The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 85 - Drilling Banned Off Florida's Coast! Oscars Go Full-Blown Woke. Olympics in Tokyo Are A Go.

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 the news for florida

00:00:22.460 and for florida's first congressional district in particular could not be better today president

00:00:28.260 trump making the decision that there will be no drilling off the coast of florida georgia or south

00:00:35.240 carolina this allows my community to continue to grow its military mission by the way it's a pretty

00:00:41.640 bad idea to shoot experimental missiles over oil rigs pretty easy for the president to grasp that

00:00:47.660 concept but it will also mean that our environment and our economy will be protected from the risks

00:00:54.560 of drilling our good friends in alabama and louisiana and texas if they want to drill off

00:01:00.260 their coast they have made that decision we'll let them do that and then we'll let them drive on over

00:01:05.660 to the beautiful beaches of florida to enjoy them to the lovely properties of florida and to the great

00:01:11.940 environment of florida i'm so happy that president trump has worked with our office so closely on this

00:01:18.220 decision this has been something i've advocated for for gosh you know three and a half years

00:01:23.360 stopping oil drilling off the coast of my district is one of the principal reasons that i ran for

00:01:29.460 congress and it's a great sense of achievement for the trump administration and for our community

00:01:35.060 to be able to say that florida is protected from drilling for another 10 years here's the president

00:01:40.900 in a few moments i will sign a presidential order extending the moratorium on offshore drilling on

00:01:47.420 florida's gulf coast and expanding it to florida's atlantic coast as well as the coasts of georgia and

00:01:54.260 south carolina

00:01:55.160 keeping up with the kardashians is coming to an end that's right the show is uh concluding its last run

00:02:08.540 and i guess we'll be off to the land of syndication i'll be honest with you i think the last kardashian

00:02:15.000 i truly kept up with was robert kardashian who was the lawyer who defended oj the dad

00:02:22.420 and he died of cancer and his daughters became far more famous than than he was as a successful

00:02:29.940 attorney playing a significant role some would say maybe even an infamous role in the oj trial but

00:02:37.160 now it's kim and the rest of the crew on to a different venture a different pursuit than keeping

00:02:43.900 up with the kardashians somehow i think they'll still find their way to the public eye

00:02:48.980 i do not want to shop in any grocery store in america that doesn't love america and i've got some

00:02:59.680 real questions about the food lion chain the story comes to us from todd starnes at toddstarnes.com

00:03:06.980 grocery store tells air force veteran to remove american flag mask that's right the air force

00:03:14.440 veteran in this particular case was an employee of food lion he was engaged in the right hygiene

00:03:22.100 wearing a mask but was apparently told that the american flag mask was offensive take a listen to

00:03:28.740 this interview with todd starnes as a veteran i love my country i love my flag i live in a military

00:03:34.320 town have like north carolina i'm about a mile away from cherry point marine corps air station

00:03:38.960 so you've got the second marine aircraft wing you've got a lot of military a lot of veterans

00:03:44.000 when they said put the mask on or you can't work here as a retired broadcaster myself and

00:03:50.920 a veteran i said well okay no problem i'll see if i can find a mask that works for me and those gator

00:03:57.680 masks work uh the ones that wrap around the head i found one with an american flag design on it and i

00:04:04.120 found one with a thin blue line flag on it i've been wearing them all summer long no problem three

00:04:10.780 days ago somebody apparently complained about me wearing the flag at the time i really was the way

00:04:20.480 the political atmosphere is today you just think everybody's saying that because they hate the flag

00:04:25.020 but it could also have been someone who's saying you violated the flag code and you're not really

00:04:31.840 allowed to wear anything that depicts the american flag because it's showing disrespect for the flag

00:04:37.900 i stood my ground and said okay if i can't wear this flag i can't work here so i left and then it

00:04:46.580 blew up on facebook from there good on you gary dean for serving your country in the united states air force

00:04:52.160 for reflecting your patriotism and shame on food lion do better be best

00:04:57.920 the academy awards are frankly awards that hollywood gives itself it's not something i've paid much

00:05:08.480 attention to but the academy did make an announcement today that i did find interesting they've announced

00:05:14.980 new inclusion and representation standards so for any movie to be eligible for best picture consideration

00:05:22.860 at the 96th oscars uh this is in 2024 a film must meet two out of the four standards so so i'm going to go

00:05:32.080 through the four standards on screen representation of themes and narratives creative leadership and project

00:05:39.280 team industry access and opportunities and audience development so none of these have to do with whether

