The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 33 LIVE： Biden & America in Crisis (feat. Rep. Andy Biggs) – 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 in 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. You are in the right place.

00:00:31.000 This is the movement for you.

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

00:00:35.000 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.

00:00:48.000 They're coming for you.

00:00:50.000 I'm just in the way.

00:00:52.000 You know, just this week, Andy, in the House Armed Services Committee,

00:00:58.000 the Biden administration sent Dr. Celeste Wallander,

00:01:01.000 who is a top official at the Department of Defense,

00:01:04.000 to walk us through the force posture that America ought to consider in Europe.

00:01:09.000 And just get ready for the level of discomfort she had answering basic questions

00:01:15.000 about what you just described, the lack of competence in the United States president.

00:01:20.000 Take a listen.

00:01:22.000 For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.

00:01:28.000 And you're going to see when you're there, some time you've been there,

00:01:32.000 you're going to see, you're going to see women, young people standing, 1.00

00:01:35.000 standing in the middle of the front of a damn tank. 0.99

00:01:38.000 And to clarify on chemical weapons, could, if chemical weapons were used in Ukraine, 0.99

00:01:44.000 would that trigger a military response from NATO?

00:01:47.000 It would trigger a response in kind.

00:01:52.000 Dr. Wallander, we're not sending the 82nd Airborne into Ukraine, right?

00:01:57.000 Correct.

00:01:58.000 And regime change in Russia is not the policy of the United States, is it?

00:02:01.000 Correct.

00:02:02.000 And God forbid, if the Russians used chemical weapons,

00:02:05.000 we would not respond by using chemical weapons against the Russian people, right?

00:02:09.000 Correct.

00:02:10.000 So why does the president keep speaking out against U.S. policy?

00:02:14.000 Congressman, the president has made clear that he has not changed U.S. policy and regime change.

00:02:23.000 No, no, but why does he speak against it?

00:02:26.000 That he is appalled by the horrors, as I think we all are, of what Russia is wreaking in Ukraine. 0.50

00:02:35.000 But how could it not confuse our allies and our fellow Americans to have the president saying the exact opposite of what you just correctly defined as U.S. policy?

00:02:47.000 My understanding from allies is that they value U.S. leadership.

00:02:50.000 They are confident in American commitment to the NATO alliance,

00:02:55.000 and in particular the president's words that the United States will deter Russian attack against NATO and defend every inch of NATO territory.

00:03:04.000 That's all fascinating, but it doesn't get to the question of speaking directly against our policies.

00:03:10.000 Does the Department of Defense assess that the president is likely going forward to speak against U.S. policy on other matters?

00:03:18.000 Congressman, I can't speak to that. I don't believe that there is any such assessment.

00:03:24.000 Maybe should, I mean, do we have a plan in place for the next moment, right?

00:03:29.000 I mean, because this didn't happen once, it didn't happen twice, it happened three times on, like, highly consequential stuff,

00:03:34.000 like regime change and chemical weapons and sending our service members into Ukraine.

00:03:39.000 And so I sort of wonder whether or not we have to have contingency plans for a president who seems to be a little confused on those matters.

00:03:47.000 And you're saying there is no such contingency plan?

00:03:50.000 I'm telling you, Congressman, that the Department of Defense leadership is focused on sustaining

00:03:58.000 and advancing American national security policy of this administration.

00:04:02.000 Is the Department of Defense leadership frustrated by the president's statements against U.S. policy?

00:04:08.000 Congressman, I think that is an inappropriate characterization of the Defense Department's commitment.

00:04:13.000 But it's not a characterization. It's a question. Is the Department leadership frustrated?

00:04:17.000 I'm not characterizing. I'm trying to ascertain how hard this job must be to get our force posture aligned,

00:04:24.000 to get our information operations that Mr. Giramendi asked about in line,

00:04:28.000 when you've got a president who seems to be misaligned on these key questions.

00:04:33.000 Congressman, I can only speak for myself. I think it's appropriate.

00:04:37.000 I mean, it's a you have the right to ask the question. And so speaking for myself, I'm sorry, but you can't.

00:04:42.000 I am the witness. If you ask a question, you've got to give her at least five seconds to say something before you then interrupt.

00:04:49.000 Badgering the witness and it was that badgering to you to ask the Department of Defense how they intend to deal with what is likely to occur in the future.

