The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 59 LIVE： The Will To Fight – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 In battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.560 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.420 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington

00:00:09.020 on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.800 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.640 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws.

00:00:16.660 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:00:20.040 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.240 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:26.680 then welcome, my fellow patriots.

00:00:29.080 You are in the right place.

00:00:30.960 This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.040 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.400 It's like a machine.

00:00:36.860 Matt Gaetz.

00:00:37.860 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.

00:00:40.960 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress,

00:00:43.580 a wanted man by the deep state.

00:00:45.780 They aren't really coming for me.

00:00:47.740 They're coming for you.

00:00:49.580 I'm just in the way.

00:00:50.840 You guys are spasming into this reflexive response,

00:01:00.680 and you call it an emergency hearing, right?

00:01:03.440 And the basis for the emergency is what happened in Evaldi.

00:01:06.880 And we all agree it was awful and tragic,

00:01:09.480 but you are not providing the thoughtful solutions

00:01:11.960 that would actually reduce the likelihood of that.

00:01:13.920 When you make an argument in the Judiciary Committee

00:01:16.240 for a change in the law, there are two components.

00:01:19.000 You have to demonstrate a need for the change,

00:01:21.140 and that what you're bringing forward

00:01:22.560 will actually affect that in a positive way.

00:01:25.520 And it's the second part of the argument

00:01:27.300 where the bills you've presented today undeniably fail.

00:01:31.620 And in Florida, I would suggest we had a process

00:01:34.540 that's a little bit better than what we've observed here.

00:01:37.680 In Florida, following Parkland,

00:01:39.600 every Floridian wanted to reduce the likelihood

00:01:43.120 that that could ever occur again

00:01:44.500 for precisely the reasons that animate your passions today.

00:01:48.040 But instead of rushing to town, stumbling bills together,

00:01:52.360 we got our very best sheriffs, our very best police chiefs,

00:01:55.920 former members of law enforcement,

00:01:57.700 people with tactical experience,

00:01:59.400 even parents of slain children.

00:02:01.360 And we put them on a board to review a school shooting

00:02:04.160 as if it were an airline crash, dispassionately, thoroughly.

00:02:07.940 And then as a consequence,

00:02:09.840 what we saw was actually a failure in law enforcement,

00:02:13.200 that the sheriff in Broward County

00:02:15.000 was so recalcitrant in not doing the training,

00:02:17.760 that the on-the-ground law enforcement

00:02:20.160 were so derelict in their duties

00:02:22.860 that children died that didn't need to.

00:02:25.480 And so Governor DeSantis rightly fired that sheriff,

00:02:29.000 replaced them, put better training in,

00:02:31.480 more money to harden our schools and our synagogues,

00:02:34.780 our houses of worship across the state of Florida.

00:02:37.520 And we're safer as a consequence.

00:02:39.260 So it's not that we're particularly here

00:02:40.940 to talk about abortion or the border.

00:02:42.980 We understand we have to make these things less likely,

00:02:45.420 but whether it's you holding an emergency hearing

00:02:48.880 to respond to a leak to draft opinion

00:02:51.420 that's not even final,

00:02:52.700 or now when the Congressman Roy from Texas says,

00:02:55.660 gosh, before you have the emergency Uvalde hearing,

00:02:59.080 maybe we ought to figure out what happened in Uvalde

00:03:01.500 so that we can make that frequency less likely to occur.

00:03:07.840 We are alive now in the Longworth House office building

00:03:12.100 in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

00:03:14.840 And I gave those remarks in the House Judiciary Committee

00:03:17.740 as Democrats brought expansive gun control

00:03:20.880 to the body following the Uvalde shooting.

00:03:23.580 And I thought to myself, gosh, you know,

00:03:25.600 there seems like there may be more to the story here.

00:03:27.920 We have a saying, tough cases make bad laws.

00:03:31.940 And that's because sometimes in people's passion

00:03:34.280 to be responsive and to look alert,

00:03:37.760 they lurch into policy options

00:03:39.880 that end up being really bad for our people.

00:03:42.540 And oftentimes those emotion-laden legislative reactions

00:03:47.340 take people's liberty away.

00:03:49.820 We saw that tremendously during the pandemic,

00:03:52.440 and we certainly see it now.

00:03:55.420 So I made that argument.

00:03:56.500 I said, gosh, you know, before we go

00:03:58.360 and deprive law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment

00:04:01.420 during a national crime wave, let's get the evidence.

00:04:05.760 Oh, no, they didn't want that.

00:04:07.140 And now, as a result of some records requests

00:04:10.280 made by the Dallas Morning News,

00:04:11.940 we see what happened.

00:04:14.080 Go ahead and play this surveillance video.

00:04:18.240 At 11.33 a.m., the shooter seen in the school,

00:04:21.420 dressed in black, his long gun in hand,

00:04:23.880 making the chilling walk down the hall.

00:04:25.840 Three minutes after the shooter walked into the school,

00:04:28.420 first-responding officers run into the building,

00:04:30.440 a total of seven officers initially inside.

00:04:33.080 Three of them run towards the classroom

00:04:34.860 and hold just outside of it.

