The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 32： On The Border – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:27.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.

00:00:29.000 You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.000 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.

00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.

00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.

00:00:54.000 Today's episode is jam-packed.

00:00:56.000 I've got a terrific report from the Arizona-Mexico border with Pinnell County Sheriff Mark Lamb.

00:01:02.000 You're not going to believe the tactics and strategies that smugglers are using to penetrate our border,

00:01:08.000 to abuse our system of asylum, and really to reshape America in a very negative way.

00:01:14.000 So I'm going to have that report from Sheriff Lamb.

00:01:16.000 It's just the beginning in a series of reports that we're going to start sharing from the southern border.

00:01:21.000 If we do not solve the southern border issue, if we do not engage in internal enforcement of our immigration laws,

00:01:27.000 we will lose America.

00:01:29.000 This must be a focus of Republicans in Washington.

00:01:33.000 We've also got reports from the front line of the culture war, the latest what's going on in Washington, D.C.

00:01:39.000 And we even check in on a Democrat who is throwing some shade at Adam Schiff, a California Democrat.

00:01:47.000 You won't want to miss it.

00:01:48.000 But first, definitely want to thank all of our viewers.

00:01:52.000 This is our 32nd episode, 17 and a half million combined downloads and views.

00:01:58.000 And we are grateful for each and every one of them.

00:02:00.000 The show is going to be updating.

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00:02:24.000 because it's going to be absolutely terrific.

00:02:27.000 This brings us to the Congress.

00:02:29.000 And what's happening?

00:02:31.000 It's all about gas prices.

00:02:33.000 Now, Kevin McCarthy is the current minority leader.

00:02:36.000 There are times on this program where I've been a critic of his, where others have criticized some of the decisions he's made.

00:02:42.000 But he has been dead on on gas prices.

00:02:47.000 All over America, we're seeing the impacts of inflation realized through energy.

00:02:52.000 And it's not just at the pump where you see that inflation is a problem.

00:02:55.000 You know, gas prices affect your consumer goods.

00:02:58.000 They affect the services that you use.

00:03:01.000 They affect even the food you eat when it comes to the costs that are built in.

00:03:05.000 Again, at the very beginning of the Biden presidency, Kevin McCarthy signposted that this was going to be an issue,

00:03:13.000 that there were going to be a series of policy choices that Joe Biden was committed to,

00:03:18.000 that his executive agencies would execute that would really harm America.

00:03:22.000 Here's the minority leader.

00:03:24.000 Go and look at what the price of oil is today and what you pay for in gasoline.

00:03:28.000 I promise you, a year from now, the action of what this president has done has only increased it.

00:03:34.000 The affordability is going to go through the roof.

00:03:37.000 Remember, gas price today, national gas price, has not been this high since President Biden was vice president.

00:03:44.000 The policies of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are destroying this nation.

00:03:49.000 We've got gasoline lines.

00:03:50.000 We've got stations that have no gas.

00:03:52.000 We've got gasoline in Virginia, $7 a gallon.

00:03:55.000 Six months of Biden administration, we have the highest gas prices in seven years.

00:04:00.000 After his policies caused gas prices to skyrocket, he said he would lower the gas price.

00:04:05.000 He hasn't done it.

00:04:06.000 He's even made it worse.

00:04:08.000 And no, not the measly two cents.

00:04:10.000 The DCCC, thanks for lowering it, is a reduction.

00:04:15.000 He depleted 50 million barrels of oil from our emergency ply and has done nothing to reverse

00:04:20.000 this anti-American energy agenda that he has contributed to despite our costs.

00:04:26.000 Got to give the guy his due.

00:04:28.000 He was absolutely right on that front.

00:04:30.000 And we all know Kevin McCarthy wants to be Speaker of the House.

00:04:34.000 And if he ultimately becomes Speaker, which I think is not a certainty.

00:04:38.000 We've got to go through a series of elections before then.

00:04:41.000 His leadership on the issue of energy will be one reason why.

00:04:47.000 Leah Thomas.

00:04:49.000 The record-breaking women's swimmer.

00:04:53.000 I guess.

00:04:54.000 Not really.

00:04:56.000 It's kind of grotesque if you think about it, that the NCAA would be willing to wipe away

00:05:02.000 all of the generational gains that have been made in women's sports following Title IX,

00:05:07.000 following equitable allocation of resources, with this ridiculous embrace of wokeism at the expense of female athletes. 0.95

00:05:16.000 And the frustration is palpable.