00:04:57.000 I mean, we've seen it on three big things. But do you think we've seen the last of Joe Biden speaking against U.S. policy?

00:05:04.000 No. First of all, you were not badgering the witness. I thought you were overly kind to the witness, to be honest with you.

00:05:10.000 I mean, she clearly did not want to answer an incredibly uncomfortable question like, yeah, we think our bosses is losing it.

00:05:17.000 OK, I mean, that's really what you're asking and in a very nice diplomatic way.

00:05:22.000 And she didn't want to answer that. But but yeah, you're going to see more.

00:05:25.000 I just wrote a piece about how would you like to be the cleanup team behind Joe Biden?

00:05:30.000 And then when you go out there, he says, I'm we're walking it back.

00:05:33.000 And then he says, I'm not walking it back. But when you when you talk about the cleanup on aisle Biden, every day.

00:05:40.000 Exactly. Yeah. They got that mop bucket on wheels, rolling it around the.

00:05:44.000 But do we need better preparation and planning for the likelihood this is going to continue?

00:05:50.000 Because I think you see just a series of these foreign policy failures from Afghanistan to the inability to contain Vladimir Putin.

00:05:58.000 We all know that big problems are coming with China. We focus on those issues a great deal.

00:06:03.000 And so how should our own government think about preparing for the inevitability of these Biden gaffes and walkbacks?

00:06:11.000 Well, they're going to happen. So so I think the American people now know that that he's he's degenerating.

00:06:20.000 OK, he's mentally having difficulties. He can't get it out.

00:06:24.000 So when I look at it, I'm much more concerned about what you just mentioned, which is what do our opponents think?

00:06:32.000 What do what do our foes, our enemies think? What is what what does Putin think?

00:06:36.000 I think the fact that Afghanistan went so bad and that Biden appears to be so incompetent and weak emboldened Putin.

00:06:45.000 I think the same thing with Xi Jinping. I mean, these these things we knew were potential, but they were at bay under a very strong leader in President Trump.

00:06:54.000 But under a weak leader, you got Kim Jong Un, who's firing ICBMs over Japan on a regular basis.

00:07:00.000 Now you've got you've got India being forced and pushed into the arms of China now when they had a shooting war going on on the border between India and China.

00:07:09.000 And and Biden says we're going to sanction you when you start looking the international policy perspective.

00:07:15.000 There's probably been I can't think of a more, quite frankly, incompetent leader than Joe Biden, an American leader than Joe Biden.

00:07:24.000 I can think of a few other foreign leaders, but not a more incompetent American leader.

00:07:28.000 And speaking of a lack of competence, we really are watching in Ukraine, Russia, unable to bring all of the elements to the fight together at once.

00:07:38.000 You know, I mean, we understand that when when America goes into the fight, you've got your ground assets, your air assets, your cyber assets, your information assets that you all have.

00:07:47.000 You have to coordinate their entry to the fight. And the lack of command and control, the lack of material support seems to maybe have led us to the belief that that we could have overestimated Russia in that in that same armed services hearing.

00:08:02.000 We saw Congressman Norcross, a Democrat, ask the question of General Waller, who commands American forces in Europe.

00:08:10.000 Have we misunderstood Russia? Take a listen.

00:08:14.000 Have we overestimated and outside of the Ukrainian resistance and what they're doing in the fight?

00:08:21.000 Have we overestimated their technical abilities, particularly with their Russian armor?

00:08:28.000 We may have, Congressman.

00:08:31.000 And I think once we get to the post conflict phase, we need to go back to these very areas and make sure that we conduct a comprehensive old domain after action review and find out where our miscalculations were.

00:08:43.000 We're in our forecast.

00:08:47.000 I mean, you always get the most candid version of these generals when they're on their way out of command.

00:08:53.000 So General Waller has been in Europe that time is set to conclude.

00:08:58.000 And I think he gave a very accurate assessment.

00:09:00.000 And so what questions do we need to be asking in Congress if our own national security intelligence and analysis told us that the Afghanistan government led by Ghani was going to stand, but that Russia was going to in a matter of days or weeks just totally overrun Ukraine?

00:09:20.000 I mean, don't we have an obligation to the people as the board of directors of this country to ensure that we have more accurate assessments of the enemy?

00:09:29.000 Yeah, I think we do.

