The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - August 26, 2021


Episode 4： Where's Durham？ – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


Episode Stats

Length

37 minutes

Words per Minute

158.08098

Word Count

5,986

Sentence Count

482

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

On today's show, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) takes a shot at the Intelligence Community and accuses them of being part of the Deep State. Rep. Gaetz has been taunting the intelligence community for years, and now they are trying to get back at him.


Transcript

00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.000 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.
00:00:48.000 They're coming for you.
00:00:50.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:53.000 He's taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community.
00:00:58.000 You take on the intelligence community.
00:01:00.000 They have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
00:01:03.000 So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.
00:01:09.000 What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated to?
00:01:12.000 No, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.
00:01:19.000 Welcome to Firebrand. I'm Matt Gaetz.
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00:01:33.000 So you saw in the open, Senator Schumer said the quiet part out loud.
00:01:38.000 When the intelligence community wants to get you, they get you six ways from Sunday.
00:01:43.000 We're all supposed to be compliant, powerless serfs.
00:01:46.000 The great Jim Jordan saw it coming.
00:01:49.000 See what they were trying to do. This is one of the six ways from Sunday.
00:01:52.000 Remember, at the same time, they're trying to change all this with how the intelligence information is shared among various agencies.
00:01:58.000 Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the United States Congress at the time, is on one of the other networks, and he says this.
00:02:04.000 If you mess with the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
00:02:09.000 So this is one of those six ways, coupled with all the other things we know that you talked about.
00:02:13.000 The dossier, the person named Azra Turk, the plant they put pretending to be somebody else next to George Papadopoulos,
00:02:19.000 and all that stuff took place.
00:02:21.000 This is exactly what Chuck Schumer said they were going to do, and it sure looks like they did it.
00:02:25.000 That's why what Mark just said is so important.
00:02:28.000 The attorney general of the United States and U.S. Attorney John Durham are doing an investigation,
00:02:32.000 and they have told us this is broader than just the FBI.
00:02:35.000 You heard Jordan say it, John Durham.
00:02:38.000 He was supposed to investigate the corrupt origins of the Russia hoax.
00:02:43.000 Now, Attorney General Bill Barr's appointment of John Durham triggered the left.
00:02:47.000 They were worried.
00:02:48.000 And remember, we've got the Judiciary Committee in the Senate led by Lindsey Graham,
00:02:53.000 who now says what he's going to investigate is the start of the Russia investigation and maybe Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:03:00.000 We've got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a U.S. attorney named Huber in Utah to look at the origins of the Russia investigation.
00:03:08.000 We've got the inspector general at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation.
00:03:13.000 And now Attorney General Barr, fresh off of pounding his chest in Congress and saying we need to stop using the Justice Department for political purposes.
00:03:21.000 Now, he, too, has appointed somebody else, yet another U.S. attorney, to look into the origins of that investigation.
00:03:27.000 Meanwhile, we have no idea what the results were of that investigation.
00:03:30.000 We have no idea what the findings were of the counterintelligence investigation into Russia and its potential links with the Trump campaign.
00:03:36.000 And the Republicans you know and trust told you that we would get to the bottom of this corruption.
00:03:43.000 Accountability was right around the corner.
00:03:45.000 It's time that somebody goes to jail for truly trying to overthrow this president who was duly elected.
00:03:53.000 And I think accountability is right around the corner.
00:03:56.000 At times, it felt like we were spoon feeding the evidence and witnesses and crooks right to John Durham.
00:04:04.000 Listen to former Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarlane describe the deep state actually trying to convince her to plead guilty to a crime to further the Russia hoax.
00:04:16.000 When they came to me, Melissa, they said, well, we want they really wanted me to plead guilty to confess that the Trump administration had violated the Logan Act.
00:04:26.000 And when I laughed at them and said, look, that's like a joke in the foreign policy community.
00:04:31.000 And they said, oh, no, no, the Logan Act is really serious.
00:04:35.000 And I said, well, how do you guys even know about the Logan Act?
00:04:38.000 And they said, well, we know about it because we just looked it up.
00:04:41.000 We'd never heard of it before.
00:04:42.000 Devin Nunes made 14 criminal referrals.
00:04:46.000 This is the swamp creature deep state mother load.
00:04:50.000 But nothing happened.
00:04:51.000 We also categorized subject areas clearly, as I did here contemporaneous with John Durham's appointment.
00:04:58.000 We're actually looking at multiple scandals.
00:05:00.000 And I think that as Mr. Durham engages in his work, there are three areas we'll want to evaluate.