00:04:36.920 A minute later, the gunman shoots at police,

00:04:39.400 and the officers retreat towards the other end of the hallway.

00:04:42.340 One looks as if a bullet had almost grazed his head.

00:04:45.560 No one would approach the classroom for the next 45 minutes.

00:04:48.560 This time-lapse from 11.38 to 12.23 shows you the number of officers

00:04:52.960 from multiple agencies that poured into the school,

00:04:55.840 armed with long guns and plenty of shields.

00:04:58.400 At 12.21, gunshots heard coming from the classroom again,

00:05:01.380 and we see law enforcement move closer down the hall,

00:05:03.860 but they stall there for another 30 minutes.

00:05:07.060 This time-lapse shows you the activity in that hallway from 12.21 until 12.50.

00:05:11.460 No apparent attempt to breach the class.

00:05:14.160 Until 12.52, when gunshots ring out.

00:05:19.040 And law enforcement finally moves in to kill the shooter,

00:05:22.580 77 minutes after the first officers arrived on scene.

00:05:29.540 77 minutes.

00:05:31.460 A more effective law enforcement response would have saved lives.

00:05:35.840 And oftentimes we have states that are willing and able to craft

00:05:41.020 the more effective law enforcement responses.

00:05:43.580 I mean, the good here is not going to come out of Washington, D.C.

00:05:48.320 Communities and states can undeniably become more resilient against school violence,

00:05:53.940 and in Florida we've done that.

00:05:56.200 But here, I mean, you could have taken away guns of a whole lot of law-abiding Americans

00:06:03.060 and still not have narrowly tailored a solution to what resulted in just a tremendous amount

00:06:10.000 of senseless and horrific death in the great state of Texas.

00:06:14.600 Go ahead and play the hand sanitizer video here.

00:06:17.540 I mean, if there's an enduring image burned in,

00:06:23.020 it's the children being slaughtered, these students in the classroom calling 911,

00:06:28.820 and here you've got this law enforcement response that is shameful and dangerous

00:06:35.880 and horrific, and we deserve better than this.

00:06:39.500 And frankly, all Americans deserve better than a government that would,

00:06:44.240 as I said in committee, spasm into a reaction without actually knowing what's going on.

00:06:49.480 That brings us to today.

00:06:51.400 Hot action on the floor of the House of Representatives.

00:06:54.060 Democrats are pushing what they call an active shooter alert bill.

00:07:00.080 Every time there is a shooting, presumably within any proximity of where you are,

00:07:06.220 within any grouping of people, the left, the Democrats in Congress,

00:07:10.560 want to bombard your cell phone with active shooter messages.

00:07:15.180 It is insane.

00:07:17.060 I gave this response just now on the floor.

00:07:19.760 Maybe someone should have sent an active shooter alert to the police in Uvalde.

00:07:25.960 Oh, wait, they had the alert.

00:07:27.820 They were in a school building with an active shooter and didn't take action.

00:07:32.500 You know, America is at her best when she encourages her citizens

00:07:37.280 to have safe, responsible gun ownership.

00:07:41.120 But under Democrats, instead, we have a government that instead wants to stigmatize

00:07:47.860 and scare people about guns.

00:07:50.860 Imagine you're at a concert with 5,000 people,

00:07:54.000 and everyone gets an alert on their phone, active shooter,

00:07:57.500 because six blocks away there was a gunfire that went off,

00:08:01.400 maybe an accident, maybe a tragedy.

00:08:03.820 Would that make the circumstance safer?

00:08:05.760 Of course not.

00:08:06.740 It would lead to stampede, tragedy, hysteria, mistake, perhaps even more death.

00:08:13.220 This bill is like yelling fire in a movie theater,

00:08:16.780 except the fire is in another movie theater across the street.

00:08:21.080 The bill makes no mention of distance requirements.

00:08:23.660 We'll be notified of any active shootings within a mile, 5 miles, 10 miles.

00:08:27.840 What is an active shooter?

00:08:29.320 A drive-by in an inner city?

00:08:31.080 A spousal murder in the suburbs?

00:08:32.880 If you live in or near Democrat-run cities,

00:08:37.020 it sounds like your phone will likely be buzzing off the hook.

00:08:40.380 Some of our cities have shootings every day where multiple people are injured,

00:08:43.780 and often this happens in the jurisdictions

00:08:45.940 with the most intense and liberty-depriving gun control.

00:08:50.160 The bill states that an active shooter is defined as an individual, quote,

00:08:53.580 determined to pose an active, imminent threat to the people in a populated area.

00:08:58.040 That sounds like a sizable amount of the people

00:09:00.340 walking around the south side of Chicago every day.

00:09:03.340 Who's making this determination?

00:09:04.920 Is it in a millisecond?

00:09:06.140 By the time the alerts go out, it may be far too late to do any good. 1.00

00:09:10.880 This bill is useless and foolish. 0.96

00:09:13.180 Working on police response times is, of course, a worthy goal, 0.98

00:09:16.500 a worthy goal for the states where the Constitution resides, the police power.

00:09:21.440 But alerting thousands of people to what may or may not have happened

00:09:24.540 30 minutes ago or 30 blocks away is, in fact, dangerous.

