Episode 51 - Neoconservatives vs. America First. Google's Secret Blacklist. AOC v. Yoho.
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The House of Representatives is considering a bill that would limit President Trump s ability to ban travel from certain countries, and I have a hot take about why this is a racist ploy to stoke racial divisions and create more racial division.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the news today in the
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united states house of representatives is the no ban act that's right this is nancy pelosi's effort
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to try to limit the ability of president trump to ban travel from specific countries the president
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initially banned travels from countries like yemen countries where there is no way to truly
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ascertain whether or not someone is who they say they are whether they've been radicalized whether
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they present a threat to our country i think it's entirely appropriate for us to be resilient at home
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against the threat that someone has snookered some country that's barely a country that's a failed
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state and then could potentially harm americans i think it's a lot more productive to engage in these
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types of homeland protection resiliency efforts than to launch off on a bunch of wars chasing every
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potential terrorist into every potential cave or spider hole that they may dive into so the president
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initially uses his article two powers to engage in these uh bands to protect our country and certainly
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in the era of coronavirus this executive authority is absolutely essential you'll remember when president
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trump initially banned travel from china there was opposition from the world health organization there
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was opposition from china there was even opposition within the trump administration from folks like dr
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fauci who did not think that was necessary thank goodness president trump had the authority he had the
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right instincts he banned this travel and that probably helped us at least on the front end deal with the
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initial wave of this virus now we're into an extended encounter with the virus and we're working very hard
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to wrestle it down to the ground and to ensure that we protect the health of americans so in this era of
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the pandemic why in the world would nancy pelosi want to limit the ability of any president to protect our
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country and restricting travel here's my hot take they're just using this as a way to race bait and
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inflame accusations against the president and the administration of racism that's really what this is
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all about you're going to hear in congressional debate that the president treats certain african and latin
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american countries differently that he does this based on some accusation falsely of white supremacy
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and the reality is the president simply wants to make sure that the people that enter are who they say
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they are and that they have not been radicalized or that they're not carrying some virus that is going
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to be birthed onto our country so this is not a play for the health and safety and protection of americans
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it is a way to virtue signal into racial division and so i hope that we do not see this past the
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senate i expect it will be dead on arrival over there but i will be voting against the no ban act
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because i believe that the executive has to have the power to protect americans
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if i am ever under siege or under criticism in washington dc i sure hope that one of the only folks
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defending me isn't john bolton for goodness sakes john bolton has been wrong about almost every major
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foreign policy dynamic in my life i mean this is the same john bolton who wanted to invade venezuela
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through columbia this is the same john bolton who wanted to bomb iran starting a new forever war
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with another middle eastern empire kingdom ancient civilization this is the same john bolton who
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championed the war in iraq despite the fact that that war has made i think the world less safe i think
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it's created a vacuum that allowed for a realignment in the middle east that is not helpful to the united
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states it's the same john bolton who thinks that if we just go and invade a few more countries in the
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middle east we'll be able to build plural democracies out of sand and blood and arab militias but it's
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very john bolton who has defended liz cheney she says she's a woman of great principle and that we need
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more people like liz cheney and so i think what you're starting to see is a real alignment of the
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neoconservatives against the america first trump movement so there's the wing of the republican party
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that is the john bolton liz cheney mitt romney jeff flake wing of the party and then i think there
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is the donald trump wing of the party that certainly i am supportive of and that i'm going to keep
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fighting for so john bolton defending liz cheney liz also gave herself a defense that this morning
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she was on fox and friends and here's what she had to say we want to ask you about what matt gates
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said and he's calling on you to resign this is what politico is reporting that some republicans
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are upset with you because you were backing the primary opponent of representative thomas maizey and
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it all came to blow during a conference meeting on tuesday yesterday what's your response to that do you
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plan to step down because he's calling you to well listen we have a wider range a wide range of views
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within our conference we had a healthy discussion about a whole range of issues congressman gates was
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really pretty direct in his christian criticism of you in not supporting president trump in some of his
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policies would you like to address directly that criticism of lacking support for president trump
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well look my my voting record with president trump is something like 97 percent of the time
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uh there are areas they tend to be on national security where uh we don't always agree uh i find in
