The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 81 LIVE： Omni-Bust (feat. Rep. Dan Bishop) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand

00:00:07.560 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.

00:00:13.700 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.

00:00:16.720 So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.

00:00:19.880 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn

00:00:26.020 her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.

00:00:29.320 You are in the right place.

00:00:31.020 This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.120 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.460 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:37.860 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.

00:00:41.020 Many days, I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:00:45.440 They aren't really coming for me.

00:00:47.600 They're coming for you.

00:00:49.620 I'm just in the way.

00:00:56.020 Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians, that's the number one 0.95

00:01:02.580 priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans.

00:01:08.500 That's sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.

00:01:17.260 That's Mitch McConnell.

00:01:18.800 That's your Republican leadership in Washington, D.C., and they think so little of you.

00:01:24.380 They tell you that you're not even their priority.

00:01:27.700 They tell it to you right to your face, and that is what we are fighting against each and

00:01:31.860 every day.

00:01:32.720 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:01:34.020 We are simulcast streaming out of room 2021 in the Rayburn office building in the Capitol

00:01:39.220 complex in Washington, D.C., and thank you for the comments.

00:01:42.680 We got the live stream going and folks telling us they're joining us from Georgia, Tucson,

00:01:47.400 Texas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

00:01:49.840 And what I can report to you is that as the 117th Congress is coming to a close now, the

00:01:56.160 Democrats are doing their very best to steal Christmas by holding us all hostage while

00:02:01.320 they try to pass their 4,000-page omnibus spending bill. 0.79

00:02:06.520 Bunch of grinches, I would say.

00:02:08.800 And I wouldn't touch this bill with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole.

00:02:13.000 So what I'm going to do on this program is break down some of the worst features.

00:02:17.680 We've got Congressman Dan Bishop just stopped by the office, had a great conversation with

00:02:22.440 him about some of the nuggets his staff found in this bill that work against the American

00:02:27.300 people.

00:02:27.820 So first, we are doing a lot of spending abroad, and it is not good.

00:02:34.160 We allocate $32 million for the United Nations Population Fund.

00:02:39.940 That's as scary as it sounds.

00:02:41.500 And any money not used shall be made available for abortions abroad.

00:02:49.260 $575 million is allocated for abortions in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity.

00:02:58.500 I mean, just hear that.

00:03:00.440 Abortions as a mechanism for population control.

00:03:06.100 Environmental abortion.

00:03:07.620 I could not dream up a more Malthusian, dystopic, anti-human policy if I tried.

00:03:15.100 An alien hell-bent on exterminating humankind could not do a better job than this bill.

00:03:20.660 So we're going to spend another $25 million on people-to-people reconciliation programs,

00:03:26.900 which bring together individuals of different ethnic, racial, religious, and political backgrounds

00:03:32.960 from areas of civil war.

00:03:35.760 That's abroad. 1.00

00:03:36.720 What a stupid idea. 1.00

00:03:39.620 What Yale foreign policy master's graduate deemed this a critical function of our government? 1.00

00:03:46.360 Is a U.S.-funded globalist design struggle session what we're really waiting for to stop

00:03:52.720 like the Hutus and the Tutsis from hacking each other to pieces? 0.98

00:03:57.360 Maybe if we just gave the Sunnis and the Shiites a little more time to work out their differences 1.00

00:04:03.440 under the auspices of an international program,

00:04:06.540 maybe that would get them to put aside a centuries-old beef.

00:04:11.400 You know, if this really worked, we should have tried it in Afghanistan. 0.98

00:04:15.340 But no, that was the last forever war. 0.63

00:04:18.000 Now we clearly know what the next one is. 0.99

00:04:20.100 This is foolish. 0.99

00:04:21.460 This is a waste of money. 0.99

00:04:22.720 And maybe, just maybe, we should stop meddling in these affairs abroad

00:04:28.800 because our involvement doesn't always make things better and it frequently makes things worse.

00:04:33.780 But wait, there's more.

00:04:35.120 $20 million to strengthen democracy in civil society in Central Europe

00:04:41.460 through combating anti-Semitism and promoting minority rights.

00:04:45.680 I'm all for promoting minority rights.

00:04:49.240 I'm against anti-Semitism.

00:04:51.920 But are we really pretending that we know better than the Central Europeans 1.00

00:04:56.980 what they want and need to be able to resolve their differences?

00:05:00.800 Like, at what point is the State Department the great provider of the silver bullet

00:05:05.860 for anti-Semitism and repression of minority rights in Central Europe?

00:05:09.580 Like, we're basically funding China.

00:05:12.460 We're allowing ourselves to be vulnerable to them and they engage in abject slavery.

00:05:17.020 But we're going to go preach about minority rights in Central Europe because we know best. 0.97

00:05:21.680 We even found extra cash in this bill to establish a $200 million gender equity fund

00:05:27.480 to fund gender programs in Pakistan.

00:05:32.560 So Pakistanis confused about which bathroom to use. 0.95

00:05:36.080 Fear not, help is on the way from the United States.

