The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - August 18, 2020


Episode 70 - AOC Goes Postal. Congress Goes to Work (sorta). Florida Votes. Abortion is Black Genocide.

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pro-life
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Matt Gaetz
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Nancy Pelosi Anna Paulina Luna Donald Trump Marco Rubio Ross Spano Francis Rooney Bernie Sanders Anika Omfrey Richard Burr Kim Daniels James Bush Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Peter Schorsch Scott Franklin Byron Donalds Ron DeSantis Laura Loomer Casey Asghar Peter Aikton Steny Hoyer and 4 more
Episode 69 - A Deep State Guilty Plea in the Russia Hoax. Dems Triggered in Absentee Ballot Debate. Drone v. Bald Eagle. Episode 71 - Establishment Crumbles Under MAGA Support in Florida. Operation Legend Tackles Crime. Oppose BDS.

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On today's Hot Takes, Congressman Matt Gaetz takes aim at the Democratic Whip, Steny Hoyer, and calls on Congress to step up to the plate and solve the problem of the post office virus Coronavirus.

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00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:03.820 You all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.
00:00:06.540 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.
00:00:09.280 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.
00:00:12.240 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:16.440 Happy Election Day and welcome to Hot Takes.
00:00:19.240 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:21.020 That's right, in the Sunshine State, we've got Primary Election Day today.
00:00:25.820 I'm always excited about this day.
00:00:27.620 I love the concept of performance review by our voters, by our bosses.
00:00:33.940 Today, Republicans and Democrats will choose their nominees for contests
00:00:37.820 in the upcoming November general election.
00:00:40.220 And so get out and vote, regardless of your political persuasion or candidate of choice.
00:00:45.260 I love seeing big, vibrant, healthy voter turnout.
00:00:49.800 I think that's the sign of a democracy that is on the rise.
00:00:53.200 And certainly, that's what President Trump has invigorated in our country.
00:00:56.820 A lot of political participation, a lot of energy, a lot of passion on both sides.
00:01:02.240 And I'm sure passionate about some of the candidates that Republicans and Democrats
00:01:06.880 have offered up for different reasons.
00:01:08.700 And so I just look forward to seeing that great voter participation.
00:01:12.940 Let's talk about the big news.
00:01:15.560 Congress is coming back on a Saturday, no less.
00:01:19.720 Are we taking votes on relief for small businesses, liability protection?
00:01:26.640 Are we taking votes on paycheck protection so that employees can still have careers and a stable
00:01:35.020 sense of where they'll be working when we're able to get this viral pandemic under control?
00:01:39.800 Are we sending stimulus checks to our fellow Americans who may,
00:01:45.220 through no fault of their own, seen their job become illegal?
00:01:48.620 None of those things.
00:01:50.560 None of the pleas and urgings from small businesses, from regular Americans, 0.91
00:01:58.980 from folks who have seen themselves economically displaced.
00:02:02.420 None of that got Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to call back the Congress.
00:02:07.620 It's the post office that's bringing us back.
00:02:11.260 So we have undeniably seen an impact on service and on the post office as a result of coronavirus.
00:02:19.520 And of course we would.
00:02:20.980 You think of all of the surfaces, all of the packages coming in and out,
00:02:24.840 all of the people that go out and do different parts of the Postal Service mission
00:02:30.360 and then come back to a central place.
00:02:32.380 It is like a coronavirus recipe for disaster, just schematically and organizationally.
00:02:39.480 And so of course we'll need to help the post office.
00:02:42.600 It's what our country does.
00:02:44.240 And that's why the White House offered $10 billion for the post office.
00:02:49.840 The Democrats rejected.
00:02:51.180 They didn't, wasn't good enough, you know, could not have used that in the short term
00:02:56.300 for support and assistance in a lot of rural communities where the United States Postal Service
00:03:02.180 is the only service available.
00:03:04.700 You know, maybe in San Francisco you've got your choice of a variety of different public
00:03:09.060 and private sector options.
