 for state governments that's half a trillion dollars now look i don't mind floridians and arizonans and

00:01:55.080 texans and everyone else stepping forward to help our fellow americans no matter where they live

00:02:00.320 deal with the coronavirus but what's happening in this half a trillion dollar bailout is that nancy pelosi

00:02:08.240 is asking americans all over the country to now bail out states that had problems well before coronavirus i mean

00:02:15.920 new york state had like a six billion dollar budget deficit before coronavirus california had budget woes

00:02:24.060 before coronavirus and i just think it's a little insulting to say like hey you know uh california they've

00:02:30.440 got enough money to give free health care to illegal aliens apparently while we still have americans who are 0.97

00:02:37.100 working to get their own health care but somehow they expect this massive bailout that's in the legislation

00:02:42.660 proposed by nancy pelosi go figure you know in the state of new york uh i think that their structural

00:02:49.080 pension problems their structural debt problems the way they fund infrastructure all could look a lot

00:02:55.360 more like florida and put new york in a stronger position and i don't necessarily believe that northwest

00:03:01.440 floridians floridians folks from states where we've had responsible spending should necessarily have

00:03:07.380 to come forward and fork over the cash to places like like illinois where uh where they've clearly

00:03:12.880 failed well before coronavirus to institute policies that put their people first there's also 350 billion

00:03:20.900 dollars direct to local governments uh again a whole lot of money not a lot of accountability we

00:03:27.540 haven't had hearings on this we haven't heard from local governments regarding utilization it's just a way

00:03:33.040 for nancy pelosi to fork over cash to these large urban centers and to these mayors that are 1.00

00:03:39.580 politically uh more aligned with democrats in most of the cases where i think this 350 billion dollars

00:03:45.460 is going to be uh going to be spent 25 billion dollars for the united states postal service i mean it's

00:03:52.920 almost like in this bill nancy pelosi has there's not an institution that they haven't sought to bail out

00:03:58.220 i don't know why necessarily the coronavirus would result in the need to go and give 25 billion

00:04:05.140 dollars to the postal service obviously we want our postal workers to be secure in their safety with

00:04:10.480 protective equipment we want to make sure that we have the right uh cleaning apparatus but what this

00:04:15.820 looks like instead is um is just a way to shuttle cash to a government enterprise that largely gets

00:04:23.540 beat by the private sector uh in in its various functions and in its uh in its applicability and

00:04:29.300 value to the american people and and if anything i've observed folks are shipping stuff more so i don't

00:04:36.480 know that we really have evidence that the united states postal service has suffered a 25 billion

00:04:41.160 dollar loss as a result of coronavirus but nonetheless we see pelosi trying to fork over that that cash but

00:04:47.520 it's not you know it's not just the the big ticket items on these things sometimes it's it's even the

00:04:54.020 smaller amounts of money that just absolutely get in your craw like 25 million bucks in this bill

00:05:00.880 for migrant farm workers like what is there something that has fundamentally changed about the way we grow

00:05:09.040 crops in coronavirus if there is i guess i'm open-minded but i'd sure like to have hearings about that

00:05:14.960 would like to learn about why but no without explanation without rationale migrant farm workers 1.00

00:05:21.880 just get 25 million bucks but it's not just the spending in this bill there's some actual policy

00:05:28.860 choices the legislation makes that really have nothing to do with coronavirus they have a lot to do with

00:05:35.040 socially engineering our country toward a leftist view so let let me break down one of i think the

00:05:41.740 worst sections of the bill the amnesty section they call this departure delay i guess that's the new

00:05:48.380 leftist code for amnesty so get used to hearing it departure delay if you search in the pelosi

00:05:54.660 coronavirus bill for departure delay you will find a provision that says that so long as someone was in

00:06:01.280 this country by january 26th 2020 that they are not here unlawfully that we simply declare that if you got

00:06:10.620 here by january 26 2020 that is not unlawful you are here now one there is the obvious fact that that is

00:06:19.060 offensive to the rule of law it is offensive to the work of our border patrol even the notion of of having a

00:06:25.340 country but i think even more dangerously this sets an absurd precedent that like whenever our nation is in a

00:06:33.780 time of crisis that instead of providing care for our people instead of putting americans first that we

00:06:40.980 lurch toward this notion of saying well you know if you're not an american but you're here we're just

00:06:46.520 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

00:06:50.240 okay i mean is that is that what's going to happen in the next crisis is that what's going to happen in

00:06:54.320 the next economic downturn we cannot allow this to happen as republicans it's not enough just to vote

