The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 37 LIVE： Unwoke (feat. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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00:00:33.260 You ever watch this guy on television? It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.080 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet. 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. I'm just in the way.

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00:00:54.320 Marjorie Taylor Greene, this woman, Klan mom, is especially upset with the three Republican senators who said they'll vote yes on Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who's nominated for the Supreme Court. 1.00

00:01:05.240 She tweeted, Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for KBJ.

00:01:11.120 Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need him, huh? 0.91

00:01:17.260 Besides that being disgusting. 1.00

00:01:21.880 Jimmy Kimmel is a total jerk. 1.00

00:01:23.920 And it seems that his trend is to attack women, which is particularly troubling. 1.00

00:01:29.760 You know what? If a conservative-leaning comedian or commentator said that about a member of the squad, about someone on the political left,

00:01:39.880 well, then certainly there would be mass outrage, cancellations, contracts in violation.

00:01:46.540 But because it's a Republican woman, because it's one of the women actually leading our country and providing vision for our party and our movement and inspiring people,

00:01:56.160 I've seen it with my own eyes.

00:01:57.860 From the Atlantic coast all the way to the state of California, she draws particular ire. 0.98

00:02:03.420 And Jimmy Kimmel also attacks Lauren Boebert all the time.

00:02:06.080 So there seems to be some reason why the women who actually step forward and lead in our movement and in our party 0.98

00:02:13.440 get particularly nasty and violent comments from Hollywood.

00:02:19.000 See, what Jimmy Kimmel knows is when he gaslights violence against my colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene,

00:02:24.760 that's going to mean more death threats.

00:02:26.840 That's going to mean her town hall meetings are less safe and secure, 0.93

00:02:29.960 because people are going to think it's cool and acceptable and allowable to talk like that about a woman.

00:02:35.320 And I reject it, and I believe that every member of Congress, every member of Hollywood, every member of society should do the same.

00:02:42.440 I'm joined today live in our congressional office.

00:02:45.080 We are streaming right now on Facebook, Instagram, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, Getter.

00:02:50.620 We're glad you're with us.

00:02:51.740 I'm especially glad that my colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene is here.

00:02:55.220 Marjorie, you are not taking this lightly.

00:02:57.760 You see this for what it is.

00:02:59.240 It's not a funny joke, but it's an effort to try to do harm to you and your family and your constituents.

00:03:05.940 How have you responded?

00:03:06.920 Absolutely.

00:03:08.100 Well, first, I was shocked.

00:03:09.720 I'm amazed that Jimmy Kimmel thinks that it's okay to use his platform on ABC News and on his show to call for violence against me,

00:03:21.860 call for a man to hit a woman, because that's what he called for. 0.99

00:03:26.240 And he's trying to say, oh, it was just a joke.

00:03:28.420 I'm sorry, that's not a joke.

00:03:29.800 We have watched over the past few years now, especially during President Trump's presidency,

00:03:34.760 where the left violently attacked Republicans.

00:03:38.800 I can remember Sarah Huckabee Sanders being assaulted and attacked in restaurants when she was with her family.

00:03:45.240 So your point is it does happen.

00:03:46.540 Oh, it happens. 1.00

00:03:47.120 People listen to this shit, and then they go and do it. 1.00

00:03:49.280 Yeah, and Jimmy. 1.00

00:03:50.240 Jimmy knows it happens.

00:03:51.840 Totally.

00:03:51.980 And so, Matt, I'm really grateful for you in your character and as a man that would stand up and defend me as a woman,

00:04:01.020 because we need to recognize that women are the weaker sex, and men are stronger than us, 0.85

00:04:07.900 and we're seeing it in our women's sports. 1.00

00:04:10.120 We're watching men dominate in women's sports like Leah Thomas in swimming. 1.00

00:04:14.520 But here's something Jimmy Kimmel should understand is I did report it to the Capitol Police,

00:04:20.200 because I'm taking that call of violence and that threat against my safety very seriously and also for my family,

00:04:28.260 because we can't, we can't, well, what we can expect, Matt, is for the left to react to what he's calling for.

00:04:35.900 Totally.

00:04:36.260 And they want it to happen.

00:04:37.960 But here's something I'd also like for everyone to understand.

00:04:41.960 We aren't those kind of people.

00:04:43.980 And, you know, in my family, if my husband had been there and had heard Jimmy Kimmel or any other man call for me to be smacked down by another man,

00:04:54.280 and he's apparently too weak to want to do it himself, my husband, you know my husband, he would not have tolerated that.

00:05:00.800 And he probably would have taken action against him, and rightfully so, because men should defend women. 1.00

00:05:05.820 Which, by the way, is the whole reason I was Team Will Smith at the beginning.

00:05:09.160 I thought that Chris Rock's joke about Will Smith's wife was totally inappropriate,

00:05:13.220 because he was making fun of an immutable trait.

00:05:17.360 You know, you shouldn't make fun of people ever for something that they can't change about themselves.

00:05:22.440 So we all should be lighthearted.

00:05:24.240 I don't think jokes should be canceled in society.

00:05:26.500 You know, but here you had a circumstance where Will Smith, I thought, was defending his wife.

00:05:32.140 And by the way, Jimmy Kimmel, not only would Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband make quick work of you,

00:05:38.620 Marjorie Taylor Greene would make quick work of you. 1.00

00:05:40.800 And if you don't believe that, you could go ask the Marines that did pull-ups with her at the Iowa State Fair.

00:05:45.720 And my guess is that Jimmy Kimmel would not last too long if he himself were interested in engaging in unprovoked, terrible violence against this congresswoman.

00:05:58.480 We're not going to spend all our time on this, because there is important work going on.

