The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 41 LIVE： Pro-Life, Pro-Living – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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 in the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running 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,

00:00:27.000 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.

00:00:52.000 Growing life, sustaining life, success, progress on America's farms.

00:01:02.000 It's getting tougher.

00:01:03.000 And inside the womb, it may be getting easier.

00:01:06.000 Welcome to Firebrand Live.

00:01:07.000 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz and we are streaming live from my office on Capitol Hill.

00:01:12.000 The best way to enjoy this report live so that you're not listening to it later,

00:01:17.000 watching it later is to make sure that you are subscribed to your platform with notifications turned on.

00:01:24.000 So we're going to talk about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, how politicians are reacting to it.

00:01:30.000 I'm actually really intrigued by the messages that are being sent by what's not being talked about.

00:01:35.000 So I'll take that on.

00:01:36.000 You'll see everything from Newsom to Pelosi to my take.

00:01:40.000 But it's election day in America today.

00:01:42.000 That's right.

00:01:43.000 In states like Nebraska and West Virginia, voters are going to the polls.

00:01:47.000 And while this isn't a political show, we want to encourage everyone to participate in this great country.

00:01:53.000 Vindicate your rights as a citizen.

00:01:55.000 Get out and vote regardless of your candidate of choice, regardless of your political persuasion.

00:02:00.000 And one can't help but note how the outcomes in these primaries, particularly on the Republican side,

00:02:07.000 influence the policies that we are willing to talk about.

00:02:11.000 You see, that's where you make the connection.

00:02:12.000 When a guy like a J.D. Vance wins a primary in Ohio,

00:02:16.000 that helps those of us who want to elevate the issue of illegal immigration in the Congress.

00:02:22.000 And when you get the more moderate establishment candidates that win,

00:02:25.000 well, then you see a shift toward those policy issues.

00:02:29.000 And that's what we cover in the show, policy.

00:02:32.000 Can't help but notice President Trump going into today's election day, 55-0 in his endorsements.

00:02:38.000 And again, what that informs on within the walls in Congress, the agenda, the schedule.

00:02:44.000 What are the things we're going to talk about?

00:02:46.000 And what are the issues we're going to be willing to fight about in a world in which these are some of the primary outcomes?

00:02:51.000 Now, there is an issue very much on the ballot in West Virginia.

00:02:56.000 And I think this is very interesting.

00:02:58.000 You've got a race in West Virginia that actually pits two Republicans against each other in a primary today.

00:03:05.000 David McKinley and also Alex Mooney, two West Virginians.

00:03:10.000 West Virginia loses a seat as a consequence of depopulation and redistricting.

00:03:14.000 So they end up in the same race. 0.51

00:03:17.000 And the whole race has come down to the Biden infrastructure vote.

00:03:23.000 On that vote, you had Mooney voting no.

00:03:26.000 You had McKinley voting yes.

00:03:29.000 And so you've had people like Republican Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice, even Democrat U.S. Senator Joe Manchin supporting the infrastructure bill, saying it's good for West Virginia.

00:03:41.000 You've had Congress members like Alex Mooney opposing that infrastructure bill.

00:03:45.000 So if you see a Mooney win today, that's bad news for the Democrats, even though it's an outcome in a Republican primary, because it shows that this infrastructure bill that is not only the signature accomplishment of the Biden presidency.

00:03:59.000 It is the only thing that they could possibly trump it as an accomplishment.

00:04:03.000 And if it's not driving votes, if it's not a voting issue, then I think you really see a narrative that's without any sort of cohesion or central focus or grounding in the challenges that are really very prevalent out in the country and challenges we're definitely going to talk about in the show.

00:04:21.000 So that brings us to Congress this week, and we are getting news that a $40 billion package for Ukraine in arms, in aid, in cash is being decoupled from a vote on COVID.

00:04:38.360 Now, first of all, what is so freaking wrong with Congress that you would ever couple Ukrainian aid with coronavirus response, regardless how you think of those things?

