The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 71 LIVE： The Ray Epps Inquiry (feat. Dr. Darren J. Beattie)– Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:03.620 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.460 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.880 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.680 And he could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:00:16.700 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:00:20.080 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.280 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:26.740 then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place.

00:00:31.000 This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.100 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.260 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:37.860 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.

00:00:45.820 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.

00:00:49.620 I'm just in the way.

00:00:50.900 We are live simulcast streaming out of room 1721 of the Longworth House Office Building

00:01:00.900 on the Capitol Complex in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

00:01:05.000 I'll be joined today by the publisher of Revolver.News, Dr. Darren Beattie.

00:01:10.380 Dr. Beattie's investigative reporting, curating of key pieces of video evidence

00:01:15.420 really drove a lot of the key questions that members of Congress have been asking

00:01:20.340 about the true story of January 6th.

00:01:23.740 And that sets the stage for a massive debate about the Ray Epps inquiry

00:01:28.880 that just occurred in the House Judiciary Committee.

00:01:31.340 I'm going to have the clips, the sound, and we're going to get Dr. Beattie's reaction

00:01:35.720 to the Democrats trying to do everything they can to block access to information

00:01:41.520 about Ray Epps and others who may have been acting at the direction of federal law enforcement

00:01:46.500 or in concert with federal law enforcement on the grounds during the riot of that fateful day.

00:01:52.340 So we have to talk about the tools that are available to the minority.

00:01:57.380 So in the minority, we don't get to call the witnesses, set the hearings, demanding votes on many things.

00:02:05.020 But there is an exception to that.

00:02:06.820 One of the tools in the minority in the House of Representatives

00:02:09.300 is that you can present a resolution of inquiry demanding documents or information

00:02:15.360 from the executive to be delivered to the Congress.

00:02:19.300 And because it speaks to the privileges and rights and responsibilities of the Congress itself,

00:02:25.060 there has to be a vote by the body if a committee does not take action.

00:02:30.440 And so Nancy Pelosi got a demand from Dr. Paul Gosar, congressman from Arizona,

00:02:35.800 to get information from the executive branch regarding Ray Epps.

00:02:40.580 And for the full background on Ray Epps, got to go to revolver.news.

00:02:44.780 You're going to want to read part one and part two of the series that Dr. Beattie put together,

00:02:49.460 all with the key video evidence that really is convincing a lot of people that there's more to this story.

00:02:56.240 So Dr. Gosar files that.

00:02:58.180 And just last night in the House Judiciary Committee, we had to take action on it.

00:03:02.560 And we're going to give you a brief look at what occurred in the House Judiciary Committee

00:03:07.360 and get Dr. Beattie's reaction on the other side.

00:03:10.420 Let's go ahead and roll our clip of the highlights from Judiciary.

00:03:17.560 It baffles me.

00:03:18.760 Here's a man who you say assaulted democracy,

00:03:22.460 and the other side has no curiosity, no curiosity whatsoever.

00:03:32.380 And if you want to disprove a conspiracy theory, as one of my colleagues already said,

00:03:36.780 the best way to do it is release the truth.

00:03:39.140 And the one person who seems to, there seems to be more information,

00:03:44.060 more video of than anybody else that can be identified positively

00:03:48.880 and who is the only person that we see the day before urging protesters to go into the Capitol,

00:03:56.940 the only person who's told the FBI that he thought there were going to be pipe bombs

00:04:01.200 or there were going to be bombs on side streets, and that's one of the reasons he came.

00:04:05.800 By the way, it seems like every time he talked to the FBI,

00:04:09.120 he had a different reason for saying why he came to the Capitol that day.

00:04:14.500 But why is nobody on the other side of the aisle interested in that?

00:04:18.120 Why is the FBI not interested in that?

00:04:20.900 Why are you rushing to his defense?

00:04:24.480 Defending who?

00:04:25.580 Ray Epps.

00:04:26.560 I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

00:04:30.440 Mr. Epps does not work for the FBI.

00:04:33.340 Mr. Epps is not an FBI agent.

00:04:35.660 It is perfectly clear he's just another conservative right-wing person

00:04:42.960 who participated in the mob violence.

00:04:46.220 He was one of tens of thousands who participated. 0.99

00:04:50.500 You know, one thing you kind of notice is that, you know, feds are like cockroaches. 1.00

00:04:54.080 You see one outside the walls, there's probably ten behind the walls that you don't see. 0.92

00:04:59.120 And in this particular case, we deserve the truth.