00:09:29.320 And so one has to ask, what is the true purpose of this bill?

00:09:33.160 Why do the Democrats want to use the power of government to bombard your cell phone

00:09:38.000 with active shooter alerts 24 hours a day, seven days a week?

00:09:41.840 It's because they want you to be afraid of the Second Amendment.

00:09:46.920 It's because they want you to be afraid of responsible gun ownership.

00:09:50.720 And they hope that if they program you and bombard you long enough,

00:09:55.100 that you'll hate your own Second Amendment rights

00:09:57.220 or that you may tattle on your neighbor who is lawfully and rightfully exercising theirs.

00:10:02.380 The American people should not fall for this.

00:10:05.800 I yield back.

00:10:08.820 The American people shouldn't fall for it.

00:10:10.960 And the American people deserve a government

00:10:13.840 that will actually stand up for the virtue of safe, responsible gun ownership.

00:10:19.820 But all you get from these Democrats in Congress today

00:10:22.520 is anti-Second Amendment fear porn.

00:10:26.340 And they want to plow it into your phone each and every hour of each and every day.

00:10:30.980 I'm going to vote against this active shooter bill.

00:10:33.880 And I would encourage everyone watching, reach out to your House members,

00:10:37.160 reach out to your senators.

00:10:38.460 Let them know that you don't need the government in your cell phone

00:10:41.520 just evoking fear and trying to create an anti-gun society

00:10:47.360 out of the United States of America.

00:10:50.240 Certainly the will to fight was not something that we saw

00:10:53.340 in these police responding in Uvalde,

00:10:56.300 a will to even engage in responsible law enforcement.

00:10:58.860 But the will to fight is actually something that we also have to frequently assess

00:11:03.660 around the world, not just in our own country.

00:11:06.780 And we've actually been really, really bad at it.

00:11:10.180 You see, the neoconservatives and the interventionist Democrats,

00:11:14.920 they want you to believe that America can be replicated in faraway lands,

00:11:20.760 that there's nothing really special about our land or our people or our culture,

00:11:25.940 that we could just go to some cave in Central Asia

00:11:29.300 or some grouping of sand dunes in Arabia

00:11:31.820 and build Jeffersonian democracies out of sand and blood and oil.

00:11:37.300 Well, that's not how it works.

00:11:39.680 And oftentimes we spend your tax dollars,

00:11:43.520 we spend the treasure of our nation,

00:11:45.240 we deploy the credibility of our society,

00:11:47.620 and we spill the blood of our bravest patriots

00:11:51.380 in conquests that we should not be involved in,

00:11:55.000 in coups that we should not be supporting,

00:11:57.740 and in the affairs of other nations best handled by them.

00:12:02.640 It was an interesting point,

00:12:04.260 and we got an interesting admission

00:12:05.640 from truly one of the most despicable deep staters, 0.87

00:12:09.260 former head of, or the former director of national intelligence,

00:12:12.340 James Clapper, listen to former DNI Clapper in these remarks.

00:12:20.160 And I would observe first

00:12:22.440 that we have never been able to accurately gauge will to fight,

00:12:28.940 and that's what this really boils down to.

00:12:31.200 If you go back to my war, Southeast Asia,

00:12:34.280 I did a couple tours there,

00:12:35.880 and we consistently overestimated

00:12:40.180 the will to fight of our client,

00:12:42.720 the South Vietnamese,

00:12:43.880 and profoundly underestimated

00:12:46.000 the will to fight of the Viet Cong

00:12:47.960 and the North Vietnamese.

00:12:49.880 Fast forward to Afghanistan. 0.89

00:12:51.660 Similarly, we underestimated

00:12:54.520 the will to fight of the Taliban

00:12:55.920 and overestimated the will to fight

00:12:59.000 of the Afghan government,

00:13:00.640 or the Afghan military,

00:13:01.980 and the viability of its government.

00:13:03.580 And that's been a consistent pattern,

00:13:06.200 and we did it again with Ukraine and Russia.

00:13:12.500 It's an astonishing admission,

00:13:14.660 and if we're unable as a country

00:13:16.860 to assess the will of others to fight,

00:13:19.360 maybe we shouldn't try to do it so much.

00:13:21.820 I had an exchange in the House Armed Services Committee

00:13:24.900 with the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin,

00:13:27.360 on just this subject

00:13:28.880 and how indescribably bad

00:13:31.680 he is at this.

00:13:34.020 Take a listen.

00:13:36.540 Secretary Austin,

00:13:37.960 are you capable of assessing

00:13:40.040 whether another has the will to fight?

00:13:46.620 No, we're not,

00:13:47.860 and that's the point

00:13:49.040 that the chairman made earlier.

00:13:50.740 That's just like an incredibly disappointing thing

00:13:53.360 for the Secretary of Defense

00:13:54.780 to simply say,

00:13:55.600 I can't assess

00:13:56.800 whether someone has the will to fight,

00:13:58.480 but it is consistent with your record.