00:05:47.680 or not it's a good or enjoyable movie they're all these like new woketopian standards on you know

00:05:55.200 inclusion and diversity which are laudable goals but they're also different than the quality of a film

00:06:03.680 we are now entering an era in the united states i worry where we water down the objective analysis over

00:06:11.560 achievement and instead replace that objective analysis with this type of virtue signaling and of

00:06:18.400 course it would start in hollywood and of course it would start with the oscars showing frankly what a

00:06:25.040 real joke hollywood is and how detached they are from regular america our job is to make sure that in

00:06:33.100 america someone's achievement someone's success can be celebrated and that it's not replaced by some

00:06:41.260 virtue signal uh to satisfy the woketopia i think that what makes america special is that anyone from

00:06:49.340 anywhere of any skin color or national origin or any story can make something of themselves in our country

00:06:57.100 and i want to ensure that we preserve equality as the organizing principle of our country

00:07:03.020 so that everyone is still able to achieve

00:07:06.220 president trump nominated for the nobel peace prize as a consequence of his work on the historic

00:07:15.820 uae israel peace deal and that nomination comes from a member of the norwegian parliament

00:07:22.860 making the argument and i'm quoting here from the nomination letter as it is expected other middle

00:07:29.180 eastern countries will follow in the footsteps of the uae this agreement could be a game changer

00:07:34.380 that will turn the middle east into a region of cooperation and prosperity so now that we're seeing

00:07:40.780 a more peaceful middle east perhaps we will be able to spend less u.s treasure and less u.s blood

00:07:49.420 frankly in the middle east the president is expected to announce a troop drawdown today from iraq taking

00:07:57.340 another step to stop the endless wars that far too many in washington including joe biden have

00:08:04.700 perpetrated and they've perpetrated it oftentimes not for the benefit of the united states but for the

00:08:10.220 benefit of the bottom lines of certain defense contractors who seem to do well when we are in a position of

00:08:17.340 endless war so good on the president let's hope for a more peaceful middle east a more peaceful world

00:08:24.540 and we thank the norwegians for their kind words about president trump and their nomination letter

00:08:30.140 for the nobel peace prize you never know it could happen

00:08:37.180 northeastern university is sending home 11 students a little bit lighter in the pocketbook

00:08:43.980 after they violated social distancing rules apparently these 11 students had a party in a hotel room

00:08:50.620 and they will not see a refund of their nearly 37 000 in tuition for the semester program that they

00:08:59.500 were enrolled in and these universities are getting serious we continue to see reports in florida alabama

00:09:06.220 elsewhere where as student populations are getting together as testing is deployed into those populations

00:09:14.380 there's a lot of coronavirus and there's a whole lot of social and not a lot of distancing

00:09:19.580 i would not want to be the person responsible for keeping a bunch of college kids off of each other

00:09:25.020 i mean one of the whole things in college is that you're interacting oftentimes with different types

00:09:30.620 of people from different types of communities or backgrounds than you might otherwise see i know

00:09:36.380 that was the case for me at florida state university you know i came from a very homogenous

00:09:42.860 pro-military veteran-oriented community kind of a beach town in northwest florida and when you go to

00:09:51.340 florida state gosh you got folks from miami you got folks from all over the world you got people who

00:09:57.100 have lived different types of lives and one of the fun and exciting things about college is to interact

00:10:02.300 with those folks to learn about their experiences to go on dates with them to hang out in hotel rooms and

00:10:09.580 in apartment buildings and play video games and play beer pong and just enjoy those elements of social

00:10:17.660 college life that we would all be remiss if if we didn't recognize was sort of a rite of passage for

00:10:24.380 a lot of young people in college but in the era of coronavirus we need our young people to be ever

00:10:30.780 diligent about their hygiene sanitation maybe there are a few things that you used to do that you

00:10:37.180 shouldn't be doing now and at northeastern university they're at least setting the standard that if

00:10:42.940 you're caught breaking the rules don't expect to get your money back and while you want to be

00:10:48.380 sympathetic to the kids that paid that money i get it from the standpoint of the university and i don't

00:10:53.660 often defend like the higher education industrial complex but look in this particular case the university

00:11:00.540 had to plan for these students they had to create space for them that space was deprived to other

00:11:05.660 students they had to hire faculty that faculty had to you know prepare for the pedagogy that would go

00:11:12.700 on in the classroom and if that's not going to be an option because of folks violating social distancing