00:05:02.380 The answer is about what the federal government's involvement was.

00:05:04.760 As Mr. Massey has correctly chronicled throughout this debate,

00:05:08.040 when the Department of Justice has been given the opportunity to say

00:05:10.740 that nobody associated with the federal government, prompted by the federal government,

00:05:15.960 encouraged by the federal government, working for the federal government,

00:05:19.660 increased the criminal acuity of January 6th, they have demurred in doing so.

00:05:25.200 All they would have to say is nobody associated with the federal government

00:05:28.080 increased the criminal acuity of that day.

00:05:29.980 And I think that a lot more Americans would have comfort that at least on that day

00:05:35.660 and that moment, assets of their own government weren't weaponized against them.

00:05:38.840 But what we do know is that there were a lot of people who may have committed

00:05:42.660 some technical violation of federal law because they crossed over a barricade

00:05:46.720 that they didn't know had been erected, you know, half an hour, 40 minutes earlier,

00:05:51.200 and then saw their lives destroyed and ruined.

00:05:54.860 And it's just, it's quite something to hear like the crocodile tears from Mr. Epps on the left

00:05:59.580 when he is the only person that we have direct video evidence

00:06:03.380 was encouraging folks to go inside the Capitol.

00:06:06.080 That's what we need answers on.

00:06:09.560 We're back live and joining me now is Dr. Darren Beattie, publisher, founder of revolver.news.

00:06:15.500 Dr. Beattie, you watched all of the debate.

00:06:18.240 You saw Democrats vote against this inquiry,

00:06:20.960 but it certainly sets the stage for Republican control.

00:06:23.940 The next Congress, your reaction?

00:06:27.120 Well, unfortunately, I wasn't able to hear the clips that you just played,

00:06:32.180 but I have watched the hearing.

00:06:35.760 And so I'd be happy to comment on that.

00:06:38.360 Yeah, please do.

00:06:39.540 As far as my general impressions.

00:06:41.380 Well, I mean, for one, I think it's important that this hearing took place,

00:06:46.140 even if there's no kind of realistic possibility of actually getting these documents yet,

00:06:51.620 because I think it's important to emphasize public interest in this topic is absolutely critical.

00:07:00.360 The number one thing that these corrupt and illegitimate authorities in the regime

00:07:05.080 who have perpetrated this lie on the American people, 0.55

00:07:08.300 the number one thing that they want is for a short attention span public 0.98

00:07:13.180 just to move on to the next distraction and forget about ray-ups,

00:07:17.500 forget about the pipe bomber,

00:07:18.920 and forget about really one of the biggest crimes and scams

00:07:23.020 that the regime has ever perpetrated on the American people.

00:07:27.680 So anything that keeps this front and center in the public's attention

00:07:31.940 is absolutely a very critical thing.

00:07:36.700 And Darren, the January 6th committee has not shied away from

00:07:40.000 sharing their own perspective on this,

00:07:42.700 albeit somewhat shielded from the public in terms of the actual work done.

00:07:46.840 There was a tweet, let's get that tweet up,

00:07:49.580 that was sent by the January 6th committee,

00:07:51.960 and I'm quoting it now,

00:07:53.140 the committee has interviewed Epps.

00:07:55.100 Epps informed us that he was not employed by working with

00:07:58.560 or acting at the direction of any law enforcement agency

00:08:01.500 on January 5th or January 6th or at any other time,

00:08:05.320 and that he has never been an informant for the FBI

00:08:09.180 or any other law enforcement agency.

00:08:12.100 Now, that was discussed at great length in our debate last evening,

00:08:17.180 and to me it seems like such a couch to denial.

00:08:20.880 It's almost an admission because they use the term law enforcement.

00:08:25.600 And remember, there are a lot of people who do things

00:08:29.940 at the behest, direction, encouragement of the federal government

00:08:33.060 who are engaged in collection of intelligence or information,

00:08:37.420 but not necessarily for a law enforcement purpose.

00:08:41.140 And so it seems like a hyper-couch denial,

00:08:43.600 but what was your impression of sort of the committee

00:08:46.520 trying to tamp down this interest in Epps

00:08:52.120 while at the same time not giving us access to the transcript?

