The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - June 16, 2022


Episode 54 LIVE： Full Boebert – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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A new name for the deadly monkeypox virus, and the spread of HIV/AIDS among gay men around the world. Firebrand's own Lauren Boebert joins host Emily Edwards to talk about it all, and why it matters.

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00:00:00.000 We'll be right back.
00:00:30.000 We're in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.240 You ever watch this guy on television? Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.060 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet. 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. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way.
00:00:51.040 Welcome back to Firebrand. We're broadcasting live out of my office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., 1721 of the Longworth Building.
00:01:03.080 And I have got one of Congress's very best firebrands with me today, Lauren Boebert.
00:01:07.600 In just a moment, we're going to be breaking down the gun control legislation that the United States Senate is poised to adopt that we believe would be very harmful to most Americans.
00:01:17.800 But first, the latest in monkeypox.
00:01:20.760 William Shakespeare reminds us it's all in a name.
00:01:23.400 He'd be proud of the naming gymnastics recently endeavored by the World Health Organization.
00:01:28.900 The WHO has taken a break from the hard work of fear-mongering about COVID and playing defense for the Chinese Communist Party to bring something urgent to our attention.
00:01:39.980 Time magazine reports that the WHO is renaming monkeypox.
00:01:44.700 After concerns that the term is discriminatory, of course, monkeys everywhere are relieved.
00:01:51.780 But seriously, apparently 29 experts signed a letter calling for a speedy decision and the adoption of a new name.
00:01:59.040 They said that the reference to the virus being African is inaccurate and, of course, discriminatory.
00:02:04.860 They're referring to two types of monkeypox, the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade, aptly named because this is where the virus was found in populations of wild monkeys.
00:02:14.700 I know that'll shock you. Seems like good names to me.
00:02:18.480 Naming viruses after regions in which they're found not only seems fair, but it's also rational.
00:02:23.560 It's common, too. Remember the MERS virus? It stands for Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus.
00:02:29.640 Ever heard of the West Nile virus? I'll give you a guess as to where that might have come from.
00:02:33.680 Losing the plot because there's a worry about stigmatizing Africa is woke nonsense, not health policy.
00:02:40.300 Besides, it's good to remember where viruses come from.
00:02:43.100 The triggered scientist stated, quote,
00:02:46.140 There's an interesting narrative in the media among many scientists that they're trying to link the present global outbreak to Africa or West Africa or Nigeria, close quote.
00:02:55.840 Just because a virus is named after the region in which it originates or is found naturally doesn't mean anyone is going to negatively discriminate against the inhabitants of that region.
00:03:04.060 Now, under certain circumstances, we may want travel bans or quarantines, other public health endeavors to stop people from going to high risk areas and pretending that certain regions or groups are not more at risk actually impairs our public health response.
00:03:18.220 For instance, while most deaths have occurred in the Dominican Republic over monkeypox, I'm sorry, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two very different things.
00:03:27.900 Where the virus may have originated, the WHO has admitted that the spread of monkeypox around the globe has largely been amongst the LGBTQ community, at least in the initial cases.
00:03:38.140 In May, Madrid's senior health official, Enrique Ruiz Esquerdo, said that authorities are investigating possible links between a recent gay pride event in the Canary Islands, which drew 80,000 people.
00:03:50.580 That's a lot of canaries.
00:03:51.800 And initial cases from a gay bathhouse in Madrid. 0.74
00:03:55.740 AIDSMap.com is a site dedicated to helping homosexual men avoid contacting AIDS and other diseases prevalent in their community. 0.62
00:04:02.280 And that website is reporting that monkeypox is spreading among gay men worldwide.
00:04:06.040 Hans Kludge, who's the regional director of the WHO in Europe, has warned that transmission can be boosted by the fact that most of the initial cases among gay men who sought treatment are presenting in sexual health clinics, suggesting that transmission may have been going on for some time.
00:04:24.560 The UK Health Security Agency chief's medical advisor, Susan Hopkins, said she's particularly been urging gay and bisexual men to look out for the symptoms of monkeypox, or whatever they're going to call it.
00:04:36.040 Noting that a notable proportion of the cases in the UK and Europe come from this group.
00:04:41.460 The same can be said for other Western countries.
00:04:43.840 It's not homophobia, just reality.
00:04:46.300 When groups like the World Health Organization change names and lie about origins, when they pretend that certain groups aren't disproportionately affected,
00:04:53.420 they undermine our ability to fight and eradicate viruses and diseases.
00:04:57.420 They care more about a perceived offense than reality.
