The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - March 22, 2023


Episode 92 LIVE： Trump Trials – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

152.40334

Word Count

5,425

Sentence Count

309

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Ron DeSantis takes a shot at President Trump and calls for him to stand up for the rule of law in the wake of the ongoing case against him in the Avenatti case. Also, a new FBI headquarters is being built in Washington, D.C., and Joe Biden is being accused of lying to the FBI about his activities in the Joe Biden case.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 In battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.760 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.620 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington
00:00:09.220 on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:11.020 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.840 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.860 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.240 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.440 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.880 then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.280 You are in the right place.
00:00:31.160 This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.260 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.420 It's like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.060 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.
00:00:41.160 Many days, I'm a marked man in Congress,
00:00:43.780 a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:45.960 They aren't really coming for me.
00:00:47.940 They're coming for you.
00:00:49.760 I'm just in the way.
00:00:55.540 Okay, we might not see a court proceeding
00:00:57.400 until we are nearer and nearer to the 2024 GOP presidential race.
00:01:01.700 I know you're a fan of both former President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:01:06.480 And though he's not officially said that he's running,
00:01:09.060 there has been a lot of comparisons to the two men.
00:01:11.300 He's now catching flack from Trump backers for seemingly taking a jab at Mr. Trump
00:01:17.120 and all of the details surrounding this, some could say lurid case.
00:01:21.860 What are your thoughts on that?
00:01:22.780 Well, if I were governor of Florida,
00:01:26.000 I would not allow any Floridian to be hauled before some Soros-backed prosecutor
00:01:32.120 in some blue city over politics.
00:01:34.500 And I wouldn't make an exception to not protect the president of the United States.
00:01:38.660 Ron DeSantis should be standing in the breach
00:01:40.740 to stop any sort of extradition of President Trump from the state of Florida.
00:01:45.520 And the fact that he's not doing so puts every Floridian at risk
00:01:49.240 who could be the subject of a false allegation.
00:01:51.580 I know Ron DeSantis well, he's a friend,
00:01:53.820 but he hasn't been the target of false and persistent allegations like President Trump has.
00:02:00.220 And so I don't think he really understands the nature of this fight right now.
00:02:04.200 I think that it was a bit uncouth for him to take a jab at the former president.
00:02:08.540 And there's a role for the governor of Florida here,
00:02:10.880 I think, to stand up for our state, for the rule of law,
00:02:13.660 and to push back against the Soros-ization of the criminal justice system.
00:02:21.580 Welcome back to Firebrand.
00:02:23.520 We are live.
00:02:24.420 The Soros-ization of our criminal justice system is real.
00:02:28.520 I'm going to get to what's going on with the new FBI headquarters
00:02:32.620 that Nancy Pelosi has planned.
00:02:34.880 We ought to block that as it relates to Washington, D.C.
00:02:37.700 big news regarding the accuser of Joe Biden and some of his activities when he was in the United States Senate.
00:02:45.540 And, of course, we're going to get to the Trump trials.
00:02:48.160 That was Governor Ron DeSantis' opening salvo, I guess, of attacks,
00:02:52.940 taking a jab at the former president.
00:02:54.880 And I think the governor could do a whole lot of positive work here for the people of Florida
00:03:00.540 if he were to make it very clear that he is going to utilize his authority
00:03:04.840 to make it very difficult for Alvin Bragg to Soros-ize Florida and our citizens and our residents.
00:03:13.340 Thank you to everyone who's joining us today.
00:03:15.560 We've got one of the more international audiences we've ever had,
00:03:19.140 folks from American Samoa, Australia, Ireland, and then, of course, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia,
00:03:26.060 Virginia, Ohio, New York, Kansas, here at home.
00:03:31.120 The DeSantis thing is uncomfortable.
00:03:33.620 It's weird.
00:03:34.620 I know there are a lot of conservatives who look at Ron DeSantis as someone who's built out
00:03:39.640 a legacy and a platform in Florida about how conservative governance can work for people.
00:03:46.260 But at the same time, this jab at former President Trump, I think, has people wondering
00:03:51.720 whether or not there are other forces influencing the governor's behavior
00:03:57.880 as the chief executive of our state and as a political operator.
00:04:02.620 And there was sharp criticism from Donald Trump Jr. on his Rumble show, Triggered.
00:04:08.740 Take a listen.
00:04:09.240 I genuinely had hope, because I want there to be a strong Republican bench for the future,
00:04:18.840 okay?
00:04:19.280 But I understand how this works, right?
00:04:22.000 People push other people to run.
00:04:24.180 The consultant class does that, because guess what?
00:04:27.500 They only get paid if you run, because they take a piece of the ad buy and the commercial
00:04:31.800 buy and the this buy and the that buy and a piece of the fundraising dollars, and they all
00:04:36.840 get rich, but they don't get rich if you don't run.
00:04:39.700 So I had hope that perhaps DeSantis' week-long silent, while even rhino never-Trumpers, people
00:04:48.220 who hate Trump, even leftists, stepped up, was him waiting to perhaps make a big statement
00:04:56.320 at his already scheduled press conference.
00:04:59.520 But I was wrong.
00:05:00.880 DeSantis thinks that Democrats weaponizing the law to indict Trump is a, quote, manufactured
00:05:08.580 crisis?
00:05:09.880 It isn't a real issue?
00:05:11.900 Seriously?
00:05:13.060 Has he been watching anything?
