The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 48 - Move Over, Joe Exotic. NYPD Under Attack while De Blasio Celebrates Inmate Release. COVID Blues.

00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:03.780 You all were not telling the truth, and you should not be trusted.

00:00:06.540 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.

00:00:09.280 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.

00:00:12.240 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:16.400 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:20.020 And if you enjoy the podcast, do us a favor and subscribe on your listening platform.

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00:00:28.920 and that helps more people hear the show.

00:00:31.420 Let's talk about the news.

00:00:33.200 The news today is jailbreak in New York City,

00:00:36.380 where the mayor is just crowing about his policies

00:00:40.100 that have reduced the numbers incarcerated to historically low levels in the Big Apple.

00:00:46.500 Here's the mayor.

00:00:47.240 We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since World War II,

00:00:53.280 and we are safer for it and better for it.

00:00:56.580 This has been roundly criticized by law and order conservatives,

00:01:01.080 and it also is belied by the data.

00:01:04.100 If you look at this last week and compare 2020 to 2019,

00:01:09.480 and I believe the Washington Examiner did the analysis,

00:01:12.580 you could see that shootings are up 277%

00:01:17.160 in a comparison of this week from this week in the prior year.

00:01:22.200 So not exactly a record I would be too proud of.

00:01:25.580 And, you know, there are also, in addition to the data,

00:01:28.260 you see just these tragic circumstances.

00:01:31.080 On Twitter, Jack Posobiec replied to de Blasio,

00:01:34.300 ask the parents of that one-year-old who was shot in his stroller.

00:01:38.160 And there you're seeing a reference to DeVell Gardner Jr.,

00:01:42.700 a toddler who was killed over the weekend when two men opened fire at a barbecue in Brooklyn.

00:01:48.740 Also, I think it's important to note that you are seeing recidivism

00:01:54.240 from the very people that Bill de Blasio is releasing under these policies.

00:01:59.820 He has had to admit that recidivism,

00:02:01.840 and that is really, I think, well chronicled in a piece in The Blaze by Breck Dumas.

00:02:08.280 So make sure to check that out.

00:02:09.660 We'll post it on our social media.

00:02:11.560 De Blasio also taking a shot at the NYPD,

00:02:16.340 saying that he has no respect for the leadership of the Sergeants Benevolence Association.

00:02:21.900 Not a great place to be in, and especially when you see the NYPD under attack.

00:02:27.340 The chief of the New York Police Department was on Neil Cavuto's show,

00:02:33.420 and here is that remarkable interview.

00:02:35.160 One individual jumped onto the roadbed where we were and came running directly up to us

00:02:39.920 and immediately started, cursing us out, pushing.

00:02:43.660 We ordered him off the roadbed.

00:02:45.320 He wasn't leaving, so we went to make an arrest.

00:02:48.520 As we were arresting him, he grabs onto a railing by the walkway, and a struggle begins.

00:02:55.040 The fighting starts.

00:02:56.120 That's when the individual comes up with a cane and hits my lieutenant in the head,

00:03:02.060 cuts him open, hits my sergeant in the head,

00:03:04.720 causes him to get eight staples in his head.

00:03:06.960 We wish all the women and men in blue the best.

00:03:10.640 Our thoughts are with you.

00:03:12.120 We hope that God protects you on your mission,

00:03:14.720 and we'll do our best in government to make sure that we have your back.

00:03:18.380 If the singing is one of your favorite parts of a church worship service,

00:03:25.840 California might not be for you,

00:03:28.520 given Gavin Newsom's recent regulation limiting the ability of people in a worship service to sing.

00:03:35.580 But that regulation is now under the scrutiny of litigation,

00:03:39.460 after three churches have sued Gavin Newsom for this ban on singing because of coronavirus.

00:03:45.500 Morgan Phillips with Fox News has the story.

00:03:48.860 Three Northern California churches filed the action,

00:03:52.600 and this was a regulation just implemented at the beginning of July.

00:03:57.300 And I think that the Attorney General has provided really significant guidance on this.

00:04:02.340 Here's how we should look at it.

00:04:03.880 If there's a regulation that disproportionately impacts religion as opposed to secular society,

00:04:10.900 that regulation is non-constitutional because it violates the First Amendment

00:04:15.860 and it violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment

00:04:19.800 when we contemplate religion and the ability for people to exercise their religion as they so choose.

00:04:26.980 Now, if it is sort of neutral as to the question of religion,

00:04:32.200 if he was to ban all singing in all circumstances,

00:04:36.660 then maybe that would withstand more scrutiny.

