The Great America Show - REP. MATT GAETZ SAYS IT’S TRUMP TIME, HE’S OUR MAN AND THIS IS HIS FIGHT TO WIN. HE’S OUR CHAMPION, OUR WARRIOR & WILL BE RE-ELECTED

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome. Let's start with

00:00:05.340 the Marxist Dems' continuing persecution of President Trump, who, by the way, has to be

00:00:11.060 the most popular president in modern history, two years after leaving office. His numbers are up 25

00:00:18.660 points over Governor Ron DeSantis in all of the latest polls in a field of wannabe challengers.

00:00:25.440 And wannabe tough guy Marxist Dem Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, coming up empty

00:00:32.680 and lost. Bragg shut down his grand jury, giving them a whole month off, he says. He has no case

00:00:39.780 against President Trump, never had a case. But the Soros-created and backed Bragg pressed ahead

00:00:46.340 anyway. Even after his star witness, Michael Cohen, was dismantled by the testimony of one of Cohen's

00:00:53.240 former lawyers, the well-known New York power attorney, Robert Costello. The DA's office,

00:00:59.700 not happy. And all of them know there is no case. Trump supporter and ally Congressman Matt Gaetz

00:01:07.060 going after the oh-so-woke trans booster Pentagon officials. Here's Congressman Gaetz introducing the

00:01:14.620 ever-woke defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, to the facts of the matter when it comes to Secretary

00:01:20.980 Austin's support of drag queens on military bases.

00:01:25.580 How much taxpayer money should go to fund drag queen story hours on military bases? 0.97

00:01:35.720 You know, drag queen story hours is not something that the department funds.

00:01:40.980 Wait a second. That's actually not what the record seems to suggest. You were going to fund one at

00:01:45.680 Ramstein Air Force Base. That one got canceled, but that's DOD Insignia. That's a drag queen story 1.00

00:01:51.940 hour for children. Then also at Malstrom Air Force Base outside of Great Falls, Montana, you had a drag

00:01:59.740 queen story hour for kids. At the Joint Base Langley Eustace, you put on a drag queen story hour on a 0.88

00:02:06.120 Saturday for the first ever kid-friendly diversity equity inclusion summer festival. And at Nellis Air Force

00:02:12.080 Base, you had the drag you, Nellis, on June 17th. Who funded these things, Mr. Secretary?

00:02:17.960 Listen, drag shows are not something that the Department of Defense supports or funds.

00:02:25.140 Why are they happening on military bases? I just showed you the evidence. Why are they happening?

00:02:33.480 I will say again, this is not something that we support or fund.

00:02:37.900 So you think hosting a drag queen story hour on a military base isn't supporting the drag queen

00:02:45.200 story hour? I stand by what I just said. But you may stand by it, but it's belied by

00:02:51.180 the evidence over and over again. I mean, are you aware of the piece Biden's military Air Force

00:03:00.060 Base in Montana holds drag show, drag queen story hour for kids in the Western Journal? Are you aware

00:03:04.400 of that? Again, I will say what I said. You're saying what you're saying, but I guess it just

00:03:10.800 doesn't comport the facts. Gates, as you heard, blasting the defense secretary and the Pentagon's

00:03:15.760 priority on outrageous woke nonsense rather than on meeting recruitment goals and combat readiness.

00:03:23.700 Congressman Gates also wants our troops out of Somalia, and he's introduced a resolution to bring

00:03:29.440 our troops home. Gates is none too pleased as well that the FBI that has been a big part of the

00:03:35.960 political persecution of President Trump over the past seven years. Gates also is none too pleased

00:03:42.640 that the FBI has been a big part of the political persecution of President Trump over the past seven

00:03:48.900 years. And the congressman is trying to prevent the FBI from building a new headquarters in D.C.

00:03:55.580 that would cost more than three hundred and fifty million dollars. And Congressman Matt Gates is our

00:04:01.700 guest today. Congressman Gates, great to have you with us. The FBI wants a building to compete with

00:04:07.460 the Pentagon. Are you kidding me? You don't think they should have any such thing, do you?