00:06:01.720 Well, I would like to point out, though, as he's calling me such a nasty name as Klan Mom, which I find very insulting,

00:06:09.120 Jimmy Kimmel is in the past worn blackface, which is something I've never done. 0.99

00:06:13.400 And so that is something to point out, is what a racist and what a pig he is, you know, himself. 0.95

00:06:18.900 Well, his critiques of particularly you and our colleague Lauren Boebert are highly gendered critiques, right? 0.99

00:06:26.040 Because he's, oh, you're a Klan mom, right? 0.99

00:06:28.200 So, like, he's attacking you as a mom and as a woman. 0.99

00:06:31.520 And then he attacks Lauren Boebert and says, oh, she looks like stepmom porn. 0.98

00:06:35.960 See how he does that? 0.90

00:06:37.680 But, you know, he's doing it to try to undermine you, not based on the views and positions you take, but based on your gender. 0.99

00:06:44.720 You deserve to be hit. 1.00

00:06:46.440 Boebert deserves to be overly sexualized. 1.00

00:06:48.580 It's totally gross. 0.98

00:06:49.800 And honestly, ABC, where are you at?

00:06:51.720 I mean, you know, ABC would have canceled any conservative or any Republican for saying anything close to this.

00:06:57.200 But because it's woke, it's okay.

00:06:59.540 And the American people need to see it for what it is.

00:07:01.460 Speaking of wokeness, you know, you have really been a stalwart in this Congress against socialism.

00:07:07.780 Stop socialism has been a big theme of the political movement that you lead.

00:07:13.140 And we are seeing at the National Defense University an embrace of socialism.

00:07:18.020 I want you to react.

00:07:18.960 Let's put up on the screen.

00:07:20.060 Thomas Piketty comes in to the National Defense University and says that the way that we need to respond to China

00:07:26.860 is to embrace global justice and democratic socialism.

00:07:31.760 And he actually wrote the book, this book, Thomas Piketty, Time for Socialism.

00:07:35.980 You know, as you sit here in the Congress and fight against socialism,

00:07:39.420 what is your reaction to the fact that at the National Defense University, funded by American taxpayers,

00:07:44.920 you have this person coming in to evangelize values we don't believe?

00:07:48.720 Well, this is what we see every day.

00:07:50.260 This is the enemy within, Matt.

00:07:52.600 And anyone in that type of position, they should be fired.

00:07:58.260 See, it's like a, it's sort of like, why compare China to Kudzu? 0.85

00:08:03.360 China has come in and they're like spies. 1.00

00:08:05.920 They've moved into our country. 1.00

00:08:07.040 They're buying our farmland.

00:08:08.400 They're taking over our universities.

00:08:10.440 They're bringing their businesses here.

00:08:12.680 They're involved.

00:08:13.820 They're in our government.

00:08:14.940 They're even in the PTA.

00:08:16.660 They're in all of our groups all across our country.

00:08:19.220 That's something that we know.

00:08:20.680 And I'll explain this.

00:08:22.000 I'll use an analogy, Kudzu.

00:08:24.280 Kudzu is a, it's a vine that we brought.

00:08:28.040 For those of you not from an SEC state, Kudzu is a vine that will actually engulf you if you walk slowly through the American Southeast.

00:08:36.560 Yeah, it's true.

00:08:37.200 And so they brought it over to America and they brought it to the South in the early 1900s.

00:08:42.700 And they, the idea was to plant it so that it would hold the soil and prevent erosion.

00:08:47.800 But what Kudzu does is it's a rapidly growing vine and it climbs everything.

00:08:52.700 It climbs trees.

00:08:53.660 It devours trees.

00:08:54.580 It kills the trees.

00:08:55.540 If a car is sitting there long enough, it will grow over the car, grows over houses.

00:08:59.240 I mean, we see this all over the South, right?

00:09:01.600 So China is like Kudzu. 0.53

00:09:03.920 And here's the problem with Kudzu.

00:09:05.440 And I'm using this analogy with socialism as well.

00:09:08.640 You can't just, you can't just kill Kudzu with weed killer.

00:09:11.680 You can't just cut the vine and it goes away.

00:09:14.500 See, you have to literally rip it out at the root, Matt.

00:09:18.940 You have to rip it out at the root and completely remove it from the soil to prevent it from growing and taking over.

00:09:27.240 And that's what's happening in our country and these Marxist ideas and socialism.

00:09:32.620 And it is seeping in.

00:09:35.200 It's like poison in our well.

00:09:37.320 And it's like Kudzu climbing all over our houses and cars and our trees and suffocating the life out of our trees.

00:09:43.840 And that's what's happening in our businesses, our schools, our culture, with our young people.

00:09:50.380 This socialism and Marxism is like Kudzu.

00:09:53.640 And we have to rip it out at the root.

00:09:55.500 If socialism is the Kudzu, she's the roundup. 0.97

00:09:58.560 We're live from the Capitol Complex in my office.

00:10:01.800 The live stream is going crazy.

00:10:03.480 Abby Morgan, I admire, rep MTG.

00:10:07.400 And Jamie, Wise Martin making the point, you know,

00:10:10.100 it was Castro who used this notion of social democracy, social democrat initially in some of his communication.

00:10:18.560 And what we're seeing at the National Defense University indicative of that.

00:10:22.500 We're going to skip the full Austin clip, guys.

00:10:24.380 What I want to do is I want to go to some of this gendered training that we see required in the military. 1.00

00:10:31.820 Now, I mean, outside your office, there is a sign that says there are two genders.

00:10:36.000 And yet in our military, a military that in some ways is not keeping pace with some of our adversaries,

00:10:42.720 you know, they are doing mandatory training on pronouns of all things.

00:10:48.540 And while, you know, Russia is out there using hypersonic weapon systems,

00:10:52.140 as China is demonstrating global launch capability with hypersonics,

00:10:56.420 our service members are forced to sit there and do gender identity training.

00:11:00.180 Your reaction?

00:11:00.700 I don't think that's going to help protect America very much.

00:11:04.280 Like we're being we're about to be invaded at the southern border.

00:11:07.140 And so our military, our border patrol and and people that will be encountering the drug dealers

00:11:12.880 bringing deadly fentanyl across the border, the human smuggling, potentially terrorists,

00:11:17.400 very likely terrorists coming across our border because we know there are people coming across the border

00:11:21.680 that are on the special interest list.

