The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 58 LIVE： Who Is In Control？ (feat. Rep. Anthony Sabatini) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:01.000 In battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.000 And he could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:00:16.000 So we're gonna keep running those stories to get hurt again.

00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:26.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.

00:00:29.000 You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.000 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.

00:00:41.000 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.

00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.

00:00:52.000 We're going to seize the rights and souls of the Iranian people. 1.00

00:00:57.000 We're going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill-begotten gains of Putin's kleptocracy,

00:01:02.000 We're going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill-begotten gains

00:01:05.940 of Putin's kleptocracy. The guys who are the kleptocracies.

00:01:17.300 But these are bad guys. America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

00:01:24.160 I was going to put him in a foot. Turn on the TV. Look at the ads. When's the last time you saw

00:01:29.540 biracial couples on TV? When's the last time you saw the way, I mean, people are selling products. 1.00

00:01:35.580 They do ads to sell products. It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote 0.87

00:01:41.180 and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. End of quote.

00:01:46.680 Repeat the line. And she was forced to have to travel out of the state to Indiana

00:01:52.100 to seek to terminate the presidency and maybe save her life. 0.86

00:01:59.540 Firebrand Live is back, broadcasting from our office in the Longworth Building

00:02:16.280 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

00:02:19.060 We've got a great Florida man, State Representative Anthony Sabatini, joining us in just a moment

00:02:24.420 to answer the question, like, who is in charge anymore?

00:02:28.620 We've got new management in the U.K.

00:02:30.860 We've got the global elites flipping on the fundamental question of sanctions.

00:02:36.980 You've got Joe Biden, a man in decline, doing his best to bring our nation into decline with him.

00:02:43.820 And you've got Gavin Newsom doing everything he can to assert his control over the Democratic Party.

00:02:50.200 Power really abhors a vacuum. It especially abhors a vacuum in Democrat politics.

00:02:56.440 But it is interesting to see Gavin Newsom stepping forward to make his case for control of the Democratic Party.

00:03:04.100 California ranks as the second most expensive place to live in the country.

00:03:08.940 It also ranks as the second highest state in exporting its citizens to Florida.

00:03:15.720 Coincidence? I think not.

00:03:16.880 Through misguided government lockdowns and ridiculous tax rates and unhinged immigration, 1.00

00:03:23.980 government bankruptcy, and crime run amok, native Californians have found themselves

00:03:29.800 wanting to move to greener pastures.

00:03:32.480 Places with just as much sunshine, zero income tax, more coastline, and better state governance.

00:03:39.220 That place is Florida.

00:03:40.880 Also look at home prices.

00:03:42.120 I mean, the cost of housing is increasingly a central issue, crushing the American family.

00:03:48.540 Right now, median home price in Pensacola, Florida, $310,000.

00:03:54.000 A little high. Higher than it used to be.

00:03:56.500 But compare that to Los Angeles, where that same home would cost $800,000. 0.98

00:04:02.020 The same home in San Francisco with their needles and their parks and their shit-stained streets. 0.97

00:04:09.220 That home would be $1.9 million. 0.99

00:04:12.620 Why would you pay more for more mask theater?

00:04:16.920 Now, with that in mind, California Governor Gavin Newsom got on the airwaves in Florida

00:04:21.220 with the following surprising ad.

00:04:23.920 Take a listen.

00:04:24.340 It's Independence Day, so let's talk about what's going on in America.

00:04:30.700 Freedom is under attack in your state.

00:04:32.920 Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote,

00:04:36.920 restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors.

00:04:41.260 I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight or join us in California,

00:04:45.640 where we still believe in freedom.

00:04:47.440 Freedom of speech.

00:04:48.600 Freedom to choose.

00:04:49.700 Freedom from hate.

00:04:50.740 And the freedom to love.

00:04:51.940 Don't let them take your freedom.

00:04:54.540 Paid for by Newsom for California Governor 2022.

00:04:58.980 The freedom to be crushed by taxes.

00:05:01.880 The freedom to have illegal immigrants running all over your state. 1.00

00:05:05.420 The freedom to pay for health care for those illegals. 0.91

00:05:09.360 Here's some important context.

00:05:10.720 In 2020, Florida's net income from domestic migration led the nation, number one, at $23.7 billion.

00:05:18.980 Compare that to California's negative $17.8 billion.

00:05:24.940 Because people are voting with their feet and leaving California.

00:05:29.000 Yet in the face of all of these indicators, Gavin Newsom emerges as a Democrat icon.

00:05:35.540 Why?

