Matt Gaetz is a problem for the Democratic Party. He's not afraid of Donald Trump, he's afraid of his homie, Steve Bannon. And he thinks impeachment should be his priority if the Republicans take control of the House of Representatives.
00:00:00.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party, and he could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
00:00:19.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000You ever watch this guy on television? It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet. Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way.
00:00:55.000Here is Matt Gaetz. He's not afraid of Donald Trump. He's his homie.
00:00:58.000Here is Matt Gaetz, and he's on Steve Bannon's show, because of course he is, saying what he thinks the priorities should be if Republicans take control of the House. Here he is.
00:01:09.000If we don't engage in impeachment inquiries to get the documents and the testimony and the information we need, then I believe that our voters will feel betrayed.
00:01:18.000And we can do that without the Senate and without the White House. And that's why it should be investigations first, policy bill making to support the lobbyists and the PACs as a far, far diminished priority.
00:01:33.000Carlos Corbello, these people get paid six figures of taxpayer money to legislate.
00:01:41.000And he says, no, bill making to support the bill making is a diminished priority.
00:01:45.000We just need to impeach Biden for whatever. It doesn't even matter what it doesn't even matter that we have no chance of actually convicting him in that in the Senate.
00:01:53.000Just do it because our base just needs the drugs. It sounds like a crack dealer.
00:01:58.000Is that really what it is that they are just performing for the most bananas part of their base all the time?
00:02:06.000That's what he's doing. I mean, Joy, this is a problem for House Republican leadership for two reasons.
00:02:11.000Number one, House Republican leaders have told their members to please only talk about three issues in the in the last few weeks of this campaign.
00:02:19.000Inflation, immigration and crime, they think those are the issues they can ride to victory.
00:02:24.000Clearly, Matt Gaetz is not following those instructions. He's he's in another world.
00:02:30.000Secondly, if if Republicans do win a slim majority in the House, Kevin McCarthy and his lieutenants are going to have to find a way to include Matt Gaetz in their coalition because they're not going to have very many votes to spare if he wants to become speaker.
00:02:47.000So this is a big problem for Republicans. And what makes a problem even bigger for them is that people like Matt Gaetz really don't care what they think.
00:02:56.000What Carlos Curbelo has right is that I don't care what the leadership in Washington think of either party if their desire is to go engage in some unified effort against the American people.
00:03:11.000I know what has been weaponized against the American people. I've seen it. You've seen that I've lived it.
00:03:17.000And I think we have to get to the corrupt core of these agencies. And I'm not just talking about some of the ones you see on the news all the time as we've covered on this show.
00:03:27.000Department of Homeland Security setting up the Ministry of Truth, the Post Office setting up an Internet covert operations program.
00:03:35.000It's all part of a unified system that subjugates the American people.
00:03:40.000And I do not believe we should continue to authorize that system or fund that system.
00:03:45.000If we have to, we should shut it down. But at a at a minimum, we have to open the impeachment inquiries of people like Ali Mayorkas,
00:03:54.000the Homeland Security secretary, allowing our border to function as a turnstile for those who would do our country harm.
00:04:02.000If we're not willing to engage in an impeachment inquiry, at least at the outset, then I believe we will have betrayed the voters who intend to give us power in tens of days following the November election.
00:04:15.000That's my position. And you know what? The fundamental premise of that position is that Joe Biden is not going to sign a single piece of legislation that we need to actually save the country.
00:04:28.840Maybe some stuff that rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic, we can agree on.
00:04:33.260But on the core issues driving inflation, immigration, crime, economic despair, weaponization of our government, Joe Biden is on the other side of the House Republicans.
00:04:45.860At least that's what I hope when we take power. I hope we're not on the same side as Joe Biden on those issues because he's put our country in a very perilous situation right now.
00:04:53.960And to get out of that situation, he'd rather say that MAGA Republicans are fascists and enemies of the state than actually admit to his failures and his misgivings.
00:05:07.520It's really unfortunate we're in this position, but I don't believe we get out of it without an aggressive oversight agenda.
00:05:13.480The MAGA agenda is not an agenda to please the lobbyists or the PACs.
00:05:19.240The MAGA agenda is an investigation's first agenda, and it is an agenda that will include impeachment.
00:05:26.080Mark my words. And you know what? Mayorkas, you're our leadoff hitter.
00:05:30.020So November 9th, we ought to be ready to announce that impeachment inquiry of Mayorkas.
00:05:35.600We ought to have the preservation demands ready, the subpoenas ready to go, the witness lists.
00:05:40.300I know how to prepare for trial, and we need to be doing a lot more of that and a lot less of some of what I'm going to be talking about on the show today.
