The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 95 LIVE： Military Misadventures (feat. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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00:01:19.640 welcome back to firebrand we are broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office

00:01:27.800 building on the capitol complex in washington dc and what you just saw there scenes from the

00:01:33.800 tennessee legislature insurrection where leftists are threatening to take over the tennessee capital

00:01:39.940 demanding gun control as if somehow gun control is the answer to violence law-abiding gun owners

00:01:46.780 don't make our communities less safe they make them more safe and i believe that what you just

00:01:51.060 saw in tennessee very well may have been inspired by a member of the united states congress who was

00:01:58.040 acting a fool yesterday we're going to have that video for you later in the show we've got

00:02:02.620 congresswoman anna paulina luna coming up with a big announcement regarding what she is going to do 0.97

00:02:08.440 to check military leadership that may have been engaged in partisan politics and election interference

00:02:15.000 you don't want to miss that updates regarding the vaccine mandate regarding some of the

00:02:19.620 weird woke stuff that we've seen on our military bases even drag queen shows if you can believe that 0.55

00:02:26.020 and we've also got news regarding the 2002 authorization to use military force to take

00:02:32.820 out saddam hussein it seems as though congress and military leaders may finally be on the same page

00:02:38.120 that we can repeal that saddam's body has been cold for a while we've got some feedback on the

00:02:45.940 live stream already on instagram granite state kid says term limits i fully agree with that and

00:02:51.500 passionately patriotic says to me do not take my foot off their chest and i do not intend to so the

00:02:59.640 first thing i want to talk about on the show today is a really big scandal for the united states air force

00:03:05.200 where they were releasing information regarding republicans running for congress they were doing

00:03:10.860 so illegally here's an update on where that news story stood take a listen

00:03:15.380 during the last midterm campaign the air force released the service records of two republican

00:03:22.680 members of congress to a research firm linked to the democratic party the air force did that

00:03:27.380 apparently the research firm lied and claimed to be conducting an employment background check on the

00:03:33.120 members of congress records belonging to several other people were also compromised what kind of

00:03:37.080 clarity are you getting from the pentagon on this story well i talked to the secretary of the air force

00:03:43.360 and he said it was done by accident that that they were deceived that this company acted like

00:03:49.120 they were doing this on our behalf had her social security number illegally other personal

00:03:53.980 identifying information and so the air force mid-level manager that got this thought they were doing

00:03:59.860 on my behalf and there was a total tucker of 11 air force folks are either in congress or candidates

00:04:06.060 that this happened to and so we were assured by the secretary of the air force that they figured out

00:04:11.000 what happened they put fixes in place they apologized they took responsibility the real culprit though is the

00:04:16.940 democrat campaign arm of the congressional campaign committee who paid 105 000 to a democrat firm to

00:04:24.020 get uh to get uh our to do opposition research and where they used our information illegally and i and i think

00:04:31.160 this you know this is dirty politics for sure but could be i think it very much very likely this illegal and all

00:04:38.040 this data and all the evidence has been given now to the attorney general

00:04:41.260 that's congressman don bacon of nebraska and he's right to place a considerable amount of blame on the democrat

00:04:50.160 congressional campaign committee it seems as though the democrat arm of their senate operation was also

00:04:56.700 involved in paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to this opposition research firm called due diligence

00:05:03.060 that then got this information from the united states air force but it was concerning to me that it's

00:05:08.620 predominantly republicans who had their information released and so i'm not as sure as general bacon

00:05:14.140 that there wasn't a collusion here there wasn't an effort by some in senior leadership at dod to try

00:05:21.880 to scuttle republican campaigns i had the chance to ask the lead general in charge of personnel for the

00:05:28.800 united states air force these questions at a hearing yesterday of the military personnel subcommittee

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00:05:35.540 how many republicans running for congress had their personnel records unlawfully compromised by the

00:05:43.660 united states air force uh thank you for that question so we did have a pii breach um 11 individuals

00:05:50.520 overall uh their data was um released um well you say breach when i hear breach what i hear is that like

00:05:59.400 someone hacked or broke in or got the information you gave this information yes we did no

00:06:05.140 right it wasn't a breach it was an illegal release it was a yes it was right right we take full

00:06:10.140 responsibility for that 11 11 yes and all republicans right um i don't know the answer to that i know

00:06:16.160 some of them were but i think but if i represent to you that that that it's all or almost all