00:05:38.640 I know that the Pakistanis, what they're really waiting for is for the United States 0.83

00:05:43.720 to explain our concepts of gender to them.

00:05:46.500 That will endear them to us, of course.

00:05:49.060 We focus a lot on the rest of the world, for better or worse.

00:05:53.360 But it really doesn't feel like we're doing the same for our own people.

00:05:56.820 For example, we're giving $410 million for border security in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.

00:06:08.440 All while prohibiting Customs and Border Patrol from using funding to improve our own border security.

00:06:14.760 So why are other countries' borders more important than our own?

00:06:19.620 I'm not against border security in those other countries, but just maybe they should pay for it.

00:06:24.340 No other country is funding our border security with their treasury because that would be foolish.

00:06:30.680 So if we don't protect our borders, no one else will.

00:06:35.820 And we're concerned about everyone else's, not our own.

00:06:38.060 Now speaking of borders, we don't have any right now.

00:06:40.960 Which is why we're allocating $1.2 million in services for DACA requirements

00:06:45.820 and $750,000 to the Trans-Latin Coalition to provide, quote,

00:06:51.940 workforce development programs and supportive services for trans and gender non-conforming

00:06:57.480 and intersex immigrant women in Los Angeles. 0.94

00:07:01.280 Yes, that is literally something that the federal government is funding in this omnibus spending bill.

00:07:08.200 What is a woman? Nobody knows. 1.00

00:07:11.180 Anyway, if that's not enough, the bill provides for the creation of a, quote,

00:07:14.700 Ukrainian Independence Park in D.C.

00:07:18.200 Just what we need.

00:07:18.980 I'll be talking about that with Congressman Dan Bishop in just a moment.

00:07:23.120 So the establishment politicians want to stand in solidarity with everyone but their own people,

00:07:28.040 and that is the principal message of this legislation.

00:07:31.280 Let's pivot over to domestic policy real quick.

00:07:35.460 I want to go through some of the domestic features.

00:07:38.700 For starters, we are naming a federal building in San Francisco after Nancy Pelosi

00:07:43.960 and spending $3.6 million to name a trail in Georgia after Michelle Obama,

00:07:49.680 $2 million for the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore.

00:07:54.900 That's quite the wax experience.

00:07:57.700 It also looks like woke spending didn't stop abroad.

00:08:02.020 The critical race theory chickens have come to roost.

00:08:04.420 We're spending $524.4 million for DEI and structural racism-focused NIH work,

00:08:15.000 $26 million for the House of Representatives Diversity and Inclusion Office.

00:08:20.480 We're even dropping another $477,000 for anti-racist training provided by the Equity Institute.

00:08:27.420 And of course, New York City, they need an LGBTQ plus museum.

00:08:34.780 So we'll be spending $3 million on that as well.

00:08:38.740 How fierce.

00:08:41.280 That's not all, folks.

00:08:43.220 The deep state's getting their cut in this spending bill.

00:08:45.540 The FBI, that should be subject to subpoenas, not buckets of cash,

00:08:51.700 now getting $11.3 billion and $375 million for a new headquarters.

00:08:58.220 The ATF is getting $1.75 billion.

00:09:01.540 And the icing on the cake is $2.63 billion for U.S. attorneys

00:09:06.100 with an emphasis on January 6th prosecutions and domestic terrorism.

00:09:11.140 That is deep state for anyone who has politics that makes us uncomfortable.

00:09:17.320 Presumably to help with this, the bill allocates $7.5 million

00:09:21.800 to better understand the, quote, domestic radicalization phenomenon,

00:09:26.620 plus an extra $1 million to study gun violence.

00:09:30.520 The deep state really wants to figure out why the American people

00:09:33.540 just aren't so crazy about them.

00:09:36.520 And if we aren't, if we aren't willing to just sign up to have

00:09:39.500 entities like the FBI control social media and engage in domestic psyops,

00:09:45.060 well then, you know what?

00:09:46.840 They'll take this money and they'll engage in those activities

00:09:50.600 and you just have to like it.

00:09:52.260 You have to tolerate it.

00:09:53.500 It's insane.

00:09:54.440 No Republican should be voting for this.

00:09:56.460 And if it's not enough, the bill is allocating $355 million

00:09:59.680 to prepare for an influenza pandemic,

00:10:02.020 including funding for additional surveillance tools.

00:10:05.380 That shouldn't scare you at all right now.

00:10:07.200 Surveillance tools in the hands of the medical industrial complex

00:10:10.100 with $355 million behind them.

00:10:14.220 Oh, and the bill also creates a permanent pandemic czar, 0.69

00:10:18.940 a permanent Fauci,

00:10:20.420 because I know that's what America has been asking for.

00:10:23.620 Now, the Vax Injury Trust Fund was raised in the legislation

00:10:27.820 from $13.2 million to $15.2 million.

00:10:30.540 Are they expecting more vaccine injuries

00:10:32.300 from the safest and most effective experimental vaccine in the world?

00:10:35.880 Well, interesting that that got a plus up.

00:10:39.920 As you can see, this omnibus bill is a disaster.