00:05:02.640 It's just woke public health.
00:05:04.960 They have that in common with the American left. 0.97
00:05:06.840 It's also corrupt and incompetent, fundamentally unserious.
00:05:10.160 The WHO should concern itself with combating and eradicating diseases and educating at-risk groups on how to avoid contraction.
00:05:18.240 Instead, they play politics.
00:05:21.700 Serious matters deserve serious attention, and the WHO sounds more like a board meeting of the local Young Democrats chapter,
00:05:28.420 instead of an international NGO dedicated to fight pathogens.
00:05:31.420 Trump was right to leave the WHO, and when he's president again in 2024, I think we should leave it again.
00:05:38.520 Trump's left people more than once, probably.
00:05:41.240 On to Ukraine.
00:05:43.000 On Wednesday, the White House released a statement that Joe Biden called President Vladimir Zelensky
00:05:47.700 and vowed to provide an additional $1 billion in security assistance and another $225 million in humanitarian assistance.
00:05:55.300 I guess the $40 billion wasn't enough.
00:05:58.200 The time for a deal in this war to end it is definitely long past,
00:06:04.220 and the United States should not be doing things that continue to further warfare.
00:06:08.340 About $350 million worth of weapons will come from existing U.S. stockpiles.
00:06:13.280 Why are we depleting our stockpiles?
00:06:15.240 We left metric tons of our weapons in Afghanistan,
00:06:17.960 and now we're giving weapons away to the corrupt regimes in Europe with no accountability.
00:06:22.480 Who is running the show here?
00:06:24.100 I guarantee you this.
00:06:25.740 Mark my words.
00:06:27.080 We will have the Ukraine papers eventually leak, exposing this grift.
00:06:31.580 Billions of dollars, unaccounted for, weapons missing,
00:06:35.040 believed to be in the hands of corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs.
00:06:38.340 We literally have reports already that U.S.-made Javelin rocket launchers
00:06:42.900 are being auctioned off on the dark web by Ukrainian nationals. 0.99
00:06:47.560 We continue to throw money and weapons into a war that was totally avoidable.
00:06:53.380 I'm joined now by Colorado's favorite daughter, Lauren Boebert.
00:06:57.320 Lauren, you have been a real stalwart against the U.S. becoming excessively entangled in this war in Ukraine.
00:07:03.440 What do you think about the breaking news that the Biden administration just thinks another billion
00:07:08.000 in weapons and $225 million in humanitarian aid is enough?
00:07:11.480 We knew that this wouldn't stop.
00:07:13.120 We knew that they were going to continue to keep asking for more money.
00:07:16.680 That's all that they have as a solution, is to just throw money at a problem and think that it's going to go away.
00:07:22.380 We are not another billion dollars away from solving the world's problems.
00:07:25.720 We're not one piece of legislation away from fixing it.
00:07:28.400 We need a divine intervention in this country, and we've got to get it back on track.
00:07:32.060 We need Trump policies back in place.
00:07:35.260 Number one, we need to secure our own borders before we continue to send all this money.
00:07:40.480 How many walls could we have built now with all the money that we've sent?
00:07:44.260 We had to beg. We had to beg the rhinos to just get like to go from $1 billion to $1.7 billion on the wall.
00:07:51.640 Beg for our own country.
00:07:52.960 Right.
00:07:53.440 And then they have no problem with almost no debate sending $40 billion.
00:07:57.100 You know what this looks like?
00:07:58.420 There was someone who didn't get their payoff, and they needed another billion to grease the wheels.
00:08:02.540 Are people talking about this in Colorado?
00:08:04.900 People are very frustrated.
00:08:06.300 I mean, really, you look at Colorado right now.
00:08:08.860 The top three issues used to be water, water, water.
00:08:11.000 And now it's inflation, inflation, inflation.
00:08:13.820 And Washington, D.C. continues to just write blank checks to print money and spend this money that we do not have.
00:08:20.820 And inflation is continuing to rise.
00:08:22.780 People are paying the price for bad policies.
00:08:25.580 And, I mean, we see this in legislation all the time.
00:08:28.000 We object to suspension bills that they want to pass by unanimous consent.
00:08:32.240 One week, those bills spent $350 million.
00:08:35.120 And they didn't want a single member of Congress voting on them.
00:08:37.520 Republicans even get frustrated when we vote on legislation here in the House of Representatives.
00:08:43.460 So the spending is impacting Americans all across our nation, every single one of us.
00:08:49.240 And, of course, the gas prices and whatnot.
00:08:51.460 We're funding both sides of this war, Russia and Ukraine.