00:06:20.640 republicans almost all republicans that's correct yes and this information was given to the due

00:06:25.340 diligence entity right there was uh there were there was an entity yes it was yeah and it's an opposition

00:06:31.180 research entity that gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from the democratic congressional campaign

00:06:36.680 committee and the democratic senatorial uh campaign apparatus right um i don't know that much about

00:06:42.560 due diligence but there's i know that we um release the information inappropriately why did you do that

00:06:48.260 um it was a you know it was an error we did a investigation as soon as we found out we notified all

00:06:54.020 the members um in which their data was um released uh we have put in place uh multiple layers of uh

00:07:02.380 checks and balances we did a retraining who's been fired for doing this um we have taken the

00:07:07.880 appropriate action okay who's been fired we we've taken the appropriate action it's a fascinating

00:07:14.320 answer just not to my question who's been fired i i can't answer that has a single person been fired

00:07:21.960 i do not know the answer to that shouldn't you though i mean here we are having recruiting

00:07:27.820 challenges you guys are releasing personnel information of predominantly republicans to a

00:07:32.220 democrat opposition research firm you run personnel for the united states air force and you can't tell

00:07:37.120 me whether anyone has been fired for this unauthorized release congressman i can tell you that we have

00:07:41.840 taken the appropriate action but you deem it appropriate but what if we don't because because we have

00:07:47.180 civilian control of the military we may have to change our laws to hold people accountable and

00:07:52.480 pardon me for not trusting your vague reference to the layers that you've put on but mr chairman i

00:07:58.560 request that this committee get specific answers for what the accountability regime was for this

00:08:04.420 unlawful action by the united states air force and that we not take as an article of faith the

00:08:08.960 representation that they think they've taken the appropriate action they've taken the illegal

00:08:12.460 inappropriate action to compromise these records and i think we should hold them accountable for it

00:08:16.420 we are back live and it is amazing to me that these generals with all of the stars on their lapels can

00:08:25.560 come in and suggest to us after they break the law after they do something wrong that because they

00:08:32.880 self-assess that they're taking appropriate action oh well you broke the law and now you say you're 0.98

00:08:38.860 taking appropriate action case closed here what kind of clowns would believe that crap we need specific 0.95

00:08:44.840 answers and i'm glad that congressman jim banks who chairs the military personnel subcommittee very 0.96

00:08:51.060 effectively will be on the case in that matter now one of the members of congress who was a republican

00:08:57.200 candidate who was victimized by this leak congresswoman anna paulina luna florida woman prior guest on firebrand

00:09:04.900 and we had a chance to talk not only about how that leak came to fruition but what she plans to do about it

00:09:11.760 take a listen we are joined now by congresswoman anna paulina luna welcome back to firebrand 0.95

00:09:19.780 when did you first learn that your records were among those that the air force had released to a

00:09:25.560 democrat political opposition research firm so right after the speakers fight we basically had

00:09:31.020 started getting inquiry from actually my friend started writing me so my old supervisor from about 12 years ago

00:09:37.480 just hit me up randomly one day and sent me a screenshot of a number and it was a reporter from the new york times

00:09:43.320 that said hi my name is so and so from the new york times i heard that you were or we know that you were

00:09:49.300 representative luna's old rating supervisor we have some questions about her for you and so when i saw that i just

00:09:56.840 i immediately knew i was like look your service records whatever is public they're never going to know who your rating

00:10:02.180 supervisor is unless they saw my epr and so immediately on seeing that i was like they somehow

00:10:06.640 obtained my records now initially when i brought this forward to certain people they're like there's

00:10:12.700 no way that they had obtained it and then about two and a half weeks after that then we found out

00:10:17.060 so you found out that your records had been illegally released by the air force because you were able to

00:10:23.500 trace the breadcrumbs of where people were going to evaluate your service record you served in the air

00:10:28.660 force right served in the air force what bases did you serve at i was at whiteman air force base which

00:10:32.660 is where this super uh supervisor was i was at herbert field i was at keesler air force base and

00:10:38.240 then portland air national guard unit so i was all around but i knew because the fact that they had

00:10:42.720 actually written a rating supervisor which is not public access to just any random person that does a

00:10:48.640 records request you weren't the only one 11 candidates for a federal office had their records

00:10:54.720 released have you talked to some of the others about how they feel about this yeah there's actually

00:10:58.300 been more than that now so they're now saying there's a senate candidate who had their records

