Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Rep Matt Gaetz on What It's Like Being Florida's Firebrand

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00:01:26.000 you guys it is great to be back on another episode of triggered

00:01:55.000 I had an awesome time this weekend, both at CPAC and then with my children.

00:02:01.000 I actually bailed out a little bit early from my father's speech because, well...

00:02:06.000 I knew what was going to be in it, and I figured after spending two days at CPAC, there's one Trump in the room.

00:02:11.000 There's probably plenty, and he did an awesome job.

00:02:13.000 We'll be talking about that.

00:02:15.000 I also am going to be going one-on-one with conservative firebrand and congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:02:22.000 You're going to want to check that out.

00:02:23.000 We talk about the committees.

00:02:24.000 We talk about The action or perhaps the lack of action and maybe a call to action from you guys to make sure you understand where to go to make sure that we get the results that we need.

00:02:39.000 So you're going to want to check this episode out.

00:02:41.000 It's a lot of fun. I'll also be addressing the media.

00:02:44.000 Outraged. They're outraged at me.

00:02:46.000 I guess they want to cancel me.

00:02:48.000 I'm a terrible human being, apparently.

00:02:51.000 That'll be fun. We'll talk about that.

00:02:53.000 That's in regards to my CPAC comments about Senator John Fetterman.

00:03:00.000 Before we get going, guys, we have to understand, and we talk about this, we talk about this with our advertisers, how we've got to support the companies that support us, like GoldCo.

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00:03:19.000 Support those companies, because I had an instance happen to me at the middle of last week.

00:03:24.000 It actually became sort of the fundamental point of my speech on Friday at CPAC. Where PNC Bank, major national bank, cut off.

00:03:37.000 The working capital account of a small business that I started called MXM News, like minute by minute, MXM News.

00:03:46.000 We're a news aggregator.

00:03:48.000 Me, my partner in it, Taylor Butowich, a good friend, they've been telling us all these times to build our own.

00:03:55.000 If you don't like what's going on on social or whatever it is, build your own.

00:03:59.000 So we did. And then...

00:04:01.000 The banks cancel you, or other people, they can't get on the App Store, or they can't get on Google Store, or if they're on Amazon Web Services, they get canceled and pulled away.

00:04:10.000 So it's always an illusion, folks.

00:04:12.000 Build your own, but then we're going to pull the rug out from you.

00:04:14.000 Sure, go do it yourself.

00:04:16.000 We're going to put every obstacle, we're going to try to make it insurmountable for you to get something done.

00:04:23.000 The American people who are sick of the nonsense.

00:04:25.000 And so, my partner calls me, I think it was last Wednesday.

00:04:30.000 We got a problem. We're missing $750,000 from the operating account of the business that we started, which literally just aggregates news.

00:04:40.000 Check it out for yourselves. You can download it.

00:04:41.000 Just go or go check out the website, mxmnews.com.

00:04:46.000 Very simple. We take news from everywhere.

00:04:48.000 We have the New York Times, and we'll have Breitbart.

00:04:51.000 We'll put up conservative stuff that you wouldn't see, right, from mainstream places, but mainstream places that are shunned by big tech and social and all these things, all the stuff that gets suppressed so you can see both sides of the story, because we want you to see both.

00:05:07.000 And then you can make up your opinion on who's actually lying, who's telling you the truth, or find out if you believe maybe the story's somewhere in the middle, and oftentimes it could be.

00:05:15.000 But apparently for PNC Bank, that...

00:05:20.000 Was a step too far.

00:05:22.000 My partner calls me thinking that that money is missing and he calls the bank in a panic.

00:05:26.000 I'm not exactly thrilled.

00:05:28.000 I'm saying, hey buddy, did you just lose three quarters of a million dollars?

00:05:32.000 That's a small business.

00:05:33.000 That's a lot of money. That's the operating account.

00:05:35.000 We can't lose that. Calls the bank.

00:05:38.000 Oh, yeah, you'll get a FedEx in the mail the next day or so.

00:05:45.000 There's a cashier's check in there.

00:05:46.000 We're just closing out your account.

00:05:49.000 Wow. For the crime of letting people see news.

00:05:52.000 It's not like we're creating news.

00:05:53.000 You know? I would have written stories how, obviously, the Wuhan lab leak happened two years ago.

00:06:00.000 And they would have canceled me for that, even though it proved to be truth, like all conspiracy theories.

00:06:04.000 But they would have canceled me for that.

00:06:05.000 But we're not even doing that.

00:06:07.000 We're just letting you see both sides.

00:06:10.000 You know, the Hunter Biden story that was Russian disinformation, according to everyone in the media, and the intelligence community that all knew it was BS. We know that now.

00:06:18.000 That was always obvious.

00:06:20.000 I knew it then. Because the problem with it, I knew, was when Hunter Biden himself wasn't denying its veracity.

00:06:27.000 It was sort of point number one.

00:06:29.000 He just had other people with no actual knowledge deny it for him so that he wouldn't have to chime in.

00:06:36.000 So we get the call.

00:06:38.000 I put a tweet up about it, and a lot of prominent Republicans jumped in.

00:06:42.000 Elise Stefanik, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Carrie Lake...

00:06:46.000 All jumped in on saying, this is outrageous.

00:06:49.000 I think their PR guy had a bad day.

00:06:51.000 We get the call, oh yeah, it was a mistake.

00:06:56.000 Really? You think it was a mistake, guys?

00:06:58.000 Because it feels like the mistakes only go one way.

00:07:02.000 It was a mistake that they got caught.

00:07:03.000 It was a mistake. Maybe they didn't know that I'd go after it the way I would.

00:07:09.000 Should have probably figured that one out by now.

00:07:11.000 But... It's always a mistake.

00:07:13.000 Notice you never hear about mistakes on the other side.

00:07:15.000 Like, the most radical leftist person can put up stuff there.

00:07:18.000 It's boosted artificially.

00:07:20.000 You know, I think all three-year-olds should be able to go through transgender reassignment surgery.

00:07:25.000 That's great. I think it's wonderful.

00:07:26.000 You know, 50,000 likes.

00:07:28.000 Just keep giving them the love for something that I'd say the average American thinks is lunacy and absolutely insane.

00:07:35.000 But they did that.

00:07:37.000 Again, the accidents only go one way.

00:07:38.000 So that was sort of the start of my week.

00:07:40.000 And it's such a key principle to this show.

00:07:44.000 That's why I thank our advertisers for having the guts and the balls to actually just be on this kind of programming.

00:07:51.000 That's not easy. But guys, if you don't think it will happen to you, you have not been watching.

00:07:58.000 If you don't think it can happen to you, you also haven't been watching.

00:08:01.000 If they can do it to me, Who can't they do it to?

00:08:05.000 More importantly, with my platform and the ability to have a soapbox to preach from, if they will do it to me, who won't they do it to?

00:08:14.000 So think about that.

00:08:16.000 Because it's really important that we're playing this game.

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00:08:50.000 support those businesses. Sure, you can get stuff elsewhere that does maybe something even similar,

00:08:54.000 but those people are donating their money to causes that hate you. They're the ones, like PNC

00:08:59.000 Bank, that'll cancel you, until it's a mistake because they get caught, or enough prominent

00:09:03.000 people jump in and cause a stir. This stuff is happening each and every day, and we have to make

00:09:11.000 sure we stop it. The way we do that is by supporting those who have the guts to share your values and

00:09:17.000 your beliefs. So I gotta address the media because, folks, they've spent all weekend trying to cancel me.

00:09:26.000 They spent all weekend trying to cancel me.

00:09:30.000 I made some comments in my speech about John Fetterman, Senator John Fetterman.

00:09:35.000 Many of you have seen my commentary about that before.

00:09:41.000 And they're trying to say that because I said John Fetterman's a vegetable, that I'm crapping on all people with disabilities.

00:09:50.000 All of them! I'm not.

00:09:52.000 I'm actually crapping on the media.

00:09:55.000 Who told us that this man was well and he was up for the task of being a United States Senator.

00:10:03.000 Same, the people in the Democrat Party who knew even before the primary that he was unwell, but figured, hey, we can put this guy out there and get people to vote for him or whatever, and he can rubber stamp things and just make it happen and just rubber stamp the Chuck Schumer things.

00:10:22.000 So they're really mad at me.

00:10:25.000 I hope he gets better, but I want the media to spare me the sanctimony, their fake outrage.

00:10:32.000 It's all manufactured, guys.

00:10:34.000 We know that. It's for clicks, for dollars, because you know why?

00:10:38.000 If they truly cared, they would have actually thought about that.

00:10:43.000 Earlier, they would have had him drop off.

00:10:45.000 They had alternatives on the left.

00:10:47.000 Conor Lamb, who was a congressman, he could have easily ran in that race, but ah, they didn't want to do that.

00:10:51.000 If they really gave a damn, they would have said, hey, maybe, maybe you should retire now and drop out.

00:10:57.000 But you notice that no one's actually calling for that?

00:11:01.000 It's not credible.

00:11:04.000 These people lie through their teeth about each and everything.

00:11:09.000 They also want us to think that John Fetterman is capable of serving as a United States Senator, making trillion-dollar decisions for you, for your children, for your family, anyone who watched him.

00:11:23.000 During the primaries, anyone who watched him in his race against Mehmet Oz, anyone who watched those debates, or has seen him attempt to comment on virtually anything since, understands how ridiculous a notion it is that he could be a United States Senator.

00:11:42.000 But the outrage police are really upset that I'd call him out on it.

00:11:46.000 Again, None of them are asking him to step down.

00:11:48.000 If they cared about his well-being, you'd think maybe they'd do that, but no, no, no, folks.

00:11:52.000 It's about power, and it's about money.

00:11:55.000 I redress exactly how ridiculous the whole thing is, and I did it in my speech.

00:12:02.000 Check this out and see for yourself.

00:12:04.000 Like, I don't know, it's sort of weird that Pennsylvania managed to elect a vegetable.

00:12:10.000 They criticized me as being ableist.

00:12:12.000 I didn't know what that was, but there's always an ist, right?

00:12:15.000 There's always an ist, and it doesn't matter what you're talking about.

00:12:18.000 And apparently an ableist is someone who discriminates against those with disabilities.

00:12:22.000 I said, well, I'm not discriminating against an ableist.

00:12:25.000 I'd love for John Fetterman to have, like, good, gainful employment.

00:12:28.000 Maybe he could be, like, a bad guy at, like, a grocery store or...

00:12:33.000 Ableist. Again, I don't think, and I don't think that any Americans that aren't insane think that it is an unreasonable expectation to have a United States senator perhaps voting on things like war.

00:12:53.000 Again, billions, in these cases, trillions of dollars to be able to have basic cognitive function.

00:13:00.000 Again, he doesn't.

00:13:03.000 Watch these comments.

00:13:04.000 Apparently that, sure, is it a little uncouth?

00:13:07.000 100%. And when you're like me, and you've taken the hits that I've had, and you've had the commentary about myself, my family, All of us conservatives from these same people that are so outraged now?

00:13:19.000 Maybe you stop caring.

00:13:21.000 Check this out. This is from MSDNC. For these months ahead, Peter.

00:13:26.000 Of course, we're not going to play those comments from Donald Trump Jr., but we're joined now by the former Republican National Committee.

00:13:33.000 Oh, they get a former Republican National Committee, a rhino, you know, with people like that who needs Democrats.

00:13:39.000 But, you know, again, they're so outraged that even the Never Trump National Review got in on the hit and got in on the fun, and they wrote this article.

00:13:50.000 Shame on Donald Trump Jr.

00:13:52.000 for calling Fetterman a vegetable.

00:13:55.000 So, yeah, shame on me.

00:13:57.000 It's not like the New York Times who wrote, John Fetterman is special needs.

00:14:04.000 Special needs, like in quotes, that actually happened.

00:14:07.000 Yeah, they're not to blame, right?

00:14:10.000 We were all repeatedly told he was fit.

00:14:15.000 But that was a lie.

00:14:16.000 And they all knew it.

00:14:18.000 Again, he's not working some sort of menial job...

00:14:23.000 For gainful employment, which would be wonderful.

00:14:25.000 He's a United States senator making life and death decisions for our children and grandchildren.

00:14:34.000 We're on the brink of World War III, and that guy's gonna be making decisions?

00:14:39.000 Billion-dollar decisions?

00:14:41.000 Maybe trillion-dollar decisions?

00:14:43.000 Perhaps even nuclear decisions?

00:14:46.000 Things that could affect our country for generations?

00:14:52.000 Guys, depression is a real thing, and it's a terrible thing.

00:14:56.000 But again, they all knew it.