00:07:01.320 against this legislation we have to get out and explain to the american people that there are two

00:07:07.160 different sides fighting for two different things the republicans are fighting for american workers

00:07:12.740 american businesses americans who've been displaced and ultimately we want the american experience to

00:07:18.540 come back in the most vibrant way possible meanwhile on the left they're worried about securing their

00:07:24.380 ability to win elections forever reorienting the nature of our immigration policies and finding every

00:07:32.680 possible excuse to dump cash on political allies in various big states and big municipalities so

00:07:41.440 big problem departure delay make sure i i call on my republican colleagues to get the information out

00:07:49.900 about how devastating that would be to our country but there's more in the amnesty policy choices in

00:07:55.280 the bill the legislation says that the illegal aliens who are in ice detention just need to get

00:08:02.440 released on their own recognizance ror catch and release i mean it's it's it's catch and release

00:08:08.580 covid style in this legislation i mean the people that we have in ice detention americans paid border

00:08:16.160 patrol ice folks to go and make these apprehensions someone actually spent the time to ensure that

00:08:23.620 that we found these folks and that we were able to have some accounting of who came in and out of the

00:08:29.620 country but you know just to release them on their own recognizance is the democrat plan and

00:08:33.660 is there anyone who really thinks once we release these people that like we're going to see them back

00:08:39.940 for some judicial proceeding a judicial process of course not of course not it's just a way for them

00:08:45.980 to make their case on on immigration uh but it's not just the amnesty provisions uh that offend our

00:08:53.180 our views on immigration it's also what they're going to do with some of the money the nancy pelosi

00:08:58.440 coronavirus legislation includes within it stimulus direct payments to illegal aliens this is crazy to me

00:09:07.220 we should secure the economic future and the economic standing of every single american before we spend

00:09:15.900 the first dollar giving really an incentive for people to come here illegally so think about it the

00:09:23.140 the republican plan is show up our businesses our people our economy and get ready for the great american

00:09:29.520 relaunch the democrat plan is incite people over with amnesty if they happen to be caught release them

00:09:35.960 and then give them cash as a result of having been here it it really is a surrender by nancy pelosi

00:09:43.660 to the most radical wings of her party who don't believe in borders who don't believe in even having

00:09:49.860 a department of homeland security or ice beyond illegal immigration there are other bad policy choices made

00:09:56.560 in pelosi's bill there's a pretty substantial jailbreak i mean if people are uh older inmates if they

00:10:03.060 are in certain conditions there's a part of this bill that lets them out without any bond just to

00:10:08.680 just to walk the streets we've already seen circumstances where these coronavirus jailbreaks

00:10:13.280 have resulted in attempted murder stabbings rapes so i want to see less jailbreak as a result of

00:10:20.980 coronavirus not more jailbreak that's what the democrats are fighting for they've also got an element

00:10:26.840 of this bill that federalizes elections that requires 15 days of early voting and creates a

00:10:33.880 federal vote by mail system now there's been a lot of talk about vote by mail and i want to spend a

00:10:39.060 little time on this here if you are a vote by mail voter when you hear the president talk about voter

00:10:45.220 fraud or challenges of vote by mail he's not talking about the fact that if you send in your ballot

00:10:51.400 that there is a chance that it will not be counted or that it will be subject to fraud there was an

00:10:56.820 mit study that i cited on television as having really laid out the probability of fraud being higher

00:11:05.980 in a vote by mail setting here's the clip where i make that argument what i can say for those who

00:11:10.980 choose to vote by mail is that there's a low risk that their vote will be tampered with so people who

00:11:15.900 want to vote by mail should but in states that expand their vote by mail there is a belief that

00:11:21.340 there will be an increased opportunity for fraud mit professors have done studies that show that vote

00:11:27.040 by mail actually has the highest propensity of fraud when compared to in-person voting or early voting so

00:11:32.640 again if you're a vote by mail voter you can have confidence in your vote being counted here's where the

00:11:38.360 fraud comes in there are organizations and institutions that go out and create fake voter registration

00:11:44.700 for people that are dead for people that have moved for people who were never alive and then when those

00:11:53.340 ballots get mailed out the value of a real voters vote can be diluted because when someone doesn't have to

00:12:00.920 show up in person and you know maybe check an id or have some some rationalizing of their identity and their

00:12:08.940 ballot you've got the opportunity for massive amounts of fraud and so that's why i think that you know in

00:12:14.600 states like florida where we've got a pretty sound election infrastructure for the most part now that