00:14:00.360 I mean, during the Obama administration,

00:14:02.160 I think they gave you about $48 million

00:14:03.560 to go train up some folks in Syria

00:14:06.100 to go take on the Assad government,

00:14:07.660 and I think your testimony

00:14:08.740 was that only four or five

00:14:10.440 survived first contact with the enemy.

00:14:12.660 So what confidence

00:14:13.480 should this committee have in you,

00:14:15.040 or should the country have in you,

00:14:16.500 when you've now confessed to us,

00:14:18.300 and whether it's the swing and a miss

00:14:20.320 in Afghanistan

00:14:21.000 that General Milley talked to the Senate

00:14:22.520 about yesterday,

00:14:23.180 total failure,

00:14:25.140 or whether it was

00:14:26.140 your failures in Syria,

00:14:27.400 you don't seem capable

00:14:28.700 to look at a fighting force

00:14:30.260 and determine whether or not

00:14:31.120 they have the will.

00:14:34.180 So Clapper knows they can't do it.

00:14:36.440 Lloyd Austin knows they can't do it.

00:14:38.780 And so maybe we should, like,

00:14:39.500 learn how to do it.

00:14:40.380 I don't know.

00:14:41.100 We spend a tremendous amount

00:14:43.100 of public money

00:14:44.120 to try to get

00:14:45.500 the best minds,

00:14:47.000 the best theories,

00:14:48.020 the best warfighting strategies,

00:14:50.140 opportunities to win the future

00:14:51.800 before folks who will one day

00:14:53.660 take command in our military

00:14:55.380 or occupy some senior position

00:14:57.880 in our defense infrastructure.

00:15:00.060 And are we now having recognized

00:15:02.860 that we can't assess this will

00:15:04.040 to fight learning new ways

00:15:05.740 and techniques to do that?

00:15:07.740 Or are we learning other things

00:15:10.940 that are quite different?

00:15:13.080 Take a listen.

00:15:13.620 How should the Department of Defense

00:15:17.740 think about critical race theory?

00:15:20.640 On the issue of critical race theory,

00:15:22.920 et cetera,

00:15:23.540 I'll obviously have to get much smarter

00:15:24.880 on whatever the theory is.

00:15:27.880 But I do think it's important,

00:15:29.960 actually,

00:15:30.820 for those of us in uniform

00:15:32.600 to be open-minded

00:15:34.780 and be widely read.

00:15:36.260 And the United States Military Academy

00:15:37.520 is a university.

00:15:38.400 And it is important

00:15:40.300 that we train

00:15:41.420 and we understand.

00:15:43.580 And I want to understand

00:15:44.760 white rage.

00:15:45.660 And I'm white.

00:15:46.600 And I want to understand it.

00:15:47.920 Early on in my tenure,

00:15:50.220 I asked the force

00:15:53.260 to conduct a brief stand-down

00:15:57.160 to discuss the issue

00:15:58.420 of extremism in our ranks.

00:16:01.660 Admiral Gilday,

00:16:02.640 I was glad to hear

00:16:03.240 Congressman Lamborn

00:16:04.220 ask you about your decision

00:16:05.520 to include Ibram X. Kendi's

00:16:08.160 How to be an Anti-Racist

00:16:10.160 in your recommended reading list.

00:16:12.180 Do you expect

00:16:13.020 that after sailors

00:16:14.760 read this book

00:16:15.520 that says that

00:16:16.120 the United States Navy

00:16:16.820 is racist, 0.85

00:16:18.500 that we will increase

00:16:19.340 or decrease morale,

00:16:20.940 cohesion,

00:16:21.420 and recruiting race

00:16:22.080 into the United States Navy?

00:16:23.380 I think we'll be

00:16:24.280 a better Navy

00:16:25.120 from having open,

00:16:27.220 honest conversations

00:16:28.660 about racism.

00:16:30.580 When I was six years old,

00:16:32.000 one of my moms

00:16:32.480 had an accident

00:16:33.180 that left her paralyzed.

00:16:34.080 Doctors said

00:16:35.560 she might never walk again.

00:16:37.780 But she tapped 0.65

00:16:38.500 into my family's pride

00:16:39.560 to get back on her feet,

00:16:42.080 eventually standing

00:16:42.900 at the altar

00:16:43.460 to marry my other mom.

00:16:46.320 And that,

00:16:47.580 ladies and gentlemen,

00:16:48.560 is an ad

00:16:49.040 for the United States military.

00:16:50.820 You get that?

00:16:51.680 Two minutes

00:16:52.180 talking about

00:16:52.780 this woman's two moms 1.00

00:16:53.800 and five seconds

00:16:54.960 of her actually

00:16:55.640 being in the military.

00:16:57.560 I wonder why Putin

00:16:58.680 isn't taking us seriously.

00:17:00.080 Here's a training video

00:17:01.440 from Joe Biden's Pentagon.

00:17:02.560 This was released

00:17:03.140 by the U.S. Navy,

00:17:04.340 obtained by the

00:17:04.940 Washington Free Beacon.

00:17:07.040 Hi, my name is Johnny

00:17:08.400 and I use he, him pronouns.

00:17:09.940 Hi, and I'm Conchi

00:17:10.860 and I use she, her pronouns.