00:05:15.540 To me, as I tweeted, it's pure weakness.
00:05:20.000 Now we know, while he was silent all weekend, and totally owned by Paul Ryan and Karl Rove and
00:05:27.980 his donors, that's what it is, guys.
00:05:31.700 He's owned by the billionaire donors.
00:05:34.260 100% controlled opposition.
00:05:37.120 Let's see which way the wind is blowing.
00:05:39.600 Let's see which way they want me to respond, and I will do it.
00:05:43.040 So I was hoping for a strong response, but we got a milquetoast response.
00:05:47.000 And to those who are wondering what the basis is in law for DeSantis to be able to push back,
00:05:55.780 I would cite Chapter 941 Florida Statutes.
00:05:59.340 This is the Extradition Act, and it requires the governor to essentially certify that another
00:06:05.160 state is making an actual allegation of an actual crime.
00:06:08.760 Here, we have seen Alvin Bragg, the Soros-backed Manhattan district attorney, really convert
00:06:17.040 through a tortured legal analysis, a misdemeanor into a felony.
00:06:22.140 And so here we have this low-achieving, counterproductive Manhattan DA deciding to charge former President
00:06:29.360 Trump.
00:06:30.660 And the misdemeanor would have had a two-year statute of limitations.
00:06:34.600 But he's elevating it to a felony now to extend that statute of limitations.
00:06:40.860 And there are a lot of people who believe that this would have been long ago forgotten
00:06:45.360 if Donald Trump wasn't a candidate for the presidency again.
00:06:48.420 And that is one of the things that makes this exercise so dangerous.
00:06:52.800 In the rest of the world, America will lose credibility if it looks like our leaders just
00:06:58.820 arrest their predecessors, their future potential rivals.
00:07:03.400 And in this case, they are one and the same.
00:07:06.660 There's a reason America has never gone down this road before, and it is not only dangerous
00:07:11.900 within our country, but it is dangerous to America's standing in the world to pursue this.
00:07:17.840 Alvin Bragg, in this case, has created a novel, untested legal theory that even most liberal
00:07:23.600 attorneys would agree is nonsense.
00:07:25.420 When President Trump is charged, I believe this indictment will be subject to an immediate
00:07:31.680 motion to dismiss as a matter of law.
00:07:34.580 So it's very hard to get indictments dismissed before evidence is introduced.
00:07:39.440 But if you take the position that every fact laid out in the indictment is true, but as a
00:07:44.240 matter of law, a charge would not stand, that would give the defense attorneys the opportunity
00:07:51.040 to file that motion.
00:07:52.040 And in this case, I believe it should be well-received by the courts.
00:07:56.520 Now, no American would ever face this charge if they were not President Trump.
00:08:02.640 That is why it is such an abuse, a weaponization of the criminal justice system.
00:08:07.880 Apparently, Alvin Bragg thinks that he can elevate the charge of falsifying business records to
00:08:12.480 a felony because there may be some connection to campaign finance laws.
00:08:16.320 Now, keep in mind, the Department of Justice rarely, if ever, prosecutes these types of
00:08:22.920 matters, even if there's a technical violation of federal criminal law.
00:08:26.020 And the DOJ, where Trump has very few allies and friends, explicitly declined any sort of
00:08:34.060 criminal process against Trump on the very same facts.
00:08:37.960 Alvin Bragg did not go out and develop some new set of facts to be able to go after Trump.
00:08:42.540 To the contrary, you've got a circumstance here where the case was largely disregarded by
00:08:49.820 DOJ, and now it's being revived as the consequence of an upcoming presidential political contest.
00:08:57.120 And it's a political hit job done by a Soros DA.
00:09:01.320 While campaigning on a platform to prosecute Trump explicitly and bragging the entire time
00:09:06.980 about how he had sued Trump more than 100 times while working in the New York Attorney General's
00:09:11.400 office, Alvin Bragg, he managed to attract the attention of a big donor.
00:09:18.620 Over $1 million in Soros money helped elect Alvin Bragg.
00:09:24.040 Over $1 million.
00:09:25.800 He may be the most notorious of the so-called Soros DAs, and there's a network of them.
00:09:32.860 We've been hearing about it all over the country.
00:09:35.340 We even have some in Florida.
00:09:37.000 They do things like refuse to prosecute violent crime while engaging in political targeting
00:09:43.800 of conservatives.
00:09:46.000 George Soros has spent over $40 million to elect 75 left-wing prosecutors over the last decade.
00:09:56.220 Think about that.
00:09:58.000 One in five Americans lives in an area controlled by the Soros prosecutorial tentacles.
00:10:05.600 Soros has funded the campaigns of prosecutors in Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.
00:10:13.020 How's life going there with rising crime?
00:10:16.520 But we've even seen it in the Virginia suburbs.
00:10:19.240 Counties in Mississippi and Wisconsin, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois.
00:10:25.200 Too many to list.
00:10:26.400 Now, it's hard to imagine that there's even a state out there who's escaped the reach of George Soros.
00:10:33.120 Almost every major city in the United States has some connection between the criminal justice decisions made there and the local DA.
00:10:40.880 There's a part of it that makes you almost admire Soros' efficient quest for power.
00:10:47.460 Because while you see tens of millions of dollars spent on one U.S. Senate rate, sometimes tens of millions of dollars spent on one seat in the United States Congress,
00:10:57.720 we can't throw anybody in jail.
