The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - April 04, 2022


Episode 35 LIVE： Woke Deterrence – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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integrated deterrence in Ukraine
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Matt Gaetz
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Hunter Biden Austin Milley Vladimir Putin Paulina Luna Mark Milley Joe Biden Mike Gallagher Ron Klain Ghani Obama Bob Woodward Jay Jones Deborah Trump Assad Linda Marjorie Taylor Greene George Stephanopoulos and 14 more
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The Biden crime family is getting exposed, and there is much more to come on this story. The Biden Crime Family has been brought to the table by the media, and now the question is, who is responsible for bringing them to the surface?

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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
00:00:09.000 on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:11.000 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 the 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 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.
00:00:52.000 We also know the Justice Department is intensifying its investigation
00:00:57.000 under Hunter Biden, the president's son.
00:00:59.000 I assume the president has had no contact with the Justice Department about that?
00:01:04.000 Neither the president or any of us at the White House
00:01:06.000 have had any contact with the Justice Department about that.
00:01:09.000 Is the president confident Hunter Biden didn't break the law?
00:01:12.000 Of course, the president's confident that his son didn't break the law.
00:01:18.000 But most importantly, as I said, that's a matter that's going to be decided
00:01:21.000 by the Justice Department, by the legal process.
00:01:23.000 It's something that no one at the White House has involvement in.
00:01:25.000 Wow. There it is.
00:01:30.000 The White House on Sunday sending the message that the president will not be happy
00:01:35.000 if Hunter Biden is prosecuted.
00:01:38.000 Now, they chose this exact moment yesterday with George Stephanopoulos to send the message.
00:01:43.000 The White House knows that every cabinet secretary will see that interview with Ron Klain.
00:01:50.000 Ron Klain is the White House chief of staff.
00:01:52.000 He could have said it wasn't appropriate for the White House chief of staff
00:01:55.000 to be commenting on the Hunter Biden investigation.
00:01:58.000 But he didn't.
00:02:00.000 Just as a human, Ron Klain could have said it's not appropriate for any man
00:02:04.000 to comment on how a father views his son.
00:02:08.000 But he didn't do that either.
00:02:10.000 He said, of course, President Biden believes that Hunter Biden did not commit a crime.
00:02:16.000 That was a message, a very direct one.
00:02:19.000 Protect Hunter Biden.
00:02:21.000 They know we've got the laptop in the congressional record.
00:02:24.000 The Russian disinformation narrative has totally collapsed.
00:02:28.000 The Biden crime family is getting exposed and there is much more to come on this story.
00:02:34.000 Welcome to Firebrand.
00:02:35.000 We are live.
00:02:36.000 We're broadcasting from the Longworth House office building.
00:02:39.000 And it's just great to have you.
00:02:41.000 This is our Instagram debut.
00:02:43.000 Our audience continues to grow each and every live show.
00:02:46.000 Nobody else in Congress doing this simulcasting on multiple platforms,
00:02:51.000 getting you the information directly.
00:02:53.000 And then you have it first.
00:02:54.000 So it's a big week coming up in Congress.
00:02:57.000 The war in Ukraine is raging on.
00:02:59.000 And Putin is clearly changing his goals in that conflict.
00:03:02.000 As we continue to see some pullback from the outskirts of Kyiv,
00:03:07.000 concentration in the Donbass region,
00:03:10.000 it's pretty evident that Putin is playing a worse hand now in eastern Ukraine
00:03:15.000 than he would have had had he not engaged in this terrible violence
00:03:20.000 and bombing in Kyiv and Kharkiv and other areas to the west.
00:03:25.000 I mean, there are a lot of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.
00:03:29.000 And I believe that Vladimir Putin has really damaged his campaign in eastern Ukraine
00:03:35.000 as a consequence of what he's done in the north and the south and in the west.
00:03:39.000 And we'll continue to cheer on those Ukrainians who are on the front lines of freedom for sure.
00:03:44.000 But tomorrow, the woke generals, Millie and Austin,
00:03:49.000 are testifying before the House Armed Services Committee.
00:03:52.000 I am going to have a lot of questions.