00:04:48.580 They definitely don't belong together, but it tells you something about how your government behaves and responds, that they would think about this not as a policy debate, but as a political fusion of these issues.

00:05:02.360 Now, for me, it's not that difficult, because as I'll explain, I'm against both of them.

00:05:06.440 But really nuts that they thought about joining COVID and Ukrainian aid.

00:05:11.360 Like, to most people, you would think your government would actually be sophisticated and mature enough to address those issues on their own merits independently.

00:05:19.980 It does look like that's going to happen.

00:05:21.480 I think the COVID obsession needs to come to an end.

00:05:25.160 We cannot continue to print money to subsidize COVID fear porn policies.

00:05:31.860 You want to know why we have inflation problems in this country today?

00:05:35.000 It's not because of Vladimir Putin, principally.

00:05:38.200 It's because of our government.

00:05:39.860 It's because we print money and thus devalue the dollar as a fundamental economic institution in American life.

00:05:48.420 So I'm not going to be voting for the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer COVID additional relief package,

00:05:55.700 because in Florida, frankly, we've seen how to respond to this.

00:06:00.120 Okay?

00:06:00.920 More freedom, more economic activity, more personal choice.

00:06:04.980 And by the way, for those who want to stay locked up for their personal health reasons, who want to get vaccinated, that's entirely their right.

00:06:13.260 We should not judge them for that.

00:06:14.580 Let them do their thing.

00:06:15.840 But I think Americans who want to go back to work, who want to open businesses, who want to interact with family members, ought to be able to do that as well.

00:06:23.720 So in this COVID package, you've got, you know, the hospital industrial complex and the pharmaceutical industrial complex doing their thing.

00:06:32.240 I won't be voting for it.

00:06:33.560 But the $40 billion for Ukraine, that is undeniably the military industrial complex.

00:06:40.200 And after seeing what the big pharma lobby got and the big hospital lobby got, no doubt the war lobby wants to get right back at it.

00:06:49.700 They certainly don't want to see the savings that the American people should realize as a peace dividend with hostilities in Afghanistan coming to an end, at least as far as Americans go.

00:06:59.340 No, they don't want that peace dividend realized for our country.

00:07:03.540 They want us to continue to spend money just, you know, littering weapons abroad for the use of others who sometimes don't share our values.

00:07:12.180 Ukraine is the money laundering, like, capital of Europe.

00:07:16.960 And in a lot of ways, this $40 billion is a money laundering operation for the elites.

00:07:22.360 And you saw how quick it went from $33 billion to $40 billion.

00:07:26.520 It's just astonishing to me.

00:07:27.780 By the way, Customs and Border Patrol are going to be requesting through the Biden administration about $17 billion.

00:07:34.540 So it tells you a lot about your leaders and your government that they are just lickety-split going to send, like, more than twice as much money to Ukraine to defend their borders than they are defending our border through Customs and Border Patrol.

00:07:50.680 It is a definition of values.

00:07:53.400 My grandfather used to say, don't tell me about your values.

00:07:55.700 If you show me your checkbook, I can tell you about your values.

00:07:59.820 And in this case, America's checkbook seems to be valuing Ukraine more than Europe does and more than even we value the critically just devastating crisis on our southern border with Mexico.

00:08:11.660 And here, within this country, not for nothing, but there's, like, no baby formula anymore.

00:08:18.840 $40 billion for Ukraine when you have a baby formula collapse in the marketplace here in our country.

00:08:25.700 And astonishingly, it was a CNN data assembly report from the CEO of data assembly, Ben Reich.

00:08:33.760 And here's a quote directly from this report about the real problems with baby formula.

00:08:39.240 Quote, this issue has been compounded by supply chain issues, product recalls, and historic inflation.

00:08:47.820 Unfortunately, given the unprecedented amount of volatility due to the category, we anticipate baby formula to continue to be one of the most affected products in the market.

