00:00:48.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:28.000They should check and balance one another.
00:01:31.000The complaints laid out in the Declaration of Independence that we celebrated on July 4th were largely addressed and solved at the ratification of the Constitution.
00:01:41.000The Constitution did not come ex nihilo.
00:02:01.000The Constitution understood that your rights do not come from government.
00:02:05.000Your rights are given to you by God or your creator.
00:02:09.000It says very clearly in the Declaration, the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:02:14.000God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:18.000The Constitution understood that there must be first and foremost rules for government, not rules for people.
00:02:24.000In fact, it said a government shall not be able to shut you up, shall not be able to take weapons, shall not put soldiers in your home, shall not be able to spy on you, shall not be able to detain you indefinitely without a speedy trial.
00:02:37.000The United States Constitution and the following Bill of Rights that was ratified in 1791 was the great leap forward in self-government.
00:02:46.000Woodrow Wilson, one of America's worst presidents, an evil, maniacal man, who actually, his wife, was largely running the White House towards the end of his presidency, former college professor and former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey, basically the accidental president who became president in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt decided to run the Bullmoose Party and primary William Howard Taft, running three parties and Woodrow Wilson won with a plurality, not a majority of votes.
00:03:14.000Woodrow Wilson threw away the Constitution, the promise of the founders.
00:03:17.000He said, we're more advanced than this.
00:03:19.000Blake, can you find that exact quote from Woodrow Wilson?
00:03:22.000He was more eloquent than that, but I'm summarizing it rather bluntly.
00:03:25.000Woodrow Wilson basically said, we know what we want.
00:03:28.000Why do we need all these checks and balances?
00:03:30.000That government should work like a machine.
00:05:42.000Donald Trump built things in his life for 40 years in New York City, big buildings, saved Central Park, saved Woman Rink, the New York Convention Center.
00:05:52.000And so the administrative state for him, it didn't make sense.
00:05:54.000He said, where is this in the Constitution?
00:05:55.000It's getting in the way of self-government.
00:05:57.000And then, of course, Chuck Schumer, the clip that we've played many times on this program that we might play again, comes out and he said, for a very shrewd businessman, he's being really dumb because the CIA has six ways from Sunday to get back at you.
00:06:12.000Now, the administrative state, you can call it the deep state, you can call it the shadow government.
00:06:16.000They outnumber the people's representation.
00:06:20.000Congress is supposed to be the people's representation in D.C., and we don't do a very good job of it, but we're doing better.
00:06:27.000We gave the House Republicans a majority.
00:06:31.000We have Thomas Massey, who does a good job against the administrative state.
00:06:35.000Lauren Boebert, Matt Gates, who's terrific, who's going to join us in a little bit.
00:06:39.000If an unelected bureaucracy has any power at all to take out our actual elected and appointed members of government, they are too powerful, and it's against the promise of representative government.
00:06:49.000Yesterday, Christopher Wray testified, and something quite rare happened.
00:06:54.000In real time, you saw representative government versus administrative government collide.
00:07:01.000And it was so clear who actually runs this country.
00:07:04.000It is clear that we are no longer a country of the sovereign of the people.
00:07:09.000The new sovereign are the unelected, arrogant, smug members of the plutocracy of the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Christopher Wray believes he's better than you.
00:08:18.000The founders' intent was never to have this fourth branch of government.
00:08:22.000It's totally unnecessary, but it fits a trend, a trend of humanity, that you might have liberty and self-government, but over time, the failure to pass down those values to one generation to the other, the people slip and they slip and they slip and they clamor and they clamor.
00:08:37.000It's the same trajectory the Hebrews went on in the Old Testament.
00:08:42.000Congress's job is oversight and accountability.
00:08:44.000Ray wants nothing to do with it, but you could just tell he's just like, I'm in charge.
00:08:50.000He's probably thinking to himself, I have dirt on all of you congressmen.
00:10:16.000Are you guys going after child sex traffickers or are you going after political dissidents?
00:10:21.000Like before you, I don't know, indict Rudy Giuliani or raid James O'Keefe's home or go after Steve Bannon, why don't you go after the human smugglers that are highlighted in Sound of Freedom?
00:10:33.000Chris Christie goes on television to defend Christopher Wray.
00:10:47.000I want to respond to something that Chris Christie said on Fox News earlier today.
00:10:52.000He said that Christopher Wright delivered extraordinary results.
00:10:56.000The problem is they're just extraordinarily awful.
00:11:00.000And like Chris Christie criticized us for engaging in fundraising theater during this committee.
00:11:06.000And I'm not going to take my notes on fundraising from a guy who was a lobbyist and was snouted down in the lobbyist financial money laundering situation when he was raising money from them as governor of New Jersey.
00:11:19.000So I'm more likely to take like Chris Christie's exercise plan than I am his fundraising strategy.