00:05:36.640 Because Democrats would rather be lied to by Gavin than just shuttled in to sleep with Joe Biden.

00:05:44.280 Perhaps Gavin has a tighter grip on the Democratic Party's policy agenda than our own president.

00:05:51.160 Sad for America, but give Gavin Newsom credit for seizing the moment.

00:05:56.620 Joining me now, one of the greatest America First fighters to have ever served in the Florida legislature.

00:06:02.000 Someone central to creating the Florida boom.

00:06:05.000 One of the best allies of Governor Ron DeSantis in the Sunshine State, Anthony Sabatini.

00:06:10.160 Representative Sabatini, what is your reaction to Gavin Newsom welcoming Floridians to California?

00:06:17.300 Well, Congressman, I think even George Orwell would be proud by his misuse of language.

00:06:22.180 Like you mentioned in your monologue, he has literally turned words upside down.

00:06:26.620 You know, I don't think there's a lot of freedom in California these days.

00:06:29.360 But one freedom they still have that is being exercised quite rapidly is the freedom to leave.

00:06:34.600 A lot of people are trying to get out of California.

00:06:36.700 And for now, at least, they're free to leave.

00:06:39.180 So, you know, going through that ad, I'll tell you, first, the first thing I would note is, like you mentioned, up until this time, California's biggest export were people.

00:06:47.700 People getting out and coming to the state of Florida.

00:06:50.220 Now it seems the biggest export is going to be these new TV ads where they send them into different states trying to beg people to come back.

00:06:57.100 But, of course, people are wiser than that.

00:06:59.100 They don't want to be there.

00:07:00.040 Why?

00:07:00.320 Because there is no freedom in California.

00:07:02.620 You don't have the freedom to defend yourself if you're attacked by somebody.

00:07:06.180 You don't have the Second Amendment rights, and your prosecutor isn't even able to prosecute some of these criminals.

00:07:12.100 You don't have the freedom to own a home.

00:07:14.120 Taxes and regulations have made it that home ownership is just out of reach for the average Californian.

00:07:20.060 And they talk about it in the ad.

00:07:21.320 He talks about the freedom to love.

00:07:22.840 How are you supposed to love somebody when you're forced to wear three masks in every public space that you go to?

00:07:27.800 So you can't even meet somebody.

00:07:29.980 Love through a mask.

00:07:31.200 The California story, right?

00:07:33.140 Right?

00:07:33.440 You've never seen love prevail like when it has to prevail through three masks.

00:07:38.500 So, Representative Sabatini, what would you say is central to Florida's success?

00:07:43.860 I mean, as you and I have traveled around the country, we've heard from so many policy leaders on the right saying,

00:07:49.560 gosh, you know, what do we have to do to become more like Florida?

00:07:53.180 What would be your advice?

00:07:55.880 Ironically, it's exactly what's highlighted in this ad.

00:07:58.240 It's freedom.

00:07:59.040 Florida's a whiteboard.

00:07:59.940 People come here and they do what they want.

00:08:01.560 I always tell people, you got the American dream.

00:08:03.860 Well, the Florida dream is like the American dream in the American dream.

00:08:06.880 You know, my family came down from New York.

00:08:08.480 People come from all over looking for opportunity and looking for a place where they can create something great,

00:08:14.340 whatever it is that means to them, you know, being free.

00:08:18.480 So DeSantis knows that.

00:08:19.900 Our governor knows that.

00:08:20.640 Our legislature knows that.

00:08:21.680 And you know that.

00:08:22.300 And so that's why our utmost goal is to reinforce and create a sense of freedom when it comes to taxes, regulation, laws,

00:08:31.020 and just letting people do what they want and be what they want.

00:08:34.020 That's the key to Florida's success.

00:08:35.920 And I think it's going to continue to be the key.

00:08:37.380 California was seen at one point as the center of innovation.

00:08:41.680 That was their great export.

00:08:43.680 They would, you know, have the greatest minds in the world all choosing to move to California and collaborate with one another.

00:08:50.140 As a result of remote work, we've really seen human talent democratize around the country.

00:08:56.180 How have you seen that in Florida and particularly in central Florida?

00:09:00.040 Oh, absolutely.

00:09:01.220 You know, people are able to choose Florida to be their lifestyle but still work in a national or global economy just by staying here.

00:09:08.360 We're seeing it every day.

00:09:09.080 We're seeing towns be revitalized and quiet places outside of Orlando, like I represent,

00:09:13.940 are now becoming a bustling center because people are coming in.

00:09:16.960 They're bringing their money.

00:09:17.780 They're bringing their energy and ideas.