00:09:00.300 So, just take a listen to how bad this is by the numbers.

00:09:05.780 Right now, 40% of the nation's formula is out of stock.

00:09:11.220 That's right now.

00:09:12.200 And you already heard it's going to get worse.

00:09:14.180 That number is actually 10 points higher.

00:09:16.840 Half of the stock is gone in South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Texas, and Tennessee.

00:09:22.660 And now, stores are starting to ration formula in America, rationing baby formula in the United States of America.

00:09:32.780 And how significant is that?

00:09:34.700 67% of babies are fed partially through formula.

00:09:39.840 And if that's not bad enough, we just got in some blisteringly bad crime statistics.

00:09:46.500 Nine cities all have record-breaking murder numbers for 2021.

00:09:50.900 Portland, Milwaukee, St. Paul, L.A., Albuquerque, New York, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Philadelphia.

00:10:03.040 By the way, the same Philadelphia that hosts the 76ers that unfortunately are on a little two-game run against my Miami Heat.

00:10:09.880 But the one thing all those cities have in common?

00:10:12.320 Run by Democrat mayors.

00:10:14.620 Run by Democrat city councils.

00:10:16.200 And what's so sad is that these Democrat policies are failing the people most in the places where they've been most reliant on Democrats to look out for them

00:10:26.240 and to provide some degree of safety and comfort.

00:10:30.320 And it doesn't happen.

00:10:31.820 And it's very bad.

00:10:32.840 And it's particularly bad.

00:10:34.560 Historic murder numbers in these nine Democrat-run cities.

00:10:39.860 You know what else is murder?

00:10:42.200 Abortion is murder.

00:10:43.340 And this draft decision that we have now seen represents the overturn of Roe v. Wade

00:10:52.100 and something that Republicans and conservatives and just pro-life people have been praying for and hoping for and working towards for so long.

00:11:02.700 And you know what?

00:11:03.640 We even hear from California's golden boy, the governor there, Gavin Newsom, that we are winning.

00:11:10.880 Where is the Democratic Party?

00:11:14.700 Where's the party?

00:11:17.060 Why aren't we standing up more firmly?

00:11:19.160 More resolutely?

00:11:20.440 Why aren't we calling this out?

00:11:21.640 This is a concerted, coordinated effort.

00:11:24.260 And yes, they're winning.

00:11:26.140 They are.

00:11:27.120 They have been.

00:11:28.420 Let's acknowledge that.

00:11:29.460 That is what focus gets you.

00:11:33.320 When you actually do the work to craft the bills, to create a culture of life, we can win.

00:11:39.260 And I think so often in Washington, D.C., the Republicans are willing to oversee, manage decline, to just surrender less and less ground to the left over time.

00:11:49.080 But there was a movement in the pro-life community that would not allow the politicians off the hook.

00:11:56.640 We got the right judges.

00:11:58.300 They were confirmed.

00:11:59.100 And now Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned, one of the principal goals of the pro-life movement.

00:12:06.480 And it's quite something that the Democrats don't seem to be taking the issue head on in every circumstance.

00:12:14.880 I think Democrats know that running on like an exclusively pro-abortion position is vastly out of touch with a lot of American people.

00:12:25.340 And so they're trying to use this decision that overturns Roe that would allow states to have restrictions on abortions.

00:12:35.260 Well, they want to change the subject to almost anything else.

00:12:39.000 Take a listen.

00:12:39.580 This is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Face the Nation talking about her reaction to this decision.

00:12:47.180 Take a listen.

00:12:48.640 This is about respect for privacy.

00:12:52.340 What's next?

00:12:53.440 What's next?

00:12:54.060 Oh, so it's about marriage equality.

00:13:03.760 It's about privacy.

00:13:05.740 It's about contraception.

00:13:07.520 You've heard a lot of Democrats saying, oh, contraception is potentially going to be unavailable for people as a result of this decision.

