The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 28, 2020


Episode 55 - Zuckerberg Perjured Himself. Florida Man Arrested for Buying a PPP Loan Lamborghini. Barr Comes to Congress.


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A Florida man was arrested for illegally obtaining $2.9 million in paycheck protection funding, using it to buy a Lamborghini that has now been seized by Uncle Sam. A new report from Project Veritas shows that the company s algorithm is biased against conservative viewpoints on the internet.

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00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:03.820 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.
00:00:16.580 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:20.280 Today, the Attorney General before the Judiciary Committee.
00:00:23.220 Tomorrow, the CEOs of Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple, all before the Judiciary Committee.
00:00:32.400 But let's start with the news from Florida, where a Florida man was arrested today for buying a Lamborghini with coronavirus funds.
00:00:43.080 That's right, David Hines, 29 years old, arrested for illegally obtaining $2.9 million in paycheck protection funding,
00:00:52.440 using it in part to buy a $318,000 Lambo that has now been seized by Uncle Sam.
00:01:00.460 We covered this issue on the podcast, this notion of people who have businesses that did not see a diminution in revenue
00:01:07.260 still being technically eligible for paycheck protection.
00:01:12.320 Secretary Mnuchin said that there would be a temporary amnesty.
00:01:15.540 If you got the money and you shouldn't have got the money, turn it back in.
00:01:19.620 No questions asked, no problem.
00:01:21.480 And a great deal actually was returned during that period of time.
00:01:25.860 But now, it's the enforcement period, baby.
00:01:29.320 And if you're out there using your paycheck protection money for Lamborghini purchases, you're asking for it.
00:01:36.540 This particular defendant seems to be, and I'm glad, that the Secretary of the Treasury is working alongside the Justice Department
00:01:44.400 to ensure that the provision intended for our people, for our workers, to keep businesses open,
00:01:51.180 are not just going to purchase luxury sports cars.
00:01:57.760 Yesterday, I filed the criminal referral with Attorney General Bill Barr regarding Mark Zuckerberg's perjury
00:02:04.480 before the United States Congress.
00:02:06.900 He claimed that there was no mechanism by which bias could interfere with the news feed
00:02:12.740 and the content people see on Facebook, and yet the Project Veritas reporting clearly showed
00:02:18.120 from whistleblowers, from people inside the organization, that the algorithm was generating
00:02:24.480 70% to 80% Republicans for the suppression of content.
00:02:28.960 And you even had people who were involved in the review of that content saying if they saw someone with
00:02:35.200 Make America Great Again or some other support for Trump, they would label them as terrorists
00:02:40.840 and suppress their content under the terrorism banner.
00:02:45.260 It's ludicrous, and I think Mr. Zuckerberg needs to come clean about the statements he gave that weren't truthful.
00:02:52.180 I am also preparing for our hearing tomorrow with not only Mr. Zuckerberg, but with the CEOs of Amazon, Google, and Apple as well.
00:03:04.240 And if you want to know what I'm reading in preparation for that hearing,
00:03:07.820 the American Conservatives' Declan Leary has an amazing piece came out July 22nd,
00:03:13.180 and it walks through really not just the modern-day struggle over Section 230 and the way that that allows
00:03:20.460 big tech bias to persist, but also some of the predecessor pieces of legislation.
00:03:26.920 What I found interesting about the piece is that it essentially chronicles the two ways that big tech
00:03:32.400 gets their way in Congress.
00:03:34.380 The first is money.
00:03:36.180 They deploy cash not just to campaigns through PACs,
00:03:40.240 and I am the only Republican that is returning to Congress that does not accept PAC money.
00:03:45.960 The American people are my only special interest.
00:03:49.380 But Google puts out a good amount of PAC money to members of Congress.
00:03:53.900 Then the other thing they do is they put out a lot of cash to conservative organizations,
00:03:58.980 to groups that have names that may be familiar to you,
00:04:03.500 that endorse candidates, that support policy positions in papers,
00:04:10.240 that lobby for or against bills that are before the legislature,
00:04:14.760 through issue advocacy loopholes in the law.
00:04:18.660 And so when Google plows all this money into those groups,
00:04:21.640 they have an influence over what those groups are advocating for and against.