00:03:10.680 But if you live in rural Alabama, rural Mississippi, parts of rural North Florida,
00:03:17.120 the United States Postal Service is the only option.
00:03:19.500 I mean, there are places Amazon does not go.
00:03:21.780 And so for us to be able to support the Postal Service, I think is a good nationalist goal.
00:03:29.440 That said, it just seems crazy to me that while we're bringing the Congress back from its district
00:03:35.860 work period, we're not doing the work we should do for the Paycheck Protection Program,
00:03:41.840 for eviction protections, to stop student loans from reverting back to a cycle of interest accrual
00:03:48.960 while we're in this pandemic and while young people are particularly impacted by it.
00:03:53.680 You know, those are the things that the president did with his executive order.
00:03:56.700 Why don't we take a vote on each one?
00:03:58.940 Nancy Pelosi should put the elements of the president's executive order up 1.00
00:04:04.200 for an individual vote on each one, up or down.
00:04:07.480 And we could see where Democrats really stand
00:04:10.600 and what their leadership is really willing to fight for.
00:04:13.340 Because the students, the tenants, the small businesses, the workers, and our fellow Americans
00:04:21.780 are just as worthy of the attention of the Congress as the United States Postal Service.
00:04:27.240 And that's not to say the Postal Service shouldn't get attention.
00:04:30.080 And obviously, that's why the White House offered $10 billion.
00:04:32.820 But no, Nancy Pelosi is not willing to address these other important things
00:04:38.560 that we should be taking votes on, because she's demanding it all be packaged up
00:04:43.440 in some, you know, gazillion dollar bailout for blue states,
00:04:48.340 not for their coronavirus-related costs.
00:04:51.180 I think we would all agree we should share in that.
00:04:53.640 But for costs that have nothing to do with coronavirus.
00:04:56.580 And for policy changes, you know, like the universal send a ballot to everyone,
00:05:02.400 even people who don't ask for a ballot policy changes,
00:05:05.140 you know, she is trying to use the pain and suffering of our fellow Americans
00:05:10.820 as leverage to try to reshape the country with a leftist vision.
00:05:15.540 And by the way, don't just take my word for it.
00:05:18.080 That's exactly what Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat, said on a conference call,
00:05:22.940 that they were going to use this virus as a mechanism
00:05:25.760 to implement policies that would not be able to stand on their own
00:05:30.920 and survive a fair vote or a fair debate otherwise.
00:05:35.200 So it is no surprise to me that we've seen the president's polling numbers improve.
00:05:41.600 Actually, it was CNN polling that shows the race is tightening substantially.
00:05:46.320 Here's my hot take.
00:05:47.960 The voters respect action.
00:05:50.100 Our country will elect strong leaders, not weak ones.
00:05:54.540 And President Trump has shown strong leadership in addressing the needs of the American people,
00:06:00.600 in demanding that the Congress return back and work.
00:06:04.060 And you know what?
00:06:05.260 It is my hope and my expectation that the president's leadership can inspire a little more action
00:06:11.800 out of the legislative branch of government to meet the needs of our fellow Americans.
00:06:16.100 So we'll be back in Washington for the post office.
00:06:20.360 We should be doing a lot more for America.
00:06:26.000 It's Florida Election Day.
00:06:28.160 I love Election Day.
00:06:30.160 And there is no Florida election coverage better than FloridaPolitics.com.
00:06:35.740 That's right.
00:06:36.320 Check out my friend Peter Schorsch over there.
00:06:38.640 Not always folks who agree with me from an opinion standpoint.
00:06:44.180 Not always folks who are fair, I think, to the president and some of my fellow Republicans.
00:06:49.600 But when you get to the nitty gritty of the factual reporting on the races and the themes
00:06:56.780 and the storylines, there are few out there who can ever beat FloridaPolitics.com.
00:07:03.220 And I would suggest you check them out as you see how the Florida election unfolds today.