00:11:01.580 released and then jr majuski i reached out to early on he had never received a letter from the air force

00:11:06.620 and it actually wasn't until after our inquiry from both house armed services and oversight that then he

00:11:12.500 received a letter from the air force and that was maybe about last week jr majuski was a republican

00:11:16.840 candidate for congress in ohio lost a very close race and these issues that were illegally released

00:11:23.100 by the military seemed to have been really utilized by his political opponents in your case it seems

00:11:28.600 it was the media trying to smear you with this illegal release right 100 and it what's unique

00:11:34.160 about my case with j uh my case jr majuski and then jennifer ruth green is all of our records were sent to

00:11:41.780 media companies so jr majuski i believe his was sent to politico i think it was jennifer ruth green that

00:11:48.180 had her records sent to axios and then mine were somehow obtained by the new york times and so what

00:11:53.740 they did was is they basically obtained these and then they leak it in the media that way or they try

00:11:58.440 to go to people that you might have worked with to have them say something bad about you and then

00:12:02.020 they print it what do you make of the fact that all or almost all of the records released were of

00:12:07.200 republican candidates for federal office i think it was absolutely inside hack job by the air force and it

00:12:12.440 was interesting because when my office separately reached out from house oversight and house armed

00:12:16.700 services mind you i'm a member of house oversight and did an inquiry to expand the net because i ran

00:12:22.580 in 2020 not just in the 2022 election cycle and then also to to see if it wasn't just due diligence

00:12:28.420 llc if it was to any opposition research firm or an illegal leak their force basically told me to go

00:12:34.360 pound sand and so when i got that message back i realized that one if they're going to admit to

00:12:39.960 something they should have done it right then and there i knew that they're going to play hardball so i

00:12:43.740 actually ended up working with judicial watch and i foiled the record so i talked to jennifer ruth green

00:12:48.260 i figured out how she had obtained information that her records are released and what's interestingly

00:12:54.080 enough is that the air force actually told the press that it was a low-ranking service member

00:12:59.500 and it ended up being from what we're hearing a gs-12 ah well i am frustrated that senior leadership

00:13:07.360 at the air force can't seem to give a straight answer regarding whether or not anyone has been fired

00:13:12.100 for this and if they're able to just say oh gosh it was a mistake that just happened to overwhelmingly

00:13:17.680 target republicans that it might happen again if there's no accountability do you worry that this

00:13:23.200 will occur in future election cycles where it's election interference by our own government a hundred

00:13:28.880 percent and i think the really disturbing thing is that we're talking about democrats democrats are

00:13:33.200 supposed to champion women's causes remember the whole me too movement democrats were the first one

00:13:37.440 on board with that but yet you had a female service member jennifer ruth green who's an officer 0.98

00:13:41.580 and they used her sexual assault against her wow and that was sold to due diligence llc via litter or 1.00

00:13:48.440 given to due diligence llc via the d triple c which is the democrat congressional elections commission

00:13:54.640 and so ultimately what i'm finding is that these people if they're not held accountable which they

00:13:59.660 haven't no one's been fired they're going to continue to do it again and so we're going to make an

00:14:03.760 example one thing i know about you is you don't let this stuff go by so walk everyone through your

00:14:09.180 plans to specifically use some of the rules that we fought for during the speaker contest to hold

00:14:15.060 them accountable and to highlight their misdeeds so we ultimately had negotiated during the speaker's

00:14:19.980 fight for something called the holman rule which allows us to defund any federally appointed position

00:14:24.940 and so i worked with my team and we actually filed the paperwork two days ago 6 p.m we made the deadline

00:14:30.700 and we're ultimately going to go after the general who's in charge of records and personnel management

00:14:35.800 because in the military especially your wins and your losses are both a responsibility and accepted

00:14:42.260 by leadership and if that general wants to play games and they think this is a joke that they are not

00:14:47.220 held accountable then we're going to come for their commission well the general in charge of personnel 0.96

00:14:51.140 for the air force looked like a fool when i asked her questions about this recently and so what

00:14:55.460 you're saying is that you are going to make these personnel officials at the air force quite famous 0.90

00:15:00.420 because you're going to put up for a vote in the house of representatives whether or not to specifically

00:15:05.180 zero out their salaries yes and i actually spoke with the um cardinal for appropriations on defense

00:15:11.900 and i asked his um basically input and to see what he had to say and he absolutely said you know these