00:11:40.000What you saw today, I think, was an animated and combative FBI director who's defending the men and women who work for him every day and do a great job and protect us from domestic terrorism, from international terrorism, and from these drug cartels and are helping state and local law enforcement every day with their things.
00:11:57.000So, yeah, I think Chris Ray has done a very good job.
00:12:00.000And I think, Luke, a lot of the stuff you see today, John, is theater and people trying to raise money for campaigns.
00:12:05.000Doesn't mean there aren't problems at the FBI.
00:12:38.000Mike Pence, remember, defended the Department of Justice.
00:12:40.000Chris Christie defends the Department of Justice and the FBI because they just don't want to get indicted and they want a comfortable life.
00:12:47.000They want a life that they can feel good.
00:13:36.000How many individuals were either FBI employees or people that the FBI had made contact with were in the January 6th entry of the Capitol and surrounding area?
00:13:51.000So I really need to be careful here talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources.
00:13:59.000Was there one or more individuals that would fit that description on January 6th that were in or around the Capitol?
00:14:06.000I can't, again, I just can't speak to that here.
00:14:09.000You can't speak to it because I don't work for you, Daryl Issa.
00:15:45.000I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.
00:15:55.000I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
00:16:00.000Sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it, Director?
00:16:04.000I'm not going to get into commenting on that.
00:16:07.000You seem deeply uncurious about it, don't you?
00:16:17.000Oh, hold on, you won't answer the question about whether or not that's a shakedown, and everybody knows why you won't answer it.
00:16:24.000Matt Gates, your reaction and your response to Christopher Wray.
00:16:30.000Yet, interestingly, dumb on the questions that we ask them.
00:16:36.000They forget things or they don't have things at their disposal.
00:16:39.000And here, I wanted to showcase to the country that Christopher Wray's unwillingness to acknowledge an obvious shakedown in front of the entire country is reflective of what we see at the FBI.
00:16:51.000They target conservatives, they go after President Trump and anyone who supports him.
00:16:55.000And then when there's derogatory information that comes in from reliable sources that have helped build dozens of other cases for the FBI, well, they just label all of that foreign interference so that they can continue with the grift.
00:17:09.000And so the real question, Charlie, is where do we go from here?
00:17:12.000After we expose the bias and the political capture that's occurred at the FBI, we can't just continue business as usual.
00:17:21.000That's why in the appropriations process that is coming up in a matter of weeks, we have to take a hatchet to the FBI budget and to the FBI authorities that have been weaponized against the people.
00:17:32.000Like the Bidens are one thing, but it's the rest of us that they're still coming for.
00:17:37.000In the period of time that the Inspector General looked at the FBI's surveillance authorities, they were conducting 38 illegal queries every hour.
00:17:49.000And a judge who reviewed their conduct was particularly aggrieved that they were doing weird personal things, like looking up themselves and their ex-lovers in the process.
00:18:01.000This is not an FBI anymore that singularly investigates crimes and holds people accountable.
00:18:07.000They've become the enforcement wing of the Democratic Party politically, and then they've just become unconstitutionally nosy with authorities that we have to constrain under the law.
00:18:18.000So, Matt, our audience is upset, and they should be.
00:18:21.000What, if anything, can we do to rein this in?
00:18:24.000Because, I mean, I watched the Christopher Wrings.
00:18:26.000He does not feel as if he is accountable to anyone, and certainly not to you.
00:18:31.000He doesn't have to answer Congress's questions.
00:18:33.000He doesn't believe that there's a check and balance on his power.
00:18:38.000It's as if a monarch, a divine right of king oligarch, would come down to the peasants and hear questions at some sort of community meeting, all the while having the power of the Praetorian Guard and secret police to put every single one of them in jail.
00:18:52.000How do we reset constitutional structure and form, Matt?
00:18:59.000And our viewers are right here that there's an arrogance to the tone of Christopher Wray that predominates the entire energy of these exchanges.
00:19:08.000One thing we have to do is cut off the money because what we've already seen is you can pass all the laws you want.
00:19:25.000I would explicitly target Director Wray and some of the bureaucrats who've done the most egregious things, and I would zero out their salaries.
00:19:32.000One of the things we fought for in January was a specific rule that allows us to zero out specific bureaucrat salaries.
00:19:39.000If we don't use that rule regarding the people at the FBI, then that was an unserious endeavor because they deeply deserve it.
00:19:46.000But I think there's also a potential criminal referral here for Ray to the Department of Justice, which they will, of course, ignore, but I think that highlights the hypocrisy ever more.
00:19:55.000Christopher Wray that the FBI never investigated parent speech at school board meetings.
00:20:04.000We had FBI whistleblower Steve Friend give sworn testimony before the committee that he was taken off of child porn cases and exploitation cases, and he was moved to go to a parking lot at a school board meeting and record people's license plate information so that that could be cross-referenced with other databases.
