The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz

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

00:00:06.120 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.780 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.980 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news but first let's talk

00:00:21.500 about the fake news there was a very hurtful damaging untrue fake news story in the atlantic

00:00:29.980 the president allegedly saying negative things about those who've been captured or hurt in battle

00:00:36.680 and it is just total nonsense i can tell you from personal experience with the president

00:00:42.300 having gone to dover with the president having discussed foreign policy and foreign engagement

00:00:48.800 and the value of the lives of americans who get hurt and killed in these endless wars the president is

00:00:56.800 deeply empathetic to their cause to and he admires their patriotism so let's figure out how this

00:01:03.940 happened the atlantic is a fake news organization owned principally by the widow of steve jobs and

00:01:12.360 they don't even feel the need in this story saying such incendiary things about the president to quote

00:01:18.980 a single on record source all these sources are anonymous they're on background they don't reflect

00:01:27.520 someone willing to put their name to the charges so that they can be scrutinized and tested against

00:01:33.600 the facts and the truth matter of fact breitbart is even reporting that the folks who are willing to go

00:01:39.960 on the record who were present allegedly at the time when folks are saying president trump said these

00:01:45.780 negative things the folks on the record by name are refuting the atlantic's story listen to jonah

00:01:53.520 goldberg who runs the atlantic try to defend this notion of anonymous sources on a cnn with host brian

00:02:01.960 stelter but why grant anonymity in the first place help viewers at home understand how this works

00:02:06.560 obviously these sources are not anonymous to you you know their names you know why they are credible

00:02:11.200 and you're attaching your own credibility to them by granting them anonymity right of course and as

00:02:18.140 jennifer griffin on on fox um said and i thought this was a great quote said these are not people who

00:02:24.320 are anonymous to me i mean yes we we know um if you're a good reporter you and you're going to quote

00:02:30.680 somebody anonymously you better have faith in what in what they're saying um it's a complicated thing

00:02:37.300 as you as you well know uh we all have to use anonymous sources especially in a climate in

00:02:42.600 which the president of the united states tries to actively intimidate journalism organizations and

00:02:47.260 people who provide information to journalism organizations but the the formula is simple

00:02:51.760 what you do is you have to say does the public's right to know or need to know a particular piece

00:02:57.280 of information outweigh the morally complicated and ambiguous qualities of anonymous sourcing

00:03:04.660 and so most of us most of the time don't rely on anonymous sourcing for most things because there

00:03:11.560 are difficulties there but in this climate with information that we judge the voters to need

00:03:17.080 we are going to um use anonymous sources because we think that the public has a right to know especially

00:03:23.940 when you have four five six sources primary sources corroborating sources telling you the same thing

00:03:30.520 they're not anonymous to me that is i guess the position that our mainstream media takes today

00:03:35.940 we know what them being not anonymous to you doesn't allow the rest of us to test the veracity and come to

00:03:42.800 our own opinions and to come to our own conclusions these bloggers for billionaires which is really what the

00:03:48.960 mainstream media has become don't serve to create truth or report the facts they just want to get clicks

00:03:55.640 they just want to get visits to their website so if they can cobble together five or six anonymous

00:04:00.760 sources and then report that out all the better doesn't even matter if it's true to them i wrote a

00:04:06.900 book called firebrand it's going to be coming out later this month folks can go and get it if they'd like

00:04:12.000 but the important note for this story is that in my book i wrote a chapter called ending endless wars

00:04:17.520 and there i describe going to dover with president trump and that evening he had actually cut a campaign

00:04:25.100 rally in new hampshire short because he wanted to make sure he could offer comfort to the grieving

00:04:32.240 families that he could be with those who were making the final trip back to the shores of the united

00:04:39.280 states after having paid the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan and president trump said to me about our

00:04:46.900 trip to dover matt we have to come here we have to show the rest of the country the cost of these wars

00:04:53.840 one time when the president and i were you know debating foreign policy and discussing foreign

00:04:59.940 engagement he even said to me matt i believe what you believe even more than you believe it and that

00:05:06.020 is trump speak for a commitment an enduring desire to see america disengage from the conflicts that make

00:05:14.480 defense contractors rich at the expense of our bravest patriots that that we could possibly offer

00:05:21.320 so the merit of the trump administration the value of the trump administration to our troops aren't

00:05:28.600 just the things said it's what's been done it's the policy perspective that has led to i think a far

00:05:36.520 more rational approach to u.s foreign policy i mean we've got plenty of folks in the republican party

00:05:42.760 the boltonistas if you will led currently by liz cheney in the house of representatives

00:05:48.020 who would be happy to extend america's military to every corner of the globe to engage in every