00:05:49.520We've got a great discussion coming up with Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
00:05:53.920We're going to go through some of his specific ideas on Hunter Biden in a moment.
00:05:59.480Also, an update on what some of House Republican leadership is saying about the agenda and the policy choices we have to make.
00:06:06.620Donna Brazile making a pronouncement about President Trump that you will not want to miss.
00:06:13.100But I first want to take just a moment to let you know that while we're here live in Washington, D.C.,
00:06:20.480in the Longworth office building at the Capitol Complex, my heart is in the Sunshine State
00:06:25.200as a very serious storm is barreling down on our people, on our fellow Floridians.
00:06:31.380And it's very important to ensure that folks have their batteries charged up, that you have a way to be able to have candle or lighting in the event of loss of power,
00:06:41.700which is an almost certainty with a storm of this magnitude, and also that you have the right way to follow your local emergency management system.
00:06:51.920Emergency management in Florida is something that we are very good at.
00:06:54.840We have a sophisticated system on this.
00:06:56.460We have people that have been trained.
00:06:58.700We do a great job with Governor DeSantis and FEMA on getting table talk exercises ready so that we're prepared in the event of this.
00:07:08.040But we always do lose people based on a lack of preparation.
00:07:11.180One thing I just want to say, make sure if you are using a generator that you have the proper ventilation.
00:07:16.380That is always something that is grave concern in the eye of the storm and certainly in the immediate aftermath as a power is being set up.
00:07:25.080So please keep my fellow Florida man and Florida woman in your prayers in these times because there are a lot of folks on the peninsula going through a lot and our hearts are undeniably with them.
00:07:36.760I want to go now to a tweet from the White House that referenced me.
00:07:40.640I'm really liking this new press secretary.
00:07:43.380I got to tell you, she says, after seeing that quote of me on War Room, which it is just delicious that the White House press office is sitting around watching me and Steve Bannon on War Room.
00:07:52.920You ever think that these conversations, that these podcasts, that this alternative media is not significant in driving the action?
00:08:05.960It's rare we agree with Matt Gaetz, but he's 100% right that the House Republicans policy agenda is about, quote, helping lobbyists and PACs, close quote.
00:08:18.540And then she goes on to criticize elements of this McCarthy agenda as she characterizes it.
00:08:37.120If Joe Biden is serious about not engaging in the agenda of lobbyists and PACs, why don't you stand up at the podium today and say he's done taking their money?
00:08:46.580Or are you such a clown and is your regime and administration such a joke that you would criticize me for denouncing lobbyists and PACs?
00:08:55.980And then you would go and cash their checks while you send out an insincere tweet like that.
00:09:02.260Corrine Jean-Pierre, you are nothing but a fraudulent mouthpiece if you cannot walk into the Oval Office today and demand that Joe Biden take the Matt Gaetz position to resist the donations of lobbyists and PACs.
00:09:15.900And if you could think that you could take millions of dollars from D.C.-based special interests and then go look out at the country and say,
00:09:49.920Those who have a 40-minute drive to work watching their gas prices soar.
00:09:54.780Those who have large families who have to eat and have to go to the grocery store.
00:09:58.760This White House is such a joke, and the press secretary is actually quite the embodiment of that.
00:10:03.680But we don't want to follow in their footsteps.
00:10:06.600We don't want to see the Republicans become a joke like the Democrats.
00:10:10.680Last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy put out the Republican Commitment to America.
00:10:19.960Take a listen to Elise Stefanik, the Republican Conference Chair, discuss it on Fox News Sunday.
00:10:26.260When it comes to supporting our law enforcement and having a nation that safe, we have legislation that will immediately provide funding through recruitment and retention bonuses to hire an additional 200,000 police officers across this country.
00:10:41.980200,000 police officers hired with the federal tax dollar.
00:10:49.980Now, that might play well with a focus group with, like, a carefully tested message.
00:10:56.480It may even help people win an election.
00:10:59.060But I have strong concerns about addicting local law enforcement to the federal dollar.
00:11:04.860And, undeniably, that's what elements of even the Republican agenda would do.
00:11:11.460Now, when House Democrats try to do the very same thing, I fought against them on the House floor.
00:17:36.720We'll put him on the investigation just for showing up.
00:17:41.320A lot of love for the state of Florida right now in the live stream and in the chat.
00:17:45.820Thank you to all who are saying that you're praying for the state of Florida.
00:17:49.140And also a lot of love for Alex Jones.
00:17:51.280If you've been watching what's been happening to Alex Jones in the courtroom, it is anti-American.