00:03:54.000 You look at what's going on in Afghanistan, Ukraine, North Korea, China.
00:03:59.000 It seems as though America's hand continues to get worse in those places
00:04:03.000 compared to the strength during the Trump administration
00:04:06.000 and during really the embrace of the America First agenda.
00:04:09.000 I've also got in this show an interview with Ana Paulina Luna.
00:04:13.000 She's an Air Force veteran.
00:04:14.000 She served in northwest Florida in my district.
00:04:17.000 And she's also a military spouse.
00:04:19.000 So we get her perspective on what military families are expecting from their DOD leadership.
00:04:26.000 So tomorrow, I get five minutes to question Millie and Austin.
00:04:30.000 I probably could spend five days doing that, but I get five minutes.
00:04:34.000 So let's crowdsource some questions.
00:04:36.000 We've got our comment screen.
00:04:38.000 If you're watching, throw a question you'd love to see me ask Millie and Austin in.
00:04:42.000 And maybe it'll be your question that I end up asking during the Armed Services Committee.
00:04:47.000 It certainly helps to get all the input I can get.
00:04:50.000 But first, let's go back to the last opportunity I had to question the woke generals.
00:04:57.000 This is from the House Armed Services Committee.
00:05:00.000 Take a listen.
00:05:02.000 February 26, 2020.
00:05:04.000 House Armed Services General Mark Millie.
00:05:06.000 We know we're not going to defeat the Taliban militarily, 0.94
00:05:09.000 and they're not going to defeat the government of Afghanistan militarily.
00:05:13.000 You really blew that call, didn't you, General?
00:05:19.000 I believe that that was an issue of strategic stalemate,
00:05:22.000 and that if we had remained in Afghanistan with the advisory levels of effort,
00:05:27.000 then the government of Afghanistan and the Afghan security forces.
00:05:29.000 Well, that's an interesting answer to a question.
00:05:30.000 It's just not one I asked.
00:05:31.000 You spent more time with Bob Woodward on this book
00:05:35.000 than you spent analyzing the very likely prospect
00:05:39.000 that the Afghanistan government was going to fall immediately to the Taliban, didn't you?
00:05:43.000 Not even close, Congressman.
00:05:44.000 Oh, really?
00:05:45.000 Because you said right after Kabul fell that no one could have anticipated
00:05:48.000 the immediate fall of the Ghani government.
00:05:50.000 When did you become aware that Joe Biden tried to get Ghani to lie
00:05:54.000 about the conditions in Afghanistan?
00:05:56.000 He did that in July.
00:05:57.000 Did you know that right away?
00:05:58.000 I'm not aware of what President Biden...
00:06:02.000 You're not aware of the phone call that Biden had with Ghani where he said,
00:06:05.000 whether it is true or not, we want you to go out there
00:06:08.000 and paint a rosy picture of what's going on in Afghanistan.
00:06:10.000 You're the chief military advisor to the president.
00:06:12.000 You said that the Taliban was not going to defeat the government of Afghanistan militarily,
00:06:17.000 which, by the way, they cut through him like a hot knife through butter,
00:06:20.000 and then the president tries to get Ghani to lie.
00:06:22.000 When did you become aware of that attempt?
00:06:24.000 Well, there's two things there, Congressman, if I may.
00:06:26.000 One is what I said was the situation was stalemate,
00:06:31.000 and if we kept advisers with there, the government of Afghanistan
00:06:34.000 and the army would have still been there.
00:06:37.000 That's what I said.
00:06:38.000 Whether that's right or wrong, I don't know, but...
00:06:40.000 It seems wrong now with the Taliban in control.
00:06:41.000 Well, we withdrew all the advice.
00:06:42.000 I have a question for Secretary Austin.
00:06:43.000 Secretary Austin, are you capable of assessing whether another has the will to fight?
00:06:49.000 No, we're not, and that's the point that the chairman made earlier.
00:06:56.000 That's just, like, an incredibly disappointing thing for the secretary of defense to simply say,
00:07:02.000 I can't assess whether someone has the will to fight.
00:07:04.000 But it is consistent with your record.