00:11:23.180 That's not even a question.

00:11:24.220 Yeah. And our president has no interest in stopping that.

00:11:27.020 And then the borders are is completely missing in action.

00:11:29.440 And so, yeah, these these things are terrifying.

00:11:32.060 So what are they going to do?

00:11:33.000 Stop them at the southern border or where we're an engagement and actually military conflict?

00:11:37.480 Are they going to say, ma'am, wait, sir, what is your preferred pronouns before we, you know,

00:11:44.060 go into this conflict?

00:11:45.240 It's absurd. It's absurd. It's laughable.

00:11:49.800 I think the world is laughing at us, Matt.

00:11:52.200 And we fall behind as a consequence.

00:11:54.340 What I what I think people need to understand is that when these institutions that are supposed to be focused on critical things for the benefit of America,

00:12:02.080 instead, you know, embrace kind of this like social change ideology, it's not just the harm of the social change ideology.

00:12:10.740 It's the harm of that distraction.

00:12:13.360 We also see the way the left has used education to try to advance their values.

00:12:17.920 And the military is starting to do the very same thing at West Point.

00:12:21.920 But one of the things that really bothers me is the embrace of critical race theory at West Point.

00:12:26.700 And when our colleague Congressman Waltz asked questions of Secretary Austin and Mark Milley,

00:12:32.760 they were pretty honest about the fact that they embraced that, that General Milley was talking about how he wanted to understand his white rage.

00:12:40.440 Viewers, take a take a listen and take a look.

00:12:42.840 This was an episode. We did a clip from it on critical race theory at West Point.

00:12:47.880 Take a listen.

00:12:49.460 At West Point, lectures are presented by Dr. Carol Anderson on understanding whiteness and white rage.

00:12:56.700 Since I nominate future military officers to West Point as part of my job in Congress,

00:13:01.840 I wanted to know what Dr. Anderson thought about whiteness.

00:13:05.920 She wrote that the Republican Party yearns for a white republic,

00:13:10.620 and that the Republican Party platform is white nationalism.

00:13:14.980 This is the nonsense that General Milley is defending.

00:13:18.020 Instead of Dr. Anderson, we should have instructors who can teach the next generation of commanding officers

00:13:23.860 to win on the modern battlefield, less CRT, more cyber.

00:13:29.000 There you go.

00:13:32.220 I mean, what do you think about our military service academies

00:13:37.640 really starting to look more like the worst parts of our university system

00:13:42.580 and not the best parts of our country?

00:13:44.720 I think we're weakening America in every way.

00:13:47.020 And what young person wants to go to these academies anymore?

00:13:50.300 Where they know they're going to be forced to be vaccinated,

00:13:52.940 whether they think they need it or not.

00:13:54.580 A big issue, by the way.

00:13:56.860 Huge issue.

00:13:57.660 Big issue.

00:13:58.240 I've had, you know, we do appoint people to these academies.

00:14:03.380 And just six months ago, I had a young man that ended up leaving,

00:14:07.940 and he left because he refused to get vaccinated,

00:14:10.780 and they had treated him terribly for months.

00:14:12.900 Oh, I had a very similar circumstance with one of the wonderful patriotic Americans.

00:14:18.580 I had the opportunity to nominate, and our country is not stronger

00:14:22.600 because they have driven these people away from military service.

00:14:26.060 No.

00:14:26.500 Our country is weaker.

00:14:27.780 We are weaker.

00:14:28.440 We're in bad shape.

00:14:30.340 Do you support when we get back in the majority passing legislation

00:14:33.580 to restore these people and to give reparations

00:14:37.040 to those who have been driven out of the military?

00:14:39.020 Absolutely.

00:14:39.900 They should be restored.

00:14:40.900 They should be rightfully restored,

00:14:44.900 and we have to repeal this forced vaccination for COVID-19 vaccines.

00:14:50.360 We need to investigate the VAERS system.

00:14:52.440 I have a bill for that.

00:14:53.520 We should investigate all of the reports, deaths, myocarditis, miscarriages,

00:14:58.760 permanent disabilities.

00:15:00.280 All of these reports are on the VAERS system, and no one has investigated them.

00:15:04.480 No, and you and I have talked about the need in a Republican majority

00:15:07.360 to focus on oversight first.

00:15:09.560 That is our shared vision, and you've been doing a tremendous amount of oversight,

00:15:13.400 whether it's been on the January 6th issue,

00:15:15.380 the way people have been unfairly treated following January 6th,

00:15:19.440 but this is what the health care committee should be doing.

00:15:21.500 The health care committee within Energy and Commerce

00:15:24.100 should be focused on whistleblowers around this vaccine

00:15:27.920 and what information we can get out in the public.

00:15:30.780 Absolutely.

00:15:31.100 And by the way, I'm not prejudging that information.

00:15:33.140 No.

00:15:33.420 But I think there is often a cover-up when you have big pharma involved,

00:15:37.700 and I'm not saying that I have absolute certainty of that at this stage of the game,

00:15:42.740 but we should be willing to ask those tough questions.

00:15:45.420 Marjorie, this week in the House Judiciary Committee,

00:15:49.220 we had a bill passed committee prepare for the floor

00:15:52.340 to make the Black National Anthem our national hymn.

00:15:56.800 And my belief is that we are one country.

00:16:00.340 Absolutely.

00:16:00.820 We pledge our allegiance to one flag.

00:16:04.300 Yes, one flag.

00:16:05.220 We sing one anthem.

00:16:06.300 Right.

00:16:06.700 I pray to one God.

00:16:07.900 I get other people might not, but that's kind of my thing.

00:16:10.000 Me too, one God.

00:16:10.980 And the notion that we would erode the meaning and significance of our national anthem

00:16:15.980 with the Black National Anthem as the national hymn was crazy.

00:16:19.340 Our friend and colleague, Dan Bishop of North Carolina,

00:16:22.820 had some hilarious questioning around this in the House Judiciary Committee.

00:16:26.180 Take a listen.

