The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 51 - Neoconservatives vs. America First. Google's Secret Blacklist. AOC v. Yoho.

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

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

00:00:09.760 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the news today in the

00:00:22.260 united states house of representatives is the no ban act that's right this is nancy pelosi's effort 1.00

00:00:28.760 to try to limit the ability of president trump to ban travel from specific countries the president

00:00:35.640 initially banned travels from countries like yemen countries where there is no way to truly

00:00:42.540 ascertain whether or not someone is who they say they are whether they've been radicalized whether

00:00:47.980 they present a threat to our country i think it's entirely appropriate for us to be resilient at home

00:00:54.840 against the threat that someone has snookered some country that's barely a country that's a failed

00:01:02.320 state and then could potentially harm americans i think it's a lot more productive to engage in these

00:01:08.420 types of homeland protection resiliency efforts than to launch off on a bunch of wars chasing every

00:01:15.340 potential terrorist into every potential cave or spider hole that they may dive into so the president

00:01:22.460 initially uses his article two powers to engage in these uh bands to protect our country and certainly

00:01:30.520 in the era of coronavirus this executive authority is absolutely essential you'll remember when president

00:01:38.420 trump initially banned travel from china there was opposition from the world health organization there

00:01:44.480 was opposition from china there was even opposition within the trump administration from folks like dr

00:01:50.300 fauci who did not think that was necessary thank goodness president trump had the authority he had the

00:01:57.240 right instincts he banned this travel and that probably helped us at least on the front end deal with the

00:02:04.240 initial wave of this virus now we're into an extended encounter with the virus and we're working very hard

00:02:11.340 to wrestle it down to the ground and to ensure that we protect the health of americans so in this era of

00:02:16.800 the pandemic why in the world would nancy pelosi want to limit the ability of any president to protect our 0.99

00:02:24.180 country and restricting travel here's my hot take they're just using this as a way to race bait and

00:02:31.020 inflame accusations against the president and the administration of racism that's really what this is

00:02:36.740 all about you're going to hear in congressional debate that the president treats certain african and latin

00:02:44.080 american countries differently that he does this based on some accusation falsely of white supremacy

00:02:52.680 and the reality is the president simply wants to make sure that the people that enter are who they say

00:02:58.900 they are and that they have not been radicalized or that they're not carrying some virus that is going

00:03:04.740 to be birthed onto our country so this is not a play for the health and safety and protection of americans

00:03:12.340 it is a way to virtue signal into racial division and so i hope that we do not see this past the

00:03:18.920 senate i expect it will be dead on arrival over there but i will be voting against the no ban act

00:03:25.400 because i believe that the executive has to have the power to protect americans

00:03:30.440 if i am ever under siege or under criticism in washington dc i sure hope that one of the only folks

00:03:41.000 defending me isn't john bolton for goodness sakes john bolton has been wrong about almost every major

00:03:48.580 foreign policy dynamic in my life i mean this is the same john bolton who wanted to invade venezuela

00:03:56.500 through columbia this is the same john bolton who wanted to bomb iran starting a new forever war

00:04:04.960 with another middle eastern empire kingdom ancient civilization this is the same john bolton who

00:04:13.820 championed the war in iraq despite the fact that that war has made i think the world less safe i think 0.60

00:04:20.820 it's created a vacuum that allowed for a realignment in the middle east that is not helpful to the united

00:04:27.260 states it's the same john bolton who thinks that if we just go and invade a few more countries in the

00:04:33.320 middle east we'll be able to build plural democracies out of sand and blood and arab militias but it's 1.00

00:04:41.280 very john bolton who has defended liz cheney she says she's a woman of great principle and that we need

00:04:48.800 more people like liz cheney and so i think what you're starting to see is a real alignment of the

00:04:55.040 neoconservatives against the america first trump movement so there's the wing of the republican party

00:05:02.080 that is the john bolton liz cheney mitt romney jeff flake wing of the party and then i think there

00:05:10.660 is the donald trump wing of the party that certainly i am supportive of and that i'm going to keep

00:05:15.960 fighting for so john bolton defending liz cheney liz also gave herself a defense that this morning 0.92

00:05:22.380 she was on fox and friends and here's what she had to say we want to ask you about what matt gates

00:05:27.440 said and he's calling on you to resign this is what politico is reporting that some republicans

00:05:32.860 are upset with you because you were backing the primary opponent of representative thomas maizey and

00:05:37.860 it all came to blow during a conference meeting on tuesday yesterday what's your response to that do you

00:05:44.060 plan to step down because he's calling you to well listen we have a wider range a wide range of views

00:05:49.660 within our conference we had a healthy discussion about a whole range of issues congressman gates was

00:05:54.560 really pretty direct in his christian criticism of you in not supporting president trump in some of his

00:06:01.900 policies would you like to address directly that criticism of lacking support for president trump

00:06:07.900 well look my my voting record with president trump is something like 97 percent of the time

00:06:12.800 uh there are areas they tend to be on national security where uh we don't always agree uh i find in

00:06:19.020 my experience the president appreciates people who are direct people who uh explain what they think