00:05:19.000 More and more women who are using athletics for self-betterment, for an education, for achievement, for success, 0.99

00:05:26.000 are resenting the fact that you've got Leah Thomas, clearly someone who shouldn't be competing in women's swimming,

00:05:34.000 out there doing just that.

00:05:36.000 Rapid Fire Pod caught up with a Virginia Tech swimmer who had had enough. 0.82

00:05:41.000 Check out that great interview.

00:05:43.000 It's a common conception that we are all very disappointed and frustrated with someone who has capabilities more than us women have

00:05:51.000 to be able to compete at this level and take opportunities away from other women. 0.99

00:05:55.000 Like, I have a teammate who did not make finals today because she was just bumped out of finals.

00:05:59.000 And it's heartbreaking to see someone who went through puberty as a male and has the body of a male be able to absolutely blow away the competition.

00:06:09.000 And you go into it with a mindset that you don't have a chance, if that makes sense.

00:06:14.000 Like, it's hard to compete against someone with the aerobic capacity, the muscle development, the body of a man.

00:06:20.000 It's hard.

00:06:21.000 It's hard to think about it like that.

00:06:23.000 And staying positive, I bet, for other swimmers who are in that heat is probably overwhelming.

00:06:29.000 I'm not sure.

00:06:30.000 I can't speak for them.

00:06:31.000 But it's disappointing to see and frustrating, definitely.

00:06:34.000 And you said that one of your teammates was crying today because she didn't make the finals.

00:06:39.000 You said that she was 17th.

00:06:41.000 Yes.

00:06:42.000 And there were 16 spots.

00:06:43.000 Yes.

00:06:44.000 So Leah Thomas took one of those spots. 0.98

00:06:46.000 Yes.

00:06:47.000 Talk to us about what your teammate was going through and that experience.

00:06:50.000 She was very emotional.

00:06:51.000 And it's hard to see because it's her last NCAAs.

00:06:54.000 And she really loves that race.

00:06:56.000 And it was just heartbreaking to see that she put all her effort into it today.

00:06:59.000 And when the best time that she went in a morning session before and still not make it back.

00:07:04.000 It's hard to see someone who works every day, every night, still not be able to compete against someone like that.

00:07:12.000 This is why I'm against women in the draft. 1.00

00:07:17.000 And why I'm against men competing in women's sports.

00:07:21.000 Because obviously, men and women are different.

00:07:24.000 For too long, we've tried to pretend like men and women are the same.

00:07:27.000 But biblically, that's false.

00:07:30.000 From just a biology standpoint, that's false.

00:07:32.000 From a capacity and capability standpoint, that's false.

00:07:35.000 And I'm not asserting supremacy for one gender or the other.

00:07:40.000 But certainly when it comes to the type of physical education and physical competition that you get from swimming, the Virginia Tech swimmer was absolutely right.

00:07:49.000 So it may be impolitic.

00:07:51.000 It may not go along with sort of the political correctness of the times.

00:07:55.000 But I have no problem recognizing that men and women are different. 0.95

00:07:59.000 That's okay.

00:08:00.000 Our policies should not be blind to that obvious reality.

00:08:04.000 I do think that if the NCAA continues to just engage in this bizarre behavior of embracing wokeism at the expense of their own athletes.

00:08:14.000 You may see congressional action.

00:08:16.000 You're already starting to see more and more state action.

00:08:19.000 And it's my suspicion that that is unidirectional.

00:08:22.000 You are not going to see some new transition back to an effort to blur gender lines.

00:08:28.000 I think that folks are catching up.

00:08:29.000 I think folks want to see the realities that we live with certainly not evaporated at the expense of the vulnerable and at the expense of those that we've done a whole lot over the years in jurisprudence and in law to assist.

00:08:45.000 We see in the war in Ukraine that the information space is an increasingly important theater in conflict.

00:08:53.000 You have never seen before folks tweeting through wars or Skyping and FaceTiming through conflict like we do today.

00:09:02.000 And there is a focus in the Congress to ensure that the United States, that our allies, that we win the information space.

00:09:10.000 Now, Russia has a media arm, has a propaganda wing referred to as RT or Russia today.

00:09:19.000 And what they're trying to do in places where they're engaging in resource extraction and political activity is to try to get distribution for RT in places like South America, in places like Africa, and then to try to use that information space to try to shape people's opinion and perhaps even engage in malign activity.

00:09:40.000 Well, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Democrat from California, is on to them.