00:14:59.000 They all knew that his stroke was a major problem, but they figured that's the best way to gain power.

00:15:06.000 If that wasn't the case, again, they'd be asking for him to retire or step away.

00:15:12.000 But they're not doing that.

00:15:13.000 Instead, they're having him co-sponsor legislation from the hospital giving him treatment.

00:15:19.000 Do you think he really is involved?

00:15:22.000 Come on guys. They've been lying to you like they've lied to you about everything forever.

00:15:30.000 It's about power.

00:15:33.000 The shameful behavior going on here is with the people who pushed a stroke victim across a finish line purely for power.

00:15:43.000 If he's unwell because of the stress of what's going on, maybe they should have thought about that when they had him run in a Senate campaign when they knew he wasn't well.

00:15:54.000 Whether that was a primary or a general.

00:15:57.000 I'm not ripping on Fetterman, folks.

00:15:59.000 I'm ripping on the people who did a disservice to John Fetterman, who added to the stress that perhaps is what put him in the hospital.

00:16:08.000 In all likelihood, Obviously that's what happened, right?

00:16:12.000 The very people who are hitting me care so little about Fetterman, they didn't bother to ask him to ever step down.

00:16:20.000 How's he going to recover when he's forced to run a Senate campaign or to actually do his damn job?

00:16:30.000 Come on. This is all from the Democrat media activists and operators.

00:16:38.000 They all knew. They gaslit us.

00:16:40.000 And they're mad at me for, as usual, pointing out the obvious.

00:16:46.000 They put him in this position and did nothing to help him.

00:16:49.000 But I'm the bad guy, folks.

00:16:51.000 Remember? Remember what they all said about Trump, right?

00:16:54.000 So we can all feel bad for him, but that doesn't change the fact that they put him in this position and they're pretending to take the moral high ground.

00:17:03.000 The same people that called me, you, half of America, racists, fascists, deplorables, the dregs of society.

00:17:16.000 You don't have to take my word for it.

00:17:18.000 Just go look up what they called all of you.

00:17:21.000 Because if you're watching this show, other than maybe a couple of the media people who are going to look to try to hit me again, again for clickbait, not because it's real, they can't articulate why he's still a senator or how great this could possibly be for him.

00:17:31.000 That's besides the point. But they all knew.

00:17:34.000 Where's my compaction, folks?

00:17:36.000 Honestly, I feel bad for him, but I'm running a little low in compassion after, again, being called all the things that they called us.

00:17:43.000 Remember, I was a traitor.

00:17:45.000 They wanted to try me for treason.

00:17:47.000 Adam Schiff and some pretty powerful people, frankly, people much more powerful than me, like the head of the Senate and House Intelligence Committee, numerous senators, all these people during the fake Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:17:59.000 Who called on me to be tried for treason, a crime punishable by death.

00:18:03.000 So if you're wondering where my compassion went for some of these things, no, folks.

00:18:08.000 I'm just fighting the game that they fight.

00:18:10.000 I'm playing the way the other side is playing.

00:18:13.000 And if we don't start doing the same thing, we're going to wake up one day in a country that we don't recognize anymore.

00:18:18.000 Because they're taking those wins, and they get their sanctimony, and they get to talk about it like they're so great.

00:18:24.000 It's all a lie.

00:18:27.000 They say it's not for power.

00:18:30.000 They're doing things for him. Does anyone actually believe that after lying about Russia, Russia, Russia for years, knowing that?

00:18:35.000 Lying about the Hunter Biden laptop, lying about COVID and its origins, lying about the vaccine.

00:18:41.000 Is there anything they haven't lied about?

00:18:43.000 Is there anything the conspiracy theorists were wrong about?

00:18:46.000 Is there anything that those people were not called?

00:18:51.000 Vilified. Demonized.

00:18:53.000 Called the worst things in the possible world by the same media that's preaching sanctimony about me expecting a United States senator to have basic cognitive function?

00:19:05.000 No, folks. Remember what they said about President Donald Trump himself?

00:19:09.000 One time, he held a banister.

00:19:12.000 He held a banister to walk down a slippery ramp.

00:19:18.000 Remember what they asked about his mental condition?

00:19:22.000 He's in the later stages of dementia and Alzheimer's combined.

00:19:26.000 Remember they had all the television psychologists magically appear to talk about how Trump must be, must be, losing it.

00:19:35.000 Remember that? It happened for years.

00:19:39.000 Remember when he grabbed the thing of water with two hands before a drink?

00:19:43.000 And that was, I mean, that was the end of the world.

00:19:46.000 They lost their minds.

00:19:49.000 Remember all those things?

00:19:51.000 Look it up. If you don't, look it up.

00:19:53.000 And then, again, you can ask these guys to spare us the sanctimony, the fake outrage, because their hypocrisy and evil knows no bounds.

00:20:04.000 But I'm sure they got some clickbait over the weekend, so just remember, folks, the only problem with every argument that I've made this evening as it relates to this insanity, this obvious This ridiculousness that a man that can't complete a sentence should be serving as a United States Senator and no one should be able to say anything about it because somehow that's discriminatory.

00:20:27.000 I guess the hole in the argument is, why should a United States Senator be held to a different standard than the President of the United States himself?

00:20:41.000 It's remarkable that Fetterman's clear disability has to be covered up by the press, by Democrat operatives, by Big Tep, but they leaped and tried to claim my father was somehow handicapped for holding a banister.

00:20:58.000 Same people, folks.

00:21:00.000 Can John Fetterman deliver a two-hour speech like my father did this weekend?

00:21:05.000 Two hours straight?

00:21:06.000 Can he deliver a sentence without getting flustered?

00:21:10.000 Can he complete a thought? Because I have not actually seen that, and I've watched a lot of video on it.

00:21:15.000 I've commented on it a lot.

00:21:16.000 But again, that makes me a terrible person.

00:21:19.000 Uh... President Trump's CPAC speech was full of gems.

00:21:25.000 Okay, we got to move on from Fetterman, but media, that's my commentary to you.

00:21:29.000 You can go be as outraged as you absolutely want, but no one's believing the bullshit that you're selling after years of lies, after years of vilifying people, after years of calling for unity, not just you, but President Joe Biden, and then getting on a stage and vilifying people.

00:21:47.000 Half of the voting populace of this country is deplorable and much, much worse.

00:21:52.000 So, here's a couple of the highlights from my father's speech, because he's 100% right.

00:21:58.000 He promised there would be retribution against the left, and honestly, given everything we've just discussed, everything we've seen, everything we've decalled, I think that's exactly what we need.

00:22:10.000 Check it out. And if you put me back in the White House, their reign is over.

00:22:16.000 Their reign will be over.

00:22:18.000 And they know it. And America will be a free nation once again.

00:22:21.000 We're not a free nation right now.

00:22:23.000 We don't have free press.

00:22:24.000 We don't have free anything. In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.

00:22:31.000 Today, I add, I am your warrior.

00:22:34.000 I am your justice.

00:22:35.000 And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.

00:22:41.000 I am your retribution.

00:22:42.000 I'm not going to let this happen.

00:22:49.000 Well, guys, I love that.

00:22:50.000 But what I like even more is that he, like you, understands that the Republican Party has changed forever.

00:22:59.000 There is no more party of Paul Ryan or Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney.

00:23:07.000 That doesn't exist other than in the D.C. circles where they're trying desperately to bring it back.

00:23:13.000 Check out this clip because this is about taking back control from the establishment insanity.

00:23:19.000 When we started this journey, a journey like there has never been before, there's never been anything like this.

00:23:26.000 We had a Republican Party that was ruled by freaks, neocons, globalists, open-border zealots, and fools.

00:23:39.000 But we are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.

00:23:46.000 Thank you.

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00:28:22.000 Check it out, folks. Thanks for everything.

00:28:24.000 You guys are the best. Guys, welcome back to Triggered.

00:28:28.000 I'm here with, well, if you're following me, everyone knows Matt Gaetz, one of the true fighters in Congress, one of the guys really pushing for the America First agenda.

00:28:38.000 And I wanted to bring Matt on here to talk about everything that's going on, because Matt and I understand sort of the optics of what the American people are sold and the realities of Washington, D.C. Absolutely.

00:28:47.000 And I want to hear about this.

00:28:49.000 You've been given some pretty good and powerful positions to go after these people.

00:28:53.000 I think what I hear most, how do we know it's actually happening?

00:28:57.000 Because we've heard sound bites for years.

00:28:58.000 This is what we're doing and nothing happens.

00:29:00.000 This is what's going to happen and then the clock runs out.

00:29:03.000 How do we hold them accountable?

00:29:04.000 Well, I think that we have to set expectations based on the playing field we see.

00:29:10.000 I'm not going to tell you that people are going to be let out in handcuffs.

00:29:13.000 You know why? The only folks who can charge anyone with a crime are at the Biden Justice Department.

00:29:18.000 And part of what the whistleblowers are telling us You have any claim against Biden, diminished, deemed Russian information, any possible thing against President Trump or anyone close to him or America...

00:29:32.000 I know a little bit about this.

00:29:33.000 Right, and they accelerate that. Not my first rodeo.

00:29:35.000 Right, but even to the point...

00:29:37.000 Of parents who show up at school board meetings where all of a sudden you've got the FBI taking down license plate numbers on the outside.

00:29:45.000 Well, I guess if you're a practicing Catholic, you're a domestic terrorist.

00:29:48.000 If you're a concerned mother showing up to a PTA meeting, you're a domestic terrorist.

00:29:52.000 You know who's not domestic terrorist?

00:29:54.000 Domestic terrorists. Actual domestic terrorists, if they're liberal or they're woke or they're some sort of minority, total pass.

00:30:02.000 Well, they were on our radar.

00:30:04.000 Wait, how come every terrorist attack in America that has gone on, terrible, they were on the radar, but nothing happened.

00:30:10.000 And yet, if you're the gentleman who is just the pro-lifer that was raided by the FBI and the SWAT team with machine guns, That guy gets that treatment.

00:30:19.000 The other guy, it was the car that ran through a Christmas parade, not the, like, I'll say black supremacist, based on everything I saw on his Facebook page, running through a crowd.

00:30:27.000 No, it is sad when you see what was once viewed the preeminent law enforcement entity in the world converted to the enforcement wing of the Democratic Party.

00:30:39.000 Yeah. And while there are patriotic Americans all over the country that serve in the FBI that do keep us safe, the rot is in Washington, D.C. So let me, in terms of things we can actually do.

00:30:52.000 Yeah. Okay. Nancy Pelosi, on her way out the door, gave the appropriations and authorization for a new headquarters for the FBI to bring way more of the FBI folks into Washington, D.C. Not where they need to be.

00:31:06.000 With a complex bigger than the Pentagon.

00:31:10.000 Bigger than the Pentagon, okay?

00:31:11.000 So here's what I think.

00:31:13.000 I think Republicans need to use the appropriations process to go and zero out every element of that that is not thoroughly planned and constructed.

00:31:22.000 Okay, we've had this conversation a bunch.

00:31:23.000 So we're good at sort of, and conservatives are good at bitching.

00:31:26.000 See, we were right. We were right about Russia.

00:31:29.000 Russia, it never happened. We were right.

00:31:31.000 Twitter was actually shaming, but they still get the win.

00:31:33.000 The Wuhan lab. Yeah, Wuhan lab. Of course it was.

00:31:36.000 We were conspiracy theorists.

00:31:38.000 Of course it was. So we do the, we got you, we were right, but they still get the win.

00:31:42.000 They weaponize it. So who's on appropriations on the Republican side that this audience can blow up?

00:31:48.000 I got to use that carefully because I'll get rated by the FBI, but by phone or by email.

00:31:55.000 Politically. Politically.

00:31:57.000 Let them know that you expect action, because that's what I... I'm worried.

00:32:02.000 And I think there's guys that are great.

00:32:03.000 There's people I really respect and like on these committees.

00:32:05.000 I've had them on this podcast. There's also still a lot of rhino stiffs that are going to...

00:32:10.000 I don't, you know, they want to be invited to the cool person party at Christmas in D.C. Their liberal wife works at Planned Parenthood and they're not, you know, they can't go out to their friends, you know, to their kids' soccer games without getting harassed.

00:32:22.000 If you're a Supreme Court justice, you'll get harassed by the woke mob.

00:32:25.000 But if we did it to the left, those people would be in jail.

00:32:28.000 Who do we reach out to to hold them accountable, to make sure?

00:32:31.000 I see it. And I love where it's going.

00:32:34.000 I love the start.

00:32:35.000 I love that we're doing some of these things.

00:32:37.000 But I also see them wanting to run out the clock and just like, oh, maybe they win an election.

