The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 94 - Atilla the...Huh？ DeSantis Smackdown on Crime. Supreme Court Showdown.

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. Senators

00:00:21.020 Grassley and Gardner making news indicating that they support a vote on the president's

00:00:27.180 nominee and that they support that vote before Election Day if the process bears out, indicating

00:00:33.620 that Mitch McConnell is in fact doing some yeoman's work, gathering Republican support

00:00:39.280 for his plan to continue to fill the court with President Trump's nominees with great

00:00:44.080 success. I had the opportunity last night to chat with Tucker Carlson about Mitch McConnell,

00:00:50.300 the dynamics in the Senate, and what we expect from our senators in confronting their constitutional

00:00:55.880 duties. Here's that discussion. Well, there is no fervent wish provision of the Constitution and

00:01:01.200 the argument that Democrats, socialists, and apparently Collins and Murkowski are making

00:01:05.700 is that somehow like in the fourth quarter of a basketball game, everyone should just take a

00:01:10.500 pause to determine who's going to be the coach next season. This is actually pretty simple, Tucker.

00:01:15.660 We, the Republicans, have the power and we ought to use it. Is there any doubt if Democrats and

00:01:21.860 socialists and the woke-topians controlled the presidency and the Senate, what they would do?

00:01:26.060 They would be forcing us to accept some blue-haired, genderless warlord from the Chaz to be the next 1.00

00:01:31.840 Supreme Court justice. But here we have Murkowski and Collins rejecting the duties that they have as

00:01:37.340 senators. And if they do that, their voters should reject them. Trump supporters should not be taken

00:01:42.680 for granted in Maine, Alaska, or anywhere else. And if they are unwilling to do their job and take a vote

00:01:49.260 on who the president nominates, they should not have the privilege of continuing to serve in the

00:01:53.500 Senate. Interesting. Nice point. Congressman Gates, congrats on the book, by the way. I appreciate

00:01:58.720 it. Thanks, Tucker. Hey, I wrote in there how you and I stopped war with Iran a few times. People

00:02:02.440 should check it out. I'm not taking credit. Great to see you though. Thank you. We absolutely need to

00:02:07.920 ensure that we've got the right approach in the Senate. And it's also the case that Tucker and I did have

00:02:14.360 a substantial impact on the United States' interactions with Iran and ensuring that we did not launch off

00:02:20.520 into another forever war. So check it out in my book, Firebrand. Thanks for the interview, Tucker.

00:02:28.600 No marijuana reform for you. That's the message from Democrats to the country. Listeners will recall

00:02:34.740 last week I previewed the expectation that the MORE Act, which I am the only Republican co-sponsor of,

00:02:41.880 was scheduled for a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. The MORE Act would

00:02:46.560 certainly make progress in the area of marijuana reform by decriminalizing marijuana at the federal

00:02:52.980 level. It creates the opportunity for states to develop their own medical or adult use regimes and

00:02:59.600 for our country to operate as the founders intended, with the 50 states functioning as laboratories for

00:03:06.260 democracy. But that is not the democracy we'll be getting as a consequence of Nancy Pelosi's leadership. 0.70

00:03:12.440 The bill pulled from the calendar. It will not get a vote this year before the election. Behind the

00:03:19.360 scenes, Democrats were complaining to their leadership that at a time when they hadn't made

00:03:24.440 sufficient progress working on a deal on coronavirus or individual assistance or any number of other

00:03:31.160 issues that they did not want to be taking a vote on marijuana reform. This is my frustration with

00:03:37.440 Washington, D.C. We should be able to chew gum and walk at the same time. This is a big, complex country

00:03:43.860 with a number of challenges. And we have 535 people that serve here in the Congress. And if we utilized

00:03:51.680 people's talents better, then we would be able to make incremental progress on issues like cannabis

00:03:57.680 reform and the environment while at the same time meeting the acute needs of the day. And in this

00:04:03.400 case, that's economic recovery and coronavirus. I also think a dynamic playing into their decision

00:04:09.260 to pull the bill is the lack of robust support for cannabis reform from Joe Biden. Does anyone really

00:04:16.800 believe that during a Biden presidency, we're going to do more to advance the cause of cannabis reform

00:04:22.520 than we did during the Obama presidency? I sure don't think so. Joe Biden hasn't led on the issue.