00:07:06.000 I mean, during the Obama administration, I think they gave you about $48 million to go train up some folks in Syria
00:07:12.000 to go take on the Assad government, and I think your testimony was that only four or five survived first contact with the enemy.
00:07:18.000 So what confidence should this committee have in you or should the country have in you when you've now confessed to us,
00:07:24.000 and whether it's the swing and a miss in Afghanistan that General Milley talked to the Senate about yesterday,
00:07:29.000 total failure, or whether it was your failures in Syria,
00:07:33.000 you don't seem capable to look at a fighting force and determine whether or not they have the will.
00:07:38.000 Is that an embarrassing...
00:07:39.000 Well, you recall, Congressman, that the end result was a...
00:07:43.000 the SDF that we stood up that was very, very instrumental in turning the tide of battle up in Syria.
00:07:52.000 Oh, yeah, turned it so much.
00:07:54.000 You've got Assad in power in Syria.
00:07:56.000 You've got the Taliban in power in Afghanistan.
00:07:58.000 I mean, where have you been?
00:08:00.000 The focus was...
00:08:01.000 The focus was ISIS, Congressman.
00:08:03.000 And we...
00:08:04.000 And those forces had significant effect on the ISIS network.
00:08:09.000 It just seems like you're chronically bad at this.
00:08:12.000 And you have admitted that, I guess, which is to your credit.
00:08:16.000 But, you know, when...
00:08:18.000 When people in the military, like Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller,
00:08:22.000 stand up and demand accountability,
00:08:24.000 when they say that you all screwed up,
00:08:26.000 when they point out that General Milley's statement that the...
00:08:28.000 You know, that the government of Afghanistan is not going to get defeated by the Taliban,
00:08:32.000 well, he ends up in the brig.
00:08:34.000 And you all end up in front of us.
00:08:36.000 And your former employer, Raytheon, ends up with a lot of money.
00:08:39.000 And we have poured cash and blood and credibility into a Ghani government that was a mirage. 1.00
00:08:46.000 It fell immediately.
00:08:47.000 And while the guy sitting next to you was off, you know, talking to Phil Rucker
00:08:51.000 and was off doing his thing with Bob Woodward,
00:08:55.000 we were buying into the big lie.
00:08:57.000 The big lie that this was ever going to be successful
00:09:00.000 and that we could ever rely on the Afghanistan government for anything at all.
00:09:04.000 You know, General Milley, you kind of gave up the game earlier
00:09:06.000 when you said you wanted to address elements of your personal conduct
00:09:10.000 that were in question.
00:09:11.000 We're not questioning your personal conduct.
00:09:13.000 We're questioning, in your official capacity,
00:09:17.000 going and undermining the chain of command, which is obviously what you did.
00:09:21.000 You've created this whole chain of communication narrative.
00:09:23.000 Did not undermine the chain of command in any manner to perform.
00:09:25.000 Yeah, you did. You absolutely did.
00:09:26.000 Did not.
00:09:27.000 Well, you know what?
00:09:30.000 You said yesterday that you weren't going to resign when senators asked you this question.
00:09:35.000 And I believe that you guys probably won't resign.
00:09:38.000 You seem to be very happy failing up over there.
00:09:42.000 But if we didn't have a president that was so addled, you all would be fired
00:09:47.000 because that is what you deserve.
00:09:49.000 You have let down the people who wear the uniform in my district 0.95
00:09:52.000 and all around this country.
00:09:53.000 And you're far more interested in what your perception is
00:09:57.000 and how people think about you in insider Washington books
00:10:00.000 than you care about winning.
00:10:01.000 Thelman's time has expired.
00:10:03.000 That's what people are doing.
00:10:07.000 Linda says that if I've only got five minutes, I better talk fast.
00:10:10.000 Dina says, I need more than five minutes.
00:10:13.000 And you know what?
00:10:14.000 I totally would do that.
00:10:15.000 Every member gets five minutes on the committee, Republican and Democrat,
00:10:18.000 and you can bet I'm going to be the one asking the toughest questions,
00:10:22.000 just as you saw right there.
