The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 16, 2022


Episode 69 LIVE： Congress Is Failing – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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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.

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00:00:00.000 Matt 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.
00:00:11.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:14.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:17.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:27.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television? 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. I'm just in the way.
00:00:51.000 What are the most difficult challenges right now?
00:00:57.000 The difficult challenges are we have at some point in time, they have to move somewhere else.
00:01:06.000 Right. We cannot. We don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants. 1.00
00:01:12.000 And we certainly don't have housing. We're in a housing crisis as we are on this island.
00:01:17.000 And so we don't we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here.
00:01:23.000 We don't have housing for 50 more people.
00:01:28.000 Didn't you learn, America, there's a housing crisis on Martha's Vineyard. 1.00
00:01:32.000 While 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.
00:01:48.000 Let alone the thousands who are showing up on our border every day in each of our border states, actually.
00:01:55.000 And they don't want to function as a turnstile for our country.
00:01:58.000 And 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.
00:02:11.000 What a great way to start a Friday with the Martha's Vineyard Karen saying, well, we don't have the services. 1.00
00:02:17.000 We don't have the housing. We don't have the space.
00:02:20.000 These people have to move.
00:02:22.000 You know what they should move back to their home country. 0.98
00:02:25.000 And we should have a government willing to protect our people from invasion as the Constitution requires.
00:02:32.000 Now, 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.
00:02:41.000 Democrats unable to bring a continuing resolution vote to the floor of the Congress today.
00:02:47.000 Matter of fact, canceling votes today.
00:02:49.000 We thought that today would be a day where maybe they would have worked out their continuing resolution.
00:02:54.000 Here's what the continuing resolution is that the Democrats want.
00:02:58.000 They 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.
00:03:16.000 You 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.
00:03:25.000 They know that.
00:03:27.000 And 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.
00:03:35.000 By 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.
00:03:46.000 Not the ones that the voters actually chose.
00:03:49.000 People like Liz Cheney will even be in the lame duck Congress. 1.00
00:03:52.000 As a matter of fact, she'll be bringing the lame to the lame duck Congress.
00:03:56.000 And 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.
00:04:14.000 The Congress, the Congress I very much intend to be a part of.
00:04:17.000 And that Congress will give the Republicans far more necessary leverage.
00:04:21.000 And you know what?
00:04:22.000 There may be shutdowns coming in divided government.
00:04:25.000 You need to be ready for that because we should not continue to fund a government that is excessively weaponized against our people.
00:04:32.000 From the Department of Justice to the IRS to the Department of Education to the Post Office, we see the weaponization of this government.
00:04:41.000 And we should not be so readily willing to fund it.
00:04:44.000 So there'll be more on that.
00:04:45.000 But the big news for today, they don't have the votes.
00:04:49.000 They're kicking it down the road to a following week.
00:04:52.000 And we'll certainly have a lot to talk about there.
00:04:55.000 But as we look at Congress, there are certain things starting to take shape.
00:05:00.000 And we bring you this segment we love on Firebrand called This Week in Congress.
00:05:16.000 Today in Congress.
00:05:18.000 I guess we're still getting the name of that segment right.
00:05:20.000 But today in Congress, we learn how old Congress is.
00:05:24.000 Like really old.
00:05:26.000 Historically old.
00:05:27.000 Put up the graph now.
00:05:28.000 This is the oldest government in history.
00:05:31.000 The report by Insider.
00:05:33.000 Not usually a source that we trust.
00:05:35.000 But the graph, the data is pretty interesting.
00:05:38.000 The age of Congress continued to rise until just before the mid-1970s, 1980s.
00:05:46.000 And then the age of Congress actually went down substantially.
00:05:49.000 But since the 1980s, the percentage of members of Congress who are over the age of 70 has skyrocketed.
00:05:59.000 Like 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.
00:06:13.000 And 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.
00:06:28.000 So take a listen to, not just anyone, Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and his admissions about the deep state.