00:09:19.160 I see it every single day.

00:09:20.600 And it's led to a sort of rebirth of the economy in places where it didn't exist before that,

00:09:27.220 mostly because of these other states running themselves into the ground.

00:09:30.600 I see it every single day here.

00:09:32.620 While I know many conservatives are worried about big tech censorship and certainly illegal immigration and election integrity, all issues,

00:09:42.340 I certainly want to talk about the number one issue that I've been hearing about,

00:09:45.700 the rising price of goods, the rising price of fuel, the shrinkflation at the grocery store where the package of peppers that you used to buy,

00:09:56.080 well, if it's the same price, it's a lot smaller in terms of what you're actually getting for your family as a part of the consumer experience.

00:10:03.860 And Gavin Newsom in California has responded to inflation by handing money out to people to combat inflation. 0.95

00:10:11.780 It strikes me as the dumbest thing to possibly do. 0.54

00:10:18.000 It actually will create more inflation. 0.97

00:10:20.100 And I just wonder, like, the discipline that you've shown in the Florida legislature,

00:10:27.040 that really generations of Florida legislators have shown with fiscal policy, by building up state reserves,

00:10:33.300 by not having these government programs that just spit money at people,

00:10:37.620 you know, has that created an economic resilience for Florida?

00:10:41.000 And what's your reaction to policies that actually exacerbate inflation in the name of curbing inflation?

00:10:49.040 That is exactly right.

00:10:50.940 Just like we learned, you know, in the response to the Great Depression,

00:10:54.320 a lot of the policies that get thrown to combat these terrible atrocities in the economy actually exacerbate and make things worse.

00:11:01.860 And so that scarcity that results from subsidizing things is something we've always tried to push back against.

00:11:09.380 You know, one of the first things they're trying to push, I'm talking about the Democrats in the legislature and those on the left,

00:11:14.560 one of the first things they're trying to push this year and going forward are rent control devices,

00:11:19.640 different types of laws to dictate the prices of rent.

00:11:23.920 And what that does is it drives up the scarcity and ends up having the opposite result, what they want,

00:11:28.980 which is that people who are trying to get the few properties for rent have less of a chance of doing so

00:11:35.480 because everybody else is locked out of the market.

00:11:38.620 The goal needs to be to bring down prices.

00:11:40.540 How do you do that competition and increasing quantity of goods and services that are sold for whatever it be, rent or goods or whatever?

00:11:48.860 That means embracing the free market economy more fully.

00:11:52.160 You know, a lot of times we see these failures in the economy, and it's because of restrictions on a free economy.

00:11:58.520 This is sort of a time old tale.

00:12:00.020 And Florida is the king at resisting these interventions in the economy and exactly what you said is exactly right.

00:12:05.780 It's why we've become more resilient over the years.

00:12:09.020 And prices are lower in Florida.

00:12:10.940 Homeownership is higher and cheaper in Florida.

00:12:14.280 And as much as we're dealing with the Biden economy and the Bidenflation,

00:12:20.460 we know that embracing free market reform is what's going to keep prices down and get us back to where we were in the Trump years.

00:12:26.260 You have been one of the national fighters against these state policies that seem to encourage illegal immigration.

00:12:35.580 And in California, there are barriers to state law enforcement even working with our Customs and Border Patrol with ICE

00:12:44.100 to ensure that we have protection at the border and also internal enforcement of our immigration laws.

00:12:50.280 And then you know what happens.

00:12:51.420 Illegal aliens know, I mean, I've been to the California-Arizona-Mexico border.

00:12:58.700 I've been to that exact spot.

00:13:01.200 And what the law enforcement say is they'll literally run away from Arizona and into California

00:13:06.920 because they know the state and local law enforcement there can't engage in coordination.

00:13:11.700 Those very people then get health care benefits and other benefits that rely on drawdowns from the federal government.

00:13:19.000 So that means that your constituents, Representative Sabatini, and my constituents are seeing their federal tax dollars

00:13:27.240 used to incentivize illegal immigrants into the state of California.

00:13:32.460 That seems fundamentally unfair.

00:13:34.200 How do you think the federal government ought to treat states that are purposefully recalcitrant

00:13:40.080 on the issue of border protection and illegal immigration?

00:13:43.420 I think the federal government needs to play a major role in doing that.

00:13:46.900 I think it needs to actually use both the carrot and the stick to stop these states from engaging in those policies.

00:13:51.840 You know, here in Florida, we shut down sanctuary cities.

00:13:54.680 That was the right thing to do.

00:13:55.820 Now it's time for the federal government to shut down sanctuary states.