00:04:28.940 He hasn't spoken about the issue. He certainly hasn't animated young voters around the issue of

00:04:35.060 marijuana reform. And so it may be the case that Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to take a position 1.00

00:04:40.320 more progressive than Joe Biden, showcasing the fact that, you know, he really doesn't motivate or

00:04:48.480 move or inspire a lot of the Democratic base. He's trying to harness anti-Trump sentiment for that

00:04:55.120 energy, but he is not a fountainhead for that energy himself. So it's disappointing to me to see

00:05:01.760 the Moore Act pulled. I think it deserved a vote. And frankly, the States Act is far preferable anyway, 0.88

00:05:09.200 as we've discussed, because it does a lot of the decriminalization and federalism work without

00:05:15.360 layering in elements of restorative justice, which are divisive among members of the Congress, when

00:05:22.320 in reality, the cause of marijuana reform isn't divisive. It's something that most of the country

00:05:28.180 agrees on. And I look forward to the day when the Congress can actually take up and pass reforms

00:05:33.520 that are supported by a vast majority of our fellow Americans.

00:05:37.540 I discussed the Democrats' decision to change course on cannabis reform on Cheddar TV. Take a listen.

00:05:47.060 I think the federal government has lied to the people of this country about marijuana for a generation,

00:05:51.620 but we're just getting breaking news that the vote that we thought we were going to have on the Moore Act

00:05:56.420 to decriminalize marijuana federally is in fact not going to happen. Democrats are pulling that from

00:06:02.540 consideration. We're hearing that's because Joe Biden does not have a view on cannabis reform that is

00:06:10.300 sufficiently progressive, and it might put his campaign in a difficult position if Joe Biden

00:06:15.500 himself was not supporting the work that Democrats were working with me on in the Congress to ensure

00:06:21.420 that we didn't incarcerate another generation of Americans over marijuana offenses and that we allow 0.70

00:06:26.220 research so that marijuana can be used as a tool to potentially unlock cures for people who are

00:06:31.820 suffering. But it's just really disappointing to me as someone who's worked across the aisle

00:06:37.340 on cannabis reform to see Democrats abandon the effort to walk off the field and say,

00:06:42.300 ah, this is just something we'll deal with after the election. Whether it's the Supreme Court or

00:06:46.940 whether it's marijuana reform, what's so hard about just doing our job? Showing up to work,

00:06:51.180 doing our job, and then letting the voters judge us in the election. When we step away from these tough

00:06:55.740 choices, I think that we do more to undermine the credibility of this place than the Democrats

00:07:00.780 even ever accused President Trump of doing.

00:07:05.900 Add some fun with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former national security advisor to the president

00:07:11.820 on the Salem radio networks. Take a listen to that discussion.

00:07:15.260 You know, I also understand, you know, the brilliance of being outside of the system when you have the

00:07:20.780 brilliance of Black Lives Matter and that movement and what it has done to force change.

00:07:24.780 Congressman Gates, is Black Lives Matter brilliant?

00:07:31.100 Well, but no. But before we get to that, did Kamala Harris literally say she understands what

00:07:36.700 it's like being outside the system? Kamala Harris moved up in California politics because she was 1.00

00:07:41.820 dating Willie Brown. I mean, like that, you know, and like what she is a straight up machine candidate. 1.00

00:07:47.820 That is essentially how she moved up, became the state attorney general and then ran for the United 0.94

00:07:52.460 States Senate. So I'm not entirely sure that Kamala Harris is here to lecture any of us on what life

00:07:57.820 is like outside the system. I would also suggest that the Black Lives Matter movement is explicitly

00:08:03.660 Marxist. I think that is on the opposite end of the spectrum than brilliant because every time