00:09:30.000 Yeah, I think we do.

00:09:31.000 And I'm glad you brought up Afghanistan and the bad IC intelligence community prognostications there.

00:09:38.000 And it makes me, quite frankly, as I listen to that, it certainly appears that it's the case that Russia, we may have overestimated Russia.

00:09:46.500 But at the same token, Russia sat there in not the wisest position with a 40-mile long caravan for like five days. 0.73

00:09:58.080 And Ukraine basically inflicted very little damage on that convoy.

00:10:02.820 So I wonder now even, this is how twisted you can get in this, is the intelligence good now that Russia really is not advancing and poised to actually overrun Ukraine?

00:10:16.540 Inevitably? Or what? I mean, you see what I'm saying? It's just, how do you trust them?

00:10:21.860 Well, and you and I fight in the Judiciary Committee every day to ensure that these national security authorities, these tools that we expected to use against foreign adversaries and terrorists, aren't turned inward against our own people.

00:10:35.280 So, I mean, you know, here we are kind of evaluating the national security apparatus at a 10,000-foot view, and you're saying, wait a second, you're seeking new authorities and new departments

00:10:43.880 and new ways to target parents at school board meetings, to politicize the Department of Justice.

00:10:48.980 And yet on these like highly consequential questions about Russia's capabilities, about the Afghanistan government's capabilities, we seem to be swinging and missing.

00:10:57.940 I want to go from Ukraine's border to ours. 1.00

00:11:01.160 And for our viewers, you need to know this, Andy Biggs has led more congressional trips to the border than anyone else in the Congress.

00:11:09.600 And when there are key questions up before the Congress on matters of immigration and border security, I sit near Andy on the floor.

00:11:16.380 Everyone comes around to get his perspective.

00:11:18.560 And you really are on a one-man mission to evangelize this Congress about the threat that exists on our southern border.

00:11:25.700 For people who aren't as dialed in on this, first just walk us through, during the Biden presidency, how many people have come into our country illegally, and what are you seeing going forward?

00:11:35.680 The estimates anywhere from two and a half to three million people have come in illegally.

00:11:40.600 Already.

00:11:41.200 Already.

00:11:41.980 Already.

00:11:42.440 They're here.

00:11:42.980 That's in 14 months.

00:11:44.920 We believe that it's a 1.2 million people actually remain here.

00:11:49.040 It could be as high as 1.8 million.

00:11:51.200 But the reality is for folks at home, you need to understand we have ports of entry.

00:11:55.280 That's where you would go if you were legally, if you're interested in actually claiming asylum, you'd go there and you'd say, I'm claiming asylum.

00:12:02.060 We have customs officers, everything else.

00:12:04.100 Everything else is between ports, and there are miles and miles of open stuff, you know, open borders.

00:12:11.400 Some fencing here, some fencing there, a Rio Grande River.

00:12:15.640 But this administration basically has said, we're going to allow everybody to come in, and we'll determine at that point whether we're going to send you back or not.

00:12:25.740 But if we decide to keep you even for a few hours, they're going to transport you somewhere in the country.

00:12:30.600 What you identified there that's so true is that this is on purpose.

00:12:34.620 This is not that we don't know how to solve the problem.

00:12:38.040 There are purposeful steps that have been taken by Secretary Mayorkas, who you have introduced articles of impeachment against.

00:12:45.760 And regarding Joe Biden, I guess a border czar Kamala Harris hasn't figured it out quite either.

00:12:50.000 But, you know, when you lead these trips to the border, we get the raw, unvarnished truth from the people who America relies upon to provide our nation security and protection.

00:13:02.020 I want – this is from Code L Biggs.

00:13:06.520 We have a border chief telling us about how the Biden policies compare to the Trump policies.

00:13:13.400 Take a listen.

00:13:16.080 Are we on a positive trajectory or given the likelihood of this change in authorities on April 1?

00:13:21.780 Are you telling me that we're at the front end of the wave with those numbers?

00:13:25.240 I think we're – so there is no doubt, I'm speaking a matter of fact here, that the policies that we had in 2019 and 2020 when it comes down to the Remain in Mexico, the Migrant Protection Protocol, the third-party asylum,

00:13:41.040 all those things that were done that was – that minimized the reward opportunity for the migrants, when those were put in place, that made a huge impact.