00:05:04.000 First, the leaks.
00:05:06.000 You'll recall that under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, the FBI wasn't investigating as their principal activity.
00:05:12.000 They were trying to shape public opinion by getting the media to report certain things that were negative about Donald Trump or positive about their agency.
00:05:21.000 The second, as you've well detailed, are the frauds that were committed on the secret court that then impaired the constitutional rights of American citizens.
00:05:29.000 Those frauds included never disclosing that a British spy was the person curating Russian lies about Donald Trump to delegitimize him both before and after his election.
00:05:41.000 But the third and I would say potentially the most important area to investigate is the corrupt intent that seemed to germinate out of the Obama White House to try to smear Donald Trump.
00:05:51.000 And as we saw Peter Strzok and Lisa Page texting about the people in the Obama White House who wanted to be kept up to date onto their work.
00:05:59.000 It seems to suggest that people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper were very much involved in trying to create this narrative.
00:06:07.000 We waited and waited.
00:06:09.000 Sometimes we prodded.
00:06:11.000 Then we had an election.
00:06:14.000 Donald Trump would be leaving power.
00:06:16.000 In November 2020, Devin Nunes said we were waiting for Durham and he revealed the plan to cover up the crime of the Russia hoax.
00:06:26.000 Now we're sitting waiting for Durham to complete this investigation.
00:06:30.000 I think people are getting not only very frustrated, but also there's a growing concern that Durham is not going to come out with anything.
00:06:37.000 And then Biden and Obama are going to be back in and they're going to shut this investigation off.
00:06:43.000 Spot on.
00:06:44.000 We cannot forget that this happened, that people at the Department of Justice and the FBI were using political dirt that had origins at the Democratic National Committee to harm our republic.
00:06:55.000 It was a terrible crime.
00:06:58.000 But the deep state doesn't really go after their own.
00:07:01.000 I don't know if we will ever see meaningful work product from John Durham.
00:07:05.000 We should.
00:07:06.000 That would be nice.
00:07:07.000 The truth is that nobody at the Department of Justice thinks they're going to make their career by pushing accountability over the Obama-Biden White House.
00:07:15.000 Biden is the sitting president and the Obama team.
00:07:19.000 Well, they're the ones making all the decisions while they feed sleepy Joe ice cream and send him off to Camp David for long naps.
00:07:27.000 I know what we saw with our own eyes.
00:07:30.000 It frustrates me greatly.
00:07:33.000 I can't put it any better than Devin Nunes.
00:07:36.000 The Democrats in this country have weaponized over the last five, six years.
00:07:41.000 And it really has been that long because you've got to go back to their nuclear deal.
00:07:45.000 They've weaponized the FBI, all the intelligence agencies.
00:07:49.000 It's so bad.
00:07:50.000 And look, you may hear a little bit of frustration in my voice.
00:07:53.000 It's just because, you know, I didn't go to Washington to sit here and figure out who in our own government and the Democrats are using our intelligence services and military apparatuses to spy on our own citizens and play politics with it.
00:08:05.000 It's sickening.
00:08:06.000 They showed they'd do anything to go after Trump, change evidence, use political dirt, threaten people like KT McFarland, prosecute people like General Flynn.
00:08:17.000 We must stop this.
00:08:19.000 We must stop them because we've already seen that they'll stop at nothing to seize power.
00:08:27.000 Personnel is policy.
00:08:29.000 It took longer than we'd hoped for President Trump to master this.
00:08:32.000 Think of how much greater America would have been made without the follies and failures of Sessions, Mattis, and Comey from the beginning.
00:08:40.000 Trump rode into Washington in a New York state of mind and without a deep Beltway Rolodex.
00:08:47.000 This is not so for President Biden.
00:08:49.000 Just as alligators have adapted to my Florida swamps over millennia, Joe Biden has adapted to Washington.
00:08:56.000 Over the last 40 years, Joe Biden has turned the D.C. swamp into his own personal mud bath.
00:09:03.000 Biden understands that personnel is policy.
00:09:08.000 He has nominated David Chipman, a radical anti-gun lobbyist, for Michael Bloomberg to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
00:09:17.000 Which, by the way, shouldn't even exist.
00:09:19.000 Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ought to be a chain of convenience stores, not a government agency.
00:09:24.000 We don't need a bunch of gun-grabbing bureaucrats to tell us what shall-not-be-infringed means.
00:09:29.000 As evidence, the ATF wasn't even that friendly to gun owners during the Trump administration.
