The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 74 - Democrats Want ANOTHER Shutdown. Republicans Prepare for Epic Convention. Amnesty is Surrender.

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.100 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.760 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.960 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the news of the day

00:00:22.260 the republican national convention is beginning i'll be speaking tonight the president's excited

00:00:28.920 the first family's excited and i hope that we see a different tone a different feel a little more

00:00:35.700 excitement out of the republican convention that we saw from the democrat convention but we did not

00:00:40.600 see democrats really get a bounce out of their convention that's traditionally how these

00:00:45.320 presidential elections work after you get a full week to captivate the attention of the country and

00:00:51.220 tell the story of your candidate you usually see a little improvement that did not happen for joe

00:00:56.460 biden matter of fact during the democrat convention we actually saw poll numbers at least internally

00:01:01.880 on the trump campaign improve for the president and the showcase of joe biden seems to make people

00:01:09.300 only less excited about joe biden president trump has i think an energy that you'll see throughout all of

00:01:16.780 the elements of the republican convention and through a lot of his supporters that energy was on display

00:01:21.980 last night in a conversation the president had with steve hilton take a listen what do you want to get

00:01:27.320 done if you're re-elected in the next four years that you weren't able to do in the first i'd love to

00:01:31.900 see school choice education wise it takes care of itself it's the ultimate thing i believe you're a fan

00:01:37.160 of school choice but the democrats are totally not most importantly parents are well they know

00:01:42.100 the parents are for that children the parents are and so school choice is one thing education

00:01:47.320 is very simple school choice we are working on our schools we want uh very very strong and you know

00:01:54.760 i've been very very strong on choice and we've got a lot of choice going but this is where we can get

00:02:00.560 students to instead of failing horrible schools where you see some of the statistics in new york where

00:02:06.860 yeah i mean people could barely read after they get up high get out of high school they can't pass

00:02:12.360 the simplest of tests so uh education's a big factor it's going to be a big factor for me school

00:02:18.740 choice is an issue that republicans have not embraced enough politically from a policy perspective

00:02:25.620 we see republicans fighting for school choice but this is a very powerful political message especially

00:02:31.740 in the era of coronavirus the wall street journal did a deep dive in the state of florida after the

00:02:37.440 desantis victory over andrew gillum and actually found that a lot of black women a lot of black 1.00

00:02:43.180 mothers who saw the benefits of charter schools of step up for students scholarships to provide more 0.98

00:02:49.900 school choice to florida's families that those women were not going to vote for a democrat candidate 0.97

00:02:54.920 who was going to constrain that choice it's almost like an entitlement once you give people the choice

00:03:00.580 once you give people the opportunity to access something different it's very hard to take that

00:03:05.240 away in the coronavirus era i think you've got more parents considering school choice i think you're

00:03:12.400 going to see more vendors meeting homeschooling needs making homeschooling more acceptable of an

00:03:19.220 option for more families throughout the country and i don't believe that education ought to be a

00:03:25.200 government-run monopoly i think that there ought to be ways that families participate that

00:03:29.840 businesses participate that innovators and technology companies engage in digital learning and distance

00:03:36.080 learning and the president very clearly has laid out that he believes that the money ought to follow

00:03:41.540 the student in education and as school districts are reopening we'll get a better sense of how many

00:03:47.740 families and how many students make a different type of choice and i think those are choices we should

00:03:53.500 support joe biden kamala harris were interviewed on abc take a listen would you be prepared to shut this

00:04:04.220 country down again i would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country

00:04:10.660 moving until we control the virus that is the fundamental flaw of this administration's thinking to begin with

00:04:18.120 in order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing and people employed you have

00:04:25.440 to fix the virus you have to deal with the virus so if the scientists say shut it down i would shut it

00:04:31.260 down i would listen to the scientists shut it down again it's not a very compelling political message

00:04:37.140 it's also not a very good policy choice governor de santis and first lady casey de santis here in florida

00:04:43.860 have really highlighted and showcased the negative impacts of these lockdowns that you might not see

00:04:50.520 as clearly right off the bat mental health drug abuse suicide violence within the household sexual

00:04:59.960 violence physical violence i am hopeful that we're able to reopen for those who are able to move about

00:05:06.940 the country that those who we need to protect are able to get that protection without having to have

00:05:13.220 this type of broad negative impact on society typically presidential campaigns are about the

00:05:19.680 republicans talking about less government the democrats talking about more government and

00:05:24.440 people voting and sifting through exactly how much government they want but this presidential

00:05:29.620 election may be very different you've got the president donald trump who wants to open the country

00:05:35.820 who wants to innovate to that opening strategy with project warp speed with vaccine development with

00:05:42.940 therapeutic development and then you got joe biden seemingly itching for another lockdown another

00:05:49.400 shutdown and when joe biden says oh well i'll just listen to the scientists you know it's important

00:05:54.560 to remember that we don't just outsource policy making decisions to technocrats we need leadership in

00:06:02.320 america we need leaders who are willing to analyze the data sure employ the right strategies obviously but who

00:06:09.500 also are able to balance risks and i think with dr fauci and some others they confess that their job is not to

00:06:18.520 balance risks they're just there to lay out what risks they believe this particular infectious disease

00:06:24.820 would bring about the country but there are in fact you know other risks and i certainly think that

00:06:29.900 lockdowns exacerbate those risks and if joe biden is the candidate of lockdowns and shutdowns and if donald trump

00:06:37.400 is the candidate of reopening and surging to another great american success story i think that that choice will be

00:06:45.540 very clear in the minds of the voters

00:06:47.540 amnesty is not a strategy it's a surrender a surrender to elements of society that wouldn't follow our laws

