On today's show, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) is joined by Rep. Steve Israel (D-NJ) to discuss the immigration crisis on the border with Mexico, and the continuing resolution that fails to pass the House of Representatives.
00:00:00.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:11.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:14.000He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:17.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:00:20.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:27.000then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000You ever watch this guy on television? It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.
00:00:41.000Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way.
00:00:51.000What are the most difficult challenges right now?
00:00:57.000The difficult challenges are we have at some point in time, they have to move somewhere else.
00:01:06.000Right. We cannot. We don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants.
00:01:12.000And we certainly don't have housing. We're in a housing crisis as we are on this island.
00:01:17.000And so we don't we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here.
00:01:23.000We don't have housing for 50 more people.
00:01:28.000Didn't you learn, America, there's a housing crisis on Martha's Vineyard.
00:01:32.000While you were dealing with the struggles of inflation and rising gas prices, I hope you said your prayers for those folks on Martha's Vineyard who are going through this crisis ever the more exacerbated by 50 people.
00:01:48.000Let alone the thousands who are showing up on our border every day in each of our border states, actually.
00:01:55.000And they don't want to function as a turnstile for our country.
00:01:58.000And so I stand with Governor Ron DeSantis and his desire to visit the impacts of illegal immigration on those who seem so willing to champion it when it is not directly impacting their communities.
00:02:11.000What a great way to start a Friday with the Martha's Vineyard Karen saying, well, we don't have the services.
00:02:17.000We don't have the housing. We don't have the space.
00:02:22.000You know what they should move back to their home country.
00:02:25.000And we should have a government willing to protect our people from invasion as the Constitution requires.
00:02:32.000Now, this Friday also brings us failure not only on the immigration front, but also very much so when it comes to the funding of our government.
00:02:41.000Democrats unable to bring a continuing resolution vote to the floor of the Congress today.
00:02:47.000Matter of fact, canceling votes today.
00:02:49.000We thought that today would be a day where maybe they would have worked out their continuing resolution.
00:02:54.000Here's what the continuing resolution is that the Democrats want.
00:02:58.000They want to set up a short term funding bill that expires during the lame duck Congress so that we would have to negotiate with Democrats to extend into the period of time when Republicans should be running at least the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate.
00:03:16.000You see, we believe, of course, that the upcoming election will give us advantage and more leverage to get wins for the people of the country.
00:03:27.000And so they're trying to create as short term a government funding bill as possible so that it will expire during the lame duck Congress.
00:03:35.000By the way, with the name of the lame duck Congress, like it probably shouldn't be doing something as significant as funding the government because the lame duck Congress is still operated by people who lost elections.
00:03:46.000Not the ones that the voters actually chose.
00:03:49.000People like Liz Cheney will even be in the lame duck Congress.
00:03:52.000As a matter of fact, she'll be bringing the lame to the lame duck Congress.
00:03:56.000And so I am working now with Republican colleagues, with conservatives, to implore Mitch McConnell, Leader McCarthy, don't give any Republican votes to pass any continuing resolution that would expire before the swearing in of the 118th Congress.
00:04:14.000The Congress, the Congress I very much intend to be a part of.
00:04:17.000And that Congress will give the Republicans far more necessary leverage.
00:05:35.000But the graph, the data is pretty interesting.
00:05:38.000The age of Congress continued to rise until just before the mid-1970s, 1980s.
00:05:46.000And then the age of Congress actually went down substantially.
00:05:49.000But since the 1980s, the percentage of members of Congress who are over the age of 70 has skyrocketed.
00:05:59.000Like there is a greater percentage of people in Congress over the age of 70 now than at any other time in our nation's history by like multiples, by like a factor of three, according to this graph.
00:06:13.000And you know what, that leads to moments like I'm about to show you where some of these boomers get up and say things that like, sometimes you wonder if they know that they're actually saying them out loud to the country or if they just think it's their inner monologue.
00:06:28.000So take a listen to, not just anyone, Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and his admissions about the deep state.
00:06:40.000They want to eliminate what they call the deep state.
00:06:45.000The deep state is a cadre of professionals dedicated to honoring the Constitution, the laws of this country and carrying out the policies of the Congress and the president.
00:06:59.000Didn't you know, after years of the Democrats saying that the deep state was a conspiracy, the deep state was just right-wing fear-mongering, here you have Steny Hoyer, not sure he knows if he's talking out loud here, but saying,
00:07:14.400Yes, we have a deep state, and you should be grateful that there is a deep state so willing to deep state over you to centralize decision-making in Washington, D.C., rather than allowing the people of our country to live free and prosperous lives.
00:07:31.740When you've been in Congress for decades like Steny Hoyer has, when you're one of the people that contribute to the statistic that there are more people over the age of 70 in Congress than ever before in our nation's history,
00:07:42.840well, you get moments like this, perhaps a moment of truth, a moment of clarity that certainly should clarify things for the people in this country who do not want to surrender their rights, their freedom, and their way of life to a deep state, to a deep state of any kind, really.
00:08:01.200And we do know that there isn't the professionalism that we see typically from Steny Hoyer.
00:08:07.100We did a segment previously on the excessive abuses that we see in FISA, just as one vector into the deep state.
00:08:19.220One of the tools also used by the intelligence community is FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
00:08:26.860And some authorities there allow our spies, our government officials, to gather data, to listen in on calls, to intercept signal intelligence if they're looking into someone who's a foreigner on foreign soil.
00:08:42.660But the Americans that get caught up in that, they're seeing their civil liberties, their constitutional rights deprived.
00:08:49.760Now, there have been a number of reviews regarding how the FBI and the Department of Justice are using FISA.
00:08:55.160And it turns out, they're breaking a lot of their own rules.
00:08:58.980The most recent Inspector General report showed that every file that was looked at had problems with it.
00:09:04.860In some cases, the backup materials that are required under the Woods procedures were entirely missing.
00:09:10.680And in four cases, the errors were so egregious that it was easy to see how the judge evaluating whether or not to grant the surveillance request could have made a different decision.
00:09:25.160Justice denied to our fellow Americans.
00:09:28.980Civil liberties violated our Constitution disrespected by the people that you would think would value our fellow Americans most.
00:09:38.640We know what, Steny Hoyer, we are not grateful for the deep state.
00:09:43.880And when Republicans take control, there's going to be accountability over the deep state.
00:09:48.200Now, we've seen the way Democrats have tried to have this performance of the January 6th committee.
00:09:55.440And while the representatives of the January 6th committee are busy grandstanding and, like, mourning our democracy's supposed near-death experience,
00:10:04.800their own districts are suffering from economic crisis, crime, epidemics, neglect.
00:10:13.240And perhaps there is no one who bears more responsibility for the state of his district than the chairman of the January 6th committee himself, Benny Thompson.
00:10:26.100Now, you may have heard of the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.
00:10:30.180Simply put, Jackson has plenty of water.
00:10:32.420It's not like the desert in Jackson, Mississippi.
00:10:35.000But you can't drink it because it's not safe.
00:10:38.520This isn't the result of a natural disaster or freak accident.
00:10:42.120It isn't the work of some nefarious terrorist organization.
00:10:46.040They haven't blamed Russia yet for this.