00:04:38.660 So it's my hope that we'll be able to have worship services and singing at worship services,

00:04:45.260 and we'll follow the litigation against Governor Newsom on that front.

00:04:51.640 Move over, Joe Exotic.

00:04:54.240 Congressman Thomas Massey and Ken Buck and I have a documentary coming out on HBO.

00:05:00.040 It'll be airing on August 4th at 9 p.m.

00:05:03.200 Abigail Tracy with Vanity Fair's The Hive has the exclusive coverage.

00:05:07.780 We'll put that out on our social media.

00:05:10.120 Here's the trailer.

00:05:10.960 Mr. President.

00:05:12.320 Great job. I'm proud of you.

00:05:13.860 I think we won the day, sir.

00:05:17.800 I didn't run as someone to unify Washington.

00:05:22.060 I ran to change Washington.

00:05:23.920 I had really started to think about a Donald Trump presidency.

00:05:27.600 He could bring the fight to a town that badly needed it.

00:05:30.560 You know, when I first heard that term, I hated it.

00:05:36.020 I said, oh, that's so hokey.

00:05:39.020 If people are going to drain the swamp like the president wants to do,

00:05:43.900 they need better information about how this place is broken.

00:05:47.860 And that's my mission in Congress.

00:05:49.540 The hierarchy of power in Washington, D.C. is special interest groups' leadership, rank-and-file members.

00:05:58.100 It's who can raise the money and the special interest groups control the money.

00:06:02.040 The lobbyists.

00:06:03.480 That's the swamp.

00:06:05.300 Members of Congress are expected to pay for their committee assignments.

00:06:09.180 $200,000, $500,000.

00:06:11.640 It becomes the perpetual campaign. 0.97

00:06:14.300 It's basically how to whore yourself out for money.

00:06:18.580 You care about health care, the environment? 0.92

00:06:21.320 You gotta care where the money's coming from.

00:06:23.620 Madison didn't count on partisanship.

00:06:27.640 Politics of hate is the most productive technique for fundraising we have.

00:06:33.480 Make yourself a target when you live like I live. 1.00

00:06:36.100 Asshole. 1.00

00:06:37.080 Do something! 1.00

00:06:38.140 Everybody's so obsessed deciding what we should do.

00:06:40.460 Get over yourself.

00:06:41.460 As if we can do something.

00:06:42.800 I'm coming after you, D.C.

00:06:44.380 The only quid pro quo is Trump's commitment to drain the swamp.

00:06:49.620 What has President Trump done to drain the swamp?

00:06:52.460 I don't know what is in the rest of this movie.

00:06:54.600 I have not seen it.

00:06:55.820 They followed us around for calendar year 2019.

00:06:59.820 Stay tuned for more to come.

00:07:03.200 Portland Police Officer Jakaria Jackson seems to have had enough with some of these Black Lives 1.00

00:07:09.360 Matter protests.

00:07:10.580 He seems to have a unique perspective as an African-American police officer in Portland.

00:07:15.400 Listen to what he has to say.

00:07:16.680 It says something when you're at a Black Lives Matter protest.

00:07:22.180 You have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd. 1.00

00:07:27.900 And you have white people screaming at black officers. 0.99

00:07:34.500 You have the biggest no's I've ever seen. 0.97

00:07:37.140 I got to see folks that really do want change like the rest of us that have been impacted

00:07:43.760 by racism.

00:07:45.060 And then I got to see those people get faded out by people that have no idea what racism

00:07:50.960 is all about.

00:07:52.040 Never experienced racism.

00:07:53.800 They don't even know that the tactics that they are using are the same tactics that were

00:07:59.780 used against my people.

00:08:01.280 We thank Officer Jackson.

00:08:03.320 We thank everyone willing to serve in law enforcement and protect us from the permanent 1.00

00:08:08.700 criminal element of society.

00:08:10.160 And we offer that thanks and gratitude to everyone of all background, of all races, because we

00:08:17.020 are all unified as Americans.

00:08:18.900 Three Florida women at the Broward County, Fort Lauderdale Airport were arrested for attacking 1.00

00:08:28.280 employees at Spirit Airlines because their flight has been delayed.

00:08:32.820 CBS4 Miami has the report.

00:08:34.900 Here it is.

00:08:36.540 Tuesday night, this was the scene at gate G-12.

00:08:39.640 Spirit Airlines flight to Philadelphia delayed.

00:08:42.660 Multiple passengers upset.

