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00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:15.000An app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco.
00:02:21.000And you see how almost the whole thing is covered because that is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this country's ever had.
00:02:29.000Human feces is now a fact of life, except when a communist dictator comes to town.
00:03:28.000How can you, how can you, how can you argue that you want to impose a model on the rest of the country that has, you know, junkies, losers, and derelicts dropping trowel on the sidewalk and the cops just going, ah, that's cool.
00:03:51.000In California, if you're a parent in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina, your minor child can go to California without your knowledge or without your consent and get hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and a sex change operation, all without you knowing or consenting.
00:04:10.000How in the heck is that honoring parents' rights when you're bringing people from out of state to go around their parents' backs and getting life-altering surgeries?
00:04:29.000Well, look, look, I'm only a simple country trial lawyer, but I kind of understand bad arguments.
00:04:38.000The coins is not, your child will die unless you saw off her healthy breasts or cut off his healthy penis and testicles and then carve a bizarre mutant version of a vagina into the body of the child.
00:06:58.000And, you know, people are going to look back on this age the same way we look back on Caligula marrying a horse or Elagabulus, pretty much doing the same thing that the San Francisco Democrats are doing.
00:07:12.000The same way that we look back as Caligula.
00:07:16.000Refresh our audience on Roman history.
00:07:19.000Caligula and Elagabulus were two unbelievable monsters.
00:07:23.000Caligula was a lunatic pervert, allegedly married a horse.
00:07:29.000Elagabulus was a, let's just say he was pretty much a moderate Democrat.
00:07:36.000He would like to mutilate children, created his own personal religion, and was totally incompetent, as was Caligula in actually governing.
00:07:49.000So basically, like I said, San Francisco kind of moderate Democrat.
00:07:54.000Just kind of mainstream, middle of the line.
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00:11:06.000Kurt, so many stories to cover, and especially one of the ones that I want to hit right now beyond the Gavin Newsome-DeSantis debate, which really wasn't much of a debate.
00:11:38.000And if there is a rule that if you've got accusations against you that are serious, and I'm not sure his are that serious, you are expelled.
00:11:49.000Why is Bob Menendez still in the Senate?
00:11:52.000Why are half the Democrats still in the House?
00:11:54.000Why did this even get brought up for a vote?
00:11:59.000I wouldn't have brought this to the floor.
00:12:42.000And I am done playing Calvin ball with these damn communists.
00:12:48.000Yeah, so let's dive deeper into this, Kurt, which is if there was a gentleman's agreement, if we were dealing with people of virtue and honor where we had policy disagreements, then fine.
00:13:01.000You guys expelled Elon because of some suspicious stuff with immigration and her brother.
00:13:17.000I think some of us are afraid to take the hard stands and do the tough things that are necessary to win.
00:13:23.000You know, we've got, we have a society, and this isn't just in politics.
00:13:30.000We have a society that's probably the most prosperous, secure, brand society in human history.
00:13:35.000And we have a significant part of our population that believes that this sort of just happened, that it happened, that it just sort of came about because the arc of the universe bends towards justice.
00:13:49.000What happened was a bunch of very hard and tough people did some very hard and tough things, including the shedding of blood, to create a society like ours.
00:14:00.000And they must do tough things, sometimes including the shedding of blood, but also including tolerating people like what they say George Santos did.
00:14:09.000And I don't know where he's guilty or not, to preserve it.
00:14:13.000And if you're not willing to do tough things in a tough world, you're going to get rolled and your little island of prosperity, sanity, and some freedom is going to recede under the waters like Atlanta.
00:14:31.000And yet, over 100 Republicans enthusiastically run into this.
00:14:35.000Kurt, what I mean, you might see this differently than I do.
00:14:38.000What, if anything, has this House GOP done to put wins on the board?
00:14:58.000I actively dislike Kevin McCarthy, but Kevin McCarthy was useful in that position and putting some wins on the board, not a lot, but he was in a tough position with a very narrow majority.
00:15:12.000A majority now, one narrower, by the way.
00:15:17.000You know, one bad accident or another Democrat shooting up a ball game changes the majority in the House, Charlie.
00:15:25.000And we just toss this guy away because we want to be seen as nice guys.
00:15:30.000Well, I'm not a nice guy, and I don't vote for nice guys.
00:15:35.000And I think a lot of Republicans feel that way.
00:16:31.000For years, I've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues teaching things that directly contradict the values of millions of American families.
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00:17:43.000Joining us now is Matt Gates, one of the few patriots in the House of Representatives.
00:17:48.000He's holding the line and doing a great job every single day.