00:17:12.640 And we're here

00:17:13.040 to talk about pronouns.

00:17:15.000 What is a pronoun?

00:17:16.240 A pronoun is 0.98

00:17:17.040 how we identify ourselves

00:17:18.500 apart from our name

00:17:20.180 and it's also how people

00:17:21.540 refer to us in conversations.

00:17:23.380 Using the right pronouns

00:17:24.540 is a really simple way

00:17:25.860 to affirm someone's identity.

00:17:27.640 It is a signal

00:17:28.780 of acceptance and respect.

00:17:30.420 A really good way

00:17:31.560 to do that

00:17:32.000 is to use inclusive language.

00:17:34.000 Instead of saying

00:17:34.560 something like,

00:17:35.460 hey, guys,

00:17:36.580 you can say,

00:17:37.860 hey, everyone,

00:17:38.560 or hey, team.

00:17:40.520 So that's the U.S. Navy

00:17:41.820 under Joe Biden.

00:17:43.260 Why not just make it

00:17:44.140 really clear,

00:17:44.880 get right to the point.

00:17:46.240 We surrender.

00:17:50.940 Let me use

00:17:51.720 some inclusive language.

00:17:53.320 I include everyone

00:17:54.440 who accepts this woke pedagogy

00:17:56.760 in the general category 1.00

00:17:58.360 of idiots and fools. 1.00

00:18:00.160 How's that for inclusive? 1.00

00:18:02.280 There is something

00:18:03.040 that we absolutely

00:18:03.940 have to be able to do.

00:18:05.500 When we spend

00:18:06.540 gazillions of dollars,

00:18:08.300 when we deploy

00:18:09.620 our military members

00:18:11.480 to try to train

00:18:12.940 and equip

00:18:13.640 other entities,

00:18:15.340 we have to know

00:18:16.360 whether or not

00:18:17.160 that is going to be used

00:18:18.120 for good,

00:18:19.260 for defense,

00:18:20.400 for America's interests.

00:18:22.240 And if we don't know

00:18:23.180 how to do that,

00:18:24.260 we shouldn't spend

00:18:24.840 another freaking day

00:18:26.360 on pronouns 0.80

00:18:27.560 or critical race theory

00:18:29.300 or what it's like

00:18:30.840 in, you know,

00:18:32.320 various forms

00:18:33.240 of non-traditional

00:18:34.480 family environments.

00:18:35.580 That's not the job

00:18:36.600 of the military.

00:18:37.460 Do that on your own time.

00:18:39.040 I'm fine.

00:18:39.540 People read

00:18:39.980 whatever the heck

00:18:41.120 they want to read,

00:18:42.100 but it should not be part

00:18:43.280 of the precious moments

00:18:45.680 that we have

00:18:46.740 for our military

00:18:47.640 to become more capable.

00:18:50.560 This is a great country

00:18:51.480 and it deserves better

00:18:52.620 than men in dresses 0.57

00:18:53.900 at the Pentagon

00:18:54.980 trying to convince you

00:18:55.960 that you need to get

00:18:56.620 more in touch 0.97

00:18:57.480 with your white rage 0.95

00:18:58.580 or your wokeism.

00:19:00.860 Thanks everyone

00:19:01.520 for joining us.

00:19:02.400 We're simulcast streaming

00:19:03.640 right now

00:19:04.080 and I am catching

00:19:05.060 some criticism

00:19:05.780 on our Facebook stream.

00:19:07.700 Someone just said

00:19:08.460 that I was

00:19:09.300 a dovish weakling 0.71

00:19:11.260 and a double-dealing sellout.

00:19:13.360 And you know what?

00:19:14.280 This is a criticism

00:19:15.800 I get quite frequently

00:19:17.100 from the neoconservatives.

00:19:18.320 Oh, Gates is just a dove. 0.99

00:19:19.780 He's just a weakling. 0.96

00:19:20.980 You know what? 0.94

00:19:21.220 Real strength

00:19:22.180 is not sending

00:19:24.180 America's best

00:19:25.260 to go and die 0.99

00:19:26.280 for some of the world's worst.

00:19:28.120 Real strength

00:19:28.920 is having the ability

00:19:29.940 to stand up

00:19:30.900 to the military-industrial complex,

00:19:32.980 to be able to face down

00:19:34.580 the woke generals,

00:19:36.100 and to be able

00:19:36.720 to demand a military

00:19:38.320 that is worthy

00:19:39.540 of the greatest nation

00:19:40.840 and the greatest society

00:19:42.200 that has ever existed.

00:19:43.520 So having a realistic view

00:19:45.120 of foreign policy

00:19:46.200 and America's capabilities

00:19:47.360 does not make one weak.

00:19:49.180 We don't need

00:19:49.860 the cowboy attitude

00:19:51.060 of trying to go around

00:19:52.920 swashbuckling,

00:19:53.940 saying that we can take on

00:19:55.000 everyone and everyone.

00:19:56.220 That is exhausting

00:19:57.200 for our country.

00:19:58.780 That is draining.

00:19:59.820 That is how empires fall.