00:16:26.580 So how is the proposed national hymn to differ from the national anthem?

00:16:35.420 A hymn represents a song of joy and praise.

00:16:39.140 An anthem, we already have a national anthem which celebrates the country

00:16:45.580 and has always been recognized as a hymn from the very start.

00:16:51.840 Well, you say that, but even some of the materials from the committee staff say that,

00:16:57.820 and Mr., I believe Mr. Cohen mentioned it,

00:17:01.720 that this is, that Lift Every Voice and Sing is known colloquially as the Black National Anthem.

00:17:09.000 When would it be appropriate for the hymn to be featured versus the anthem?

00:17:12.960 They're often, they're often, the way it's currently done is they're often played in tandem.

00:17:22.140 I see.

00:17:23.580 That's more concerning.

00:17:25.560 As at the Super Bowl, for example, was done.

00:17:28.080 Yeah, I think I do hear that.

00:17:30.440 And I'm troubled that there would be the playing effectively of two national anthems.

00:17:34.100 That's exactly what my concern is.

00:17:35.520 Let me ask this.

00:17:37.380 How many Americans, what percentage of Americans know and or have affection for Lift Every Voice and Sing?

00:17:44.340 Do we know that?

00:17:45.200 I mean, it's a song that's been sung by...

00:17:47.080 It's a song that's been sung for 120 years.

00:17:50.900 I have no idea the statistic.

00:17:52.420 Let me just pose a hypothetical and then you maybe cover that as well.

00:17:54.780 Let's say 20% of Americans know what this composition is.

00:17:58.780 Does the fact that the other 80% of Americans don't even know this hymn cause you any pause

00:18:05.860 about whether we ought to declare it to be the national hymn?

00:18:08.540 I'm sorry, I didn't catch that question.

00:18:10.320 If 80% of Americans don't even know what this hymn is, never heard it before,

00:18:15.180 does that not cause you pause about the legitimacy or the appropriateness of declaring it to be a national hymn?

00:18:19.440 I don't know if the gentleman would yield.

00:18:21.820 I yield for the answer to that question.

00:18:23.020 I don't know where you get your statistic that 80% of Americans don't know the hymn.

00:18:27.860 I don't know that anyone has taken a poll, but it's been sung at many, many occasions,

00:18:35.080 at presidential inaugurations, at Super Bowls, at Coachella's.

00:18:41.540 I presume a very large number of Americans know it.

00:18:46.020 I have no statistic.

00:18:47.600 I don't know that anybody's taken a poll.

00:18:50.380 You know, I regret that in that moment,

00:18:53.080 I did not demand that Jerry Nadler sing the Black National Anthem for us

00:18:56.340 because my guess is that Jerry Nadler doesn't know the words.

00:19:00.560 He would need the sheet in front of him to be able to-

00:19:02.700 His assistant would have hurried and got it right there.

00:19:06.120 I should have said, Jerry Nadler, if you could sing the Black National Anthem right now,

00:19:09.320 I'll vote for it because that certainly could know it.

00:19:11.720 This bill's coming to the floor, Marjorie.

00:19:13.340 How are you voting?

00:19:13.980 I'll be voting no.

00:19:15.100 We only have one national anthem, and I'm not a racist.

00:19:17.540 So I don't know why we need to elevate one race over the other. 1.00

00:19:21.900 We're all one nation under God, and that's the only anthem.

00:19:25.480 We have one flag, and that is what's being anti-racist.

00:19:29.840 When we don't divide ourselves up into groups, into races, into identities, ideologies,

00:19:36.600 you know, genders or 50 genders or whatever there may be,

00:19:40.660 that's how we avoid those things by being one nation with one flag and one national anthem.

00:19:45.900 And if we were to have a national hymn, what about Amazing Grace?

00:19:49.000 You know what I mean?

00:19:49.440 A song people know, you know what I mean?

00:19:51.200 Absolutely.

00:19:52.160 A hymn sort of implies an element that is not, I don't know, maybe not fully reflected here.

00:19:58.100 But I'll be voting no.

00:19:59.260 I voted no in committee.

00:20:00.580 Dan Bishop with the brilliant questions.

00:20:02.180 If they're going to designate this as the beloved hymn,

00:20:04.460 we should probably know whether or not it's beloved.

00:20:06.880 Yeah, and take a poll.

00:20:08.820 I don't think most people have no idea what it is.

00:20:12.380 Well, we certainly know where we stand on it.

00:20:14.980 We love our great country.

00:20:16.120 We love our great anthem.

00:20:17.480 Got a lot of folks right now agreeing with us.

00:20:20.080 One Nation Under God from Abby Morgan.

00:20:23.300 And, you know, the other question I'm getting a lot,

00:20:25.700 I was supposed to be on Louder with Crowder today,

00:20:28.100 which I was really, really looking forward to.

00:20:30.140 But Nancy Pelosi held us for a 15-minute vote for one hour. 1.00

00:20:35.580 For one hour.

00:20:36.440 So to those of you who were looking forward to that interview,

00:20:39.840 I'll definitely try to get back on that show.

00:20:42.340 But we're here now.

00:20:43.260 We're going to have major breaking news.

00:20:44.880 We're so grateful for Marjorie Taylor Greene joining us.

00:20:47.620 I know you've got to get out of here and go somewhere.

00:20:49.260 But one of the reasons why Crowder wanted to have us on

00:20:51.840 was my questioning of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

00:20:55.900 So good.

00:20:56.740 We've been talking about some of those issues today.

00:20:59.320 We're going to go to that clip in just a moment.

00:21:00.740 So if you're watching now, you're going to get the full deal.

00:21:03.020 Not the abridged version.

00:21:04.540 You're going to get the full five minutes.

00:21:06.380 Every second of it is worthwhile.

00:21:08.060 Then we're going to come back out of that clip,

00:21:09.860 and I'm going to break some news.

00:21:11.520 I'm going to tell you the follow-on action we are taking

00:21:14.340 relative to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

00:21:16.900 And hey, even Sleepy Joe gave me a shout-out yesterday.