00:04:25.720 And then the final way that this article chronicles the dynamic is in personnel.
00:04:30.560 You know, how often people go from working for Republicans,
00:04:35.980 working for congressional committees to then work working for Google in their political operation.
00:04:42.120 And you see some of the specific folks.
00:04:44.080 Now, I don't blame any of these people.
00:04:45.900 I know some of the names.
00:04:47.300 Some of them are even acquaintances and friends of mine.
00:04:50.040 I don't blame them.
00:04:51.420 But I do blame a system that allows these special interests to be able to maintain
00:04:57.940 what they would not otherwise be able to maintain in the absence of all this money
00:05:02.240 and hiring all of the favorite people from powerful lawmakers.
00:05:07.400 And that's essentially what's happened.
00:05:09.300 And it's impacting free speech online.
00:05:12.580 And as Americans, we need to stand for the proposition that the marketplace of ideas must be healthy.
00:05:19.640 And to be healthy, it has to be competitive.
00:05:21.980 And it cannot be competitive if you censor conservative viewpoints.
00:05:26.880 And if you utilize these special provisions of law,
00:05:30.860 like Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, to do so.
00:05:34.900 Check out the piece in the American Conservative.
00:05:37.140 Might be what I ask my questions about tomorrow. 0.55
00:05:38.920 It seems foolish and counterproductive to me that so many states are picking fights with their own residents
00:05:48.280 rather than working with them to solve the challenges presented by coronavirus. 0.62
00:05:53.460 When you see states and local governments engaging in hyper-enforcement, hyper-discipline of their citizens,
00:06:01.360 arresting people, shutting things down, rather than providing the tools, equipment, testing,
00:06:06.960 and necessary for folks to be able to engage in life,
00:06:10.460 I think that you draw resources and focus and attention away from the very important public health mission.
00:06:17.820 Look, there are people who definitely need to still shelter in place.
00:06:21.960 Seniors, people with comorbidities.
00:06:24.640 But the notion that healthy people can't go to a gym to stay healthy is crazy to me.
00:06:30.520 I had the chance to discuss this on the Sean Hannity program last night.
00:06:34.080 Here was that discussion.
00:06:34.840 A co-owner of a New Jersey gym was actually arrested earlier today, put in handcuffs.
00:06:40.320 His business boarded up.
00:06:41.980 Matt Gaetz, this is not the United States of America that I know.
00:06:45.480 Yeah, the government should actually be working with business owners like Frank to extend safety
00:06:51.240 and ensure sanitation and contact tracing not working against them.
00:06:55.160 It sounds to me like there are plenty of dumbbells in Frank's gym and in the New Jersey government
00:07:00.780 if they're acting this way.
00:07:02.360 Look, if you evaluate the challenge more broadly, China birthed this virus on the world through their lies, 1.00
00:07:08.920 through their negligence, through their corrupt relationship with the World Health Organization.
00:07:13.360 But through Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration can provide hope within our country,
00:07:18.540 to our business owners and to everyone in the world because we are right now engaged in the fastest
00:07:23.740 development of a vaccine that the world has ever known.
00:07:27.280 And we're already putting vaccine candidates into production so that when we finally get over the final hurdle
00:07:33.380 in the regulatory process, we will have tens of millions that are available to bring that vaccine
00:07:38.680 and to bring that hope for a normal life to a neighborhood near you.
00:07:41.880 It was also great to see Vice President Mike Pence in the great state of Florida yesterday
00:07:47.540 working on that very issue I was discussing on Hannity, Operation Warp Speed.
00:07:52.940 And I am so impressed that we have engaged the private sector, academia, the National Institute of Health,
00:07:59.700 all under the leadership of the Trump administration to accelerate these vaccines,
00:08:04.280 to get them into production, and to ensure that we can lead the world in this solution
00:08:10.040 and also the medical diplomacy that will come with it.
00:08:13.200 You know, look, there's a reason why China is doing everything they can to try to steal 1.00
00:08:18.260 and try to penetrate our collaboration on work for the coronavirus.
00:08:22.800 And that's kind of nuts because we're going to give the vaccine to everyone.
00:08:27.400 It's not like we're just going to save it for Americans.