00:08:44.360 Some throwing their garbage at Spirit employees.

00:08:47.420 Some throwing fists.

00:08:48.700 Among the items tossed at the gate employees were phones, shoes, full water bottles, metal

00:08:56.320 board signs, and of course, fast food.

00:08:59.380 The assault lasting roughly a minute before being broken up.

00:09:02.620 Broward Sheriff's Office arresting three women from Philadelphia.

00:09:06.420 20-year-old Tamiya Wright, 21-year-old Kiera Ferguson, and 22-year-old Dinesha Dixon arrested

00:09:13.720 for battery.

00:09:14.260 So these three ladies, if you can call them that, get upset with Spirit because of a delay 1.00

00:09:20.660 in a flight. 0.93

00:09:21.380 And they just go straight up ham, you know, throwing garbage, throwing things.

00:09:25.740 And I don't know if this is just the explosion of emotion with the news of an airline delay,

00:09:34.000 or if this is becoming like the new normal in society where you don't really think the

00:09:38.680 cops are going to get called, you don't really think that your disturbances will ever be held

00:09:43.420 to account.

00:09:44.360 And so people could just go crazy.

00:09:45.900 People could just do things without the fear of consequences.

00:09:50.060 Here in this case, there were consequences.

00:09:52.720 And I think it's important to note that.

00:09:54.840 And of course, we can all get frustrated with airlines.

00:09:57.920 Look, I travel on airlines often twice a week and am infrequently frustrated.

00:10:04.100 But the people who are there working, trying to connect you, it's not their fault if there's

00:10:09.100 a maintenance issue.

00:10:10.280 It's not their fault if there was a routing issue or a scheduling issue.

00:10:14.400 And so don't be cruel or mean or criminally abusive to the workers for airlines who are

00:10:21.280 just trying to do their jobs under very challenging conditions with probably a lot of stress in their

00:10:26.240 own lives right now to stay safe and stay healthy and stay in service of the rest of us.

00:10:31.920 Be better and know that when people screw up, at least in Florida, there's still going to be

00:10:37.240 some semblance of accountability.

00:10:41.260 The COVID blues are hitting the country and the impact may be more widespread than you'd

00:10:48.160 originally thought.

00:10:49.040 This report coming from Alexander Tansy, and it is entitled Majority of Americans in Largest Cities

00:10:57.280 Report COVID Depression.

00:10:59.500 The survey was conducted by the U.S. Census Household Pulse.

00:11:03.840 They have collected information on how people's lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:11:09.680 And in some of the sunniest cities, we're seeing some of the saddest Americans with

00:11:13.840 the highest depression levels reported in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Miami.

00:11:18.280 And when you really drill down into these numbers, you see that almost two-thirds of the respondents

00:11:24.240 are in a household where someone has lost their income due to coronavirus.

00:11:29.540 And particularly for people under the age of 50, what folks are most worried about is not

00:11:36.000 the public health impact.

00:11:37.740 It is the impact on livelihoods and resources and careers and the ability to get your life

00:11:44.320 moving.

00:11:44.680 And so I think that this is a really important thing to continue to note as we make public

00:11:50.140 health decisions.

00:11:51.900 It is almost impossible to unwind the economic impact of coronavirus from the impact on people's

00:12:01.320 health.

00:12:01.740 Because when you see mental health deteriorate, other elements of physical health deteriorate,

00:12:07.820 diet habits change, exercise habits change.

00:12:10.840 And so it is truly something that we must weigh.

00:12:14.420 I know this is something that the governor of Florida and I have discussed with great

00:12:18.760 frequency.

00:12:19.700 He tracks the suicide rate, the overdose rate, the domestic violence rate, the sexual violence

00:12:27.000 rate that we see during this pandemic.

00:12:29.360 And we are seeing real increases across the board in these quality of life metrics and in

00:12:35.460 these crime metrics and in these public health metrics.

00:12:37.840 And so it's my hope that we can really accelerate these vaccine candidates that we've talked about

00:12:43.260 on the podcast, because I think ultimately that will liberate us from the mental health

00:12:49.080 malaise that this Bloomberg report seems to chronicle.

00:12:56.060 White House chief of staff and my good friend Mark Meadows was on Martha McCallum's program to

00:13:01.000 discuss the administration's response to coronavirus.

00:13:03.920 Let's listen in.

00:13:05.260 Obviously, when we look at the coronavirus and trying to deal with it, we've learned a

00:13:10.380 lot over the last four or five months.