00:13:59.480 That means cutting off funding, tightening regulations, utilizing and using federal power to punish these states,

00:14:07.420 both with civil and criminal remedies, for when they exacerbate law-breaking and bring in illegal immigrants. 0.63

00:14:13.260 On top of that, there's a lot that the federal government can do to incentivize and even mandate the use of E-Verify

00:14:19.560 and other measures that make it that states have to use a legally compliant workforce within their own borders.

00:14:26.260 And I think that's something we really need to be engaged in very quickly,

00:14:29.040 because the 13 million, at a minimum, illegal immigrants that we have in this country

00:14:35.600 is having a major effect both on crime, but also on the scarcity of housing.

00:14:40.040 Going back to the economy, we know that housing is going to go up as long as you have an open border.

00:14:45.220 We can't provide enough housing for our own people, much less the world's people.

00:14:49.360 And so the federal government needs to use civil and criminal remedies to put forth.

00:14:54.040 And I plan on joining you in legislation to make sure that we can actually drop the hammer on these states

00:14:58.500 when we get the White House and control Congress in the next couple of years.

00:15:01.420 This is absolutely essential. A serious nation cannot allow appendages of the nation

00:15:07.760 to be sanctuary against our laws when it comes to who's allowed to be in our nation.

00:15:13.180 That should just never happen. And I mean, you think about California.

00:15:16.960 It used to be a red state, and then it was a purple state, and now it's a reliably blue state.

00:15:21.820 And the reason is because they've allowed a lot of these illegal immigrants to vote.

00:15:25.560 And I mean, there was a recent Wall Street Journal piece, go ahead and put it up, guys,

00:15:28.700 showing this mass migration of people out of California into Florida.

00:15:33.960 Not just Florida, but you see the SEC states are pretty much gaining population.

00:15:39.440 Red states are gaining population.

00:15:41.400 And people are abandoning as refugees, Illinois, California,

00:15:47.100 and places where certainly the policies are more reflective of what I hear from the left

00:15:51.480 here in Washington, D.C. But if they get the illegal immigrants in to replace the citizens 1.00

00:15:57.640 that are leaving, that they've already abandoned, then their goal is to get those illegal immigrants 1.00

00:16:02.360 voting. That is critically important to them.

00:16:05.260 Now, in Florida, Representative Anthony Sabatini, you have led efforts on election integrity

00:16:11.040 to push for strong chain of custody over ballots, strong verification of people's ID.

00:16:18.180 How should Americans think about this grand plan on the left to lash their immigration policies

00:16:25.140 with an erosion of the election integrity measures that ensure that lawful votes are not diminished?

00:16:32.420 Well, the first key is to do exactly what you just did is identify it.

00:16:36.760 You know, a lot of people are asleep and they don't realize that the left,

00:16:39.620 whether it be in a centralized or decentralized way,

00:16:42.400 is pushing a lot of policies in conjunction to fundamentally reshape the country.

00:16:46.720 One of them is bringing folks in who don't really quite understand the nature of a republic 0.99

00:16:52.180 and the idea of self-sacrifice and what it is we're voting for every time we go into the ballot box,

00:16:58.180 and at the same time making it extremely, extremely lax voting laws, easy to vote,

00:17:03.460 and therefore easy to cheat.

00:17:05.280 You know, what we've done in Florida is we've identified this trend in what the Biden regime

00:17:09.240 is trying to do, and we've made it more secure in our voting stations and our voting systems.

00:17:14.280 One of those things is securing ballot boxes, making it that you can't just have these random ballot

00:17:19.740 boxes sitting out on the side of the street.

00:17:21.640 Another one is making it that people actually have to verbally and in written form request

00:17:26.140 before they vote by mail.

00:17:27.340 Of course, I ultimately want to reduce the amount of vote by mail,

00:17:30.620 which means reducing the amount of vote by mail fraud,

00:17:34.560 but making it that they have to use a social security number, a driver's license,

00:17:38.820 voter ID when they request those ballots is really key.

00:17:42.320 And of course, most famously, we ban Zuckerbergs.

00:17:45.720 Third parties, billionaire third parties should not be playing a role in how our elections are

00:17:50.160 conducted in free states.

00:17:51.380 Those are a few of the measures that we got signed into law by Governor DeSantis over the

00:17:55.820 last few years, and I think we need to continue moving in that direction until we have 100% security

00:18:00.840 and confidence in our elections.

00:18:02.620 It is a perfect roadmap for other states.