00:08:29.760 But see, China wants to win the race to the vaccine because they're the one that birthed the virus onto the world. 1.00
00:08:35.920 So the Vice President, the Governor in Florida doing great work.
00:08:40.040 Attorney General Bill Barr is before the House Judiciary Committee today.
00:08:47.000 You can already tell the partisan tone from Chairman Jerry Nadler's opening statement.
00:08:52.880 Here's what he had to say.
00:08:53.820 Again and again, you personally have interfered with ongoing criminal investigations
00:08:58.920 to protect the President and his allies from the consequences of their actions.
00:09:03.600 When career investigators and prosecutors resisted these brazen, unprecedented actions,
00:09:10.320 you replaced them with less qualified staff who appear to be singularly beholden to you.
00:09:17.260 The message these actions send is clear.
00:09:21.120 In this Justice Department, the President's enemies will be punished
00:09:24.900 and his friends will be protected, no matter the cost, no matter the cost to liberty,
00:09:31.560 no matter the cost to justice.
00:09:32.740 And a strong response from Republican Jim Jordan, highlighting the hypocrisy of the Democrats
00:09:38.140 and the work that still needs to be done.
00:09:40.460 Spying.
00:09:42.180 That one word.
00:09:43.240 That's why they're after you, Mr. Attorney General.
00:09:44.860 Now, 15 months ago, April 10th, 2019, in a Senate hearing, you said this sentence,
00:09:49.720 quote, I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal.
00:09:53.240 Spying on a political campaign is a big deal.
00:09:56.000 It sure is.
00:09:57.780 And since that day, since that day, when you had the courage to state the truth,
00:10:03.440 they attacked you.
00:10:04.200 They've been attacking you ever since, every day, every week,
00:10:07.500 for simply stating the truth that the Obama-Biden administration spied on the Trump campaign.
00:10:11.660 One year ago, New York Times headline said this, one year ago, quote,
00:10:15.300 FBI sent an investigator posing as assistant to meet with Trump aide in 2016.
00:10:20.580 The FBI sent a young lady who used the name Azra Turk to meet Papadopoulos in September of 2016. 0.60
00:10:26.580 They sent someone pretending to be someone else to meet a person associated with the Trump campaign.
00:10:34.800 You know what they call that?
00:10:36.680 You know what they call that?
00:10:38.920 Spying.
00:10:39.440 One month later, October 2016, they used the dossier to spy on Carter Page.
00:10:44.600 The salacious, unverified dossier.
00:10:46.820 Jim Comey's words, not mine.
00:10:49.260 They took it to the FISA court.
00:10:50.500 Didn't tell the courts that the Clintons paid for it.
00:10:52.180 Didn't tell the court that the guy who wrote the document, Christopher Steele,
00:10:55.180 had already communicated to the Justice Department that he was, quote,
00:10:58.460 desperate to stop Trump from getting elected.
00:11:01.000 And guess what?
00:11:02.380 There were 15 more lies that they told the court.
00:11:06.180 17 in total.
00:11:08.720 They're outlined by the inspector general, each and every one of them in his 400-page report.
00:11:13.600 But guess what?
00:11:14.900 Chairman Nadler refuses to allow Mr. Horowitz to come here and testify and answer our questions.
00:11:20.120 This was my exchange with the witness panel.
00:11:22.140 Mr. Attorney General, you've described the prosecution of Roger Stone as righteous.
00:11:26.760 That's clearly something that the president and I disagree with you on.
00:11:30.520 I would suggest that perhaps the prosecution of Andrew McCabe, who lied four times, thrice under the penalty of perjury, would be more righteous.
00:11:39.580 I would suggest to you that uncovering the criminal conspiracy that existed where people in our own government were trying to convince intelligence agents and operatives around the world to destabilize our elections and to discredit our president would perhaps be more righteous.
00:11:56.120 But as we sit here today, I don't think that Mr. Stone or Mr. McCabe or any of those other folks are killing anyone or burning down our buildings.
00:12:04.880 And so I'd like to focus our effort on the most acute need I believe our country has.
00:12:09.380 Is it your view then that Antifa and other violent people engaged in these acts would simply stop, would simply accept that as their sole victory?