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my experience the president appreciates people who are direct people who uh explain what they think
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uh but i i think most of the time uh far more of the time we agree than we disagree and when it comes
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to national security when it comes to the importance of keeping this nation safe and soon thereafter
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congressman jim jordan was asked about my critique of liz cheney and i think it's quite something
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if you pay very close attention to how jim jordan answers the question it ain't exactly a ringing endorsement
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of liz here's the exchange matt gates is a good friend and matt gates wants president trump to get
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re-elected just as strongly as i do just as strongly as everyone in the republican conference does
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i think that's going to happen because i think i think when americans step back and they look at
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where joe biden wants to take china for example china's in the news today which model i've not seen
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a president stronger on china against china than this president which model do you want the joe biden hunter
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model a hunter biden model on china or the president trump model on china so congressman that's what's
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got to be the congressman the good news is you republicans are all sticking together uh it it sounds
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like you don't think she should go anywhere i i'm focused on re-election the president plain and simple
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and i can understand why jim jordan was unwilling to defend liz cheney or the way she's behaved toward
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the president i'll just tell you in the republican conference meeting it was jim jordan making the case
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that liz cheney has been hurting president trump and hurting our election chances and only increasing
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the likelihood that joe biden is going to be elected so i stand with jim jordan i stand with
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donald trump it is their vision of the republican party that i'm working to vindicate and advance
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and we certainly are not going to rebuild an america first agenda if the policy perspectives and
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tactics of liz cheney and john bolton are adopted we can be better we can be america first and that's
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what jim jordan and i are going to be fighting for alongside our transformational president
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does google have a blacklist too we all know following the highly publicized hack of twitter
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that there appears to be a twitter blacklist trending blacklist for them to be able to suppress
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content and i guess we're wondering the extent to which that may be the case at google too
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the national pulse has the story on this we'll be sending it out on social media but a number
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of conservative media sites redstate.com breitbart the national pulse the daily caller were not appearing
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in search results and when the national pulse reached out to google to ask why that was the case
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they said it was a technical error and the problem was fixed you started to see these
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conservative groups and conservative websites reactivated through the google search feature
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does anyone really buy that this was a technical error i mean after we've seen all of the reporting
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from project veritas where folks at google admit bias after we heard from testimony from the google
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chief executive officer sundar pichai that there wasn't really an active investigation into google
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employee chat rooms entitled resist like how come there are never the technical issues that seem to
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ban the liberal sites or the democrat opposition research firms that masquerade as news organizations
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it's never them who get caught in the technical glitch and so i think that maybe we need more
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technical transparency here's my hot take if google and other digital platforms want the special
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protections that the law provides for a neutral exchange of ideas and presentation of content then they
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should have to prove that they are in fact neutral and when we see these flare-ups where the conservatives
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seem to get deprived of access to the platform we need investigations otherwise section 230 of the communication
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decency act which by the way president trump has advocated the repeal of and he's right
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should not apply to entities that demonstrate this type of bias so i don't think it was a technical
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glitch i think it was likely someone at google trying to limit the ability of the american people to see
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conservative content and and i think it fits in with the cancel culture that the media and the left have
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championed they believe that you don't really have to engage or debate conservatives you simply have to
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say that they're unworthy of being listened to and that is very dangerous for democracy as conservatives
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i don't want to ban or cancel liberal thoughts socialist thoughts even marxist thoughts i am confident enough
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where if the you know woke topia vision of america is presented and the america first vision of our
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country is presented that will prevail in elections and in political debate but see they don't want to
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have the debate they just want to say that if you're conservative it is it is justifiable to remove you from
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the conversation i think that's intellectual cowardice i think we deserve better and in the coming weeks we
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will be learning a lot more as the major ceos of the tech companies will be testifying to the judiciary
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committee and i intend to press them on the bias against conservatives that we continue to see
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check out the story in the national pulse i'm glad the issue has been fixed but it does make you wonder
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how many times do you think we don't catch them you know i mean we caught twitter shadow banning me and
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mark meadows and jim jordan and devin nunez we've caught google here um you know limiting the ability of