00:12:20.620 governor de santa's fired the people that didn't know what they were doing down south florida you know

00:12:24.640 we've got that i think we've got a secure vote by mail system uh when people submit their votes but i do

00:12:31.000 think that going to a federalized election system limits the ability of states to have robust enforcement

00:12:38.920 to have security of the ballot box and to ensure that the people who are chosen by the voters actually

00:12:46.540 get to serve in positions of public office

00:12:49.100 there's another provision of pelosi's coronavirus bill which actually seeks to undo provisions of the

00:13:00.340 republican tax cut legislation that created the strongest economy in the history of the united states an

00:13:07.140 economy so strong that we were really charging toward new heights and new ambitions as a nation

00:13:14.060 before this invisible enemy attacked us so here's the provision they want to change it used to be the

00:13:20.340 case before the republican tax bill that if you got a really high uh local tax assessment or a really high

00:13:29.240 state tax assessment that you could deduct your state and local taxes off of your federal tax liability

00:13:36.880 so for a lot of folks that meant that the sting of a local government or a state government taxing you

00:13:43.640 to a high degree could be diminished as a consequence of that write-off we did away with that write-off when

00:13:50.760 we were in power and the reason we did is that we wanted to create broad-based tax cuts for every

00:13:55.880 american and the state and local tax deduction could only really be realized by people who were from high

00:14:02.640 tax states or high tax local government so in an effort to create broader lower taxes for everyone

00:14:09.220 we did away with that uh deduction or we substantially reformed it in a way that that that functionally

00:14:14.640 changed the math on it that has resulted in a tremendous amount of flight away from blue high tax states

00:14:22.380 to red low tax states right i mean why in the hell would you stay in connecticut or new jersey or new york

00:14:29.440 with incredibly high taxes that you can no longer deduct when you could move to florida which i'm

00:14:34.960 very proud to say is the lowest per capita state taxes in america and i take some pride in that as

00:14:41.000 the former ways and means finance and tax chairman in the state legislature so low tax states like

00:14:47.360 arizona texas florida georgia south carolina they were seeing great benefit as a result of this reform

00:14:54.620 in our laws that the republicans instituted and now so that high tax states can continue to be high

00:15:02.000 tax states without feeling the result of people voting by their feet and leaving nancy pelosi wants 1.00

00:15:08.480 to repeal our reforms to the state and local tax system i oppose that as a floridian i oppose it as

00:15:15.340 an american who wants to see lower taxes some weird stuff's happening in the michael flynn case

00:15:25.000 judge emmett sullivan is refusing to allow the case to be resolved despite the fact that

00:15:30.440 the government the department of justice wants to drop charges based on the recent revelations that

00:15:36.440 the pursuit of michael flynn was not the pursuit of justice it was the pursuit of a setup i mean the

00:15:42.240 whole goal of the fbi and then subsequently the muller probe was to create leverage with people

00:15:48.580 around president trump with the hopes that one of them would flip on president trump and lie about him

00:15:53.900 and say something that wasn't true when in fact he was innocent the whole time so the department of

00:15:58.720 justice realizes that the deal was a setup it's their hope intent to have this case resolved and over

00:16:06.100 with and allow michael flynn to get on with his life and weirdly the judge in the case emmett

00:16:11.740 sullivan creates this delay to allow third parties so not the government not general flynn but i guess

00:16:18.680 just intermeddlers about the country to file amicus briefs i've practiced law i've been involved in

00:16:26.340 criminal litigation and civil litigation and i gotta tell you i have never once seen this i have never

00:16:32.900 seen a circumstance in a criminal matter where the judge essentially invites third parties to opine

00:16:40.080 on the status of the resolution of a criminal case i mean i i don't even know if that's

00:16:45.900 constitutional i think it's certainly out of the ordinary and in a case where there's been so much

00:16:51.680 out of the ordinary with the setup of michael flynn you would think and hope that the judge would

00:16:56.760 accept the government's desire to not have this prosecution continue any further so we'll follow

00:17:04.020 that very closely but certainly suffice it to say very very strange

00:17:08.520 finally some news today in the senate stock sell-off story those who've been following my

00:17:21.820 social media and television appearances know that i'm sickened by the notion that it would be either

00:17:27.720 republicans or democrats taking advantage of a crisis to protect their own losses while not being

00:17:34.720 straight and honest with the american people so we saw a number of republicans and democrats implicated

00:17:40.120 in this whether it was diane feinstein or chairman richard burr or the georgia senator who was recently

00:17:46.220 appointed kelly loffler i don't think every fact pattern is the same i don't think everybody necessarily