00:05:55.620 skirmish every fight they believe that makes america stronger we know that actually makes america weaker

00:06:02.500 president trump honors our troops by honoring their lives by honoring their sacrifice by reforming the va

00:06:11.300 by getting them better equipment and better health care and by ensuring that if americans are called to

00:06:18.900 fight when the cause is right and just that we have the unprecedented ability to win and to win decisively

00:06:27.620 and to win immediately that is the way to honor our troops and not to sit there with the armchair generals

00:06:35.540 and you know some of the folks at the pentagon who see foreign war not through the cost of america's treasure

00:06:43.540 or through the lives of our service members and their families but through profits and quarterly earnings

00:06:50.340 for lobbyists and defense contractors american service members are far too precious to waste in any

00:06:58.500 a type of engagement that doesn't directly impact america's safety and america's interests and the

00:07:06.340 safety and interests of our allies i have seen firsthand president trump value our troops value our service

00:07:13.700 members and it's why i know this story from the atlantic is bullshit

00:07:21.460 the chinese communist party has had a strategy to establish confucius institutes on college campuses

00:07:28.420 by year's end the way they're going to do that is by designating these confucius institutes

00:07:46.740 foreign missions morgan ortegas was on lou dobbs tonight she's the spokesperson for the state department

00:07:53.620 take a listen you have to remember not that long ago we closed the chinese consulate in

00:07:58.100 houston just for that matter because we found that it was basically ground zero for the intellectual

00:08:03.780 property theft of american research and american medical research from universities and hospitals

00:08:11.220 in the united states so the first step that we've taken with these confucius institutes is to designate

00:08:16.340 them as foreign missions what does that mean we're essentially letting these 75 confucius institutes

00:08:22.260 uh and the and the 500 satellites that are that are on campuses around the country

00:08:26.580 we want these universities and we want people to know when they walk into confucius institutes

00:08:30.820 they're not working walking into peaceful cultural centers they're walking into propaganda arms of the

00:08:35.940 chinese communist party here's my hot take confucius institutes should not be allowed in america they

00:08:43.620 are foreign spying missions they are intelligence gathering operations and i think by now we've learned that the

00:08:50.100 chimerica dream promised to us by the likes of henry kissinger and others has really been a nightmare for

00:08:57.380 the current generation of americans whether it's pandemics whether it is the extensive amount of

00:09:03.540 intellectual property taken away from american businesses whether it is the currency manipulation

00:09:08.900 where it is whether it is the violation of wto trade rules whether it is the manipulation of

00:09:15.140 developing nation status to get special benefits that american workers don't get china cheats it is

00:09:22.660 what they do one might wonder why these confucius institutes were ever allowed on college campuses

00:09:28.580 in the first place and the answer is money what happens is when these chinese uh investors come in with

00:09:36.100 huge gobs of cash for administrators and professors and trips to china and study abroad programs

00:09:44.260 funding for chinese students paying top dollar the universities see the dollar signs and they don't

00:09:50.100 necessarily see the national security threat so this is not a state-by-state issue though there's

00:09:56.420 a lot that our states could do to become more resilient within university systems this is an issue of

00:10:01.940 national security we should get rid of these confucius institutes immediately i'm glad to see strong

00:10:08.260 action from the trump administration and secretary of state mike pompeo

00:10:15.220 is cnn's jake tapper engaged in direct election interference that's the question i think reasonably

00:10:23.300 posed by breitbart's matthew boyle in a piece that details jake tapper's efforts to get sean parnell a

00:10:31.380 star republican recruit for the 2020 election cycle to switch seats and not to challenge incumbent

00:10:38.820 democrat congressman connor lamb in his pennsylvania seat now jake tapper is a native of pennsylvania he is

00:10:46.740 a former democrat staffer and political operative for democrat causes in and around pennsylvania and he

00:10:54.820 presents himself on cnn as this kind of unbiased arbiter of the news but jake tapper is as biased as it

00:11:01.780 gets he's really engaged in advocacy journalism not reporting of the news and that advocacy is typically

00:11:09.220 seen through the disparity with which he treats kind of pro-trump subjects of interviews with those who are

00:11:17.300 anti-trump but it goes a totally like another step to the extreme when you've got this journalist

00:11:25.700 literally trying to advise and counsel a candidate on where to run why does this particular district

00:11:32.340 matter well the lamb district is one of the most pivotal swing districts and one of the most pivotal

00:11:37.940 swing states in the country and if republicans have any hope of taking power in the house of

00:11:43.380 representatives away from nancy pelosi republicans will have to defeat connor lamb it's one of those

00:11:49.380 types of districts and so by encouraging parnell a candidate who you know has a very strong military

00:11:55.620 background who spent i think like 485 days along the afghan pakistani border where some of the toughest