00:15:18.340 people need to be held accountable so we have support on this this is not going to just not go anywhere

00:15:22.340 and it is important to note though that and you know this firsthand based on what we saw during our

00:15:28.020 trip to a base but the military seems to think right now that they're not held accountable to

00:15:33.360 the civilian sector and that's the american people and that's congress and so when they treat this like

00:15:38.400 it's a joke and these are people's social security numbers this is their health care information

00:15:42.000 they need to be held accountable and so we're going to make sure that they know that

00:15:44.940 if you come for luna she comes for you that's the message coming for their salary for their

00:15:50.620 authorities and this should never happen again i worry that in part this was an operation to deter

00:15:57.220 future republican veterans from seeking office in the congress what would be your message to the

00:16:04.360 folks out there who have fought in some of these forever wars who love our country they've left the

00:16:09.680 military and now they're eager to continue a patriotic commitment they're thinking about campaigning for a

00:16:15.260 public position whether or not you are a veteran or not i think just in general just understand that

00:16:22.160 if they can't find something on you they'll make it up you know this better than anyone else i do but

00:16:27.960 they will make it up and ultimately what you have to understand is that this is literally one of the

00:16:33.760 last known blood sports you have to be able to defend yourself but understand that a service record

00:16:38.640 especially is so incredibly important and here's a few things one voters are going to trust you more

00:16:43.400 and two you have the ability from personal experience to speak on withdrawing and not

00:16:48.840 engaging in these forever wars in my entire lifetime president trump was the only president that ever got

00:16:54.000 us involved in another foreign conflict and that's why i love president trump but when you hear the

00:16:59.160 rhetoric that goes around and people say well if we don't fight them there it'll come here talking

00:17:03.740 about terrorism that and then you look at you know who's they're funded by raytheon boeing whatever it

00:17:08.260 might be the military industrial complex that is why we are in the deficit that we're in that is why

00:17:13.980 we have the health care crisis that we have in our country with mental health in regards to ptsd

00:17:18.620 and that is exactly why they don't want anti-war veterans in office and so just understand that if you're

00:17:24.080 going to take that position which is my position which is your position um they're going to come for

00:17:28.460 you but you can hit them right back they always tell us that if we don't fight them over there we're

00:17:32.960 going to have to fight them at home and so then we deploy all of these capabilities abroad and

00:17:37.360 increasingly in the information domain we are training military officials how to do information

00:17:43.540 operations and my worry is that after that's done abroad that's what comes home and now you have a

00:17:49.900 government enterprise-wide that is literally trying to shape the nature of truth for people in our

00:17:55.840 country and if the department of defense is involved in that and if one of the features of that

00:18:00.100 operation is to try to discredit veterans who are running for office who may not always comport

00:18:06.660 with the military narrative then that's something that should concern all americans but one thing i'm

00:18:11.880 so grateful for this isn't just talk anymore we are taking concrete actions to hold these people

00:18:17.180 accountable and to limit their ability to do this harm going forward and if they're not defunded they

00:18:22.100 should absolutely be fired thanks for joining me on thanks for running for congress and being a great fighter

00:18:26.100 so just so you know you are probably the reason why i'm here so glad to be back well thank you so much

00:18:31.820 that was congresswoman anna polina luna one of florida's best certainly one of america's best make 1.00

00:18:39.560 sure to give her a follow at rep luna on rumble dixie sam is sure glad that congresswoman luna spent 0.94

00:18:46.580 some time in biloxi at keesler air force base and d on rumble says the military has no problem lying

00:18:53.780 because there are no consequences well i think you heard from congresswoman luna there there are

00:18:58.980 going to be consequences in the pocketbook and with the authorities that some of these people have

00:19:03.860 who cannot give us straight answers and one area where we have consistently failed to get straight

00:19:10.720 answers has been the military vaccine mandate i have opposed the military covid vaccine mandate

00:19:17.060 from the beginning i'm glad more republicans have come to our side we had to shut down that

00:19:23.260 mandate by force of law but what moved me were the experiences of our service members experiences

00:19:29.860 that were shared on firebrand last year take a listen to some of those concerns

00:19:34.680 master sergeant one of the things that concerned me in an investigation that my office ran into the

00:19:42.260 united states navy is that when people submitted requests for religious accommodations they were often

00:19:48.560 met in response by a form letter which to me indicated that an individual review of people's claim how

00:19:57.060 this decision was grounded in faith or scripture wasn't really made do you have any observations