00:04:13.280 Well, Lou, what I can tell you is that the evidence we have developed in the weaponization

00:04:17.460 subcommittee tells a pretty clear story about what's happening in the FBI out in the country in,

00:04:24.480 you know, Wichita, in Miami. The FBI agents are largely fulfilling their duty to follow the facts

00:04:32.280 and the law to prevent crimes when they're able and to prosecute crimes when necessary. And inside

00:04:40.520 of Washington, D.C., it's a very different FBI. It's an FBI focused on politics. We've seen

00:04:47.320 inspector general's reports that members of the mainstream media whine and dine FBI officials and

00:04:54.020 even DOJ officials to try to get scoops and to try to weaponize leaks, particularly against

00:05:00.360 conservatives and anyone close to President Trump. We've also seen that within the Washington field

00:05:05.820 office of the FBI, there's a real effort to cook the books on domestic violence extremism data.

00:05:13.700 They've tried to pressure other field offices to reclassify cases that could normally easily be

00:05:21.360 disposed of as domestic violent extremism or even when they targeted school board parents that emerged

00:05:28.820 out of the Washington field office and the head shed. A lot of the bad things that Andy McCabe did that

00:05:35.120 you've covered extensively during the Russia hoax emerged out of the Washington field office. And so this is a

00:05:41.360 case where we've got to cut the head off of the snake. We've actually got to get more of the decisions

00:05:45.780 regarding the FBI made under the U.S. attorneys that are confirmed by the Senate where there's some

00:05:52.900 semblance of accountability. And Nancy Pelosi, in one of her final acts, authorized a brand new $325

00:06:02.560 million FBI complex in the Washington, D.C. area, a building bigger than the Pentagon. So, I mean,

00:06:10.980 the FBI has a workforce about 2% the size of the Department of Defense, and yet they want a bigger

00:06:18.200 headquarters. I think that's because they want to insource a lot of the human resources to the swamp,

00:06:24.420 and they want to get people focused on politics, not the facts and the law. So, some of my Republican

00:06:29.600 colleagues and I are taking the stand that we ought to claw back those funds. They have not been

00:06:35.140 expended. We ought to claw them back. We ought to not fund any of this weaponized government if we're 0.99

00:06:43.920 able to correctly assess where the rot is coming from. And in all the research we've done, and the

00:06:50.440 research, frankly, we're still developing, the real bad action is at the Washington field office.

00:06:55.960 And the real question is whether or not we're going to use the power of the purse. I think we have to use

00:07:00.800 these tools that we got during the speaker's contest in January to zero out bureaucrats, to claw back 0.85

00:07:08.080 funds, and to defang this weaponized government. 0.97

00:07:12.680 Well, I have to say that this is just stunning to hear the comparison between the Pentagon and the proposed

00:07:19.640 building for the new building for the FBI, and it sounds like it was a last-minute thought from the

00:07:25.980 outgoing Speaker of the House to do so. Is there, just out of, well, just to sort of round out our

00:07:33.520 knowledge, because I have to say, I have no idea as to whether or not there are blueprints for this,

00:07:40.740 how long this has been, the building has been in the works, as it were. Is there such a square footage

00:07:50.020 blueprint, the layout for this proposed new building? So they do have the plans for it, and

00:07:56.840 that was part of their appropriations request, but I don't believe that there's any sort of

00:08:02.860 land that's been fully acquired and entitled to be able to do the building. So legally, we would be

00:08:09.220 able to claw back the funds, but this is a really troubling trend to try to get more decisions made

00:08:16.780 inside of Washington. I was troubled when I heard whistleblowers come forward from other field

00:08:24.040 offices in other parts of the country to say, look, you know, we were out there doing our work,

00:08:28.780 chasing the bad guys down, trying to stop violent crime, and every time we turned around, the