00:10:42.480 I am going to vote against it.

00:10:44.160 And any congressman that claims to represent the best interest

00:10:47.200 of the American people should too.

00:10:49.440 Now, recently, my colleague Dan Bishop from North Carolina

00:10:52.320 joined me on Firebrand to discuss that.

00:10:55.840 Take a listen to the discussion.

00:10:56.860 When you get these bills that are thousands of pages

00:11:03.180 and deal with all these different programs and equities at play,

00:11:08.500 talk to people about the process that you and your team use

00:11:11.340 to go in and evaluate it on their behalf,

00:11:13.400 because often we don't have a lot of time.

00:11:15.040 You know, Matt, as you know, we have small staff,

00:11:17.640 each member of Congress.

00:11:18.620 And in your case, in my case,

00:11:21.380 we've got some really fine young people

00:11:23.420 that work themselves to a frenzy.

00:11:26.540 And they just, you know, jumped onto this.

00:11:28.860 And when members of Congress were home,

00:11:31.300 this 4,000-plus page text appears out of nowhere.

00:11:36.560 And they just began digging in, going as hard as they could,

00:11:39.860 and had the vision to see that it would be helpful to the American people

00:11:43.180 and people would take interest in it

00:11:44.500 to get some information out about just how bad it is.

00:11:47.440 And they know that no one's going to sit there

00:11:50.040 and comb through every program with the particularity that they deserve.

00:11:54.460 But yet, your folks were diving in.

00:11:56.920 You've really exposed some of the worst elements.

00:11:58.840 Put up the Bishop tweet,

00:12:00.420 and you talk about the element of the bill

00:12:02.440 that expressly prohibits CBP funding

00:12:04.860 from being used to improve border security.

00:12:07.220 And I know you've been to the border.

00:12:08.760 I've been to the border.

00:12:09.740 They are so frustrated when they say,

00:12:11.680 we have tech and we're not allowed to plug it in.

00:12:14.920 Matt, I'm sure your viewers know this.

00:12:17.060 It's on Firebrand.

00:12:18.080 But CBP is the Customs and Border Patrol, right?

00:12:21.860 And there's literally language.

00:12:23.760 It's quoted and highlighted in that tweet

00:12:26.620 that none of the funds provided in this particular subsection

00:12:30.460 shall be used to acquire, maintain,

00:12:32.940 or extend border security technology and capabilities,

00:12:35.940 except for technology and capabilities

00:12:37.540 to improve border patrol processing.

00:12:39.660 Processing.

00:12:40.240 And we know what that's a code for.

00:12:41.600 That means they're processing more people into the country 1.00

00:12:43.900 to turn them loose faster.

00:12:45.240 Yeah, that processing is unidirectional.

00:12:47.400 They're not processing them out like they should be.

00:12:49.600 They're only processing them in.

00:12:51.820 And it affects the morale of border patrol

00:12:54.280 to see that they're not able to actually do their jobs.

00:12:58.460 I don't know how any Republican could vote for that.

00:13:00.720 With all the focus on the border,

00:13:02.600 how could any Republican vote for something

00:13:04.680 that literally ties the hand of Customs and Border Patrol?

00:13:07.320 And yet, what we understand and know is

00:13:10.260 this bill would not advance

00:13:11.640 but for Republican votes in the Senate.

00:13:13.760 It's going to get a lot of Republican votes in the Senate.

00:13:16.200 This is the status quo, Matt,

00:13:18.100 that for the sake of the country,

00:13:20.300 the country cannot wait for this to be fixed anymore.

00:13:22.940 That status quo must change.

00:13:25.620 Well, any Republican who dares to vote for this

00:13:28.220 better not say a word about the border

00:13:29.680 because they obviously don't give a damn about the border.

00:13:31.800 Unless it's the border of another country

00:13:33.620 because your staff also found

00:13:35.600 that at the same time the legislation

00:13:37.520 is allocating $410 million

00:13:39.140 toward border security

00:13:40.500 for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.

00:13:44.900 So I guess it's not border security

00:13:48.760 that the authors are opposed to.

00:13:51.040 It's just American border security.

00:13:52.760 And they certainly are going to try to take care

00:13:54.340 of Ukraine border security.

00:13:55.500 But you're right.

00:13:57.360 And again, lest anyone think we're exaggerating,

00:14:00.080 these amounts are appropriated for those countries,

00:14:02.740 quote, for enhanced border security.

00:14:05.720 You will not find that phrase

00:14:07.720 about the American border in this bill anywhere.

00:14:10.720 I'm not against border security in Tunisia.

00:14:13.140 I'm for it.

00:14:14.000 I just think that it might be

00:14:15.200 like a principal obligation of the Tunisians.

00:14:19.340 Imagine that.

00:14:20.480 Well, Ukraine is certainly on a lot of people's mind.

00:14:24.500 Ukraine got great treatment in this legislation.

00:14:29.000 Another $47 billion for Ukraine

00:14:32.580 and also the Ukraine independence park right in D.C.