00:08:56.340 Yeah, they don't want anyone to know Epps' name,

00:08:59.180 and that's why, frankly, the New York Times really,

00:09:02.540 you know, it was such a devastating, unforced error

00:09:09.940 on the part of the New York Times to out of nowhere

00:09:12.520 release this bizarre puff piece.

00:09:15.280 All it did was invited, you know, very reasonable

00:09:18.540 but absolutely devastating counterattacks,

00:09:21.460 basically from Revolver News,

00:09:23.080 exposing what a sham it was

00:09:25.400 and sort of reigniting the very pressing,

00:09:28.980 very damning questions centering around

00:09:31.340 this individual, Ray Epps.

00:09:33.780 And you're absolutely right to point out

00:09:35.900 the very particular, very peculiar

00:09:38.440 legalistic denials being put forth

00:09:43.300 through legal intermediaries representing Ray Epps.

00:09:48.400 And, you know, really emphasizing saying,

00:09:52.880 oh, Ray Epps had nothing to do with law enforcement,

00:09:55.460 any law enforcement agency and so forth.

00:09:58.480 And it's especially suspicious

00:10:01.480 when you contrast it with Ray Epps' lawyer,

00:10:05.820 who incidentally, Ray Epps' lawyer

00:10:07.720 is a nine-year veteran of the Phoenix FBI field office

00:10:12.140 that actually once denied knowledge of Epps' existence,

00:10:16.260 which is even more remarkable,

00:10:17.760 but that's a story for another time.

00:10:20.360 But Epps' lawyer, when asked by an Epoch Times reporter

00:10:25.260 as to whether Epps, barring law enforcement,

00:10:29.600 was an asset or a representative

00:10:31.820 or was acting at the behest

00:10:33.800 of some other government agency,

00:10:37.080 Epps' lawyer had a very different kind of response.

00:10:40.080 His response was, not to my knowledge.

00:10:43.240 And so it is quite interesting to contrast

00:10:46.760 the very specific, very affirmative,

00:10:49.660 very confident denial on the part of Epps' lawyer

00:10:53.680 that Epps was not involved in any law enforcement agency

00:10:57.160 to the bizarrely cryptic and ambiguous response

00:11:02.160 of not to my knowledge when it comes to any other agency.

00:11:05.700 And you can bet anything

00:11:07.440 that there were some kind of discussions

00:11:10.060 about this in advance.

00:11:11.300 And if the lawyer was in a position

00:11:13.740 to issue the same kind of precise and emphatic denial

00:11:18.400 as to blanket association with any federal agency,

00:11:23.080 he would have done so.

00:11:24.300 So the fact that he didn't only adds

00:11:26.620 to the mounting suspicions

00:11:28.980 and really damning avalanche at this point

00:11:33.720 of evidence pointing to the fact

00:11:37.440 that Epps was not an authentic actor on that day.

00:11:41.600 And it just stands to reason

00:11:43.800 that the January 6th committee

00:11:45.180 doesn't want to talk about him.

00:11:46.840 They don't want to put any evidence out.

00:11:48.580 And they certainly don't want our side,

00:11:51.260 the Republicans, the American people,

00:11:53.280 to be able to conduct an independent review

00:11:55.880 of the information available on Ray Epps.

00:11:58.960 We heard House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler

00:12:01.580 say last night that Ray Epps' life

00:12:04.320 had been shattered that he was the victim

00:12:07.040 of a right-wing conspiracy

00:12:09.100 because there were reasonable questions

00:12:11.840 about him being so fervent and insistent

00:12:14.720 and almost militant in his drive

00:12:17.260 to get people to go into the Capitol

00:12:20.660 as the revolver.news pieces famously show.

00:12:24.420 What's it like when you hear these Democrats

00:12:26.860 lament the pain caused to Ray Epps

00:12:31.160 because revolver.news has shined a bright light

00:12:34.640 into one of the very uncomfortable crevices

00:12:38.000 of the January 6th story?

00:12:40.760 Well, again, it just doesn't add up.

00:12:44.680 It's clear that there's something off.

00:12:46.500 It's clear there's something off with Epps.

00:12:48.700 And it's clear that they know it.

00:12:50.580 I mean, it just doesn't make sense

00:12:52.880 that the only January 6th riot participant

00:12:57.120 for whom the Democrats have exhibited

00:13:01.280 any degree of sympathy,

00:13:03.040 but in this case,

00:13:04.280 it's to the level of actively defending him

00:13:06.600 and getting the New York Times

00:13:08.480 to run a dedicated puff piece cover story for him.