00:12:03.380 fighting has gone on in this afghanistan war in the pursuit of osama bin laden you've got someone who

00:12:11.940 you know would be among the most impressive republican candidates recruited for the cycle

00:12:17.700 and jake tapper doesn't want to see him run against connor lamb he doesn't want to see republicans have

00:12:23.460 the best chance to take back the house because in jake tapper's world it's better if nancy pelosi remains

00:12:29.540 the speaker that's okay if you're a citizen if you're even an opinion journalist who presents yourself

00:12:36.260 honestly but jake tapper is a hypocrite because he pretends like he's this you know unbiased reporter

00:12:44.340 of the news when in reality he's gone back to his operative days trying to help democrats retain control

00:12:52.100 of the house of representatives through this particular seat shame on jake tapper just just admit

00:12:57.860 it just admit that you are a democrat operative who happens to have a television presence that's

00:13:05.140 very extensive and significant on cnn and that you want the democrats to win you know if if journalists

00:13:11.700 if opinion journalists if television anchors if talk show hosts are more honest about their politics

00:13:19.060 i think the american people are accepting of it i think what frustrates folks is when you present

00:13:23.620 yourself as straight news and you're anything but jake tapper got caught good for breitbart for reporting the story

00:13:30.820 over the weekend i had the opportunity to join steve hilton on the next revolution to discuss the

00:13:40.020 future of the republican party beyond trump and the importance of the america first movement within the

00:13:46.020 republican party take a listen i think the establishment hopes that donald trump is just a rogue wave but in

00:13:52.260 fact he's the front end of the wave and as one of the younger members of congress i have a vested interest

00:13:57.860 in what the future of the republican party looks like and i believe it should be a party that embraces

00:14:02.660 the mantra of america first you didn't hear a lot of republicans talking about america first before

00:14:08.020 donald trump and we should never stray from that brand and that lexicon it's just really funny to hear

00:14:14.500 some of the establishment republicans talk about mago world as a cult of personality i think they're

00:14:20.180 confused because many of their champions like mit romney and john kasich had no personality at all

00:14:26.980 and so having a little personality and animating our values with a little bit of energy is a good

00:14:32.580 thing it's the stuff of winning and it's why in tens of days i believe that the country will re-elect

00:14:38.020 donald trump and keep the good times rolling even in the midst of a pandemic as we are working to stitch

00:14:48.260 together what was the strongest economy in the world what really still is the strongest economy in the

00:14:54.260 world but what was one of the strongest american economies relative to the global economy ever at

00:15:00.820 the beginning of the trump administration now we're seeing unemployment drop to 8.4

00:15:07.300 job numbers looking good here is labor secretary eugene scalia on fox and friends to give the update

00:15:13.700 it's a really good report it was a great way to head into labor day weekend for the american worker

00:15:19.140 as you say 8.4 percent unemployment uh the experts watching the job markets were saying we wouldn't

00:15:25.620 get there maybe till late next year uh under the last administration during the so-called great

00:15:31.300 recession our last economic downturn it took 34 months nearly three years to get unemployment down

00:15:38.820 under 8.5 percent the president the country we've done it in four months so it's a very strong trend we've

00:15:46.020 now added 10.6 million jobs uh since april we've got obviously more work to do but we're making

00:15:53.380 strong progress up better than had been projected

00:15:59.780 now i think i've seen it all in the state of california cnn's holly silverman reporting a pyrotechnic

00:16:07.140 device at a gender reveal party sparked one of the california wildfires burning over 8 600 acres

00:16:16.020 that's right folks went to a public park in san bernardino county in california they were preparing

00:16:22.500 to enjoy their gender reveal with a little bit of pyrotechnics and when they set off the fireworks

00:16:29.380 and the explosives the spark spread and created this fire that is now only seven percent contained

00:16:36.820 the story from cnn does not tell us whether the gender reveal indicated that we were having a boy

00:16:42.660 or having a girl and shockingly this is not the first time this has happened in 2017 a gender reveal

00:16:49.540 party in arizona sparked a wildfire that burned nearly 47 000 acres causing more than eight million

00:16:56.980 dollars in damage and in the arizona case the expecting father was a border patrol agent who was

00:17:02.900 shooting pyrotechnics out of a high-powered rifle he pled guilty in 2018 to a misdemeanor got five years

00:17:10.180 probation was ordered to pay almost 8.2 million in restitution probably not going to be paid on a

00:17:17.460 border patrol salary but nonetheless the liability exists and maybe in the middle of a drought in

00:17:23.780 arizona and california we've learned our lesson that we could do gender reveal with a cake maybe

00:17:30.180 something that doesn't explode or light on fire or get shot out of anything at a time when so many