00:11:00.440 The people who can decide whether to prosecute or not prosecute, whether to put the dangerous back into our communities,
00:11:07.020 whether to go after political rivals, those people now have as a principal benefactor in many cases and in many large cities, George Soros.
00:11:18.780 Unbelievable.
00:11:19.760 You'll recognize names such as George Gascon in Los Angeles, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Kim Fox in Chicago.
00:11:28.140 Even in Florida, Hillsborough County, state attorney Andrew Warren, whom DeSantis removed from office for intentionally abandoning his duties to enforce Florida law, has this Soros connection.
00:11:40.820 Wow, isn't that something?
00:11:42.380 Governor DeSantis was able to use his authority properly, I would argue, in the Andrew Warren matter.
00:11:50.080 In the Trump matter, a little different.
00:11:52.040 Now, Alvin Bragg has reduced the categorization of felonies in Manhattan by 52%.
00:12:01.620 So in 52% of cases where there's an original charge of a felony, it gets reduced to a misdemeanor or an original arrest for a felony.
00:12:09.860 Over half the time, if you get charged with a felony in the Alvin Bragg jurisdiction, you're looking at a downward departure.
00:12:17.200 And under that rule, with reduced penalties, we've seen more armed robberies.
00:12:24.720 We've seen a decision to no longer even prosecute resisting arrest.
00:12:29.440 So think about that.
00:12:30.440 If you're in Manhattan and you resist arrest from a police officer, you're not even going to get prosecuted for that, yet they want to go prosecute Trump for a nondisclosure payment seven years ago.
00:12:40.480 Alvin Bragg has virtually refused to enforce any criminal penalties for shoplifting at all.
00:12:48.460 You want to know why you get so much street crime, so many businesses leaving New York, so many people feeling unsafe when walking around the streets?
00:12:56.600 It's because there's really no enforcement or no penalties for shoplifting, and it degrades quality of life for people.
00:13:02.800 Donald Trump making a nondisclosure payment didn't degrade anyone's quality of life in Manhattan.
00:13:08.460 We've also seen Alvin Bragg join a lot of the other Soros DAs in vowing to eliminate pretrial detention in almost every case.
00:13:20.160 So if you rob someone at gunpoint, you can check into the police station and check out the same day.
00:13:27.900 That totally drains any deterrent value out of a system of arrest and prosecution and corrections.
00:13:36.000 Some violent criminals, such as assault and robbery, have increased 22% since Alvin Bragg took office.
00:13:44.420 So whether or not you get the message, the criminals have gotten the message.
00:13:48.620 And his soft on crime policy has led to an explosion of violent crime, anarchy across New York City.
00:13:55.040 Pharmacies, supermarkets, bodegas are having to lock their merchandise during business hours.
00:14:01.080 But it hasn't been enough to keep citizens safe.
00:14:05.660 Recently, Alvin Bragg went after a bodega owner, Jose Alba, for defending himself against a violent attacker
00:14:12.720 who came behind the counter of his store and attempted to beat him to death.
00:14:18.000 Jose managed to grab a knife and fend off the attacker, but Alvin Bragg decided to send him, the victim, to Rikers Island.
00:14:25.980 I guess Alvin Bragg would rather have people die defending themselves from violent criminals.
00:14:33.140 The very criminals that he refuses to lock up while he engages in a political persecution of President Trump.
00:14:39.500 We got some new Reuters polling showing over half the country sees this as a political prosecution of Trump.
00:14:47.000 That's something hard to get folks agreeing like that on just about anything these days.
00:14:51.320 But even people who don't like Trump and disagree with Trump see that this is a political prosecution.
00:14:57.720 Things are so bad in New York City that when career criminal William Rolland was arrested for threatening a store worker with a knife,
00:15:06.180 he received only a misdemeanor charge from Alvin Bragg.
00:15:09.360 The judge was so appalled at this downward departure, he said that the defendant in the case should feel lucky because of Alvin Bragg's new policies.
00:15:23.180 Alvin Bragg clearly isn't interested in enforcing the law except when it is the select enforcement of the law.
00:15:30.640 Refusing to charge felonies and then elevating a misdemeanor to a felony speaks for itself and it is no mystery what is going on here.
00:15:38.340 My colleague on the Judiciary Committee and select subcommittee on the weaponization of government, Jim Jordan,
00:15:45.380 just co-authored a letter to Alvin Bragg demanding that he produce all communications between his office and the DOJ
00:15:51.660 that refer to Donald Trump in any way.
00:15:55.860 And we also want to know how their office is using federal funds, if at all.
00:16:00.560 Jordan also demanded that Alvin Bragg schedule a transcribed interview before March 23rd with the Judiciary Committee
00:16:07.620 and you better believe I will be there and I will be asking questions.
00:16:11.880 If they want to fight, they will get one.
00:16:15.080 But we will follow the facts and the law unlike Alvin Bragg.
00:16:19.420 Now Jordan's letter also lays out the problems with this purported case.
00:16:23.720 Apparently it relies heavily on testimony from Michael Cohen,
00:16:27.080 who clearly has an axe to grind with the former president.
00:16:30.660 It also mentions that this novel legal theory that Bragg relies on was rejected by the DOJ
00:16:37.480 and only seemed to resurface when Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency again.
00:16:43.180 Jim Jordan brings up an interesting point about special counsels as well.
00:16:46.560 I want to delve into this.