00:13:54.140 When those were taken away, here they come.

00:13:57.420 So the only thing we have now is either a physical barrier where it exists, a CDC expulsion authorization under Title 42, or space in ERO's capacity, which is very limited, right?

00:14:11.320 So without any of those, it ain't going to happen.

00:14:15.000 It's only going to get worse, right?

00:14:18.660 Only going to get worse, Andy Biggs.

00:14:21.520 Tomorrow is April 1.

00:14:22.820 What's going to happen?

00:14:24.480 Well, it's already started to happen.

00:14:26.480 So what's going to happen is Title 42 goes away.

00:14:29.940 For people who don't know what that is, that is the ability to turn people away based on a health reason, and in this instance, it's COVID.

00:14:38.820 And I remember when you were fighting hard for this because you thought, well, hell, if we're going to have to deal with lockdowns as a result of COVID, can the border be the first thing we lock down?

00:14:49.000 Exactly right.

00:14:50.040 And so CDC finally, under Trump, came out and said, you know, Title 42 enacted, we've got a COVID situation.

00:14:56.900 So they started turning people away.

00:14:59.000 I'll give you an example.

00:15:00.040 And sending them back, right?

00:15:01.080 Yeah, sending them back.

00:15:02.040 Sending them back home to – and we just basically said no.

00:15:05.160 Novel concept.

00:15:05.640 Yeah, novel concept.

00:15:06.980 So the first two weeks in March, 100,000 people were apprehended at the border.

00:15:13.000 Two weeks, 100,000 people.

00:15:15.440 Of those 100,000 people, we turned away about 49,000 of them under Title 42.

00:15:23.840 We just sent them away.

00:15:25.780 We brought in about 50,000, a little over 50,000 under Title 8, which is – we won't get into that.

00:15:31.720 But – and those people are now distributed throughout the country.

00:15:35.380 What's going to happen when Title 42 goes away in that same two-week period?

00:15:39.900 Everybody would be coming in.

00:15:41.360 They'd be allowed to come in.

00:15:42.600 And they'd be transported throughout the country.

00:15:44.820 That is what we call a pull factor, an incentive for people to come.

00:15:48.060 The cartels know it.

00:15:49.100 They advertise that.

00:15:50.460 NGOs advertise that.

00:15:51.040 So they've been preparing.

00:15:52.380 Oh, yes.

00:15:52.980 The smugglers and the cartels have been preparing for tomorrow.

00:15:56.980 Yeah.

00:15:57.520 Make a prediction for me.

00:15:58.360 How many people are going to come across this border illegally in the month of April?

00:16:01.940 Well, at least – you want everybody known and unknown?

00:16:05.240 Yeah.

00:16:05.920 Oh, about 350,000 to 400,000 people.

00:16:09.860 It is demoralizing to hear that because it means we have no border.

00:16:14.980 And that's you and I discussing it from the comfort of my Washington office.

00:16:19.800 The morale of the heroes who are out there wanting to work for CBP is degrading in very dangerous ways.

00:16:29.080 They have people like AOC and the squad calling them racist and evil.

00:16:34.300 But these are patriots.

00:16:35.940 And I want you to hear from one of them and react.

00:16:38.640 You know, it's different when we're catching 100,000 pounds of marijuana and 50,000 pounds of Kilo or Coke and we're putting people in jail.

00:16:49.800 That's a whole different busy.

00:16:51.480 That's a fun busy.

00:16:52.860 That's calling your wife saying I'm working a double shift busy. 0.63

00:16:55.840 Not I'm doing my eight and I'm getting out of here busy.

00:16:58.840 So, by all means, you're going to say something.

00:17:00.580 And just to piggyback on you, it's exactly correct.

00:17:03.840 Like, for example, me, I came, I'm a veteran, right?

00:17:06.660 You have that mindset of protect and serve, right?

00:17:10.700 So, you get out of here and you're full of pride.

00:17:13.960 As an instructor at the academy, you say, hey, this is why you're here, guys.

00:17:18.860 This is, we, we're border security, right?

00:17:21.260 And then when the job becomes immigration, you're sitting there behind a computer and you're processing, you're processing, you're processing.

00:17:29.000 And then you see the different kind of demographic.

00:17:31.120 Also, you know, you have women in high heels from, you know, well-off countries and they're coming in. 0.99

00:17:37.580 You just became that guy punching, you know.