00:13:12.400 And sadly, it's a virus that we know that we're still looking for the answers from China in 1.00

00:13:17.380 terms of the source of it.

00:13:18.700 But more importantly, we're having to deal with how we make sure that there's proper therapeutics.

00:13:24.220 We're working very quickly.

00:13:25.740 I just left the Oval Office a few minutes ago as we're looking on at least what we can

00:13:32.320 do from a therapeutics and vaccine standpoint and trying to make sure the American people

00:13:36.760 are well informed.

00:13:38.120 But I think the other part that we have is really all about trying to make sure that we

00:13:43.460 keep our schools safe, our communities safe.

00:13:46.000 And obviously, we've made a lot of progress, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

00:13:51.120 We wish Mr. Meadows and President Trump and Vice President Pence all the best as they continue

00:13:56.780 to secure the resources necessary to respond to this pandemic.

00:14:00.700 I can say I'm proud that in the state of Florida, not one person who has needed a ventilator or

00:14:06.660 a hospital bed has not been accommodated.

00:14:09.760 We've built out the capabilities in strong partnership with the federal government.

00:14:14.000 10 million masks, 15 million gown and glove kits.

00:14:17.800 Our medical professionals are being tested with great frequency.

00:14:22.840 Our nursing home staff is being tested on a daily basis.

00:14:26.980 And we're doing everything we can to make sure we put our country and our state in the

00:14:31.320 best position to be resilient as we rebuild, reopen and engage in the great American renewal.

00:14:39.460 Let my people go, or at least let them tweet.

00:14:43.460 My people in this case specifically being Donald Trump Jr., Jim Jordan, and in fact, several

00:14:49.420 other Republican accounts who remained locked out of their Twitter accounts beyond the periods

00:14:55.300 of time when myself and some others had been allowed back into that access.

00:15:01.040 And this, of course, follows the remarkable Twitter hack that we saw that created financial

00:15:08.580 fraud against people that went and created false content on people's timelines.

00:15:13.820 And because large verified accounts were targeted, there was a shutdown and the inability for large

00:15:20.840 verified accounts to tweet.

00:15:22.140 We went through that on our account.

00:15:24.860 And Jim Jordan and Donald Trump Jr. saw a real delay in being reactivated.

00:15:30.180 And so I think it does beg the question of Twitter, you know, what are the protocols when we have

00:15:35.020 one of these security breaches?

00:15:36.540 What can all of us expect?

00:15:38.700 How can we learn more about our obligations and rights under user contracts?

00:15:44.300 You know, those those fine print documents that you just scroll to the end of and accept.

00:15:49.480 You know, I think that perhaps this Twitter hack is an educational opportunity for us to really

00:15:53.860 learn that, you know, in an event where security is compromised, where national security could even

00:16:00.400 be compromised, what will be the protocol and the doctrine that will drive the decision making?

00:16:06.280 I think it would be a good thing for transparency and openness on those questions.

00:16:10.840 Do you ever wonder who's on these blacklists?

00:16:13.100 You know, we covered in the show yesterday the screenshots that were shared, great reporting

00:16:18.860 over at Breitbart, where Twitter can suspend or suppress or alter the nature of a trend or perhaps

00:16:27.460 even a person. And so as Americans, would you want to know what trends have been suppressed

00:16:33.920 on the Twitter blacklist? Would you want to know what people are on the blacklist? What accounts?

00:16:40.440 Maybe the United States Congress should subpoena Twitter to find out who is on their blacklist and

00:16:46.500 why. Maybe Congress should ask questions about what causes a specific trend to be blacklisted or

00:16:53.520 enhanced. I certainly know that Project Veritas has put out viral content, explosive videos, exposing

00:17:01.320 Twitter and other technology platforms, and they just don't seem to trend. I'm willing to bet that

00:17:08.180 Twitter has suppressed the spread of content from Project Veritas because they didn't like the honest

00:17:15.540 reporting when the cameras were turned on them. We should learn more about this. I want to know

00:17:21.220 who's on the blacklist and what content has been blacklisted by Twitter. No technology platform should

00:17:28.260 get to control what we see and what we think so they can control how we act. That is not how America

00:17:35.200 works. And that is some sort of like dystopian view of the cherished Americans in our country that I'm

00:17:42.400 still fighting for. Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gates. Have a great

00:17:47.700 weekend, everyone, and tune in next week. I'll be here with more Hot Takes.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 17, 2020

Episode 48 - Move Over, Joe Exotic. NYPD Under Attack while De Blasio Celebrates Inmate Release. COVID Blues.

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