00:09:34.000 In fact, if there's one thing the ATF is good at, it's turning the very people who arm themselves and keep their families and their communities safe into felons overnight.
00:09:46.000 I know President Trump didn't want to turn gun owners using stabilizing braces into criminals, yet we had to send the Trump ATF this letter in December because they were doing just that.
00:09:59.000 The December letter was a follow-up to a demand that then-Representative Doug Collins and I sent in October that the ATF knock it off harassing gun owners with stabilizers.
00:10:09.000 I don't think it's a coincidence that the ATF began hassling gun owners in October, right before the November presidential election.
00:10:20.000 There's a deep state over there at the ATF, too.
00:10:24.000 Now, Biden's pick to lead the agency, David Chipman, is uniquely dangerous and a clear and present threat to your unalienable Second Amendment rights.
00:10:33.000 He should not be confirmed by a 50-50 Senate.
00:10:37.000 His fate and the rights of every gun owner in America hang in the balance right now.
00:10:43.000 Upon returning from August recess, it will be fish or cut bait time for the Chipman confirmation.
00:10:49.000 Every Republican voted against him in the Judiciary Committee and zero Republicans are expected to sport him on the floor.
00:10:56.000 Thank goodness.
00:10:57.000 That means he needs every single Senate Democrats vote.
00:11:02.000 And as of now, he doesn't have them.
00:11:05.000 These are the three key Democrat senators, Angus King of Maine, John Tester of Montana, and of course, Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
00:11:14.000 So their senators should represent the people and vote against Chipman.
00:11:19.000 Make sure you contact them and let them know.
00:11:22.000 So apparently Chipman went on Chinese state media and didn't tell the Senate.
00:11:26.000 His appearance was used as propaganda to conceal a mass violence event in China that turned out to be a stabbing, not a shooting.
00:11:34.000 Simping for China is popular inside the D.C. Beltway, and it may be a good way to get in Joe Biden's good graces.
00:11:41.000 David Chipman should be rejected because of his radical and unpopular out-of-touch views on the Second Amendment.
00:11:48.000 The AR-15 is a beautiful firearm and the most popular rifle in the United States.
00:11:54.000 It is essentially the flagship rifle of the Second Amendment, perfect for hunting hogs or the security of a free state.
00:12:01.000 It is safely enjoyed by many law abiding Americans.
00:12:06.000 Chipman would ban the AR-15 because he doesn't think that you need one.
00:12:11.000 Tell that to the roof Koreans in L.A. or the countless people that have used an AR in defense of their lives and liberty.
00:12:18.000 With respect to the AR-15, I support a ban as has been presented in a Senate bill and supported by the president.
00:12:30.000 The AR-15 is a gun I was issued on ATF's SWAT team, and it's a particularly lethal weapon and regulating it as other particularly lethal weapons I have advocated for.
00:12:45.000 It's not just that he has radical views. He wants to restrict your views, your expression, your speech.
00:12:52.000 As if this clown wasn't sufficiently satisfied depriving Americans of their Second Amendment rights, he also wants to deny us of our First Amendment rights.
00:13:01.000 Here's the Biden ATF nominee lamenting how frustrating it is that we can't take people's guns away for their speech.
00:13:09.000 The frustration is, is in the United States, the freedom of speech and to say things is largely cannot be regulated.
00:13:18.000 But yes, we have to do more to monitor hate speech on the Internet.
00:13:22.000 But we also have to do more to curb that same speech being presented by our president and other elected public officials.
00:13:31.000 The FBI, other federal agencies have a tough job responding to these threats when they don't currently have the authority to remove weaponry just because people are saying hateful things.
00:13:44.000 The Second Amendment exists so we can protect the First Amendment. Chipman opposes both.
00:13:51.000 Angus King, John Tester and Joe Manchin should oppose him.
00:13:56.000 If you value your constitutional rights, you will let them know it.
00:14:00.000 Contact their offices. Flood their social media. Take action.
00:14:05.000 Nick Fuentes is a charismatic Internet personality.
00:14:09.000 He hosts a show that allows him to express political philosophy and thoughts on various topics.
00:14:15.000 Nick Fuentes is also an ethno-nationalist, which I don't agree with.
00:14:20.000 I reject those politics. I reject white ethno-nationalism. I reject black ethno-nationalism.
00:14:26.000 If there's a brown ethno-nationalism, I'm against that too.
00:14:29.000 I've watched Nick's show. I've also watched the speeches of black ethno-nationalists like Al Sharpton.
00:14:34.000 I found Nick's perspective on environmental preservation both well-informed and thought-provoking.
