The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 80 - Damning Study on Destructive Lockdowns. Adam Schiff Shouldn't Be Trusted with National Security. Too Much Trash.

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

00:00:13.940 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news judge sullivan in his

00:00:22.760 maniacal pursuit of general flynn gets a win with the appellate court the court sitting

00:00:28.660 en banc says that it's okay for judge sullivan to appoint an amicus to argue that the government's

00:00:35.960 motion to dismiss should not be granted that the executive branch of government represented by the

00:00:43.180 department of justice should not be able to have discretion in the execution of the law this is

00:00:50.660 deeply troubling because the constitution constrains judges it doesn't allow them to

00:00:58.280 make the law and it certainly doesn't allow them to to go out and prosecute cases they sit

00:01:04.540 as a jurist as a reviewer and so allowing the court to essentially maintain a prosecution that the

00:01:13.760 executive branch no longer wants to maintain is just a massive power grab by the judiciary i spoke

00:01:20.020 about it last night on sean hannity's program take a listen this flynn ruling should really worry all

00:01:25.000 americans no matter how they feel about michael flynn it is a power grab by the judiciary you should

00:01:30.360 only be prosecuted if the executive branch wants you prosecuted not because some judge is out there

00:01:35.280 crowdsourcing a prosecution that is totally outrageous also on the hannity show we discussed

00:01:41.200 the decision by director of national intelligence john radcliffe not to continue the briefings that

00:01:48.440 were resulting in massive leaks to the united states congress here was that discussion your take

00:01:53.760 on adam schiff because we know he lied through his teeth we know he leaked repeatedly and what he

00:01:59.260 leaked was a lot more lying i would not trust adam schiff with the secret ingredient to my mother's

00:02:04.900 lasagna recipe much less our nation's most sensitive intelligence but this dispute is not really about

00:02:10.820 intelligence it's about politics you see democrats want to use these briefings as a platform to try to

00:02:16.620 scare the american people about russia when we know the real threat that we face is from china and the 1.00

00:02:22.600 democrats know that joe biden has a big china problem if we're going to rebuild this economy

00:02:27.940 after coronavirus we need a president who's willing to confront china that's what donald trump has done 1.00

00:02:33.020 and if you're just a regular american wondering how all this affects you you know the democrats are saying

00:02:37.440 russia is the biggest threat the republicans are saying that china is the biggest threat go look

00:02:41.420 around your home how many products there are made in russia not too many but a whole lot are made in china and

00:02:46.740 so this is all about making sure that you keep the establishment in power through joe biden to bolster

00:02:52.620 the phony threat of russia and and diminish the very real threat that china poses congress should get 1.00

00:02:59.740 briefings from the executive branch congress should also be worthy of those briefings and capable of not

00:03:06.180 leaking sensitive intelligence information but i think i laid it out correctly on hannity the democrats

00:03:11.740 know that joe biden has a big china problem and so they are looking for any platform any opportunity

00:03:18.300 to go and accelerate the the threat of russia beyond the real threat that we see in china and by the way

00:03:26.080 like this is not detached from the themes that resulted in general flynn setup you had ambassador grinnell

00:03:34.500 when he was the acting dni releasing information proving that mike flynn was set up and that

00:03:41.580 the conversations he was having largely have proved to be correct russia's declining power commoditized

00:03:48.820 economy a demographic tailspin they find themselves in meanwhile china sees their share of the global 0.99

00:03:57.320 economy growing they're becoming more aggressive militarily they're engaging in election interference

00:04:03.940 and i think that it's about time that we give the boomers their foreign policy back on russia

00:04:10.260 and realize that for millennials and for gen z to be successful we're going to have to beat china 0.99

00:04:16.700 and that election interference by china in favor of joe biden would certainly be something as worthy

00:04:24.420 likely more worthy of our intense defense than you know whatever it is russia is doing i mean the the best

00:04:31.420 proof you need that the russian election interference thing was largely about politics not about election

00:04:38.180 integrity is that there there has been no like you know even request for the 13 russians to show up

00:04:45.700 that robert muller indicted i said at the time that was a ghost indictment that was not an indictment about

00:04:51.720 holding people accountable it was largely a press release and that's what it's turned out to be

00:04:56.300 the muller investigation didn't result in the you know conviction of a single russian and it's not even