00:07:09.280 So I want to break down two key themes that people all over the country should be watching
00:07:15.520 in the state of Florida.
00:07:16.540 Because look, you know, Florida is the third largest state.
00:07:20.180 It is a bellwether state.
00:07:21.600 I think in many cases, Florida is a leading indicator for what you'll see throughout America
00:07:26.180 because it is a microcosm of the country.
00:07:28.120 It's a diverse state and I'm just super excited about our election today and my hopes for a
00:07:35.300 big turnout and a lot of participation.
00:07:37.120 So here I'm going to give you one key theme in the primary to watch for the Democratic primary
00:07:42.540 and then one key theme for the Republican primary.
00:07:45.720 So let's start with the Democrats.
00:07:47.540 Is it possible for pro-life, pro-charter school, African-American Democrats to survive a serious
00:07:57.540 primary challenge?
00:07:58.820 So in the Florida House of Representatives, you have this band of three African-American,
00:08:05.420 more, I would say, you know, traditional Democrats.
00:08:08.740 And they have voted with Republicans in the last legislative session on pro-life legislation
00:08:15.560 and pro-school choice legislation.
00:08:18.960 Here's why.
00:08:21.100 Abortion has been a black genocide in America. 0.98
00:08:25.020 Oftentimes, abortion clinics have targeted African-American communities for their operations
00:08:31.500 and in their marketing and in their billboards.
00:08:35.340 And it sickens me to see the loss of opportunity in a lot of our African-American communities
00:08:41.940 as a result of abortion being used for birth control.
00:08:46.420 That happens, you know, I think throughout the utilization of abortion, not just with any
00:08:51.480 particular ethnic group, but it is devastating to see how these abortion clinics and how these
00:08:58.180 abortion policies have ravaged a lot of African-American communities.
00:09:01.940 And while the younger, newer, more woke-topian leaders in the minority community in the Democratic
00:09:10.700 Party seem to be just pro-choice to the extent of abortion on demand in large part, I think
00:09:17.760 that some of the folks who may be a little more part of the Democrat establishment, maybe
00:09:22.680 a little older in that African-American community see the negative consequences that abortion has
00:09:29.300 brought on their constituents.
00:09:31.800 And so that is one side of the policy disagreement with these three Democrats in tough primary
00:09:38.920 challenge.
00:09:39.380 The other has to do with school choice.
00:09:41.900 There were few images more powerful during my service in the Florida legislature than the
00:09:47.480 busloads of African-American children that would come to the state capitol with their parents,
00:09:52.920 with their teachers to beg African-American Democrats to vote for school choice because the charter 0.70
00:10:01.020 schools, the step up for students scholarships have just provided so many opportunities for
00:10:07.980 students who might otherwise be stuck in a failing school.
00:10:12.600 And so you've had a lot of pro school choice legislation presented over the last couple of years in the
00:10:20.700 state legislature in Florida as a result of Ron DeSantis, our governor being very pro school
00:10:25.540 choice, the legislative leadership, very pro school choice.
00:10:29.140 We've seen learning gains and student achievement really change in Florida for the better as a
00:10:37.280 consequence of school choice.
00:10:39.120 And so you get these three candidates.
00:10:41.720 And so here's who I want you to watch.
00:10:43.680 Democrat James Bush in Miami, Democrat Kim Daniels in Jacksonville, and candidate,
00:10:50.700 Anika Omfrey in Lauderdale Lakes.
00:10:53.540 That's in Broward County around the Fort Lauderdale area.
00:10:56.380 So Bush, Daniels, Omfrey, and that would be the slate of pro-life, pro school choice Democrats.
00:11:05.800 And they're facing tough primary challenges.
00:11:08.020 A lot of the party wants them out and they've recruited and funded candidates against them.
00:11:13.360 And so let's see, can a pro-life, pro school choice candidate survive a Democratic primary
00:11:20.040 in Florida?
