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?
00:12:31.000Would it be fair to say that deterrence failed in Ukraine?
00:12:36.000Number one, I would say that NATO solidarity remained and NATO's ability to effectively deter remained.
00:12:46.000And I can't argue with your conclusion.
00:12:51.000The deterrence failed to in Ukraine, specifically integrated deterrence failed in Ukraine.
00:13:00.000And I don't bring that up to score a partisan point.
00:13:05.000I 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.
00:13:22.000Now, it may be true that right now NATO is as unified as it's been in decades.
00:13:31.000And the fact that Russia Russia has not expanded its war into NATO territory is a good thing.
00:13:39.000But it is also a low bar for geopolitical success.
00:13:42.000And 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.
00:14:03.000But integrated deterrence as conceptualized by the Pentagon and as implemented in the specific case of Ukraine, as a matter of fact, failed.
00:14:22.000Yet 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.
00:14:39.000Take 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.
00:14:54.000Listen to what the Foreign Affairs Committee under Democrat leadership is focused on.
00:14:59.000We can accelerate the pace of change for LGBTQI plus persons worldwide.
00:15:06.000We can take a transformative leap forward for full equality for all persons in our lifetime, regardless of who they are or who they love.
00:15:17.000So 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,
00:15:28.000fostering dialogue with political parties to integrate inclusive policies into their platforms,
00:15:35.000ensuring voting rights for all persons, regardless of sex assigned at birth, and even fundamental concepts like advocating for diversity in government.
00:15:45.000I 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.
00:15:57.000Out of 4,500 recorded COVID-19 resource mechanisms, only one explicitly described funding to support LGBTQI plus communities.
00:16:10.000Globally, there's approximately $560 million a year given in philanthropic funding to support LGBTQI rights.
00:16:18.000So one could argue that number could be a lot bigger.
00:16:21.000One of our biggest concerns with regard to the situation in Ukraine is how are people going to get access to HIV meds?
00:16:29.000How are people going to get access to hormones?
00:16:32.000What'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?
00:16:41.000One 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.
00:17:02.000That is shocking, yet the Title 42 policy remains in place.
00:17:07.000How 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?
00:17:18.000Thank you for that question, Representative Levin.
00:17:22.000I'm actually not well versed in this issue, so I'll have to take that back as well.
00:17:27.000Wow, Deborah said God made two genders.
00:17:37.000I 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.
00:17:50.000I mean, we shouldn't be doing that anywhere at all.
00:17:53.000We certainly shouldn't be spending American tax dollars to try to like shape and influence the politics of other countries.
00:18:00.000It's just not the behavior of a serious nation or a serious Congress.
00:18:04.000If Republicans retake the majority, you will not see hearings like this.
00:18:08.000What you just saw partially explains why several of us voted against the Biden iteration of the Russia sanctions bill.
00:18:17.000So 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.
00:18:30.000So put that together with the clip you just saw.
00:18:33.000If someone goes to a political party in another country and says, you know what, we want you to accept our perspective on gender issues.
00:18:41.000And 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.
00:18:55.000And, 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?
00:19:11.000So military families are the bedrock of the community I represent in northwest Florida.
00:19:16.000Whenever I have the chance to get a perspective from military families, I greatly appreciate the feedback.
00:19:22.000Ana Paulina Luna stopped by the office recently to chat about the leadership in Joe Biden's Department of Defense.
00:19:32.000We're here with Ana Paulina Luna, Air Force veteran, military spouse.
00:19:37.000And while Ana lives and works in other parts of Florida now, she actually has a connection to northwest Florida.
00:19:43.000Ana, tell our viewers about your time in my particular area of the state.
00:19:47.000So I had actually just gotten stationed in Florida.
00:19:50.000I had no idea how amazing the panhandle was, but got stationed there at Hurlburt Field.
00:19:54.000And my husband was actually assigned also to the 23rd STS, which is a combat control squadron at Air Force Special Operations Command.
00:20:01.000So beautiful area, obviously have an incredible congressman, but huge military community that I know is very supportive of you.