00:14:40.000 Dailyveracity.com is reporting that the FBI has frozen Nick Fuentes' bank accounts, deactivated his credit cards.
00:14:47.000 He's been placed on the commercial no-fly list.
00:14:52.000 No evidence has been presented suggesting Fuentes did more than attend Trump's speech on January 6th, march to the Capitol, and cheer those who entered.
00:15:00.000 That can upset you. It can anger you.
00:15:03.000 I offer no praise for those who forced their way into the Capitol or were violent.
00:15:07.000 I told them to go home on January 6th.
00:15:11.000 But should the FBI have the ability to target people for just bad politics?
00:15:18.000 Is having bad politics a criminal offense in America today?
00:15:22.000 Does it justify harassment from the feds?
00:15:24.000 Should the Department of Homeland Security really have the power to ban non-violent white supremacists or non-violent black supremacists from air travel?
00:15:34.000 Matt Gaetz is defending white supremacy.
00:15:37.000 The press will freak out when I drop this episode.
00:15:41.000 So predictable.
00:15:42.000 And I'm not.
00:15:44.000 I've just seen enough to know that if we aren't judging people based on their actions, if we want to create a new class of thought crimes,
00:15:52.000 it won't be long before we're all labeled and banished for one reason or another.
00:15:56.000 And finding ways to limit our interactions with one another.
00:16:01.000 Even uncomfortable ones.
00:16:04.000 It doesn't make us a stronger or more compassionate society.
00:16:08.000 It makes us fragile.
00:16:10.000 And weak.
00:16:11.000 In the 90s, so many Republicans were trying to make content illegal.
00:16:15.000 The left embraced the odd, the weird, the different.
00:16:18.000 In the 2020s, we have ushered in a tyrannical new left.
00:16:23.000 Aided by the FBI, apparently.
00:16:25.000 They'd punish you for your worst tweet.
00:16:27.000 Prosecute you for your most ill-advised association.
00:16:30.000 Banish you for politically incorrect expressions.
00:16:35.000 The Democrat chairman of the Homeland Security Committee doesn't believe that United States Senator Josh Hawley or Congresswoman Lauren Boebert should be able to fly on commercial planes.
00:16:48.000 There's no exemption for being put on the no-fly list.
00:16:55.000 There's even a member of Congress that commits a crime.
00:17:00.000 You know, they expel from the body.
00:17:05.000 There are ethics charges that can be brought against those individuals.
00:17:10.000 And people are looking at all of this.
00:17:12.000 What Hawley did and what Cruz did was horrible.
00:17:17.000 What, the new member from Colorado?
00:17:19.000 You may think what happened to Nick Fuentes could never happen to you.
00:17:23.000 The FBI would never target you.
00:17:25.000 You aren't going to get the attention of social media tycoons to deplatform you.
00:17:30.000 Just keep your head down.
00:17:32.000 Don't attract too much attention.
00:17:34.000 Lie low.
00:17:35.000 This is how they win.
00:17:38.000 This is how they destroy our great country.
00:17:40.000 To demoralize and temper you.
00:17:43.000 To snuff out the firebrands.
00:17:46.000 Today the FBI targets Nick Fuentes because they call him a white supremacist.
00:17:52.000 You know, the blue check marks.
00:17:54.000 They've called me a white supremacist.
00:17:56.000 They've called Candace Owens a white supremacist.
00:17:59.000 They've called Rahim Kassam a white supremacist.
00:18:02.000 How long till they call us all white supremacists?
00:18:05.000 It's the new tool they use to shut people up they don't like.
00:18:09.000 How long till you're on the no-fly list.
00:18:12.000 Till your bank accounts are frozen.
00:18:15.000 Nick Fuentes isn't a sympathetic character in American politics.
00:18:19.000 That's the point.
00:18:21.000 Because at times we have to defend uncomfortable people
00:18:25.000 and uncomfortable speech to preserve our cherished freedoms.
00:18:30.000 America first.
00:18:32.000 Patriotic nationalism.
00:18:34.000 These things require an appreciation of America
00:18:37.000 that goes beyond our founding documents or even our vaulted ideals.
00:18:42.000 We must love this actual place.
00:18:45.000 Our home.
00:18:47.000 From sea to shining sea.
00:18:49.000 Not from toxic sludge pit to Asian carp infestation.
00:18:53.000 Purple Mountain's majesty.
00:18:55.000 Not smog in the air poisoning our people and reducing our cherished land to mire.
00:19:00.000 America first conservatives must love our environment.
00:19:05.000 We must endeavor to protect it from filth.
00:19:08.000 I've introduced the Green Real Deal in every Congress.