00:08:54.800 We get to pat ourselves on the back because, look, we sent Ukraine a couple bucks. 0.87
00:08:58.220 And, you know, we feel really great about that.
00:09:00.200 But all the while purchasing oil from Russia.
00:09:04.900 Did Reagan understand how you beat Russia?
00:09:06.960 You do domestic energy production.
00:09:09.460 Increase it.
00:09:10.240 And then you blow them out of the water.
00:09:11.940 You build our military capabilities, not Afghanistan, not Ukraine.
00:09:16.260 You build our military capabilities.
00:09:18.140 And then you turn on the engine of U.S. energy.
00:09:21.280 I mean, you've been an outspoken advocate for U.S. energy.
00:09:24.400 Why do you think the Biden administration is so against it?
00:09:26.700 I think all of this is by design.
00:09:28.780 I mean, we've seen so much.
00:09:31.320 Biden is bought by China.
00:09:32.960 I mean, we've seen 10% go into the big guy.
00:09:35.320 You know, we've seen the dealings with Hunter Biden and Ukraine.
00:09:39.980 I mean, this is a corrupt regime that we are under right now.
00:09:44.500 And America is suffering because of it.
00:09:48.460 I think all of this is intentional.
00:09:50.100 We've talked to Secretary Mayorkas.
00:09:51.600 He's been in front of different committees.
00:09:53.480 I've been with him in the Border Security Caucus, led by Congressman Andy Biggs from Arizona.
00:09:59.720 And he comes in there and says, hey, look, it's going to take eight to 10 years to process these people.
00:10:04.620 They are intentionally overrunning our systems.
00:10:07.560 They want them to break.
00:10:08.580 They want them to fail.
00:10:09.760 President Trump had us energy independent.
00:10:11.580 We should be energy dominant right now, exporting freedom to these other countries.
00:10:16.140 And, you know, they're choosing to not build pipelines, to not build refineries, and to not produce America's energy.
00:10:23.720 You know, as the Biden regime is so willing to send billions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine,
00:10:32.980 they seem to be really enthusiastic about taking rights away from law-abiding gun owners in this country.
00:10:39.780 Congresswoman Boebert is the co-chair of the Second Amendment Conference.
00:10:43.160 She brought the heat on the floor of the House of Representatives recently on the issue of gun rights.
00:10:47.940 Take a listen.
00:10:50.960 We're not going to send police to protect you.
00:10:53.660 You won't be able to protect yourself.
00:10:57.320 It's all rogue.
00:10:59.240 This is a lawless administration that we are serving under.
00:11:02.920 And I would implore the Senate to not compromise on the American citizens' rights.
00:11:10.100 And I would like to just note that the 10 that we have heard of who are considering siding with these people who would limit the liberties and freedoms of American citizens
00:11:19.000 are either not coming back to the Senate, they're retiring, or they're not up for re-election.
00:11:26.360 And I think that that is very, very telling.
00:11:29.240 And I will not give an inch of the Second Amendment, of the rights of the people to keep and bear arms, to protect themselves,
00:11:36.840 especially when cries from this chamber are calling to defund law enforcement.
00:11:43.620 And our southern border is wide open, allowing the cartel to send whatever they want through those borders without any added security.
00:11:51.720 Joe Biden wants to disarm you and then invite MS-13 to live next door. 1.00
00:11:58.440 And Congresswoman Boebert, in that speech, you laid out the risk that Republican senators present to the Second Amendment.
00:12:07.180 How are you assessing the framework that has now been endorsed by Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, many members of the Republican leadership,
00:12:15.080 even my senator, Marco Rubio, has endorsed the framework?
00:12:18.260 Why should this concern gun owners?
00:12:19.700 Because any step to infringe on our Second Amendment rights is a step too far.
00:12:25.460 It's an inch too far.
00:12:26.800 I've seen this in Colorado.
00:12:28.220 Colorado used to be one of the most gun-friendly states in America.
00:12:31.320 And under Democrat rule, our rights are stripped from us.
00:12:36.220 And it started with magazine capacity limits.
00:12:39.200 They wanted to reduce the amount of ammunition that we could carry in our magazines.
00:12:44.120 And they have not stopped there.
00:12:46.060 And this is not going to stop these tragedies that we are seeing.
00:12:49.700 If it were to stop them, then cities like Chicago, New York, they would look safer than Mayberry.
00:12:57.180 Because they have these strict gun control laws that are already on the books.
00:13:00.920 So let's enforce the laws that are already on the books.
00:13:03.380 We don't need to add new legislation.