00:08:08.220 that's been tried as a governing philosophy, it has failed. I think that America is pretty great and

00:08:13.340 I'm ready to fight for. And I think that the president is going to go out there and rally an American

00:08:18.460 electorate that will believe in this country and that, of course, will strive to be a more perfect

00:08:23.340 union. But we're not going to just settle into the despair of Joe Biden's basement thinking that

00:08:29.100 somehow we've got something to apologize for because we love America and we're willing to

00:08:33.660 work hard to protect and improve her. And it's true that Kamala Harris got her start in California 0.70

00:08:39.500 politics on the arm of Willie Brown. That was sort of the thruple situation that he was in with his

00:08:46.700 wife and his girlfriends and everybody was kind of cool that it seems at the time.

00:08:51.660 And that's not to diminish Kamala Harris's public service, but it is to explain that

00:08:56.780 she is no outsider to the system. You see, the way machine candidates work is that 0.98

00:09:02.140 they are recruited and groomed and then given the opportunity to serve in, you know, boards and

00:09:07.660 commissions. And then ultimately, they are backed financially and politically by the operations

00:09:13.900 that put them in in other positions in public life. And machine politics is very alive and

00:09:19.980 well in the Democratic Party in California. Kamala Harris benefited from machine politics and she's 0.97

00:09:26.620 very much an insider's insider and an ambitious one at that. You'll recall her saying that it would be

00:09:33.260 the Harris administration with Joe Biden, kind of Joe Biden tagging along with the radical left and

00:09:40.060 the woke topians. And my concern is that we really could lose the country. And Joe Biden might not

00:09:46.860 even notice a given his current alertness, or I should say, perhaps lack thereof. So not hating on

00:09:54.060 Kamala for who she's dated, but it certainly explains her entry into politics and the mechanisms through 1.00

00:10:02.060 which she was supported throughout her career in California. America's law and order governor,

00:10:11.420 Ron DeSantis of Florida, my good friend was also on the Tucker Carlson program last night. He discussed

00:10:18.140 bold new legislative ideas to deter and confront the mob violence that we see on our streets for the

00:10:25.500 protection of our businesses and our citizens. Take a listen to the governor.

00:10:30.300 A number of things. I mean, you mentioned increased penalties for people who are involved in these

00:10:34.860 violent demonstrations, and that includes things like toppling statutes, blocking roadways. We also

00:10:41.020 have a provision that says any municipality that defunds the police, which is just an insane policy. It's

00:10:47.260 like cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you do that, the state government's going to defund you.

00:10:51.900 We're not going to be sending you money if you're doing things like that. We also are concerned

00:10:56.460 about watching Minnesota, what happened in Minneapolis, where the mayor just abdicated

00:11:01.020 responsibility, had the police stand back. That gave these folks the ability to run amok. If that

00:11:06.780 happens in Florida, we're waving sovereign immunity. You can sue the local government for damages for

00:11:12.780 anything that happens to you. And then, as you mentioned, with just letting people out, we revoke bail if

00:11:18.780 you're arrested for one of these offenses. And then once you make your first appearance, the presumption is you don't get bail beyond

00:11:24.620 that. Because what happens in Oregon, they go in, they get their mug shot taken, and then they're right

00:11:29.100 back on the street doing the same thing. Well, how is that a deterrent?

00:11:35.500 An explosive piece of investigative reporting from Joe Hoft at the Gateway Pundit, FBI agent who uncovered

00:11:43.500 Weiner's laptop with Hillary's emails, says FBI leadership told him to erase all of his findings.

00:11:51.100 And the story is of John Robertson. He was an FBI agent who investigated crimes against children.

00:11:57.180 He stumbled upon Hillary Clinton's emails on Huma Abedin's laptop as a consequence of

00:12:03.660 the investigation into Anthony Weiner and the stuff he was doing over the internet. And it appears that the

00:12:12.460 institutional response of the FBI leadership did not adhere to the high standards of that institution.