00:19:11.000 It embraces conservation as a tenant of nationalism.
00:19:15.000 Improve our electric grid.
00:19:16.000 Use nuclear.
00:19:17.000 Stop local governments from banning hydropower.
00:19:19.000 Allow innovators to test and tinker more on our federal lands.
00:19:23.000 In fact, it might come as a surprise to many here.
00:19:26.000 Though it makes perfect sense that many of the prominent environmental organizations in this country,
00:19:31.000 at their founding, held immigration views that were quite similar to the views held by President Trump.
00:19:37.000 The concern was that unchecked immigration and open borders could put unsustainable pressure on the nation's environment and resources.
00:19:45.000 Securing our environment from existential threats is something we might refer to as environmental security.
00:19:51.000 And it is essential to securing both national security and border security in the long term.
00:19:57.000 That there is an existing portfolio of legislation that falls within the priorities and values of my Green Real Deal that could do a lot to solve the problem.
00:20:06.000 Protecting our environment is not an issue of left versus right.
00:20:09.000 It's an issue of clean versus dirty.
00:20:11.000 Healthy versus sick.
00:20:13.000 Beautiful versus ugly.
00:20:15.000 It's conservative in the most essential, non-partisan, and literal sense of the word.
00:20:20.000 Conserving the resources and the splendor of our natural world.
00:20:24.000 America is often lauded as more than a country.
00:20:27.000 It's an idea.
00:20:28.000 But I would say it's even more than an idea.
00:20:31.000 America is our home.
00:20:33.000 The oceans and rivers and forests and streams and meadows and hollers of this country are a tremendous resource that we want to preserve and enjoy for generations to come.
00:20:43.000 It is time to unleash the creative genius in this country to protect our national treasures and in doing so secure America's greatness, prosperity, national security, border security, and beauty for generations to come.
00:20:57.000 Recently, Tucker Carlson gave a moving speech in Hungary of all places on these very themes and their importance for our nation and our movement.
00:21:06.000 If you think of your country like your home, you don't want it to look crappy.
00:21:11.000 It's really that simple.
00:21:12.000 If it's your house, you want to be in charge of who sleeps there.
00:21:17.000 That's not a complex principle.
00:21:20.000 It's the most basic human principle.
00:21:23.000 So as I'm standing at the border, literally at the border fence, thinking about this, watching the German Shepherd amble past, I was trying to talk to a border guard who, by the way, like, as noted, like every Hungarian I have met, every, from the driver to the waiter to the border guard had better English than our own president.
00:21:42.000 I said, how often do people come to the border?
00:21:53.000 How often do you see migrants putting ladders atop the concertina wire?
00:21:57.000 Is this like every hour, every day?
00:21:59.000 Is it at night during the day?
00:22:00.000 I'm trying to ask the dumb journalist questions.
00:22:02.000 And he said, well, and then he stopped and he looked down like very intensely, like something bad had happened.
00:22:10.000 And I'm from the U.S. where we have poisonous snakes.
00:22:12.000 So I immediately thought, you know, I don't know if they have cobras in Hungary.
00:22:16.000 Again, I don't speak the language.
00:22:18.000 So I stepped back and there is a plastic sandwich bag about that big on the ground, stuck at the bottom of the chain link fence.
00:22:26.000 And this guard reaches down, grabs the bag and puts it in his own pocket.
00:22:32.000 And I don't think I've, I have seen in my life very few displays more powerful than that.
00:22:39.000 So here's a border guard.
00:22:41.000 I don't know what they make.
00:22:42.000 I'm guessing not much.
00:22:43.000 Yeah.
00:22:44.000 He's a civil servant.
00:22:45.000 He works for the government.
00:22:47.000 Yeah.
00:22:48.000 And he's so offended by the idea that there's litter in his country that he puts it in his own pocket.
00:22:54.000 What does that tell you?
00:22:58.000 It's the clearest possible expression of love and respect.
00:23:03.000 When you love something, you keep it clean.
00:23:07.000 Period.
00:23:08.000 I've said this on television many times and every time I do, they call me a fascist.
00:23:13.000 As if cleanliness were a fascist quality.
00:23:16.000 It's not.
00:23:17.000 It's a virtue.
00:23:18.000 The answer doesn't lie in the siren song of communism masquerading as environmentalism.
00:23:23.000 After all, in communist countries large and small from China to Cuba, they are awful to the environment.
00:23:30.000 Literally unilaterally disarming the American economy would actually make China stronger and the global environment far worse.