00:05:03.840 like they've attempted that prosecution in absentia there's just been no appearance no conviction no

00:05:09.600 nothing that was all about press it was all about politics and it circles back to this decision that

00:05:15.760 dni ratcliffe made now that we don't want to again start that cycle of politics let's allow the

00:05:21.420 intelligence professionals to work hard on resilience now i know that homeland security

00:05:27.360 uh the fbi our u.s attorneys they're briefing our elections officials on the threats directly

00:05:33.920 so that we can harden our systems uh ensure that we've got good online hygiene that people are not

00:05:40.560 vulnerable to the type of spear phishing attacks that impacted florida uh in our elections offices

00:05:47.120 in the last election so the best way to be resilient is not going out there and trying to fan the flames

00:05:52.560 on the embers of the russia threat it is to in fact make ourselves stronger and tougher so that china 1.00

00:05:58.860 is not able to interfere in our election they are the true threat

00:06:02.220 marijuana reform will see a vote on the floor of the house of representatives according to

00:06:10.980 democratic whip jim cliburn abc news meredith deliso has the story and i am i believe one of the only if

00:06:19.940 not the only republican co-sponsor of the more act i want to break through what the bill does but i also

00:06:26.340 want to talk about the politics of the reform movement more broadly because ultimately you know

00:06:31.700 if you have a vote on the floor of the house and there's no action in the senate you don't really get

00:06:37.060 the chance to change anything so we'll look at what the options are for the marijuana reform movement

00:06:42.020 to actually make some progress and by the way i believe in cannabis reform in this country the federal

00:06:48.340 government has lied to the american people for a generation about cannabis they said it couldn't

00:06:53.860 possibly be medicine that's not true we are seeing medical applications of cannabis that are helping

00:07:00.100 people live better lives the federal government also told us that you know this was more going to be

00:07:05.940 more dangerous than all these other types of drugs that were out there that it deserved to be a schedule

00:07:10.740 one drug that is the schedule the listing of the drugs that are like you know the most dangerous

00:07:17.940 the most addictive the most damaging to people's health and people's lives and now we come to learn

00:07:24.100 that the federal government itself owns patents on marijuana uh and you know it is crazy that it is

00:07:31.460 more difficult to research marijuana in this country than it is to research cocaine but that's a consequence

00:07:37.380 of these antiquated dogmas so what are we going to do about it the more act first it removes marijuana

00:07:45.140 as a schedule one drug that is absolutely a step in the right direction something i completely support

00:07:51.940 it also i think does a lot of criminal justice reform around those convictions that ravaged certain

00:08:00.260 communities and i'm speaking of communities of color i think the war on drugs was uniquely harmful

00:08:05.860 to urban communities to communities of color and i think that some restorative justice for people

00:08:11.860 that saw just extended convictions uh or that are currently serving extended time in prison ought to

00:08:18.020 be visited through legislation so i support that the third part this is where we get to a real i think

00:08:25.860 rub with you know doing a little too much they've got money generated from marijuana taxes and revenue

00:08:36.420 essentially being used as reparations for communities of color and i just don't think that that is the

00:08:43.140 way that we ought to stand up industries in this country that they have to uh owe some like debt to a

00:08:50.100 particular community and i get it i mean a lot of folks in the congressional black caucus they see

00:08:55.300 marijuana as a substance that ended up with a lot of black kids getting thrown in jail and now a bunch of 0.79

00:09:00.180 white people getting rich off of it and they resent that but that is no reason to like create this whole

00:09:07.220 system of redirecting funds uh as reparations when really that could fund more research into better

00:09:15.620 medical applications that could fund distribution that would allow more people who need marijuana as

00:09:21.540 medicine to be able to receive it if you put that drain on the business and if you if you frankly

00:09:26.740 redirect the tax assets away from some admitted costs that will rise i mean look you're you do

00:09:32.900 need more security more law enforcement in places where you've had recreational legalization of

00:09:40.100 marijuana and that'll of course always be a state decision but when you've got the federal government

00:09:45.860 pulling the strings to such a an extent as to literally be like reparations i think that you have

00:09:52.260 departed from the core mission of the marijuana reform movement which is to kind of get rid of