00:21:21.080 Apparently my questioning of Austin was so good,

00:21:23.540 there was a Biden reaction.

00:21:25.060 I'll be responding to that in a moment.

00:21:26.680 Thanks so much, Marjorie, for joining us.

00:21:28.420 Thank you, Matt.

00:21:28.700 Thanks for being such a great fighter.

00:21:30.440 And to all those who would try to tear you down,

00:21:33.960 try to discourage you,

00:21:35.220 know that there are an army of Americans out there

00:21:38.040 who are peaceful and patriotic and loving,

00:21:40.660 and they are inspired by the work you do in Congress, as am I.

00:21:43.120 Thanks for joining us.

00:21:44.340 Enjoy five good minutes with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin

00:21:47.980 and my tough questions.

00:21:51.060 Secretary Austin,

00:21:51.880 why should American taxpayers fund lectures

00:21:54.900 at the National Defense University

00:21:56.920 that promote socialism as a strategy to combat China?

00:22:05.460 It's the National Defense University.

00:22:08.180 It's an academic institution,

00:22:11.800 and I don't know of any such lecture.

00:22:15.480 Well, that's surprising because it was widely reported.

00:22:17.640 The National Defense University had Thomas Piketty come,

00:22:21.020 and this was the title of his lecture,

00:22:22.280 Responding to China,

00:22:24.340 the case for global justice and democratic socialism.

00:22:28.780 So now that you know that they did this,

00:22:31.500 would you agree that embracing socialism

00:22:33.640 is not an effective strategy to combat China?

00:22:37.220 Well, I certainly don't agree with embracing socialism.

00:22:40.700 I think that means...

00:22:41.440 I'm sorry.

00:22:42.180 We're not going to do this.

00:22:43.280 We're not going to let the guy say four words

00:22:44.980 and still talk and then cut him off.

00:22:46.580 We're just not going to.

00:22:46.920 I control the time, Mr. Chairman.

00:22:48.320 Yeah, but you also have to be fair to the witnesses.

00:22:50.740 No, but I got the answer.

00:22:51.480 I wanted to have a follow-up.

00:22:52.600 My follow-up question is,

00:22:54.400 if we don't embrace it,

00:22:56.900 then I guess why did the National Defense University

00:22:59.460 put out a statement?

00:23:01.120 Again, this is funded by U.S. taxpayers,

00:23:03.320 saying in this talk,

00:23:04.480 Mr. Piketty will argue

00:23:05.540 that the right answer

00:23:07.280 lies in ending Western arrogance

00:23:09.720 and promoting a new emancipatory

00:23:11.980 and egalitarian horizon on a global scale,

00:23:14.900 a new form of democratic and participatory

00:23:17.260 ecological and post-colonial socialism.

00:23:19.920 So why would we invite people

00:23:22.100 we don't agree with

00:23:23.680 to evangelize views and values

00:23:26.760 that we don't share

00:23:27.880 at the National Defense University

00:23:30.240 when we should be learning strategy

00:23:32.040 about how to combat our enemies

00:23:33.360 and make assessments that are accurate?

00:23:35.320 And we do learn a lot about strategy

00:23:39.460 and about the military

00:23:41.480 and about joint force development.

00:23:43.540 And so that is our focus

00:23:46.420 in these institutions.

00:23:49.520 I don't know what the context

00:23:51.860 of this particular,

00:23:53.760 or content of this particular speech was.

00:23:55.820 Mr. Secretary,

00:23:56.540 I've shared with you the context.

00:23:58.140 The context wasn't

00:23:59.140 better understand socialism

00:24:00.540 so we can defeat it.

00:24:01.920 The context wasn't learn about it

00:24:03.540 so that we can offer countermeasures.

00:24:05.720 The concept was

00:24:06.780 that it's time for socialism.

00:24:08.620 And the reason I know

00:24:09.600 that's the context

00:24:10.520 is because the lecture

00:24:11.840 was pulled from a book

00:24:13.740 written by Thomas Piketty

00:24:15.260 entitled Time for Socialism.

00:24:17.140 And I just can't help

00:24:18.260 but, like, notice...

00:24:19.140 And so your question was

00:24:20.020 whether or not we...

00:24:20.660 I control the time.

00:24:21.680 Your question was

00:24:22.480 whether or not we embrace socialism.

00:24:22.800 You've been blowing a lot of calls lately

00:24:24.300 on matters of strategy,

00:24:25.920 Mr. Secretary.

00:24:27.020 You guys told us

00:24:27.660 that Russia couldn't lose.

00:24:29.140 You told us

00:24:29.600 that the Taliban 0.98

00:24:30.200 couldn't immediately win.

00:24:31.740 And so I guess I'm wondering

00:24:32.600 what in the $773 billion

00:24:34.800 that you're requesting today

00:24:36.240 is going to help you

00:24:37.520 make assessments

00:24:38.360 that are accurate

00:24:39.220 in the face of

00:24:40.240 so many blown calls?

00:24:47.240 You've seen what's in our budget.

00:24:49.380 You've seen how the budget

00:24:50.180 matches the strategy.

00:24:51.460 And so I'll let that speak for itself.

00:24:53.980 Well, I mean,

00:24:54.360 I've also seen that we're behind,

00:24:56.100 Mr. Secretary.

00:24:57.040 We're behind in hypersonics.

00:24:58.540 We failed to deter Russia. 0.95

00:25:00.300 Last year, China flew more sorties...

00:25:01.340 So what do you mean

00:25:02.420 we're behind in hypersonics?

00:25:03.580 How do you...

00:25:04.100 Okay, who's ahead in hypersonics?

00:25:05.820 How do you make that assessment?

00:25:08.520 I don't know.

00:25:09.320 I make that assessment

00:25:10.340 because China is fielding

00:25:11.900 hypersonic weapons systems

00:25:13.180 and we are still developing them.

00:25:14.760 I make that assessment

00:25:15.480 because Russia actually used one.

00:25:16.840 Are you talking about

00:25:16.940 development of capability or development of...