00:14:36.820 Don't you think that'll deter Vladimir Putin

00:14:38.820 when he finds that we have built

00:14:40.160 a Ukrainian independence park?

00:14:41.760 It's really what we've been waiting for.

00:14:42.400 He'll throw those tanks in reverse, won't he?

00:14:44.240 The world's been waiting for that park

00:14:45.540 so that we could stop Vladimir Putin.

00:14:47.060 You know, that $47 billion more in this bill for Ukraine

00:14:51.700 will take the United States' total spend for that, Matt.

00:14:54.500 We've seen it in bill after bill come past us

00:14:56.640 with Democrats ramming it through

00:14:58.160 and Senate Republicans helping them.

00:15:00.600 There were over $100 billion.

00:15:02.660 Russia's entire defense budget is $84 billion.

00:15:05.880 And it seems as though it's not just defense

00:15:09.580 where some of this money is headed.

00:15:11.280 $12.9 billion in economic assistance

00:15:13.740 to stabilize the economy

00:15:15.520 and spur economic recovery in Ukraine.

00:15:17.480 So if you were looking for an economic nationalist agenda,

00:15:23.300 I guess you've got one.

00:15:24.980 It's just for Ukraine, not for the United States of America. 0.58

00:15:28.520 And, you know, I think there are a lot of viewers

00:15:30.660 who sympathize with the plight of the Ukrainians,

00:15:32.480 Ukrainians, but, I mean, in an $80 billion war

00:15:36.040 is it the last $47 billion that kicks the door in?

00:15:38.760 We'll see.

00:15:40.240 Thank you for pointing this stuff out.

00:15:42.260 It's likely to pass, right?

00:15:44.020 Clearly.

00:15:44.840 Republicans in the Senate will make this bill pass.

00:15:47.360 And then, I don't know,

00:15:48.160 maybe a Republican or two in the House will support it.

00:15:50.920 But, you know, I really don't think

00:15:53.540 the country can take much more of this, Matt.

00:15:55.120 And I worry about the leverage that we need

00:15:57.740 with the power of the purse,

00:15:58.960 not to bring chaos to our government,

00:16:01.120 but you and I want to work real hard

00:16:03.200 to try to constrain the very spending

00:16:05.940 that's been impacting inflation.

00:16:07.680 It kind of feels like this ties our hands, too.

00:16:09.620 Another half billion dollars for the FBI.

00:16:12.040 You and I want to get after the FBI.

00:16:13.680 Another half billion dollars

00:16:14.500 and several hundred million dollars

00:16:16.400 for a new FBI headquarters.

00:16:18.120 We need to be asking them questions,

00:16:19.440 holding them to account.

00:16:20.600 This takes our leverage away right here.

00:16:23.620 Well, Mitch McConnell should be ashamed

00:16:25.180 for supporting this.

00:16:26.440 He should be ashamed for saying

00:16:27.820 the number one priority is to fund

00:16:30.360 our ambitions in Ukraine.

00:16:32.340 And any Republican should absolutely

00:16:33.800 be ashamed that votes for it.

00:16:35.280 Dan, thanks for breaking it down.

00:16:36.380 Thanks to your great team members

00:16:37.460 for doing the work for a lot of us

00:16:39.320 and finding some of the ugliest bumps

00:16:41.780 on this terrible bill.

00:16:43.040 They did a great job.

00:16:43.980 Thank you, Matt.

00:16:44.520 Thanks.

00:16:44.780 We'll be right back.

00:17:14.780 American people, regardless of your ideology,

00:17:18.280 regardless of whether you're a Democrat

00:17:19.460 or Republican, we need that advocacy.

00:17:22.600 It's not done yet, but unfortunately,

00:17:24.640 the uniparty forces in the swamp,

00:17:27.240 they're really at a zenith of power right now

00:17:29.520 with Democrats holding unified control

00:17:31.860 of the government.

00:17:33.320 So we talked a lot about how that's going to change

00:17:35.620 and Republicans are going to take over,

00:17:37.340 albeit through a disappointing midterm election.

00:17:40.320 I was at the Turning Point America Fest

00:17:43.000 in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:17:44.540 The rest of the show,

00:17:45.280 we're going to show you some clips from my speech.

00:17:47.420 I want you to know what I thought,

00:17:49.280 breaking down the midterms,

00:17:50.900 the Democrats, the Republicans,

00:17:52.700 and the lessons we should learn.

00:17:54.060 Here's some of my remarks from Turning Point.

00:17:55.440 These midterms did disappoint many of us,

00:18:01.500 but in a lot of ways, I don't blame the Democrats.

00:18:05.560 They did everything they could possibly do

00:18:08.380 to hand us this election.

00:18:10.520 They crashed the economy,

00:18:12.340 attacked American energy.

00:18:14.180 They were doing this weird, woke stuff

00:18:16.920 that is unmentionable in polite company.

00:18:19.860 We have no border at all.

00:18:24.200 Indeed, the Democrats did their part,

00:18:26.420 but I believe we deserved far better from Republicans,

00:18:30.240 and I am here tonight to talk about how to fix it.