00:16:47.800 We may need a legislative fix to the special counsel statute
00:16:52.400 if special counsel behavior has far exceeded the scope of their authority
00:16:56.980 and if the process has run amok.
00:16:59.340 Now, speaking of special counsels,
00:17:01.280 this is not the first time a special counsel has wildly gone beyond their scope.
00:17:07.800 You may remember the Ken Starr report,
00:17:10.620 which was issued by special counsel Ken Starr
00:17:13.540 in relation to Bill and Hillary Clinton's financial dealings
00:17:17.540 with the Whitewater Land Company.
00:17:20.180 Does this ring a bell?
00:17:22.180 How about the Monica Lewinsky affair?
00:17:23.740 Because what started out as an investigation into financial dealings and land
00:17:29.640 became an impeachment for perjury, obstruction of justice,
00:17:34.020 witness tampering, and abuse of power.
00:17:36.600 Ken Starr even investigated Bill Clinton over a lawsuit with Paula Jones.
00:17:41.880 Similarly to Trump and Stormy Daniels,
00:17:44.460 Bill Clinton paid almost $900,000 in hush money to Paula Jones,
00:17:49.980 far less in the Trump matter.
00:17:52.220 I don't recall any local prosecutor going after President Clinton for this.
00:17:58.140 This type of persecution is reserved for conservatives and their voters.
00:18:02.820 In any case, we may be able to get Bill Clinton to agree
00:18:05.680 that the special counsel statute has actually been abused in some cases.
00:18:10.620 And the double standard is outrageous.
00:18:13.280 But speaking out and protesting isn't enough.
00:18:15.900 We need to put a stop to this behavior
00:18:17.880 and send a message to the Alvin Braggs of the world
00:18:20.520 that they're not going to get away with it.
00:18:23.800 Investigating and stopping these double standards
00:18:25.420 is really important for what we do every day
00:18:28.400 on the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
00:18:31.000 And we need to do our job to hold bad actors accountable
00:18:35.120 and put a stop to this corruption once and for all.
00:18:38.440 And just for a moment, I want to drill down into the federal nexus here
00:18:42.060 because the principal critique that we've heard of the Jordan letter
00:18:45.660 that I just described is,
00:18:47.140 well, there's not necessarily a federal nexus to Alvin Bragg
00:18:50.400 charging the former president under state law.
00:18:54.880 But I actually want to know how we went from Robert Mueller
00:19:00.000 and the accusation that somehow Donald Trump was a Russian agent
00:19:04.320 to the review of a nondisclosure agreement.
00:19:08.360 How does one cause the other?
00:19:10.000 Were there federal assets or agents or employees or contractors
00:19:14.500 out there spurring along some state-based prosecution?
00:19:18.040 Is that really what we want federal taxpayers funding?
00:19:22.480 And I recognize Bill Clinton would probably have a beef with this as well.
00:19:26.340 And so maybe there can be some bipartisan agreement
00:19:29.140 that we need to constrain these special counsels
00:19:31.660 and they shouldn't germinate in a five years later
00:19:35.320 state-based prosecution that was abandoned
00:19:36.940 by the federal government anyway.
00:19:40.360 But President Trump might not be the only person
00:19:43.740 answering questions about prior conduct.
00:19:46.820 There is news regarding Tara Reid.
00:19:49.960 Now, as you may remember, Tara Reid is the former Senate staffer
00:19:53.660 of then-Senator Joe Biden,
00:19:55.640 and she made allegations that he violently sexually assaulted her
00:20:01.540 in the Capitol building while she was trying to physically resist him
00:20:05.240 that he did very terrible things to her.
00:20:07.300 And so she put out a tweet recently that got some attention.
00:20:10.380 Here's the tweet for those listening.
00:20:11.800 So I'm not a former porn star, nor did I receive hush money.
00:20:17.060 I was a Senate staffer for Joe Biden when he sexually assaulted me in 1993.
00:20:22.080 To date no investigation, only media attacks and trolls aimed at me.
00:20:26.620 I ask again to at MT Green and at Matt Gaetz.
00:20:31.940 When will Joe Biden be investigated?
00:20:34.360 Thanks.
00:20:35.580 Congresswoman Green saw this tweet,
00:20:37.720 and she felt as though we ought to get the answers.
00:20:40.000 Now, no person's allegation should ever be taken at face value.
00:20:43.980 There has to be review.
00:20:45.320 There has to be corroboration.
00:20:47.080 I took particular note in this matter that Tara Reid's mom
00:20:50.560 had actually called into Larry King Live
00:20:53.200 to talk about her daughter's experience as a staffer
00:20:56.580 being sexually assaulted by a powerful man.
00:20:59.740 That seemed to be some real-time acknowledgement
00:21:05.360 that a bad thing had happened here.
00:21:07.140 And so Congresswoman Green brought this to me.
00:21:11.200 She brought it to the chair of the Oversight Committee, Jamie Comer.
00:21:15.580 And Chairman Comer told Congresswoman Green
00:21:18.460 that we would be fully authorized to bring in Tara Reid
00:21:22.640 to take her transcribed interview,
00:21:25.180 to get the facts,
00:21:26.380 and to understand what really happened with Joe Biden
00:21:29.620 and this allegation of violent sexual assault
00:21:33.420 against an employee,
00:21:35.480 against a staff member.