00:06:40.000 They want to eliminate what they call the deep state.
00:06:45.000 The 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.
00:06:59.000 Didn'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,
00:07:14.400 Yes, 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.
00:07:30.420 But that's what they think.
00:07:31.740 When 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,
00:07:42.840 well, 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.
00:08:01.200 And we do know that there isn't the professionalism that we see typically from Steny Hoyer.
00:08:07.100 We did a segment previously on the excessive abuses that we see in FISA, just as one vector into the deep state.
00:08:16.320 Take a listen.
00:08:19.220 One of the tools also used by the intelligence community is FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
00:08:26.860 And 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.
00:08:42.660 But the Americans that get caught up in that, they're seeing their civil liberties, their constitutional rights deprived.
00:08:49.760 Now, there have been a number of reviews regarding how the FBI and the Department of Justice are using FISA.
00:08:55.160 And it turns out, they're breaking a lot of their own rules.
00:08:58.980 The most recent Inspector General report showed that every file that was looked at had problems with it.
00:09:04.860 In some cases, the backup materials that are required under the Woods procedures were entirely missing.
00:09:10.680 And 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.
00:09:25.160 Justice denied to our fellow Americans.
00:09:28.980 Civil liberties violated our Constitution disrespected by the people that you would think would value our fellow Americans most. 0.52
00:09:38.640 We know what, Steny Hoyer, we are not grateful for the deep state.
00:09:42.640 We never will be.
00:09:43.880 And when Republicans take control, there's going to be accountability over the deep state.
00:09:48.200 Now, we've seen the way Democrats have tried to have this performance of the January 6th committee.
00:09:55.440 And while the representatives of the January 6th committee are busy grandstanding and, like, mourning our democracy's supposed near-death experience,
00:10:04.800 their own districts are suffering from economic crisis, crime, epidemics, neglect.
00:10:13.240 And 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.
00:10:26.100 Now, you may have heard of the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.
00:10:30.180 Simply put, Jackson has plenty of water.
00:10:32.420 It's not like the desert in Jackson, Mississippi.
00:10:35.000 But you can't drink it because it's not safe.
00:10:38.520 This isn't the result of a natural disaster or freak accident.
00:10:42.120 It isn't the work of some nefarious terrorist organization.
00:10:46.040 They haven't blamed Russia yet for this.
00:10:48.940 It's the city government's fault.
00:10:51.000 The city government in Jackson has neglected the maintenance of its water treatment facilities for years.
00:10:57.640 The city has plenty of resources, plenty of water.
00:11:01.500 So, assuming the city government isn't intentionally trying to kill its citizens,
00:11:05.540 we have to chalk this up to terrible incompetence.
00:11:09.100 Now, Benny Thompson has cleverly tried to distance himself from this colossal disaster.
00:11:16.420 And he's right about one thing.
00:11:18.360 The mayor, Chotwe Antar Lumumba, has no plan to fix this crisis.
00:11:24.360 Now, the way Benny Thompson tells it, this is all the function of structural racism.
00:11:29.140 It's that Jackson is a black city and they were ignored.
00:11:32.280 But the reality is that the leadership in that city failed.
00:11:36.700 It is the responsibility of the city government to care for its people, to bond when necessary,
00:11:41.800 to see beyond the next kickback or the next political opportunity for a friend or ally.
00:11:49.180 Now, this Chotwe Lumumba, the mayor, and his bureaucracy have proven themselves totally incapable of self-governance.
00:11:57.880 So, I guess they'll have to rely on the state government, the Army Corps of Engineers, which has taken action.
00:12:03.860 But, not so fast for Benny Thompson, actually.
00:12:08.100 Benny has been a supporter of Chotwe Lumumba and the Lumumba family for decades politically in Jackson.
00:12:15.440 The very people who failed.
00:12:17.720 He endorsed Chotwe Lumumba in his 2017 race for mayor
00:12:21.340 and then stood by him in a showy press conference as they protested President Trump's visit to Jackson.
