The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 30 - BLM’s Political Motives. FCC vs. Big Tech. Impeach AG Barr？

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. This is Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. President

00:00:21.020 Trump had some pretty hot takes at his recent rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here were a few

00:00:25.700 of my favorite highlights. I stand before you today to declare the silent majority is stronger

00:00:32.320 than ever before. Five months from now, we're going to defeat sleepy Joe Biden. When rioting and looting

00:00:48.460 broke out in our nation's capital, I very quickly deployed the National Guard. I said, get him in.

00:00:55.700 After watching for an evening or two, we stopped the violence and restored peace and order. The

00:01:03.980 radical fake news. They never talk about COVID. They don't talk about when you see 25,000 people

00:01:13.540 walking down Fifth Avenue or walking down a street of a Democrat-run city, you never hear them saying

00:01:20.720 they're not wearing their mask. David Creighton in Human Events has a great piece out. It's political

00:01:29.480 power that really matters to black lives matter. And it chronicles the origin of this organization,

00:01:37.420 not just in modern events, but ideologically its origin with some of the more separatist movements

00:01:44.000 that we saw in the 1960s, where people sought different treatment for different Americans based

00:01:50.760 on race. And when you look at the Black Lives Matter ideology, it's one that is not really akin to

00:01:58.900 healing and bringing people together and unifying the nation. It's a grievance movement that I think

00:02:08.660 this piece by David Creighton really exposes. It exposes the fact that they have had members that

00:02:17.480 they haven't in any way disclaimed or criticized that were cheering on the killing of police in Dallas,

00:02:24.620 that Black Lives Matter organizers have referred to cops as pigs in different chants that they've led

00:02:32.600 as people have been engaged in protest. And again, people ought to be able to protest and speak 0.55

00:02:37.640 however they want. But I believe that our leaders have to see this movement clearly. And I see it

00:02:45.080 clearly as something that's intended to be very destructive to the unity and the equality that all

00:02:52.940 Americans should deserve. It doesn't matter what their race or background or country of origin is. So

00:02:58.740 check out David Creighton's piece. It also just one final note on it. It quotes the Seattle mayor

00:03:04.980 saying that what's going on there with the autonomous zone isn't really, you know, a rejection of

00:03:11.160 order. It's more like a block party. That's right. The mayor of Seattle said what's going on in the

00:03:16.020 autonomous zone now is more like a block party than a revolution. And that's, of course, false. You know,

00:03:23.200 there is no block party that intentionally bars the police or emergency responders from being able to

00:03:30.380 care for constituents. There is no block party that declares its functional independence from the

00:03:37.360 country and from the order that we've established. And if anything, this autonomous zone is the

00:03:42.460 manifestation of the policy agenda of Black Lives Matter. And that's something that should frighten all 0.99

00:03:49.520 of us. And it's something we should fight against. Digital media platforms stealing this election from

00:03:58.600 Donald Trump and the voters who support him is a very real possibility in the upcoming election.

00:04:06.160 It's one of the reasons why in a podcast last week, I called on Attorney General Barr and the

00:04:12.020 antitrust division at the Department of Justice to be far more aggressive on litigation. Instead,

00:04:18.160 the Trump administration's strategy seems to be putting pressure on the FCC to take some action.

00:04:24.740 And while I think that's good, and while I support the president's executive order,

00:04:29.020 it is clearly necessary, but not sufficient. FCC Commissioner Mike O'Reilly gave a C-SPAN interview

00:04:36.300 on Friday. Here's what he had to say.

00:04:38.440 Do you believe that the FCC should be involved or regulating or defining what online platforms like

00:04:46.120 Facebook and Twitter do when it comes to moderating their content?

00:04:49.320 Well, in general, I believe that Section 230 has functioned as intended and therefore has been

00:04:53.560 incredibly beneficial. But could Congress or could the FCC put some guardrails on it and narrow it 0.71

00:04:59.200 to make it more functional and therefore not provide some of the wide-open opportunity and some of the

00:05:03.420 abuses we may be seeing in the marketplace? Like I said, it may be seeing.

00:05:06.440 That's certainly something to explore. And that's something, you know, what you expect

00:05:10.980 from a wide-open debate we're about to have. And so I think that there's both parts. It has been

00:05:17.160 very beneficial. Could it be improved? You know, I think there are some certainty sound arguments for

00:05:21.740 that. Is it my responsibilities or Congress's or some other agencies? Those debates will all have

00:05:26.580 to be had in the coming months. Sean Moran with Breitbart does a write-up on this interview,

00:05:31.300 which essentially concludes, somewhat correctly, I think, that if O'Reilly doesn't believe that

00:05:38.220 230 action or clarity can be provided by the FCC, then it's very unlikely to happen, just given the

00:05:45.240 votes and given the Republican-Democrat split and the fact that these folks have staggered terms. 1.00

00:05:51.620 So we're going to need more than a committee vote. We're going to need more than a discussion

00:05:57.600 or a tweet or a criticism of social media platforms. We're going to need action and

00:06:03.020 litigation. I strongly suggest you go check out my episode last week, calling on Attorney General

00:06:08.940 Barr to do more, to get involved, and to start filing lawsuits to enforce the antitrust provisions

00:06:15.840 of law against these social media platforms that claim to be unbiased, that claim to not be

00:06:21.860 aggregators or curators, but simply platforms, when the reality is they're going to do everything

00:06:27.240 possible to stop the voters of this country from electing Donald Trump president. It is unfair.