00:13:12.300 The only January 6th quote-unquote riot participant

00:13:17.180 who's enjoyed this level of sympathy and protection

00:13:20.100 also happens to be the only January 6th riot participant

00:13:24.400 who's caught on video as early as January 6th,

00:13:27.760 repeatedly, emphatically, vigorously urging people

00:13:31.900 to go into the Capitol.

00:13:34.260 And when the buying temperature of the surrounding crowd

00:13:36.660 is so low, so abysmal,

00:13:38.780 that they think that they need to expose the guys of Fed

00:13:42.040 and immediately start chanting Fed,

00:13:44.060 he's not even dissuaded by that.

00:13:46.080 And he's there on the morning

00:13:47.520 throughout the entire day on January 6th,

00:13:50.620 directing crowds to the Capitol.

00:13:52.200 He just happens to not attend the Trump speech

00:13:56.520 that he claims he traveled all the way to D.C. for,

00:13:59.580 at least initially, that's his reason.

00:14:01.980 He skips the speech

00:14:03.240 and instead he's positioned at the exact place

00:14:05.940 at the exact time

00:14:07.100 of the initial and decisive breach

00:14:09.660 on the Western perimeter.

00:14:11.300 And by the way, another fascinating detail,

00:14:13.780 the timing of the pipe bomb's discovery

00:14:16.320 is so precisely aligned

00:14:18.540 with that initial Ray Epps assault

00:14:21.480 on the Western perimeter,

00:14:22.860 that the prevailing theory

00:14:25.920 among many officials,

00:14:27.980 including the head of the Capitol Police at the time,

00:14:30.540 was that the pipe bombs were planted

00:14:32.820 for a diversionary purpose,

00:14:34.840 to divert from that very breach.

00:14:37.860 And here we learn from Epoch Times reporting

00:14:40.560 that they managed to obtain

00:14:42.420 all the information of the FBI interviews.

00:14:44.840 You guys in Congress can't have that.

00:14:46.760 Epoch Times gets it.

00:14:48.360 The FBI gets it.

00:14:49.720 You guys can't have it.

00:14:50.980 But according to the Epoch Times reporting,

00:14:53.640 Epps is sitting down there in an interview

00:14:55.360 and they ask him,

00:14:57.420 hey, so why did you think

00:14:58.940 to go to D.C. in the first place?

00:15:01.180 And Epps says,

00:15:02.340 you know, I just was a little bit worried

00:15:04.720 that somebody would plant explosive devices

00:15:07.220 on side streets.

00:15:09.800 Weird.

00:15:10.120 And sure enough,

00:15:10.900 they find these pipe bombs

00:15:12.440 on side streets by the Capitol

00:15:14.380 and the timing of their discovery

00:15:17.440 is such that the theory is

00:15:19.460 it diverts from the breach

00:15:20.800 in which Ray Epps was an active participant,

00:15:23.260 if not an orchestrator.

00:15:24.780 And guess what?

00:15:26.100 The FBI doesn't even ask Epps

00:15:28.480 a follow-up question about the pipe bombs.

00:15:31.760 That really says more than anything

00:15:34.480 how much they want you,

00:15:36.940 how much they want everyone listening to this,

00:15:39.360 how much they want the American people

00:15:41.040 to forget who Ray Epps is

00:15:42.720 because they know it's dirty.

00:15:44.580 They know they don't want to touch it.

00:15:46.360 They know if they pursue the question of Ray Epps,

00:15:49.000 it will unravel one of the most embarrassing

00:15:51.820 and damning crimes

00:15:53.320 in the history of the U.S. government.

00:15:56.360 MAGA blood libel 0.84

00:15:57.600 was a piece you wrote

00:15:59.720 regarding the death of Officer Brian Sicknick.

00:16:03.340 There were reports,

00:16:05.240 false reports,

00:16:05.900 that the mainstream media

00:16:07.060 just echoed endlessly

00:16:09.280 that Brian Sicknick had been bludgeoned

00:16:11.840 by a fire extinguisher.

00:16:14.800 That turned out not to be true.

00:16:17.000 He died after January 6th.

00:16:19.200 And of course,

00:16:19.780 we don't mean to minimize that.