00:12:28.480 Look at this picture from their press conference.
00:12:31.540 I mean, it is awful cozy, awful supportive, I would say.
00:12:36.860 In 2013, Benny Thompson was the master of ceremony at Chotwe Lumumba Sr.'s mayoral inauguration.
00:12:43.780 So, Benny Thompson is two generations deep into political patronage
00:12:49.660 with the very people who resulted in their own city being unable to drink water.
00:12:56.400 Benny supported his family, he supported their agenda,
00:13:00.440 and he did it from the very beginning, knowing full well who the Lumumbas were.
00:13:06.220 Radical, socialist, ethno-nationalists, and black separatists.
00:13:11.240 Chotwe Lumumba Sr. was famously elected the second vice president of the Republic of New Africa,
00:13:19.600 a black separatist group dedicated to creating a black ethno-state
00:13:23.900 out of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, parts of East Texas and North Florida.
00:13:30.140 They weren't successful.
00:13:32.260 But Chotwe moved with his separatist group to Hines County, Mississippi in 1971
00:13:38.120 to set up the provisional capital of this black ethno-state.
00:13:43.040 And what's crazy is that, I guess while they failed to convert every SEC state to this black ethno-state, 0.99
00:13:49.860 did they kind of convert Jackson, Mississippi in an awful, failed kind of way? 0.97
00:13:57.120 They had a laughably ridiculous and anti-American plan. 0.92
00:14:01.860 Thankfully, it didn't get any farther than Jackson, Mississippi. 0.93
00:14:04.960 But that's still no comfort to the people there who can't drink the water.
00:14:10.920 Lumumba Sr. was elected to the Jackson City Council in 2009 and mayor in 2013.
00:14:16.440 Benny Thompson was there and supportive.
00:14:19.460 Benny Thompson stated, quote,
00:14:20.780 One of the reasons I was so public about my support for the mayor
00:14:24.220 was that I believed once people got to know the real Chotwe Lumumba,
00:14:28.120 they would find him to be an extremely bright, caring, and humble individual.
00:14:33.460 What an endorsement.
00:14:35.160 I mean, remember, this was the guy who, like, literally believed that white people
00:14:39.460 should be driven out of the American Southeast.
00:14:41.360 In 2017, Chotwe's son, Chotwe Antar Lumumba,
00:14:46.500 took over the reins for the Lumumba political operation for the dynasty.
00:14:51.240 When he was elected mayor, also, rather conveniently,
00:14:55.080 with Benny Thompson's support and endorsement,
00:14:58.440 this Bernie Sanders acolyte, this younger Lumumba,
00:15:02.320 described himself as a progressive socialist and a political revolutionary.
00:15:05.800 He promised to make Jackson, quote,
00:15:08.980 the most radical city on the planet.
00:15:13.100 Chotwe Lumumba Jr.'s plans for Jackson
00:15:15.560 may stop short of his father's ultimate vision of new Africa,
00:15:19.660 but their every bit is dangerous,
00:15:22.240 especially to the people around them who are under their rule.
00:15:26.160 They want to transform a city and create a new civilization,
00:15:28.920 but they can't even keep the water running?
00:15:31.220 How embarrassing.
00:15:32.900 Benny Thompson and others have hinted
00:15:34.560 that Jackson is being treated differently,
00:15:36.620 presumably because it is majority black.
00:15:39.300 Never mind that Jackson has plenty of funds available
00:15:42.020 and hasn't had a non-black mayor in seven mayoral terms since 1997.
00:15:46.800 They want to play the victim card, the race card?
00:15:49.980 You know what?
00:15:51.700 This is correct.
00:15:53.780 They are right.
00:15:54.680 It is a race issue.
00:15:56.180 For decades, Benny Thompson and others
00:15:57.760 stood by and supported racial radicals,
00:16:01.880 socialists, ethno-nationalists,
00:16:04.140 instead of supporting the competent public servants.