00:13:04.900 We're hearing sheriffs in Canada saying, you know, the egregious things that they are passing there with handguns and limiting those and making them illegal.
00:13:14.340 This is not going to stop crime because then the handguns are illegal.
00:13:17.060 And they're only in the hands of criminals.
00:13:18.920 By definition, criminals do not obey the law.
00:13:20.940 So by layering on another law, this does not solve any of the problems.
00:13:24.760 We can harden our schools.
00:13:25.860 We can make our community safer.
00:13:27.300 We can start by not defunding the police.
00:13:29.820 We can do many things.
00:13:31.400 But adding more legislation is not a part of the answer.
00:13:34.320 I don't want to reduce age restrictions or increase, excuse me, age restrictions.
00:13:40.160 I don't want to add more regulations on how you have to store your firearm, how much ammunition you can have.
00:13:45.020 All of this is too far.
00:13:47.900 Absolutely too far.
00:13:48.740 So the principal feature of the Senate legislation is a grant program to encourage states to enact red flag laws.
00:13:57.320 And to me, that's just using the federal taxpayer to bribe states to violate people's rights.
00:14:03.900 John Cornyn in the Senate, Republican from Texas, recently said, well, this doesn't mean we're for red flag laws.
00:14:11.340 It just means we're providing resources for them.
00:14:13.820 What would be your response?
00:14:15.080 If you're providing the funding for it, then you're absolutely for it.
00:14:18.340 You do not fund something that you are not in support of.
00:14:21.060 I do not fund abortions, not willingly anyway.
00:14:25.040 I mean, we have federal taxes that go to some of this stuff.
00:14:28.480 But, you know, you do not advocate for something to be paid for by American tax dollars if you do not support them.
00:14:35.520 Red flag laws are very, very dangerous for American citizens. 0.94
00:14:39.320 And just like everything else we see with these three-letter agencies, I believe that it will be weaponized against conservatives.
00:14:46.020 They are already doing this.
00:14:47.460 They're calling moms and dads domestic terrorists for showing up to school board meetings.
00:14:51.000 And now we're going to have more red flag laws across our country? 0.77
00:14:53.940 I mean, this is very dangerous.
00:14:55.800 You think that the very people that are now trying to pass new domestic extremism authorities, the very people that are trying to use anti-terrorism authorities against MAGA, might try to red flag their MAGA neighbor over politics, not over danger.
00:15:11.460 I mean, you know, I wouldn't put it past them.
00:15:15.120 People in Florida are worried about that.
00:15:16.740 We've seen it used 8,000 times in Florida.
00:15:19.040 I don't think we stopped 8,000 school shooters.
00:15:21.680 I think this became a part of marital disputes, neighbor disputes, business disputes.
00:15:26.660 And, like, your Second Amendment rights just shouldn't be up for negotiation over something like that.
00:15:30.980 Right, especially when you do not have the right to due process, when you don't have the right to face your accuser, when it's a judge determining your mental stability rather than a mental health professional.
00:15:41.120 We have Baker Act laws.
00:15:43.600 In Colorado, there's a 72-hour hold.
00:15:46.140 If you are a danger to yourself or to others, you have mandatorily have to go into a center for 72 hours and have a mental health evaluation.
00:15:55.660 We already have this in place.
00:15:57.620 And these red flag laws, they will be abused.
00:16:01.200 They are being abused.
00:16:02.520 Even in one of my counties in my district, there were two red flag laws that came up, smaller area, rural.
00:16:09.740 But there were two that came up, and he said, no, this is completely bogus.
00:16:12.500 You know, you are using this in the wrong manner.
00:16:14.640 And he was able to stop those.
00:16:16.200 So I'm grateful for the sheriffs that are standing up and recognizing what the Constitution does to protect our rights.
00:16:22.260 It doesn't grant us rights.
00:16:23.640 It doesn't give us those rights.
00:16:24.940 But it certainly protects them.
00:16:26.300 Are you saying that if this bill were to become law, and right now it looks like it will become law, that we're actually going to have to rely on local sheriffs in some places saying, I'm not going to go enforce this.
00:16:36.840 I'm not going to go take someone's guns away because my state government got bribed to do so by Washington.
00:16:42.200 Yes.
00:16:42.820 And that's what we should have been doing for a really long time now when it comes to the pandemic and the overreach that we saw from the federal government with this Fauci-funded Chinese virus that punished Americans. 0.90
00:16:55.160 We should have been relying on our local sheriffs to take a stand and say, not on my watch, not in my county.