00:10:24.000 Florence just responded with four angry face emojis. 1.00
00:10:28.000 So I don't know if Florence is angry at me or General Milley,
00:10:31.000 but I will try to channel her energy to make sure that we have an effective committee day tomorrow.
00:10:36.000 We're back live now in my congressional office in Washington, D.C.
00:10:40.000 If you're watching now, just take one moment and turn your notifications on.
00:10:44.000 This is the way you get the live shows, the fastest access to the critical information driving Congress.
00:10:51.000 We're going to be doing these a lot.
00:10:53.000 We want to make sure you get that critical information.
00:10:55.000 So tomorrow I get to question Millie and Austin, just as I did in the clip we played.
00:11:00.000 And one concern is this notion of integrated deterrence.
00:11:05.000 Think of integrated deterrence like woke deterrence.
00:11:10.000 And spoiler alert, it doesn't work. 0.99
00:11:12.000 As President Trump put it so deftly, everything woke turns to shit. 0.99
00:11:17.000 Leftists want us to believe that the global LGBTQ, whatever other letters are added on the end, 0.99
00:11:24.000 that those policies are so valuable that they will stop armies and invaders and missiles.
00:11:30.000 Now, look, I support a strong military, but strength, not like diversity is our strength strength, 1.00
00:11:36.000 strength like the best bombs and aircraft and people and tech in the world.
00:11:42.000 Strength means we have to be able to crush any foe on the planet if needed.
00:11:49.000 But we should never confuse adventurism for strength.
00:11:54.000 As we're seeing from Russia, adventurism can expose and display a great deal of weakness. 0.88
00:11:59.000 We saw that for our country as well during like the era of adventurism, hopefully coming to an end.
00:12:06.000 The notion of integrated deterrence, though, overemphasizes the heft and utility of soft power.
00:12:13.000 It diminishes the value of hard power and it is dangerous and it fails.
00:12:19.000 This point was made brilliantly by Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin.
00:12:24.000 Now, in this clip, Gallagher is questioning General Walters, who is the commander of EUCOM.
00:12:29.000 Take a listen.
00:12:31.000 Would it be fair to say that deterrence failed in Ukraine?
00:12:36.000 Number one, I would say that NATO solidarity remained and NATO's ability to effectively deter remained.
00:12:46.000 And I can't argue with your conclusion.
00:12:51.000 The deterrence failed to in Ukraine, specifically integrated deterrence failed in Ukraine.
00:13:00.000 And I don't bring that up to score a partisan point.
00:13:05.000 I just think it's worth understanding why that happened, particularly as we now have anonymous senior Pentagon officials bragging to the Washington Post about the success of integrated deterrence in Ukraine.
00:13:22.000 Now, it may be true that right now NATO is as unified as it's been in decades.
00:13:29.000 I celebrate that fact.
00:13:31.000 And the fact that Russia Russia has not expanded its war into NATO territory is a good thing. 0.70
00:13:39.000 But it is also a low bar for geopolitical success.
00:13:42.000 And the fact remains, as you have just confirmed, that we attempted to deter an invasion of Ukraine largely using non-military instruments of national power.
00:13:55.000 And that attempt failed.
00:13:57.000 Now, it may be true that nothing could have deterred Putin from doing this.
00:14:01.000 We'll never know.
00:14:02.000 That's a counterfactual.
00:14:03.000 But integrated deterrence as conceptualized by the Pentagon and as implemented in the specific case of Ukraine, as a matter of fact, failed.
00:14:15.000 And I yield my second.
00:14:18.000 Woke deterrence fails.
00:14:20.000 That's what Gallagher proved.
00:14:22.000 Yet week after week, we hear from Biden administration officials from the Defense Department to the State Department to USAID acting as if wokeism is somehow America's like new prized export that the rest of the world can't wait to get their hands on.
00:14:39.000 Take a listen to a recent hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, like in a time of all of this strife in a time when China's flying sorties over Taiwan, when North Korea is launching missiles over Japan, Russia is invading Ukraine.
00:14:54.000 Listen to what the Foreign Affairs Committee under Democrat leadership is focused on.