00:11:21.380 On the Republican side of the primary election, one key theme to watch is Matt Gaetz versus
00:11:27.080 the establishment.
00:11:28.300 That's right.
00:11:29.080 In a few of the races that we've seen, the establishment of the Republican conference,
00:11:35.340 majority leader, whip, conference chair, those folks whose names you know and are familiar
00:11:40.400 with, have endorsed incoming Congressman Ross Spano.
00:11:44.540 I have endorsed more of the outsider challenger candidate to Ross Spano, Scott Franklin.
00:11:51.340 In the 13th district, you've got the leadership endorsed candidate in Amanda Mackey, the pharmaceutical
00:11:58.820 lobbyist who has gone to that district to seek the Republican nomination.
00:12:03.860 I have endorsed Anna Paulina Luna, and she is the outsider, more like turning point, I would 0.75
00:12:12.260 say upstart.
00:12:13.680 And, you know, Luna has closed strong, so we'll see.
00:12:16.920 So if you see Spano and Mackey prevail, that would be a strong sign that the Republican establishment
00:12:24.920 has a grip on Florida, if you see, on the other hand, Luna and Franklin prevail in those
00:12:32.260 races, well, that would seem to suggest that maybe there are brands in Florida stronger
00:12:37.280 than the establishment brand, and that folks like to see that type of fight out of their
00:12:41.980 candidates.
00:12:42.520 So we'll see.
00:12:43.460 It'll be interesting.
00:12:44.100 Also, I've endorsed Laura Loomer, the most canceled woman on the Internet, in digital
00:12:50.080 media, in social media.
00:12:51.900 She has a Republican primary today.
00:12:53.660 I wish her the best and look forward to seeing her as a strong candidate in the general election
00:12:59.000 as well.
00:13:00.060 Another interesting Florida race is in Florida 19.
00:13:03.020 This is the Republican primary to replace Francis Rooney.
00:13:07.320 Francis, good friend of mine, a principled guy, not always on the same page with the president,
00:13:13.840 but certainly was a great congressman for the state of Florida.
00:13:17.360 And the Club for Growth has been the big player in that race, backing African-American, Republican,
00:13:23.280 state representative, Byron Donalds.
00:13:25.660 I also know in that race, Dane Eagle very well.
00:13:29.240 He was the majority leader of the state House of Representatives.
00:13:32.200 I've worked with both of these men.
00:13:34.900 They've both been really great supporters of the president.
00:13:38.240 Also, Casey Asghar and Dr. Figg in that primary.
00:13:41.180 Frankly, I think four very strong candidates and whoever wins this Republican primary will
00:13:47.720 likely be the congressman.
00:13:49.900 I do not see a high likelihood of a Democrat playing in the southwest Florida, really deep
00:13:55.640 red, a part of our state.
00:13:57.700 So good luck to those great Republican candidates.
00:14:00.100 And it'll be interesting to see, you know, is it the establishment side of the party that prevails
00:14:05.620 or is it my fiery brand of outsiders?
00:14:08.240 Can't wait to give the reporting tomorrow.
00:14:10.220 That's the great thing about Election Day.
00:14:11.740 We get to see the results.
00:14:13.280 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the one-minute woman on the DNC schedule of events for speakers,
00:14:25.900 has gone postal legislatively previously in a bill that she authored with Bernie Sanders.
00:14:32.840 So I thought that since so much of the Democrat platform, so much of the environmental policy,
00:14:39.400 education policy, economic policy of the Democratic Party is moving in the AOC direction, maybe
00:14:47.640 it's worthwhile to check out what proposals she has put forward on the Postal Service, being
00:14:53.820 that that is now the basis for Nancy Pelosi's call for the Congress to return for votes on
00:14:59.560 Saturday.
00:14:59.880 So here was the scenario.
00:15:03.660 AOC and Bernie team up on seemingly some very populist legislation.