00:21:37.600 So Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets back,
00:21:39.840 Tara, thank you for bravely speaking out
00:21:41.780 about such a horrible sexual assault
00:21:43.580 you endured by your boss,
00:21:45.060 then-Senator Joe Biden,
00:21:46.280 as a young staffer.
00:21:47.520 It's time to take a stand
00:21:48.580 against the two-tiered injustice system.
00:21:51.460 At Rep Matt Gaetz,
00:21:52.760 and I would like to invite you
00:21:53.980 to come to Washington to speak with us.
00:21:56.640 We will be in touch very soon.
00:21:58.400 So there you have it.
00:22:00.120 There you have the news.
00:22:01.420 Tara Reid will be coming in
00:22:03.300 to give a transcribed interview.
00:22:05.580 We will get the facts.
00:22:06.640 That is the plan now.
00:22:08.720 Oversight Chairman Jamie Comer
00:22:10.140 has blessed this to Congresswoman Green directly,
00:22:12.820 and that is why we are endeavoring to follow the facts.
00:22:16.200 Isn't that a good thing?
00:22:17.080 To actually look at the facts,
00:22:19.960 evaluate the evidence,
00:22:21.540 work to corroborate claims that are made,
00:22:23.720 and ultimately attempt to achieve a just result.
00:22:26.880 That is what we ought to do.
00:22:29.100 There is other news
00:22:30.580 that we want to be able to talk about today.
00:22:32.320 This news about the FBI headquarters
00:22:34.980 and the legislation that I have filed.
00:22:37.220 So I've just introduced legislation,
00:22:39.740 the FBI Washington Field Office House Arrest Act.
00:22:44.800 This legislation only needs to be approved by the House,
00:22:47.080 and it says that we should defund
00:22:49.400 the shiny new FBI headquarters in the D.C. area.
00:22:53.600 Now, Democrats funded this monstrosity
00:22:56.680 with a dead hand
00:22:58.200 during the lame duck legislative session
00:23:00.380 of Congress last year.
00:23:02.220 We should never forget
00:23:03.500 that Senate Republicans
00:23:05.240 helped Nancy Pelosi do this.
00:23:08.180 They were right there the whole time,
00:23:10.080 and the FBI was the beneficiary.
00:23:12.080 Disgusting that Senate Republicans went along with it.
00:23:15.280 Now, the previous rules
00:23:16.480 under the Pelosi majority
00:23:18.360 allowed for woke initiatives
00:23:21.120 and programs to be bootstrapped
00:23:24.040 onto omnibus spending bills
00:23:26.240 which fund other government programs,
00:23:28.040 programs that people support,
00:23:29.540 like at the VA
00:23:30.560 and at the Department of Defense
00:23:32.240 for our pay for our military.
00:23:34.780 And under Pelosi's direction
00:23:36.120 and blessing,
00:23:37.600 the House voted,
00:23:38.820 in one of those omnibus bills,
00:23:40.400 to allocate $375 million
00:23:46.080 for a new FBI headquarters
00:23:49.240 in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
00:23:51.320 Keep in mind,
00:23:52.780 the FBI employs less than 2.5%
00:23:56.140 of the total manpower
00:23:57.620 compared to the United States military.
00:24:00.700 Yet the FBI,
00:24:01.760 a domestic law enforcement entity,
00:24:04.580 is set to receive a headquarters
00:24:06.360 in the D.C. area
00:24:07.760 larger than the Pentagon.
00:24:11.460 This is insanity.
00:24:13.280 With the FBI
00:24:13.880 and other intelligence agencies
00:24:15.200 under the scrutiny
00:24:16.040 of the Weaponization of Government Subcommittee,
00:24:19.220 I would argue that funding
00:24:20.220 a new FBI headquarters
00:24:21.440 at this moment
00:24:22.420 is on par with the audacity
00:24:24.760 of Congress to send
00:24:26.300 hundreds of billions of dollars
00:24:28.100 to Ukraine
00:24:28.940 while our own country
00:24:30.240 is in crisis.
00:24:32.300 Are we going to build
00:24:33.380 a $375 million FBI complex?
00:24:36.180 Hey, you know what?
00:24:36.880 Maybe we should build it
00:24:38.060 in Ukraine.
00:24:39.060 How about that?
00:24:39.760 That can be their next gift
00:24:40.840 from the United States,
00:24:41.900 an FBI building.
00:24:43.960 If my resolution passes
00:24:45.560 with support
00:24:46.600 from the Republican Conference,
00:24:48.480 we will know
00:24:49.260 that we have the votes
00:24:51.000 during the appropriations process
00:24:53.060 to actually claw back
00:24:55.220 the money
00:24:55.820 from this proposed headquarters.
00:24:57.660 It sets the stage
00:24:58.720 for a big fight
00:24:59.920 on appropriations
00:25:00.940 and a claw back
00:25:02.380 that would serve
00:25:03.140 the American people well.
00:25:04.220 There are still good men
00:25:06.160 and women
00:25:06.480 who work at the FBI.
00:25:07.880 They have a task
00:25:08.720 and a purpose
00:25:09.340 to defend our country
00:25:10.680 in many cases.
00:25:12.240 But the FBI's
00:25:13.300 weaponized Washington field office
00:25:15.900 is rotten to the core.
00:25:19.140 Through our investigations
00:25:20.100 in the Weaponization Subcommittee,
00:25:22.100 we have uncovered
00:25:22.780 extremely disturbing testimony
00:25:24.620 from FBI whistleblowers
00:25:26.080 that the Washington field office
00:25:28.360 is targeting Americans
00:25:30.280 who oppose
00:25:31.400 their corrupt political agenda.