00:09:46.000 She understood at a recent hearing that we had with the leadership from AFRICOM that in Africa specifically, growing distribution and growing credibility for RT is a harm to America.

00:09:59.000 It deprives us of access to our interests and our ability to try to spread neoliberal values, democracy, not through the sword, but through high quality information so that people can make reasonable decisions.

00:10:13.000 And what Congresswoman Speier is most worried about is that RT may be gaining credibility.

00:10:20.000 Well, take a listen to our argument.

00:10:23.000 Our committee has to take very seriously the impact of RT around the world.

00:10:29.000 I just came back from Latin America where not only is it pervasive and ubiquitous, it is perceived to be objective.

00:10:38.000 It is perceived to be just a legitimate TV network.

00:10:43.000 General, the lady's time has expired. 1.00

00:10:45.000 She makes an outstanding point, however, on the need to engage in the information warfare.

00:10:52.000 I was quite taken.

00:10:53.000 Here was my reaction.

00:10:55.000 I completely concur with my colleague regarding the risk that RT poses, and it seems to appear more legitimate and objective when members of Congress go on RT.

00:11:07.000 And so I associate myself with the gentlelady's comments, and perhaps she could share them with the gentleman from California who chairs the Intelligence Committee, who I've seen on RT, talking about legislation, giving them credibility.

00:11:20.000 Will the gentleman yield?

00:11:23.000 I only have a few moments, but I'd love to chat with you about it further.

00:11:26.000 And of course, we couldn't close this segment without giving you the proof, without showing you the receipts.

00:11:32.000 Adam Schiff going on RT to try to make a political point about legislation.

00:11:37.000 Meanwhile, on the other side of Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives, efforts continue there as well to inject more oversight into the NSA's surveillance programs and the top-secret FISA court.

00:11:48.000 One of those members of Congress leading the effort is Adam Schiff from California.

00:11:53.000 He joined me earlier, and I asked him how his reforms to the FISA court will protect America's First and Fourth Amendment rights.

00:12:00.000 Well, I think they'll have the cumulative impact of making the FISA court much more transparent, so the American people can understand what's being done in their name, in the name of national security, so that we can have a more informed debate over the balance between privacy and security.

00:12:15.000 I think this can be accomplished while also maintaining sources and methods and not compromising some of the very real national security concerns at stake.

00:12:24.000 Giving them credibility, tsk tsk.

00:12:27.000 Maybe Jackie Speier ought to reach out to Adam Schiff and tell him to actually be pro-America for once.

00:12:33.000 It's quite fascinating to me that politicians in both parties act like they care about your rising gas prices, your rising grocery bill, your rising costs for food.

00:12:46.000 But the reality is they continue to vote for policies in Washington, D.C. that actually exacerbate inflation and the increase of those very costs.

00:12:56.000 It's one of the reasons why I'm voting with my constituents on any issues that would result in them having to endure more costs for the Russia-Ukraine war than the people who have actually prosecuted that war, than Vladimir Putin, who is at fault for that war.

00:13:12.000 So I didn't vote with a majority of the Congress recently when they voted to end trade relations under our current system with Russia and Belarus.

00:13:21.000 I was joined by seven other members of Congress, Lauren Boebert, Thomas Massey, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Teller-Green, Dan Bishop, Chip Roy, and Glenn Grothman.

00:13:32.000 And I thought Thomas Massey had a particularly important take.

00:13:36.000 He tweeted,

00:13:37.000 And Congressman Massey is right.

00:13:58.000 So often these bills, they get labeled, oh, this is the Russia sanctions bill, so if you don't vote for it, you must be pro-Russia.

00:14:05.000 You must be pro-Putin.

00:14:07.000 I remember hearing that back during the Russia hoax impeachment.

00:14:10.000 The reality is representatives have to read the legislation.

00:14:14.000 We have to ask tough questions, and we have to look at the second and third order effects.

00:14:19.000 And here, the legislation gives this broad discretion to Joe Biden to just, like, hammer anyone in the world that he would deem a human rights violator for any reason.

00:14:30.000 And what does that even mean anymore?

00:14:32.000 Increasingly, our own State Department is more worried about whether or not other countries embrace wokeism than whether or not they're actually acting in the best interest of America.

00:14:41.000 Of Americans, of American businesses, you know, to enrich our country, not theirs.

00:14:48.000 It's really unfortunate.

00:14:50.000 Congressman Andy Biggs was one of the members who also voted no.

00:14:53.000 I thought he gave a terrific explanation.

00:14:55.000 Take a listen.