00:13:14.080 Look, there is no serious effort to limit people's access to basic contraception.

00:13:20.540 I support access to contraception.

00:13:22.940 That in no way rubs negative to the pro-life movement.

00:13:27.100 So we can stop the murder of unborn babies with the overturning of Roe, by accepting a culture of life, by advancing pro-adoption policies, which, by the way, is a huge part of this.

00:13:40.520 I am very proud of the work I did in the Florida legislature to work on policies, to cut the red tape for adoption, to create incentives for adoption, to do everything possible to create that positive pro-life culture.

00:13:54.640 But here's what you're going to hear from Democrats.

00:13:56.800 Oh, well, we could ban interracial marriage because of this decision. 0.99

00:14:01.480 We could ban gay marriage. 1.00

00:14:02.920 No one's talking about doing that.

00:14:04.800 This is different.

00:14:05.440 And in the decision itself, actually, Justice Alito takes a moment to express that there's something about this abortion issue and the flawed science and the flawed law that underpins Roe that makes the court's robust reasoning specific to this.

00:14:21.400 So don't buy in to the fear-mongering that, like, this vastly changes the whole concept of reproduction in America.

00:14:29.260 No, this is to overturn Roe, bad law, to return this authority to elected people.

00:14:36.420 And then you know what?

00:14:37.380 If you don't like what abortion law is, you have somebody to go vote for or vote against.

00:14:44.420 And my suspicion is abortion law will be debated by elected officials.

00:14:49.260 The problem with Roe is you had nobody to go vote against if you didn't like it.

00:14:53.700 It was just a court seizing jurisdiction on unsound constitutional principles that relied on penumbras rather than actual text.

00:15:02.500 The freak out on the left has gotten so broad and away from the specific focus of abortion that we had Senator Gillibrand of New York questioning whether or not women were even still citizens in America.

00:15:13.980 Take a listen.

00:15:14.460 Look, reasonable people in America can disagree on the matter of abortion.

00:15:37.160 And by the way, one of the reasons why we had to overturn Roe is because science regarding viability has changed since the 1970s.

00:15:47.820 And as science changes and as our understanding of viability becomes more accurate, our laws ought to reflect that.

00:15:56.220 The political discussion we have in this country, our campaigns, ought to be responsive to those changes in science and to enhanced viability.

00:16:04.640 So reasonable people can disagree about abortion.

00:16:07.620 But that was not reasonable.

00:16:09.400 And frankly, what we see from a lot of the people that are, you see them in these viral videos, you see them everywhere, protesting for a pro-abortion, pro-murder position.

00:16:22.100 It's just wild.

00:16:22.920 And I was observing, like, these people who are out there protesting because they, like, want their abortions or whatever.

00:16:30.700 And I'm thinking to myself, for a lot of them, that probably wouldn't be an issue because they strike me as very lonely people.

00:16:36.900 And not for everyone, but I think in some cases, like, people's personal loneliness has, like, manifested in their pro-abortion view.

00:16:46.160 So I released this tweet, how many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, underloved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats and no bumble matches? 1.00

00:17:03.300 There was quite the reaction to that.

00:17:07.280 But I want you to know what I was talking about.

00:17:09.760 Again, I was asking the question, what percentage of this overall universe of people who are, like, so animated about this that they go out and protest are, like, deeply lonely people?

00:17:18.680 And, frankly, I think a lot of millennials of every gender got sold a bill of goods that, like, oh, well, the best way you're going to meet the best partner is to drive toward the highest degree of education.

00:17:31.120 And now people are wanting Joe Biden to go cancel their $50,000 in student debt that they got to get a master's degree in intersectional feminist studies. 0.97

00:17:39.620 And they find themselves out at some crazy protest probably looking and sounding a lot like this. 0.99

00:17:45.320 I'm killing the mother f***ing baby. 1.00

00:17:51.060 I'm killing him. 1.00

00:17:53.600 I'm killing the baby. 1.00

00:17:56.060 Ladies, if you get pregnant, run on down to the abortion clinic and have that little bastard suck. 1.00

00:18:06.120 For 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has been an institution for the enslavement of women. 1.00

00:18:11.640 Without this basic right, women can't be free. 1.00

00:18:16.400 Abortion on demand and without apology.