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people to access conservative media through search google demonetized the federalist which is a
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fantastic website they ultimately had to reverse that decision but it just makes you wonder if this
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is what happens when we catch them there's probably even more devious stuff that goes on behind the scenes
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and that's what we need to investigate and i look forward to doing it
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operation warp speed is the trump administration's effort to break every record and barrier to ensure
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that vaccines are available to the american people as fast as possible to combat the coronavirus and
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there's more good news on project warp speed bloomberg's james patten and riley griffin and robert
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langrith have the story pfizer vaccine deal at twenty dollars a dose sets ceiling for rivals like here
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we see a two billion dollar joint venture between the united states government and pfizer and here's
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the strategy that i like we're not waiting for every vaccine candidate to get through the very last
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report and the very last test with the final bit of ink dried we're actually moving a lot of the
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dosage into production now that ensures that we've got a more medically resilient supply chain
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it also means that if these vaccine candidates are successful that then we won't have to wait many many
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months to get them deployed and this is going to be possibly the most extensive distribution of a
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medical product in the world and so we'll need more than one vaccine to ultimately get across the finish
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line to ensure that we've got an ability to get this medicine out to the people who need it not
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just in the united states but elsewhere what i like about project warp speed is that the cost to
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americans will be de minimis for a lot of these drugs that we need as a result of the substantial
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taxpayer investment into the research and development process and i think an interesting note that the
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bloomberg story covers is that the revenue for pfizer is likely to exceed 15 billion if this is the
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successful vaccine candidate and that of course will come from a lot of the revenue globally so i am
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betting on this moderna vaccine the pfizer vaccine and a number of other american initiatives to
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ultimately prevail i know that india is also deploying a vaccine that we covered on the show and i'm sure china
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will have some sort of a play there are news reports that china is doing in the vaccine space what
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they've done in the energy space and in the military space and the technology space which is try to steal
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our stuff that's right when china can't innovate because they have not built a an economy that rewards
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innovation through capitalism they act through espionage and they are trying to steal that which we have and
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you know we we've got some health professionals and scientists in the united states that say well you know
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why would they try to steal something because this is ultimately something that we're going to provide to the
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world this is all about china saving face they know that they lied they know that they got caught lying
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they did not provide the sequence to the virus in a timely fashion and so now they have got the nerve to try to
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steal our efforts to fix the problem that was ultimately birthed out of wuhan you've got some
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nerve china but it's my expectation that american innovation will win the day and we're certainly
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hopeful that these moderna and pfizer products will be available to americans and to people all over the
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world as soon as possible great news for operation warp speed let's keep it up
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oh no ted yoho my fellow florida man fellow congressman from the sunshine state apparently
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having a bit of a spat with new york's alexandria ocasio cortez the two of them discussing policing
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and their very divergent views and i would share the words that ted yoho used but i don't believe we
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want to catch the explicit label on a congressional news podcast but you can go look it up some nasty
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words uh flying uh allegedly from congressman yoho i know ted to be usually kind of a big teddy bear
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kind nice guy uh but this was anything but a nice encounter here's what i can tell you
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in response aoc says on twitter that she's got productive positive working relationships with a lot
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of republicans that that would surprise people that she had never spoken to yoho before today
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and that she uh didn't want to be treated that way and that she objected to it and uh that was
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her commentary and what i was able to factually confirm is that alex actually does have a pretty
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chummy relationship with a number of the republicans and you know when you're not talking about
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policy she's a pleasant person who talks about cooking and her animals and the like uh and then
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of course when it gets into policy you see that she's got a vision of the country that is vastly
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different from ours you know i don't think that alex really views american primacy and american
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leadership as a good thing for the world i think that she is very critical of our country and its
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founding and i've got a different perspective i think that america is undeniably a force for good
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i think that we've made mistakes like all human civilizations at all periods of time but this is a
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great country our police do a great job i disagree with alex on the substance but i can tell you she's
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not a bad person to have a pleasant conversation with so let's encourage our colleagues be a little
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more kind to one another and maybe that'll make the work that we have ahead for the country
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easier to accomplish thanks so much for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates don't forget
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