00:18:05.060 And so if you live in Michigan or Georgia or Pennsylvania or Arizona, you don't have to live

00:18:10.680 this way. Florida has shown how to go from a laughingstock on election management and reporting

00:18:17.400 and transparency to the model for the country and a big reason why great fighters like state

00:18:22.900 representative Anthony Sabatini leading on election integrity, leading against illegal

00:18:27.780 immigration, ensuring that our education system is worthy of the values of our great country.

00:18:32.960 And most importantly, Anthony Sabatini is leading on the issue of freedom, both as a state

00:18:38.280 legislator and I think as a private attorney, sued almost every government entity in Florida

00:18:43.140 that was trying to impose mandates on our great people. 0.90

00:18:46.740 Representative Sabatini, how can folks follow you and keep up with your great work?

00:18:51.920 Well, thank you, Congressman.

00:18:52.820 My handle on almost all forms of social media is at Anthony Sabatini on Twitter.

00:18:59.380 Truth, Getter, Gab, all of it, come find me.

00:19:02.780 And of course, they can always email me at my statehouse site, which is on myfloridahouse.gov.

00:19:08.920 The Florida legislative website's got my email on there.

00:19:11.800 Thanks for joining us and thanks for fighting for the great free state of Florida.

00:19:16.620 Thanks, Congressman. Take care.

00:19:17.740 We are going to stay on the subject of elections and election integrity, and there is a hot story

00:19:27.060 going on in Arizona that requires a great deal more attention.

00:19:31.180 Right now, your federal tax dollars are being used to bully the state of Arizona against their

00:19:40.080 desire to have an actual verification of citizenship at the time of voting.

00:19:46.040 As Representative Sabatini just discussed, we actually should be improving ways to verify

00:19:52.040 ID, citizenship, chain of custody on ballots in every state of the country.

00:19:57.140 And then when Arizona actually stepped forward and said, you know what?

00:20:00.920 We want to verify citizenship for the voting process.

00:20:05.900 The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division went after them.

00:20:11.640 This is a shocking affront to civil rights.

00:20:14.700 Now, Arizona recently passed a law that requires proof of citizenship in presidential elections.

00:20:21.000 So when registering to vote for the first time, a voter would have to write down their address

00:20:25.760 when filling out a ballot and bubble in a box stating that that voter is, in fact, an American

00:20:32.900 citizen.

00:20:34.380 The horror!

00:20:34.960 Apparently, this is such an injustice that the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice

00:20:42.560 is suing the state of Arizona.

00:20:45.680 Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark called the new Arizona law, quote,

00:20:50.900 a textbook violation of the National Voter Registration Act.

00:20:55.320 What?

00:20:56.520 Call me crazy, but I always thought the purpose of the National Voter Registration Act

00:21:00.180 was to protect the right of Americans to vote and to not have their vote diluted by people

00:21:07.320 who are not citizens, who are not in our country legally, who are not eligible to vote.

00:21:11.700 It's beyond reasonable to ensure that particularly those voting in presidential elections are able

00:21:17.740 to prove their citizenship.

00:21:19.040 All they got to do is bubble in a box.

00:21:20.520 It ain't exactly the poll tax, but this activist Department of Justice isn't reasonable on the

00:21:27.680 issue of voting.

00:21:29.880 The DOJ Civil Rights Division is chocked full of far-left activists.

00:21:36.840 I mean, these are people on the far fringes of left-wing politics.

00:21:41.360 In fact, you might remember Dr. Pamela Carlin, who is now the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney

00:21:49.460 General in the Civil Rights Division, but she gave testimony before the House Judiciary 0.74

00:21:54.640 Committee during the Trump-Ukraine impeachment, where she even stooped so low as to insult 1.00

00:22:01.120 the President's son, Barron.

00:22:03.600 Take a look at this clip.

00:22:05.140 It's a jockey man.

00:22:06.820 The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility.

00:22:10.500 So while the President can name his son Barron, he can't make him a Barron.

00:22:15.560 I just have to say, when you talk about how liberals want to be around each other in clusters,

00:22:19.440 and conservatives don't want to be around each other, and so they have to spread out,

00:22:23.180 it makes people, you may not see this from, you know, like the ivory towers of your law

00:22:27.260 school, but it makes actual people in this country feel like, excuse me, you don't get

00:22:31.760 to interrupt me on this time.

00:22:33.200 Now, let me also suggest that when you invoke the President's son's name here, when you try

00:22:38.300 to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to

00:22:43.120 your argument.

00:22:43.680 It makes you look mean.

00:22:44.680 It makes you look like you're attacking someone's family, the minor child of the President of

00:22:49.060 the United States.