00:06:34.100 It should be considered unfair, no matter what your political affiliation is, because right now,

00:06:39.220 it's liberals, you know, who have developed these platforms who are hurting conservatives,

00:06:43.880 but what if it were the other way around? You know, I think we've got to ensure that we have

00:06:47.940 fair, free debate in this country, and that it is not constrained by Silicon Valley.

00:06:53.660 Eskimo pies are canceled. No Eskimo pies for you. The New York Post's Ben Fern third reporting that

00:07:04.000 Eskimo prize will drop the derogatory name. The company saying we are committed to being a part of

00:07:09.620 the solution on racial equality and recognize the term is derogatory. The move is part of a larger

00:07:15.880 review to ensure our company and brands reflect our people values. Okay, whatever that means,

00:07:23.100 the move comes after Aunt Jemima was canceled, after Uncle Ben was canceled. Cream of Wheat had a black 0.62

00:07:30.740 chef on the front of their box. They're taking that off. If I guess you can't have any person of color on 1.00

00:07:40.080 your marketing, if you can't have an Eskimo on your marketing, I guess you certainly couldn't have 1.00

00:07:46.200 like just white people or Caucasians or I don't know. So like, what is it going to be? Are we going

00:07:52.360 to end up where all of the endorsers for all of our products have to be like raceless, genderless 1.00

00:07:59.980 cyborgs of some kind? I don't know. I didn't think Eskimo pies were offensive.

00:08:06.040 I did think they were delicious and I will miss them.

00:08:12.280 The United States military has successfully stolen some of Russia's Africa toys. There is a fantastic 1.00

00:08:20.360 report in the Washington Examiner by Tom Rogan entitled, U.S. Seizes Advanced Russian Military

00:08:26.980 System in Libya. Tom has some excellent sourcing here on a Khrushka 4 electronic warfare system

00:08:34.900 that potentially was seized by the U.S. in Libya. Here's what's going on in Libya. There's the

00:08:41.480 government of national accord, to the extent that it even is a government, that is backed by the U.S.

00:08:47.700 Then there is Khalif Haftar and his militant group that is essentially being backed by Russia. And the

00:08:55.440 way that Russia does this is they have their mercenaries, also known as the Wagner Group, 0.72

00:09:00.420 out there providing intelligence, providing electronic warfare support, providing I think

00:09:07.160 some logistics and command and control assistance in the effort to try to get their guy in control

00:09:14.380 of Libya. And what's happened apparently is that the U.S. got a hold of one of these systems,

00:09:19.680 is currently exploiting it and analyzing it. And the reason this matters is that Russia has

00:09:25.840 one of the more sophisticated air defense systems in this part of the world. It is really the crown

00:09:32.400 jewel of their military, their electronic warfare, and their ability to deny battle space where they're

00:09:38.480 able to deploy this asset. So the fact that we have it, we can train against it, we can work against it,

00:09:44.540 means that they may be less successful at denying U.S. access to airspace, not just in Libya,

00:09:50.900 where frankly, I think we should be less involved, not more involved, but in other areas where we

00:09:55.820 could see great power competition. So big win for the U.S. military. Let's hope they exploit the hell

00:10:00.920 out of this Russian system so that it never beats the U.S. and so that we are prepared to win every 0.51

00:10:06.620 fight that we absolutely are required to be in.

00:10:09.080 John Bolton has his new book out. White House advisor Peter Navarro was asked about it by Jake

00:10:17.740 Tapper. Here's that clip.

00:10:19.100 Here's the thing about Bolton. Here's what's so interesting about him. I think what we need to

00:10:23.400 do is take a serious read of the book. Everything that John Bolton was pushing here, right over there

00:10:29.000 in the White House, would have made this country less peaceful and less prosperous. He wanted to bomb

00:10:34.420 North Korea. He wanted to bomb Iran. He wanted to keep troops in Afghanistan. I mean, towards the end, 0.98

00:10:40.260 you have to understand this, Jake, for months towards the end of his tenure, before he got fired,

00:10:45.160 the president would openly joke about, hey, John wants to bomb everything, okay? This is a guy

00:10:50.940 who's like a 1950s throwback to Dr. Strangelove, okay? He just, and then, by the way, he talks about

00:10:59.360 patterns of behavior in the book. Guess what? When he was with Bush, right, what did he do?