00:14:59.000 We can accelerate the pace of change for LGBTQI plus persons worldwide. 1.00
00:15:06.000 We can take a transformative leap forward for full equality for all persons in our lifetime, regardless of who they are or who they love.
00:15:17.000 So the kinds of projects we envision supporting would include, for instance, responding to the increase in hate speech targeting LGBTQI plus persons during political campaigns,
00:15:28.000 fostering dialogue with political parties to integrate inclusive policies into their platforms,
00:15:35.000 ensuring voting rights for all persons, regardless of sex assigned at birth, and even fundamental concepts like advocating for diversity in government.
00:15:45.000 I also want to highlight the fact that the US will soon make passports available with the option of choosing a third gender, which is an enormous achievement.
00:15:54.000 Let's think about COVID for a moment.
00:15:57.000 Out of 4,500 recorded COVID-19 resource mechanisms, only one explicitly described funding to support LGBTQI plus communities.
00:16:10.000 Globally, there's approximately $560 million a year given in philanthropic funding to support LGBTQI rights.
00:16:18.000 So one could argue that number could be a lot bigger.
00:16:21.000 One of our biggest concerns with regard to the situation in Ukraine is how are people going to get access to HIV meds?
00:16:29.000 How are people going to get access to hormones? 0.99
00:16:32.000 What's going to happen when people need routine health care and they have to find a doctor who's not going to mock them for being LGBTQI?
00:16:41.000 One study by Human Rights First found that 81% of LGBTQ asylum seekers near the border in Mexico were the victim of an attack or an attempted attack, including rape, human trafficking, kidnapping and violent assaults within just one month of when they were surveyed.
00:17:02.000 That is shocking, yet the Title 42 policy remains in place.
00:17:07.000 How does the Biden administration's continued Title 42 policy reconcile with U.S. efforts to advance LGBTQI plus rights abroad that you're leading so ably?
00:17:18.000 Thank you for that question, Representative Levin.
00:17:22.000 I'm actually not well versed in this issue, so I'll have to take that back as well.
00:17:27.000 Wow, Deborah said God made two genders. 1.00
00:17:33.000 You're right, Deborah.
00:17:35.000 But this is crazy.
00:17:37.000 I mean, what you just heard was a Biden administration official saying that they use your tax dollars to try to get political parties in other countries to accept like their leftist agenda.
00:17:50.000 I mean, we shouldn't be doing that anywhere at all.
00:17:53.000 We certainly shouldn't be spending American tax dollars to try to like shape and influence the politics of other countries.
00:18:00.000 It's just not the behavior of a serious nation or a serious Congress.
00:18:04.000 If Republicans retake the majority, you will not see hearings like this.
00:18:08.000 What you just saw partially explains why several of us voted against the Biden iteration of the Russia sanctions bill.
00:18:17.000 So the Russia sanctions bill included provisions that would have given Joe Biden and the Biden State Department the ability to designate anyone anywhere a human rights violator.
00:18:30.000 So put that together with the clip you just saw.
00:18:33.000 If someone goes to a political party in another country and says, you know what, we want you to accept our perspective on gender issues.
00:18:41.000 And if that person doesn't do it, the Russia sanctions bill, no matter where that person is, would have authorized the president to use immense powers to be able to wipe them out of the global financial system.
00:18:53.000 It's very scary stuff.
00:18:55.000 And, you know, you really start to have to wonder, like, with all of this focus on the superfluous and the frivolous, what critically important work isn't getting done for the benefit of our country and our people, our businesses, our wages, the U.S. dollar?
00:19:11.000 So military families are the bedrock of the community I represent in northwest Florida.
00:19:16.000 Whenever I have the chance to get a perspective from military families, I greatly appreciate the feedback.
00:19:22.000 Ana Paulina Luna stopped by the office recently to chat about the leadership in Joe Biden's Department of Defense.
00:19:29.000 Take a listen to that conversation.
00:19:32.000 We're here with Ana Paulina Luna, Air Force veteran, military spouse.
00:19:37.000 And while Ana lives and works in other parts of Florida now, she actually has a connection to northwest Florida.
00:19:43.000 Ana, tell our viewers about your time in my particular area of the state.