00:16:21.260 The death of a Capitol Police officer,

00:16:23.040 certainly a tragic event,

00:16:24.880 no matter the circumstance.

00:16:26.420 It is unequivocally tragic

00:16:28.280 and undeniably we wish it had not occurred.

00:16:31.560 But to go and say

00:16:33.020 that he had been bludgeoned to death

00:16:34.800 on January 6th was false,

00:16:37.960 no matter how much we honor his service.

00:16:41.840 And what's interesting

00:16:42.780 is that at times, Darren,

00:16:45.160 the Democrats get catfished

00:16:46.840 by their own lies.

00:16:48.720 They tell the lies so many times,

00:16:51.060 the media repeats those lies,

00:16:52.940 that then they actually believe them.

00:16:54.840 And astonishingly,

00:16:56.660 what viewers are going to hear,

00:16:58.680 a clip from Mondaire Jones

00:17:00.780 repeating the lie

00:17:02.540 that someone that had been

00:17:04.840 a Capitol Police officer

00:17:06.140 had been bludgeoned to death

00:17:07.780 on January 6th,

00:17:09.120 something that never happened.

00:17:11.360 Play the clip.

00:17:14.840 138 Capitol and D.C. police officers

00:17:17.260 were injured.

00:17:18.000 Mr. Chairman,

00:17:18.380 the Capitol Police officer

00:17:19.760 was bludgeoned to death.

00:17:23.180 That was Mondaire Jones saying

00:17:24.900 a Capitol Police officer

00:17:26.040 was bludgeoned to death.

00:17:27.460 You know, Darren,

00:17:28.700 what was your analysis

00:17:29.660 of the anatomy of this lie?

00:17:31.280 And are you surprised

00:17:32.560 that a Democrat member

00:17:33.760 of Congress

00:17:34.380 would still be stating it

00:17:35.900 as truth today?

00:17:38.600 No, I'm not surprised.

00:17:40.240 And frankly,

00:17:40.860 I can't even say

00:17:41.880 with confidence

00:17:42.580 that that particular

00:17:45.320 congressman repeated the lie

00:17:48.460 maliciously and intentionally.

00:17:51.180 I think the unfortunate reality

00:17:54.900 is that that lie

00:17:56.160 was spread so widely

00:17:57.880 and so vigorously

00:17:59.880 and so vigorously

00:17:59.900 that it almost

00:18:01.340 kind of achieved a,

00:18:04.160 albeit fictional,

00:18:05.400 it achieved a place

00:18:06.580 in the permanent lore

00:18:08.240 of January 6th.

00:18:10.200 Now, Revolver News,

00:18:11.940 we tried to get on this lie

00:18:13.720 as early as possible.

00:18:16.580 And to some degree,

00:18:17.900 we were able to get in there

00:18:19.520 and challenge it

00:18:21.360 before the lie

00:18:22.160 became absolutely sacred.

00:18:23.860 And, but there's only

00:18:26.780 so much you can do.

00:18:28.420 And the anatomy of this lie

00:18:30.200 is quite remarkable.

00:18:31.480 In fact, the first lie

00:18:33.540 was bludgeoned to death.

00:18:35.020 They said Sicknick

00:18:35.760 was bludgeoned to death

00:18:36.760 by MAGA.

00:18:38.180 Revolver did a big report

00:18:39.620 on this,

00:18:40.440 showed this was not the case.

00:18:42.380 The New York Times

00:18:43.200 changed the story.

00:18:44.320 But the second version

00:18:45.280 of the story

00:18:45.920 is just as important.

00:18:47.780 The second version

00:18:48.720 of the story

00:18:49.440 was that he wasn't

00:18:51.000 bludgeoned to death,

00:18:52.260 but he was killed

00:18:54.240 by bear spray.

00:18:57.100 Okay?

00:18:57.820 And Revolver News

00:18:59.080 did it,

00:18:59.580 and actually they charged

00:19:00.740 two people

00:19:01.520 with big charges.

00:19:03.120 It's noteworthy

00:19:03.840 that they never even

00:19:04.780 thought to go

00:19:05.580 for a murder charge,

00:19:07.120 but they did charge

00:19:08.420 two people with spray

00:19:09.780 with the implication

00:19:11.140 that their spray

00:19:12.240 resulted in

00:19:14.380 Brian Sicknick's death.

