The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz


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


Summary

On January 6th, 2011, a riot broke out on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. when protesters took to the streets in an attempt to protest the lack of answers from the Obama administration regarding the events that transpired that day. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-GAZETTE, and Rep. Paul Gosar, D-AZ, are leading the charge to find out what happened that day, and why.


Transcript

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.
00:04:50.500 You know, one thing you kind of notice is that, you know, feds are like cockroaches.
00:04:54.080 You see one outside the walls, there's probably ten behind the walls that you don't see.
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,
00:07:08.300 the number one thing that they want is for a short attention span public
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
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
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
00:20:44.580 domestic terrorists
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
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
00:21:17.440 and officers being
00:21:18.620 to bludgeon to death,
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.
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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