00:08:33.540 Washington field office was trying to get us to go after somebody because they happened to be in the

00:08:38.520 Washington vicinity on January 6th, even though there was no predicate that that person may have even

00:08:44.080 committed a crime or done anything violent or illegal. They tried to get different field offices

00:08:50.980 to go and look at these school board parents. They tried to get field offices where there might be

00:08:56.140 one network where there's concern about extremism, and the Washington field office would say, well,

00:09:02.700 don't just evaluate that one network under one case. Go open separate cases under each of the

00:09:09.460 individuals who were members of that network, so they would create the illusion or the veneer

00:09:15.100 that there was this great problem of domestic violence extremism everywhere emanating from the

00:09:20.660 country, and the reality was it was a political outcome that folks in Washington wanted to achieve

00:09:27.360 to try to fan the flames around that issue set, and they were asking people to do improper and unjust

00:09:33.760 things, and I'm glad that some of those whistleblowers have come forward to share those stories,

00:09:37.820 but of course you see what the Democrats do to them. The Democrats have leaked information,

00:09:43.600 tried to smear our whistleblowers, and they've tried to deter other people from coming forward

00:09:48.360 and telling the truth about a variety of injustices persecuted by the FBI, and so I've said to my

00:09:55.200 Republican colleagues that we shouldn't even allow the Democrats in the transcribed interviews

00:09:59.800 and the depositions if their entire purpose for being there is to disrupt the investigation

00:10:05.260 and limit our investigative tools going forward, and that's not unprecedented because during the

00:10:09.760 January 6 investigation, Nancy Pelosi kicked off Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, so if that's the way the 0.93

00:10:14.980 Democrats are going to play, I think that we ought to allow them to ask questions during the open

00:10:19.540 hearings, but to let them be a part of the investigative work that goes on behind the scenes

00:10:24.800 has proven to be unwise. Congressman, I couldn't agree with you more about it being unwise, and I hope

00:10:34.880 that your message to your colleagues in the Republican Party is being heard loud and clear because

00:10:40.340 I think most of the people listening to your voice right now believe Matt Gaetz is 100% correct.

00:10:47.800 They would love to see the Democrats not be leaking this information, not being an impediment

00:10:53.620 to what you all are accomplishing, and I'm talking about the Republicans in the 118th Congress with

00:11:00.060 these committees that are investigating, as you said, weaponization, investigating the Biden corruption.

00:11:09.600 It's just extraordinary, the task you have before you, and all I can say is-

00:11:16.700 It's a task, Lou, but it's also a lot of evidence.

00:11:18.160 We have just really, I think, got a big breakthrough by going into the bank records

00:11:24.600 of some of these pass-through corporations that the Biden family used to launder Chinese cash into

00:11:31.320 their own bank accounts. Because the truth is, Lou, a lot of these businesses that were funneling

00:11:37.120 that Chinese cash had no other business purpose. The entire point of some of these shell companies

00:11:44.180 was just to use Chinese money to buy influence with the Biden family and to compromise the

00:11:51.500 Biden family against our country. And when you see those bank records, it's a telling story. 0.93

00:11:56.860 And then we've also got evidence that the Bidens weren't only being protected at times by the FBI,

00:12:03.920 with people like Tim Tebow and others deeming anything derogatory about the Biden family

00:12:11.580 as Russian disinformation so that it wouldn't be further developed. But they even had a mole

00:12:17.020 inside the FBI. They even had this person called One-Eye who would steer Hunter Biden and the Biden

00:12:26.000 family away from where the investigations into the Chinese Communist Party were going.

00:12:30.560 And if you believe this evidence, as I clearly do, and as it sets forward quite squarely,

00:12:39.880 you have to wonder, OK, well, then what was the Chinese Communist Party buying? What were they

00:12:43.980 getting as a consequence? And I am very concerned that one of Joe Biden's first actions when he became

00:12:52.220 president was to dissolve President Trump's China initiative at the Department of Justice.