00:32:41.000 And not a single thing will happen.

00:32:45.000 Part of the negotiation at the end of the Speaker's race was specifically about who had to be on the Appropriations Committee.

00:32:52.000 So if you look at the new members of the Appropriations Committee, there are people who might have been passed over for that opportunity in the old rules of Washington, but specific people having those rules.

00:33:03.000 I would look at a guy like Andy Harris.

00:33:06.000 Who is a Freedom Caucus member who is now a cardinal on appropriations, a subcommittee chair.

00:33:11.000 That was part of the negotiation as well.

00:33:13.000 He is a leader who actually goes after some of the worst expenditures that allow a woke, weaponized government to be turned against the people.

00:33:22.000 So he's one of the leaders of the group that I think can catalyze a lot more effort.

00:33:28.000 But the personnel is policy, and we do have better folks on there now.

00:33:33.000 I don't know.

00:33:35.000 Who are the weak ones? Because that's the, you know, hey, it's one thing to have a killer.

00:33:39.000 I'd love to have you on an every committee, right?

00:33:41.000 But one guy can't do it alone, right?

00:33:44.000 I think for us, it's almost more powerful to get vocal With the guys who aren't necessarily going to be as aggressive because they're still voting.

00:33:53.000 I'm not putting anyone on blast because they haven't let us down yet.

00:33:55.000 Okay. You're going to come back on the second they let us down.

00:33:59.000 I will. And we've got to know because, again...

00:34:01.000 You're all warned. You're all warned.

00:34:03.000 The next time I come on, I'm naming your names.

00:34:05.000 It's fine. Do what you need to do, but there will be loud consequences.

00:34:11.000 And, look, that is why we developed different tools to run this House of Representatives that have been used before.

00:34:19.000 One that Nancy Pelosi got rid of, the ability to zero out the actual salary of a specific bureaucrat.

00:34:27.000 I want to start doing that, and I actually want to start at the ATF. Because, I mean, there was a deep state at the ATF when Donald Trump was president.

00:34:35.000 Of course. And they are trying to turn law-abiding gun owners So let's talk about that.

00:34:41.000 The pistol brace rule, right?

00:34:43.000 There's no one with more ingenuity than the American redneck, right?

00:34:47.000 You give them a rule, they'll figure out a way around it to break the spirit of the thing while still being within the rule, and that's brilliant.

00:34:53.000 But the ATF pistol brace ban that's going on right now is not that.

00:34:59.000 They wrote these rules.

00:35:02.000 They sat with people and came up with rules that created the pistol brace and said this is how we're going to do that.

00:35:09.000 Now they don't like it and so they're going to turn either millions of Americans into criminals They're going to force registrations, force a costly, you know, modification to a weapon.

00:35:22.000 Like, you know, I got a lot of ARs.

00:35:23.000 It's not easy to change, you know, a pistol brace into a full stock at length to your barrel.

00:35:28.000 Do you have more guns or fishing rods, do you think?

00:35:30.000 More guns. And you know I have a lot of fishing rods.

00:35:33.000 I know how many fishing rods this man has.

00:35:37.000 Most humans on the planet Earth will never eat as many fish as you have fishing rods.

00:35:42.000 There's a lot of different kinds of fishing, just like there's a lot of different things to shoot.

00:35:47.000 Fair. But that's what's most troubling about this one, right?

00:35:51.000 Again, forced registration or costly expense, or you're just a felon.

00:35:55.000 But it wasn't because you're a felon that sort of played cute and tried to get around a rule that has existed.

00:36:01.000 They set that precedent and now they're just like, eh, we're just kidding.

00:36:05.000 Well, and when that very issue was before the House Judiciary Committee, David Cicilline of Rhode Island said that a pistol brace is actually how you convert a weapon into a bump stock.

00:36:16.000 That would be a miracle of engineering.

00:36:20.000 I'm pretty good at this stuff. I know a lot, and I don't know how that works, but as an American who's into this and knows guns, I've shot competitively.

00:36:28.000 I've never lost a governor's quail shoot kind of thing.

00:36:34.000 They don't even know what they're talking about.

00:36:37.000 You should have to have an address in an SEC state to file a bill about guns.

00:36:45.000 The 90-round magazine clip, and I'm like, but you don't even understand the basics, and yet they're making legislation.

00:36:53.000 I saw that when I was still living in New York.

00:36:56.000 With the SAFE Act.

00:36:58.000 You know, Governor Cuomo wanted to be the first to act so he could get accolades and start his presidential run.

00:37:03.000 So he passed a law that made anyone, even law enforcement, carrying their duty weapon to work a felon because no one even understood the basics.

00:37:12.000 And yet we're having these conversations.

00:37:14.000 You see it and they're like, oh, we got you.

00:37:16.000 I'm like, No, you didn't.

00:37:17.000 You sound like an idiot. And if you knew anything about the subject matter you're passing legislation on, you'd know that, but you don't.

00:37:24.000 Well, the two greatest threats to our Second Amendment are bureaucratic overreach and Republican members of the United States Senate.

00:37:31.000 I mean, that really is what could, if you look at this envelope of time, you've seen bureaucrats exceed their authority, even to the point of having a database of a billion private transactions that they never were given statutory or regulatory authority to collect and maintain.

00:37:46.000 You see that going on at the ATF, whether it's the brace rule.

00:37:51.000 I mean, they continue to just take any word on the page and use it as a launching off point to start going after regular folks.

00:37:59.000 And then you have Republican senators who are willing to sign up for these red flag laws.

00:38:05.000 And using federal money to bait states into red flag laws...

00:38:10.000 is so offensive on so many different levels.

00:38:12.000 Those laws would never be weaponized against law-abiding citizens that can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars fighting to get it back because some scorned ex or the other insanity, right?

00:38:23.000 They would never do that. Well, that's exactly what we're seeing.

00:38:26.000 We're seeing an abuse of red flag laws, but now...

00:38:28.000 No consequence and no due process.

00:38:30.000 Look, we saw it in education.

00:38:33.000 Where when George W. Push passed the No Child Left Behind bill, then every school district got addicted to federal money.

00:38:40.000 And that's actually what they're using to plow in the wokeism now, the addiction to federal money.

00:38:45.000 And now you see that with red flag laws, where they're putting money on the table, encouraging states to literally go and deprive their citizens of their rights.

00:38:53.000 And I believe that this will expand if we don't go in and actually repeal it, and we should put Republican senators back on the board.

00:39:02.000 Well, listen, the problem with the Republican senators, there's like five that you'd actually want to be in a fight with.

00:39:07.000 Meaning, probably any fight, but even a legislative fight, it's just not the same.

00:39:12.000 You know, they don't have the fire brands.

00:39:13.000 They have a couple. And, you know, J.D. Vance looks like the newest one that's really promising.

00:39:17.000 But it's like, we, like, there's five that I can name.

00:39:20.000 And I know most of them, but I'd actually be like, okay, that guy's going to have my back.

00:39:24.000 Five out of 50.

00:39:25.000 Why is that? You tell me.

00:39:27.000 I want your opinion.

00:39:28.000 The United States Senate is so tough that after two months, John Fetterman had had enough.

00:39:33.000 Yeah. Well, I want to talk about elections because that's a whole...

00:39:37.000 The fact that a guy that's bordering on vegetable status can actually become a United States Senate.

00:39:42.000 And then someone like me, who has the guts to call it out, be like, hey, like...

00:39:46.000 Does anyone else have a problem with, like, a guy that can't formulate a sentence making trillion-dollar decisions, perhaps sending our children off to war?

00:39:55.000 Like, if he has no cognitive function, like, Don Jr., he's an ableist, which I didn't even know what it meant, but apparently it means I'm discriminating against those with disabilities.

00:40:04.000 I'm like, well, you know, if he wants to be a bad guy at Walmart, like, I'm not, I think that's wonderful.

00:40:09.000 Gainful employment is great, but, like, It's not an unreasonable request to expect a United States senator to have basic cognitive function.

00:40:18.000 And yet, that is, we have a president that doesn't have it.

00:40:20.000 Yeah, I was about to say, why would you have a higher standard for the Senate than for the Oval Office?

00:40:24.000 But, like, when do we say, you know, this is going to get us into the election topic, because there's a reason a guy like that can win.

00:40:29.000 And it's not because elections are good and just.

00:40:32.000 We just got to play the game the way the other side's playing them.

00:40:34.000 Yeah, I mean, our movement was so strong, electorally, they literally had to change the rules of the game to beat us.

00:40:41.000 Yeah. And they had to do it in the weeks leading up to elections with an unprecedented break in like the chain of custody of voting.

00:40:49.000 And as election day has turned into election week and election month, we don't get elections that are more secure.

00:40:56.000 We don't get results that are more reliable.

00:40:58.000 So talk about that because I heard very clearly it's the safest and most secure election in history.

00:41:04.000 The only evidence of that was that they were willing to say it, but there's no backup to that.

00:41:08.000 But everyone carried it as though it was the gospel.

00:41:11.000 How is that even possible, given the nature of that election?

00:41:16.000 And it's not, and that's obvious, but no one's even willing to contest the DNC talking points on the issue.

00:41:22.000 Well, and the DNC talking points have been fused with the mainstream media talking points.

00:41:27.000 And that's why, honestly, platforms like Rumble give us an ability to have a discussion that if we were even talking about election integrity on the mainstream media, you'd already be watching a potato chip or a big pharma commercial by now.

00:41:39.000 Yeah, Don Jr. is now cancelled, but we bring you Pfizer!

00:41:43.000 Right, exactly. Take this injection, and we will now use the softest voice to tell you every horrendous side effect that might be possible.

00:41:50.000 Don Jr., you're doing really good, and you're gone.

00:41:52.000 Like, it's cancelled. So this is honestly a struggle we have within the Republican Party.

00:41:56.000 There are some that say, look, we've had enough.

00:41:58.000 We need a national voter ID law.

00:42:00.000 We need a national chain of custody standard for ballots.

00:42:03.000 We cannot allow Los Angeles to let illegal aliens vote.

00:42:08.000 You know, we cannot allow Michigan to have a standard of chain of custody different in Detroit than in every other area of the state.

00:42:17.000 But if you do that, there is the risk that federalized elections don't go our way and don't become more secure.

00:42:24.000 I think federalized elections probably get worse.

00:42:27.000 But that's why this is such a frustrating discussion.

00:42:30.000 But we have to play the game. You know, our problem is to know we do this and we do this and we do that.

00:42:33.000 Meanwhile, they're laughing their asses off that we're not willing to engage like they are.

00:42:37.000 You know, that we won't do mail-in, that we won't go out and harvest ballots where legal or, you know, push the boundaries of that.

00:42:44.000 I've heard enough stories from people around the world being like, this happened, this happened.

00:42:47.000 They're going beyond what's even legal, but I'm saying go up at least to what they're doing within the bounds of legalities to play this game, and they hope we don't.

00:42:57.000 They want us to be discouraged.

00:42:58.000 There's no way, in my opinion, and I spend more time around the country than most, Like, this election, this last one for midterms, should not have been as close as it was.

00:43:10.000 But, you know, people are outraged.

00:43:12.000 We're on the brink of World War III. You've got inflation going through the roof.

00:43:15.000 Gas prices going through the roof. Your three-year-old is having conversations with their teacher about chopping their dick off.

00:43:19.000 And, like, we're supposed to, like, not even be concerned parents.

00:43:22.000 Like, they're not winning.

00:43:23.000 We're actually winning.

00:43:25.000 We're actually winning the culture war, maybe for the first time ever because the left has shown how freaking insane they are.

00:43:33.000 But it doesn't matter because they're knocking on a door in Philadelphia and saying, hey, give me your ballot.

00:43:38.000 We'll fill it in. I guarantee you there's people voting in a lot of these swing states that could not tell you who they voted for.

00:43:45.000 But they voted, or they signed a ballot, or they said they filmed it, but they couldn't tell you the policy.

00:43:50.000 Because no one in their right mind could watch John Fetterman and be like, I want this guy making decisions for me and my children.

00:43:55.000 It's, it's, come on, it's just not possible.

00:43:58.000 I have not analyzed the Fetterman data like I looked at the 2020...

00:44:02.000 You don't have to! I just look at the guy and be like, zero chance.

00:44:05.000 No one's that stupid.

00:44:07.000 What if they want the zombie, Don?

00:44:08.000 What if that's what they really want?

00:44:10.000 What if the people of Pennsylvania are like, look, we've had a zombie football team in the Eagles, and we just want a zombie senator?

00:44:19.000 Maybe that's fine because, listen, as long as someone can show president and vote in lockstep with Chuck Schumer, they're probably okay with that.