00:15:08.740 I think there's a situation to limit the ability of credit card companies to charge usurious,
00:15:14.620 high, unfair interest rates, particularly to young people, to 18-year-olds who are signing up for that
00:15:20.840 first credit card.
00:15:22.340 And I'll be honest with you.
00:15:23.620 I think that there are credit card companies who do take advantage of 18-year-olds.
00:15:28.880 And when you tell someone that age that they have this ability of money they can borrow,
00:15:34.420 sometimes they're not always looking at what that interest rate converts to.
00:15:37.700 You know, maybe the second or third month that you continue to roll that debt over.
00:15:43.040 I mean, sometimes you're looking at 24%, 25%, 28%.
00:15:46.680 That's crazy.
00:15:48.680 And so I'm, you know, reviewing the AOC-Bernie legislation with an open mind.
00:15:53.640 I'm making notes on the positives and the negatives, I think, economically to the changes and the access
00:16:00.360 to credit.
00:16:00.940 And then I get to the part of this bill that is supposed to be about unfair credit cards.
00:16:06.920 And it turns the Postal Service into a public banking system.
00:16:13.560 That's right.
00:16:14.680 So not only would your post office be tasked with delivering mail, the United States Postal Service
00:16:22.760 would literally be competing with private sector banks, giving loans to people, setting up accounts.
00:16:29.700 So the question is this.
00:16:31.240 Right now, with the Postal Service struggling with their core mission of delivering the mail
00:16:37.080 under a budget with the, you know, obvious and unforeseeable coronavirus impacts,
00:16:45.220 do you really want them becoming your local bank?
00:16:48.920 I don't know a lot of people who say, you know what, I wish that the banking experience
00:16:53.200 in America was more like the Postal Service in America.
00:16:58.600 I wish my trip to the bank was more like my trip to the post office.
00:17:02.880 That's not the consumer experience that I see in my community.
00:17:06.240 Of course, I've got a lot of these really great small and mid-sized banks that give concierge
00:17:12.380 service.
00:17:12.680 They've really, really been good in the Paycheck Protection Program, getting onboarded,
00:17:17.680 helping people out, servicing their existing loans.
00:17:20.660 But I certainly don't want to see the U.S. Postal Service mismanage the banking system
00:17:27.180 in this country so much, become the public option of the banking system in our country
00:17:32.160 to the extent that it could even hurt the dollar.
00:17:35.380 It could devalue our currency.
00:17:37.040 I mean, if the post office were to grow into the baby Fed, I don't think that it would 0.97
00:17:42.200 give great confidence in those who are seeking to use the U.S. dollar for business transactions
00:17:48.240 globally.
00:17:49.440 And so let's keep our banks, our banks.
00:17:52.300 Let's help the post office deliver the mail.
00:17:54.800 I'll confess I did not watch the full Democratic National Convention last night.
00:18:05.440 I did catch some of the highlights.
00:18:07.800 I mean, if you can call them highlights, they looked more like video instructions for how
00:18:14.000 to use a Windows operating system than an enthusiastic political convention to me.
00:18:20.080 I mean, some of those videos look more like proof of life videos than the type of, you know,
00:18:26.100 energy driving viral content that I would hope to see more of in the Republican convention.
00:18:32.320 I'll tell you this.
00:18:33.380 I mean, the the speeches and videos that we saw in the Democratic convention last night
00:18:38.400 definitely were not enough to keep Joe Biden awake.
00:18:42.220 I mean, I know that if you're looking at the the later p.m.
00:18:45.280 hours in the eastern time zone, none of that is keeping sleepy Joe with it.
00:18:50.500 So who knows how many folks were watching?
00:18:53.980 I guess we'll see and we'll see if they are able to get a little more spunk tonight. 1.00
00:18:57.860 But if you miss the Democratic National Convention, I don't think you missed too many heart pumping
00:19:04.100 moments.
00:19:07.960 When Marco Rubio took over leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I shared with
00:19:13.340 listeners of this podcast that I thought it would be markedly different from that of Senator
00:19:17.740 Richard Burr, who seemed to have an axe to grind with the president and his family.