00:18:33.420 Some say we should moderate,

00:18:39.660 paint in those pastel colors,

00:18:41.880 put the bold away,

00:18:43.400 embrace the meek,

00:18:45.000 less America first,

00:18:47.200 more Liz Cheney, 1.00

00:18:48.960 maybe shake the Bush family tree

00:18:53.200 and see what falls out.

00:18:54.540 My friends, the problem with slow surrender

00:19:00.940 as a political strategy

00:19:03.120 is that even when you win

00:19:05.740 with these establishment shills,

00:19:09.120 America still loses.

00:19:11.320 Was it really worth standing

00:19:13.400 with Republican governors

00:19:15.080 in Maryland, Ohio, and Arizona

00:19:17.760 who got elected preaching freedom

00:19:19.940 and then pushed lockdowns

00:19:22.100 and mandates on their people? 1.00

00:19:23.640 How foolish were they? 1.00

00:19:25.900 How foolish were we to tolerate it? 1.00

00:19:28.660 In Florida, if you're still wearing a mask, 1.00

00:19:30.940 we just assume you're hideous. 0.68

00:19:38.480 But on the big stuff, 0.56

00:19:40.760 the major challenges that we now face,

00:19:44.400 a Republican party with no sharp edges

00:19:47.580 will be manipulated, co-opted, and worthless.

00:19:51.280 Controlled opposition

00:19:53.480 just isn't going to cut it anymore.

00:19:56.240 And that's where I come in.

00:20:00.860 Just look.

00:20:02.380 Just look at what we learned this week.

00:20:05.640 The FBI has entire teams of people

00:20:08.700 dedicated to try to shape public opinion

00:20:12.240 on social media.

00:20:13.600 And we know about it at Twitter

00:20:16.100 because Elon bought Twitter.

00:20:17.800 But this same stuff is going on

00:20:20.180 at Meta, at Google, at Amazon.

00:20:23.360 They want to control what you see

00:20:26.000 so that they can ultimately control

00:20:28.020 how you behave.

00:20:29.800 This is not the proper role of government.

00:20:32.480 And any official who gave the orders

00:20:35.320 to try to manipulate

00:20:36.580 the political perspectives of American citizens

00:20:39.840 will be called to heel

00:20:41.300 before the House Judiciary Committee

00:20:42.900 in the coming weeks and months.

00:20:44.500 I don't plan on a whole lot of softball questions

00:20:55.180 and patty-cake games

00:20:56.880 with the corrupt deep state.

00:20:59.360 Relentless interrogation is what they deserve

00:21:02.920 and we should stand for no less.

00:21:04.620 We are back live.

00:21:09.880 Christine on Facebook says

00:21:11.100 we need new leadership.

00:21:12.500 Maggie on Getter says

00:21:13.860 defund the FBI.

00:21:15.480 That might be where this ultimately ends up.

00:21:18.040 And John on Rumble wants to know

00:21:20.060 why even AOC would vote for this bill

00:21:23.080 when the populist left claims

00:21:25.700 they are against all of these foreign entanglements.

00:21:29.220 You think they might actually show some opposition,

00:21:31.820 show some backbone.

00:21:32.660 But they have totally folded

00:21:34.700 and they intend to vote for this monstrosity.

00:21:37.400 So I think it's right to call out 0.94

00:21:39.260 the hypocrisy of AOC and the rest of the squad

00:21:42.040 for backing this legislation 0.65

00:21:43.940 that does so much

00:21:45.060 that we're just blatantly against their stated goals.

00:21:49.200 I also had an opportunity at Turning Point

00:21:52.120 to talk about changes in election laws.

00:21:54.300 And this is really important

00:21:55.360 because in a lot of places

00:21:56.840 people are getting blackpilled on politics

00:21:59.060 because they just say,

00:22:00.340 you know what,

00:22:00.760 we feel like our vote doesn't count.

00:22:02.800 It doesn't matter.

00:22:03.480 It's not going to be respected.

00:22:04.640 I believe that the sunshine state

00:22:07.760 can really shine a path forward.

00:22:10.840 And I talked to officials in Arizona about that.

00:22:14.280 Take a listen to those remarks

00:22:15.380 on changes to election law.

00:22:16.760 America first means actually putting the American voters first.

00:22:24.640 And our evolving tactics must draw us into central focus

00:22:29.740 on necessary changes to election laws.

00:22:33.360 To those of you from Maricopa County,

00:22:37.000 you don't have to live this way.

00:22:38.860 Arizona is a great state full of wonderful people.

00:22:46.460 But the election administration here,

00:22:49.360 wolf, it is embarrassing.

00:22:51.600 Brazil is a country with 214 million people.

00:22:56.200 Many of them live in the jungles of the Amazon in Brazil.

00:23:00.740 And they know who wins an election the next day.

00:23:05.240 Sometimes a single county in Arizona can take weeks.

00:23:10.020 This is the United States of America.

00:23:12.200 We are not a third world country.

00:23:14.380 It is time we start acting like the vibrant republic that we are,

00:23:18.620 and that means securing the integrity of our elections.