00:12:20.460 And the lack of responsiveness to the acquisition of these emails, and then ultimately their desire to

00:12:27.580 not have them unearthed and moved into the public square is certainly what Mr. Robertson complains

00:12:33.900 about. I continue to be deeply concerned about politics at the FBI. I do not believe that Christopher

00:12:41.580 Wray has done a sufficient job cleaning out that agency, draining the swamp over at the FBI headquarters.

00:12:49.900 And I'm hopeful that this type of reporting shows how deep and how insidious some of the bias that

00:12:57.580 the FBI has become. That's not to say that there aren't great agents out around the country doing

00:13:02.860 great work on a variety of issues. But we deserve a law enforcement elite agency in this country that is

00:13:10.860 willing to investigate crimes and bring prosecutions, not one that is political headhunting.

00:13:16.940 And you see that, I think, reflected in the bias against President Trump, but also in the bias in favor of

00:13:24.940 Hillary Clinton and the desire to see her win the election. And when you start to have the investigators

00:13:30.140 believing that the ends justify the means, then you lose the type of confidence that America needs in agencies like the

00:13:38.860 FBI. So we hope they do better. But in order to really achieve that reform, we've got to get the

00:13:45.740 truth out. That's why the work that John Durham's doing is so important. And that's why whistleblowers,

00:13:52.140 real whistleblowers like Mr. Robertson need to keep coming forward and telling us where the bodies are buried.

00:13:59.100 The Department of Justice has designated New York City, Seattle and Portland as anarchist jurisdictions.

00:14:10.300 The New York Post has the story. And it is appropriate, in my opinion, for the Department of Justice to take

00:14:17.020 this position because mechanically, it allows us to deprive funding to those places that would allow it to be

00:14:24.780 squandered. I mean, why would we spend money from the U.S. taxpayer to build up and improve cities when

00:14:33.020 the local leadership of those cities won't even protect their residents and their property and

00:14:38.380 federal property from the violent mob? And it's not that they don't have the capability to protect

00:14:44.540 people or property. It's that they don't have the gumption and the political will. Because in places like

00:14:50.540 Portland and New York, you've got local leadership that's more interested in embracing the mob than

00:14:57.180 confronting the mob. And the result is a diminished quality of life for citizens, eroding safety

00:15:03.900 conditions, and now potentially less federal investment in these communities. If you want to take

00:15:10.700 pride in where you live, if you want people from other parts of the country to help you build up your

00:15:17.420 community, then don't allow people to tear it down and burn it down. Don't have your local

00:15:23.460 prosecutors suggesting that if someone's engaged in a protest crime, that you're all of a sudden not

00:15:29.340 going to be interested in prosecuting it. Or, you know, in Portland, you had that DA saying that if

00:15:33.760 people engaged in assaults on police, that there would be a diminished enforcement of our laws in dealing

00:15:41.260 with those people. So I think it's a right decision by the Department of Justice. I think these

00:15:46.420 anarchist jurisdictions need to clean their act up. And if they don't, don't expect the rest of us to

00:15:52.280 be sending money your way. NBC News has the story, suspect arrested for allegedly sending

00:16:01.220 rice in tainted letter to the White House. The suspect was described as a woman who was taken into 0.89

00:16:07.040 custody trying to enter the United States from Canada in the Ontario area. A federal official

00:16:13.400 is quoted as saying, and apparently this woman sent these rice in letters, not only to the White

00:16:19.240 House, but to federal prisons as well. It's unclear where they were sent from. They were intercepted.