00:17:50.000Several topics we want to cover, but the one that is about from a week ago that I want to make sure we don't forget is the Minot Air Force Base.
00:17:59.000Matt Gates, you're on the Armed Services Committee.
00:18:02.000Did we ever get an answer from the Air Force as to why they think Turning Point USA is untouchable for members of the military?
00:18:09.000Yeah, just for listeners who know, people who were serving at Minot Air Force Base literally got a text message warning that if they were to attend a turning point event, that that might impair their ability to serve in the military.
00:18:23.000And they called Turning Point an alt-right organization.
00:18:27.000Of course, we all know Turning Point is really an explosion of positive patriotism.
00:18:32.000It's something that gives young people an opportunity to engage in politics.
00:18:36.000And so I have a vision to find out exactly who drafted that text message, exactly who authorized it.
00:18:43.000And I'm going to haul them before the House Armed Services Committee.
00:18:46.000And whatever woketopian general or colonel or whomever ordered this ought to be forced to sit in that committee room.
00:18:56.000And you know who I want sitting next to him, Charlie?
00:18:59.000I want you sitting at that table right next to whoever made that decision and have them look at you and look at us and explain to us why they're trying to virtue signal against anything that has an embrace of patriotism and love of country because they have no problem in the military going and getting pro-socialism literature at the National Defense University.
00:19:22.000They have no problem in embracing radical gender ideology.
00:19:27.000But if, God forbid, somebody wants to go hear a lecture from one of the great speakers who attend a turning point event, then somehow we have to challenge their patriotism.
00:19:38.000I know it was a week ago, but I am so hot under the collar for this because it is an effort to really signal to people.
00:19:46.000And let's be honest, it probably wasn't going to be the entire base at Minot Air Force Base that was going to go to this turning point event.
00:19:52.000But what they want to signal is that if you have any association with anything that might be viewed as conservative or traditionalist, that you are somehow dangerous.
00:20:02.000And they want to do that so that people self-censor and silence and become less patriotic.
00:20:09.000So we're going to get to the bottom of this because one thing Tucker Carlson taught me is that one of the most powerful drivers of the human existence is humiliation and particularly public humiliation.
00:20:20.000And the people who made this decision deserve to be called to the mat for it.
00:20:59.000So the FISA renewal, it's a 12-year potential renewal.
00:21:04.000There are some reports that Speaker Johnson is trying to slip it into the NDAA bill that they I would hope we can get a standalone vote on this.
00:21:13.000As you well know, FISA was used to spy on Tucker Carlson, to spy on Donald Trump.
00:21:18.000It has been abused widely on both Republicans and Democrats.
00:21:22.000It's been a bipartisan abuse by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:21:25.000They refuse to ever acknowledge or admit that getting a warrant is possible in this entire process.
00:21:31.000The Washington Post article yesterday was vomit-inducing, where they said, oh, you know, getting a warrant would be too big of an impediment.
00:21:39.000Matt Gates, what's going on with FISA?
00:21:41.000Well, first of all, thank you for being an advocate on this because sometimes when you start talking about FISA, people's eyes glaze over.
00:21:48.000But this is one of the most abused authorities in our national security apparatus.
00:21:52.000And it's not, it's even worse than you described.
00:21:56.000When the Obama inspector general went and reviewed the FBI's conduct on FISA, they were breaking the law 38 times an hour for the period that was reviewed.
00:22:10.000They were looking up information regarding their neighbors, their ex-lovers, their co-workers.
00:22:16.000It's a complete 1984 spy state Orwellian construct that they've created.
00:22:23.000So we have a bill, and it's bipartisan.
00:22:25.000We worked with Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Vermila Jayapal, people that we don't normally make common cause with, but they actually believe in a warrant requirement.
00:22:36.000They believe in the Fourth Amendment being imposed on the FBI when they want to engage in these queries of Americans.
00:22:43.000Like when you hear Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, you think it's people abroad, but they're turning this against our fellow Americans.
00:22:50.000They used it against people who were around the Capitol on January 6th.
00:22:54.000They used it against people who were involved in the George Floyd riots.
00:22:58.000So I don't think that I'm equally aggrieved by both of those.
00:23:02.000I think that this was something we designed to go after terrorists in Central Asian caves, not after the American people.
00:23:08.000So we've got that bill, and we want to get it passed.
00:23:12.000I do not believe that you are going to see Speaker Johnson put any sort of clean extension of these authorities without reforms onto our defense authorization bill.
00:23:25.000We want to see our weapon systems in a position to be able to deter and defeat any adversary, but we should not be lashing an extension of corrupt authorities that have been misused to our defense bill.