00:23:21.040 This can be done.

00:23:27.640 I know that it does not have to be this way

00:23:30.880 because it has never been this way.

00:23:34.320 We used to get election results on time.

00:23:37.240 We didn't have these problems.

00:23:38.920 Some of you may be old enough to remember back in 2000

00:23:42.600 when Florida was in the spotlight over the Bush v. Gore matter.

00:23:47.140 We had the hanging chads and the dimpled chads.

00:23:50.160 And what is astonishing to me reflecting back on that

00:23:54.760 is that it was actually embarrassing and an oddity

00:23:59.180 to not be able to quickly and precisely resolve your elections

00:24:03.480 within approximate time of the people voting.

00:24:06.440 And now you look at these elections

00:24:08.080 and you see like Jake Tapper on CNN saying,

00:24:10.720 well, we won't know Pennsylvania for weeks.

00:24:13.180 And I'm thinking, why is this?

00:24:15.300 Well, in Florida, we changed the laws.

00:24:19.000 And so if you are a state lawmaker,

00:24:21.760 if you have influence with our several states,

00:24:24.980 let's talk about some of the specific changes

00:24:27.480 that I think will help us combat this challenge going forward.

00:24:31.640 Florida, indeed, can be the nation's guidepost on this.

00:24:37.080 In Florida, we passed legislation that allows counties

00:24:40.500 to start counting mail-in ballots 22 days before the election.

00:24:44.060 Now think about how significant that is.

00:24:45.900 That means in smaller batches, we can actually look at the votes,

00:24:50.160 we can compare the signatures,

00:24:51.780 and you don't end up with some crazy circumstance in Wayne County, Michigan,

00:24:55.920 where somehow only in the urban areas they have laws and chain of custody

00:25:00.660 that only applies to them and not anyone else.

00:25:03.280 And it's the same story in Fulton County

00:25:05.720 and in the just absolute pitholes of election failure

00:25:09.920 that we should not have to tolerate in America.

00:25:12.280 In Florida, state law also requires that early voting ballots

00:25:17.040 be completed and counted before election day.

00:25:20.800 And then the results are immediately posted within 30 minutes of the election.

00:25:25.060 So there's not this, like, crazy guessing game

00:25:27.320 about finding out whose Aunt Irma works at the elections office

00:25:30.840 and where they might have, like, another bucket of 200 ballots.

00:25:35.260 Mail-in ballots have to be received by 7 p.m. on election day.

00:25:41.000 I can't even believe that's controversial.

00:25:43.740 We don't just mail them out either to every dead guy on the voter rolls.

00:25:48.560 In Florida, you have to actually have a real human being

00:25:51.680 that really requests one of these ballots.

00:25:54.440 We use paper ballots in Florida.

00:25:56.500 Imagine that.

00:25:57.300 And we do so because it was one of the demands of Florida Democrats.

00:26:02.080 Our machines are rigorously tested,

00:26:04.500 so we don't end up like Maricopa County,

00:26:06.700 where voting machines are breaking down

00:26:09.080 more than the ice cream machine at the McDonald's.

00:26:13.660 The other benefit of having, like, sane, real people election laws

00:26:18.660 is that if things go crazy and lawsuits start filing,

00:26:23.500 we might actually win some of them.

00:26:25.720 I know of what I speak.

00:26:27.880 In 2018, there was a serious effort

00:26:30.720 to steal the election in Florida

00:26:33.140 from Senator Rick Scott and Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:26:36.180 It was tens of thousands of ballots

00:26:38.380 in a universe of more than 8.5 million.

00:26:41.300 And when the local supervisors of elections

00:26:44.160 did not follow the law,

00:26:46.180 we were able to go immediately to court

00:26:48.740 against two supervisors,

00:26:50.840 have the judges issue injunctions,

00:26:52.760 and then there were no mystery ballots

00:26:55.140 that could be willed into existence

00:26:56.760 at some later time.

00:26:58.180 We treat ballots and voting like public records,

00:27:02.740 and our citizens have a constitutional right

00:27:04.780 to know what the hell is going on.

00:27:06.920 That should be the standard for America.

00:27:14.500 We are back live,

00:27:16.280 and some folks are suggesting in the comments section

00:27:18.480 that I pursue a bid for Speaker of the House.

00:27:21.220 I assure you that would not be successful.

00:27:24.140 I would not have the requisite support.

00:27:25.760 I would not have anywhere close to the requisite support.

00:27:28.700 But I am making a critique,

00:27:30.540 not just of one person,

00:27:32.620 but a corrupt institution in Washington, D.C.

00:27:35.860 And unfortunately,

00:27:37.760 that means we have to take a stand

00:27:39.480 and maybe have some turbulent days

00:27:41.380 at the beginning of January,

00:27:42.420 but it will be worth it

00:27:44.000 if we do not have Kevin McCarthy

00:27:46.040 unaccountable as Speaker of the House.

00:27:48.500 And I made that argument at Turning Point.

00:27:51.060 Take a listen.

00:27:51.560 So our laws and our tactics must change.