00:16:09.160 Take a look here.
00:16:10.440 In 1971, Benny Thompson endorsed the group of cop-killing insurrectionists,
00:16:16.920 and John Solomon had the report.
00:16:18.860 We did a clip on this in Firebrand previously.
00:16:21.400 Here was what we uncovered.
00:16:24.780 Go back to 1970,
00:16:26.780 but back in those days,
00:16:28.100 Benny Thompson was known as an alderman
00:16:30.520 in a small city outside of Jackson, Mississippi.
00:16:33.580 And he was sort of on the radical side of politics at that point.
00:16:37.440 He was a supporter of this group,
00:16:39.320 the Real New Africa, 0.75
00:16:40.740 and he went to their defense,
00:16:43.560 even though this group had,
00:16:44.960 on multiple occasions,
00:16:46.060 engaged with police.
00:16:47.240 They were accused of killing
00:16:48.620 at least two officers that we know of
00:16:50.500 and a third that they were suspected of.
00:16:52.760 And he was defending them,
00:16:54.580 saying that the police were the problem,
00:16:56.960 that they didn't, 1.00
00:16:59.360 they deserved to be killed 1.00
00:17:00.800 because they were picking on this poor group. 1.00
00:17:03.140 Now, let's tell you who this group was.
00:17:04.580 This group wanted to secede
00:17:07.240 from the United States.
00:17:08.620 They wanted to take
00:17:09.580 Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama,
00:17:11.960 South Carolina
00:17:13.580 and turned it into its own republic
00:17:16.620 called the New Republic of Africa.
00:17:18.700 And they wanted to do so by force
00:17:21.180 if the government wouldn't do it willingly.
00:17:23.480 And they were engaged
00:17:24.800 in a lot of criminal activity.
00:17:26.180 There's all sorts of stories.
00:17:27.940 The FBI considered them
00:17:29.200 a terrorism group at the time.
00:17:31.060 And this was a group
00:17:32.100 that Benny Thompson,
00:17:33.060 as a young alderman,
00:17:35.480 before he joined Congress,
00:17:37.140 was trying to defend,
00:17:38.280 blame the police for picking on.
00:17:39.680 In the case of the Republic of New Africa,
00:17:43.580 they are charged with obstructing justice.
00:17:47.240 This, I believe,
00:17:48.500 is an attempt
00:17:49.300 on part of law enforcement officials
00:17:51.760 to stop the republic
00:17:53.320 from building its community.
00:17:56.120 My position is that
00:17:57.720 people are entitled
00:17:58.920 to live as they choose,
00:18:01.160 so long as they are law-abiding
00:18:03.060 and peaceful.
00:18:06.920 It's really amazing, isn't it,
00:18:09.340 that, you know,
00:18:10.400 you had this group of people
00:18:11.780 in the Midwest
00:18:13.280 who then choose
00:18:15.400 this tiny little town
00:18:16.860 in Mississippi
00:18:17.560 to go establish
00:18:18.780 the capital
00:18:19.480 of their American
00:18:20.540 Southeast ethnostate.
00:18:22.800 And, like,
00:18:23.060 the first guy
00:18:23.880 to pop up and support them
00:18:25.220 is Benny Thompson.
00:18:27.280 It really is something.
00:18:28.240 You can learn more about it.
00:18:29.660 That's a clip
00:18:30.180 from episode 18,
00:18:32.060 one of our favorites,
00:18:33.520 insurrectionist Benny Thompson.
00:18:35.120 Benny Thompson
00:18:35.560 actually has been
00:18:36.140 on all sides of insurrection,
00:18:37.400 as it turns out,
00:18:38.140 in his political career.