00:09:57.460 these old antiquated scientifically incorrect dogmas so on balance i think that those frustrating elements

00:10:05.940 of the reparations are less troubling to me than the status quo on marijuana which is indefensible really

00:10:14.260 it's it's the federal government not even allowing states to be the laboratories of democracy to try

00:10:20.820 different things and then to see their you know marijuana businesses able to access you know just the

00:10:26.820 same financial institutions the same um tax laws i mean should a marijuana business really get zero

00:10:35.220 ability to deduct expenses like any other business in america should a marijuana business have to operate

00:10:41.540 such an extensive portion of what they do in cash because they can't utilize regular banking i mean if we

00:10:48.180 want to be a serious country i think we need to wake up to the fact that that is an unserious dynamic to

00:10:53.700 try to maintain so i'm gonna vote for the bill i've been a sponsor of the bill i think we need marijuana reform

00:11:01.380 here's the real problem though there is a bill that if we put it on the floor of the house and the senate

00:11:09.060 enjoys the support of most of the membership and i believe the president would sign it the president has

00:11:14.500 even said he would sign it it's called the states act and instead of doing all the you know restorative

00:11:20.900 justice and all of the reparations it just does essentially the work of getting rid of the federal

00:11:27.780 government's role in this process that this will largely be a state-based decision and if a state does

00:11:33.460 decide to use this under a medical platform or even an adult use platform that they would have the

00:11:39.700 opportunity to do so without being in like a direct conflict with current federal law on marijuana so

00:11:47.460 we'll take a vote on the more act i am disappointed that we can't get a vote on the states act because i

00:11:54.100 think that enjoys far broader support and could actually go into law but yet again it looks like

00:11:59.460 nancy pelosi and the democrats would rather have the issue than have the progress they did the same 0.96

00:12:04.340 thing on police reform you know we had senator tim scott's bill that would have passed that would

00:12:08.820 have improved policing but they didn't want that they wanted the issue and on marijuana we have

00:12:13.300 the states act sponsored in the senate by senator cory gardner it would pass it would get signed no

00:12:18.900 off nancy pelosi would support it but instead they'd rather have the issue and so thus that's the

00:12:24.340 behind the scenes on why we'll be voting on the more act but those who are actually eager to see

00:12:30.020 some progress on marijuana reform i think can still blame nancy pelosi for not putting legislation

00:12:35.460 on the floor that enjoys broad support in the country and broad support in the congress and even

00:12:40.500 support from the president in the white house is there going to be a new big player in the cable

00:12:49.940 news scene that's certainly what wgn hopes they've got the next star media group based out of irving texas

00:12:58.260 now announcing the launch of news nation a nightly three-hour national primetime newscast it's going

00:13:05.140 to start at 8 p.m eastern time and here's the argument from mr compton sean compton who's their

00:13:12.660 executive vice president for wgn america that right now you've got fox news on the right you've got cnn and

00:13:19.460 msnbc on the left and they want to offer straight news down the middle and i take some exception with what

00:13:26.340 sean compton says in the los angeles times when announcing this new uh programming feature of

00:13:32.820 of wgn america he says sean hannity is not news he is a friend of mine i worked with him in radio

00:13:39.380 for years he'd get mad at me for saying that but it's true tucker carlson and don lemon that's not

00:13:45.460 news here's my hot take on sean hannity's show we are the news we're often the ones driving the

00:13:52.740 discussion the conversation uh we're i think uh really telling the truth to the american people

00:13:59.860 especially during the russia hoax about who the criminals are and what the setup is meant to

00:14:07.140 achieve and that was the destabilization of the democratic election that resulted in donald trump's

00:14:12.260 presidency so shots fired from mr compton and sean hannity i actually hear on background that they're

00:14:19.220 pretty good buddies but wgn positioning to be that down the middle nightly three-hour news we'll see

00:14:26.100 how it goes as trash piles up during covet 19 residents raise a stink the wall street journal's

00:14:37.300 scott calvert has the story americans stuck at home are creating more trash and some cities can't keep up

00:14:44.500 the story goes on to talk about philadelphia and baltimore being the hardest hit cities but also

00:14:51.140 places like nashville atlanta virginia beach virginia new york city municipal governments having a hard

00:14:59.060 time adjusting to the fact that people are creating trash in different places here's my hot take trash