00:14:57.000 What this bill did, if you read it and understood it, it actually allows our president to go to almost anybody in the world, and if they have a visa, he can take away their visa.

00:15:10.000 He can freeze their assets, regardless of whether they have anything to do with Russia whatsoever.

00:15:16.000 He gets to define what a human rights abuse is, and he gets to go after anybody who thinks might be committing some kind of human rights abuse.

00:15:24.000 Now, we might say, well, that's what's happening in Russia.

00:15:27.000 Sure.

00:15:28.000 But it also has been used, or could be used, even on people who are pro-life advocates elsewhere in the world.

00:15:35.000 If Biden thinks that pro-abortion is a human right and a pro-life person is violating somebody's right to an abortion.

00:15:45.000 That's why I voted no. 0.97

00:15:47.000 Why is it that Democrats always take an idea that most Americans support and then they stick it in with a couple of pieces of garbage to give themselves more power? 0.95

00:15:58.000 That's why I voted no.

00:16:01.000 And that is exactly where I should be for Northwest Floridians on these issues.

00:16:07.000 I'm going to be bringing a series of segments forward regarding the crisis on our southern border.

00:16:15.000 Our laws contribute to it.

00:16:17.000 Our lack of will contributes to it.

00:16:19.000 Our political leadership truly ignoring something that is affecting all Americans.

00:16:24.000 It's affecting the wage market, it's affecting labor, it's affecting our social service system, it's affecting our education system, it's affecting our criminal justice system, it's affecting our national security.

00:16:36.000 And increasingly, as the federal government doesn't do its job, more and more pressure is building on state governments and even local sheriffs to have to deal with this national crisis.

00:16:47.000 One of America's best sheriffs is Mark Lamb of Pinell County.

00:16:51.000 He recently gave us an exclusive briefing regarding the tools that the smugglers are using, that the cartels are employing and the things we ought to be doing in Washington to stop this terrible violation of our country.

00:17:05.000 Take a listen from the southern border.

00:17:07.000 Take a listen from the southern border.

00:17:25.000 This is the heart of the activity in this county right here.

00:17:29.000 This corridor right here.

00:17:31.000 Because it's the end of the TO pipeline?

00:17:34.000 Yeah, because the TO is five miles from there.

00:17:37.000 It's where they travel to that Indian Reservation to get to this point in that highway and the I-10 in South Phoenix.

00:17:43.000 It's all right here.

00:17:44.000 So this is the perfect corridor to go there.

00:17:48.000 I'm sure he's told you the problem.

00:17:50.000 It's ten times worse today than it was five years ago.

00:17:55.000 I'll show you when we get over to the other side outside of this, but you're going to be shocked because I can show you a hundred more spots like this.

00:18:04.000 When you hear me talk about carpet shoes, these are carpet shoes.

00:18:12.000 So what you do is they put them on over their boots and they tie them up and they walk across with these because you can't hear them and you can't track them.

00:18:21.000 They wear camouflage clothes.

00:18:24.000 Be careful picking anything up.

00:18:26.000 The one that they're nasty too.

00:18:28.000 They're snakes.

00:18:29.000 So they have their clothes in here.

00:18:32.000 They dump their clothes, their plastic bags.

00:18:35.000 They all have like, they'll have like, usually they'll have penicillin or, or some type of antibiotic.

00:18:45.000 They'll have Vicks Vapor Rub, toilet paper.

00:18:49.000 So this is the remnants of what used to be a backpack of marijuana.

00:18:54.000 So what they'll do is, this is their backpack.

00:18:58.000 They'll have two sleeves and a strap.

00:19:01.000 They'll tie two 25 pound bundles in here.

00:19:06.000 So you'll have 50 pounds of marijuana.

00:19:09.000 And that's how they carry the pack.

00:19:11.000 Like that's the backpack.

00:19:13.000 What they do a lot of times is they bring the coyote now because of the hard drugs.

00:19:19.000 It used to be that they all carried marijuana, but now what they do is the hard drugs, the coyote will bring the hard drugs.

00:19:26.000 And if we end up catching them, they all run and they make sure that they get caught before the coyote gets caught.

00:19:33.000 We had a guy that we caught one day and he was, he started booking it.

00:19:37.000 He ran for five miles through this desert, full speed.

00:19:41.000 And so make no mistake.

00:19:43.000 They have zero value for human life.

00:19:46.000 They're trafficking poison.

00:19:48.000 That fentanyl is poison into our communities.

00:19:51.000 And it's the left likes to do things.

