The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 4： Joe Biden Exposed in Flynn Case, Governor DeSantis Fighting in Florida, Burr's Stock Selloffs

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.100 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.740 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes this is congressman matt gates let's talk about the news and let's

00:00:20.960 specifically talk about judge emmett sullivan this is the judge in the michael flynn case

00:00:26.840 who you're hearing has done just a spectacularly bizarre thing he has quite literally outsourced

00:00:34.380 the prosecution of michael flynn to democrat donors to legal partisans it's like judge emmett sullivan

00:00:43.260 is crowdsourcing the prosecution of michael flynn it's i've never seen anything like it but let's go

00:00:49.920 back and just get some context for why michael flynn is even in this mess in the first place

00:00:56.020 so the obama administration is going out the trump administration is coming in and if you remember

00:01:02.920 the obama administration was really trying to do everything possible to provoke russia at this time

00:01:09.080 and i think one reason is that donald trump's election was a total shock to the political system

00:01:14.980 that the media the democrats and even some republicans like couldn't accept that donald trump won the

00:01:22.680 election so it had to be russia russia had to be the reason that everybody got this so wrong that

00:01:30.320 you know the media got it wrong the political industrial complex got it wrong so this is

00:01:35.240 obviously creating great strain on the relationship flynn has been selected to be the incoming national

00:01:40.020 security advisor and so he has a discussion with the russian ambassador to essentially preserve the

00:01:46.380 status quo not to allow the outgoing administration to create an escalation that would then limit the

00:01:54.560 options that president trump and his team would have you know if you recall at that time north

00:01:59.620 korea is a situation where we need russia's help syria is a situation where we have to de-conflict

00:02:05.400 with russia uh with what's going on on the border with turkey there was russian involvement and a need to

00:02:11.860 have at least productive dialogue and flynn didn't want to see that eroded so he has this discussion

00:02:17.460 now the obama administration knew that flynn had this discussion jim comey's fbi was aware of it

00:02:24.080 and what the notes that we've only seen disclosed during covid reveal to us is that those fbi agents went

00:02:31.100 over there not to investigate flynn for being a traitor to our country but to try to catch him in a 0.59

00:02:38.380 gotcha moment to try to create circumstances that would require his resignation or his departure

00:02:45.660 from the administration because he was somebody that obama didn't like and we know that obama was

00:02:49.980 personally involved in that because obama said so to trump that he didn't want to see flynn carry to the

00:02:56.120 next administration uh and so we know obama was involved involved to the point of even having a

00:03:02.620 discussion with trump about it and uh and and that really raises uh you know raises the question

00:03:07.840 uh how involved was biden you know you see biden in the unmasking documents and we'll get that to

00:03:13.700 to a moment but it really creates a creates a heck of a circumstance uh for biden so flynn has this

00:03:21.180 discussion he gets set up they then threaten his son with prosecution flynn takes a plea

00:03:30.900 he then gets sydney powell as his attorney and she has just done a fantastic job laying out the case

00:03:38.280 getting the research um and she blows the whole thing open she exposes this as um an insincere 0.97

00:03:46.860 prosecution as an invalid plea deal and bill barr's department of justice rightly decides that they want

00:03:54.100 to drop the case so you've got the government wanting to drop the flynn case and obviously flynn would 0.81

00:03:59.040 like to see the matter resolved but the judge is now has now appointed retired federal judge gleason

00:04:06.080 to come in and argue positions submitted by i i guess anyone who wants to come in and uh and trash

00:04:15.560 michael flynn but this is not how we administer criminal law in this country you don't just crowdsource

00:04:23.020 a prosecution of someone because your politics don't align with the fact that they were innocent

00:04:28.500 all along and judge emmett sullivan has also acted bizarrely toward flynn uh calling him a traitor to

00:04:36.100 the country uh and and frankly i think that uh that this is something that would not withstand appellate

00:04:42.780 review if it yielded anything other than a total and complete dismissal of michael flynn so we'll keep

00:04:49.380 an eye on judge sullivan nothing like i've ever seen before uh and and hopefully we don't live in a

00:04:55.480 society where we crowdsource prosecutions and allow mob rule to govern over the discovered facts that

00:05:03.000 show how rotten this investigation was at the outset a little bit of news from the state of florida

00:05:16.680 governor ron de santis announcing that professional sports will be able to take a hold again in our

00:05:22.360 state and those activities can start resuming with team activities training and workouts and i've got

00:05:28.680 to say i think governor de santis has done a fantastic job during the coronavirus in following the data and

00:05:36.040 not the hysteria and i know at the beginning when de santis wasn't racing with other governors to be the

00:05:42.680 first to close down and lock down every element of our economy that the national media piled on him

00:05:47.600 and then they really hoped in a lot of ways and in their reporting that florida was going to be the

00:05:52.420 next new york that we were going to have all these explosions of cases and people were going to be

00:05:57.660 dying in the hospitals with lacks of ventilators and the reality is in the state of florida we've had

00:06:04.400 very low community transition relative to other states don't know if that's a function of our population

00:06:10.720 density if it's a function of weather but the reality is it has been lower acuity lower transmission

00:06:17.420 in florida and so of course nobody wants to give de santis credit in the media they don't want to say

00:06:22.760 okay well you know maybe he was uh tuned in and dialed in to what the scientific information was

00:06:30.400 showing us instead they're saying well florida you know maybe that's just a place where you know the

00:06:35.540 humidity or whatever results in in uh covet not having the same impact and so if that's the case

00:06:41.700 hey you know y'all come as we like to say in the south and i am hopeful that uh the renewal of

00:06:48.540 professional sports will just help our american spirit a little bit more and um i know that there