00:25:33.580 Doesn't happen everywhere.
00:25:34.680 It is unique to Washington
00:25:35.820 and probably New York.
00:25:38.240 The Washington field office
00:25:39.360 pressured agents
00:25:40.500 elsewhere in America
00:25:41.620 to cook the books
00:25:43.160 on cases
00:25:43.840 so it looked like
00:25:45.180 there was more
00:25:45.680 domestic violence extremism.
00:25:48.260 They want to create
00:25:49.380 the illusion
00:25:50.000 that everyone is dangerous
00:25:51.580 and extreme
00:25:52.420 when actually
00:25:53.460 we are mostly good people
00:25:55.160 in this country.
00:25:56.660 The Washington field office
00:25:58.060 targeted anyone
00:25:59.080 in Washington, D.C.
00:26:00.220 on January 6th
00:26:01.740 even when they had
00:26:03.100 no factual predicate
00:26:05.260 or basis to do so.
00:26:07.360 That is a fact.
00:26:08.720 While Republicans
00:26:09.280 are conducting
00:26:09.840 serious investigations,
00:26:11.920 the Democrats
00:26:12.580 unsurprisingly
00:26:13.540 are working overtime
00:26:15.080 to derail our work
00:26:16.540 and threaten
00:26:17.760 our whistleblowers
00:26:18.720 into hiding.
00:26:20.160 That's why
00:26:20.600 at the CPAC event
00:26:22.680 in 2023,
00:26:23.840 I called for Democrats
00:26:25.000 to be removed
00:26:26.100 from all future
00:26:27.540 transcribed interviews
00:26:28.640 within the subcommittee.
00:26:29.800 Take a listen
00:26:30.180 to my call
00:26:30.640 for that action.
00:26:33.520 And so it is
00:26:34.720 no longer time
00:26:36.280 to go back
00:26:37.440 to the old
00:26:38.560 low energy
00:26:39.740 Paul Ryan
00:26:41.180 Trey Gowdy days
00:26:42.860 of fake oversight.
00:26:44.460 These are the
00:26:45.480 Jim Jordan,
00:26:46.780 Marjorie Taylor Greene,
00:26:48.540 Matt Gaetz days.
00:26:49.720 And if the Democrats
00:26:52.380 are going to obstruct
00:26:54.720 our investigation,
00:26:56.540 then I am calling
00:26:57.880 to remove
00:26:59.080 the Democrats
00:26:59.920 from our investigation.
00:27:02.200 They shouldn't be allowed
00:27:03.460 to sit in the depositions
00:27:05.340 and hear the evidence
00:27:07.100 if they are going
00:27:08.140 to use that
00:27:09.040 to try to get
00:27:10.000 in the way
00:27:10.660 of thorough,
00:27:11.880 rigorous oversight.
00:27:13.060 And I don't believe
00:27:13.940 that means hearings
00:27:14.760 where we yell at people.
00:27:15.840 I think that means
00:27:16.860 a fundamental
00:27:17.680 reshaping
00:27:18.980 of this government,
00:27:20.380 a reshaping
00:27:21.320 of this town.
00:27:24.680 There is a lot
00:27:26.080 of love
00:27:26.480 on the live stream
00:27:27.300 right now
00:27:27.840 for deauthorizing,
00:27:30.000 defunding
00:27:30.700 a lot of these
00:27:31.620 three-letter agencies
00:27:32.520 that the American people
00:27:34.100 believe have been
00:27:35.060 weaponized against them.
00:27:36.000 And I understand
00:27:36.820 why the American people
00:27:37.860 have that belief.
00:27:39.000 When we have
00:27:39.740 FBI whistleblowers
00:27:40.880 telling us
00:27:41.560 that the Washington
00:27:42.220 field office
00:27:42.940 is a den of snakes,
00:27:44.760 it is not just
00:27:45.840 Peter Strzok
00:27:46.900 and Lisa Page
00:27:47.980 and the Russia hoax gang.
00:27:50.620 There are multiple
00:27:51.580 components
00:27:52.280 in the J. Edgar Hoover
00:27:53.240 building
00:27:53.700 teeming
00:27:54.820 with partisan
00:27:55.900 leftists
00:27:56.740 who are actively
00:27:57.700 undermining
00:27:58.540 the FBI's
00:27:59.560 true mission
00:28:00.120 to solve crimes.
00:28:02.460 The right answer
00:28:03.560 is not to attack
00:28:04.740 or dox
00:28:05.400 whistleblowers
00:28:06.500 like the Democrats
00:28:07.360 did.
00:28:08.000 The right answer
00:28:08.640 is to put a freeze
00:28:09.800 on FBI expansion
00:28:11.360 and to do the hard work
00:28:13.020 of rooting out
00:28:14.120 the bad actors,
00:28:15.480 getting to the bottom
00:28:16.180 of the issue.
00:28:17.840 That is what my
00:28:18.560 legislation does
00:28:19.400 and what my office
00:28:20.680 and the subcommittee
00:28:21.340 are doing
00:28:21.960 every single day.
00:28:23.800 I'd put the FBI
00:28:24.620 on house arrest.
00:28:25.840 I wouldn't build them
00:28:26.980 a new D.C.-based house.
00:28:30.200 Garrett O. Boyle
00:28:31.140 is a whistleblower
00:28:32.240 who inspires me.