00:20:04.360 about the process of requesting a religious accommodation and how the air force looks at those

00:20:11.560 requests yes congressman thank you i've seen hundreds of denied religious accommodation requests to

00:20:20.080 include denied appeal requests i've seen a handful of the approved ones and all of them start with

00:20:27.440 the premise that the government has such a strong interest in vaccinating us that while they they

00:20:33.320 determine all of our religious beliefs are to be sincerely held they determine that even as strongly as our

00:20:39.720 beliefs are they're not as strong as the government's desire and need to vaccinate all of us even in

00:20:46.000 situations such as my own where i currently have no restrictions on me as an unvaccinated member at my

00:20:51.780 location i don't have to wear a mask i don't have to weekly test i don't have to do any social

00:20:56.660 distancing my life at my job is the exact same as any vaccinated members and i'm not unique in that 1.00

00:21:02.680 scenario right now but the only approvals they've been doing that i've been able to see and that court

00:21:08.820 documents have shown are for people who are already on terminal leave already in their final months

00:21:14.400 where they won't return to a base and the fact the approval specifically says that they are only

00:21:19.180 approving it because they will not return to a base if the member's not returning to their duty station

00:21:23.580 ever that's not an accommodation they're accommodating nothing

00:21:26.520 that was nick cupper interviewed on firebrand really about this time last year and everything

00:21:36.400 he said ended up getting verified by an inspector general's report conducted by the department of

00:21:43.460 defense inspector general i confronted our senior military leadership with those findings yesterday

00:21:50.200 take a listen mr secretary you told senator schmidt yesterday that if the 8 000 plus service members

00:21:58.860 who've been separated from the military due to the vaccine mandate want to reapply that they're welcome

00:22:04.260 to do so but that you would do nothing to solicit their reapplication or to incentivize it why is that

00:22:11.240 i think it's incumbent upon the individual to to make that decision and reapply that the mechanisms are

00:22:17.920 yeah but why don't i mean you're overseeing a recruiting nightmare in our military right now

00:22:23.500 these are 8 000 patriots and by the way your department broke the law in administering the

00:22:29.740 vaccine mandate and that's not me saying so that's the inspector general for the department of defense

00:22:34.840 who wrote in on june 2nd of 2022 we found a trend of generalized assessments rather than the

00:22:41.300 individualized assessment that is required by federal law department did not break the law

00:22:46.300 uh the vaccine so the do so wait you mean the ig is wrong you think the ig is wrong he says he broke 0.65

00:22:52.320 the law lives of a number of uh well it ruined the lives of a number of people too and it ruined the

00:22:57.880 lives of people who love our country and want to re-enlist let me ask you this question if we direct

00:23:02.180 you by force of law to re-engage and incentivize the re-enlistment of these folks with full back pay

00:23:08.120 and rank do you have the capability to follow that instruction you put uh provisions in the law

00:23:13.960 uh to enable those uh those people to to uh those former service members to reapply in accordance with

00:23:21.940 the service men service good well we will do that just like we had to put the repeal of the vax mandate

00:23:27.560 in the law and i get the sense that the only reason you're not reaching out to these folks

00:23:31.480 is pride because otherwise they would be totally able to serve and it seems that your personal pride

00:23:36.800 is getting in the way pride is one of the seven deadly sins and it's clear that it is inhibiting

00:23:44.600 secretary austin from full service to our country and the patriots who are willing to put on the

00:23:50.100 uniform to defend her and when you look at a military suffering these recruiting challenges

00:23:56.880 and then you've got 8 000 people who volunteered who would be in uniform today but for this illegal

00:24:06.260 vaccine mandate that was administered outside of federal law it's just crazy to think we wouldn't

00:24:13.380 be a stronger country if these folks were re-engaged in the preservation of our nation and in the defense

00:24:21.700 of our nation but nonetheless that's the position of secretary austin so while they're not focused

00:24:26.580 on re-enlisting people to keep us safe and secure they do seem to be focused at the department

00:24:32.820 of defense on the woke and the weird you're not going to believe this watch secretary austin's face

00:24:39.780 as i ask him direct questions that he is unable to answer this from yesterday i guess my question is

00:24:47.780 how much taxpayer money should go to fund drag queen story hours on military bases

00:24:53.940 you know drag drag queen story hours is not something that the department funds wait a second 0.93