00:25:17.540 By the way,

00:25:18.160 your own people brief us

00:25:20.060 that we are behind

00:25:20.920 and that China is winning?

00:25:22.200 Are you aware of the briefings

00:25:23.500 we get on hypersonics?

00:25:25.140 I am certainly aware of briefings

00:25:27.080 that we provide to Congress.

00:25:28.480 But it's not just the hypersonics.

00:25:29.840 It's all over the world.

00:25:30.980 It's in Taiwan,

00:25:32.080 where China's last year

00:25:33.160 flew more sorties than ever before.

00:25:34.600 It's North Korea on pace 0.98

00:25:36.360 to shatter prior records,

00:25:38.060 the number of missiles

00:25:39.060 that they are testing.

00:25:40.700 And so while everyone else in the world

00:25:42.200 seems to be developing capabilities

00:25:43.760 and being more strategic,

00:25:44.820 we got time to embrace

00:25:46.300 critical race theory at West Point,

00:25:48.020 to embrace socialism

00:25:49.300 at the National Defense University,

00:25:50.760 to do mandatory pronoun training.

00:25:53.720 Do you assess...

00:25:54.320 You know, it's...

00:25:55.180 Again, this is the most capable,

00:25:57.280 the most combat-creditable force

00:25:58.900 in the world.

00:26:00.100 It has been,

00:26:01.080 and it will be so going forward.

00:26:03.080 And this budget helps us to do that.

00:26:04.800 Not if we embrace socialism.

00:26:06.000 The fact that you're embarrassed

00:26:07.260 by your country...

00:26:08.720 Oh, no, no.

00:26:09.120 I'm embarrassed by your leadership.

00:26:10.560 I'm sorry for that.

00:26:10.860 I am not embarrassed for my country.

00:26:12.220 I wish we were not losing to China.

00:26:14.460 It's what you're saying.

00:26:15.480 You know what?

00:26:16.180 That is so disgraceful

00:26:19.480 that you would sit here

00:26:20.320 and conflate your failures

00:26:22.040 with the failures

00:26:22.980 of the uniformed service members.

00:26:24.660 You guys said

00:26:25.480 that Russia would overrun Ukraine 0.80

00:26:27.860 in 36 days.

00:26:28.900 You said that the Taliban

00:26:30.260 would be kept at bay for months.

00:26:31.580 You totally blew those calls.

00:26:33.360 And maybe we would be better at them

00:26:35.100 if the National Defense University

00:26:36.840 actually worked a little more on strategy

00:26:38.800 and a little less on wokeism.

00:26:40.420 Has it occurred to you

00:26:41.300 that Russia has not overrun Ukraine 0.72

00:26:43.120 because of what we've done

00:26:44.660 and our allies have done?

00:26:45.960 But that was baked

00:26:46.620 into your flawed assessment.

00:26:47.980 That was baked

00:26:48.620 into your flawed assessment.

00:26:49.780 And so I saw

00:26:50.640 that the Obama administration

00:26:51.800 tried to destroy our military

00:26:53.800 by starving it of resources.

00:26:55.520 And it seems the Biden administration

00:26:57.100 is trying to destroy our military

00:26:58.600 by force-feeding it wokeism.

00:27:00.340 I yield back.

00:27:02.180 A big part of that dispute

00:27:04.420 focuses on our military

00:27:07.340 doing incredibly unserious things

00:27:10.940 like critical race theory

00:27:12.760 and pronoun training

00:27:14.680 with genders

00:27:15.600 and the socialism lecture embrace

00:27:19.140 while missing out on things

00:27:21.480 that are critical,

00:27:22.980 that must happen,

00:27:23.920 that we must get better at

00:27:24.940 like hypersonics.

00:27:26.320 So there was a big factual dispute there

00:27:28.860 between me and the Secretary of Defense

00:27:30.660 that we have to be able to unravel

00:27:32.980 for the sake of the country

00:27:34.060 and the decisions we make

00:27:35.440 on the president's budget

00:27:36.380 regarding our military.

00:27:37.760 Remember, these guys are asking

00:27:39.000 for $773 billion

00:27:41.520 in taxpayer money.

00:27:43.360 So we should be getting better

00:27:44.520 at the stuff that really matters

00:27:46.140 like hypersonics.

00:27:47.720 Now, here's the stone-cold truth

00:27:50.820 that every member

00:27:51.900 of the Armed Services Committee knows.

00:27:54.080 They absolutely know it.

00:27:55.880 The Secretary of Defense

00:27:57.280 said things in response

00:27:58.860 to my questions

00:27:59.780 that directly contradict

00:28:02.600 what his own people

00:28:04.940 said to us

00:28:06.300 in a briefing last month.

00:28:08.320 Now, I would love

00:28:09.300 to lay out for you

00:28:10.760 in Technicolor

00:28:11.660 exactly the capabilities

00:28:13.800 in hypersonics

00:28:14.840 that the Chinese have 1.00

00:28:16.260 and the Russians have

00:28:17.280 and that we have

00:28:18.080 and whether it comes

00:28:19.600 to stockpiles,

00:28:20.600 volumes,

00:28:21.580 speeds,

00:28:22.400 targeting,

00:28:22.880 all of that.

00:28:23.760 I know it,

00:28:24.860 but I learned it

00:28:25.720 in classified setting.

00:28:27.720 And so,

00:28:28.300 to resolve these issues,

00:28:30.300 to embrace transparency,

00:28:33.340 to expose

00:28:34.340 that the Secretary of Defense

00:28:36.380 was either knowingly

00:28:37.620 or unknowingly lying

00:28:39.280 to the House Armed Services Committee.

00:28:41.940 Today,

00:28:42.900 I am sending a letter

00:28:44.320 to Secretary of Defense

00:28:45.720 Lloyd Austin

00:28:46.620 demanding

00:28:47.580 that he declassify

00:28:49.500 the materials

00:28:50.500 that were provided

00:28:51.720 to House Armed Services Committee members

00:28:53.840 regarding the hypersonics program

00:28:55.880 at our classified briefing

00:28:57.640 last month.