00:17:02.280 You know, this is where local control matters the most.
00:17:05.520 We're talking to Lauren Boebert, the co-chair of the Second Amendment Caucus here in Washington, D.C.
00:17:09.600 We're breaking down the Senate legislation that we're both very concerned about.
00:17:13.440 Beyond red flag laws, there's also the development and resourcing of federal databases so that if something happens in one state, that information is accessible nationwide.
00:17:23.960 And I was having a conversation with a judiciary Republican yesterday who said, well, gosh, I mean, isn't this what we would be for, using technology to allow law enforcement to communicate better?
00:17:34.220 And I'm just a little skeptical of federal databases because I've seen how they've been used.
00:17:38.760 How do you view that proposal?
00:17:40.880 Exactly like you were leading into.
00:17:43.020 I'm not in support of more federal databases.
00:17:45.380 I mean, look at the ATF.
00:17:46.620 At the ATF, they weren't even supposed to be keeping record of the firearm sales.
00:17:51.820 And there's more than a billion of them.
00:17:54.640 Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms is just what we call a good Friday night in Florida's first congressional district.
00:17:59.040 But you're right.
00:18:00.020 They already are exceeding their existing authorities.
00:18:02.940 Correct.
00:18:03.380 And so granting them new authorities could really be a slippery slope.
00:18:06.960 Yes.
00:18:07.220 Yes, I do not trust the federal government.
00:18:09.880 And I think that there are plenty of Americans who don't as well.
00:18:13.560 So I do not want to grow the federal government.
00:18:15.700 I do not want to give them more authority.
00:18:17.700 And certainly I do not want to fund that growth and authority to take the rights away from American citizens.
00:18:24.720 We are here to secure their rights.
00:18:27.140 And that really is what's most important.
00:18:29.400 That's what motivated me to get up here.
00:18:30.900 Not because I want to be a part of government, but because I want to secure the people's rights.
00:18:37.220 Sportsfan22 on Getter says, shall not be infringed.
00:18:40.340 I agree with Rep Boebert.
00:18:41.760 And we're seeing that sentiment expressed across all of our comment platforms.
00:18:45.840 You are the co-chair of the Second Amendment Caucus.
00:18:48.260 And you've done something very interesting in the minority.
00:18:50.780 You haven't just played defense against some of these bad proposals.
00:18:54.040 You've been out there highlighting some of the legislation to vindicate the Second Amendment.
00:18:59.540 Right.
00:19:00.200 Talk about some of those bills and your leadership of the caucus to make sure that people know about them.
00:19:05.100 Yeah, so Congressman Michael Cloud, he had a bill to come in and expose the ATF and to abolish this database that they had that's keeping a record of all firearm sales in the United States.
00:19:17.400 And so we highlight these good pieces of legislation to put them forward.
00:19:21.080 Congressman Thomas Massey is my co-chair of the Second Amendment Caucus.
00:19:25.220 And, you know, he has a bill that would end our schools being gun-free zones.
00:19:30.300 We have to do that.
00:19:31.060 And that is how you start to secure our schools.
00:19:33.020 Should Republicans be campaigning on that now?
00:19:34.440 Oh, my goodness.
00:19:35.080 Yes.
00:19:35.540 Gun-free zones are deadly.
00:19:37.860 This has been proven time and time again.
00:19:39.660 Chicago is deadly.
00:19:41.160 This is a gun-free city. 0.85
00:19:42.480 But only the criminals have guns.
00:19:44.300 Anytime you have a mass shooting, it is in a gun-free zone because there is not an armed citizen to neutralize the threat.
00:19:52.160 Where there is a lawful citizen present that is armed, they are able to neutralize that threat.
00:19:57.700 And the death count goes from an average of 13 down to 2.
00:20:02.040 The first victim and the shooter himself.
00:20:04.260 That is real data.
00:20:05.760 And it's data that saves lives.
00:20:07.720 Yes.
00:20:07.940 In Florida, we have a Sentinel program that allows school districts, if they so choose, to have special training for former military, former law enforcement people who are experts at some of these matters.
00:20:20.260 Would Colorado be a place that that could help as a school hardening tactic?
00:20:24.960 Yes.
00:20:25.120 So what we have, we have an organization called Faster Colorado, and they actually work with our school districts to train and certify and arm teachers.
00:20:35.760 So it's really a great program.
00:20:38.440 The school district can decide if they want to allow their teachers to carry in these schools.
00:20:43.940 There's a wonderful little loophole in Colorado law that allows them to do that.