00:11:04.420 He quit, and then he dumped, wrote a book, wrote a tell-all, kiss-all, dumped all over George W.

00:11:09.880 I think Peter Navarro pretty much gets it right here. John Bolton was not a member of the

00:11:14.860 administration because his opinion was particularly valued. He was not a member of the administration

00:11:20.240 because the president shared his worldview. He wasn't a member of the administration, certainly,

00:11:26.120 like to give advice that would ultimately be taken. John Bolton was a mascot in the Trump

00:11:33.640 administration. The president liked the fact that having John Bolton around seemed to trigger

00:11:39.220 different people in the world, and so when he wanted to, you know, motivate Iran or Venezuela

00:11:45.520 or any of these other countries that we don't have good relationships with but certainly don't want to

00:11:50.520 start some new forever war with, when he wanted to motivate them, he would trot out Bolton, but he

00:11:56.000 never really believed in the Bolton worldview or ideology, and so Bolton eventually comes to realize

00:12:02.940 this when none of his advice is taken and when the president clearly doesn't respect how he perceives

00:12:08.280 the events happening, and so he resents it, and he leaves the administration, and he pretty much does

00:12:14.840 the same thing that he did when he left the Bush administration. I mean, John Bolton is a guy who comes

00:12:18.940 in, supports, you know, 10 out of the last three wars, leaves, and then trashes his former boss

00:12:25.280 with misinformation, out-of-context information, and information that I think is largely motivated

00:12:31.200 by the fact that John Bolton's case for American military intervention all over the planet Earth

00:12:39.100 has been rejected by the voters and rejected by President Trump, and hopefully the Bolton view

00:12:44.780 will continue to be rejected in administrations that come forward in the future, whether they be

00:12:49.660 Republican or Democrat. I know President Trump has done a tremendous amount to reset American priorities

00:12:56.720 on the American people, putting America first, putting our citizens first, and that's something

00:13:03.120 that I think we can be very proud of as a country, and the president has my full support.

00:13:07.600 Major League Baseball is going to look very different in the 2020 season. I'm going to break

00:13:15.880 out down the changes, the ones I like, the ones I hate. Let's start with a change that's not so bad.

00:13:22.220 There's going to be 16 teams allowed in the postseason for baseball in the 2020 season.

00:13:27.720 With fewer regular season games, I think it's reasonable to assume that there is a higher variability

00:13:33.680 in just the regular season producing the best teams for the postseason, and so I get it. Allow more

00:13:40.400 teams in, that way you're absolutely certain that when it really matters in the postseason, you've got

00:13:45.960 the right teams, and you're going to have great competition. So no real problem with that. It seems

00:13:50.440 to make sense with a season with fewer games. Also, any player who wants to opt out of the season

00:13:57.120 and still get paid can do so with their full salary if they can prove that they are high risk

00:14:05.780 with someone they are cohabitating with. So like if you're cohabitating with, you know, a parent that

00:14:11.700 has a certain type of medical frailty, but what an interesting one is a pregnant wife. So if a player 1.00

00:14:18.380 has a pregnant wife, they can opt out of the system, get their whole salary. If you don't have such a 1.00

00:14:23.640 cohabitation, you don't get that same benefit. But two of the biggest stars in the entire league,

00:14:29.940 Mike Trout and Garrett Cole, both have pregnant wives, and it'll be interesting to see whether or

00:14:35.820 not some of the biggest stars of the game choose to play or choose to get paid and not play. It'd be

00:14:42.080 two very, very interesting guys to watch as these decisions start to roll out regarding the eligibility

00:14:47.700 of players to be deemed high risk and participate in that program. So those changes, I understand,

00:14:53.420 for player benefit, for competitive benefit, but there are some other changes that I absolutely

00:14:59.120 hate. There is a universal designated hitter rule that will be applied for the 2020 and 2021 season.

00:15:06.580 Now why we're making changes for the 2021 season, I do not know. This reduces the strategic element of

00:15:13.680 the game in the National League with the DH being able to be plugged in for the pitcher and not having that,

00:15:22.180 you know, higher likelihood of an out and then managing and coaching around it. It's really the

00:15:26.240 main reason I like the National League more than the American League, the strategy of not having the

00:15:30.560 DH. Now it appears the National League will have the DH as well. Another change is that in the extra

00:15:36.500 innings, there will be a player that will start on second base and starting in the 10th inning,

00:15:40.820 it'll be the last player that got out in the prior inning. Now they've had this rule in the minor league

00:15:44.660 since 2018, bringing it to the majors. Now it will reduce the length of games. I don't think you'll

00:15:51.500 get those like 15, 16 inning games. Like we saw with some frequency, actually last season,

