The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 13, 2022


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


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

159.62975

Word Count

4,731

Sentence Count

280

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Learn English with Matt Gaetz. He is a conservative congressman from Florida who is fighting for gun control reform in the House of Representatives. He was one of the few in the entire Congress who stood up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents. Matt is a problem in the Democratic Party and could cause a lot of hiccups.


Transcript

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.
00:09:10.880 This bill is useless and foolish.
00:09:13.180 Working on police response times is, of course, a worthy goal,
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,
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
00:17:58.360 of idiots and fools.
00:18:00.160 How's that for inclusive?
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
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
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
00:18:57.480 with your white rage
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
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.
00:19:19.780 He's just a weakling.
00:19:20.980 You know what?
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
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
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
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
00:22:40.160 says Bolton is a leech.
00:22:41.880 I would agree
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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00:22:59.440 Make sure if you're listening,
00:23:00.900 give us that
00:23:01.460 five-star rating,
00:23:02.400 especially if you're
00:23:02.880 listening on Apple.
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
00:23:49.100 crazy,
00:23:50.140 and Bolton
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.
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
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
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
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
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
00:27:13.220 life.
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
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
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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