00:20:02.440 So I think that we can

00:20:03.340 demonstrate a lot of strength

00:20:04.440 in our military

00:20:05.200 by learning more

00:20:06.840 about our friends,

00:20:08.700 about our enemies,

00:20:10.100 about our fighting forces,

00:20:11.840 about our allies

00:20:12.860 and what they're capable

00:20:13.860 of doing.

00:20:14.380 And this terrible rot

00:20:17.860 of wokeism

00:20:19.060 that Joe Biden

00:20:20.360 and Lloyd Austin

00:20:21.300 have nurtured

00:20:22.480 in the Pentagon

00:20:23.160 must go.

00:20:26.060 There was an interesting

00:20:27.080 moment yesterday

00:20:28.180 on CNN

00:20:29.060 with Jake Tapper

00:20:30.340 and John Bolton.

00:20:31.760 I don't think it was

00:20:32.340 the moment that Jake Tapper

00:20:33.640 was quite expecting.

00:20:34.760 So the January 6th

00:20:36.060 committee concludes

00:20:36.960 and there's this expectation

00:20:38.420 that John Bolton

00:20:39.760 with his, you know,

00:20:40.760 long list of government

00:20:42.120 offices held

00:20:43.040 and his regal mustache

00:20:44.580 and his stern voice

00:20:45.960 will go on

00:20:46.840 with Jake Tapper

00:20:47.700 as a Republican

00:20:48.560 and smear anyone 0.50

00:20:50.120 associated with MAGA

00:20:51.860 or President Trump

00:20:53.180 or the America First

00:20:54.260 political movement.

00:20:55.580 And instead,

00:20:56.300 what happens

00:20:56.760 is John Bolton

00:20:57.920 functionally confesses

00:20:59.220 to being involved

00:21:00.420 in coups around the globe.

00:21:02.180 Take a listen.

00:21:04.580 It's also a mistake

00:21:06.220 as some people have said,

00:21:08.320 including on the committee,

00:21:09.400 the commentators,

00:21:10.480 that somehow

00:21:10.900 this was a carefully planned

00:21:12.720 coup d'etat

00:21:13.680 aimed at the Constitution.

00:21:15.700 That's not the way

00:21:16.480 Donald Trump does things.

00:21:17.840 It's rambling

00:21:18.380 from one half-vast idea

00:21:20.880 to another,

00:21:21.900 one plan that falls through

00:21:23.400 and another comes up.

00:21:24.800 That's what he was doing.

00:21:26.140 As I say,

00:21:26.700 none of it defensible.

00:21:28.300 But you have to understand

00:21:29.640 the nature of

00:21:30.800 what the problem

00:21:31.760 of Donald Trump is.

00:21:32.860 He's, to use a Star Wars metaphor,

00:21:34.980 a disturbance in the force.

00:21:36.960 And it's not an attack

00:21:38.500 on our democracy.

00:21:39.980 It's Donald Trump

00:21:41.300 looking out for Donald Trump.

00:21:43.160 It's a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

00:21:45.540 I don't know

00:21:45.820 that I agree with you

00:21:46.680 to be fair,

00:21:48.580 with all due respect.

00:21:49.680 One doesn't have to be

00:21:50.940 brilliant

00:21:51.900 to attempt a coup.

00:21:53.640 I disagree with that.

00:21:54.980 As somebody

00:21:55.360 who has helped

00:21:56.140 plan coup d'etat,

00:21:57.520 not here,

00:21:58.440 but, you know,

00:21:58.940 other places,

00:22:00.020 it takes a lot of work.

00:22:01.460 And that's not what he did.

00:22:02.760 You cited your expertise

00:22:03.920 having planned coups.

00:22:05.280 I'm not going to get

00:22:05.920 into the specifics,

00:22:07.000 but...

00:22:07.520 Successful coups?

00:22:08.900 Well, I wrote about Venezuela

00:22:10.040 in the book,

00:22:11.580 and it turned out

00:22:13.280 not to be successful.

00:22:14.360 Not that we had

00:22:15.080 all that much to do with it,

00:22:16.300 but I saw what it took

00:22:17.500 for an opposition

00:22:18.520 to try and overturn

00:22:19.720 an illegally elected president,

00:22:21.800 and they failed.

00:22:22.820 The notion that

00:22:23.540 Donald Trump

00:22:24.140 was half as competent

00:22:25.460 as the Venezuelan opposition 0.91

00:22:27.100 is laughable.

00:22:28.800 But I think there's another...

00:22:29.580 I feel like there's

00:22:30.200 other stuff

00:22:30.600 you're not telling me, though.

00:22:31.500 I think I'm sure there is.

00:22:35.880 Well, that went off the rails.

00:22:37.660 Lex on Facebook 0.96

00:22:40.160 says Bolton is a leech. 0.91

00:22:41.880 I would agree 0.97

00:22:42.520 with that assessment.

00:22:43.500 Alan on Instagram

00:22:44.420 says keep fighting

00:22:46.000 no one else is.

00:22:47.240 Remember,

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00:23:02.400 especially if you're

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00:23:03.640 I'm so close

00:23:04.240 to 4,000 ratings,

00:23:05.380 and you guys

00:23:05.760 could really help

00:23:06.340 me get there.