00:17:52.120 deserves to be in the same bucket but it's kelly loffler senator from georgia making some news today

00:17:57.960 against uh senator loffler was not elected to this position she was appointed by the governor of georgia

00:18:03.520 uh fox business reporters charlie gasparino and linda moynihan are reporting that loffler is taking a

00:18:09.840 very proactive approach to the policy side of this she is going to the sec the securities and exchange

00:18:17.480 commissions and seeking some sort of green light from them that she was innocent she rather than

00:18:23.240 awaiting the judgment of the media she's trying to get some affirmative finding or ruling that she did 0.80

00:18:29.960 not direct these stock sales that she did not use insider information and that uh that she ought to be in

00:18:36.660 the clear i suspect perhaps that one reason why senator loffler is taking this approach is that she is

00:18:43.280 certainly trailing in the polls to congressman doug collins who i worked with on a lot of these

00:18:49.380 impeachment matters on the house judiciary committee and who i know quite well so we'll see whether or

00:18:54.220 not uh the sec is going to give senator loffler the the green light that she so eagerly seeks but it's a

00:19:02.660 different story with senator burr senator richard burr is quintessential washington i've been there for a long

00:19:10.560 time kind of played by washington's rules became the chairman of the senate intelligence committee

00:19:16.960 on february 13th senator burr basically liquidates his stock portfolio all the same time he wrote an

00:19:26.220 op-ed on foxnews.com saying america's ready for this virus this is you know essentially downplaying

00:19:32.920 the impact that this would have on markets and the economy and people's lives so it's like

00:19:37.880 telling the american people one thing and then doing something else recently the new news is that

00:19:43.940 pro publica is reporting that senator burr's brother-in-law on the same day that senator burr

00:19:50.600 liquidates his portfolio uh has a bunch of stock sell-offs as well so hey only senator burr and his

00:19:57.500 brother-in-law know whether or not there are any communications between the two of them either directly

00:20:02.900 or through intermediaries and if if there are um you know that that is going to be some really

00:20:09.800 damning evidence in a potential criminal investigation of senator burr and by the way

00:20:14.520 we already know based on reporting that the fbi is investigating senator burr for potential insider

00:20:22.260 trading now why is that so damning well it's because senator burr is the chairman of the senate

00:20:27.180 intelligence committee so right now we have the the person that is supposed to oversee the fbi

00:20:34.700 also being investigated by the fbi

00:20:37.680 how in the world has mitch mcconnell the majority leader of the u.s senate not removed richard burr

00:20:48.860 as the intelligence committee chairman it renders the whole notion of congressional ethics a joke i mean

00:20:55.600 you could perhaps make the argument that with kelly loffler at least she's out there proactively trying

00:21:01.940 to get her conduct reviewed by the sec you know maybe uh you know somebody else in her world made

00:21:09.460 the decisions on those trades but with burr he's admitted that he directed the trades he was out there

00:21:16.640 telling the american people one thing and then telling his like behind the scenes friends something else

00:21:22.320 and he's got the brother-in-law who uh apparently you know had massive sell-offs the same day burr did

00:21:29.340 and if they find out that those two were communicating you know i i just think that that tells a very

00:21:34.340 grim picture about what burr was up to and you know there it's not like there's been some big defense

00:21:41.360 from burr so i think that mcconnell erodes the credibility of our intelligence process at a time when

00:21:48.300 credibility needs to sort of be built up there you know when you look at what they did to politicize

00:21:53.840 that entity so it'd be nice if you know intelligence didn't look political if it didn't look like

00:21:59.260 burr's kind of getting protected by the majority leader because he's a republican and you know we

00:22:04.960 don't have the biggest republican majority over there so i don't know but i i think that when you've got

00:22:09.660 something that so obviously flies in the face of honorable conduct with the american people

00:22:15.200 uh that there should be action uh when it's for self self gain self benefit you know i mean i think

00:22:21.920 that people can make mistakes you know i don't i don't exactly want to you know get into the guilt

00:22:27.340 by accusation game but i mean here i think there is a there's a pretty substantial case to be made

00:22:32.440 that this guy doesn't need to be the chairman of the intelligence committee uh after this activity

00:22:36.360 and it's mcconnell who can make it happen and i sure hope he does

00:22:39.740 thanks for listening to hot takes with matt gates we'll be back tomorrow with another episode

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - May 13, 2020

Episode 3 - Pelosi's Wish List Bill, Flynn Saga, Burr’s and Loeffler’s Stock Trades

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