00:20:48.200 So if the school district so chooses, they connect with Faster Colorado, and the teachers are very well-armed and certified, and they begin to carry in those schools to protect our children, which is much more effective than hiding behind a desk.
00:21:02.300 End gun-free zones, make schools a hard target, empower local sheriffs.
00:21:06.760 Absolutely.
00:21:07.360 That strikes me as a lot better than national databases and bribing states to violate people's laws.
00:21:13.560 But this legislation is coming.
00:21:15.440 I mean, we see it developing very quickly in the Senate.
00:21:18.860 What would be your message to gun owners to be able to resist this?
00:21:22.960 Yes.
00:21:23.220 First of all, call your representatives.
00:21:25.300 Call your senators, and make sure that they hear your voice, because that matters.
00:21:29.760 We get phone calls in my office every day, and we keep record of these phone calls, the types of calls, the people who are for something or oppose another thing.
00:21:38.460 And so it really does matter to call them, because I'll tell you what, I'll tell you who is calling these senators right now.
00:21:43.240 Big donors.
00:21:44.420 Lobbyists.
00:21:44.860 They are calling these senators, and they need to be hearing from you, the electric.
00:21:50.180 They need to be hearing from the people who actually hired them and sent them, and they need to know exactly how the American people feel about these laws.
00:21:58.260 With people so under siege, I think it will be demoralizing to America if now they have to face gun control while crime is increasing, while our borders become a turnstile.
00:22:08.820 I think it could really affect the American psyche.
00:22:11.540 And nobody in Washington wants to talk about the root cause of this stuff.
00:22:15.580 Nobody wants to talk about—
00:22:16.720 No, they're still trying to figure out the root cause of the border.
00:22:18.740 Right.
00:22:19.020 They can't figure that out.
00:22:19.980 Right.
00:22:20.220 And now they're saying that—and I mean, you know, to me, these lockdowns really impacted people's mental health, especially adolescents.
00:22:27.160 I mean, I see so many folks who you almost want to wake them up out of the lockdown mentality.
00:22:33.320 I mean, are we going to look back 10 years from now and say, gosh, these lockdowns actually increased violence among young people, potentially even school shootings?
00:22:41.160 Well, I think you and I are saying that now.
00:22:43.160 Yeah.
00:22:43.320 We don't have to wait 10 years to say, look at the impact that these lockdowns have.
00:22:47.380 We had—we said them three weeks into this.
00:22:49.940 We said, okay, we did our—we did our 15 days, you know, slow the spread.
00:22:54.580 We've done our time.
00:22:55.540 Let's open back up.
00:22:56.660 And there were states like Colorado who stayed shut down.
00:22:59.760 Um, and this was—this was absolutely dangerous, um, to our—to our children and so much more in the American psyche.
00:23:07.480 Um, but—
00:23:08.480 Yeah, yeah.
00:23:08.720 I mean, stopping the lockdowns will do a lot more, uh, to stop school shootings than taking guns away from law-abiding Americans.
00:23:15.920 Yes.
00:23:16.240 That may be a hot take.
00:23:17.180 It's my take.
00:23:18.040 And, uh, I really think we did a lot of harm to this country.
00:23:20.680 Where can people go to find out more about the legislation that you're highlighting and the Second Amendment Caucus?
00:23:26.580 Um, yeah.
00:23:27.320 So, uh, a lot of the legislation that I have is on my website, um, bober.house.gov.
00:23:31.720 And, uh, we—we need to talk Congressman Thomas Massey into getting us a Twitter for the Second Amendment Caucus.
00:23:36.560 Maybe I just need to take the reins on that one.
00:23:37.860 So, if you and Massey ran a Second Amendment Twitter account, it would get banned in, like, the—the first 72 hours of it being, uh, open because it would be a—it would be a fountainhead for freedom.
00:23:47.200 Uh, Congresswoman Boebert also serves on the Natural Resources Committee, and Democrats passed a bill off the floor of the House this week that spent $12.7 billion during the budget window on land acquisitions.
00:24:00.100 What should people know about that bill?
00:24:01.840 Um, well, first of all, um, this—this bill, it allows states to tax hunting.
00:24:06.100 Uh, you know, this is—this is just more spending.
00:24:08.240 This is nothing that actually, um, protects, uh, wildlife conservation.
00:24:12.160 Uh, this—this grows, um, uh, what they call restoration projects, but it's really not.
00:24:18.880 Um, it—it's really a hands-off approach.
00:24:21.020 So, uh, serving on the Natural Resources Committee, I—I fight these battles on a regular basis.