00:15:05.540 collection is like basically one of the principal reasons why we have local government and if they're

00:15:11.700 unable to be sufficiently nimble to deal with the creation of trash in different places it only

00:15:18.340 highlights how un-innovative and slow government is in response to changing conditions in human life

00:15:26.820 and i would argue that it justifies maybe a greater embrace of libertarianism personal individual

00:15:34.340 responsibility and getting more of our own stuff done and working with each other to do so and not

00:15:38.660 being overly reliant on government i mean i don't want to make too big of a point of of really just a

00:15:45.460 small change in life as a result of coronavirus but we're not creating more trash as human beings right

00:15:53.380 throughout the day it's not like we're trashier because of covid it's merely like instead of being

00:15:59.780 at an office complex or at a restaurant or at a bar we're at home a little bit more and the inability i

00:16:08.020 guess to see that plan for it be ready to respond to it in some of the places uh that are mentioned

00:16:14.100 in this wall street journal story i don't know maybe it shows that government isn't always the

00:16:19.620 leading thinker the leading innovator we need to look more into ourselves and into the possibilities

00:16:25.780 for the future that we can create to live better lives

00:16:28.980 there is a fascinating study at revolver news regarding the number of life years lost as a

00:16:39.300 result of lockdowns following coronavirus and then comparing the life years saved from those

00:16:47.300 lockdowns to the lockdowns you see a true indictment of these lockdown policies the headline from revolver

00:16:54.500 news revolver exclusive study covet 19 lockdowns over 10 times more deadly than pandemic itself and it

00:17:03.380 goes through this study by abel sumner jeremiah jackson and jacob cage where they broke down lives

00:17:11.780 not in terms of just are you breathing or are you not but in terms of the overall life year so if

00:17:18.100 you know if someone is you know 91 and they die of coronavirus they likely didn't lose as many life

00:17:25.620 years as someone who might die as a result of like a drug overdose at age 33 that might have had a longer

00:17:34.260 projection on life if they have like a drug overdose that may have been exacerbated by coronavirus so

00:17:40.340 uh it is a very interesting and i think unique way to look at at the issue uh and dissect the data just

00:17:49.220 not in terms of life but life years and here's the top line analysis we found that an estimated 18.7

00:17:56.260 million life years will be lost in the united states due to the covet 19 lockdowns comparative

00:18:01.700 data analysis between nations shows that the not lockdowns in the united states likely had minimal

00:18:07.540 effect in saving life years using two different comparison groups we estimate that the covet 19

00:18:13.220 lockdowns in the united states saved between a quarter to three quarters of a million life

00:18:18.820 years so lockdowns saving you know at the high end three quarters of a million life years

00:18:24.180 costing 18.7 million life years check out the study at revolver news

00:18:30.260 great american innovator elon musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain vox's

00:18:42.500 rebecca heilweil has the story and elon musk has apparently got a pig named gertrude with a neurochip

00:18:51.380 affixed to her brain and is able to sense and receive information from the pig 0.99

00:19:00.180 so uh you know the presumptive chip that you would have to insert according to the vox article would

00:19:07.060 come with its own way to drill it into your skull and fix it to your brain and likely would have the 0.87

00:19:14.580 ability to engage in these sensors so they're not at clinical trials yet musk says that where they are

00:19:20.500 with animal trials certainly means that they're accelerating and hopeful that they will get clinical

00:19:25.940 trials soon check out the article and wonder would you let elon musk put a computer in your brain

00:19:32.260 i don't know i probably wouldn't let me know what you think

00:19:35.380 man's best friend getting the job done in india prime minister modi giving special thanks to

00:19:46.580 dogs sophie and vida as they get army awards for sniffing out explosives both dogs got the chief of

00:19:54.580 the army staff commendation medal from the indian army sophie detected an accelerant which could have

00:20:00.100 been used to make an explosive device while vida sniffed out the presence of five mines and one

00:20:06.980 grenade buried underground congratulations and it's great to see the capabilities continuing to improve

00:20:14.820 and demonstrate excellence with our great ally the largest democracy in the world india thanks for

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 01, 2020

Episode 80 - Damning Study on Destructive Lockdowns. Adam Schiff Shouldn't Be Trusted with National Security. Too Much Trash.

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