00:19:47.000 So I had actually just gotten stationed in Florida.
00:19:50.000 I had no idea how amazing the panhandle was, but got stationed there at Hurlburt Field.
00:19:54.000 And my husband was actually assigned also to the 23rd STS, which is a combat control squadron at Air Force Special Operations Command.
00:20:01.000 So beautiful area, obviously have an incredible congressman, but huge military community that I know is very supportive of you.
00:20:07.000 Well, you have this unique position of having been in the uniformed service and also serving as a spouse.
00:20:15.000 And I really say that because I see the service of military spouses and really military connected family members every day and the unique patriotism that calls.
00:20:24.000 What do you think military connected families want to hear from the current DOD leadership?
00:20:31.000 We've got Secretary Austin and General Milley coming before the House Armed Services Committee.
00:20:36.000 And I'd be fascinated as your perspective on what military families really think about the current incarnation of the military under the Biden regime.
00:20:44.000 I can tell you from my own personal experience, having a military member serving and then also, you know, in 2014, my husband was shot in Afghanistan.
00:20:51.000 What we're seeing now with this leadership is people that are grossly disconnected, you know, with the withdrawal in Afghanistan and many family members and military service members that were so just disenfranchised with how that operation even took place.
00:21:03.000 I can tell you that if we want to make the American people happy, we have to have competent leadership.
00:21:09.000 And what's currently happening under this administration is clearly they're talking a big game.
00:21:13.000 They're focusing on issues that have nothing to do with military strategy.
00:21:17.000 And honestly, it's not a good position to be in, because as you can see now with everything happening in Ukraine and Russia and now with China talking about going into Taiwan, we need leadership that's competent.
00:21:26.000 We need people that know what they're doing. We need strategists. And we don't have that out of this current administration or leadership.
00:21:31.000 And we're looking at the president's budget now, and it seems to focus on a lot of things in the military that don't lead to those strategic goals and objectives that you discussed, like China, like containing Russia.
00:21:43.000 Instead, doing these various mandatory training programs about gender and the like, how do military families think about some of this required training that isn't really training around the mission, but more around this cultural wokeness?
00:21:58.000 I can tell you that I actually sat through, so my husband got out of the military in December, and I sat through one of the trainings where I actually asked him about the race, age, and gender of his five closest associates.
00:22:09.000 The fact that the military is focusing on that instead of focusing on training, mission readiness, and basically the qualifications for a job is something that baffles me.
00:22:19.000 Going back to what happened when my husband was shot, obviously as a military family, I'll be frankly honest, we actually really did struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder with the transition of him getting out of the hospital.
00:22:29.000 These are things that the military should be focusing on, and the fact is that they're pushing an agenda for a reason, an agenda that's tied to Marxism.
00:22:36.000 I do believe that they're intentionally fracturing the military and trying to push out conservatives, and that's scary to me, because ultimately at the end of the day, the military is supposed to serve the American people, not special interests or political opposition.
00:22:47.000 So you think it's a purposeful purge?
00:22:49.000 Yes.
00:22:50.000 These things like the vaccine mandates, like the targeting of our service members over extremism, like of all the problems we have in America, I don't think that extremism among the uniform military ranks is some great threat to the country.
00:23:04.000 No, it's not, and to be quite honest with you, when someone's getting shot at, like with what happened with my husband, the last thing that they're thinking about is if someone has had their wokeism training up to date with CBTs.
00:23:14.000 To be quite honest with you, what's happening now is you're seeing this purge, it's evident.
00:23:18.000 Many military members agree with what I'm saying, but they can't say it because if they do, they're afraid of being punished or kicked out.
00:23:24.000 And a lot of these people are single-family incomes, or single incomes as a whole, so you have stay-at-home spouses with children.
00:23:30.000 And so when you have that type of hold on the military, it becomes dangerous.
00:23:34.000 And I think that as we move forward, if we take back the House, which I think we're projected to, I think that we need to move forward with intenseness.
00:23:42.000 I think we need to move forward with strength because these people are not going to listen to the service members.