00:12:58.300 And for the listeners who are unaware of it, the China initiative was a specialized group that looked

00:13:03.700 at the consolidated strategy of the Chinese Communist Party to compromise academicians,

00:13:09.740 politicians, business leaders, all to harm our nation. And that resulted in prosecutions.

00:13:16.600 It resulted in convictions. It had a deterrent effect because then they knew somebody was

00:13:20.680 after them. And Joe Biden dissolved it. And you have to wonder if that was the real damning quid pro quo,

00:13:27.660 cash to the Bidens in exchange for them having moles in the organization and for them being able to

00:13:35.520 really sell out the country. There is that. And there is also the fact that the Biden administration

00:13:42.460 is selling our crude oil from our strategic petroleum reserves for whatever reason into Chinese owned

00:13:51.180 companies, Chinese state owned companies, either directly or indirectly without purpose. He's drawn down 40%

00:14:00.140 of the strategic petroleum reserves. They're at levels not seen in almost a half century. And to what purpose?

00:14:08.040 It makes absolutely no sense. As you say, there are a lot of questions here. There appears to be an FBI that is

00:14:16.140 rotten to the core working with an administration that is rotten to the core as well.

00:14:23.000 Give us your judgment, if you will, just how courageous the GOP is going to be in continuing this charge against

00:14:31.880 an administration, the Biden regime, which looks to be corrupt from top to bottom and throughout.

00:14:38.880 Here's the way I think about it as we have this discussion in March. We worked very hard at the

00:14:46.200 beginning of January to develop an exquisite toolkit to be able to change this town, to go after the

00:14:53.740 bureaucrats, to expose the weaponization, to reduce spending levels, to secure the border. These were tools

00:14:59.660 that I have not had in my time during the Nancy Pelosi speakership, during even the Paul Ryan

00:15:06.240 speakership, right? They wanted all the power centralized in the special interests and the lobbyists

00:15:11.600 often reflected by a speaker who was just a masthead for those America last interests. And so we said, no,

00:15:18.880 we're going to have the ability, any member, to zero out a specific bureaucrat's budget, which is exactly what we

00:15:24.860 should do at the ATF, first and foremost. We're going to have a weaponization subcommittee that goes

00:15:30.320 after these very things. And you're starting to see the work that we've done on the censorship

00:15:34.920 industrial complex and what the government is doing to even limit what people can hear regarding the

00:15:41.600 Bidens and the truth. And we also demanded specific votes on specific pieces of legislation.

00:15:49.220 And you know what? We probably aren't going to pass them all. We might not pass term limits. We might not

00:15:53.780 pass the border bills we actually need to solve the problem. But if we can try and fail for 14 votes

00:16:00.980 to elect a Speaker of the House, we can try time and time again to get this government reined in,

00:16:07.720 to get our border secure, and to change the corruption in Washington by passing important

00:16:12.660 bills like term limits. And if we use those tools, then the answer to your question is yes.

00:16:19.720 But if all we do is sit around patting ourselves on the back and admiring the fact,

00:16:23.780 that we for once stood up at the beginning of January, then we will be part of the problem

00:16:29.140 and part of the swamp. And that is what I am trying to do to hold together the courageous

00:16:34.700 conservatives that are in the House of Representatives so that that courage can be

00:16:40.020 contagious to others and so that it can be necessary and required for Kevin McCarthy to continue to gavel us

00:16:47.980 in to House business each and every day as our speaker. And McCarthy has been largely faithful to his

00:16:54.980 commitments to this point. But the big fights are ahead, Lou. And the problem with what Nancy Pelosi and the Senate

00:17:01.120 Republicans did during the lame duck Congress is they pushed a lot of these fights later because they passed that

00:17:07.920 terrible omnibus spending legislation. So my organizing principle is we will never govern by omnibus again.