00:22:52.500 When Dr. Pamela Carlin is empowered to go and bully the state of Arizona away from proof 0.98

00:22:59.400 of citizenship to vote, they're not acting in good faith.

00:23:04.340 These are not well-meaning lawyers fighting to protect your civil rights.

00:23:07.960 These are partisan activists working to steal the next presidential election.

00:23:14.920 There is no justification for the Department of Justice trying to strike down proof of citizenship

00:23:19.880 other than they want to make it easier for non-citizens to vote.

00:23:23.540 That's the deal.

00:23:24.740 Why else would you stand against a citizenship attestation?

00:23:28.320 It's because they want the non-citizens voting because they've let so many of them in. 1.00

00:23:31.740 It's part of the grand plan.

00:23:35.160 As we've covered extensively, the border crisis is not an accident.

00:23:39.580 They want to flood this country with foreigners who are not given permission to be here and 1.00

00:23:44.780 then enable them to vote in presidential elections in swing states like Arizona.

00:23:49.880 That's why they settled these aliens in a lot of swing states, actually, releasing them into 1.00

00:23:54.780 the interior of our country.

00:23:56.120 A lot went to Pennsylvania.

00:23:57.080 The Democrats know that their policies aren't attractive to Americans, and if they can't

00:24:03.540 convince Americans to vote for them, they will import people who will. 1.00

00:24:09.000 And that plan doesn't work unless those new people you've imported can actually vote, 0.99

00:24:14.240 and a citizenship requirement would get in the way of that grand plan.

00:24:18.360 We must stop these subversive actions against our country at all costs.

00:24:23.480 It is about protecting the integrity of our elections.

00:24:26.300 We are not a banana republic.

00:24:27.960 We're the United States of America.

00:24:30.660 And if we don't have borders and fair elections, we don't have a country.

00:24:34.080 It's that simple.

00:24:35.300 We cannot afford to lose this battle.

00:24:37.980 We have to fight like we've never fought before on this critical question, and I would

00:24:43.280 say this critical intersection of election integrity and immigration.

00:24:49.020 We have to be very strong on both, a lot stronger than Republicans have been, but good for

00:24:53.740 those folks in the state of Arizona.

00:24:55.480 We will help you fight back against this activist, political, partisan Department of Justice.

00:25:03.060 We are seeing a reversal of some matters on the global stage right now, particularly as

00:25:09.280 it relates to the way the elites talk about sanctions.

00:25:13.240 Now, Fareed Zakaria is a CNN contributor.

00:25:17.020 He is an opinion contributor for The Washington Post, and he's basically the mouthpiece of

00:25:22.700 the global elite.

00:25:23.760 This was his perspective on sanctions previously.

00:25:26.720 The Biden administration deserves huge credit for the economic measures it's been able to take

00:25:33.780 against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

00:25:36.280 As an essay by Gary Huffbauer and Megan Hogan note, they are the most comprehensive imposed

00:25:41.600 against a major power since the Second World War.

00:25:44.880 On a punishment scale, they rank them as at least an 8 out of 10.

00:25:49.420 I support the sanctions against Russia. 0.90

00:25:51.580 8 out of 10, I support the sanctions.

00:25:57.440 Raw, raw sanctions.

00:25:58.760 I mean, you could not have had a bigger cheerleader for these sanctions, and frankly, there's a

00:26:04.180 whole lot of folks.

00:26:05.720 But I was the lonely voice in the wilderness at times, warning people that the effects of

00:26:11.440 these sanctions might not be as the architects intended.

00:26:14.740 Take a listen to my remarks at that time.

00:26:16.780 I don't really know that the sanctions would play out the way the architects would hope.

00:26:24.860 Right now, we see more and more Chinese investment funds buying up distressed Russian assets.

00:26:30.580 I think there are huge geopolitical consequences to driving Asia's largest producer of energy

00:26:36.860 into the arms of Asia's largest consumer of energy.

00:26:40.680 That could create a Sino-Russian alliance that would pose a far greater threat to America 1.00

00:26:45.980 than even the terrible carnage that we hope ends in Ukraine. 0.99

00:26:51.940 And this is the thing.

00:26:53.100 My critics always say, oh, well, if you're not for the Russia sanctions, you're Putin's

00:26:57.500 advocate, Putin's lawyer, the Putin wing of the Republican Party.

00:27:01.240 No, I am the America first wing of the Republican Party.

00:27:05.780 And by the way, I make no apology for it.

00:27:07.840 So I made those comments about the misguided nature of some of these sanctions against

00:27:13.340 Russia in March.