00:27:59.100 But some of our leaders must be changed, too.

00:28:05.560 Our ancestors,

00:28:07.920 out of love of country,

00:28:10.060 pledged their lives and their fortunes

00:28:12.660 and their sacred honor.

00:28:14.080 Is the best Congress can really do today

00:28:17.500 pledging a vote for Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy?

00:28:23.620 I've had enough McFailure.

00:28:27.040 In football,

00:28:28.520 when the team doesn't win the games it's supposed to win,

00:28:32.680 they fire the coach.

00:28:34.660 In business,

00:28:35.640 when the company does not match its projected earnings,

00:28:39.360 then the board gets rid of the CEO.

00:28:41.460 And so in Republican politics,

00:28:44.640 maybe I'm not the crazy one

00:28:46.360 if I say that the people

00:28:47.800 who vastly underperformed expectations

00:28:50.600 shouldn't be promoted

00:28:52.300 to third in line to the presidency.

00:28:59.700 My friends,

00:29:00.800 I take no joy in sharing this with you,

00:29:03.920 but I'm going to tell you now

00:29:05.380 what every single Republican member of Congress

00:29:08.760 knows in their heart

00:29:10.060 whether they'll admit it or not.

00:29:12.880 Kevin McCarthy

00:29:13.820 believes in nothing.

00:29:17.360 I'm serious about that.

00:29:20.180 Nothing except money and power.

00:29:22.480 But he failed to deliver the power,

00:29:24.600 as promised.

00:29:25.580 And he got plenty of money,

00:29:26.780 some of it from Sam Bankman Freed.

00:29:29.340 But he believes in nothing.

00:29:31.960 And if we vote for him,

00:29:33.740 neither do we.

00:29:34.480 Peter Thiel called these midterm elections

00:29:38.340 depressingly disastrous.

00:29:41.480 But they are revealing

00:29:42.940 because we saw failure up close.

00:29:46.400 And as Tucker Carlson reminded us

00:29:48.320 at the beginning of this conference,

00:29:50.480 we must learn from this experience

00:29:52.640 and grow and be better.

00:29:55.520 Kevin McCarthy

00:29:56.260 calls his lobbyist-written platform

00:29:58.940 the commitment to America.

00:30:00.840 But Kevin doesn't keep his commitments.

00:30:04.300 Not to the Republican conference,

00:30:06.140 not to anyone,

00:30:07.160 but the lobbyists that fund campaigns.

00:30:09.480 Kevin isn't committed.

00:30:10.900 He is compromised

00:30:11.660 by the corrupt swamp. 0.98

00:30:13.960 And he's incoherent.

00:30:16.000 When you believe in nothing,

00:30:17.800 my friends,

00:30:18.420 you will settle on everything.

00:30:20.360 You'll farm out the work,

00:30:22.020 enrich your pals,

00:30:23.080 and maybe they'll even let you

00:30:24.360 crash their pad.

00:30:26.180 But I think Joe Biden

00:30:27.920 might actually be right

00:30:29.080 about one thing.

00:30:29.900 We are in a battle

00:30:32.960 for the soul of our country.

00:30:35.900 And Kevin is going into that battle

00:30:37.840 with soulless influence peddlers

00:30:40.280 by his side.

00:30:42.080 He isn't on this stage today

00:30:44.360 because I am pretty confident

00:30:45.840 he would get booed off of it.

00:30:47.440 I would be a great leader.

00:30:59.600 I just have no followers.

00:31:01.900 You say what you will about Trump,

00:31:04.000 but he actually believed in stuff,

00:31:05.880 making our country better.

00:31:07.460 His beliefs were so bold

00:31:09.820 that the media could not stop

00:31:11.760 obsessing about them or him

00:31:13.920 or all of us who supported him.

00:31:20.500 Trump's policies were so good,

00:31:22.760 Joe Biden's even trying

00:31:23.800 to copy him right now.

00:31:25.440 Banning TikTok

00:31:26.120 was initially a Trump initiative.

00:31:28.980 Domesticating manufacturing

00:31:30.700 was an issue set

00:31:32.320 that Trump talked about

00:31:33.500 way before anyone else

00:31:34.780 in American politics

00:31:35.860 had any type of vision for it.

00:31:37.660 And the Joe Biden

00:31:39.260 streamlining permitting bill

00:31:40.660 is essentially an extension

00:31:42.120 of the regulatory reform

00:31:43.780 instituted by President Trump.

00:31:46.080 These are indeed Trump's initiatives.

00:31:48.320 And now I fear, my friends,

00:31:50.020 we are in need of true vision.

00:31:53.140 Our politics cannot just be money

00:31:55.540 running through lobbyist luncheons

00:31:57.560 and sloganeering with focus groups.

00:32:00.120 Biden is 80 and totally senile.

00:32:03.140 So you tell me, 1.00

00:32:04.960 why is he kicking our ass 0.99

00:32:06.220 on this omnibus spending bill 0.99

00:32:07.760 right now?

00:32:08.960 It's because Kevin McCarthy

00:32:11.740 believes in nothing.