00:18:19.700 Without this basic right, women can't be free. 1.00

00:18:23.620 Abortion on demand and without apology.

00:18:26.980 I am a right.

00:18:28.020 I am a right.

00:18:30.860 I am a right.

00:18:31.380 Get out of here.

00:18:34.180 What we believe is that people who reasonably disagree about the matter of abortion ought to be able to access our halls of Congress, our state legislators, to be able to discuss and present evidence.

00:18:50.000 And look at when a heartbeat really starts, when a soul has been created.

00:18:55.080 Not to allow unelected judges to universally resolve this.

00:18:58.420 We still have a lot of work to do in the pro-life movement to ensure that from the moment of conception all the way through life that we are being pro-life.

00:19:08.480 That we enhance foster care.

00:19:10.280 That we do everything possible to assist mothers who have unwanted pregnancies with options that don't include abortion.

00:19:16.740 But that was the sickness, the vile, just odious behavior of the people who would want to use intimidation and who would want to, I think, go to measures that were beyond normal politics to try to achieve the outcomes that they desire.

00:19:37.580 That is not the country we live in.

00:19:39.540 Those are not the people that I think represent where a vast majority of Americans are on this issue.

00:19:45.020 So we'll continue to cover not only this decision and the ongoing jurisprudence from it, but the legislative action here in Congress and throughout the several states that I think is sure to follow.

00:19:58.360 But to be pro-life, we have to support the things in America that drive life and sustain life.

00:20:05.900 And if you've been paying attention, you see that American farmers are in a total state of crisis in this country.

00:20:13.300 And it's not an accident and it's not a mystery.

00:20:16.800 It is a direct result of the policies of the Biden administration.

00:20:20.900 Just take some of the headlines that we've been seeing.

00:20:23.220 This is an Axios article.

00:20:25.060 Go ahead and put that on the screen.

00:20:26.600 Soaring fertilizer prices put global food security at risk.

00:20:30.140 Look at these spikes.

00:20:31.000 Here's what I could tell you.

00:20:31.780 And here's what you're about to hear.

00:20:33.320 Because we're about to have on the program Shannon Nixon from Nixon Farms from my congressional district.

00:20:39.000 But look at those spikes.

00:20:40.760 The margins on American farms cannot support that type of variability in what is a fixed cost.

00:20:47.760 And in a lot of places, you've got to fertilize the land.

00:20:51.040 Let's grab another article.

00:20:52.780 This is out of Michigan.

00:20:55.360 Fertilizer shortage could cause food shortages in Michigan.

00:20:59.340 It's like, not Africa, not Latin America, not Europe.

00:21:04.220 But in America, these fertilizer shortages could result in lack of food security.

00:21:10.340 And it's totally wild and it's completely terrible.

00:21:13.700 You even had one of Joe Biden's top people, Samantha Power, talking about it recently.

00:21:18.140 Take a listen.

00:21:20.100 Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer.

00:21:24.480 And even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia.

00:21:29.760 As a result, we're working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost.

00:21:35.600 And this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway.

00:21:40.700 So never let a crisis go to waste.

00:21:42.800 But we really do need this financial support from the Congress to be able to meet emergency food needs

00:21:47.900 so we don't see the cascading deadly effects of Russia's war extend into Africa.

00:21:54.220 I can't believe she said the quiet out loud.

00:21:58.740 Don't let a crisis go to waste.

00:22:00.220 That actually was from the Obama administration and Rahm Emanuel and the crew there

00:22:05.340 that was willing to accept pain for our fellow Americans

00:22:10.180 so long as they were able to advance this kind of neoliberal agenda.