00:23:38.000 Go to gates.house.gov to learn about my green real deal legislation that embraces research, markets, and strategic investment to keep this stunning country we are so blessed to live in splendid and lovely.
00:23:53.000 Winter 2020.
00:23:55.000 Manhattan was abandoned.
00:23:57.000 The city that never slept eliminated bail and ended stop and frisk.
00:24:01.000 Feckless lawmakers would rather leave their constituents to fight for themselves than be called racist.
00:24:07.000 Nursing homes piled up the dead.
00:24:10.000 Public transportation carried this unreasonable risk of getting stabbed just for doing nothing, like possibly by some crazy person or someone that had been released.
00:24:19.000 Lockdowns made normal life illegal.
00:24:22.000 So the brash New York Young Republican club got a cash star venue in Jersey City to host their annual black tie gala.
00:24:31.000 Historians are still trying to determine if this was the first ever black tie affair in Jersey City.
00:24:36.000 But servers were employed.
00:24:39.000 Cooks were banging and clanging.
00:24:41.000 Managers greeted us with smiles and gratitude.
00:24:43.000 This was a time when so many Americans saw their jobs become illegal.
00:24:48.000 And a lot of these Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
00:24:51.000 They hadn't done anything wrong.
00:24:53.000 But because of some tyrannical governor or mayor, they weren't allowed to work.
00:24:57.000 They weren't allowed to provide.
00:24:58.000 They weren't allowed to contribute.
00:25:00.000 And then this venue that we went to in Jersey City that we brought resources to that we allowed to reach employment.
00:25:09.000 They were threatened with criminal prosecution.
00:25:12.000 These jerks just came in.
00:25:14.000 It's under investigation, including the venue.
00:25:18.000 Jersey City law enforcement is currently investigating this matter.
00:25:21.000 And we will assist their investigation in any way necessary and take action as appropriate.
00:25:27.000 The local prosecutor was activated.
00:25:29.000 Is Jersey still investigating me now?
00:25:32.000 They may have to take a number.
00:25:34.000 This gathering of incredibly well-dressed New York political refugees had become an international incident.
00:25:40.000 Is off and we begin here tonight with that party that is now a public safety concern.
00:25:44.000 A posh Jersey City restaurant shut down after a maskless secret gala for the New York young Republicans last night.
00:25:52.000 It has been dubbed the forbidden gala even by those in attendance.
00:25:55.000 150 people inside a New Jersey venue at one point elbow to elbow posing for a maskless group photo.
00:26:02.000 Maritime Park, a private events hall located in Jersey City's Liberty State Park, remains under investigation Friday.
00:26:08.000 The result of a gala held here the night before thrown by the New York Young Republican Club.
00:26:14.000 In New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy blasting Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for attending an event at a New Jersey restaurant.
00:26:20.000 Photos capturing dozens of people without masks.
00:26:23.000 My mother saw this chyron on Fox News and wondered why I had been captured.
00:26:27.000 I had not been captured. I still have not been captured.
00:26:31.000 But I was banned from New Jersey by the state's Goldman Sachs governor.
00:26:36.000 That guy in the middle, the tall, handsome fellow in the gray suit, that is Representative Matt Potts. Sorry, Matt Gaetz.
00:26:43.000 A Potts? Okay, Boomer. And the handsome thing? Is someone projecting?
00:26:49.000 The whole thing seems so odd. All this hubbub over a party?
00:26:53.000 By Florida man standards, it wasn't even that rambunctious of a party.
00:26:56.000 No one even tried to wrestle an alligator.
00:26:59.000 I couldn't help but reflect on the hypocrisy.
00:27:02.000 Had I come to Jersey City to torch a Wendy's or throw a Molotov cocktail at a George Washington statue,
00:27:09.000 I would have been welcomed as a political expressionist.
00:27:12.000 But because I came to give a political speech after having developed natural infection COVID immunity, I was dangerous.
00:27:20.000 I don't bring this up now to rehash an old grievance or even because I want to go back to Jersey. I don't.
00:27:27.000 Now we have the perspective of time, though, and it should inform policy choices.
00:27:33.000 New Jersey had some of the most draconian lockdowns in America.
00:27:37.000 You see, when you're a Goldman Sachs gazillionaire governor, maybe it's easy to impose lockdowns on others.
00:27:43.000 Your money still works, even if other folks can't.
00:27:47.000 In Jersey, stopping deadly COVID outweighed all costs and justified all lockdowns.
00:27:53.000 So let's see how it's going.
00:27:55.000 We have the highest and still do have the highest death rate per capita of any state in the country with all the lockdowns,
00:28:01.000 with the biggest lockdown, probably New York and New Jersey were the biggest ones to lock down.