00:44:25.000 But I don't, that's Washington's okay with it.

00:44:27.000 I don't believe the people are.

00:44:30.000 Yeah, like, what do you think right now if you're a veteran in John Fetterman State and you need your senator to go fight for you to get your fair benefits?

00:44:39.000 How dare you? You're ableist.

00:44:42.000 You're ableist to expect that your guy would perform, just like I was apparently last week.

00:44:46.000 I was homophobic for questioning what the hell Pete Buttigieg is doing.

00:44:51.000 For months they told me, it's so great because he's gay, so I assume that was his only qualification, because it doesn't seem he knows anything else about transportation.

00:44:59.000 That's evidenced by the fact that we're in a supply chain crisis.

00:45:01.000 We have train strikes.

00:45:03.000 It takes 20 days to get to a disaster.

00:45:06.000 We got... I think?

00:45:25.000 No one's even asking the question anymore.

00:45:27.000 So you're all in on the Cy Hirsch Nord Stream thing?

00:45:30.000 You're all in on it? I just think it's the most likely response.

00:45:33.000 Like, I think it, like, Russia wouldn't do it to themselves.

00:45:35.000 There's too much money and the Germans are going to be sucking that money and giving it to Russia whether we're at war or not.

00:45:39.000 Like, I don't believe that anyone's a good actor.

00:45:41.000 I think it's reasonable to ask who else would want to blow this thing out?

00:45:43.000 Yeah, like, who else?

00:45:45.000 Germany's not going to do it because they don't want to have to pay more.

00:45:48.000 They were fine having U.S. pay for NATO, not do anything while enriching Russia with a pipeline to begin with.

00:45:55.000 So even on the Cy Hirsch, like how bin Laden was captured, he's got a different view than the CIA. Cy Hirsch says the Pakistanis captured bin Laden up in the mountains and were basically holding him there in house arrest.

00:46:07.000 And one of those cats, who was part of that security detail, turned him in for the U.S., I don't know enough about it, but as a sentient being, the fact that the U.S. would take out Russia's pipeline, that they're saying these things, like if there's going to be serious consequences, did he do anything? I don't know.

00:46:25.000 There were serious consequences.

00:46:27.000 Who else possibly benefits?

00:46:28.000 Who else could have pulled it off?

00:46:30.000 That's the question I ask to all these guys who want to send anything that shoots to Ukraine.

00:46:35.000 How does this end? As long as there's infinite money, Right?

00:46:40.000 What's the incentive to have it in?

00:46:42.000 And I've had the call from people in the house, well, Don, maybe, you know, don't go so hard on Ukraine because all the money's coming back to, like, our companies here.

00:46:50.000 I go, like, which one's, like, Raytheon? Like, it's fine.

00:46:51.000 I don't care. Like, I don't, like, I'm not, I'm not willing to fund big war.

00:46:56.000 But isn't that to tell? Yes. Isn't that saying the quiet part out loud?

00:46:58.000 Of course it is. That the reason we have to be so involved in Ukraine is because we've wrapped?

00:47:02.000 Well, those guys were pissed that big pharma got rich for two years and they were saying, bitch, we haven't been in a war in six months.

00:47:06.000 Like, show me the money. That's not a reason to be at war.

00:47:10.000 Yeah, what is the endgame?

00:47:11.000 We're gonna fund it infinitely, and the geniuses at NATO seem to have taken the largest bargaining chip off the table yesterday for peace, which was Not moving NATO's border 500 miles closer to Russia by allowing Ukraine in.

00:47:30.000 These people are morons.

00:47:32.000 They're making decisions.

00:47:34.000 I'm not saying Putin wouldn't have done it.

00:47:35.000 I'm not an apologist, despite I'll be called one for being like, hey, why the hell are we even bothering?

00:47:39.000 I've been personally sanctioned by Putin.

00:47:42.000 I am not allowed in Russia, and they still call me in Putin's speech.

00:47:45.000 How about when all of the blue checkmarks on Twitter get personally sanctioned?

00:47:50.000 Light me up about what it's like to be on Putin's side.

00:47:53.000 All the blue checkmark that were doing Putin's bidding, making him seem like he was powerful enough to implant Trump.

00:47:59.000 They had no problem with that, but now it's different.

00:48:01.000 So what's the endgame?

00:48:03.000 And how do we stop it? I believe that we are now extending the duration of this war.

00:48:08.000 I think that the peace plan that Elon Musk put out is probably pretty close to what it's going to end up being.

00:48:16.000 And you can't just take...

00:48:18.000 All this American cash and pour it over a historically corrupt country.

00:48:23.000 You mean they're not angels?

00:48:25.000 You mean the guy that was an actor a couple weeks ago and has homes now apparently all over the world, at least I've read about?

00:48:31.000 You mean there's a little 10% for the big guy?

00:48:36.000 Yeah, I mean, it's very interesting that Zelensky's zeal for anti-corruption seems to directly align with Republicans taking the House of Representatives in the United States Congress.

00:48:46.000 Fascinating how that works.

00:48:48.000 And I do not worry about broken Russian tanks impacting the quality of life of my fellow Americans.

00:48:56.000 I do worry that when farmers can't buy fertilizer, it's a problem.

00:49:00.000 I worry about people in rural areas who have to actually drive distances to work and not just, you know, live in some confine...

00:49:08.000 How about actual allies like Taiwan that are watching us deplete the arms that could Yeah, I mean, during our life, our nation has been weakest when we have been in multiple wars and when we have been spending endless sums of money here at home.

00:49:35.000 And that is the trajectory that Biden would take us on.

00:49:38.000 It is why we have to be a critical check.

00:49:40.000 But essentially, to answer the operative question of this episode, I don't know yet if Republicans are digging in hard enough and tough enough.

00:49:48.000 I push them to be tougher every day.

00:49:50.000 I think we're getting the best version of Kevin McCarthy that we ever could have gotten.

00:49:55.000 I would give him high marks to this moment in time.

00:49:59.000 We need to be sending a lot more subpoenas, in my view.

00:50:03.000 We need to be hauling in a lot more folks than we are.

00:50:06.000 So how much of that is for the people?

00:50:08.000 How much of that is process?

00:50:11.000 As much as we want to bypass all of that, you still got to play within a DC framework, right?

00:50:16.000 How much of that is process?

00:50:18.000 There is a component of that.

00:50:21.000 Here's what people don't know, and it's critically important we follow this.

00:50:23.000 The law literally requires an accommodation process with agencies of the federal government.

00:50:30.000 And they will show whatever they need to, the minimum at the last minute, and start the clock again, and start the clock again, and start the clock again, to the point where they hope that someone else wins an election that they can just make it all go away.

00:50:41.000 Absolutely. The worst actors that we are trying to expose hope that time is on their side.

00:50:48.000 And I guess I'm always, I think no matter how many subpoenas we send out, I'd probably be pushing for 10 more because I'm so anxious for the leverage that we have to be maximized in the funding process, in the appropriations process, and even as we talk about the debt limit.

00:51:05.000 You know, the debt limit should focus us on some policy change to have downward pressure on spending.

00:51:12.000 And that's right around the corner. Well, and that's a big one, right?

00:51:14.000 Because, hey, we don't have the White House.

00:51:16.000 We don't have any of the big bureaucracies, and we don't have the Senate.

00:51:20.000 We have the House by a very slim margin.

00:51:22.000 But what we do have in the House is the power of the purse strings.

00:51:26.000 We can stop some of these things if we have enough guys being like, no more money.

00:51:29.000 Yeah, that's the real question.

00:51:31.000 We've got to do that. Who's going to do that and how do we make sure it happens?

00:51:35.000 How do we make sure enough people understand that?

00:51:36.000 It starts with Speaker McCarthy and his leadership team unifying the Republican team for the fights that matter in the appropriations process.

00:51:46.000 I think that's zeroing out.

00:51:48.000 The salaries of individual bureaucrats who are breaking the law.

00:51:52.000 I think it means downward pressure on the spending that is driving inflation.

00:51:57.000 And I think that we have to actually fight on the border.

00:52:01.000 And for so long, Republicans did not know how to fight on the border.

00:52:04.000 President Trump showed us how to do that.

00:52:06.000 But to think that we had to sit there and beg for every billion to put on our own border, and you've got Republicans and Democrats right now tripping over each other to see who can commit more and spend more on Ukraine's border, signifies how easy it is for this town to lose focus on the needs, desires, and protections for Americans.

00:52:26.000 That's a big one.

00:52:27.000 So, all right, you have a bill coming up to vote.

00:52:30.000 Yes, yes, on the war in Syria.

00:52:33.000 Obama gets us into a civil war in Syria where we never really had a clear objective.

00:52:40.000 President Trump did everything to get us out of Syria.

00:52:43.000 The deep state did everything they could to get us in and push back.

00:52:47.000 Now we still have U.S. service members in Syria.

00:52:52.000 I don't know what we're fighting for there.

00:52:54.000 I don't know who we're arming.

00:52:56.000 The alliances in Syria shift faster than the sands in Syria.

00:53:02.000 And so there's going to be a vote on March 8th whether or not we're going to keep U.S. troops in Syria.

00:53:08.000 And we're probably going to lose that vote.

00:53:11.000 But I'm glad we're actually putting measures on the floor.

00:53:12.000 Well, let's have the marker out there.

00:53:14.000 Let's understand that. Because I bet you the average American doesn't even only have troops on the ground in Syria.

00:53:18.000 Some were recently injured, and I think that brought people's attention to the matter.

00:53:23.000 But it is indicative of this neoconservative worldview that is like the Bush Republicans, the Boltonistas, the Cheneyites, and then people like Nikki Haley, who seem to want to start three wars before lunchtime tomorrow.

00:53:42.000 That worldview used to be the only one on the Republican side, but the Republican leadership and establishment was the lagging indicator.

00:53:51.000 And Donald Trump understood that regular Americans actually aren't ashamed to put the needs of our country first.

00:53:58.000 In what civilization that's not extinct didn't put the needs of their people first?

00:54:07.000 It's like every time I get on a plane, like, hey, in the event of an emergency, put your mask on before helping those around you.

00:54:13.000 It's not rocket science, folks, but when we're putting America last, what's the future?

00:54:18.000 And so that you know Don believes this, I remember being at Mar-a-Lago the weekend I met my wife.

00:54:26.000 And Kimberly was trying to set me up with my wife at the pool.

00:54:29.000 And at the table next to us, Lindsey Graham was trying to convince Rick Grinnell that we actually needed more troops.

00:54:37.000 In Syria, that we needed to add Americans between these factions that have been warring for a hundred years.

00:54:44.000 And you roll in, in like head-to-toe camo, to the Mar-a-Lago pool with like the blood of some animal dripping off of you.

00:54:52.000 Allegedly. You go right up to Lindsey Graham in his pleated khakis, and you just lay into him about his kind of America last foreign policy at times.

00:55:03.000 And it was a good-hearted debate.

00:55:06.000 No one was cruel, but you certainly took him to task.

00:55:10.000 And it's something you've been consistent on.

00:55:12.000 It's something your father's been consistent on.

00:55:13.000 And it's really interesting to see these Republicans, who are all about the Trump doctrine, When they wanted to be in this administration, now try to put the needs of defense contractors, foreign interests abroad, and special interests at home, you know, above what we would normally think would be best for our fellow Americans.

00:55:32.000 And that's what's scary about it. It's so obvious, and so, the never-ending wars are so unpopular, even among, I mean, I think it's one of the few, like, bipartisan issues, for the most part, other than Ukraine's an anomaly.

00:55:43.000 Where are the anti-war Democrats?

00:55:45.000 Where are they? I think, yeah.

00:55:47.000 Maybe not in Ukraine. They used to say our military was racist.

00:55:49.000 Now they're voting for NATO expansion.

00:55:51.000 Yeah. I guess because Trump came out against Ukraine.

00:55:54.000 I don't know. Well, maybe the bigger Ukraine question is that I'm shocked that no one's asking.

00:55:59.000 Are we making what will eventually become trillion-dollar decisions, because this thing seems no end in sight, because Ukraine has information on Joe Biden or Hunter Biden?

00:56:12.000 Why is no one even asking that question?

00:56:14.000 Because I know if it was reversed, and Don Jr.

00:56:16.000 had these weird contracts with these governments, people would be asking, is Trump making decisions?

00:56:21.000 Is Trump taking us to the brink of World War III? Is Trump doing XYZ because of this?

00:56:26.000 And it's like it never happened.

00:56:29.000 It's like it doesn't even exist.

00:56:32.000 If I were Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, I would be very concerned about Ukraine.