00:22:14.900 So, you know, we had votes in the Congress regarding Belarus and Russia and sanctions.

00:22:21.140 And those votes impacted the price of fertilizer. 0.95

00:22:24.940 I mean, that massive spike that I saw, that I showed you on that line graph, that didn't come out of nowhere.

00:22:30.160 Even Samantha Power acknowledged that what's going on in Russia and Ukraine and Belarus

00:22:35.860 and our reaction to it has a direct impact on these markets.

00:22:40.080 And here's my problem.

00:22:41.000 I wasn't willing to take those votes to act tough on Putin in a way that just abandoned farmers and consumers

00:22:50.480 and low-income people without a plan.

00:22:53.920 And then in that clip, you see Samantha Power say, well, where's Congress's plan?

00:22:57.060 Well, you know what?

00:22:57.800 It was the Biden administration that sought these sanctions with no plan for what was going to happen to our fellow Americans.

00:23:05.400 I wanted to go on the ground.

00:23:08.560 I wanted to get the perspective directly from a farmer in my district regarding how costs

00:23:14.720 and how kind of radical, woke environmentalism, how provocation with Russia is impacting his business in real time.

00:23:22.840 This is Shannon Nixon, Nixon Farms, Northwest Florida.

00:23:26.920 I had a great time, as you could tell, out of the swamp of Washington, D.C.

00:23:31.420 and out with the good folks of Northwest Florida.

00:23:33.520 Hope you enjoy that conversation.

00:23:37.400 So I'm here with Shannon Nixon at Nixon Farms in my district in Northwest Florida.

00:23:43.100 Tell us about your farm.

00:23:44.580 Typically, we grow cotton, peanuts, soybeans.

00:23:47.620 We grow a little bit of wheat, a little bit of oats.

00:23:50.060 I farm about 700 acres.

00:23:51.900 I'm a very small farmer, but even though small in scale, it still costs a lot of money to do what we do.

00:23:59.160 So you require to operate this farm, petroleum-based fertilizer.

00:24:04.480 Absolutely.

00:24:05.040 And what have you seen regarding the cost of it?

00:24:07.340 I could give you an example.

00:24:09.620 We use a product called 28005.

00:24:12.540 And back in January of 2021, I was quoted a price of $255 a ton.

00:24:23.020 January of this last year, it was $750 a ton.

00:24:28.440 And I'm sure it's went up since then.

00:24:30.140 So I love the way statisticians do inflation.

00:24:38.160 When I see that there's 5% and 10% inflation, I kind of chuckle.

00:24:41.820 I mean, even our baker math is better than that.

00:24:45.380 So I hear from so many people who, in the urban areas of our country, in the suburban areas, say,

00:24:52.500 I go to the grocery store and filling up my basket used to be a couple hundred dollars.

00:24:57.240 Now it's $400, $500, $600 to fill up that basket sometimes.

00:25:01.800 They don't see that that's the diesel price that they're paying.

00:25:04.860 They don't see that that's the fertilizer price that they're paying.

00:25:07.500 But it all really starts here.

00:25:09.060 Let me read you three headlines just from today.

00:25:11.520 Mothers find barren shelves as they search for baby formulas.

00:25:14.880 That's in the Daily Mail.

00:25:16.680 Rising fuel prices could lead to fewer trucks on the road from the national desk.

00:25:21.580 And then we are nowhere near the bottom.

00:25:24.360 CNBC top economist says global markets are going to crater.

00:25:29.020 Are you optimistic right now as a farmer in northwest Florida?

00:25:32.620 As a farmer in northwest Florida, and I think this would be any farmer in a nation,

00:25:38.880 there's a lot of uncertainty right now.

00:25:40.740 Costs are definitely a big obstacle for us to overcome because we always budget before we do our budgetings for the crop year.

00:25:53.840 And we had to go back several times because they just kept changing.