00:28:58.860 If the Secretary of Defense

00:29:00.280 is confident

00:29:01.080 that he's right

00:29:02.360 and that I'm wrong

00:29:03.600 and the U.S. is ahead

00:29:04.980 and China's behind,

00:29:06.920 declassify those materials.

00:29:09.500 They are very, very precise.

00:29:12.300 They are very detailed

00:29:13.480 and they tell

00:29:14.520 a consistent story.

00:29:16.380 And that story

00:29:16.940 was consistent

00:29:17.740 until the Secretary of Defense

00:29:19.360 showed up.

00:29:20.320 And really,

00:29:21.560 it has a grave impact

00:29:25.120 on decisions we make

00:29:26.440 regarding basing,

00:29:27.840 regarding offensive

00:29:29.180 and defensive systems,

00:29:30.840 regarding how we think

00:29:32.020 about nuclear deterrence

00:29:33.100 because hypersonic systems

00:29:34.620 can deliver nuclear payloads.

00:29:36.100 So I know

00:29:37.340 of what I speak

00:29:38.280 regarding hypersonics.

00:29:39.800 I know it

00:29:40.740 because of the briefings

00:29:42.040 that the Department of Defense

00:29:43.440 has provided to us.

00:29:45.120 And today,

00:29:45.660 I am calling

00:29:46.340 on the Secretary of Defense

00:29:47.980 to make the contents

00:29:49.480 of that brief

00:29:50.600 in terms of the materials

00:29:51.760 provided to Congress

00:29:52.780 unclassified.

00:29:54.700 And then you know what?

00:29:55.700 He will be exposed 0.99

00:29:56.600 for the abject liar 1.00

00:29:58.200 that he was 0.97

00:29:59.200 in the Armed Services Committee.

00:30:00.900 Now you know

00:30:01.780 that it's quite the event

00:30:04.360 in a committee hearing,

00:30:05.660 quite an examination,

00:30:07.080 when even the President

00:30:08.100 of the United States

00:30:09.480 has to weigh in

00:30:10.600 and comment.

00:30:11.600 Here's President Biden

00:30:12.440 yesterday.

00:30:12.840 You may have seen

00:30:15.440 yesterday on television

00:30:16.840 when the Secretary of Defense

00:30:18.700 was being cross-examined

00:30:20.120 by one of our,

00:30:22.420 how can I say it,

00:30:23.680 our congresspersons.

00:30:27.100 Saying,

00:30:27.620 what have you done?

00:30:28.980 And he basically

00:30:29.680 looked at him and said, 0.76

00:30:30.400 what the hell

00:30:30.820 do you think we've done?

00:30:31.520 Why do you think

00:30:31.980 you're able to fight?

00:30:32.740 We've trained them

00:30:33.560 and we've given them

00:30:34.260 the weapons.

00:30:35.400 That's what's happening.

00:30:39.180 Secretary Austin,

00:30:40.600 when the addled president,

00:30:42.200 when Sleepy Joe

00:30:43.760 has to clean up

00:30:45.080 for your mess,

00:30:46.600 that's when you know

00:30:47.540 it really didn't go well.

00:30:49.460 I mean,

00:30:49.640 this went so bad

00:30:51.140 for the Biden administration,

00:30:53.220 somebody had to actually

00:30:54.080 bring this to Joe Biden

00:30:55.500 and show it to him, right?

00:30:56.580 Like,

00:30:56.940 I don't get the sense

00:30:57.980 that Joe Biden

00:30:58.940 is like sitting around

00:30:59.980 in the Oval Office

00:31:00.820 watching like the

00:31:02.080 back and forth questioning

00:31:03.140 in hour number two

00:31:04.140 of the Armed Services Committee

00:31:05.400 hearing on the budget.

00:31:07.000 If he is,

00:31:07.880 then there might be

00:31:09.540 other things that he would

00:31:10.220 need to be paying attention to.

00:31:11.300 But nonetheless,

00:31:12.200 someone brought this to Biden,

00:31:14.140 they showed him

00:31:14.840 that it was a disaster

00:31:15.720 and he wanted to go out there

00:31:17.440 and defend his terrible pick

00:31:19.160 for Secretary of Defense.

00:31:20.580 And look,

00:31:20.960 it's no wonder

00:31:21.880 Lloyd Austin is failing

00:31:23.640 in a lot of these endeavors.

00:31:25.340 He has had a lot of failures

00:31:26.760 even before he was named

00:31:27.700 Secretary of Defense,

00:31:28.740 especially in Syria

00:31:30.320 where he was responsible

00:31:31.680 for standing up

00:31:32.400 a force to fight Assad

00:31:33.720 to fight ISIS.

00:31:34.600 And I think that like

00:31:35.280 after spending

00:31:36.020 around 100 million bucks,

00:31:37.800 he had four or five fighters

00:31:39.300 that were actually capable

00:31:40.740 of surviving first contact

00:31:42.000 with the enemy.

00:31:42.680 So the Secretary of Defense

00:31:44.540 very misguided,

00:31:46.080 the President of the United States

00:31:47.220 trying to clean up for him.

00:31:48.800 And like to the merits

00:31:49.820 of Biden's point,

00:31:51.800 these guys

00:31:52.640 made an assessment

00:31:54.580 that no matter

00:31:55.580 what America did,

00:31:56.940 that if we did

00:31:57.560 the max of our capability,

00:31:59.840 36 days was the number.

00:32:01.200 If we did the minimum,

00:32:02.820 they were going to be

00:32:03.500 overrun in six days.

00:32:04.700 The assessment was

00:32:05.420 six days to 36 days.

00:32:07.380 And they totally blew that call.

00:32:09.660 But what are you expecting?