00:56:40.000 I would be very concerned about their involvement in the Shulkin decision.

00:56:44.000 I would be very worried about the money trail from some Ukrainian oligarchs.

00:56:49.000 I'd be worried about what they said in various forms of communication.

00:56:54.000 And I'd be worried About good people at the FBI who may have had their voice silenced, who may have had their investigations extinguished.

00:57:06.000 You see, the FBI doesn't just accelerate anything to try to embarrass the MAGA, America First Right.

00:57:14.000 At times, I think they act as dustbusters.

00:57:17.000 Plumbers, the Nixon-era folks might say, for some of the more unsavory activities of the Biden family.

00:57:24.000 So we have to do a lot of investigative work.

00:57:27.000 We've got to corroborate information. I hope you're projecting that you know more than you're able to share.

00:57:31.000 I truly hope that because there's zero chance I don't believe in coincidence anymore.

00:57:38.000 I don't think we can.

00:57:39.000 If you've been watching for the last six years, you'd be an imbecile to think that there's nothing here.

00:57:45.000 That you can have all these things, they're totally this.

00:57:48.000 The Chinese gave a billion to a crackhead.

00:57:51.000 Because they would never be buying the weak policy towards China that we're experienced under.

00:57:56.000 They don't do due diligence.

00:57:59.000 They give everything. Crackhead.

00:58:02.000 A billion dollars to hopefully invest.

00:58:04.000 You don't have to have a track record of investment.

00:58:06.000 You're a crackhead. I'm long in this concept.

00:58:09.000 Let's go all in. By the way, they're getting one of the greatest return on investments.

00:58:14.000 I don't care if Hunter lost the billion dollars.

00:58:17.000 They're getting one of the great ROIs of investment history on this because for that amount of money, they bought America's weakness, complacency, and basically subservitude to whatever it is they want to do.

00:58:30.000 And our largest corporations are leading the way.

00:58:34.000 Yeah. Yeah, that's...

00:58:36.000 I mean, talk about it.

00:58:39.000 Politicians have talked about taking on China for our entire life.

00:58:43.000 But they always end up in their pocket.

00:58:46.000 And we always have believed this theory that if we bring China closer to us, that they will act more like us.

00:58:53.000 And what President Trump understood is that as we had brought China closer to us, we were acting more like them.

00:58:59.000 Yeah. We were doing them a favor for a little while growing them, and then they got us hooked on the cheap widget.

00:59:05.000 And now we're the drug addict that's going back for more, and we're kowtowing to them.

00:59:11.000 When people are like, well, we still have military.

00:59:12.000 I don't know. Our woke military that's spending more time in diversity training than fighting.

00:59:18.000 And I hear that from friends.

00:59:19.000 I get criticized, but, like, buddies who are serious operators are like, you won't believe this shit.

00:59:24.000 We spend more time in diversity trading than we do shooting.

00:59:27.000 You think they're doing that in China?

00:59:28.000 Or you think they're laughing that we're doing it and being like, wow, this is going to be easier than I thought?

00:59:31.000 No, and their goal is domination, and frankly, that's another point of leverage that Republicans have to use in the House of Representatives.

00:59:38.000 Every year there's a National Defense Authorization Act that passes, and we have to go root out this wokeism.

00:59:44.000 Yeah. We have to get rid of all these nonsense DEI lines of reporting that have been established in the military.

00:59:51.000 We have to go get rid of all of the ESG that they've imposed on the mission.

00:59:56.000 I mean, there are areas where we are putting America's capabilities behind virtue signaling, and that just doesn't work out over the long term.

01:00:06.000 I brought it up for you. Our Secretary of State.

01:00:09.000 After the Afghan withdrawal, where 13 Americans died, he's shocked and dismayed the Taliban didn't put in a more diverse and inclusive government.

01:00:17.000 And we go, the fuck Taliban?

01:00:18.000 Were you watching for it? I don't understand.

01:00:20.000 Like, you feel like you're being punked.

01:00:22.000 Like, I'm like, you mean the Taliban that, like, threw, like, homosexuals off buildings?

01:00:26.000 You thought they were going to, like, I don't know, here's the gay wing of, like, we're going to bring over Leah Thomas, and she's going to consult us on the trans movement in Afghanistan.

01:00:34.000 You saw last week, I guess it's the Consulate General in Afghanistan, Hashtag, some woke hashtag.

01:00:43.000 There's no internet connectivity in Afghanistan.

01:00:46.000 You think they're going to be talking about some stupid hashtag that woke virtue signaling?

01:00:51.000 They got bigger problems.

01:00:53.000 We think we're do-gooders and it's imbecilic, if that's a word.

01:01:00.000 Well, and you talk about the way it projects weakness and how that compares to an alternate vision of the world that China is actively pitching.

01:01:09.000 China is showing up to these countries with a briefcase.

01:01:11.000 Give us all your lithium.

01:01:12.000 Give us all your cobalt.

01:01:13.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll take care of you.

01:01:15.000 They get in. They control it all.

01:01:16.000 They own it for life. They put people into child slavery.

01:01:19.000 And we're like, no, no, no. This is wonderful.

01:01:21.000 We should get our lithium and cobalt.

01:01:22.000 Let China make the batteries.

01:01:23.000 Let's become totally dependent on them.

01:01:25.000 Because we've subcontracted out the battery mining and the child labor, And the terrible environmental conditions.

01:01:31.000 It doesn't affect our ESG scores, so we're totally not culpable.

01:01:34.000 I'm like, wait, what? While the Chinese show up with bribes and infrastructure, America shows up wanting to know what your country plans to do for Gay Pride Month.

01:01:43.000 Yeah, well, and we're giving billions away to...

01:01:46.000 I think, well, is it Pakistan?

01:01:47.000 Like, here's X millions of dollars for, like...

01:01:50.000 Yes, yes. You, the American taxpayer, need to know that you're paying for, you know, feminism courses abroad.

01:01:58.000 You're paying for gay pride festivals in Prague.

01:02:00.000 And not like in Europe, where it may fly.

01:02:02.000 I mean, in, like... In the Middle East, where they're like, you've got to be shitting me.

01:02:06.000 Like, come on. Not much of a festival, okay?

01:02:09.000 Not much of a festival. It was a very short-lived festival.

01:02:12.000 If you showed up, they threw you off a building, and that was it.

01:02:15.000 And we're funding it. And I assume that money's just being stolen and corrupted and whatever it is.

01:02:19.000 Well, it's being used against, I think, center-right political movements globally.

01:02:23.000 I've gone to places in the world where they say that American aid through entities like USAID gets co-located with a lot of these George Soros-funded entities, and they end up sharing data with one another.

01:02:36.000 Well, we saw that in Hungary this week, right?

01:02:37.000 Like, Viktor Orban, conservative guy in Hungary, ruling, like, Like Eastern Europe would.

01:02:43.000 We're sending in our worst, the biggest degenerates of those movements to say, well, they're not humanitarian and we're going to destabilize them.

01:02:50.000 We're going to take a lot of money to make sure that they can't win an election because we don't like where they're going and they're not woke enough.

01:02:53.000 And it's like, it's happening right now.

01:02:56.000 And they hope not only that they're operationally effective, but that it has a functional deterrent on other center-right movements.

01:03:04.000 If you're an ambitious person and you want to run for representative government in Latin America, There's a whole career laid out for you if you want to turn left and embrace socialism.

01:03:15.000 But if you turn right, you're going to be smeared, you're going to be called a fascist, a tyrant, and it is a total degradation of the Monroe Doctrine.

01:03:27.000 We care so much about the Western Hemisphere and to ensure that we had the ability to be a hegemon in the Western Hemisphere and we weren't facing China or Russia or Turkey.

01:03:39.000 And now all those countries are in Venezuela.

01:03:41.000 China is making deals with Brazil.

01:03:44.000 We have the Caribbean increasingly...

01:03:46.000 How about Mexico? They're coming on our borders and we're like, it's okay.

01:03:49.000 Yeah. But it's not enough to just cast America as a bastion of wokeism and hope that that's going to prevail even in our own neighborhood.

01:03:59.000 And yet somehow we believe that we're going to turn Syria into a Jeffersonian democracy out of sand and blood and Arab militias.

01:04:08.000 And somehow we think That which guy in a tracksuit runs Crimea is more central to America's interest than whether or not we have a nuclear power increasingly agitated against our homeland.

01:04:21.000 And when I talk this way, people think I'm the crazy one in the Washington DC foreign policy elite.

01:04:27.000 But I think that The folks that we've trusted for far too long have led our nation down a terrible path.

01:04:35.000 And we're not ready for the real fights.

01:04:37.000 Let me tell you something. Who owns AI development in the future is going to matter a lot more than whether you had a drag queen festival at Ramstein Air Force Base.

01:04:49.000 Which we did. Of course we did, because why not?

01:04:54.000 Well, you see that with COVID relief funds.

01:04:58.000 I mean, there are COVID relief funds going to fund Drag Queen Story.

01:05:02.000 I don't know what that has to do with COVID. I don't, but it doesn't matter.

01:05:05.000 Shouldn't we claw back all that money as part of the debt limit deal?

01:05:09.000 Isn't that like the easiest flow?

01:05:10.000 If that process hasn't started, please get it going.

01:05:13.000 I don't know enough.

01:05:16.000 Start. Because I don't think anyone wants their taxpayer dollars funding this shit, but it is.

01:05:21.000 And it's not little money.

01:05:22.000 It's a lot of money.

01:05:23.000 And it's happening every day.

01:05:25.000 Even Republicans, even people like Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, the Republican chair of the Financial Services Committee, says we should do a clean debt limit.

01:05:33.000 We should ask for nothing else.

01:05:35.000 And that would even include saying, you know what, money that hasn't gone out, hasn't been planned, programmed, or utilized, we want to claw that money back to the taxpayer.

01:05:45.000 It's your money, folks.

01:05:47.000 It's not government programs.

01:05:49.000 It's taxpayer-funded programs.

01:05:52.000 Again, I feel like they do such a good job sort of cloaking it and making it seem like you don't have any power.

01:05:57.000 We do. We just got to get involved.

01:05:59.000 We got to stop sitting on the sidelines.

01:06:01.000 I think that there are a lot of lobbyists and special interests that hope with Donald Trump temporarily at Mar-a-Lago, they will get the control again of both political parties.

01:06:13.000 And that, to me, was what was so liberating about the Trump movement, is you didn't have to play the game.

01:06:19.000 You didn't have to see which lobbyists...

01:06:20.000 If it made sense, we did it.

01:06:22.000 Yeah, we could actually do stuff.

01:06:23.000 We could break through the red tape and the standard decision-making process to do innovative stuff.

01:06:31.000 And when Donald Trump saw that American tax dollars were going to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, he canceled it immediately.

01:06:38.000 And CBS News and Scott Pelley lionized this Peter Daszak guy as the great hero that was going to help save us.

01:06:46.000 And now we know from our own government's admissions The Department of Energy and the FBI that the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak theory was the right theory, the ones that we were talking about.

01:06:57.000 But of course it was. It always was.

01:07:00.000 There was no other even remotely closed possibility.

01:07:03.000 Don't you remember when they smeared the pangolin?

01:07:06.000 Where does the pangolin go for his apology?

01:07:09.000 Someone ate a bat. It came from the bat in the wet market that was a pitcher apparently from Indonesia.

01:07:14.000 That was six feet outside of the lab.

01:07:16.000 It had no chance that it came from the lab.

01:07:19.000 In the town it's named after.

01:07:20.000 There's studies of the virus that we've been funding, that we know studies of the virus in question that leaked.

01:07:25.000 There's no way it came from the place that has a shit ton of this virus.

01:07:30.000 It came from just outside, and it had no connection.

01:07:32.000 And that gets to the nature of truth itself, which...

01:07:36.000 If we'd have said those things that are so obvious, we would have been shadow banned.

01:07:40.000 I did! They canceled me, and then I was told I was a conspiracy for being shadow banned.

01:07:45.000 And I go, well, how do you know?

01:07:47.000 I was like, well, yesterday I was getting 10,000 tweets, now I'm getting four.

01:07:51.000 Not 4,000, like four.

01:07:53.000 You know what I mean? It was like, I think something happened.

01:07:55.000 Like, what could it have been?

01:07:57.000 I wonder. So, as we approach the challenges of big tech, I believe that what we learned in the Twitter files is going to be common across the entire enterprise of big tech.

01:08:07.000 Of course. Why would it be any different?

01:08:08.000 It may be worse in some places, frankly.

01:08:11.000 Where would you go next?

01:08:12.000 Would you go Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta?

01:08:15.000 Google, to me, is the worst actor by far.