00:06:54.000 are a lot of us eager to get back to those things because it restores a sense of normalcy and so

00:06:59.080 great to see the governor do that i hope it works out he's got my full support and i suspect that

00:07:04.280 we'll be seeing and learning about other openings in the state of florida i'm hopeful that the

00:07:08.660 governor will open vacation rentals soon in our state so that people can visit and enjoy florida

00:07:14.960 i suspect that the governor is layering visitor entry into the state so that we could continue to

00:07:21.820 watch the data and he has my support in that and and also um he has my encouragement to get our

00:07:27.600 vacation rental industry going because it's such an important part of the economy in northwest florida

00:07:32.200 and throughout our great state um more national news i want to talk about biden's name specifically

00:07:39.240 being on the unmasking sheet so ambassador rick grinnell we talked about him on a few other episodes

00:07:45.260 of the pod he is a real just active guy in the administration he doesn't wait around uh he just

00:07:53.300 gets right on the task at hand and it has been just years uh since we have really made these initial

00:08:02.880 allegations about the highest levels of the obama administration being involved in the corruption

00:08:09.160 and in the targeting of people that they didn't like for their politics or because they had been

00:08:13.640 involved with winning campaigns and with uh with the time president-elect trump to see that joe biden

00:08:19.100 himself is on the list of people requesting the unmasking of michael flynn really is revealing about

00:08:27.980 the sense of revenge that i think uh permeated the top levels of that white house and the resentment

00:08:37.000 here was my commentary on the sean hannity i don't know what's worse for joe biden being implicated in

00:08:42.280 that potential setup or being so without his faculties that he can't remember the meetings he can't

00:08:48.440 remember being there and i think that that also creates sort of a political chinese finger trap

00:08:53.220 for biden either he's going to claim he was the super involved vice president and wants credit for

00:08:58.120 all the things he thinks thinks america loved about the obama administration but if he does that he has

00:09:03.580 to own these scandals these setups and this attempt by the obama administration to undermine our democracy

00:09:09.880 bad news for joe biden ahead you know remember michael flynn was a registered democrat

00:09:14.020 and in some ways these democrats like they go after their own even more when they flip sides and see

00:09:22.980 the light and so you know when you when you see all these folks clapper brennan biden the chief of

00:09:29.140 staff to president obama involved in this you know it wasn't a one-off you know it wasn't just

00:09:34.540 you know some quirky little thing that went awry this was part of a broader plan to destabilize

00:09:41.860 confidence in president trump and it's why we've got to have investigations i mean i'm i really want

00:09:47.500 to encourage my good friend lindsey graham to pick up that gavel on the judiciary committee to start 0.95

00:09:52.860 calling in the witnesses everybody's name who was on that unmasking sheet should be giving public

00:09:59.040 testimony as soon as possible regarding why it was that they were so deeply involved in a bogus

00:10:06.300 counterintelligence investigation from the white house as they were supposed to be helping and

00:10:11.720 transitioning toward president trump not doing everything they can to undermine him that needs

00:10:16.840 to happen in the senate lindsey graham has the power to do it and i sure hope he will 0.78

00:10:21.140 final thing i want to talk about today we saw news breaking late last night that the fbi has seized

00:10:33.680 the cell phone of senator richard burr i have been the leading republican critic of senator burr in the

00:10:40.880 united states congress it is disgusting to me that senator burr was able to engage in a stock sell-off

00:10:46.680 with facts continuing to develop that seemed to increasingly incriminate him you'll remember

00:10:54.080 unlike other senators burr put out a statement saying he himself directed these trades you'll remember

00:10:59.820 that uh he said on fox news that he uh on their online platform that there was nothing to worry

00:11:06.080 about with the coronavirus that our country was prepared that it wouldn't create this great shock

00:11:10.120 to the system and then i think the evidence that may really get him is the familial contact after the

00:11:15.600 news broke from pro publica that senator burr's brother-in-law also was liquidating stocks the same day

00:11:22.460 senator burr was it started to seem that there was something more coordinated so the fbi has seized

00:11:29.300 senator burr's cell phone with search warrants here is uh my first commentary i provided on tucker

00:11:36.540 carlson tonight regarding senator burr richard burr is a disgrace he should be removed as the intelligence

00:11:41.760 chairman immediately as a result of this conduct and as republicans in the trump era we have an

00:11:46.800 obligation to say that we do not want corrupt acts to be associated with our tribe and republicans need

00:11:53.260 to start stepping up and speaking out because what richard burr did in the senate stock sell-off

00:11:57.880 is not something that we want our brand associated with and i didn't let up there i was back on tucker

00:12:02.860 soon thereafter and we continue to beat the drum social distancing is not going to be a sufficient

00:12:08.200 penalty for senator burr in the united states senate he needs to be removed as the intelligence chairman

00:12:13.520 you think about the gang of eight the group of people who review the most select intelligence in

00:12:17.820 the world that group now includes adam schiff richard burr and nancy pelosi three of the lowest

00:12:23.860 integrity people in the entire united states congress so i think leader mcconnell needs to take action here

00:12:29.140 and hey maybe in the next relief bill americans can choose 1200 bucks or stock tips from senator burr and

00:12:35.400 senator feinstein you know i don't believe in guilt by accusation but if he did something wrong

00:12:39.440 he should face the consequences we should put america and the american people first not our own

00:12:45.320 interests as we engage in our public service and in our public acts so thanks so much for listening

00:12:51.140 we'll be back tomorrow with another episode of hot takes with matt gates

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - May 14, 2020

Episode 4： Joe Biden Exposed in Flynn Case, Governor DeSantis Fighting in Florida, Burr's Stock Selloffs

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