00:17:14.480 And what we really need to do is fight on the debt limit, fight on the border, fight for election integrity and let the

00:17:21.840 chips fall where they may. But I am yet to I cannot issue a verdict at this moment as to whether or not we have been

00:17:27.860 worthy of the trust that's been placed in us, because we got to take these tools out of the toolbox and we got to put them to

00:17:33.920 use for the American people.

00:17:35.000 Well, I have to say, I'm encouraged listening to to your plan, your your operating principles and first

00:17:42.960 principles. When you go to the, for example, the three hundred and twenty five million dollars of the F by

00:17:48.220 building, that sounds like a Nancy Pelosi payoff to the permanent bureaucracy, the deep state for their 0.92

00:17:55.700 collusion with the Democratic Party and going after President Trump and others throughout the past seven

00:18:04.180 years, seven years of political persecution. They get a new building in Washington, D.C., which, frankly, I think

00:18:10.420 has to be one of the last necessary building projects in the capital, perhaps everything else.

00:18:16.120 Why don't we actually abolish some of these agencies and rent their buildings out for commercial office space?

00:18:20.440 We could probably start with the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, the EPA.

00:18:25.820 And instead of building new buildings in Washington, why don't we clear out some of the ones we have?

00:18:30.240 Well, I couldn't be more and more in agreement. I couldn't cheer louder for you on that idea.

00:18:37.440 And for whatever building is rented first, I think it should be renamed the Gates Building,

00:18:44.020 maybe the entire project. But I think that's a wonderful idea. Let me let me turn to something

00:18:50.700 because you're talking about real world problems. Let me give you an example of some real world problems.

00:18:55.740 As we look at with the testimony of Matt Taibbi, the journalist with the Twitter files,

00:19:05.140 we know what has been happening. Every quarter of the government seems to be in some sort of collusion

00:19:11.400 or arrangement with Twitter, with whatever the social media outlet is. Facebook mentioned prominently

00:19:23.840 amongst those, along with Twitter. It's outrageous what the FBI is doing. And they are intimidating.

00:19:32.580 They are basically laying down the principles by which these social media companies will give

00:19:39.080 any kind of constitutional right to their constitutional rights. Freedom of speech doesn't exist as far as social media

00:19:48.720 and the FBI and DOJ are concerned. I want to give you a real world example. Our producer of this podcast

00:19:54.140 the other day just found out that one of the visitors to his LinkedIn account was the FBI.

00:20:03.360 I've been told by a source that the FBI is monitoring us live. That is continuously on this podcast.

00:20:14.720 That's got to drive up your listenership. I hope they also listen to Firebrand, my podcast.

00:20:21.080 We'll talk a lot about them.

00:20:22.760 We're going to recommend that to them as well.

00:20:26.080 I have to say, it's the idea of intimidation that is outrageous.

00:20:33.200 There was a time, this didn't start until the, and this is not partisan politics, folks,

00:20:39.400 but this truly didn't happen with journalists, to my knowledge, except under the Obama administration

00:20:47.100 where they went after people like my former colleague, James Rosen, and a lot of other

00:20:53.040 journalists during that period from 2008 through 2016.

00:20:57.880 Now it rears its head again with the FBI here under the Trump administration when they were going after a president.

00:21:05.620 And now they don't even blink at the eye of trying to intimidate us.

00:21:13.440 You mentioned the ATF earlier.

00:21:15.760 I'm talking to the folks down in Smyrna, Georgia, where the Outdoor Adventures Gun Shop is.

00:21:25.060 They had 16 agents show up.

00:21:29.160 I mean, there is intimidation from nearly every quarter of this government in some fashion,

00:21:33.900 whether it's the FTC, even trying to intimidate the world's wealthiest man at Twitter.

00:21:42.340 It just goes on and on.

00:21:43.580 What can you do about that in real world terms to deal with what is a contemporaneous problem?

00:21:51.200 Well, you and I both know that what Republicans do too often is have a hearing where we yell at people

00:21:56.100 and then there is no follow through.

00:21:57.840 I believe we have to use the power of the purse to defund these entities, to choke off the oxygen stream to them.