00:32:10.960 This is the same group of people

00:32:12.380 who said that the Taliban

00:32:14.200 would be kept at bay for months,

00:32:16.100 that there was no scenario

00:32:17.580 after all the war gaming

00:32:19.440 that they did,

00:32:20.420 after the hundreds

00:32:21.180 of billions of dollars

00:32:22.200 that we send over

00:32:23.020 the Potomac River

00:32:24.900 to the Pentagon,

00:32:26.160 that they didn't have

00:32:26.860 one scenario in Afghanistan

00:32:28.500 where the Taliban

00:32:29.740 overran the government.

00:32:30.860 And you know what?

00:32:31.840 That's because they were 1.00

00:32:32.680 buying their own bullshit 1.00

00:32:34.360 when it came to the capabilities 1.00

00:32:36.060 of the Afghan government.

00:32:37.520 The reality was

00:32:38.560 the Afghan government

00:32:40.000 was a puppet government. 0.99

00:32:41.920 It was corrupt. 0.98

00:32:43.040 It didn't have the confidence

00:32:44.020 of the people.

00:32:45.200 And because, like,

00:32:46.160 the U.S. was kind of part

00:32:47.580 of that corruption

00:32:48.600 by just pouring

00:32:49.920 huge swaths of money

00:32:51.100 over, like,

00:32:52.140 barbarians and cave people, 0.95

00:32:53.820 we didn't want to deal

00:32:56.000 with our own culpability

00:32:57.120 in that matter.

00:32:58.300 And so we assessed

00:32:59.840 that that government

00:33:00.900 would hold,

00:33:02.160 and 13 uniformed service members

00:33:04.020 are dead as a consequence

00:33:05.880 of Joe Biden's

00:33:07.200 bad decisions,

00:33:08.360 of Lloyd Austin

00:33:09.160 and Mark Milley's

00:33:10.240 bad military advice.

00:33:12.860 So let's hope

00:33:13.680 we get to the bottom of it.

00:33:14.880 I'm confident

00:33:15.560 that if the Secretary of Defense

00:33:17.440 actually declassifies

00:33:19.200 this information,

00:33:20.660 that I will be proven right,

00:33:22.520 and maybe we will even inspire

00:33:24.360 a bipartisan consensus

00:33:25.560 in the Congress

00:33:26.180 to do more

00:33:27.200 to catch up,

00:33:28.660 to be in a place

00:33:29.520 in hypersonics

00:33:30.280 where China doesn't hold 0.64

00:33:31.380 a qualitative military edge

00:33:32.960 over us for any reason.

00:33:35.560 The live stream

00:33:36.260 is on fire.

00:33:37.260 I guess bringing in

00:33:37.920 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:33:39.340 really makes that happen.

00:33:40.760 Andrea Foucas says

00:33:42.440 that the whole

00:33:43.540 Biden administration

00:33:44.440 is a failure

00:33:45.540 in response to my

00:33:46.440 questioning of

00:33:46.860 Secretary Austin.

00:33:48.200 Can't argue with that.

00:33:50.020 Nathan Bryan,

00:33:51.320 he had a critical comment,

00:33:52.900 said,

00:33:53.380 unwoke equals uneducated.

00:33:55.360 Well, you know what?

00:33:56.340 I don't trust people

00:33:57.580 with two first names anyway,

00:33:59.380 and if, like,

00:34:00.540 woke is conflated

00:34:02.060 with educated,

00:34:03.140 that's probably

00:34:03.840 a bad thing too.

00:34:05.060 I think I'm rather educated.

00:34:06.600 I went to the great

00:34:07.140 Florida State University,

00:34:08.040 got a law degree

00:34:08.660 from the College

00:34:09.540 of William & Mary,

00:34:10.480 America's first law school,

00:34:11.600 by the way.

00:34:12.160 Very proud graduate

00:34:13.260 of that institution.

00:34:15.100 And if anything,

00:34:16.160 we should be doing

00:34:16.820 a whole lot more

00:34:17.860 to de-woke-ify

00:34:18.840 our education,

00:34:20.040 not just at West Point,

00:34:21.800 not just in the military,

00:34:23.920 in every aspect of society.

00:34:25.620 And if we do that,

00:34:26.740 we'll be a better,

00:34:28.020 stronger country.

00:34:29.360 Thanks so much

00:34:30.040 for joining us.

00:34:30.820 Make sure that you have

00:34:31.900 your notifications turned on.

00:34:33.260 That's how you're going to know

00:34:34.540 when we go live.

00:34:35.720 If you're expecting me

00:34:36.520 on Stephen Crowder's show today,

00:34:38.360 Nancy Pelosi got in the way 1.00

00:34:39.440 a little bit.

00:34:40.360 She's having her own issues. 1.00

00:34:41.720 We're breaking news.

00:34:42.660 We just learned that

00:34:43.440 Speaker Pelosi has COVID.

00:34:45.540 We certainly wish her

00:34:46.400 a rapid recovery.

00:34:47.800 And you know what?

00:34:48.440 If I have to bet on COVID

00:34:49.660 or Nancy Pelosi, 0.91

00:34:51.180 I'm probably betting

00:34:52.020 on Nancy Pelosi.

00:34:53.540 She is one tough cookie.

00:34:55.780 Can't deny that.

00:34:56.820 And I hope she feels better.

00:34:57.780 And it is something.

00:35:01.520 Weren't these the people

00:35:02.180 who told us the vaccination

00:35:03.360 like stopped transmission,

00:35:05.220 stopped getting the virus?

00:35:06.500 I think we've sort of

00:35:07.240 deconstructed that myth.

00:35:08.560 It used to be that

00:35:09.720 if you said that the vaccine

00:35:10.980 didn't stop the virus,

00:35:13.000 you were a conspiracy theorist

00:35:14.620 and you got deplatformed

00:35:15.840 from every major technology entity.

00:35:19.400 But now it's just an obvious fact.

00:35:21.380 We say it

00:35:21.920 and we wish the speaker well.

00:35:23.800 Next week,

00:35:24.380 Congress is back

00:35:25.400 in the districts

00:35:27.080 of this great country.

00:35:28.480 So I'll be in Northwest Florida.

00:35:29.820 So we may not have a show next week,

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - April 07, 2022

Episode 37 LIVE： Unwoke (feat. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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