00:07:00.240 wouldn't seek permission before entering and amnesty also appears to be the organizing principle of joe biden's

00:07:06.900 immigration policy the washington times putting out the story that he's gone full bernie when it comes to allowing

00:07:14.000 11 million people who are not in our country legally to access the full compliments of citizenship here's my hot take 0.98

00:07:20.940 it erodes and waters down the meaning of citizenship to just provide it at a point of entry

00:07:28.680 regardless of whether or not someone is entering lawfully and legally and according to our standards

00:07:35.020 american citizenship is so special and so unique in the world and if we don't treat it that way

00:07:41.460 it'll lose its value so it's my sincere hope that we don't just extend that citizenship to 11 million people

00:07:48.300 i obviously think that we've got to allow citizenship by naturalization but we have a process for that

00:07:55.120 we have laws for that and by just accepting amnesty it's my fear that joe biden will incentivize a lot of

00:08:01.840 the illegal border crossings that we saw before the trump administration was able to fully actualize its

00:08:08.040 strategy a strategy that included people awaiting their asylum claims in their home country or in mexico

00:08:14.860 a strategy that's now you know well over 200 miles of wall having been constructed and a strategy that

00:08:22.200 gives border patrol and ice the tools necessary to apprehend those who would not come with permission

00:08:29.040 biden in addition to indicating that he'll extend citizenship also says that he will roll back

00:08:34.860 these policies of the trump administration and it's just important to recognize where our country was

00:08:40.240 prior to that change that the trump administration initiated we had like 50 60 70 000 people apprehended

00:08:51.320 each month at the u.s mexico border they were largely coming from the northern triangle countries

00:08:56.640 and if those were the numbers of apprehensions you can only imagine the tens of thousands more

00:09:02.720 that were breaking through the border that were coming across and treating our immigration system like a joke 1.00

00:09:09.160 and it shouldn't be a joke the benefit that we get out of an immigration system that brings talented

00:09:15.140 ambitious people here is an important one obviously that system should be improved upon that's what

00:09:20.960 president trump has done and it's certainly not what joe biden would do he would surrender to amnesty

00:09:26.900 rather than enforcing our borders and our laws and ensuring that we build a great country

00:09:32.720 convalescent plasma may be one of the great solutions to the coronavirus think about that the things that

00:09:44.360 we make in our own body being just as effective as that which we create in a laboratory allowing us to

00:09:50.840 be able to help our human beings become resilient against this virus take a listen to the president

00:09:56.800 described the recent work of the fda to make convalescent plasma therapies more available to

00:10:02.880 americans today i'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus

00:10:09.280 that will save countless lives the fda has issued an emergency use authorization and that's such a

00:10:20.480 powerful term emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma this is a

00:10:28.360 powerful therapy that transfuses very very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to

00:10:36.060 help treat patients battling a current infection set an incredible rate of success today's action will

00:10:41.980 dramatically expand access to this treatment jamelle hill the one-time espn analyst now creates content for

00:10:52.980 the atlantic is back in hot water for a pretty controversial social media post and what i'm troubled by

00:11:00.660 is really the the dilution of the impact of what horrors occurred during nazi germany but here's jamelle's

00:11:10.620 tweet she says been reading isabel wilkerson's new book cast and if you were of the opinion that the

00:11:17.180 united states wasn't nearly as bad as nazi germany how wrong you are can't encourage you enough to

00:11:23.040 read this masterpiece now i will confess i have not read cast but i don't need to read the book to know

00:11:29.140 that there is absolutely nothing happening in the united states that is as bad as nazi germany 0.91

00:11:33.340 six million jews were killed in the united states we are the most loving inclusive supportive country

00:11:43.340 to our people that has ever existed in all of human history and it is outrageous for jamelle hill or

00:11:50.100 really anyone to trivialize the holocaust to trivialize the death that occurred and the crimes

00:11:58.360 against humanity that occurred in nazi germany by drawing any comparison to the united states of 0.87

00:12:04.060 america we do not kill people based on their faith or their ethnicity or their heritage now yes there

00:12:11.220 have been times where african americans have had very negative horrific even deadly encounters with the

00:12:18.420 police but that is a very different thing than people being rounded up out of their houses out of

00:12:24.480 their communities put on the trains sent to concentration camps and i just think that when

00:12:29.300 we allow like you know the american woketopia sect to come out and trivialize the holocaust in in such a

00:12:36.820 crass way it it dilutes our understanding of history as well and oh by the way like at the same time that

00:12:42.580 they're trying to abolish history now they try to recast the present as something in any way analogous to

00:12:49.640 the greatest crimes that have that have occurred in human history and certainly nazi germany would be 0.97

00:12:55.700 right there at the top of the list so wag of the finger at jamelle hill be best

00:13:01.260 first lady melania trump was at the white house today talking about the next steps in her

00:13:09.920 be best campaign take a listen since taking office my husband and this administration have taken historic

00:13:16.820 measures to empower and support women in the united states and around the world under our

00:13:24.100 administration the child tax credit has been doubled american women who comprise over half of the

00:13:32.420 workforce experience their lowest rate of unemployment in over 65 years in addition to these achievements this

00:13:42.340 administration has filled many of its senior positions with women we as women must continue using our great 1.00

00:13:50.340 tool of empowerment our voices now in 2020 the american women's voice is more important than ever

00:14:00.820 our nation is depending on each of you i encourage you all to vote so that we may continue to build the

00:14:08.500 the brightest future for all of our children thanks for listening to today's episode of hot takes

00:14:15.220 i'm congressman matt gates tune in tomorrow for more hot takes

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - August 24, 2020

Episode 74 - Democrats Want ANOTHER Shutdown. Republicans Prepare for Epic Convention. Amnesty is Surrender.

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