00:17:57.240And I am not a spokesperson for Alex Jones.
00:18:00.840He does a fine job of that on his own.
00:18:03.520But I think that to strip someone of the ability to present a substantive defense in a court
00:18:09.000and to just have a jury impaneled on damages while, like, a struggle session emerges with the litigant's attorney and the defendant,
00:18:17.460it's not like stuff I've ever seen before.
00:18:19.620We don't have the clip for you, but I do appreciate that we have commenters that acknowledge that what's going on with Alex Jones right now
00:18:27.800is not something that we typically see in the American judicial process.
00:18:32.540They'll investigate Trump for even stepping foot in Louisiana.
00:21:43.200But let's start with some serious oversight.
00:21:45.620When is Congress actually going to do oversight?
00:21:48.060We have an open border, two million illegals, more fentanyl in one year killing people than we did in 10 years in Vietnam.
00:21:55.300I want to see people go to prison for that.
00:21:57.580But a good start would be to follow Gates's plan for serious investigationary oversight from every stinking committee.
00:22:04.720And we're going to those committees, talking to members.
00:22:06.940We're trying to find those real strong advocates on each and every committee that can pursue that.
00:22:11.960But then there is this Hunter-Biden problem, because it doesn't fit neatly into any one committee.
00:22:18.140So there's been some talk on the Hill today about what a select committee would look like to be able to delve into the compromise of the first family.
00:22:27.000And it really goes well beyond Hunter.
00:22:28.840And, you know, you might need some people from the Intelligence Committee, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Judiciary.
00:22:33.900You might need all those areas of expertise.
00:22:36.240Would you wait before setting up a Hunter-Biden select committee?
00:22:40.720Or do you think that should be part of the first week of Republican control of the Congress?
00:22:47.100There needs to be a select committee because, as you say, it covers so many different areas, primarily national security and corruption.
00:22:53.520So financial, China, Russia, you name it.
00:22:55.880But if you don't start on day one, I think it sends a signal to the people out there, including independents and Democrats, who said they would not have voted for Biden had they known about the laptop.
00:23:06.100If you don't start day one, you don't look serious.
00:23:08.960And I know you've got certain issues with leadership, especially in the Senate, but you've got to show serious intent day one.
00:23:18.020We don't need the Senate for a House select committee on Hunter-Biden.
00:23:21.660Multi-jurisdictional subpoena power day one, obviously, has to be vested with that subpoena power.
00:23:28.200And the benchmark seems to be the January 6th committee in terms of staffing and resources.
00:23:32.900I mean, you know, the January 6th committee has now spent millions and millions of dollars,
00:23:37.020and they can't even convince the Democrats in Congress that no cops were bludgeoned to death on January 6th.
00:23:43.360Do you think that we look at a model like that J6 committee and then have some real strategy as a part of that movement?
00:23:50.960I would say the model is there, the precedence is there, the amount of money that you are authorized to expend and the coverage every single day.
00:24:00.180Don't hire somebody from Hollywood to manage it because then it looks like you're not serious.
00:24:04.460Hire people, I don't know, with top secret clearances who actually know what they're talking about, who can talk in open session and behind closed.
00:24:10.660You've got doors. You've got to do both. But seriously, the precedence is set.
00:24:14.920And let's tell the truth. That's all you need to do.
00:24:18.260Well, the truth's like a lion, right? You don't have to protect it.
00:24:20.740You just have to let it free and it'll protect itself. But these things have to happen now.
00:24:25.020We cannot start in January assembling the talent to lead these committees, getting the staff in place.
00:24:31.320I'd say in the next, you know, 30 to 45 days, we need to be assembling the staff, preparing the draft subpoenas, preparing the preservation demands and really building out the human talent that we're going to need to make the case.
00:24:44.420The American people that the first families compromised, build the team, select the experts, select the witnesses and also the baskets under which you're going to investigate, because it is an endless stream.
00:24:56.420Just when you've got one tail of the dragon, there's another one. So whether it's ATF abuse, whether it's drug abuse, whether it's China, whether it's banking, whether it's Russia, whether it's influence, whether it's what what the Biden brothers did in Iraq.
00:25:11.140There's so many aspects. You've got to decide one or two big baskets that are your strategic investigatory objectives.
00:25:18.340And like you say, it could it could cover the world. I mean, you look at people know about the Biden corruption with China, with Ukraine.
00:25:24.720But like you say, Africa, the Middle East, it's everywhere. Dr. Gorka, thanks for coming on the Hill, sharing your insight and counsel with me and with my colleagues.
00:25:31.980I can't wait. Yeah. Looking forward to it. God bless.