00:17:41.440 So, your whole mindset switches.

00:17:43.260 And I feel the frustration of our agents that come with that same mindset.

00:17:47.760 And they go to the academy and they're built.

00:17:49.300 That mindset is built and our sense of pride as agents.

00:17:53.460 And then they come here and they see what reality has become.

00:17:57.640 Your reaction to an Arizonan feeling that way about their job?

00:18:02.480 Well, he's very typical.

00:18:04.560 The morale is in the tank.

00:18:06.800 People are busting their buns.

00:18:08.680 They get no support.

00:18:10.200 They tell me, they say, Andy, we get no support.

00:18:12.860 We don't need, we don't need more money, no more salary.

00:18:15.320 We don't need more guns, vests.

00:18:17.360 What we need is policy. 0.87

00:18:19.300 Change the frickin' policy.

00:18:22.080 And the policies that are really harming our border security are really, that executive order Joe Biden signed on day one.

00:18:29.460 I mean, you know, your team drove me by millions of dollars of wall that is just laid up in the sand in Arizona that could be stood up to provide protection.

00:18:40.500 And I mean, the morale wasn't this way under President Trump.

00:18:43.260 They knew Trump had their back.

00:18:45.660 And, you know, it's really something.

00:18:47.120 I think it's going to be a very ugly month.

00:18:48.680 I mean, is this going to be one of the worst months we've faced with the cartels and smugglers preparing for it?

00:18:53.620 Yeah.

00:18:54.660 But it'll, it's, you're just at the start of the busy season.

00:18:57.720 So it's going to get worse every month, every month thereafter.

00:19:01.920 So the Biden administration is trying to put a, you know, a gloss on this thing.

00:19:06.480 It's going to get worse, Matt.

00:19:07.400 I mean, and the reality is you've got caravans that are already forming as far away as Panama and Colombia, and they're getting ready to come on up.

00:19:17.580 And it's going to be a steady stream of people, and this administration is doing nothing to prepare for it.

00:19:25.840 I do think the Republican conference is waking up.

00:19:28.380 You know, I mean, Congressman Biggs and I sit in a particular place on the floor with a lot more of the conservative thinking, Freedom Caucus-minded folks, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:19:39.460 Those are the folks that are kind of in our vicinity.

00:19:41.560 And yesterday, our good friend, who might not see the world precisely as we do, he aligns more with some of the more centrist caucuses.

00:19:51.020 Congressman Jeff Van Drew, great guy, terrific public servant.

00:19:54.460 And he comes over and sits with us and says, I asked him, I said, Jeff, you know, when we take over, what's the most important fight we've got to win on behalf of our people?

00:20:04.220 And he said, the border.

00:20:05.560 And what does it tell you that a former Democrat, more moderate-leaning Republican from New Jersey, no less, understands this is the most important fight?

00:20:14.660 And we did not prompt him on that.

00:20:15.940 Yeah, I mean, the reality, Matt, is I'm reading stories even that moderate Democrats are complaining to Biden.

00:20:22.900 And you've got Arizona senators who are not necessarily moderate, who are asking Biden, please do something.

00:20:29.360 And they're asking him, don't remove Title 42.

00:20:32.180 Keep 42 in place, because otherwise it's hopeless.

00:20:36.880 So we need to keep Title 42 in place.

00:20:39.480 And there's someone else we need to keep in place.

00:20:41.660 And that is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

00:20:44.280 There has been a very focused, well-resourced, planned-out campaign to destroy Justice Thomas, one of the very best public servants we have, probably the best member of the Supreme Court we have in this country.

00:20:59.180 Take a listen to how the mainstream media is trying to set up Clarence Thomas' recusal, maybe even resignation.

00:21:05.700 I'm curious if you believe Justice Thomas, these text messages that have come out from Jenny Thomas to the former White House chief of staff, saying some bizarre conspiratorial things.

00:21:18.300 It's not against the law to believe in conspiratorial things.

00:21:22.280 But I'm curious, given the precedent that Loretta Lynch, as attorney general, when she recused herself after a tarmac meeting with former President Clinton, the Justice Department was looking into something involving Hillary Clinton, is that a precedent Justice Thomas should follow and recuse himself on January 6th cases?

00:21:39.840 The fact that a spouse of a Supreme Court justice was part of that QAnon effort is really disturbing.