00:28:34.680 He is someone
00:28:35.460 I mentioned
00:28:36.000 in my remarks
00:28:36.960 at CPAC.
00:28:38.380 He's an Iraq
00:28:39.140 war veteran
00:28:39.840 who saw firsthand
00:28:41.280 the malfeasance
00:28:42.200 of the Washington
00:28:43.120 field office.
00:28:45.080 After serving
00:28:46.280 in the military,
00:28:47.420 after serving
00:28:48.100 in law enforcement,
00:28:50.260 he went to work
00:28:50.920 for the FBI
00:28:51.580 because he believed
00:28:52.420 that they were
00:28:52.880 the pinnacle
00:28:53.460 of law enforcement
00:28:54.840 in the world.
00:28:56.880 Bottom line
00:28:57.400 is that O. Boyle
00:28:58.300 is one of a number
00:28:59.400 of former FBI agents
00:29:00.880 who have told Congress
00:29:02.320 about how the
00:29:03.300 Washington field office
00:29:04.760 specifically
00:29:05.700 uses bureaucratic
00:29:07.980 tricks
00:29:08.460 and bookkeeping
00:29:10.240 maneuvers
00:29:10.860 to make it look
00:29:12.180 like domestic
00:29:13.080 violence extremism
00:29:14.360 was rising
00:29:15.140 after the 2020 election.
00:29:16.680 He testified
00:29:17.320 that the abuse
00:29:19.020 of this threat label
00:29:20.400 was used
00:29:21.220 as a basis
00:29:22.080 to justify
00:29:22.960 draconian actions
00:29:24.280 against citizens
00:29:25.620 for exercising
00:29:26.880 their First Amendment
00:29:28.140 rights.
00:29:29.800 Americans
00:29:30.100 shouldn't be
00:29:30.640 tagged
00:29:31.360 or treated differently
00:29:32.320 because they support
00:29:33.100 the Second Amendment
00:29:33.840 or because they say
00:29:35.380 build the wall
00:29:36.340 or stop the steal.
00:29:37.540 These aren't things
00:29:38.480 that are criminal
00:29:40.260 or illegal
00:29:40.860 in any way
00:29:41.560 and if you don't
00:29:42.220 like the speech,
00:29:43.420 the answer isn't
00:29:44.240 to weaponize
00:29:44.820 the government
00:29:45.280 against the people
00:29:46.480 whose views
00:29:47.240 you don't agree with.
00:29:48.420 The answer is
00:29:48.880 to speak back.
00:29:49.880 That is the American way.
00:29:51.200 That is what the
00:29:51.700 First Amendment allows
00:29:53.000 from all of us
00:29:54.240 but now when people
00:29:55.300 exercise
00:29:55.920 constitutionally protected
00:29:57.300 speech,
00:29:58.580 the government gets
00:29:59.340 turned against them
00:30:00.120 but it gets worse.
00:30:01.260 O. Boyle told his bosses
00:30:02.560 that what they were doing
00:30:03.820 was not appropriate
00:30:05.600 and they ignored him.
00:30:08.380 After he was ignored
00:30:09.360 by his supervisors,
00:30:10.820 he reported
00:30:11.500 this improper behavior
00:30:12.840 to Congress
00:30:13.940 using special
00:30:15.340 whistleblower protections.
00:30:17.760 The FBI
00:30:18.140 was made aware
00:30:18.960 that O. Boyle
00:30:19.920 was sharing
00:30:21.020 his complaints
00:30:21.980 externally
00:30:22.480 and so they made him
00:30:24.340 move across the country
00:30:25.420 under the guise
00:30:26.400 of recruitment
00:30:27.120 to a different place
00:30:28.300 and when he arrived,
00:30:29.540 they fired him.
00:30:30.840 They held his family's
00:30:31.860 belongings hostage
00:30:32.940 and they revoked
00:30:33.760 his security clearances,
00:30:35.280 making him unemployable.
00:30:37.180 They kicked this patriot
00:30:38.420 to the curb.
00:30:40.000 If we don't hold
00:30:40.980 them accountable,
00:30:42.300 Christopher Wray
00:30:43.040 and Merrick Garland
00:30:44.080 never will.
00:30:46.460 Many are not good people
00:30:47.680 at the Washington
00:30:48.560 field office.
00:30:49.420 In fact,
00:30:50.100 some might even say
00:30:51.380 that there are some there
00:30:52.580 who are evil.
00:30:53.940 We hear it more
00:30:54.800 and more every day
00:30:55.660 from the disenfranchised
00:30:57.160 patriots at the FBI.
00:30:59.040 We've heard about
00:30:59.680 the Washington field office
00:31:00.720 breaking protocol
00:31:01.900 and demanding
00:31:02.640 that regional field offices
00:31:04.780 gin up cases
00:31:06.300 to target law-abiding gun owners,
00:31:09.560 innocent pro-lifers.
00:31:11.480 We've heard about
00:31:12.200 the waste and fraud
00:31:13.600 and abuse
00:31:14.500 at the Washington field office.
00:31:16.880 We even had
00:31:17.380 an inspector general report
00:31:18.980 that talked about
00:31:19.880 the ways that the media
00:31:21.220 in Washington
00:31:22.000 and New York
00:31:22.820 wine and dine,
00:31:25.300 Department of Justice,
00:31:26.380 FBI officials,
00:31:27.280 they give concert tickets,
00:31:29.900 baseball tickets,
00:31:31.260 and then they use them
00:31:33.200 to pursue their goals
00:31:34.640 even if they're contrary
00:31:36.200 to yours,
00:31:37.020 to America's.