00:22:07.920 And then I think we have to limit their authorities.

00:22:10.840 And you can't just do one of those things, right?

00:22:13.580 If you just limit the authorities, they violate them.

00:22:16.560 We've already seen Inspector General reports showing that the ATF kept 250 million records that they had no legal authority to keep

00:22:27.860 and they had to destroy them because they were operating outside the law.

00:22:31.640 Now, compare that to how they treat our fellow Americans.

00:22:34.500 If they find someone out of some technical compliance with some promulgated rule, they have a zero-tolerance policy

00:22:42.580 and they go after people who have no intention of violating any law.

00:22:48.240 And yet when they break the law, it's give us more power, give us more people, and give us more money.

00:22:54.080 This is a little wonky, Lou, but you've got a sophisticated audience.

00:22:57.260 One of the things that we got in the concessions with McCarthy, the ability to name a bureaucrat, list their salary,

00:23:05.540 and defund that specific salary in the appropriations process.

00:23:09.360 Now, that hasn't happened the whole time I've been here in Congress because they just dropped some multi-thousand-page bill on our desk

00:23:14.960 with a few hours to read it before taking a vote.

00:23:18.300 But being able to evaluate these things individually with a high level of scrutiny will allow us to make some of the worst actors

00:23:25.980 in this bureaucracy very famous by highlighting their illegal activity, and then second, to zero out their compensation

00:23:33.100 so the taxpayers aren't paying for some corrupt bureaucracy to attack them.

00:23:39.480 Well, that sounds great.

00:23:41.660 Now, is that something that you can do relatively quickly and without a vote from the Senate?

00:23:50.100 Well, I believe that we should pass our budget and put demands on the Senate.

00:23:55.380 I was in the state legislature, Lou, where sometimes the House won, sometimes the Senate won.

00:23:59.420 Seems like in Congress, like the Senate always wins every time.

00:24:02.840 So I actually think that we can use our leverage more effectively with the Senate, and it would require their concurrence with the overall budget deal.

00:24:10.180 But you know what?

00:24:10.900 If John Tester, who's up for election, if Joe Manchin, if they want to go vote for these specific bureaucrats when we go and lay out what those folks have done,

00:24:20.120 then probably their constituents are going to hold them accountable for that in the upcoming elections.

00:24:24.580 So I'm pretty bullish about being able to get some of these senators who are in cycle in states where the Second Amendment is highly, highly valued,

00:24:34.680 and you've got woke-topian bureaucrats that are offending the Second Amendment with their conduct. 1.00

00:24:40.520 And so that's what it would require.

00:24:43.120 When it comes to the timing of it, I have been told that I am a very impatient person in this town and that patience would be a virtue of mine.

00:24:52.380 I wish we were already right now voting on appropriations bills on the floor individually, combing through them.

00:24:59.180 But today, the only vote – we took two votes the entire day today.

00:25:05.040 One of them was on whether or not we were going to take another vote, and the second vote was about the rules for the vote we're going to take tomorrow.

00:25:15.340 Now they're all day.

00:25:17.280 So I think we need to pick up the pace a little bit, but I'm told that that process is just dating.

00:25:25.940 It's just dating.

00:25:26.940 The process to get rid of the process is just dating.

00:25:30.720 I love that, man.

00:25:32.080 I just love that.

00:25:33.680 Let me say this, Congressman.

00:25:35.380 The President of the United States the other day, a week ago, started talking about shutting down the Second Amendment

00:25:43.860 and to basically be sure that you take away the guns of citizens who are somewhat dependent on that Second Amendment

00:25:53.900 because they love guns, they love to hunt, they love to shoot, and it's their right.

00:25:58.840 And now we've got a two-bit impaired puppet president talking big when he's not talking about ice cream. 0.72

00:26:06.480 What in the world can we do about that?

00:26:08.760 It's a real shame that law-abiding gun owners seem to be the boogeyman every time there's a terrible event.