00:25:58.540 Fertilizer costs and not only that, availability.

00:26:01.420 Some things you can't even get if you have all the money in the world.

00:26:05.780 So it's a very definite supply issue.

00:26:08.900 And, you know, we kept thinking that it was getting better, but I think some things are just getting exponentially worse.

00:26:15.540 And there's a lot of political ramifications.

00:26:18.300 And I'm not, I mean, we can all sit here and point fingers, but we know that elections have consequences.

00:26:25.880 And it's not so much the supply, it's the anticipation of the supply.

00:26:30.920 So talk to me about how that affects the business plan of a place like this.

00:26:36.560 When you've got fertilizer going from 255 a ton, you know, to 700 a ton.

00:26:41.560 When you've got the roundup, you know, going up by not just, you know, 5, 10 percent, but by multiples.

00:26:47.620 How do you absorb that?

00:26:49.240 Well, we don't know.

00:26:50.060 We've never, this is uncharted territory.

00:26:51.640 We don't know how we absorb it.

00:26:53.140 Is it going to mean that there are going to be fewer investments in irrigation plant, you know, in more fields or how do you?

00:27:01.860 I can tell you most, most every farmer has cut back on fertilizer because the land is kind of like a savings account.

00:27:11.440 You know, if we've been doing good fertility progress, we have some stored nutrients.

00:27:15.160 But wait, by that, by that measure, once you withdraw from the savings account, you're in real trouble.

00:27:20.920 We're going to be bankrupt from a, from a fertility standpoint.

00:27:26.980 I think the problem is, is coming later on.

00:27:30.660 I think we're setting ourself up for next year.

00:27:33.900 Are you saying that because of what we're doing to the land, not making that investment back in the land and fertilizer, that it's actually going to get worse before it gets better?

00:27:43.080 Unless we come up with some alternatives for nutrients.

00:27:47.220 Look at, one thing I think that you guys.

00:27:49.540 Well, wait a second, because I got to go into specific votes that directly affect us.

00:27:53.760 Where I was on the outside of a majority of Congress, because a lot of these petroleum-based fertilizers, we get from Russia, we get from Belarus.

00:28:03.140 And the ones we don't get from that, that whole global market is impacted by them because they're big producers.

00:28:09.480 And I had to take a vote as your public servant on whether or not we were going to end all that.

00:28:14.900 And there was no plan on how we were going to replace it.

00:28:18.580 You know, you just said, well, that depends on whether or not we have a plan.

00:28:21.240 There was no plan.

00:28:22.320 That was just force people to pay more money. 1.00

00:28:25.120 And, you know, I took a lot of, a lot of crap for that. 0.98

00:28:28.280 A lot of people said, oh, that must mean you love Putin. 0.99

00:28:30.500 Well, I don't love Putin.

00:28:31.360 But I do worry about what we are looking at six months, 12 months, 18 months down the road if, you know, you're seeing two and three time increases on what it takes to operate a 700-acre farm.

00:28:44.280 Well, this is an interesting side note, and maybe this is not politically correct, but we do have a Russian connection to farming, whether we like it or not, because there's a lot of technology in farming.

00:28:56.740 All of these planters, all these tractors, they're running off of GPS.

00:29:00.680 All of this equipment used to have mechanical road markers.

00:29:03.800 We don't have road markers.

00:29:04.880 We depend on that technology.

00:29:06.360 Most of the GPS satellites we use are, a lot of them are Russian.

00:29:13.840 GLONASS.

00:29:14.380 Have you ever heard of GLONASS?

00:29:15.100 Yes, sir.

00:29:15.960 Those are owned by the Russians. 0.95

00:29:18.040 And I'm not a Putin fan.

00:29:20.520 I'm against Putin.

00:29:21.800 But I'll tell you this, when we went to GLONASS, our accuracy went up exponentially.

00:29:26.840 So, you know, we are in a geopolitical situation, because what if Putin decides to scramble the signal on those, what are we going to do?