00:20:07.000Well, you have this unique position of having been in the uniformed service and also serving as a spouse.
00:20:15.000And 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.
00:20:24.000What do you think military connected families want to hear from the current DOD leadership?
00:20:31.000We've got Secretary Austin and General Milley coming before the House Armed Services Committee.
00:20:36.000And I'd be fascinated as your perspective on what military families really think about the current incarnation of the military under the Biden regime.
00:20:44.000I 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.
00:20:51.000What 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.
00:21:03.000I can tell you that if we want to make the American people happy, we have to have competent leadership.
00:21:09.000And what's currently happening under this administration is clearly they're talking a big game.
00:21:13.000They're focusing on issues that have nothing to do with military strategy.
00:21:17.000And 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.
00:21:26.000We need people that know what they're doing. We need strategists. And we don't have that out of this current administration or leadership.
00:21:31.000And 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.
00:21:43.000Instead, 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?
00:21:58.000I 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.
00:22:09.000The 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.
00:22:19.000Going 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.
00:22:29.000These 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.
00:22:36.000I 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.
00:22:50.000These 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.
00:23:04.000No, 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.
00:23:14.000To be quite honest with you, what's happening now is you're seeing this purge, it's evident.
00:23:18.000Many 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.
00:23:24.000And a lot of these people are single-family incomes, or single incomes as a whole, so you have stay-at-home spouses with children.
00:23:30.000And so when you have that type of hold on the military, it becomes dangerous.
00:23:34.000And 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.
00:23:42.000I think we need to move forward with strength because these people are not going to listen to the service members.
00:23:48.000They'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.
00:23:55.000The Perspective for Military Families with Ana Paulina Luna. Thanks so much for stopping by.
00:24:02.000We're back live in my congressional office here on the Capitol Complex, and Wayne Holmes in the comments section says,
00:24:09.000For all the veterans, give them hell, Matt.
00:24:12.000And Linda asks, why hasn't Biden been impeached?
00:24:15.000Well, 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.
00:24:23.000Joe Biden certainly deserves impeachment for what's happening on the border.
00:25:08.000What 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.
00:25:19.000And if 4000 people are crossing illegally a day, that's a crisis.
00:25:24.000That was Obama's Homeland Security head, Jay Johnson.
00:25:27.000Right 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.
00:25:38.000Just like the Afghanistan withdrawal, it's another circumstance where there is no plan.
00:25:43.000There is no sequence of events that makes sense for our country.
00:25:48.000Just the total ineptitude that you see from the Biden administration.
00:25:52.000I 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.
00:26:06.000The fentanyl crisis most certainly is something that concerns many Americans, that has impacted many American families.
00:26:13.000And if we thought about the fentanyl crisis like a Title 42 public health concern, then we could continue the business of deporting people immediately.
00:26:23.000Not 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.
00:26:30.000That's what's happening far too often. This Title 42 change. Get ready.
00:26:35.000There is a run coming on the border. This is going to be a major issue.
00:26:39.000And you know what? It's just not going to be enough to finish the wall.
00:26:42.000We have to deport people who are not in our country legally. Millions have already come in, potentially millions more.
00:26:50.000We 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.
00:27:01.000It's going to be the biggest story. Also breaking news right now.
00:27:04.000The energy crisis. Listen to this. The national average for gas is now at four dollars and 19 cents.
00:27:12.000Accrued at one oh four seventy five. Gas prices are up eighty one percent since the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr.
00:27:21.000And the average American household will pay two thousand dollars more this year in fuel and gas costs as a result of these policies.
00:27:31.000Two thousand dollars. Now you're not going two thousand dollars further for that.
00:27:36.000That that's with the same consumption. And look, it's a tax increase in the budgeting and in the assumptions of American families.
00:27:46.000It's bad government policy that's resulting in more money coming out of your pocket.
00:27:51.000Gas prices. The Democrats embrace of some of these leftist energy initiatives stopping the Keystone pipeline.
00:27:59.000Green lighting norms Nord Stream 2. It's all had an impact.
00:28:02.000Now we see what a failure that is for the Biden administration.
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