00:19:16.860 Now, Revolver News

00:19:18.260 did a subsequent,

00:19:19.660 very detailed,

00:19:21.000 comparative image analysis

00:19:22.640 using heat maps

00:19:23.700 and so forth,

00:19:24.420 and we showed

00:19:25.320 that the spray

00:19:26.720 didn't even come

00:19:27.520 from the people

00:19:28.220 that they claimed

00:19:28.940 it came from,

00:19:29.700 and in fact,

00:19:30.260 it's very likely

00:19:30.980 that Sicknick 0.82

00:19:31.780 wasn't sprayed

00:19:33.180 by them at all,

00:19:34.760 ever,

00:19:35.620 and that the videos

00:19:36.480 that they were using

00:19:37.320 were totally,

00:19:38.380 you know,

00:19:39.420 factually misleading

00:19:40.640 and so forth.

00:19:41.460 That turned out

00:19:42.300 to be true,

00:19:43.440 and the final

00:19:44.780 and official version

00:19:45.960 is that Brian Sicknick

00:19:47.720 died of natural causes,

00:19:50.140 but it took so long

00:19:52.260 for, you know,

00:19:53.820 for the truth

00:19:54.680 to come out on that

00:19:55.680 or for the media

00:19:56.640 to recognize the truth

00:19:58.120 that it had already

00:19:59.380 been seeded

00:20:00.160 into the public consciousness

00:20:01.340 that January 6th

00:20:03.460 was the deadly day,

00:20:05.460 the deadly this.

00:20:06.280 Yes, other people died.

00:20:07.560 Yes, Ashley Babbitt died,

00:20:08.780 but the term deadly

00:20:10.340 to describe it

00:20:11.420 when it came from the media

00:20:12.560 was really referring

00:20:13.600 to Brian Sicknick

00:20:14.940 and that aspect

00:20:16.140 of the MAGA blood libel,

00:20:17.620 so-called because

00:20:18.880 to say that

00:20:20.200 the MAGA crowd,

00:20:22.160 the MAGA mob

00:20:22.960 bludgeoned a guy to death

00:20:24.200 or bear sprayed him

00:20:25.360 and then he died from that,

00:20:27.140 it really is,

00:20:28.020 feeds into this

00:20:28.840 false narrative

00:20:29.800 that the mob

00:20:31.420 was a bunch of,

00:20:32.440 you know,

00:20:32.900 domestic terrorists,

00:20:33.880 and if they're killing

00:20:34.960 Capitol Police officers,

00:20:36.740 then people might think,

00:20:38.000 oh,

00:20:38.140 then it is justified

00:20:39.260 for the government

00:20:40.360 to weaponize

00:20:41.280 the national security

00:20:42.680 state after them.

00:20:43.740 They really are 0.97

00:20:44.580 domestic terrorists 0.89

00:20:45.660 and so forth.

00:20:46.620 So it's a very dangerous lie,

00:20:50.300 not just in relation

00:20:51.720 to the people

00:20:52.400 who were there

00:20:53.080 at January 6th,

00:20:54.040 it's a very dangerous lie

00:20:55.340 to the entire country

00:20:57.320 so far as it casts

00:20:59.100 everybody who's

00:21:00.260 a Trump supporter

00:21:01.120 as basically adjacent

00:21:03.600 to those who would

00:21:05.960 murder Capitol officers.

00:21:07.720 And it's not by accident.

00:21:09.100 Dr. Beattie just made 0.98

00:21:10.220 the critical point there

00:21:11.400 that I want to underscore.

00:21:12.500 The reason that they

00:21:14.420 have to continue

00:21:15.140 to talk about

00:21:16.080 the MAGA blood libel 0.52

00:21:17.440 and officers being

00:21:18.620 to bludgeon to death, 0.90

00:21:20.240 which never happened

00:21:21.840 on January 6th,

00:21:23.640 well, you know,

00:21:24.460 then you get to

00:21:25.260 a circumstance

00:21:25.880 where you can justify

00:21:27.420 the utilization

00:21:28.460 of these tools

00:21:30.460 of anti-terrorism

00:21:32.360 and national defense

00:21:33.560 against our fellow Americans. 0.55

00:21:35.160 And that should never

00:21:35.960 happen in this country.

00:21:37.020 It is not justified

00:21:38.060 by these actions.