00:11:19.500 rules and seemingly acting in blatant violation of those rules and and sneaking around to do so well

00:11:26.700 i mean i think there have to be some consequences so i hope that we can have the college experience such

00:11:34.060 that it is in this era of the pandemic young people who are in college now really have have seen

00:11:40.940 substantial impact whether it's a change to their high school experience a change to their employment

00:11:46.060 opportunities uh changes in internships i know that's been a real thing that has frustrated our office

00:11:52.540 in congress we love having the energy and excitement of new ideas and critical thinking of interns just

00:11:59.980 around the office to ask questions and check what we're doing and we miss out on that in coronavirus

00:12:05.900 and i know that that also is is depriving some young people of the experience and opportunities that

00:12:12.540 they would otherwise have and so we want college life to be productive and fun we also want it to be safe

00:12:19.900 so wash your hands and keep your distance

00:12:22.220 bbc news is reporting that social gatherings of any more than six people are now banned in england this

00:12:33.660 new law would have a 100 pound fine for people who fail to comply a doubling on each offense with a

00:12:41.500 maximum of 3 200 pounds per fine so the new rules will not apply to schools workplaces or covid

00:12:50.300 secure weddings funerals and organized team sports but otherwise no gatherings of more than six so i

00:12:57.500 guess if you go out to eat you'll only see tables of six available for people it will be interesting

00:13:03.980 to see the enforceability of this government at times has to have humility to understand that

00:13:09.820 if people are not bought in to the regulations that we'd like to place on them that they're just not

00:13:15.740 going to follow them and so we'll see if this is a trend that uh sweeps through europe or that crosses

00:13:22.220 the pond to the united states but no more than six in your favorite english pub for now

00:13:32.620 the new york times has the story the trump administration and the department of justice

00:13:37.340 are preparing to file antitrust suits against google in the coming weeks google ceo sundar pichai

00:13:44.860 was recently before the house judiciary committee and answered questions on the issue of antitrust

00:13:50.220 usually in our quest to regulate big companies we end up hurting small companies more and i'm a

00:13:55.740 strong privacy advocate but the consequences of gdpr have been to further entrench large established

00:14:01.340 actors like google leading to regulatory capture that exasperates competition concerns and google's

00:14:07.980 digital ad market share has increased since the implication implementation of gdpr do you know that to

00:14:13.580 be correct uh congressman to just give you a sense of the robust competition we see ad prices have

00:14:20.780 fallen down by 40 percent in the past 10 years and in fact in the u.s advertising as a share of gdp has

00:14:28.060 come down from 1.4 percent in 1990 to less than one percent today so we see robust competition in the

00:14:34.860 marketplace and as i said earlier you know we have to comply with regulation we have to interpret it

00:14:41.020 strictly and we have to balance the ecosystem but our utmost care is ensuring privacy and security of

00:14:47.660 our users google has a near monopoly on search they develop other business lines that make things very

00:14:54.140 difficult on their competitors and while i think that the utilization of antitrust laws should often be

00:14:59.660 a last resort right now you have this company that is trying to control what people see and what they

00:15:06.940 think so they can control how they behave one of the things that really troubled me about google

00:15:13.420 was the behavior we saw following the 2016 election sundar pachai and his senior leadership team

00:15:20.140 got together and talked about how bad it was that donald trump had won and how they felt an obligation

00:15:25.660 to ensure that it didn't happen again listen to my questioning of sundar pachai on just that instance

00:15:30.940 mr pachai in 2016 there was an internal google meeting you attended that meeting along with

00:15:37.580 sergey brin a video of that meeting was leaked to breitbart and at the meeting top google executives

00:15:44.300 including kent walker lamented trump's victory they compared trump voters to extremists and it was

00:15:52.300 discussed that there was an intent to make the trump win a blip in the populist movement in american

00:16:00.540 history now i know you've testified today in response to my questions and mr jordan's questions

00:16:05.660 that you don't intend this time to engage in electioneering on behalf of the former vice president

00:16:13.180 but given the video evidence of senior members of your team in your presence saying that they had the

00:16:21.580 intent to make the trump victory a blip why should we believe that testimony today congressman

00:16:28.060 uh we do not have a view on we respect the democratic process we are deeply committed to

00:16:35.740 it as a company we take pride in the information we provide to help people participate in free

00:16:41.340 elections and we are deeply committed to it as i said to congressman jordan as well remember that meeting

00:16:49.260 uh uh 2016 yes i do yes i do so if the trump administration believes that antitrust laws

