Episode 77 - Liberal Media Triggered Over RNC. CNN's Ridiculous Chyrons. Burning Buildings and Endangering Communities is Domestic Terrorism.
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A 14-year-old girl died when a tree fell on her in the wake of a hurricane, and a hot take about professional athletes who kneel as a consequence of their objections to police brutality. A hot take from a journalist with Pbs and Yamish Alcindor.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news in louisiana and texas
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it appears that while the wind damage was significant and the storm surge certainly
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devastating in some places if there was any place you had to tuck a category 4 hurricane
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up into a wildlife refuge is a pretty good place and the worst of the eastern eye wall
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may have gone just there obviously there's still a loss of life the governor john bell edwards
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indicating that a 14 year old girl died when a tree fell on her there's also been substantial power
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outages but one thing that we know is that there is harm following hurricanes that
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can last for days and even weeks water quality is an issue access to electricity to keep medication
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cool and available for patients is another major concern and with coronavirus you essentially have
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a natural disaster as the gift wrap for a pandemic and we need to remember the essentials the blocking
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and tackling of emergency management that emergency management is best done when locally executed
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state managed and federally supported here's my hot take the best thing the federal government
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can do right now is ensure that every place where people have to congregate as a result of displacement
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from hurricane laura have access to rapid real-time testing i have seen in washington dc at the white
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house at you know gatherings of people the ability to execute on real-time testing and our fellow americans
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who are displaced from their homes who are having to gather in shelters absolutely need that testing
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resource available so i will be working to encourage our federal partners to provide that i don't think this
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requires the federal government big footing state and local efforts but we cannot be in a circumstance
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where the challenges as a consequence of hurricane laura are exacerbated in some of these shelters and in some of
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these facilities with this type of water rise with this type of wind damage you're going to see people out of their
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homes and we need to make sure that they're safe
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last night at the republican convention madison cawthorn a an incoming a likely member of congress
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from the state of north carolina he won the seat vacated by our friend mark meadows when he became
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chief of staff madison cawthorn gave a phenomenal speech take a listen join us as we the party of
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freedom double down on ensuring the american dream for all people we are committed to building a new
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town square it welcomes all ideas and all people here we will have freedom of speech not freedom from
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speech to liberals i say let's have a conversation be a true liberal listen to other ideas and let the
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best ones prevail and to conservatives i say let's define what we support and win the argument in areas
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like health care on the environment in this new town square you don't have to apologize for your
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beliefs or cower to a mob you can kneel before god but stand for our flag the american idea my ancestors
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fought for during the revolutionary war is just as exciting and revolutionary today as it was 250 years
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ago i say to americans who love our country young and old be a radical for freedom be a radical for liberty
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and be a radical for our republic for which i stand one nation under god with liberty and justice for
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all thank you and may god bless america an inspiring young man indeed i know that he's coming to washington
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with the right goal fighting for our country and he's already created a good amount of buzz in this town and
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all for the right reasons and all for the way he carries himself that brings us to what i think was
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not a very hot take from yamish alcindor she is a journalist with pbs and yamish tweets that madison
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cawthorne standing during his remarks as someone who was injured in a car accident as someone who's confined
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to a wheelchair that his standing was a bad rebuke of professional athletes who kneel as a consequence
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of their objections ostensibly to police brutality that's ridiculous madison cawthorne has to live
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every day in a wheelchair likely in pain that yamish alcindor could never possibly comprehend or
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understand you know i see in my own mother the strength that disabled americans show just to do the
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basic things that we take for granted my mother's been in a wheelchair for 35 years and you know i see not
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only the challenge that that creates for her in her life but also the opportunity that that creates
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for her to inspire others and madison seems to not be acting in critique or diminution of others
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but to to restore himself to utilize the challenges he's gone through as a way to motivate others and
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to instill patriotism in others and love of country and ambition and motivation i think those are values and
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virtues we ought to see reflected more in the united states congress and shame on yamish alcindor for
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criticizing congressman to be madison cawthorne for taking a stand even though he spends most of his
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days in a chair kenosha wisconsin continues to see violence they continue to see destruction
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fires listen to this report from cnn's omar jimenez what you're seeing behind me is one of
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multiple locations that have been burning in kenosha wisconsin over the course of the night a second
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night since jacob blake was seen shot in the back seven times it appears omar is giving an accurate
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description of what he's seeing what's i guess a little bizarre is that the chiron that's the lower
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third those are the words that you see on the screen as you watch the television show which are
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typically not able to be seen by the correspondent or the reporter giving you the news those words
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read fiery but mostly peaceful protests uh as as omar is giving that description of something that