00:26:18.540 We have many millions of law-abiding gun owners in this country, and they actually make communities more safe, not less safe.

00:26:26.340 And with this tragic event in Nashville, you've got a lot of folks in Washington wringing their hands.

00:26:33.740 But I'm not entirely sure that a gender dysphoric, mentally ill individual on some sort of a vengeance spree 0.76

00:26:41.400 is a justification to turn against law-abiding people who hunt and fish and who keep firearms for sport

00:26:50.960 and for personal protection, which is entirely allowed.

00:26:54.740 And one thing, Lou, this is going to sound a little bit geographically bigoted.

00:26:59.280 It really gets me when these lawmakers from Rhode Island and Delaware and the Northeast

00:27:08.420 always want to be the ones limiting the gun rights of people in the South and the Midwest 1.00

00:27:15.120 and in the wide-open spaces of our country.

00:27:18.520 There's just like a certain arrogance to that that has always graded me.

00:27:23.700 Yeah, and it should, I think.

00:27:25.580 And I don't see that as bigotry.

00:27:27.200 I think it's a recognition that there is a homogeneity to our great republic and its federalist system.

00:27:38.500 States and states' rights have important meaning because each state is not the same,

00:27:44.320 and each population has different demands, different challenges, different opportunities in point of fact.

00:27:49.720 And as you say geographically, greater space within which to enjoy, if you will, those rights,

00:27:57.460 in particular among those rights, the Second Amendment.

00:28:00.940 You know, the shooter's mom, you mentioned the tragedy, the sickening, horrible tragedy in Nashville,

00:28:07.980 the shooting of these children.

00:28:09.940 And the reflex, again, from the left is, oh, we've got to take away guns. 0.87

00:28:16.020 This transgender shooter shows up with at least two AR-15s and apparently a pistol. 1.00

00:28:28.180 Who knows what the rest of the weapons are that she owns.

00:28:31.160 But we do know that her mother was an anti-gun activist, and here she's showing up with all of this. 0.79

00:28:39.680 She was mentally ill to begin with, and then with her own mother worrying more about guns than the illness, it appears, of her daughter. 0.60

00:28:48.480 What we're dealing with here is mental illness in nearly every one of these cases,

00:28:52.600 and people want to take away the Second Amendment rights of millions of Americans. 0.95

00:28:58.040 This is a form of madness in and of itself, don't you think?

00:29:03.040 Indeed, and it seems to be the people who are at times utilizing guns most responsibly who get most punished by these actions.

00:29:14.120 Think about the pistol brace rule.

00:29:16.800 There are a lot of disabled veterans in my district who have better mental health,

00:29:21.440 who have a higher morale because they're able to get out and engage in sports shooting,

00:29:28.260 and many of them need the assistance of a pistol brace.

00:29:31.180 But because some people didn't like it with green eye shades and the bowels of the ATF in some windowless cubicle,

00:29:39.800 they promulgated a rule without even legal authority to ban those pistol braces.

00:29:45.180 And part of the work that we've got to do very quickly in the House of Representatives is repeal that ban

00:29:51.740 because we're punishing people who often utilize guns in the most responsible, most appropriate way.

00:29:58.680 But there is one place, Lou, where the Biden administration has no problem sending guns and weapons, and that's abroad.

00:30:05.340 Would you mind if I took just a moment on your show to share my perspective on the Biden administration and Somalia?

00:30:12.240 Absolutely.

00:30:12.760 So, Lou, President Trump took the 700 Americans out of Somalia,

00:30:19.400 realizing that 700 people isn't enough to get the job done,

00:30:22.780 and in many cases it was inflaming tensions and not creating more stability.

00:30:27.720 It wasn't enough to win, but we certainly don't want Americans sitting ducks and targets anywhere in the world.

00:30:34.820 And one of the first acts Joe Biden did was put 500 American troops back in Somalia.