00:29:38.680 Do we have anybody in Washington that can leverage themselves and say, hey, you know, we need to get these satellites back going?

00:29:46.740 So our food supply is not just in jeopardy from one venue.

00:29:50.580 It has multiple venues.

00:29:52.620 Well, let me ask you a question, Congressman.

00:29:54.420 What do you think can be done to help change this?

00:29:59.800 Because I think people need a little bit of good news.

00:30:01.680 I think people need hope.

00:30:02.820 I think that a lot of farmers feel very desperate, because I talk to some of my colleagues, and they say, you know, if a certain piece of equipment breaks down, you're not going to fix it this year.

00:30:14.280 And that's true, and we've never been in this situation before.

00:30:18.540 So, is there a way that, is there something that we can do?

00:30:25.240 I mean, because I think people feel pretty helpless.

00:30:29.260 We've got to stop printing money.

00:30:31.560 We have printed so much money over the last few years.

00:30:35.020 We've taken a complex, sophisticated food supply system, and we've just sort of run it awash.

00:30:44.080 And we don't make enough of the stuff that we need here, which means that when we have global supply chain issues, you know, Xinjiang province gets a cold and we get pneumonia in this country.

00:30:54.960 And my sense is, you know, the Obama years were depressing.

00:30:59.340 We had no real growth in our economy.

00:31:03.060 And then very quickly, you know, we saw how energetic leadership could get us to where we were producing stuff.

00:31:10.980 We were making stuff.

00:31:12.160 We went from being the energy importer to being the world's greatest energy exporter on a lot of fronts.

00:31:17.020 And it didn't take, like, passing 27 new laws and, you know, a whole bunch.

00:31:22.040 It was almost, like, willing us to success and achievement.

00:31:26.600 And I think we can get it again.

00:31:28.400 And if there's any benefit to the pain that so many Americans are feeling right now, I think they're actually starting to connect the dots more.

00:31:36.360 That if you attack ag, you're going to feel that when you go to the grocery store.

00:31:40.280 If you embrace the most radical forms of environmentalism, you're not going to be able to get around anymore.

00:31:45.460 And you're going to see that $5.99 gas or worse.

00:31:48.640 You know, you go and create conflict with other countries and you visit the pain of what's going on in Russia and Ukraine on Americans and on the global fertilizer market.

00:32:03.420 You know, you're not going to do that without consequence.

00:32:05.400 And so part of what I try to do, truly, is just let people know what's going on.

00:32:09.480 And I think the more people connect the dots, I think the more sophisticated we'll become in our decision making.

00:32:15.180 There's a lot of things in place that I see that's not on anybody's radar that could really work against us in this country.

00:32:22.900 So I do applaud you.

00:32:24.720 And I think you've got probably the hardest job that anybody's ever had because you're going to have to be the one that stands up there and takes the brunt.

00:32:33.900 You're going to have to tell these people that, hey, we've got a problem.

00:32:36.460 Well, if you'll plant the peanuts, I'll go pull the weeds up in the swamp where I work.

00:32:41.100 Oh, I thought you was going to come help me pull some weeds.

00:32:43.760 All right, man.

00:32:44.560 Well, thank you.

00:32:45.100 I really appreciate you sharing.

00:32:46.560 We're all in this together.

00:32:47.860 Amen to that.

00:32:48.540 That's Shannon Nixon from Nixon Farms in Baker, Florida.

00:32:54.520 Very much enjoyed doing that.

00:32:56.160 And I think there's some real truths that we need to reflect on and that we need to certainly amplify here in Washington, D.C.

00:33:01.800 Thanks so much for joining me.

00:33:03.120 We're going to try to have a report available for you tomorrow regarding some of the work that's going on in the committees in the Congress.

00:33:09.380 Roll the credits.

00:33:10.140 We'll be right back.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - May 10, 2022

Episode 41 LIVE： Pro-Life, Pro-Living – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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