00:21:46.340 I think Justice Thomas has to recuse himself from anything related to the Trump administration, anything related to the January 6th commission, or anything related to our effort to hold individuals accountable for their participation in this attack on our democracy at the bare minimum.

00:22:04.280 Senator Klobuchar made a pretty powerful case, it seemed, for Thomas to recuse himself. Do you agree with that?

00:22:09.180 You know, when Judge Roberts, Justice Roberts, concluded that a press report of the exchange between Mr. Gorsuch and Ms. Sotomayor was in error, the Supreme Court put out a statement.

00:22:24.380 Right.

00:22:24.740 I would hope that they would put out a statement.

00:22:27.000 Now.

00:22:27.300 A statement saying what?

00:22:28.240 A statement to the fact that the judge, Justice Thomas, would recuse himself on any cases involving the January 6th.

00:22:39.560 But that's not the court to say, that's Thomas to say, right?

00:22:42.140 Yes, it is, but I still believe that there needs to be a statement.

00:22:46.140 Look, I think she was unhinged.

00:22:48.320 I know she's a conservative activist. 0.63

00:22:50.480 I'm an activist.

00:22:51.620 Yeah, it seemed a little unhinged.

00:22:52.620 But boy, that went really over the top.

00:22:54.700 Andy, this is not just a smear attempt.

00:22:59.200 This is a smear attempt with a very specific and focused goal, to get Clarence Thomas off the court.

00:23:06.260 Your reaction?

00:23:07.500 Well, they want to basically impeach him is the ultimate thing.

00:23:13.040 Because they want him off the court, and you're exactly right.

00:23:14.760 Why do they want him off the court?

00:23:16.020 But I came to the conclusion many years ago that there's nothing more important to the left in America than abortion and protecting Roe v. Wade.

00:23:26.360 And they're scared to death that Clarence Thomas, if he stays, that there's a potential that Roe v. Wade.

00:23:30.440 You think this is about Roe.

00:23:31.620 You don't think this is about January 6th.

00:23:33.400 No, not at all.

00:23:34.100 You think this is really about abortion.

00:23:35.200 Absolutely right.

00:23:36.520 Wow.

00:23:37.560 That's a hot take, Andy.

00:23:38.660 It is a hot take, but I think that's where it is.

00:23:40.880 Look, they don't care about the January 6th thing.

00:23:44.160 January 6th, you're arguing, is a veneer.

00:23:46.720 That it is the tool that they are using to try to block changes that they ultimately think are coming from a court that is likely to overturn Roe.

00:23:55.120 Exactly right.

00:23:56.260 I mean, look, think about January 6th.

00:23:58.720 You've got an illegitimate committee in Congress.

00:24:01.460 They have no real authority.

00:24:03.940 The Supreme Court is not probably going to ever weigh into that political issue.

00:24:08.200 They're using it as a distraction just so they can bring him in and say, oh, see here, you know, we want to get rid of you.

00:24:15.520 So he's not there on Roe v. Wade issues.

00:24:19.520 That's what I believe.

00:24:20.760 That would be deeply sinister, but it shows the depths that the left is willing to go to with a total assist from the mainstream media.

00:24:28.160 Absolutely.

00:24:28.400 You saw Chuck Todd, Donna Brazile, they were lined up, ready to kind of set up Ocasio-Cortez and the left to make this impeachment push.

00:24:37.080 If that impeachment comes, it'll be in the House Judiciary Committee.

00:24:39.760 You could bet Andy Biggs and I'll be there to defend Justice Thomas.

00:24:42.560 Absolutely.

00:24:43.160 100%.

00:24:43.760 Joe Biden released his budget.

00:24:46.000 This is something that I think shows the values, priorities, goals, and objectives of his administration.

00:24:51.880 Some key points that stood out to me, raising the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28%, driving American dollars offshore.

00:25:00.940 Of course, President Trump inherited the largest corporate tax rate in the world at 35%.

00:25:05.460 We also see gun control in the Biden budget.

00:25:08.440 $1.7 billion for ATF to continue their tracking and tracing of the gun sales that occur in our country that are not the business of the federal government.

00:25:19.240 And then you and I are very America first when it comes to foreign policy.

00:25:23.100 We stand frequently against the corrosive effects of globalism.