00:23:08.040 Jake Tapper

00:23:08.740 was trying to help

00:23:09.440 John Bolton get there

00:23:10.560 on the description

00:23:11.460 of the various

00:23:12.140 and sundry coups

00:23:13.240 that he's been involved in,

00:23:14.420 and I left that conversation

00:23:16.080 really astonished,

00:23:17.740 but also of the view

00:23:19.080 that John Bolton

00:23:20.240 is categorically

00:23:21.800 against any coups

00:23:23.960 that he himself

00:23:25.100 was not a part of planning.

00:23:26.580 So take comfort

00:23:27.380 in that, America.

00:23:28.640 Take comfort

00:23:29.080 in that world.

00:23:30.420 I remember talking

00:23:31.220 with President Trump

00:23:31.940 about John Bolton,

00:23:32.920 and he always kind of

00:23:34.200 viewed Bolton

00:23:35.260 as a mascot

00:23:36.360 when he was

00:23:36.940 in the White House,

00:23:38.160 less a thinker

00:23:39.660 and less an architect

00:23:41.520 of America First

00:23:43.080 foreign policy.

00:23:44.680 Bolton was a guy

00:23:45.520 that Trump liked

00:23:46.120 to just bring around

00:23:46.960 the Iranians

00:23:47.660 because he knew

00:23:48.120 it drove the Iranians 1.00

00:23:49.100 crazy,

00:23:50.140 and Bolton 0.64

00:23:50.880 eventually kind of

00:23:52.220 liked the fact

00:23:52.760 that he was back

00:23:53.400 at the table

00:23:53.860 and people were

00:23:54.700 listening to him

00:23:55.320 because that hadn't

00:23:56.000 happened in quite some

00:23:56.820 time in his career,

00:23:57.920 but then he got the joke.

00:23:59.880 Bolton fundamentally

00:24:00.640 understood that Donald Trump

00:24:02.180 didn't really listen

00:24:02.900 to him,

00:24:03.340 didn't really respect

00:24:04.120 his views,

00:24:04.880 but instead just

00:24:06.180 brought him there

00:24:06.780 to troll other people,

00:24:08.240 and upon realizing

00:24:09.320 that, Bolton left

00:24:10.240 and wrote a book

00:24:11.060 that probably had

00:24:11.540 a bunch of stuff

00:24:11.960 in it that wasn't

00:24:12.460 true because that's

00:24:13.320 what John Bolton does.

00:24:14.240 He writes books

00:24:14.740 about people

00:24:15.300 who he used to

00:24:16.060 work for,

00:24:16.940 and maybe that's

00:24:17.560 a lesson for anybody

00:24:18.220 else that might

00:24:18.720 want to hire

00:24:19.140 John Bolton.

00:24:22.020 Moving on to

00:24:22.660 another issue

00:24:23.080 that's a little

00:24:23.600 closer to home

00:24:24.460 in the state

00:24:25.440 of Florida.

00:24:26.700 All Americans know

00:24:27.560 that the Dobbs decision

00:24:28.560 has overturned

00:24:29.920 Roe v. Wade

00:24:30.420 and Planned Parenthood

00:24:31.140 v. Casey.

00:24:31.660 We now are a

00:24:32.660 pro-life nation,

00:24:33.600 and that's going

00:24:34.180 to give our states

00:24:35.300 the opportunity

00:24:36.000 to embrace life

00:24:37.640 and advance life

00:24:38.900 and create greater

00:24:40.060 ease for adoptions

00:24:41.800 and the creation

00:24:42.600 of families,

00:24:43.520 and that is something

00:24:44.940 that enhances

00:24:45.940 the humanity

00:24:46.880 of all of us,

00:24:48.180 a pro-life culture.

00:24:50.820 It's something

00:24:51.460 very different

00:24:52.040 than we've seen

00:24:52.720 on the radical left

00:24:53.740 with threats

00:24:54.720 of intimidating

00:24:55.420 justices

00:24:56.200 and engaging

00:24:56.880 in nights of rage

00:24:58.040 and violence,

00:24:58.720 and we've even

00:25:00.120 seen folks

00:25:01.720 go to like

00:25:02.880 the crazy extremes

00:25:04.800 of suggesting

00:25:06.060 novel, new,

00:25:07.500 and innovative ways

00:25:08.680 to kill

00:25:10.260 unborn life. 0.99

00:25:12.620 Take a listen

00:25:13.420 to this report

00:25:14.100 from CBS News.

00:25:15.120 This is all about

00:25:18.520 bodily autonomy

00:25:19.440 and choice,

00:25:20.640 and so, you know,

00:25:22.060 people have a right

00:25:23.660 to be pregnant 0.60

00:25:26.680 and have a pregnancy

00:25:28.120 but also not to have

00:25:29.460 a pregnancy.

00:25:30.280 Dr. Meg Autry,

00:25:32.040 a UCSF OBGYN,

00:25:33.960 said she's had the idea

00:25:35.540 for a vessel

00:25:36.260 that would provide

00:25:37.060 surgical abortions

00:25:38.220 and reproductive

00:25:39.040 healthcare services

00:25:40.120 for a very long time,

00:25:42.060 but it was the recent

00:25:43.180 Supreme Court decision

00:25:44.400 that helped inspire her

00:25:46.000 to kick it into gear.