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clearly was not peaceful something that was destructive if you are burning buildings down
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you are not engaged in a peaceful protest if you are making communities less safe you are not engaged in
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political speech you are engaged in really a form of domestic terrorism that we need to identify
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and investigate and prosecute as the destructive activity that it truly is so i appreciate the honest
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reporting from omar jimenez but gosh those cnn producers back in their you know comfortable booths in
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new york or atlanta or wherever they seem to have no problem recasting what is going on on the streets
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of america as mostly peaceful even though it isn't we need to see and speak the truth
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it is a day of boycotts for the nba the wnba major league baseball for major league soccer on august 26th
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there will be no sports games played in those leagues as a result of postponement or boycott and
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while i don't love it while i prefer for americans to be able to unify and celebrate the excellence of
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our fellow americans our fellow human beings who can do things we cannot on the athletic field
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i certainly prefer it to kneeling or refusing to stand for our flag and our national anthem here there's
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a political point that uh these players want to make by not playing and while it's not a political
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point that that i agree with i don't believe that policing is intractably racist i think most police
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are good i think a vast majority of police are good this um skipping of competition for a day just
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doesn't seem like the over generalized indictment of america that we get from the unpatriotic activity
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of kneeling for our flag and for our anthem so you know i i guess i will join by not going to the gym
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today i guess by that standard i have been boycotting uh for quite some time but we are uh you know
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looking forward to sports being back a part of our lives and uh certainly hopeful that if athletes
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would like to continue to make a political point which they obviously have every right to do that
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they do so in a way that does not degradate the greatest country that has ever existed the united states
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of america tucker carlson is doing probably exactly what tucker carlson wants to be doing right now he is
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triggering the left saying things that really no one else on television or in public life is saying
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take a listen to tucker's monologue kenosha has devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge
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of the city abandoned it people in charge from the governor of wisconsin on down refused to enforce
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the law they stood back and they watched kenosha burn so we're really surprised that looting and
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arson accelerated to murder how shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to
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maintain order when no one else would everyone could see what was happening in kenosha it was getting
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kill the police death to america that's not iran it's wisconsin it could have been a dozen other places in
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this country the violence has been building unabated for three months now every day the mob
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becomes more radical by some accounts 30 americans have died so far in these riots democrats have openly
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encouraged them republican leaders have been too fearful to stop them some have applauded it all
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murderous that's how tucker describes someone engaged in a vigilante killing he doesn't glorify it
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he doesn't justify it but i do think it's important to explain it and define it and here if someone takes
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the law into their own hands if they go and shoot into protesters whether those protesters are peaceful
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or not you know that is an act of murder uh and you know it's a different circumstance if it's self
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defense if someone is defending their shop or their business or their home there are laws that accommodate
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that type of self-defense both in the common law and in states like florida we have a statutory castle
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doctrine and a statutory stand your ground law two things i'm in support of give you the ability to
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fight back but if you're out just itching for violence whether that's on the left or the right
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we have no tolerance for that in america we should not allow that and i don't think that you know this
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criticism of tucker is all that fair because i think tucker correctly identifies this as an act of murder
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but also an act that should not have come to bear look if we had strong leadership in our states in our
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communities we would not see this type of violence a you know with the ability to persist if i was a
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governor or a mayor and someone was burning down a business or a monument if someone was terrorizing
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a neighborhood we would be locking them up and cracking skulls if necessary because we will not
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allow the law-abiding people of our country to feel like they cannot enjoy our country i think that's
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the point tucker was making there should be no glorification of vigilante activity but government
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should be acting in a in a far more you know effective way and government should be showing
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a great deal more strength than it is in a lot of these places allowing the chaos to continue
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i'm really looking forward to president trump's speech at the white house this evening what i could
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tell you after my conversation with the president recently is that it is going to be a stem winder
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he tells me that the speech writing team keeps telling him that he's got to trim it down and trim
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it down because there's so much he wants to say there's such a bold and complete robust inspiring
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vision for the country that he wants to share that literally they're telling him hey hey we gotta
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you know maybe sand down a couple words or shorten a few paragraphs so in my experience with the president
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uh he's going out there to say all he wants to say and i'm expecting a vibrant patriotic speech
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and i can't wait to be there i'm going to be joining the president on the lawn it's going to be so
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exciting thanks for listening i'm congressman matt gates we hope you tune in tomorrow for highlights