00:23:37.000And I can tell you that Mike Johnson has made me a commitment that that will not happen.
00:23:43.000So here's what I think we ought to do.
00:23:45.000I think we ought to send our bill to the Senate and then force them to either eat those reforms or watch this program expire.
00:23:52.000And there are a lot of people who are opposed to that.
00:23:54.000Mike Pompeo has gotten involved in lobbying against our willingness to allow it to expire.
00:24:48.000Yeah, I can't really talk about a lot of that stuff because there's classifications and there's ongoing investigations.
00:24:54.000What I can say is that the abuses of FISA would justify its complete relegation to the dustbin of history.
00:25:05.000Now, that's not to say we don't need tools to be able to go after foreign adversaries that would do Americans harm, but we don't have to use this system that has been so just ripe with corruption.
00:25:17.000And you see the 10,000 plus employees at the DOJ who are able to go and query the FISA database as yet another extension of that abuse.
00:25:28.000So I don't think that this is something that is keeping us safe.
00:25:31.000I think it is something that is keeping the nosy FBI in your phone logs, in your emails, in your text messages without probable cause.
00:25:59.000Can you name a prosecution and indictment that all the, and by the way, not only name one, name one where you wouldn't have been able to get a warrant in that situation.
00:26:09.000I think it would be, yeah, I think it would be easy for them to name instances in which law enforcement was effective at deterring some sort of bad act.
00:26:18.000But the second prong is absolutely key.
00:26:21.000In virtually every single one of those cases, you would be able to get a warrant.
00:26:25.000I think in every one of those cases, you would have been able to get a warrant.
00:26:28.000And now they're throwing up these hobgoblin, like red herring arguments.
00:26:32.000They're saying, oh, well, if every one of these has to have a warrant, we need time.
00:26:54.000If we're not willing to fight on this, then it is a real black eye for Republicans.
00:26:59.000We have spent years chronicling, researching, exposing these abuses.
00:27:04.000And if we have all these hearings and expose the abuses, and then we're not willing to cut off the authorities or the money to do it, then it's all just for show.
00:27:13.000That this is just a big game, and we're not actually fighting the American people and their civil liberties.
00:27:18.000So at the end of the day, don't look at the flashy lures.
00:27:22.000It's about the authorities that these government entities have, and it's about the money you send them.
00:31:02.000I'm not the judge, the jury, the executioner.
00:31:06.000So when we get to a posture where the swamp of Washington, D.C. gets to substitute its judgment for the judgment of voters who sent a member of Congress here, you have eroded democracy.
00:31:32.000And again, this is not a defense of George Santos or anything he's done, but you and I both know the Democrats would never do this.
00:31:40.000Like, ain't nothing noble about the gold that Bob Menendez is carrying around, right?
00:31:45.000And yet they had him as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and he's still getting classified breathings after an allegation that he was taking bribes from Egypt and he had these gold bars that he didn't get from Noble Gold that he got with Arabic inscriptions on them.
00:32:01.000And so the double standard and our willingness to self-mutilate on these things really impairs our ability to get the job done.
00:32:25.000And I don't really think Kevin McCarthy is sticking around long.
00:32:28.000Every image of his office shows that he's packing things up in boxes.
00:32:32.000So we could be down to a one-seat majority.
00:32:34.000We got a bunch of these octogenarians in our conference.
00:32:37.000If God forbid any of them were to cross the rainbow bridge, we would be in a situation where we could literally lose the majority because we were so eager to throw George Santos out before even being convicted.
00:32:50.000It is not in accordance with precedent.
00:32:52.000It is not in accordance with due process.
00:32:55.000And it is just tactically freaking stupid.
00:32:59.000Yeah, besides that, it was a brilliant idea.
00:33:04.000Honestly, Matt, you have to do it every single day.
00:33:08.000Why give Republicans more power if they do stuff like this?
00:33:11.000Just because the alternative is so much worse, to be honest with you.
00:33:14.000I mean, for all of our flaws and foibles and follies, we're at least not trying to cut the genitalia off your children like the Democrats are.
00:33:22.000So, I mean, that's basically what we have at this point.
00:33:25.000No, but we do try to mutilate our own Congress.
00:33:29.000The Democrats want to mutilate your children.
00:33:32.000So I guess that's what we're left with right now in America.
00:33:35.000I mean, and by the way, by the way, like, what concerns you more that George Santos misused some campaign funds for Botox and OnlyFans, or that the chairman of the ethics committee regularly trades defense stocks?