01:08:18.000 The scariest one. Because, I mean, I try to search something in my...

01:08:21.000 A lot of people wouldn't think that. Yeah. I try to search something in my phone.

01:08:24.000 It goes right to Wikipedia. You push it.

01:08:25.000 You don't even have the option of going back and going to the main screen.

01:08:28.000 It says, now you're on Wikipedia. You have to put in your search again.

01:08:30.000 And if I read my Wikipedia page, the nonsense about it's all lies.

01:08:35.000 It's all there. They use that to create optimization.

01:08:38.000 If I Google Donald Trump, you'll never get a Breitbart article.

01:08:41.000 The first 30 pages, CNN, CNN, CNN, CNN. It is...

01:08:45.000 Just manipulation like I've never seen.

01:08:48.000 And if it was happening for the benefit of Republicans, the FEC, the Federal Elections Commission would be in there investigating in two seconds.

01:08:57.000 Well, look what they did in the Cambridge Analytica.

01:08:58.000 Yeah. They figured out a way.

01:09:01.000 It was a Republican solution to gathering what was open source data.

01:09:07.000 It was like a great affront to our democracy, a threat, an authoritarian tool.

01:09:12.000 And if the left had done it, it would have been like the cutting edge, celebrated advancement in our political discourse.

01:09:21.000 To me, Google is the worst and it's not even close.

01:09:25.000 Really? Not even close.

01:09:26.000 Social's bad, but we understand that, right?

01:09:28.000 You can get on Truth. It's manipulated.

01:09:31.000 I think Twitter 2.0 is worse than Twitter 1.0 for me.

01:09:34.000 There was a boost there for a month when the takeover looked like it was happening.

01:09:39.000 Dude, I gained like 250,000 new followers in like two days because they were burning the files.

01:09:44.000 They took off all the stuff.

01:09:45.000 Then it looked like it was falling through and it was like hit a wall.

01:09:48.000 Then it actually went through and for like a month it was great and now I just don't know that, you know, I don't know whether Elon Musk doesn't have enough interest.

01:09:56.000 You may have fired 50% of the people, 75%, but it was still 99% crazy.

01:10:03.000 I'll speak to myself, Sarabian, Charlie Kirk, other people, conservatives.

01:10:08.000 It's worse now than it was when the lunatics were actually running it.

01:10:11.000 And again, I just don't know.

01:10:13.000 I don't know that you could do it at Facebook either.

01:10:15.000 If Zuckerberg got red-pilled tomorrow, I don't know that it matters.

01:10:20.000 Because you've got tens of thousands of people that are literally on a mission.

01:10:24.000 You know, that will bastardize anything for that leftist cause, and I just don't know that you could change it without starting over.

01:10:31.000 I mean, when you try to, remember, build your own, so you do.

01:10:34.000 Well, then Amazon Web Services pulls their servers.

01:10:37.000 You can't, yeah, well, wait, wait, you made a, today, okay, when I started with Taylor, MXM News, right, a news aggregator, I started, I said, build your own, because if you wanted to see Breitbart's story, you'd never see it in Google.

01:10:47.000 It wouldn't show up. Emails would be inboxed.

01:10:49.000 So we created an app To be able to basically, we take the New York Times, we'll take Breitbart, you see it all, make your own opinion.

01:10:55.000 We'll just give you everything that's going on that'd be relevant to what you want to do.

01:10:59.000 PNC Bank, a major bank, literally did not even call.

01:11:04.000 This week they just sent us a cashier's check with the money that we had in our bank account.

01:11:09.000 Wow. For MXM News.

01:11:10.000 It was Rock Media. Don't you think that's the next wave of cancel culture is in the financial sector?

01:11:16.000 100%. Well, we've seen it. We saw it certainly at Trump Org.

01:11:18.000 You see it in insurance.

01:11:20.000 You see it in the banking.

01:11:22.000 You see it in the credit card business.

01:11:24.000 How long until your political social credit score determines what kind of interest rate you get?

01:11:27.000 When they just turn off your car and be like, we don't like what you said anymore.

01:11:30.000 You can't bank.

01:11:32.000 You can't get insurance.

01:11:33.000 You can't function. I mean, this wasn't like we're making news that they disagree with.

01:11:37.000 We literally take all the news and let you decide for yourself because no one was willing to do that.

01:11:41.000 So at MXM, literally not even a phone call.

01:11:44.000 It's like breaking up with someone by text message.

01:11:46.000 They send us a FedEx with a cashier's check.

01:11:49.000 We go to check our cashier's check. We're like, holy crap, there's nothing in here.

01:11:51.000 We thought we got hacked.

01:11:53.000 And someone stole the money.

01:11:54.000 Oh, yeah, the check's in the mail.

01:11:56.000 We don't want to even associate.

01:11:57.000 We aggregate news.

01:11:59.000 We just take all the news and let you decide for yourself.

01:12:01.000 Who will be able to bank first, people who sell marijuana or Don Jr.?

01:12:05.000 Probably the weed guys.

01:12:07.000 I'm for banking both.

01:12:09.000 Yeah, I don't care. I'm fine with that.

01:12:11.000 But that's the battle we're in.

01:12:13.000 And people don't get that. Let me give you the Republican theory of the case on the oversight plan with Big Tech.

01:12:19.000 As I understand it, it's to showcase the worst examples of conduct and use that to try to create some momentum for It's a legislative change that invites in the people like Elizabeth Warren.

01:12:35.000 Like, the people who actually want to break up big tech for different reasons than we do.

01:12:40.000 Because that's the only way you're going to get it through the Senate, right?

01:12:43.000 Well, the amount of guys that talk sort of tough on it, but they still take their $3,000 check and then do nothing?

01:12:49.000 It's scary, because some of them are actually people we'd consider fighters.

01:12:52.000 Or they'd consider fighters.

01:12:53.000 And I'm like, wait a minute, why aren't you doing anything on this issue?

01:12:55.000 I take no donations from any PAC or any lobbyist, regardless of their affiliation, ideology.

01:13:02.000 I take absolutely none of it.

01:13:04.000 MattGates.com is where I get the resources to be able to campaign.

01:13:09.000 And guess what? Don comes and campaigns with me in every one of my elections, so I don't need as much money.

01:13:13.000 But you see the way we campaign.

01:13:17.000 Well, it's like Trump. You see corporate interests.

01:13:19.000 We don't want Trump anymore. Like, we want a president that's not doing for the American people.

01:13:23.000 We want someone that takes our phone calls and jumps when we say jump and asks how high.

01:13:28.000 And, you know, you can be all MAGA, but just don't go too MAGA if it's going to be costly here.

01:13:33.000 Like, that's what people don't understand.

01:13:34.000 The money game in politics is disgusting.

01:13:36.000 And in this 2024 election, I think that, you know, Donald Trump cannot rerun his 2016 campaign.

01:13:44.000 He cannot rerun his 2020 campaign.

01:13:47.000 I think that these moments like we saw in East Palestine at the McDonald's, I'm all for that.

01:13:54.000 Like, I'm like, guess what? Trump one-on-one with, like, a real person is the greatest television in the world.

01:13:59.000 But we do not believe he should ever be able to be the DJ. No more DJ. Because he is the greatest president of my lifetime, but I do not believe he has sound taste in music.

01:14:09.000 And I know that'll get me...

01:14:10.000 He's very... You can't say that.

01:14:12.000 He yells at me, he's like, you have no taste in music.

01:14:13.000 I'm like, I know, I just want to have a conversation.

01:14:15.000 By the way, when I told him that I did not particularly enjoy his taste in music, he said, you're like my son Don.

01:14:20.000 Oh, by the way, it's like...

01:14:24.000 That's what bothers him most about me these days.

01:14:26.000 It could be worse, I guess, but he takes it very personally.

01:14:28.000 I'm willing to agree with him on almost everything except music, but that'll, I'm sure, be our fault.

01:14:35.000 That'll be our frailty, and we'll own it.

01:14:38.000 I've heard Phantom of the Opera enough this evening.

01:14:40.000 I'm good, you know what I mean? So, with tech.

01:14:44.000 Again, how do we handle that?

01:14:46.000 Knowing, again, even the guys that we think of as fighters are sort of fighters in name only.

01:14:52.000 They can do that on campaign trail, they can do it on a quick soundbite, but they don't actually do anything.

01:14:55.000 Let me explain the disagreement. There are some Republicans who think that the way you deal with big tech is that you serve them up to the courts and to the lawyers.

01:15:03.000 And hope for a good resolution by the judge.

01:15:07.000 You can't compete. The billions that they put in.

01:15:09.000 It's so much money.

01:15:10.000 You can be right. It doesn't matter.

01:15:12.000 They can flip. They get to the next one.

01:15:14.000 They get to the next one. They get to the next one.

01:15:15.000 They can keep going forever that nothing ever happens, in my opinion.

01:15:20.000 There are people who hold that sincere view.

01:15:22.000 Then there are those of us who say that you have to reshape big tech by force of law.

01:15:27.000 You have to treat them as common carriers.

01:15:29.000 You have to force Meta to sell Instagram.

01:15:32.000 You have to force Google and YouTube to be separate entities.

01:15:37.000 And if you divide them up, you create more of a market incentive, a true market incentive, for some of them to go after the niche of us who are like the half of the country that are conservatives.

01:15:48.000 That's how you got a Fox News initially with Roger Ailes, because you saw the opportunity for those who had been left behind by a lot of the mainstream media.

01:15:58.000 Maybe a bad example given where they're going these days, but that's just my opinion.

01:16:04.000 That's okay. That's what happens when you let Paul Ryan be in charge.

01:16:06.000 It's fine. I mean, it's not exactly the way I'd want things to be done, but I guess apparently he's a very popular voice in the Republican Party, though I don't know if you could ask anyone else to hear that.

01:16:14.000 Yeah, I don't think Paul Ryan would ever take the stage at CPAC because I'm pretty sure he would be booed off of it, and deservedly so, given how much he fought against President Trump as Speaker.

01:16:25.000 And honestly, I view my mission in the Congress now as ensuring that we are better prepared for the second term of Donald Trump than we were the first term.

01:16:36.000 What we accomplished. It was great.

01:16:37.000 We got the economy roaring.

01:16:39.000 We got the American family enthusiastic, energetic.

01:16:42.000 We rebuilt the military.

01:16:44.000 But we could have done a lot more on the border.

01:16:47.000 With help. We could have done a lot more against Big Ten.

01:16:49.000 They're like, well, he didn't do that. I go...

01:16:51.000 Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.

01:16:53.000 I want to get invited to the cool person Christmas party in D.C. I'm not going to do that.

01:17:00.000 It's lunacy. Well, and we hope that a lot of the candidates that Donald Trump endorsed in what was a terrific record and those folks in Congress need to understand what the energy and fuel was for their candidacy.

01:17:12.000 And it was all these people who are watching us here.

01:17:15.000 It was all the folks.

01:17:17.000 Who are willing to make the phone calls and be the digital online warriors.

01:17:22.000 And it's not the establishment.

01:17:23.000 The establishment just loses slower.

01:17:25.000 I think that's important. Because again, I think, listen, with the speakers race and all of that, like, I think it takes a guy like a Kevin McCarthy and...

01:17:35.000 At least for now, so far, holds him accountable.

01:17:38.000 They've got to understand that people are watching, that people are seeing, that we're getting a mission.

01:17:42.000 And again, you were very tough on that fight, and I get that.

01:17:47.000 I sort of knew some of the stuff behind the scenes.

01:17:49.000 I knew people he was bringing in, so in my opinion, I thought he was going to do some of what he's doing now beforehand.

01:17:54.000 So we disagreed on that, and that's fine.

01:17:56.000 We agree that 14,000 hours has to get out to everybody.

01:17:59.000 41,000 hours? Well, whatever.

01:18:01.000 Listen, I understand, because someone will bitch, hey, there's a classified room or an exit strategy.

01:18:07.000 You maybe can't do that.

01:18:08.000 But the fact that he's releasing that to the January 6th political prisoners, that's a big deal.

01:18:14.000 That he's giving it to Tucker, I'm fine with that.

01:18:16.000 I want it to all get out there somewhere, but they've got to go through all of the stuff, make sure whatever's not classified.

01:18:20.000 I know the Democrats...

01:18:23.000 Wanted to keep that from him?

01:18:24.000 I know the Democrats had it for two years, and we saw surprisingly little of it from the biggest leaguers in all of Washington, D.C. I think a lot of the security stuff, it's red herrings.

01:18:34.000 I mean, we... Well, I don't know what I don't know, right?

01:18:36.000 We walk people all over the Capitol all the time, and every person has a cell phone and a camera.