00:21:39.140 And frankly,

00:21:39.840 where you saw

00:21:40.800 a lot more bludgeoning

00:21:42.120 and a lot more pain

00:21:43.420 and a lot more death

00:21:44.500 was during the 2020

00:21:46.360 summer riot season,

00:21:48.360 encouraged by the very Democrats

00:21:50.560 telling lies about it today.

00:21:52.400 Revolver.news is the website

00:21:54.100 where you're going to get

00:21:54.940 all the information on EPS.

00:21:56.940 It's not just a reading exercise.

00:21:58.860 You're going to get the video.

00:22:00.160 You're going to see documents.

00:22:01.740 You're also going to want

00:22:02.580 to check out

00:22:03.080 the MAGA blood libel piece

00:22:04.820 because these very issues

00:22:06.440 are reemerging

00:22:07.400 and it is all setting the table

00:22:09.160 for Republican control

00:22:10.400 of the Congress in January.

00:22:12.280 I hope we make it worthwhile.

00:22:13.440 Thanks for joining me, Dr. B.

00:22:15.080 Great to be here as always.

00:22:16.860 Thank you so much.

00:22:17.700 Now we just heard votes called

00:22:20.140 here in the Longworth building.

00:22:21.860 And so I'll be heading down

00:22:23.220 to cast a series of votes

00:22:24.880 against legislation

00:22:27.060 that I believe over-federalizes

00:22:30.540 our state and community

00:22:32.020 law enforcement.

00:22:33.000 I'll tell you more about it

00:22:33.880 in a segment we call

00:22:35.260 Today in Congress.

00:22:37.400 Today in Congress.

00:22:46.080 Today in Congress,

00:22:47.340 Democrats know

00:22:48.100 that they have a big problem

00:22:49.860 associated with

00:22:51.040 their activist base

00:22:52.240 encouraging the defunding

00:22:54.020 of police.

00:22:55.040 And in fact,

00:22:55.500 we are seeing

00:22:56.260 the defunding of police

00:22:57.380 in communities

00:22:58.740 that really are eroding safety

00:23:01.580 in places like Chicago,

00:23:03.560 Detroit,

00:23:04.600 in California's largest cities.

00:23:06.680 You see police budgets

00:23:08.140 totally slashed.

00:23:10.420 You see prosecutors

00:23:11.460 like Ascone in Los Angeles

00:23:13.820 unwilling to bring charges

00:23:15.160 against people

00:23:15.760 that are engaged in crime,

00:23:17.300 against regular law-abiding citizens

00:23:19.320 that just want to go

00:23:20.100 about their daily lives.

00:23:21.620 This is one of the major issues

00:23:23.140 driving the midterms.

00:23:25.020 Inflation,

00:23:26.300 immigration,

00:23:27.580 crime.

00:23:28.400 And this crime thing is real.

00:23:29.740 And it's driving a lot

00:23:30.860 of voters

00:23:31.500 that went Democrat

00:23:32.660 in the 2018 midterms

00:23:34.220 to Republican candidates.

00:23:36.020 And so what are Democrats

00:23:37.100 doing today in Congress

00:23:37.960 to deal with it?

00:23:39.020 They're putting forward

00:23:39.820 a series of bills

00:23:41.020 that purport to fund

00:23:42.760 and help law enforcement.

00:23:44.360 But my worry is that

00:23:45.320 this legislation

00:23:45.960 increasingly addicts

00:23:47.680 our state and local police

00:23:49.400 to the mores

00:23:51.660 and whims

00:23:52.400 and desires

00:23:53.080 of people inside

00:23:54.080 the beltway

00:23:54.540 of Washington, D.C.

00:23:55.620 and that is wrong.

00:23:58.420 It's wrong constitutionally.

00:24:00.760 The police power

00:24:01.940 is expressly reserved

00:24:03.480 as a state power.

00:24:05.120 We should not be in

00:24:05.980 the policing business

00:24:07.340 in Washington, D.C.

00:24:08.460 I care deeply about

00:24:09.720 many of the mental health programs

00:24:11.220 and outcomes

00:24:12.920 reflected in the legislative package

00:24:15.200 that I'll be voting against today,

00:24:16.580 but I believed in those things

00:24:17.880 as a Florida lawmaker.

00:24:20.280 I'm the former chairman

00:24:21.440 of the Florida

00:24:22.800 House Criminal Justice Subcommittee

00:24:24.540 and so I've dealt

00:24:25.800 with law enforcement.