00:23:48.000 They're pushing us out, and frankly, at the end of the day, I'd say that the only two people that push for war are ones that haven't experienced it or ones that are getting paid.
00:23:55.000 The Perspective for Military Families with Ana Paulina Luna. Thanks so much for stopping by.
00:24:00.000 Thank you.
00:24:02.000 We're back live in my congressional office here on the Capitol Complex, and Wayne Holmes in the comments section says, 0.96
00:24:09.000 For all the veterans, give them hell, Matt.
00:24:12.000 And Linda asks, why hasn't Biden been impeached?
00:24:15.000 Well, of course, because Nancy Pelosi would not allow the articles of impeachment that I've sponsored with Marjorie Taylor Greene to come to the floor. 0.99
00:24:23.000 Joe Biden certainly deserves impeachment for what's happening on the border.
00:24:27.000 A whole lot more on that.
00:24:29.000 You can look back at our conversation with Congressman Andy Biggs.
00:24:32.000 A lot of content from the border, a lot of information that really everyone's going to be talking about right now.
00:24:37.000 The Title 42 changes just just as you're thinking about this.
00:24:41.000 Right. And we told you about it last week.
00:24:43.000 Everyone's talking about it now.
00:24:45.000 The changes in Title 42 to take a tool away from our country to send back illegal immigrants who pose a public health risk to our nation. 1.00
00:24:56.000 And this should not be changed.
00:24:59.000 Even Democrat Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona sharply criticizing the Biden administration for this change in Title 42.
00:25:06.000 Think back to the Obama days. Right.
00:25:08.000 What Jay Johnson, who is Obama's Homeland Security head, declared was that if 1000 people every day are crossing illegally, that's a good day. 1.00
00:25:19.000 And if 4000 people are crossing illegally a day, that's a crisis.
00:25:24.000 That was Obama's Homeland Security head, Jay Johnson.
00:25:27.000 Right now we are at 7000 a day and we are going to go to like 17000 a day just as a consequence of this change to Title 42.
00:25:38.000 Just like the Afghanistan withdrawal, it's another circumstance where there is no plan.
00:25:43.000 There is no sequence of events that makes sense for our country.
00:25:48.000 Just the total ineptitude that you see from the Biden administration.
00:25:52.000 I agree with actually a comment that Senator Haggerty of Tennessee made recently that we ought to be able to look at the fentanyl crisis caused by our open border as a public health crisis.
00:26:06.000 The fentanyl crisis most certainly is something that concerns many Americans, that has impacted many American families.
00:26:13.000 And if we thought about the fentanyl crisis like a Title 42 public health concern, then we could continue the business of deporting people immediately.
00:26:23.000 Not waiting five, six, seven years to have a hearing that they don't show up at that results in a deportation order that we never enforce.
00:26:30.000 That's what's happening far too often. This Title 42 change. Get ready.
00:26:35.000 There is a run coming on the border. This is going to be a major issue.
00:26:39.000 And you know what? It's just not going to be enough to finish the wall.
00:26:42.000 We have to deport people who are not in our country legally. Millions have already come in, potentially millions more. 1.00
00:26:50.000 We could have our first three, four, five hundred thousand month when you include the gotaways and and certainly the people who come across that evade detection.
00:27:01.000 It's going to be the biggest story. Also breaking news right now.
00:27:04.000 The energy crisis. Listen to this. The national average for gas is now at four dollars and 19 cents.
00:27:12.000 Accrued at one oh four seventy five. Gas prices are up eighty one percent since the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr.
00:27:21.000 And the average American household will pay two thousand dollars more this year in fuel and gas costs as a result of these policies.
00:27:31.000 Two thousand dollars. Now you're not going two thousand dollars further for that.
00:27:36.000 That that's with the same consumption. And look, it's a tax increase in the budgeting and in the assumptions of American families.
00:27:46.000 It's bad government policy that's resulting in more money coming out of your pocket.
00:27:51.000 Gas prices. The Democrats embrace of some of these leftist energy initiatives stopping the Keystone pipeline.
00:27:59.000 Green lighting norms Nord Stream 2. It's all had an impact.
00:28:02.000 Now we see what a failure that is for the Biden administration.
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