00:28:05.000 It didn't it didn't work.
00:28:06.000 Oh, no. New Jersey has a COVID death per capita rate of two hundred ninety nine for every hundred thousand people in Florida.
00:28:13.000 In Florida, it's not two ninety nine. It's one eighty.
00:28:17.000 For those who have managed to survive Murphy's mismanagement of covid, his mangling of the New Jersey economy has led to an unemployment rate of seven point three percent.
00:28:27.000 Compare that to Florida's five percent unemployment rate, which will go down further as Florida recharges through freedom.
00:28:35.000 Perhaps Phil Murphy can call America's best governor Ron DeSantis for a few tips that could save lives.
00:28:41.000 If New Jersey had maintained the covid death rate that Florida has, there would be over ten thousand people who would be alive in Jersey today.
00:28:51.000 Instead, those people are dead.
00:28:54.000 I guess being a handsome putz beats being an ugly, dumb killer.
00:29:01.000 People are still fighting for freedom in Cuba.
00:29:04.000 We were supposed to get an update from the Biden administration earlier.
00:29:07.000 This is what happened.
00:29:09.000 So we were preparing for a staff meeting today, a call on Cuba.
00:29:14.000 A lot of people talking about it.
00:29:16.000 A lot of members of Congress concerned about it.
00:29:18.000 And we were supposed to have a call with Republicans from Florida at eleven o'clock today with the State Department.
00:29:26.000 Actually, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere.
00:29:30.000 Had a lot of questions about why the Biden administration has allowed thugs from Venezuela and Russia to move from Caracas into Havana.
00:29:43.000 Questions about the Biden administration simultaneously seeming to support freedom in Cuba.
00:29:49.000 But then also being in unity of purpose with the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:29:54.000 And BLM has actually put out a statement supporting the oppressive Cuban regime leading us to believe that socialism may run thicker than blood.
00:30:05.000 We're not going to be able to ask these questions of the Biden administration because just before our call with the State Department was supposed to occur, we get this message that the State Department has canceled the call.
00:30:17.000 So we're going to continue to pursue the Biden administration on Cuba.
00:30:21.000 They've been all over the map.
00:30:22.000 They never should have allowed foreign interference from Venezuela to limit the ability of the Cuban people to fight back.
00:30:29.000 But we'll keep fighting for freedom and have another update soon.
00:30:36.000 The average age in Congress is 58.
00:30:38.000 Boomer Congress is highly vulnerable to COVID, actually.
00:30:42.000 As an institution, we are old, usually obese, and otherwise comorbid.
00:30:47.000 No wonder I don't fit in.
00:30:49.000 Members of Congress are actually the ones who should be locked up and locked down if health conditions call for it.
00:30:54.000 It was a point I was trying to make when I wore a large gas mask on the House floor.
00:31:00.000 While every media outlet assumed my motive, saying I was mocking or making light of the virus, I was actually attempting a different point altogether, albeit, admittedly, unsuccessfully.
00:31:10.000 As I stated in the Hill the day I wore the mask, look, members of Congress are human petri dishes.
00:31:15.000 We fly through the dirtiest airports.
00:31:17.000 We touch everyone we meet.
00:31:18.000 If anyone's going to get coronavirus, it's going to be the people on that floor.
00:31:23.000 Sadly, I was right.
00:31:25.000 Many members of Congress got COVID.
00:31:27.000 It was at times fatal.
00:31:30.000 The great Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky demanded that the rules in place pre-COVID requiring members to show up and vote must be followed.
00:31:39.000 He made Congress show up in person before spending trillions of dollars on COVID relief.
00:31:44.000 And he was land blasted for doing so.
00:31:46.000 We are learning late tonight that lawmakers are scrambling, if you can believe it, to get back to Washington by tomorrow morning in the middle of a global pandemic because one Republican Congressman, Thomas Massey of Kentucky, is expected to demand an in-person vote.
00:32:05.000 Yikes.
00:32:06.000 Yikes.
00:32:07.000 But Massey was right.
00:32:08.000 Massey highlighted the appropriate critique of what was really going on.
00:32:12.000 Congress was trying to spend $1.9 trillion without putting the names of the representatives next to whether or not they had voted yes or no.
00:32:20.000 Whether you support CARES or not authorizing $1.9 trillion of federal spending under the anonymous shroud is un-American.
00:32:29.000 Voice votes are used as a mechanism all the time to quicken federal spending.
00:32:34.000 Through swamp parlance, it's called suspension votes.