00:27:14.860 Fareed did the bear hug of the sanctions, talking about how glorious they were in May.

00:27:19.580 And even Insider, Business Insider, took note that it was basically Marjorie Taylor Greene, 0.82

00:27:26.720 Thomas Massey, and myself as the three Republicans who were skeptical of some of these economic actions

00:27:34.400 that the Democrats and the Republicans and the neoconservatives and heck, even the squad

00:27:40.300 were all on board for.

00:27:43.120 And just this Sunday, we see a very different narrative coming out of Fareed Zakaria.

00:27:50.940 Take a listen.

00:27:51.480 It is now clear that the economic war against Russia is not working nearly as well as people

00:28:00.420 thought it would.

00:28:02.140 Vladimir Putin cares less about what these sanctions do to the Russian people than he

00:28:07.280 does about what they do to the Russian state.

00:28:09.560 And thanks to rising energy prices, Bloomberg projects that the Russian government will

00:28:14.960 make considerably more revenue from oil and gas than it did before the war, around $285

00:28:21.720 billion in 2022 compared to $236 billion in 2021.

00:28:27.340 Revenues from oil and gas alone make up almost half the government's budget.

00:28:32.380 And unfortunately, the solution would not be for the West to stop buying Russian energy

00:28:37.240 altogether, because with less supply on the world's market, it would only drive prices

00:28:42.240 even higher.

00:28:43.580 Having developed a dangerous dependence on Russian energy over the last two decades, Europe cannot

00:28:49.780 quickly change that without plunging into a deep and protracted recession.

00:28:54.320 There was never a plan with these sanctions regimes for the pain to be fully borne by Vladimir Putin

00:29:05.580 and his crony thugs rather than the American people. 0.63

00:29:09.480 And so there you saw it.

00:29:10.860 You saw all of the desire of Fareed and the global elites to embrace these sanctions.

00:29:17.000 Warnings from myself, Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:29:20.260 Incredible pain for the American people at the gas pump with agricultural products, with

00:29:27.100 consumer products.

00:29:29.020 And now, now you see the total boomerang from Fareed Zakaria saying, oh, well, you know,

00:29:34.920 this economic war just hadn't worked.

00:29:36.800 And by the way, Russia's making more money.

00:29:39.220 Like, how come the media isn't talking more about that, that this sanction regime that we've

00:29:43.580 put out there has actually allowed Vladimir Putin to see a dramatic increase in the price of

00:29:49.300 oil and gas, he's got all the customer base he needs still in Europe and with China, and

00:29:55.660 he's laughing at us like fools as our people in our country suffer for this war.

00:30:02.920 It didn't have to be that way. 0.97

00:30:04.600 We could have gone in with a plan.

00:30:06.460 We could have had greater unity.

00:30:07.780 We could have had greater foresight.

00:30:08.980 And we could have had a more rational approach to what we were capable of doing and not capable

00:30:15.180 of doing before our own constituents, our fellow Americans, saw their lives changed for the

00:30:21.340 worse.

00:30:22.540 Shame on the global elites and the politicians and the Biden administration for embracing

00:30:28.860 these sanctions without fully appreciating their consequences.

00:30:32.460 Now we see those consequences and they will likely result in Democrats being out of power,

00:30:38.020 at least in some places on Capitol Hill.

00:30:40.540 Now, I haven't heard a whole lot of my colleagues going out into the country saying that they

00:30:47.200 really just need to be more committed to the war in Ukraine, right?

00:30:51.880 I mean, most people are trying to present an economic plan or an immigration plan or, you

00:30:57.140 know, on the left, people are trying to create all kinds of histrionics over January 6th, but

00:31:01.440 there aren't that many saying vote Democrat so that we could print more of your money to send

00:31:07.600 to Ukraine, vote Democrat so that we can borrow money from one country and give it to another.

00:31:14.220 And an exception to this rule is Ruben Gallego, Arizona congressman, serves with me on the

00:31:20.780 Armed Services Committee, and this is his tweet.

00:31:22.760 I'll read it to you.

00:31:24.160 Fact is, if the Republicans take over the House in 2022, U.S. support for Ukraine will come to

00:31:30.620 a halt.

00:31:31.120 They will not be able to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz from dictating our Ukraine

00:31:37.480 policy.

00:31:38.540 You know what, Representative Gallego, from your lips to God's ears, if Republicans take

00:31:43.860 control, I will work with Marjorie Taylor Greene and others to ensure that we do not borrow money

00:31:50.120 from one country to send it to another, that we do not print money, thereby devaluing the

00:31:55.860 work and the savings of our fellow Americans so that we can engage in neoconservative misadventurism

00:32:03.420 in Europe.