00:16:26.040 And it appeared that at least one of the letters was addressed to a political figure. I wonder who

00:16:32.400 that might've been. This is a developing story and we'll continue to check back, but it reinforces,

00:16:39.200 I think, the worst of our engagement with politics. You know, if you don't like the president or a

00:16:45.920 public official or a governor or a congressman, go vote against them. You know, don't send in

00:16:51.560 ricin-laced letters that can harm our staff and our families and constituents that may be around

00:16:58.720 getting service. I think that's not the right approach, obviously. I hope this lady faces the full 0.99

00:17:04.580 consequence for her actions. And it's unclear whether she's an American citizen or not, but

00:17:10.700 it's quite something that you'd have such a negative view of our country and our president

00:17:15.920 that you would try to poison the White House while at the same time trying to break into our country 0.96

00:17:20.920 seems to suggest to me this remains the greatest country in the world. In my personal opinion,

00:17:26.920 we've got a pretty great president too. Sometimes political advertisements can just be downright

00:17:35.760 strange. And rather than getting into the politics of horse race analysis, it does seem to tell us

00:17:43.100 something about our government and the way our leaders communicate with us when their ads are so

00:17:49.180 reductive and weird. There's a competitive U.S. Senate race going on in Georgia right now. And

00:17:55.460 in that race, you have a unique dynamic where on the November ballot, there is a Democrat running,

00:18:01.840 but there are also two Republicans running. And it's expected that the Democrat will make the

00:18:06.380 runoff. And then one of those two Republicans, the current incumbent U.S. Senator who was appointed

00:18:11.880 by the governor, Kelly Loeffler, against a U.S. Representative, Doug Collins, who I serve with and

00:18:18.120 who was the Republican lead on the Judiciary Committee during our successful defense of the

00:18:22.940 president. So Collins and Loeffler are going back and forth trying to identify as the most pro-Trump,

00:18:29.860 most pro-conservative. And that is the backdrop for this ad from Kelly Loeffler. Take a listen.

00:18:36.660 Did you know Kelly Loeffler was ranked the most conservative senator in America?

00:18:41.040 Yep. She's more conservative than Attila the Hun.

00:18:43.580 Fight China. Got it. 1.00

00:18:50.500 Attack big government.

00:18:52.040 Yeah. 0.98

00:18:54.740 Eliminate the liberal scribes. 0.51

00:18:57.700 More conservative than Attila the Hun.

00:18:59.920 Uh-oh.

00:19:00.980 Kelly Loeffler, 100% Trump voting record.

00:19:03.840 I'm Kelly Loeffler. I approve this message.

00:19:06.040 Pollsters will often tell you if you have a problem with your conservative rating.

00:19:11.080 That is, the share of voters who rate you as a conservative or a moderate or a liberal.

00:19:17.320 And in a race like this, Loeffler and Collins are both trying to seize the conservative mantle.

00:19:22.080 But this advertisement is proof positive that Kelly Loeffler is having a problem defining herself 0.98

00:19:29.540 as a conservative. And so, not even like over the top, but just lacking substance and totally weird,

00:19:36.660 this ad comes out of nowhere. And I just can't imagine being so unassured in your own performance

00:19:43.500 and in your own views and your ability to articulate them that you would resort to this type of creepy theater.

00:19:50.640 But such is the case in Georgia. We'll follow what happens.

00:19:54.460 Thanks for listening to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:19:59.580 And throughout the day, we'll be posting stories and interviews about my book that's available today

00:20:05.120 called Firebrand, Dispatches from the Front Lines of the MAGA Revolution.

00:20:10.580 And it certainly has been the joy of my life to participate in that revolution

00:20:16.040 and to bring a sense of patriotism and populism and energy to Washington, D.C.

00:20:22.300 in a time when we really need it. And it's my sense that to fully capitalize on the Trump presidency,

00:20:28.820 we have to see it for the opportunity it is. We've got to reform our immigration laws,

00:20:34.420 confront China, crack down on big tech, reject the cancel culture, and understand our domestic 0.75

00:20:41.400 and geopolitics in a way that puts America and the American people first. Check it out.

00:20:48.180 Hope you like the news reports on the book. And let me know what you think in the comments section.

00:20:54.520 We'll be back tomorrow. Hope you'll join us. We'll have more Hot Takes.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 22, 2020

Episode 94 - Atilla the...Huh？ DeSantis Smackdown on Crime. Supreme Court Showdown.

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