00:25:26.400 $2.6 billion in the Biden budget for global gender equity.

00:25:31.580 $200 million for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund.

00:25:35.200 $1.8 billion for USAID.

00:25:38.540 Andy Biggs, your reaction to the Biden budget?

00:25:40.580 Well, the Biden budget is a total fiscal non-starter.

00:25:44.720 It's malpractice all the way through.

00:25:47.760 And I can't let this go without just mentioning, because you mentioned what I consider to be some of the most horrific parts of it.

00:25:55.040 But the waste and fraud and the improper payments will continue to go out.

00:26:03.100 And if they were a single funding unit of this budget, they would be the fifth largest funding portion of this budget.

00:26:12.660 In other words, explain to people how fraud is actually number five in terms of what the American budget funds under the Biden plan.

00:26:20.500 Yeah, so you're going to fund things like Medicare, Medicaid, you're going to fund the Defense Department, you're going to fund, then you start getting into things like our debt, and then you get into fraud and waste.

00:26:32.900 Wow.

00:26:33.520 And that's where it is.

00:26:34.520 Right after debt service?

00:26:35.580 Yeah, basically, yeah.

00:26:36.760 Unbelievable.

00:26:37.200 How much money in the budget should go to USAID?

00:26:41.980 Zero.

00:26:42.840 How much money should go to the UN?

00:26:45.000 Oh, no, we should not be a member of the UN.

00:26:47.700 Oh, you know, the Biden budget fully funds the UN commitment.

00:26:51.080 Yeah.

00:26:51.420 Well, they probably fully fund WHO and all these other multilateral institutions.

00:26:55.420 World Bank?

00:26:55.920 Yeah.

00:26:56.200 $1.4 billion for the World Bank?

00:26:58.000 You think that's building anything in your neighborhood?

00:27:00.000 No, it ain't touching.

00:27:01.560 It ain't helping America.

00:27:02.920 Let's put it that way.

00:27:03.620 None of those multilaterals give a rip about America except for they want our money. 0.90

00:27:06.840 When we get the majority back, will we write a budget that balances?

00:27:11.040 Heavens no.

00:27:11.860 Now, you and I are going to want to, but...

00:27:14.680 But you have such low confidence in Republicans and the majority that you do not believe that they will present a balanced budget.

00:27:19.960 No.

00:27:20.420 They'll say, we're going to balance it in 8, 10, 12 years, and this is how we're going to get there, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:27:27.260 Aspirational balance.

00:27:28.480 Aspirational balance.

00:27:29.400 But they never want to make the hard decisions, and that's what it takes.

00:27:33.760 I remember when Paul Ryan told us that the budget wasn't real.

00:27:37.920 Yeah, I do too.

00:27:38.780 And so we should just be willing to vote for an unbalanced budget.

00:27:41.760 And we asked the question of Paul Ryan, the former budget chair, well, if the budget isn't real, could it at least balance?

00:27:48.220 Exactly right.

00:27:49.140 We couldn't even get the not real budget to balance.

00:27:51.920 Yeah, and, well, I don't want to get the roots of this thing, but, I mean, when you and I were there, and he said that, I could not believe what I was hearing.

00:28:04.280 But the idea was because we needed to do it with all these crazy procedures and processes to do another bad bill that they wanted to do because he said the Senate won't do it.

00:28:14.740 But I am so sick and tired of that excuse, well, the Senate's not going to do it.

00:28:18.600 How about we and members of the House do our job and then put the pressure on those guys?

00:28:24.760 Members of the House, do your job.

00:28:26.980 Andy Biggs told you how to do it.

00:28:28.240 Secure the border.

00:28:29.340 Balance the budget.

00:28:30.560 Protect folks like Clarence Thomas who are advancing the interests of American liberty.

00:28:34.480 And let's make sure that in Ukraine we don't have a president who is falling and stumbling all over himself, all over the world.

00:28:42.980 Andy, thanks for being here for this historic moment.

00:28:45.140 I want to thank our congressional staff, particularly our communications team led by Joel Valdez, for putting together the show.

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00:29:04.480 The chain of custody, how it was introduced to the Judiciary Committee, you won't want to miss it.

00:29:09.020 Thanks for joining.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - March 31, 2022

Episode 33 LIVE： Biden & America in Crisis (feat. Rep. Andy Biggs) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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