00:12:18.780 Or is it your expert opinion, having dealt with a number of law enforcement and criminal cases in your legal career, that they wouldn't stop, that they would go to the next town, to the next community and potentially inspire more violence?
00:12:30.500 There's no doubt in my mind that it would spread.
00:12:32.600 And what comfort can you give Americans in my district and around the country that you will stop this, that you will stop the burning and destruction of federal property, and that you will give confidence to regular Americans that they can go out in the streets without the risk of this terrorism?
00:12:50.820 Well, as you can see in Portland, we have a relatively small number of federal officers who have been withstanding this for almost two months.
00:13:00.440 It's a great strain, but we cannot just stand aside and allow the federal court to be destroyed.
00:13:09.580 Confucius Institutes are China's beachheads at our major universities and institutions of learning and research.
00:13:18.780 Confucius Institutes are dangerous.
00:13:21.300 They allow China to execute on their strategic vision for the future of the world, oftentimes in a way that's competitive with America. 0.79
00:13:30.220 Not competitive in a friendly, we both make our each other better kind of way, competitive in the unfair, stealing, putting us out of business, and making the world less safe kind of way.
00:13:44.480 And so it's noteworthy to remember who in politics seems to embrace these Confucius Institutes and the bad objectives that they oftentimes serve.
00:13:54.360 National Pulse's Natalie Winters has the story on Joe Biden's visit back in 2012 to a Confucius Institute on a college campus where he said Xi Jinping is a straightforward, an open leader, actively praising him.
00:14:12.180 And this was at the Confucius classroom at the California-based International Studies Learning Center.
00:14:19.500 And so I don't think that someone who would go and praise the work of Confucius Institutes, praise the work of Xi Jinping, offer him up as an open, straightforward leader, is the type of person that we need making the major decisions in our country.
00:14:34.460 Congratulations to the National Pulse and Natalie Winters on the story.
00:14:42.540 Larry Kudlow was on State of the Union with Jake Tapper on Sunday, and he had a number of positive reports regarding the American economy.
00:14:50.700 Here's Larry Kudlow.
00:14:51.460 Many of us have been making this point for months.
00:14:53.220 As you know, you can't reopen the economy without the virus contained.
00:14:56.380 You, President Trump, others at the White House pushed for the economy to reopen.
00:14:59.380 We did, and now cases have skyrocketed, and the economy appears to be taking yet another hit.
00:15:04.720 Isn't it clear that the country reopened too quickly, wiping away the progress that had been made, prolonging harm to the economy?
00:15:11.820 Well, Jake, I don't know.
00:15:12.980 I mean, there's a lot of generalizations there.
00:15:15.500 First of all, I don't think the economy is going south.
00:15:19.160 I think it's going north, and I think there's a bunch of indicators.
00:15:23.260 Let me just focus on that.
00:15:25.180 I know something about that.
00:15:27.080 You're in a housing boom right now.
00:15:29.200 You're in a retail sales boom right now.
00:15:31.580 You're in an auto car boom right now.
00:15:34.500 Manufacturing, look at the ISM indexes.
00:15:36.600 All are booming.
00:15:38.020 New business applications are skyrocketing.
00:15:39.820 Apple mobility index is very strong.
00:15:43.580 And the jobs picture remains strong.
00:15:46.400 There was a number of unemployment claims last week that slipped, but it was a seasonal adjustment problem.
00:15:52.120 It's actually the lowest since early March.
00:15:55.280 Continuing claims, which is going to predict the July jobs number out in a week or so, are the lowest they've been in almost three months.
00:16:03.700 So I don't buy it.
00:16:05.120 To get the economy moving, we're going to need to get this virus under control.
00:16:08.980 And then it's my expectation that we'll have pent-up demand, that we'll have an American economy that's rebounding.
00:16:15.760 And if we've got to trust somebody to rebuild the economy, I certainly trust the guy who built it, Donald Trump, not the person, Joe Biden, who was vice president during one of the most puttering efforts of the American economy.
00:16:31.260 And so I think with production, with emphasis on investment and lower taxes and empowered Americans, President Trump can do for a second time what he did previously, and that is build the strongest American economy that has ever existed.
00:16:47.440 Thanks so much for listening to Hot Takes.
00:16:49.400 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
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