00:17:36.660 millions of acres in california are being destroyed as a consequence of these wildfires so enjoy your

00:17:43.620 gender reveal party i'm not part of the like you know ultra militant uh trans group that says that

00:17:50.980 a gender reveal party is offensive or hostile i actually think it's okay to celebrate if you're

00:17:56.740 having a boy or a girl um but certainly not in a way that would create damage and havoc and destruction

00:18:03.780 so keep the fire and the pyrotechnics out of your gender reveal

00:18:10.580 this next story is graphic and tragic and very telling about the chinese communist party and what

00:18:18.580 their government does to people who are not han chinese in some circumstances it comes to us through

00:18:26.020 itv news it is the story of a young uyghur man listen to his experience they beat me with twittest wire and

00:18:35.300 the pipe non-stop there was no place left without breathing they hung me by my arms for three hours

00:18:42.980 i couldn't cope any longer so i begged them to take me down from hanging then they placed me on a chair

00:18:50.500 facing back waters and hit my bottom after screaming and begging for so long i passed out

00:18:58.100 when i woke up i found myself lying on the floor they asked me if i wanted to water i said yes

00:19:05.700 about one and a half an hour later they started integrating me again which lasted total of seven

00:19:13.860 eight hours i was then taken back to my cell each time when the cell door opened it i prayed that they

00:19:21.860 hadn't come for me or please don't call my name they said you haven't felt severity of the pain enough yet

00:19:31.380 they used a white water pipe and hit the sole on my feet and the bottom over 100 times we must know

00:19:38.500 that we are not the chinese and they are not us we cannot tolerate this type of treatment of people

00:19:46.180 we cannot tolerate this type of worldview to metastasize across the globe it's why we have

00:19:53.300 to confront china and i believe that donald trump is really uniquely positioned to understand the china

00:20:01.780 threat to confront that threat and to ensure that it is the american value set that prevails in our world

00:20:13.220 let's have a hot take throwback this was posted on twitter by mark levin it is president

00:20:18.900 ronald reagan responding to questions about riots and destruction in the streets here's the gipper

00:20:25.860 with his hot take negotiate many times negotiate what is to negotiate what is

00:20:31.780 university is a public institution that's right but the university its own community and for the

00:20:37.380 community of berkeley that live around all of it began the first time some of you who know better

00:20:42.100 and are old enough to know better let young people think that they had the right to choose the laws they

00:20:48.340 would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protest i'm sick and tired of the

00:20:53.220 argument about whether some effort to enforce law and order is going to escalate anything at all

00:20:58.580 plain truth of the matter is this has to stop and it has to stop like the day before yesterday

00:21:04.100 and it's going to be stopped whatever it takes i was picked it a few days ago in california by

00:21:08.900 some youngsters that had signs that said make love not war trouble is they didn't look like they were

00:21:13.540 capable of doing either

00:21:14.500 how's that russian coronavirus vaccine doing well the weather channel india has some reporting

00:21:25.860 suggesting that in early human trials we are not seeing significant side effects there are trials

00:21:31.940 and studies recently published in the lancet showing that 78 humans were included between the

00:21:37.780 ages of 18 and 60 they were split into two groups provided the vaccine of course allowing for a

00:21:44.820 control to exist also and you just saw some pain in the injection site a little bit of hypothermia

00:21:51.780 but no real extended negative side effects and they are seeing a positive impact in the ability to

00:21:58.180 limit the spread of the virus so look i am hopeful that anyone working on the vaccine is able to be

00:22:04.100 successful i think ultimately we're going to need more than one vaccine winner we're going to have

00:22:10.100 the opportunity to produce multiple vaccines at scale in the united states operation warp speed

00:22:16.260 is already engaged in the production of millions of vaccines and some of our best known drug companies

00:22:22.100 are very optimistic about their development of various vaccine candidates so i'm still betting

00:22:28.260 on the united states of america to win the vaccine race but i am hopeful that multiple countries multiple

00:22:35.540 entities will find solutions that work for all of our people as we combat this pandemic so i'm not ready

00:22:42.500 to take the russian vaccine yet i'd like to see maybe human trials that are occurring more like those in

00:22:48.580 the united states that aren't testing 78 people but that are testing tens of thousands of people at a time

00:22:55.220 i think that gives us a greater sense of what the impact will be when you get mass distribution

00:23:00.420 of a vaccine but whenever we see good news we like to report it we like to share it and we're hopeful

00:23:06.420 that we see these vaccines on the market and available very soon thanks for listening to hot takes i'm

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Episode 84 - Atlantic Story on POTUS is BS. Explosive Gender Reveals. Is CNN's Jake Tapper Engaged in Election Interference？

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