00:30:39.840 So Somalia is a country of about 7 million people, and there's about 5,000 to 7,000 hardened Al-Shabaab terrorists there.

00:30:47.920 And my view is that a country of 7 million ought to be able to deal with that.

00:30:52.440 And if they can't, 500 American troops isn't going to be the difference one way or the other.

00:30:57.020 We are not months or even years away from turning Somalia into some sort of Jeffersonian democracy guiding light of Africa.

00:31:07.300 That's just not how it works over there.

00:31:09.200 And so I am looking at places all over the world, Syria, Somalia, where we are engaged in misadventurism without clear focus.

00:31:19.320 And that drains our talent and our resources and our treasure away from the real fight that matters,

00:31:27.220 which is the fight against the Chinese Communist Party.

00:31:29.580 The Chinese Communist Party right now is in the middle of a leveraged buyout of the Russian Federation.

00:31:36.020 Putin is essentially a dog on a leash for Xi, and Xi is preparing to invade Taiwan and destabilize all of Asia.

00:31:44.700 Meanwhile, we're fiddling around in Somalia with trying to answer some Georgetown Foreign Service essay exam about great power competition and democracy promotion.

00:31:57.920 So I filed legislation just moments ago that will withdraw U.S. troops from Somalia.

00:32:05.220 And within 18 legislative days, the House is required to take a vote on that.

00:32:09.960 I predict that I will likely lose that vote, but I think it's important to make people go on the record regarding these conquests all over the world.

00:32:19.680 Win or lose that vote.

00:32:21.340 God bless you for doing so.

00:32:22.980 You couldn't be more right, and you know that.

00:32:26.100 There's just no – this is no time in our history for the United States to not be putting America first,

00:32:33.040 as a former president, soon to be future president, once said.

00:32:38.980 I just want to close by saying we've got some very good news for everyone.

00:32:43.920 The president's popularity has – it is at the highest level – this is my research – but at the highest level of any four-term president some two years' distance from his presidency.

00:32:56.140 It's really extraordinary, and those numbers are rising.

00:32:59.520 It looks like the American people are getting ready to speak again.

00:33:02.980 Your thoughts as we conclude here, Matt Gaetz, congressman of the great state of Florida.

00:33:09.420 I was in Waco recently, and it was one of the most energetic Trump rallies I've been to in many years.

00:33:18.200 President Trump has got focus.

00:33:20.700 He understands why this is the moment for someone with the experience and the drive and the resolve and the vision, really the vision, to be back at the helm of our country.

00:33:32.860 I don't believe that the real conflict is between Donald Trump and the other Republicans running.

00:33:37.360 The real conflict is between the American people and a corrupt system in Washington that has trampled on us for decades.

00:33:46.700 And Donald Trump is our champion and our warrior, and I think he's going to do a great job when he's reelected as president.

00:33:53.120 And really it's about getting the people back in the room when the decisions are made, not the corrupt influences of this town.

00:34:00.500 And with all due respect to the other Republicans that are running for president and thinking about running for president, this is Trump time.

00:34:07.760 He's our man, and this is his fight to win.

00:34:11.780 Well said.

00:34:13.120 God bless.

00:34:14.280 Did I mention amen?

00:34:16.140 Thanks, Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:34:18.220 We appreciate it.

00:34:19.400 Thanks for being with us here on The Great America Show.

00:34:22.200 Thank you, my friend.

00:34:23.000 Always good chatting.

00:34:23.840 Thanks, everybody, for listening.

00:34:25.020 Here tomorrow, Russ Vogt, former OMB director and now the president of the Center for Renewing America.

00:34:31.720 Please be with us here tomorrow.

00:34:33.400 Till then, thanks, God bless you, and God bless America.

The Great America Show - March 30, 2023

REP. MATT GAETZ SAYS IT’S TRUMP TIME, HE’S OUR MAN AND THIS IS HIS FIGHT TO WIN. HE’S OUR CHAMPION, OUR WARRIOR & WILL BE RE-ELECTED

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