00:24:25.380 These not-in-my-backyard extremists are fine with outsourcing energy production to our enemies, to our adversaries, uh, in other countries.
00:24:31.420 Having 40,000 children mined with their bare hands for cobalt in the Congo, uh, in these China-owned cobalt mines.
00:24:38.740 Uh, and then we buy solar panels from China and feel great about ourselves.
00:24:41.940 Um, but these are the extremists that I'm having to fight on a regular basis, and now they want to spend, uh, another $12.7 billion.
00:24:49.600 And it's mandatory spending.
00:24:51.320 In mandatory spending.
00:24:52.020 That's a Washington term, but just, like, so people understand what that means.
00:24:55.240 That means whether the need's out there or not.
00:24:57.440 And whether anybody approves it in the future or not, that money goes out the door every year.
00:25:02.780 And it just seems like it removes logic and reason from conservation.
00:25:07.380 Right.
00:25:08.120 It absolutely does, um, because it—it is just spending that doesn't need to occur.
00:25:12.860 And we're not doing anything to actually manage our land.
00:25:15.040 So I have some forestry legislation that allows us to go in and actually manage our lands.
00:25:18.860 And it's not a hands-off approach.
00:25:21.080 Uh, we have six billion dead-standing trees in the western United States.
00:25:24.160 They're all creating this massive tinderbox.
00:25:25.860 And in Colorado, we had three of the largest wildfires, uh, on record, on, uh, in, in 2020.
00:25:31.700 And those were in my district in Colorado, in the third district.
00:25:34.680 Now, just one of those wildfires emits more carbon emissions than every vehicle running in the state of Colorado 24-7 for an entire year.
00:25:42.020 But, uh, at the, at the altar of climate change, uh, so many, uh, of these leftists, these extremists, want to say, do not touch anything.
00:25:52.200 Uh, we need to reduce carbon emissions.
00:25:53.700 You need to buy an electric vehicle.
00:25:55.200 It needs to be all wind, all solar.
00:25:57.040 Uh, and, and they don't allow us to actually be good stewards of our land.
00:26:00.740 We should all just go back to Fred Flintstone.
00:26:02.160 Right.
00:26:02.520 Yabba-dabba-doo.
00:26:03.360 Yabba-dabba.
00:26:03.960 Kicking it down the road.
00:26:05.620 It's a shame because I know Colorado's such a beautiful state.
00:26:08.620 Florida's a beautiful state.
00:26:09.540 We want our constituents to be able to enjoy the environment.
00:26:12.040 But these leftist policies seems to constrain our enjoyment and, and seem to actually put our environment at risk.
00:26:17.220 Like you said, with the wildfires, uh, more than usual.
00:26:19.480 So we hope that bill also does not pass in the Senate.
00:26:22.280 Right.
00:26:23.060 Lauren, you're, you're in your first term in Congress.
00:26:25.400 And one of the reasons I knew you'd be very successful here and you're leading on energy, you're leading on firearms, is because you're very authentic.
00:26:31.660 I think we get the same version of you in Washington that your constituents get, that your family gets.
00:26:37.080 You know, just being in your first term, uh, what is your perception of this place?
00:26:41.760 Oh, gosh. 0.88
00:26:42.700 Uh, so I, I, I think everybody knows this place, um, uh, kind of sucks, which is unfortunate because it could be really wonderful.
00:26:49.620 Um, there, there's so much history here, but the people who are in charge are, are destroying, uh, the, the very values that, that created, uh, our, our nation. 0.90
00:26:59.260 And so, um, why is everyone so damn fake in this town?
00:27:02.560 That's what I can't figure out.
00:27:03.800 You're like a real person.
00:27:05.100 I'm radically me.
00:27:06.300 Right.
00:27:06.760 Yes.
00:27:07.240 But it just seems like everyone's performing for donors, lobbyists, special interests.
00:27:11.460 Well, maybe, maybe that's it.
00:27:12.440 I don't have those donor meetings when I'm here in Washington, DC.
00:27:15.260 Uh, I'm fine with actually legislating while we're in Washington, DC, rather than, uh, than bribing donors and, and making shady deals with donors.
00:27:23.920 Uh, and so I think that's an important part, um, to recognize as being a representative of the people, uh,
00:27:28.900 that you're not a representative of the lobbyists, uh, it's the people back home that matter.
00:27:32.720 And so I get out of here as quick as I can.
00:27:34.460 I'll be on an airplane today to get back home, to get to my people.
00:27:37.220 But you were talking about earlier, uh, you know, rather than being on defense all the time, I go on offense.