00:25:47.640 She's now spearheading 0.99

00:25:48.820 the prowess,

00:25:49.920 which stands for

00:25:50.620 protecting reproductive

00:25:51.840 rights of women

00:25:52.960 endangered by state

00:25:54.320 statutes.

00:25:55.080 The vessel would be

00:25:56.360 located in federal waters

00:25:58.040 in the Gulf of Mexico,

00:25:59.180 near states where

00:26:00.400 abortions are banned.

00:26:02.040 She wants to offer

00:26:02.860 the services at low

00:26:04.340 or no cost.

00:26:05.800 People that care deeply

00:26:06.980 about, um, access

00:26:09.720 to reproductive rights

00:26:11.260 know that we have to be

00:26:12.680 innovative and creative

00:26:13.880 in order for patients

00:26:16.080 to be able to continue

00:26:18.960 to have access.

00:26:20.800 We know internationally

00:26:22.400 that when access is

00:26:24.180 limited or abortion is

00:26:25.380 illegal, patients die.

00:26:27.300 The cost, at least

00:26:29.140 $20 million.

00:26:30.840 Dr. Autry said the

00:26:32.360 prowess is looking for

00:26:33.760 donations and ideally

00:26:35.380 a donated boat.

00:26:39.200 Is a donated floating

00:26:41.360 abortion barge really a 0.60

00:26:43.080 place that anyone ought

00:26:44.040 to be getting healthcare

00:26:44.880 or getting any type of

00:26:46.840 care?

00:26:47.180 It certainly shouldn't be

00:26:47.880 a place that abortions 1.00

00:26:48.980 are being performed.

00:26:50.580 I mean, I love the kicker

00:26:51.820 at the end where they're

00:26:52.380 like, so we've got this

00:26:53.480 idea.

00:26:54.060 We're going to go do

00:26:54.860 offshore abortions.

00:26:56.300 All we need is the boat.

00:26:58.440 Craziness.

00:26:59.720 But there is a necessary

00:27:01.660 legislative response here

00:27:02.900 and the Florida legislature

00:27:04.140 ought to look at it

00:27:04.960 because we do not want to

00:27:07.100 be in a world where people

00:27:08.740 are going 3.1 miles

00:27:11.200 offshore to kill unborn 0.56

00:27:13.220 life. 0.97

00:27:14.620 There is instructive

00:27:16.040 precedent here with casino

00:27:17.980 gambling boats that used to

00:27:19.340 leave Florida.

00:27:20.140 So it's actually quite

00:27:20.960 interesting.

00:27:21.200 It ties back to the Jack

00:27:22.640 Abramoff scandal.

00:27:23.920 Jack Abramoff was one of

00:27:25.280 the owner investors in an

00:27:27.500 entity called Sun Cruise.

00:27:29.420 And they would take these

00:27:30.720 old decommissioned cruise

00:27:32.980 vessels and they would

00:27:34.160 float them offshore and

00:27:35.600 they would turn on all the

00:27:36.620 gambling machines and

00:27:37.540 people would do their

00:27:38.340 gambling and then the boat

00:27:39.380 would return.

00:27:40.680 And ultimately, the Florida

00:27:42.140 legislature gets wise to

00:27:43.460 this and realizes that if

00:27:45.240 there is refueling or

00:27:47.480 docking at ports, you

00:27:49.480 actually have some

00:27:50.300 jurisdiction over those

00:27:51.620 vessels.

00:27:52.480 And so the Florida

00:27:53.040 legislature, upon learning

00:27:55.020 that there is a desire for

00:27:56.600 floating abortions off our 1.00

00:27:58.680 shore, should pass laws

00:28:00.840 making it illegal to leave

00:28:04.680 a Florida port for the sake

00:28:06.860 of breaking our abortion

00:28:08.600 laws.

00:28:09.420 And we should not allow

00:28:10.280 vessels to have docking

00:28:13.060 privileges or have any

00:28:14.980 other opportunities to

00:28:16.380 utilize Florida assets.

00:28:17.980 A lot of our ports are

00:28:19.320 in fact state funded,

00:28:21.360 state supported, state

00:28:22.520 subsidized.

00:28:23.600 We don't want them to

00:28:24.400 have access to any of

00:28:25.380 those things to have a

00:28:26.960 loophole to break our

00:28:28.060 laws.

00:28:28.520 So as weird as it is to

00:28:29.980 think about donated

00:28:31.480 floating abortion barges,

00:28:33.200 I do think it's something

00:28:34.440 that necessitates a

00:28:35.820 legislative preemptive

00:28:37.640 response on and the

00:28:39.560 Florida legislature could do 0.64

00:28:40.860 just that following the

00:28:42.600 playbook that we got from

00:28:44.160 the Sun Cruise casino

00:28:45.560 boats.

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00:28:59.140 after debate as we did

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 13, 2022

Episode 59 LIVE： The Will To Fight – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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