00:19:54.000 They like to play on emotions and use certain words.

00:19:57.000 And we should be using words like these are poisonies.

00:20:00.000 Yes.

00:20:01.000 This is immoral.

00:20:02.000 Yes.

00:20:03.000 What they're doing.

00:20:04.000 You're right.

00:20:05.000 They call it overdoses and they're not overdoses.

00:20:07.000 Eight of 10 women.

00:20:08.000 You don't even know what you're taking.

00:20:09.000 I heard a stat the other day that says eight of 10 women that cross over the border are raped. 0.99

00:20:14.000 And 50% of gays and transvestites across the border are raped. 0.83

00:20:18.000 What kind of self-help do the landowners have? 0.98

00:20:24.000 Like in Florida, if someone comes on your property with the intent to commit a penalty, you have a right to use force against them.

00:20:31.000 Yeah.

00:20:32.000 And legal force.

00:20:33.000 And these guys go out every night.

00:20:35.000 They go out with guns to feed their horses because they're afraid.

00:20:39.000 And they often do run into people out there.

00:20:41.000 But like, do they have any remedy?

00:20:43.000 Like, can you tell people they have to get off the property?

00:20:45.000 I always just tell people, look, if you can tell me that you felt in fear of your own life, of serious physical injury or death, then you can use physical force.

00:20:55.000 A deadly force.

00:20:56.000 So, I wasn't kidding.

00:20:58.000 Like, they'll come in a suburban like yours or SUV like you've got.

00:21:02.000 They'll take out all the seats and they'll throw in 20, 25 people like Cordwood. 0.70

00:21:09.000 And they'll have a 17, 18-year-old driver go through there.

00:21:12.000 And occasionally, they get nervous.

00:21:15.000 They run into something and they all get killed or maimed.

00:21:20.000 And the obvious question is, well, gee, Sheriff, if you know where all these places are, why don't you have somebody out here to get him?

00:21:27.000 And his answer would be, there are a hundred of these.

00:21:29.000 Yeah.

00:21:30.000 You know what I mean?

00:21:31.000 Yeah.

00:21:32.000 And they've got, I think he's got six guys on his staff.

00:21:36.000 Cochise County has four guys or something like that on their staff that are designed for interdiction.

00:21:47.000 I had live PD with me one night.

00:21:49.000 And I followed a car back there.

00:21:51.000 And a guy gets out of the car.

00:21:53.000 I didn't have a reason to stop him.

00:21:54.000 So, I just got out and made contact with him.

00:21:57.000 And I started speaking Spanish to him.

00:21:59.000 And he was looking at me like, I'm speaking Chinese.

00:22:03.000 So, I said, do you speak Spanish?

00:22:06.000 I said that in Spanish.

00:22:07.000 He said, no.

00:22:08.000 And I said, do you speak English?

00:22:11.000 He's like, yeah.

00:22:12.000 And I go, where are you from?

00:22:13.000 And he says, I'm from Bahrain.

00:22:15.000 So, what is the guy doing at the first house you'd get to from Bahrain in the middle of the desert? 0.86

00:22:21.000 Easily, they could be bringing Middle Easterners up, drop them off there, and then putting them into our communities. 1.00

00:22:27.000 And then, if we catch them in the car, it's very hard.

00:22:34.000 Because if they all say it's not mine, you can maybe charge the person if it's at their feet.

00:22:40.000 You can charge that person.

00:22:42.000 You can't charge everybody in the car.

00:22:44.000 That's what they say on, you can't even charge the driver.

00:22:48.000 Because the driver's going to say, well, I didn't know it was back there.

00:22:50.000 This guy must have put it in here.

00:22:52.000 I thought that only worked on that bad boys cop show.

00:22:55.000 You know where else it works?

00:22:58.000 In the courts of liberal judges and liberal prosecutors.

00:23:01.000 That's where else it works.

00:23:03.000 It's always good seeing you.

00:23:04.000 Keep up.

00:23:05.000 Likewise, man.

00:23:06.000 Congrats on the marriage, man.

00:23:07.000 Thank you.

00:23:08.000 Thank you.

00:23:09.000 Thanks so much for joining us on Firebrand.

00:23:15.000 We need you engaged and active.

00:23:17.000 That's why you've got to make sure you're subscribed with notifications turned on.

00:23:21.000 Because you know what?

00:23:22.000 The fight rages on.

00:23:23.000 We need you in it.

00:23:24.000 We need you with us.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - March 24, 2022

Episode 32： On The Border – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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