00:25:03.940 that's actually not what the record seems to suggest you were going to fund one at ramstein air force

00:25:08.740 base that one got canceled but that's dod insignia that's a drag queen story hour for children then also

00:25:15.940 at uh maelstrom air force base outside of great falls montana you had a drag queen story hour for 1.00

00:25:22.900 kids at the joint base langley eustis you put on a drag queen story hour on a saturday for the first

00:25:29.700 ever kid-friendly diversity equity inclusion summer festival and at nellis air force base you had the

00:25:35.220 drag you nellis on june 17th who funded these things mr secretary listen uh drag shows

00:25:42.180 uh are not something that the department of defense supports or funds well why are they

00:25:48.180 happening on military bases i just i just showed you the evidence why are they happening

00:25:55.940 i will say again this is not something that we support or fund well you so you think hosting a

00:26:02.500 drag queen story hour on a military base isn't supporting the drag queen story hour i stand by what 0.97

00:26:10.660 i just said but but you may stand by it but it's belied by the evidence over and over again i mean

00:26:15.300 are you are are you aware of the uh peace uh biden's military air force base in montana holds drag show

00:26:24.180 drag queen story hour for kids in the western journal are you aware of that

00:26:29.140 again i will say what i've said you're saying what you're saying but i guess it just doesn't comport

00:26:33.460 the facts bruce on facebook you are cracking me up military leaders are a real drag who else could

00:26:44.100 make a dad joke out of military bases hosting drag queen story hour and it is a bit odd to see the

00:26:51.460 secretary of defense just repeatedly say things that are either wildly naive and uninformed or factually

00:26:58.260 untrue go ahead and put up the headlines whether it's the american military news giving us a report

00:27:05.700 on what was going on at langley newsweek talking about what was going on at nellis a breitbart did

00:27:11.780 reporting on this and we even have the air force advertisement go ahead and put it on the screen the

00:27:17.140 air force advertisement created by the united states air force with taxpayer dollars who do they think

00:27:23.140 pays the light bill at these military facilities when they've got drag queen story hour obviously 1.00

00:27:28.420 the military was funding it and they shouldn't ultimately general milley agreed that this was

00:27:33.620 something if it was going on that they wanted to know more about and i had some questions for

00:27:38.340 general milley because as you'll recall years ago he said that his real focus was getting in

00:27:43.700 touch with his white rage so i had some follow-up questions take a listen

00:27:47.620 on the issue of critical race theory etc i'll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever

00:27:55.860 the theory is but i do think it's important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded

00:28:05.220 and be widely read and the united states military academy is a university and it is important that

00:28:10.980 we train and we understand and i i want to understand white rage and i'm white and i want to

00:28:17.380 understand it so that was two years ago and i couldn't resist this in my last opportunity

00:28:25.540 questioning general milley to find out what he's learned about his white rage and how well read he

00:28:31.220 indeed is this is yesterday general milley this will be my last time to question you you mentioned two

00:28:38.900 years ago that you wanted to better understand white rage and so my question is this did you read this book

00:28:44.900 no not at all well it is what is white privilege is the book and it's actually written by a dod official

00:28:55.300 a senior official in diversity equity and inclusion and there are now hundreds of these books in dozens

00:29:02.340 of schools and i wonder if you guys connect this to your problems with recruiting i've never read it never

00:29:08.020 seen it um frankly i don't even think about that stuff i think about what up the next go ahead and

00:29:12.420 put up the next slide about the variance of the force go ahead and put up the next slide please

00:29:16.660 okay well in in the next slide this is a tweet by one of your employees in charge of diversity equity and

00:29:24.020 inclusion and it's it's patently racist they say that uh she had to give karen the business that she talks about 1.00

00:29:32.420 caudacity presumably of caucasian people so i guess why does the look at that well why is that

00:29:37.780 you're not getting an argument for me that's terrible it's wrong she shouldn't be doing that 0.92

00:29:41.940 period should she be fired i don't that's a dod employee not u.s military uniform do i should 0.98

00:29:48.660 they be fired austin uh again as you heard in your subcommittee here this this incident was investigated

00:29:58.900 and uh and they're still employed i would like to point out uh chairman that uh our our students

00:30:05.540 in dodea schools scored the highest on the eighth graders and fourth graders scored the highest in

00:30:11.540 math and reading in the country so i want to thank all of the all of our dodea professionals who made