00:15:56.520 the players really negotiated for this one. I don't like it. I don't think pitchers probably

00:16:02.420 are going to like it. I think that, you know, good old fashioned baseball is good old fashioned

00:16:07.040 baseball. And when you're starting with a player on second base, you know, now you're,

00:16:12.040 the pitcher's got to come out of the stretch. Uh, now, you know, it changes the way the middle

00:16:16.580 infield has to operate to hold the runner. Uh, and, and also now, you know, that run is far more

00:16:23.000 likely to get manufactured with some sort of bunt and, and you really don't have to earn the run

00:16:28.740 in the same way, obviously, as if, uh, you weren't spotted that runner on second. So I don't like the

00:16:33.840 changes in the rules. I can't wait for baseball. Let's hope it's the same baseball we've all known

00:16:39.360 and all loved for so long. And then at least this is something that can get back to normal soon.

00:16:46.940 The Democrats seem to have impeachment fever and there's no therapeutic. There's no cure.

00:16:53.000 There's no vaccine. They are at the more cowbell stage of impeachment. Even now discussing the

00:17:00.700 impeachment of bill bar, kind of here is an interview that house judiciary chairman, Jerry

00:17:06.220 Nadler gave with Jake Tapper over the weekend. And the issue of impeaching bill bar potentially is

00:17:11.840 raised. Here's the clip. Some congressional Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren

00:17:15.420 have said that this is it. This is the last straw attorney general bill bar needs to be impeached.

00:17:21.800 Do you think calls for his impeachment are premature? No, I don't think calls for his impeachment

00:17:25.880 are premature, uh, are premature any more than calls for the president's impeachment were premature,

00:17:30.740 but they are a waste of time at this point because we know that we have a corrupt, uh, Republican

00:17:37.080 majority in the Senate, which will not consider, uh, an impeachment no matter what the evidence

00:17:41.640 and no matter what the facts. So, uh, we're gonna, we're, we're instead going to, uh, uh, do what we

00:17:48.240 have to do without that, uh, and including, uh, uh, uh, uh, barring, uh, 50, 50 million dollars

00:17:56.180 from his own personal, uh, budget. So maybe not an actual impeachment of bar, but impeachment in drag

00:18:02.940 impeachment in all other ways. This week, there are these disgruntled department of justice officials

00:18:10.460 and, uh, potentially former officials who are coming forward to say, Oh, you know, we felt like

00:18:16.220 the attorney general was getting involved in our cases. Well, you know what, based on the politics

00:18:21.660 and the corruption that we saw at senior levels of the department of justice, I'm glad attorney

00:18:27.600 general bar is making some personnel changes. I'm glad attorney general bar is actually getting

00:18:34.240 involved in the cases. Hell, we wanted attorney general sessions to get involved and actually

00:18:38.660 lead the department of justice. And he was too weak to do it. So a strong, effective attorney general 0.76

00:18:44.500 serving the administration is proactive about ensuring that the work of the administration

00:18:50.340 is reflected in the priorities of the department of justice. And when Nadler calls the Republican

00:18:56.860 senators who voted against impeachment corrupt, I guess he made a lot of news with that. But the

00:19:03.020 reality is the investigation was corrupt. The Russia hoax was corrupt. The more we see the extent to

00:19:10.740 which evidence was changed, suppressed, withheld, doctored. We see that this entire endeavor to impeach

00:19:19.780 Donald Trump has centered around the inability to beat him in a fair election or a fair debate

00:19:24.380 and his desire to marginalize him instead of working with him on the policy issues that we should all

00:19:31.360 be able to agree on. So as we move now into the election, they've sort of, you know, shot their best

00:19:37.640 shot in going after Trump with impeachment. That was a miserable failure that didn't seem to help

00:19:42.840 Democrats at all. Certainly didn't help the country. But now needing something to do, having no real

00:19:51.000 policy priorities to help the American people having no agenda for the country. Now they want to start

00:19:57.300 impeachment again. But I guess now as it relates to Bill Barr, but not actual impeachment, just hearings

00:20:04.420 to try to embarrass the attorney general and to try to give people a grievance opportunity that they

00:20:09.980 actually got led by an attorney general willing to show that leadership. So on Wednesday, the House

00:20:14.760 Judiciary Committee will be a hot environment and I'll be there with my hot takes. Thanks for listening

00:20:21.040 to Hot Takes, everybody. Tomorrow I'll be in Phoenix, Arizona for a Turning Point USA speaking event. The

00:20:28.900 president will be there. My good friend Congressman Andy Biggs will be there. So I can't wait to bring you

00:20:33.740 updates from Phoenix, Arizona. I'm looking forward to the president giving us an update on the

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - June 22, 2020

Episode 30 - BLM’s Political Motives. FCC vs. Big Tech. Impeach AG Barr？

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