00:32:15.040 Here's what I believe.

00:32:16.620 I believe we should put budgets

00:32:18.140 on the floor of the House

00:32:19.360 that balance

00:32:20.200 and then we should vote for them.

00:32:21.640 I believe we should have

00:32:22.740 immigration laws

00:32:23.920 that we're serious about

00:32:25.300 and actually enforce.

00:32:26.540 And when people break those laws,

00:32:28.160 they should actually be deported

00:32:29.660 where they came from,

00:32:31.000 not be allowed to stick around

00:32:32.200 our country by the millions

00:32:34.020 starting the new wave

00:32:35.200 of chain migration.

00:32:38.560 I believe we ought to have

00:32:40.000 a full court press

00:32:41.280 against this weaponized government

00:32:43.480 that has been turned

00:32:44.520 against our people. 0.64

00:32:45.840 And if that means abolishing

00:32:47.100 every one of these

00:32:47.940 three-letter agencies

00:32:49.020 from the FBI to the ATF,

00:32:51.720 I'm ready to get going

00:32:53.080 and I've got my pencil.

00:32:54.440 I believe that we actually

00:33:04.000 ought to make voting easy

00:33:05.700 and cheating hard

00:33:06.980 and I believe we should not

00:33:08.380 sell out to powerful corporations

00:33:10.600 that pollute our water, 0.57

00:33:12.500 our skies,

00:33:13.340 or the digital marketplace

00:33:14.680 of ideas.

00:33:18.460 I'm grateful for your response

00:33:20.720 but I will admit

00:33:22.060 I am the most imperfect

00:33:24.360 of vessels

00:33:25.260 to be carrying this message.

00:33:27.560 Many of you prayed for me

00:33:28.740 and hoped for me

00:33:30.060 and I want you to know

00:33:31.280 how much that means to me.

00:33:33.740 Your faith in me

00:33:34.660 I truly hope to justify

00:33:36.260 each and every day

00:33:37.640 with service to you

00:33:40.020 and you alone.

00:33:45.860 President Trump proved

00:33:47.420 that even those of us

00:33:48.960 who have flaws

00:33:49.960 can fight back

00:33:51.320 against a corrupt system

00:33:52.800 without fear.

00:33:54.620 And so I will work

00:33:55.760 with anyone and everyone

00:33:57.560 to change this system

00:33:59.020 and to deliver results

00:34:00.300 for our brave patriots.

00:34:01.960 To stop the invasion

00:34:03.240 on our southern border,

00:34:04.740 to end wars

00:34:05.940 that drain our nation

00:34:07.360 of its treasure

00:34:08.200 and its bravest patriots,

00:34:09.860 to stop sending money

00:34:11.100 to Ukraine,

00:34:12.380 like,

00:34:12.980 somehow that's a bigger priority

00:34:16.200 than what's happening

00:34:16.920 to our people.

00:34:17.680 And certainly

00:34:19.340 to restrict unfair trade.

00:34:21.580 But we should not

00:34:22.960 move forward

00:34:23.760 beholden

00:34:25.040 to the legislative policy

00:34:27.120 written by Frank Luntz

00:34:29.040 on a bar napkin.

00:34:30.680 We should not be beholden

00:34:32.860 to the free speech policy

00:34:34.780 that was passed

00:34:35.820 to Kevin McCarthy

00:34:36.760 in exchange for money

00:34:38.460 from his best friend

00:34:39.960 Pfizer lobbyist.

00:34:41.060 And we should not

00:34:42.700 be beholden

00:34:43.580 to the political philosophy

00:34:45.420 of Kevin McCarthy

00:34:46.660 at all

00:34:47.420 because Kevin McCarthy

00:34:49.480 believes in nothing.

00:34:51.540 I believe in things

00:34:52.800 and I know you do too.

00:34:54.360 We've got a country

00:34:55.220 to save.

00:34:56.000 You can fight with me

00:34:56.940 any day of the week,

00:34:57.800 Turning Point.

00:34:58.460 Let's go get them.

00:34:59.380 Man, that was fun.

00:35:09.860 Special thanks

00:35:10.560 to Charlie Kirk

00:35:11.900 and the entire team

00:35:13.020 at Turning Point

00:35:13.860 for putting on

00:35:14.940 just a terrific opportunity

00:35:16.680 for collaboration

00:35:17.560 and discussion

00:35:18.440 of ideas.

00:35:19.400 And thank you so much

00:35:20.360 for joining me.

00:35:21.580 We're going to be fighting

00:35:22.240 against this omnibus

00:35:23.800 spending legislation

00:35:24.900 and the corrupt system

00:35:27.040 that allows that

00:35:28.100 to continue to happen

00:35:29.120 to our people.

00:35:30.340 Thanks for joining me.

00:35:31.060 Make sure you're subscribed

00:35:31.920 with notifications turned on.

00:35:34.020 We'll be back.

00:35:35.380 Roll the credits.

00:35:54.900 We'll be back.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - December 21, 2022

Episode 81 LIVE： Omni-Bust (feat. Rep. Dan Bishop) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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