00:19:23.040 And now, of course, Senator Burr had to relinquish that chairmanship as a consequence of
00:19:27.840 his apparent corrupt acts in trading stocks while telling his donors one thing about the
00:19:35.300 coronavirus and the American people, quite another.
00:19:37.520 So now with Senator Rubio in charge, we don't see the bipartisan signed letters creating criminal
00:19:44.820 referrals for the president's family, his supporters, the folks on his campaign.
00:19:51.540 Instead, you see the very definitive message that the president and his campaign were not
00:19:56.960 involved in any criminal conspiracy with Russia.
00:19:59.980 But the story doesn't end there.
00:20:02.000 Russia does engage in malign influence.
00:20:05.240 We've always known that.
00:20:06.400 They have in the past.
00:20:07.500 They will again.
00:20:08.520 They do it all around the world.
00:20:09.960 Look at Belarus right now. 0.75
00:20:11.920 But in the United States, you also see China, Iran, working to sow discord and engage in election
00:20:19.800 interference.
00:20:21.180 Senator Rubio has a message for the country.
00:20:23.920 Take a listen.
00:20:24.460 Over the last three years, the Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a bipartisan and thorough
00:20:28.720 investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
00:20:32.900 After interviewing over 200 witnesses and reviewing over one million pages of documents, we can
00:20:38.560 now say three things without any hesitation.
00:20:41.480 First, we found absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with
00:20:48.580 Russia to meddle in our elections.
00:20:50.240 Second, the FBI made some very troubling mistakes, especially by relying on a Steele dossier against
00:20:57.780 the advice of the CIA and without verifying this foreign document or the sources that were
00:21:02.900 used to create it.
00:21:04.460 And third, Russia's still meddling.
00:21:06.780 And now, so is China and Iran.
00:21:10.120 The 2020 elections are only a few months away, and we must do better than we did in 2020.
00:21:15.620 I hope our report informs us all of the signs and the symptoms of foreign interference, and
00:21:20.680 it shows us how to protect our country from these kinds of efforts.
00:21:24.800 We often say in politics that people vote with their feet, with where they choose to live and
00:21:34.480 move, and it appears they're voting no on New York City as a consequence of a report that we see in
00:21:41.340 foxbusiness.com from Peter Aikton.
00:21:44.640 New York City faces record vacancies, lower rent prices after resident exodus during coronavirus
00:21:50.940 pandemic.
00:21:52.240 13,000 additional units vacant, a 122% increase in vacancies.
00:21:59.780 And we may see similar trends throughout other urban areas in California, Florida, you know,
00:22:06.100 Texas, as people get out of the, you know, more condensed style of living and get to have
00:22:13.400 a little more space, maybe get a little more house for their money in a suburban or rural
00:22:18.640 area.
00:22:19.180 And it just appears that the policies in New York, alongside the risks associated with the
00:22:25.400 pandemic, do not make it as attractive a place to live as it used to be.
00:22:29.500 So if the New Yorkers want to come on down to the Sunshine State in Florida, we got plenty
00:22:34.700 of room, wonderful spaces, great people, low taxes, good regulatory policy.
00:22:41.420 Every once in a while, you might have to depart if a hurricane is sweeping through, but we got
00:22:46.460 plenty of notice on those.
00:22:48.220 Just do not bring your New York voting ways with you if you come down to Florida.
00:22:53.600 We love how it is here.
00:22:55.060 We would welcome you to the land of freedom and opportunity.
00:22:59.160 That's what Florida's been for quite some time.
00:23:00.860 And we look forward to that as our future as the New Yorkers depart.
00:23:06.100 Thanks for listening to today's episode of Hot Takes.
00:23:09.080 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:23:10.820 If you live in Florida, make sure to go vote if you have not already done so.
00:23:15.500 And no matter where you live, tune in tomorrow for more Hot Takes.
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