01:18:43.000 And so the notion that releasing this is going to put anybody in danger is why...

01:18:46.000 I reject, and I would be one of the people theoretically in danger because it's my workplace, and I am fully on record.

01:18:52.000 We need broad release, broad access, and let the chips fall where they may.

01:18:57.000 On the truth, I think we're going to see a lot of people who did not intend to commit a criminal act or hurt anyone be in some technical violation of federal law.

01:19:06.000 Based on actions they weren't in control of, and that'll be significant.

01:19:10.000 Well, that's what's interesting. When I see the police officers open the door, then you see the guy bitching, hey, this was a setup that caused this to happen.

01:19:16.000 Like, of course it was.

01:19:17.000 Like, why didn't Nancy Pelosi, like, call in the National Guard when Trump said,

01:19:20.000 hey, just in case?

01:19:21.000 Like, they weaponized that to their advantage.

01:19:24.000 It almost worked out so well that magically we're not talking about the guys dropping off bombs

01:19:27.000 at the RNC and the DNC, because it's like, well, we got everything we needed

01:19:30.000 from that, so we won't even look into this to create, you know what I mean?

01:19:34.000 It's like, we're all living a simulation.

01:19:36.000 If we're not looking at, maybe they'd let it happen to the RNC,

01:19:39.000 but it also happened at the DNC, and the FBI is not investigating, which means to me,

01:19:44.000 it's probably an issue that they knew something about.

01:19:49.000 Probably, like.

01:19:51.000 Something like that wouldn't just go away.

01:19:54.000 Again, they may ignore it if it happened to a Republican, but they're not ignoring it if it was real and not part of a setup to the Democrats, based on everything that I've seen.

01:20:01.000 But they got enough out of the rest of J6 that they could manipulate.

01:20:05.000 And they take two hours of 41,000 and say, oh, look at how terrible it was.

01:20:10.000 Insurrection, like the first unarmed insurrection in the history of insurrections.

01:20:13.000 I don't know. Probably not realistic, but, you know, that's the narrative.

01:20:17.000 And big tech's going to put billions behind it.

01:20:19.000 Mainstream media's going to put billions behind it.

01:20:21.000 And if you're a dissenting opinion, you're gone.

01:20:24.000 And so... You had corporations like Bank of America just turning over people's bank records.

01:20:28.000 Yeah. Just straight up.

01:20:30.000 Like, if you were in the Washington area on January 6th and you were a Bank of America customer, you could have been in town to...

01:20:38.000 Watch a sporting event.

01:20:39.000 You could have been in town to go to the Smithsonian. But that's why we have to engage, right?

01:20:42.000 Bank of America did that to their clientele.

01:20:44.000 No fight. No, like, hey, it's in violation of our privacy.

01:20:47.000 Not even, like, a pretend, like, a kind of fight, but not really.

01:20:50.000 Like what I just talked about with PNC Bank and MXM News.

01:20:53.000 By the way, let me be clear about something.

01:20:54.000 I'm not entirely sure anyone in the government even asked for this stuff for Bank of America.

01:20:58.000 By the way, it wouldn't even surprise me. It's against Bank of America.

01:21:02.000 Conservatives, we can blame Donald Trump.

01:21:04.000 We'll get Democrats. I'm not even disagreeing.

01:21:07.000 But if you don't think that if you're conservative, you're at risk from those institutions doing that to you, you ain't been paying attention.

01:21:16.000 If they can do what they did to Kyle Rittenhouse, if they can do what they've done to...

01:21:20.000 And it's like, nope.

01:21:22.000 If they'll do it to those people...

01:21:25.000 Who won't they do it to?

01:21:26.000 Well, one of the things I'm really excited about working with Jim Jordan on, the way our government does list building, right?

01:21:34.000 Like, in the weaponization subcommittee...

01:21:36.000 Am I on every list? Can I find out?

01:21:38.000 I just want to know. Is it really even a list if you don't have Don Jr.

01:21:41.000 on it? It's a bullshit list if I'm not on it.

01:21:43.000 Yeah, honestly, we added you to the black nationalist list just for that.

01:21:46.000 Why not? But it is scary.

01:21:49.000 You can't have that list, Matt.

01:21:51.000 That's racist. It may be a threat.

01:21:55.000 They may be doing really bad stuff, but you can't enforce that law because it's racist.

01:21:59.000 We have the CDC trying to make lists of the unvaccinated.

01:22:02.000 We really do. We have the DOJ and FBI trying to tag regular Americans as domestic violent extremists.

01:22:12.000 We talked social credit earlier.

01:22:14.000 So when does that happen?

01:22:15.000 If Bank of America is willing to either barely be asked or volunteer this information, when do they just start saying, I mean, they did it to me this week.

01:22:23.000 PNC Bank did it to me this week with MXM News, right?

01:22:27.000 No reason, no phone call, no notice, just here's your money back.

01:22:32.000 For what? When will they do that?

01:22:34.000 When will they shut off your electric vehicle that has more computers in it than the Apollo space missions?

01:22:40.000 Like, when will they say, you know, you said you believe, you know, life begins at conception.

01:22:47.000 So, eh, you can't drive this week.

01:22:49.000 Just, sorry, you just got to have to sit in your car.

01:22:52.000 Yeah, it is the next wave of cancel culture that I don't think we're entirely ready for.

01:22:59.000 And I don't think it's entirely far off, either.

01:23:01.000 When you look at sort of the acceleration, you know what I mean?

01:23:04.000 Just five years ago, some of the shit that we're talking, like, It would have been a Saturday Night Live skit.

01:23:10.000 Yeah. And now it's like, that's real.

01:23:12.000 That's, you know, every day.

01:23:15.000 The teachers in the train in school.

01:23:17.000 Like defining how much everything costs.

01:23:20.000 Yeah. Based on who you are.

01:23:23.000 Yeah. I mean, was it like a privilege of the past for things to cost the same for everybody regardless of your politics?

01:23:29.000 Yes. It starts with them kicking the white supremacists off of airplanes, and it ends with a MAGA grandmother not being able to refinance her.

01:23:38.000 It wasn't a white supremacist. They kicked Rob O'Neill off of an airplane, the guy who killed Bin Laden, right?

01:23:44.000 Someone wore a MAGA shirt, they kicked them off.

01:23:46.000 But if you wore a BLM shirt, an organization that obviously was clearly corrupted, we all know that, we see that now as they live in their beautiful homes in Bel Air with no consequence.

01:23:54.000 You gotta I respect the grift.

01:23:56.000 Oh, man, the hustle is real, and they pulled it off, but, like, every white suburban housewife, oh, I gotta give to that, and I'll post my black square.

01:24:02.000 Now, you know, As long as you don't move into the neighborhood, it's fine, probably, for these people.

01:24:08.000 Like, they're the biggest hypocrites ever.

01:24:10.000 They're full of shit, right?

01:24:12.000 But they did these things, they promoted that, but people who demonstrably committed violence, those groups that did those...

01:24:19.000 And if you wore an Antifa shirt on a plane, you'd be like, great, you can sit, like, we'll upgrade you to first class for free, congratulations.

01:24:26.000 If you wore a MAGA shirt, sir, you must get off the plane.

01:24:29.000 You have to ride with the luggage.

01:24:31.000 They wouldn't even let you on the plane.

01:24:33.000 They'll ban you for the future if you put up and be like, wait a minute, I can't...

01:24:36.000 I mean, freedom of speech, like that...

01:24:39.000 You know, we talked about the Second Amendment earlier.

01:24:40.000 Like, that's on the table.

01:24:43.000 But so is the First Amendment and everything that follows.

01:24:45.000 They're all on the table.

01:24:47.000 And again, if you don't follow the narrative 100% blind, You're canceled.

01:24:51.000 The left does that very well. They do that to even their biggest advocates who maybe stray like 1%.

01:24:56.000 Yeah, I mean, Jim Jordan and I were talking about the weaponization of the government against the First Amendment as a top priority for our subcommittee because you literally have everyone from the White House during COVID to the FBI trying to do favors for the Biden family, trying to shape the nature of truth itself.

01:25:18.000 You know, Galileo.

01:25:19.000 With help from Google and Big Tech.

01:25:21.000 Because again, you and I, we're in this battlefield every day, right?

01:25:25.000 So people who are sitting at home, they're trying to live their American dream.

01:25:28.000 They're trying to put food on the table.

01:25:29.000 They're trying to just get by, you know, in the Biden economy.

01:25:33.000 They don't have time to like, I'm going to read every article about that.

01:25:36.000 Yeah, one article. And they're getting bombarded with bullshit.

01:25:39.000 Well, there's got to be some truth to it.

01:25:40.000 I mean, listen, I've made plenty of those mistakes myself where it's like, what they did to Mike Flynn.

01:25:46.000 I was like, well, there's got to be something to it.

01:25:49.000 I'm like, they're doing it to me too, but man, the FBI, the CIA, they're all saying there's got to be something there.

01:25:54.000 No, it turns out there's nothing there, and it didn't matter.

01:25:57.000 They were the good guys when we grew up.

01:25:59.000 When we were the good guys, they were the folks that we would admire, and I think that in a lot of ways they've become victims of political capture.

01:26:08.000 Yeah. And that political capture has a geographic element to it.

01:26:14.000 I mean, it really is a concentration of rot in Washington, D.C., and no offense, but in New York City as well.

01:26:20.000 Yeah, of course. I mean, you talk about the FBI agents that are out there helping us in Topeka, Kansas, you know, the folks who are stopping, you know, drug runners in Miami, Florida.

01:26:31.000 They're great people.

01:26:32.000 But The specific politics and the notion of empire building inside of Washington has had a really negative effect on the reputation of these once vaulted entities.

01:26:44.000 And if you just think about every agency of government, they're all empire builders.

01:26:48.000 And so the way you grow power in Washington is you reward your friends and you punish your enemies.

01:26:55.000 And we'd like to think that the CDC would be above that, that the FBI would be above that, but in reality, they actually sometimes become the worst offenders.

01:27:05.000 Yeah, I mean, does anything happen to Anthony Fauci?

01:27:08.000 I mean, speaking of CDC and, like, these...

01:27:11.000 I mean... Everything was a lie.

01:27:14.000 He's funding all these things.

01:27:16.000 He's doing dangerous shit. He's been wrong about everything since 1980.

01:27:20.000 And does bad damage control. But he never met a camera he didn't love.

01:27:23.000 I'll say this. What he's really good at is he's really good at being a bureaucrat.

01:27:26.000 He's a shitty doctor.

01:27:27.000 I think he's borderline on being a sociopath.

01:27:30.000 But he's really good at making sure to snake anyone that got in his way.

01:27:34.000 Or got in the way of him and a TV camera.

01:27:36.000 So that he could take his dwarf ass and turn himself into a national hero while failing every step of the way for decades.

01:27:43.000 And yet, you know, you look, and actually, what did he do right?

01:27:47.000 Name one thing he got right, because I know what he said on TV, and I read his emails, and they're two, like, opposite things, so which one is it?

01:27:53.000 Like, whatever gets you more TV time, and like, you know, the cover of this, like...

01:27:59.000 I don't get it. How is it possible?

01:28:01.000 Well, it may be the case that his golden parachute at a big pharmaceutical company or at a university in a big professorship or deanship or presidency may be interrupted by a lot of congressional testimony, but there is a red carpet that is rolled out for folks like this because they wield a lot of power.

01:28:23.000 Think about it.

01:28:24.000 How much power it gives someone like Fauci to be able to direct a gajillion dollars in research money and what gets funded and what doesn't.

01:28:34.000 I mean, we've heard testimony from folks like Dr.

01:28:39.000 J. Bhattacharya, and he really effectively showcased the coercion in science.

01:28:47.000 And it is an affront to the scientific method in a lot of ways to have these powerful people use politics to get the outcomes they want rather than, like, what if we had a real focus on the power of natural immunity?

01:29:01.000 We would not have made worse decisions.

01:29:03.000 We would have made better decisions.

01:29:04.000 But there wasn't money to be made on that.

01:29:07.000 Like, if someone had figured out how to make money on that...

01:29:09.000 Invermectin, it's been on the market for years.

01:29:10.000 Like, we can't try that.

01:29:11.000 It's cheap. Right. Like, there's no money in that.

01:29:13.000 Like, Pfizer's not going to get rich if we don't, like...

01:29:15.000 We need some, like, novel vaccine that then the government is required to buy for more people than actually want to take it.

01:29:22.000 Yeah. That's the grift.

01:29:24.000 All right. If you had three things that you could get done, because what I want to be careful of, I'd love to do it all.

01:29:30.000 The reality is time.