00:16:56.540 have been broken i think it's entirely appropriate for them to engage we saw all 50 states attorney

00:17:03.180 general bring an action together against google for a potential fraud in their ad platform in the way

00:17:11.740 they treat advertisers in the way that they're really robbing a lot of local news sites of their

00:17:18.380 advertising revenue and i'm eager to see how the federal litigation goes the state-based litigation

00:17:24.940 hasn't really you know gone too far beyond a press conference and a filing there hasn't been active

00:17:30.540 discovery and fact-finding but hopefully the trump administration will find more and hopefully

00:17:36.460 google will be better

00:17:41.340 in rochester new york we continue to see riots and arson and destruction as a consequence of the

00:17:49.260 activity going on there and the news is that the police leaders the law enforcement leadership

00:17:56.060 community in rochester has resigned as a consequence of what you see happening on the streets there and

00:18:02.940 we talk about this in terms of a growing dynamic in the country where law enforcement are treated as

00:18:11.180 like second-class citizens and it's totally insane for a country as great as ours not to honor and 0.68

00:18:18.860 cherish our law enforcement community and we're seeing fewer people aspire to law enforcement careers

00:18:25.580 we're seeing more folks take retirement early and it is not going to be a good thing for the streets in

00:18:33.340 our communities if good people are not still willing to step forward and help keep us safe

00:18:39.500 so as we hear about the destruction in rochester as we're concerned for the citizens there we continue to

00:18:46.140 see the situation deteriorate as the police leadership step aside here's my question who do you think is

00:18:52.300 going to replace them i mean do you think that we're going to get more inclusive and thoughtful

00:18:58.540 policing as folks are bailing from the profession no naturally it's going to negatively impact the

00:19:05.020 profession if you drive a lot of the high quality talent away if you drive away people with experience

00:19:10.860 who can help execute on the training programs that we'd very much like to be able to support so that

00:19:16.780 we have de-escalation in events that could otherwise turn tragic or deadly and speaking of de-escalation

00:19:24.460 why has the senate and house leadership not worked together to pass senator tim scott's good policing bill

00:19:33.020 republicans have ideas to improve policing we're just not going to blame the police we're not going to

00:19:39.740 castigate and criticize and shame and and um you know make the job harder for police we want to

00:19:48.860 support police and active engaged law enforcement i think that's going to be a lot harder based on what

00:19:55.500 we're seeing in rochester and around the country the olympics in tokyo are happening with or without

00:20:06.060 covid bbc has the story and as you'll all remember the olympics were scheduled to start uh and then they

00:20:14.060 were postponed as a consequence of covid concerns now the international olympic committee saying they're

00:20:21.100 happening with or without covid and that the games will go on so uh not only will we see i think some

00:20:29.900 changes in how the games are presented you'll also see limited spectators a simplification of some of

00:20:38.220 the sports uh intense testing but under no circumstance are the olympics being canceled the games will go on

00:20:50.060 after a stop in jupiter florida the president was on to north carolina where tens of thousands of

00:20:57.180 patriots were gathered to hear his remarks and support him here's the president corporations and

00:21:02.380 far-left politicians have both sided with radical demonstrated over you look at that it's over the

00:21:08.860 law-abiding areas that we have you know republican cities and towns are doing great we're doing great

00:21:15.420 and we don't have crime and we don't have this violence chicago over the weekend many people killed

00:21:21.660 many people shot shot they're actually shot and killed new york the same thing new york's gone through

00:21:28.060 the roof they're up 300 percent in certain categories and you say what's happening and we want to send

00:21:34.460 them in so badly joe biden and his party spent the entire summer cheering on the rioters rampaging

00:21:40.220 through democrat-run cities falsely labeling them as peaceful protesters and you know we call you peaceful

00:21:46.860 protesters you know why because they have rules in these democrat-run states that if you're campaigning

00:21:54.700 you can't have more than five people they did that for me if you're going to church you can't go to

00:22:01.180 church anymore you can't go to church you can't go to church you can't do anything you have to stay in

00:22:08.860 your house but if you're willing to riot running down main street if you're willing to riot and stand on

00:22:14.780 top of each other's face and do whatever the hell you want to do you're allowed to do that because

00:22:20.140 you're considered a peaceful protester so we decided to call all our rallies peaceful protests

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 09, 2020

Episode 85 - Drilling Banned Off Florida's Coast! Oscars Go Full-Blown Woke. Olympics in Tokyo Are A Go.

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