00:32:38.000 Through this procedural tool, an unlimited number of bills can be passed almost instantly by the call of the speaker.
00:32:45.000 Zero members will be held accountable by the recorded and permanently available congressional record.
00:32:51.000 Both parties love this tool.
00:32:53.000 Lobbyists especially love this tool.
00:32:56.000 The easier it is for Congress to spend your money without recorded votes, the worse for the American people.
00:33:04.000 On that note, have you noticed how inflation is making things more expensive for working people every day?
00:33:10.000 Printing money at this irresponsible rate does that.
00:33:14.000 In fact, if printing money made a nation stronger, Zimbabwe would be a world power.
00:33:19.000 But it doesn't.
00:33:20.000 And they aren't.
00:33:22.000 President Biden will continue to sign nice sounding legislation, costing the taxpayers trillions of dollars.
00:33:29.000 Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to artificially manipulate our economy, pushing down interest rates.
00:33:35.000 Consequently, the value of your dollar is decreasing and the price of consumer goods goes up every single day.
00:33:43.000 You see it in the grocery store.
00:33:44.000 You see it at the gas pump.
00:33:45.000 You see it everywhere.
00:33:46.000 This, in fact, is the worst outcome for real America.
00:33:50.000 Joe Biden and the Democrats picking winners and losers.
00:33:54.000 And simultaneously making every one of the dollar bills you've worked for worth less in value.
00:34:01.000 Representatives of yesteryear rode on horseback to Washington during the Civil War.
00:34:06.000 They traveled and congregated against threats of murder, disease, savagery.
00:34:11.000 We could probably stomach a few long car rides until vaccines or other remedies developed.
00:34:18.000 That way there would be a recorded vote.
00:34:20.000 So now, with vaccinated senators getting COVID anyway, congressional fear is at an apex.
00:34:28.000 So we are likely to continue voting remotely, having committee hearings remotely, and having remote governance.
00:34:38.000 There will be benefits and drawbacks to this system, of course.
00:34:43.000 One consideration that I love is that lobbyists actually hate remote voting.
00:34:47.000 They prefer congressional servants to be here in Washington, D.C.
00:34:52.000 It makes Congress easier to reach and easier to corrupt.
00:34:56.000 Most lobbyists have multiple lunches and dinners and cocktail hours every single day with members of Congress.
00:35:02.000 That's how they get their agenda before your agenda.
00:35:06.000 It's far more difficult when we're strewn about the country.
00:35:09.000 So let's all hope that Boomer Congress stays safe and returns to the fidelity of service to the people, wherever we may be.
00:35:19.000 Let's also hope that after 16 months of Zoom meetings, Boomer Congress gets a little bit better at it.
00:35:25.000 Because I don't know if I could take another year of this.
00:35:28.000 In 2019, we must make sure that our nation's sole proprietors and the smallest of small businesses receive timely-
00:35:35.000 Will the gentleman suspend?
00:35:38.000 I'm sorry, Mr. Emmer?
00:35:40.000 Yes.
00:35:41.000 Are you okay?
00:35:43.000 I am.
00:35:45.000 You're upside down, Tom.
00:35:47.000 ...authorizing capabilities CISA has brought, has built through a pilot called Cyber Sentry,
00:35:53.000 which allows CISA to partner with certain strategically placed critical infrastructure-
00:35:58.000 We'll move on to Senator Langford.
00:36:00.000 My-
00:36:01.000 Oh, fuck.
00:36:02.000 Fuck, fuck, fuck.
00:36:05.000 But as bad as American Congress is, the Canadians found a way to make it weirder.
00:36:11.000 Mr. Speaker, as you know, since the beginning of the pandemic,
00:36:16.000 we have tried to emphasize the importance of respecting quorum, the dress code here in the House.
00:36:27.000 And I think that this, today we have beaten, we've set a new record.
00:36:31.000 We've seen a member during question period improperly dressed, that is unclothed.
00:36:41.000 So perhaps remind the members, especially the male members, that suits and ties are appropriate, or rather called for.
00:36:53.000 And we have seen that the member was in very good shape.
00:36:57.000 But I think that this member should be reminded of what is appropriate and to control his camera.
00:37:04.000 Thank you.
00:37:05.000 Thank you.
00:37:06.000 I would like to thank the honorable member for her observations.
00:37:15.000 I missed that, but as she was speaking, I spoke with the technicians and indeed they did see something.
00:37:22.000 And what I would like to do is to remind the members that when they are even are at home, they must be aware that there is a camera and a microphone and they need to be aware of their functioning.
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