00:24:26.800 I see the need

00:24:27.880 for mental health support,

00:24:29.680 for victim support,

00:24:31.060 for breaking cycles

00:24:32.000 of violence,

00:24:32.720 but that should all be occurring

00:24:34.060 at the state level.

00:24:35.580 Federalism still matters.

00:24:36.760 And if you don't think it does,

00:24:38.540 just look at what the violations

00:24:39.820 of federalism have done

00:24:40.860 to our education system.

00:24:43.020 Our schools used to be

00:24:44.460 laboratories of learning.

00:24:46.640 There were great field trips

00:24:48.140 and projects

00:24:49.180 and rockets you built.

00:24:50.580 If you have great leaders

00:24:51.740 and great teachers,

00:24:52.640 you had an enhanced

00:24:54.180 educational experience

00:24:55.440 because it was unique

00:24:57.100 and different

00:24:57.740 and there weren't

00:24:58.600 these constraints

00:24:59.360 of all having to be

00:25:00.760 so systematized.

00:25:02.560 But then,

00:25:03.140 George W. Bush

00:25:04.000 and Republicans

00:25:05.100 and Democrats

00:25:05.800 joined together

00:25:06.420 to pass

00:25:06.980 the No Child Left Behind Act,

00:25:09.040 which functionally

00:25:09.860 federalized education

00:25:11.220 as an enterprise

00:25:12.460 in the public sphere.

00:25:14.220 And now,

00:25:15.300 you practically see

00:25:16.120 every kid in the same grade,

00:25:17.320 on the same page,

00:25:18.080 in the same book,

00:25:18.820 and that is

00:25:20.120 a delivery system

00:25:21.860 for wokeism

00:25:23.340 more efficiently

00:25:24.640 than if they had to go

00:25:26.260 town by town,

00:25:27.400 community by community.

00:25:28.800 So I don't want to see

00:25:29.780 the federal control

00:25:30.740 over law enforcement

00:25:32.120 any more than I want to see

00:25:33.480 federal control

00:25:34.240 over our schools

00:25:35.500 because I've seen

00:25:36.400 the negative consequences,

00:25:37.880 it crushes creativity,

00:25:39.900 and it really takes

00:25:41.580 the mentality

00:25:42.500 of people inside the beltway

00:25:44.460 that is often

00:25:45.080 the most corrupt

00:25:45.760 and corrosive

00:25:46.560 and it injects that

00:25:48.160 throughout our whole country

00:25:49.460 and it ties money to it

00:25:50.640 and that is wrong.

00:25:52.060 So while we support

00:25:53.100 law enforcement,

00:25:54.580 while we unapologetically

00:25:56.500 call out

00:25:57.380 the Democrats

00:25:58.360 like those in the squad

00:25:59.580 who have gaslit violence

00:26:01.540 against law enforcement,

00:26:03.160 we don't believe

00:26:03.780 that the answer

00:26:04.600 for law enforcement

00:26:05.560 is to become more reliant

00:26:07.440 on Washington, D.C.

00:26:08.720 Matter of fact,

00:26:09.860 we ought to have

00:26:10.280 law enforcement

00:26:10.940 that's even more responsive

00:26:12.640 to the communities

00:26:13.820 throughout our land.

00:26:15.320 And in that light,

00:26:16.060 my friend Dan Bishop

00:26:17.240 had a good idea recently.

00:26:19.080 He suggested that maybe

00:26:20.200 instead of the FBI

00:26:22.320 having so much

00:26:24.100 of a nexus

00:26:24.660 to the Washington media,

00:26:27.100 the Washington lifestyle,

00:26:29.200 that they ought to be

00:26:30.240 under the control

00:26:31.320 and command

00:26:31.920 and direction

00:26:32.480 of the over 90

00:26:34.460 U.S. attorneys

00:26:35.620 throughout our country.

00:26:37.100 That way,

00:26:37.680 there is more

00:26:38.100 of a community connection

00:26:39.540 to policing

00:26:40.200 and that will do

00:26:41.360 far more

00:26:41.920 to keep us all safe

00:26:43.020 than centralized

00:26:44.060 federal programs.

00:26:45.260 Thanks so much

00:26:46.520 for joining us today.

00:26:47.700 Thank you to Dr. Beattie.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 22, 2022

Episode 71 LIVE： The Ray Epps Inquiry (feat. Dr. Darren J. Beattie)– Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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