00:20:24.000Steve Friend, that FBI agent, had previously gone to school board meetings as a parent to express concerns about curriculum.
00:20:34.000I think that Director Ray was not honest with us.
00:20:37.000He also wasn't honest with Senator Lee several years ago when he said that there was none of the FISA spying authority used against people who were in Washington, D.C. on January 6th.
00:20:48.000A federal judge issued an order essentially saying that that was a lie.
00:20:55.000If we don't enforce the powers of contempt, if we don't send referrals, even though we know what Eric Garland will do with them, then we are not protecting our Article I powers in the Constitution as the United States Congress.
00:21:07.000So those are some forward-looking, very aggressive approaches.
00:21:12.000But I think that the times we're living in and what we're seeing would call for them to be utilized.
00:21:17.000I want to just play a piece of tape here to reiterate the point.
00:21:20.000I'm going to play 85 again, play cut 85.
00:21:53.000You know, we should tell the next time the Democrats take the House, anytime they subpoena people on Team America Conservative, we should just tell them to do the, I'm not going to speak to that.
00:22:02.000Could you imagine under subpoena, you just tell a member of that?
00:22:06.000That's called you go to jail if you're Steve Bannon and you say, I'm not going to speak to that, Matt Gates.
00:22:11.000Yeah, there's some selective amnesia there that's pretty apparent.
00:22:15.000But the one data point that Christopher Wray knew with particularity is he had some comeback to me where he said, well, Mr. Gates, all your criticisms of the FBI are not well-founded because we've seen a big increase in recruiting in the state of Florida.
00:22:29.000Now, Charlie, you and I both know there are a lot of patriotic Americans that would like to serve in the FBI because they want to fix it.
00:23:24.000We should defund major portions of it.
00:23:27.000Obviously, there's crime fighting stuff that's outside of Washington, D.C. that we would want to maintain in some form.
00:23:32.000But this iteration of the FBI we have now is like a bad dog that's been turned against its owner.
00:23:38.000And sometimes you've got to put them down, however challenging that may be.
00:23:42.000I am concerned about the support of some of my fellow Republicans.
00:23:46.000I've had Republicans say that they will not support reducing the FBI's budget by $1 because they think that they could get attacked for defunding the police.
00:24:00.000And based on the votes we're going to force, they'll be exposed.
00:24:03.000And I hope that we're able to persuade them to take a different viewpoint before that vote occurs.
00:24:08.000Yeah, I mean, Matt, what is the so the likelihood is what?
00:24:13.000I mean, low, is what you're basically telling me.
00:24:15.000The likelihood is low that the House Republicans will defund this secret police, the Stasi, run by Christopher Wray.
00:24:24.000Well, they may be slightly higher after yesterday because some of the Republicans who were FBI defenders had to watch Christopher Wray in these absurd exchanges where he was, like you said, on his high horse when responding to Congress.
00:24:43.000I would encourage all of your viewers and listeners to share their perspective on FBI and Department of Justice funding with our senators, with their members of Congress.
00:24:51.000We are in divided government, and so it's not as if what Matt Gates says goes every time.
00:24:56.000But I'm working to build that coalition.
00:24:58.000I want to put political pressure on the entire Republican conference to join me in this effort.
00:25:03.000And if we're not willing to take resources away from this corrupt entity, what are we even doing here?
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00:28:08.000In fact, you know, if we would have said three weeks ago, Blake, if we would have said that Joy Reed and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Katanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called the racist.
00:28:25.000But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us.
00:28:28.000They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because of affirmative action.
00:28:32.000Yeah, we know you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.
00:28:40.000You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
00:28:46.000But I rise today as a clear recipient of affirmative action, and particularly in higher education.
00:28:54.000I may have been admitted on affirmative action, both in terms of being a woman and a woman of color, but I can declare that I did not graduate on affirmative action.
00:30:04.000They think as they kind of now reveal that I'm only here because of anti-white, anti-Asian forced discrimination policies that turn me into a bitter, resentful activist that hates white people, honestly, through our policies.
00:30:21.000Again, this is just the narcissism embedded in this.
00:30:25.000This is a separate topic, but it's affirmative action, Joy Reid, play cut 40.
00:30:29.000Twitter might be on the slow road to obscurity as Mark Zuckerberg's rival app Threads has surpassed 100 million users in only five days.
00:30:38.000Meanwhile, Twitter users are mostly left with a ranting and raving Elon Musk and lots and lots of racists.
00:30:43.000You have neo-Nazi Richard Spencer allowed to host Twitter spaces.
00:30:46.000It's just one example of Twitter failing to regulate hate speech from their dues paying blue checks, who are also spreading misinformation with a new report showing that blue checks are fueling disinformation about the Ukraine war.