00:32:04.700 I do not hope that Russia prevails in this conflict. 0.97

00:32:07.920 Matter of fact, I enthusiastically am rooting for Ukraine.

00:32:12.120 But the funding, the resources, the logistics ought to matter more to Europe than to the United

00:32:19.340 States of America.

00:32:20.240 And the fact that we've sent, like, nearly $60 billion into this battle, while we have

00:32:26.380 a porous border with Mexico, while we have needs for our people, while the printing of

00:32:31.020 money is creating escalating costs and challenges for our families, it's entirely irresponsible.

00:32:38.360 And you know what?

00:32:39.160 When leaders are irresponsible, sometimes it's the end of the road.

00:32:43.580 There is new leadership coming in the United Kingdom.

00:32:47.580 Boris Johnson out, that's been well chronicled, the various and sundry reasons seem to have

00:32:53.860 compounded.

00:32:54.900 And guess what?

00:32:56.020 You knew it was coming if you were watching Firebrand in January.

00:33:00.800 My good friend Raheem Kassam, who is the publisher of The National Pulse, that's thenationalpulse.com,

00:33:07.020 he was our guest to discuss geopolitics, British politics, and he made this amazing prediction

00:33:14.320 in January.

00:33:15.540 Take a listen.

00:33:17.580 In a post-Brexit world, you had the Conservative Party, which is by no means conservative.

00:33:24.660 It's just a moniker nowadays.

00:33:27.560 We try to re-establish itself as the electoral force in the United Kingdom, and they did a

00:33:34.780 pretty good job of it.

00:33:35.860 Boris Johnson got a whopping 80-seat majority in the House of Commons.

00:33:40.580 It meant that he could basically rule as he wanted to, introduce whatever legislation that

00:33:46.980 he or his wife, which I'll get into in a second, wanted him to.

00:33:51.380 And it hasn't worked out very well, because as the Conservative Party always does, it kind

00:33:57.580 of reverts to this establishment disconnected with the public type of governing philosophy.

00:34:03.680 And now there are all sorts of scandals swirling around 10 Downing Street, which is the executive

00:34:09.240 branch of the British government, not least to do with Boris Johnson's new wife.

00:34:14.480 We don't have a constitutional role for kind of a first lady in the United Kingdom. 1.00

00:34:20.140 So people are starting to ask questions because this lady, Carrie, Carrie Simmons, Carrie Johnson, 1.00

00:34:25.180 appears to be at the heart of so many decisions that are being made at the heart of the British

00:34:30.080 government, a lot of the climate change policy stuff.

00:34:32.600 She was very well entrenched with the Clinton initiative, for instance, used to work for one

00:34:37.520 of their offshoots.

00:34:38.580 People are starting to ask, well, where exactly is Boris Johnson getting his left-leaning credentials

00:34:44.860 from?

00:34:45.360 Where is he taking this all from?

00:34:46.660 And it appears to be her, and there are scandal upon scandal upon scandals which are building

00:34:51.220 in the United Kingdom right now.

00:34:52.480 If I were a betting man, I would say that Boris Johnson doesn't look like he could desperately

00:34:59.320 hold on to power for much of this year.

00:35:02.480 It does depend if there's a challenger from within the Conservative Party, but it looks to

00:35:07.660 be a tumultuous year in British politics in the very same way it looks to be a tumultuous

00:35:12.060 year in US politics.

00:35:13.480 So, Kassam predicts that Boris Johnson will lose power, and he predicts that the reason

00:35:21.140 he'll lose power is an accumulating list of scandals and a departure from the policies

00:35:27.140 and practices that were promised to the people of Great Britain.

00:35:32.240 Gosh, really, really prescient stuff from Raheem Kassam, and it shows.

00:35:37.040 You can see the future if you watch Firebrand and if you listen to us.

00:35:41.120 That's enough for the show.

00:35:42.620 Today, I want to make sure that you're subscribed with notifications turned on.

00:35:46.880 That way, you are right there at the beginning for our discussions as we go live from Washington,

00:35:52.800 D.C. to really pull the layers of the onion back and show you what's going on in your government.

00:35:58.140 Certainly, you deserve a government that is doing more, that is winning your battles, and

00:36:02.640 that's what we fight for every day.

00:36:05.040 Thanks for joining us.

00:36:05.940 Roll the credits.

00:36:11.120 We'll see you next time.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 12, 2022

Episode 58 LIVE： Who Is In Control？ (feat. Rep. Anthony Sabatini) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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