00:27:42.240 And that is what we need to be doing in the minority.
00:27:44.820 We do have tools.
00:27:45.760 We could have had victories, um, to bring back to our district.
00:27:49.280 And thankfully we have had a couple of victories even, and I'll get to those, but look at the NDAA.
00:27:53.760 For example, when that first came to the house, how many Republicans were saying, ah, don't worry about it.
00:27:59.020 The Senate will fix it.
00:28:00.280 Oh no, we're not going to make any deals.
00:28:01.620 We're not going to take out, uh, this department to counter extremism.
00:28:04.680 We're not going to take out drafting our daughters.
00:28:06.360 We're not going to take out red flag laws. 0.99
00:28:08.000 Uh, you know, we had Colorado land grabs in the bill and they're like, eh, don't worry about it.
00:28:12.160 The Senate will fix it.
00:28:13.220 I think it was 38 Democrats voted against that Republicans in the house had the authority to bring home victories.
00:28:19.860 We would say, no, we are not voting on this legislation until it is right.
00:28:23.660 Instead, they wanted to kick the can.
00:28:24.920 Well, I don't work in the Senate.
00:28:26.160 I work in the house.
00:28:27.120 And so voted against that legislation here, was very loud about it, got on the offense about it,
00:28:32.300 and telling the people what was in this so they could know, uh, and then had to go back and work with senators
00:28:37.400 to actually get some of this stuff out, uh, and, uh, before it came back to the house.
00:28:41.460 But that's one example that we could have had real victories immediately.
00:28:45.240 Um, but then also look at the department, uh, um, the disinformation governance board
00:28:50.280 and, and the department of Homeland security.
00:28:52.340 You know, we got really loud about this and, uh, got on the front lines.
00:28:56.360 And now that, that Orwellian ministry of truth is paused.
00:29:01.260 It's shut down.
00:29:02.360 Nina Jankiewicz resigned.
00:29:04.220 Well, wait, there are some Republicans who say, when we take power, we can actually do deals
00:29:08.640 with the Biden administration.
00:29:09.720 We can work with them.
00:29:11.360 We can moderate Joe Biden, that that ought to be the goal of being in the majority.
00:29:15.660 I believe we ought to turn every committee into an oversight committee in natural resources where you're, you serve.
00:29:21.580 Don't you think there'd be a lot of opportunity for us to expose this corrupt regime to our people?
00:29:26.120 Absolutely.
00:29:26.960 Uh, yes, we need to have that congressional oversight over, uh, the department of interior over secretary Halland. 0.93
00:29:32.820 Uh, you know, she was a one-term Congresswoman and then it was, was, uh, appointed to this. 0.61
00:29:37.020 Um, I mean, based on race, you know, not on qualifications.
00:29:41.000 And I mean, this is something that's so frustrating to the American people.
00:29:44.080 Uh, you know, our, our ethnicity, our background, this definitely should not be something that disqualifies anybody,
00:29:48.720 but it should not be a quantifier to get to a position.
00:29:52.240 Just because I'm a female doesn't make me eligible to, to serve any, any more than a male does.
00:29:57.820 And, and so we, we need to have oversight on what's going on.
00:30:01.320 The money that is being spent, we need to have oversight over the border, over what happened
00:30:04.920 in Afghanistan, arming Talibans. 0.72
00:30:07.200 We've armed Ukraine, you know, Democrats were saying, Hey, Ukraine needs guns, give them
00:30:11.680 money.
00:30:12.060 And now we're disarming Americans. 0.50
00:30:14.160 Uh, but you know, I mean, all of this is completely backwards and you are right. 1.00
00:30:18.120 Every single committee needs to have this oversight, uh, jurisdiction, this authority to subpoena
00:30:23.420 people, to bring them in and get real answers for the American people.
00:30:26.540 We aren't going to be able to work with Joe Biden.
00:30:28.760 Joe Biden can't even work with Joe Biden.
00:30:30.640 He has to ask permission from his staff.
00:30:33.140 He's not even allowed in the real oval office.
00:30:35.280 He's in a fake white house set for goodness sake.
00:30:37.840 I think we'll leave it there.
00:30:39.320 Thank you all so much for joining.
00:30:40.940 Thank you to Congresswoman Boebert, co-chair of the second amendment caucus, uh, caucus leading
00:30:45.280 on energy, leading on natural resources, and certainly one of our very best firebrands.
00:30:49.860 Thanks so much for joining us.
00:30:50.940 Thanks Matt.
00:30:51.400 Roll the credits.
00:30:56.540 We'll see you next time.