00:06:23.880 uh but i i think most of the time uh far more of the time we agree than we disagree and when it comes

00:06:29.480 to national security when it comes to the importance of keeping this nation safe and soon thereafter

00:06:33.980 congressman jim jordan was asked about my critique of liz cheney and i think it's quite something

00:06:39.140 if you pay very close attention to how jim jordan answers the question it ain't exactly a ringing endorsement

00:06:45.320 of liz here's the exchange matt gates is a good friend and matt gates wants president trump to get

00:06:50.220 re-elected just as strongly as i do just as strongly as everyone in the republican conference does

00:06:54.660 i think that's going to happen because i think i think when americans step back and they look at

00:06:59.860 where joe biden wants to take china for example china's in the news today which model i've not seen

00:07:04.800 a president stronger on china against china than this president which model do you want the joe biden hunter

00:07:10.760 model a hunter biden model on china or the president trump model on china so congressman that's what's

00:07:15.840 got to be the congressman the good news is you republicans are all sticking together uh it it sounds

00:07:21.580 like you don't think she should go anywhere i i'm focused on re-election the president plain and simple

00:07:27.320 and i can understand why jim jordan was unwilling to defend liz cheney or the way she's behaved toward

00:07:33.500 the president i'll just tell you in the republican conference meeting it was jim jordan making the case

00:07:39.860 that liz cheney has been hurting president trump and hurting our election chances and only increasing

00:07:46.520 the likelihood that joe biden is going to be elected so i stand with jim jordan i stand with

00:07:52.200 donald trump it is their vision of the republican party that i'm working to vindicate and advance

00:07:57.900 and we certainly are not going to rebuild an america first agenda if the policy perspectives and

00:08:05.360 tactics of liz cheney and john bolton are adopted we can be better we can be america first and that's

00:08:12.560 what jim jordan and i are going to be fighting for alongside our transformational president

00:08:16.540 does google have a blacklist too we all know following the highly publicized hack of twitter

00:08:26.300 that there appears to be a twitter blacklist trending blacklist for them to be able to suppress

00:08:35.340 content and i guess we're wondering the extent to which that may be the case at google too

00:08:40.600 the national pulse has the story on this we'll be sending it out on social media but a number

00:08:45.960 of conservative media sites redstate.com breitbart the national pulse the daily caller were not appearing

00:08:55.580 in search results and when the national pulse reached out to google to ask why that was the case

00:09:01.400 they said it was a technical error and the problem was fixed you started to see these

00:09:07.520 conservative groups and conservative websites reactivated through the google search feature

00:09:13.780 does anyone really buy that this was a technical error i mean after we've seen all of the reporting

00:09:19.800 from project veritas where folks at google admit bias after we heard from testimony from the google

00:09:28.340 chief executive officer sundar pichai that there wasn't really an active investigation into google

00:09:35.560 employee chat rooms entitled resist like how come there are never the technical issues that seem to

00:09:41.960 ban the liberal sites or the democrat opposition research firms that masquerade as news organizations

00:09:48.980 it's never them who get caught in the technical glitch and so i think that maybe we need more

00:09:54.120 technical transparency here's my hot take if google and other digital platforms want the special

00:10:01.760 protections that the law provides for a neutral exchange of ideas and presentation of content then they

00:10:09.900 should have to prove that they are in fact neutral and when we see these flare-ups where the conservatives

00:10:16.120 seem to get deprived of access to the platform we need investigations otherwise section 230 of the communication

00:10:24.120 decency act which by the way president trump has advocated the repeal of and he's right

00:10:28.860 should not apply to entities that demonstrate this type of bias so i don't think it was a technical

00:10:36.300 glitch i think it was likely someone at google trying to limit the ability of the american people to see

00:10:41.860 conservative content and and i think it fits in with the cancel culture that the media and the left have

00:10:49.620 championed they believe that you don't really have to engage or debate conservatives you simply have to

00:10:56.220 say that they're unworthy of being listened to and that is very dangerous for democracy as conservatives

00:11:01.760 i don't want to ban or cancel liberal thoughts socialist thoughts even marxist thoughts i am confident enough

00:11:12.160 where if the you know woke topia vision of america is presented and the america first vision of our

00:11:19.040 country is presented that will prevail in elections and in political debate but see they don't want to

00:11:25.740 have the debate they just want to say that if you're conservative it is it is justifiable to remove you from

00:11:32.360 the conversation i think that's intellectual cowardice i think we deserve better and in the coming weeks we

00:11:40.520 will be learning a lot more as the major ceos of the tech companies will be testifying to the judiciary

00:11:46.340 committee and i intend to press them on the bias against conservatives that we continue to see

00:11:52.800 check out the story in the national pulse i'm glad the issue has been fixed but it does make you wonder

00:11:58.060 how many times do you think we don't catch them you know i mean we caught twitter shadow banning me and

00:12:03.440 mark meadows and jim jordan and devin nunez we've caught google here um you know limiting the ability of

00:12:10.020 people to access conservative media through search google demonetized the federalist which is a

00:12:15.940 fantastic website they ultimately had to reverse that decision but it just makes you wonder if this