00:31:38.880 The cancer
00:31:39.460 at the Washington field office
00:31:40.840 has metastasized
00:31:42.380 so much
00:31:43.700 that the entire body
00:31:45.120 is in critical condition.
00:31:47.520 Gifting the FBI
00:31:48.220 a new headquarters
00:31:49.080 larger than the Pentagon
00:31:50.440 would condone,
00:31:53.100 reinforce,
00:31:54.420 and enable
00:31:55.040 more nefarious behavior.
00:31:57.280 It could get to levels
00:31:58.720 that we've never seen before.
00:32:00.680 It frankly already has
00:32:01.860 when you look at
00:32:02.320 what's occurring.
00:32:04.180 The Republican members
00:32:04.920 of the House of Representatives
00:32:05.960 should join my effort
00:32:07.860 to halt the funding
00:32:09.780 for this pet project
00:32:11.760 approved by Nancy Pelosi
00:32:14.000 in the lame duck
00:32:15.400 session of Congress.
00:32:16.840 We've got a number
00:32:17.980 of Republicans.
00:32:19.060 Tim Burchett
00:32:19.700 just joined the bill today.
00:32:21.180 We've had Corey Mills
00:32:22.260 on the bill,
00:32:23.420 Harriet Hageman
00:32:24.220 from Wyoming's on the bill,
00:32:25.660 Dan Bishop,
00:32:26.900 Dr. Gosar's on the bill.
00:32:28.100 We've got some really
00:32:28.860 great members
00:32:29.560 and we're making the case
00:32:30.960 and so let your members
00:32:32.080 of Congress know
00:32:32.840 they need to be on
00:32:34.040 the FBI House Arrest bill.
00:32:36.680 A few other things
00:32:37.400 I want to talk about
00:32:38.500 before we head out.
00:32:40.000 Just breaking news now,
00:32:41.580 DirecTV
00:32:42.200 has made their deal
00:32:44.360 with Newsmax.
00:32:45.540 Newsmax will be back
00:32:46.740 on MTV
00:32:47.940 March 23rd.
00:32:49.500 That's certainly something
00:32:50.240 we're looking forward to.
00:32:52.060 But hey,
00:32:52.480 DirecTV,
00:32:52.880 don't forget about OAN.
00:32:55.140 One America News,
00:32:56.320 just like Newsmax,
00:32:57.720 was targeted
00:32:58.480 by DirecTV,
00:32:59.860 AT&T
00:33:00.580 because of the content
00:33:01.860 of their work,
00:33:03.460 not because of their viewership.
00:33:05.180 And I believe
00:33:05.860 that is an abuse
00:33:06.700 of market power
00:33:07.640 whether it happens
00:33:08.460 to Newsmax
00:33:09.200 or One America News.
00:33:10.500 So I welcome
00:33:11.180 this positive development
00:33:14.200 as it relates
00:33:14.920 to Newsmax
00:33:15.600 but I hope
00:33:16.500 that it is a sign
00:33:17.560 of momentum
00:33:19.520 to get One America News
00:33:21.240 back on DirecTV
00:33:22.580 as well.
00:33:23.260 I know the viewers
00:33:23.960 would appreciate it.
00:33:24.740 I've heard from a number
00:33:25.420 of constituents
00:33:26.040 about that matter
00:33:27.160 as well.
00:33:28.120 And there's a headline
00:33:29.560 in today's Politico
00:33:30.980 that touches on
00:33:32.860 some of our discussions
00:33:33.820 on Firebrand.
00:33:35.300 It says,
00:33:35.740 McCarthy's latest task,
00:33:37.620 keeping the House GOP
00:33:39.080 peace on war powers.
00:33:41.600 And the work
00:33:42.600 that we've done
00:33:43.540 to try to reassert
00:33:45.640 Congress's war powers authority
00:33:47.660 is cited in the piece.
00:33:49.160 So go check that out
00:33:49.940 from Politico
00:33:50.560 how there are
00:33:51.460 some neoconservatives
00:33:52.680 in the Republican Party
00:33:54.020 who don't want
00:33:54.720 to have votes
00:33:55.160 on war powers.
00:33:56.260 Who still think
00:33:56.760 we should be in Iraq
00:33:57.920 and Syria
00:33:58.560 and Yemen
00:33:59.560 and Niger
00:34:00.280 and Somalia
00:34:01.380 and Sudan.
00:34:03.160 Countries where
00:34:04.000 America's interests
00:34:05.580 in some cases
00:34:07.040 is certainly poorly defined
00:34:09.020 and which Americans
00:34:09.820 are at jeopardy
00:34:10.640 not really for
00:34:12.140 the protection
00:34:12.800 of our country
00:34:13.600 but for the service
00:34:15.640 of foreign interests
00:34:17.460 abroad
00:34:18.060 and special interests
00:34:19.920 who want the military
00:34:21.280 doing their bidding
00:34:22.420 instead of the patriotic work
00:34:24.400 that so many
00:34:25.480 of our brave service members
00:34:26.700 have signed up for.
00:34:28.380 It's going to be
00:34:28.880 a busy rest of the week
00:34:29.740 here in Washington.
00:34:30.620 Hope we're able to get
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