01:29:34.000 We can't get caught in that they just run out the clock.

01:29:37.000 What would be the three things that Matt Gaetz would be like, this is where...

01:29:43.000 You've paid into that system forever.

01:29:45.000 Maybe that's actually an earned entitlement.

01:29:49.000 We're funding drag queen story hours, but we're going to tell people who've been paying into a system, expecting something at the end of that system to, like, screw you guys.

01:29:57.000 But, you know, hey, illegals, we're going to put you free education, free health care, free everything.

01:30:01.000 They'll have it better than the average hard-working American.

01:30:04.000 In a lot of ways, they do.

01:30:05.000 I mean, I visited a hospital just a week ago where the illegal aliens don't pay for their care, but you have citizens of the community that get crushed by medical debt.

01:30:15.000 Well, they have to pay for it because they have to pay for their medical debt and the illegal aliens.

01:30:20.000 Same with schooling. You've got to pay for your kids' education as well as theirs.

01:30:24.000 I mean, across the board, it's bad.

01:30:27.000 And we don't say this out of hatred. Of course not.

01:30:29.000 We say this out of love for our fellow Americans, that our birthright is precious and worth defending, that our country is special.

01:30:37.000 And we do not have walls because we have any hatred for the people on the outside.

01:30:43.000 It is purely out of love for the people on our side, and it's not something we should ever have to be ashamed of.

01:30:49.000 No civilization in history has ever survived while taking the position that they shouldn't put their people first.

01:30:56.000 And again, once we take care of our people, how about we take care of our vets?

01:31:00.000 How about we take care of our schools where our children aren't like 29th in the world, spending more money per child than any country in the world, and we have schools that are Zero people have proficiency in math.

01:31:12.000 At a graduating class, zero.

01:31:13.000 How often do we even hear about Joe Biden talking about our veterans and the care they do?

01:31:16.000 They don't. They care less. Just like the people of East Palestine, Ohio.

01:31:19.000 They're not Biden voters. We can't bribe them with free shit, so they're irrelevant.

01:31:24.000 We're buying those votes.

01:31:26.000 It was Donald Trump who made veteran choice a top legislative priority.

01:31:29.000 Other presidents did not do that.

01:31:32.000 And we really, I think, need to do a lot more to expand VA choice.

01:31:36.000 Of course. I don't know why in this country.

01:31:39.000 I don't even know why we need a VA system.

01:31:41.000 For healthcare. And when I speak to my veteran friends, I was like, hey, they love what happened because they're like, oh my God, I've been waiting for months or I had to drive five hours.

01:31:49.000 Now I go to my local hospital.

01:31:50.000 I can choose what I want. Like, so that guy, like, we're not going to take care of that guy, but we're going to take care of, like, someone who's a drug dealer that came across the border, and now we're here.

01:31:58.000 Yeah, I support a fee-for-service model where veterans who have done their service to our country at a certain extent get their health care taken care of for them.

01:32:07.000 Well, but within health care...

01:32:09.000 How bad does it get? When I see some of the prices of these hospitals, it's like, well, if you're paying cash, it costs $2.

01:32:13.000 If you're going through insurance, it's $35,000.

01:32:16.000 I'm like, how do we get a hold of that?

01:32:19.000 The hospital industrial complex is real, and a lot of that is going to be granting state-based waivers to do innovative things with the Medicaid product.

01:32:29.000 We talked about Social Security and Medicare, but Medicaid fraud drives the cost of healthcare because of over-utilization in a lot of cases, and in other cases, just waste and abuse.

01:32:41.000 And if we really drilled down on that, created an incentive structure for states to be able to root out a lot of that Medicaid fraud, you wouldn't have uncompensated care at such a level in these hospitals where then the grift is run back to the insurance system.

01:32:55.000 Alright, so last question, because I think, you know, the people who have watched this, you know, what can they do to participate in this?

01:33:03.000 Understanding they may not have the soapbox that you have or that I have, but how do they get involved?

01:33:07.000 Because I feel like, you know, we all have to partake in this.

01:33:09.000 You know, they cancelled my dad when he was president.

01:33:12.000 The most, you know, powerful guy in the world.

01:33:14.000 It's like, man, we can make that go away too.

01:33:17.000 That feels like a helpless situation.

01:33:19.000 And the other side wants us to have that helplessness, right?

01:33:22.000 They want us to curl up in a fetal position and sit in the corner and cry.

01:33:26.000 But we can't do that.

01:33:27.000 There's too much to say. So how does the average person stay involved, stay active, not...

01:33:34.000 How do they help effectuate change?

01:33:36.000 Because I think they want to be a part of it.

01:33:37.000 Well, people have to evaluate their own skill stack as a political operative, and we would ask you to enhance that skill stack.

01:33:46.000 If you're unable because of your job to go and speak at public rallies, be one of our digital warriors.

01:33:53.000 Help us out. Make a donation.

01:33:56.000 If you're somebody who can go knock on doors, Get involved with your local Republican executive committee.

01:34:02.000 Run for your school boards. How about that one?

01:34:04.000 Yeah, I think the people that are getting elected to school boards, they are actually our backup for the next round in Congress.

01:34:10.000 I think a lot of these school board dads and school board moms are going to be future congressional members.

01:34:13.000 I think so. By the way, I've seen some rock stars.

01:34:15.000 So Glenn Story was here a little bit.

01:34:16.000 One of the sponsors of this show from Patriot Mobile.

01:34:19.000 They funded Patriot Mobile.

01:34:20.000 So if you could give your money to AT&T, who's canceling Newsmax and OAN, or since you're going to have a cell phone anyway, you can give it to Patriot Mobile.

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01:34:31.000 But those guys take money.

01:34:33.000 They were funding people like us to run for school boards around Texas.

01:34:37.000 Then they get the hate mail.

01:34:39.000 Christian conservative group.

01:34:42.000 But they won because they got parents concerned.

01:34:44.000 So rather than having a rainbow-haired freak that doesn't have kids but sure as shit wants to indoctrinate yours, they actually got concerned parents to run for school boards and win.

01:34:54.000 It was so effective that Patriot Mobile was getting hate write-ups.

01:34:59.000 Wow. Like, they're a hate organization for basically saying, hey, concerned parents, here's the network, here's the pathway to get and run for these school boards.

01:35:07.000 Those connections are key. So don't ever stop that.

01:35:09.000 But that's also why we've got to support those kind of companies.

01:35:11.000 Yes. So check them out. Again, read the stories and then read the MSNBC take, and it's like...

01:35:16.000 You mean they ran people who are actually parents of children in these schools that share the values of the vast majority of the people in that district and they're the terrorists?

01:35:25.000 I'm like, not the person that wants to have drag queen story hour or convince your kid he's trans.

01:35:30.000 Like, that's not the terrorist?

01:35:31.000 Yeah, we actually started paying attention to school board elections.

01:35:34.000 Yeah. Imagine that.

01:35:35.000 We started electing people that reflected the true heart and soul of America.

01:35:39.000 Yeah, so that's important. People are like, well, you know, I don't know.

01:35:41.000 I don't think I could run for Congress.

01:35:43.000 Don't worry about that. Like, run for something local.

01:35:45.000 Get involved in your legislature.

01:35:47.000 My dad ran for the school board and did a great job there.

01:35:49.000 Became the school superintendent.

01:35:51.000 The first non-educator elected school superintendent in my county's history.

01:35:56.000 Ran our school district like a business.

01:35:58.000 And we became number one in the state of Florida.

01:36:00.000 So very proud of that work. No, and it's so important.

01:36:02.000 And again... They're going to come after you.

01:36:03.000 I mean, listen, they went after you, and then they, well, after years of bullshit putting you through it, trying to get you to lose an election, in my opinion, you know what I mean?

01:36:09.000 It's all bullshit. Well, we're not going to pursue anything further.

01:36:13.000 I'm like, you mean after you tar and feather someone, you know, presumably, listen, that'll be the first thing that also shows up on Google, not the good things that you do, not that it was dropped, not that it was always bullshit.

01:36:23.000 Well, we're not going to go forward like there's something there.

01:36:25.000 It's like, no, you guys are full of shit, and you've just weaponized another form of government against a sitting congressman.

01:36:30.000 Again, if you were a leftist and we did this, they'd be coming after you.

01:36:37.000 They might name the FBI headquarters after me.

01:36:39.000 They'd dox the agent.

01:36:41.000 They would make sure that the world knows exactly who it is.

01:36:44.000 They would tar and feather the person.

01:36:46.000 But because it's you, it's like, we're going to let them sit out to dry.

01:36:49.000 We'll wait two years. We know there's bullshit.

01:36:51.000 We've figured out all the flaws, but let's just let it sit a little bit.

01:36:54.000 And then we're going to do you the favor.

01:36:56.000 We're not going to actually do anything with it, Matt.

01:36:57.000 You know, I drew a lot of inspiration from your family when you went through the Russia hoax.

01:37:01.000 We took some shit too. Because I saw the way you keep the eye on the prize and you continue to be a voice for the American people.

01:37:08.000 I remember a conversation we had where I was like, Don, it seems like they call you up here on the hill to give testimony.

01:37:14.000 I had more time in Congress that year than you.

01:37:16.000 I felt that way. I was like, Don, it's like every week.

01:37:19.000 Why do you do this over and over again?

01:37:21.000 And you said, I will never allow them to hold the air of any impropriety over me.

01:37:27.000 I'm going to be on the...

01:37:28.000 My lawyers didn't like me. They were like, you can't say that.

01:37:31.000 They're going to use it again. I was like, I don't care.

01:37:33.000 It's a new rule book now.

01:37:35.000 Two years later, my lawyers were like, you know what?

01:37:36.000 You were right. They were never going to give you a break.

01:37:39.000 They were never going to show you quarter.

01:37:41.000 If you curled up in the fetal position and cried, that's when they pounce and go even harder because that's an acknowledgement you actually did something wrong.

01:37:48.000 So I got on TV. They're freaking out.

01:37:50.000 They're like, they want to try you for treason.

01:37:53.000 You know, crime punishable by death, minor details.

01:37:55.000 Yes, your lawyers and my lawyers could have gone to the same breathing process together.

01:37:58.000 It's my average Tuesday right now, but they're freaking out.

01:38:01.000 And two years later, they're like, shit man, you were right.

01:38:03.000 We could not have believed how bad it was.

01:38:05.000 Because their lawyer, unlike some of the lawyers in D.C., they wanted to believe that the system was working and real, and it's not.

01:38:12.000 We've seen that. And we will continue to see it.

01:38:15.000 Well, I hope so, because the other system, the January 6th guys.

01:38:18.000 I hope that video comes out and it exonerates these people, because what I've seen there, and I look at the juxtaposition of that versus, you know, the Summer of Love, arsonists, murderers, looters, and, you know...

01:38:31.000 And for the people who made mistakes on January 6th.

01:38:34.000 Time and again, I see sentences and punishments that are way outside the banding of what we would normally think about, even for someone who's made a mistake, even for someone who needs to take responsibility for a mistake they made.

01:38:49.000 It seems as though we are trying to make an example out of people in the criminal justice system, and Lady Justice is supposed to be blind.

01:38:57.000 That's what we are promised as Americans.

01:38:59.000 That's the problem, and that's why, honestly, guys like me, Are counting on guys like you.

01:39:04.000 Our viewers are counting on guys like you to do that.

01:39:06.000 So, guys, make sure to support Matt Gaetz.

01:39:09.000 The stuff that he's doing is important.

01:39:11.000 We got it. We all have to be willing to be in that game.

01:39:14.000 Trust me, it was easier to be a real estate developer from New York.

01:39:17.000 We've had this conversation plenty of times.

01:39:18.000 But, like, it's worth it because our country, our freedoms, the Constitution, the future of our children, like, it's all on the table and we got to fight for it.

01:39:26.000 So thanks for what you do, man.

01:39:28.000 Thank you, brother. Thank you, guys.

01:39:32.000 Well, Matt, thank you very much for that, guys.

01:39:34.000 Pay attention on Wednesday.

01:39:35.000 That's going to be that vote that Matt put up about the Syria war, you know, because I guess we're in another war that most people probably didn't even realize.

01:39:43.000 So let's pay attention to exactly what's going on in our government.

01:39:46.000 Let's pay attention to who's exactly going to allow that to keep going from the Republican side.

01:39:51.000 I think we can all agree we're tired of the endless wars.

01:39:55.000 I do want to thank Matt for being on there.

01:39:57.000 You can tell we're buddies. You can tell I had a lot of Red Bulls that day because I had to do like four interviews, so I'm all jacked up.

01:40:03.000 But as this stuff progresses, we're going to have Matt back on.

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