00:12:21.220 is what happens when we catch them there's probably even more devious stuff that goes on behind the scenes

00:12:26.320 and that's what we need to investigate and i look forward to doing it

00:12:30.400 operation warp speed is the trump administration's effort to break every record and barrier to ensure

00:12:41.200 that vaccines are available to the american people as fast as possible to combat the coronavirus and

00:12:47.660 there's more good news on project warp speed bloomberg's james patten and riley griffin and robert

00:12:54.980 langrith have the story pfizer vaccine deal at twenty dollars a dose sets ceiling for rivals like here

00:13:02.760 we see a two billion dollar joint venture between the united states government and pfizer and here's

00:13:09.080 the strategy that i like we're not waiting for every vaccine candidate to get through the very last

00:13:15.820 report and the very last test with the final bit of ink dried we're actually moving a lot of the

00:13:22.300 dosage into production now that ensures that we've got a more medically resilient supply chain

00:13:28.460 it also means that if these vaccine candidates are successful that then we won't have to wait many many

00:13:34.820 months to get them deployed and this is going to be possibly the most extensive distribution of a

00:13:43.100 medical product in the world and so we'll need more than one vaccine to ultimately get across the finish

00:13:48.980 line to ensure that we've got an ability to get this medicine out to the people who need it not

00:13:54.200 just in the united states but elsewhere what i like about project warp speed is that the cost to

00:13:59.940 americans will be de minimis for a lot of these drugs that we need as a result of the substantial 1.00

00:14:06.480 taxpayer investment into the research and development process and i think an interesting note that the

00:14:11.960 bloomberg story covers is that the revenue for pfizer is likely to exceed 15 billion if this is the

00:14:19.280 successful vaccine candidate and that of course will come from a lot of the revenue globally so i am

00:14:26.240 betting on this moderna vaccine the pfizer vaccine and a number of other american initiatives to

00:14:33.040 ultimately prevail i know that india is also deploying a vaccine that we covered on the show and i'm sure china 0.78

00:14:39.660 will have some sort of a play there are news reports that china is doing in the vaccine space what

00:14:46.320 they've done in the energy space and in the military space and the technology space which is try to steal

00:14:52.500 our stuff that's right when china can't innovate because they have not built a an economy that rewards 0.67

00:14:59.280 innovation through capitalism they act through espionage and they are trying to steal that which we have and

00:15:06.320 you know we we've got some health professionals and scientists in the united states that say well you know

00:15:11.360 why would they try to steal something because this is ultimately something that we're going to provide to the

00:15:16.500 world this is all about china saving face they know that they lied they know that they got caught lying

00:15:22.820 they did not provide the sequence to the virus in a timely fashion and so now they have got the nerve to try to

00:15:29.320 steal our efforts to fix the problem that was ultimately birthed out of wuhan you've got some

00:15:35.500 nerve china but it's my expectation that american innovation will win the day and we're certainly

00:15:41.000 hopeful that these moderna and pfizer products will be available to americans and to people all over the

00:15:46.420 world as soon as possible great news for operation warp speed let's keep it up

00:15:51.460 oh no ted yoho my fellow florida man fellow congressman from the sunshine state apparently

00:16:01.760 having a bit of a spat with new york's alexandria ocasio cortez the two of them discussing policing

00:16:09.720 and their very divergent views and i would share the words that ted yoho used but i don't believe we

00:16:16.720 want to catch the explicit label on a congressional news podcast but you can go look it up some nasty

00:16:23.720 words uh flying uh allegedly from congressman yoho i know ted to be usually kind of a big teddy bear

00:16:30.840 kind nice guy uh but this was anything but a nice encounter here's what i can tell you

00:16:35.980 in response aoc says on twitter that she's got productive positive working relationships with a lot

00:16:42.680 of republicans that that would surprise people that she had never spoken to yoho before today

00:16:48.240 and that she uh didn't want to be treated that way and that she objected to it and uh that was

00:16:54.320 her commentary and what i was able to factually confirm is that alex actually does have a pretty

00:17:00.800 chummy relationship with a number of the republicans and you know when you're not talking about

00:17:05.460 policy she's a pleasant person who talks about cooking and her animals and the like uh and then 0.97

00:17:12.920 of course when it gets into policy you see that she's got a vision of the country that is vastly

00:17:18.220 different from ours you know i don't think that alex really views american primacy and american

00:17:24.740 leadership as a good thing for the world i think that she is very critical of our country and its

00:17:31.080 founding and i've got a different perspective i think that america is undeniably a force for good

00:17:36.460 i think that we've made mistakes like all human civilizations at all periods of time but this is a

00:17:43.640 great country our police do a great job i disagree with alex on the substance but i can tell you she's

00:17:50.160 not a bad person to have a pleasant conversation with so let's encourage our colleagues be a little

00:17:55.420 more kind to one another and maybe that'll make the work that we have ahead for the country

00:18:00.300 easier to accomplish thanks so much for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates don't forget

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 22, 2020

Episode 51 - Neoconservatives vs. America First. Google's Secret Blacklist. AOC v. Yoho.

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