00:30:18.020 that possible and i encourage them to keep it up i hope you're not thanking that one yeah gentleman time's

00:30:22.660 expired we will call these instances out wherever we find them if you are aware of wokeness raising its

00:30:32.020 ugly head on our military bases go to gates.house.gov get us a message help us so that we can confront

00:30:39.860 the people who are supposed to be in charge with the misdeeds that they pretend that they do not

00:30:44.660 know about the united states military is engaged in misadventures all around the world oftentimes we

00:30:50.260 think we can topple some secular dictator and we're going to get the emergence of a jeffersonian 0.55

00:30:55.300 democracy afterwards but too often it is more chaos more terrorism more bloodshed and more despair

00:31:02.740 the 2002 AUMF authorization to use military force is directed at saddam hussein's government and it has

00:31:10.820 remained in effect as a permission slip to engage in more middle eastern adventurism despite saddam being

00:31:18.020 dead i asked general austin whether or not we should repeal the AUMF as the united states senate has

00:31:24.660 done this was the telling admission

00:31:29.620 secretary austin is it the position of the department of defense that we need to keep the 2002 AUMF

00:31:37.780 you're asking me if that's a decision by the department is your position that's uh that's

00:31:42.660 something that congress will decide so if we appeal the 2002 AUMF will it what i ask for is that we

00:31:48.980 have the relevant uh authorities uh to do the work that we need to do against transnational terrorist

00:31:54.820 organizations but the 2002 AUMF was about saddam right it was and 2001 AUMF provides us what we need

00:32:02.900 still we still need the 2002 AUMF you think 2001 AUMF provides us what we need in terms of authorities so

00:32:09.220 in your mind we could repeal 2002 then that's up to congress but if they if congress does that then we

00:32:16.020 still have the ability to um uh do what we need to do based upon the 2001.

00:32:24.500 there you have it finally years after saddam's death we are able to repeal the 2002 AUMF and the

00:32:31.300 house of representatives should get to the business of doing precisely that we started the show today with

00:32:36.900 images from the tennessee legislature where leftists appear to be engaged in some level of

00:32:42.260 physical altercation with lawmakers because they want gun control to deprive law-abiding citizens

00:32:48.100 of their rights somehow they think that will make them safer i believe what you're seeing in tennessee

00:32:52.820 right now was directly animated by the spectacle from the house of representatives yesterday what

00:32:59.460 you're about to hear is from representative jamal bowman a democrat from new york chastising

00:33:05.540 second amendment champion from kentucky thomas massey take a listen 0.98

00:33:12.020 they're freaking cowards they're gutless we're not here i'm talking about gun violence you know 0.98

00:33:18.100 there's never been a school in the school that allows teachers to carry 1.00

00:33:23.380 carry guns would you more guns lead to more debt more guns lead to more debt look at the data you're not

00:33:32.020 looking at any data you're not looking at any data you're in the water for the gun lobby

00:33:36.820 look at the data all right folks i've got a bill to repeal

00:33:43.860 i worked in the school for 20 years you're just screaming i was a teacher i was screaming before

00:33:49.700 you came and interrupted me every every i worked in the school for 20 years i worked in the school

00:33:55.460 20 years in every school i was a teacher i was a school counselor i was a middle school principal

00:34:01.940 i was in cafeterias every school that allows every day of my career there's never been a shooting

00:34:08.420 never been a shooting it's time we've got guns here to protect us and he doesn't believe the kids

00:34:15.540 should have somebody to protect them every school that's allowed it has never had a shooting not even

00:34:22.100 an accidental discharge at any of the schools the grace and patience and intelligence of thomas

00:34:31.060 massey was on full display there while jamal bowman lacked logic or reason or decorum thomas

00:34:37.700 massey explained that if you create hard targets out of schools you deter this type of violence against

00:34:44.980 the vulnerable but now we've created a society where everyone knows that you may have a school resource

00:34:51.060 officer or two but there is not an armed citizenry ready and able and capable to protect themselves

00:34:57.860 in far too many cases at school settings and we hope that changes and we encourage thomas massey

00:35:04.580 in his support of the second amendment and we certainly hope that folks aren't violent and crazy and weird

00:35:10.980 in their desire to stop violence it's a special message for those of you causing a ruckus in tennessee

00:35:17.620 thank you everyone so much for joining us on firebrain make sure you're subscribed to turn

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - March 30, 2023

Episode 95 LIVE： Military Misadventures (feat. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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