00:18:40.060 But what's nuts
00:18:40.820 is that these 0.99
00:18:41.960 crazy insurrectionists 0.93
00:18:43.840 that he brought 0.89
00:18:44.560 to his community
00:18:45.440 two generations later
00:18:47.480 end up really
00:18:48.960 screwing the people over. 0.59
00:18:51.020 And, like,
00:18:51.280 instead of serving
00:18:51.980 their people,
00:18:53.140 they have now
00:18:53.640 committed themselves
00:18:54.500 to racial politics.
00:18:56.980 They themselves
00:18:58.060 have made race the issue.
00:19:00.280 And the people
00:19:01.100 of Jackson, Mississippi
00:19:02.060 are worse off
00:19:03.200 because they'd rather
00:19:04.460 race blame 0.60
00:19:05.400 than actually clean
00:19:06.580 the water.
00:19:07.840 Like, Benny Thompson
00:19:08.460 has been a super powerful
00:19:09.440 guy here in Congress.
00:19:10.840 He's been part of
00:19:11.960 the Democrat apparatus.
00:19:13.920 He's one of the leaders.
00:19:14.740 He chairs the January 6th
00:19:15.800 Committee.
00:19:16.380 You're telling me
00:19:17.240 over this guy's, like,
00:19:18.880 numbers of terms
00:19:20.040 in the United States Congress,
00:19:21.280 he couldn't have gotten
00:19:22.000 appropriations
00:19:22.860 to go and help
00:19:23.640 his own community
00:19:24.480 clean the water?
00:19:25.760 But now he wants
00:19:26.340 to go on a snipe hunt
00:19:27.480 for MAGA grandmothers?
00:19:28.980 And he couldn't make sure
00:19:29.820 that the water
00:19:30.400 was clean
00:19:30.960 in his own community?
00:19:31.960 What kind of representative
00:19:32.800 for the people is that?
00:19:33.880 It's selfish.
00:19:35.880 Benny Thompson knew
00:19:36.860 who these separatists
00:19:39.500 were when he supported them.
00:19:41.540 He embraced them.
00:19:42.560 He endorsed them.
00:19:43.780 He is the kingmaker
00:19:44.960 and his kingdom
00:19:47.340 is crumbling.
00:19:49.540 All the while,
00:19:51.080 he's out trying
00:19:51.820 to harass people
00:19:53.020 over January 6th.
00:19:55.200 These types
00:19:56.300 want to bash you 0.99
00:19:57.160 over the head 1.00
00:19:57.600 with the billy club
00:19:58.340 of democracy
00:19:59.080 while they forsake
00:20:01.060 their own duties
00:20:02.020 that they've been elected
00:20:03.300 to represent.
00:20:05.320 And it's past time
00:20:06.140 we moved on
00:20:06.940 from the J6 witch hunt.
00:20:08.900 It's past time
00:20:09.360 the country moved on
00:20:10.160 from racial politics.
00:20:12.620 Solve real problems.
00:20:13.800 Make sure people
00:20:14.320 can actually take a shower.
00:20:16.340 The people of Jackson
00:20:17.400 and the people
00:20:18.180 of our great country
00:20:19.120 deserve better
00:20:20.140 from their elected leaders.
00:20:21.620 We need to abolish
00:20:22.320 the January 6th committee
00:20:23.480 and tell Benny Thompson
00:20:25.000 that he doesn't come back
00:20:26.280 to Washington, D.C.
00:20:28.460 until he serves
00:20:29.360 his suffering constituents.
00:20:31.260 And stops backing
00:20:32.640 so-called leaders
00:20:34.240 who end up putting
00:20:35.320 their own interests
00:20:36.320 and woke politics
00:20:37.760 over the basic needs
00:20:39.760 of our fellow Americans.
00:20:41.220 I care about the folks
00:20:42.140 in Jackson
00:20:42.640 and they deserve better
00:20:43.860 than they've gotten.
00:20:45.080 And frankly,
00:20:45.980 so do the great people
00:20:47.000 of this country
00:20:47.620 and that's why we're here
00:20:49.300 to keep up the fight.
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